Chapter 23 : Reconciliation

That night, Hidako let Illumi sleep in their bedroom again. Her husband came home late. Hidako was already sitting on the bed, reading an old translated Gorteau literature with a red dragon on the cover. She was leaning on the bed while wearing a soft silk kimono in soft pink. Her hair was being let down, straight and black.

"Welcome home," Her eyes were locked to her husband's physique. He was full of bruises and cuts. Why does he look like he just came back from a harsh mission?

Illumi didn't say a thing, the man rushed to the bathroom and cleaned himself. Hidako continued reading the book while wearing for her husband to come back to the bed.

Her husband was wearing a thin cotton kimono in grey and when he sat on the bed, Hidako could see a fresh tattoo peeking out of his kimono on the neck area, a black tattoo with skin still red under it.

Hidako put the book aside to the desk and moved closer to her husband, her warm finger was tracing his tattoo. Illumi grabbed her hand immediately before letting it go and turned back to his wife.

"What is that? I thought you're not into tattoo," Hidako sounded unsuspecting towards her husband.

Illumi loosened down his kimono, exposing a spider tattoo with a number in the middle of it. The tattoo was surrounded with swelling redness, indicating that the tattoo was fresh.

Hidako knew what it was. A fucking Phantom Troupe tattoo. Chrollo's face his darn pretty face with doe eyes came back to her mind.

Her jaw dropped, her mouth was wide opened. She immediately covered her mouth with her hand, her eyes were staring on the tattoo in disbelief.

"Is this real?" She asked in her own denial, with her fingers still tracing the fresh tattoo with redness surrounding it on his neck extending to his back. She knew it's real, she's just in huge denial.

"Yes," Illumi touched his wife's warm fingers with his cold hand. His eyes were gazing at Hidako's small brown eyes.

Fuck. Now, both of them are part of the Credence cronies.

"We certainly don't have to worry about money anymore," Illumi turned his body to face Hidako's. He didn't bother pulling his kimono up, instead, he pushed his wife (whose face still showed how shocked she was) down until she was leaning on her back.

His hair mostly fell on the right side of her face, his hand travelled inside her kimono, caressing her small breast as his lips were kissing hers. Hidako didn't react and it wasn't because the image of her dead fetus coming into her mind, it was because her mind was occupied with the thoughts of the future of being Credence cronies.

She knew exactly it wouldn't make any good to be angry at her husband since she's the one who fell into the Credence trap in the first place, lured by the same pretty boy with those grey bambi eyes.

"Are we going to be alright?" She broke the kiss, her eyes were gazing deep into Illumi's dark doll eyes.

"We will be alright," Illumi said while caressing Hidako's soft long hair and continued kissing her lips. He pushed his wife's outfit, exposing her nakedness in front of him. She kissed him back while also taking off his outfit.

Both of them were naked and Hidako spread her legs. Her mind was no longer occupied by her dead fetus. Her mind was occupied by how would their life become. But, she concealed it. She let her husband penetrate her, rocking his hips and his erection inside of her on top of her.

And somehow the pretty boy with doe eyes came into her mind. Why was he so hypnotizing? Hidako had to admit that she enjoyed having sex with him.

It shouldn't hurt just to imagine that moment she had with him. She thought.

She closed her eyes while imagining that man with those mesmerizing grey eyes. Those big grey doe eyes, that skin under the pale moonlight, those full lips kissing every inch of her body and when he batted those lashes while he's going down on her. She was drenched.

Illumi then pulled her hips, digging his fingers in her skin while rocking his hips harder. He was rougher than usual and she moaning non-stop, enjoying the sensation it caused. Illumi felt even more aroused when he saw his wife moaning and enjoying the sex. He fell on top of her and rocking his hips faster.

Both of them came at the same time with his sperm inside of hers. Once Illumi fell on his back beside her, she suddenly felt nauseous. She quickly stood up and ran to the bathroom to vomit on the toilet.

"Hidako, are you alright?" Illumi walked to the bathroom to rub his wife's naked back.

"I'm okay ... it's just i haven't orgasmed for a long time," Hidako answered while she was lightly smiling to her husband. She lied. It was her bodily response for feeling guilty of imagining another man while fucking her own husband.

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Shrine of Yulla was fascinating, it looked luxurious, it had beautiful people catering to the guests' needs, the foods were awesome. It wasn't like a shrine, it was like a huge party.

