Chapter 231: How could i become your lover?

Back inside the temple, listening to Keti’s complaints, Lynn smiled faintly, then tilted his head and said,

“Alright, alright, it is all my fault. I will take the blame for everything, okay? Do not worry, little cat. Since I already did it, I will definitely take responsibility for you.”

“W-Who wants you to take responsibility?! It is not like I care!”

The corner of Keti’s mouth twitched as she instinctively shot back. Then the young lady gave a haughty snort and turned her flushed face away.

“Oh? You really do not need it?” Lynn deliberately drew out his tone and leaned closer to that rosy face, his deep eyes brimming with teasing amusement.

“So what you mean is, you plan to use me for free? I am your patron, you know. You enjoyed everything and now you want to deny it. How can there be such a cheap deal in this world?”

“Y-You are talking nonsense! Who used who?! Obviously you took advantage of me!”

Keti stamped her foot in anger, even the stray tuft of hair on her head trembling.

‘This man, how can he be so shameless! Who exactly pinned who down and bullied them for half the day! And now he is biting back, making it sound like he suffered some huge grievance!’

“Is that not so?” Lynn raised a finger and gently lifted the silver-haired girl’s smooth chin, forcing her to meet his gaze.

“In that illusion just now, a certain little cat was very proactive. That look, those movements, and those sounds that could melt a person’s bones…”

“Ahhh! Shut up shut up shut up! Do not say any more!”

Keti suddenly reached out and covered his mouth with both hands, her watery eyes glaring fiercely at him as if she would bite him to death if he dared say another word.

In truth, even she knew he was telling the truth.

Those unbearably embarrassing scenes from before replayed in her mind over and over like high-definition footage.

Too humiliating. It was truly too humiliating.

‘Me, who always hypnotized myself into believing I still had a male soul, actually surrendered so easily just from falling into that improper illusion! This is simply the greatest disgrace. How could there ever be a second time? This guy can forget about it!’

Mm.

But… but…

Yet… in this flirtatious bickering, Keti suddenly realized her heartbeat seemed to be getting faster and faster.

Not only that, hearing Lynn’s teasing voice and looking at his face that always carried a wicked smile, she even felt

that strange sensation in her body that had just subsided showing signs of rekindling.

The soft, weak feeling between her legs, and every inch of skin he had stroked with his broad palm, were now faintly heating up.

“Gulp…” The silver-haired girl quietly swallowed, her small hand unconsciously clutching her clothes.

‘Something is wrong. Extremely, utterly wrong! I obviously should hate this enemy. Every day I wish I could chop him into pieces in my mind with a knife.’

‘But why… why was it that in that illusion, when he treated me so roughly, bullied me so freely, even ordered me around with that condescending attitude, deep down inside I actually felt a faint, scalp-tingling pleasure?’

“Co-Could it be…” Keti’s pupils shook as a terrifying thought exploded in her mind.

‘Could it be I am actually a hidden masochist?! Could it be deep in my subconscious I actually crave being bullied hard by this bad guy Lynn?! No no no! Impossible!’

‘Absolutely impossible… it is all because I absorbed that succubus influence. It is this body that is too strange, that is all. B-But… is it really impossible? Thinking carefully, when he bullied me before, I actually kind of enjoyed it…’

Keti frantically searched for excuses in her mind, but under Lynn’s gaze that seemed to see through everything, her defenses still wavered shamefully.

“Hey, little cat, what are you spacing out about? Why is your face red again? Do not tell me you are thinking about what just happened?” Lynn waved a hand in front of her eyes.

“None of your business!” Keti snapped back to her senses like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

“Anyway, I do not want you to take responsibility! Becoming your girlfriend or fiancee or anything like that is out of the question! If others found out I was involved with a guy like you, would I have any dignity left?!”

“Oh dear, what a pity.” Lynn sighed dramatically.

“Since you do not want me to take responsibility, I will just have to find someone else in the future. Sigh. I originally thought your body was quite soft, little cat, and pretty nice to bully. What a shame…”

“Y-You dare!”

The moment the words left her mouth, Keti froze.

Why did she blurt that out? She sounded just like a possessive pet guarding its food.

But when she imagined Lynn bullying other girls the same way in the future, touching their ears, kissing their lips, her chest filled inexplicably with intense irritation and sourness.

‘No. Absolutely not! This jerk already took my first time. How can he just pat his butt and go take advantage of other women!’

‘Since he likes bullying me so much, and since I also… also do not exactly hate being bullied by him, and it even feels a tiny bit good, then maybe…’

A brilliant idea was born in Keti’s mind.

“Ahem!” She coughed twice, forced her face straight, and said in an artificially solemn tone, “Although I do not need you to take responsibility, and I cannot possibly be your official girlfriend, still… considering you served this young lady fairly comfortably just now, I can reluctantly grant you a privilege.”

“Oh? What privilege?” Lynn looked at her with interest.

“I-It is that!” Keti’s eyes darted wildly, her voice growing smaller and smaller until she finally shut her eyes and shouted, “It is… that… friends with benefits!”

“Friends with benefits! Get it?! The kind who only have a physical relationship! Usually we are still enemies and neither of us interferes in the other’s private life!”

“But if someday I am in a good mood, or… or like today when my succubus physique acts up, you can come help me deal with it! Just treat it as… as mutual use!”

After blurting all that out in one breath, Keti felt like her head was about to steam. She had never said anything so embarrassing in her life.

“What an unexpected answer. I really did not expect it, little cat. You are actually this bold, huh?” Lynn puffed out a laugh. “Run? At a time like this you are still thinking of running?”

The air fell silent for a full three seconds.

Lynn froze for a moment, then could not hold it in anymore and burst out laughing. “Ah, really…”