EP.20 Going Home -5
EP.20 Going Home -5
Rabbits were famous for finishing sexual intercourse within three seconds.
The reason was a kind of survival instinct—to reproduce rapidly amidst countless predators.
In that sense, rabbits, which mated quickly and multiple times a day, were quite literally the very embodiment of copulation.
The problem was that the female now straddling me happened to be exactly that—a rabbit.
Even if her appearance resembled a human with rabbit ears, her true form was a Rabbit Divine Beast called the Time-Leaping Rabbit.
Divine Beast or not, she couldn't seem to hide her species' instincts, and Alice in heat was not in her right mind.
"Mmm♡ Master...! Master~!!"
"Ghk?! That hurt!!"
"Sorry, but I can't hold back...♡"
Alice's body pressed flush against mine, and she started biting into the nape of my neck.
It hurt like hell, but she seemed to be suppressing her bite strength just enough not to draw blood.
Anyway, this was dangerous if it kept up.
With things as they were, it was obvious I'd cross the line with Alice if I stayed still, and I had no confidence I could handle a rabbit—that avatar of lust.
Especially considering one of the rabbit's traits. Actually having sex was an exceedingly perilous river to cross.
Induced ovulation—the trait where ovulation is triggered by simple mating rather than a specific date.
If we mated now with no contraceptives whatsoever, I'd be truly fucked.
"Uh, Alice? How about we take a deep breath to calm down a bit?"
"Hnn...!! I'm truly sorry, Master. I'm trying my best to calm down, but it isn't easy..."
"No matter what?"
"Yes. I mean, just smelling your scent, Master, sends chills all through my lower abdomen."
"Then if we separate for a bit..."
"I don't want that! I'm in this state, but I still want to stay by your side...!"
"No. But doesn't that make it impossible for you to calm down?"
"That's true, but... if I'm separated from you, Master, I..."
One moment she wore the face of a Moon Rabbit who loved to screw.
The next, Alice looked utterly crushed by the request to step away, as if she'd lost her entire country.
Had her dependency syndrome grown extremely severe along with the onset of her heat?
'I seriously have zero clue what to do...!'
With other companion animals in heat, I'd usually soothe them by communing through the Companion Mark.
But Alice and I hadn't formed a Companion Contract, so I had no means to calm her down.
Even if I decided to just make a Companion Contract now and calm her that way, I was afraid of Miho's future retaliation.
On the other hand, if I calmed Alice just by mating with her, that was terrifying in its own way.
The day Miho found out would be my last day alive.
A choice between dying or getting killed... Fuck, life is just unreasonably unfair sometimes.
"Master... Then I have one request."
"Hm?"
"Forming a bond when we're not even in a companion relationship—I think that's asking for too much, too."
"I-is that so?"
"But right now, I want to pounce on you, Master, and take your genes into my body... My body craves your seed so badly I might end up having a phantom pregnancy."
'That's kind of horrifying...?'
"If this continues, I might really end up devouring you, Master. So..."
"So...?"
"I want you to hold my body tight♡"
"I-is that enough?"
"Yes...♡ Hold me so tight I can't move at all. While you do, I'll use my ability to Time Leap until my body calms down."
"Ah! So that's what you meant!"
She meant she'd leap through her own time until she was past her heat cycle.
If it worked, I could calm Alice down without resorting to either of the two methods I'd been thinking of.
However, for that method to work, I had to restrain her.
If I didn't, Alice, unable to hold back, would pounce on me in the blink of an eye and demand my seed.
To prevent that, I held Alice tight, wrapping her body so she couldn't escape.
And just in case, I bound our bodies with wind so she couldn't break free at all.
"This should be enough, right?"
"Yes... Haaah♡"
And so the rabbit's Time Leap began.
I couldn't tell with the naked eye if she was leaping, but the rabbit was likely continuously jumping through her own time.
Alice's face gradually reddening, her breathing growing ragged, her drooling face—that was the proof.
Along with the clear fluid ceaselessly trickling down below.
"Master...♡ Masterrr...♡ I'm sorry... Haaah♡"
"Mmph?!"
In the end, Alice, her heat seemingly intensified beyond bearing, forced her lips onto mine and pounced.
Not stopping there, she began licking alternately inside my mouth and across my cheeks with her tongue.
