I Was Confessed to by the Golden Sun

71 – Finger

Dylan paused for a moment like that, then grinned, pulled out a pearl, and started to strike the walls with red lines drawn all over the place.

“Is this a reverse engineering process?”

Twisting several parts of the magical composition and unraveling them in reverse is called reverse engineering.

Originally, it’s something that should be done through magical actions, but Dylan was currently physically reverse engineering it.

“Just destroying the magical structure like that… it’s hard to even call it reverse engineering.”

Although it was originally an ambiguous behavior that couldn’t be called reverse engineering with dignity.

The effect was clearly showing as the illusion that gradually covered the surroundings was becoming blurrier.

“Now that the effects are about to show properly, just wait a little longer.”

Dylan said confidently, raising his hand to his waist as he calmly moved the tentacles.

“Come to think of it, this could be considered a change in a way.”

In the original, there were no magic illusions in the research lab. Well, to be fair, the fact that the princess abandoned the lab and ran away was already a significant deviation from the original.

“Ugh, disgusting.”

As I pondered this, my gaze shifted from the squirming tentacles to Lucia, who clung to my arm. Despite claiming it was disgusting, she looked at me with adoring eyes, which didn’t seem disgusting at all.

“Do you always plan to stick to me like this without warning?”

I teased Lucia, whose obvious intentions were met with a playful gesture, pressing my finger against her forehead. She squirmed like a fluffy rabbit, looking utterly harmless.

Finding her antics adorable, I stared at her for a while, but suddenly, she grabbed my index finger that was pressing against her forehead.

“What are you planning to do with that finger?”

I asked teasingly as she stared at my finger intently. Lucia, seeming offended, confidently responded, “Nyam!” and put my finger in her mouth.

She continued to suck on my finger like it was a piece of candy.

“What exactly do you find suggestive about this…”

I couldn’t help but feel a strange sense of conquest as someone significantly taller than me held my wrist and rolled my finger around inside her mouth.

“hehehe… Your expression suggests you’re enjoying it.”

Moreover, with her cute words and gestures, it was impossible not to be charmed.

“Ah…”

As I gently scratched the inside of Lucia’s cheek with my finger, I heard the prince clearing his throat nearby.

Only then did I snap out of the peculiar atmosphere, hurriedly withdrawing my hand.

“While it’s nice to have warmth, given the situation, I’d appreciate it if you saved those gestures for when we’re alone.”

“I’m sorry.”

The prince quickly offered an understanding smile and spoke with a considerate tone.

Honestly, it was a situation where I could have been angry, but he seemed genuinely kind, his expression showing no signs of discomfort. While I was in the middle of wondering whether he had become unusually good-natured, I couldn’t help but feel skeptical as I recalled my sister, who had been vying for power, manipulating the empire behind the scenes with a mysterious mechanical object called ‘Homunculus.’

“Euch…”

Not long after the Crown Prince’s warning, Lucia grabbed my wrist.

“Oh, I need to clean this too,” she said, her gaze shifting to my fingers stained with her saliva.

She pulled a handkerchief from her pocket to wipe it, but before I could react, she snatched it away and tucked it into her bosom.

I stood there, dumbfounded by the sudden turn of events, while Lucia, with a mischievous grin, tightened her grip on my wrist and raised my arm.

“Huh?”

Without hesitation, she put my fingers, still coated with her saliva, into her own mouth.

She continued to lick and suck my fingers, all the while shaking my hand back and forth, leaving me breathless and unable to respond. Eventually, she pulled her fingers out of my mouth and laughed mockingly.

“Hey, isn’t this like an indirect kiss?”

I blushed, unable to say a word, as Lucia gently stroked my head.

Normally, I would have teased Lucia, who usually acted like a mischievous kitten when someone touched her head, but I didn’t even consider it at that moment.

As Lucia’s fingers danced across my skin, I couldn’t help but shiver slightly.

“Mmm…”

She sucked my fingers, coated with both our saliva, like sucking on candy, then used the handkerchief to clean my index finger thoroughly.

She was so fast that I couldn’t even protest.

