Solving the Heat!
But Wintineas's wish was not granted right away.
After finishing a light morning training session, she went looking for him around lunchtime.
Dad said... when you're grateful to someone, you should treat them to a meal.
Thinking it would be nice to share a meal while offering her thanks, Wintineas headed to the Adventurer's Guild. Once she finished reporting on the request she had taken and collected her reward, she went straight over to Mika.
"Hel...lo."
"Ah, Miss Wintineas! Hello!"
Mika greeted her with a bright, beaming smile. Wintineas tilted her head at the sight.
"...? You're brighter."
The Mika she remembered had always carried a somewhat dark, gloomy air about her. But the Mika standing before her now was positively radiant.
"Is that so? Thank you! What brings you here today?"
"Hypno... is he here?"
"Yes! You're here to see Mr. Hypno, right? If it's Mr. Hypno... ah."
Mika glanced toward the counseling room and remembered that Hypno was right in the middle of a session.
"Um... Mr. Hypno is currently treating a client, so..."
"Treat...ment?"
"Yes. It's Mr. Hypno's counseling therapy! He's extremely popular, and the results are perfect every time!"
"When... does it end?"
"Normally it'd be finished by now, but today's running a bit long... Ah, but once the treatment is over, you can go right in! Mr. Hypno told me to send you to the counseling room the moment you arrived!"
"I see..."
I'll wait... until it's over.
"Okay."
Wintineas sat down at one of the tables in the Adventurer's Guild and waited for Hypno's session to finish. But even after a full hour, there was still no sign of it ending.
Grrrroowl...
I'm hungry...
Her stomach was loudly protesting its need for food.
Looks like... I won't get to see him today.
Wintineas stood up from her seat and left the Adventurer's Guild. After finishing her meal, she lay blankly on her bed.
Wintineas had always hated the heat. The more she moved, the hotter she became, so aside from training and requests, she preferred not to move much at all. What she did most often was simply zone out or quietly think.
Normally her thoughts drifted to her parents back home, what request to take next, or replaying the memory of a completed job. But this time...
Sem...en.
The subject occupying Wintineas's mind was the semen she had tasted just yesterday. She was revisiting the thoughts that had already come to her that morning—only now she was diving deeper into them.
The extreme heat and thirst she had felt back then. And the coolness of his cock and the refreshing chill of his semen that had blown it all away in an instant. It was like the pure crystallization of every kind of coolness she had ever craved in this world.
"..."
Crackle...
Without a word, Wintineas used her magic and formed an icicle in her hand.
By nature, her body ran hot. The heat radiating from her could be managed by the cold aura she kept swirling around herself. But the thirst in her throat and the heat inside her mouth were much harder to soothe with cold air alone. That was why she made icicles and held them in her mouth.
At first it had been difficult, but by now her skill at crafting icicles had grown so refined that she could control even their hardness and internal shape in fine detail. As a result, her ice magic itself had improved as well.
"Haahm... slurp."
Wintineas licked and sucked on the icicle she had made. The familiar cold she loved washed over her tongue. But...
...It's not as cool as his cock.
The icicle was merely cold. It didn't bring true coolness. Her tongue registered the chill where the ice touched it, yet there was none of that pleasant, refreshing sensation. Leaving the icicle in place long enough would eventually numb her senses a little, but Hypno's cock had never done that—its coolness never faded, spreading through her entire body without end.
"Slurp, slurp... gulp."
She sucked and swallowed the meltwater forming in her mouth. It was the same cold ice water she usually enjoyed. Yet even that couldn't compare to Hypno's cock and semen.
When his cock... was buried deep in my throat, my whole throat went cool... And when I drank the semen... nnngh...
Recalling the unprecedented coolness and pleasure she had felt while swallowing his semen made her body twitch in reflex.
"Huh...?"
My body... is getting hot... I only thought about the cool semen, so why...?
Wintineas was puzzled by the way her body was reacting with arousal from nothing more than the memory of semen.
"Slurp... pwah..."
She took the ice out of her mouth for a moment and stared at the icicle.
If this were Hypno's cock...
"Haahm."
She tried recreating the fellatio technique Hypno had taught her yesterday, using the icicle. She sealed her lips around the tip and swirled her tongue in slow circles, licking the entire length with the flat of her tongue.
Cold...
Just like when she had sucked Hypno's cock, the chill of the icicle spread across her whole tongue. But the pleasant coolness she had felt then never appeared.
"Ah, come to think of it..."
Suddenly she remembered the moment she had filled her mouth with Hypno's semen and swallowed it all at once. The coolness and pleasure she had never experienced before. This time she focused on the pleasure part.
"When I drank it, for sure..."
It tingled right here...
She remembered the full-body shiver that had run through her as she swallowed. And she had not forgotten which place had reacted the strongest.
"...Here. ...Nnh."
Holding the icicle in her left hand, she brought her right hand down between her legs. Gently she stroked her crotch. A sharp tingle shot through her body.
"..."
A little... similar, maybe?
