On the other side of the door, there was the sound of water.
The white-haired succubus was curled up in the bathtub. When Wade came in, he clearly saw a thin and long object flickering and shrinking into the bathtub. He knew it was Lucian's tail.
There were some petals floating in the bathtub—these were the bath beans Lucian had bought. The petals were swaying with the water. But what was puzzling was that Lucian's cheeks were much redder than usual. His long hair was wet, and he huddled in the bathtub. When Wade arrived, he made a sporadic sound: "Didn't I tell you... not to come in?!"
Behind his voice, Wade heard an even stranger sound.
—The increasingly loud voice came from another room separated from the bathroom by a wall.
When that voice sounded, Lucian in the water trembled even more violently. He raised his chin and raised his slender neck, and his voice became more and more angry: "I told you... to get out..."
Vader didn't see his right hand. At that moment he suddenly realized what happened to Lucian - the physique of the succubus has never been a secret.
From here, he could see Lucian curled up in the bathtub. He was always proud, but now he was as soft as a rose, with moist and red eyes, and his eyes and lips were all bright red. Bath beans covered his body submerged in the water. But Wade could still see his hands were underwater...
At that moment, Wade froze for a rare moment.
"Come out when you're done." Wade was silent for a moment and then said coldly.
He turned around hurriedly, grasped the door handle, tensed his body, restrained his emotions, and closed the door.
For the first time, Wade felt that the door handle was so cold and his heart was so hot.
It was as if Lucian's soft cheek was in the palm of his hand.
Lucian behind the door finally relaxed his body. He released the grip on his tail that was wagging in the water. The tail immediately began to swing wildly. The voice from the other side had not yet stopped, and all his abnormalities had not yet ended. Whether it was some unspeakable desire, or the tail that was swinging wildly due to excitement.
Because of his succubus nature, he was induced into arousal by the voice from the other side.
It's not a thirst for blood, but lust. He's longing to be "huggled", to be bitten by the throat or the back of the neck, to be held by the waist, and finally... to get the "food" he wants.
It is not the kind of food that replaces blood.
Before Vader came in, Lucian was trying to control his flailing tail while enduring the discomfort in his body, and he had just pressed it to the bottom of the water when Vader came in. The heat and discomfort in his body made him feel lucky that Vader had left in time, and he didn't know what Vader thought he was doing at that time.
In his opinion, a non-human existence like Vader... wouldn't be able to imagine anything else.
The voice from the other side finally stopped. Lucian curled up in the bathtub, biting his palm, and didn't move until the heat on his body finally cooled down. When he barely got out of the bathtub, his legs were weak and he felt as if he had died once.
He leaned against the door and rested for a while, until he mustered up the courage, gritted his teeth and opened the bathroom door. Then...
All he saw was an empty room.
Lucian:
What about the Vaders
But it was better without Vader. Lucian threw himself on the bed and wrapped himself in the quilt. He could feel his cheeks still slightly hot and his lower abdomen twitching - it was clearly sunken, but at this moment it seemed empty.
Vader's shirt was thrown casually on the bed - a little further inside from him, that was where Vader slept. Lucian curled up to Vader's position unconsciously in his sleep. He grabbed Vader's shirt and buried his face in it. It was as if he was surrounded by the breath of another person. After smelling the breath of the cold blade, Lucian finally got temporary comfort.
He hugged Vader's shirt, buried his face in his pillow, and fell into a deep sleep.
…
The Greedy City was still bustling at night. Vader, carrying a long knife, hurried through the free fighting arena, where demons often fought with their lives at stake to earn a high bounty.
He did not look around until he was out of the city. The guard wanted to ask him what he was doing out of the city so late at night, but after seeing his face which was even more gloomy and terrifying than before, he was so frightened that he dared not say a word and could only open the city gate for him tremblingly.
Few demons dare to enter the Misty Forest on a night like this. The forest is full of all kinds of demons and species, as well as terrifying mutant plants. But this is where Vid wants to go.
The blood and evil spirit in his body were boiling like they were about to riot. The strange feeling made him anxious and furious, and he urgently needed to find an outlet.
He had no interest in the feeble things of the forest.
That's when the demon wolf came into his sight. It didn't look like an ordinary demon wolf. It looked like it had eaten something, and its belly was glowing slightly. And there seemed to be a strange mutation on its body - this mutation made it grow dragon-like horns and bat wings. Such bat wings made it more like a dragon than a wolf.
The gigantic demon wolf attacked him. It opened its huge mouth and spewed out a golden-red dragon-like fire vortex!
That is definitely not the spell that the demon wolf should master!
