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Chapter 213 – Return

The day after my return, I immediately went to meet Isis at the student council office.

“Ruan! You’re back?”

As soon as Isis saw me, she threw down the documents she was approving and rushed over.

Her eyes looked a little complicated.

“Yes, Nuna-nim. Thanks to you, things went well. Thank you for the written agreement.”

“It wasn’t a difficult task at all. Anyway, I heard a rumor. Is it true?”

As expected, the rumor about the wedding had already spread throughout the academy. It’s a good thing it’s vacation, otherwise I might have suffocated under a barrage of questions from curious crowds.

Even though I understood her question, I deliberately asked back mischievously.

“What rumor?”

“That… that Alisa Bretes is pregnant with your child. I mean. Is it true? I… I can’t believe it because all I’ve seen is her hating you.”

“Then don’t believe it.”

“Huh? Wh-what do you mean? Will you tell me the truth? Don’t mess with your Nuna-nim!”

Isis, who was flustered by my insincere answer, realized it was a joke belatedly after seeing my expression, and her eyes blazed.

She was trying to act serious, but she was so cute that laughter kept escaping.

“Haha! Alright. I’ll stop joking. What are you curious about?”

“First, tell me about the rumor. Is she really pregnant?”

Isis’s shoulders were stiff. It seemed she was unexpectedly about to become an aunt, so she looked very nervous.

I lightly patted her shoulder.

“First of all, the rumor isn’t true. I just lied a bit to get Alisa out of there. It’ll probably be found out soon.”

“R-really? The rumor really is false, right?”

“I told you it is. As you said, she hated me so much, how could I get her pregnant? It’s not like I shoot pregnancy rays from my eyes. If I did, would Nuna-nim be pregnant too?”

I subtly joked, and shot a powerful gaze at Isis. Enough to instantly conceive if such a thing as a real pregnancy ray existed.

Isis was agitated all too easily by such a joke.

“Wh-what? What are you talking about? M-me, pregnant? That can’t be! W-we’re siblings!”

“Exactly, it’s not true. Is there anything else you’re curious about?”

When I casually changed the subject, Isis pouted with an annoyed expression, and then sighed and asked.

“If the rumor is false, what will you do about the engagement? Conversations are ongoing between the elders of both families right now. It’s too late to call it off now, isn’t it?”

“We have to leave that as it is for now. I plan to just go through with the engagement ceremony and postpone the marriage until after graduation.”

“After graduation? Then after you graduate?”

“Then we’ll have to break it off. There’s a way, so don’t worry.”

Once Alisa becomes strong enough, she’ll expose the Bretes family’s corruption right away. With that justification, annulling an engagement would be easier than eating cold porridge [a proverb meaning it’s extremely easy].

But Isis, unaware of my true intentions, couldn’t hide her worry, and began to mumble in a barely audible voice.

“Worry? What worry… I just want you to stay by my side…”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“Ah, nothing! Just pretend you didn’t hear that. It was just a slip of the tongue.”

Isis quickly made excuses, her face flushed.

I, who had etched all her desperate gestures into my mind, grinned and retorted.

“Aw, lies. Didn’t you just say you wanted me to stay by Nuna-nim’s side?”

“Gah!? Y-you heard? If you heard, why do you keep asking me!?”

“Because Nuna-nim looks cute when she’s embarrassed, of course. Puhaha!”

“C-cute… You shouldn’t say that to your Nuna-nim!”

“It’s precisely because you’re my Nuna-nim that I say it. I don’t usually call other women cute.”

“Y-you only say that to me? Haaah…!”

Isis seemed very embarrassed, covering both her cheeks and bowing her head, letting out a moan.

It was after 30 seconds that she finally calmed down. Carefully raising her head, she glared pointedly at me and opened her mouth.

“Ruan. There’s one more thing I want to ask.”

“Yes? What is it?”

“I heard another rumor this time. It’s a rumor that you kissed that girl, Deborah. How did that happen?”

