Chapter 1 Maria
“Do you know what the word ‘Sephiroth’ means?”
Across the strangely shaped glass tube, the face of Director Lucai appeared.
Her long hair glowed against her snow-white skin, giving off an air of maturity. But that face, full of intellectual beauty, was reflected on the glass tube in a twisted and interesting shape.
(If you take a picture of the view from this side. The director will get angry, right?) The youth called Watt responded to her while thinking of something boring.
“Sephiroth, that means this glass tube, right?”
“Of course!”
Lucai smiled and nodded.
Watt would feel unable to lift his head under that smile, mostly because of the pressure he was unilaterally under.
“Uh-“
Watt crossed his arms in deep thought. A frown deepens on the plain but bright young face.
But it wasn’t like a single word in English, it was a completely unheard of phrase for him, and as a result, he had to ask Luchai for help.
“I surrender! What the hell does that mean, Director?”
“It means ‘wood of life’.”
Duchess said.
“The ‘Tree of Life’ which hides all the secrets of God’s creation of the world… that is the original meaning of Sephiroth.
”
“So it is!”
Seeing Watt’s slightly demented expression, Lucai could only give a bitter smile that said ‘read the Bible more often’.
“There are many very important things written in the Old Testament. If you are determined to do serious research, you need to spend some time reading it.”
“But asking me to read the Bible seems like something only a bishop of the church would do!”
Watt said as he added various drugs to the beaker.
Dewcolor draped himself in white and said to him.
“No! The study of the Bible is very necessary for us alchemists. I am convinced of this.”
Alchemy –
Originally, it was a forbidden secret technique that was researched for the purpose of artificially creating pure gold.
Instead of extracting gold, one creates it with one’s own hands – discovering this method is tantamount to obtaining endless wealth. The fulfillment of alchemy has been a dream of mankind for a long time.
Countless alchemists, over centuries, have used various methods just to refine gold.
In the process, instruments or medicines such as ‘Sephiroth’ or ‘universal solvents’ have been invented, and an unknown number of substances and finished products that do not exist in nature have been produced.
However, the only way to generate gold has never been discovered.
Then… the times evolved.
Steam locomotives appeared and the Industrial Revolution began.
Centered in England, factories were created all over Europe.
The field of ‘engineering’ was booming, and the demand for mechanics to operate machinery skyrocketed.
Amidst the trends of such a world, alchemy was seen as a study of the past and gradually became extinct.
Several years ago into the present of the twentieth century, the number of people within the UK who call themselves alchemists has become few and far between.
And they mostly hid within the deep mountains of Wales or Scotland, living the life of a recluse. The ‘do-gooders’ who opened the Alchemy Institute can be said to be completely gone.
At present, the only alchemy institute that exists in the suburbs of London… is the ‘Del Sol’ institute run by Director Ruchai.
“Granted, where am I the only institute member here? Can you really call it an institute with one director and one staff member?”
“Watt, who are you talking to?”
“Ambiguous? Ah, no, a reader asked…”
“Just say something unintelligible.”
Luccai looked skeptically at the Only Institution Member-Watt, while giving him instructions.
“Anyway, Sephiroth is ready. First of all, make some medicine to restore your strength and see.”
“Will anything be okay as long as it restores your strength?”
“Of course, the more effective the medicine the higher the score will be. This is a test of your ability to do your best.”
“Yes, I’ll cheer!”
Watt’s answer made one feel more chipper than usual.
Because, today is his monthly quiz day.
(If I pass today, I’ll be able to ask Director Luchai to let me use a higher-priced one than before. ‘Jewel’. Come on, I must succeed!) The research institute of about fifteen square meters has a table for experiments and a cyclofibrate in the center, and the windowless walls are crowded with bookshelves and cupboards, as well as cauldrons for experiments and so on.
Watt walked toward the oldest of the cabinets-cabinets with many small drawers for apothecary and pulled out a number of small drawers.
Placed inside, there are raw gemstones of various colors such as green, light cyan, cream, and mashed gemstone powder.
This is ‘Jewel’-the most basic material necessary for alchemy.
From among the gems, Watt removed a number of raw amethyst stones.
Amethyst has not yet been cut so it does not have a bright luster, but the rich purple hue of the raw stone is already stunningly beautiful.
He picked up a few other vials of medicine in his hands and stood before Seraphite.
Depending on the shape of the glass tube, Serofit is called “Intelligence” or “Victory”.
Watt reached his hand toward The Sacred’s Seraphite. The golden-colored ‘Universal Dissolver’ churned and boiled in it.
“I’m going to put the amethyst into The Sacred Seraphim.”
After he finished speaking to Lucai, he discreetly placed the amethysts one by one into the slender entrance of the Seraphite.
The amethyst made a poofing sound and sank into the universal solvent, then rose and fell fiercely in tandem with the convection currents of the solvent.
Soon, the dull corners of the amethyst surface are smoothed out and slowly become round and small.
Although it wasn’t really ‘omnipotent’, the omnipotent solvent that could melt all sorts of minerals-its golden liquid-suddenly turned wei thick and turbid green. Finally, the lumpy amethyst completely melted.
Made into an amethyst solution.
(The show is about to begin…)
Watt floated a nervous expression as he injected a little of the teal-colored drug and a little of the pink drug into the Serofit.
Gollum!
At this point, the amethyst solution reacted violently with the two drugs, causing white smoke to rise from amongst the Seraphim.
“Uh…”
Luchai put her right hand over the side of her mouth and made a deep, thoughtful sound. This was a move that made Watt, who was in the middle of the quiz, even more uneasy.
The Sephiroth continued to spew white smoke for about a minute before finally coming to a standstill. After confirming this, Watt twisted out the flame of the alcohol lamp below.
After a few minutes, the temperature of the solution gradually decreased.
“As the temperature continues to drop, it should be able to produce gravel-like crystals…”
“The resulting crystals are the medicine you want, right!”
The solution slowly continued to convect as the two watched.
Finally, a solid-like substance was seen in it.
“Awesome! It worked!”
For a moment, Watt was ecstatic.
But… it looks strange.
In his calculations, it should have generated something gravelly, but what he saw in the Seraphim had the shape of a rose petal.
“Strange? How come?”
To the puzzled man, Lucai said.
“Take it out.”
After being told off by her, Wart took several petals out of the Seraphite and washed them discreetly.
Then place it in the palm of your hand and look at it closely.
“That’s weird, it shouldn’t be in this shape.”
“A sniff will probably tell.”
“Yes?”
So Watt held it close to his nose and smelled it.
His knees… unexpectedly went down.
“Huh?”
A sound was made, followed by a feeble collapse to the floor.
“My body… I can’t use my body’s strength…!”
“The smell of the petals has a paralyzing effect on the body ooh!” Lucai said.
A stoic smile appeared on his face, but his pupils glowed with disappointment at the student’s failure.
“Putting that pink drug into the Sacred’s Seraphite would have enhanced the effect of its direct action in the creature’s brain. Though you knew this and used it in order to enhance the potency of the drug, it seems you forgot to calculate how well it would work with the amethyst.”
Lucai quietly lectured him.
But, for the current Wart, there was no strength to listen to her instructions.
“It’s cold, it’s cold, Director…!”
“Don’t worry. It’s just a matter of smelling the petals, the paralysis will soon lift… What’s going on? Wat?”
Lucai, who was speaking with a smug face, had a sudden change in expression.
Watt’s face turned pale and he crouched in a ball like a baby.
