Chapter 71: Blooming beneath the Surface.

He smiled with his eyes looking at me. As if to reassure me.

While I was captivated by his eyes shining blue even underwater, he had approached me.

Our lips touched. He blew the air he was holding into me. The scent of the forest filled me again.

Before I knew it, I was heading toward the surface with him.

The shackles tightening my ankles, the chain dragging me underwater, and the figure holding the end of that chain had all disappeared as if they were illusions.

The sunlight I finally reached was just dazzling. Enough to dry my wet body quickly the moment I stepped out of the water.

When I lowered my eyelids because it was hard to contain that light completely, he spoke.

“Open your eyes and look around.”

I already knew what landscape would unfold before me. Flower buds that failed to bloom would be surrounding the lake.

Even knowing, nevertheless, I opened my eyes.

What came into my view then.

“…Lilacs.”

What bloomed profusely all around the wide lake were lilacs.

A common flower recognizable even by me who doesn’t know flowers well.

Each blossom looked very small and fragile. But those small flowers bloomed clustered together, looking like a much bigger flower. Even if heavy rain tried to knock off petals sometimes, it seemed it couldn’t make all flowers fall.

The scenery of countless flowers blooming profusely enough to cover the lakeside and the thick scent.

“It’s a beautiful sight.”

Yes, as the King’s Brother said, it was worthy of being called beautiful. Under the sunlight, the petals shone like scattered diamonds.

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“Jay.”

When I opened my eyes again, I could still see the King’s Brother’s, Philius’s blue eyes. I couldn’t distinguish whether this was another dream or really reality. Because the scent of lilacs was still wafting thickly.

“It’s not a dream.”

“Really…?”

Even closing my eyes and opening them again several times, the blue eyes looking down at me remained the same. Still not feeling reality, I sat up. To see closer.

“Uh…?”

Every time I opened my mouth, sweet breath poured out. Full of heat too.

I barely raised my upper body, but strength drained from my arms supporting me on the soft floor, and I almost fell forward.

“Be careful.”

The King’s Brother held and supported me. The closely attached posture was awkward, so I tried to pull my body back, but I couldn’t. I rather clung closer to him. I buried my nose in his exposed nape.

“Forest…”

I inhaled the scent coming from him frantically. It was the scent that breathed life back into me when I was drowning. The scent that gave courage to me who tried to flee again. It also seemed to cool down my body, which was strangely feverish now.

No, that’s not it. Burning heat seemed to flare up from inside my body. My lower abdomen throbbed. I inhaled his scent, and not satisfied with that, licked his neck. Bit it. If I could, I wanted to drink his scent whole.

“Ah, ah…!”

When I suddenly became capable of a little thought, I was rubbing my crotch against his thigh. Hugging him tightly. While licking his neck frantically.

Am I crazy? Even while thinking I wasn’t sane, I couldn’t separate from him. Like an indiscreet young beast, only groaning sounds leaked out repeatedly. I begged him. Without knowing exactly what I wanted.

His hand entered through the disheveled shirt. His body temperature, which I thought was cool, felt cold as ice now. No, that wasn’t it either.

“Ugh…”

A groaning sound leaked out automatically. Heat soared from the lower abdomen he was rubbing.

When his hand digging deeper down grabbed my s*x, I shuddered. My thing, already wet, ejaculated as soon as it was wrapped in his hand. The lilac scent became thicker. Enough to cover his forest scent.

Tears poured without reason. I couldn’t control anything in my body.

“It’s okay.”

His hand, still holding my thing, began to move. Just scratching the shaft lightly with his fingernail made my s*x rise again.

“You just manifested. Nothing is wrong.”

Manifested…? I looked at him unable to stop tears. His blue eyes still held a gentle light.

“You manifested as an Omega, Jay. You are just experiencing manifestation fever. It’s because your trait, manifested belatedly, is too strong.”

As if stating only facts, unlike his gentle gaze, his words were showing even a slightly cold demeanor. As if saying it wasn’t a very important issue that I am now an Omega, not a Beta.

