Side Story 3. The Story After (3)

How much time had passed since I fell asleep?

Liliana slowly felt her consciousness returning.

…I fell asleep again, after all.

Since I fell asleep right after dinner, it was dark outside.

The degenerate life of sleeping during the day and playing on my phone at night was repeating again today.

Today too, I’ll probably be focused on the battle with myself.

“Hmmm…. I’m hungry. …Huh?”

As I tried to sit up while yawning, I felt a presence and a gaze nearby.

Startled, Liliana sat up.

‘W-was it an attack?’

In the Underworld, I had to stay alert 24 hours a day.

Because I didn’t know when those bastards might attack if I let my guard down even for a moment.

As I tried to summon my magic immediately, I felt a familiar touch stroking my face.

“You’re awake?”

“Master… no, Lee Hoyeon…?”

Lee Hoyeon chuckled as he looked at the blinking Liliana.

As he gently stroked her flustered face, she seemed embarrassed and leaned back into the bed.

“Ughhh.”

Your reaction is really cute.

I just came into the room because you were sleeping and decided to watch for a bit, but if someone saw, they’d think an assassin had arrived.

Lee Hoyeon naturally lowered the hand that had been stroking her face.

Liliana, wearing only pajamas, doesn’t wear a bra.

It’s a commonality not just for her, but for the heroines who are comfortable at home.

Lee Hoyeon placed his hand on her chest, which was bulging through her pajamas.

“Mmm…. What are you doing…?”

Even though he was touching through her clothes, she could feel her nipples protruding along with her breasts.

The Liliana I knew would have either enjoyed having her breasts touched or wouldn’t have cared at all.

The current Liliana was squirming every time her breasts were touched.

‘She’s feeling embarrassed?’

Trying out some lewd physical contact seems like it allows me to read Liliana’s feelings clearly.

She was feeling embarrassed. It was probably due to the confusion of her memories.

Lee Hoyeon looked at Liliana with worried eyes. Of course, he didn’t stop kneading her breasts.

‘Ugh, how embarrassing.’

Liliana avoided Lee Hoyeon’s gaze, which was focused on her breasts.

The unfamiliar emotions she was feeling weren’t just annoyance.

Lust and pleasure. Liliana felt awkwardness regarding those as well.

The Succubus of Slaughter, Liliana Calliope, had no sexual experience.

A succubus with no sexual experience?

The gossips of the Underworld would have scoffed if they heard, but she wasn’t an ordinary succubus.

She was such a crazy succubus that she earned the nickname ‘Succubus of Slaughter’.

Liliana knew she was different since she was young, and she didn’t want to be pinned down beneath males like other succubi.

Because she didn’t want someone weaker than her getting on top of her body.

That’s why Lee Hoyeon’s touch felt awkward for some reason.

Of course, all the memories and recollections with Lee Hoyeon remain.

Lee Hoyeon and Liliana were not simply Master and Succubus.

It was a relationship that went beyond a contract, one where they loved and cherished each other.

Whenever I see him, my heart warms, and I want to be held by him.

I remember all that pleasant pleasure too.

It’s just that physical contact is still awkward.

‘Embarrassing. I’m getting wet just from him touching my breasts….’

Although she felt that physical contact was awkward, Liliana’s body had already been conditioned by Lee Hoyeon’s touch.

It’s the same as my body wanting to lie down in bed even when I try to get up.

Unlike my mind, my body reacts to Lee Hoyeon’s touch.

“Nn, Nnn…”

My body flinched, and a heat rose from deep inside my chest.

Just as Liliana’s body trembled. Lee Hoyeon removed his hand.

“Ah…”

Liliana unconsciously looked at Lee Hoyeon with eyes full of disappointment.

Lee Hoyeon understood the emotion in those eyes well enough, but having sex right here didn’t seem like it would solve Liliana’s problem.

Lee Hoyeon turned his gaze to the clutter scattered around the room.

“Liliana. What is this room? Ugh. I told you not to leave it to Scarlet or Daeun and to clean it up yourself.”

“I, I’ll do it! Don’t touch it!”

