Ch.23Chapter 23 – It Was Sick

– BANG!!

As the closed reception room door swung open and Sharlotte Holmes entered, a momentary silence fell over the room.

“…You’re here, Sharlotte.”

“It seems the client has already left.”

Microny, who had begun buttoning up her hastily undone chest buttons, and Issac Adler, who urgently turned his gaze aside while wiping his mouth.

“Seriously.”

Sharlotte, glaring sharply at the two, turned to Microny and asked a question.

“…What were you two doing sitting in the same place?”

“Adler wanted to join the Diogenes Club.”

“I was filling out a membership application, Miss Holmes.”

Their answers flowed as naturally as water.

Even someone with pathological jealousy would have nodded in agreement.

“………”

If only her sister, with clear teeth marks on her neck, hadn’t been blushing to her ears with an expression like that of a young girl she’d never seen before.

Perhaps Sharlotte would have unconsciously nodded too.

“What’s wrong?”

As Sharlotte, who had been staring intently at him with a serious expression, approached, Adler tilted his head.

“…Miss Holmes?”

Sharlotte grabbed Adler’s arm, pulled him to his feet, and sent him out of the room.

“Wait there for a moment.”

After saying that, she quietly closed the door.

“”………….””

In the silence that began to flow through the room again, Sharlotte, who had been staring at her sister, began her introduction.

“You arranged to get me out of here, didn’t you, sister?”

Microny quietly nodded.

Sharlotte frowned at her sister’s still-flushed face and asked in a cold voice.

“What exactly did you do with Adler here?”

At that question, Microny squinted her eyes and rolled them around for a while.

“…Sharlotte.”

Then, resting her chin on her hand, she began to whisper in a low voice.

“I never imagined I’d have to say this to my cute and beloved sister…”

As she recalled the most intense minutes of her life.

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“Hmm…”

When Issac Adler peeked in while staring at her, Microny wasn’t particularly moved.

What was happening now was just one of dozens of scenarios she had played out in her head.

‘He won’t be able to make me feel anything anyway.’

But no matter how many women in London Issac Adler had been intimate with, he couldn’t satisfy her.

Because Microny Holmes, like her sister, had a “Curse.”

“I’m sorry, but I’m already married to England.”

Because of that curse, Microny couldn’t easily feel stimulation or enjoyment from anything. In other words, she was born with congenital lethargy and anhedonia.

The only things she took interest in were her homeland, England, and her cute sister.

By directly running a nation like England and forcing herself into a busy daily life, she could somewhat alleviate her boredom.

And observing her sister, who was one of the few beings with intelligence matching her own, was quite interesting.

“Therefore, regrettably.”

For this reason, Issac Adler was clearly a target for elimination in her eyes.

Although she was approaching a state of ennui, Adler was still an enemy threatening the safety of England, which was one of the few things she found interesting.

Moreover, a few days ago, he had even seduced her one and only cute and lovable sister.

He truly deserved his nickname as the male fox who had charmed all of London.

She gave him five minutes in the hope that perhaps he might entertain her too, but watching his actions, it seemed the conclusion was already drawn.

“The method you’ve been using won’t work at all…”

The fact that the man named Issac Adler would disappear from London today.

“You’ll have to be my blood bag.”

“Pardon?”

However, her conclusion, which seemed unlikely to change:

– Slurp.

“……..?”

When Adler, contrary to expectations, bit her slender neck with his eyes turned red, her resolve slowly began to crumble.

“What are you doing, Mr. Adler?”

“……….”

“That’s quite aggressive for foreplay……”

As Adler looked up at her while biting her neck, Microny’s face, which had been asking questions with a relaxed expression:

“…….but.”

Suddenly showed signs of confusion.

“…….?”

A tingling sensation rose in her neck. And soon after, she began to feel Adler’s sharp teeth digging into her neck.

‘What is this?’

At the same time, a prickling pain spread from her neck through all her nerves.

That sensation was something Microny had never felt before in her life.

“Ugh.”

Drugs that would pickle another person’s brain, pain that would make anyone else reveal any information, even the magic stone said to provide a preview of the afterlife.

None had ever given her any sensation.

“Mmh… ugh…”

But now, Adler’s act of “blood-sucking” as he closed his eyes and sucked her blood with his teeth embedded in her neck.

It was giving Microny the first stimulation of her life.

“W-wait a moment.”

Thanks to this, Microny, who had been frozen stiff like a machine with broken logic circuits, suddenly came to her senses and pushed Adler away.

– Slurp.

He licked the blood flowing from her neck with his tongue, then quietly stared at her while wiping his mouth with his sleeve.

