REFDL 97

I tried to lower my hands to cover myself, but Kaelus caught my wrists and stopped me.

He didn’t stop there. He held both my wrists and pinned them to the table.

My chest heaved slightly. Each time I panted, my erect peaks trembled. The pale skin contrasted with the light red, which made the aroused tips stand out even more. So outstanding that I couldn’t look at anything else. It was my body, but it didn’t feel like mine.

Kaelus noticed it too.

His persistent gaze fixed on them. Even though he did nothing, my nipples tingled as if they were being prickled by needles.

“Why are you so erotic? Who’s this for?”

Kaelus scolded me and squeezed one side of my chest with his free hand.

“Ugh. Ah… mmm!”

He opened his mouth wide and swallowed the swollen flesh and nipple in his hand all at once. It felt like I’d given my chest to a suction device. The sensitive flesh was kneaded by the pressure. Stars flashed before my eyes.

Kaelus didn’t miss the chance and gripped his cock and mine in one hand. His rough touch forced my pleasure to spike from the very start. I lowered my voice and whispered into his ear.

“Ugh. Ah. Mmm. It’s good. It’s so good. Kael…!”

“Ugh. Haa. Damn it…”

I loved this hazy moment. Kaelus was the only thing I could see. Every part of him filled my vision.

I could feel Julan breathing inside me. That dragon, who’d always been dead in my dreams, no longer felt dead. I wasn’t mindlessly identifying myself with him. However, I was accepting it to some extent. At some point in the past, I was Julan. It was just as Kaelus was Firmus at that same time.

I narrowed my eyes and leaned toward his wrist. I kissed the vessel artifact, and the veins on the inside of his wrist bulged.

I didn’t stop there and stuck out my tongue to lewdly suck the bracelet and the opal decoration before I pulled the man’s forearm close and bit it.

As I moved my lips, Kaelus’s entire body tensed up. His body went stiff. He panted hot breaths. His nape turned bright red, and the signs of him barely suppressing his excitement fueled my own arousal.

“Mmm… ah.”

I unconsciously moved my hips. Kaelus hooked one arm under my knees and yanked them up. My upper body slid downward, and my legs spread wide. My entrance twitched with anticipation.

Kaelus gripped his penis with his other hand and pressed the tip against the excited hole. He rubbed the tip against me and hastily spread the fluid. When he decided it was enough, he began to force his way in.

“Hrrgh. Ahnn!”

My eyes rolled back. A sweet moan escaped my mouth. My inner walls, sensitized by stolen content anticipation, squirmed and wrapped around the thick shaft.

The slow penetration was only at the start. When he was halfway in, Kaelus immediately began to thrust his lower body.

Squish!

Slap!

“Ahhhh! Ah…! Kaelus… Kaelus…!”

I hung onto him and called his name, as if I were pleading. I remembered the moment I saw him for the first time after I hatched from the egg. It felt like tens of thousands of invisible glass shards were scattering in the light. It was a shocking and intuitive moment.

I felt the semen burst inside me, and my waist trembled.

“…!”

My heart felt full. I felt calm and drowsy, as if I had finally returned to where I belonged. I believe that as long as I’m by his side, nothing will go wrong, I won’t be blamed for anything, and I’ll get the happiness I wanted.

***

I requested flight permission from the Ilba family. I thought they’d reject it, but the permission came on the evening of the same day. It was unexpected.

“Flight is only permitted during [Read on]the day. Also, you must use the abandoned pier you used on the first day for takeoffs and landings.”

“Those aren’t very difficult conditions.”

The family head’s seal was stamped on the permit I skimmed. The conditions they set were also attached.

“Even so, it’s a fairly lenient reaction. Watchers can’t even follow you in the sky.”

Since he put it that way, it was definitely suspicious. The things that bothered me increased one by one.

[…So what are you going to do now? Maybe it’s because I’m not smart. I can’t think of a good solution even though I’ve thought about it.]

“I’m the same. …Honestly, I seriously considered sneaking in at night and stealing the artifact, but the Ilba family aren’t idiots, so they’ve probably prepared enough. They’ve likely hidden the artifact separately.”

I sighed. I couldn’t hide my gloom and groaned, so Kaelus patted my neck lightly.

