Don't Compare Yourself

"But still, even though it might not have hurt you, my tongue still harmed you like you said it would." She looked down and said in a dejected manner.

"I guess no matter how I try, I can't do everything a human girl can do for you."

"You can." I immediately said, when I heard her heartbreaking words.

"I can?"

"Yes, you definitely can." I said, with resolve in my voice, which made her eyes light up.

"And you should stop comparing yourself to those boring human girls since you can do a lot more than whatever they can do."

"Like what?" She asked, looking forward to knowing what she could do that human girls couldn't.

"Like..."

I then bent down to her ears and whispered some words. 

When I got back up, after saying the things only she can, I looked down to see her face dripping red and her tail slowly moving side to side as if it were both nervous and excited.

"Pervert. You really are a pervert..." I heard Astrid's voice from below as she looked at me in a coquettish manner.

"How could you even think of doing those embarassing things that I'm pretty sure no one in the minotaur race has ever done before?"

"Hmph! Don't compare me to those ignorant fools who don't possess any creativity and didn't even think of using a treasure like a Minotauress's body to its fullest potential." I harshly scolded every member of her race and felt sad for the female minotaurs, who had the most basic sex, when there were so many other ways they could be pleasured using their body's characteristics.

"And don't you ever compare yourself to a human again since you are beautiful the way you are. And not even a thousand human girls would make me choose them over you."

"Just those gorgeous gray eyes of yours would make half the human female popular feel shame at their inferiority." I also harshly scolded every single woman who was human and reprimanded her along the way.

This made her bashfully nod her head as her ears turned pink in colour. Her tail also started to fiercely sweep the ground, as if it were really happy and elated and wanted to dance out in joy.

"But do I have to do all of the things you said?" She asked as she looked up, feeling a little bashful about what I said I was going to do to her later.

"Do you not want to?" I asked back with a smile on my face.

"N-No...I-I also want to do it...I also want to do it with you." 

"...I want to do everything with you for the rest of my life."

She looked at me with watery eyes and said timidly, which looked extremely adorable and made me want to pinch her puffy red cheeks so hard.

I don't think I would be able to stop myself after I started, so I didn't pinch her cheeks like I wanted to. 

And instead, I patted her soft head while my pinky rubbed her horn and said 

"That's a good little calf..."

And then gave her a soft smile and said 

"...My little good calf."

Drip~

My words seemed to have a deep effect on her, as the moment I mentioned that she was mine, I saw her understand turn really dark at the bottom, and a drop of fluid escaped her soaking wet panties and ran down her butt until it dripped to the ground.

I could also see her looking at me more lovingly than before, with a spellbound look in her murky, grey eyes, as if she had already given her heart and entire existence to me. 

And she trusted me to keep her happy and safe for the rest of my life.

There was an Ancient saying in the guidebook that those bound by Bloodline were all fated with one another. And they were all past partners in their previous lives, which wasn't proven and was simply said among idle folk in the Ancient times which I really didn't think much of when I first read the guidebook.

But now that I'm living the story, I feel that what they said might actually be true. As I feel that me and Astrid might really have been lovers in the past, that have been separated by death; the only barrier that could keep us apart. 

I say this because my heart was beating really fast right now when I saw that affectionate look on her face, that seemed to have ignited some kind of flame in me that wanted me to treasure this girl and keep her safe for the rest of my life.

I don't know if it was because of Love, Fate, the Attraction caused by our Bloodlines or because I'm the protagonist of this novel's story that caused me to feel this way. But I knew for sure that I wouldn't hesitate to climb a mountain or dive to the bottom of the sea, just to see her smile.

The last person to make me feel this way was my sister. I thought that she would be the last person in my life who would want to make me want to protect them with my life. But I didn't expect that there would suddenly be another one.

I thought I would progress through this novel, keeping in mind that this was all a story and it would end on the final page like any other novel. And thought of maintaining a certain distance from whoever I met, no matter how lovely they were, since it wasn't clear if I would even see them again by the end.

But it seems like I can't have that shallow mindset now that I look at Astrid as my own, which also means I might have to change my wish according to how this story might end.

Not to mention the several other girls I'll meet in the story that I might or might not feel the same way about.

I don't know if this is a good thing or if it's something that will hinder me in the future. But now that it's like this and there's no turning back unless I turn into an emotional husk, I'm going to follow through and carry it out all the way, no matter who or what opposes me in the end.

Unless God himself doesn't come down and stops me from moving forward. Then I'll make sure that whoever tries to stop me lives a life that will make him regret even being born into this world. And will make him blame his own mother for giving birth to his existence and pushing him into his eternal suffering.

"Luca." I heard Astrid's soft voice from below, that woke me up from my daze.

"What is it, Astrid?" I looked down, only to see Astrid holding my pants nervously with an anxious and slightly fearful look in her eyes.

"You looked really scary just now." Astrid said.

"I look really scary now?"

"No. You look fine right now. But right before I called you, you had a really scary look in your eyes, which made you look like a completely different person."

"What type of person did I look like?" I asked, a little curious about what she was going to say.

"I don't know. Your eyes just turned pitch black all of a sudden and lost all of their luster."

"It was almost as if you turned into the cold, emotionless, and eerie person your classmates described you as." Astrid softly said as she held my pants in worry, as if she were afraid something had happened to me.

Seeing her like this really hurt me, like when I saw my sister have a really bad day. So to quickly cheer her up, I said, as if I just realised something 

"Ohhh..I think I finally found out why my classmates described me in such a way."

"You did?" 

"Yep. The thing is, I had a really bad meal a few days ago, and I've been feeling really constipated ever since, and it still hasn't let down one bit. I've also been told a couple of times before that when I'm having a stomachache or headache, I look like what you told for some reason."

"My classmates must have misunderstood the pain I was going through this past as something else and informed you I look like such a scary person."

"But man, to think I would get such a bad rep just because I was feeling a little down about my tummy. I never should've eaten that damned meal." I scolded the imaginary chef I made up in my head.

"So that scary look on your face is because you weren't feeling well." She said, as her ears perked up.

"Phew...You don't understand how relieved that makes me."

"I was on the brink of crying when you started to stare out the window like that since I thought your soul left your body and left me with an emotionless shell of your existence." She heaved a sigh of relief, seeing that it wasn't anything serious like she thought it was.

"But should you really be relieved? And not on guard against." I smiled.

"Why should I do that?" She asked, clueless as to what I was talking about.

"Well, I just said I have a severe case of constipation. Which also means that I can let out some dangerous gas."

"And looking at where you're sitting, you're in the most vulnerable spot if I let out some gas that I've been holding in."

"That's so gross, Luca!" Astrid seemed pissed I was talking about such vulgar thing to a girl like her.

"And you're dead to me if you fart right now! Do you hear that! Your dead to me!" She warned,.and gave me an additional warning by pinching my legs a few times.

"Fine. Fine. I won't fart on your face." I laughed out loud, which made her pout in anger.