Chapter 140
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 140
Chapter Title: Ice Crystal -2-
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Elixirs are elixirs, each with their own nature, and even those with positive effects can be overkill if they force changes on the body.
Among the finest elixirs, some even conflict with each other, so indiscriminately gobbling up whatever seems beneficial is a bad idea.
The natural crystals, however, are harmonious and pure elixirs that expand one's mana reserves steadily if not explosively, and aside from the momentary phenomena during consumption, they have virtually no side effects, making them safe to use.
That said, ingesting an ice crystal won't suddenly let you shoot ice spikes from your hand or awaken to ice magic in some dramatic fashion.
If it did, it would rank among the supreme elixirs.
Whether ice crystal or fire crystal, you gain minor resistance related to that element.
Your mana vessel expands, and the mana you've been diligently accumulating drop by drop is supplemented from external sources, increasing your total reserves.
To put it simply...
It's like compressing the time you'd spend diligently practicing cultivation techniques into a single moment.
"Huuuuh..."
I held Rike close as she shivered from the intense cold bursting from within her.
The frost covering the floor melted away, leaving it damp, and a faint warmth began to mix into the chill-laden air.
Rike, who had been pressing her skin as tightly as possible against my body, stopped trembling.
She pulled back just slightly from our close embrace, locking eyes with me from a distance where our lips almost touched.
"Oppa..."
Rike's violet eyes sparkled as if dusted with flecks of light, brimming with vitality.
The gaze we shared carried an intense heat that belied her recent ice crystal ingestion.
It almost felt like I'd brought a fire crystal instead.
While elixir effects vary by individual, it was clear this one had benefited Rike substantially.
"Feeling okay now?"
Having weathered the ice crystal's chill so well, I couldn't help but think Rike was remarkable, so I patted her peach-like bottom. She rubbed her regained warmth, soft skin against my body.
"...It reminds me of the first day I clung to you like this."
Her voice and the mood carried a longing that naturally led me to scoop her up and carry her into the bedroom, opening the door.
The familiar warmth of our home enveloped us.
"You were cold from the rain back then too, right?"
"My body and heart were freezing... It was unconscious, not exactly courage, but... There's no day I praise myself more than the one I desperately sought you out."
I lay back comfortably on the bed, and Rike naturally climbed on top of me.
"Tch...! Hng... Heup..."
As we kissed, she licked my lips devotedly, then trailed her cute tongue slowly down my neck and chest until her face reached between my legs.
Rubbing her cheek against my erect cock, Rike smiled innocently.
"I love how hot oppa's is."
She scooped the precum beading on the tip with her finger, spread it wide on her tongue like tasting it, then took my cock fully into her mouth.
The soft, warm sensation inside Rike's mouth made my hips buck involuntarily.
"Hoo... Rike's mouth is even hotter."
"Eup...! Chub... Ch."
I stroked her head as she deepthroated to the root without pause, her tongue still working.
She bobbed her head up and down on my cock while grinding her pussy against my thigh, leaking her juices.
Seeing her movements full of desperate need, I brushed her hair behind her ear and said,
"Tonight, I don't want you to finish me with your mouth. I want to put it in and cum inside."
"...!"
As if she'd been waiting, Rike sat up, positioning herself in cowgirl stance, gripping my cock to prepare for insertion.
"At first, it was so big I thought I'd pass out just taking it."
Squeezh—
Aiming the tip at her entrance, Rike lowered her hips very slowly, letting me taste her slick, soaked hole.
"Now it's perfect... Hng! Just right... Haaah—!! Thinking my insides have molded to oppa's shape... Haang! Makes me so happy..."
Her tight, sticky pussy descended languidly, swallowing my cock whole.
Rike seemed to cum lightly from that alone, dipping her head and twitching her lower body weakly.
I reached out to fondle her breasts and asked,
"You came just from insertion?"
"Hiang...! Hng...! Y-Yeah... But I can keep going right away..."
Regaining her composure, Rike rocked her hips back and forth, twisted her waist in circles while keeping me inside—doing her utmost to please me. I savored her devoted cowgirl ride.
Tszk— Tszk— Splck! Tzup— Jigk— Jigk!
