Chapter 15: Contract

My mind went blank the moment I heard Leticia’s words. Taste, who the hell. Me? It was a question with a predetermined answer that didn’t even need to be asked, but my head was overloaded and I couldn’t think normally.

Indeed, this is what it means to have one’s mind go blank. I used to wonder what nonsense people were talking about when they said their minds went blank, but when I experienced it myself, I understood what it felt like. I’m Leticia’s type, Leticia’s type is me. No. Of course, Leticia is my type, but it’s wrong that I’m Leticia’s type.

It hasn’t even been a few hours since we met, how can she say I am her type? It’s not like we haven’t met before, but it’s the first time in this body. Is she saying she fell in love at first sight? The Leticia of all people? With me? She has to say something that makes sense for me to pretend to believe it.

It doesn’t make sense.

But even so, I was dumbfounded by myself, who was over excited by the words full of sweet talk that I was her type.

It was a pathetic sight that I wouldn’t have shown when I was Ryu Raon or Damian Radius, to blush at such obvious words.

In the first place, my current appearance is not the Damian Radius she desires. Because I’m Charlotte Cyclamen, not a male character, but a female character. Moreover, the appearance is different, and most importantly, the gender is also different.

There’s no way she can recognize me.

I don’t think she knows that Damian Radius and I are the same person. If she had been that quick-witted, I would have been subjected to all sorts of interrogations from the moment I was summoned. It’s nonsense. However, I swallowed my saliva at the ominous feeling that swept over my body.

It was a moment when I couldn’t let go of the tension, even though I was telling myself that I didn’t need to be nervous.

I looked at Leticia, wondering if I had misheard, but Leticia just smiled, narrowing her eyes. Even that was pretty, but now is not the time to be captivated by her face. My face automatically stiffens. In other words, I didn’t mishear.

I asked with a stupid expression, forgetting to manage my expression.

“…I’m your type?”

“You’re my type, your face.”

“Uh?”

“Your face is my type. Your face is exactly my ideal type.”

Leticia, who wiped the remaining water from her hair with a cloth similar to a towel on Earth, nodded and expressed affirmation. As I was stammering at the answer that sounded like a confession, she raised the corners of her lips playfully with a face that said it was fun.

“Why are you so surprised? It’s like I said something I shouldn’t have. I just told the truth.”

“…Isn’t that something you shouldn’t say to someone of the same gender?”

“Isn’t it too old-fashioned to judge whether there is a taste or not just because we are both women? Maybe it’s because you’re a demon, but you have a strong old-fashioned tendency.”

“Where did you hear that from… Phew, never mind. Forget it, what old-fashioned tendency. Still, I wish you would correct that statement that sounds like a confession.”

“Oh? Did it sound like a confession?”

Even though it was a statement that could be misunderstood, Leticia didn’t seem to have any intention of explaining.

Leticia, who didn’t back down a single word, pretended not to know.

“I didn’t mean it that way at all, but if you heard it that way, it’s not bad.”

“Don’t joke around. I have no feelings for you.”

“…Hmm, really?”

I don’t like that. A cold voice struck my ear. Leticia, who suddenly changed her expression, grabbed my hand before I could react, and brought my hand to her cheek, letting out a low laugh.

“I’m not the type to tolerate foreign objects sticking to the person who will become mine. Even if my words sounded Like a confession, it’s not wrong, is it? Keep in mind that if your appearance wasn’t my ideal type, there was no reason to keep you alive.”

I was surprised by the warm warmth that was felt on my cheek, unlike her voice, and I trembled with the caught hand. Leticia, who slightly lowered her eyes with a smiling face, whispered in my ear in a bewitching voice.

“You also wanted a contract and followed me to my room. Since we’re going to be in a master-servant relationship anyway, wouldn’t it be better to be honest with each other?”

Now she’s even trying to persuade me directly.

Leticia didn’t budge even though I glared at her with an expression asking what this was all of a sudden. I squeezed my lips at her actions, which gripped my hand even tighter every time I tried to pull it out. And I frowned with one eyebrow and grumbled.

“What nonsense. Won’t you let go?”

“What if I don’t want to let go.”

“Then I’ll pull it out with force. It’s uncomfortable, so let’s go immediately.”

“Liar.”

At Leticia’s low words, I flinched like a person who was caught in the act, and Leticia, who met my eyes, smiled gloomily.

“Say that with some force. Stop making such clumsy lies when you don’t even intend to force it out.”

“……Seriously. I don’t know anymore. You’re the first human to be so bold with a demon you haven’t even made a contract with.”

“Thank you for giving me your first.”

Why does it sound like that? It’s a perfect statement to be misunderstood if you hear it wrong. It was clear that Leticia had said it on purpose, knowing that. There’s no way she wouldn’t know. I glared at the tightly gripped hand and spat out.

“It’s embarrassing when you interpret words as you please.”

