I swallowed hard, making sure that my face remained flat so as not to attract suspicion from her, then I opened my mouth.
“What do you mean?”
Silence struck the area, and the woman in front of me furrowed her eyebrows feeling displeased with my answer.
“Don't act stupid, how could a normal person fight a spirit, let alone an evil spirit like Kuchisake-Onna.”
Hearing that, I blinked several times, drowning in my thoughts.
Match? No, that fight earlier was a close call.
Initially, I was scared, but whether because of my own will or the system's influence, I managed to fight back.
Even though I fought back, I still received several injuries, making me realize that this world I lived in wasn't just sunshine and rainbows.
Underneath it, obstructed by the darkness of night, supernatural beings lurked in the shadows to haunt the people.
On the other hand, there were also human figures with supernatural powers like this woman in front of me.
The world was bigger and different than I thought.
Honestly, if it wasn't for her, maybe I would have been possessed by that spirit… probably?
Maybe because I was silent for too long, the woman stepped forward. Her body, which was about the same height, somehow felt taller when a white aura seeped from her.
I unknowingly stepped back, raising both my hands in the hope she would spare me, until her question made me furrow my brows.
“Hey, why are you silent, don't tell me you are a rogue shaman?”
“Rogue shaman, what is that?”
I made eye contact with the woman's black eyes. A second later, the white aura coming out of her body died down and the woman crossed her arms on her medium size breasts.
‘Um... I don't know anything about what a rogue shaman is, but this shaman in front of me deserves to be my target.’
Suddenly, the girl took one of my hands, making me flinch; the fierce aura radiating from her face caused me to tense up.
I accidentally squeezed our touching hands and widened my eyes. Even though her hand could crush my bones, the woman's hands were soft and smooth with milky-white skin.
A warm sensation entered my body, causing a purple panel to block my vision.
[Foreign power entered your body, began neutralizing.]
As usual, the mysterious power below my stomach awoke, it flowed to my hand and started sucking the incoming power.
[Gained +1 BP]
[Gained +1 BP]
...
‘Oh, thanks.’
I stared at the face of the woman standing close in front of me. I could sniff the smell of luxurious perfume coming from her body, making me gulp.
‘She’s too gorgeous, I must befriend her and if possible...’
“...This is!”
Her firm voice woke me from my daydream. I widened my eyes when I realized our hands had separated.
‘Ah, why didn't I use mental manipulation earlier?’
Stupid me, for not thinking about that.
My head earlier was filled with her body curves as well as her beautiful appearance, more beautiful than all the women I had ever seen in my two lives.
She had a sharp nose, smooth skin free of excessive make-up, and her blossoming pink lips looked like they were asking to be picked.
Let’s not forget her body composition: she was slender, but both her breasts and hips were plump enough.
All aspects of her were top-tier, making even me—who was now a woman—feel inadequate.
Could that be the reason?
The girl glared at me, even her wrinkled expression looked amazing in my eyes.
“You sucked my power?”
“Eh?”
Hearing that answer from me made her widen her eyes, then she touched her chin, drowning in her own thoughts.
She occasionally glanced at my side, then after making her mind, the girl took her smartphone from her pocket and then showed her screen, which displayed a barcode.
“Whatever, hey, add me to your RINE.”
I reflexively took my phone. My smartphone was indeed a bit old-school compared to hers, but at least I installed the application just in case.
After logging in, I immediately positioned my camera and added this woman to my friends list, which only had one person: her.
Seeing that made my heart feel heavy.
‘Himekawa Rika.’
Right after the notification message came in, Himekawa pulled back her phone and stared at the screen and said.
“Listen, Kanzaki, never show that power of yours to other people.”
I nodded, obeying what she wanted; ‘There was no benefit for me to show it off either.’
‘Besides, my power is hardly noticeable.’ I added
“Good, I will contact you again later, for now go home.”
After saying that Himekawa walked away, and I didn't get a chance to call her until her figure suddenly disappeared like mist.
‘So fast!’
I didn't know why she asked for my contact, or why, even though my power had been exposed, she still let me go.
Was she brewing some plot in her mind?
Fortunately she only knew my sucking power, not the other one and that thought gave me a sigh of relief.
I put my phone away and turned around, going home towards my apartment to rest.
While I was walking, I suddenly stopped, my expression wrinkling in thought.