“Unexpected reaction…”
One of the few alchemists in the near suburbs of London spoke softly in slight surprise.
“There shouldn’t be any impurities within the amethyst, should there?”
The sensation initially experienced by Watt, who regained consciousness- was the soft sensation pressing against his lips, with the bitter taste of the liquid that flowed into his mouth.
(What’s this, what’s this feeling?)
He almost fainted as he opened his eyes in disbelief.
“Uh-uh-uh!?”
Reflected in his eyes was a close-up of Lucai’s beautiful face like a white magnet.
Lucai seemed to use her mouth to make Watt drink something down without knowing what it was.
Knowing that it was Lucite’s lips that were in contact with his lips, Watt had a moment of panic.
“Director Ruchai and I kissed…”
Subtle misunderstandings are instantly dispelled as you take a sip of the liquid in your mouth.
(Ambiguous? Is that the smell of medicine?)
After the liquid passed through the esophagus and reached the stomach, the paralysis of the whole body suddenly disappeared. Lucai had probably made him drink the antidote.
“The… potion seems to have taken effect.”
She smiled as she noticed and left Watt’s body.
Watt, on the other side, was all different from a moment ago, even his ears were red.
“Yeah, yeah, sorry!”
Tongue tied, he swiped his hand to clean the antidote that had run from the corner of his mouth.
The palm of his hand was stained with the lipstick that Lucha had been wearing, and it startled him again.
Looking at him who rolled his eyes straight up, Lucai couldn’t help but sigh lightly.
“It didn’t cause any major trouble, but it hurts that you can’t even pass a test of this level!”
“I’m sorry…”
Walt was speechless. He simply could not imagine that amethyst could be laced with impurities.
(Taking this opportunity?) , Lucha crossed her arms and made fun of him.
“And you’re still unconscious after being poisoned by a homemade item. Really, do I have to teach you everything myself before you can do it?”
(SNAPPING!) Watt gets angry and his expression becomes that of a teenager.
“Chief, don’t treat me like a child, okay?”
“Oh, why?”
Lucai covered her mouth and laughed, irritating Watt’s nerves even more.
Barely able to stand up on his wobbly legs, Watt bluffed.
“It’s true that I’m not yet skilled in the knowledge and techniques of alchemy, but I’m in charge of all the chores at the Institute, and I have less time for research in the first place…”
Although there were only two people in the ‘Del Sol Research Institute’, Luchai and Watt, since Luchai did not care about anything other than research, all the chores were done by Watt. From organizing and packing props and research materials, to buying materials, managing the books and finances, preparing and preparing food, cleaning, laundry, and so on…
In short, Watt was burdened with all the trivial chores while squeezing out of them a pitifully small amount of free time to study alchemy. There was certainly no way to make research that would satisfy him.
At the thought, he couldn’t help but retort one more time.
“But, I finally learned how to use JEWEL, and I can use alchemy to make simple things! I did what I needed to do properly, but to be treated like a child just because I failed an experiment is something I just can’t accept!”
After listening to the student’s claims, Luchai stood in front of him and put her hands on his shoulders.
The action made Watt feel marvelous pressure. Perhaps bumping into Lucai made him flinch a bit.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it like that. But, seeing you, it seems to have triggered my uncontrollable instincts. Heh heh heh…”
“┅Anyway, I’m a child.”
Watt boarded up his face. Lucai had a surprised look on his face, but it looked like he was putting it on on purpose.
“Ughhhhhh, pouting, huh?”
“It’s not sappy.”
“It’s the cutest thing about you, how could I hate it?”
“So please don’t treat me like a child!”
Just at this point in time what he said became fragmented.
“No such thing, look, here’s the proof.”
Poof.
“Uh-huh…”
Suddenly, Watt couldn’t catch his breath.
His whole face was pressed against something or other and he couldn’t breathe through his nose.
(What is this soft thing? It seems to be more elastic than the Director’s lips just now…) Yes, it seems that my head is also being held tightly.
Watt coalesced his vision suspiciously… and then stiffened.
What came into view were two full breasts and a slightly sweaty cleavage.
(This, this, this, is this the Director’s breasts…?)
Moreover, what should have been tightly wrapped in the clothes just now, at some point the breasts had been exposed. Marco’s mother, Marco, was a very good friend of Marco.
“The, the director!”
He finally relented and let out an embarrassing wail.
Then Luchai asked him in a voice that was as calm as usual, but unexpectedly sexy.
“Soft?”
“Huh?”
“My breasts, are they soft?”
“Ah, yes…”
Watt’s voice naturally changes pitch.
The smell of the medicine and Luchai’s sweet body odor mixed with each other, stimulating his nostrils.
A blush spread across his face and his chest poofed. Finally, it became irresistibly hot between her legs.
“Ah, feel the throbbing in Watt’s chest. Heart beating, right?” Lucai said.
“Yes…”
“If you were a kid, you wouldn’t be beating your heart like that, would you? So, you’re already a mature adult.”
Lucai once again clutched Watt’s head.
But Watt didn’t have any more time to listen to her.
“Rue, Rue color director’s nipples, right in front of my eyes!”
The slightly darker and thicker colored nipple was right in Watt’s eyes, making him completely incapable of calming down.
And, and nipple was in the midst of a slow erection. Deep in his throat, he couldn’t help but become dry.
“So, so, Director Ruchai…”
“What’s wrong?”
“That… the Director’s… has risen!”
“Probably a little turned on by you watching!”
Lucai smiled as she answered and gently knocked Watt on the head.
She was 80% half really feeling excited and the other half was teasing her students for fun.
Watt may have sensed some indignation within her.
However, he couldn’t say “Please stop teasing me!” However, he couldn’t say “Please stop teasing me!” because the desire to keep burying his face in Lucai’s chest was too strong.
(Director’s breasts… so soft and comfortable!)
The soft comfort was great, and Watt unconsciously wanted to hug and caress her.
(No, I can’t. We have a teacher-student relationship… but if it’s just for a little while, it shouldn’t be a problem…) Watts moved away from his immobility and reached out his hand to touch Ruchai’s plump breasts.
The sound of knocking on the basilica door and closing it echoed through the institute.
Knock, knock, knock.
The sound of knocking on the basilica door and closing it echoed through the institute.
(Woohoo!) Watt, who was startled, left Lucai’s side as if he was bounced off. Cold sweat poured out from his entire body in a single breath, and his pulse spiked to double its normal speed.
Lucai said to Watt after getting dressed as if nothing had happened.
“You just said ‘I’m in charge of all the Institute’s chores and have very little time to research’, didn’t you?”
“Ah yes, I was too willful, I’m sorry!”
The aura of a moment ago was gone, and Watt unconsciously uttered words of apology.
Red-faced, he was told good news by Luchai.
“Actually, I’ve found a friend’s daughter who’s going to be helping out in the institute starting today.”
“┅ Huh?”
“She’s probably the one knocking on the door, so go ahead and open it.”
It took Watts several seconds to understand the meaning of what she was saying.
“Then, then, from today, I…”
“You don’t have to do the chores anymore, instead you’ll be taking on the job of educating her. In order for her to fulfill your duties, you’ll have to teach her everything you can!”
Turning toward the energetic man, Director Lucai smiled slightly.
“Wow, that’s ancient!”
Watt panicked and ran to the foyer when he heard the young girl speak with emotion.
“But it’s heavy and so textured.”
Plus a springy, refreshing voice with a hint of sweetness.
(It’s a cute girl, right?!)
