First Demonic Dragon - Chapter 892

Chapter 892: Playing Hard to Get?
“Are you sure you’re not just overthinking?”

Izanami remained face down in her bed with a dark misty aura surrounding her depressed body.

“She almost said it, Nyx. Abaddon likely won’t marry me… It’s hopeless.” Izanami sighed. Having hope was nice while it lasted.

Maybe in the future she would get back to that dreamworld of hers again.

“Is she always this depressing?”

Izanami sat up and narrowed her eyes at the other individual in the room.

Erebus was seated on a chair while Nyx was sprawled comfortably across his lap like a kitten.

“Bookie-Butt!” Nyx scolded.”Don’t make fun of my friend. She’s gone through a very hard time right now ever since our mother jumped into her head..”

“Oh, right…”

“…” Sometimes, Izanami was embarrassed with herself for embarking on a few millennia-long murder spree.

Other times, she didn’t feel like that was enough.

Nyx and Erebus were back on good terms now. That unfortunately meant that they were absolutely intolerable to be around.

The pet names, incessant coddling, and rampant PDA were only making poor Izanami’s mood worse.

“I’m just saying that there may be some merit to not sitting here and wallowing.” Erebus said more gently than before. “Maybe go on the offensive a bit.”

Izanami lifted her head from the confines of her bed and stared at the obsidian-skinned god.

“…You mean tie him up and…”

Izanami proceeded to spew a string of words that Erebus never thought he would hear from such a baby-faced deity.

“I mean… that’s not exactly what I was getting at?”

“Oh..” Izanami put her head back down. Deflated like a popped balloon.

“I was thinking more like being harder to get. Show him that you don’t have to wait around for his decision with bated breath. That you’re a beautiful goddess with options in front of you.”

Nyx and Izanami stared at Erebus like he had grown a second head.

“…You want to imbue a scarcity mindset in the embodiment of sexuality?”

“Are you absolutely devoid of any sort of rationality?”

Erebus shrugged and the two women were extremely tempted to hit him.

“Dunderhead.” Nyx gave Erebus a small headbutt. “Abaddon isn’t the kind of petulant child that would work on.”

“I’ve literally seen him watch cartoons with complete focus?”

“… Okay, but still.” Nyx shook her head. “I can’t tell you just how bad what you’re proposing could go. You might make him kill his own people.”

“He wouldn’t do something like that.” Erebus rolled his eyes.

Nyx and Izanami just stared at him. Many gods had killed many people for much, much less.

Abaddon loved his citizens like they were his own children, but… Nyx wasn’t sure if he loved them that much.

“I’m not saying she has to go out and throw herself at a random dragon.” Erebus rolled his eyes. “I just think it might help if-”

*Ta-Ting!*

Izanami’s phone suddenly vibrated and earned the attention of everyone inside.

A fit of giggles soon burst out of the deathly goddess as she absentmindedly kicked her feet behind her.

“Hehehe… He sent me a picture of Darius as a baby!” Izanami showed the couple.

Nyx noticed Abaddon’s contact name on her phone. It was something so perverted that even she thought it was a little much.

*Ka-Ting!*

Izanami’s face lit up.

“He asked what I was doing! What should I say??”

“…Tell him you’re about to go out to a bar with us.” Erebus said after a brief pause.

Curious, Izanami decided to give it a chance.

Typing out the message, she pressed send and waited for a response.

*Knock, knock, knock!!*

A series of hard knocks against the door made everyone look up.

With a knowing smirk, Izanami stood up from her bed and pulled open the door.

Standing outside with a noticeable vein bulging in his neck was a smiling, sharp-toothed Abaddon.

“Umm… Hey.”

Izanami fought the urge to snicker. “Hey.”

“Soo… A bar.”

“Yup.”

“Cool, cool… Which one?”

Izanami didn’t actually have an answer for that. Luckily, Erebus was still committed to the act.

“Twin Tails.” Erebus called out.

‘Twin Tails’ was a relatively new and notorious chain of swingers bars in Tehom. Every drink was laced with some sort of aphrodisiac or pheromone. The dress code? Topless. Men and women alike.

They even had back rooms for public use that accommodated as many as 30 at a time… as well as recording equipment.

Darius had his last six birthday parties there. The man’s even got his picture on the wall.

Even more veins pushed their way out of Abaddon’s neck as he forced his smile to widen.

“Is that so…? I wasn’t aware that you knew about such a place.”

Izanami shrugged. “Well Erebus and Nyx were telling me about it and said it might be fun… I don’t really know much about it though.”

