episode_0041

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Lucia turned around without a word.

Step by step,

The footsteps that were slowly moving away from the cliff soon turned into a sprint, and as the tips of her toes began to darken, the distance she jumped grew longer and longer.

Finally, when both legs were completely black, she could leap over the monastery building with just a single jump.

She reached the pebble beach on the opposite end of the island in an instant.

“Haa… Haa…”

Lucia slowly crouched down on the ground, hugging her knees.

“The Priest and… Anna…”

Lucia knew clearly what she had seen.

The act of locking their lips together.

The act of sharing and confirming each other’s love and affection.

An act that she also desired, but couldn’t bring herself to ask for.

A dark emotion bubbled and boiled within Lucia’s heart.

It felt as if the black color that stained her hands and feet every time she used the Ebony Wolf’s power was staining her heart black as well.

Lucia slowly raised her head and looked at her knees, which she was hugging.

A dark, inorganic black that didn’t reflect any light, a color that couldn’t be believed to be a natural human color, enveloped her legs.

“… That’s right.”

Lucia began to speak to herself blankly, in a somewhat off-kilter voice.

“I’m so disgusting like this… There’s no way the Priest could have liked a dirty body possessed by a devil…”

Lucia clutched at her chest, tearing at it.

The buttons of the roughly buttoned-up top popped open weakly.

The sensation of the Priest touching her in the middle of the night was still vivid.

But that touch couldn’t have been filled with the Priest’s affection.

Lucia thought so.

“I’m just a nun… Yesterday, that was… Just treatment… Even that was my lie…”

Lucia scratched her black legs with her fingernails, which had become long and sharp like those of a beast.

The sharp, black fingernails and black legs didn’t leave any scratches on each other, but slid silently as if rubbing steel against steel.

Lucia let out a hollow laugh at the sight.

Ah. I’m not human.

It’s been a long time since I stopped being human.

The Priest was reluctant to even love a human woman… There’s no way he would love a devil.

Lucia nodded.

It wasn’t that she had newly realized a fact she didn’t know.

It was only that she had clearly confirmed a fact that she knew, but didn’t want to believe and had tried not to think about.

Lucia spread out her black hands and said.

“I said I wanted to run… That’s good. Thanks to you, I was able to escape like this. Hahaha… Hehe…”

Lucia, who had been letting out a self-deprecating laugh, slowly returned to a blank expression and then rested her forehead on her knees as if dropping it.

The drooping hair hid her sad expression like a curtain, hiding her from the world.

Black arms, and black legs.

Hair that was no less black.

Once her face was hidden, nothing of Lucia’s true self remained visible from the outside.

Anyone who saw it would only see a black lump of mud placed on the pebble beach.

Lucia herself knew that fact all too well.

“… Ha.”

Transparent droplets fell onto Lucia’s black thighs and slid down towards her pelvis along the slope.

Before she knew it, Lucia’s muttering began to be tinged with a thick moisture.

“This is… What I wanted… Because I wanted to… I became a devil… This isn’t the Priest’s fault either… It’s not Anna’s fault…”

The sight of the two people embracing and kissing each other in front of the sparkling sea under the brilliantly rising morning sun looked too beautiful even to Lucia’s eyes.

Lucia had no choice but to admit it.

Anna suited the Priest better than she did.

Anna was more mature than Lucia, she was good at housework, she had big breasts, and she hadn’t given her body over to a devil.

“It’s okay… No matter who the Priest likes… I’m okay… If he likes Anna… It’s a good thing, at least he didn’t fall for a strange person.”

Lucia stroked her chest once again.

Lucia shuddered as she slowly recalled all the parts that the Priest’s touch had reached last night, as if tracing them again.

“If… You touch me like this sometimes… I like that… I can be satisfied… I thought so from the beginning… Just if you touch me… Just if you do…”

Her frail voice is buried and disappears in the sound of the waves.

