We were drinking all night, and when the bar owner said he was closing up shop, we prepared to head home.
Strangely, I couldn't handle the alcohol at all and was completely drunk, slumped over on the bar.
,"Oh my, Marie is completely drunk."
Lotos shook my shoulder as I lay passed out on the bar.
,"Eugh... ungh..."
As he shook my shoulder, I frowned and whined.
,"Marie! Marie!"
Aramis tapped my cheek and called out, but I was too drunk to do anything but mumble.
,"She's completely out of it."
Lotos tapped his temple with his index finger.
,"Then... who's going to take Marie-ssi back to the inn?"
The three of them started to worry, leaving me passed out drunk.
,"My house is to the east of the bar."
Aramis said, pointing east.
,"You know my house is in that direction too, right?"
,"Haa... then I guess I'll have to take Marie-ssi."
,"I guess so."
Laurent sighed and carried me on his back.
,"You know where Marie's inn is, right?"
,"Yes, I went with you last time when you were trying to coax me into going out for a drink."
,"Good, then I'll take Aramis's carriage and go home."
,"Who said I'd give you a ride?"
,"..."
,"Just kidding."
,"Laurent, take care of Marie."
Lotos and Aramis patted Laurent on the shoulder and then went home.
,"Ah, just a moment."
Lotos, who was getting into the carriage, suddenly came down and approached Laurent.
,"Uuuu..."
I made a strange moan as Lotos pinched and pulled my cheek.
,"I'm really going now."
,"Haa... I'm going crazy..."
I sighed as I watched them drive away in the carriage with me on his back.
,"Marie-ssi, you owe me one, got it?"
Laurent muttered to himself as I was asleep on his back, not answering.
#
Arriving at Marie's inn, Laurent passed through the dark inn hallway and entered Marie's room.
,"Finally arrived."
Laurent turned on the mana lamp and laid me down on the bed.
,"Uuu..."
I woke up as I lay on the soft bed.
,"Oh... I'm home?"
I got up, clutching my head that felt like it was about to break from the hangover.
,"Aghhh... my head..."
,"Ah, I laid you down carefully, but you're already up."
Laurent poured me a glass of water and handed it to me.
,"Ah, thank you."
I drank the water Laurent handed me.
,"Looks like you brought me to the inn."
,"It was nothing. Then I'll be going now, so rest well."
,"Wait!"
As Laurent was about to leave, I called out to him.
,"I'm awake now, and the night is still long."
I took out two bottles of alcohol from the cupboard.
,"Let's keep going in my room a bit longer before you leave."
I took out glasses and placed them on the table with the alcohol.
,"Is that something someone who just said their head was hurting from a hangover should be saying?"
Laurent sat down and made a dumbfounded expression as he poured a full glass of alcohol.
,"Hey! It's overflowing! Take the glass quickly."
Laurent sat in front of the table and took the glass I handed him.
,"Cheers!"
Ttang!
The glasses clinked, making a clear sound, and we both emptied the alcohol in our glasses in one go.
,"Ugh... that's good."
After drinking a glass, I felt the alcohol spreading through my body, making me feel pleasantly dizzy.
After drinking a few glasses of alcohol, my body started to feel hot.
,"Why is it so hot?"
Jjaenggeurang!
As I went to open the window, the glass hit my arm and fell to the floor.
,"Uh..."
I stared blankly at the shattered glass for a long time.
,"It's broken..."
I squatted down and picked up the broken pieces of glass.
,"It's dangerous."
Laurent stopped me from picking up the glass shards.
,"I need to clean that up."
,"I'll clean it up later."
,"Really...?"
I nodded and sat back down.
Since my cup was broken and unusable, I picked up Laurent's glass and started drinking.
,"Heoeo..."
Laurent looked at me with a fed-up expression.
,"Laurent, come and drink too."
,"I'm alright..."
,"Hey! It's overflowing!"
Laurent took the glass from me and drank.
I drank from the glass Laurent drank from, and then Laurent drank from the glass I drank from.
