The month of Blue Moon, day 8. A night of downpour and reverberating roars of lightning. Right after Kurono left through the window just like he entered for the secret meeting.
On top of the table, there was a white spoon. The spoon Kurono had used. Kurono had used her personal spoon.
Itâs not like she wanted for that to happen. Itâs just that there were no other spoons which he could use. She canât let him use Charlotteâs personal red lightning relief spoon. She also canât have him using Safielâs personal cranium relief spoon. She doesnât want Kurono to use them.
While repeating to herself that Kurono using her spoon was not her choice, she picked up the spoon.
I need to clean it, I need to clean it, I need to properly clean itâshe told herself. Even though that is clearly what her mind is telling her, her body wouldnât listen. Her hands moved, naturallyâand the spoon, now being gripped with both her hands, was slowly but surely, being carried into her mouth.
âNn, ahâŠâŠâ
Sweet. Sweet, really sweet. Too sweet. Sweeter than pudding. So sweet that she felt like her brain would melt.
And each time her wriggly tongue licked the smooth surface of the spoon, it got hotter. Her heart, body, grew hotter.
Despite her heart pounding like crazy, weirdly enough, her stomachâthe ends of her stomach, was burning the hottest.
She couldnât keep standing. She felt as if scorching heat like magma boiled up from the bottom of her stomach. Her legs gave out.
Still having the spoon in her mouth, she turned around to look at the disarranged bed. The bed where Kurono was. She felt it with her instincts that Kuronoâs scent and warmth was still remaining on the bed. And before she realized, she was on top of it.\nâHaaâŠâŠ haaâŠâŠ I am sorry⊠KuronoâŠâŠ I am sorryâŠâ
And then, for the first time in her life, Nell masturbated.
Itâs something that she can never tell anyone, itâs something that she must keep as a secret, itâs too embarrassing butâwhy does Liliâ
ââDid you really think I wouldnât notice? How you are always making Kurono use your spoon?â
From the sweet climax of memories of that night, her consciousness returned to the cold and bitter reality in front of her.
âAh, umm⊠I wasâŠâŠ thatâs⊠not itâŠâŠâ
She barely managed to wring out the words of negation from her dried-up mouth. But she couldnât give excuses. Even saying that was like a miracle considering how blank her mind had become.
âThatâs not it? Whatâs not it?â
As if her words were sayingââyou lie even in this situation? What a pityâ. Lily just glared at her in contempt.
Nell immediately averted her gaze. She wanted to run. She wanted to run from here right away.
âThatâs not itâŠâŠ itâs not⊠I havenât done⊠anythingâŠâŠâ
While staring at her feet, she just kept on blurting out words of denial. She couldnât say anything more than that, she couldnât think of anything other than that.
Even still, she canât admit it. If she were to admit to it hereâ
âHmm, I see, then say it while holding Kuronoâs hand. Say that âI wash the spoon Kurono uses immediately after he leavesâ.â
What meaning did that have? It didnât have any meaning. That act wouldnât be proof of anything either. But thatâs for the majority of the people.
However, for someone with the telepathy ability, that would be the ultimate proof.
âYou can do it, canât you? Showing your memory to Kurono? So, prove it. Show Kurono what you do after you return to your roomââ\nâStop it!â
With piercing scream, she drowned Lilyâs words. However, such a thing is nothing but stopgap measure. After just a moment, Lilyâs, the demonâs childâs mouth, opened again. The demonâs words which pushed her down to the ends of despair, yet again.
ââStopâ? Stop what, exactly? If you donât have anything to hide like you say, surely you can do it.â
âStop itâŠâ
âIf, if you can prove that there is indeed nothing, I will apologize, with all sincerity, and say that I had a very indecent and deplorable misunderstanding.â
âStop itâŠâŠ stop it, pleaseâŠâŠâ
âCome on, answer properly. Will you prove it, or will you not? What did you do or what did you not do?â
âNoâŠâŠ stop it⊠please, stop it alreadyâŠâŠâ
âAnswer me.â
âNoâŠâŠ noâŠâŠâ
âAnswer.â
âNoâŠâŠâ
Still facing down, her vision, now blurred with flowing tears, could see Lilyâs white hand. Her icy fingertips slightly, kindly, touched Nellâs cheeks.
And at that moment, her face was forcibly raised. Her face, now forced to look forward, was face to face with Lily, whose peerless beautiful face was now distorted with anger.
âAnswer me! Nell Julius Elrod!!â
âHe, ahâŠâŠ aaaâŠâŠâŠ uwaaaaaaa!â
And finally, Nell gave in, in front of the words and the gaze of the kingfish who digged away at her heart. Her tears came gushing out and she crumbled to her knees.
She was hiding her face with both her handsâeither to stop her tears or maybe to hide her miserable face. She herself didnât know.
âAh, disgusting, disgusting. To think such a filthy woman was following Kurono about.â
âAah?!â
With anger, she pushed Nell by her shoulders. Being crushed emotionally, she had no strength nor will to resist and her body just collapsed.
A sharp impact went through her back and wings. It didnât hurt that much but her appearance, while groveling in the ground, was miserable. Just like a bird whose wings were broken.\nâYou, pervert! Pervert! Perverted princess with sexual obsession!!â
Nell couldnât say anything in return to those words of abuse. She didnât even have the will to do so.
âWhat magic lessons, huh? What important friendâŠâŠ Your ulterior motive is obvious, just like a bird in mating season! Go and give birth to an unfertilized egg at Avalon royal palace or whatever!â
No, no. Thatâs not itâEven the voice which denied it all in her heart started to vanish in face of those dark words filled with hatred.
