VIP Chapter 178: Witch’s Box (6)
“You were sleeping so soundly.”
She seemed to be carrying a suitcase, slowly walking towards him.
This suitcase, why does it look so familiar?
“However, back in the laboratory afternoons, you always slept so soundly during your naps every day.”
She walked step by step towards Will.
“Even if I poked your face, you wouldn’t wake up, and you’d even call out my name a couple of times in your dreams.”
Her footsteps stopped in front of Will.
“Haa… haa… Liya… Teacher Liya, don’t you feel a bit… a bit hot right now?”
Will felt…
The closer she got to him, the faster his heart beat, and it wasn’t just his heartbeat that sped up.
For the first time in his life, he felt the existence of a “magic circuit.” He could feel his magic circuit rapidly flowing within his blood vessels.
Normally, if he wanted to call upon some magic, it might require strenuous chanting and searching to mobilize the magic within his body, but now… he clearly knew what his magic circuit looked like, and where it was most concentrated.
A rapid heartbeat.
Clear magic circuits.
Constantly rising body temperature and blood temperature.
These were all…
These were all the reactions she would have when he, with concern, asked about Teacher Liya using Blood Mint Essential Oil. These were the descriptions she gave.
And it was also…
The description of the effects of Blood Mint Essential Oil given in the original work, which tried to appear “all-ages” to avoid certain risks.
It wasn’t surprising either. Because Liya had made him so familiar with Blood Mint Essential Oil over the years, she now seemed as if she had emerged from that substance.
Blood Mint Essential Oil was supposed to be an item only useful to witches…
How come all the reactions he had witnessed when he mocked Liya, the witch, were now replaying themselves on his own body?
No, wait. Will seemed to recall some methods to “allow people other than witches to experience Blood Mint Essential Oil.”
And the person who proposed this speculation was…
Will gritted his teeth, suppressing his gasps.
Why was it himself again!?
The three-years-ago version of himself had been digging pits for his present self nonstop!?
“Mmm… Will seems a bit groggy after sleeping.”
Liya’s voice sounded calmer than before.
But Will couldn’t see her eyes. She was standing now, slightly taller than him sitting hunched in his seat—a completely different perspective from Will looking down at her.
Perhaps because he couldn’t see her eyes, and only heard her voice, Will could still feel “calm” and “peaceful.”
If not for the uneasy atmosphere of “a witch conducting experiments” pervading the current environment, just hearing her voice would have reminded Will of his three years at Entak First Academy.
“We are currently in an ice-attribute dungeon…”
“You’re smart enough to know the environment isn’t hot at all.”
“The reason you’re so hot is…”
Liya reached out, her fingertip moving slowly downwards from where the injection needle was on his collarbone.
Burning.
“Ugh…”
Will bit his lip.
Liya merely brushed his chest, and he could clearly feel a strange burning sensation on his skin where she touched.
It was so strange.
So incredibly strange.
An indescribable feeling.
He clearly felt a burning sensation accompanied by slight pain, yet he felt a sense of reluctance when her fingers left. He wished her actions wouldn’t stop, even that they would become more intense.
Will turned his face away, trying not to look at Liya’s actions, but as soon as Liya’s fingers touched him lightly, Will could sensitively feel her movements, even reconstructing in his mind the image of her fingers brushing across his chest.
“Because, what is continuously being input from here…”
She lightly tapped the spot where the needle was inserted.
“Flowing from here to here…”
Then she moved to the right, sliding along Will’s collarbone.
“And then continuously towards here…”
It slid diagonally towards Will’s heart. Will felt his constantly beating heart synchronize with the heat of her fingers.
He trembled.
“Is my blood. It’s scalding hot witch’s blood.”
Liya actually smiled gently.
She withdrew the hand that was slowly touching Will, opening it slightly to reveal her inner elbow.
Will could see the “scar” there, a clear mark of having had blood drawn.
As expected.
“Now, within you, it has merged with my blood. Naturally… you can feel what I once felt, right?”
“I… I guessed so. After all…”
“After all, it’s something you once speculated with me. Right? Will.”
Will’s words were interrupted by Liya before he could finish.
“You… you actually remember…”
No, that’s not right.
She definitely remembered.
Because it was the Teacher Liya, who appeared tsundere and resistant on the surface but was actually meticulous and caring towards others, who would secretly remember what others said in her heart.
“Yes. I didn’t expect that I actually found this feasible method, which someone had experimented with before, from some ancient magic left behind by witches.”
Will never imagined that although he had turned Liya into a yandere, she could be so insane as to use a method that even he himself had only dared to imagine and hadn’t even sought to test!
She injected the witch’s blood into Will’s body! This way, during the short period of coexistence, Will would have an overly strong reaction to Blood Mint Essential Oil, just like Liya.
It was equivalent to taking the only item with an aphrodisiac effect in the original work and finding a way to use it on someone else.
Will had become the test subject for the speculation he himself had taught others how to “blacken.”
It was somewhat ironic that his current perception and ability to use magic circuits was probably the best it had ever been in his more than ten years of life.
Will only needed to glance at Liya’s fingers to feel his magic circuits spinning at high speed, his blood violently surging from his heart, transported from his chest to all parts of his body.
Everywhere, there was blood flowing, scalding hot, carrying a fervent magic circuit mixed with a tiny bit of witch’s blood.
Liya appeared “blackened,” but… but she had not lost her reason.
Wait, Will suddenly felt as if he had understood, in an instant, exactly why Liya had done this.
“Come to think of it, you seemed to have fallen asleep just now and didn’t hear what I said…”
Liya’s calm tone began to quicken, her lips moving rapidly on the last few words.
Then…
She suddenly leaned close to Will and, reaching out, pushed Will against the back of the chair she had made.
Pressing her forehead against Will’s, their heads met.
Like this…
In their line of sight, there was only each other’s eyes.
That one eye.
The eye that Will had once stared at intently to draw a portrait of the “witch’s magic eye,” was now vastly different from the portrait he had drawn then.
Because a giant heart had filled it.
“…Then I’ll say it again!”
Her tone began to rise, becoming more and more passionate.
“Why did I do this~?”
“Because I love you!”
“No need for euphemisms—no need for indirectness—no need for pretense—no need for rhetoric—no need for evasion…”
“I love you—”
—To confess in the way that Liya, whom Will had always dreamed of learning from, should have learned to express her tsundere affections.
