Chapter 65
“…Why are you laughing?”
“Hmm? Me? I think you must have misheard.”
Bezel smiled brightly as if to prove his words were true. Was she still half-asleep, hearing things? Eden thought nothing of it and turned her attention back to the sandwich.
The moment her gaze left him, Bezel wiped the smile from his lips.
The reason Eden’s stomach was fine enough to swallow her sandwich without any trouble wasn’t because her tolerance had gone up, but because she had thrown up everything inside it.
The night before, after being covered in Eden’s vomit, Bezel had lifted her up, washed her, changed the bed sheets, and finished cleaning everything up before finally returning to his small room.
He wanted nothing more than to just wash himself off and leave the situation as it was, but if he did that, Eden might realize when she woke up in the morning that none of it had been a dream.
He threw the pajamas he stripped off her and the sheets outside.
True to his nature as a demon of gluttony, Bezel had the ability to digest anything regardless of what it was. So instead of going through the hassle of throwing them out, he could have just chewed and swallowed them. But looking at the vomit stuck all over them, he simply couldn’t bring himself to do it.
Fortunately, Eden was the type to stock up on multiples of the same kind of underwear, pajamas, and sheets. Thanks to that, there was no risk of her noticing the changed clothes and replaced sheets.
But simply not getting caught wasn’t enough to compensate for last night’s ordeal. Was it because he hadn’t consumed as much life force as he had hoped? Due to the hunger feeling particularly worse than usual, Bezel eventually ventured out for a night walk.
For someone who could fly, any reasonable distance was meaningless. He caught and ate animals on a mountain near the capital, and as if that weren’t enough, he even devoured small strays he found wandering the streets on his way back.
Some of them wore tags suggesting they had owners, like the parrot he had eaten before, but animals out wandering at that hour were likely abandoned. Even if their owners had simply lost them, it didn’t matter. Eating something that belonged to someone was actually thrilling. It only added a sense of immorality, lending a small bit of extra pleasure to the feeding.
Even so, the fact that all of this was a hassle didn’t change. Failing to eat the expensive delicacy he had been after and filling his stomach with junk food instead, there was no way to feel good about that. Bezel suppressed the sudden surge of spite and the urge to be snide, and asked.
“Come to think of it, you look particularly good today, Eden. You must have had a good dream.”
“Pfft…!”
Eden, who had been chewing her food, hastily covered her mouth with her hand. But she was a beat too late. A piece of arugula had already flown out of her mouth and landed on Bezel’s cheek with a smack.
“Hrk.”
Eden hastily grabbed a tissue with a panicked face and held it out.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…!”
‘Ah, yesterday and now today too….’
Bezel squeezed his eyes shut as if holding something back, then opened them and took the tissue to wipe his face.
Out of all the things that came out of that woman’s mouth, the only welcome thing was the saliva that flowed when they kissed. Whether half-digested or half-chewed, anything that was food now made him shudder with disgust.
“See, why did you have to bring up dreams!”
“It was just normal small talk…. Did I ask something strange?”
“T-that’s not it, but…!”
Eden opened her mouth to make an excuse, but couldn’t bring herself to say what she wanted to and closed it again.
As he said, asking about last night’s dream was an everyday greeting between people living together. But for her, there was a reason she had no choice but to overreact like this.
She had dreamed of Bezel the night before. And not just any dream…. Damn it, it had been an e****c dream where he went down on her and fingered her until she squirted.
She remembered feeling like she was losing her mind from the pleasure, but like most dreams, she couldn’t quite recall how it ended. She seemed to recall being shocked at the sight of his massive c**k, but everything after that was a blank.
‘And I was trying so hard to pretend I didn’t know.’
Having had a dream like that, it was impossible not to be conscious of Bezel. From the moment she sat across from Bezel at the table, Eden had been desperately fighting to stay calm and keep her face from flushing by focusing on other things.
‘My stomach feels good considering I drank yesterday. Since my condition’s fine today, I can train harder this morning.’ Things like that.
But the composure she had barely managed to maintain came crashing down at Bezel’s single mention of “dream.” The memories she had kept locked away came flooding out like water from a burst dam, all at once without hesitation.
“Ngh.”
She couldn’t take it anymore. Biting her lip hard, Eden shot up to her feet, her face flushed red as if it might burst.
“I-I’m going to go work out for a bit before today’s commission!”
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