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In the sudden situation, my hastily moving hands didn’t properly obey my will.

I couldn’t even properly unfasten the buckle that I usually loosened with ease, fumbling nervously. I couldn’t help but glance at Killua, filled with anxiety and embarrassment.

Killua, dressed only in white underwear, pretended to be unfazed, but she was still clearly embarrassed, her arms tightly crossed as she deliberately avoided looking at me.

“I… I’ve taken them off.”

I, too, barely managed to take off my pants, waiting for her instructions, dressed only in a single piece of underwear covering my privates.

“Good. First, lie down on the ground.”

Following her instructions, I slowly lay down in the center of the magic circle drawn on the open ground.

In contrast to the warm night air, I felt the cool, soft earth gently enveloping my back.

A sigh escaped her lips.

Soon after, Killua, having steeled her resolve, let out another short sigh and climbed onto my body, which was lying on the ground.

And then, she pressed her ankles against mine, followed by her calves, then her thighs.

“Ugh!”

The moment our pelvises met, the surprisingly soft touch of her body made me involuntarily let out a groan, and I struggled to suppress my awareness from focusing on a certain significant area.

“……”

The moment our lower bodies pressed together, the touch was so soft it made my mind hazy. No matter how much I endured, my body instinctively reacted.

Killua seemed to feel the slight twitching movement of my ‘avatar’ beneath my thin underwear, as she furrowed her brow slightly and stopped moving.

“I’m… I’m sorry.”

My face crimson, I could only apologize to her.

“No, it’s fine. It’s a natural reaction.”

But as if she had already expected such a reaction, Killua resumed pressing our bodies together.

After our pelvises, came our lower abdomens and stomachs. Then, her chest, and her small, delicate head rested against my chest.

“How is it? Can you bear it?”

Killua, who had completely pressed her body against mine, asked about my condition.

“Uh… somehow… I think I can bear it.”

To somehow suppress the instinctive urges arising from our pressed bodies, my breathing was already rough with tension and a pounding heart.

The moment I relaxed even a little, my ‘avatar’ would surely stand up and assert its presence.

And with our bodies completely pressed together, the movement of my ‘avatar’ would be unmistakably clear and impossible to hide.

“Just bear with it a little longer. I’ll finish quickly.”

As if to consider my situation, Killua closed her eyes and concentrated, her body pressed against mine in my embrace.

Then, I felt her energy seeping in through our pressed bodies, drawing out my magic in abundance.

“Hnngh… Hnngh!”

It didn’t matter how quickly half of my magic was drained.

All my senses were focused only on Killua, who, dressed in her underwear, was pressed against me in my embrace, eyes closed and concentrating, completely defenseless.

A deep thrumming sound!

As more magic was drawn from my body, the search magic circle began to resonate with an even louder rumble.

In this situation, with a powerful resonance ringing out, strong enough to pierce my ears and dull my mind, it felt like Killua wouldn’t notice anything I did to her body.

“Huuugh!”

The moment such a thought lingered in my mind, blood rushed to my ‘avatar’, which had been suppressed somehow between her body and mine.

My ‘avatar’, swollen to an undeniable size, began to rise, as if trying to push away Killua’s pressed body.

“Calm down, Jazel. Calm down, Jazel. Calm down, Jazel. Please, you beast-like bastard, calm down!!”

I closed my eyes and poured out words as if chastising myself, trying desperately to calm down the blood-engorged ‘avatar’.

But my efforts were in vain; my ‘thing’ swelled up mightily, unmistakably and blatantly poking her groin and inner thigh.

“Haa…”

Then, Killua’s sigh, full of disappointment, reached my ears.

Startled by her sigh, I opened my tightly closed eyes and looked at Killua, who was pressed against me in my embrace.

She had opened her eyes, which she had kept closed to concentrate despite the poking sensation in her lower body, and was looking at me with a pathetic gaze, as if I lacked self-control.

“With a slight effort.”

And with a slight effort, she lifted her hips.

Then, my ‘avatar’, which had been poking her thighs and groin, proudly pushed its way through the gap in my underwear and stood erect, asserting its presence, as if rejoicing in its liberation from the stifling pressure, all under Killua’s and my gaze.