Just hearing the sound, Watt began to imagine it at will.
But the moment the door opened, he couldn’t speak at once.
She was about three or four years younger than Watt. With a figure so small and delicate that one would think of a squirrel, big watery blue eyes that rolled around, round cheeks that you couldn’t help but caress, and tiger’s teeth that peeked out from between her cute lips… Standing in front of the door was a girl who was just as cute as, no, cuter than, one would have imagined.
“Ah, hello!”
After the young girl saw Watt, a nervous look appeared on her face and she immediately bowed respectfully.
Two lovely clumps of hair on her head swayed slightly with it.
(Wow, that’s cute…)
Watt’s mind was so blown that he looked like he was out of his mind. The young girl felt strange and spoke to him.
“So, are you from the ‘Dellsor Institute’?”
“Ambiguous? … ah, yes, yes!”
Watt is a little startled, but always greets people with a smile.
“Welcome to the ‘Delsol Institute’, the fellows are looking forward to your arrival.”
A smile with a little shyness surfaced on the young girl’s innocent face.
“My name is Maria, and I will be under your care for the future, so please be kind!”
Then, once again, he bowed deeply.
At that moment, a gentle breeze blew between the two.
As if some premonition had crept into Watt’s mind-
(┅This is going too well, isn’t it?)
Trying to suppress his expression before he laughed bitterly, he greeted Maria as she entered the institute.
“Come in, Director Luchai is waiting.”
The next day.
“Well, I have to be energized to make breakfast today as well… ha… ah…”
After a big yawn, Watt slowly walked down the steps.
His nostrils, smelling the rich scent of toasted bread.
“Huh? There’s no way that Director Lucai is cooking, what’s going on?”
He couldn’t figure it out for a moment, but the mystery was immediately revealed.
“Ah, Mr. Watt! Good morning!”
For, Maria was preparing breakfast in the kitchen.
(By the way, she’s been working at the institute since yesterday.) .
Watt naturally smiled at the thought of his first meeting the day before. Of course he was also happy because the burden of chores was lightened, but the greatest joy was because he had a schoolmate for the first time.
“Good morning, did you sleep well?”
He asked as he walked into the kitchen.
“Eh, sleep well!”
Maria answered him with a big smile.
“And what a great kitchen it is. The spices are all within reach, I love it!”
“I’m glad you can say that too.”
Watt, who was somehow paralyzed, gazed at Maria’s look.
She wore a dark purple dress with wide purple suspenders and a white smock with a matching red bow.
…the clothes she was wearing were so similar to what Ruchai usually wore.
“What’s that dress? It doesn’t look like civilian clothes…”
“This? It was prepared for me by Director Lucai.”
Watt’s question caused Maria to blush a little as she answered.
At this point Watt couldn’t help but talk to himself.
“It suits you…”
It was only when Maria made a “Oy?” voice, he realized what he had said.
“No, that… thank you.”
Seeing her face turn redder, Watt panicked and didn’t know what to do.
(Hey! How can I say that to a girl I just met yesterday!) .
It wasn’t really something that made him so wretched at all, it was just that he’d barely had a chance to talk to girls his own age since he’d entered the Institute, and the sight of the shy young girl in front of him made him even more at a loss for words.
(That’s why he’s so excited that he’s going to deny it in person.) (I will deny it, right?).
“Ah, no, let’s make breakfast! I’ll help!”
Watt made a point of proposing in a cheerful voice to hide his shyness.
“It’s been a busy day! You’ll have to get used to the operational use of the lab apparatus, and then you’ll have to memorize the stores and routes for shopping. There’s quite a bit of other stuff to do, and before that you’ll need to eat a hearty breakfast to stock up on energy for the day!
”
“Yes, yes!”
Maria changed her expression and nodded to him in a serious manner.
In fact, as Watt said, Maria had to learn more things than she could count.
The domestic affairs of the Institute of course went without saying, even the handling of affairs, dealing with visitors, ordering research materials, etc., which Watt used to do single-handedly, she had to familiarize herself with all of them to be able to do so.
In addition, in order to enable Maria to perform tasks directly related to alchemy research, such as maintaining research instruments and ordering materials, without error, it was necessary to teach her the basics of alchemy.
Thus Maria, who could not learn without learning, and Watt, who could not teach without teaching, fought bitterly and viciously for days.
“The black tea served to the director must be so strong that it reaches the level of bitterness.”
“Is this okay?”
“I’ll try… it’s so bitter! This, this is not black tea! It’s Eastern green tea!”
“Mr. Watt, after I put the medicine in the ‘Serofit’ like you said, there was smoke coming out, is that okay?”
“It’s not ‘cyclofibre’, it’s ‘cyclofibre’. That smoke is just water vapor, no problem. Just be careful not to get burned.”
“But the smoke seems to have a color…”
“┅Whoa, gas has been generated! Hurry up and close your breath! Don’t breathe in the gas!”
“Yes, yes~!”
-All of them.
Watt and Maria, trying to figure out what works best for each other. Both the one who teaches and the one who is taught slowly learn the knowledge and the method of instruction through repeated failures.
In particular, Director Ruchai was almost permissive with both of them. Not only did she have a personality that could not be described as strict, but she was also completely uninterested in anything other than research. Even when Watt and the others failed in the lab, she only said as an observer, ‘Just fail and do it again quietly’. She doesn’t gently guide her students, nor does she ever reprimand them harshly.
Her approach, which was laissez-faire at best and irresponsible at worst, was more than enough for Watt to ask for. So he was able to help Maria while teaching her various Institute chores, and again, carefully educate her.
As a result, although the two were initially very busy, within one house period they were able to handle their daily business with ease.
Watching Maria prepare the experimental equipment in an orderly manner, Director Lucite also said, “It’s really surprising, Watt, that you have the qualities of a teacher!”
On the other hand… Now that Maria had learned the basics, Watt gradually began to teach her about things other than work and research.
“Try to relax a little bit, at least on your days off.”
So every holiday, he took Maria to places like the lake on the outskirts of the Institute, or to the theater and bookstore near the gem store where he ordered.
“So, today we came near the pharmacy where we ordered the medication.”
“Mr. Watts… who are you talking to?”
“Ah, no, just a note to the readers, ahaha…”
“Mr. Watt is so weird!”
The meaning of the words was unclear, causing Maria to cock her head and wonder.
-The street in front of the station was full of stores, including a pharmacy, a bakery with the aroma of bread, a fruit and vegetable market where farmers brought in all kinds of vegetables and meats, a bookstore that existed as a kind of antique, a betting center where bets could be placed on anything, and a bar where the common people would often have a drink…all of these places were crowded with people and were bustling with activity.
Maria had scarcely been in the neighborhood of the station, and to her it was an exceedingly rare sight, constantly looking around and around.
“It’s fun, isn’t it!” Maria answered him happily as soon as Watt opened his mouth.
“Yes, it’s so much fun! I’ve hardly ever been on such a big street before, and everything I see is so interesting… ah! That man, he’s so dark-skinned! And he’s strong enough to carry such big luggage!”
“Hahaha, that’s Indian. Is that the first time Maria has seen one?”
Soon, Watt found the site of his destination.
“Ah, there it is, the place I wanted to bring you to today.”
“Woah ah!”
Maria looked at where he was pointing and couldn’t help but stare.
What Watt led her into was the store called OPENCAFE. It was a cafe that had tables and chairs set up not only inside the store, but even on the balcony outside.
