The Elixir's Chill
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CHAPTER_TITLE: Indifferent Acceptability** **** **
“Well, leaving aside whether it’s to my liking, it’s a bit unfortunate, but the people who gathered here today weren’t brought together for that reason.”** **** **
Chloe’s gesture, waving in front of my eyes as if to remind me to put my clothes back on, sent a surge of embarrassment surging through me. I suppressed it and began fastening the buttons of my shirt one by one again.** **** **
As I had expected, Chloe wasn’t a typical “crass” type that often appeared in yagames. After all, if she had been, she wouldn’t have been a virgin. She maintained her leisurely demeanor and dignified appearance, but at least there was no actual experience in her current state.** **** **
And today was the day I would declare my submission and the day she would begin ingesting the elixir.** **** **
For her, playing with me was important too, but the top priority was restoring her mana circuits, so she was just telling me to dress.** **** **
I understood her intention as well and began dressing without saying anything extra. After all, it was only the shirt.** **** **
Watching my appearance, Chloe glanced at me with a quick sweep of her eyes, nodded, and turned her body toward the desk.** **** **
Then she pulled out a large box from a thick drawer.** **** **
Eloise, who had seen it before, swallowed once, and both she and I watched Chloe open the box.** **** **
I could tell it wasn’t a normal object.** **** **
‘Just by looking at it… it looks just like a refrigerator.’** **** **
The box with its tight design made my guess correct, and it released a cool chill with a crisp sound.** **** **
And inside it was a small flask bottle and something shaped like a pill, just like the one I had made.** **** **
It seemed the elixirs ordered by Chloe and Eloise.** **** **
“This… if I just have this…”** **** **
Chloe, as if possessed by something, carefully lifted the contents and then set them back down before opening her mouth.** **** **
“Sigh… As Eloise explained to you, my mana circuits are already damaged, so even if I use magic, it won’t be very efficient and the power won’t be great either.** **** **
If this goes on, I’ll be worse off than a wannabe adventurer pretending to be a mage, let alone an archmage.”** **** **
While I nodded as if listening carefully to Chloe’s words repeating Eloise’s explanation, she looked at the open box, pulled a single sheet of paper from her pocket.** **** **
“Let’s see… according to the explanation, it’ll probably take a little less than a week.** **** **
First, it starts with the pill made by processing the fruit.”** **** **
The round pill the size of her finger joint that she took out was different from the one I had made—it was blue and emitted a cold chill.** **** **
“Then, shall we start right away?”** **** **
Chloe was talking while looking at me and Eloise, so we both nodded.** **** **
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“Your job is very simple.** **** **
To help me recover with Eloise.** **** **
Well, in simple terms, do the miscellaneous work and then the important work.** **** **
It’s not like it will be a big deal for the elixir intake though.”** **** **
“Then… what about going to the academy for school?”** **** **
“School is no problem.** **** **
It’ll probably be fine.”** **** **
In other words, nicely said it’s a maid, badly said it’s a slave.** **** **
Of course I wasn’t going to make her do slave-like things.** **** **
But I already knew some things about it, so I nodded in agreement to Chloe’s words.** **** **
“Sigh…”** **** **
Chloe let out a long breath as if a bit tense, then took off the coat she was wearing.** **** **
I noticed Eloise’s eyes looking at me and immediately stepped up to Chloe, took the coat from her, dusted it off, and hung it on the hanger nicely.** **** **
“As expected, but it’s right to handle important things with close people.** **** **
That’s why I was wondering whether to call you or not.** **** **
But unfortunately, with Eloise in this state, it would be hard for her to handle me alone.”** **** **
Chloe’s meaning in glancing at Eloise with her eyes was the mask Eloise was wearing.** **** **
I nodded as if I understood the situation too and waited for her to take off her shirt, then took the shirt and hung it nicely on the hanger as well.** **** **
Soon a small sound of “gieek—” came, and the sound of the skirt’s zipper coming off followed.** **** **
Chloe was soon in nothing but her underwear.** **** **
The sound of swallowing saliva was audible, as if it was the faint lewd aroma that made me unconsciously swallow.** **** **
But the culprit was Eloise.** **** **
When I looked at Eloise with a piercing gaze, she jumped in surprise and quickly shifted her eyes to the floor.** **** **
After having sex with me, it seemed Chloe’s body was already twisted.** **** **
‘Sigh.** **** **
She’s going to need mental education later.’** **** **
I couldn’t forgive someone who sprawled out like that with me and then stole her gaze to another woman’s body.** **** **
