CHAPTER 17.

A Request from the North

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From then on, Rosé’s daily life became busy.

She met with Dain in the mornings on weekdays, Silvio in the evenings, and Muho on both days of the weekend. And today is Monday morning. In other words, it’s time to meet with Dain.

Dain greeted Rosé, who entered through the door, with an excited face. It was a secret to her that just until a moment ago, he m*sturbated several times, reminiscing about their last s*xual encounter.

“I missed you, Miss Rosé.”

Dain lifted Rosé high into the sky and spun her around. He wanted to hold her in the middle of the street if he could, but they had to be cautious since they were in a secret relationship.

At least until he could kidnap her. Until then, there was a need to deceive her lover.

“Dain, I’m dizzy!”

Rosé scolded Dain, who was acting like a child, but she couldn’t help laughing unknowingly.

Men who whined abnormally during s*x seemed just like children in love at times like this. It was hard to tell which was his true nature.

“I missed you so much. I was lonely.”

Dain buried his face in Rosé’s shoulder.

“Ah, I understand, so please let go…”

Rosé barely managed to remove Dain, who was making a pitiful face. She shouldn’t be fooled by that pitiful look. It was obvious he was going to overwork her body with some strange research topic again today.

“So, what are we doing today?”

As she asked with her arms crossed, Dain immediately took out a notebook and pencil. It seemed like he had been waiting for those words.

“Today will be a special experiment. This way, Miss Rosé.”

A special experiment. For a little over a month, all Dain had experimented with was perverted acts using his s*men.

From the first day of experimenting with her mouth, v*gina, anus, and then her face, followed by armpits, buttocks, back, waist, chest, stomach, soles of the feet, palms of the hands, and even her hair.

He observed in detail, or rather obsessively, how her body reacted to human s*men.

Of course, half, no, most of it must have been for his own s*xual gratification. When he wrapped her hair around an er*ect p*nis and moved his hips, it was embarrassingly shocking.

In this free-spirited fantasy world, Dain was a legendary pervert, even she acknowledged.

“Dain, what is that exactly…?”

Following Dain into the inner part of the lab, Rosé furrowed her brows.

The usually neat desk, which had only a few documents on it, was now filled with unidentifiable glass bottles.

At first, she thought it was alcohol, but upon closer inspection, the content was white and opaque. Just like s*men.

‘Wait, s*men?’

“These are s*men collected from monsters at the border over the past week. The grades range from 3rd to 6th.”

“Mon… monster’s s*men?”

“Yes. With Sir Podrick’s help, we collected it relatively easily. It felt weird though.”

Weird was an understatement. Collecting s*men from humanoid monsters was disgusting enough.

While Podrick, who had turned invisible, held down the monster, Dain had to shake the monster’s p*nis several times. It was the most terrible memory in his 29 years of life.

“In the last experiment, Miss Rosé said that when s*men is absorbed through the skin rather than hair or nails, it feels different. You said it feels like warm water is entering your body, right?”

“Yes, that’s true but…”

Rosé trailed off. Absorbing s*men… that is, when s*men touched her skin, her body heated up as if warm water were flowing in.

But Rosé thought it was just simple pleasure. However, Dain’s view, as someone who had long studied bizarre biology, was different.

“Miss Rosé reacts to s*men not only from humans but also from monsters. It’s just that the reaction differs depending on whether it’s a human or a monster. Simply put, Miss Rosé’s ability is harmless to humans but harmful to monsters.”

Harmless to humans and harmful to monsters…

She had never thought about it that way and was dumbfounded. It was strange when she thought about it.

Both humans and monsters provide ability points through s*men absorption, but why have only monsters disappeared until now.

It was creepy to think it was just a transmigration setting.

“Today we will experiment to see what kind of reaction Miss Rosé shows when you absorb monster s*men through your skin.”

Dain seated Rosé on an examination chair and rolled up her sleeve. Then he went to the desk and brought back a teaspoon and a glass bottle.

The bottle was labeled ‘Grade 6 mammalian-type monster’.

“This is monster s*men collected from a Grade 6 boundary. Let’s induce absorption on your arm.”

Dain spooned out some s*men and applied it to Rosé’s wrist.

Rosé tilted her head. Grade 6, so F-tier. It didn’t trigger any ability point window.

“It feels a bit warm but… it seems like it’s because the s*men is warm.”

Dain meticulously noted the reaction he observed in his notebook. Since it was s*men from a Grade 6 monster with very faint magic, the reaction was minimal.

Next was Grade 5. It was warm s*men obtained from a cat-like monster yesterday dawn.

〈SYSTEM〉 Defeating ‘Black-Eyed Cat (E-tier)’ changed your stats.
Sensuality +1

“It feels a bit warmer… but I’m not sure yet.”

Since it was E-tier, it did increase her ability by 1 point. However, she couldn’t explain that to Dain, who was unaware of the system’s existence.

