Chapter 30 - Hidden

Surprise wasn't a word that could describe her expression, nor was restless a word that could account for her struggling movements.

She was throughly astonished, anxious, and alarmed. How did I know about her greatest secret? Those must've been her thoughts, hidden beneath her gasping mouth and croaking throat.

I stopped holding her neck and she screamed her ugliest scream. Fortunately, I closed her mouth before it turned into a cry for help.

"Don't do anything funny or I'll r*pe... NO! I'll really kill you," I hissed. Sexual urge became vile once it was intensified. This wasn't lust, this was pure madness.

The temperature in the room had dropped by several °C but here I was, sweating and heavily breathing even though I was half-naked.

Rea sensed my ripped core with her palm. Slowly, she started going down, towards that bulging region. She hadn't given up on seducing me.

I slapped her with the full force of a rank 6 practitioner. Five distinct red finger marks appeared on her tender cheek. A thin line of blood fell down her lips.

Her eyes turned moist as she went on to cry but I knew she was over exaggerating. Given any chance, she would try to submit me instead.

I got up from her and down the floor, I pulled her legs. Swiftly, I evaded an angry hand chop that she aimed at my chest. Her left knee came for my loins, I blocked that with my palm. The pain instead help me be more aware.

As long as she was conscious, she'd surely try to attack me. I doubted she would tell me where she had kept the posion. It didn't matter if I asked nicely or hrashly. Though, there was another method... No, I was neither in a mood nor in the condition to torture someone at that moment.

"How?" she whined. Those fake tears were only fuelling my rage, not the rabid idea to screw her senseless.

"How do I know that you have Lia poison? Why don't you guess, whore?"

Once again, I jumped at her but this time, I had a better aim. I'd finally figured out how this aphrodisiac worked. It excited the feeling a person felt just before the chemicals reached his/her blood stream.

I was feeling two things before the aphrodisiac took effect. Lust obviously, but also vexation because she had tricked me. Indeed, I would usually not be so hot-headed.

I would be disappointed in myself, annoyed that things didn't go my way, and bored when my time was wasted. Killing was just a means to erase a slight irritation, like with that man who told me of this brothel.

This woman was a trifling thorn that I could choose to break or crush, and the former option seemed more suitable in this situation.

My feet touched the polished floor in a circling motion. I saw her hold five needles enclosed in a punch, aiming at my heart. She wanted to kill me.

I didn't let our bodies touch when we came near each other. I knew I wouldn't be able to resist the hormones this time. She suddenly kicked my leg and I nearly stumbled. Was I getting weak?

Using the bed as a support, I slipped behind her. There, I saw her defenseless neck and gave a solid hand chop. It was instinctual. I knew the move even before I reincarnated in this world.

Rea's eyes rolled back as she felt a sudden jolt on her body. Her movements stopped and she fell unconscious.

I didn't care to learn what nerve I'd hit but as a killer, I knew it would shut down the brains and heart of a person if disturbed. It was even possible to kill a person if one knew exactly how to damage it.

Everything turned silent when she fell except for my heavy breathing and the fire burning above. There was a lot of air in this room. Where did it come from? I saw no windows.

'This isn't the time for that, I've to find the powder...' I glanced left and right. Although this room was big, there was not much to search.

A bed, a wooden beam to hang the clothes, a chair for... well, 'those' kind of purposes that I didn't want to imagine right now, and a closet which had no lock on it; these were the things that occupied the room's space.

I immediately went to open the cupboard but Rea's naked body on the floor was dangerous. I despised a person who tried to fuck an unconscious body, but now I wasn't sure about myself.

I firmly closed my eyes and pulled the bedsheets. I covered her naked body with it and opened my eyes. The sheet covered her lower body up until her nipples. Her breasts were only half covered and the shape was...

I didn't think of it. Imagination led to action. That action would cost me my whole cultivation. I went past her and opened the cupboard.

More clothes, makeup items, and that long-shaped sticky thing was... suspicious. I focused on the clothes and went through them one by one. None had any pockets or secret storage pouches.

I kept the cupboard open and jumped on the bed. Behind the pillows, behind the mattress; I searched every inch of the bed. I even looked under it to see if she'd hid the poison there.

As it was in a powder form, it would be kept in a jar or a tight pouch. I didn't know what amount she had but it shouldn't have been more than a handful.

'That beam... it doesn't seem like she would hide there. Still, I could be wrong,' I searched the clothes hung there.

Every nook and cranny, I searched and searched until night overtook the evening. The only place left was the ceiling and the floor itself.

'How powerful is this aphrodisiac?' I had a rank 6 body but I was still horny. Whichever alchemist concocted this thing was skillful, to say the least. My two remaining orange pills couldn't even be considered as viagra compared to it.

My gaze again fell on Rea. She was breathing soundly. Her curvy shape covered by a thin sheet... the up and down movement of her chest...

"Hah~" Was I really going to make another mistake? By this time, I should've adapted to it's effects.

The sexual desire overwhelmed me. I failed to control myself this time. I was no sage, I was no monk, I was no immortal either; I was just a man, sexually healthy yet excited against my will.

I held her thighs, forming deep recesses. My palms swept through the bed sheet as I grabbed her breasts once again. So full, so juicy...

I noticed a brown cork popping up from between those boobs. Held tightly was a small container that I hadn't noticed earlier. My one palm aggressively held her large breast while my other one pulled the container.

Curiosity was deeply embedded within human mind and nothing could stop it, even something as primal as lust. My right palm, which seemed to be glued to her bags of flesh also went up and met with my left palm.

I stood up from her body which had nearly tempted me to my own downfall. I had overcome the lust, I was finally in control. My body was still hot and craving, but my mind had cooled down.

I inspected this container. It was made of a thin bamboo shoot. I pulled the cork and looked inside.

'What? It's empty?' I thought that I had found it. I couldn't believe my eyes and I must thank my rational thinking for not believing a cursory glance.

At a closer look, this hollow bamboo container didn't look so deep. Its length didn't match its depth, so I inserted my finger inside. With a look of anticipation, I pushed the seemingly empty bottom.

It opened, showing a greater depth filled with white powder.