Chapter 23: You… Are You Damian…? (Part 1)

“You….”

I stared blankly at Lumani, who was licking her lips with a satisfied expression and smiling seductively, and then I parted my lips. I was so surprised for a moment that I couldn’t speak and stared at Lumani with a bewildered expression.

Then, when our eyes met, Lumani tilted her head slightly and smiled mischievously.

“Hm?”

It’s a smile that says she did nothing wrong.

Seeing that smile, I laughed too.

I don’t know what she’s thinking.

Can’t she see Leticia’s blatant touch and fierce smile on my shoulder?

There’s no way, she must be doing it on purpose.

I had no way of knowing why she was doing this.

‘What is she aiming for?Is it simply for fun?’

I felt like the atmosphere, which was already bad, was turning chilly.

I glanced at Leo, who was looking back and forth between me and Lumani with a dumbfounded expression, and it seemed that she didn’t understand the current situation either.

Me neither.

I wish someone would explain the current situation.

Leo wasn’t the only one who was embarrassed.

“Do you have something to say?You look like you have a lot to say.”

Her smiling face, raising the corners of her mouth in a way that didn’t suit the atmosphere,
made her even more attractive, like a bewitching fox, not a vampire.

So much so that even though Leticia was right next to me, I couldn’t help but swallow.

It felt like I was reacting even though I wasn’t in a man’s body.

She had a knack for bewitching people.

To that extent, the woman named Lumani Tepes was full of unknown charm.

If the situation wasn’t like this, I might have approached her and tried to talk to her.

If we were alone, I think I would have been completely captivated.

“A kiss.”

“…!”

“Was it too sudden?Well, that’s understandable.Hmm, but wasn’t it good?My lips are expensive in the demon realm.”

Every action of Lumani, saying that even if you give money, you can’t get the lips of the queen, and gently narrowing her eyes, was a threat to me.

As if sensing an imminent situation, Leo, who had become a married man…now a married woman, who put his hand on the holy sword again, made me swallow.

Considering that Leo had seen Lumani in front of him many times, that achievement was great.

She was really a beauty that could only be known by seeing her in person, not by pictures.

I don’t know how she took my silence, but Lumani, who lowered her eyes with a wistful expression like a heartbroken heroine, twisted her fingers and said.

“If you were offended, I apologize.I just want you to know that I had no bad intentions.”

The appearance of the high-pressure and dignified queen was not visible.

If that was all acting, that’s also a talent.

If she had been born on Earth, she would have been a great actress.

I opened my eyes wide and blankly put my hand on my cheek, and I touched the cheek where Lumani had left a kiss.

Fortunately, it was a light kiss, not a deep kiss that lovers would do, otherwise, it would have been a big deal in many ways.

Mainly for me.

Calm down.

There’s no need to get excited.

Taking a deep breath and calming myself down, I decided to calm Leticia first, who seemed like she would cast magic at Lumani at any moment.

I gently covered Leticia’s eyes with my hand and whispered in her ear.

“You need to calm down a bit, Leticia.”

“…Charlotte?”

“You’re too excited.There’s no need to fall for the provocation.”

As I whispered softly on purpose, Leticia wriggled as if it tickled.

Even though I was the one who was kissed, Leticia was the one who was most angry.

I silently looked at Leticia.

Leticia, who was making a puzzled expression as if she was surprised that I moved first and covered her eyes, was cute, but she couldn’t hide her trembling lips.

Her face was about to ascend to the sky with joy.

I narrowed my eyes.

As I said a little while ago, Leticia was like that from the beginning when I was summoned.

An incomprehensible obsession and affection.

A twisted love.

I couldn’t understand the feelings Leticia had for me.

Why is she obsessed with me?

What for?

To break Leo’s curse?

No.

If it was such a trivial thing, there is no need to be so obsessed.

To put it coldly, there is no need to give feelings and affection to a tool that will be used and discarded.

So far, there was not a single element for Leticia to be obsessed with me.

Looking back, Leticia was kind to me, a complete stranger, from the first meeting.

Without any reason.

She kept me by her side, even though she had a determined personality that would have killed a demon if it had been summoned instead of a devil.

She held me back.

And she even offered a contract first.

She coveted my lips and advanced the contract faster than I did.

Even though she wanted the legendary devil.

Even though she wanted ‘me’ from a completely different dimension to be summoned here.

Even though she could have killed me.

