“…unhappy?” It heard Lucian’s answer, “I am very happy, you see.”
He placed the glass bottle in his palm and looked at the dark grey fluorescence inside. His wine-red eyes were also illuminated by the powder: "… I got the powder I needed, dissolved in water."
The system clenched the glass bottle with its fingers. It was about to speak but stopped, and at that moment it realized that it had no power to govern Lucian, and in a sense, it was just Lucian's system.
As Lucian's system, all it needed to do and care about was to be responsible to the control center for Lucian's personal will and success, and for his identity as Lucian No. 5. Lucian wanted to return to the control center proudly as a rebirth. This was Lucian's will, and it was also the choice the system had hoped Lucian would make the most from the beginning to the end.
Thinking of this, the system wanted to open up. Yes, isn't Lucian's current attitude the attitude it once hoped Lucian would have
"Okay, congratulations, host." The system said excitedly, "After retrieving your memory, you will execute the plan and return to the control center quickly!"
It whistled in Lucian's ear, waiting for the complaint to be made to the center after returning. Lucian just looked at the small bottle of powder in the dark room with a dull look in his eyes.
The hole in my earlobe felt like it was burning. I closed my eyes and tried not to touch it.
"But how are you going to get the powder into Wade's mouth?" the system said, "There is no piano in this castle that you need..."
"Don't worry." Lucian said, "I will find a way."
…
Lucian came out of the darkroom and pretended that he was just playing in the rose garden. When he walked through the stairs leading to the rose garden from the darkroom, he suddenly had a very bad premonition.
It was as if someone had noticed his whereabouts.
Lucian kept walking without changing his expression. He found a maid cleaning in the corner. The maid seemed surprised to see him here. It was as if the attention Lucian had just received came from this maid.
Lucian smiled at the maid, greeted her cordially, and then made up an excuse to allay the maid's suspicions.
Maybe it was this maid, Lucian thought.
I arrived at the rose garden, and while basking in the sun, I confirmed my planned route out of the castle. But then, I saw a servant walking towards me, and heard a very unexpected news.
"His Highness Witte has returned early." The attendant said, "He is in the bedroom, waiting for you to come back."
Vader came back early
This was half a day earlier than Wade expected. After a moment of shock, Lucian began to feel lucky that he had already prepared the powder. He picked a flower and said to the attendant, "Go tell me, I'll be there soon."
I followed the servants to Wade's bedroom. As soon as I entered the door, someone grabbed my wrist and pressed me against the door.
At that moment, Lucian was actually a little nervous. The medicine bottle was hidden in the inner pocket of his clothes, which made it hard not to think that Wade had discovered something... But soon, Wade pulled off his coat containing the medicine bottle and threw it on the sofa.
Lucian's eyes passed over Wade's shoulder and followed the coat that fell. Wade didn't seem to notice his little action, which made him feel a little relieved. However, he still smiled and asked in his usual coquettish and complaining tone: "Why are you so excited... Master Wade?"
Before Wade grabbed his waist, he placed his chin on Lucian's shoulder. He whispered in Lucian's ear, his voice so deep it made his whole body numb: "... I wanted to see you so much that I came back early."
"Really? Master Wade, you don't work seriously... Ugh...!"
Lucian gasped in surprise. Wade hugged her and said, "There's still one week left. I really want you to know soon that you belong to me..."
He began to kiss Lucian's body. In the same eagerness as before, Lucian relaxed his mind. He kissed Wade's chin and Adam's apple in return, laughing and panting, "Why are you in such a hurry? There are only six days left. We..."
— will retrieve's memory during this time.
The two of them kissed, from the door panel to the sofa, their breaths intertwined sweetly and charmingly.
In the room full of spring, Lucian did not notice the dark light in Vader's eyes. Vader kissed his fingers intently, as if he had never known that he had brewed a potion.
Lucian also narrowed his eyes slightly when Wade was not paying attention.
