Chapter 182 181. Single Ounce.

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In a cozy 30 feet room with two floors and on the ground floor's living area where couches, tables, carpets and decorations filled, stood a handsome black haired man who had pined the light blonde haired woman to the wall.

"I definitely warned you." Max said and opened his fanged mouth. Faye shuddered when she realized he might be a vampire, but she couldn't move because she was weak.

He leaned forward towards her neck and bit her while she shuddered.

She had felt his fang-like teeth when they kissed, but she simply thought that 'maybe that tooth feels longer than normal when a couple kisses,' but when looking up close, she thought he was a vampire.

"Ah!" A soft moan escaped from Faye's mouth as she felt a tingling sensation cruise through her entire body, and the possibility of him being a vampire flew out of her mind. Max slowly placed his free hand on Faye's waist and pulled her closer, stopped biting her neck, and kissed her on the lips while continuing to pin her to the wall.

TRING-TRING (3x)

"!" Faye opened her eyes wide in surprise and snapped out of her daze when she heard the ringing sound.

"Mmm~" But since it seemed like Max had no intention of stopping there, she just enjoyed that moment.

"Mpha! Haa...haa...haa..." Faye stared at Max's eyes seductively with her mouth slightly open while breathing heavily. Max, who broke the kiss, seemed slightly pissed off; he looked down at his smartwatch and glared at it for a brief moment.

"Haa..." He sighed and loosened his grip on her hands above her head.

DING

"Can't you simply send a message and not call?" Max mumbled and took off the smartwatch from his wrist when a notification of a message popped up.

'Wha.....what just happened?' Faye thought, dazed.

'Oh. My. God. We would have...' She blushed violently before even completing that thought.

'but.....that....just now, felt amazing....' She thought and bit her lower lip while staring at Max with her hands still above her head.

"That, haa.... goddamn watch." She mumbled out loud, involuntarily.

"..... I was thinking the same." Max replied while looking at his watch with a slight smile on his face.

"....!" Faye blushed again when she realized that she spoke out loud.

"Tsk, I should have killed that son of a bit*h when I met him last week." Max grumbled, and when Faye heard his mumbling, she snapped out of her daze and took a step towards him with a worried expression as she remembered why she was here in the first place, but there was something she wanted to confirm before thinking about other things.

"Um....are you a vampire?" Faye asked, she didn't have, not in the slightest interest of letting him go, but she just wanted to confirm.

"Oh, are these the reason for your doubt?" Max pulled his right cheek and showed her his fang-like teeth.

"Yea...." Faye nodded.

"They have grown like these, you know? I'm not a mosquito so don't worry." Max said with a shrug.

"I'm not worried about anything, I just thought I should confirm it once." Faye smiled and stared at him.

"You. Don't...." Max mumbled and averted his eyes.

"Hm? Eh?" She tilted her head slightly, opened her mouth, and pointed her right index finger at her own mouth as she was asking for a kiss again. She sensually walked back with small steps and raised her hands in the air again. She stood in the same position they were in while they kissed and licked her lips before smiling brightly.

"Faye.... don't do..." Max mumbled, but before he could continue, Faye zoomed towards him in full speed, jumped on, and locked her legs around his waist.

"What was that?" Faye asked while looking down at his eyes.

"Do...Mm!" Max started to speak but was cut short by Faye who kissed him like he had done earlier.

"Mmm~" Faye closed her eyes and enjoyed kissing him. She felt Max's hands on her back and waist, which seemed to slowly move down, but she felt something on his that supported her back and understood that was his smartwatch, which he had taken off.

"Haa.... What, haa...were you, haaa, saying?" Faye asked with a cheeky smile while resting comfortably on his hand which supported her back.

"....look how heavily you are breathing... If we continue this, I'm sure you'll pass out before we even....." Max said and before he could complete his words....

DING (5x)

"...."

"...."

CRACK

"Pfft!" A laugh escaped Faye's mouth when she felt his grip tighten around the smartwatch he held behind her back.

"I swear I'll destroy the guild that Alvin guy is in." Max mumbled and Faye's face turned serious.