The consistent light coffee color palette throughout the store is able to calm the hearts of customers. The log tables and chairs seem to be made in England and are both rustic and solid.
In contrast, most of the cups and glasses used by the laughing guests are small and delicate, designed to look cute. But they fit in with the rugged décor and the furniture.
“Well? But the store is maybe a little rustic for an urban area.”
Despite his mouth, Watt’s face was full of confidence. He was convinced Maria would love it.
Sure enough, Maria nodded vigorously.
“Not at all! This place gives me a quaint and cute feeling, it’s a great atmosphere!”
She had almost the same reaction as Watt, who used to be a rookie researcher, when she was brought in by Director Lucai.
“This restaurant has an extensive menu. It turns into a bar at night though, which may be too early for Maria.
”
Watt walked into the store and sat Maria down before introducing her to the place.
“But there are many kinds of cakes on the daytime menu ooh. I’m sure there must be Maria’s favorite pastries as well.
”
“Wow! So happy!”
Maria took the menu from the waiter and after a few moments of brainstorming ordered cream pie and black tea. Walt also ordered toasted sandwiches and French coffee. With so many customers, it took a while for the food to arrive, so Walt took advantage of the situation to ask questions.
“By the way, what made you want to come work at the Institute?”
“Me?”
Maria answered him seriously.
“I’m interested in alchemy because, well, think medieval magic and such is cool stuff. And it just so happens that my father and Director Lucai are friends, so they introduced me here.”
“Friends with the Director, huh? Then your father should be a weirdo too.”
Just as Watt was saying something rude to both parties, the waiter brought the dishes over.
“Wow! That looks so yummy! I’m going to eat it!”
Excited, Maria cut a slice of cream pie and put it in her mouth.
Then, eyes widened.
“Ummmmm-“.
“Oi oi! Are you okay? Choking?”
Her answer was completely unexpected.
“This, this fluffy feeling that spreads out in your mouth! The cream also dissolves in a flash, as if it’s even melting off your tongue… I’ve never had such a delicious cream pie!”
She put her hands over her cheeks, should she be afraid her jaw would drop.
“No, don’t be so happy, it’s okay!”
Watt smiled. The happiest expression since coming to the Institute Toshi appeared on Maria’s face.
It was the night of the day.
“Snack, I left it here.”
Watt, who entered Lucai’s study room carrying a snack on a tray, carefully whispered.
And Lucai only returned a ‘thank you’ to him, with no intention of lifting her face from the calculating paper with the complicated mathematical equations written on it.
Lucai was always like this when she was buried in her research. There were a lot of naughty actions like the last time she pressed Watt’s head against her chest, but when she was in a feverish state of contemplation like now, she didn’t care about anything.
Knowing the kind of situation, Watt certainly wouldn’t want to stay in the research lab for too long.
“Then, please rest early.”
When he finished, he walked out of the room without waiting for a response from the director.
“It’s almost time to go to bed.”
Stretching and relaxing his body as he did so, he slowly climbed the stairs that led to the second floor.
This time.
Knock, knock, knock, knock.
Light footsteps were heard descending the stairs.
Watt felt surprised and glared at the second floor.
“Maria, what’s wrong?”
“Ah, Mr. Watt! Perfect timing!”
Maria, who had stopped five frames above him on the steps, overflowed with smiles at the sight of her senior’s figure.
“I’m going to take you somewhere.”
“Take me somewhere?”
Walt was even more surprised. Where to go at this late hour?
“Why at a time like this?”
“Going to see the sky!”
Maria answered him.
“The window in my room is just above the roof of the foyer. If you climb up to the second floor roof from there, you can see the night sky.”
“House, on the roof!?”
Looking at her smiling face, Watt’s eyes widened.
“It doesn’t matter! Can you climb up?”
“Hey, I’m a lightweight.”
Maria puffed out her chest proudly and took Watt’s hand.
“Hurry up! If you’re slow, you won’t be able to see the sky when it’s covered with clouds!”
“Hey, hey, I’ll fall down the stairs if you pull me like that!”
-The two men climbed out of the window and finally made it to the basement roof and climbed up to the second floor roof.
“Whoa! Not a cloud in sight!”
Maria, who climbed up first, cheered loudly.
With her voice, Wat looked up to the top of the roof… and saw the inside of the short skirt.
Because the light source is only using light, the panties aren’t very visible. However, for Watt, a normal man who’s heart would skip a beat at the sight of the panties, he couldn’t help but scream (Maria, you’re too defenseless~).
“I’m so convinced.”
Containing the mood of looking into his underpants, Watt frankly states his exclamation.
But Maria’s reaction was unexpected.
“You mean because I’m a girl?”
“Uh…?”
“What does it matter, it’s no more dangerous than climbing a tree.”
After making Watt’s heart flutter for a split second, Maria laughed mischievously ‘heh heh heh’.
Maybe it’s commonplace for her to climb trees.
Maybe, she’s a naughtier girl than she looks.
“I.e., even for boys it’s dangerous…”
Watt climbed up and sat next to Maria despite the chanting in his mouth.
Maria immediately pointed her finger at the sky.
“Look, it’s beautiful!”
“Really… Wow! It’s the Milky Way-!”
It seemed like a river of milk splashed across the sky, crossing the endless night sky.
It was a spectacular sight for the two to see.
For a moment, Watt and Maria gazed speechlessly at the starry art.
After a long time, Maria, who was gazing at the stars, turned her head to look at Watt.
“Mr. Watts… I lied.”
“Oi? No way?”
“Some of the things said in OPENCAFE are lies.”
“Really?”
Watt couldn’t remember her ever lying about anything. The two had always talked hotly at the time, so what exactly were those places that weren’t real?
The answer came as a great surprise to him.
“I said I was interested in alchemy… actually, I’m not that interested.”
“To alchemy?”
So why come to the ‘Dell’Thore Institute’?
“Tell me the real reason if you can, will you?”
At the disbelieving Watt, Maria smiled bitterly as if ashamed.
“It was my father who wanted me to come, he said I had to undergo ‘social studies’.”
“┅Just like this?”
“It’s very negative, isn’t it? That’s why it was so very difficult for me to say anything that I blurted out the reason for the deception to Mr. Watt.”
“It’s not like there’s anything to be paralyzed about.”
Watt gave a slightly helpless expression.
Then Maria gazed once again at the night sky.
“But I think it would be nice if I could develop an interest in alchemy and become passionate about it.”
“And why is that?”
“I’m looking for what I want to do.”
“What I want to do…”
Watt’s demeanor changed, then he muttered.
Maria seemed to ponder what she had just said.
“From before, I didn’t have anything in particular that I wanted to do. Maybe it’s because of living so carefree.
However, my friend said, ‘This is the time for women to be independent,’ and people are going to get all kinds of jobs. For example, a magazine editor or a member of a choir, working hard at all levels.”
The chronology is the twentieth century – a new century in which monarchies in Europe are collapsing and women are entering the mainstream, led by the emerging nation of the United States.
“When I saw my friends, I felt envious. But… I couldn’t take any action because I didn’t know what I was supposed to do, what would make me sleep and forget.”
“So you came to the Institute hoping that alchemy would be the kind of thing you were looking for.”
Watt looked at the side of Maria’s face, holding his cheeks in deep thought.
For the man who had come to the institute with a strong will, saying ‘Please, please make sure I become a researcher!’ to him, Maria’s distress at not being able to find her goal was very difficult for him to understand.
But the fact that she was able to articulate the troubles of her heart so frankly endeared her to Watt.
