Chapter 89: Soothing Time

What was the situation?

Wen Chu was completely confused, but that didn’t stop him from subconsciously speaking up for Xiu.

“I wasn’t kept by him as a sugar baby.” Wen Chu explained seriously, “We are good friends.”

He actually wanted to say “lovers,” but the current Xiu wasn’t familiar with him at all. Wen Chu was afraid that if he said it, Xiu would think he was taking liberties and get angry.

Louis laughed angrily: “Do you take me for a fool? What kind of good friends live together, go shopping arm in arm, and even steal love?”

Xiu looked at Louis with increasingly unkind eyes, while Wen Chu finally realized what was going on.

Wen Chu: “So you are jealous that I’m being kept?”

Louis cursed loudly: “Are you sick?!”

Wen Chu earnestly advised: “You shouldn’t have such thoughts. You need to earn rewards through your own labor.”

Seeing that Louis was about to faint from anger on the spot, a soldier behind him hurriedly stepped forward to mediate: “Alright, alright, aren’t we here to pick up weapons? Let’s do business first.”

Wen Chu recognized him; this was one of the soldiers he had seen at the carriage shop.

He seemed to be the captain of the squad.

Seeing the patrolling robots on the street starting to gather here, Louis took repeated deep breaths to suppress his anger and threatened Wen Chu: “You’d better not let me catch you alone.”

The demons watching the fun laughed in a group: “Wow—forced love, huh.”

Louis was so angry he wanted to catch the troublemaking demons and kill them all, but due to the laws of the Forging Duchy, he couldn’t act. In the end, he could only retreat unwillingly and threatened everyone viciously: “I don’t like him! Even if I liked Daisy, I wouldn’t like a man!”

The demons also suddenly realized: “So you’re bi.”

Louis: I%@(-#^&!!

The captain sighed and apologized to Wen Chu: “I’m very sorry for causing you inconvenience.”

Wen Chu nodded, not being polite: “It was indeed very inconvenient.”

Xiu secretly held his hand, unable to control his strength, squeezing his hand a bit painfully.

As if afraid he would run away.

Wen Chu didn’t struggle, just pondering why Xiu was so unusually agitated and said such baffling things.

An embarrassed look appeared on the captain’s face. Wen Chu spoke preemptively: “We haven’t finished choosing weapons yet. You pick up your weapons, we continue choosing. It shouldn’t be a hindrance, right?”

The captain wanted to refuse, but Louis stood aside looking ready to fight at any moment.

They were in the wrong to begin with, and Wen Chu was once a member of their dragon-slaying squad. Although the man beside him was unfamiliar, being able to enter the Forging Duchy meant he couldn’t be a dragon.

Therefore, adhering to the principle of not causing more trouble, the captain nodded and said: “Please go ahead.”

Wen Chu breathed a sigh of relief, immediately pulling Xiu to the side, pretending to seriously look at the swords on the first floor.

Xiu frowned, pursed his lips, his mood very poor.

His voice rang in Wen Chu’s mind.

【Why make an excuse to stay? We’ve already finished buying. Why say we are friends? Do you still…】

Have lingering feelings for him.

Xiu dared not say the second half of the sentence.

Wen Chu glanced at Xiu, frowned and tried hard for a long time, finally learning to communicate with spiritual power like Xiu.

Wen Chu: 【You already knew?】

He was still worrying about how to explain the dragon-slaying matter to Xiu.

The gloom surrounding Xiu was so dense it felt substantial. He gritted his teeth: 【I knew long ago.】

Great, this saved a lot of explaining.

Wen Chu said directly: 【That’s right, they are the squad sent by the King to crusade against you. I just heard Louis say they came to pick up weapons, so I wanted to stay and see what exactly they prepared to deal with you.】

Xiu: 【…?】

Watching Xiu suddenly pause his movements, Wen Chu asked doubtfully: 【Is something wrong?】

【No, no, it’s very right.】 Xiu’s voice suddenly became cheerful, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

【You are worried about me?】

【Of course.】 Wen Chu glanced at Xiu inexplicably, 【There are so many of them. Even if you are powerful, they might ambush you.】

Hearing Wen Chu’s words, Xiu’s mood improved even more. He even looked at Louis with a bit more favor.

