Chapter 146: Why Are You Helping Me?
Chapter 146
Alex understood the information quickly as he finally realized the truth. Now it made perfect sense. All that time, obviously at the Training Realm, had been a non stop fight for survival where he was always this close to dying.
So his body had been working overtime to patch him up, but the constant battles had hidden his natural healing.
Thinking back to those endless days of battles now almost made him want to laugh.
’I guess I really was living like a punching bag back then, even if I eventually won.’
The tiny system merely shrugged.
[And that is all that matters]
Before Alex could respond, another familiar series of notification panels appeared before his eyes.
[Ding! +12 Desire Points Gained]
[Ding! +9 Desire Energy Gained]
[ DESIRE METER ]
• Lust: 29.4%
• Attraction: 30.1%
• Resistance: 14.8%
Alex watched the panel with a small smirk on his lips as the two main important options, Lust and Attraction rose. Good! The girl’s mental walls were steadily breaking down as it should be, under the invisible power of the insanely OP system skill.
If it was this good already, then just how strong will it be at lvl 2?
Annie, however, was still a trained person with good endurance, so her mind was actively fighting the strange fog inside her head. Glaring at the side of Alex’s face, she secretly began to gather what little bit of physical strength she had left into her right hand.
Then curving her fingers slightly, she aimed for the soft spot under his jaw. It was a silent, deadly strike meant to crush his throat in one move.
At that exact moment, Alex’s ear twitched. Without even looking, he calmly raised his hand. And a second later, Annie’s fingers froze only a few inches away from his neck.
She stared at him. And Alex slowly turned his head and met her light blue eyes with a calm, all knowing gaze. For several long seconds neither of them spoke.
Finally Annie clicked her tongue in frustration after realizing that she had lost the element of surprise, and slowly lowered her hand back onto the bed in bitter defeat.
"... Damn monster."
There was no point in trying any longer. She has already tried twice, and sadly both attempts had failed woefully before they had even begun. It seems her body simply wasn’t fast enough to launch an attack at him.
Alex merely smiled at her failed attempt.
"I was even wondering how long it’d take before you tried again."
"Hmph." She looked away.
Inside, however, Annie’s thoughts were now in complete disorder. Something was terribly wrong. Every minute that went by made the strange heat inside her body grow stronger.
She completely hated it. And hated the person beside her even more. Yet.. why did merely sitting this close beside him make her heart speed up and her breathing to turn uneven?
She clenched her fist tightly. No! This had to be some kind of psychological trick. Or maybe even a hidden ability from this damn pretty face beside her.
Whatever it was... She absolutely refused to lose to it. There was no way she would willingly sleep with the very person responsible for defeating her and putting her in this... this cage!
She clenched her teeth, forcing herself to endure the rising wave of heat, and the burning need to have him inside her, fucking her brains out.
Her legs unconsciously drew closer together as she focused on suppressing the increasingly uncomfortable warmth spreading through her body.
I won’t lose! I absolutely refuse to lose!
Alex naturally notice the tiny movement. His gaze briefly dropped toward her posture before returning back to her face
So... She was fighting it with everything she had. It’s impressive, but sadly she was doomed to fail. So far no one had been able to wholeheartedly resist the Aura’s effect and break out of its will, so he didn’t really expect someone like Annie to be capable of doing that.
Just then Annie suddenly frowned. She felt a sharp sting shoot through her injured right thigh. "...Tch."
It seemed the movement from tightly pressing her legs together had pulled at the slowly healing but still highly painful wound on her right thigh, the exact same spot where that bitch had repeatedly shot her when she was still down.
Alex noticed the slight wince even though she tried to hide it. Without saying anything, he reached into his spatial storage space, causing an invisible ripple to spread through the air around his palm. Then a white first aid box, he had made mandatory to keep, suddenly appeared in his palm.
Annie’s pupils shrank in shock.
"... You can summon things?"
Alex simply nodded.
"Something like that."
