[Is that settled now?]
Lilith wiped the holy water running down his cheek with a deliberately displeased tone.
Holy water was the absolute antithesis of Demonic Energy, but it posed him no particular problem.
The temporary body he had been able to create through the sacrifice of ten lovers functioned every bit as impressively as the devotion that had gone into making it.
Even contact with holy water caused no rejection whatsoever, allowing him to behave exactly like an ordinary human.
Except for the limitations that it broke down after a month and could only be used by him, its performance was quite excellent indeed.
“…I suppose so.”
However, even that excellent temporary body could not remove his impression that holy water was disgusting, filthy, and horrible.
Lilith quickly wiped away the moisture while forcing his expression to remain calm.
To everyone watching, his aversion would probably look like indignation at having been mistaken for a demon, combined with desperation not to catch a cold.
“So you really were a normal person!”
[Obviously. Now that we have established that, I would appreciate it if you put aside any further suspicions.]
More importantly, how long was he supposed to endure these damned baptisms with holy water?
It was something he invariably went through whenever he seduced someone, and yet no matter how many times it happened, he could never become accustomed to it.
It was all because he still could not bring himself to love this world.
[It is a common enough occurrence, so I…