Chapter 35

“What is it?”

It smelled sweet.

“I put some alcohol in the cocoa drink. The immobility incense has affected your senses, so you need to drink a little to calm it down.”

Elisha sipped and drank the liquid. The sweet taste occupied her tongue first, and the taste of alcohol came in as an aftertaste. She had a headache. Elisha laid on the bed.

“Sleep,”

he bluntly whispered.

“We can’t leave here for a while anyway. They will be wagging their tongues downstairs because you and I are supposed to be fucking like crazy.”

Elisha nodded slowly. Her whole body felt very heavy as if she was a cotton ball soaked wet in water.

“It’s better to go out tomorrow morning.”

“…..Yes.”

Elisha settled herself in bed.

The last time she had seen him, his eyes had been frightening. Elisha closed her eyes.

Did symptoms of paralysis include a sudden desire for sleep? She rubbed her drowsy eyes. She thought so.

***

Klok!

There was a sound of something being struck. Elisha lifted herself up. She was still donning only underwear and an underskirt, with a thick robe draped over her. She spotted Ian and Nora standing side by side in front of her.

“You’re lucky I don’t have a sword in my hand right now.”

“Yes, General.”

“I’m ashamed.”

Elisha’s focus sharpened and cleared up. Lucerne was wearing a glove on one hand. He slapped Ian in the face with that hand. Nora was standing next to him.

“Give me an excuse. Both of you.”

“I have nothing to say. It’s all our fault. The entire process for terrain identification, variable calculation, and escort of your wife was insufficient. We will make up for it.”

Ian’s prostrated. Nora also spoke in a low and sober timber,

“Please bestow a punishment on me. I’m deserving of it and will fully accept it.”

Elisha sat up, lifting herself up. Ian and Nora’s eyes followed her as she rose from the bed.

“Stop it,”

Elisha said softly.

“If we try to hold everyone accountable, I am also liable. I ordered both of them not to come into the office with me. And…. Judging from the fact that they planned to attack me, I think it was the work of those who kept monitoring my movements, waiting for me to leave the mansion. The Black Lion Knights’ main duty is to fight on the battlefield. To act as an escort to a noble lady is trivial compared to what they usually do, so please don’t indict them.”

Lucerne glanced at Elisha. She was startled because the anger in his eyes did not subside.

“I made a mistake on a relatively trivial matter, please understand.”

“…….”

“Why do you decide that? It’s not your job to decide the weight of my orders. Elisha.”

Elisha shut her mouth. Lucerne ordered his knights:

“Get up.”

The knights got up. Elisha was nervous that Lucerne would slap Nora across the face. Lucerne saw Elisha’s stony face and shoulders tighten with tension. His annoyed eyes glanced at Nora and Ian, irritated.

“Out—both of you. Go through the window so you don’t get caught.”

“We understand and accept.”

“And, Elisha said, the attackers seemed to be vagrants. If it’s Jacob’s or Marco’s work, the attackers would have already been killed. From today onwards, investigate unidentified corpses.”

“Yes, we understand and obey.”

They also bowed to Elisha and left. Elisha tried to raise herself from her sitting position, but was struggling. Lucerne looked down at her.

‘How long did I sleep?’

It’s still bright outside. She saw Ian and Nora wearing the same clothes as the morning before, so it didn’t seem like many hours had passed.

Lucerne approached her. His large body cast a shadow on Elisha.

“How much of your senses have you regained?”

“Enough to move my tongue. But it’s like I’m wearing weights on my limbs.….”

“It’s slow. Do you want to drink more?”

Elisha shook her head. She didn’t know what senseless state her senses would return to her if she drank more. Lucerne took off his glove and peered closely at Elisha.

“So, it is your fault?”

“The attackers did it.”

“You’re saying something different from before.”

Lucerne noted as if it were ridiculous.

“If I have to pick one… I said… I ordered Ian and Nora not to come into the office. It was a very small office, and—”

Elisha shut her mouth. How could she admit how spellbound she was by the sight of Lucerne on the balcony from the alley?

“How should you make up for it? I didn’t scold Ian and Nora enough.”

“…….”

“Do you want to be punished instead?”

Elisha spoke obediently:

“Please do whatever you want.”

***

In the next moment, Elisha closed her eyes, expecting Lucerne would slap her across the face.

But he didn’t do that. She felt his bare hand on her. A substantial hand held her cheek and raised her chin.

