I Received The Holy Sword By Dawn Delivery (4 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 87

“What on earth are you doing?”

Startled, Lucena jerked her body. Thanks to Matian supporting the back of her head with one hand, it hovered slightly above the floor, held steady.

“Tell me about it. What do I even want to do?”

If I’d known Lucena would become such chaos for me, I’d never have gotten involved with her from the start.

No—perhaps I instinctively realized the moment I saw her at the entrance ceremony that things would turn out like this, which is why I kept my distance for the past two and a half years.

But ever since the Holy Sword vanished, everything has spiraled into utter disarray.

His holy power was useful to me, yet it became undeniable proof that the demon’s power was eating away at me.

Thus, every time Lucena crossed my mind, I questioned myself dozens of times whether my heart had already been corroded by that dark aura, and my anxiety gradually swelled into an indistinct desire to possess someone.

Matian himself didn’t know whether that heat stemmed from within him or from the demon’s fragment.

Matian looked down at Lucena beneath him.

‘Familiar.’

It couldn’t be otherwise—he’d witnessed this scene countless times even in his dreams.

If Lucena now exhaled a flustered breath and wrapped her arms around his neck, it would become even more alike.

The first time he’d had that dream, it had been absurd; the second time, utterly bewildering.

From then on, he deliberately avoided Lucena, thinking it would be better to suffer through a nightmare instead.

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