“Is that so…?” The veins around Abaddon’s chest eye were beginning to bulge as well.

He glanced inside the room and found that Nyx and Erebus were already shirtless.

Those bastards were really planning to take her!

Izanami seemed amused. “Is that the only thing you know how to say today?”

Abaddon shook his head hard to force his brain to reboot.

His smile was suddenly much more innocent.

“Sorry, I think Twin Tails is closed today.”

“I didn’t say which one we were going to.”

“They’re all closed.” Abaddon smiled again.

Izanami’s lips curled into a smile. “I see… Well, now I have nothing to do then. I suppose we could always find another nightclub.”

The words ‘Hell no’ almost flew out of Abaddon’s mouth with such an undeniable quickness that it was a miracle he could stop himself.

“Actually… I had some business to attend to in heaven. I’m aware it’s not exactly a date, but maybe afterwards we could-”

“I’ll meet you at the chariot now if you like?”

Erebus almost fell out of his chair in disbelief. ‘What happened to her playing hard to get??’

‘You talked about it, babe. She never said she was going to listen.’ Nyx patted her husband on the head apologetically.

Abaddon scratched the back of his head while a small smile formed on his face.

“I needed to shower first, but-”

“Cool, I’ll wait in your room.”

Izanami wandered down the hallway with an unusual amount of pep in her step and humming a gentle tune.

Abaddon watched her leave for a moment longer before he glanced back inside her room.

Nyx didn’t even bother feigning ignorance.

“It was his idea.” She pointed at her husband.

Erebus slowly turned to stare at Nyx with his mouth open and a look of betrayal.

“Hand.” Abaddon said.

“What?”

“Hand.” He repeated.

Erebus warily held out one of his hands.

Quicker than the eye could follow, Abaddon ripped off two of Erebus’ fingers and jammed them up his nose.

He rushed out of the room to follow Izanami while the darkness god gagged on the floor.

–

Izanami was painfully aware of the distance between herself and the bathroom door.

Everyone thinks women aren’t as big perverts as men are. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Because as Izanami shifted back and forth on the sofa within their room, she was barely resisting the urge to go and peek at him like a thirteen-year-old boy.

‘Stay calm, stay calm. Be rational, composed, and play hard to get. Don’t let him know he can have you in the palm of his hands whenever he feels like it… by the stars, his hands..’

Izanami picked up one of the nearby pillows and screamed into it.

She placed it back down beside her and sighed in relief.

‘This is it. Composed. Rational. Pure of mind and spirit.’ She nodded.

Amid her inner pep talk, a lone figure sat up in the bed across the room.

Silently, she slipped out of her bed and wandered over to the sofa where Izanami sat.

Still oblivious to the other person in the room, Izanami was busy staring into the fireplace.

There, a very large dragon egg sat atop a bed of soft orange flames. Their low, crackling of the fire echoed around in her ears and relaxed her anxious mind.

“That little one seems to be taking his time.”

Izanami turned around and found a most impressive sight.

Bekka yawned as she pulled on a bathrobe without bothering to tie it closed.

Once again, Izanami was at perfect eye level with the exposed body of someone in this marriage. If she didn’t know any better, she would swear that they were doing this to her on purpose.

“H-Hello, Bekka. Have you rested well?”

Bekka grinned impossibly wide as she sat down next to Izanami. “Why so stiff? I’m assuming you didn’t sneak in here or anything.”

“N-No, I..”

Izanami took a deep breath. Her voice was much steadier the second time around.

“Abaddon is going off to heaven… he invited me to go with him. A-And then maybe we’ll… go and get dinner or something afterward. I’m not really sure.”

Bekka was immediately intrigued by the potential of going out to eat. “Oh, that’s… fun. I hope you two enjoy each other.”

Izanami could feel Bekka’s tail moving through the sofa cushions.

She was suddenly much less intimidated.

“…Will you be coming with us?”

Bekka’s eyes lit up. “No takebacks, Izzy!”

“I would never.” Izanami laughed.

Bekka stood up and pulled Izanami to her feet with her.

“W-Where are we going?”

Bekka smirked and started pulling her towards the bathroom door.

“Washing up.”

“I-I’m not dirty!”

“I’m just going to check.”

“C-Check?!”

While Bekka pulled Izanami towards the very place that she was trying to avoid, her heart was beating faster than it ever had in her entire life.

As Bekka pulled the door open and steam rushed out, both women missed the sound of a distinctive cracking noise…