I missed the moment to say anything while I stammered, and Lucia added with disappointment, “It’s tasty, but not as good as a kiss, I guess.”

She squeezed my buttocks and added, “When we go back, I’ll give you plenty of kisses, take you to bed, and we’ll date and get married. Got it?”

“Yes, ma’am,” I mumbled quietly, and in that moment of defeat, Dylan’s disdainful voice pierced through my ears.

“Is it over now? You’ve been playing around for quite a while.”

“I’m truly sorry,” I whispered.

At Dylan’s words, I casually looked away and scanned the surroundings. The perfectly constructed illusion was hiding behind the illusion magic that disguised the walls.

“So many bullet marks?”

There were numerous bullet marks that appeared to have been wiped or embedded throughout the laboratory.

Usually, bullet marks are created by guns, but the firearms in this world are not that powerful. They are just considered to be convenient and moderately effective weapons.

“So, the only person who can carve these massive bullet marks on the wall in this world…”

There is only one person, Nyhill.

The reason he would create such a mess like this here…

“Oh.”

Of course, there is a reason.

Just by seeing these bullet marks scattered everywhere, it seems like he did everything alone.

He usually prefers neat and tidy methods and doesn’t use this kind of approach.

The only time he becomes reckless and aggressive like this is when his family is involved.

“Could it be related to the princess and Pandemonium?”

Considering that his wife is currently being held captive by Pandemonium, it is inevitable to think that Pandemonium and the princess are connected.

But the response from the crown prince that I heard soon was far beyond my expectations.

“How can you not know about that?”

The crown prince looked at me with a malicious expression, as if he knew something that I shouldn’t know.

What’s wrong? What did I do?

As I looked at him with a bewildered expression, the crown prince opened his mouth again.

“In fact, there has been a covert operation conducted by the palace under the leadership of the princess to subjugate Pandemonium.”

“There was such a thing?”

While I was focused on this new story that was not mentioned at all in the original, Lucia stopped touching my butt, which she had been fondling all this time.

No, when did she even start touching my butt?

“We were planning to carry out the punishment against Pandemonium, who can be regarded as a criminal organization or closer to demon worshippers.”

Regardless, the crown prince continued the story.

Finally, he cleared his throat and put on a solemn expression.

“Someone beat us to it.”

The person he’s talking about is probably Nyhill, who headed towards Pandemonium as soon as he heard my words.

Considering his personality, even if he knew that his wife was captured, there would likely still be some fight left in him.

“Most of them died there, but we somehow realized there were survivors who managed to escape that place, so we pursued and killed them.”

“…Hmm.”

However, compared to the original, where not a single one was left alive, this time, it seemed that Niheil had a slight disadvantage when he entered the Pandemonium alone without the help of Heidina and the other main characters.

Otherwise, anyone caught in Pandemonium would not have survived Niheil’s grasp.

…In a way, I feel a twinge of conscience for pushing him forward on the train ahead of schedule.

“It was a large-scale operation, but it ended with just clearing up the remnants. Olivia remembers that she acquired a woman in the process.”

“…So, she plans to manipulate Niheil using that.”

In summary, the Princess has swept up all the remnants who escaped Pandemonium with Niheil in order to make him a pawn, with Niheil’s wife as leverage.

The scars here are also likely traces of a negotiation between Niheil, who had lost his wife, and the Princess, but…

“Where on earth has the Princess gone?”

Even if she has coNT*Rol over formidable forces like Niheil, I don’t know what she had in mind to abandon Hohmunculus and run away from the lab.

The scale of this incident has grown to the point where I’m starting to worry.

This isn’t at the level of the fourth episode that was just passed over.

Not to mention the final villain of the mysterious seventh episode.

“It’s tough…”

As I sighed deeply and tried to organize my thoughts…

-Beep!

A signal came from the terminal that I had handed over to Francis just in case.

With no great expectations, I took out the terminal, and what was written on it was none other than:

-Confirmation of the Princess’s whereabouts, return promptly.

It was a breakthrough to alleviate the tense situation.