More or less irresponsible, but he decided to encourage the young girl beside him.
“┅But whatever the reason, now that you have come to the Institute, doesn’t that mean you have taken action?”
“No, it’s not!”
Maria shook her head vigorously.
“Because, if Director Ruchai hadn’t said that she wanted someone to work here, I think I would still be pointlessly hanging out at home.”
“But you are now seated beside me.” Watt said.
“If you didn’t want to work here, you wouldn’t be here now, would you? That means that even if there was no opportunity to serve here, you would still have taken action on your own, right?”
“But…”
Halfway through her sentence, the young girl’s face suddenly reddened.
“┅ Come to think of it, how could I say such a thing to Mr. Watts, whom I’ve only known for a short time?”
Then a shy, sweet smile surfaced.
Thit smiled back at her slightly.
“Anyway, take it easy. One day you will find the meaning of your life… if possible, I hope it’s alchemy.”
The most handsome words with a bit of a joking element in him, the soft murmur of his schoolmate came into his ears.
“Mr. Watts, thank you…”
“Eh? What did you say?”
“Ah, no, nothing!”
Maria turned her back in panic.
So shy that even her ears were red.
Her hair, silently swayed by the refreshing night breeze that whipped through her face.
Chapter 2: Heading for the Cave
“┅What? Raw marble, it’s gotten so expensive!?”
The one who let out a gasp of surprise in the gem store was Maria, who had come to buy something.
“Doesn’t that make it twice the price it was a while ago?”
“No way!”
Even the old shopkeeper, who looked like he had been born a hundred years ago in the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, twitched his wrinkled face to illustrate it to her.
“There is no change in decorative gems, which are imported in large quantities, but raw stones for alchemy, which are fine even if they have cracks but require high purity, have become scarce in the market lately. This is due to the fact that the demand for them has decreased, and so they are not being collected as much as they should be. As a result, the cost of transportation, etc., has risen.”
“How so?”
Maria was confused. In that case, there was no way to ensure that she would be able to buy the amount of Jewel that Director Luchai had ordered.
The owner looked at her and took something out of the glass case and handed it to Maria.
“In that case, would the marble used on this ring be okay? This marble comes in large quantities, so I can sell it to you at another 20% off the usual price.”
I think he was trying to comfort her…
“How does the price compare to the ones used in alchemy?”
“Um… five times as much as it is.”
“┅”
(Is he teasing me?)
Maria looked uneasily at the old man in front of her.
On the other hand, at this time at the Dell’Thore Institute…
“Uh-oh!?”
The sudden burst of sound caused Watt to scream out in terror.
“What’s wrong? Suddenly making girly noises?”
Luchai didn’t even look back, holding the test tube with Jewel’s solution in her hand like she was thinking about something.
Watt tapped her on the shoulder and stiffened her back.
“Please, please look!”
“Oops… Sephiroth broke.”
One of the countless Sephiroths on the table shattered into ashes. Not only did the medicine in it evaporate, but the shards of glass that flew around and burst damaged several of the other Sephiroths as well.
Looking at the tragic situation on the table, Ruchai whispered in a wonderfully gentle tone, “Has the experiment failed again?”
“Wait, wait a minute! Don’t frame me!”
Walt scrambled to defend himself.
“I’ve mixed the ingredients prepared by the Director properly, right? And I didn’t put the Sephiroth in the wrong order, it just snapped…”
Lucai listened and then added slowly.
“It’s okay, I won’t get mad, just tell the truth.”
“I said I didn’t fail!” Watt shouted furiously in exasperation.
But Lucai simply ignored his aura and pushed the test tube in his hand towards him.
“Watch this.”
“What, what is this? Isn’t it just a simple garnet solution?”
“Dissolved in it is the recently ordered raw garnet. I’m going to put reagent number six in it, which reacts to lead, so keep an eye on it.”
She added two or three drops of the clear drug to the red solution of garnet.
At this point, the solution changes color to an intense purple in a flash.
“This, this is…!”
“Hmm, that’s a positive reaction. This garnet solution is mixed with lead. All the other Jewel’s also have impure substances… Ugh!”
She sighed softly. It was evidence of considerable annoyance for Lucha, whose mood was not written on her face.
“Why are there so many impurities mixed in?” Watt asked uneasily.
“The quality of the gems has deteriorated.”
“How, how?”
“Recently, the collection of Jewel has decreased a lot. Gems that can’t be used for decorative purposes and disregard the purity are all being shipped as Jewel.”
“┅How did this happen!” Watt yelled in a confused and angry tone.
“You won’t get any results at all if you use that low purity Jewel for your experiments!”
“That’s right, so think of a countermeasure.”
Contrastingly, Luchai looked like she was talking to herself.
“It might be possible to crush it and then refine it, but that would be too much trouble…”
Then Watt snapped.
“Eh? She prepared the Garnet Solution and Reagent No. 6 in advance, which means she expected this result from the very beginning. However, she tried to blame it on the failure of my experiment…”
Watt’s expression changed abruptly.
“Director, you’ve long been in the way, and you’re still trying to frame me, aren’t you!”
“Gee, what are you talking about?”
Accused by the researcher, the director begins to play dumb. This woman is usually quite gentle and conscientious, but sometimes has a treacherous show of setting people up for wrongdoing.
Just when one wants to continue whining to Luchai.
“Director! Mr. Watts! Gems, the price of gems…”
A few minutes later, the two of them were informed by Maria about the skyrocketing prices of precious stones…
Early the next morning.
Maria said, “I’ll make breakfast alone tomorrow,” so Walt got up later.
“Hmmm ~ what a nice day!”
Standing and stretching by the window of his dormitory, he thought to himself in a cheerful mood.
“On a day when the weather is so nice, it seems like something good is going to happen!”
In this kind of weather, we should open the windows to let in some air, dry the blankets, and then go to breakfast…” he thought.
Knock, knock.
“Huh?”
The sudden knock on the door startled Watt. It was still so early, who could it be?
Upon opening the door, he found standing the figure that had surprised him.
“Good morning, Watt.”
“Director Luchai!”
That she, who had never been able to get up in the mornings, would come to him at a time when she had not even eaten breakfast yet was something Watt had never touched before.
“What can I do for you so early?”
Lucai handed a surprised Watt a note.
A simple map of the Institute’s immediate vicinity was drawn on it, and one place was marked with a red pen.
“Huh? This mark is drawn where there’s nothing at all. What’s going on?”
Lucai doesn’t answer Watt’s query directly.
“Today, you’re going to be here with Maria for two.”
“What’s it going to be?”
“You are going to this place to gather gems.”
At her comment, Watt was even more stunned. It was surprising that there would be a gem-gathering field in such close proximity!
“Based on what Maria said yesterday, I’m afraid that what will be circulating in the market in the future will be high-priced and shoddy Jewel. if we want to continue with the experiment, we’ll have to source it ourselves.”
They must therefore go to the place indicated on the map. Indeed, Watts also thought there was a desire to dispatch the gems in his own power.
But what the Director said made him feel as if he was being set up.
(If there really are gems there… why didn’t she go there to collect them in the first place?) Watt, who had been thinking deeply about this point, almost missed the Director’s profound remark.
“I’ve got some level of gear for you guys that could come in handy if something happens.”
“Ah, thank you… in case something happens!”
At the unexpected words, he reacted sharply.
Lucai just smiled softly.
“I was just giving an example. It’s good to be ‘prepared’!”
She said that, but Watt and her didn’t just meet today.