Lee Hoyeon picked up one of the undergarments scattered on the floor.

…I couldn’t remember when I’d thrown that off.

My face flushed at that thought, but it wasn’t my fault.

Because every time I came into the room, I was fighting my body that wanted to lie down, so I didn’t have time to clean up things like that.

“Seriously.”

Even though I say I’ll do it myself, my body won’t get out of the covers.

This is all because I’m a succubus.

The succubus race is quite peculiar; no matter how much they eat, they don’t gain weight, and even if they live so filthily, they don’t smell.

No matter how I think about it, it’s a damnably unfair race.

“Shall we talk a bit after so long?”

“…Talk?”

Lee Hoyeon nudged Liliana’s body and sat down on the bed.

The highest quality blanket Scarlet had brought from France warmly enveloped Lee Hoyeon’s body.

“Since you’ve regained your memories, tell me some stories about the Underworld. You were apparently very famous.”

“Hmph! I was indeed quite famous.”

Liliana nodded, raising the corners of her mouth.

Before being sealed, Liliana was one of the strongest in the Underworld.

In fact, there were more than one or two demons who were beaten into a pulp just from making eye contact with her.

“Aren’t there any interesting stories? Ah, do you remember Chiron and Albedo?”

“…Yeah. I remember.”

Chiron and Albedo.

To be honest, they weren’t particularly impressive guys.

Both were strong in their own way, but they were weak for successors of the Demon King.

But now, I remember both of them.

Because after coming to Earth, meeting them left a deep impression on my mind.

“Then, want to go see them next time? They’re the only demons left on Earth now, right? You could talk to them, like fellow countrymen.”

“…I don’t think I can, because I feel too guilty.”

Liliana remembers everything she did to them.

In the process of conquering the Centaur tribe, she violated the warrior Chiron’s life, and because Albedo flirted with her, she tormented him until he was on the verge of madness.

…After doing such things, approaching them pretending to be friendly felt wrong to my conscience.

“If you’re going to feel sorry, you shouldn’t have done things to be sorry for. Why did you do it?”

Lee Hoyeon also knows about Liliana’s past to some extent.

At first, it was hard to accept that discrepancy, but now I’ve decided not to care.

In the end, what’s important is the Liliana I know.

“…Was it because I was young back then?”

Liliana recalled the past.

Back then, I thought the world revolved around me.

Even if I acted recklessly, there was no one to stop me.

But the current Liliana is different.

It’s not because I’ve gotten older.

If I had continued living in the Underworld, I would still have that personality now.

The memories and experiences of living as a degenerate scoundrel almost completely erased her violent personality.

Now, the memories of living as the degenerate Liliana were so deeply ingrained that I wonder why I ever did those things.

Those feelings became even stronger after meeting Lee Hoyeon.

Liliana no longer enjoyed slaughter.

“Liliana. You didn’t even eat a proper meal. Aren’t you hungry?”

Lee Hoyeon smiled as he looked at Liliana, who had become thoughtful.

Although she probably doesn’t know it, her tone had stabilized from some point on.

“No, I’m okay…”

Grumble.

Unlike Liliana’s coy reaction, her body was honest.

Just thinking about food made hunger surge.

“…Ah.”

As her body reacted, wanting food, Liliana’s mouth opened helplessly.

Just how much longer does this body intend to make me feel ashamed?

“You’re not being honest, Liliana.”

“…It’s not like that!”

“No wonder I noticed the frequency of you getting embarrassed at night has increased lately. It would be nice if you were honest then, too.”

“Aah, Aaaah, Aaahhh!”

Liliana shook her head left and right, trying to hide her embarrassment as much as possible.

I wanted to hide in a mouse hole, but there wasn’t a place to hide in this room.

Lee Hoyeon waited for Liliana to calm down before speaking up.

“Liliana.”

“…Mmhmm.”

“As the seal was lifted, there’s a lot that’s awkward, right? Memory isn’t simple, you know.”

When Liliana first confirmed her past memories through the memory orb Chiron showed her.

Her appearance, suffering in pain, still remains in Lee Hoyeon’s heart.