After writing for a while, Dain brought over the s*men collected from a Grade 4 boundary monster next. From Grade 4 onwards, it was s*men collected from humanoid monsters.

“Oh, this is…”

The moment s*men was applied to her wrist, Rosé’s eyebrows twitched.

〈SYSTEM〉 Defeating ‘Skeleton (D-tier)’ changed your stats.
Etiquette +2
Morality +1

‘How exactly did they collect s*men from a skeleton?’

No, did it even have a c*ck to begin with?  

“How do you feel, Rosé? Is it different?”  

Dain’s eyes brightened as he looked at the flustered Rosé. However, Rosé looked up at Dain as if she was looking at someone who was mocking her with a skeleton that had nothing but bones. It seemed really possible when he saw those mad eyes.  

“It feels like something warm is entering my body. But…”  

Rosé hesitated on how to explain this feeling.  

It felt different from Dain’s s*men. If Dain’s was like milk cream, then this skeleton’s s*men was like a spicy cream with ginger powder in it.  

“You can be honest with me, Miss Rosé.”  

Rosé hesitated but then answered.  

“It seems different from when I absorbed Dain’s s*men. It’s just a little… but my skin tingles.”  

“There’s a significant difference starting from Grade 4. The content of magical energy must be the cause.”  

Dain brought over a glass bottle containing the s*men of a Grade 3 monster for the last time. Since only Grade 3 and lower boundaries had appeared nearby over the last week, this was the last bottle.  

“Oh, this is.”  

Rosé stared into the air with wide eyes. The s*men Dain brought was…  

〈SYSTEM〉 Defeating ‘Dark Elf Boy (C-tier)’ changed your stats.
Strength +3  
Sociability +2  

It was of the same kind as the Dark Elf Commander she first conquered in the C-grade mutation gate.  

But a boy… Rosé’s eyes narrowed as if she was looking at a criminal when she looked at Dain.  

“What’s wrong, Miss Rosé? Are you feeling unwell?”  

“Dain, these s*men… you collected them all yourself, right?”  

“Yes, I collected them myself with gloves on my hands. I think I collected it two or three times per monster to fill the glass bottles.”  

Oh my god. It wasn’t just once.  

“It was hard, but I collected them diligently, thinking of you, Rosé.”  

He even felt proud of it.  

“How is it, Miss Rosé? Do you feel a difference?”  

Rosé pressed her forehead.  

To the people here, monsters were evil creatures from an unknown world, no matter how much they resembled humans. They were never treated as equals to humans from the beginning.  

If anything, they were treated like ghosts or disgusting cockroaches. So, Dain only collected cockroach s*men for experimental purposes.  

“Yes, it’s a bit different this time too. It definitely… it stings. It’s not that painful though.”  

Rosé recalled the days she absorbed monster s*men. The s*men of the Dark Elf Commander, the demon family, the giant two-headed snake…  

Even then, it seemed like the skin where the s*men touched tingled a bit. But she thought it was because of wounds back then. It’s natural to get injured while patrolling the boundary.  

“The tingling of the skin could be interpreted as a bad interaction with the monster.”  

Dain closely examined his wrist, where four types of s*men were lined up like on a palette. He used spoons of the same shape on purpose to measure a consistent amount.  

Was it a coincidence? The higher up it went, the redder Rosé’s skin became. It was in order of the monster’s grade.  

“I wish we could experiment with Grade 1 and 2 monster s*men as well…”  

Dain let out a regretful sigh. Grade 1 and 2 boundaries didn’t appear often, and even if many went in, their lives couldn’t be guaranteed.  

Dain’s research purpose was ultimately to have a happy married life with Rosé, not to make Rosé a widow.  

“Let’s stop today’s experiment here.”  

Monster s*men that negatively affects Rosé’s skin. Due to that reaction, the monsters disappear without a trace.  

Dain frowned for a while as if something was bothering him.  

“Dain?”  

“Ah, Rosé.”  

At Rosé’s call, Dain finally relaxed his expression. The experiment ended here, but not their time together.  

Dain wet a handkerchief in the prepared wash water and cleaned Rosé’s wrist while saying,  

“I’ve reserved a table at the newly opened Hawker-style restaurant next to the research center. They specialize in pork dishes, which you like, right?”  

Rosé nodded with delight at the word ‘pork’.  

Hawker-style. It’s a kingdom on the eastern continent based on Kithlode, known for its traditional dishes using pork and pork innards.  

It was good news for Rosé that a place that was rare even in Monchen had newly opened in Bistiman.  

“Shall I go ahead? I made the reservation under my name. I’ll finish sorting out the documents and come later. I won’t be late. I’ve ordered an expensive wine, so have a glass first.”  

Rosé suppressed her rising smile and looked disappointed.  

Disappointed my foot. That expensive bottle of wine is all mine. I’ve been barely surviving on cheap alcohol Podrick buys me because of my tiny salary anyway.