episode_0086

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“Priest,”

Anna’s quiet voice echoed softly in the bathroom, and I raised my head to look at her.

As it was a bathhouse, she was naturally not wearing any clothes.

I wondered if she had come in without knowing I was here, but I soon realized that couldn’t be the case.

I had hung my clothes on the door, so there was no way she could have missed them.

“…”

I turned my head away in silence.

The reason I had suddenly gone on an exploration with Lucia today was partly to clear my complicated head, but also because I wanted to avoid Anna.

Judging from the gloomy and sad look on Anna’s face, she must have realized that I was avoiding her.

Anna silently put a heated stone into the basket in the middle of the bathhouse and sprinkled water on it.

Instantly, a thick mist filled the bathhouse.

Only after the steam had obscured her body with its lascivious curves did Anna quietly open her mouth.

“I’m sorry.”

“…”

“I was too headstrong. I know that.”

As Anna approached the bath, I quietly closed my eyes.

She scooped up water with a gourd and poured it over her body, then continued.

“Are you still angry?”

“…”

“… I guess so.”

She slowly began to enter the bath.

Although Paolo had helped a little at the end, Sola had done most of the work herself, so the bath wasn’t very big.

It felt more like a slightly larger bathtub.

Naturally, Anna’s moist body scattered a sheen in all directions as she slowly leaned against me.

“… Priest, I was wrong.”

Anna’s voice contained more moisture than her wet skin in the bath.

Her trembling voice held a sadness that seemed like it would turn into tears at the slightest touch.

I quietly opened my eyes and said.

“Yes… you did something wrong.”

“… Yes.”

“So, what are you planning to do now?”

“…”

“You don’t seem to be thinking of stopping, judging by the way you’re standing in front of me right now.”

Anna nodded slightly.

I felt like sighing without realizing it.

I deliberately turned my gaze away from her.

The moment her voluptuous curves, covered in water-slicked skin, entered my field of vision, my anger would surely vanish in an instant.

The only reason I’m able to maintain my sanity right now is probably because the time I spent with Lucia has relieved my lust to some extent.

Anna fidgeted.

Her and my legs gently touched and slipped against each other in the water.

It was so obvious that it was a deliberate action that I warned her.

“Stop it.”

“Priest… I…”

“I said stop it.”

A cold, almost cruel tone popped out of my throat, surprising even me.

She lowered her head and opened her mouth slightly.

“I know I made a mistake… but, Priest, you need to know how desperately I want you…”

“This isn’t love. It’s just lust.”

“No, it’s definitely love. Don’t deny it.”

“A Succubus’s desire is the furthest thing from love. You’re just…”

“Priest, please.”

“… Ha, didn’t you say you hated this side of yourself? That you hated your lust, that your lewd thoughts were too painful for you? Didn’t you say that?”

“…”

“Look at you now. You’re becoming the person you regretted being.”

“Ha.”

I heard a sound like something escaping from Anna’s mouth.

It was a deep, heavy sigh, as if something she had been holding back had completely shattered.

Without realizing it, I turned my gaze towards her, and I could see the emotions draining from her face.

Slowly, Anna raised her head and met my gaze with those empty eyes.

She looked into my face and slowly opened her lips.

“… So, I’m dirty after all?”

“Anna,”

“You thought I was dirty, didn’t you? You thought I was a slutty bitch who summoned a demon because of my lust, didn’t you?”

“Stop it.”

“You thought I was a dirty whore who didn’t come to my senses even after being locked up on an island to forcibly escape corruption, didn’t you?”

“Stop it!”

“How could you do this? Everyone else in the world can think that way, but… you can’t. You shouldn’t…”

Anna slowly stood up.

Her large breasts swayed, dripping water.

She stood up and slowly approached me.

Until her abdomen and the space between her legs filled my vision.

Before I could do anything, she slowly sat on my lap.

It was the same position Lucia had put me in at the cabin.

But the feeling was quite different.

Lucia was a lovely girl, while Anna was a lascivious woman.

She wrapped her arms around my neck and said.

“I gave my body to the Devil for your sake. So, you’re partly to blame for me being like this.”

“… Anna.”

“Don’t act like my corruption is just my lust now, Priest. I actually know everything. You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?”

“What?”

“Right? You like being seduced by me, don’t you? You like being seduced by me and being demanded by Lucia… and yet you preach to us both as if you have moral superiority. You’re enjoying it that way, aren’t you?”

She pressed her naked body against mine.

Her skin, warmed by the hot water, was gradually intensifying some heat that clearly existed between us.

For a moment, I was at a loss for words.

Was I really enjoying their seduction? I had honestly had such self-doubt.

But the idea that I was enjoying moral superiority over the nuns came as a fresh shock to me.

Is that really true?

Did I do that?

A sense of shame, along with doubt, clouded my mind.

I wanted to deny it with a burst of anger, but I closed my eyes and slowly inhaled.

The moist air entered my lungs and calmed me down.

“Anna.”

“Oh, please, Priest.”

She cupped my face as if trying to capture my gaze.

Her fingers gently stroked my cheeks, then slowly ran over my lips with her thumb.

“I love you.”

“…”

“So much that I want to be eaten whole by everything you are, so much that I want to devour everything you are.”

Like those words, a certain hunger was reflected in Anna’s gaze.

She slowly began to press her pelvis firmly against my waist.

My manhood was stiffly erect between her legs, which were spread as if to embrace my torso.

She gently rocked her pelvis back and forth, stimulating me.

Her large breasts were splashing water all over my face above the rippling surface of the water.

Anna breathed into my ear with hot breath, a little louder than a whisper.

“Priest, haven’t you ever thought about it?”

“…”

“Having sex with me.”

“… Ha,”

“Does the idea of that, the thought of being connected to my body, the fact that I want it… does that really make you that angry?”

I shook my head.

“That’s not what I’m angry about.”

“… Yes?”

“I think I’ve said it before, I have feelings for you too.”

“…”

“If I can no longer deny your sincerity, or if the situation improves even a little, I’m willing to accept it. Sincerely.”

“… Does that mean,”

“Yes, I also have lewd thoughts when I see you. You are both very beautiful, and you love me so much that I can’t deny that I’m attracted to you as a man before I’m a priest.”

Anna gave me a lewd smile and looked down at me.

Then, she put strength into the hands that were holding my face and forced my head up to meet her eyes.

I could feel her fingers digging into my hair.

I looked straight at Anna and said.

“But that action, using the Devil’s wisdom without hesitation, is insulting to me.”

“…”

“Using the Succubus’s scent to embrace me, is that really the love you wanted?”

“That’s just a joke.”

“A joke,”

I said with a cold smile.

“For a very long time, I lived by killing people who joked with the Devil.”

“…”

Anna closed her mouth.

The hot heat that flowed between us, the lewd air that filled the bath, vanished in an instant and disappeared.

“I forgive you. Anna.”

“… Yes?”

“I forgive you. Your desires, your emotions, your actions. I forgive everything. I’ve learned that forgiveness is the most difficult and greatest of human virtues.”

Among the teachings of religion, it is said that forgiveness is the most difficult and also the greatest of human virtues.

Forgiving the other person is difficult because it means accepting the damage done to oneself, and at the same time, it is even greater because it means choosing one’s reaction to the other person’s actions with one’s own will, not with emotion.

“But, only humans. Anna.”

“…”

I carefully caressed her head, then suddenly grabbed her hair.

“I don’t forgive Devils.”