“Ahh, Hereis, now, stop now…!”
His words weren’t metaphor or exaggeration. Hereis truly kept penetrating inside me without giving me a moment to catch my breath. I gave up counting how many times we did it. Wasn’t it more than during the heat cycle period? It’s not an exaggeration, it was really that many times. Since it was a dream there was no pain, but it was hard because I felt too much. Rather than my body being hot, it really felt like it would melt.
“No. I’ll do it one more time.”
“Liar. You said earlier you’d only do it one more time… Ugh!”
“I’ll do it one more time than that bastard.”
“What?”
Hereis pierced through my body again. As he invaded, the semen that had already filled me dripped down, wetting my buttocks.
He accurately stabbed the spots where I felt it, and this time too I let out a strange cry. If I’d screamed this much in reality, my throat would have gone hoarse and I couldn’t have reacted, but this damn vocal cords were still vigorous.
“He, ahhh! Ah! Th-there, stop…!”
I didn’t want to feel anymore. But contrary to my words, my waist heaved violently. Though I’d shaken enough that it would have broken if this were reality, my waist was as vigorous as my vocal cords. Embarrassed at myself so intoxicated by the heat of pleasure, I just shook my head finely, when Hereis kissed me.
It was the second kiss since entering the dream. But it wasn’t a kiss like a beast coveting prey like the first time. His hand wrapped around the back of my head and our lips softly overlapped. Feeling the touch of his tongue sweetly circling inside my mouth, my body regained composure too. Hereis, who had been indulging in my mouth, licked my lower lip as if apologizing for what happened earlier. Then he thrust up into my body again. Hereis’s semen filled my insides once more.
He collapsed as if falling and embraced me. Then he belatedly removed the eye mask he’d interfered with whenever I tried to take it off myself.
Though my eyes had been covered for a long time, everything was clearly visible without even slight dazzlement. It’s the power of dreams. I looked at Hereis.
His miserably emaciated face had regained its original appearance. His pupils that had glowed red on both sides had also returned to odd eyes. Actually, I knew his body had recovered to some degree. Because at some point I stopped feeling the skeletal frame that had pained my heart each time flesh struck flesh. But seeing it directly with my eyes like this, I felt relieved.
“Are you okay now, Hereis?”
“Yes. I’m fine.”
“Really? Your complexion doesn’t look good…”
At first I was relieved seeing his cheeks fill out again, but looking continuously, his complexion was still pale.
“I’m fine. And I’m sorry.”
“For what?”
“For being too greedy.”
Is it because I told him to stop? I hastily shook my head.
“No! I’m the one who’s sorry. I was so out of it I threw a tantrum like a child. You can do it anytime. If it’s not enough, eat more. You can eat however you want.”
Hereis’s eyes quietly gazed at me, then he smoothly sat up.
“Young Master is truly a cruel person.”
“What? What did I…?”
“It’s time to wake from the dream.”
Hereis spoke in a resolute tone as if cutting something off. His eyes were somehow lonely. As I was about to ask why he was like this, whether I’d made a mistake, my vision blurred and strength drained away.
***
“Heave-ho…! Ugh!”
I screamed while stretching. Excruciating pain flowed through my entire body as if I’d been electrocuted.
“Don’t overdo it.”
“Harry…”
Hereis was sitting beside the bed as always. I blinked my heavy eyelids and quickly returned to reality.
While going through the heat cycle I couldn’t give Hereis vital energy, and he’d fallen so severely ill he coughed up blood.
I stared at his face. His right eye had returned to blue, and though he was still haggard, he had more color than before.
I reached out my hand and grasped his. His fingers that had been skeletal like wooden chopsticks had flesh on them, regaining their original beautiful appearance.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m fine.”
“Did I have a lucid dream?”
Judging by Hereis’s condition, I definitely had an erotic dream, but I didn’t remember it at all. The moment I woke up, a conversation vaguely came to mind then disappeared like bubbles.
“Yes.”
“I see. I can’t remember well.”
“Because I erased it.”
Unlike last time where the nuance was ambiguous, unclear whether it was a mistake or erased due to lack of ability, this precisely contained the meaning that he deliberately erased it.
“You erased it?”
“Yes. I erased it fearing Young Master would hate me. Because I did it severely.”
The corners of Hereis’s mouth drew a bitter curve. It was a smile where I couldn’t tell if it was sincere or a joke.
“You’re thinking needlessly. There’s no way I’d hate Harry.”
“…I really did it severely.”
I don’t know who’s worrying about whom. After meeting a weirdo like me, awakening as an incubus, coughing up blood and suffering until only bones remained on his body. Are you really the ruler of darkness? Isn’t that wrong information? Are you perhaps a figurehead boss?
“It’s fine. It’s a dream, right? You should eat your meals in various ways. You can cook however you want!”