"I brought back my wedding gown, one is a crimson robe and the other is a white wedding dress. After thinking about it, I decided to use the robe as my wedding gown. What do you think?"
During the entanglement process, Wade said.
"Okay... ah, then use the robe."
All the joy seemed to have no end. In the next two days, they were as affectionate as before. Finally, in the anxiety of the system, Lucian finally made a plan.
Three days before the wedding, envoys from various countries arrived at the Demon King's City, including the Dragon Clan's Crown Prince Simon, who was once tricked by Lucian into becoming the Son of God's mount.
Simon was proud and indifferent when facing the transformed Wade, but he could sense that the new Lord of the Demon Realm always had some hostility towards him, and this hostility made him frown, somewhat puzzled.
When leaving the hall, a white-haired beauty also walked into the hall. Simon only saw her back, but at that moment, he was stunned.
"Who is that man?" he asked the attendant.
"The future Demon Queen." said the attendant.
Simon stared at the beautiful woman's back in a daze. Somehow, that person always gave him a very familiar feeling... as if he had seen her somewhere before.
From a distance, he saw the beauty sitting next to the devil, tilting her head to talk to him. He couldn't see the beauty's face clearly, but this feeling made him more anxious...
"Please move aside for a moment." Someone said to me.
Simon came back to his senses and saw a head of brilliant golden hair at that moment. When he recognized the person, he was stunned.
"Bright?" he repeated the man's name.
The person who came was the Holy Knight Bright of the Holy Temple of Light. Now he came as a representative of the court, his smile was still sunny, but inexplicably, he carried a somewhat unfathomable aura. Bright nodded to him and said, "His Highness Simon."
Simon heard that he had been captured by the Black Emperor Vader, and after Vader disappeared, he escaped with the help of the Church and regained his position. Now that he came here on behalf of the Church, it was also a demonstration.
However, these disputes between humans and demons have nothing to do with me. My life is long, and these little things... are just a drop in the ocean.
Simon sneered in his heart, but at this moment, a figure in white holy clothes appeared in his mind again.
The man rode on his dragon-shaped back, leaned over to his ear and smiled at him, "You must accept the loss, Lord Simon. As a dignified dragon, you won't be so stingy as not to keep your oath, right?"
The missing Holy Son of the human race.
Maybe... a half-succubus.
He closed his eyes and tried to put everything out of his mind.
Lucian had expected Simon and others to visit today. He intentionally left Simon with his back to him and sat next to Wade before Bright entered the hall. When he saw Simon, he mentioned the "friendship" between him and Simon.
"Simon actually came to congratulate me in person - I remember that he had a bad temper 7 years ago. In order to persuade the dragons to leave the mountains and come to assist the Church in the war, I spent a lot of effort to get him to agree to become my... mount." Lucian smiled and said, "Do you still remember? During that time, I rode on him every day, and... "
"… "
"Why don't you answer me?"
Vader turned his head and looked at him, his eyes dark and burning like fire. A dangerous aura enveloped Lucian. Before anything happened, the attendant reported: "Bright, the chief of the Holy Knights of the Holy See, came to congratulate them on their behalf."
"Bright?" Lucian said, shrugging and shutting his mouth because of the pressure from Wade's aura.
"... That waste Lilith." Wade coldly insulted his undead priestess subordinate, "Lucian, go back to your room."
Sure enough, after hearing Bright's report, the almost furious Wade asked him to go back to the room—he didn't want Bright to see his Lucian, so Lucian obeyed him.
"You'd better figure out whose bride you will be in the eyes of others in three days."
Before leaving, he heard Wade's words.
“I’ll find out,” Lucian replied.
But this was his purpose, including arousing Wade's anger, suppressing his temper, and returning to the room... After returning to the room, Lucian applied the colorless and odorless concentrated potion made from the sleeping powder to various parts of his body.
These included fingers, neck, collarbone, earlobes... and any tender areas. Lucian felt a little embarrassed during the application process, but this was the best way to get Wade to take the potion.