Since that day, Lee Hoyeon decided to always stand by Liliana’s side.

“…I don’t know. The thoughts I have don’t feel like mine, and my body feels like it’s not my body. …And I keep wanting to lie down.”

The degenerate Liliana and Liliana Calliope.

The two were hard to blend, and it confused Liliana’s mind.

“Do whatever you want. If you want to lie down, lie down; if you want to move, move. Try accepting it naturally. If it’s hard, I’ll help you. Not just me, but Rebecca-ssi, Scarlet, and Daeun are all worried too.”

“I’m sorry. For making you worry…”

Liliana bowed her head deeply.

Rebecca, Scarlet, Nam Daeun, Nam Dahee…

The women living together always laughed things off no matter what Liliana did, and they also worried about her.

I felt gratitude, but expressing those feelings was difficult.

“Succubi move according to their desires, right? There’s no need to deliberately hide those desires. Actually, even when you were under the seal, you were diligently doing something. Even when goofing off, if there’s something you want to do, wouldn’t you diligently pursue it?”

“…Something I want to do?”

“There’s no need to fight in this peaceful world… You could do streaming, which you used to enjoy. If you get bored of it, try something else. If you ask Scarlet, she’ll get you anything. Or you could do exercise with Rebecca, or anything else. They say it’s good for pregnancy lately, so you’ve been going to exercise classes.”

Streaming.

The degenerate Liliana liked games.

Since she couldn’t fight in reality, she expressed that emotion through games.

She also liked receiving attention.

The reason I started streaming was because Lee Hoyeon told me to, but later on, I enjoyed it more.

The problem is that I’ve done strange things even during streams…

‘Just what on earth was I thinking when I lived my life? … No, is that possible? Am I too rigid?’

Liliana Calliope’s thoughts are stuck in the Underworld.

The reason she suffered after the seal was lifted was because she was so embarrassed by herself, who used to make the Underworld tremble, doing foolish things.

‘But Lee Hoyeon is right. In the end, both are the same me.’

Liliana did what she wanted to do, both now and in the past.

Come to think of it, since regaining my memories, I’ve been so confused that I didn’t know what I truly wanted to do.

Maybe feeling embarrassed itself was strange….

As I talked with Lee Hoyeon, my head felt clearer.

‘…Come to think of it, there’s something more important.’

My own feelings are important, but my Master is Lee Hoyeon.

Liliana opened her mouth with determined eyes.

“Lee Hoyeon. No, Master.”

“Yeah?”

“What kind of me do you like?”

It was a very important question to her.

If he told me to act decisively, I would get out of bed right now, and if he liked the foolish Liliana, I would consciously act that way.

In Liliana’s heart, Lee Hoyeon meant that much.

“Liliana.”

“…Yeah.”

Liliana met Lee Hoyeon’s eyes.

He looked straight at me before moving his hand behind him.

“Stop talking nonsense and eat some chicken.”

Lee Hoyeon took out the chicken he’d brought from downstairs.

Since you didn’t eat dinner properly, I figured you’d be hungry.

“I’m asking seriously!”

“I’m serious too. You punk.”

Lee Hoyeon picked up a chicken drumstick and put it into Liliana’s mouth.

Liliana gave him a displeased look, but then slowly chewed.

“…It’s delicious.”

“Eat that and rest in your room. What I want is for you to do what you want. Don’t overthink it; if you want to lie down, lie down, and if you want to sleep, sleep. You’ll probably get bored of it soon anyway, right? We can think about what to do after that.”

Although he said that, Lee Hoyeon wasn’t worried anymore.

Liliana’s personality ultimately remained the same.

Just because I let her rest doesn’t mean she’ll rest forever.

Maybe I’ll see her in the living room in a few days.

After Lee Hoyeon left the room.

“Nom nom.”

Left alone in the room, Liliana continued pondering while eating chicken.

As he said, fighting with myself every time means I don’t think I’ve rested properly.

At least, what could align my body and mind?

“As expected, I can’t remember anything except sex.”

In the end, I think I’ll need to receive my Master’s help.