Slave of the Demon King’s Castle 69

## Chapter 69 – Acer. Change in Relationship # 3

A chilling silence filled the room.

An awkward, confusing silence, mixed with a deep anger that made every hair on her body stand on end. Acer was the one who broke the silence that felt like it would last forever. She opened her mouth again, her voice trembling.

“How dare you….”

The anger that bloomed in her chest preceded the sound flowing through her throat. The words that were trying to come out into the world only lingered in her mouth, unable to finish in the face of the tidal wave of emotions.

Red blood began to drip simultaneously from her palms, where her nails had dug in, and from her lips, where her canines had pierced.

Charlotte, who had been watching, got out of bed and carefully spoke as she put on her underwear.

“Please calm down.”

Who wouldn’t want to calm down?

The room was filled with an almost dizzying lewd scent, Charlotte’s vulva was swollen red from how intensely they had been thrusting, and 25’s semen was flowing from it. Her hair was disheveled and damp with sweat, her face flushed red, her nipples were marked with clear teeth marks, 25 was lying on the bed panting as if he was about to die, and clear kiss marks were visible on his body.

It was impossible to calm down when seeing that appearance, filled with the traces of just having made love. All those traces should have been marked on her body, and she should have been the one to mark them.

Once again, heat spread to the top of her head.

“How can I calm down?!”

Acer slammed her fist into the wall next to her and shouted. The wall where her fist hit instantly cracked all the way to the ceiling and began to shake as if it would collapse at any moment.

Her breath quickened.

She was furious.

If she could, she would tear that disgusting bitch in front of her to pieces right now….

When her thoughts reached that point, Acer covered her mouth with both hands and stared at Charlotte with wide eyes. Charlotte, who had no idea what Acer was thinking, tilted her head in confusion at Acer’s sudden change.

A disgusting bitch, there were thoughts that she shouldn’t have even considered, no matter how angry she was.

Charlotte was not just a subordinate to Acer. She had been with her since she was a newborn baby, taking care of her, practically a parent.

Acer, barely swallowing her self-loathing, calmed her anger for a moment and coldly assessed the situation.

But her clear head did not help at all in resolving the root cause of this situation, this confusion. Rather, it only amplified the confusion.

She could only barely ask one question.

“How long has this been going on?”

Mixing bodies in such a familiar way couldn’t have happened after only a day or two of being together. Charlotte swept her disheveled hair back and replied.

“Didn’t the Demon Lord already have some idea? We can’t not know each other’s circumstances.”

As she said, she had noticed that Charlotte’s attitude had changed at some point.

The smiling expression that she hardly ever showed to ordinary maids, the way she volunteered to take care of the slave, the subtle checks she made whenever she tried to approach 25.

Every little gesture was different from before. She knew that there was a strange atmosphere flowing between them. However, she didn’t want to hurt anyone with premature suspicion because she didn’t have any proof.

But those suspicions all became true today.

Just like she had fallen in love with him at first sight, Charlotte had also fallen in love with him at first sight. If she had known this simple fact earlier, could she have prevented a tragedy like today from happening?

That’s why, that’s why she couldn’t understand it even more. Charlotte, who knew each other’s circumstances better than anyone else, as she said, why was she doing this? Acer couldn’t understand it at all.

Acer repeated the words she had said earlier in a much softer voice, as if repeating herself.

“How… how could you do this to me?”

The emotions that she had barely suppressed gradually intensified as she spoke, her eyes stinging, and soon tears welled up, blurring her vision. It felt like tears would pour out if she said any more.

Charlotte, who had already put on her underwear, looked at Acer, who was tightly shutting her mouth, and answered honestly in a calm voice.

“How could I do this? Of course, it’s because I like 25 too.”

She said that because she thought that this situation couldn’t be glossed over with lame excuses, and those words became the fuse that detonated her heightened emotions. Immediately after she finished speaking, Acer’s shoulders began to tremble slightly, and soon turned into a huge tremor.

Tears began to well up in her wide eyes, and the falling tears soaked the floor.

This was the first time Acer had shown tears since she ascended to the position of Demon Lord. Charlotte, who saw her tears, was taken aback and immediately went to her side, wrapping her arms around her trembling shoulders that showed no signs of stopping, and wiping the tears from her eyes with her fingers.

