Chapter 32
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 32
Chapter Title: Jealous Heart (2)
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A girl's heart in love is more anxious and complicated than anything else.
She tries to deny it, but can't easily brush it off.
Yet she lacks the courage to accept it honestly.
"Huuu...♥"
- Thump...♥ Thump...♥
She has no idea how to calm this wildly pounding heart,
or how to handle these constant glances toward him.
Athena couldn't think of any other way.
'What if I boldly approach Manager oppa and make my move?'
Like Koneko suggested, if she got close to him,
and these feelings didn't change even then...
She thought she could finally acknowledge and understand them.
"Um... Manager-nim...♥"
"Yes. What is it...?"
Ja-hyun paused his work and turned his chair at the sound of Athena calling him.
"W-Well...♥"
"Ah! If it's about the air conditioner..."
He had taken off the jacket he always wore over his shoulders, draping it on the sofa.
Athena's face was flushed, sweat beading on her skin.
He wondered if he'd raised the temperature too high.
- Squish...♥
"Athena...-nim...?"
Athena grabbed Jae-hyun's hand as he reached to lower the thermostat,
pressing it against her chest below her sleeveless top, damp with sweat.
A soft, delightful squishiness met his palm.
'What's this all of a sudden...?'
A bit flustered by the sudden action,
he still flexed his fingers slightly, kneading her breast since it was right there.
'Just a light touch... and it tingles...♥'
Even through her sleeveless top, his hand sent faint shivers through her.
Each subtle movement of his fingers as they massaged her breast
sent tingling sparks up her nerves to her brain, heightening her arousal.
'I shouldn't...♥ But I can't stop...♥'
When Jae-hyun hesitated without moving,
Athena stroked his hand and gave him a very seductive smile.
It meant he could grope freely without holding back,
a silent pressure not to stop.
'These symptoms... look similar to Flora's.'
Suddenly flushing, breathing heavily and hot,
doing things she'd never do normally in her excited state.
Her eyes weren't distorted yet,
but the symptoms matched what Flora showed before the summer vacation.
'In that case... maybe it's fine to tease her a bit.'
She seemed to want him to knead her,
so giving her what she craved felt right.
- Squish...♥ Squish...♥
"Hngh...♥ Ahh...♥"
His thumb pressed firmly into the underboob, stimulating along the curve,
while his other fingers encircled and squeezed around the nipple.
'Manager-nim's touch is so lewd...♥ My body feels weirder and weirder...♥'
His refined technique, honed from endlessly training and tasting Flora.
It hit even harder on a bitch this sensitive right now.
'If this keeps up... something bad will happen...♥ No...!'
Her melting mind snapped back,
realizing she'd cross an irreversible line if she continued.
"S-Sorry! I must have zoned out for a second..."
As her hazy vision cleared, she released his hand.
"Ah... Haha... I see."
Knowing her symptoms weren't severe yet,
Jae-hyun gladly let go so she wouldn't feel more embarrassed.
Her thirst would worsen with time anyway,
and she'd naturally come to him craving corruption.
- Whirrr—
Flora returned from her brief errand, entering the office.
Athena jumped at the door sound and dashed to the sofa.
"What?"
"N-Nothing!"
She tried to act normal, but her face betrayed her.
Unlike Jae-hyun, accustomed to such scenes,
Athena couldn't control her expressions.
Sweat could be wiped off quickly, but
her flushed cheeks wouldn't fade in seconds.
"Did you... touch Athena while I was gone?"
Flora glared sharply at Jae-hyun.
"I had raised the AC temperature... She seemed hot.
I was just about to lower it again."
"Really?"
'Phew... Good thing Manager-nim covered for me...'
Jae-hyun handled it smoothly without a hint of panic.
'If I told the truth... who knows what she'd do...'
Even if Flora served him as her master now,
their dynamic hadn't fully reversed.
She still grumbled at him,
and he still pretended indifference while indulging her.
"Hmph...♥"
The change between them was more in attitude and speech than relationship.
Lately, her office outfits exposed more skin,
or like now, she grinned and rubbed her chest against his arm.
"Hehe... Pervert...♥"
Jae-hyun would sneakily grope her ass in return,
or openly kiss her neck or chest lightly.
Every time Athena saw their lover-like intimacy,
she couldn't shake the tight ache in her chest.
'I want... that too...'
She wanted natural skinship like Flora,
trading playful, slightly naughty jokes.
'If I were Flora...'
If she were Jae-hyun's assigned Magical Girl instead,
she wouldn't feel guilty over such worries.
That regret made her bite her lip repeatedly.
'So this is the feeling Koneko mentioned.'
Athena realized her regret led to jealousy,
and that jealousy was wrecking her.
That evening, after grasping the true nature of her jealousy.
"Hoo..."
Athena soaked in a steaming bathtub after work,
sighing anxiously over and over.
"It's still so vivid... Flora's voice."
That lewd voice from next door during vacation.
It wasn't a sound Flora could make alone.
Jae-hyun came and went to nurse her,
and each time, Flora let out sweet, lascivious moans.
Athena knew from Jae-hyun's hypnosis that sex was mana injection,
but it couldn't pass as just that.
"Smooch...♥"
The memory of first cleaning semen off his massive cock.
The musky yet sweet, fragrant taste and scent returned,
and she unconsciously sucked her finger.
- Squirt...♥
She rubbed her saliva-slick finger along her outer slit underwater,
while her other hand gripped and kneaded her breast.
Reliving Jae-hyun's lewd touches from the office earlier.
"Hngh...♥"
The oil massage sensation from their villa vacation,
and the double paizuri blowjob service with Flora.
All her memories with Jae-hyun flooded back.
But one piece was glaringly empty.
"Mana injection... I've never done it properly here..."
She'd done mana injections via fellatio or paizuri many times,
but never the real thing—actual sex.
She'd seen Flora take loads deep in her womb countless times,
but only watched, never asking for it herself.
'What does it feel like...'
Unfamiliar, her imagination failed.
So she replayed office scenes of Flora and Jae-hyun in her mind.
Then imagined herself in Flora's place.
'I can't picture it...'
But even imagining didn't help.
Rubbing her slit and writhing only deepened her frustration,
her curiosity unsated.
'I'm also handling Athena-nim's manager duties right now.
Athena-nim will need mana replenishment too.'
As she brooded over her stifled heart,
Jae-hyun's words flashed in her mind.
To Flora, angry about Athena's cleanup service,
he'd said Athena was now his charge too, needing mana replenishment.
Flora had reluctantly agreed to once a day.
'Right... Even Flora said it's okay.
I'm Manager-nim's assigned Magical Girl too...♥'
She'd accepted her feelings for Jae-hyun,
and the desire to cling to him.
No need to worry about splitting him and Flora,
if his words weren't lies.
'Wear more revealing clothes,
or subtly increase skinship by clinging... stuff like that.'
'Revealing clothes... and cling to him...♥'
No barriers to Koneko's advice now,
just act on it at the office tomorrow.