All Vader needs to do is relax and immerse himself in it... Then, he will be able to obtain the memories he wants to retrieve.
After that, she put on her white wedding dress, which was extremely gorgeous and designed to suit her status. Her slender and fair right leg was perfectly exposed from the layers of white pleats cut on the bias.
Lucian wore this wedding dress and waited in the room for Wade to return.
After seeing off the guests, Wade returned to the room.
A dark fire burned in his mind. At that moment, he suddenly felt that it was a bad idea to invite these people to watch his wedding with Lucian.
Lucian should be hidden in a dark corner that belongs to him, so that everyone can know that Lucian belongs to him, but no one can be allowed to see what belongs to him... He closed his eyes, trying his best to suppress these increasingly dark thoughts.
And Lucian... his secrets. The words I just said...
Before he opened the door, Wade had already smelled the increasingly rich sweet fragrance of Lucian. This sweet fragrance had almost reached its peak today. Just smelling Lucian's scent, he already had a reaction. Those fragrant and charming images and rough primitive instincts swept over him again. It was as if Lucian had gotten used to him... and with each time... the poison was tailor-made for him.
I know what Lucian said, and I am the same.
After the door was pushed open, he saw Lucian lying on the bed in the dim candlelight. She was wearing the wedding dress that made him unable to look away. After Wade arrived beside her, Lucian stood up and hugged her.
The fragrant breath fell on his cheeks, fingers, and body.
“Why are you so angry…” I heard Lucian’s smiling, slightly proud voice, “Are you jealous?… Jealous of my old mount… Simon?”
Vader grabbed his hand.
Lucian was fearless, but his voice was so soft that it seemed to drip with water, and he had a slightly malicious smile: "Since you are so unhappy, I will also ride you tonight, okay?"
As he said that, he pushed Wade onto the bed.
The skirt spread out like petals, swaying like a lotus falling into water.
…
In the second half of the night, Wade finally passed out under the influence of the drug, looking peaceful. Lucian lay on his chest, feeling his heart pounding as if it was about to overload. He felt weak from pain, tiredness, and joy, and trembled as he closed his eyes.
He searched for the connection with Wade in the spiritual world. Finally, he found the mark again.
The world behind the mark was peaceful. Apparently, under the influence of happiness and drugs, Wade had relaxed all his guard. He concentrated his energy and explored inside.
The next moment, his feet softened and he landed on the ground of the spiritual world.
The body reflects the mind. Lucian bit his own palm hard to wake himself up. There was no time to let his legs go weak or to indulge in the shock of the aftermath. He had to find his memory as quickly as possible.
When he walked out of the church, he was shocked by the scene before him.
In Wade's spiritual world... there are vast expanses of sea of flowers.
The flowers were all wine red, delicate and beautiful, filling the entire world. They bloomed softly in the wind, and the sound of the leaves swaying was like silver bells. On the other side of the mountain range in Wade's spiritual world was a terrifying place of water and fire, but these flowers were happy and wanton, as if they were tolerated, protected, and occupied the most beautiful place by the owner of the spiritual world.
He remembered that extremely terrifying mountain range surrounded by black fog. It was the place where they had their first encounter in the cold pond.
Lucian still remembered that he could see Vader nailed to the World Tree there, which made him move his fingers.
Vader's condition... is it getting worse
After the last contact, there was a mysterious connection between him and his memory. Lucian walked towards the corridor. The sky was a pleasant light pink and purple.
Even after he left, the sea of flowers remained peaceful and harmonious.
But Lucian didn't see that, although the sea of flowers in front of him was so beautiful and peaceful, the roots of those flowers had been tightly entangled by black vines.
They only bloom under their entanglement, being well watered and pampered, yet unable to escape.
Lucian quickly entered the corridor where memories were stored. Before entering the corridor, Lucian turned cold and cast a spell.
After the last rollover, Lucian had already taken the time to prepare for the situation in the corridor. Under this spell, all of Vader's memory spirits would fall into a deep sleep, and his presence would be reduced to a minimum.