“I’m… I’m sorry.”

I couldn’t even think of hiding my ‘avatar’ and could only apologize for my blunder.

“I told you it’s fine.”

Then, as if understanding my reaction, she forgave me once more, slightly lifting her hips to avoid my erect ‘avatar’ and pressing her body against mine again.

“Ooof!”

Naturally, my erect ‘avatar’ had no choice but to settle between her soft thighs.

The warm, soft touch of her skin enveloping my sensitive ‘avatar’ instantly made my mind go blank, as if the world was fading away.

“Please, just try to bear with it….”

Killua also clearly felt the movement of my ‘avatar’ twitching between her groin with my heartbeat.

Killua slightly opened one eye and looked at me, scolding me.

“Ah… understood.”

With her scolding, and the thought that I couldn’t make the situation any more embarrassing, I bit down hard on my lower lip.

A sour taste of blood spread in my mouth, and a sharp pain slowly radiated from my bitten lip.

I only hoped that such pain would quell the instinctive desires boiling over due to our pressed bodies.

“Haa… seriously…”

But my efforts were in vain; my ‘avatar’ still thumped vigorously in rhythm with my heartbeat, flaunting its presence between her groin.

“I’ll draw more magic and finish it instantly.”

Killua, judging that I couldn’t suppress my urges, had no choice but to change her plan.

Although it would strain my body, she intended to draw a greater amount of mana at once and finish the search operation quickly.

“Please do!”

Acknowledging that I myself couldn’t endure the urges, I accepted her proposal.

Then, Killua, with her eyes closed again, her energy permeated me even more quickly and deeply.

“Ugh!?”

And as if a large pair of tongs was tearing away my magic, about 70% of the magic circling my body was instantly transferred to Killua, following her energy.

A deep rumble!

The magic that left my body flowed directly through Killua’s body and was injected into the magic circle surrounding us.

Then, with a heavy resonance incomparable to before, the magic circle’s light concentrated towards one direction.

“Good… I found it!!!”

*Shatter!*

The search magic circle, infused with a massive amount of magic in an instant, quickly located the point she desired.

As a result, Killua found what she wanted, and with her joyful exclamation, the magic circle that had been scattering heavy resonance shattered into pieces and melted into thin air.

“Hah… hah… Is… is it over?”

Having had most of the magic flowing through my body plundered in an instant, I asked, expelling rough breaths that filled my throat as if I had exercised non-stop for hours.

“Hoo… hoo… Thanks to you… I was able to find out something amazing.”

Killua, who had forcibly extracted a large amount of magic from my body, also seemed to find it difficult, as she answered my question while panting heavily.

“With a grunt,”

Unable to keep our bodies pressed together any longer, Killua placed both hands on my shoulders, letting out a small groan, and laboriously pushed her upper body up.

“Are you alright?”

As she laboriously raised her upper body, I could clearly see her face, which had been hidden by our close proximity.

Her pale face was flushed crimson, unmistakably so even in the soft moonlight pouring from the sky.

“This is more tiring than I thought, you know?”

Feeling considerable fatigue, she remained on my body, closing her eyes for a moment and slowly taking deep breaths to calm her ragged breathing.

Watching her softly panting, I naturally and slowly lowered my gaze to our lower bodies, which were still pressed together.

Her white underwear was soaked with such deep moisture that it couldn’t be denied or excused, clearly revealing the contours of her embarrassing private area.

“Eh?”

The moment I gasped softly at the unbelievable sight, Killua, hearing my gasp, snapped her eyes open as if realizing something she had momentarily forgotten, and stared at me.

“Wh-what are you staring at?!”

Soon after, she discovered where my gaze was directed and let out a scream-like sound, immediately slamming her fist into my face.

***

Killua, her crimson face apparently not calming down, turned her back so I couldn’t see her, and began to put on the clothes she had taken off.

I, too, couldn’t face her due to the belated rush of embarrassment, so I just turned my back and put on my clothes.

Only the rustling sounds of us silently putting on our clothes quietly echoed in the empty clearing.

