Beneath them, violet eyes. Nasir’s brilliant eyes were beautiful like jewels, but at the same time contained an inhuman bewitchment like a fairy luring land beasts into its swamp.

He looked at Haniel coyly through his eyelashes and opened his lips.

“You slept with that man.”

What… what?

Haniel, who had been meeting Nasir’s narrowed, displeased eyes, wrinkled her nose bridge.

That man, meaning Regan?

‘What is this guy saying?’

Was he making the absurd argument that since she had slept with Regan, she should sleep with him too?

“I’m really offended.”

“Huh, offended? That’s what I should be saying…”

“I knew you first…”

Haniel, about to respond, flinched as she felt the emotions seething beyond Nasir’s neck.

“I lost you.”

You’re my mate…

I thought you were mine. I thought only I could reach you.

Even knowing that everything in this forest loves Haniel, I foolishly let my guard down.

Thinking that only he could approach her in this forest, that he was the closest to her, that she had already accepted his courtship and was therefore as good as his…

As a mere fledgling who hadn’t even become a proper ruler yet, Nasir had become arrogant.

And in the meantime, some tailed beast had taken away his wife, Haniel.

A painful humiliation.

Although all of this was Nasir’s fault for acting proudly and arrogantly like a mere male who had completely won his female’s heart…

If things continued like this, if he just stood by, it felt like he would truly lose her forever.

Nasir’s violet eyes flashed.

“Let me erase that male’s scent that clings to you.”

“…What? Sc…ent?”

“May I?”

Nasir rubbed his face against Haniel’s palm as if coaxing her, while she looked bewildered.

The Reginas who ruled the skies of the Nightmare Forest. A bird of prey that made land beasts tremble… descendant of an ancient race… all these titles seemed meaningless in this moment as he coaxed Haniel like a pet bird, but it didn’t matter.

She had been about to say, ‘Why are you talking about losing me and whatnot?’

Haniel, who had intended to sharply point out Nasir’s words, could only blink her eyes when she saw the beautiful man’s face rubbing against her hand.

He was warm and soft, like the baby bird she had picked up that day.

In this moment, Nasir seemed so pure and fragile that he couldn’t cause her even a speck of harm.

And a pleasant fragrance wafted gently from him, making her heart strangely flutter. He couldn’t have been wearing perfume…

“I’ll really just remove the scent.”

“Just remove the scent means…”

“Is that not okay?”

Nasir’s white brow furrowed slightly as if to say that although it hurt his pride to beg like this, he couldn’t help it because he was so desperate… his eyes slightly moist.

Haniel squeezed her eyes shut.

‘How could that be okay!’

Let’s think rationally.

Scent aside, look at those teeth. A row of teeth so sharp they put razors to shame…

She didn’t know how he intended to remove the scent, but if she touched those pointed teeth even slightly during this “scent removal,” it looked like there would be a bloodbath, so how could she give permission?

Haniel’s instinct kept shouting. To step back cleanly from this.

No matter how much this house-sized bird-human wheedled with an inhumanly beautiful face, licked, and smacked with his lips, what’s not possible is not possible.

‘I should refuse after all.’

Haniel, who had been nodding her head, suddenly opened her eyes. And she opened her mouth.

“There’s… no reason why not. Of course you can.”

Huh?

“Really?”

“Yes. If Nasir wants to remove some scent, right? There’s no reason why not. I know perfectly well how sensitive you are. The scent might bother you.”

“Hmm. What’s this, Haniel. For you to understand my feelings to this extent… I’m touched.”

‘Get a grip, you fool!’

The voice of instinct shouting.

But Haniel ignored the cry of instinct…

No, strictly speaking, she did listen to the cry of another instinct saying that she shouldn’t ignore that face and desperation, so she hadn’t ignored it.

In any case, it was clear that her answer was exactly what Nasir wanted to hear.

Nasir lowered his head to briefly rub his high nose against Haniel’s head, then grabbed her and gave her a long, sly smile.

It was certainly a beautiful face. It was inexplicable why that same face, which until just now had seemed fragile, suddenly felt ominous.

The feeling of being prey firmly caught in a predator’s grasp. Hiding such anxiety, Haniel smiled brightly at Nasir in response.

Trying not to recall the feeling that Nasir’s hands holding her were unnaturally firm…

“Then I’ll really just remove the scent.”

“Yes. So how will you…”

“Shall we start with this first?”

Rip!

Huh?

Haniel looked down at her chest.

Her white chest exposed brightly.

What? Why is my chest…

Her thought process slowed due to the situation unfolding so suddenly.

Swish… In that momentary instant, clothes torn by Nasir’s fingernails, which had moved too quickly to be seen, were fluttering around.

The clothes that had covered not only her upper body but also her lower body had fallen away in tatters, and somehow she was now n*ked except for her panties.

And…

“!”

Squeeze. Nasir’s strong hand gripped her br*ast.

Steel-like hands that would snatch prey, with soft flesh protruding between them.

When the tip of her br*ast was slightly scratched by Nasir’s hard fingernail, she felt a tingling sensation.

But Haniel just gaped in bewilderment.

“Wh-wh-what are y-you d-doing…”

“I’ve seen them from afar before… but indeed, they’re soft.”

White br*asts being kneaded in various ways within his hand. How could such a texture exist?

The smile on Nasir’s face faded.

Having watched Haniel from close by all this time, these br*asts of hers had always drawn his interest.

Two lumps of flesh attached to the upper body, br*asts. The physical structure unique to land species that can produce “milk.”

In fact, Nasir was of the oviparous Reginas clan, but he knew that some females of other species possessed this physical structure called “br*asts.”

Hume, Elf… no, Elves were a strange race that had br*asts despite being close to oviparous like Reginas, but in any case, females of species that nurse their newborns with milk generally had chests that were swollen like Haniel’s.

Of course, it wasn’t that Nasir knew much about other species’ cultures or had mated with their females. He had simply observed quite a few unfortunate ones who had drifted into the Nightmare Forest.

But even Nasir, who wasn’t very familiar with land beasts, knew that females’ br*asts served not just for childcare but also played a role in s*xual attraction.

‘S*xual attraction in such lumps of flesh, I couldn’t understand it before…’

Looking at Haniel’s soft, fair two br*asts, he felt so stirred that it made him dizzy for a moment, which was absurd.

If even he, an oviparous being, felt this breathless, what about that Hume male who was accustomed to feeling s*xual desire for these br*asts?

Did that guy also feel such obscene desires when looking at Haniel’s br*asts?

The corner of Nasir’s mouth twisted harshly. Soon, he lowered his enormous body and brought his face toward Haniel’s protruding br*asts, which he was squeezing with his hand.

Haniel’s scent emanating subtly from the smooth, white skin. The female scent that made his mouth water, and then…

“Nasir?”

“…Dog bastard’s scent.”

Haniel trembled when she saw Nasir’s eyes as he slightly raised his head.

The pupils of his two violet eyes had contracted tightly like a predator facing its prey.

‘By dog bastard… does he mean Regan’s scent?’

Well… that couldn’t be helped!