The Demon Lord's Bride (BL)
Chapter 442: Always make sure to keep your creditor happy

Chapter 442: Always make sure to keep your creditor happy

"How long are you going to keep doing that?"

"As long as I can," Natha pressed his lips and cheeks against my ear, long after we were done satiating our lust. He kept me in his embrace as usual, and burying his face in my hair and feeling up my ears. "You’re going to lose it soon after all...right?"

"I have to!" I sat up and turned to look at him in agitation. "What about our wedding if..."

I paused as I looked at his somewhat bashful and innocent expression, which invoked a ridiculous thought.

My eyes widened as I tried to figure out what was in his mind. "Don’t tell me...you’ll be fine with me showing up like this?!"

"Well..."

Arta would rage! All of the alterations they would need to make to the outfits!

But then again...I was the one in the wrong so I couldn’t exactly get angry. I was shocked though, looking at this side of him; the way he looked up with a slightly reddened cheek and a dash of anxiety--as if he was afraid I would find his...taste, repulsive.

"Wow..." I pinched his cheek; the expression he had since yesterday made him look much much younger, just like every time he had shown his cheeky side. It was like his naughty, wild teenage side surfacing--along with what I presumed to be his adolescent fantasy.

I wondered how he developed this kink.

"You like it that much?" I squeezed his cheeks. Even though he looked at my face, his eyes kept darting to my ears.

He sighed and tackled me to the mattress again, nuzzling my cheeks and squeezing my waist. "My already soft and cute sweetheart became soft and cute and fluffy and plump," he said with a smile that I could feel clearly against my skin. "What’s not to like?"

"...you like it when I’m plumper?" I tilted my head to look at his face better.

"You’re cute in any shape," he pinched my cheek gently before stroking it with the back of his fingers. "But it’s nice to see you look healthy and well-fed."

"Mm,"

I giggled and recalled thinking that he wanted to eat me in the past; making me healthy to extract my magic or something. You know--classic Demon King stuff.

Oh, how far we had come. How different this world and thus life was from what I initially thought.

Natha continued to stroke my cheek and brushed away the stray hair that had fallen to my face from my messy head. "Would it be possible for you to turn like this again?"

"Nope," I shook my head. In the first place, it was an accident, and I wasn’t sure how it happened. We hadn’t even figured out how I would get back. "Not until I understand how anyway."

He hummed briefly, looking a bit disappointed. But he kissed my lips sweetly and whispered with all kinds of desire. "I’ll have a nice time waiting."

"Now that you know it’s not impossible, you become greedy, huh?"

"I am--"

"The Lord of Greed, I know," I laughed and pulled him down so I could kiss him again.

I would have kept kissing him and probably done something more if it wasn’t for the loud sound on the balcony, along with a shout in my head. [Papa! Papaaaaa!]

Ah, my baby. I flinched and looked at the balcony, feeling thankful that I locked it yesterday, as well as drawing the curtain. Belatedly, I realized that the sky was already bright outside. We spent the whole evening, night, and even morning locked up inside the bedroom--and it was all my little bird could take.

[Papaaaa! Let Jade in!] the little bird kept making noises, which I presumed to be its attempt at kicking the lock on the balcony door. I swiftly rolled away from Natha and the bed, snatching a night robe to cover me because I couldn’t hear Jade again.

And just like I dreaded, Jade came swooshing in from the fireplace. [Papaaa!] the bird flew straight into my chest, covered in soot. I thought Jade would cry or get angry again, but the beady green eyes looked at me and I heard a cheerful chirp that sounded like a laugh. [Papa is still rabbit!]

Pfft--looking at the soot-covered bird, I couldn’t help but laugh at my predicament. Oh, well...since no one seemed to mind about me becoming half-rabbit, I’d just accept it. I had a feeling that the rabbit’s soul just wanted to experience what it felt like to be a human from the passenger side and...

Ugh, I feel kind of guilty that the first thing I did was...fucked like a rabbit? Huh...perhaps the rabbit wouldn’t really mind.

"Let’s have a bath, shall we?"