Then Annie watched in total disbelief as he set the first aid box on the bed before kneeling in front of her injured leg.
"W-what are you doing?"
Instead of answering, Alex carefully examined the makeshift wrapping around her juicy thigh, that she must have most probably tied after removing the bullets the first thing she woke up.
Most of the makeshift wrapping had already been soaked through with blood.
"No wonder it still hurts."
Before Annie could react or even complain, he produced a small pair of medical scissors, and carefully cut away the damaged fabric surrounding the wound to avoid reopening it.
Annie instinctively tensed
"What the hell are you..."
"Just relax and quit talking. If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn’t need these scissors. I could just simply break your neck."
"..."
She hated the fact that he was completely right. In her present state, killing her would be easy for someone like him. Alex didn’t show any disgust by the sight of the ugly, bruised gunshot wound.
Instead, he opened the kit again, pulled out an antiseptic liquid, and gently began to clean the injury before putting on a soothing cream and a clean white bandage.
Annie stared down at his head, her mind completely scrambled by his strange actions.
"...Why?"
"What?"
"Why are you helping me?" She genuinely didn’t understand why he was doing all this.
"Aren’t we supposed to be sworn enemies? I even threatened to kill you and everyone you know."
Alex did not look up from his work, his fingers expertly tying the bandage around her skin thanks to years of experience in his previous life, when he used to treat his fake son’s injuries after playing soccer.
"We still are."
"Then why?"
Alex sighed and said calmly.
"First of all, it’s called being human," he replied casually.
She frowned.
"Human?"
"Yeah human. You were bleeding. So even if I’m not going to use my healing ability to instantly patch you up. That doesn’t mean I’ll just sit here and watch you stain the entire room with blood."
Annie simply stared at him as a strange mix of inexplicable emotions began to grow in her heart.
Back at Heukryeon, nobody ever did things like this. It was like kindness did not exist there.
If an assassin was injured during training or a mission, no one ever helped them. The higher ups believed injuries were a harsh lesson to learn so that next time, you simply wouldn’t be weak enough to get hurt.
Yet... The man responsible for capturing her had quietly treated her wound without asking for anything in return.
"..."
She suddenly looked away.
"Your blood is what’s dirty, you smelly man."
Alex did not bother to answer her weak insult. He simply smiled and continued to neatly finish the bandage. Only he knew the real truth behind his actions.
Helping her had certainly been the right thing to do. But it also served another purpose.
It was to shamelessly make direct contact with her plump juicy thigh... Cough.. It was because the physical touch was the only way to lower her guard and speed up the effects of the Aura Of Seduction, forcing her body to become more and more aroused by the second.
Right on cue, several panels flashed at the back of his mind.
[ Ding! Deep physical contact established ]
[ +18 Desire Points Gained ]
[ +15 Desire Energy Gained ]
[ DESIRE METER ]
• Lust: 55.4%
• Attraction: 58.9%
• Resistance: 2.1%
His heart skipped a beat. This was a really significant jump. He was finally going to be able to complete his mission and then move on to the next woman later.
Annie’s light blue eyes at this point were beginning to turn completely blurry. The tiny spark of resistance from earlier before seemed to be buried under a mountain of lust.
She found that she could no longer stop herself from looking away from his gorgeous face. His sharp jawline, his messy black hair that fell lazily over his forehead, and the gentle touch of his hands were suddenly the only things that mattered.
Why...
Why for the love of all things did she keep looking at his face? Sure he was handsome to an almost unreal degree, but she had also met countless handsome men during her missions. From movie stars, to business heirs, to world class models.
Yet none of them had ever made her react like this. None had ever made her entire body crave for their touch. Yeah she had a habit of teasing handsome men, but that didn’t mean she wanted anything to do with them. So why was she so fixated on this single man of all people in the world?
Desperate to keep a shred of control, Annie raised her shaky hand and pinched her own thigh hard, hoping the sharp pain would clear out the fog in her brain. But the pain did nothing to stop the overwhelming heat.