“……”
“Eat a little more. Your complexion still isn’t good.”
“I’m fine.”
“You even coughed up blood, didn’t you?”
“That has nothing to do with Young Master. It’s just the process of awakening from a human body to an incubus body.”
“Really? You’re not lying again because you’re worried I’ll worry?”
It’s not a boast, but this isn’t the first time I’ve starved Hereis. Not long ago either, but just three days ago. At that time Hereis was very gaunt, but not to the point of coughing up blood or looking so skeletal his life seemed endangered.
“I couldn’t control the suddenly increased amount of mana, so my body’s balance collapsed. It’s not Young Master’s fault.”
Hereis drew a firm line and stood up.
“But…”
“Please give me leave.”
“What?”
“I’ll go learn how to control mana.”
“What about meals?”
“It won’t take long.”
“Still, roughly how long?”
“I think it’ll take about 2-3 days.”
He answered easily without a moment’s hesitation.
“That’s a relief.”
The tension that had gripped my chest released and a sigh of relief burst out.
“What?”
“You spoke so resolutely, I thought you were leaving for a long time.”
“…Do you dislike me leaving?”
“I’d be sad if you suddenly left. I’d worry too.”
“…I’ll return soon, so don’t worry.”
Hereis bowed his head with a somewhat stiff face. Because it looked like he’d use teleport right away, I quickly grabbed his hand.
“Even if it’s 2-3 days, you still need to eat.”
“I’ll stop by if necessary.”
“You must come. Absolutely. You can’t go hungry.”
Hereis smiled faintly and nodded.
“Yes. Don’t worry about me and hurry and shower first.”
“Okay.”
I quickly fastened my frock coat. As I lowered my head in embarrassment, I saw the splotchy traces of sex remaining on my legs, making my face heat up even more. That bastard Eldon, how do you bite all the way to the ankle bones!
“And I’m sorry for kissing you.”
I raised my head again. I was about to say it’s fine, that’s just a meal, rather I was wrong for starving you, but he’d already disappeared and wasn’t visible.
***
Will he really return soon? Is his body okay now? Hereis’s expression, as resolute as if leaving far away, bothered me.
Was he disappointed in me for neglecting meals for three whole days? Or did something happen in the dream? I tried to recall the content of the lucid dream but couldn’t remember at all.
I lay down again. Hereis said to shower first, but right now I wanted to recall the lucid dream first. If I closed my eyes like having a dream, wouldn’t even hazy memories come to mind? I wanted to cling to even a small straw. But when I lay flat, my waist hurt like crazy. My buttocks stung too.
It was hard to even lie down because of the pain. I grimaced and clutched my waist. And curled my body like a shrimp. It hurt but my eyelids wouldn’t move.
In a half-asleep state neither sleeping nor awake, as I hugged the blanket with its familiar texture, something warm touched my lips. I startled awake with wide eyes.
“Your Highness…!”
Eldon was sitting on the bed, pressing my lips while gazing with chilling eyes.
“I told you not to move and rest on the bed.”
“Yes.”
“But what are you doing here? Are my orders a joke?”
“N-no!”
I hastily shook my head.
“Well, I was looking for something Father gave me…”
“Did you find it?”
“No. That is… I left it at the ducal residence, but I forgot because I was out of it from the heat cycle. Haha.”
I hastily made up an excuse and laughed awkwardly. But Eldon’s expression only grew colder.
“Then you should return right away, so what are you doing here after dismissing all the attendants?”
Looking at the clock on the wall, about 30 minutes had passed since Hereis left. So Eldon wouldn’t have seen our appearances or heard our conversation. That said, I didn’t have a secret meeting with Arleigh either. Of course I disobeyed Eldon’s order, but I just returned to the detached palace where I originally stayed, so why is he so menacing?
“I was sleeping. Because it’s comfortable here.”
“The Crown Princess should stay in the Crown Princess’s bedroom.”
“…I haven’t even married yet.”
“Say ‘this consort.'”
This consort my ass. As I said before, the Keltan Empire is a monogamous country. Only the legitimate wife—the Empress and Crown Princess—who receives Generoanth’s blessing, eats Rosana the imperial exclusive apple, and can use the address ‘this consort.’
The Rosenthal of the original story was proud of Rosana along with the address ‘this consort.’ And I never wanted to walk the same path as the original.
Damn it, that bastard is trying to drag me into death by all means.
According to the original story development, does love with Seha begin only when the condition of marrying me is fulfilled? So he’s determined to make me Crown Princess?
“When we haven’t even had a wedding ceremony yet, you’ll be ridiculed if you say such words.”
“Why haven’t you eaten the Rosana?”
It was getting worse and worse. Why would I eat Rosana, the symbol of Rosenthal’s vanity and death? This bastard is trying to fulfill all the brutal death conditions I’ve desperately avoided for months at once?