“Wake up. When you get involved with the Cartier family, this occurs as regularly as a meal.”

“Yes.”

His tone imparted a warning. And.….. That was it. Elisha was relieved. Lucerne made Elisha drink cold fruit juice.

“You have to keep moving to gain your senses back.”

Elisha nodded. Lucerne gazed at her and inquired sarcastically,

“So, what should we do now?”

“…….”

“Should we rub against each other and moan at the door like last time, to spark rumors?”

Elisha blushed. Still, he was a little mean. Elisha quietly peeked up and looked at him.

“Don’t I just need to drink alcohol to get rid of my paralysis intoxication?”

Lucerne moved closer to her. His smile reflected his amusement.

“You’ll feel better when you retrieve your senses.”

Elisha suddenly found her body laid on the bed and trapped between his arms.

“The paralysis aroma makes your limbs relax. By the way.….”

He tugged at Elisha’s bustier that wrapped around her smooth, jiggling breasts and then caressed her softness.

“When your body heats up, your senses will come back.”

The palm of his hand slowly swept down, stroking Elisha to her navel.

“They say the more you go towards the center of the body, the more your senses become alive. Maybe you’ll become more sensitive.”

Elisha gawked at him with her ears bright red. When she bit her lip from habit, Lucerne grabbed her lower lip with his index finger and thumb. He grasped and fondled Elisha’s supple lip with his hand.

It was a strange feeling.

“…… I see. That’s a possibility. We have plenty of time.”

It was the most bravado Elisha could feign and muster up. He chuckled.

“How fortunate, Elisha. That masturbation isn’t adulterous.”

Without hesitation Lucerne’s hand untied Elisha’s robe. He lowered her girdle slowly. Elisha was aware that her lower belly felt very empty.

“On the days my body was drenched in my enemy’s blood I thought of you every night. I came and got off several times while imagining your shabby underwear,”

Lucerne whispered.

“I mastrubated imagining your wet slit, your whole body soaked from my spraying semen. Not—“

“Hmm…”

Indeed, the sensations from her vulva were acute. No. As the feelings of her arms and legs became dull, the prominence of her lust grew, becoming more sensitive. Lucerne’s fingers slowly swept Elisha’s entrance between her legs.

“It’s always wet even before I suck it. Yes, here…”

Lucerne whispered.

His hand reached the inside of Elisha’s thigh, lifting one leg high up.

“It’s a more obsecenly erotic than I remember. A seductive allure I want to suck on.”

“Uhnn… ….Oh…….”

Her blood was circulating rapidly. Elisha clenched her fists. Her body moved easily, but she felt numb. Instead, all her awareness was focused on her lower body’s senses. Lucerne gently licked her clitoris and rolled it with his tongue.

“It’s still a little big here.”

“Do— Don’t,”

Elisha weakly protested.

“If you say that…….”

“What? Are you horny?”

“…….”

Lucerne chuckled.

“You can’t say no. I guess so.”

“Ahhh!”

Spitting on his finger Lucerne used his saliva as a lubricant and teased her clitoris with more strength. Elisha’s ass began to twitch involuntarily.

“I’ve been patient and held it in for a long time. I’ve wanted to thrust into you from the beginning.”

“Ahhhh! Huek….”

As Lucerne’s hand pushed up again and again on her clit, Elisha’s vagina got wetter and wetter every time. Then a finger slowly moved down, caressed her pubic hair while stroking her lips, overlapping like petals, layer after layer.

“Haaaa—Ohhhnn…….”

A strange feeling ran along her spine. Elisha’s sense of her toes began to return. She curled her toes.

His finger tickling and stroking her vaginal mouth, entered her. The thrusting fingers stirred in a circle and pressed against her walls firmly.

“Hnnghh… ohh…….”

Now Elisha was shaking her ass. Her leaking sap had even soaked her perineum.

“Do you feel any better?”

“Ohh…… Haa *Sigh*..….” [t1v: “oh” in Korean can also double as yes like mhmm]

“No, were your senses alive here from the beginning?”

Puk, Puk, Schlip, Squelch, Squelch—

Sloppy, sticky transparent fluid splashed from Elisha’s vegina with every movement of his finger.

“But once—”

Squelch— Sputter—

“….I put my finger in, you’re much softer. I guess you’re learning. How rewarding.”

“…….”

“From now on, you’ll only have to swallow my fingers.”