Demon Capture [Otome]

[A crossover with The Day and Night of Taming a Villain Next Door. Lucifer is the same Lucifer]

Recently, a new tenant moved in next door.

He was pale, like a meticulously crafted doll.

He always appeared when I came home from work, smiling gently and greeting me politely.

I thought he was a good person, at least until I was kidnapped.

Yes, I was kidnapped.

I was taken to a building full of demons, where every week I had to become a demon's contract lover and serve as their "medicine" to ease their curses. I was basically their housekeeper, too.

And he was actually Lucifer, the demon of Pride, one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

[Envy]

The demon living on the top floor rarely went out.

He had countless tentacles that could extend and retract at will, and a set of hard scales, yet he couldn't walk or leave the water.

Whenever I brought him food, he would open the door just a crack and reach out with a tentacle to take it.

He disliked demons who could fully transform into human form, and he hated me even more.

But he was jealous. The demons I treated as equals were taking away the gaze that should have belonged to him alone.

His icy tentacle suddenly tightened around my neck, and a wine-stain blush spread across the corners of his eyes.

It was the madness of possessiveness burning through him. He wanted to bind me tight, drag me into that deep blue cage, and make it an endless hell where only the two of us were imprisoned.

[Lust: Contains infidelity]

The room on the sixth floor was always filled with a cloying fragrance, and outsiders came and went frequently.

He always dined when the clock struck midnight, politely and elegantly thanking me for taking care of him.

As a demon of Lust, he was perfection itself, so I always made a point of avoiding him.

And he seemed baffled that I was immune to his charms.

The way he looked at me grew more and more unsettling.

His gaze grew deeper, wetter, hotter, until he could no longer control his private desire to touch me.

When daylight broke, I was trapped on a velvet bed, and he revealed his true nature, demanding everything from me, including my desire.

[Pride]

Pride, the demon who brought me here, lived in the largest room on the first floor.

He had personally bound me and brought me into this building, branded me, and arrogantly called me his "pet."

He promised he could let me leave, so I seized the opportunity and acted obediently.

When his guard was down, I found my chance and escaped him.

It didn't matter. I was just a housekeeper, an insignificant presence to him.

But my dreams began to go wrong. Every night, he broke in and whispered sweet nothings to me in my dreams.

When I opened my eyes, he was gripping my waist, the fire of desire burning in his pupils as he dragged me back to that gloomy little building, to that dim room.

[Reading Guide]

I'm still only highlighting three of them, but I'll write all seven.

A female-oriented romance featuring a love triangle among seven demons. The protagonist changes who she looks after each week.

A series of stories with some overarching plotlines.

One male lead is unfaithful. This is marked above, so you can skip it directly.

A Japanese light novel style, with my own take on theology. It's not rigorous, so don't overthink it.

Theme: Love yourself. Love can overcome anything.