The Yellow-Haired Villain in Soaring Phoenix's Novels Also Desires Happiness

“That’s right. Exactly what you’re thinking. This ancient technique can temporarily suppress the pain the body feels. It’s a move meant for desperate life-or-death situations. Of course, although it’s called pain suppression, pain isn’t the only thing it can temporarily suppress!”

Ariel curled her lips smugly. She loved seeing Muen make this defeated expression the most.

“Not just suppressing pain...”

The corners of Muen’s mouth twitched.

If it wasn’t only pain being suppressed, then what else could be suppressed was obvious at a glance.

Just now, he had honestly thought Ariel had somehow trained in some ancient bedroom art and undergone a complete transformation, evolving from a little vixen into an extremely dangerous little vixen who could still keep charging aggressively even now...

Yet in the end, she had simply repurposed a berserker technique?

What the hell, that actually worked?

Was she really a genius?

“But with a ridiculous technique like this... doesn’t it have side effects?” Muen asked suspiciously.

“Of course it has side effects. It’s a technique used for risking your life, after all.”

Ariel curled her lips.

“But those side effects are only dangerous on a battlefield. Right now, there’s nothing to fear. It’s just that the effect can only last for one hour, and after that, the pain you received gets amplified several times over.”

“One hour? And after one hour the pain increases several times?”

Muen’s expression turned strange as he tested cautiously, “Then wouldn’t sensations in that area also...”

“Of course they’d also increase several times over!”

Ariel continued twisting her waist and charging forward while calmly folding her arms beneath her chest and sneering:

“Hmph. I know what you’re thinking. You think that once the one-hour limit is up, I’ll immediately become fish on the chopping block, right?”

“I didn’t—”

“Heh. Do you think I didn’t consider that possibility? It’s true that after one hour, multiplied sensitivity would be completely beyond what I could endure. But I already calculated everything!”

“C-Calculated?” Muen’s eyelids twitched wildly.

“That’s right. One hour is my limit, but as long as I completely defeat you within that hour, wouldn’t that solve everything?”

Ariel declared confidently, “Without any restraints at all, one hour is more than enough to crush you!”

“R-Really?”

Muen felt profoundly insulted and gritted his teeth.

“You’re that confident? Or do you really think I’m that weak?”

“Hmph, of course. Otherwise, why do you think that even though I spent the whole day dating you... I never got intimate with you even once?”

Ariel lowered herself and whispered beside Muen’s ear like a wicked little demon.

“That was to increase your sensitivity, idiot!”

“Hiss—”

Muen sucked in another sharp breath.

One wasn’t enough, so he took another.

He truly had not expected this. Really had not expected it.

For the sake of “winning,” Ariel had actually gone this far!

Had she been plotting from the very beginning of the date?

The musk on her body, the pure and innocent style of clothing she had never tried before, maintaining distance throughout the entire date, even those suggestive candles in the room afterward...

Every single thing.

Every single thing had been part of layered traps set for her victory, set so she could wash away her humiliation.

Like prey caught in a spiderweb, he had been wrapped tighter and tighter by her schemes until, just as she wished, he became her delicious meal!

“And there’s more than that!”

As if she felt Muen was not shocked enough yet, Ariel raised the stakes again. She straightened up and changed positions.

“This... how do you even know how to do this?”

“I’m not finished yet...”

Ariel’s expression was seductive, her figure enchanting.

“You know this too?”

“There’s more...”

“Hiss... even this move too... This is way too stimulating...”

Muen was utterly stunned.

He had originally believed that even now, Ariel was still only a giant in theory and a dwarf in practice.

But the few techniques she had just used were unbelievably seductive, unbelievably soul-hooking.

They absolutely did not look like the sort of shamelessly erotic moves the destined heroine named Ariel Bugaard should be capable of using!

“Heh...”

Seeing Muen’s utterly inexperienced expression, Ariel laughed disdainfully.

Did he really think that all those times she could only watch... she had merely been watching?

Liya’s techniques.

Anna’s techniques.

And even the techniques of that woman called An...

She had secretly mastered all of them already!

Although certain innate limitations prevented her from using some moves, she could still exploit her own strengths to produce offensive power no weaker than theirs!

A mere blond menace could only kneel beneath her skirts!

“Since it’s already come to this, hurry up and surrender already!”

Ariel felt completely certain of victory and said smugly:

“If you surrender now, I’ll spank you more lightly later!”

“...Never!”

Muen gritted his teeth.

“Oh? You still want to resist at this point? You’re pretty stubborn. Then what about this?”

Ariel intensified her assault once more!

With sensation blocked off, every one of her techniques could be used without restraint. In a certain sense, she was even stronger than the originals!

“...Average!”

Muen still endured through clenched teeth.

“Even this still isn’t enough? Then I’m going to use even stronger techniques! Surrender already!”

“...No!”

“Hmph. Meaningless resistance! Again!”

“Not yet...”

“Your struggle is futile!”

“I can still...”

“Heh...”

On one side was the wicked laugh of a certain chosen-heroine villainess.

On the other was the “pitiful cries” of a certain blond-haired bashful maiden.

