"...Hmmm." Evelyn moaned without stopping, scratching at the bed, while I gently stroked her tail, helping her. Despite the occasional moan, Evelyn’s body had stopped having spasms.

"Your body is adjusting to your tail, Evelyn. Just calm down and stay still." My own tail reacted with some jealousy, dragging against the floor with an irritating sound because I was stroking Evelyn’s tail.

’Quiet, you jealous thing! She’s my daughter!’ My tail whipped the floor in frustration at me as I stared at Evelyn’s face. She’d stopped scratching the bed and was drooling from the tonic immobility that comes from reaching the limit.

"Well, Evelyn, you’ll be paralyzed for a while, so don’t worry." I pressed her tail, holding the tip, bending it into an L shape, then tilting it further until it formed a C, stretching it.

Evelyn wasn’t really noticing anything. Because of the tonic immobility, her mind was inert and switched off, but I still talked to her to help her stay calm.

"Hmmm... here..." I released her tail, and it went completely limp, with little movement, until I pressed it near the base of her spine. That made it rise, becoming erect and active again.

My tail grew even more jealous of the contact that seemed "intimate," so it grabbed my leg, trying to pull me. I just sighed in frustration.

’This is exactly why I don’t give you affection, you jealous thing!’ I stepped on my tail. It writhed under my foot, getting skittish with me. My tail squirmed under my foot, escaping and moving away a little.

"Now, daughter, you should be in better sync with your tail by now. The state of tonic immobility ’reset’ your body and your tail, adjusting both of their reactions to match each other."

"Now it should be much easier to deal with it. It will react better based on what you feel. That won’t stop it from acting on its own, but it will prevent it from becoming something dangerous or destructive, so—"

"!!!" My tail grabbed Evelyn’s tail, starting to squeeze it. But instead of an attack, it stroked Evelyn’s tail. This infuriated me.

’Seriously!!? You’re trying to make me jealous?! I should rip you off my body!!’ I snarled at my tail, which was taking advantage of the situation. I’d never gotten along with this petty, jealous tail.

"Hmmph." I crossed my arms at my tail, which was stroking Evelyn’s tail. And the worst part was, this damned tail was doing a good job, massaging Evelyn’s tail even more efficiently than I had been.

’Really? Pretending to have some silly romance with my daughter’s tail!? When we get back to my house, I’ll stick you full of acupuncture needles.’ When I thought about those big, sharp needles, my tail squeezed reflexively, making Evelyn moan even though she was "frozen" in her current state.

"...!!!" My tail caressed Evelyn’s tail seductively, making Evelyn’s tail writhe in pleasure. This made me glare with hatred at this damned, disobedient tail.

If it weren’t doing such a good massage job on Evelyn, I’d be destroying it right now!! And as irritating as its silly game was, it made me jealous.

It had never been this gentle and affectionate with me. My tail was more likely to knock me to the floor at a party than try to give me affection. And yet... yet it was stroking Evelyn as if she were a fragile treasure.

’Ah... needles aren’t enough... I’ll have to shove iron bars into every nerve you have!’ My tail, armed with a boldness it couldn’t maintain, coiled and intertwined with Evelyn’s tail.

"Now that’s enough, you’ve crossed the line!" I grabbed it with my hand, trying to pull it away. I was glad Evelyn wasn’t really mentally present to see this farce; it would be embarrassing for her to see the strange relationship my tail and I had.

"Let go of my daughter, you cold, scaly thing!" I shook it carefully. Unfortunately, if I pulled hard, the scales on my tail would cut Evelyn’s fragile tail!! This damned tail was smart and knew it.

’Damn it, damn it, damn it! Why does it have to know what I think and feel!’ It knew because I knew! Having a rebellious tail really sucked. Evelyn was lucky her tail seemed quite responsive and obedient.

"Evelyn, you don’t know how lucky you are to have inherited a tail with as good a temperament as your grandmother’s! Because seriously! What kind of tail pretends to be having sex with its daughter’s tail!? It’s—" As I was speaking, I heard the door open.

I quickly looked back, shocked by the strange situation, to see who had entered, until I saw Esther. Esther looked at my tail intertwined with Evelyn’s, and her gaze turned dangerous.

CRANK.