The lilac butterflies emitting silver light entered the corridor first. They landed on every door silently. The corridor, which was originally eerie and scary, became calm and cold after all the butterflies settled down.
“Success.” Lucian thought.
walked slowly into the corridor. As expected, 's arrival did not attract any memory's attention. walked through the doors one by one, and finally stopped in front of the last door.
Inside that door is his memory crystal core.
Lucian pushed open the door. The pure, beautiful, silver-blue memory crystal core was quietly spinning in the door of memory. The moment the light shone into his eyes, Lucian felt the intimacy of a relative calling him. He walked towards the crystal core and stretched out his hand, but at this moment...
"So this is what you are looking for in my spiritual world."
A cold voice came from behind me.
At that moment, Lucian froze. The memory crystal core was only ten steps away from him, but at this moment, the pure light became an eternal and unattainable thing.
There were dark vines climbing up and entangled around my ankles. Lucian slowly turned his head at this moment. I saw Wade standing outside the door, half of his face was covered by shadows. Wade's scarlet eyes stared at me, and at that moment, Lucian found himself shaking.
"you… "
The vines climbed up his thighs and began to crawl into his clothes. Lucian couldn't move. Wade walked towards him step by step. He held Lucian's cold cheek with one hand and stroked his chin with his thumb. His movements were gentle and almost loving.
"... The day before yesterday, I found some strange, leftover traces in my spiritual world." He said softly, "Those leftover traces don't seem to be in a spiritual world that has never been broken into. So I quickly determined that there was a thief who sneaked into my spiritual world... He was looking for something."
Lucian heard his breathing becoming more and more rapid because of the vines. He began to tremble and could not stand steadily, but was forced by the vines to stand in front of Wade. Wade lowered his head to look at him and said in a low voice: "Soon, I thought of the thief who was able to break in here. But I don't mind his intrusion. If it's just for your pleasure, you can stir up trouble in my spiritual world, you can destroy my spiritual world. You can set fire, kill my spiritual body, and do anything to vent your anger... As long as you feel happy and are willing to do so."
- Vader's words were serious, which added more horror to his almost crazy words, which were full of strong nonchalance about his own self-destruction to please another person.
"I can also pretend that I didn't see anything... just like in the past, I didn't even know where our first time... happened." He said gently to Lucian, "It wasn't until the day before yesterday that I found out that our first time happened in the spiritual world - he was familiar with this place as if he were in an empty space before I knew it."
The vines penetrated Lucian's mouth before he could speak, blocking any sound he could make. Lucian did not start to struggle until now. He heard Wade continue, "I pretended that I didn't see anything. But that person used a potion, trying to make me unconscious and enter my spiritual world. But unfortunately, my spiritual body woke me up because it sensed that the world it had already controlled was invaded. So I watched him walk into my spiritual world, watched him walk through the flower fields, and came to this corridor..."
“Mmm…Mmm!!”
Lucian made a sound that sounded almost like crying. He couldn't speak, so he could only make such sounds under all the stimulation. Wade continued to speak slowly: "So I saw you come here and use magic to suppress all your vigilance. Then, you came here and found in this room..."
He walked towards the crystal core and stretched out his hand. At that moment, Lucian finally let out a scream.
The vines entwined and gripped my body tightly. I watched helplessly as Wade grasped the crystal core into my palm.
"This thing. This is what he wanted to find." Wade whispered, "He deceived me and drugged me. This is what he wanted to find."
At that moment, Lucian finally trembled violently. The crystal core melted in the palm of Wade's hand. Wade looked at Lucian coldly.
"I swear to you - since you don't like it, I won't give it up." Wade said slowly, "Ten years later, I will return it to you. But you..."
"Besides wanting to retrieve this mysterious crystal core and know those secrets that you shouldn't know with your identity... what other secrets do you not want to explain or tell me?" Wade sneered, "We are going to get married, but you drugged me before the wedding... just to get this thing back? Lucian..."
"Do you have a heart or not?"
