58. A Single Misstep Can Cause Lasting Regret
It’s definitely not because I like her.
I’m just forced by circumstances—!
Reina shouted inwardly. She couldn’t fly, yet she had to attend Crimson Scale’s banquet, a potential trap. Not only was she asking for trouble, but she wouldn’t even be able to reach the banquet venue!
If Crimson Scale and the other dragons discovered that she, Reina the dragon, didn’t have wings, or wasn’t even fully dragonified, then her title of [Azure Scale] would be meaningless in the Dragon Realm, her image plummeting.
So, she could only think of one solution: to have Calysia take her there. Although she didn’t want to be near the Dragon King, who might lead to her corruption, Reina had no other choice.
She had to admit that she couldn’t survive in this world without Calysia now.
If it weren’t for her lack of wings, Reina wouldn’t warm Calysia’s bed in a million years.
Just then, Reina suddenly had a brilliant idea.
Fall asleep before Calysia returned, have a painless night, and avoid Calysia’s torment!
That way, she could ask Calysia to take her to the banquet in the morning under the guise of warming her bed. And Calysia was a gentle and easily manipulated dummy, a little fool who would be moved by a little warmth.
“Look, I even warmed your bed for you, what’s wrong with taking me somewhere?”
“Doesn’t Calysia love me anymore?”
“Doesn’t Master Calysia want me to sleep with her anymore?”
After careful consideration, Reina realized that as long as she pretended to have a good relationship with Calysia, the Dragon King would have no reason to refuse!
Plan successful.
Reina fell asleep peacefully.
She tossed and turned, listening to the music of the wind rustling through the grass and leaves, occasionally accompanied by familiar birdsong.
Reina felt like she was about to fall asleep, but the next second, her mind was as alert as if she had been injected with adrenaline. When she tried to fall asleep again, she found that the same problem was still bothering her!
She quickly realized a perplexing yet undeniable problem.
—She couldn’t sleep at all!
Her mind was filled with recent moments with Calysia and the contents of the invitation. The more she thought, the more her mind raced, like an overloaded machine.
And since a dragon’s mind and body were much stronger, being active felt like being on stimulants! Reina tried to clear her mind and fall asleep, but unexpectedly, Calysia had already entered the room!
Her voice made Reina’s heart skip a beat.
“Reina~, how long have you been waiting for me?”
Reina pretended to be asleep until Calysia quietly slipped under the covers and, like a sneak attack, groped Reina’s breasts. Only then did Reina let out a small “Mmph,” revealing that she was still awake.
Just as she was about to reprimand Calysia, Reina stopped herself.
She pretended to be drowsy:
“Hmm? Calysia, don’t touch… Is it morning already?”
“Dummy, how can it be morning without the sun?”
Before Reina could speak, using a bashful tone to coax Calysia into taking her to the banquet, Calysia, as if she had predicted it, said with a hint of guilt:
“Reina, you’ve worked hard recently. I’ll take you to the banquet tomorrow. I hope I can be of help.”
“…”
Reina curled up and nodded slightly.
Calysia is actually quite nice~
Then, as usual, Calysia started to touch Reina, her hands kneading Reina’s breasts like dough. For a moment, Reina regretted complying with Calysia, but feeling weak all over, she could only push those hands away.
Just then, she remembered the guilt she had felt while making the sandwiches for Calysia.
She remembered Calysia’s obsession with her, the protagonist.
She recalled the bits and pieces of their life together in Wood Village.
So, she didn’t resist Calysia’s advances.
Throughout the night, soft gasps could be heard from the bedchamber. In her blurred vision, her body was tasted and toyed with by Calysia.
—Just consider it a reward for her.
This night was just a way to appease her.
…
The next morning, just as Reina was about to get up and cook, she looked at the bracelet on her wrist, now tainted a purplish-black, and fell into thought.
What has Calysia done?!
But before Reina could take off the bracelet and remove this ominous, corrupted cursed object from her body, she felt something strange rising behind her, supporting her body.
Calysia was playing with her body with her tail again.
But something felt different.
If the thing on her waist was Calysia’s tail, then whose tail was on her leg?
Did Calysia have two tails?
No…
Wait?!
Reina admitted that she was a bit confused now.
Logically, a dragon couldn’t possibly have two tails.
There was no such bizarre technology as flesh and blood splicing in this world, and Calysia wouldn’t use any forbidden magic. She considered it a desecration of the dragon race’s dignity.
Reina’s first reaction was that she was hallucinating.
Similar to PTSD, the feeling of being wrapped in a dragon’s tail every night made her mistake certain things for a tail.
To confirm, Reina pinched the tail on her thigh. It twitched slightly like a cobra, but still tightly wrapped around her thigh, squeezing even tighter as if capturing prey.
If Reina didn’t have a dragon-like strong body now, she was certain—she would have been strangled to death by this tail.
Good, this was Calysia’s tail.
Then whose tail was on her waist?
Reina felt something was wrong with her body. Logically, she didn’t have a third leg, even the important thing she had lost couldn’t have such strong sensation and resilience.
And now, she could feel a brand new limb, even clearly sensing its flexibility and resilience, surpassing even her legs.
“Hahahaha…”
Reina suddenly remembered something and started laughing. Her laughter didn’t wake Calysia.
Yes, for a moment, Reina thought she had grown a tail.
It had just been a tiny bud a few days ago, how could it have grown as large as Calysia’s now? How was this possible?
And she had calculated it perfectly, her vassalization shouldn’t be happening this fast!
It must be an illusion, an illusion, yes!
Reina didn’t try to move this fifth limb, but reached out and gently touched the scaled yet somewhat soft thing below her waist, and then she involuntarily let out a strange sound:
“Mmph!”
So sensitive!
It was like the sensitivity of her sides or inner thighs being touched. Just now, Reina had experienced almost the same sensation.
And the “fifth limb,” as if jolted by electricity, subconsciously flicked onto Reina’s fair belly, clearly visible!
Under the sunlight, the thick, agile dragon tail shimmered with azure and purple light.
“This, this is!!”
“I…”
“I don’t want to grow a tail!!”