“Uh… who started that rumor?”

“I don’t know that far. But they said they saw you saying you loved each other. Is it true?”

“……”

It seems there was a witness. Indeed, the alley leading to the restaurant has quite a bit of foot traffic, so it wouldn’t be strange if someone passing by saw us. The problem was that the witness happened to know our faces.

As I broke out in a cold sweat and couldn’t easily answer, Isis seemed to gain conviction, narrowed her eyes and blurted out.

“It’s true then? After kissing that girl, you immediately went to disrupt Alisa Bretes’s wedding? Isn’t that right?”

“Nuna-nim, that’s… a circumstance…”

“Circumstance? What circumstance? Does that girl say it’s alright? Even if you get engaged to another woman while leaving her behind…?”

“She said it’s alright.”

I cut her off mid-sentence. Isis, who was about to shout, paused as her breath was taken away, and then asked, puzzled.

“…She said it’s alright?”

“Yes. Deborah said she understands. I’ll make sure no problems arise, so you don’t have to worry too much. It won’t be a burden to Nuna-nim.”

“That’s not what I mean… Haa…”

Muttering as if she had something else to say, she soon narrowed her eyes sharply and uttered a single word.

“Womanizer.”

“……”

“Are there any more besides those two?”

“No.”

“So, those two are true? Womanizer.”

“……”

I couldn’t say a word. Truthfully, I had said no, but there were more than one or two things that bothered me. If I were to open my mouth without thinking and make a slip of the tongue, it would be over. Even if only my relationship with Sara leaked, it was obvious that Isis would be enraged.

In the end, I just stood there and took it until Isis’s anger subsided.

* * *

Early morning.

Having generously provided semen to Sara again today, I tidied my clothes and exited the bathroom. Then I ran into Deborah.

“Oh, what? Deborah, how are you here…?”

“That’s what I want to ask. What were you doing in the bathroom?”

“Well, my business…”

“This is the faculty bathroom, though?”

Deborah pointed to the bathroom sign. The words ‘Faculty Bathroom’ written there robbed me of my right to speak.

As I remained silent, Deborah sighed and spoke bluntly.

“You had sex in there, didn’t you?”

“How did you…?”

“Actually, I’ve been watching Ruan for the past few days. It seemed strange no matter how I thought about it. Where does he go every morning? And where does he get the semen he uses for potions? I wondered. So I secretly followed you, and you always went to the faculty bathroom. Then I looked into a few things, and there was someone who came to the bathroom every morning, just like Ruan.”

That person was, of course, Sara.

However, it’s impossible to deduce that Sara and I had sex just from that. When I asked, Deborah answered simply.

“Yesterday, I coincidentally saw Professor Sara using semen. A child fell on the street and got hurt, and when she applied it, it completely healed. That’s how I realized. Ah, Professor Sara has been having sex with Ruan every day, I thought.”

There was conviction in Deborah’s eyes. There was no sign of her being persuaded no matter what I said. And I had no intention of trying to convince her anyway. I only resented Sara.

‘She should’ve been more careful.’

It was just a bruise; she could have used a normal potion, but she just had to use semen, and now the situation has come to this. Of course, I couldn’t entirely blame her. Since the effect would disappear in a week anyway, it was better to use it somewhere like that instead of just throwing it away.

I, who had been agonizing, clutching my head for a moment, decided to deal with the matter at hand first.

“Deborah. Let’s move somewhere else first. There are listeners here.”

“And it’s about time Professor Sara comes out too?”

“…Yes. Follow me.”

Fortunately, Deborah didn’t act stubborn and followed me.

Having entered an unused storage room, I immediately got to the point.

“Deborah. Why did you show up in front of me?”

“Huh?”

“Even if you knew that fact, there’s no way you’d appear without any reason. Tell me. What do you want?”

“Ah……”

As much as Deborah knew me. No, I knew far more about Deborah than she knew me.

At the pointed question, Deborah let out a small sigh, then suddenly blushed, and carefully made her request.