Losers could only break down and talk tough. After all, in Wen Chu’s heart now, Louis didn’t even count as a passerby.

Wen Chu only worried about his safety.

Watching Xiu’s strange expression, Wen Chu was just about to ask why the other was so weird today, when he was interrupted by the captain’s exclamation not far away.

“What did you say?! The Dragon Slaying Sword has already been taken in advance?”

The captain looked at the dwarf in front of him in disbelief.

He took out a pass from his pocket, his tone agitated: “Didn’t we agree at that time to pick up the goods with the pass? Why let someone else take it? We’ve already paid in full!”

Edward was also confused. He took the pass, looked at it again and again, then looked up and said: “Guest, Edward’s Weapon Shop has always kept its promises. Today, someone indeed came with an identical pass to take the Dragon Slaying Sword. Your pass is fake.”

“Fake?” The captain stood frozen on the spot as if struck by lightning.

It was over. The heavy sword forged with huge funds from the King. Out of trust, the Princess’s pass was given to him, and he unknowingly let someone switch it!

How to explain this to the King?

The captain was sweating profusely: “Besides the custom-made Dragon Slaying Sword, we also sent weapons for modification. Those weapons…”

Edward spread his hands: “Were also taken away.”

He sighed with emotion: “The Dragon Slaying Sword requires seven sixth-tier crystal cores, and there are only six circulating in the Dwarf Race, so the sword was halfway done and put on hold. I wanted to ask your opinion after you came, but unexpectedly, Alai brought me a sixth-tier crystal core today.”

That was how he could finish the Dragon Slaying Sword early and deliver it perfectly.

Unexpectedly, shortly after delivery, a second wave of people came claiming they were the owners of the Dragon Slaying Sword.

The captain was on the verge of collapse: “Impossible… I kept the Princess’s pass on me at all times.”

“Um,” Wen Chu spoke up.

He blinked his eyes: “Can I ask, what does the Dragon Slaying Sword look like?”

Edward gestured cheerfully: “It’s red, the hilt is shaped like a dragon head. It’s the heaviest sword I’ve ever forged; it takes eight dwarves to lift it.”

Wen Chu recalled the elves he saw earlier, pondered for a moment, smiled, and said nothing.

The captain still looked lost in soul: “Who took all the weapons?”

Edward shook his head: “Sorry, this is customer privacy. They showed a genuine pass; I cannot tell you.”

“If needed, you can sue at the Forging Guild. Fill out the form first, wait seven working days. After the Guild accepts it, submit relevant proof materials and wait fifteen working days. Only after the Guild verifies it’s correct will they provide you with information disclosure. Then you can withdraw the lawsuit and conduct relevant rights protection using the legally disclosed information.”

The captain: …

They were going to slay a dragon. These warriors of different races and the march itself cost a huge amount of supplies every moment.

By the time this process was done, the day lilies would be cold.

At this moment, the captain was crumbling, feeling his future was dark. But in front of the patrolling robots eyeing him covetously at the door, he could only force himself to say: “Alright, sorry to trouble you. We will discuss how to handle this after we return.”

Saying this, he turned and left as if sleepwalking.

The soldier beside him whispered: “What do we do now?”

“No choice, report to the King first.”

Louis was also stunned by this sudden change, showing none of his earlier arrogance, but began organizing the equipment on his body.

Because the King promised to provide everyone with enchanted armor and dwarf-refined weapons, most of the alien warriors who traveled thousands of miles to the human kingdom didn’t bring much equipment.

After all, not everyone was like a certain evil dragon who could make storage spaces himself. The price of storage items on the market had always been high, and the things they could bring were very limited.

Wen Chu enjoyed the drama with relish.

He was biased rightfully and confidently. Seeing the dragon-slaying squad out of luck made him happy. Of course, he wouldn’t tell them about the Elf Race.

Seeing everyone starting to evacuate, Wen Chu also politely bid farewell to Edward and excitedly pulled Xiu to quietly tail the dragon-slaying squad.

