Chapter 1613 - 227 - Love and War (2)
"M-More importantly than that, Master... why did you suddenly ask me where Luna is?" she asked hesitantly, sounding genuinely curious about what had brought the topic up so unexpectedly.
"Well, since both of you are witches, I just figured the two of you probably know each other," I replied without thinking too much about it.
Honestly, I had absolutely no idea what kind of mental gymnastics I would have needed to perform just to figure out what sort of relationship they actually shared with one another. Asking her directly seemed like a much better option than making up theories in my own head and hoping one of them somehow turned out to be right.
"I-I see..."
Her quiet response came with an awkward little nod that did absolutely nothing to hide how uncomfortable she suddenly looked.
She definitely looked a little suspicious from the way her expression immediately changed.
Something about her reaction made it feel like she was trying very hard to hide something from me.
"You know where she is, don’t you?" I asked while narrowing my eyes at her, making sure she noticed I wasn’t going to let the subject go so easily.
"W-Why would you think that?" she asked, her eyes wobbling around so nervously that she couldn’t even keep them focused on me for more than a second.
"Are you seriously going to ask me that when you’re being this obvious?" I replied while giving her an incredulous look. "Now then, if you don’t want to be fucked, you’d better tell me where she is right now."
"H... huuuu..."
A long, defeated little whine escaped from her lips as her shoulders slowly slumped downward.
For a brief moment, it looked like the thought of me fucking her had almost convinced her to tell me everything immediately. Then another thought clearly crossed her mind, and whatever it was seemed to stop her before the words could actually leave her mouth.
"I-If you promise me something first, Master... then I’ll tell you..." she said quietly while avoiding eye contact. "But you have to come back afterward so you can fuck me, alright?"
Her voice sounded completely defeated by the time she finished speaking, almost like she had already accepted whatever answer I was about to give.
"...Wait a second."
The realization finally clicked inside my head after putting together everything she had just said.
"Are you seriously telling me the only reason you weren’t saying anything was because you wanted me to stay here a little longer and fuck you first?"
"Hnnnn..." she groaned while lowering her head in embarrassment. "If you leave now, Master... then I’ll lose another chance to get fucked by you all over again, and I really didn’t want that to happen."
Well, that explained things much better than I had expected.
So there wasn’t some strange relationship between the witches after all.
For a little while, I had honestly started imagining that they had some secret agreement where they promised never to reveal another witch’s whereabouts under any circumstances.
Turns out I had completely overthought the whole thing for absolutely no reason.
The real explanation was actually much simpler than all of those ridiculous theories.
She just wanted to get fucked.
At this point, I honestly couldn’t even find a reason to get mad about something like that anymore.
Still, one question continued bouncing around inside my head while I looked at her.
If she wanted to get fucked that badly, then why couldn’t she have just said so from the very beginning instead of making everything so unnecessarily complicated? Life would’ve been much easier for both of us. Well... maybe not much easier, but definitely easier.
"Alright," I said after letting out a quiet sigh. "If you tell me where Luna is, then I promise I’ll come back afterward and fuck you."
"Promise me, Master!" she exclaimed almost immediately. "You absolutely can’t break your promise this time!"
Her gloomy expression disappeared so quickly that it almost looked like someone had flipped a switch inside her head.
Instead, she sounded so excited that it was honestly hard to believe she had been sulking just a few moments earlier.
Honestly...
She really was an unbelievable pervert, wasn’t she? Somehow she managed to make that fact sound almost charming.
"Alright," I replied with another small sigh. "I promise."
"Heheh! Yes!"
She even gave a happy little jump out of pure excitement, looking far happier than someone probably should after hearing a promise like that.
"Luna is at the Holy City right now, Master," she explained happily while pointing in the general direction. "She told me she’d only be staying there for an hour or maybe two, so if you leave now, you should still be able to catch up with her before she leaves."
I stayed silent for a brief moment while carefully thinking over what she had just told me.
"...She told you that if I ever came here looking for her, you should tell me where she was, didn’t she?" I asked while watching her reaction closely.
"W-Well..." she answered awkwardly while fidgeting with her fingers. "She really did come here and tell me exactly that..."
She hesitated for another moment before finally continuing with an embarrassed expression.
"But... if you came here only to ask about her, and then you left without fucking me because you wanted to go see that whore instead..."
She puffed out her cheeks in obvious dissatisfaction.
"...I probably would’ve ended up killing myself."
That escalated much faster than I had been expecting, and it was honestly a little ridiculous hearing her say something that extreme with such a serious face.
"But now that you’ve promised you’ll come back for me," she continued with a relieved smile spreading across her face, "I’ll wait here patiently until you return."
She tilted her head slightly before asking another question.
"Should I tie myself up while I’m waiting for you, Master?"
I stayed quiet for another moment while staring at her, wondering how someone could ask that so naturally without feeling embarrassed.
Honestly, I didn’t really mind the fact that she was such a pervert.
If anything, that was completely my type when it came to girls.
Even so, I still couldn’t help feeling that she occasionally took things just a little too far, even by my own standards.
Then again, I couldn’t honestly say I minded all that much either, so I wasn’t exactly in a position to complain.
"Well," I replied with a casual shrug, "that’s entirely up to you, so do whatever makes you happy."
The moment I said that, her face immediately lit up with pure excitement.
She looked like someone who had just won an entire war by herself after years of fighting, and honestly, seeing such a huge reaction over a single sentence was almost funny.
I headed toward the place Dorothea had told me Luna would be waiting.
The location felt strangely familiar the moment it came into view again.
After thinking about it for another second, I realized why I recognized it so easily.
It was the exact same place where Sister Lily was currently running the orphanage, so of course I had been there several times before.
Which only made me wonder something else.
Why would Luna choose to be there of all places instead of somewhere more private?
By the time I finally arrived at the orphanage, I immediately spotted her without needing to search for very long.
She was quietly sitting beside the fence while chatting with Alice, looking so relaxed that it almost seemed as though she had been expecting me to show up sooner or later.