Kaian, watching the tips of her fingers where ice was beginning to form on its own, curved the corners of his eyes. He pressed his face forward. And that face, which somehow looked clean and fresh even after all the time they had spent tangled together, gleamed as he whispered.

“Look at me, Your Majesty.”

“At what?”

“At the side of me that you like. And let go of your anger.”

His words were gentle, but below he was standing taut and hard. The sensation of the curse retreating cleanly was dreadfully refreshing, but……

“Did you not say you would take me as your lover and cherish me most of all?”

“……Yes, I did say that.”

“Did you not enjoy my lower half as well? Even now, seeing Your Majesty again, it has grown like this again…… So please, do not be angry. Touch me.”

“Haa.”

“It hurts, Your Majesty.”

“……This one, really.”

“I held back well and did not touch anything……”

Slowly, slowly, what was rubbing against the inside of her thigh was glistening quite noticeably. What was she to do with that? There were still nights left to get through.

‘The fact that he waited quietly is worth praising.’

It must have been uncomfortable, with his member twitching and ready to burst at any moment. There were no signs that he had pleasured himself alone or rubbed against her sleeping body.

If the sight of his reddened eyes and the slight furrow of his brow, as though he were in genuine distress, had not been so pleasing to look at, she might have actually drawn blood.

“You truly ought to be grateful for that face of yours.”

“I never particularly liked it before, but I think I will come to appreciate it from now on.”

Again, it was plain as day that he was fawning like a fox wagging its tail, yet she felt inclined to let him win.

“And why is that?”

She asked as though she did not know, and he drew a little closer and parted her thighs. She pulled the corner of her lips upward and opened her legs without resistance. She even wrapped her legs around the man’s firm waist.

“Your Majesty.”

The rounded head rubbed persistently against the inside of her thigh. Even so, Kaian’s fingertips combed through her tangled hair like a brush.

“I want Your Majesty to be truly, genuinely happy. Not merely time spent for the sake of breaking the curse……

“……”

“If it becomes a night you truly cannot forget.”

“……”

“So that you might seek me out again. Again and again, and then again after that.”

The entrance of her s*x, which had been poured into and filled and rocked so many times, parted wetly as though it had never been closed. It spread open and slowly sucked in the blunt column of flesh, bit by bit.

“Haa.”

“Your Majesty.”

The thickest part of the head pressed smoothly inside. The inner flesh of her fully spread s*x was pulled taut.

“When Your Majesty remembered me, I was so happy I nearly burst.”

The sensation of shallow rocking was pleasant. At the feeling of it entering just past the entrance and withdrawing, then pressing back in quickly, Iberis bit down hard on her lip.

Pleasure rose little by little, like a tide coming in. Haa, d*mn it. Her hands flailed, wanting to tear at something, and the fox-like man brought them to rest on top of his own hair.

As though anything would do.

This cunning creature.

“You cater to my moods so well, I simply must call you a fox.”

“Whatever you call me, so long as you keep me by your side, I am content.”

Slap, thud, smack.

The entry quickened.

Her softened insides greedily sucked at his member. It pressed in slickly all the way to the root, as though to bury even his sac inside her.

“You are someone of great meaning to me. You gave me freedom, ha, a future, time.”

Squelch, squelch.

Between his gentle and tender tones, the wet sounds of her opening rang out.

The one who had bowed his head low pressed a deep kiss to Iberis’s ear. He breathed out hotly and nibbled at her well-shaped earlobe.

“Mmm, ha, Kaian, ngh!”

“It feels wonderful, Your Majesty. Truly, you, ngh.”

His firm chest and her soft chest pressed together and rocked. The bare skin, hot and sticky with sweat, clung together and pulled apart, and the sensation of sliding and clinging was obscene.

Even as she exhaled rough breaths at the stimulation of something filling her completely and thrusting inside, when Iberis raised her upper body, Kaian, who had been moving with his member buried inside her, stilled his hips.

“What did you say?”

“……”

Only then seeming to realize what he had said, the man’s face went pale. I like you. It was an honest confession, clumsy at that.

If the opening clenched tightly around his member had not been working and squeezing at it, the serious atmosphere would have stretched on considerably longer.

The man, whose face had gone bright red in an instant, looked neither composed nor masked with his usual practiced ease.

And yet, why was it? That helpless expression, more than all the playful fawning he had put on to make a good impression until now, stirred Iberis’s heart more deeply.

“Kaian, do you truly wish to remain by my side as a lover?”

Twitch, flinch. The two of them, deeply joined, felt the sensation, but Kaian could not move without the emperor’s permission.

The man, clenching his teeth in what felt like s*xual torment, trembled and answered.