‘Well, I don’t care.’** **LT__/p>** **
I had the selfish mindset of a typical harem protagonist and didn’t care if I got the girls in my harem, but I couldn’t forgive the girls I had taken for looking at other girls.** **** **
In that sense, I quietly clicked my tongue while appreciating Chloe’s naked body with my eyes.** **** **
From her flawless face to the smooth skin as if well-maintained, the puffed fruits that stimulated my lust, and even the lace-patterned underwear that wrapped those fruits.** **** **
She had a lean body with no body fat, but her breasts and hips were the kind that made you want to have children the more you looked.** **** **
The sound of swallowing saliva again came, but I didn’t look at Eloise this time.** **** **
This time I had swallowed it.** **** **
“Hehe.** **LT__/p>** **
Do you like it?”** **** **
As if my and Eloise’s eyes were to her liking, Chloe smiled and moved her hand to her lower back, then the sound of “tak—” came as the bra’s hook came off.** **** **
Watching Chloe’s fruits jiggle once from the reaction, I turned my gaze when she poked my side with a “kuk” reaction, and there was Eloise.** **** **
I wondered what she was doing, and in her hand was a shower gown that looked easy to wear with its wide neckline.** **** **
I understood what she meant and immediately brought the shower gown closer to Chloe, and Chloe who had already taken off her underwear below as well stood with her back turned and arms spread open.** **** **
‘Ah.** **LT__/p>** **
If she had taken it off just a little faster, I could have seen the color of the hair down there too.’** **** **
Despite my regret, her body was already covered by the gown.** **** **
From what I had checked so far, the hair color down there seemed to follow her hair color.** **** **
It was a bit strange, but since it was a yagame world, I decided to just understand it.** **** **
‘Then is Chloe blonde?’** **** **
While desperately holding back my gaze moving downward, I moved my hand to help Chloe put on the gown.** **** **
“Why do you have to take off your clothes when you’re going to drink the elixir?”** **** **
Chloe’s sudden question made me pause for a moment and carefully explain the knowledge I knew.** **** **
“Ugh… I heard that sometimes the body excretes waste or toxins caused by the elixir’s effects.** **LT__/p>** **
And for the strong ones like this one you’re drinking, Chloe, the ingredients also have to fully act on the body, so I think that’s why.”** **** **
“Haha.** **LT__/p>** **
That’s right.** **LT__/p>** **
Elixirs with good effects make the body release a lot of heat when they act.** **LT__/p>** **
You sweat a lot.** **LT__/p>** **
But this time, it probably won’t be that much.** **LT__/p>** **
The one I’m eating now is the one that contains coolness.** **LT__/p>** **
Rather, it might even make me a little cold.”** **** **
As if answering while reciting the textbook, Chloe replied with interest.** **** **
Of course her thoughts were correct.** **LT__/p>** **
This was a story about what could happen when ingesting elixirs, which was often written in textbooks.** **** **
Luna’s Fire.** **LT__/p>** **
The thing that grows while eating the mana that falls from the moonlight—I knew it as a very famous and rare material.** **LT__/p>** **
Just a full moon that rises at night, I thought it wasn’t that special, but it was said that the mana itself flowing from the moon was the special part.** **LT__/p>** **
So the Eldritch family, a duke’s house, probably couldn’t easily obtain it.** **** **
How it ended up being sold in the black market, I didn’t know, but I realized that the ‘Flower of the Fire Demon’ I had obtained was also an easily obtainable item, so I decided not to think about it.** **** **
It was a story that often appeared in yagames—rare items being sold in the strangely-looking black market.** **** **
‘Come to think of it, the magician I met back then said he got a very expensive necklace…’** **** **
While recalling the face of the unknown magician in my head, I snapped back to reality and moved in front of Chloe to tie the gown’s knot.** **** **
“I’ll say this in advance.** **LT__/p>** **
The miscellaneous work and service won’t be easy.** **LT__/p>** **
It’s because the maker said not to use magic until the elixir is fully absorbed.”** **** **
The elixir maker Chloe was talking about was, of course, Lilina.** **LT__/p>** **
Again, her ability to make elixirs skillfully with rare ingredients looked amazing, but on the other hand, she was just an alchemist with a body that made me horny and a cute personality.** **** **
I put that thought aside and answered with a confident voice.** **** **
“I was prepared for that.** **LT__/p>** **
Please trust me.”** **** **
“Haha.** **LT__/p>** **
Then I’ll leave it to you.** **LT__/p>** **
”** **** **
Chloe immediately took out the blue pill from the box and carefully looked at it before putting it in her mouth.** **** **
And before swallowing the pill, she moved to the bed, sat in seiza, closed her eyes, and Eloise and I, as promised, stood there waiting for her in a docile manner.**