Chapter 15

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Chapter 15

A clear blue sky and moderately warm sunshine. The weather was exceptionally good. Even those who had been confined to the laboratory were crawling out. But Andra sat down in a corner of the dining hall and drank only apple juice. Under her eyes were also dark circles like an abyss.

‘I’m crazy, I’m out of my mind.’

Last night, Andra slept with Dustin yet again. To be precise, not once—many times, but that wasn’t the point here. The point was that Andra was of her right mind and had sex with Dustin.

‘I went crazy in the dungeon, but why yesterday?’

Even after that happened in the professor’s room, she did it with Dustin again in her dorm room. She couldn’t understand herself. Besides, someone else could have caught them. She was screaming like that…

Fortunately, Andra’s room was on the top floor, and there were only a few high-end private rooms, and the room next to her was vacant, so she didn’t get caught. However, if she was unlucky, the rumor that Andra had slept with a man would have spread throughout the academy in no time.

‘Andra Avellin brought a man to her room?’

‘That Lady Avellin? Wow, how brave. Who is the man?’

‘I don’t know, but she liked it so much that she screamed.’

Just thinking about it makes her head hurt.

When she suddenly felt nauseous, Andra drank the apple juice and emptied her glass. She then grabbed her head with both her hands and let out a deep sigh.

What on earth was she thinking that she had committed such a crime herself? It was fortunate that Dustin wasn’t there this morning. As soon as she woke up, Andra wanted to die of shame.

‘I’m not even in heat—’

Wait a minute.

Andra released her hand from her hair and looked at her wrist. The red ring-shaped pattern was clearly present as if to show that all of this was not a dream. Is it also because of this? Andra casually looked at the empty glass. Even though she hadn’t touched it, the glass slid far away on its own as if it had been pushed by something.

Magic. It was the power that Andra gained after having sex with Dustin under a mysterious ancient magic.

‘When the light is dim, you’ll be full of sexual desire in return for using your strength? And that sexual desire can only be quenched in a specific person with whom they have a contract.’

In a way, it was a ridiculous story. To use your strength, you have to satisfy your sexual desire. It’s a setting that couldn’t be used as a setup even in a low-quality folklore novel. But this was the reality. Andra and Dustin’s plight was funny enough.

Andra was immersed in thoughts as she rubbed the pattern with her fingertips. Her insides would still become weird whenever she faced Dustin, as if she reacted to him strongly. Even now, whenever she thought of Dustin Airak, her toes would curl up and her lower half would tingle. At the same time, she vividly recalled the tactile feeling of that time when their bodies were intertwined together.

The long and thick… That filled her tightly…

Andra took a deep breath, scratching the table top with her fingernails.

‘Crazy. Crazy.’

Andra tried her best to shake off the memories of then. Why would she think about it in broad daylight in such an open place? She really felt like she was in heat. The more she thought about it, the more resentful she was of the red ring pattern was. Nevertheless, Andra tried to remain as calm as possible, and she even organized her thoughts.

‘Like it or not, this is… It is true that it is having an effect on my body.’

And it wasn’t all that bad. It may be called luck or misfortune, but some of them worked for Andra as well.

First of all, she was able to apply and use the magic at will.

She hadn’t experimented yet, so she didn’t know yet how far she could wield the magic, but Andra had a feeling that she shouldn’t underestimate the powers she had. It felt like something huge and strong was wriggling inside her body, something she had never felt before.

Right now, she may be able to use this power only to move things, but if she did well enough, perhaps she’d be able to move buildings in the future.

‘I also teleported back then, so if I study well, I might be able to use other magic.’

Of course, the price would be… sleeping with Dustin.

Another observation she had was that there were no traces of the act she did with Dustin. It was this way as well after they came out of the dungeon, and even this morning, Andra couldn’t find a single trace of their affairs on her body. Even though Dustin had been torturing her all night, Andra’s body was immaculately clean. Rather, Andra realized that it had improved her physical condition.

‘Not once or twice, it’s clear if there is no pain after doing it several times.’

Dustin kept pounding into her like a beast and Andra’s entrance had to keep accepting it. Therefore, it was natural that she should have been down there. But it doesn’t hurt at all. Even her back and legs were fine.

In addition, even though Dustin had ejaculated such a large amount of s*men, it was difficult to find s*men anywhere when Andra woke up in the morning. She belatedly went into the bathroom and scratched her insides, but nothing came out.

‘After that, I didn’t even smell it.’

Even though Dustin had ejaculated once in the professor’s office before moving to the dorm, Andra couldn’t smell the chestnut flower, or any of that bittersweet scent. The same in her room. She hadn’t even opened a window to ventilate, but her room only had the scent of lavender. At this point, she had no choice but to believe the hypotheses mentioned above.

