Scarlett left Xao behind and walked through the palace halls with light steps, but her face showed she was already expecting sothing. Behind the blindfold, Her sharp red and blue eyes narrowed as she approached the main kitchen house—the place where als were prepared for her and the rest of the people living in the palace.
She didn’t even knock. With a firm push, she opened the large wooden door… and just as she thought, the scene inside was pure chaos.
There, on the kitchen floor, were Reiza and Lunatic, rolling around like wild animals.
Reiza, tall and graceful with long legs, had one of her legs pressing against Lunatic’s face, while Lunatic struggled to push her off. In return, Lunatic’s shorter legs only managed to reach Reiza’s chest, kicking and wriggling like an upset cat.
"Die, you green-haired bitch! Scarlett likes chicken breasts more!" Lunatic yelled, her voice full of frustration.
Reiza scoffed with an irritated expression, "No, wife likes barbecue more, you horny succubus. Of course your dirty brain thinks about ‘breasts’ all the ti!"
"Oh yeah? Aren’t you the bigger one, you bimbo!" Lunatic snapped back.
Reiza instantly defended herself, "That’s because I’m taller, you idiot! You’d know that if your brain thought about anything other than sex!"
The two kept going, rolling on the floor, throwing childish kicks and pulling at each other’s clothes and hair. Pots and pans lay scattered across the floor. A jar of honey had even spilled in the corner.
They were so caught up in their nonsense that they didn’t even realize Scarlett had entered.
Scarlett finally let out a loud cough — twice.
Ahem. AHEM.
Both Reiza and Lunatic froze.
"W-wife…?" Reiza blinked, her face going pale. Her heart skipped a beat. "Wait… did she hear everything I just said?" she thought, feeling her face burn red from embarrassnt.
She quickly let go of Lunatic and sat down on her knees, bowing her head slightly like a guilty child.
Lunatic, on the other hand, wasn’t even a bit embarrassed. She sat up with a happy grin and threw her hands up. "Yay! Darling’s back! We can finally have so love-making ti!"
"Darling?" Scarlett blinked, her voice rising in surprise. That word hit her like a rock.
Darling… Honey… That reminded her of Irish — the other woman who often teased her with the nickna Honey. It made her head hurt.
"Yeah!" Lunatic said cheerfully, "Reiza always calls you wife this, wife that, so I thought I should get my own nickna for you too!"
She gave Scarlett a big smile, showing all her sharp teeth like a proud fox. "Do you like it?"
Scarlett sighed and placed a hand on her forehead. "I… don’t know."
"Yay! She didn’t deny it!" Lunatic clapped and grinned from ear to ear, turning to tease Reiza, who was now covering half her face with her hand in sha.
Scarlett glanced at the ss around the kitchen — the floor covered in flour, a tomato slowly rolling across the tiles, and a pan still spinning in place.
"Were you two seriously fighting like this all week while I was gone?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.
“Well yeah… since you weren’t here!” Lunatic said, scratching the back of her head with a small laugh. “And spring season is coming and with that, The mating season is coming, so we had to do sothing to distract ourselves. So… we’ve been having little quarrels and cooking competitions.”
Scarlett blinked and stepped back a little, her cheeks slowly turning red. “M-mating season?” she repeated with surprise, almost stuttering.
“But… didn’t we already… you know… have sex quite a lot?” she asked in a small voice, gulping hard.
Lunatic waved her hand and rolled her eyes. “That’s just normal stuff. Reiza an Oni, you know? Not so random beast while I'm even one step higher, the queen of succubus. Humans don’t have a mating season like we do because they have food and supplies all year round. But even though our lifestyle is more human-like now, it will take many generations for our natural heat cycles to fully disappear.”
As she spoke, Lunatic stood up and brushed the dust off her skirt.
“And since spring is coming, I bet everyone in DreadHaven has already stocked up on food and supplies. Just you wait… the population is going to explode! I’m even thinking of raising prices in the red-light district, because a lot of people are definitely going to show up there,” she said with a proud grin. As the queen of succubi, and also leader of red light district, she knew the number of custors will increase drastically, Even from nearby Village, who have not joined DreadHaven might co too.
