“Shasha, seeing you come in at this hour, you must have had a lot of work today.”

Late in the evening, Rictusa approached me with a smile while I was quietly having dinner alone.

“Oh, brother, you also left the palace late tod—”

My words abruptly cut off when a strong arm firmly wrapped around my slender waist.

“—ay.”

“I wanted to have dinner with Shasha.”

His breath, rich with the scent of mint, brushed past my earlobe. Rictusa calmly curled up the corners of his mouth, tightened his embrace, and promptly pressed his lips against my cheek.

“I’ve instructed them to prepare bath water. You must be even busier these days with the banquet season at its peak. After dinner, you should relax in warm water.”

“Ah, yes, thank you.”

The atmosphere during dinner that evening was distinctly different from usual. Though my brother had always been kind and affectionate, he typically maintained a certain distance. Now he seemed to have taken a step closer, which felt nice.

He was noticeably more intimate than when he gently massaged my swollen feet or embraced me before bedtime, but it seemed like a positive development. Caring brothers must express their affection more actively, I thought.

While his arm refusing to leave my waist was somewhat disconcerting, I dismissed it. After all, Princess Kesera sometimes playfully poked my chest too. Having never had a family before, I couldn’t really tell what the appropriate boundaries were.

I ate my omurice slowly, enjoying his affectionate gestures. Afterward, as I headed upstairs to prepare for my bath, I heard persistent scratching at my door from a distance.

“Buddle, were you scared of being left alone?”

Just before dinner, Buddle had been snoring with his nose buried in my bed. I quickly opened the door and picked up the puppy, whose tiny tongue licked my collarbone.

“Our Buddle needs a bath too, right? Would you like to bathe with your… hmm, not big sister but older sister?”

Shockingly, Buddle turned out to be male. I had been calling myself his “older sister” without even knowing.

When I stroked his small head and asked, his tongue, which had been eagerly licking my neck, stiffened as expected.

“You have no choice even if you hate water!”

The black puppy with blue eyes remained completely silent after leaving my arms, looking nearly lifeless.

Look how tense he got when I mentioned bathing. After gently rubbing his folded ears, I stood in front of the mirror and undressed.

Each garment that had been constricting my breathing fell to the floor one by one. I completely removed even my underwear, feeling Buddle’s intense gaze as he watched me without barking.

Next, I tied my silvery hair with its pastel pink tinge into a high knot, revealing my slender neckline.

My n*ked body, white and soft like fresh snow, moved around in the mirror, with Buddle’s blatant stare following me like a shadow. Looking at my increasingly full br*asts and the smooth, flowing lines of my body changing day by day, Princess Kesera’s words must be true. This must be the tertiary s*xual characteristics of beastkin.

I poked my beautifully shaped br*asts, then turned my head to gently stroke around my rounded b*ttocks. I could feel my flat tailbone. Hmm, I wondered if this area would change too with the tertiary characteristics, but since it remained the same, perhaps I would never have a tail?

What a strange hybrid I was.

Before I knew it, several minutes had passed while I admired my figure in a trance. Hurriedly donning my bathrobe and picking up the puppy, I noticed something odd about Buddle’s condition. He was breathing roughly and growling ferociously with his adorable little teeth.

“You won’t be scared if you bathe with older sister.”

Buddle twisted his pitiful body in my arms, his pupils looking completely soul-drained. Was he trying to send me telepathic messages?

With his black paws pressed firmly against my white chest, his body trembled so violently that I felt like a cruel owner.

“Woof! Woof!”

“Yes, good boy.”

Before entering the bathtub, I took a quick shower and then carefully applied special shampoo to the puppy’s body. Buddle barked painfully each time my hands caressed every corner of his tiny body.

“Ah.”

With his paws covered in soap bubbles, Buddle rubbed them against my chest and waist while frantically licking my lips. Then he curled up, moved down, and licked the foam on my n*pples, shaking his tongue at the bitter taste.

“There, there. I’m sorry. I’ll finish quickly, so just bear with it a little longer.”

* * *

“……”

In the deep, dark night, Bel, lying alone on a bed in a luxury inn, suddenly detected an anomaly within his body and clutched his chest. His eyes, which had been absently staring at the bright chandelier hanging from the ceiling, narrowed sharply.

‘What is this?’

Demonic energy, potent as venom, was surging like a tidal wave around his heart. This was a phenomenon that occurred when bonds of restraint were breaking. But that should be impossible.

Despite being of mixed blood, Bel possessed nearly as much demonic energy as a pure-blooded demon, allowing him to maintain multiple subordination relationships without much impact.

‘But why? Could it be that beast who was attached to Vivian back then?’

The restraint chains binding that creature, which had deliberately approached Vivi in the form of a puppy, were about to break. He was being overwhelmed by the beast’s power, suddenly erupting with demonic energy.