Acer, who was sobbing silently, breathed as if she was about to pass out and barely opened her mouth.

“You… you’ve always been like this….”

Everyone in the room silently watched Acer, who opened her mouth with an incomprehensible sound. She slowly spat out the complaints that had been piling up until now in a tearful voice.

“You’re strangely honest with your feelings, so you always take everything I want one step ahead of me. Trivial things like food and clothes, and even the attention of Mother that I always wanted…. But now, even the love that I thought I had for the first time….”

Charlotte, who had heard all the complaints, sighed and quietly began her own story.

“I always move faster than the Demon Lord and am honest with my feelings, but this time I’ll ask you. Have you ever properly conveyed your feelings to others, Demon Lord? Have you ever shown your true feelings to anyone?”

Charlotte’s atmosphere changed completely.

She didn’t show any of the embarrassment she had when she was caught cheating earlier, and a mature atmosphere of an elder was flowing.

“Demon Lord, no, Acer. Listen carefully.”

Acer stopped crying at Charlotte’s changed atmosphere and looked up at her. At the same time, her body trembled once.

The one standing there was not the head maid who managed the entire castle, but Charlotte from those days when she was only looking at Acer and raising her as a nanny.

“You’re the one who hasn’t changed from the past until now. Even if you like something, you only hide and watch it, and you never think about taking it.”

She couldn’t argue.

Her whining was entirely due to her own actions. Mother’s attention, delicious food, and her favorite clothes, she had only watched from behind until they all went into Charlotte’s hands.

And now, even 25’s love.

Acer, who had lost all her initial momentum, looked at 25 and said in a barely audible voice.

“Still, I like him more….”

“I know, you have a stronger desire than any Demon Lord I’ve ever seen. But the problem is your weak personality. If you act like that, it’s only natural that you’ll have things stolen from you.”

Charlotte said, gently arranging Acer’s disheveled hair.

“You’re too kind. Wouldn’t it be nice to be greedy sometimes?”

With those words, Charlotte stepped away from Acer and bowed, expressing her apology.

“Please forgive the rudeness I have committed against the Demon Lord.”

“No, it’s okay….”

Now, the anger had completely subsided to the point where even a small spark could not be found. Charlotte casually spoke to Acer, who was like that.

“I was going to say this earlier, but have I ever not given back what I had to the Demon Lord?”

Only then did the vague old memories clearly come to mind.

When she ate food, she would take out the ingredients that Acer didn’t like and remake it, when she wore clothes, she would alter them to fit Acer’s body and return them, and it was all Charlotte who suggested that the three of them go for a walk together to her mother, who was busy with political affairs.

She had been blinded by jealousy and had forgotten the most important thing. Just like Charlotte was always Acer’s top priority when she was young, Charlotte’s top priority was always Acer. That hasn’t changed even now, after all these years. There was no reason for her to make a fool of herself, was there?

“B, but.”

25’s heart was not something that could be remade like food or altered and transferred like clothes. The human heart is more delicate than any crafted item, so if you make a mistake, it can be shattered to the point where it can never be recovered.

She couldn’t give 25 an indelible wound due to the greed of the two of them.

But she didn’t want to give up. She hated that more than anything. She couldn’t yield to Charlotte this time either.

Charlotte shook her head from side to side as she looked at Acer, who was lost in thought.

“There’s no need to worry alone again. In the first place, the right to decide isn’t on this side, you know?”

At those words, the two women’s gazes simultaneously turned to 25, who was lying on the bed. As if they had talked about it in advance, they both climbed onto the bed at the same time and came close to 25.

“25, you decide.”

“Me, or Charlotte.”

This time, they were not each other’s top priority.

25, who suddenly had all the arrows pointed at him, was at a loss, looking flustered.

“H, how dare I….”

There was no way he could choose who was better.

“I, I can definitely make you happy!”

“Me too. Besides, I can give you a lot of great sex whenever you want?”

A moment’s choice determines your life, and that was exactly the situation now. 25 was faced with an unprecedentedly huge challenge and was lost in thought.

Both of them were so precious and loved to 25.

He couldn’t easily speak, thinking that his answer would leave an indelible wound in the heart of the other person.

But he couldn’t avoid answering. Four golden eyes were looking at him, waiting for an answer.