68. Out of Selfishness
Wait?
What part of her was the Saintess touching?!
Reina’s first reaction wasn’t that Agnes was going to do something to her, but that she had discovered something she shouldn’t have!
—This was Calysia’s Dragon Mark, the symbol of her possession!
If the Saintess discovered it, the consequences would be unimaginable.
But Reina suddenly felt that it didn’t really matter.
Although Agnes was touching her forehead, she couldn’t necessarily see the Dragon Mark under her blindfold. After Reina’s modifications, her entire forehead was covered in black cloth, so there was no need to worry about exposure.
But the Saintess didn’t seem to think so.
She gently massaged Reina’s forehead with her fingers, and then, the pure vassal magic power, “processed” by the Saintess, flowed out of her body and into Reina’s forehead.
“Wait… mmph~, what is… this for?”
“There should be some kind of curse here, right?” Agnes said gently.
“Let me help you purify it. That way, your mind will become more holy.”
Reina originally wanted to explain why she was cursed by Calysia, but after thinking about it, she couldn’t come up with a reason, so she might as well let Agnes make her own assumptions. Moreover, Agnes didn’t suspect her identity, which was enough.
Under the Saintess’s massage, Reina inadvertently asked:
“What will happen to me if I’m not purified?”
“Hmm…”
The Saintess pondered.
“Your body currently contains both [filth] and [light]. Although the source of light can be transformed into [filth], if you resist the transformation process and forcefully expel the [filth] through the wrong method, your body will break down.”
“If it goes on for too long, you won’t even know what you’re doing.”
“Is it that serious?” Reina was stunned. So the cost of resisting vassalization was this great. She even began to suspect that her previous prayers had actually harmed her, but now that Agnes was here to remove the filth, it seemed quite good.
But the current Reina was still worried. Where did the Saintess put the [filth] from her body? That was an amount that could cause a mental breakdown, and even she definitely couldn’t handle it.
“By the way, Agnes, you can use [Light] now, right?”
“Yes.”
Agnes didn’t lie.
“Because the Saintess is an existence that believes in the Goddess of Light and can be regarded as her proxy. Because of your existence, I have awakened my power, similar to yours~”
She blinked her golden pupils, which no longer had any trace of humanity.
Reina nodded. That made sense.
The Saintess, whose power was of the same origin as hers, absorbing the filth from her body…
But since she was of the same origin, shouldn’t she be more like a “dark Saintess,” a fallen dragon?
However, it still couldn’t explain the subtle relationship between her, Ann, and Calysia.
…Was it really just my imagination?
“Agnes, be careful. If you’re tainted by the [filth] in my body, your light might be corrupted like an evil flower and become a part of the [filth],” Reina kindly reminded her, also worried about the Saintess absorbing too much vassal magic power.
“Is that so?”
The Saintess smiled sweetly. Reina couldn’t see the seductive expression on her face under the moonlight.
Before Reina could think about what had happened, a warm current, like a mother’s hand holding a baby, caressed her entire head.
The final stage of the Dragon Mark’s evolution was to make Reina completely mentally submissive to Calysia.
When the Dragon Mark completely merged with her body, it would be the moment a new vassal was born.
This process, which should have been suppressed by the existence of the Light Clone, like a program stuck at 99.99%, was now being subtly influenced.
“Agnes…” Reina murmured. At the same time, she tried her best to suppress that submissive power, to prevent herself from breaking down like a malfunctioning machine.
“Don’t be nervous, Goddess~, I’m helping you remove the [filth].”
“Mmph… okay…”
Reina was no longer nervous, letting that warm current envelop her body.
Because she truly found that the filth that had been fighting against her light was disappearing, and her body began to feel refreshed. Compared to the previous prayers where she forcefully expelled it from her body, Agnes’s “method” was much gentler.
At the same time, the Dragon Mark began to shimmer with a purple light, dazzling through her blindfold.
“Cal…”
Reina didn’t dare say Calysia’s name.
Although in front of Agnes, she acted like a pure and serious goddess, she was actually a mother dragon who had been “defiled” by Calysia countless times, pregnant with her child, and now, she had even fallen in love with her without realizing it.
But as the warmth rolled and surged in her brain, Calysia’s image replayed in her mind over and over again. Her thoughts unconsciously jumped to her main body. At this moment, Calysia, as if sensing something, began to kiss her lips.
The sensitivity of her main body and the fluctuation of the Dragon Mark in her clone combined to pin down Reina’s rationality. Although her clone was still holding on, her main body seemed to be unable to resist Calysia’s gentleness, and after the kiss ended, she stuck out her little pink tongue, craving Calysia’s affection.
Her clone became dazed and confused due to the double attack. Finally, she could no longer restrain herself and let out a soft, sweet cry: “Master Calysia…♡”
She entered a state similar to being hypnotized.
Seeing this, Agnes stopped “purifying” her filth, released her hands, and slowly pushed her wheelchair towards the door. She also guided her with a gentle voice:
“What about Calysia?”
“I… like…”
“Yes, you like Calysia, you’ve been in love with her for a long time~” the Saintess patted Reina’s head.
Reina looked up.
“But… I’m sorry to her.”
“Why?”
“I’ve hurt her, hundreds of times…” Reina’s expression was dazed, as if she were talking in her sleep, but her words touched her heart.
“Hee hee, since you’ve hurt her, you should repay her even more~”
“Repay…”
“Yes,” the Saintess said with a smile. “No matter how you repay her, since you’ve decided to love, then see it through to the end.”
“I will definitely… walk the path I’ve chosen.”
“Yes, you’re a gentle dragon, Calysia’s vassal and wife.”
“I am Calysia’s… vassal.”
Reina muttered, her mind in a daze. And at the same time, Agnes had already pushed the wheelchair to the Throne Room. In the distance, she saw the figure of Calysia holding Reina’s main body. Agnes was slightly surprised by the swelling of Reina’s main body’s belly, but more than that, she was envious.
Before handing over the clone to Calysia according to the plan, Agnes, out of selfishness, asked another question:
“Goddess… if I said that I am your daughter, what would you do?”
At this moment, although Reina wasn’t fully conscious, the answers she gave were all from the depths of her heart and would never be lies. When the Saintess asked this question, the corners of Reina’s mouth lifted slightly, as if she had thought of a happy scene.
“Come… home… with me.”
I was worried Cal and Agnes might have trouble being mother-daughter but they seem to be on the same wavelength now lol