Micha had explained it all again earlier.
None of it felt real, but he had a general understanding now.
He had a strange characteristic called the Serpent’s Eye.
He did not doubt that part. He had seen it and he had seen Chiaki go crazy from its power.
And there were two groups who wanted the Serpent’s eye.
One was the demons. That meant the boy named Lucia and the black liquid creatures known as Succubi. Based on what he had heard, the demons were not human.
The other was FeTUS. This one was a human organization and they were the ones who had controlled the Porsche and police car.
They were led by high-ranking individuals known as the FeTUS Witches and when they “wound the spring” of a machine, it became a Springloaded. They were not limited to cars and could affect airplanes, satellites, cellphones, or anything else.
The Serpent’s Eye was powerful enough to throw the world out of balance if it were misused.
The ones protecting the bearer of the Serpent’s Eye were the angels.
They had joined together to protect the human world and were trying to come up with a countermeasure against the demons and FeTUS. Ange and Micha belonged to that group and they would protect Mutsuki until a countermeasure was found.
In other words…
(I can’t live at home for a while. I bet Mutsumi-chan will cry.)
Doing what the angels said seemed like the wisest decision. He wanted to avoid having his family attacked by that sticky black water or those walking cars.
When it started to hit home that he was the target of those bizarre things, he began sweating even more. He rolled onto his side to let the heat escape, but then the sweat appeared on his forehead.
Inhuman monsters and a group with the superhuman knowledge to control machines were both trying to pluck out his eyeball.
It was such an unreal reality. And the events of this day were enough to know he could not write it all off as a dream.
Thinking about it all brought a chill to his chest and spine. He kept tossing and turning to escape these thoughts.
It sounded like his only option was to rely on Micha and Ange.
(Not that I feel particularly welcomed.)
When he remembered his other roommate, he felt depressed for a different reason.
“Um… Nice to meet you Ange-san.”
“…”
“Um…”
“Just to be clear, I’m only protecting you because it’s my duty. I don’t actually like humans.”
“Uuh…”
“And I hate pathetic guys and perverted guys most of all!”
Things had been like that ever since she had learned he was staying here.
It was not an easy situation for a pacifist (or rather, weak-willed person) like Mutsuki.
(I won’t argue with pathetic, but how can she call me perverted. It wasn’t my fault.)
Even if it was not his fault, he started to picture her nude body, so he shook his head to clear it away. However, the image seemed to have been burned into his retinas, so it refused to disappear.
At the same time, he became aware that he was in the same apartment as a beautiful woman and beautiful girl he had only just met today. Not only that, but this was going to be his home now. That kept him awake all the more.
And then…
“Mutsuki-kun? I’m coming in.”
He heard a voice from outside the room. Before he could answer, the door opened and Micha stepped in with a small plate in her hand.
“I brought an aroma to help calm you.”
She seemed to know he was awake and could not sleep. The plate was filled with oil and she placed it on the bedside table. She snapped her fingers and a fingertip-sized flame appeared above the plate. It seemed to be something like an aroma candle.
When he tried to sit up, she held out a hand to stop him and sat down next to him.
He looked up and saw her illuminated by the moon and candlelight.
The wild aura of her brown skin was neutralized by the gentle light. He noticed all over again how beautiful she was and grew embarrassed. Her blonde hair absorbed as much of the faint light as possible and gave off the stickily sweet aroma of an adult woman.
She stuck her finger in the warm aroma oil and softly stroked his cheek.
“Don’t worry about Ange. She doesn’t know much about the human world, so she’s a little on edge. She’s actually a really good girl.”
He felt her palm sliding across his skin and smelled the faint aroma of olives coming from the oil. Entranced, he narrowed his eyes.
But that peaceful atmosphere only lasted a moment because Micha seemed to completely change her tone of voice.
“It’s probably because she’s a virgin that she hates the Serpent’s Eye so much. She’s too obsessed with purity. It’s so childish. Maybe she’d understand the world a little better if I deflowered her with my strap-on.”
The boy was shocked by what she just said.
She laughed. It was a childishly mischievous, somewhat alluring, and erotic laugh.
“Just kidding.”
She narrowed her red eyes that seemed to absorb Mutsuki and suddenly straddled the boy’s stomach.
“Um…Micha-san? What are you doing?”
She did not wear her coat or boots indoors, so the beautiful woman on top of him was covered by no more cloth than a swimsuit.
(She’s so close. …H-her boobs are about to touch me. Ah, she smells so nice.)
The scent wafting from her body was strong enough to drown out the aroma oil, but it was still gentle enough to not sting his nose. Mutsuki had no idea what to do, so he frantically looked away.
The woman seemed to find his reaction amusing and she brushed back her blonde hair.
“Are you a virgin, Mutsuki-kun?”
“What?”
“You are, aren’t you?”
She slid her knees forward.
He did not immediately know what she meant by “virgin”, but his thoughts were quickly diverted elsewhere.
Micha came in close enough that her thighs nearly touched his armpits. Even as short as it was, her skirt was actually hiding its contents…until she pulled it up, that is.
“Fweh!?”
She revealed a small piece of hard leather. It only just barely covered the most precious part of her body and the thong back was wedged into her butt. It was less underwear and more an accessory to seductively show off a woman’s body.
And even though he could pretty much see it all already, she pulled it to the side.
“Heh heh hehd Is this your first time seeing one of these?”
It was so sudden that Mutsuki tensed up.
The contrast between her brown skin and blonde pubic hair burned into his retinas.
The upside-down triangle of female flesh filled the indentation between her two flexible thighs. A bit below the center, curly blonde hair formed a long vertical line. A crevice ran down the center of the flat area at the bottom.
(Th-that’s a woman’s…)
With the internet so ubiquitous, anyone Mutsuki’s age had seen a few inappropriate images or videos, but this was his first time seeing that area without a mosaic over it.
Not only was he seeing his first vagina, but it was in person and from extremely close up.
He was more amazed than aroused and his mind went completely blank.
“There’s one thing I haven’t told you yet.”
“Eh?”
“It’s about the Serpent’s Eye’s effects. I’ll show you just what kind of power you have.”
The boy was on the verge of tears. His breathing was gradually growing more animalistic and those breaths were touching her vulva. Micha did not seem able to calm down, so she held his face firmly between her hands and whispered to him.
“Look. This is my body. It reacts just like a human woman’s would.”
With his head fixed in place, she moved her crotch up until it nearly touched his nose. The indescribably bewitching aroma only produced by an adult woman’s flesh tickled deep inside his nose.
“Open, demonic eye of corruption. I grant you thirteen seconds of freedom, so pierce your prey every which way you may turn.”