The Devil's Contract Lover - Chapter 65

The Devil Queen burst into laughter in the dry and hot atmosphere, laughing until tears nearly streamed down her face.

A premonition of instant death surged in Yao Yuan’s heart, and she immediately squatted down at the fastest speed, hiding under the Devil Queen’s black wing!

“Hush~ Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid.” The Devil Queen patted her head comfortingly: “Demons are not related by blood, but indeed, you could see it that way?”

“Those are completely unimportant. Since you’re here on vacation, we won’t bother you.” Xing Kong grabbed Yao Yuan’s hand and lifted her into a bridal carry.

With her wings spread, she was ready to leave immediately.

“Wait a minute, I didn’t say you could leave. Do you want me to use my authority?” The smiling Devil Queen suddenly became serious, extending a hand where a ring shimmered with light.

“I wouldn’t dare.” Xing Kong’s face was practically shouting, “I dare.”

“Honestly, that’s right. My personal descent naturally has a more important arrangement. But it’s not about you, it’s about—” The Devil Queen’s work uniform instantly transformed into a long red dress. A slender scepter appeared in her hand, its gemstone radiating brilliance.

The other end of this scepter was pointed at Yao Yuan: “Her.”

“Your Devil Queen Highness, do you have any instructions?” Yao Yuan felt an unwarranted affection for this Devil Queen, perhaps because of her gentleness or cuteness. In any case, courtesy never hurts.

However, a very rude question kept playing in her mind: “If Barbatos is considered Xing Kong’s mother, then is this Devil Queen adult Xing Kong’s…”

“Come, come over.”

Called by the gentle voice, Yao Yuan reached out her hand, and her wrist was gently caught. A scorching sensation instantly enveloped her wrist, leaving behind a flame-like rune.

“Your Devil Queen Highness, what is this rune?”

The question came out too slowly, and the ice cream truck and the two vacationers were completely engulfed by towering flames.

“Go, don’t mind them.” Xing Kong carried Yao Yuan and flew into the sky, leaving the detested Barbatos behind. Outside the flames, the Devil Queen waved her hand with a helpless expression: “Forget it, I won’t bother you two~” Anyway, that child can’t erase the rune just left~ “Xing Kong, I want to…” In the high sky, Yao Yuan cautiously patted the demon’s chest.

“You don’t want to, go straight home.” Xing Kong didn’t look back, flying straight ahead.

“No, I don’t mean I want to go back, I mean…” Yao Yuan struggled to free one hand, turning her phone over with a wronged look to show her: “My delivery has arrived.”

Carrying a cardboard box indoors, Yao Yuan quietly placed the box on the table and leaned towards Xing Kong: “Since we are so close now~ why not tell me about Barbatos?”

There was no way not to care; they had known each other for so long, yet she had never mentioned the inside story~ “Close? What actions gave you this misconception?” Xing Kong’s tone instantly froze, making the foot of a certain person, who was treading on a landmine, tremble.

It’s okay, it’s okay, no action means no danger.

“Ahem, I can help you curse her together.” Yao Yuan, immediately admitting defeat, had bright eyes.

“No need, that fellow has no bottom line. I have tried every way to curse her.” The frozen atmosphere eased a bit, and Xing Kong walked towards the kitchen: “It’s difficult to insult a pervert who takes pleasure in impersonating a loyal servant.”

The pressure and the amount of information felt equally overwhelming.

“Is that so? That must be tough.” Yao Yuan took advantage of her entering the kitchen to rush to the package and carefully open it.

Two boxes of similar size were taken out and placed on the table. She first opened the transparent box on the left, which contained a unique moonstone.

Regular moonstones are usually polished into an oval or teardrop shape, but this one resembled a seashell whose edges had been rounded by the waves, looking especially lovely in the palm of her hand.

Therefore, the seller gave this stone a clever name: Mermaid Scale. Yes, the shape, which was between a teardrop and a shell, was indeed very apt to be called a scale.

Moonstone’s most unique adularescence cannot be seen when it is placed flat in the palm. Yao Yuan carefully picked up the stone and rotated it against the light. The sea blue in the center spread out, with gold, warm orange, and green colors dappling as it rotated, displaying the moonstone’s most beautiful aspect.