‘Wait a minute, if she saw me fighting with that spirit earlier... why didn't she help me right away?’
I turned my body, witnessing the empty street without a single soul present.
‘Whatever. I'm sleepy!’
As I didn't want to cut my sleep time, I continued my walk and went home to my small apartment, then slept like a log without changing my torn clothes.
***
After that chaotic night, I spent the following days in peace.
On campus, I was busy with a heavy load of assignments. It made me overwhelmed, and slightly cursed Kanzaki for being too diligent.
Maybe her background created that hunger within herself, like whether it's money, a comfortable life, recognition or what.
What was clear, she took too many classes. There was also the part-time job, I did almost every day, the sheer pressure was enough to make my head split open.
‘Man, I can’t take it anymore.’
Today was Kanazawa-sensei's class, as usual I sat a bit at the back, getting a wide view of this whole spacious class.
In the left corner, there was a group consisting of three girls and two boys, their appearance could be considered flashy, considering it was Nanami's group.
I paid attention to them, especially towards Nanami, coincidentally our eyes met and the gyaru girl shifted her gaze to the front with a slight blush on her cheeks.
‘It's time to play a little bit.’
Not long after, Kanazawa-sensei entered and that day's lesson began.
For a moment, I put aside my dirty thoughts and focused on the front, trying to fill my head with knowledge.
Although I was complaining a lot, the process itself was fulfilling.
As time went by, Kanazawa-sensei finally closed that day's lesson and immediately packed her books.
While I was packing my things, I accidentally made eye contact with Sensei who gave me a soft smile, then left the class.
‘Sensei…?’
A cheerful voice from a boy behind me jolted my consciousness back. I turned and stared at Nanami's eyes who was walking close.
“Hey, where to now?”
“Don't know, I still have one more class today.”
A twin-tailed girl answered while typing something on her phone. She then glanced towards Nanami and asked.
“Nanamin, where are you going today?”
The other girl with straight black hair followed, her cold gaze turned to the blonde girl, waiting for her answer.
However, the gyaru girl scratched her cheek instead, then spoke with a tone full of regret.
“Sorry, I’m a bit busy right now, I'll let you guys know again when I'm free.”
“Eh, that's very rare. What's your plan?”
The cheerful boy tried to press, but the other calm boy pulled his neck and said.
“Enough, we have a class after this, let's go, see you later.”
The two of Nanami's female friends, also reluctantly bid their farewell and worse yet, not a single one of them noticed my presence near them.
I clenched my fists, swearing to avenge all their actions to me later, starting with Nanami first.
Actually, I was quite impressed with the girl who knew what I wanted with just a glance.
The gyaru girl remained standing with her back to me. I sat back down and looked at my surroundings which were already empty.
“Nanami, come closer.”
Her body jolted as she slowly turned around. Her tense face accompanied by a blush made me unable to hold back a smirk.
“Nee, there's something I want to talk to you about.”
I didn't answer, only patting the empty chair beside me. She gritted her teeth, reluctantly sitting down and crossing her arms over her chest
For a moment, her womanly scent entered my nose, causing blood to start gathering in my crotch.
“...Hey, this is about yesterday.”
Before she could finish her request, I put my arm around the girl's shoulder, making her let out a cute ‘kya’ sound.
“W-Wait, what do you want to do?”
With my current strength, I pulled her body close, then kissed her thin and moist lips.
The girl’s eyes widened, but then closed. Watching that, I slowly sucked it, nibbling her lower lip, and also licking it.
I did everything to arouse her. And it worked; the pressure from her hands, which had wanted to push me away earlier, now relaxed, as she surrendered her body to me.
I separated myself for a moment, staring at Nanami's panting expression with a pink blush spreading to her ears.
She widened her eyes, then shifted her attention to the side.
“Hmph, listen to a person talk first.”
I took one of her hands gripping my jacket, then guided it to my crotch which had already pitched a tent, then spoke in whisper.
“Why? Didn't you come to me because you wanted to do it?”
Nanami who initially looked away, now stared deep at my pants. Her trembling hand stroked my member from behind the fabric, sending an electric current jolting down my back, making me shudder in pleasure.
“Nanami, use your hands!”
Right when that sentence came out, a slight vibration came from my bag, breaking the steamy atmosphere between me and the gyaru girl.
‘Fuck! Who is it?’