The next day.
The sunlight in Axel had just begun to spread across the horizon. The moon had not yet completely disappeared.
The working cattle and horses were preparing for work under the urging of the rooster's crow. The capitalists continued to make their employees work through the night.
And in Axel, which had almost become a ghost town, the scream of Kazuha echoed halfway down the street from the city's most upscale inn.
Fortunately, there was hardly anyone in the city now. Otherwise, it would definitely have attracted a lot of attention.
Inside the room, Kazuha sat up in bed. The quilt had slipped down to her waist. Her upper body was completely bare.
Her fair skin was covered with hickeys.
And if you looked closely, you could see that these hickeys were of different sizes, clearly made by different mouths.
Her gaze moved downward... stopping at her private parts.
That area was terribly swollen and had some broken skin.
Kazuha stared at that spot for several seconds. Her pupils went from unfocused to focused, and finally fixed on the perpetrator.
"You beast—!"
Kazuha held the corner of the quilt with one hand, covering the area below her collarbone, and pointed at Makoto with the other. Her eyes were red, tears swirling in them.
Makoto, just woken up by the noise, glanced at Kazuha, his eyelids not even fully open.
Mrs. Shizuka next to him was also woken up. Her sleepy phoenix eyes snapped wide open when she saw Kazuha.
Tsuki was lying on the other end of the bed. She jolted at the sound and tried to get up, but when she saw her youngest daughter lying on the other side of Makoto's embrace, her bangs a tangled mess, she got scared and shrank back, burying her head like an ostrich.
Makoto ignored the girls' varied thoughts, sat up straight, took out his phone from his item bar, tapped the screen a few times, and turned it to face Kazuha.
The sound from the video came out of the phone's speaker.
"Ah—! Ah—! There— no— ah— feels good— con—continue—!"
The voice was high-pitched and carried a kind of pleasure that went deep into the bones, wave after wave. Coupled with the video of the supple body writhing and responding wildly, even Tsuki and Mrs. Shizuka, both over forty, felt their hearts race and their faces flush.
The performance of Kazuha in the video continued. She was being extremely obedient.
She did whatever Makoto told her to do.
Told her to stick her butt out, she stuck her butt out. Told her to make a peace sign, she made a peace sign. Told her to roll her eyes back, she rolled her eyes back.
Makoto glanced sideways at her. "You were the one who initiated it last night."
Kazuha was almost broken. She grabbed the quilt, wrapped it around herself, and her muffled voice came from inside. "Ahhh! Impossible—! Absolutely impossible—!"
Mrs. Shizuka moved closer to Kazuha, reached out, and patted the bulge of the quilt, comforting her. "Kazuha, did you encounter something strange yesterday? You seemed off."
What had happened last night was truly abnormal. Even for a woman her age, she wouldn't be that horny.
Mrs. Shizuka had been focused on her own business and hadn't thought deeply about it. But looking back, her goddaughter's behavior had indeed been unusual.
Kazuha poked half her face out from under the quilt, her eyes red.
She thought about it, 'The juice! That glass of juice!'
She stuck her head out from under the quilt, her gaze falling on Yanagi with suspicion and accusation.
Yanagi blinked her eyes behind her bangs. She also remembered that glass of juice from yesterday.
The youngest Uzaki sister tilted her head and murmured to herself, "That's impossible..."
Makoto looked sideways and asked what was going on.
Yanagi briefly explained what had happened yesterday... she had bought a bottle of sensitivity-lowering potion at a magic item shop to prepare for the big battle with her man.
That thing lowered sensitivity. It didn't increase it.
Even if Kazuha accidentally drank it, it shouldn't have turned her into that state yesterday.
Makoto was a bit speechless.
'Well, no wonder this girl had been so arrogant yesterday, saying she would make me beg for mercy. So she had been using technology.'
But as Yanagi had said, even if Kazuha had accidentally drunk that potion, it should have suppressed her sex drive, not enhanced it.
Makoto casually asked, "Which store did you buy it from?"
"Wiz's Magic Item Shop."
Makoto's face looked like he had just bitten into something bitter.
'That explained it. That explained it.'
Although Makoto hadn't yet met that lich shopkeeper, based on his understanding of her, he could roughly guess what had happened.
Either she had stuck the wrong labels on the wrong bottles, or she had put the wrong potion in the wrong bottle.
Makoto thought about whether he should seek compensation from that stupid lich.
But she didn't have much money. Maybe he'd just let her compensate him in other ways.
Makoto's gaze returned to Kazuha's face. "I'm not going to apologize to you. And in some ways, I actually saved you."
With that, he began to get dressed.
Kazuha's eyes reddened again. If her tears just now had been from the shame and anger of losing her virginity, now they were from the grievance of Makoto's heartlessness.
A woman always has special feelings for the person she lost her virginity to.
He might not become the person she loves most. He might not become the person she ultimately chooses. But he would definitely be someone she could never forget for the rest of her life.
And Makoto was also the person who had killed her childhood friend.
Now that she had had this kind of relationship with him, her feelings for him were even more complicated.
Mrs. Shizuka looked at her goddaughter's red eyes, couldn't bear it, put her arm around Kazuha's shoulders, pulled her close, looked at Makoto's back, and complained, "At least say something nice at a time like this."
She felt that Makoto was being too heartless.
'No matter what, this girl had at least given you her most important thing. There was no need to be this heartless, right?'
Makoto, with his back to them, fastened the last button. "There's nothing for me to comfort a woman who once wanted to kill me."
With that, he turned around. His gaze moved away from Kazuha and fell on Tsuki.