We had no idea that the effects of the Orange Sapphire could be transmitted through the saliva of an addict, and we took turns drinking until the alcohol ran out.
,"Uh...? What, why isn't the alcohol coming out...?"
I turned the bottle upside down and shook it wildly, but not a single drop came out of the bottle's mouth.
,"Ah... I'm sorry. I should have brought some alcohol from the kitchen..."
I staggered up from my seat.
,"It's alright. Just go and rest now."
Laurent seemed worried about me and got up to stop me.
As I tried to push past Laurent, my body suddenly tilted towards him.
,"Uh?!"
Laurent tried to catch me as I was about to fall, but we both fell together.
He turned his body so that he would fall on his back first, hugging me so I wouldn't get hurt.
Kung!
After falling, Laurent was lying on the floor and I was on top of him.
,"Ah... sorry, sorry, I made a mistake... ah."
As I tried to get up again, my legs gave out and I sat back down on the floor.
Laurent got up from the floor and brushed the dust off his body.
,"What did I tell you? You should rest now. It's not too late to drink in the evening."
I sat on the floor and stared at Laurent with a dazed look.
Looking up from below, I started to see things I hadn't noticed before.
Laurent's wavy black hair, his manly, thick eyebrows.
His wild-looking face and broad shoulders... If you were to create a real-life version of the beast Duke from the novels my younger sister used to read, that's what he would look like.
,"Haha... you're a manly guy..."
Looking at Laurent's manly appearance, I felt like my own appearance as a woman was pathetic.
,"And here I am, turned into a woman, ha..."
I ran my hands over my face and sighed deeply.
I suddenly felt a sense of self-loathing.
,"It's not true. Marie-ssi is also a very wonderful person."
,"Thanks for the thought, at least."
I sat on the floor and held out my arm to him.
,"...?"
Laurent tilted his head and stared blankly at me, so I puffed out my cheeks.
For a moment, I wondered what I was doing. I was getting angry because he was just standing there while I was reaching out my hand for him to help me up...
I could have just gotten up on my own...
It seemed like my actions were becoming more feminine after getting drunk.
,"Just... help me up."
But my legs really felt weak, and it was hard to get up.
,"I understand."
Laurent lifted me up in a princess carry.
,"Kyaaak?!"
I thought he was just going to help me up, but when he suddenly lifted me up in a princess carry, I couldn't help but let out a feminine scream.
I was able to smell his scent as I was carried in his arms to the bed.
After drinking alcohol at the bar for several hours, his body odor mixed with the bitter smell of alcohol from his clothes and entered my nose.
,"Hueu..."
Being held in his arms, I felt my body getting hot again, and my lower abdomen felt tingly.
,'This... could it be the aftereffects...?'
My lower abdomen and groin were itchy, just like the symptoms Armand had described, so it seemed like it was true.
,"Yes, well then..."
Laurent laid me down on the bed and was about to return to his inn.
,"Wait..."
I called out to Laurent, who was about to leave my room.
,"Yes."
Laurent came closer to me when I called him.
,"I... I think the aftereffects are starting..."
,"Yes?!"
I grabbed my lower abdomen and looked at him with pitiful eyes.
,"Uh... um... so..."
Laurent's pupils started to shake wildly, as if he was quite flustered by my words.
Water was flowing out from the crack, and my underwear was already starting to get wet.
It seemed like the aftereffects were starting in earnest.
,"Haa... haa... There's a book or something, anything... Heueut! Hit my head hard with it."
I pointed to the bookshelf with trembling hands.
,"But still..."
,"What Aramis did to Lady Lazuran, do that exactly... Hiit...! I can't take it, so hurry!!"
I grabbed my throbbing lower abdomen and asked Laurent in a trembling voice, twisting my body.
,"A... Alright!"
Laurent nodded and picked up the Bible.
,"I'm hitting you?"
,"Yes... hurry up and hit me."
Ppaak!
,"Kyaaak!"
Laurent hit me as hard as he could, but it only hurt and I didn't pass out.