Her gripping fingers suddenly slipped. Before she could bend down to pick it up, the moonstone was lifted by an invisible hand, slowly floating upwards.

An extremely delicate silver chain passed through the top of the moonstone, and the other end fastened behind Yao Yuan’s neck, forming an exquisite circle.

“Very beautiful.” The demon’s slender fingers clasped her collarbone, embracing her from behind. Xing Kong’s hand did not touch the moonstone on her chest but rested casually on Yao Yuan’s shoulder.

It wasn’t the stone being played with. The “moonstone” in the demon’s eyes turned her head, looking shocked: “Xing Kong?! Weren’t you preparing dinner?”

“It’s still early in the evening, or is there something you need to do in advance?” The perfectly normal words were conveyed in an intimate posture, and the human couldn’t control the sound of her swallowing.

“No, no, yes.” Yao Yuan trembling put her hand down and picked up the other unopened box on the table: “A gift for you, it’s a surprise!”

“What surprise?”

“A gift is a surprise.”

The demon let out a “ha” sound at her righteous expression, looking at the box with a somewhat serious expression.

This time, she chose not to burn the outer packaging with fire but opened the box like a human, picking up a blue spherical stone from within.

Its most characteristic feature was the emission of white asterism when illuminated by light.

“Ta-da~ This is a star sapphire!” Yao Yuan rubbed against her arm smugly: “How is it? Very touched, right? Too bad I couldn’t buy a red one~ Red would definitely suit you more.”

Both stones could be purchased on the market, but unfortunately, due to financial reasons, Yao Yuan couldn’t afford high-grade, flawless items. These were just ordinary gift stones, not collector’s items.

Fortunately, both were good value for money and were shapes that she liked.

Catching a hint of regret in her eyes, the demon’s free hand casually pinched the moonstone.

Scarlet flames flared up, then extinguished in a flash. When Xing Kong released her fingers, both gemstones had transformed: the cotton-like cracks in the moonstone had completely disappeared, and the interior was as transparent as the almost-clear sky where the sea and the heavens meet. The originally faint reflection, which required direct light, now flared up and changed color inside like a ball of flame with just a slight tilt.

As for the other star sapphire, it had completely turned into a brilliant red, its color surpassing that of a summer rose, and the reflected asterism clearly and perfectly radiated six sharp points, like the pupil of some kind of evil beast.

“Do you like it, Xiao Yuan?” The demon retracted her hand and lightly licked her lover’s earlobe. Calling her name was a kind of spell.

“I like it… Hey, doesn’t that make it a gift from you to me?” Even saying that, Yao Yuan still tightly gripped the moonstone. She loved this glow brought by Xing Kong so much that her eyes hurt and teared up.

The atmosphere warmed into an inseparable ball of chocolate, both sweet and deeply immersive.

Perhaps asking about Xing Kong’s past now would yield more answers, but she was not going to ruin this beautiful feeling right now.

Yao Yuan turned around, hugged Xing Kong’s waist, and felt the warm coolness: “Xing Kong, shouldn’t we be considered close like this?”

Who would deny it?

“No.”

Yao Yuan was choked by the demon’s answer: “Look at the atmosphere! Besides, we even… even did that, how can we not be considered close?”

“I know you’re talking about reproductive behavior, right?”

The super unromantic, blatantly atmosphere-shattering answer completely destroyed the mood, and the human let go of her hands in despair, flopping back down onto the edge of the bed.

“Is it just that insignificant to you?” she grumbled resentfully: “That’s right~ a demon adult who has lived for hundreds or thousands of years, who knows how many humans she has broken the limits with. What’s one mere reproductive behavior to her?”

“What I mean is, our last time definitely wasn’t reproductive behavior.” Xing Kong sat down shoulder to shoulder with her and began an unusually formal explanation.

A drawing board floated in front of them, on which were drawn two very different outlines, one of a human and one of a super huge shadow creature.

“First of all, demons have no gender. Although I can mimic, I did not mimic the corresponding state necessary to engage in reproductive behavior with you, so we did not have any ‘reproductive behavior’.”

“No, you don’t understand…”

“I understand very well. Last time we only engaged in a partial circuit and physical link because we needed to export divine power.”

