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As she looked down at the scars on her palms, Julia woke up from her flashbacks and felt a presence right next to her. When she finally came to, Bael was already lying beside her.
“I’ve always been alone since I was young. Since I’m a real loner, there’s no one by my side at all. So, I usually pretend to be with someone else from time to time.”
When she was about to leave the empty house, she would reflexively utter; ‘I’m going now’ or the time when she had just returned home, she would remark; ‘I’ve come back already’ or when she was about to eat something, she would say; ‘I will enjoy the meal’ or even when it was time for her to head to bed, she would also wish out loud; ‘good night’.
But during the time she was really sick and lonely, she couldn’t say a single word. And no matter how much she said it, there wouldn’t be an answer at all. She could eventually feel the reality amidst the lonely echo.
“This is the first time that someone had really shown up when I called. So
”
Julia lazily twisted the long strands of hair with her fingertips. In order to say this one phrase, she jumbled up a long story instead. Of course, this was probably all rather annoying to him as he might have just wanted to fall asleep while admiring this beautiful scenery in the first place.
“Thank you.”
“
”
“I was actually worried about not being able to tell you this earlier.”
The hallucinatory labyrinth was a dark trap that had existed only in a person’s inner world. How much force did he even have to use in order to squeeze through the very gap?
As she thought about it, it was just like that when she was first kidnapped out of the Demon’s Castle as well. He could have sent other demons, but he had come to find her himself. When she desperately cried out that she wanted to live, he appeared—just to save her life.
Julia slowly stroked the red mark on her left chest with her fingertips.
‘My heart is racing. But it’s probably just because of that imprint.’
She really wished that Bael would be able to sleep peacefully without feeling any pain. Since their life spans were very different, she just couldn’t stay by her side forever. Nevertheless, at the very least, she wanted to stop him from walking with his own feet towards a much greater pain.
Julia carefully wrapped his fingertips so that her magic resistance could touch him directly. However, Bael was simply staring at Julia as if he had no intention of falling asleep just yet.
As she felt the hot gaze, Julia soon realized where his intent stare was directed at. It was right towards her own bloody palm.
“Are you concerned about me?”
Julia held out her hand unknowingly before she regretted it at once. It had been because she thought that she was just like a child who complained about her pain. Her face turned red right away.
“I’m sorry. I was simply joking.”
“
”
“It really was just a jok
”
Bael, who had looked down at her wounds without a word, suddenly snatched her hand as she tried to pull it back. He then slowly stuck out his tongue and licked up the drops of blood trickled down.
Unsatisfied with just once, he began to dig his red-stained tongue into the wound until it eventually tingled. Bael’s well-toned back muscles twitched with excitement in response.
“You’re pretty good at seducing.”
“Uht!”
As he raised his upper body, he softly whispered in Julia’s ear. She leaned back under Bael’s ferocity while breathing out such hot breaths. A wild, destructive lust for conquest was burning in his pair of eyes.
Bael trapped her slender wrists from over her head and pulled up her skirt. Those reddish thighs were clearly visible under the red sunset. Her skin, which would have normally been whiter than snow, became tinged in red as if it got dipped in some wine.
“What kind of blood carries a very sweet scent?”
“It, it hurts
”
“It really is distracting my eyes.”
Bael gave her a strong grip on the inside of her thigh and bent his head. Tiny drops of blood eventually glistened from the wounds on her knees under all the pressure.
He placed his nose on her wide opened thigh and took a deep breath. The urge to rip apart and swallow that soft skin was already boiling over along with a mixture of strong lust as well as appetite.
From the time he had opened the gap in the labyrinth and got a whiff of her faintly pervaded blood, Bael had already been in heat.
“Ah!”
“Not enough.”
Bael covered her wound with his lips and began to suck it hard enough that even his cheeks went hollow. Her blood was as ecstatic as her own body and the intoxication had drenched all over his dry mouth.
But that one sip was all it took. That mad thirst was still raging within Bael’s body, but Julia’s wounds simply healed as soon as it brushed against his flesh.
“It’s still not enough.”
His unsatisfied appetite snowballed into his other needs instead. Then, the blood-red eyes shimmered into a rather dangerous level. In fact, he already knew of a spring that would utterly give him something of a more satisfying water.
His long, hard fingers slowly crept up her tender thighs before digging it deeper and deeper. Julia’s eyes that started gasping out for pleasure widened at that instant.
“No, no. If someone were to see
!”
“Let them look. So that they’ll know—you are mine.”
“Uuung!”
“As long as your heart beats, you will be mine forever. Only mine.”
Her hot and sweet yet secret part was no more than the size of a palm that had been covered by a small piece of thin cloth. How pitiful and futile was this all?
Her body jolted against the rough fingers that invaded her as soon as he pushed her underwear aside. Bael slid his middle finger across her cleft before he gently rolled the clitoris that had brushed against his fingertips. The small and obedient nub of flesh, which really resembled that of its own master, was then crushed by Bael’s fingers.
The fact that this had been in the open outdoors left her head bleached in white and only a simmering sense of pleasure was overflowing through her delicate body. Finally, she could let out her long-held breath.
“Ha-uht, ah!”
“Can you hear that? You’re feeling good with just a single finger.”
“That—Demon King, ah!”
The fluids from her spring had soaked all over her legs. As he saw that Julia was blushing in shame, Bael instantly burned black with excitement. He wanted to bury himself in that inner flesh of hers right away, but even for that reason, Julia’s path was still far too cramped.
Instead, Bael proceeded to thrust his finger right into her hole. It was a hasty measure, but her insides had already melted away before giving a welcome to the intruder who  eventually plunged in and out of her.