Chapter 16 - Please Kiss Me
A person's mind is more fragile than you think. Even if it looks strong, it often breaks down due to a very small trigger, and when that happens, you are forced to choose between two options. Become a wreck or rely on something.
It seems that people often rely on drugs made from the flesh and blood of demons overseas, but in the USA, it is difficult to obtain these things, so it is common to rely on games, the internet, and religion.
It is better at the early stages. If you receive proper counseling and medication, you can get better quickly. However, if your mind becomes sick and it becomes a problem again, things get complicated.
"Leo, you won't leave me alone, right? Right?"
"..."
[13:24]
'I have to go soon.'
Even people who are clueless tend to come to their senses when their lives are in danger. That's what survival instincts are all about.
Iris's appearance, holding Leo's wrists tightly with both hands and quietly looking up at him from above, was insanely beautiful.
Since Iris and Leo were about a head apart in height, he naturally ended up looking down at her from above. Thanks to that, the valley of her mammoth body that was clearly visible despite the low-exposure dress drove him crazy.
If Leo kept going like this, he felt like his lower body would exert strength and cause a mortar attack on another world.
Of course, it was difficult, but it was clear that a man would have no choice but to laugh in this situation.
However, his back was soaked with cold sweat.
His instincts had been screaming at him to run away from her for a while.
'...I'm going crazy.'
"I'll say it again, but I'm a magician now. Although I'm just a 1st-circle slacker, thanks to that, I could feel the mana of nature and the magic of others."
Being able to feel things that ordinary people cannot feel meant that he was no longer an ordinary person, and to put it nicely, it meant that if I returned to Earth and continued to grow steadily, I could seize wealth and fame that others could not obtain even if they worked hard for their entire lives.
However, if you were to ask if this was all that good, Leo could firmly say NO in the current situation!
The distance between him and Iris was close enough that he didn't even have to reach out. Thanks to that, he could see and experience her crazy pretty face, her chest, and even her fragrant body odor from a special seat, but on the other hand, Iris's magic that he had been feeling since a while ago was unusual.
Iris's magic was pulsating like an active volcano that could erupt at any moment.
It was pulsating so hard that his skin felt like it was being poked by needles, and the lingering scent of the magic was enough to make my brain ache.
'That's a state where the magic is suppressed...'
It was really out of the blue, but it was time to review what he had just learned.
Basically, a wizard accepts natural mana and converts it into magic through a process of magnetization. The magic that is converted in this way gathers in the fuel tank called the heart and becomes the fuel for using magic.
Perhaps because of the special nature of gathering in the heart, magic is quite directly affected by the emotions of the wizard. Sadness, regret, hatred, resentment, self-reproach, jealousy, anger—the stronger the negative emotions, the more strongly the magic fluctuates.
Just as a sea with waves is stronger than a calm lake, the stronger the negative emotions, the more powerful the output of the magic is, but there is a merit in that the output of the magic is stronger, but there is also the problem of rapid magic consumption and the opponent seeing through the magic, so wizards always make it the most basic of the basics to maintain a clear mind no matter where.
This is something that had been emphasized several times during his class with Iris.
"Leo, what are you thinking?" Iris was glaring at him right now.
The 8th Circle Archmage was so immersed in negative emotions that she had forgotten even the most basic of the basics.
In a situation like this, it wouldn't have been strange if anything had happened.
"I don't really have any thoughts..."
"You're lying… I can see it on your face."
With her seductive body, her voice becomes strangely hushed.
Even in the dark hall, her green eyes, shining as clearly as if a light had been turned on, turned toward him.
As her gaze swept from head to toe, it felt as if his mind was being completely exposed.
At that moment, Iris's left hand brushed across my cheek.
"Just like now."
Leo's feelings at that moment were very concise and simple.
'...I think I'm going to die.'
If Leo were a normal person, he wouldn't be shaking like this. At best, his legs would be shaking. All of this was because he could sense magic power thanks to the creation of the Mana Circle.
To him, who could sense magic power, Iris was like an 8-ton truck with a broken engine. It meant that she could crash into him at any moment.
Of course, Iris wouldn't do something so drastic... but no one knows what's going on in this world.
"This, I'm sure you're misunderstanding something..."
If he had explained it properly, nothing of that sort would have happened.
He didn't know exactly what she was misunderstanding, but since her condition has gotten worse since he said he was going back, it has to be related to that.
The current situation was definitely awkward.
'Iris doesn't like the situation in which I'm going back. ...I shouldn't be laughing.'
The corners of Leo's mouth kept going up.
Still, if he laughed in a serious situation like this, the atmosphere would really get ruined.
No matter how clueless he was, he could understand that much.
"It's not that, that's not it—"
"You don't have to say anything."
Now, Leo decided to explain the situation properly and break this thin ice, but in return, a slender index finger was pressing against his lips.
"I understand. Leo has his own life, so I can't just be stubborn."
At that moment, the magic that had been pulsing in her body became calm as if she had fallen asleep.
"Instead?" Iris approached me, her face flushed red and ready to burst at any moment. "...Please kiss me."