“It’s a side effect of magic absorption…”

Killua’s voice came from behind me.

“When I absorbed your magic, some of your feelings and thoughts were absorbed by me at the same time. That’s why I told you to try and endure it, didn’t I…”

There was an expression that magic was an intangible energy intertwined with the soul.

Killua, who had directly absorbed such magic from me, had absorbed even the emotions and desires I was feeling at the moment of absorption, unfiltered.

“Hoo.”

Killua adjusted her clothing and let out a deep sigh, as if to forget the embarrassing situation that had just occurred, then turned to face me.

“Are you alrigh…”

I, too, was about to speak, checking the buttons on my top once more as I faced Killua, who was turning back to me.

I thought I had calmed down enough, but the moment our eyes met, both of us were speechless and our faces flushed red, neither knowing who started it.

“Ahem… It’s… it’s fine.”

She rubbed her flushed cheeks with her small hands, struggling to regain her composure.

“Ahem. Thanks to you, I found some good information.”

She cleared her throat a couple of times and, as if nothing had happened, began to talk about the information she had found by borrowing most of my magic.

“What exactly did you discover that made you push yourself so hard?”

I, too, rubbed my hotly flushed face with my hand and asked for the reason why she borrowed my magic, enduring such an embarrassing situation.

Then, as if to show me, Killua took out the empty pendant that had sealed all her magic and held the shattered jewel, answering my question.

“I found a fragment of the pendant.”

“What…?!”

Her answer was so shocking that it made me forget all the embarrassing events that had just happened.

“Are you saying you found a fragment of the pendant that sealed Killua-nim’s magic?!”

Unable to believe her words, I confirmed what she had said again, to be sure.

“Yes. It’s definite. I couldn’t believe it myself, so I used up so much magic, even straining myself.”

“I… I see.”

Hearing Killua’s answer, I understood why she had gone to such lengths to borrow my magic, even absorbing my aroused feelings through excessive physical contact.

To think that a fragment of her pendant, which had been broken into four pieces, was located so close…

Killua, who couldn’t easily believe that fact either, had also over-exerted herself using magic to definitively analyze the identity of the pendant fragment.

“The location is also close. It’s near Rai’s former fiancé’s remains.”

“Recovering the remains and the fragment, it’s hitting two birds with one stone, then.”

Having expended more magic than necessary, Killua had precisely pinpointed the location of the fiancé’s remains and the pendant fragment.

“Hmm? Then perhaps… could the Lime Forest being ravaged be due to the pendant fragment?”

As I listened to her, I suddenly realized that her pendant fragment contained an immense amount of magic.

A low-grade slime that had swallowed such a fragment might have proliferated to the point of instantly devastating the Lime Forest, influenced by that immense magic.

“That’s highly probable, but… there’s one thing that doesn’t quite make sense.”

Killua nodded her head, as if agreeing to my opinion to some extent.

But as if she couldn’t fully agree, she stated a rebuttal to my argument.

“If a slime had absorbed all the magic from my pendant fragment, that slime would have proliferated explosively enough to cover the entire region, including the village, in an instant.”

“I see.”

Though it was broken into four pieces, each fragment contained her immense magic, magic that the witch had used to distort the world and even warp conventional laws.

If a low-grade creature like a slime had fully absorbed that magic, it would have been able to proliferate to the extent of becoming a massive mountain, not just devastating a forest.

“Anyway… we’ll know for sure when we go there.”

Killua looked in the direction where the search magic circle had pinpointed Rai’s fiancé’s remains and the pendant fragment.

“Tomorrow seems like it will be a very busy day.”

We had to go into the deepest part of the slime-infested Lime Forest to find Rai’s fiancé’s remains and retrieve Killua’s pendant fragment.

It wouldn’t be easy, but I had no doubt that with Killua’s knowledge and Rai’s abilities, it would be resolved without major issues.

“What happened tonight is an absolute secret. Don’t tell anyone.”

As I erased the magic circle drawn in the clearing, Killua also came over and helped me erase it, requesting absolute secrecy about what had happened tonight.

“Understood.”

Knowing well that what had happened tonight was not something to proudly tell others, I nodded naturally at her request.