(┅I seem to have been played by her.)
The Director’s beautiful eyes were looked at with suspicion by him.
“Ah, and then, you’re going to have to find someone in the area.”
Oblivious to his sight, Lucai took a picture out of her arms.
The woman with long wavy hair is smiling impishly in the photo.
“Her name was Claudia. It’s hard to tell in the black and white photo, but the color of her hair is blonde.
When you find her, tell her I sent you, and she will lead you to the gathering grounds of the gems.”
…is becoming more and more suspicious.
“That, Miss Claudia and the Director, what kind of relationship is it?”
Watt’s questioning went completely unheard by Lucai.
“It smells so good! Maria is making breakfast I think. Come on, let’s go have breakfast.”
“Oi? Wait, wait a minute, Chief!?”
“Breakfast is ready, gentlemen!”
As a result, Maria’s pleasant voice interrupted the conversation between the two completely.
“It’s incredible…”
Maria inquired to Watt who cocked his head “What’s going on?”
Her senior mumbled to herself as she opened her chart.
“Isn’t there nothing where the markings are drawn? Why isn’t such a thing recorded on a map?”
That is, the sudden appearance of a… cave on the hillside of the hill outside the town.
Inside the wide entrance stretches a rocky wall of growing green lashings.
After taking a step in, the cold, damp air tightened around both of their skin.
“It’s kind of creepy how there seems to be moving air in the cave.”
Maria’s cringing whisper was echoed by Watt.
“But there’s probably a gathering ground for gems deep in the cave. Let’s gather our courage and move forward!”
“Yes, yes!”
Even with their hearts pounding, Watt and Maria took steps towards the depths of the cave.
The floor of the cave was fairly flat and of ample height and width, and there was nothing particularly inconvenient about walking.
However, the access roads were extremely divergent. Not even a hundred steps in, there were many bifurcated into trifurcated, or even more forked paths. If one got lost in this labyrinthine cave, they would probably be trapped in the darkness for the rest of their lives.
“I really don’t know what we would have done without the Ghost Fire Seed that Director Luchai gave us.”
Watt spoke to Maria as he tossed the pine cone shaped object into the air.
The pinecone silently emits firelight and floats ghostly in the air. This was the prop generated by alchemy, Ghost Fire Seed.
“It will continue to burn all day, so we won’t get lost even if we walk through all the forks in the road.”
“Wow, alchemy is awesome.”
Maria, who had never seen the fruits of alchemy directly, was extraordinarily impressed by the light and Watts’ instructions before her.
“As long as I have this, I should be able to pick up medicine for the gems soon.”
Watt nodded and told her, “Yeah!” It relieved Maria’s tension a little, but it didn’t take the edge off yet.
The reason, the female called Claudia.
(Why, would she be in a cave like this?)
Such things as women who call caves home are quite unorthodox in the minds of normal people.
He was a friend of Ruchai’s, so he probably had something to do with Alchemy… I’m sure that’s a very interesting identity.
“┅Strange?”
Suddenly, Maria’s expression changed abruptly.
“What’s wrong?”
Watt asks her, but she doesn’t respond immediately. Instead, she puts a hand against her ear and listens intently.
“Mr. Watts… did you hear a sound coming from the access road over there?”
“I don’t think I heard…”
Watt was only halfway through his sentence when he caught a faint sound wave in his ear.
And not in the direction Maria was pointing, but in the opposite direction-the direction the two had come from.
‘Hoo, hoo, hoo’ sounds like the breathing of something. Snapping footsteps were also heard. Noticing the sound approaching slowly from front to back, Watt and Maria were also alarmed.
“Maria… you did bring The Iron Pan, didn’t you?”
“Ah, there…!”
Warily, the two men picked up an item that looked like a scaled-down model of a pan, smaller than the palm of their hand.
Simply put, the Iron Skillet is a prop that can be used as a weapon during battle. Of course, the correct way to use it to attack an enemy is not to use it correctly (rather, it is impossible to use it.) The correct way to use it is to designate an enemy and then throw it… and that’s it!
The Iron Skillet is thrown into the air and becomes huge, hitting the enemy and inflicting major damage. When it hits an enemy, its mission is over and it dissipates like smoke in a flash.
“It doesn’t matter as long as you have this, don’t worry, there’s nothing to be afraid of.”
Watt did his best to suppress his uneasiness, encouraging Maria with a strong tone.
(And yes, whatever that is, it’s going to be okay. I need to pull myself together too!) Suddenly.
Gah ah ah ah..!
A bear suddenly appeared at the end of each of the front and back sides, growling as it ran toward the two.
And-their guts were ugly extruded from their bellies, and their heads were split open from side to side. The ones who attacked the two turned out to be zombies of bears!
“Woohoo…!”
“Ahhhhhhhhhh!”
The horrible light before them caused Watt and Maria to let out magnificent wails.
“No, no, don’t come over!”
“Help! Mom…!”
Watt’s bloodless feet went limp, and Maria cried out in fear as she dragged Watt close to her.
There was still luck for the two – a bit of surprise, but it was the fact that they came from both sides of the pathway.
Assuming that the bear zombies only came from one side of the pathway, the two would probably run away in the other direction. However, if they ran away in a state of shock, they would probably not be able to follow the correct escape route. They might get caught up, or they might get lost in the cave. Maybe the zombies will chase you to your death.
On the other hand, they are facing a situation in which they are being attacked from both sides and have no way to escape even if they want to.
So, instead, they were able to put up a fight… At this point, they remembered the existence of The Iron Pan.
Watt had never used this prop before, but he didn’t have time to think about it (this, would it really work!?).
) and that sort of thing.
“Ready? To fight, Maria!”
“Yes, yes!”
“I’ll deal with the one in front, and you throw The Iron Pan at the one behind it!”
“I know! …hey shoo!”
“Look at me!”
Both of them, almost simultaneously, threw the weapons in their hands at the zombies in front and behind them.
Then, The Iron Pan grew larger in the air all at once, hitting both zombies in the head!
‘Gahhh…!’
The two bears were hit hard and struggled in pain on the spot. It was rare to see a zombie in pain, but the two of them didn’t have time to pay attention to that kind of thing.
“Ah, the head, the bear’s head is badly deformed!”
“Throw another one! One more and their heads will completely explode!”
“Yes!”
The pan flew through the air once again.
Medaka!
After a loud, even more pleasurable-sounding thud – the bear zombies’ heads, completely crushed.
They had no head left, so naturally they couldn’t even roar. The two bears staggered to the ground as if they were drunk.
Tranquility returned to the surroundings once again. The roar that had rocked the ears of both men could not be heard either.
“┅”
Watts and Maria looked at each other with relief.
It was Maria who couldn’t resist moving first.
“Woah ohh~ How scary…!”
She clung to Watt’s body, sobbing like a child.
Watt desperately comforted her, while feeling a deep admiration for the power and utility of the first-ever use of The Iron Pan.
(In this way… no matter how strong a demon appears, having this will take care of it!) From the first bear zombie, all kinds of monsters appeared in front of Wat and Maria. There were huge bees, clay dolls, murderous parrots, ghosts, tornado monsters, lucid people, etc. “Hey! We’re in the 20th century where science is all-powerful, aren’t we? Why are there so many such unimaginable monsters and demons?”
More than enough monsters to annoy Watt attacked the two one after the other without even a chance to catch their breath. Incidentally, this is how Maria would later recount the events of that day in a letter to her parents in her hometown.