Andra looked at the pattern, then placed her hand on her chin and sighed again.

“Haa, I don’t know if I have to like it…”

“What?”

Someone asked, putting down a bagel with plenty of cream cheese next to her. It was Elverika, Andra’s colleague from the Department of Marine Science, and she was one of the few people who Andra could talk to comfortably in the academy.

Andra was pleased to see her friend, who she was meeting for the first time in about a month.

“Elver, when did you get back?”

“Yesterday. As soon as I came back I fell dead asleep and just woke up now. Thanks to you, I’m starving now.”

Elverika took a large bite of the bagel and tilted her head, leaning closer to Andra. She looked like she was going to ask her what she had been thinking about a while ago. Andra waved roughly as if it wasn’t a big deal.

“It’s just a graduation thesis problem.”

“It’s not. A lot of things must have happened while I was away. Everyone is noisy everywhere.”

Elverika knew a lot had happened while she was out to sea in her sailing practice. She said as she chewed through the bagel.

“You said you had Dustin Airak as your partner?”

“Ah, that. It just happened.”

“So the two of you went to the Aslan Ruins and fell into a hidden dungeon.”

“It just happened.”

“But Dustin Airak says he’s going back to the dungeon this time?”

“Yeah, that… What? Where is he going again?”

Andra’s face was wrinkled with astonishment as she responded to Elverika’s words step by step. Who’s going where? Elverika bit the bagel and looked curiously at her bewildered friend.

“Dustin Airak going into the dungeon?”

“I guess this is news you haven’t heard of. In fact, I heard it on the way.”

“Where?”

“It was just people talking. Everyone just talks about it.”

“Is that true? With what qualifications is a fluke who hasn’t even graduated is crawling into the dungeon.”

“Why, Dustin Airak, is an Awakened. So, they said he was going to the dungeon.”

It was unheard of for Andra. If so, it was most likely a rumor that spread after Andra entered the dining hall. More than that, Andra thought it was absurd that Dustin Airak was going into the dungeon. If he was going to enter the dungeon, he would most likely use his strength, and that means that the light of the pattern would decrease soon.

‘When the light goes down, he gets into heat, and to get rid of it… What is this lunatic doing?’

Elverika, who watched Andra’s changing expression from moment to moment, even shoved a piece of bagel into her mouth and murmured. While she wasn’t sure about what was going on, it seemed certain that something had definitely happened between Andra Avelin and Dustin Airak. Otherwise, Andra’s reaction could not have been more varied than this.

If she had been the usual Andra, she would have washed her ears as soon as she heard of Dustin Airak, as if she had not heard anything.

“I’m going first.”

Then Andra got up from her chair. At Andra’s sudden action, Elverika looked at her friend with twinkling eyes. Without a moment’s notice for Elverika to stop her, Andra grabbed her belongings, and she hurriedly left. She then started running through the academy in search of Dustin.

‘What are you thinking about going into the dungeon? If you go and use up all your strength, that bastard will surely seek me out!’

If Dustin was exposed to the heat, Andra would not be safe. Andra knew when she had already experienced Dustin once, who always made her lose her mind.

She was lucky yesterday that she didn’t get caught doing it in the professor’s room, but she never said that it would be like that again. Maybe Dustin, having exhausted his powers, would try to attack Andra in front of people.

Because once one’s in heat, they wouldn’t be able to keep their rationality. From her experience, Andra was sure about this.

‘When I think about what I did in the dungeon because of that… I’m going crazy, really!’

She had to find Dustin to somehow prevent him from entering the dungeon. But there was a problem. Andra, who had been running till sweating, stopped suddenly.

‘But where do I go to meet Dustin Airak?’

She overlooked that. Andra and Dustin had been avoiding each other because they hated each other. With that, they did not know each other’s range of actions as well as their dynamics.

Naturally, they had no overlapping schedules. At the moment, Andra was stunned. How was she going to find Dustin in this wide academy?

‘If I ask people…’

No. Absolutely not. We hadn’t looked for each other in four years, but now one was looking for the other? Obviously, gossip would follow. There was no one in the academy who didn’t know that Andra and Dustin were at odds. Everyone knew they weren’t close enough to find each other.

‘No, because Dustin Airak is known as my partner, so even if I ask… Wait, why do I have to ask where he is?’

Just thinking about it was disgusting. Why did she have to ask the whereabouts of that sick bastard? Dustin Airak did the job! She was the one who cleaned up after his mess! Above all else, it was unacceptable to Andra’s pride to go out to find Dustin.

‘I’m not going to the dungeon anyway. Wouldn’t it be better for him to get stuck in the dungeon and die helplessly without being able to use his strength because of the heat?’

Until there, Andra twisted the corners of her lips crookedly.