"Should I call for breakfast or will you come down?" Natha asked--and Jade flinched in surprise.

[Huh? Nightmare’s here?]

Pfft--what? Did Jade think I was here alone all night? Was that why Jade asked why I didn’t let it in? Well...it wasn’t like I could keep living here without letting anyone see me so...might as well let them know what happened.

And that was how I came down with a pair of colorful rabbit ears and a tail jutting out of the hem of my pants. Zia gasped and Angwi almost dropped the teapot. Izzi--who was there with a basket of bread from Zia’s favorite bakery--and Neel, who stroked her chin, narrowed their eyes, and spoke simultaneously.

"Interesting."

"Is this like...a new kink?"

I threw a cushion to the elf, even though what he said wasn’t wrong. But that wasn’t a nice thing to be said in front of a curious child like Jade. Zia laughed and immediately played with my ears, just like her uncle.

Ugh--was this a family trait?

Anyway, I told them what happened and Angwi looked so flabbergasted she had to excuse herself and sat on the corner. It was like a nanny just found out that the kid in her charge fell into a pond without her knowing.

"So...are you going to change back?" Izzi asked while rubbing his nose.

"Of course I will!" I said while sitting down in the dining chair. "...once I found out how, anyway."

"Hmm...so it’s temporary, huh?" Neel was still stroking her chin in fascination. She glanced at Natha, who still couldn’t take his gaze away from my ears and kept rubbing it from time to time. "Why not... immortalizing it then?"

Natha raised his brow and Izzi gasped, before running out of the dining room. Oh, right! The recording device!

Wait...you’re going to record this stupid foolish moment of me turning into a bunny boy?

"Can you...save the recording separately?" beside me, Natha was asking with a slight tremble in his voice.

"Of course, Boss. Otherwise, how can we use it again and again?" Neel shrugged. "We have improved the system and connected the recording orb to a receiving device. All we have to do is put a blank orb that will receive the footage and save it there."

"Oh!"

"That way, we don’t need to have mixed footage in one crystal--I don’t think you’ll want it in your wedding," she continued. "We also can watch the footage live and control the device’s movement accordingly."

I didn’t really get it but I clapped my hands in amazement, forgetting about the fact that my carelessness would be immortalized shortly and put in Natha’s special private treasure vault.

"It’ll be better if we can make it more compact--something like a plaque or card, but that would need more..." she continued to mumble to herself about how to improve it even further, until Izzi came back to the dining room with a box. There were four mechanical birds there, as well as a device with a hollow slot that I reckoned to be filled with that receiving orb or whatever.

Swiftly, with a level of energy he had never shown in the morning except when he picked up Zia’s favorite bread and pastry, Izzi put the box on the dining table. Angwi was looking at him with an unapproving gaze, but also half-curious about the improved stuff.

Not long after, I had four mechanical birds hovering around me. Natha had moved to stand behind the inventors so he could watch the footage inside the receiving orb. At one point, he even took over and controlled the mechanical birds himself.

"Ugh...this is awkward..." I looked up at the ’cameras’, feeling embarrassed at the added attention.

"It’s alright, sweetheart; you’re extremely adorable," Natha said without looking up from the receiving orb. I puffed my cheeks in annoyance, but he bit his lips and nodded. "Yes, adorable."

What the hell?!

"Ugh--it’s enough, isn’t it? How long will you do it? I’m hungry!"

"Just a bit more," he controlled the bird seamlessly, focusing on nothing but the footage. Wow...it was probably the first time he let me get hungry for his desire. Damn greedy demon.

I had no idea how much he recorded or how long, but he was finally done after a while--probably because I kept pursing my lips in annoyance. Like a good salesperson, Izzi took the receiving orb and put it in a velvet-lined box, before presenting it to Natha as if it was an offering.

He even made a show of bowing in courtesy.

"Good job," Natha patted both inventors’ backs, and before he came back to the Castle after breakfast, he looked at them again. "Congratulations on clearing your debt."

And then he left, just like that.

Damn--he’s that happy?!