The two went back and forth like this for a long time, gradually drawing closer and closer to that one-hour mark that resembled some critical boundary.

Naturally, Ariel showed no mercy at all, continuing her charge toward her goal. In her eyes, after enduring so many difficult battles, the final objective was already right in front of her...

“My, my. You actually lasted half an hour already. That means there’s still a whole half hour left. What are you going to do now?”

“Damn it...”

“Oh? Pretty impressive. You actually managed to endure until the last fifteen minutes. Then from here on out, I won’t hold back even slightly!”

“Yamete...”

“...T-Ten minutes. Heh, not bad. Better than I expected. But you’re already reaching your limit, aren’t you? Take this!”

“Don’t!”

“...”

“...”

“W-Wait a second.”

Ariel suddenly stopped moving.

“What’s wrong?”

Muen opened his eyes while panting heavily.

“Is there something wrong with you?” Ariel stared carefully at Muen.

“Something wrong? What’s wrong with me?” Muen asked in confusion.

“Isn’t it obvious? I’ve already launched a full-force assault, but there are only five minutes left before the hour ends. Why haven’t you surrendered yet?”

Ariel widened her eyes, looking completely unable to accept this.

“This isn’t right! There’s definitely a problem! According to my calculations, you should’ve lost ages ago!”

“...”

Yes.

Ariel’s calculations were basically correct.

If it had been the Muen who fought Ariel last time, then after being assaulted for an entire hour by her while she used pain suppression to remain completely unaffected, he should have surrendered no matter what.

After all, Muen’s so-called absolute advantage in one-on-one situations only existed when the initiative was in his hands.

Facing direct, relentless attacks from a little vixen, no matter how sturdy his body was or how powerful his waist might be, there was no way he could possibly endure.

But Ariel’s calculations had overlooked two things.

First, the current Muen was much stronger than before.

Second...

He had not spent the entire day pent up the way she planned.

Long before Ariel made her move, someone else had already arrived to pluck the fruit that belonged to her, while simultaneously raising that threshold extremely, extremely high.

“Do those things really matter?”

Of course Muen could not possibly say any of that out loud, so he merely blinked innocently.

“Can’t we just keep going? Look, there are still five minutes left.”

“N-No...”

Ariel braced herself against Muen’s chest and tried climbing away. Right now there was still no outside interference affecting her state, so her mind remained perfectly clear. She understood that if she could not succeed now, then she definitely would not succeed within the remaining five minutes either.

And if she failed to escape before the time ran out, then once it ended...

“Oh? Trying to run?”

But there was no way Muen would let Ariel escape now. He directly grabbed her little hand and pinned her down hard against the bed.

“You flirt with someone and then try to run away afterward? Wouldn’t that make you a heartless woman?”

“I-I’m not...”

Ariel laughed awkwardly.

“I just... right, I just remembered I didn’t blow out the candles in my room. Can you let me go back and extinguish them first?”

“It’s fine.”

“But what if they start a fire—”

“I’ll pay for it.”

“But—”

“No need to worry.”

Muen lowered himself and blew lightly beside Ariel’s tiny ear.

“The fire here needs putting out much more.”

Pain suppression only blocked sensations below the neck. Her cheeks and ears remained completely unaffected, so with Muen’s intimate little action, Ariel’s body, which had just been trying desperately to struggle free, instantly softened.

The situation reversed.

Ariel desperately tried to escape while Muen relentlessly launched his counterattack. Amid their offense and defense, those five minutes ticked away rapidly.

“M-Muen...”

“Mm. I’m here.”

“Let go of me first...”

Ariel’s eyes shimmered with tears, looking pitiful.

“No.”

“We can continue tomorrow. Tomorrow...”

“No.”

“Uu... no, I don’t want...”

Second by second.

Until the final countdown.

Ariel seemed to realize something and let out startled cries. Her long legs kicked wildly while her little hands pounded against Muen’s chest, trying to push him away.

But after being “bullied” for so long just now, there was no way Muen would let her off at a time like this.

He had even been calculating the timing carefully, waiting for that crucial instant...

Crack.

The markings around Ariel’s neck shattered apart.

And at that exact moment, Muen’s counterattack also reached its absolute peak.

“You damn little vixen. You still wanted me to beg for mercy? Take this!”

Blond Menace Impact!

“Uwah! N-No... I don’t want... ahh!”

Like a floodgate collapsing apart.

Like a volcano dormant for a thousand years suddenly erupting.

Like lightning crashing down without warning from a clear sky!

Everything exploded at this moment.

Muen felt the soft body in his arms suddenly tighten with terrifying force, as though it wanted to strangle him alive.

Then—

It abruptly stopped.

Her soft body relaxed again, collapsing into a limp puddle.

Confused, Muen lowered his head, only to discover that the chosen heroine who had just been loudly proclaiming she would defeat him had rolled her eyes back and gone completely limp after enduring only a few short seconds.

“This is...”

Muen hurriedly checked her condition and confirmed that Ariel was perfectly fine, though his expression still remained strange.

“No way. Was it really that intense? She actually... passed out on the spot?”