“I’ll handle it somehow. Don’t worry too much. …This outing is for a backup plan.”

[A backup plan?]

“Yes. Over there.”

The central island was essentially the heart of the Ilba Archipelago, so it was the only one with a detailed map. Although it was a fragmented map that I had to piece together, I could recognize the main streets and major locations. However, the central island also looked smaller than the map Read on suggested, just like the other islands. The shape of the coastline was different, too.

I circled and glided in the direction Kaelus pointed. The wind was good, so my wings hardly moved. Waterways crossed the city like a net in part of the city on the right side of the central island. Small boats loaded with cargo and people moved busily along the wide waterways. Unlike the left side, which was close to a slum, the right side looked like a famous tourist city at first glance.

It’s a typical resort.

“We’re here.”

I dropped down. The archipelago’s side set the condition that we could only take off and land at the abandoned pier if we flew. But there’s always a loophole.

The moment my belly grazed the building’s roof, Kaelus detached the rope connected to me and jumped down.

Crack!

The red tiles on the floor broke, but his landing was perfect. Kaelus nodded to show he was fine, then he slipped away into a secluded alley between the buildings.

I circled leisurely above the city and then returned to the abandoned pier. The people who guided us here from the Ilba family’s guest house by carriage were surprised when they saw the empty saddle. I calmly shrank my size and gestured toward the saddle.

[Load it onto the carriage quickly.]

“Wh-where is Lord Irelion…?”

[Kaelus decided to move separately. It’s fine. He’ll return on his own before evening.]

“Wait…!”

[Why? You didn’t say anything else. Didn’t you say we could go around as we pleased?]

“…”

The man turned pale and signaled the knight. The knights, whose complexions had also changed, retreated in a hurry and mounted their horses urgently. I got into the carriage as if I knew nothing. There were no problems until I entered the room. As time passed, the number of servants and knights in the room subtly increased.

I yawned and jumped to the windowsill. The servants who changed the position of a perfectly fine vase and the knights who watched my every move flinched at the same time. I narrowed my eyes, and their attempt to act like they didn’t know anything wasn’t even funny.

I checked out the window. I saw many more people than inside. They stationed excessive troops everywhere, which was too much for simple guards. The stiff atmosphere continued into the afternoon. Then Kaelus returned before the evening sun set. He appeared calmly at the mansion’s front gate, and the Ilba family’s people greeted him with complicated expressions. Not a few people showed their open hostility.

Kaelus didn’t even blink.

“I’m tired because I spent the whole day sightseeing. I’ll rest now, so leave.”

“…Understood.”

The servant withdrew with a slightly uncomfortable expression. Their presence faded, but the knights still guarded the door. It was a surveillance that left no room for escape.

I used my lip movements to ask Kaelus.

[…Did you get it?]

“Yes.”

Kaelus pulled an ivory egg handicraft from his chest. I squinted, and Kaelus spoke with a hint of grievance.

“I didn’t choose this shape on purpose. All paternity test artifacts look like this originally.”

That’s bad taste.

[How accurate is it?]

“…Fifty percent.”

[…Does that even matter?]

“…”

Kaelus couldn’t answer. He remainee silent and then let out a sigh. This outing was a risk that we took knowing it would cause hostility and wariness, but the gain was so small that the loss felt huge.

[You said other families in the archipelago have similar artifacts. How are they?]

Kaelus shook his head.

“About seventy percent. But it doesn’t matter. As I said, the Ilba family head’s control over the other families is about equal to Firmus’s Emperor.”

[…This is hard.]

I groaned and spread out on the table like pancake batter, and only then did Kaelus’s face relax a little. He gently rubbed the bottom of my chin. I purred and rubbed my body against his hand, then I bit him lightly as a joke.

…Oops.

I snapped out of it. I froze and checked his expression. Fortunately, he didn’t seem to mind. I’m currently about the same size as when I was first born, so that might be part of it, but I also felt like his trauma might be getting better very slowly. My heart felt warm.

“You’re acting spoiled today.”

[Do you hate it?]

“How could I?”

He scooped me up into his hands as usual and comforted me normally.

“Let’s think about it a little more. There must be a way.”

[Yes.]