“It’s almost, like being thrown inside a haunted house.”
However, the attack props, led by The Iron Pan, are effective beyond words.
Every time one of these endlessly enumerated monsters appeared, they were completely repelled with the attack props at hand.
Even Maria, who initially cried in fear when a demon appeared, slowly got used to it and became able to deal with it calmly.
Watt and Maria, whose confidence grows every time they defeat a monster, explore the cave back and forth at a smooth pace.
But-no matter how they walked, all the two met were just monsters. Not to mention the jewels, there was no sign of the Crotia that Lucai had mentioned.
Finally, Watt couldn’t help but vent his anger before his schoolmate Maria.
“Director Luchai, where the hell is that Crotia!?”
After repelling the monsters of the twentieth round, he could no longer suppress his parched mood and screamed wildly. Due to excessive fatigue, he no longer wanted to go on.
“We’ll never make it back!”
Hearing this, Maria hardened a smile on her dusty face and cheered her senior on.
“Don’t worry, Mr. Watt. We’ve come this far inside, our destination must not be far away.”
“┅That’s right, Maria is absolutely right.”
Encouraged by his schoolmates, Watt had to do some deep soul-searching.
As a result, he was left alone to talk to himself after proposing to Maria to rest here.
“But it’s still very concerning…”
“What is it?”
“Doesn’t it seem strange that Director Lucai has such an attitude? It’s as if she already knew even that we would be attacked by monsters.”
Maria sat at Walt’s feet and voiced her opinion.
“I think you’re the one who’s thinking too much. I don’t think she’s someone who would deliberately put us in danger.”
“But maybe she doesn’t think it’s dangerous. There are certain parts of the Director’s personality that can’t be measured by ordinary people’s opinions.”
Just as Watt sighed and leaned his back against the rock wall.
Pound for pound!
The part of the rock wall he was leaning on suddenly turned back up and down.
“Uh-oh!?”
This unexpected development caused Watt to yelp. But his body was already slumped against the face of the slalom wall.
The part he’s leaning on is probably a “hidden door”.
“Wah, Mr. Watt!”
A startled Maria called out to him, but Watt’s figure had disappeared on the other side of the wall.
“It hurts… why am I so unlucky.”
Watt, who had been thrown from the hidden door of the swing, stood up while feeling his lower back where he had hit the ground.
Looking around, this is the same as the “other side” of the rock wall, a pathway that runs from left to right.
However, the walls and floors have fewer depressions and are more reclaimed than on the “other side”, giving it the appearance of a hut in a cave.
“What the hell is going on here? Not only are there monsters running around, but there are also strange rooms…”
And, the hidden door that turned around, from this side, could not be pushed at all, no matter how hard it was pushed.
“It looks like there’s no way to get back to where Maria is from here.”
He had no choice but to walk back the way he came and follow the access road to the left.
Just then.
“Uh…”
“Huh?”
Suddenly hearing a gasp, Watt’s eyes widened.
“It’s coming from the road ahead, right…?”
About thirty meters into the front access road, the right angle curved in to the right. It was from the right side of the corner that the gasping sound came.
It was a female voice, I’m afraid, and it sounded like it was holding something back.
“Shouldn’t it be, someone like me, who’s locked up here?”
It wouldn’t be good if the man was moaning from an injury or an empty stomach. Watt tripped and ran around the corner.
“What kind of place is there?”
Just in case, he ducked behind the wall first and slowly poked his face out to peek.
Then-retract your face at double speed.
“┅Lying, right?”
Watt couldn’t help but blurt it out while keeping his voice down.
The whole face, red as an apple.
“Calm down, Watt, calm down. It might be a mistake to look at it. Once again, quiet your mind and take a closer look before you…!”
He muttered to himself as if in a roundabout way, peeking ahead around the corner once more.
This time, he was as good as set in stone.
What Watt saw.
It was… a woman of a good age, engrossed in masturbation.
She looked younger than Luchai, and even more voluptuous than the sexy Luchai. The look of her beautiful body drowning in pleasure instantly burned into the young man’s eyes.
(Why, why, why would there be a woman comforting herself in a place like this!) My mind was so disorganized that I couldn’t think at all.
Perhaps not realizing Watt’s presence, the female opened her rich purple shawl in the middle of the pathway and played with her petals with her slender fingers. Since her body was turned toward the corner, her flushed face and white nude body were all exposed to Watt’s view.
“mmm… mmm… coo… ah ah ah ah…”
The female spreads her long, slender legs and wipes her hand across the pale-colored pubic mound, making obscene watery noises of cooing and gurgling as she keeps playing with the wet, moist slit.
This demented state of mind stimulated Watt with great intensity.
(What’s going on here!)
Despite his inner confusion, his eyes fixated on the female’s petals without moving.
Female fingers, teasing even more dramatically.
The index and middle fingers of her right hand increased in intensity as if she were trying to gouge out the love juice, while her thumb stimulated the crimson protruding tip.
Her left hand rubbed her plump breasts and squeezed her nipples, which were embedded with pearl nipple rings.
The obscene swaying of his loins made Watt gulp involuntarily.
“AH, AH… who, who will touch me… to stir me here!”
The female arched her body, her waist pole thrusting forward even more into a state of protruding her wet petals in the direction of the wattles, so that even the dripping of her lewd juices onto the floor could be seen.
The way she moved, it looked almost as if she knew Watt was just around the corner and was deliberately teasing him.
(How, how could I? Hahaha…)
Watts is trying to muddle through with a bitter smile in his mind, but it’s not working.
At that moment, a sudden flash of light came into his mind.
(┅This woman, I don’t think so!)
Panicked, he fumbled around in his arms, took out the photo that Director Luchai had given him, and then, compared them.
The unmistakable appearance made Watt’s eyes widen.
(That’s right… she’s the one the director was talking about, Claudia!)
Moment.
“You, are Lucai’s apprentice, right?”
“Woahhhh!?”
Suddenly asked by her opening his mouth, he jolted in his mind.
(Sh, when was it discovered!?)
The female, Claudia, was now looking directly into Watt’s eyes. A sight that seemed to shoot through his mind, making it impossible for him to even avert his gaze.
“Come here. You’re here to gather gems, aren’t you? Well, wouldn’t it be better to listen to me?”
“Yes, yes…”
Watts had no choice but to emerge from the corner.
Perhaps due to guilt from looking at something he shouldn’t have, Watt walked with his head hanging down.
As he approached listlessly, Claudia smiled again with the same, otherworldly smile as in the photo.
“Don’t worry, I won’t eat you up. If anything happens to Lucai’s bastard son, no, the favored disciple, I’ll eat it all up!”
Watt didn’t know what to say in reply, except to remain silent. Claudia stood up and questioned him after she had put on her fragmented shawl.
“When meeting a young lady for the first time, it’s polite for a man to introduce himself first, right?”
“Ah, yes, yes. The… my name is Watt.”
“I’m Claudia. I’m also an alchemist, and with your family’s Lucai, we’ve been childhood friends since we were young.”
“Ah…”
Walt nodded, but didn’t know where to look. Claudia had only a shawl on, not even covering her breasts, and her perfect nudity was visible to Wart.
“Watt, my yard, do you like it?”
“The courtyard? There’s something like that there…”
She replied triumphantly towards the DD Watt.
“It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, in, yo!”
“Oi?”
“This cave, is my courtyard. Containing hidden doors and monsters, everything here is all made by me.”
“┅”
Walt was too surprised to speak.