“Yes. I do.”

“Even though I could promise you far greater wealth and glory.”

“Ugh, ngh. Your, Majesty.”

“Even if I have no intention of fully receiving that heart of yours, you would still stand at attention like this and play the lover.”

“Hm, ngh.”

“And make me happy?”

Even in his distress, Kaian was quick-witted. True to one who had kept himself alive by reading his surroundings swiftly, he realized that Iberis was not truly that angry.

A brightness came over his tense, handsome face. He knew precisely when to press forward. He pushed open the noble woman’s s*x without permission and buried himself to the root.

“Ugh.”

If she had hated it, his neck would have been torn out by now.

“Yes. I do.”

He knew this was the moment, the only moment, to whisper a longing he had carried for a long time.

She was cruel, but had she not always been a princess with warmth beneath it.

“From the beginning until now, you have been the whole purpose of my life. So I wish to remain Your Majesty’s lover going forward as well.”

The member that had been pressing into her melted, heated insides withdrew slowly. The sensation of her red inner flesh clinging and pulling along with it made both of them swallow their m*ans.

“Of course, a lover who has s*x, and kisses, and touches. That kind of lover.”

The blunt tip of the member, which had been on the verge of withdrawing entirely, pushed her s*x open once more.

Her soft, yielding entrance spread wide and nibbled at the head bit by bit.

At the slow penetration that scraped and pressed into the inner membrane as though trying to feel every fold within her, Iberis’s lips trembled faintly.

It was not easy for Kaian either.

But.

He felt her insides surge.

“Very well.”

And when she said those words, the hot opening tightened around him.

His heart rejoiced with joy.

“But there is no rule that says I must keep only you. If others make such a request, things may change again. Even so, huu, are you content?”

Of course, his sovereign was not someone who would let herself rejoice openly. Watching her eyes as a mischievous smile spread through them, he snapped his hips hard.

Slap. At the thr*st that drove inside her like a strike, the white body swayed beautifully for a moment. The teeth nibbling at her lip were lovely.

‘Haa.’

Recalling how obscenely good it had felt when she had bitten into his skin and drawn blood with the pain, he felt the member buried inside her ready to burst.

“Even if there are others, I do not mind.”

“And why is that?”

Thr*st!

“Because you will cherish me most of all.”

Smack.

“You cunning thing.”

“My c*ck is more cunning.”

“Where do you get the nerve to say such things?”

“Because this is a private bedchamber.”

He could make full use of the dragon bloodline’s nature, which was drawn to gleaming and beautiful things.

“I can say whatever I like, can I not.”

“Others would be shocked, if they saw this side of you.”

“There is no reason for them to see it. So long as Your Majesty alone sees it, haa. That is enough.”

Was there any need to deliberately shut out the loyal knight? It was enough to receive affection in their separate domains.

So, Your Majesty.

He spread a languid smile across his face and fawned at the emperor whose attention was fixed on that face.

“For now, forget everything else and simply enjoy yourself with me.”

It was possible that he had been able to earn the emperor’s trust only because he had been chosen through the Oracle.

It was possible that she had made a simple decision while intoxicated by pleasure.

But the emperor he knew, Iberis, had never been someone who took back a promise she had spoken aloud, not from before until now.

For the moment, that was enough.

A lover who moves well.

He had to give his all for the time that remained, to leave a mark deeper and more lingering than the other two men who would follow and desire her after him.

He sucked at her lips, and she laughed as though she could not believe him, yet she did not wave her hand to slap his cheek or grab his hair.

“Iberis, Your Majesty.”

Unable to dare call that name on its own, he rubbed the bridge of his nose against her cheek.

Once more, a peck on that pale cheek.

“A lover should be allowed to kiss freely, should he not.”

Of course, unlike his sweet words, things below were in an uproar. Drawn fully out and thr*st fully back in, foam churned at the point of joining. The urge to fill her hot insides with his release once more swelled and grew.

The curse be damned.

Nothing in this world would be allowed to harm this person.

“You insolent thing.”

He smiled looking at the woman who had, with her incorrigible hands, seized his hair after all.

“Show me how thoroughly you can satisfy me, befitting the emperor’s kept man.”

Whispering quietly that he preferred the word lover over kept man, Kaian properly adjusted his position.

Her white body, that form so beautiful it was almost sacred. The most intimate depths of it. He could see his own member filling the spread, slick entrance tightly.

“As you command.”

Slick.

Within a pleasure so devastating it seemed a beast’s cry might escape him, he threw himself into that hot, wet cavern.

Thr*st.

“I will move like a beast, Your Majesty.”