It also catered into human's instinct, sex. Any of the followers could pick any of the sexy servers to have sex with them. It's like a luxurious brothel.

Hidako was also one of those who provided the show, but not with her body. It was with her nen. She was sitting on the stage, wearing a red kimono with hair styled up and her face was covered with a kitsune mask. There were a small group of men in suit with their faces covered with Vinetian masks and naked modelesque women in their arms. Hidako's task was to feed their sexual fantasy.

The men put the requests in pieces of papers. It was Hidako's task to fulfill their fantasies. There were four men there, Hidako could see nothing but their asses and their penises. Hidako changed the surrounding into what the men had asked, a forest of pine trees. Weird, she thought. They were people who were into bestiality but had no guts in fucking the real animals. That disgusted Hidako, she could feel nausea forming in her stomach but she had to contain her feeling, she kept on projecting it. The smell of pine trees filled the room as they were fucking the women. The women were transformed into a half-lioness, a half-monkey, a half-Labrador and a half-goat. They became hard and they were penetrating the women, Hidako felt the most disgusted towards the man who was fucking the monkey, she couldn't project the screaming voice of a monkey properly. The screaming was slurred, slowly it was mixing with the voice of the woman he was fucking. Never in her mind, Hidako had to deal with projecting bestiality.

His dick went limp immediately. "Hey! Can you project this or not?" The man was yelling towards Hidako. Suddenly, the projection stopped. No more pine trees, no more the scent of it and the "animals" had turned into human women. Hidako pulled lower half of her mask and puked in front of them. Her vomit wet the wooden floor.

"I'm going to report this to Ms. Credence," One of the man said, while pulling up his pants, followed with the others. "Tch! You made my dick limp! I can't believe Ms Credence hired someone like you!" The other man said while leaving the room.

Hidako's shoulder relaxed (or more like hunched). The girl had just fucked up in her reading. She hadn't fucked up in her reading for a very very long time. The possibility of having her facilities being pulled back and the possibility of having Crendence to kill her went up.

"Mister, let me make up my apology to you," Hidako bowed down and apologized.

"I can't just harden my dick easily! You really made me lost the moment!" The man yelled back at Hidako, he quickly stormed off of the room, followed by another men. Hidako quickly got down from the stage and chased them before one of the pushed her away, causing the girl to fall down.

They were reporting it to Mrs. Credence and Hidako was sent to the Mrs. Credence's private room.

*

In Credence's Private Room, it was like a deja vu. The same Phantom Troupe members were standing there beside Mrs. Credence.

Hidako took off her kitsune mask. She could feel lump in her throat. Hidako walked slowly, dragging her geta to get closer to the woman who was sitting on her "throne".

"Seems like Taka had never taught you about projecting odd matters, certainly he didn't prepare you well," Ecaterina chuckled. She stood up and walked down to Hidako. Ecaterina grabbed Hidako's chin and pulled her face closer to hers. Observing her small Azian face, her dark brown eyes.

"Why don't you come with us to Watasato Kingdom, my dear Hidako?" The word sent chills down Hidako's spine. Her lips were quivering and her hands were shaking. The kingdom was taken by a usurper. How could she even come back there? Her memory traveled back to the night where the chaos happened. The aircon was cold but Hidako couldn't help it. Sweat was forming on the back of her neck and her palms.

"I can give you a lot of wealth , perhaps wealth that can buy you a kingdom as long you open that golden box in the basement," Ecaterina's gaze was alluring. As if she was challenging her. The box was a family treasure that hadn't been opened for such a long time. Hidako didn't even know what was inside the box. She tilted her head and she certainly looked confused.

"What do you mean?" Hidako started to feel fear. Ecaterina's gaze was fierce and strong. Like a snake that could eat her anytime.

"You're a princess of that old kingdom," Hidako flinched when she heard that. Her hands started to feel shaky. She was scared. She didn't want to come back to that place.

"You will go with us to open that golden box using whatever genetic ability you have to open that golden box in the kingdom's basement," Ecaterina smirked.

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Author's Note :

It's been forever since the last time i wrote this fic. The whole last princess thing may seem to be a little trope-y and cliche but i will try to make it not-cliche.

Thank you for the comments! I thought nobody (still) read this fic. Please comment if you want me to continue writing this fic.