“Because I knew… That you wouldn’t love me…”

But unlike her words, Lucia ran away when she saw the two kissing.

She had no choice but to run away.

A sense of defeat was embedded in Lucia’s head like a thorn.

A dirty body that had been corrupted after being taken over by a devil.

Unlike when she had a disability, Lucia could now jump off the cliff in an instant and separate the two of them.

She could go out of the monster-infested island with the Priest, and if there was anything to be done under the dangerous cliff, she could help enough.

However, in return, she lost confidence that she would be loved by the Priest.

Even after seeing their beautiful kiss, she couldn’t dare to ask him to kiss her too.

In the end, despite having such fast legs and a strong body, all Lucia could do was run away.

The fact that she couldn’t go very far on the narrow island only made her more painful.

“Anna… Is pretty. Kind, and good at her job…”

I was also kind and obedient,

I was also helping with work hard.

“And she has big breasts…”

That’s not my fault…

I was sick and couldn’t move properly when I was supposed to be growing, and I couldn’t eat much because of the monastery’s circumstances…

“Ha… That’s enough.”

Lucia shook her head and stopped lamenting.

This was because thinking more would only show her points that were even more disadvantageous to her.

It was then.

“You look depressed from the morning.”

A gentle voice came from behind Lucia.

Lucia quickly wiped away the tears that had formed in her eyes and slowly opened her mouth.

“Mr. Kunat…”

“What’s wrong? Didn’t you succeed in seducing the Priest last night?”

Kunat jumped over Lucia’s head and landed lightly between Lucia’s legs.

Lucia stroked Kunat’s head and shook her head.

“No… It was too good.”

“Then why are you so upset?”

“It’s nothing…”

“Ah, is it because the Priest is kissing that big-breasted nun on the other side of the cliff?”

Kunat continued, giggling as if he knew everything.

“What a bad Priest. A clergyman who fondles a nun’s breasts at night, and kisses another nun as soon as morning comes.”

“…”

“Don’t you think so?”

“That’s… It’s not the Priest’s fault.”

“Hmm?”

Kunat wrapped his tail gently around Lucia’s leg and said.

“It’s not the Priest’s fault? He’s playing with the hearts of two pitiful women like this, how can it not be the Priest’s fault?”

“I lied because I wanted the Priest to touch me… I pretended to be sick… I took advantage of the Priest’s kind nature…”

“That’s right, wasn’t that a scheme that you forced me to come up with.”

“It worked…”

Lucia said with a bitter smile.

“If I didn’t have that scheme, I wouldn’t have tasted that happiness last night… The Priest is not the kind of person who would crave a devil’s breasts… And he’s even less likely to touch a nun.”

“That’s true.”

“So… The Priest is not at fault at all.”

“If you think so, there’s nothing I can do. You’re already a full-fledged devil, so I can’t help but worry about a young hoobae who’s so sad.”

Lucia was bothered by Kunat’s words, which grouped her and him together as devils, but there was nothing wrong with those words.

She nodded without any particular rebuttal.

“Thank… You… Mr. Kunat.”

“But you know.”

Kunat smiled slyly and said.

“Isn’t Anna also a nun?”

“…”

“He said the Priest can’t touch a nun, but it seems like he doesn’t really care about that.”

“…”

A bright red blood color began to swirl in Lucia’s eyes.

*

“Ha… I almost died.”

“… I know.”

I muttered with a tired face, having crawled up to the top of the cliff with Anna on my back.

Anna also nodded weakly, with a face that had lost all its energy.

Anna and I were soaking wet.

I put Anna down and lay down on the ground, panting,

Anna stood a little away from me, wringing out the water from her skirt and said.

“Hehe, I didn’t think the waves would come that far.”

“No… Ha, if we had been swept away by the waves, we would have drowned.”

“I know, that would have been a big problem. Thank you for saving me…”

Anna took a deep breath and suddenly smiled slyly, giggling.

