Chapter 88: Tickle Play

Chapter 88: Tickle Play

“Ugh, gasp…”

A crying sound spread.

It wasn’t coming from Scarlett’s room.

It was leaking from a room in the hallway.

It wasn’t that loud. Rather, the sound was suppressed.

The reason was obvious.

“Unnie, Unnie… ugh…”

Lucy, crying softly on the bed, quietly uttered Cecil’s name.

Hugging the pillow that still carried Cecil’s scent.

The pillow was soaked with tears. It was due to crying endlessly throughout the dawn.

Her eyes were now completely red and swollen.

Hugging the pillow tightly, wrapping her tail around it.

Lucy continued to cry.

Until someone entered from outside the door.

Creak-

At the sound of the door opening without a knock, Lucy twitched and trembled.

If it were Oli, she would have knocked before entering.

Cecil had also passed out today due to excessive drug use.

Even if her mind was broken, if she heard crying, she would have knocked.

Then this was.

Could it be Scarlett?

She immediately stopped crying.

She hugged the pillow with Cecil’s scent tightly, and stared at the door with wary eyes.

Her tail tapped up and down, as if slightly uneasy.

And, what entered next was.

“Hmm… I wonder if I interrupted your alone time.”

“Aileen… Unnie…?”

It was Aileen, with a slightly surprised expression.

She looked at Lucy, then noticed her tear-soaked eyes and rummaged through her pocket.

Then she strode over and wiped Lucy’s eyes with a handkerchief.

Lucy accepted Aileen’s touch, making a ‘Ugh…’ sound.

As soon as her tears were completely wiped away,

Lucy buried her face in the pillow with a listless expression.

“…Why did you come?”

“The jerky for snacks that the Head Chef-nim put out was all gone, so I was going to go to a servant’s room to get some. But then I heard crying…”

Had she cried that loudly?

Lucy felt her face flush, along with a feeling of regret.

Aileen chuckled, looking at Lucy.

“It’s okay. It’s just that I have particularly good hearing, so people who are sleeping wouldn’t have heard it.”

She spoke as if she knew to some extent.

Lucy said nothing.

She just glanced at Aileen, who was sitting on the bed, then

just hugged the pillow even tighter.

“Um… Cecil Young Lady is…”

At the mention of ‘Cecil’, Lucy’s expression darkened further.

Aileen hesitated for a moment.

Her face seemed to ask whether she should continue this story or not.

But then she continued.

“…Has her condition worsened?”

“Uh-huh… Scarlett Young Lady, the medicine. She got it…”

Lucy’s voice began to tremble little by little.

Then, as if overcome with emotion, she stopped speaking, and

buried her face in the pillow, her shoulders heaving.

Aileen looked sympathetically at Lucy, who was sobbing.

She had heard a little about it before, when Cecil didn’t recognize her.

That Scarlett had injected her with medicine and shattered her mind.

At a glance, her condition didn’t look very good, but to hear it had gotten worse.

It was completely understandable why Lucy was crying so much.

“Oh dear… are you feeling a bit better…? You seem to have cried a lot. How about we go down to the kitchen?”

“Ugh, hiccup… gasp…”

She couldn’t even answer, sobbing pitifully.

Leaving her like this wouldn’t be good.

Feeling that, Aileen lifted Lucy up in a princess carry.

Even then, Lucy absolutely did not let go of the pillow.

Rather, she hugged it even more dearly, showing a desperate desire to never drop it.

‘Is that Cecil Young Lady’s pillow…?’

Aileen thought.

She lightly carried Lucy and headed towards the kitchen.

Perhaps because of her height, she arrived in the kitchen at an incredibly fast speed compared to Lucy or Cecil.

Aileen set Lucy down next to her and rummaged through the cupboard where food was stacked.

There was no jerky for snacks, but there was plenty of other food left.

Aileen was very close with the Head Chef-nim to begin with.

Therefore, considering her big appetite, the Head Chef-nim intentionally left some food for her.

“Alright… let’s see… what’s left… steak, pasta… fried rice… what would you like?”

Seeing the food, her mood lifted slightly.

Aileen, with a slightly brighter expression, looked at Lucy, but

Lucy was just hugging the pillow.

‘Her condition is much worse…’

The usual Lucy wasn’t like that.

Rather, she was much more energetic when she didn’t have a tongue.

Was it because Cecil was in a normal state back then?

When she was surprised that her tongue had grown back, Lucy explained.

That Scarlett had now obtained the Cecil she wanted.

And that’s why she regenerated her tongue.

Oh dear. What had she gained?

It was a moment when she realized Scarlett’s mischievousness anew.

But she was just a condemned prisoner.

She couldn’t criticize Scarlett as trash, nor did she have the right to scold her, saying this wasn’t right.

“Lucy. Would you like to try this for a moment?”

She had seen it before. Lucy really liked meat.

Was it because she was a dragonkin?

“Ah…”

Lucy stared blankly at the steak.

She slowly climbed onto the dining chair and sat in front of the plate.

