[For you, these days are truly like being a god.]
[Leveling up went smoothly. After a long period of fighting, you’ve reached Level 15.]
[The Double Slash Technique’s proficiency has also reached 800 points. It’ll soon be able to evolve again.]
[In goblin society, as long as you have strength, you can do whatever you want.]
[You work under Zagu, and practically all goblins know of your exploits, so every day goes smoothly.]
[Besides that, when you come home each day, there’s a beautiful girl to cook for you, serve you tea, and keep the house in perfect order.]
[“Hell yeah!”]
[Xilika’s beauty alone could fill you up, but you never expected her cooking to be good too.]
[Originally, you thought Xilika would be harder to train, after all, she is the Saintess.]
[You figured that a loser of her status would have lines like that, right?]
[“I’m the Saintess! If you dare do anything to me, I’ll make you pay!”]
[And then there would be the usual underdog-turns-the-tables scene.]
[But Xilika went completely to the other extreme.]
[Not only did she not have much aversion to you, she even actively cared for you.]
[You were actually happy to see this anomaly—it saved you a lot of trouble.]
[Until one day, something subtly changed.]
……
Lein’s payday was the 10th of every month, and he received a full 40 gold coins.
That day, he came home from work, and Xilika immediately came forward to take the vegetables and meat from him.
Soon, a pleasant smell wafted from the kitchen.
During dinner, Xilika sat across from Lein. She observed him while carefully eating.
Lein chewed the juicy beef and thought, ‘This woman is really perfect to marry.’
‘Too bad I’m a goblin now…’
Lein continued thinking and suddenly realized that since he was a goblin, he was technically her owner.
“I could really do anything excessive to her…”
Lein was the kind of person with strong empathy.
He might not feel much even if he got hurt himself, but seeing others in pain made him unable to help empathizing.
He couldn’t bring himself to lay a hand on this lovely girl in front of him.
He couldn’t stand the sound of broken crying and pleading. Even as a goblin, he was a pure-love goblin.
“But… things that aren’t too excessive, I should be able to do.”
Lein raised his head and met Xilika’s deer-like eyes. Xilika’s gaze immediately darted away, and her fork kept poking at a piece of meat.
As if possessed, Lein reached out his hand and placed it on Xilika’s head.
At the touch, Xilika’s whole body trembled, then she looked at Lein with a complex expression.
But Lein just put on as gentle a smile as he could and stroked Xilika’s sunshine-golden hair.
The girl’s body heat came through his fingertips.
Lein used to think head pats in manga were too sentimental, but now that he actually did it, he realized how amazing it felt.
If he could, he’d want to do this every day. Touching other places would be even better.
But just as Lein was enjoying himself, he caught a glimpse of Xilika’s very uneasy expression. This puzzled him.
‘She didn’t refuse, but she’s not happy either… Seems like she doesn’t enjoy it…’
If the other person didn’t feel good, then no matter how nice it felt to touch, Lein found it dull.
However, just as Lein was about to pull his hand away, Xilika suddenly grabbed his withdrawing hand.
“?”
‘She used her mouth to put my finger…’
Before Lein could react, he only felt a dampness at his fingertip.
“Master…”
Xilika, as if only then realizing what she had done, shrank her head like a child who had done something wrong.
‘What do I do… I actually said it…’
‘As the Saintess of the Silent Moon Church, half of the men who came to confess were confessing to me, and even a prince wanted to be engaged to me… though I didn’t agree…’
‘And now… I actually called a goblin “master”…’
‘And sucked on his finger like a baby…’
Xilika’s face was bright red, her whole body burning, and her two straight jade-white legs were tightly pressed together.
This tidal wave of shame almost suffocated her to the point of collapse.
‘So… good, so thrilling.’
‘And… a goblin probably wouldn’t find it strange, right? He wouldn’t think I’m weird, would he? He’s a goblin—the master-slave relationship is an iron law they’re born knowing.’
‘He probably won’t think I’m… a depraved saintess… right?’
‘But… will I be punished!? Oh no, oh no, if he gets angry and wants to do it to me right now…’
Xilika’s face alternated between pale and red, and she deeply regretted in her heart.
Lein, on the other hand, just calmed his trembling body, slowly took a sip of fruit juice, and prepared to act like nothing happened.
Seeing that Lein didn’t react, she finally relaxed.
‘What was I just doing…’
Savouring the sensation just now, Xilika felt as if she had been bewitched by some dark magic.
What she didn’t know was that this feeling was actually an instinct.
Just like a puppy trying to please a human by licking their hand, or some girls biting their boyfriend’s arm to leave teeth marks.
These are all very primitive ways of expressing affection. And as a saintess, Xilika had completely no experience with this, so she only felt that she was very strange.
‘Am I sick…’ That was all Xilika could think in the end.
‘If anyone found out about that lewd move just now… I might never be able to enter a church again in my life.’
Meanwhile, Lein also thought that Xilika was too strange today.
‘Could it be that she’s scared and trying to please me?’
Lein thought back to his companions’ human slaves who were forced to lick things.
‘That must be it…’