Chapter 271: I Tried Kissing Away My Wife’s Anger… It Didn’t Work!

Inside, only Luke and Selene remained.

Free from the gazes of everyone.

Free from their judgment.

"Selene." Luke called her name again, but this time, his voice carried nothing only love.

Sadly, Selene wasn’t in her right state of mind.

To her, his gentle voice sounded no different from usual.

But Luke didn’t mind.

He continued softly,

"I missed you."

Those three words finally caused a reaction.

Selene’s eyes flickered for a brief moment, the deep crimson fading slightly before returning to their darker shade.

Luke noticed the change.

A gentle smile immediately appeared on his lips.

He slowly reached out and wrapped his arms around her.

Then he pulled her into a full embrace.

Fortunately, Selene didn’t reject him.

Otherwise, it would have hurt him for sure.

When Luke finally felt her warmth and caught the familiar, rose-like fragrance coming from her body, the restless feeling that had been building inside his heart finally began to settle.

He didn’t care about her current appearance.

He didn’t care about the terrifying crimson Essence surrounding her.

To him, she wasn’t the Crimson Witch.

She wasn’t a Vampire Princess.

She wasn’t some terrifying existence capable of making an entire academy tremble.

She was simply—

His wife.

His love.

And nothing else mattered.

So Luke finally let his emotions loose.

"How have you been all this time?"

"Did you eat properly?"

"Did you take care of yourself?"

He asked one question after another while holding her in his arms.

Selene didn’t answer with words.

Instead, she answered through her actions.

Slowly, she wrapped her arms around Luke’s larger body and hugged him tightly.

Luke didn’t mind.

In fact, he quietly enjoyed the warmth of her embrace.

"You didn’t answer my earlier question, darling~"

Yet Selene was clearly hell-bent on getting an answer.

The moment her words ended, Luke suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back.

His expression twitched.

’Huh?’

Then he realized what had happened.

Selene’s nails had slightly pierced into his back, drawing blood.

Yet despite that...

Her lips, still held that dangerous smile.

Seeing Selene’s actions becoming increasingly dangerous, Luke finally decided to explain himself, hoping his words would calm her down.

"I was planning to come to you from the very beginning."

"But those Tree Rats started causing trouble."

"So, to make sure they wouldn’t create any more drama later, I simply taught them a lesson."

After finishing, Luke leaned closer and gently pressed his lips against Selene’s pinkish-red lips.

Once again, she didn’t resist.

Instead, she allowed him to kiss her.

For several moments, the two of them simply lost themselves in the warmth of the kiss, forgetting everything outside the Null Veil.

"Mmmph..."

Eventually, Luke slowly broke the kiss.

A thin silver thread briefly stretched between their lips before disappearing.

"Mmph... Hah..."

Luke exhaled softly, a loving smile appearing on his face.

"Mhmmm, you’ve become even tastier."

As he said that, Luke noticed Selene’s eye color had lightened slightly.

For the briefest moment, the deep crimson faded...

Before darkening once again.

’Damn, what’s wrong with her eyes?’

’They’re changing like disco club lights.’

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Even the system became speechless after hearing that comparison.

But Luke completely ignored the horny system, which had apparently already booked his ticket to the next life.

"Darling~"

"Did you really think a kiss would be enough to hide your sin~?"

Selene clearly wasn’t going to calm down anytime soon.

But Luke wasn’t someone who gave up easily.

’If one kiss isn’t enough, then a hundred will do!’

With that determination, he leaned forward and kissed her again.

"Mmph?!"

Selene was startled by his sudden movement and the deeper kiss that followed.

For the next several minutes, the two remained wrapped in each other’s embrace, repeatedly breaking apart only briefly to catch their breath before their lips met again.

During this, Luke also kept pulling Selene closer, wanting to completely erase the distance between them.

With every kiss, his hold around her body tightened as he tried to bring her even closer.

Selene was doing the same.

Her nails were almost digging into Luke’s back, deliberately leaving painful marks.

She wanted him to feel it.

She wanted him to understand just how much she had suffered.

She had been waiting to meet him again all this time.

But because of her family responsibilities and academy work, she hadn’t been able to see him.

And then, he suddenly showed up here....

Yet, he wasn’t coming toward her.

Instead, he was getting lovey-dovey with another human woman.

"Then, why were you holding hands with that human woman earlier~?"

Selene finally asked after breaking away from the kiss.

Clearly, all of Luke’s hard work had accomplished nothing.

Luke’s expression froze.

For a moment, confusion appeared in his eyes.

Then Isaria’s figure appeared in his mind.

’That’s...?’

He looked at Selene’s crimson eyes.

He hadn’t actually held Isaria’s hand.

He had only removed her hand from his arm.

But Luke knew one thing.

If he tried explaining that right now, Selene probably wouldn’t believe him.

Not while she was in this state.

"Selene, I wasn’t being lovey-dovey."

"Instead, she was the one who brought me here. Otherwise, how could I have met my beautiful wife?"

Luke cleverly dodged the question without making the situation any more serious.

Even the system praised his quick thinking.

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"Oh~" Selene brought her face closer to his.

Luke could clearly see her fully exposed fangs.

’Are they erectile? growing and shrinking?’ A strange question crossed his mind.

But Selene’s next words immediately erased that thought.

"And what about Aurielle~?"

Her deep-red eyes met his lake-blue ones.

Then she repeated the question.

"Why have I heard that the two of you have fallen completely?"

This time, she didn’t use the strange accent from earlier. Her voice was much clearer.

It seemed that her mind was gradually returning to normal.

Luke wasn’t sure whether he should feel relieved or worried with this.

After all...

This was a very tricky question.

Since Luke knew from the beginning that no woman would be happy about her husband meeting other women,

And this rule even apply in this fantasy world, so he had to be extremely careful with what he said next.

Since one wrong word could make the situation much worse.

Meanwhile, different thoughts were running through Selene’s mind.

’I shouldn’t have left him with her.’