“Let’s see what else they want to do.” Wen Chu’s eyes were shining as he whispered to Xiu, “It’s best if they just go back like this, so no one will trouble you.”

Xiu looked at Wen Chu amusedly: “How do you know so clearly?”

Wen Chu stammered a bit, whispering: “Because I was in the squad at the beginning too.”

“But don’t worry, I left them long ago. I won’t hurt you!”

So that was it. No wonder Wen Chu left alone.

It turned out he was taken out of the Demon Realm by Louis and left behind in unfamiliar human territory.

Xiu’s heart ached for a moment. He chuckled lightly to cover it up: “You couldn’t beat even one of my fingers.”

Wen Chu wanted to refute, but thinking of Xiu’s claws that were bigger than him in dragon form, he silently shut his mouth.

Xiu, remembering Mary’s reminder, narrowed his eyes mockingly: “To find the princess, so they come to crusade against me… Heh, such a reason can only fool alien warriors.”

Wen Chu pricked up his ears, wanting to hear more.

But after saying this, Xiu stopped talking and quietly tailed the dragon-slaying squad with him.

Night fell, and the street lamps on both sides of the street lit up.

The mighty dragon-slaying squad and the two sneaking behind them formed a unique scenery line.

The squad in front stopped.

Wen Chu and Xiu also stopped.

From a distance, Wen Chu saw the low building in front of the squad, with four large characters standing on top:

“Forging Guild”

The voice of the captain negotiating with the guard came from afar.

“…We are really in a hurry.”

“Being in a hurry is useless. We closed at five o’clock. Come back at nine tomorrow morning.”

The guard waved his hand to disperse the crowd, behind him stood robots over two meters tall.

“Pfft.” Wen Chu laughed out loud.

Xiu silently pulled up his hood.

Seeing there really was no way, the captain could only give up and arrange accommodation for the people in the squad.

Taking advantage of their departure, Wen Chu ran to the entrance of the Forging Guild to take a look.

As soon as he approached, he saw the huge notice board that had been blocked by the crowd just now.

This notice board was nearly two meters high, already too high for dwarves, obviously not meant for dwarves to read.

Wen Chu looked closely.

——Xiu, Alice, and dogs are not allowed to enter.

Wen Chu: …

Wen Chu turned back, only to find Xiu standing more than ten meters away with his hood up, obviously guilty.

Xiu and the Princess had such a good relationship?

Wen Chu returned to Xiu’s side sourly: “The grudge with the Forging Guild you mentioned, is this it?”

Xiu pulled his hood and nodded: “Yeah, I had a fight with that crazy woman back then.”

Wen Chu was curious: “A fight?”

Xiu’s expression was speechless: “She heard the legend of the Dragon Knight from somewhere, came over alone carrying a sword to tear down my cave, saying she wanted to be a Dragon Knight. I chased her all the way to the Forging Duchy to beat her. At that time, I didn’t hold back my strength and accidentally burned half of the Forging Duchy.”

He added: “I paid for the damages, but was also blacklisted by the dwarves. Later I changed to a fake identity to enter, but because it was a fake identity, I couldn’t get a pass with full credit, only received a six-point one.”

Damn brat, fortunate she disappeared. Best if she never comes back.

Xiu still gritted his teeth with anger thinking about it now.

Wen Chu followed Xiu back, thoughtful: “…Dragon Knight legend?”

Xiu curled his lips: “Just a human fairy tale, saying warriors can tame giant dragons, ride on dragon backs and fight side by side with dragons or something. What a joke, we dragons have never bowed our heads to humans.”

If not for the fact that slaughter would make him sink deeper into nightmares and worsen his mental state, he would have burned the human empire long ago. Would he give the King opportunities to crusade against him again and again?

Wen Chu hummed an “En,” then said: “So you and Alice have a very bad relationship?”

Xiu was expressionless: “I wish she had never been born.”

Wen Chu laughed out loud.

Actually, the appearance of the elves had already given Wen Chu a guess, but he didn’t fully believe it. He still planned to go back and explore the storage room, listen to more rumors from various races, and consider comprehensively.

Wen Chu followed Xiu into a restaurant, hinting: “You shouldn’t have anything hiding from me, right?”