“From now on, don’t have sex with Professor Sara. …Do it with me.”

“…That was your goal?”

“Yes. I don’t know what Professor Sara thinks of Ruan. But I know it’s not love, at least. It’s probably because of the semen. Then it’s simple. If you can get semen, Ruan doesn’t need to do it with Professor Sara. Right?”

“So, you’re saying I should do it with you?”

“Yes. If it’s me… I can produce even better semen.”

If I use her inversion spell, the quality of the potion will increase even more than when I was with Sara. I wouldn’t need to awkwardly fake intimacy and damage Sara’s affection anymore, and Sara wouldn’t have to feel guilty and give her body. And Deborah wouldn’t have to see the person she loves having sex with another woman. It was truly a win-win situation.

Despite all this, the reason I hesitated was because of the negative impact the confusion from the inversion spell could have on her mind. Rapid changes in emotion can drive a person mad. How long could she truly endure a situation where hatred and love coexisted? I couldn’t be certain.

As I continued to remain silent, Deborah, realizing my true thoughts, persuaded me.

“Ruan. I don’t like Ruan having sex with other women.”

“You…”

“Especially not if you don’t even love each other, and even more so if it’s forced. So please accept my request. Please?”

Deborah’s violet eyes glowed earnestly. What pained her more than the mental blow from the confusion was me being forced to have relations with another woman.

Ultimately, my worries were nothing more than selfish judgments based on my own perspective.

I nodded.

“Alright. I’ll do as you say. From now on… I won’t have relations with Professor Sara.”

“You’ve thought well. So, from now on, it’s with me?”

“Yes. Be prepared. It’ll be tough.”

“Not at all. I’ll be happy every day.”

Deborah smiled brightly. Her smile was so dazzling and beautiful, that I couldn’t help but kiss her.

* * *

Early in the morning, Sara, who headed to the faculty bathroom, heard something unexpected.

“From now on, you don’t need to have sex with me.”

“What? What are you talking about, suddenly?”

“It’s exactly as I said. From now on, you can just take the semen.”

“……”

Sara couldn’t easily follow the conversation. Everything was too sudden, so it took time for her to grasp the situation.

She bit her lip tightly and said.

“How can I believe that?”

“Excuse me?”

“How can I believe that the semen you gave me is real? Isn’t it just a trick to give me something useless and make fun of me?”

Because she had once said something similar herself, she felt even more suspicious. At her words, Ruan sighed.

“Haa… It’s not like that. If you want, you can test it every time before you take it. Then there’s no problem, right?”

“That’s… but…”

She knew there was nothing to refute his logical words, but Sara couldn’t easily accept it and hesitated. To her, the current offer felt unrealistic.

‘It’s over now?’

Her body had already been completely defiled, and he wanted to end it like this? Then what should she do now?

Just as Sara was in a half-panic, Ruan placed a bottle of semen in her hand.

“Here’s today’s portion. It’ll probably be more effective than what you usually use. Would you like to try it?”

“……”

“Anyway, since it’s like this now, let’s live without any awkwardness between us from now on. I’ll be going now.”

Bang!

Ruan left the bathroom.

Sara, left alone, stared blankly at the bottle containing the semen, then her face suddenly crumpled.

“Ugh… *Sob*!”

Hot tears streamed down her cheeks. Although she could now obtain the semen without paying any price, she felt far more humiliated and miserable than when she had to give her body. The fact that her body’s worth was merely equivalent to this one bottle suddenly hit her. It was a feeling she couldn’t feel when she was savoring the humiliation and resisting the pleasure.

Then, her lower abdomen throbbed. Normally, at this time of day, she would have been in the midst of receiving Ruan’s ‘stuff’. Since what usually entered her was absent, her body cried out in thirst. Pleasure had now been completely imprinted even onto her soul.

Ultimately, Sara sank to the floor in self-loathing and burst into tears.

It was after 10 minutes that she exited the bathroom.