“Mmm~!” Lucifer let out a kittenish whimper. Even in her current body, which had reached the level of a Supreme God, she felt deeply exhausted. A lazy heaviness filled every inch of her, and she didn’t want to move at all. She just wanted to hold Bexia and curl up in his arms for a good sleep.
Bexia had an arm around Lucifer’s slender waist. His face was pale, and his back and legs ached; even his steps felt a little unsteady. He’d nearly been defeated by Lucifer’s stamina. She really was a Supreme God!!
Bexia was pale and listless, while Lucifer’s face was rosy, as if she might drip with color, and her expression was one of utter satisfaction.
“Master~! How did you find me here?” Lucifer wrapped her arms around his neck and gazed up at him with big, blinking eyes. At that moment, she was just like a girl experiencing her first love.
“Christine told me you’d come to the Abyss. And the rumors about you have spread far and wide. There’s hardly a demon who hasn’t heard them!” Bexia replied. His arm tightened slightly around Lucifer, and he rested his chin on her fragrant shoulder, burying his face in her hair as he breathed in her sweet scent, utterly intoxicated.
“Then, Master, were you worried about me?” Lucifer whispered in his ear.
“What do you think?” Bexia smiled and pinched Lucifer’s rosy cheek.
“Mm-hmm~!” Lucifer hugged Bexia tightly and buried her face against his chest, smiling with the kind of happiness that needed no words.
After spending a little time cuddling with Lucifer, Bexia remembered he still had business to take care of. He patted the languid, catlike Lucifer and nudged her off him.
“Lucifer, how powerful are you now?” Bexia asked.
“Mmm~!” Lucifer tilted her head and touched a finger to her lips, looking like a puzzled young girl. Then she gave a playful smile. “Guess, Master~ (´-ω-`)!”
“If I could guess, would I have to ask?” Bexia shot Lucifer an exasperated look. Ever since she’d surpassed the level of a Supreme God, he could no longer sense the level of her power. He knew she was a Supreme God, but not how many laws she’d comprehended—or what her Authority was.
“Then why don’t you try to feel it for yourself, Master~?” Lucifer smiled playfully and held out a hand before Bexia. The next moment, the power within his body began to flow outward of its own accord. He couldn’t control it at all.
“Your Authority…” Bexia frowned at the energy from his body in Lucifer’s hand. Her Authority was so domineering that he couldn’t immediately think of anything comparable. If it were simply a matter of stealing power, he’d have completely lost control of it.
But after Lucifer drew some of the power out of his body, Bexia didn’t lose control of it. Instead, another, stronger force took control of that power for him. In other words, Lucifer’s Authority wasn’t anything like stealing. It was something far more domineering: taking control.
“Could it be an Authority that lets you take things from others?” Bexia asked curiously.
“Nope~!” Lucifer smiled and leaned close to Bexia, her eyes shining with a sly light.
“It’s control~!” Lucifer murmured in Bexia’s ear, giving it a gentle lick. Her tongue slid from his earlobe to his lips, then slipped into his mouth like a sly serpent.
Though the ice around them had been there for hundreds of thousands, even millions, of years, Lucifer and Bexia were still like two burning logs, catching fire all the same. The craving she hadn’t managed to satisfy left Lucifer unable to pull herself away, and her Authority of Control gave her a peculiar feeling—as if she were a queen who had taken the initiative.
“Master, are you tired?” Lucifer, newly promoted to the role of rider, looked down at Bexia with a meaningful smile.
“Tired?! You’ve got to be kidding!” How could he admit defeat at a time like this? Bexia had already been going at it countless times, but after hearing Lucifer say that, he was determined to show her who the real rider was. He refused to believe he couldn’t make a proper angelic knight!
Several months later
The Chaotic Zone of Space and Time
Every so often, new demons were summoned to explore this region. Aside from the stated goal of searching for Lucifer, the First Pillar Demon King, this place was a training ground in its own right. They said time and space had become chaotic here because a powerful being who’d cultivated the laws of time and space had been buried in this region. It was also said that the inheritance of those laws had been left behind here—but no one had found it, even after all these years.
Inside one of the spacetime fragments in the Chaotic Zone, Lucifer waved a hand and drew a peculiar force from a crystal-clear corpse. Fine cracks appeared in the surrounding space under the force’s influence.
“This is an almost fully mastered law of space and time. Do you need it, Master?” Lucifer asked, holding out the power in her hand to Bexia.
“I’ve already comprehended the laws of time and space, so this won’t do me any good. But didn’t Sakuya cultivate the power of space and time? If you don’t need it, I’ll hold on to it and give it to her later.” Bexia took the power of the laws of space and time.
“Do whatever you like with it, Master!” Now that she’d advanced to Supreme God, Lucifer didn’t place much importance on this power of the laws.
“We should head out now, shouldn’t we?” Lucifer gazed into the distance. Women could hold a grudge, and she hadn’t forgotten how a group of Demon Kings had hunted her down. Now it was time to settle the score!