Even though I knew that my words were not what I meant, I was briefly fed up with the act of twisting it and getting out of this situation, and I stared blankly at Leticia’s slender neck and then came to my senses and looked away.

I almost crossed the line.

I couldn’t see it because there were marks where I had bitten her neck with my fangs, but also because an appetite, or s*xual desire, or maybe both, came over me when I saw her neck and the red bloodstains I had left around her neck.

Just looking at it makes my lips salivate and my lower body tingle. What is this? An enchanting scent that I had never smelled in my life tickled the tip of my nose. Just smelling the scent made my eyes go out of focus.

Gulp.

My Adam’s apple bobbed.

Even though the bloodsucking gauge in front of me was full, it was the vampire’s impulse and instinct to have to suck blood, unlike skills that could not be controlled. You have to drink blood. You have to drink blood to live. It tempts endlessly. These were common sense for vampires.

Even though I was satisfied, my body seemed to be unsatisfied.

I can drink more. I want to drink one more bite. I keep thinking that I can be really happy if I just drink one more bite.

In addition, the smell of blood around Leticia’s neck was so intense that I couldn’t come to my senses even though I had come to my senses.

It’s intense.

I don’t know how many years it’s been since I lived a life so faithful to my desires. I’ve lived a life of restraint all my life, so does that mean I should become a human… a demon who is faithful to my desires now? I covered my face with the opposite hand that was not caught by Leticia.

“Sigh—.”

I let out a hot breath. I look at Leticia with slightly unfocused eyes. Then, a few seconds later, I shook my head vigorously from side to side to regain my composure, and Leticia, who was watching me, put her hand on her neck and brought it forward.

And she asks.

“Do you want to eat again? Is it not enough?”

It’s okay to eat if it’s not enough. Leticia’s eyes, imbued with a strange mana, shine.

“I told you. There’s no need to hide our desires from each other.”

“…When did you say that.”

And this time, Leticia boldly grabbed my hand and pulled me towards her, whispering directly into my ear, even interlocking our fingers one by one.

“If you want to suck, you can suck.”

“…Don’t talk nonsense.”

“Oops, too bad. You’re still sane.”

“There’s no reason not to be sane. Discard useless thoughts because seduction or charm magic doesn’t work.”

Leticia, who spoke as if humming, showed a disappointed expression in her clear eyes and let go of my hand without any regrets. I stroked my caught hand and narrowed my eyes, and I said firmly.

“I told you. Throw away useless thoughts.”

This was a warning. Leticia must have understood. Neither seduction nor charm works on me. On the contrary, if I use enchanting seduction on Leticia, Leticia will fall for it. I felt like trying it once because it was unfair, but I immediately gave up.

If I use seduction, Leticia, who is already like this, will definitely rush at me. So I decided to finish the most urgent contract first because it seemed like things would get annoying if the story got longer.

“Contract first? I like it.”

Leticia, who agreed to my proposal, saying that she was going to do that anyway, had simple conditions.

“Stay by my side for a year. In return, I’ll give you a room to stay in for a year and my blood whenever you need it.”

“…Is that it?”

“That’s it. It’s simple and good, isn’t it? It’s not difficult.”

Not sure. “Somethin’s off”?

Isn’t it a proposal that only benefits me? It was not a difficult proposal to stay by Leticia’s side for a year. But overall, it’s still a proposal that only benefits me. I looked at Leticia, wondering if she had something up her sleeve, but Leticia shrugged and said.

“Provide me with the knowledge you have while you’re here. How about that, does it make sense?”

“…Okay. The contract is established.”

However, even if I make a contract, if I don’t have the common sense of how demons make contracts with humans, it’s useless, but I had a way in my head. Because Charlotte’s memory remains, I am familiar with the way vampires make contracts.

After bowing my upper body slightly and bringing my mouth close to Leticia’s neck, I opened my mouth and infused mana into my fangs. A magic circle is imbued. Blood contract, it was the most unilateral contract method that intertwined the souls of the vampire and the person who contracted with the vampire. It’s also a method that requires bloodsucking, so I don’t like it, but what can I do? I have to do it. I have no choice but to do it because I don’t know any other way.

Before biting, I tried to warn Leticia. If an unexpected event hadn’t happened.

“This is imbued with mana, so it might hurt differently than before… Ugh!?”

Leticia, who quickly grabbed my chin and pulled me in, invaded my lips easily as if to say that this time it was real, and then ate my lips.

“Ugh!”

Tongues and tongues intertwine. Saliva mixes and mana spreads in my mouth. It must be Leticia’s mana. Come to think of it, is this how it feels when your body is on fire? It was bearable, but it felt like my body was burning.

“Haa.”

“—Phew.”

After a few minutes of each other’s lips, Leticia, who took her lips off first, let out a hot breath, covered her lips with her hand, and said to me, who was embarrassed.

“It was good… No, that’s not it. The contract is properly over, in my own way.”

Leticia, who let out an incomprehensible laugh. I wonder if it really ended properly.