Chapter 518: Chapter 518: Are you not?
Chapter 518 – Are you not?
"Argh."
Luminara groaned, feeling the kind of headache that came with a hammer pounding relentlessly on the skull.
Her eyes were closed, yet she could sense herself writhing on the ground like a snake trying to shake off the last of its dead skin.
She kept at it for a long while, trying and trying and trying again to get a feel for the new body she had. But not only that, she also needed to grow accustomed to her own existence again.
Thankfully, her years of living and her deep understanding of who she was at her core made the process far shorter than it should have been.
Her eyes flickered wide open.
Gone were the purple irises. In their place were deep yellow eyes, so bright it felt like light bled through the air wherever her gaze landed, pupils slit and sharp.
She felt the difference immediately. Her sight was keener. Gingerly, Luminara pressed both palms flat against the solid crimson cloud beneath her and pushed herself up.
Now sitting, her body lightly slouched from the effort, stray locks of her crimson-gold hair fell across her eyes for a moment.
She smiled subtly at that.
Luminara lifted her hand and took hold of her new hair, hidden awe and joy breaking through her every gesture. She inspected the rest of her body next, realising that outwardly, little had truly changed — except her eyes, her hair, and a tattoo she now bore.
A small one. Deep black, shaped like an infinity sign, placed just below her left breast. She felt the link to Noah through it and understood its meaning instantly.
And with that understanding came another realisation: the omnipresent pressure of the Progenitor was gone.
Vanished, as if it had never been there to begin with.
Luminara couldn’t stop the broad smile that split her lips. She finally lifted her head and set her eyes on Noah and Laeh standing before her.
She focused only on Noah, ignoring Laeh, who was now officially her sister-in-law. She didn’t like her. Laeh didn’t like her either.
"You truly did it." Luminara breathed, rising to her feet, feeling the change within her more deeply with every passing second.
It went far beyond the physical. It reached the boundary of existence and purpose itself.
She was no longer a Divine Beast. No longer the Eye of the Progenitor. No longer haunted by that fear of disappearing at any moment simply because someone wished it.
It was still possible, technically. Noah could still kill her at will. In the same way he had remade her, he could unmake her.
But there was a fundamental difference between the two situations.
Luminara had never chosen to be bound to the Progenitor. But she had willingly chosen to surrender that control to Noah, and bind herself to him until the end of eternity.
Out of affection. But also out of trust, because of who he was and the fact she could put her life in his hands without hesitation.
Choice.
That was all there was to it. That was, Luminara realised, one of the most important things a living being could ever have.
The choice to make choices. And with choice came control. Control over one’s own life and path.
Luminara had made hers. And as she looked at Noah’s smiling face, she knew she had made the right one.
Her lips pulled into a smile on their own. Her heart, free of burden and worry, made her steps toward him light and unhurried.
She walked over casually, ignoring Laeh’s obvious glare, and simply hugged Noah.
He chuckled and returned it, wrapping his arms around her.
"You act as if you didn’t believe I could do it."
"I believed, of course." Luminara retorted with a chuckle. "But I can’t stop myself from feeling awe at it. You made me anew, Noah. You made me yours."
She leaned close to his ear. "And now you have another mother and daughter pair."
"It seems, dear, that I have a kink."
Luminara cackled.
"That one was quite obvious, Noah." She said between bursts of laughter. "Now I wonder, when will you welcome me properly into your family?"
"You are already family."
"No, no, no. I want the usual ritual." She insisted, leaning back toward his ear. "The one where everyone is naked. Oh, that reminds me, should I tell you a secret?"
Her last words dropped to a whisper. She didn’t wait for Noah to answer before continuing smoothly.
"Multiple times." She admitted without a shred of shame. "Multiple times I touched myself watching you with the others."
Laeh’s face immediately drained of all colour. She had officially reached her limit. She vanished in a heartbeat, leaving her words behind her like a trail of fire.
"PERVERT!" She barked. "BROTHER, SHE IS A DAMN PERVERT!!"
Luminara and Noah burst into laughter together.
"Please, mother-in-law, don’t corrupt my sister." Noah said, still laughing.
"She calls me a pervert." Luminara shook her head. "Doesn’t she know I have someone standing right in front of me who could rival Courtesan Lust herself?"
"Rival?" Noah grinned. "Not surpass?"
"She is called the Whore of the Universe for a reason." Luminara said, then quickly added, "And before that ego of yours gets the better of you and you start planning to seek her out for a contest we all know how it would end..."
Noah rolled his eyes playfully.
She stepped closer and grabbed his erected duck through his pants.
"...I want—!"
"Mother."
Dead silence. Suddenly, making a single noise felt like the greatest of sins.
Hand still firmly in place, Luminara turned her head mechanically and saw her daughter, Neko, standing there, arms crossed, eyes fixed on precisely the spot where Luminara’s hand was.
The look on Neko’s face made Luminara wish she could bury herself underground.
"What are you doing?" Neko asked.
Noah chuckled. "Your mother wants it inside."
"I can see that."
"I know you can see that. Then why are you asking, sweetheart?"
"To know if that’s why I’ve been waiting all this time to speak with her."
"Jealous?"
"Of her, yes. Can I have it instead? Can we do it here and now?"
Noah’s lips twitched. "What about the talk with your mother?"
Luminara still hadn’t let go of his dick, and now she looked at her daughter with suddenly enlightened eyes.
"I think we can discuss just fine while being pounded by our husband." Neko said, walking toward them as her clothes burst into flame.
She was naked.
"What do you think, Mother?" She said, not minding that her pussy was already dripping.
Luminara’s smile broadened.
"I go first, daughter."
"In your dreams." Neko scoffed. "Let me show you how we take it inside."
"Man, I feel like a sexual object." Noah interrupted, mock sadness dripping from every word.
Luminara and Neko both looked at him. A couple of heartbeats passed. Then, heads tilted, faces genuinely confused...
"Are you not?"
Noah cursed.
—End of Chapter 518—