“So… How can you kiss in such a dangerous place…”

“What?”

I glared at Anna and said.

“You did it…”

“Hehe”

Anna answered, pushing her long hair forward and wringing out the water.

“Kissing isn’t something you do alone, you know?”

“… Anna.”

When I called her in a low voice, she slightly took away her smile and lowered her head.

“I’m sorry… Next time, I’ll only kiss you on top of the cliff.”

“No, don’t do it anywhere.”

Anna approached me, making a splashing sound with her feet as she wrung out all the water.

Then she sat slowly next to me, took a moment to catch her breath, and slowly said.

“Weren’t you feeling good?”

“… I didn’t feel good.”

“I felt good…”

Anna continued, slowly caressing her lips with her fingertips.

“Didn’t the Priest feel good at all? Really?”

“… I was surprised. That’s all.”

Anna tapped her plump lips with her fingers, then poked my chest with that finger and said.

“You took my first kiss and all you have to say is that you were surprised? That’s too much…”

“It was my first time too.”

“Huh, really?”

Anna, who was surprised, suddenly smiled brightly and clapped her hands.

“Wow, I’m so happy!”

“I’m never doing it again.”

“You’re going to keep touching Lucia’s breasts, right?”

“I already said. That’s only…”

“I know, but if Lucia comes back again saying her body is burning up, you’re going to touch her again, right?”

“…”

I hesitated for a moment and slowly shook my head.

“No, not anymore.”

“Then what are you going to do?”

“Well… I don’t know.”

I hesitated for a moment and said, extending my index finger.

“Let’s teach Lucia how to masturbate.”

Wow, fuck.

Perhaps this is the strangest sentence that has ever come out of my mouth in my life.

Anna looked at me with a dumbfounded expression, as if she felt the same way.

“Priest…”

“No… I mean, there’s no other way!”

“Ha… You’re saying something too much like a cleric.”

“…Sorry, pretend you didn’t hear that.”

Anna shook her head and said.

“It won’t work anyway.”

“Why?”

“I already… No, um…”

Anna was about to say something but suddenly shut her mouth.

She hesitated for a while, and only after a long time did she slowly start to continue speaking.

“Anyway, it won’t work.”

“What’s that supposed to mean.”

“There’s something like that, and a woman’s libido is originally something she can’t solve alone. It’s different from men, who can just grab a stick and shake it.”

“Oh, is that so.”

Well, a woman knows a woman’s body best.

I nodded roughly and slowly got up.

Then, Anna pressed down on my chest with her palm, laid me down again, and slowly opened her mouth.

“Trust me. I’m a libido expert.”

“… Just listening to it, it sounds like the most useless expert in the world.”

“What are you talking about, how competent is this.”

“Ha, okay, what can a libido expert do?”

Anna slowly moved the palm of her hand that was on my chest downwards and said.

“When you kissed me… I could sense that there was a change in the Priest’s lower body…”

“…!”

Anna looked at me with narrowed eyes.

“Priest. Really, kissing me. Didn’t you feel good at all?”

“… I already said.”

“Swear to the Goddess?”

“…”

I closed my eyes and sighed.

“I shouldn’t like it. I shouldn’t be like that.”

“You did feel good, didn’t you?”

“…”

Anna slowly got up from her seat and reached out her hand to me.

I took that hand and got up.

Anna hugged my waist tightly and said.

“For now, that’s enough.”

“Anna…”

“I like you. Priest.”

I grabbed her shoulders and tried to push her away, but in the end, I gave up and slowly stroked her head.

Anna smiled with a satisfied expression and hugged my waist even tighter.

The sun, which had been walking a tightrope just above the horizon, had now completely crossed over the line and soared into the sky.

The sun that has crossed the line will soon scatter hot sunlight in all directions.

I, who had been looking up, slowly closed my eyes to avoid the sunlight.

Today’s weather will be clear like yesterday.

But for some reason, I felt uncomfortable with this clear weather today.