When Anlis woke up, it was already early the next morning.
Sunlight filtered into the room, falling across her face, making her somewhat malnourished, cream-colored hair reflect a piercing light.
‘What happened last night?’
Her head throbbed with a dull ache. However, she could vaguely recall exactly what she had done.
As her mind fully cleared and the fragments pieced themselves together, the sequence of events became crystal clear.
She… she seemed to have… slept with the Corrupt Monarch.
Huh?
“I must still be dreaming, haha.”
Anlis, who had intended to collapse and sleep a bit longer, suddenly bolted upright.
It wasn’t a dream at all! She hurriedly scanned her surroundings.
She was still in that stone house.
At this moment, her disheveled clothes were slipping off her shoulders, and the bedding barely covered her exposed skin.
Anlis truly felt like screaming at the top of her lungs like a defiled maiden from a good family, but she forced herself to suppress the urge.
She didn’t dare.
Recalling the events of last night, while one could say Anlis was the one who slept with the Corrupt Monarch, she was only the initiator at the very beginning.
Afterward, wasn’t she the only one being dominated? There was something cold and slippery, like a tentacle… and then there was that constant whispering in her ear, calling her a little “trashy good girl”…
Agh!!!!
So! This Demon King stayed here just to see her make a fool of herself when the Curse flared up, and then did such strange things to her? The Corruption Curse was intentional, too! It was all for this exact moment! Otherwise, when she grabbed her last night, why didn’t she resist? It should have been effortless for a Level 999 Demon King to subdue a newly summoned Hero like her.
She had intentionally struggled a bit, acting like a victim.
She was nothing but a drama queen and a scumbag who lusted after her body while playing hard to get!
Damn it all! Whether it was the fact that she, as a girl, was taken by another girl—or that as the Hero, she was taken by the Demon King—she felt like her life had become one giant failure.
“You’re awake.”
Vylian’s voice suddenly drifted over from the side.
She had been standing there for a while, watching the Hero’s expression shift from blankness to shock, finally settling on a mix of resentment and sorrow.
Anlis’s eyes widened.
She looked toward the source of the voice and immediately pulled her head back under the covers.
She looked like a shy young girl, but in reality, Anlis just didn’t want Vylian to see her gritting her teeth in absolute fury.
Vylian gave a light chuckle but didn’t say much.
Based on last night’s performance, she could basically dismiss the idea that her identity had been compromised.
The other girl had consistently addressed her as Sister Vylian throughout the night.
If her cover truly had been blown, Vylian didn’t believe Anlis could have maintained the composure to keep up a facade while she was losing her mind to the Curse.
Thinking back to last night, a smile curled on Vylian’s lips. “Miss Anlis, you were truly… enthusiastic last night.”
‘Enthusiastic my foot!’
Anlis almost let the words slip out.
Eventually, she only poked her eyes out from the covers, brooding for a moment before speaking.
“I think… what happened last night should stay a secret between us, Sister. I… I wasn’t acting of my own free will.”
This was a carefully considered statement.
Anlis figured she hadn’t let her secret slip while under the Curse; otherwise, she would be in a Dungeon right now instead of lying comfortably in bed.
She didn’t think Vylian would continue the charade if she knew Anlis was aware of her true identity.
“Do you… not want to take responsibility?”
“Responsibility?”
She was genuinely stunned! What kind of talk was that? Hey, Anlis couldn’t be blamed for this! If this person hadn’t cast the Curse on her, how could Anlis have acted like a thirsty girl and done such things!
Fortunately, Anlis only showed her eyes, hiding the resentful grinding of her teeth beneath the covers.
Looking only at her eyes, one would think she was merely confused.
“That’s right. After doing those kinds of things, one might end up with a baby, right?” Vylian’s gaze darted around as a hint of bashfulness appeared on her face.
“Huh?”
Anlis truly couldn’t tell if the other woman was joking or serious. How could two girls have a baby together?
“Pfft~ That expression of yours… cough, alright, I was joking. I can certainly keep this a secret between us.” Vylian quickly checked her expression and changed the subject.
“But~ doesn’t Miss Anlis need to explain the Curse on her stomach?”
She took a timely step forward, the unique and pleasant scent of roses becoming clearer as she drew near.
“You were so thirsty… it must have been because of this Curse, right?”
Vylian’s smile gradually became meaningful, and the look she gave Anlis carried a deliberate sense of scrutiny. Anlis’s eyes grew wider and wider.
This woman was definitely doing this on purpose! How could the Demon King not know why she had this Curse? She was clearly using this excuse just to watch her squirm.
“Actually, I was branded with a Corruption Curse by that perverted loli, the Corrupt Monarch.”
Vylian’s smile froze. “Perverted loli?”
Seeing her frozen expression and hearing her mumble, Anlis suddenly realized something.
If the Corrupt Monarch wanted to pose as a Nun in front of her, she naturally wouldn’t reveal her identity easily.
Didn’t that mean she could insult the Corrupt Monarch to her face as much as she wanted? In fact, the more she insulted her, the more it proved she hadn’t discovered her identity.
Aha!
“Let me tell you, that perverted loli’s crimes are too many to list! I told you before, right? Even though she’s a final boss character, she had the gall to come and camp me, a newborn Hero. She has zero class as a powerful being. She’s definitely the type of rule-breaking cheater that nobody wants to play with.”
“The main thing is, if she had killed me on the spot, I would have considered her a respectable opponent. But can you imagine? She didn’t kill me. Instead, she gave me a perverted Curse! She said something about turning me into someone like a Succubus. What kind of normal person comes up with those methods?”
“If that’s not a pervert, what is? It’s enough to make heaven and earth weep with rage! Not only is she a loli, but she has a nasty personality and a brain full of filth. Is this how a normal person acts?”
“Don’t you think I’m right?”
Anlis was practically a fountain of words. Although Vylian was still smiling, her face was as dark as ink. “Heh… hehehe…”
The laugh was a bit eerie, sending a chill down Anlis’s spine despite being tucked in bed.
It felt great to vent everything she’d bottled up right to the person’s face, but whether she’d be punished for overstepping was another matter.
Vylian didn’t snap.
Just as Anlis thought, the more she insulted the Corrupt Monarch, the more it proved she was oblivious to the truth. Vylian could endure it.
She kept smiling, forcibly cutting off Anlis’s tirade to shift the topic.
“Actually, I took a look at that Curse. It’s just a minor Curse that amplifies desire. If the Lady Hero’s will was strong enough, she could have resisted it easily.”
“It’s just… last night, you kept asking me if you could touch my black silk stockings. You were… like a total delinquent. No matter how many times I refused, it was no use. Sigh, I never expected the honest-looking Lady Hero would like black silk so much.”
Anlis’s face turned bright red! It was like her secret heart had been pierced. She immediately tried to cover it up by shouting!
“Ah!!! No, I don’t! I’m a girl too, how could I like things like black silk? Even if I did, couldn’t I just wear them myself? My legs are shaped pretty well too, right?”
“Is that so? But~ today… I made a point of wearing black silk.”