I'm in Love with the Villainess!-Chapter 204: The First Few Days Ruling Together

*** Days Pass

Living with Evelina in a mansion was just as perfect as I’d imagined. No distractions, no annoying servants—just us, alone in a huge place that belonged entirely to us.

Even better, that strange thing from before hadn’t made a move at all. Everything was smooth sailing despite the chaos in the rest of the territory. Honestly, it was almost too peaceful.

Normally, I would’ve worried, but compared to before, there really wasn’t any reason to get paranoid.

The system could handle the mining company problem. As for the elves... well, that attack from Azrael and Corvus should be enough to make them think twice about trying anything else for the next few months, if I had to guess.

It was just the two of us and the work of rebuilding our half of this mess of a city.

"Five businesses have already been rebuilt."

Evelina said, leaning on my shoulder as we both looked out over the slightly busier outer district near our estate.

It wasn’t much, but we were finally earning revenue that didn’t rely on Evelina’s manipulation of the Head of Finances.

That reminded me... when I’d seen him yesterday, he’d definitely looked rough. I guessed Evelina wasn’t going easy on her dream manipulations.

"A bakery and a restaurant, using recipes from the chefs back home. No one will be able to resist that."

The inner district was hard to break into, especially when it came to trade and commerce. But if there was any business Evelina could try without spending a disgusting amount of money... it was food.

Everyone in the inner district was rich, after all. And as the rich do, they valued luxury—and what’s more luxurious than truly delicious food?

The D’Arclight name didn’t carry as much weight here, of course, but that didn’t matter as long as any passing inner district citizen could smell the food.

It didn’t take long for five families to start trading regularly with the businesses Evelina had rebuilt.

But that was only one of the things we’d done over the past few days.

*** Master Bedroom

Evelina sat on the edge of the bed, and I knelt in front of her, having just been reprimanded. Honestly, I deserved it; my excuse of "not having the right time" wasn’t exactly valid for something this important.

After all this time together, I had finally decided to show Evelina the dark magic book I’d been using for my power.

And... her reaction was definitely justified.

[Demonic Serpent]

A red serpent coiled around Evelina’s body as she wore a shoulderless red dress that clung to her curves. The serpent’s head rested on her shoulder, its tongue flicking against her bare skin.

"Y-You’re telling me you had this information the entire time?"

"Y-Yes..."

"And why didn’t you teach me this earlier?"

"W-Well... I—"

Honestly, I didn’t have a proper excuse. The closest I had was that I’d wanted to impress her with my special dark magic more than anything, and after the emperor’s tomb and everything that followed, things had been moving by far too quickly.

She was already so strong that it never even occurred to me to teach it to her sooner.

It was a disappointing blunder, something I couldn’t forgive myself for.

"I deserve the harshest punishment, my lady!"

Evelina frowned, flicking my forehead as hard as she could.

"You do! Why didn’t you tell me you had something like this the entire time!?"

She crossed her arms.

I think this was the first time she was this disappointed in me, to be honest. All this time, I did my duty as her pawn and lover quite carefully. It was... actually very thrilling to be treated like this...

"I say that... but you’re clearly going to enjoy every punishment I give you, won’t you?" Evelina chuckled, giving a half-smile. "What am I going to do with you?"

"Well, you could try stepping on me—"

"Out of the question, Cael... I said punishment, not a reward."

Evelina clicked her tongue. This was one of those rare moments when I saw her completely at her wits’ end. No amount of D’Arclight family training and experience could have prepared her for something like this.

Thinking of a punishment for her very obsessed boyfriend.

"I can’t believe this... I’m actually out of ideas..."

I swear I could hear the succubus laughing from inside her choker the moment she said those words. It was almost comical, seeing the ice princess and mastermind run out of ideas on how to punish someone.

And it’s not like she was a beginner at punishment and torture, either.

"Well, there are also—"

"Also out of the question. I’d rather pick punishments that don’t actually hurt you."

"You know what...? I give up. You’re getting off scot-free this time."

"Are you sure you’re thinking hard enough?" I replied with a cheeky smile.

"You absolute degenerate..." Evelina smirked.

Without warning, she pounced on me, slamming my back against the wooden floor with a loud thud as she straddled me, her fingers already working at the fabric of her dress.

"Instead of a punishment, I’ll just do something that makes me feel good instead."

"But won’t I also feel good from this? You’re basically encouraging me, y’know?"

"Do you want this or not?"

"Forget what I said, then."

[Demonic Transformation]

Horns sprouted from her head again, and her spaded tail slipped out from behind her. She guided it toward my lips, pressing it forward until the tip brushed against my tongue.

"It’s been a while since I transformed. Feels good to let it all out again."

The tip of her tail tasted surprisingly delicious—and I didn’t even mean it creepily. It was genuinely sweet, like some very expensive candy. I wasn’t sure if that was just normal succubus biology or something she’d altered just for this moment.

"I’m not letting you rest today," she said with a wicked grin. "Besides, I’m free the entire day anyway."

I could already feel her magic coiling around the organ beneath my pants.

"So just accept your punishment like a good boy, okay?"