The obscene movements of her hole tightening on its own, seemingly begging for more caresses, were utterly bewildering. In the midst of it all, unexpectedly gushing fluid streamed down and even soaked the man’s mouth.

The fact that she was caught up in terrible pleasure amid this mess embarrassed Ivona even more. If she could, she would have fled and hidden in a mouse hole. A pleading sob leaked out on its own, breaking through the suffocating pressure.

“Hng, n-now stop…”

So even knowing it was useless, she struggled to escape from the man. But the moment she met the golden eyes that still hadn’t pulled their lips away.

Lick—

The persistent gaze was like a spear piercing through her body. The golden eyes blazing from below were no longer frightening. Ivona could only meet Calix’s gaze, forgetting she’d even tried to flee. In that moment, both embarrassment and bewilderment faded to white.

“I haven’t gotten the bead out yet.”

Time that seemed to have stopped flowed again the moment the man confidently opened his mouth. Before she could even stop him, his flexible tongue slid in persistently and smoothly.

It was bewilderingly flexible, somehow parting her flesh more easily than his fingers. The sensation of him licking thoroughly, like the lewd fluid was honey, spread ticklishly across her inner walls.

At the teasing sensation, Ivona groaned while curling up her body. She wanted this situation to end quickly with the bead removed, yet also didn’t want it to end.

Her dilemma didn’t last long. There was a foreign sensation pushing threateningly into the hole that had become much smoother. When it spread inside like scissors opening, something flowed down from deep within her body.

“Mmph—! Haah—!”

Like she’d forgotten speech, only moans like a beast’s howl burst out in succession. The feeling of her insides spreading wildly was so strange it was frightening. 

It felt like glittering golden fragments floated before her pleasure-blurred vision. Only after feeling the heavy scent filling her lungs did Ivona belatedly realize it was pheromones.

‘Ph-pheromones were like this…?’

From birth until now, the only pheromones Ivona had encountered were those of her father, Marquis Castillia. And the Marquis had used his powerful predator pheromones for only one purpose. 

To imprint terror on his daughter who had no power to resist and thoroughly crush her.

So to Ivona, the pheromones of top-tier predators meant violence. Instinctive revulsion surged and she held her breath and squeezed her eyes shut. But Ivona knew best that such resistance was useless.

Soon she felt the pheromones filling the surroundings seep through her skin. But Calix’s pheromones held no intent to harm her at all. 

Heat incomparable to anything before surged from deep within her body and clear fluid leaked out steadily. The moment unbearable teasing heat covered her entire body, only one word floated in her mind.

‘Pheromone… shower!’

She remembered hearing about it. The act of covering someone with your pheromones like pouring them on. Originally, it was an act of showing off one’s charm and superiority to court a desired member of the opposite s*x. 

However, relatively powerless herbivores risked becoming crippled if they received a pheromone shower from a predator shapeshifter.

But she didn’t sense such impure intentions in Calix’s pheromones at all. His pheromones, somehow resembling his persistent caresses, approached politely and stroked her. For her body already heated up, it had an effect like an aphrodisiac.

“Hng, hnngh—!”

When she swallowed her breath, unable to overcome the surging pleasure, the cautious pheromones gained a bit more momentum. 

Ivona hesitantly entrusted her body to the pheromones enveloping her. It felt like being persuaded while her body was taken apart piece by piece and caressed.

Ivona became violently confused by the gentle pheromones she was experiencing for the first time. In her pleasure-dazed mind, the fact that all this had started to remove the bead suddenly surfaced.

What if they couldn’t get it out to the end? 

Even though she was climaxing this intensely, dripping honey below and being sucked vigorously, the bead showed no signs of coming out. Would she have to keep getting sucked below like this until morning, just like Calix said?

Even while thinking such alarming thoughts, she found it strange that she was no longer afraid. As though responding to Calix’s seduction, soft pale purple energy rose from her own body. 

Compared to a predator’s, it was an incomparably faint energy like down, but it was definitely pheromones.

‘I had pheromones too?’

She secretly bit her tongue because the thought that reflexively surfaced was so foolish. All shapeshifters are born with pheromones. Originally for seducing the opposite s*x, after all.

However, for herbivores like Ivona, living their entire lives in a state practically without them wasn’t rare. Moreover, she’d never heard of even the strongest predators being able to see pheromones with their eyes.

