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Archdemon Empress Luna

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"Hopefully, I wouldn't be pregnant with Luxen's child from that one terrible mistake." Luna didn't notice that she had squeezed her arm to the point of bruising. "There is still a possibility that I wasn't pregnant with Luxen's baby, Sloth."

A rush of adrenaline flowed through her body as she felt a tingling sensation at the back of her neck.

It felt like her body was turning hot and cold, and her mind wanted to detach itself from her soul.

She felt a strong wave of anxiety, and she didn't want to let it control her. "I wouldn't accept that baby because I will only value my future child with my husband."

Blowing out a noisy breath, Luna whispered, "I will not make space for any Archdemon inside of me."

"You were his wife, so his seed would be most potent inside you if the blood bond between the both of you was still here, but anyway, there is still a slight chance that you wouldn't be pregnant with Luxen's baby," Sloth agreed with her.

Being a future mother made her feel happy and sad at the same time. "I have so many things to learn."

"I agree that there would be a lot of trouble that might come your way, but it sounded like you were making excuses because you are still enamored by the charms of eternal youth." Sloth shrugged.

Luna felt like her pulse was at her throat when she imagined herself cradling a child in her arms, just like how Sloth had done with the whelp.

Did she have the capacity to care for a child with unconditional love and adoration?

Even the Archdemon knew how to care for the whelp than her.

She sighed.

Lips curving in amusement, Sloth continued, "Being a mother is just the next face of womanhood, and it is part of the cycle of life to overcome the challenge."

He was probably laughing at her expense. "You might have lived for hundreds of years, but still, you must grow up because you have no choice but to cross the threshold."

The more Sloth reminded her that she would become a mother someday, her headache intensified.

When the dark water started to ripple in giant circles around the tip of Sloth's magic stick, Sloth didn't waste time.

He lifted his stick to the sky as the three of them glanced at the poor soul that had bitten the bait.

Before the wicked soul could flee, Sloth hurriedly turned the stick towards the whelp's mouth.

"REEEE~" The whelp devoured it in just one gulp, smacking its lips in satisfaction.

Luna noticed how happy the whelp was with the first dark soul because it had purred, burying its face in Sloth's neck.

"Regarding that symbol of the Triple Moon Goddess, I suggest you hide that or else Satan and Lucifer might kill you for treason against Hell itself, seeing it as a sign that you are loyal to the Goddess Hecate instead of the Demon kind. They will see that you have chosen a goddess who only wanted to use you for something rather than your family into which you have married into."

She rolled her eyes. "As if my 'so-called Archdemon family' don't want to use me."

The hypocrisy in this Archdemon family was disgusting.

The sheer audacity could make its weak-minded victims go insane.

Luna watched Sloth dipped his wooden stick to the water again, catching another wicked soul for the whelp.

"That was why my soul was here in Hell in the first place, wasn't I?" Luna said sarcastically, "--so that my 'family' could use me for opening portals to different Realms for their own malicious agendas. My 'family' had trapped me with bargains and forced blood bonds left and right."

Luna flipped her long silver hair behind her back in annoyance. "I'm glad I had the Mark of the Hecate. I would rather serve her even if I'm not a High Priestess anymore as long as I could escape."

"REE~" The whelp let out a small growl as if it understood Luna and agreed with her.

"The symbol of the Triple Moon Goddess..." Luna pressed her lips together. "Ravin was the first one who noticed this when he tried to get rid of the Angel Dust on my skin. He even claimed that it was nothing. Hiding it from me."

"Hmm. Interesting." Humming, Sloth drawled, shifting his hold on the whelp as his intense gaze snaked through her breasts. "From the low-cut gown he asked you to wear, Ravin wanted every demon to see Hecate's symbol as if it was a declaration of some sort."

Sloth regarded her as if it was the first time he really saw her as a woman.

She wasn't used to seeing her brother-in-law this way.

He only watched her female form with clinical interest most of the time.

"I think he might have guessed that Satan would have great use for you as a spy in the Underworld rather than you being loyal to Hecate." His hooded green eyes darkened and smoldered, the emerald forest glittering into its depths. "Ravin might have assumed that your number one loyalty will be from Hell because you are an Archdemon, and you aren't Hecate's High Priestess anymore."

Ravin also said that the Archdemon of Sloth wasn't used to interacting with women.

Her brother-in-law hadn't stuttered in her presence yet.

Luna guessed Sloth had only seen her as a neutral, genderless thing.

Sloth cleared his throat when he felt the awkward tension in the air. "I still conclude that Luxen had every intention to make you pregnant, though."

"REE~" The whelp screeched, interrupting like a sharp knife cutting the air, breaking the strange tension in the atmosphere.

Sloth was shocked at the whelp's snarls that he almost dropped his favorite wooden stick at the obsidian lake.

Luna pressed her lips together to avoid snorting at how clumsy Sloth was that she could almost see Sloth's life flashing before his eyes.

"That was close."