âDonât look at Kurono, donât talk to him, donât touch him, donât you dare, contaminate my Kurono!!â
ââAaah! It hurts!!â
Her hands which were hiding her face were ripped off. She was kicked. Lilyâs dancer like flexible legs kicked her away without mercy, as if kicking an insect.
However, rather than the pain running through her hands, it was the luminance in her vision that took away her eyes.
The sky she looked upto was clear blue. But it felt like it was raining heavily. Even though her sight was blurry, for some reason, she could see Lilyâs face filled with scorn, looking down on her, clearly.
âStarting now, donât ever get close to KuronoâOr so I would like to say but, I will allow you to meet him just one more time.â
ââŠ..eh?â
Even though her face had gotten pale with despair, hearing that one lineâmeet KuronoâNell reacted. Of course, she would soon realize that that is nothing close to hope, but rather a demonâs words which would make despair even more.
âAfter all, you need to say your goodbye, right?â
If she disappears suddenly, Kurono will definitely be worried. He wouldnât abandon her, his friend.
However, what if she says goodbye herself?
âAhâŠâŠ n-noâŠâŠ noâŠâŠâ
âI think you already know but a war will break out in Spada. And so, you should return to Avalon.â\nNell Julius Elrod, the first princess of Avalon. With her safety in mind, she will escape to her motherland. Kurono will surely not be able to ask her to stay when presented with that logic. Rather, he would be glad to send her.
âI-I donât, want that!!â
âIs that so? Then I will just have to tell Kurono everything.â
Fortunately, Kurono hasnât realized anything yet. He believes that she is pure from the bottom of her heart.
Nell felt that trust every time they held hands when teaching magic. And that made her heart and chest burn up. So much that she had been having difficulty stopping her feelings from reaching Kurono through the back door when teaching magic.
âTh-that⊠that isâŠâŠ please⊠anything but thatâŠâŠâ
Ah, how terrifying it is. His kind smile turning into an expression of contempt. Or would he flare up in rage? Or would he just leave with a sad expression?
She didnât know, she had no way of knowing. She didnât know what would happen if Kurono came to know her secret. However, she did understand that it would lead to destroying the trust and the friendship they had built up till now.
Itâs different from that time after Iskia war. Kurono thought about her, needed her, wished for her. There was no need for her to be depressed.
However, what if she was really rejected by kurono? What if she were to be rejected by Kurono himself, face to face, without any mercy or compassionâthat terrified her so much that it freezed her soul and thoughts. She couldnât think of anything anymore.
âBut, if you do it now, you can part with Kurono cleanly. Kurono, being kind as he is, will probably remember you as a kind friend for the rest of his life.â\nShe could make it so that their relationship be preserved beautifully in their memories. Kurono would still believe her to be a sweet princess.
âI, too, donât want Kurono to be hurt. I donât want him to know that his friend, whom he trusted so much, only looked at him with indecent eyes. I donât want him to know such a terrible truth, I want his memories to be left clean.â
No, no, thereâs no way I only saw Kurono with indecent eyesâthought Nell. Her feelings towards were more pure, deep, and heavyâbut even if she were to say those things out loud, would it have any persuasion power to it?
After all, it is true that Nell had been masturbating with Kuronoâs spoon. And in reality, it wasnât even just his spoonâhis fork, his cupâanything he had touched with his mouth was fine with her.
And especially recently, she could feel that she canât help herself anymore.
I want it, I want it, I want it so bad, I want Kuronoâher lust just swelled up, without stopping.
And when she coincidentally spotted Kuronoâs underwear at the back of the dorm, left to dry, she couldnât keep her hands to herself.
She herself understood. She knew that Lily wasnât falsely accusing her, she knew that Lilyâs words were precisely based on the truth about her indecent greed.
âAnd so, properly say your farewell to Kurono and let him relax.â
Before she realized, Lily was crouching down and looking into her face. Her expression looked like she had been worried about Kurono from the bottom of her heartâa gentle smile.
âB-butâŠâŠ I, promised⊠Kurono that I willâŠâŠ teach magicâŠâŠâ
Even Nell, who was a rank 5 priest, couldnât say that that wasnât a perfect chant. Without hesitation, Lily just fluently sang.\nââ-âForced Boostââ
In Nellâs limbs, which had lost all energy, power came gushing in along with heat. Lilyâs enforcement magic, âForced Boostâ, had displayed wonderful result.
âI told you at first, didnât I? That your teaching really helped. Thanks to that, even I was able to memorize the âmodelâ.â
Having come this far, Nell finally understood Lilyâs true intention.
The reason Lily had sticked to the lessons every time was not because she was caution of Nell. Her real objective was to learn âmodelâ herself and steal Nellâs job as the teacher itself.
The reason why Nell could be Kuronoâs exclusive teacher was highly because of that telepathy ability. There arenât many people who can fill in that roleâHowever, Lily, being a fairy, possesses a far more superior telepathy ability than her.
If she properly learns the âmodelâ, she should have no difficulty in teaching Kurono.
Lily didnât just make threat because of Nellâs vulgar actions. After acquiring everything which Nell provides to Kurono as a merit, Lily decided to cut her off.
(I⊠I canât winâŠâŠ I canât possibly, match this personâŠâŠ)
Nell could only tremble with fear in front of Lilyâs thoroughly prepared plan. Even though âForced Boostâ was in full effect, she still wasnât able to stand up.
Lily. Rather than the devilâs child, she is the devil herself.
âAnd so, you can rest easy and part with Kurono, alright?â
In front of that beautiful fairy face, Nell had no choice but to yield.
ââŠ..Yes, I will⊠part with KuronoâŠâŠâŠâ\n