“The fault lies rather with me.”

Strength entered his hand holding my s*x little by little. The speed of shaking back and forth also became faster.

I entrusted my thing to his hand and buried my face in his neck again.

“You were continuously exposed to my pheromones. My pheromones stimulated yours that couldn’t manifest. Although you looked stable when with me, actually my pheromones were inducing your trait to awaken.”

His words weren’t conveyed properly to my ears. I just liked the resonance transmitted through my lips every time he spoke. I kissed his neck repeatedly.

“It’s because of me that you come to want my pheromones.”

Emotion began to settle in his tone that pretended to be cold.

“When I first met you, only then was an exception. In Ruts after that, I always thought of you.”

Heat was being felt from his hand too. When the tip of the glans was rubbed fiercely with his thumb while the shaft was firmly wrapped, my s*x ejaculated once again.

“My Rut partner was always you. I always poured my pheromones onto you.”

When I looked up at him exhaling short breaths, I met eyes that had turned red before I knew it. A slight guilt and euphoria enough to cover it poured from his words.

As if possessed, I raised my hand and swept the corner of his eye.

“Do you, know?”

“…What?”

When his lowered voice dug into my ears, my breathing became rougher. My stomach throbbed.

“Ruby and sapphire are, the same mineral.”

Both are aluminum oxide, called by the same name, corundum. It was a kind of jade signified by the character ‘Je’ in my name.

Only a very small amount of foreign substances like iron or chromium distinguished the color, but essentially they were the same mineral.

“I always thought, it was beautiful.”

Still fumbling the corner of his eye, I blurted out what I had only thought.

“Shall I, give it to you?”

At his innocent question, I shook my head.

“If I just keep, looking at you, it’s fine.”

The moment I brought out my true feelings using the fever as an excuse, his eye color changed to complete blood red.

“Pretty…”

The word muttered as if possessed was swallowed into his mouth. I clung to his tongue that entered and stirred inside my mouth before I knew it. Eventually, he dragged even my tongue into his mouth and sucked it.

When each other’s mouths became thoroughly wet, his Adam’s apple bobbed with a gulp. He swallowed the saliva mixed with each other’s.

My throat felt burning. I clung to him again. Sucked his tongue. Drank the saliva starting to wet the mouth again. Coveted it voraciously several times.

Still, my fever didn’t cool down. Even soaking his hand with my semen, no matter how much I drank his saliva, I still felt insufficiency.

The lilac scent became even thicker. As if begging him.

“Tell me, what more do you want?”

His breath also became heated like mine. That fact made me extremely happy. His forest scent became thick like my lilac scent. No, enough to cover mine entirely. I inhaled that scent to my heart’s content. Until my inside was filled with his scent.

“What else will you allow me?”

When he whispered with his lips touching mine, my back throbbed. It felt like that place was getting wet. As if preparing to welcome something.

I couldn’t think of anything anymore. Except that I wished my inside would be filled entirely only with his.

I grabbed his hand and guided it. His hand, where the semen I poured out was drying, was wet with my bodily fluids again. The back, wet enough for fluid to flow out, twitched.

“Ah…!”

When his finger poked inside me at once, I tightened it firmly. So it couldn’t escape again. His finger, entering deeper, rubbed somewhere, and I clung to him more strongly.

“N-no…”

So when his finger tried to escape from inside me, I begged him. I tried to stop it by giving full strength, but it was useless. Tears flowed again.

I couldn’t even recognize the disgrace I was showing. Because I was full only of the desire to have him. The flower scent bloomed terribly. Violently. Intoxicated by it, I craved only one thing like a beast that lost reason.

When he laid me down again, I hugged his neck and clung to him.

“It’s okay, Jay. Just, just for a moment.”

Leaving small kisses on my forehead, around eyes, and ears, he soothed me. Rustling sounds were heard. When I knew the cumbersome clothes disappeared from my body, I spread my legs toward him. I showed him the back dripping with overflowing fluid.

“I can’t endure anymore, either.”

I was just happy that his beautiful face was heavily distorted.