Chapter 378: Baby (2)
Unlike Kesuye, Everly’s feelings were not quite so pure.
Even Kesuye himself couldn’t explain where his “liking” for her came from. But if you asked Everly why she liked Kesuye, she could easily list several reasons, one after another:
First, he was good-looking, and being around him was pleasing both physically and emotionally. Second, she had always liked being in control, while he was perfectly happy to let her take control, so their personalities meshed exceptionally well. Third, he gave her an almost absurd degree of trust. No matter what she asked him to do, he would never hesitate in the slightest. Likewise, Everly could trust him completely and would never harbor any suspicion toward Kesuye. Fourth, he wasn’t human, and his lifespan was just as long as hers. Fifth, he liked her, and if she liked him too, being together would be wonderfully easy…
The purer and cleaner Kesuye’s feelings were, the more they highlighted the flaws inherent in Everly’s humanity—flaws she could never completely cast off.
This naturally left her with a sense of guilt. As the two of them continued spending time together, she consciously treated Kesuye well. Whenever he asked something of her, as long as it didn’t violate her principles, Everly would usually agree, using it to make up for the fact that her own “motives” for being with him weren’t entirely pure.
Perhaps this was how human boundaries gradually eroded—through one concession after another.
Looking back, the way they had interacted when they first got together had been perfectly normal. Like any ordinary couple, they kissed, held hands, hugged, and kept each other company intimately… She couldn’t say when it happened, but at some point, something unusual began to emerge within their otherwise normal relationship.
It was also around then that Everly discovered that Kesuye’s human form had tentacles too.
They were hidden in the hollow of his lower back. When the soft yet resilient flesh on the surface split open, pink tentacles resembling octopus arms would emerge one after another through the openings.