Xiu paused guiltily.

What thing? Was it him stalking Wen Chu, deliberately releasing wolves to be a hero saving beauty, preparing to kill Louis, or attempting to keep Wen Chu captive?

He hid too many things from Wen Chu.

But Wen Chu was actually still treating him as a good friend.

Xiu swallowed: “…No.”

Wen Chu chuckled: “That’s best—what to eat?”

…

After dinner, the two checked into a nearby hotel.

Finally having a private enclosed space, after washing up, Wen Chu sat on the big bed, holding his heart magic wand and tuning fork, waving to Xiu.

“Come here quickly.”

Having just finished showering, this was the scene Xiu saw.

He instantly recalled the strange feeling in the shop and subconsciously wanted to flee.

But under Wen Chu’s expectant gaze, Xiu could only bite the bullet and walk forward.

Just a Nightmare’s soothing; he wasn’t even afraid of broken arms and legs, would he be afraid of this?

Xiu walked to the bedside with same-side arm and leg movement and sat down.

Wen Chu patted his thigh: “You should lie down, lie on my lap.”

The hotel provided pajamas, and crystal cores maintained a constant temperature, so Wen Chu was wearing white pure cotton pajama pants, only reaching halfway down his thighs, revealing his long, beautiful legs.

Xiu’s breathing hitched.

Harboring various unspeakable thoughts, he slowly lay down.

Afraid he was too heavy and would make Wen Chu uncomfortable, he secretly adjusted his center of gravity, just letting his head hover slightly above the lap.

Wen Chu reached out and pressed his head down directly: “Lie properly.”

Caught off guard by the contact with the youth’s delicate skin, Xiu’s breathing quickened a bit, and he couldn’t help flicking his tail.

His tail didn’t disappear but was hidden.

Wen Chu fished out a bottle of lubricant from the bedside.

Xiu almost bounced up: “What are you doing?!”

Wen Chu looked at him blankly: “Soothing you?”

The ASMR videos he watched on his phone before were all done like this; he was just imitating.

Xiu’s earlobes turned bright red.

Talking about “friends,” yet wanting to do this kind of thing with him… Of course, it wasn’t impossible; he booked a room with a double bed.

Just remembering the things in the dream, he still felt a lingering fear.

Amidst Xiu’s messy thoughts, Wen Chu squeezed the lubricant directly onto his hand and applied it to Xiu’s auricle.

“Gujiu.”

The sound of sticky liquid contacting skin lingered in the ear canal, affecting the sensitive nerves of the ear. Xiu almost instantly went soft on half of his body.

Why is it… this usage?

Xiu thought blankly, unable to continue thinking due to the water sounds close to his ear.

His brain seemed to stop working.

Only the body remained, completely drowning in this warm touch and strange trembling within the skull.

“Ding—”

The ethereal sound of the tuning fork rang out, carrying the Nightmare’s gentle magic power.

This sound seemed to penetrate his entire body, making Xiu shudder all over, then reveal a completely blank look.

Clearly just a ridiculously weak magic fluctuation.

But on his body, it set off a monstrous wave.

Xiu became hot again, yet his muscles couldn’t help relaxing, and his brain turned into paste amidst the water sounds.

The Nightmare pasted himself to his ear and whispered: “Xiu, do you like it?”

Warm breath brushed past the auricle. Xiu couldn’t help trembling; his spine seemed to go completely numb.

His beast pupils dilated unconsciously.

He couldn’t speak anymore.

Wen Chu curved his eyes and took the opportunity to ask: “What did you mean by what you said in front of Louis today?”

What gibberish was he talking about?

Xiu smelled the scent of the same body wash on Wen Chu as himself, and felt the warmth falling on his auricle, driving his tremors with every breath and pronunciation.

He barely distinguished the main point, blurting out in a trance: “He doesn’t deserve you, you shouldn’t continue liking him…”

Wen Chu was surprised, then continued to rub Xiu’s auricle repeatedly, pursuing: “When did I like him?”

The dragon’s transparent blue beast pupils, after dilating, no longer looked fierce, but inexplicably very aggrieved: “They all said so… He pursued you, willing to stay in a lower position for you.”