Had something happened to Vivian? That was his first thought. Though he didn’t know how she was connected to the creature, it clearly adored her. A fiery emotion flared up momentarily, but the situation was equally intriguing, so he had turned a blind eye.

The insignificant beast should have remained bound under his control, unable to rashly touch Vivi. He had planned to watch from the sidelines, amused by the sight of the creature clinging to Vivi in its animal form.

Bel cursed through clenched teeth.

The creature was currently living with Vivian, and as soon as the restraint broke, it would return to its original form.

Though he couldn’t grasp the exact situation, something had definitely happened to either Vivi or the beast.

Whether the beast was rampaging because Vivian was in danger, furious to the core, or experiencing some kind of emotional change, all causes stemmed from the creature’s emotions.

Of course, Bel disliked all possibilities. The three common causes for a beast’s sudden emotional changes were typically bloodlust for entertainment, hunger, or intense s*xual desire.

Swish—

When his thoughts reached that point, Bel could no longer stand by and watch. However, just as he urgently tried to rise, the venom of the Taracan that he himself had leashed instantly paralyzed his entire body, firmly blocking his movement.

* * *

Eeeek! With a suppressed scream, the water in the bathtub overturned like a tidal wave.

It happened in an instant.

The small puppy that had been resting on my stomach and purring just moments ago had transformed into a n*ked man.

“Lu, Lucife— mmph!”

No sooner was I pinned down by his solid body than his hot lips consumed mine, and his breath, laden with heat, poured in like a waterfall.

His pupils, unable to find their bearings through his overturned reason, filled Lala’s field of vision.

‘What on earth…’

After a brief moment of great shock, Lala soon closed her eyes and entwined her tongue with his, which was invading indiscriminately. She caressed Lucifer’s shoulders soothingly, but this only had the opposite effect of intensifying his lust. There was simply no way to calm him down.

His hot, moving tongue swept across the roof of her mouth and clung to her tender mucous membrane. The embarrassing sounds of soft flesh and tongues passionately colliding filled the bathroom, and saliva that couldn’t be swallowed due to her restrained jaw dripped down steadily.

‘I’m dizzy.’

Every movement was so stimulating and rough that it made her mind hazy. Her n*pples, thoroughly rubbed, swelled red before being crushed again by his large hands. Lala barely managed to reach out and grasp the bathtub to support her constantly slipping upper body. Just when she could no longer bear the weight pressing down on her body and was about to sink lower.

“Do you know how frustrated I’ve been?”

Lucifer, panting, finally uttered a single sentence as he pressed his forehead against hers after separating their lips.

Lala shrank slightly at his fiercely hardened face.

Ah, control your expression.

Even her small, frightened movement was adorable enough to make his heart ache, but simultaneously, it drove him crazy with desire—that is, it was arousing.

His wife’s n*ked body, which he hadn’t seen in a long time, was still beautiful, erotic, and appetizing. Slurp, Lucifer swallowed his dry saliva at the burning thirst.

“I want to ask who that man was beside Lala back then, but…”

Right now, his priority was to thoroughly mark her n*ked body with his pheromones.

He intended to push his lust into that beautiful body to overflowing and pour out traces of it all night long.

He felt he might completely lose his reason before even starting.

Lucifer closed his eyes tightly, took a deep breath, and then effortlessly lifted her up to rest against the edge of the bathtub.

His lips, buried in her nape, slid down frantically.

“Hng… Ah!”

He grabbed her ankles and spread them wide apart. When he licked her exposed private parts with the tip of his tongue, he could feel the thin ankles in his hands trembling finely.

Her waist, straightened taut with excitement, looked good. Those lips, exhaling erotic breaths with eyes as dizzy as his own, were unbearably lovely.

“Lala.”

He wanted to burrow into her body as quickly as possible. Before his reason snapped and he could hear nothing, he needed to fill his ears with those sweet moaning sounds to overflowing.

Just as he was about to bury his face between her spread legs, Lucifer noticed a small change and stared intently at Lala’s private area.

“It definitely wasn’t there before.”

Having imprinted every part of her body in his memory, he couldn’t possibly forget. With hands trembling from pleasure, Lucifer brushed aside the silver hair covering the plump flesh. He gritted his teeth at the uncontrollable excitement. It felt like the heat starting from below was burning his brain red-hot.

“You’re so beautiful. How… can every part of you be so perfect? You.”

Lala’s breathing noticeably became ragged. Just from his intense gaze upon her, love juices were already beginning to fill her lower region.

Lucifer, entranced by the sight of Lala’s desperate appearance, unhesitatingly buried his head below. Hnngh, he held her twisting thighs and licked her fluttering inner flesh like he was carving into it, eliciting erotic moans.

Just hearing her pleasure-filled breathing while sucking on her lower parts was already enough to make him feel like his lower body would explode.

“I missed everything about Lala. Every day I dreamed of lying in the same bed with you and mixing our bodies until exhaustion. Just like back then.”