“What… did you do?”

“Blood-sucking.”

“I know that. But why….”

“…Are you asking why you can feel ‘stimulation’?”

When Microny quietly nodded, Adler answered in a low voice.

“Recently, I became a true Vampire through certain means. I can transfer my mana and vampirism to those I bite.”

“…Vampires.”

“And by controlling the concentration, I can maximize the sensation in the bitten area.”

His eyes were still glowing red.

“To explain the principle, while being bitten, you’re soaked in my weakened mana and temporarily become a vampire.”

“………”

“Even a cursed body obeys its master’s commands.”

“…Is that magically possible?”

Microny tilted her head at this strange method she had never considered.

“Malicious code… infiltrating mana to seize control of the other party. It’s an approach method I’ve been devising for a long time.”

“Without the ability to create new magic, such a method is impossible…”

“You talk too much.”

But without even listening to her complete sentence, Adler leaned in again.

“Just be a good blood bag.”

“W-wait.”

Microny extended her hand at his darkly glowing eyes, but she was helplessly caught by Adler’s hand.

“Weren’t you the one who said to use any means necessary, Miss Microny?”

Born with a naturally weak constitution and never having exercised in her life, with all the nutrients she occasionally consumed going straight to her chest, there was no way for her to break free from Adler’s grip.

“…..!…..!!”

Moreover, the agents outside had somehow withdrawn their killing intent and were in disarray.

“Wait… ugh.”

At this series of variables, as her squinted eyes trembled slightly, Adler’s teeth dug into the opposite side of her neck.

“…Ahh.”

With both hands caught and unable to resist Adler who had pounced on her, Microny could only close her eyes tightly as he sucked her blood.

‘…It hurts.’

A girl with severe anhedonia who had wished to feel even a single stimulation in her lifetime.

‘So this is what pain feels like.’

For her, the pain of blood-sucking, which would make even ordinary people cry out, was like an unstoppable massive current.

– Shudder…

‘…I didn’t know it would be this dangerous.’

Her brain, helplessly swept away by that current, stopped for the first time in her life, turning completely white.

The perfect stimulation that no drug or hallucinogen could recreate was already dominating her entire body.

“Ugh… ugh…”

Thus, Microny, caught in the grip of the stimulation that had captured her entire body, continued to breathe heavily for a while.

– Slide…

“…..?”

Then, feeling her neck become empty, she quietly began to blink her eyes.

“………”

Adler, who had licked her neck once and dropped his head, was staring at her.

“Five minutes have passed, Miss Microny.”

At this sight, she looked puzzled, then stared blankly at Adler after hearing his words.

“Have you now understood why you shouldn’t kill me?”

As Adler, who was still holding both her arms, added this, Microny’s eyes, hidden in her squint, revealed themselves.

“I’m sorry, but I neither understand nor am satisfied.”

Eventually, a cold voice flowed from her mouth.

“…However.”

As Adler heard that voice and closed his eyes with a resigned expression:

“Five minutes haven’t passed yet.”

Her quiet sophistry began to be heard again.

“……….”

Puzzled by her words, Adler looked at the clock she pointed to and was at a loss for words.

“It’s still 12:10.”

“……….”

“There are about 55 minutes left until 1:05.”

Although “pain” should instinctively be repulsive, Microny, who had felt something for the first time in her life, was in no position to be picky.

She didn’t know what would happen later, but right now, she wanted to be soaked in that intense stimulation.

“But if I bite any more, your life might be in danger.”

“Why?”

“Your skin is so delicate that even biting your relatively sturdy neck is too much for your blood vessels.”

To her, Adler began to make excuses while sweating nervously.

“Then you can bite below my neck.”

“What?”

However, the obsession of a woman who had fallen into something for the first time in her life was more terrifying than expected.

“I never thought my overly abundant flesh would be helpful.”

Just as her sister had done.

– Slide…

It was a short time later when Sharlotte opened the door and entered.

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“…Your boyfriend is amazing.”

The first words Microny uttered after finishing her reminiscence, with her eyes fully open, were a sentence that was hard to believe came from her.

“What?”

To Sharlotte, who momentarily looked blank, Microny added in a low voice.

“I want to use him too.”

“…You’ve gone mad.”

The dark gazes of the two sisters began to quietly intersect in the empty space.

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As I’m slumped outside the reception room with tension drained from me, a message with welcome content appears before my eyes.

[Probability of being killed: 69%->33%]

“Huh?”

Seeing this, it seems I’m quite adept at improvisation.

[Probability of being imprisoned: 40%->60%]

[Probability of being kidnapped: 25%->50%]

“…Ah.”

In a bad way.