Lilia lay in Lucia’s arms, her mind failing to process the situation.
‘Did I hear that right?’
This perverted Demon King, who just a second ago had been playing with her in the palm of her hand…
Now she wanted her, a prisoner, to scrub her back?
What was this?
Some kind of brand-new humiliation tactic?
“What? Are your hands broken?”
The voice coming from above was flat.
Lilia’s body gave a violent tremble.
“No… no, meow…”
Lilia didn’t dare say a single word of refusal.
She had no doubt that the moment she declined, this woman would shove her head into the water and let her personally “experience” what drowning felt like.
Trembling, she reached out her hand.
She took the soft towel, tanned from some unknown Magic Beast Hide, from Lucia.
It felt warm and soft to the touch.
“Master… could you… could you turn around a bit, meow?”
Lilia’s voice was so small she could barely hear it herself.
To have her scrub someone’s back while lying in their arms… this posture was just too weird!
Lucia didn’t say a word, but she was surprisingly obedient, actually turning her body away.
She presented her smooth back fully to Lilia.
Amidst the rising steam, that fair skin looked sleek and delicate, without a single blemish.
There was the perfect shoulder line, the straight spine…
And those waist dimples, half-hidden by her long black hair…
Lilia’s cheeks burned hot.
‘Don’t look! Don’t look!’ she screamed inwardly.
But her eyes simply wouldn’t obey her, wandering over the scenery that made her heart race.
“What are you dallying for?”
Lucia’s impatient urge snapped Lilia’s soul back into her body.
“Coming… I’m coming, meow!”
Lilia shuddered and quickly grabbed the leather towel.
Trembling with fear, she pressed it against that warm skin.
The moment she touched it, she felt nothing but silkiness.
The sensation was terrifyingly good, making even her fingertips go numb for a moment.
Her body stiffened as she moved her hands mechanically up and down.
She didn’t dare use too much strength for fear of hurting this ancestor, yet she didn’t dare be too light for fear of being accused of being half-hearted.
Every inch of skin contact reminded her of last night’s humiliation and the absurdity of the present moment.
Under this overly intimate contact, a strange heat rose uncontrollably from her abdomen, crawling up her spine.
“Your body is much softer than last time.”
Lucia’s voice rang in her ear, her breath making Lilia’s ear itch.
Lilia’s face instantly turned a deep crimson.
She wanted to scream insults, but she found she couldn’t utter a single word.
Because what Lucia said was the truth.
Unlike the stiff resistance she had shown when she was forcibly held last time, this time, her body… didn’t seem to be resisting as much.
This realization exploded in her mind, bringing with it boundless panic.
‘I’m being assimilated!’
This perverted Demon King was using a kind of poisoned tenderness she couldn’t understand to slowly grind down her edges and corrode her will!
‘No!’
‘Absolutely not!’
She couldn’t just yield like this!
She had to do something.
She had to break this suffocating situation!
Lilia’s mind raced at an unprecedented speed.
A head-on attack would only be easily neutralized, and running away was pure fantasy.
Wait!
She remembered her previous “achievements”—attacking with chili water and freezing the Hot Spring with ice blocks.
Although the outcomes were always miserable, at least she had broken that eternal iceberg face!
Only through the unexpected could she seize that single chance at life!
She was currently at the third tier, and her control over Spatial Magic was nothing like before!
A crazy plan quickly took shape in her mind.
She lay against Lucia’s back, her scrubbing motions becoming deliberately lighter and softer, even carrying a hint of fawning.
She needed to put on the facade of having completely yielded, of being immersed in “serving” her.
But in secret, she had already spread out all of her Spirit Force without a sound.
She didn’t try to condense any tangible attack.
Instead, she broke her Magic Power down into countless invisible Mental Anchors, precisely attaching them to every single drop of water in the Hot Spring.
This was an extremely delicate operation.
Fine beads of cold sweat soon broke out on her forehead, and she gritted her teeth so hard they nearly shattered.
But she held on.
She was going to give this pervert a “surprise” she would never forget.
“Why is it so quiet?”
Lucia noticed something.
Her eyes, which had been closed, showed signs of opening.
“I’m… I’m concentrating on serving Master, meow…”
Lilia buried her face into that warm skin, mumbling vaguely.
“Mmh.”
Lucia was satisfied with this answer and relaxed again.
‘Now!’
Lilia closed her eyes and ignited all her Spirit Force in an instant!
A command roared frantically in her mind!
‘—Spatial Pressure! Press down!’
A miracle occurred!
The water in the entire Hot Spring didn’t disappear, nor did it freeze.
Instead, at that very moment, every single drop of water became incredibly heavy and viscous!
*Splash!*
The docile spring water came to life.
It transformed into an invisible giant palm, carrying the weight of ten thousand tons as it slammed downward!
“Ugh!”
Even Lucia hadn’t expected such a change.
Under this terrifying pressure, enough to crush a small mountain, her lazily leaning body sank abruptly.
Completely out of control, she was slammed toward the bottom of the pool by the thick, heavy water!
*Thump!*
With a dull sound, the high and mighty Demon King was pinned down by her own bathwater! Her head plunged into the water, and she even choked awkwardly, letting out a long string of bubbles.
‘It worked! It actually worked!’
Lilia could even see the string of bubbles she let out when she choked!
She had succeeded!
She had made this high and mighty perverted Demon King suffer a setback!
“Haha… Hahahaha! Meow!”
Lilia scrambled out of the heavy, viscous water using both her hands and feet.
Ignoring the fact that she was still naked, she stood on a rock by the side of the pool with her hands on her hips.
She let out the most arrogant and joyous laugh she had ever produced since crossing into this world.
“Lucia! You didn’t expect that, did you?! Meow!”
She stepped one foot onto a protruding rock nearby.
Pointing one finger at the figure still struggling in the water, she laughed until tears nearly burst from her eyes.
“That’s what you get for bullying me! For playing with me! For torturing me every day! This is your end! Meow!”
This was the feeling of victory!
This was the feeling of pinning the Demon King who ruled the world into the water to drink her own bathwater!
On the shore, Lilith had completely turned to stone.
Her mouth hung slightly open as she stared at the figure in the pool who was clearly a bit disheveled.
Her mind was a complete blank.
‘The… the Young Miss… she actually turned Her Majesty’s private Hot Spring into a gravitational swamp?!’
‘And… and she made the supreme Her Majesty… choke on water?!’
It was over.
Lilith’s brain had stopped functioning.
She was even prepared for the entire Fog-Hidden Spring, or even half of Evernight Palace, to be razed to the ground.
But the expected thunderous rage did not descend.
Lucia only thrashed in the viscous water for a moment before forcing herself to stand firm.
She slowly raised her head and wiped the water from her face.
Her soaked black hair clung messily to her cheeks as water droplets fell along her perfect jawline.
But in those blood-red eyes, there was no anger.
Instead, a light Lilia had never seen before was growing frantically.
Then, she smiled.
It was a smile mixed with surprise, praise, and an even more intense sense of possessiveness.
“It’s quite fun, isn’t it?”