(In that case, Maria and I are being played by Claudia!?) “Lucai said to think of it as a side trip to move your muscles and asked me to exercise you guys a little, so I simply set up to welcome your visit. I hope you guys have fun.”
Claudia smiled as she said the dreaded words.
Knowing the truth, Watt was left speechless.
(So, that’s why I found the Director’s words suspicious this morning…) “My little monsters should all be back in their huts by now. They won’t harm your sister, so you can rest assured.”
“┅That’s for sure.”
At this point, Watt was finally able to make a strong self-assertion.
“I don’t know what kind of courtyard this is, but if Maria gets hurt, I won’t let you go, even if you’re the Chief’s friend!”
However, Claudia didn’t eat him at all.
Not only that, but it seemed as if he was getting a kick out of his attitude.
“Hey… you care about your sister!”
“Are you, with your eyes, mocking me?”
“Well hoo hoo, don’t get me wrong!”
Obviously sarcastic.
But what she said next had an entirely different meaning.
“But I think it was right to separate the two of you.”
“┅Do you want to do something to Maria!?”
“Darn it, I’m not gay.”
It took Walt almost a minute to realize what Claudia meant by that statement.
“What do you… what do you want… for?”
The next sentence, on the other hand, he understood in a flash.
“Watt, I need to see you about something!”
“K…Krotia-sama, don’t make such jokes. Please stop teasing me.”
Watt’s aura was overwhelmed by her, desperately trying to hide the embarrassment on his face. However, his teased male instincts could not be concealed.
Claudia grabbed his hand and covered her breast. The sensation of the nipple against the nipple ring traveled clear to Watt’s palm.
“I’m not teasing you, I’m just trying to give you a little prize for coming here with your own power. It’s just that it might be a bit unfair to the cute schoolgirls.”
“No, don’t do that, Claudia…”
Covering up or refusing was difficult enough for him. Originally, other than the teachings of ethics and morality, there was no reason to refuse after being told so by a beauty like her.
What with the ethics and all that, it’s all in the wind now.
Claudia grabbed Watt’s hand and slid downward, diving into the jungle of tender grass.
Between the plump thighs blossomed flesh-colored petals moistened for the night’s dew.
The wet, moist sensation of the smoldering color frenzied Watt’s rationality even more.
“It got so wet after being watched by you. Watt, it’s all because of you.”
After finishing her sentence in an exceptionally annoying voice, Claudia used her fingers to pull out the hot, wet mucus from her lower half and dabbed it on Watt’s nose. The sweet scent of the female made Watt, whose rationality was beginning to be paralyzed, feel soothed both physically and mentally.
“If you don’t hurry up, the schoolgirls will faint waiting outside the hidden door, ooh. Hurry up and come get my prize.”
“But, but, I…!”
What still stops him from taking action in the end, ‘is the primal guilt of not being able to act offensively towards the women he just met’.
This guilt was dispelled by a single word from the gracious Claudia.
“If you hesitate any longer, the gems won’t be shared!”
“Ahhh! So good…!”
The shawl that lay on the ground flecked with beads of Claudia’s sweat and saliva.
Below her in the arch, Watt jabbed fiercely upward at his waistband.
The pair coveted each other’s fiery flesh in the cold cave.
“Ru… how, my prize… haaaa!”
Claudia asked him while twitching her nose in a marvelous tone.
At the same time, her body experienced 2 or 3 spasms, evidence of a mild orgasm.
Watt, on the other hand, was not ‘relaxed’ at all. He had already dispersed his young semen four times in Claudia’s lewd honey pot. But instead of losing its virility, his man-root had become even harder, greedy for Claudia’s body.
“Uhhhh… so, so good! My body is melting…!”
While screaming wildly, Watt reached out his hands from behind Claudia’s back and grabbed those white peach-like breasts. The nipples that were exposed between his fingers seemed to be standing out like they were thirsty for a man’s touch.
“No, if you squeeze it like that… ah, ah…”
Teardrops overflowed from the female’s empty eyes, and the lower buds of flesh, leaking white and clear mucus, were as firm and erect as her nipples.
Walt’s hard-fisted cock rubbed insistently against the buds. Claudia’s hot love juices wet not only her own asshole, but also Walt’s asshole.
“Great… so much!”
“Yes, yes, it’s your young and sturdy man-root that makes me ooze so much lascivious nectar… ah, there, not there!”
The thirsty sounds of feigned refusal overlapped with the cooing and chirping coming from the joint.
“Here, this is nice and cozy too!”
At some point, Claudia’s fingers, began to pump her back hole.
And as a result, her petals developed an even stronger insatiable desire to tighten into Watt’s manhood.
“Whoo-hoo! …It’s going to, it’s going to squirt, Claudia! This is the end!”
Understanding that he had reached his limit, Watt wrapped his arms around Claudia’s waist with great force.
Then, twisting her upper body, Claudia brought her saliva-soaked plump lips close to him.
They twitched their bodies in a corner of the cave, as well as kissing uninterruptedly. Each other’s tongues, entwined like mollusks.
After the kiss, a smile rose on Claudia’s tear and saliva stained face and she said to him in a low sexy voice.
“Come on, come on… cum inside me again… ah, I’m going to have an orgasm! Please, come on!!!”
Taking this as an opportunity, the two moved to the limits of intensity.
Sweat that flew in the air, full breasts, gritted teeth, saliva running down the neck, fingertips thrusting into the petals, entangled love juices, blinking body, stiff limbs, leaning back, and… “Ahhhh… harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder….”
Screaming wildly, Claudia’s body was held by Watt with all the strength he could muster.
He injected all the semen in his body, all of it, into the petals without a drop left.
As if she couldn’t let go of this final orgasm, Claudia’s cries echoed throughout the entire cave…
“┅Ah, Mr. Watt!”
Upon seeing Watt’s figure, Maria ran to him while crying.
Then, hold him close.
“Great! You’re all right! After Mr. Watts went to that side of the wall, I had no idea what to do…”
“I’m sorry for worrying you.”
Watt asked the weeping Maria as he tenderly stroked her head.
“But have you been staying here all this time?”
“Because, I thought it would be bad if Mr. Watts came looking for me and couldn’t find me… I thought instead of going to you, it might be better to let you come to me.”
“Right judgment. A lot happened to me after that, too, but finally I found Claudia. Which, look!”
Watt opened the bag he held in his hand to show her.
“Wow..! There are so many gems! And they’re all high-priced diamonds and rubies!”
Maria’s weeping face also smiled at the successful outcome of the senior.
Watt nodded to her while saying “Well then, let’s go back!” While thinking with embarrassment.
(She’d be pissed if I told her the truth!)
This time.
“What’s the matter? Mr. Watts seems tired?”
(Woah!)
“It looks like we’ve hit a rough patch. What happened?”
“Ah, no… no, it’s no big deal, hahaha…”
Watt’s reaction became extremely, extremely unnatural.
He’s such a bad liar.
Talk about it the day after tomorrow.
“Director, aren’t you going too far? You didn’t tell us anything beforehand, and then you set up a trap like that…”
“Ouch, but this is a disaster prevention training yo. If you guys knew that from the start, would you still be serious about your mission?”
“That’s true… but if there’s such a great gathering place nearby, why didn’t you go there before?”
“It couldn’t be helped, because Claudia said she wouldn’t give me the gem without coming with a man who would make love to her.”
“┅So you betrayed me for the jewel! This is too much!”
“But you’re comfortable, aren’t you?”
“┅”