It was unmistakably the Rabbit Kiss, said to be the ultimate expression of rabbit affection.
For someone like me who'd lived without companion animals, receiving such an expression of love was certainly happy news...
The issue was that receiving a Rabbit Kiss from a rabbit who looked just like a human woman felt profoundly strange.
"I love you, Master♡ More...!! Give me more♡"
"Alright, alright."
But since I had no other options, I simply accepted all of the rabbit's affection and stroked her head with one hand.
Most rabbits liked having their heads petted.
Alice seemed to be the same; as I petted her head, her rabbit ears naturally folded backward.
This, too, seemed to have some calming effect, so I decided to keep petting her until her heat subsided.
And so, one hour later...
"Phew, finally got her calmed down."
"Mmm..."
From about the 50-minute mark, Alice's pupils had slowly started to dilate, and she'd grown hazy.
Finally, the rabbit in heat couldn't overcome the sleep demon and fell into slumber.
Assuming she leaped 30 seconds every 0.5 seconds, that was 3,600 seconds per minute, and 216,000 seconds per hour.
Only one hour had passed in reality, but for Alice, 60 hours had gone by.
Exactly two and a half days.
Did she stay awake all that time, expressing affection toward me in a continuous state of heat...?
Once again, I found myself in awe of the rabbit's libido.
Because her sexual desire persisted for 2.5 days before sleep desire finally overtook it.
There was nothing to say except that it was insane.
The fact that if I had crossed the line with the rabbit, I might have been wrung dry for two days straight without a single break.
Just imagining it was terrifying.
Anyway, I got through the rabbit's heat without incident. That should have meant no problems, right?
-Ring~♪ Ring~♪ Ring~♪ Ring~♪ Ring~♪ Ring~♪ Ring~♪ Ring~♪ Ring~♪ Ring~♪ Ring~♪ Ring~♪
Just as I was moving Alice to the room and laying her next to Tia, who was sleeping without a care in the world.
A notification sound, not a ringtone, was ringing in quick succession like that—I learned for the first time today just how terrifying that was.
'Who's sending this many messages in a row...?'
The moment I realized the sender was Miho, the dread I'd just felt not only continued unabated,
but upon checking the contents, I soon dropped my phone to the floor.
One surveillance camera video capturing the living room situation from a different angle than before...
[Dear husband? What are you doing right now?]
[Did you send me out of the house just so you could do this behind my back?]
[Do you perhaps think I'll forgive you even after this?]
[Cheating with an outsider woman when no one's around—I absolutely cannot forgive you...!!]
[Prepare yourself. Because I'm going to make sure you can't even think about other women for quite some time...♡]
Messages properly steeped in a fox's obsession and madness.
I was fucked.
***
A team break room inside a temporary government agency building.
A cheerful voice echoed from an agent who was on standby with no particular mission.
"Whoa! It's so nice going back to the hometown after so long!"
"Oh my, Da-hye, did you go down to your hometown during your vacation?"
"Yep! Got to see my parents and that cheeky little brother of mine for the first time in a while!"
"Hometowns really are great. Unlike the city, the air is clean and there are so many places full of memories."
"Now that you mention it, Khan, wasn't your hometown some countryside on the outskirts?"
"That's right. A place with many high mountains and cool valleys."
"Ohh! I'm jealous of that!"
The three agents were chatting amicably, sharing stories of their respective hometowns.
And among them, somewhat conspicuously, sat a young man with dead eyes.
"Speaking of which, Seon-ju, didn't you say you also went to see your family for the first time in a while during this vacation?"
"Yes... I did..."
"How was it? The vacation?"
"To sum it up in one word..."
-Knock, knock!
Someone knocked outside the break room, cutting Seon-ju's words short.
"Agent Seon-ju, this is a summons from Director Edwiner."
"Ah, yes..."
The direct aide to Director Edwiner entered the room and called Seon-ju's name, forcing him to stop mid-conversation and rise from his seat.
He then followed the aide out to head to the director's office.
Da-hye, who found this unsatisfying, finally shouted after the departing Seon-ju.
"Wait!! At least let me hear your thoughts before you go!"
"Hell."
"Huh?"
"It was pure hell."
Seon-ju briefly turned back, leaving the short impression Da-hye wanted.
His listless voice and gaunt face conveyed nothing but pity and a sense of poignant sorrow.