Scarlett blinked in surprise, watching Lunatic’s confident expression. “So they were actually helping each other all this ti?” she thought to herself in amazent. “I guess things aren’t always as they seem. Maybe it’s a good thing if those two start getting along.”
anwhile, Reiza sat quietly on the floor, hugging her knees and looking down. Her usual proud and strong presence was gone. “If you’re not ready… then there’s no need to force yourself,” she said softly. “I’ve dealt with dozens of mating seasons alone. I’m sure I can survive more.”
Scarlett’s heart ached seeing her like that. She stepped closer and gently placed a hand on Reiza’s shoulder. “Of course not,” she said with a kind smile. “I’ll take full responsibility. I’ll make sure all the important stuff is done before the season begins… so we can have so private ti together, okay?”
Reiza’s eyes widened with joy, and a bit of drool slipped out from the corner of her mouth. “You’re the best wife ever,” she whispered, blushing.
Lunatic, who had been watching quietly, suddenly pouted. “Huh? What about ?” she said, quickly getting up and pressing herself close to Scarlett. Her soft chest squished against Scarlett’s, and she looked up with teasing eyes.
“Although I'm horny 24/7 for you, My heat season is also coming,” she whispered with a grin, and her long black tail slowly curled out from behind her, ending in a cute heart shape like all succubi have. The tail playfully swayed behind her.
“See? My tail’s ready to go! I’ll make sure to drown you in pleasure!” she said in a sultry tone, her eyes sparkling.
But Scarlett’s expression beca… complicated. She could feel Reiza’s intense glare stabbing into her like a blade. Even Lunatic could feel the danger in the air, but she chose to ignore it.
Lunatic leaned in again and whispered softly, “You know… I’m actually a virgin.”
Scarlett suddenly stepped back, freeing herself from Lunatic’s arms. “No way I’m believing that,” she said quickly. “And anyway, I’m not so pathetic main character who gets obsessed over whether a girl is a virgin. What matters is love and trust.”
She looked away, her tone growing serious. “I beat you. I destroyed your plans. I even killed half your army and made you my subordinate, Of course I said in return I'll make your status more than any human but still it's not like you had any other choice than being my subordinate or getting killed by .”
Then she turned her eyes back to Lunatic, her voice cold but honest. “I know you’re trying to get close to
because you have your own reasons. But I’m doing this for your own good. I can’t stand traitors. Everyone in DreadHaven has freedom… but if you ever betray , I won’t hesitate to kill you.”
Lunatic’s playful smile slowly disappeared. She lowered her head, and for a mont, the room felt completely silent. Even the colors in the air seed to fade, turning the room white and still, like ti had stopped. Reiza could sense sothing was wrong too, and she quietly stood up, watching closely.
Scarlett frowned, feeling a tightness in her chest. "Did I go too far?" she thought, suddenly unsure of her harsh words.
Then it happened.
Dip… dip… dip…
Soft drops of water began to fall to the ground. But it wasn’t rain. It was tears.
Tears were falling from Lunatic’s eyes—quietly at first, then like a stream. She tried to wipe them away with the back of her hand, but they just kept falling, as if her heart couldn’t hold it in anymore.
“Sob… sob… My love is fake? How can you say that?” Lunatic spoke in a broken voice, her shoulders shaking as she cried.
Scarlett’s eyes widened. She didn’t know what to say. “Hey, hey, stop crying! You're making
feel like the villain here!” she scread in her mind, but the words never left her lips. She just stood there, frozen, feeling the weight of guilt on her shoulders.
What Scarlett said earlier was right… but also wrong.
She had every reason to be careful. She had already suffered too much in the past. She had lost people, almost lost most Peaple of DreadHaven itself, all because of so traitors. She couldn’t let her guard down again—not even for a mont.
And Lunatic? She used to be Scarlett’s enemy.
But at the sa ti… Scarlett was also wrong.
Because Lunatic did fall in love with her.
It wasn’t fake.
Lunatic had loved her from the very first mont she saw her.
And that love ca from soone who had been through more pain than most people could ever imagine.
Back when she was two individuals being not one, an twin sisters.
They were both half-human and half-succubus. From the mont they were born, they were bullied and hated. No one accepted them. They were treated like monsters between humans.
Because of the deep trauma they suffered in their childhood, both twins developed a strange condition—they couldn’t recognize faces. To them, everyone looked like they were wearing white masks, each showing different expressions. It was like the world had taken away sothing basic and left them in constant confusion.
And because of that… they hated one thing about their mother.
“Why did you fall in love with a human at first sight?”
"Does love at first sight even exists?
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