My Horny Stepmom Turns Me into Her Vampire Slave

Chapter 127: B - Aoshi... the gold digger?

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! I’m screwed, finished, done for — I’m a dead man! How the hell am I supposed to survive now that Mr. Tobita fired me?" Aoshi whines, his face buried in the pillow.

"Don’t worry, dear Aoshi. My salary is more than enough to cover all our expenses," Eliss reassures him gently.

"Yeah, but what happens when you’re gone? Damn it, I’ll end up begging outside the station! I worked my ass off to get this job. Who knows how many months it’ll take to find another one? And once word gets around Ueda about what happened tonight, who the hell would hire me?"

"Ahem, ahem..."

Eliss clears her throat theatrically.

"Have you perhaps forgotten that your beloved Eliss is a princess? It was supposed to be a surprise for when I returned to Elyndra, but since you’re panicking, I have no choice but to tell you. I’ve already spoken with Raelor, and he fully agrees that the patience you’ve shown deserves a generous reward. I’d say twenty kilos of gold should be more than enough to guarantee you a dream life."

T-Twenty kilos of gold...? Eliss is really going to give me TWENTY KILOS OF GOLD next month?! That’s about... uh... f-f-FOUR HUNDRED MILLION YEN!!!

Okay, Aoshi, calm down... calm down! I’m going to be rich, filthy rich, richer than I ever dreamed possible!

I’ll buy myself a mansion, a luxury car, and then... then I’ll get Takuma the most sought-after erotic visual novel on the planet, and for Ayane... what the hell should I get her? Ah, whatever.

But most importantly... I’ll go to my parents’ house, throw all that money in their faces, and prove that I made it without them... and that I can wipe my ass with the inheritance they cut me out of! I’m the happiest man in the world!

"Thank you, Eliss! Thank you so much! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Aoshi sobs, overwhelmed with indescribable joy.

He throws himself at Eliss’s feet and wraps his arms around her legs in boundless gratitude.

"You’ve never thanked me this much before," she mutters, giving him a suspicious look. "I’ve been cleaning, cooking, and working for two months, and I’ve never seen you this moved. Aoshi... you’re not one of those fortune hunters who seduce young heiresses just to get their hands on their money, are you?"

"W-What kind of ridiculous accusation is that?! You’re the one who said you’d shower me with gold! I never asked you for anything!"

"So what? You’ve known I was a princess since the very first day I moved in here, so you could easily have guessed that I’d reward you generously if you treated me well. You could have charmed me and made me fall in love with you just to secure your future."

"You’re the one who did everything! Besides, how exactly was I supposed to charm you? In two months, we haven’t gone beyond a few kisses and some groping... and we haven’t even kissed in over three weeks! That would be a pretty weird way to seduce someone, don’t you think?"

"You even licked my breasts... oh, the shame... my precious, untouched breasts, so cruelly and mercilessly defiled, all so you could get your greedy hands on my gold," Eliss laments as dramatically and theatrically as possible.

"B-But you’re the one who shoved them into my mouth!" Aoshi blurts out, turning red as a tomato just talking about it.

"Well, of course. If I’d waited for you, we probably still wouldn’t have even kissed. After all, I’m not as beautiful and irresistible as your sweet Miori! You even let her put her hands down your pants!"

"W-Why are you bringing her up now?!"

"Because it was defending her precious honor — which you obviously care so much about — that cost you your job!" Eliss snaps, genuinely angry this time.

I can’t even argue with her... The comments those customers made about Eliss — some of them going well beyond simple, innocent admiration — had always bothered me. There were times I had to use every ounce of self-control not to snap back at them. But I’d always managed to keep my cool... except this time. Why?

Sure, Miori’s little brother attacked me, but I never would’ve dared react like that... so why did I? Why did hearing them talk about Miori that way bother me so much?

I swear, I’m the biggest mystery in the entire universe...

"Even so..." Eliss continues, her voice suddenly softer and quieter.

She starts rubbing her thighs together with Aoshi still clinging to her legs.

"...seeing you act so manly, throwing that punch instead of running away like you usually do... not to mention when you saved me from Kaito at the water park... it was such a turn-on... I get wet just thinking about it... Aoshi, if you don’t want me to jump you, you’d better get away from me right now and keep your distance, because I can’t promise I’ll be able to control myself..."

Aoshi doesn’t need to be told twice and immediately rolls to the other side of the room.

"And here I thought you were clinging to me on purpose so I’d jump you..."

"Cut it out. You know perfectly well that if you were my girlfriend and there wasn’t a chance you could disappear overnight, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to... uh... do all kinds of inappropriate things with you! Anyway, speaking of that guy at the water park, you really need to be more careful! I don’t know why, but apparently men completely lose their minds when they’re around you, and it would be a total disaster if something like that happened in public, considering you can’t freely use your powers. So, for your own sake, stop going off alone with men you don’t know. Not everyone has my self-control."

"There’s a reason for that..." Eliss murmurs, her expression growing slightly darker. "I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want to worry you, but... you should know that succubi start producing certain pheromones when they’re around eleven or twelve. It’s a way of signaling to incubi that they’re ready to lose their virginity. Those pheromones don’t have much of an aphrodisiac effect on demons, but on humans... well... you’ve seen it for yourself."

"Y-You’ve got to be kidding me?! Are you telling me your body is going to keep producing hormones that make men want to jump you?!"

Eliss shakes her head.

"Do you ever listen when I talk? I said it’s a signal for incubi, not some kind of man-trap! It’ll last until... um... until I’m not a virgin anymore. So, since you’re so worried about other men throwing themselves at me wherever I go..."

A sly smile spreads across Eliss’s face.

"...why don’t you relieve me of this little burden yourself and take my virginity?"

"Eliss, stop messing with me..."

"Then it’s obvious you don’t care about my safety at all. Otherwise, you wouldn’t hesitate for a second to say, If it’s for your own good, I’d do anything, my beloved Eliss. I bet if I offered you my virginity in exchange for a hundred kilos of gold, you wouldn’t even let me finish the sentence before tearing my underwear off."

"W-Where did you get the idea that I only care about your gold?!"

"You really can’t take a joke, can you? Anyway, maybe the real reason you don’t want me spending time alone with other men is that you’re insanely jealous," Eliss says with her usual teasing grin.

Silence falls over the apartment, and then...

"Yeah. It’s true."

Aoshi answers with complete seriousness and conviction, leaving Eliss utterly speechless.

She had expected an embarrassed denial, not such blunt honesty.

"Y-You mean that...?" she whispers, her heart on the verge of bursting.

"Yeah. I realized it at the water park when I saw you walking off with that handsome guy. I was dying of jealousy inside, far more than you can imagine, thinking that while the two of you were going down that slide together, he might take the opportunity to hold you close, to touch you... and that you might even like it. In the end, I couldn’t take it anymore and had to come looking for you. That’s all. Do you understand now why I’m fighting so hard not to give in? If I’m not jumping you, it’s not because I’m an idiot, and it’s not because I’m afraid of anything. It’s because if I’m already this jealous now, I don’t even want to imagine how much worse it would get if I gave in... or how much it’s going to hurt when you leave forever..."

"I-I see," Eliss murmurs, shaken by his words.

She is happier than she has ever been, yet visibly troubled by the weight in Aoshi’s voice.

And once again, silence settles between them.