Ivona looked at what rose from her body with a curious feeling.

‘Could I use my power on Calix too?’

Thinking that, a secret elation rose up. A herbivore subduing a predator with pheromones. Wasn’t it thrilling just to imagine?

Before the empire called Alvidion existed on the continent, the world of shapeshifters was supposedly no different from the wild. In a violent world where only strength determined who ate and who was eaten, overwhelming physical ability meant charm.

Because of that, predator pheromones were no different from aphrodisiacs to herbivores. 

In other words, no matter how much a herbivore shapeshifter yearned for a predator shapeshifter, they couldn’t receive even a glance. Herbivore pheromones had no effect on predators, after all.

So normally, it would be impossible for Ivona to seduce Calix, who was clearly a predator, with pheromones. But weren’t pheromones that shouldn’t be visible appearing before Ivona’s eyes?

‘…Just once.’

Even if it had no effect, so what? 

Ivona became pleased with the audacious thought she’d come up with. She put all her strength into her eyes and glared at the pheromones.

The pale purple smoke receiving her gaze rose up like dancing. It was like a creature with free will yet faithfully followed Ivona’s intentions. 

The moment it stretched out gracefully and touched the golden fragments, Calix’s large frame shuddered like he’d been struck by lightning.

“…!!”

Ivona couldn’t tear her eyes away from the golden eyes burning like a small sun before her. The politeness he’d shown until now must have been mere pretense.

Raw desire that could devour and still have room for the female before him was revealed without filter. A golden storm rose above her head with a ferocious momentum that could tear clothes and satisfy greed at any moment.

Yet even while rubbing his cheek against her thigh pleadingly, the man ultimately didn’t raise his body. His panting tongue greedily tickled her hole and Ivona could only convulse like having a seizure.

The fiercer the man’s momentum became, the more her frail body fluttered messily like a leaf swept up in waves. Yet the predator ultimately suppressed himself to the very end. His large frame voluntarily buried on the ground, serving only for her pleasure, was pitiable.

Watching that sight from above, satisfaction swelled within Ivona. She didn’t know why this was happening, but one thing was certain.

The predator couldn’t harm her. Absolutely not.

Watching him look up pleadingly with eyes blazing with desire, Ivona could be certain. The beast had decided to become her servant.

When and for what reason it happened, even she as the master couldn’t know. He had decided to devote himself entirely to her, to submit.

She’d lost count of how many times veins rose in his arms thicker than Ivona’s thighs only to disappear without doing anything. If he wanted, pressing down this powerless body would be easier than breathing for him.

He didn’t even need to use force. Just like the Marquis, Calix’s pheromones alone would make Ivona painfully crawl on the floor.

But Calix ultimately never bared his fangs and claws to Ivona. His tightly packed, sculpture-like muscular body lay prostrate on the floor like pressed down by an invisible stone, unable to even attempt to rise. 

As though that was the only permitted movement, the man desperately craved her hole, the honey flowing from it.

The second climax could be welcomed a bit more leisurely unlike the first. Feeling sweet satisfaction warmly fill her belly, Ivona suppressed her panting breath.

The thin dress unsuited for the season couldn’t hide the outline of her tightly pulled chest and raised peaks. The golden eyes of the predator, hungry like he’d starved for ten days, clung there persistently like nails had been driven in.

The stronger the craving on Calix’s face, the more exhilaration Ivona felt. It was the sense of conquest from making a powerful predator desperate.

The man’s lips slowly parted and love fluid connected like silver thread stretched long on his tongue. The elongated bead rolled out along what had been surging inside Ivona just moments ago.

The bead placed on his rough tongue looked like spoils of war offered to a queen. Hesitating, Ivona reached out and carefully put her hand in the man’s mouth.

His fangs hidden beneath his shapely lips glinted in the moonlight. The moment Calix revealed even a bit of his beast nature and closed his mouth, Ivona’s hand would disappear without a trace.

But the predator ultimately didn’t bite his master’s hand. Seeing the obedient golden eyes shine like the moon, fear and excitement mixed and her chest swelled overwhelmingly.

“…I got it out.”

As ordered. The voice that followed was so hoarse it was barely audible. Yet Ivona could clearly read the man’s desire and thirst within it. Her whole body trembled with a strange excitement, like Calix’s golden eyes had entered her belly and were burning.