"Hiit—! Haang...! Hng... Feels so... gooood... Aang!"
Her juices smeared and splashed against our skin, filling the bedroom with lewd sounds.
"Rike's inside fits my cock perfectly."
"Hngt...! Oppa engraved himself inside me, marking it as his exclusive territory, right?"
Her face twisted in pleasure, smiling seductively.
With her ceaseless hip movements and teasing words, my climax built rapidly.
No need to say it—Rike felt my cock twitch, sank down fully, clamped her legs together, and milked me with tight squeezes from her pussy.
In that perfect assist, I grabbed her breasts and unleashed my semen straight into her womb.
Spurt—! Splurt... Spluuuurt—
"Huuuuk...! Th-This... I'm cumming...! Hauk...!"
I admired Rike frozen atop me as she received the massive load flooding her womb. Once finished, I laid her on the bed.
"Aang~"
With her coquettish cry, Rike wrapped her arms around my neck. Our eyes met, and instinctively we swapped saliva, tangling tongues.
Her violet eyes reflected my face, ablaze with lust, alongside her own heated anticipation.
Since reconciling with her sister, being called to the study wasn't exactly rare.
But being asked to come to her bedroom in the most comfortable attire possible? That was a first.
'Get a... grip!'
Chloe slapped her plump cheeks—smack! smack!—to steel herself.
It had been a short time, but she'd somehow succeeded in steadying her mentality.
Rike's advice and a single page from the novel had greatly helped Chloe erase the awkwardness around Eclair.
The brilliant Rike had kindly explained to her dim self:
Admitting one's wrongs deserved undeniable praise and was commendable. The attitude of following reflection with an apology was the same.
So, how to offer a sincere apology—not one just for her own peace of mind?
The dilemma she'd consulted her friends about had too many omissions, so even Rike struggled for detailed answers.
But generally, resolving issues required understanding.
Rike had left the broad term "understanding" for Chloe to define and ponder autonomously.
If she couldn't find answers there, they could gather the three of them and rethink it—so come anytime. That eased Chloe's heart considerably.
'Understanding...'
At first, wondering if she missed something beyond everyday usage, Chloe even checked the dictionary.
She mulled over her sister and brother-in-law.
Closing her eyes, her thoughts began in the past, captured the present, with Rike's stories and that pivotal novel page as backdrop.
Whether her narrow view had broadened or the unseen became visible after daydreaming through academy classes and sleep...
Her thinking had grown more expansive, if still hazy in direction and variety—a small victory.
'What happened in the study... isn't embarrassing; it's natural between lovers... Probably!'
That was the biggest thought helping her shed awkwardness around her sister post-incident.
It wasn't that she had no resistance to it.
Successfully imprinting that such acts were natural between lovers let her face her sister as before.
And that wasn't the only thought etched deeply.
Like Knight Lord, the novel's protagonist crushed by endless duties and expectations, her sister had someone like Rebecca: her brother-in-law.
The intimate time and loving touches with one's lover, per the book... purified negative emotions and reassembled a heart on the brink of shattering.
With zero dating experience herself, Chloe couldn't be certain, but she'd studied the theory diligently from books, so she could infer.
'She can't complain of hardship to the family or me...'
Her sister spending alone time with her brother-in-law was like briefly shedding a shoulder-tearing heavy bag or freeing herself from armor upon returning to the mansion.
As Chloe inferred, this wasn't about relationship depth or weight.
Just different kinds of bonds, leading to different matters.
Knowing she was Dreitna knight lineage, destined for greater responsibilities...
Her sister hid fatigue and weariness from Chloe.
The unvented thirst and exhaustion she couldn't resist piled up, visible only to her lover, the brother-in-law.
Knock- knock-
"Chloe Dreitna here."
She rapped lightly on the door, and her sister's voice replied.
—Come in.
Her sister's bedroom.
Tense since her snot-nosed days, when her sister read fairy tales in mother's stead—the only other times she'd entered.
"...C-Coming in."
It was fine even for servants to see.
But feeling oddly watchful, Chloe glanced around before stepping cautiously into Eclair's bedroom.