Lucian's eyes were blank. The vines entangled his body, and he felt that he was about to die. Finally, at the moment when he was extremely close to death, Wade, who had been watching him make a fool of himself, finally walked up and grabbed his chin fiercely.
Then kissed.
Lucian's soul was ejected and fell in the bite, and finally fell into his real body. The dim room still had a strong smell of the two people's love. Lucian was trembling and wanted to crawl away, but Wade grabbed his leg.
And was forced to sit back on her body.
…
Vader was really angry. Lucian was shaking on him and biting his lips. Sometimes he thought he was being roasted in a frying pan, and sometimes he thought he was being sunk into the deep sea. During this process, Vader seemed to have no mercy on him. Lucian was also shaking, letting him do whatever he wanted to her.
Until the end, Lucian finally cried when he was on the verge of collapse. He cried tremblingly, and could hardly control his crying. He could no longer control himself, and this desperate cry did not contain any scheming, but seemed to come purely from the heart - from all the complicated and confusing emotions and all the pain that Wade brought to him.
Finally, he passed out. Before he passed out, he felt the corners of his mouth were cool, as if the person who had never kissed him in this lovemaking and who seemed to be venting out anger was gently comforting him with a kiss.
…
Lucian didn't know when he woke up.
When he woke up, his eyes were still empty. Wade held him and let him lie on top of him.
The silence lasted for a long time. Finally, Lucian said hoarsely: "Weide..."
I didn't expect Wade's answer, but I heard him say quickly: "Yeah."
Lucian: …
Lucian lowered his eyes. After a long while, he heard Wade laughing at himself.
"I think so."
said.
Lucian was silent.
"… I won't ask you to explain these things to me. I know… you won't tell me. That being the case."
"Let us be husband and wife for ten years. During that time, I won't ask anything." Wade said in a low voice, "After ten years, I will return your memory to you... and your freedom to you. The price you need to pay is these ten years of lies."
After a long time, I heard Lucian's voice.
"Give me my freedom... but what about the lies?"
"I won't give it back."
Vader said.
All the lies you gave me, I'll stay.
—become my last collection to chew before I reach my end.
"… "
"Lucian."
Hear Vader's voice.
"I died for you twice, and you deceived me so many times... letting you accompany me... and deceived me for ten years." I heard Wade's hurried voice, as if he was trying to imitate a laugh, "It's not too much."
That voice sounded like a desperate loser begging for mercy.
"… "
After a long time, Weed heard Lucian's voice.
“…Don’t think too much.” Lucian said, “I’m scared if you do this.”
"… "
Lucian reached out and held Wade's face. His fingers were white, soft, but also cold. Wade let him touch him and heard Lucian's disembodied voice: "... You love me like this, right? Wade? Are you really... in love with me?"
"So you love me, Lucian?" Wade's voice sounded self-deprecating.
Lucian lowered his head. He rubbed his head against Wade's chest. He didn't say anything, nor did he cry. After a long time, he said, "... You really love me."
"… "
Wade said nothing, but just tightened his grip on me.
Lucian chuckled softly.
“…But you said that you would let me go in ten years. Wouldn’t you be even more reluctant then?” Lucian said.
"… "
“Don’t be so eager to talk about what will happen in ten years… It’s as if I’m really sorry for you, okay? At least for now, I will stay by your side obediently.” Lucian said, “Seeing you like this, I always feel as if… I feel guilty.”
"... You'd better be." Vader said.
"Um."
Lucian closed his eyes and held Wade with his arms, as if clinging to a twisted and gorgeous vine. As if he wanted to parasitize on him and absorb all his nutrients. In that almost suffocating feeling, he whispered again: "You really like me... You really love me."
There was no smile on his face, and his wine-red eyes reflected the bright sunlight outside the window. The sunlight was so bright that he felt that he was walking in it and it would soon rise.
"Ten years." I thought, "Ten years."
Just ten years.
Ten years... Can everything be written off like this
But what he said was: "Let's prepare for our wedding."