“Kent, can I borrow your hands for a bit?”
“Sure.”
As Catherine said this, Kent offered his hands. Catherine gently took Kent’s hands and closed her eyes. Then, as if confirming something, she opened her eyes and released his hands.
“I see. I understand. It turned out to be just as I thought. I have something important to tell you, so please sit here and listen carefully.”
“I understand.”
Catherine sat next to Kent on the sofa, her expression serious as she spoke to him. From Catherine’s demeanor, it seemed like she had something quite important to say.
“Kent, your magic power is currently very low. When someone who normally possesses magic power suddenly loses it, they may become unable to stand properly or experience symptoms like severe headaches. Did anything happen around yesterday that might explain this?”
“Now that you mention it, yesterday I was feeling wobbly and couldn’t walk properly. Coincidentally, Patty’s mother happened to pass by and helped me. I ended up staying at her place last night.”
Kent, recalling something that fit Catherine’s question, answered.
“I heard about you staying over. But I want to know the cause of your sudden loss of magic power.”
“Huh? Do I have to tell you?”
“Of course, if it’s something you can’t tell others, I won’t tell anyone else. So please speak freely.”
“Well, if you say so, Catherine…”
Kent explained that he had gone to a theater managed by a classmate’s grandmother with all the male students, and under the circumstances, he had become intimate with a fairy.
“Ugh, I wish I hadn’t heard that. I didn’t know Kent came to places like that… But, I’m curious about the fairy there. I suspect it was a shop-attached fairy, but the materials I have don’t mention that shop.”
“Could it be that you know which shops in town have shop-attached fairies?”
“Of course, within the scope of my investigation. However, these materials were compiled by the Queen, so shops exclusively for men might not have been investigated. Actually, protecting and managing fairies is also my role.”
Catherine replied.
“I surmise that you became intimate with a shop-attached fairy contracted by someone else at that shop, and your magic power was drained.”
“Is that something like what Al or Hanako did?”
“Yes. However, there’s a difference between being intimate with a fairy you’ve contracted with and one contracted by someone else.”
Catherine began to explain her theory.
“How is it different?”
“For example, let’s say you give 100 units of magic power to a fairy. Al or Hanako, whom you’ve contracted with, would absorb about 98-99 units as magic power. This is because when a master-servant contract is formed, wavelength synchronization occurs, drastically increasing absorption efficiency. Therefore, almost all the magic power you give is absorbed by the fairy. If it were a normal fairy with no contract, only about 20 units would be absorbed. However, with a fairy contracted to someone else, due to wavelength incompatibility, a repulsive force activates, extremely reducing absorption efficiency. The exact amount varies by individual, but as a guideline, it would be around 1 to 0.1 units. So, I don’t know how much magic power the fairy who absorbed your magic has, but to replenish your magic, you’d need about 100 to 1000 times the amount of magic power.”
Catherine explained using easy-to-understand figures.
“Normally, one would stop before magic power is completely depleted, so it would only result in symptoms like wobbliness or headaches, as I mentioned earlier. However, some malicious fairies can drain all of one’s magic power. Such malicious acts are considered cases where national power should be invoked to eliminate them.”
“By the way, what happens when one’s magic power is depleted?”
“There are apparently two types of people who possess magic power. One is like Kent, who can generate magic power on their own and has it naturally recover. The other is someone who gained magic power for some reason and it remains within their body. For the former, having magic power is the normal state, so if it disappears, they may fall into a perpetual sleep or become mentally unstable, needing assistance to live. If something like that happens to you, Kent, I’ll take good care of you, so don’t worry.”
Catherine said with a smile that she would take care of him.
“No, I’ll be careful not to let that happen.”
“Is that so… A shame. Well, to get back to the topic, for the latter type, there are apparently no specific symptoms. Since they don’t originally possess magic power, its absence has no effect.”
“I see.”
When Kent declined the offer of care, Catherine looked disappointed.
“Let’s put that aside for the time being. What I wanted to talk about is what would happen if you were in a situation where you had to supply magic power to your contracted fairy while your own magic power was low.”
“If I divide my limited magic power, won’t it be depleted?”
“Yes. If you don’t supply magic power to protect yourself, the fairy whose magic power is depleted will vanish. If you do share your magic power, you’ll suffer the impairments I explained earlier. To avoid that, you must conserve a certain amount of magic power. Especially since you have three contracted fairies, Kent, you need to be extra careful.”
“So that’s how it is. It was just a spontaneous act for me, but it was a thoughtless one.”
“It’s fine as long as you understand.”
Kent, having understood what Catherine wanted to convey, reflected on his actions.
“So, what should I have done in a situation like this time?”
“Well, the other fairy’s magic power was low, so it seemed to be in a state where it needed replenishment from somewhere, so I sympathize. Therefore, in such cases, Kent, you should act in self-defense.”
“Self-defense?”
Catherine began to explain how to deal with a fairy trying to drain one’s magic power.
“There are various ways to absorb magic power, such as holding hands, kissing, sharing bodily fluids which easily transmit magic power, and sexual intercourse. In the example you gave, the amount of magic power shared increases in order from the first method to the last. Sexual intercourse is the act that allows for the largest transfer of magic power.”
Catherine explained, looking a little embarrassed.
“During sexual intercourse, you need to concentrate your consciousness to regulate the amount of magic power. This is said to suppress the amount of magic power released.”
“Concentrate my consciousness? How specifically?”
“If you ask me about that… That’s what the Queen taught me, and since I’ve never had sexual intercourse, I don’t know how to explain it, Yo~u.”
Catherine seemed to be explaining what she had learned in theoretical studies. Her face was bright red, and she looked extremely embarrassed.
“So, what should I do now?”
“Um, well… That’s right, right. I’m going to give you a massage to speed up your magic power recovery. This should allow you to fully recover in a few days, which would normally take about two to three weeks. I’ll go the extra mile for you, Kent.”
“I’m sorry for causing you trouble, Catherine. Can you do it for me?”
“Leave it to me.”
Catherine rolled up her sleeves, showing her determination.
“So, why is it like this?”
“It’s a magic recovery massage!”
The two moved to Kent’s room to perform the massage, both of them naked.
“This is how we align the flow of magic. Ideally, I don’t want you to think about it too much, but I can’t read the flow of magic otherwise.”
Kent lay face down on the bed, with Catherine straddling him, her hands on his back as if drawing something. Although Catherine’s expression was hidden, her tone of voice indicated she was quite embarrassed.
“And then, lightly press my chest against your back…”
“Eek!”
Two soft objects touched Kent’s back. He let out a momentary sound, feeling a ticklish sensation.
“Kent, please don’t make strange noises. We’re almost done, so please bear with it.”
Kent felt the irregular, circular movements of two soft things on his back.
“Okay, we’re done. You can relax now… Why is it getting big here?”
“Well, I got unintentionally excited.”
“I’m happy that you see me as a woman, Kent, but right now, magic recovery is the priority, so please bear with it.”
As their skin touched, Kent’s son had become energetic. Seeing this, Catherine looked very disappointed.
“Alright, I’ll calm this down. Be still~.”
“Whoa.”
A mysterious gust of wind enveloped Kent’s son, and what had grown large in the meantime returned to its normal size.
“There, it’s finished. Kent, to avoid magic discharge, please refrain from any sexual activity until next Sunday. I’ve cast a spell to prevent it from growing, but it’s not perfect, so please be careful. And that includes solo activities, too.”
“Understood.”
Although the crisis was averted thanks to Catherine, who literally went the extra mile, Kent would have to lead a chaste life for a while.
