The Nymph Wants to be Plundered - Chapter 178

“Ah!”

Her vision, obscured by his palm, spun dizzily again, and her upper body swayed forward. Evelyn’s body squirmed, her wet hips rocking back and forth, which Cassis found agreeable. With her sight blocked, Evelyn, who had been touching her private parts with her own fingers, couldn’t bear it any longer and pleaded,

“I…I can’t do it anymore, I’m scared, please…”

“Isn’t what I do much better? Hmm?”

At his seductive, domineering voice, she could only nod her head repeatedly. The consequence of that was soon being flipped over from her current position, laid down, and intimately taken in a familiar way. Thinking that this was better, the strength drained from her limbs.

A newly formed golden sky, Evelyn’s golden sky, soon covered her, filling everything.

***

She lay dead asleep in his bed, waking up at some point.

Is it morning? As she rubbed her eyes and stretched with a lazy yawn, a powerful memory flooded her mind. She’d almost forgotten, as falling asleep and waking up alone had become her natural routine lately.

She had fought terribly with him, and Evelyn had lost. In the end, she’d even ended up in his arms. While it brought a little joy, she also recalled the daunting situation she’d found herself in. The shocking memory of their blatant, scandalous acts near the World Tree’s roots didn’t even matter now.

‘I fought with Lord Cassis?! I must be crazy, why did I even do that? I should have come to my senses and apologized the moment I woke up….’

It was far too late for regrets. Not only was she left alone, but her legs felt so weak that she couldn’t even fathom opening the distant bedroom door and running to him. To think she’d ended up in this state, swayed by all the rumors spreading throughout the castle….

-If you had something to say to me, you should have come to my office and asked directly. Why listen to others when I, the person involved in the rumors, am right here?

Looking back, his words were absolutely correct. There were even parts of the situation that made sense.

Everyone did it once they left the Hall of Glory, but… no, not everyone. Of the few Evelyn knew by name, Phivi was different.

Mel was quick to snap at her, but with other elf residents, she conversed and laughed easily. Phivi, however, was different. Phivi was the only one who had never privately joined in the clamor about Polyxene and Cassis supposedly getting engaged soon.

To have known the difference between the two ladies and yet to be swayed by the rumors, instead of thinking it through carefully…

Ah, now that I think about it, it was my fault for being so careless. I should have just bitten the bullet and asked Phivi, even if we weren’t close, or just been a little more careful.

How wonderful would it have been if she had gathered the courage to knock on his office door before all this? She’d fearlessly rushed to greet border guards she didn’t even know before, so why couldn’t she approach him…?

Evelyn knew where that difference stemmed from.

It must have been her fear of hearing his cold words—that it was over between them. But even if it meant facing the end, she should have gone to him directly. What could she say if Cassis was disillusioned by her foolishness? In the end, she had brought it upon herself.

Lost in deep self-reproach, she let out a hollow sigh. Then, suddenly, the words he’d spoken while their bodies were tangled beneath the World Tree’s roots came back to her.

He had said he wouldn’t get engaged, that time was too precious. And most importantly, he had firmly stated that he had no relationship with the border guard, Polyxene.

“……”

Even after hearing such relieving words, her heart felt terribly heavy, as if weighed down by a stone. Hadn’t she left the castle without permission and even fallen asleep? Thinking that she had provoked his anger because of that, she truly had nothing to say. Honestly, if she were Cassis, it would have been an absurd incident.

More than that, the vow of chastity, was it? She wasn’t entirely sure what it meant, but it felt as if Cassis wouldn’t take another lover as long as she was alive. She felt a pang of guilt, a sincere apology, for simply feeling relieved and happy that she wouldn’t be abandoned.

‘…How long will I live? I don’t know what that vow is, but if I die, it will surely break.’

Even if she estimated it conservatively, she would live for decades more, and to continue to bother Cassis all that time…

Evelyn let out a deep sigh and wished for her tree, which had taken root in the sacred ground, to quickly recover its health. That way… later, even if Cassis changed his mind and found a lover he truly loved, she could quietly step aside without being a hindrance.

‘It’s time to put some distance between us. I need to practice. Slowly, little by little, I’ll move away from him. I’ll be polite, and I won’t forget to thank him even for the smallest things.’

Tears welled up instantly at the thought of a distant farewell, but Evelyn knew this was right. She simply couldn’t handle anything more.

Chastity… no, it couldn’t be. That was only for those in love, so it couldn’t be that, and it absolutely had to not be that.