"Haahm... slurp, slurp..."
She went back to sucking the ice while rubbing between her thighs with soft strokes.
"Hmm... nnh... nnngh..."
Cold from the icicle in her mouth. Unfamiliar pleasure from the caress between her legs. Combined, the two sensations let her recreate—just a little—the feeling of swallowing Hypno's semen. And the moment she succeeded even slightly, a question rose in her mind.
Why... does sucking while I masturbate bring that feeling back...?
Wintineas usually looked like a vacant airhead, but even she knew what masturbation was. She had tried it once before—an act for relieving sexual desire on her own. Out of curiosity she had touched her own clitoris with her fingers.
Masturbation... felt bad because it made me so hot...
For someone whose body ran as hot as hers, masturbation brought a brief pleasant sensation that was always accompanied by an unpleasant wave of body heat. No matter how much pleasure she felt, the sticky, stifling heat that followed completely drowned it out. That was why Hypno's cock and semen had felt so extraordinary to her.
Even when I drank the semen my body tingled... but my whole body was so cool that the heat never covered it...
Pleasure that rose while she was being saved from extreme heat by pure coolness. Even if her body grew hot, the coolness spreading through her under hypnosis completely overwhelmed it. And so Wintineas murmured quietly to herself.
"...I want to drink it again."
No matter how rude it might be, no matter how humiliating it might be for a man. Even if asking again would be terribly apologetic and improper toward Hypno. For Wintineas, who hated the heat more than anything, the desire to taste once more the semen that gave her the ultimate coolness would not fade so easily.
"Uuuugh..."
She squeezed her eyes shut, tormented by the clash between her conscience and her craving.
And so Wintineas stayed awake through the entire night.
"Couldn't... sleep..."
She had dismissed the icicle and kept her hands away from between her legs, clutching her head as the battle between the urge to drink Hypno's semen again and the conscience that insisted she must not continued to torment her. While wondering if there was any way to resolve it, she recalled something her father had said when she was little.
—When you have worries, it's good to work them out by moving your body, Winti.
"I'll... train."
Following her father's advice, Wintineas went out to the inn's backyard and began training. First she ran through a set of basic dual-sword forms, then moved on to mana-control practice. It was the same daily training she always did—movements so familiar she could perform them without thinking.
And that was exactly the problem.
Uuuugh...
Because it was so familiar, her mind was free to wander, and the inner conflict never stopped even while she trained.
I should do something else... Yeah. I'll take a request.
Thinking that something less routine might help, she headed straight for the Adventurer's Guild. The hour was so early it could still be called dawn. Fewer people than usual filled the guild hall.
...She's not here.
Mika had not yet arrived for work. Wintineas went directly to the request board and looked for something suitable.
This one... looks good.
The request she chose was a goblin extermination.
"Haa... haa..."
It's... gotten worse...
She went straight to the forest where the goblins nested and wiped them out. Yet the conflict inside her never disappeared; if anything, the craving for Hypno's semen only grew stronger. While she was hunting it had been fine. The problem came afterward.
After sweating through the fight, Wintineas wrapped herself in cold aura to cool her faintly flushed body and bit down on an icicle.
...It's nowhere near enough.
All it did was drive home once again how different it was from Hypno's cock and semen. When she had simply been lying blankly in her room she had not felt the heat so intensely, so the conflict had stayed at a manageable level. But after moving her body to exterminate goblins, the heat she felt was far stronger than when she stayed still. Cooling herself with her own cold aura only made her realize all over again just how much coolness and refreshment Hypno's semen and cock had given her.
Sucking his cock doesn't even use up mana... And if I drink the semen on top of that, it feels incredibly refreshing and good...
What she had now was not bad. Not bad—but for Wintineas, who had already learned the coolness of cock and semen, her usual cold aura had become something incomplete and unsatisfying.
And at last, after finishing the request and returning to the Adventurer's Guild, she made up her mind.
I'll go see Hypno again...
She had already planned to meet him yesterday. She still needed to thank him. Even without the desire to taste his semen again, she had a perfectly good reason.
"...Mika."
"Ah, Miss Wintineas! Welcome!"
Wintineas walked over to where Mika stood. Mika greeted her with an even warmer welcome than the day before.
"Mr. Hypno has no appointments at all today! You can go straight into the counseling room!"
"Uh... okay."
A little flustered by Mika's unexpectedly enthusiastic response, Wintineas looked toward the counseling room.
"I can... go in right now?"
"Yes! Please go right in!"
"Got... it."
Wintineas walked straight to the counseling room and opened the door.
Creeeak...
"Excuse... me."
"Oh! Come on in, Wintineas!"
Hypno was sitting inside. The moment he saw her enter, he broke into a broad, welcoming smile. Wintineas's gaze flicked reflexively down to his lower body.
Sem...en...
"Something you need counseling for?"
"Uh..."
At his words she lifted her face. Looking at Hypno made her conscience prick, and she quickly averted her eyes.
"Th-there... is..."