"Are....you going to be alright? I mean, it's still a guild which is ranked two in the world guild ranking." Faye said with a worried look on her face.

"Hahahahaha!!" Max laughed like that was the best joke he had heard in a while.

".... Wha?" Faye furrowed her brows and looked down at Max's face, which had its own charm when he laughed like that.

"Faye, do you know why my guild is ranked tenth in the world guild ranking?" Max asked her while looking at her face with a bright yet ominous smile.

"Because you don't want attention (?)" Faye tilted her head and said what she had thought the reason was.

"No." He replied while looking at her in her eyes.

"Then?" Faye was perplexed at his reply because she thought that he just hated getting attention.

"Because that's the least result I get if I hunt while using only a single ounce of my actual strength." Max replied with a cheeky smile.

"...." Faye turned silent.

"Hmm... Ah! Let's say that 'I won't even have to lift my pinky to get that result' or 'I'm using a single cup from my ocean-like strength.'" Max said in a more simpler manner and continued.

"You know how my guild doesn't have or employ many members, right? You can also call my guild a 'mercenary guild,' since my guild doesn't have even 10 proper guild members; you can even say that I am the only one in my guild; now imagine how my guild is in the top ten." Max explained.

"..... really?" Faye asked, dumbfounded by the revelation.

'... he's that strong....' Faye thought and she had already somewhat guessed that Max was waaaayyyyy stronger than what he showed on the outside, but what he just revealed was waaaayyyyy, waaaayyyyy stronger than she could ever imagine, since all the guilds in the top ten ranking have scored those ranks have always worked with the best teams they could afford, but....this guy....the man in front of her was strong enough to get into the top ten rankings by himself.

"Why would I lie to you?" Max smiled lovingly and leaned towards her face.

"Mmhmn~" Faye subconsciously leaned forward and gladly accepted the kiss.

"Mmmhm!!" Faye was out of breath and wanted to break off from the kiss, but she couldn't, and soon tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.

"Mpha!! Haaa...." Faye took a deep breath as soon as Max broke the kiss.

"Are you, haa.... only going, haa....to be kissing me?" Faye asked with a seductive smile on her face while breathing heavily.

"Not a chance" Max said with a wide grin.

"But?" Faye asked since she felt a 'but' coming.

"But... not now, since I got the news informing me that Alvin had challenged my guild and it was spread all over and all the media people are making a much bigger deal than it actually is." Max explained and made Faye sit on the couch, slowly, and scratch the back of his head, maybe because of all the hindrances Alvin and his guild are causing.

"What is the guild master of the Hunters Guild, 'Kane Romero,' doing without properly managing his guild members?" Faye grumbled and continued.

"Haaa.... I had hoped that at least 'Leanna Romero,' one of the very few Rank-SS heroes, would have at least questioned the strange management her husband's guild has!" Faye sighed and blamed the 'Romero family,' since she too was feeling guilty that things had come this far, but she started to blame them, the Romero family, so that she would at least feel a bit better.

"Right." Max said with a crazed, ominous grin which was replaced by a small smile by the next instance.

'I....must have seen wrong.' Faye thought as that ominous grin on Max's face flashed in her mind, and it was enough to send chills down her spine.

'R-right, I must have seen wrong' She thought and glanced at Max again and saw a small smile on his face.

"Why....are you smiling?" She asked, unable to hold back her curiosity.

"It's a open challenge to screw us over, right?" Max asked while pointing back and forth at himself and Faye.

".....Right." Faye nodded her head, concerned.

"So... I was thinking of a way to screw with their entire Hunters Guild." Max said.

"!" Faye opened her eyes wide in surprise and jumped back on her feet.

"You! No! You can't! It's the Hunters Guild! THE HUNTERS GUILD!! You can't do anything to a second ranking guild and not to mention all by yourself!!" Faye said and worried if anything happened to Max.

"Faye, if you act like that, I might change my plans about the, 'not now,' from before." Max said with a charming smile.

"Max! Now's not the time to be joking around!! Do you know what that son of a bit*h, Alvin would do!!! You can't do....mmphff!!"

'No! Now's not the time for this.....'

"Mmmhmn~"