But Vader showed an excited expression at this moment. The flames burned his arms, and he smelled the scent of his own blood - this finally overwhelmed the sound of Lucian's water that filled his ears, as if it existed in an unreal and uninvited fantasy. The blood made him excited again, and his bones began to be filled with killing and restlessness again.
He used a long knife to kill the demon wolf, which was three times his size. At the moment the demon wolf fell, a glowing stone rolled out from its opened belly. The stone also emitted a faint glow in the night, and was slightly larger in size. Wade picked it up, weighed it, and put it into the ring he had robbed after arriving in the Demon Realm.
Those images of Lucian finally faded in his mind, and the anxiety that seemed not to belong to him finally lessened a little.
Wade returned to the hotel. When he opened the door, he saw Lucian curled up on his part of the bed. Lucian was lying on his side, and he seemed to have finally found a little peace in his sleep. His rosy lips were slightly parted, his brows were slightly furrowed, and he was holding...
His shirt.
Wade moved his eyes away and lay down with them closed. After a moment, he stood up again and took out a bottle of sleeping potion from his ring to help him fall asleep.
He drank the potion. The excitement of killing that remained in his body cleared his mind, and he had a feeling that he would have a good dream.
…
Vader realized he was dreaming.
He was in a stone fighting arena, seemingly fighting a group of gladiators. This was not unusual in his usual bloody dreams. Wade's expression remained unchanged as he raised his dagger.
He fought with the man amid cheers that came from nowhere. Finally, he pinned the man down on the fighting field. Vader raised the dagger high and was about to drop it with an expressionless face -
At that moment, the gladiator who was originally pinned under him turned into Lucian.
Lucian was pinned down by him, his legs spread apart. He closed his eyes, his long eyelashes fell on the corners of his bright red eyes, his bright and lustrous lips were open, and it was hard to tell whether his expression was of pain or happiness.
The voice he heard in the bathroom from another room rang in his ears again. But the owner of the voice was not another person, but Lucian. Lucian's legs were down there. Wade could imagine what a beautiful view that was without even looking.
Vader heard his own breathing becoming more rapid, the succubus's tail wrapped around his thigh, and then he heard the soft, trembling sounds that Lucian made in his dream as he moved.
“… Feed me.”
Lucian said to him.
He had never seen Lucian need him so much in his dreams.
Lucian woke up early the next morning. He used his magic to suppress his succubus instincts, but he still felt uncomfortable. When he realized that Wade's shirt was still in his hands, Lucian threw it aside.
He curled up on the sofa with his legs bent, sniffed a bottle of smelling salts, and coughed when he finally regained consciousness. The next moment he saw Wade sitting up from the bed as if awakened.
Lucian:
Wade's body was still trembling slightly, he lowered his eyes, seemed to be trying hard to control his breathing, and his knuckles were white from clutching the quilt. At that moment, Lucian thought he was having a nightmare.
And he did ask that.
"…Nothing." After a long time, he heard Wade's cold reply. There was no emotion in his voice.
Lucian: Okay, it’s up to you.
Thinking of what happened in the bathroom yesterday, Lucian felt guilty again, and this guilt eventually turned into dissatisfaction. When Wade hurriedly put on his clothes and passed by him, Lucian stretched out her calf to hook him.
He had no idea how he looked in Wade's eyes, including his voice, which seemed soft and hooked at the end even though it was complaining.
"Didn't I tell you yesterday not to..."
"… Come in."
His ankles were grabbed by Vader.
He was held tightly in the man's hand.
Lucian was startled at that moment. He frowned and tried to pull his calf back until he met Wade's eyes.
"… "
At that moment he trembled and didn't even dare to struggle anymore.
Vader looked at him too.
Normally, he had never felt Lucian's breathing so clear. It seemed heavier, the sound he would normally hear from Lucian in the bathroom...
This staring continued for a long time. After a long time, Wade let go of Lucian's ankle.
"... I'm going out for a while." He said in a hoarse voice, "I'll be back in the evening."
“Oh…” Lucian felt a little dizzy for some reason, “You forgot yesterday, come back early today…”
"I."
At the last word, Vader closed the door.
Lucian was still on the sofa, his ankles burning. After a long time, he pulled out the system and asked it, "What did he want to do just now?"
System: ...Unable to answer.
After leaving the inn, Vader came to the largest fighting arena in the City of Greed.
This fighting arena is a life-and-death fight, and the entrance fee is one gold coin. If a person can fight twelve times, he or she will receive a special reward.
Wade came to the counter and put the gold coins in the waiter's hand.
"Sign up." He whispered.
He needed something to make him forget everything that was in his mind at the moment.