I Captured the Enemy Who Tried to Kill Me - Chapter 15
While an Awakened One’s power springs from the heart, a Guide’s power spreads from the abdomen.
My entire body trembled at the strange sensation of energy being sucked from deep within my belly.
The energies that alternately heated and froze my insides churned, making my breathing hot.
The man, unaware of my condition, kept gently caressing my cheek while whispering.
“Or is this my dream… Why can’t I recognize you? What have you done to me?”
Though his drowsy, relaxed eyes indicated it was still safe, his fingers dug into my nape with a silent command to stay put.
Surely he hasn’t regained his senses?
The moment I flinched, he pulled me gently, stroking downward in clear disapproval of my reaction.
“Ah.”
And immediately, the man’s soft, tender lips descended. Not just my energy, but my lips were being devoured.
The moment my lower lip was softly and hotly sucked.
“…!”
Along with an unbearably intense heat, my guiding energy also began to be consumed relentlessly.
The arm muscles tightening around my waist were rock-hard and hot, determined to prevent any chance of retreat.
I tensed my entire body while being helplessly tossed about.
It was different from when he rushed at me under the influence of drugs during the banquet.
There was pleading in his breath, and his pain in the desperate sucking force.
Though he had only been hateful and frightening, right now Kaisis looked extremely fragile.
‘This is a chronic disease of Guides. I know. I know, but.’
The first thing I learned at the center in South Korea was not to become harmonized with power.
Espers will do anything to look good to their matching Guides.
While being swayed by seeing Espers who are only nice to them, when guiding is added, Guides are helplessly tossed about.
They fall into the illusion of seeing powerful transcenders who crush and suppress everything, become like cats finding catnip when exposed to their guiding.
Ah. This person cannot do without me.
‘That’s what they warned us to be most careful about.’
The person consuming my lips and breath keenly noticed I was lost in other thoughts.
“Ugh.”
My lips were bitten slightly painfully.
At the same time, more guiding energy was sucked out through our connected breaths.
The touch gripping my waist strongly was so hot it became frightening.
My face must have turned bright red; it felt excessively hot.
‘Is this really okay?’
I confirmed that the system window, which had been flashing bright red, was gradually lowering the rampage risk number.
76%
68%
…57%.
The speed of calming with this level of contact was astonishing.
My heart sank just as much.
Even without checking the compatibility rate, at that speed, I was certain the emperor and I had no ordinary matching rate.
Squinting to check, I finally saw the number stop decreasing.
32%.
That seemed to be the limit of how far it could drop with this level of contact.
Anyway, this was enough.
“Your Majesty, that’s enough now.”
But the man with hazy eyes wouldn’t let me go.
His excessively handsome face, almost painful to look at directly, clung to me with a pleading expression.
Knowing the unpleasant Emperor of the day well, I got goosebumps for a moment but…
Now, when I didn’t need to act as Duke Ariel, it seemed heartless to coldly push away someone desperately clinging while suffering in pain.
‘What should I do? Would a little more guiding be okay?’
While I was contemplating, the emperor, with uncharacteristically docile eyes blinking, brought his forehead to mine.
Then he rubbed it slightly and exhaled a pleasant sigh. I froze like ice at that languid, cat-like attitude.
Wow, crazy. Where did this person learn to act cute?
And why is he so handsome?
My rapidly beating heart was a betrayal of the sunshine female lead. Gritting my teeth, I consciously cut off the power that was being helplessly sucked by him.
It was a very difficult task, but not impossible.
And the emperor’s blue eyes, hazily intoxicated, slowly turned toward me.
Our eyes met.
“…Why?”
While I was holding my breath like prey caught in a spider’s web, unable to say anything, the emperor opened his mouth.
“Give me more.”
No, that’s not it. Does he think my guiding is candy that can be given when asked?
“This is enough for today. Next time… phew, I’ll come again.”
“Again.”
“Yes. I’ll come again. But you won’t remember this conversation, right?”
I caught my breath.
Now, how do I go back?
The emergency quest seems adequately resolved, but I don’t know how long this disguised identity will last.
While frowning with a headache, my arm was grabbed again and this time my body fell into the emperor’s firm, broad embrace.
“Huh?”
“Ah, you.”
“Y-Your Majesty? You’re not in your right mind now… right?”
System! What’s happening!
It might be my imagination, but focus seemed to be gradually returning to those blue eyes.
I tried to raise my upper body with wide eyes, but my waist was held.
And the emperor, holding my wrist with his other hand, pleaded.
“Don’t go.”
“Huh?”
“Don’t go.”
As my wrist was grabbed, my energy that I had cut off was being sucked into him again.
But it was different from before. This was clearly.
‘He’s pulling deliberately.’
If it wasn’t me. If it had been an ordinary Guide of this world, at the moment power was sucked like this, their vision would darken and they would faint.
My face rapidly darkened. This person was trying to capture me even in his unconscious state.
That obsession gave me the chills.
I couldn’t even begin to imagine how he would react if he knew I was Duke Ariel.
Just then, the system window chimed.
[Congratulations.
You have calmed the emperor’s rampage risk in the unexpected quest.
The effect of temporary disguise will disappear.
Soul extinction risk decreases.]
Huh? I think I just saw something strange.
As I blinked, trying to look again, a bright red warning window flashed.
[The effect of the temporary disguise will end soon.
Emperor Kaisis is trying to regain consciousness.
Danger!
Emergency processing ordered.
Returning to [Home].]
Huh? With the warning, everything before my eyes turned white.
The force of someone gripping my waist disappeared, and when I came to my senses, I was lying alone in my room.
And I made direct eye contact with the fat cat who was grooming itself in a seductive pose with one leg spread.
“……”
“You’re back meow? Tsk tsk, you’re a pervert meow. Your face is about to burst meow.”
“Hey. You said it was safe.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about meow.”
“You said it was safe!”
“You came back alive, didn’t you meow?”
“That’s not what I mean, you pig.”
Cold sweat streamed down.
I clutched a pillow to my chest and screamed silently.
What I just saw wasn’t wrong.
If I had been even a second late, it would have been dangerous.
Reason was about to return to the emperor’s eyes.
What?
Is the system favorable to me?
Is there no risk of being discovered by the emperor?
“My life is at stake here!”
But what was more frustrating was.
“I have to do this again.”
It meant that from now on, whenever the emperor was in danger, I would be called upon.
***
Splitting headache, shaking power, pain in the vessels that felt like tearing.
Though he should be greeting a morning full of damp fatigue after passing through a familiar night.
Kaisis repeatedly clenched and unclenched his fist with a puzzled expression.
His half-lowered eyelids trembled, and the blue ice fragments began to calmly establish reason.
And.
“Huh?”
A hollow laugh burst out.
It was a power that had tormented him since birth. He couldn’t fail to notice a state so clearly different from usual.
‘It’s like that time.’
The night he almost went on a rampage at the banquet. The trace of his match, who had approached stealthily like a stray cat, cunningly calmed him and left.
Kaisis’s face suddenly contorted.
With anger, ice crystals shot up in the air and disappeared.
Why. Why again!
Anger spread at having lost what had been in his hands, even in his unconsciousness.
He had the illusion that the sweet taste he had swallowed remained in his mouth.
Unconsciously moistening his lips with his tongue, he bit them with a grinding motion.
“Why did she run away?”
No. That’s not what’s important.
His blue eyes narrowed.
“How did she approach me?”
There were many strange points.
