Unknown power

In just a few seconds, the elevator doors closed, eliminating the noise at the other end of the hallway.

"The captain seems to be quite nervous," Rou thought as he noticed Drei tapping her index finger on her right arm.

Rou was curious about the captain's plans, it was already past 9 p.m., time for the guards to return after making the shift change.

"Follow me, from now on you will live by my side," Drei said when the elevator doors were opened. The moment she stepped out of the elevator, she unbuttoned the front of her red uniform, revealing two voluptuous mounds that were contained under a white shirt.

Rou froze in place, his eyes etched in his memory the resulting bounce of the mounds capable of causing a nosebleed in men without willpower.

Captain Holland was an extremely beautiful 22 year old girl and Rou was going to live next to her, Rou couldn't help but swallow in his throat as he noticed the swaying hips of the captain, who had shed the top of her uniform, revealing a skirt that tightly enveloped her shapely buttocks.

Drei stopped in the long hallway, which was well lit and held her waist with both hands. "Dmitry?", Drei Holland asked sending a cold glance towards Rou.

Rou snapped out of her bewilderment and stepped out of the elevator as the doors were beginning to close. Adjusting the backpack on his back he replied, "Yes my lady?".

"You seemed lost in thought, remember not to lose concentration in battle, I would hate to lose the first man I take under my command," Drei continued to one of the 3 doors in the expansive hallway and pulling out a card, placed it in front of a reader.

Click!

The door was opened.

In the morning Rou had slightly seen Drei's apartment, at that moment he was more worried about hiding his identity and surviving one more day.

Compared to his small room, Drei's apartment was almost 10 times bigger, moreover, only in the central room, where Drei left part of his uniform, Rou found that the room was much bigger than the place he lived in his previous world.

"You can take the room on the second floor. When you order your things, we'll have a little conversation," Drei said walking towards her room, where Rou met the captain for the first time.

What kind of situation was this, although it was only for a second, Rou could see that the captain had started to undo her shirt as she disappeared inside her personal bathroom. Instinctively Rou set his backpack on the floor and stepped forward as he began to hear the drops of water falling to the floor.

"Looking just a little isn't bad, is it. As my captain's personal guard it is my duty to make sure she is well," Rou recalled the angelic figure of his captain that he saw during the morning, no man besides him had seen her field of flowers that had the same color as her long crimson hair.

Without noticing his movements, as the sweet scent came towards him, Rou's every step became heavier, reaching the point that at one point just taking one step was almost as difficult as if he were carrying 4 Rou on top of him.

After a long 10 minutes, Rou heard the bathroom faucet being turned off. Rou took a gulp of saliva imagining that Drei came out naked giving him a glimpse of her body, but after he heard some steps, Rou felt sad to notice that she was wearing a long plain white dress. Although the dress was very loose, hiding her figure completely, Rou could find some spots where her skin was exposed for Rou's enjoyment.

"Interesting," Drei looked at Rou for a moment, before continuing to walk behind him taking a seat on one of the sofas. "Can you speak?", Drei asked as she finished drying her hair.

"My lady...," Rou said before being stopped.

"Drei, use my name when we are alone," Drei said concentrating on finishing taking care of her hair.

Rou paused for a moment, calling a superior by his first name was very disrespectful. "Idiot, I'm not a guard, I'm just pretending to be one, if the captain is telling me to call her by her first name, I should just do it," Rou fought with himself as he lost his identity for a moment.

"D-Drei...," Rou said feeling strange, it was the first time he called a woman by her first name without her being a familiar.

"That's better," Drei put down the comb in her hand and added. "You are quite exceptional, it seems that I was not wrong to have chosen you".

Rou didn't understand Drei's words, he wanted to ask her about the invisible bindings surrounding her body, but uttering just one word required a great amount of strength.

"Looks like that's your limit, you're not as bad as I thought, still it can't compare to what you did last night," Drei advanced towards one of the furniture and took out a small ice shard that emitted golden rays in the room.

"This shard is a gift I got from my grandmother when I was still a child, inside it possesses an unknown force that only chosen women can control," Drei took a pause before continuing. "I am one of them, and in the Graznov archipelago there are 3 others like me who could fight on my level, which leaves the next question."

"Which one is it?", Rou asked as he noticed he could control his voice.

"Because a man like you, with a low physical quality and an excessive amount of bulk can break through his protective barrier so easily," Drei said closing his eyes. "Seal your strength and return to the past," with those words, Rou felt the pressure on his body disappear as if it had never been there.

At the moment Drei uttered those words, Rou could see a scarlet flash entering the ice fragment, while the light inside him was disappearing.

"For now I will seal the strength of this little guy for an hour, when the time is up, everything will go back to the way it was before, so make good use of your time."

Rou had a lot of questions in his head, but his time was limited, so he quickly went to the bathroom and forcefully inhaled the floral essence inside him. For a man like him, being able to bathe in the same place as a goddess like Drei was the best of gifts.

Rou's eyes wandered over the clothes that Drei left in a basket at the side of the shower, for an instant Rou felt the temptation to take them in his hands and feel their essence closer, but a strange sensation of danger ran through his body, forcing him to resist that thought.

At a speed, comparable to the best of professional strippers, Rou shed his clothes and let the streams of water cleanse his body. "Right, the gift Klaos brought me," Rou ran out of the bathroom and grabbed the grooming supplies that were in his backpack.

On the way she could see Drei sitting on a sofa, reading the contents of a yellow envelope with a serious face.

"It's better not to disturb her," Rou returned to the bathroom.

Klaos seemed to know Rou well, more than he would expect. Among the belongings, Rou could find a simple change of clothes, black with gray stripes.

Upon returning to the lounge, Rou felt refreshed and in high anticipation of seeing the captain's body again.

"I imagine you have questions," Drei said.

"D-Drei, what was that thing from before, for a moment I thought it was some kind of spell that trapped my body," Rou knew from fantasy games, that there were hundreds of types of spells capable of blocking a target's movement, still, it was the first time he experienced it on his own, besides this world was not a game.

"You could call it that, and you wouldn't be wrong," Drei took out the shard again and left it on the center table.

The shard had lost all its shine, in the place where there was an indentation, every so often a crimson flash tried to come out of its interior, but an invisible barrier seemed to stop it.

"As I said before, this shard has an unknown strength. According to scientists who were able to access one of these fragments, they concluded that it belonged to an ancient technology from a civilization of the past."

Rou did not stop the captain, who seemed to be thinking about the past. In her memories, Rou recalled the captain saying that she was the guardian protecting the Graznov archipelago from the danger hidden in the waters.

"Do you know how many men have been able to get as close to this shard as you have," Drei said clenching the yellow letter in his hands. "Zero, every man, without any exception lose consciousness as they enter its detection range."

In Drei's words, Rou had gone against the logic implanted in his memory, Rou also didn't have an answer to why he could move around the ice shard. "Is there anything I can help you with," he asked hesitant of what to say.

"For now hold this shard, after that we'll talk," Drei set the shard down near Rou, who reached over to take it in his hands.

"It's pretty warm for being made of ice," Rou thought when he felt a strange energy entering through his fingers.

Drei stood silently watching the scene in front of her, although Rou couldn't see it, Drei was shocked to see a network of crimson lightning wrapping around Rou's body at an insane speed. "Grandma, looks like you weren't wrong," Drei thought when rou's body disappeared in a cloud of crimson rays.