I caught a black spear by the tip with my fingers. An attack with clear murderous intent. My tail coiled more tightly around Evelyn’s tail.

"What do you think you’re doing with my wife?" she asked sharply, the question only coming after she’d tried to kill me in a lunge.

"...I’m helping her, after you forced her tail to end up like this!" I said, already angry at the situation, and with someone ready for me to take my rage out on.

"Helping? I’m sure I heard ’having sex with her daughter’s tail’ just a moment ago."

"!!!"

’Oh shit, she only heard the worst part!’ I said "pretending." My tail was doing this to make me jealous, so nothing was really happening, but this damned woman didn’t look like she was going to listen to that.

"Isn’t it undignified for a noble like you to invade the queen’s room without knocking?" I said while squeezing the blade of her weapon, overloading it with so much electricity that the ore heated up, melting under my hands and dripping to the floor.

"What I do or don’t do with my wife and her quarters is none of your business, you old gecko." She released the weapon, which clattered metallically to the floor.

"G-Gecko?!" I became furious hearing such an absurd demeaning of my species. Me, a dragon, being compared to such inferior beings? It was an unforgivable outrage.

"It seems I’ll have to rip out that rebellious tongue of yours." The air in the room began to heat up with small electrical discharges escaping my body.

"Very well, I’ll rip out much more than just your tongue." She spoke as if she could, pulling another weapon from her storage ring, while I prepared to kill this damned, disrespectful woman who was just like her mother.

"S-Stop fighting in my room..." I looked back, seeing that Evelyn was recovering from the tonic immobility.

"That’s ugly... veeeeery ugly! I... I... I’ll get angry!" Her words came out slurred because she couldn’t move her mouth and face properly. Her tail was also moving erratically from being synchronized.

"...Daughter, we’re not fighting." My tail, sensing the tense atmosphere, released Evelyn’s tail and returned to my side.

"You got lucky today." Esther spoke, passing by me to approach Evelyn. I watched her pick Evelyn up and move her to the part of the bed without tears. But my gaze went only to Esther’s empty eyes.

’...’ I knew that look. The look of a "Love Slave," just like my mother. I smiled, seeing that it seemed someone had sunk just as deep as my daughter.

"Pathetic." I went to the door, insulting Esther. She was so pathetic. Evelyn had no chance of overcoming love because she was a dragon; it was an invincible instinct. But Esther didn’t have that, and yet she had that look. What a pathetic woman.

"This isn’t over here." Esther spoke as I opened the door.

"Yes, it’s not over, and it won’t be over anytime soon. After all, this is my daughter. I have to make sure a pest like you doesn’t cross the line with her. I’ll be watching, Esther. News travels fast in this kingdom." I closed the door, leaving the room and the two of them behind.

"..."

’Look at the situations you get me into!’ I complained to my tail, which always got me into trouble. Things like this had happened before, when my tail spanked certain noblewomen’s behinds. It was so frustrating to have a rebellious tail that tried to make me jealous.

"And I couldn’t even talk about boundaries with Evelyn..." If I’d stayed near that damned pale woman, I’d undoubtedly end up fighting with her, and we’d cause problems.

But I should warn Evelyn to be more careful with her silly, unprotected romance. After all, she was still too young to have a baby.

’I wonder if I was mistaken...’ Evelyn had the electric scent of two active conductors, which I could describe as a dragon’s "fertile period" where both ovaries are "active." Just as beastmen had what they called "heat," dragons had their own version of it.

It didn’t necessarily make the person crave pleasure, but it undoubtedly increased the chance of accidentally having a child, because the tail was a conductor that sought magic on its own, so the chances of a baby being born by accident were real.

Especially now that her body was in puberty. So Evelyn should be more careful about what she was storing in her tail, because from the look in that woman’s eyes, I wouldn’t put it past Esther to kill the baby to avoid "competition."

"Well, it’s just chance anyway! I bet Esther knows where the dangerous limit is! She wouldn’t accidentally knock up my little girl, right? Hahaha." You’d have to be really stupid not to want a child and not take precautions against it.

"Now..." I grabbed my tail. It bristled.

"You’ll pay for that farce you pulled." I squeezed it angrily, walking towards the guest room in the castle.