Chapter 158-5

Chapter 158-5

[Part 5/5]

"...Inaba-hime, I understand your worries. I know that they're the enemy of your father. However... please bear with it."

Remembering the incident, I persuade her while facing the door. It would be humiliating to be used for the benefit of the enemy of one's parent. However, hasty actions would truly become irreparable. Even if it meant accepting injustice, I had to make her endure it for her own sake.

Even if she were to go astray, she would only be killed by the Tengu. Or if she were to achieve revenge, she would be disposed of as a dangerous element by the court.

...It's a selfish story to harbor revenge in one's heart.

"Not my father."

"Eh...?"

However, the response to my persuasion was unexpected. I fell silent for a moment. My thoughts came to a halt.

"Not your father, then?"

"Old man. Stepfather. Not my father."

As I called out to her, Inaba-hime looked up and replied in an indifferent tone, unchanged in any way.

"..."

Upon hearing that statement, its meaning, I lost the words I should have spoken. Considering what I should speak about, what I should address, what thoughtless remarks would bring, I opened my mouth under my mask, but no words came out...

"..."

"Ah"

The sliding door rattled. Inaba-hime, her enthusiasm cooled, leaned out into the corridor. Her still-moist hair swayed gently. She looked up at me with an indescribable gaze.

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"..."

"Are you coming in?"

"...Yeah, I am."

"...I see."

And then, Inaba-hime walks past me. She walks past and then stops, turning back.

"The sleeping quarters in the west room."

"?"

"I sleep there."

I touched the insect cage hanging around my waist and whispered to the night breeze. I went back into the mansion. I shut the door tightly. I walked deeper and deeper into the hall.

And then... as I closed the sliding door, she appeared.

"Whoa!?"

"Quiet. ...Please don't make any noise until the boundary is set up."

Before I turned around, I heard a familiar, cold warning voice. Something long tightened around my whole body, restraining me. A cold shiver ran down my cheek. As I clung to the corner pillars, I sensed something enveloping the entire area.

...Honestly, I knew she had been lurking all along. I knew she would make contact someday. But I never expected it to be at this moment.

"Ughh!?"

"Quiet..."

As I tried to call out after finishing the boundary, what I felt this time was a piercing pain and a scream. It was at my neck. The wire-like, snake-like tail that had bound my body wound itself around my neck, securing it further.

"Mmm... slurp, slurp...!"

In the dimly lit room, only the sound of slurping water continued to echo. No, it was indeed the sound of slurping. Inadvertently, it was the sound of unsettling, blood-sucking.

As the fang was roughly pulled out, I was pushed down onto the floor. My face slammed into the ground, and I felt the impact on my forehead. The restraints had somehow come loose. As I stroked my head, I turned around.

"Can't you be a little... gentler?"

"Suck, slurp, scrape... Haa. Please don't complain. I'm holding back as it is."

In the darkness, only the eyes shone. A pair of youkai lights glimmered like a beast, subtly resembling a human but with an unsettling aura. Wiping the alluring mouth, she licks her fingertips while exhaling. Something was being expelled from the mouth into a tube or something.

And she exuded an enchanting atmosphere that was inexplicably alluring to men...

"What is it? Please stop looking at me like that. It's very impolite, you know?"

The exorcist girl, a half-succubus, noticed my gaze and reluctantly shot me a reproachful look...

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