Wen Chu: …

Rumors harm people.

Xiu continued mumbling: “He drove you out of the squad and made you suffer so much. If I hadn’t saved you, you would still be sleeping in the wind and dew for who knows how long. You can’t continue liking him.”

Seeing Xiu getting more agitated as he spoke, about to break away from the trance-like relaxed state, Wen Chu struck the tuning fork again.

“Ding—”

Subtle spiritual fluctuations penetrated the whole body again, and Xiu lost strength once more.

“I don’t like him.” Wen Chu whispered, “I hate him, I only like you.”

Xiu’s beast pupils widened blankly, curling his tail unconsciously.

Should friends say such things?

Xiu couldn’t think straight because Wen Chu was too close. This relaxed feeling was too strange for him.

His scales were about to get wet.

Wen Chu also noticed the wrinkles appearing out of thin air on the bed sheet. He observed for a while, feeling it looked a bit like a tail.

But afraid asking now would startle Xiu awake again, he temporarily dropped this topic.

He picked up the heart ear pick… magic wand beside him, controlling the tip of the wand to turn into a goose feather.

The goose feather scraped across the auricle, a touch gentler than fingers.

Wen Chu continued to explain slowly in a whisper: “I’m not familiar with him. Just because he bullied me, spread rumors about me, and wanted to eat me, we separated after arguing. My affairs with him are rumors spread by demons.”

“He’s not good-looking either. I don’t like him.”

Xiu’s ears were completely red.

Every word Wen Chu spat out was a unbearable yet gentle torture for him. Afraid his ears would never return to normal if this continued, Xiu pleaded in a trance: “Change side…”

“Okay.” Wen Chu responded to every request.

He turned Xiu’s head over, switching to the untouched left ear.

The magic wand turned into the shape of an ear pick, slowly entering the ear canal, scraping the inner wall.

Wen Chu didn’t dare use force, just using the magic wand to conduct his magic power, letting the magic flow through Xiu’s ear canal like an invisible trickle.

Xiu regretted it.

The other ear had been tormented for a while and was somewhat desensitized, but now the left ear sent back an uncontrollably numbing pleasure almost the moment Wen Chu touched it.

Felt like the entire brain was being stroked.

Xiu wanted to resist a bit, but under the Nightmare’s weak magic, he was soothed into a completely relaxed state where he couldn’t lift a finger.

“Mm…?”

Wen Chu hummed doubtfully by his ear.

“Can also do this…”

Just as Xiu suppressed a shudder, he suddenly felt a warm water flow passing through the ear canal.

From simulated sticky water sounds to genuine trickling streams flowing at close range inside the ear.

This magic wand actually had water flow.

Xiu let out a whimper, unable to hold back anymore; the dragon tail materialized.

The golden tail curled tightly, but the brain was uncontrollably relaxing, forced to accept this comfort that was too strange and terrifying for him.

Comfortable to the point he felt broken.

Why would a Nightmare have such terrifying power?

Xiu tried his best not to make inappropriate sounds.

He didn’t want Wen Chu to discover that the other’s soothing relaxation would turn into such a lewd thing on him.

But Wen Chu seemed to deliberately add fuel to the fire, leaning close to his ear and whispering:

“Xiu, I only like you.”

——

Mind went blank.

By the time Xiu reacted, his tail was already being stroked by Wen Chu.

Just like in the dream, the other party first stroked the root of his tail, making his tail go completely limp, then flattened his curled tail little by little.

The glittering scales were particularly conspicuous.

“Scales are wet.”

Wen Chu smiled.

Not only the scales, the hot place on Xiu also shot.

In the trance, Xiu lost his sense of propriety and judgment. He was soothed silly by the Nightmare, dizzyingly reaching out to cover his scales.

“Don’t look…”

Xiu curled his tail, covering it clumsily.

Wen Chu: “…Ah.”

Meeting Xiu’s beast pupils that hadn’t focused yet, he pursed his lips in a harmless smile and said softly: “Then take your hand away. I won’t look, I’ll just touch.”

So stupid.

Blocking it like this, what was the difference from seducing?