Yao Yuan was stunned for half a day before she finally closed her gaping mouth: “Stop explaining the animal world to me! I mean it was an intimate act, your definition is highly problematic!”

“Is my definition problematic?” The demon didn’t argue back as usual: “Possibly, after all, I’m not human. But how can you prove that the majority of humans don’t define intimacy this way?”

Proof, proof was the hardest thing. Yao Yuan’s head ached at the mention of the word proof.

Even a law like 1+1=2 requires a long argument to prove, let alone an abstract concept like emotion. How could she explain human intimacy to a demon? Other than the demon in front of her, she had never had such an intimate link with any other human.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed her mind: human strength lies in unity and progress, creating countless knowledge that can be passed down, and the tool that condenses this knowledge and provides a search platform was right by her hand!

She picked up her phone and quickly searched: [Two women having an intimate relationship.]

Through one link after another, Yao Yuan continuously refined her keywords, striving to find the most intuitive and reliable message: Let the wisdom of humanity teach this ignorant fellow in front of her a lesson! Take this, information stream burst!

Bang—as a certain link was opened, Yao Yuan was the first to be burst.

Extremely bad images scrolled across the cramped phone screen. The volume, which she had forgotten to turn off for a game, echoed with sticky sounds in the room, scaring her into pressing the power-off button immediately.

“Heh heh.”

“Don’t laugh!” Yao Yuan threw the phone onto the quilt and took a deep breath: “I love you very much, and you don’t deny loving me. Isn’t that enough?”

“Not enough, not even the contract has approved it.” The demon pressed down assertively, this effortless conquest carrying a hint of laziness.

“Yes, the contract hasn’t approved it, but that’s what you want, right? After all…” The human bravely kissed the demon: “You said you would take back everything for me.”

When long hair intertwined, arguments were no longer necessary.

“Xing Kong, even though you initially liked me because of the light spot in my soul…” In the heat of passion, the most worrisome things in her heart were easily spilled.

“How could that be? I said it wasn’t.” The demon’s tone was very arrogant: “The Devil Queen ordered me to find the divine power, and I disliked obeying even more.”

“Then what is so special about my soul? Is it an exceptionally strong magical talent?”

“Not that either.”

Before further union, Xing Kong was exceptionally honest: “The shape of your soul is very unique, perhaps the only one in the world.”

She liked this sentence and even wanted to hear a few more. Yao Yuan sat up excitedly: “Especially beautiful? Rainbow light? Or something else?”

“There’s no need to explain it precisely, and what attracts me most now is no longer the shape of your soul.”

[Let’s try out the intimate act you recognize. This time, there will be no mistake.] Xing Kong’s voice was transmitted directly into her mind.

Because the other part that could make sound was doing something else.

“Xing, Xing Kong…” In the peculiar sensation close to pain, Yao Yuan tightly wrapped her arms around the other party’s neck. However, just as they were about to sink into the boundless ocean, a sense of foreboding arose.

[Contract Achieved]

A cold voice, not belonging to Xing Kong, but to the existence that once witnessed the establishment of this contract.

The demon’s movements instantly stopped.

“Xing Kong?” Yao Yuan didn’t know whether she should be afraid. No, she was indeed afraid now, but not of death itself, but she cared immensely about one thing: what would Xing Kong do?

The speed of the demon’s thought process was much faster than a human’s; a moment was an extended period of contemplation.

Xing Kong reached out, her movement as she stroked her cheek was still as gentle as a lover’s. There was a hint of regret in her eyes, which quickly turned to determination.

“I have not yet fulfilled my promise to her.” The demon raised her head and looked at the void: “I have not been able to take back her complete existence.”

[The contract has already been achieved.] The existence in the void refuted her reason.

A tear rolled down Yao Yuan’s cheek, and she wiped it while shaking her head: “It doesn’t matter, I truly love you now.” Loved her enough to accept this perfection that would take away her soul.

“The agreement between us is not insignificant. I will completely devour your soul, but not now!” Shadows diffused from around the demon’s body, and black runes rose to meet the golden brand mark falling from the void.

Just as Yao Yuan was about to rush over to stop her, the flame rune on her wrist immediately burst into intense light, completely distorting the space they were in.