,"That hurts!"
,"I'm... I'm sorry!"
,"Hurry up and hit me again!"
Ppaak!
,"Augh...!"
I grabbed the back of my head and rolled around on the bed.
It seemed like Laurent had hit me as hard as he could, but if I couldn't even pass out like this, there was only one way.
I glared at Laurent once and then rubbed my fingers over my underwear.
As my fingers touched my vulva, a thrilling sensation ran through my waist.
The pleasure was so intense that my waist tingled, and it stabbed through my spine and into my head.
,"Heueu... heueut...!"
,"Marie-ssi?!"
Laurent was startled and turned his head as I moaned and started masturbating.
Normally, I wouldn't be able to force myself to masturbate in front of someone else, but I couldn't think about that now.
I felt like I would go crazy if I stayed still like this, so I had to do something.
,"Heueung... I feel like I'm going to die..."
I kept rubbing my vulva over my underwear, but it was getting more and more tingly, and I felt like I couldn't bear it unless I put my fingers inside.
As my fingers went into the crack and rubbed the soft flesh inside, a cool pleasure spread everywhere my fingers touched.
,"Haeueu... that feels good..."
It was uncomfortable to masturbate while lying down, so I turned my body over, raised my butt up, and reached my arm under my body to put my fingers in my pussy.
,"Haeueueu..."
The feeling of my fingers slowly entering deep inside my vagina felt really good.
But soon, I wasn't satisfied with that either, and I wanted more intense stimulation.
I wanted something thicker to come inside and poke around.
,"Haa... Marie-ssi."
Laurent, who was watching me masturbate from the side, called out to me with a flushed face.
,"Heueueu... whaatt...?"
My head was a mess from the pleasure, and I barely managed to squeeze out an answer.
,"I... I think something's wrong with my body."
Laurent was twisting his legs.
,"Eueh...?"
I stopped poking my pussy and looked at him at his sudden, out-of-the-blue words.
,"No... I really don't know why I'm suddenly like this."
Laurent covered his crotch.
He was completely flustered, not knowing what to do with his swollen member, his face flushed red.
,"No... It's not that I'm lying, I can usually control it to some extent, but after drinking alcohol, suddenly...!"
Laurent rambled and defended himself.
But I didn't hear a word he said.
,"Haeut... Haeut..."
,'Wouldn't that be enough...?'
I looked at his swollen crotch, which he was desperately covering with his hands, as I masturbated.
It seemed to be quite large at a glance.
If I were to be poked with that...
,'Ah... what am I thinking...?!'
I shook my head and cleared my thoughts.
,"Ugh... I'll be going now."
Laurent tried to leave the room awkwardly.
,"Wait a minute..."
I called out to Laurent in a trembling voice.
The effects of the Orange Sapphire were definitely working, as my head was so numb that I didn't even realize what I was saying.
,"Can you... help me...?"
,"What do you mean?"
,"Ait...! Do I have to say it out loud...!"
I twisted my body because of the heat and said.
,"No... so..."
Laurent was flustered by my words and didn't know what to do, hesitating.
,'Ah... I can't take it anymore...'
I stopped poking my crotch and got up from the bed.
,"Uh... Marie-ssi...?"
Laurent looked at me, who had become strange, with a flustered look.
,"Haa... haa..."
I approached Laurent, breathing heavily.
I grabbed his shoulder and knocked him over.
Kwadang!
,"Augh...!"
As Laurent fell over, I climbed on top of him.
I stared silently at his face from above, my eyes completely gone.
,"Uh... so..."
,"Laurent..."
,"Yes?!"
,"Stay still."
I grabbed Laurent's shirt with my two hands, trembling from the aftereffects.
Laurent lay helplessly on the floor like a virgin, receiving my touch.
After unbuttoning his shirt one by one, his firm abs came into view.
,"Eut...?!"
I buried my face in Laurent's neck and started licking it.
As my tongue started licking Laurent's neck, Laurent let out a moan full of embarrassment.