The first thing she noticed when she woke up was the soft feeling of the mattress beneath her back as well as the ceiling above that she could not recognize.
‘Where am I?’
She felt so drowsy at this moment that she did not even follow her warrior instincts and focused on trying to understand what was happening with her body.
‘I was…’
Her memory was pretty blurry and hazy, making it hard for her to immediately recall the happenings of the past. But as she focused on what she needed to know, the images began to replay in her mind. A young body, melding with hers. Her debauched and sultry voice, begging him to give his all to her.
Then she finally remembered everything that transpired before.
‘Oh my gosh!’
She felt like she wanted to crawl and bury herself six feet under. She had never thought that she would one day show such a shameful sight to someone. Much less to such a young boy that wasn’t even half her age.
‘What the hell did I do?’
She always had the bad habit of moving before thinking things through. That was exactly what happened when she decided to come to Lustburg all those years ago and began following Mars on his journey. She had absolutely no reason to have done what she did after all.
This was also why she had once again come to Lustburg and sought the help of her old companions.
But to think that she would fall for the provocation of a little brat and give her precious virginity like this with no hesitation whatsoever. She wasn’t able to understand just what had gone wrong with her mind.
‘Ugh. Pandora, you are so stupid.’
She felt like bashing her head once again. This was so idiotic of her to do. She had let her tunnel-vision induced mind and emotions take control of her when what she should have done was to take a few steps back to observe and judge the situation appropriately.
‘Though… It felt really really good.’
Pandora let out a sultry breath as the pleasure that she had felt with her first partner came to her mind again. Just the aftertaste of their union was heavenly in itself. She couldn’t understand how such a feeling could exist in this world.
She then blushed when she realized that she was acting like a debauched harlot in heat.
Now that she had gotten calmer after that sensual high, she was starting to observe her surroundings more calmly while keeping her thoughts active.
Her virginity was lost, this was a fact. Speaking of her virginity…
‘He came inside me, right?’
She wondered if she might fall pregnant at this rate.
Her face paled for an instant before she shook her head. ‘No, I am sure I must have devoured all the energy of the semen unconsciously.’
The reason witches could not become pregnant was because they absorbed the life force of the egg inside them before it even had a chance to form. This non-conscious skill for the witches was something that all Succubi could perfectly control.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to have sex without falling pregnant. Succubi could selectively choose whether to kill the egg before it even formed by entirely devouring the energy or letting it form and conceive children through their union with their chosen mates.
Once she realized that she was safe on that front, Pandora let out a sigh of relief. She could not even begin to imagine what she would have felt if she had gotten impregnated by the son of her first love.
‘This feels so weird.’
She had never imagined that she would be in such a weird situation by coming to Lustburg.
The prince had surpassed everything she had expected of him and went beyond what she thought was possible of him. He was a complete enigma.
In fact, He was so unlike his father that comparing them was not even funny. But it was the reality and she had nothing that she could do about it.
Now, she needed to decide how she would act around Sol…
“Ahem.”
Pandora looked beside her and saw a young Golden haired and Blue eyed man standing with an awkward expression on his face and holding a plate with what looked to be hot chocolate on top.
“Oh…”
She recognized this face. After all, he was the reason for her earlier anguish.
But… There was one problem.
“Just how long have you been present here.”
Please. Please. Don’t tell me…
“Well… Since you woke up, I guess?”
Pandora groaned and closed her eyes. “Just kill me, please. End my suffering.”
This went beyond shame itself. She felt like she was being bullied by the world at this point. She felt as though she was going to spill tears of blood at this rate.
“Haha.”
Sol exhaled a short laugh and placed the tray filled with the hot chocolate before sitting on a chair near the bed.
Silence enveloped the two in its smothering embrace with no signs of any sound being made anytime soon. But in the end, the first one to break the suffocating silence was none other than Pandora.
“How long was I out?”
“Just a few hours. It’s currently evening.”
Pandora sighed out loud and spoke in a steely tone.
“Just because I gave you my body does not mean that I belong to you, I hope you understand that.”
“Oh?”
Sol's eyebrows rose abruptly at the suddenness of the words spoken by Pandora and the voice with which she had uttered them to him.
But Pandora had to be clear about this fact. She had read that once a girl gave her first time to a man, they generally became entitled and felt like the girl belonged to them.
It didn’t matter how clumsy, how thoughtless, and how tunnel-visioned she could be sometimes— Pandora was one of the top most powerful beings in the world.
She would never let herself become bound by anyone in her entire life of her own volition.
“Hmm… Well, I have never thought that any of… Hmm… Well, indeed, I can be a little possessive sometimes. Haha…”
Sol chuckled to hide his awkwardness as he nearly lied to her. He could be ‘quite’ possessive, which he recognized. But…
“Do not worry. I will never force someone to be with me when she has no feelings for me.”
He had no feelings for Pandora as well. It was just pure lust. Even his relationship with Persephone was deeper than the one he shared with her.
“Of course… Whether you can find someone else is another matter altogether.”
Sol grinned, causing Pandora to flush with embarrassment as she was unable to refute him. In the first place, she had never managed to find a mate ever since Mars' death. There was simply no one she was interested in. This was why, in the end, she had simply divided her energy to give birth to her current children.
At the very least, she became less lonely and had people she could care for. But even without all that, now that she had tasted Sol’s energy, she wondered if she could ever live without this taste again.
Just imagining it felt like torture in her opinion.
‘I truly made a grave mistake.’
Now she was no different from a drug addict that was under the control of their dealer. She would ruin herself to get even more of this delicious drug.
“Tell me what you really want from me.”
There was no way Sol had done all this just for the alliance. She felt like there was a deeper reason. One that went beyond mere lust. She wanted to know what it was now.
Sol looked at Pandora. Her cuteness had made him forget that she was not someone he could underestimate.
If the two of them fought to the death, he would only be able to flee by employing his dimension as he had no way of winning against her. He had only been able to toy around with her because of his inherent advantages and there was nothing to be proud of with just this much.
Now was the time for the true test. He could not say everything now. But it wasn’t a problem. Since Aurora had shielded his thoughts, he could at least be a little more honest, “I need you to simply follow a few orders for a few days without asking what is happening.”
Sol did not want Pandora to know that the previous king before Mars had used the remainder of their beloved Queen to create Lilith. This would create useless tension and might jeopardize his plan.
‘Now all the pieces are in place.’
Soon, he would be able to put this whole charade behind him.
(AN: If my plan works, this volume will finish by CH 400. So, around 10 more chapters.)