She pulled the chair as close as possible to prevent sauce from getting on the pillow, and as if that wasn’t enough, she took out her handkerchief.

Only after placing the handkerchief on her chest did she begin to eat.

Good. At least she had the energy to eat.

Feeling as if she had found some hope, Aileen also happily took a bite of steak.

But that was merely Aileen’s illusion.

Lucy took a bite of steak, chewed it slowly, then

Drip, drip.

She then shed tears like chicken droppings.

“Oh, oh-oh-oh? Oh-oh-oh-oh…?”

Aileen, flustered by the sight, put down her utensils.

She immediately got up and patted Lucy’s back.

“Ugh… gasp… ugh-hoo-hoo… Cecil Unnieeee…”

“Ah, ahh… please calm down a little, Lucy…”

“Ugh-guh-guh… gasp… huff…”

Soon, realizing her crying was too loud, Lucy buried her face in the pillow.

She cried softly, but that made it even more pathetic.

How long had she been crying like that?

Lucy, finally calmed down, raised her head with a listless face.

Aileen, with a very awkward expression, moved back to her seat.

“Um… Lucy?”

Then, she brought up something she had been curious about for a while.

“Uh-huh…”

“What is that pillow you’re holding, anyway…?”

“Pillow with Cecil Unnie’s scent…”

“Ah…”

She had merely asked out of curiosity, but

she felt like she had asked something she shouldn’t have.

Since Lucy started to tear up again,

Aileen waved her hands wildly, barely managing to calm Lucy down.

“D-don’t cry, Lucy… Come to think of it, didn’t you put something on Cecil Young Lady’s neck before? You said it would make her feel safe…”

“…Ah. That was there…”

Before, when Cecil was half out of her mind,

she had hugged Cecil and attached something to her neck, saying, ‘Let’s be friends.’

Aileen didn’t know exactly what it was, as Lucy had given it to her.

‘It’s a stone that takes some of the mental damage instead,’ she said.

She said a friend gave it to her, but she didn’t know exactly where it came from.

Seeing her calm down belatedly, the events of today must have been a huge shock.

Poor child. Aileen felt pity and emptied another plate of steak.

Lucy looked at Aileen like that, then buried her face in the pillow.

Sniff, sniff, smelling it seemed to bring her peace of mind.

“…Lucy.”

Then, Aileen spoke, as if something had made her curious.

“Yes.”

“You seem to like Cecil Young Lady a lot.”

A moment of silence at the embarrassing question.

But then she slowly raised her head and

continued speaking with a confident voice.

“I like her a lot.”

“…Is that so?”

Aileen chuckled and nodded, having heard a definite answer.

Then, a lewd thought suddenly crossed her mind.

Lucy liked Cecil.

And, she was hugging a pillow with her scent on it.

Did that mean they had spent a secret night together?

“…Ahem.”

Her face turned red rapidly, so she decided to stop thinking about it.

Anyway, it was a relief that Lucy had finally calmed down.

If she had just been left like that, she would have been crying until dawn.

She didn’t know the exact effects, but she hoped the stone installed on Cecil would work well.

‘I just hope she doesn’t break down too much.’

Aileen suddenly recalled Cecil’s brightly smiling face.

She just hoped they would both be happy.

Because she knew how painful it was to let go of someone you loved.

Grrr-

As she was lost in a strange mood, looking at Lucy,

Lucy’s stomach rumbled.

“Puh-ha-ha-ha! W-what was that just now?!”

Then Aileen burst into laughter, giggling.

Lucy’s face turned red rapidly, and she frantically began to chew her steak.

The two of them were able to enjoy a rather nice late-night snack.

Until the next day, when Cecil was tormented by Scarlett again.

*****

Clank-

A slightly high-pitched metallic sound was heard.

Lying on the bed, panting with a red face, was me.

It was because I had just received another injection.

Through my hazy vision, Scarlett handcuffed my legs again.

“Young Lady…”

“Don’t be scared. You’ll feel good soon.”

I wasn’t sure what kind of play she was going to do today.

She hadn’t brought any other cumbersome equipment.

All she held in her hand was a pair of handcuffs and a feather-like tool.

My limbs were fixed to the bedposts, and my belly trembled with anticipation.

Because my legs were spread wide, naked, vaginal fluid leaked from my pussy as the wind brushed against it.

My arms, tied in a surrender pose, exposed my armpits, causing a strange sense of shame.

“Hee, hee…”

I gasped for breath and stared at her.

Scarlett, with a slightly flushed face, gently took hold of my ankle.

‘What is this…?’

At first, I didn’t quite understand what she was going to do, but

“Hyaa!”

When Scarlett lightly brushed my foot with the feather, I finally realized what it was.

The current time was the languid afternoon after lunch.

“As expected, you react well. Today, we’ll only do this, without sex.”

Saying that, Scarlett grinned and touched my toes with the feather again.

Tickle play, something I hadn’t expected.

However, since it wasn’t a strong stimulus but a weak one that ambiguously tormented me,

a strange anticipation made my belly ache.

She looked at me as if I were lovely, then

first, began to tickle the soles of my feet.