It was clear that something was up, seeing how she was desperate to keep me, whom she had only met for less than a day.

In the first place, it was strange that she spared a half-blood of a demon that she didn’t even want and made a contract with it.

It’s like she’s trying to tie someone she can’t lose again to her side.

For a moment, I felt my blood run cold.

“Haa—.”

I let out a gasping breath.

An unusual delusion fills my mind.

Didn’t the goddess Lucifel also say with a voice full of laughter just before the summoning?

She left Lucifel’s advice to be careful, saying that it was a magic to summon a devil, but at the same time, a magic to summon a specific someone was mixed in.

‘Leticia, did you know who I was from the beginning and accept me…?’

Gulp.

I swallow dryly.

“Charlotte?”

At Leticia’s question with a worried look, I shook my head vigorously.

Yeah.

There’s no annoying quest, and I don’t hear the system’s voice telling me to choose an option, so it’s all unnecessary worry.

I hope so.

I let out a short sigh and smiled at Leticia as if I was fine, and then turned my gaze to Lumani.

Anyway, that’s a provocation.

I don’t know about Leo, but she must have tested me because I act like Leticia cares about me.

Since the sage said that he made a contract with something mixed with the blood of a demon, even if it was a mixed-blood, and moreover, she acted as if she cherished that thing, she couldn’t help but be interested.

It’s impossible.

Due to their racial characteristics, vampires were such creatures from the beginning.

The vampire who revealed himself as a noble, whom I had dealt with to the point of being sick of it in the past, was the same.

Vampires, who pretend to be noble as if they are noble, and regard humans as livestock, were mostly creatures who acted as they pleased.

Especially the right arm of the Demon King, called an apostle, were all abnormally strong, but they were a group of eccentrics with almost no normal people.

To put it more easily with a fantasy, should I call them 12 corps commanders?

It was a place where those who fit the demon’s ideology of strength, where even non-nobles could belong if they were strong, belonged.

The apostles of the previous Demon King, where there were many demons who slaughtered people without expression, were all full of monsters.

‘…To defeat a monster, I had to become a monster myself.That was the war with the demons.’

I killed and killed again.

Every day was a slaughter.

I couldn’t even sleep, and I had to be always awake to prepare for the demons who might attack at any time.

Even just seeing the peace agreement with the demons, the demons, who believed in fighting and strength, must have been psychologically exhausted.

The war was so devastating that a doctor in this world shook his head and said that a normal life would be impossible.

I endured the years with the belief that I would return to Earth and see my parents.

I didn’t know I would become like that with Leticia.

It was a miracle that I adapted when I returned to Earth.

Besides, to get back to the point, it’s not the lips, it’s just the cheek.

Isn’t it possible to kiss the cheek even if you’re not lovers?

And right now, Leticia and I are not lovers.

Leticia didn’t need to be so excited.

“Why, it’s a pretty expensive lip,Didn’t you like it?”

“That’s enough,Go back.”

Lumani shrugged at Leo’s answer, who spoke fiercely, drawing his holy sword.

“How fierce,Well, good.I’m done with my business, so I’ll be going back,And please don’t forget that I’m really grateful to you for killing my damn father.”

“Crazy b*tch.”

“It’s not wrong.”

“…Tsk.”

Leo looked at Lumani, who burst into laughter, with a disgusted expression.

I didn’t know she would self-deprecate.

When I looked at Lumani with a somewhat dumbfounded look, Lumani glanced at Leticia and said.

“If you ever get tired of that, switch to me.I’ll give you as much of my blood as you want.You can come to my side anytime you want.”

“I don’t need it.”

“Well.”

At my firm refusal, Lumani snorted as if it were funny, and added.

“There will surely come a time when you need my help.Then, you will be groveling at my feet, begging for help.”

Leaving behind ominous words, Lumani turned into a bat and disappeared without a trace into the darkness.

[After Lumani’s departure]

I was chewing over the words Lumani had left with a frown, when I came to my senses at Leticia’s action of pulling my sleeve. And I was horrified in a different way.

I forced my mouth, which didn’t open easily, to open, and I called her name, whose pupils had lost their light.

“Leticia?”

“This won’t do. You’re attracting unnecessary women…I need to finish it before the academy starts.”

“…Le, Leticia?”

“Charlotte, let’s go back too.”

I don’t want to go back.

Because Leticia’s face was too scary.

Those words close to my mouth, but I eventually choose to close it.