Prologue

“Ahng!”

Carbon heard the sharp moan cut through the air and stopped his search, turning back quickly.

“Hyde? Are you alright?”

Hyde was slumped against the wall, her face flushed, breathing in ragged, uneven gasps.

“S-something’s wrong. My body, hng, it’s too, too hot, hic!”

A crawling, itching sensation gnawed at her heated skin and she couldn’t keep herself upright. Hyde whimpered and twisted her trembling legs together.

“Mmnh, it’s itchy, hhng……”

She had been scraping her nails against the cave floor, but Hyde couldn’t hold out any longer and spread her legs apart. Her small hand found its way between her open thighs and began groping at the suit covering her p*ssy.

She rubbed at the tingling spot like she was trying to scratch an itch. Every time her fingers grazed a sensitive area, her hips jerked upward. Her muscles clenched over and over.

Carbon saw all of it. His expression hardened as he stared blankly at Hyde writhing in heat.

“Ah, mmh, ahng!”

One hand kneading her chest and the other fumbling at her p*ssy, Hyde still couldn’t get enough pleasure to satisfy her and scrunched her face in frustration.

‘Please, someone, anyone, just make this itch go away……’

She forced her hazy eyes open and looked around, and that was when she spotted Carbon staring blankly at her.

“Car, Carbon, please, hng, ah……”

Hyde reached out her hand.

“Mister……”

Carbon stared at the hand stretched toward him with conflicted eyes and ran through his options fast.

The reason Hyde had suddenly ended up like this. The most likely explanation was that the villain’s hidden ability had activated. If not that, she might have been hit with some kind of poison.

Either way, they needed to get back to Hero HQ and have her treated. If she received a healing from the on-call healer at HQ, the heat would break immediately.

But he still didn’t know where they were, and outside the blizzard was still raging. There was no telling when someone from HQ would be dispatched to find them.

“Ah! Nngh, it’s itchy, hic, hahng, hnnng……”

While he deliberated, Hyde’s quiet sobbing broke into full, heaving cries. Her whole body shook and had gone completely red. Her eyes were unfocused, and the way she wailed and struggled to breathe made it look like she might pass out at any moment.

This was serious.

Just how deep in heat did she have to be, for f*ck’s sake, for the girl to cry like that.

Carbon bit down hard. His conscience still pressed down on him like a weight, but there was no more time to hesitate.

If he left her like this, her mind might drown in the pleasure and break before she ever got healed. A strong aphrodisiac was more dangerous than any drug. Helping her burn through the effects quickly was the right thing to do for Hyde’s sake.

His mind made up, Carbon moved toward her.

“Mister, hic, mister……”

“This is something I’m doing to treat you. So……”

Carbon wrapped his arms around Hyde from behind, settled her onto his lap, and whispered.

“Once the effects wear off, you have to forget all of this. Understood?”

“Hhng, yes, mmyes!”

No I don’t want to…… Even through the haze, Hyde caught that much, and she twisted her waist, turned her body around, reached up, and pulled Carbon’s thick neck into a tight embrace.

Burying her face in Carbon’s broad chest, Hyde let out a wet, trembling moan.

“Mister, please fill my p*ssy. Pound me hard. Fill me up inside, okay?”

The old nickname hit Carbon like a wall and stopped him cold. After he had rescued Hyde, the child had called him “mister” for a long time. Even when others told her to say “Sir Hero,” she stubbornly stuck to “mister.” He had let her use it because what mattered was that the child felt comfortable, and the word seemed to carry its own kind of warmth. With fourteen years between them, being called mister wasn’t strange at all.

But as she grew older, Hyde stopped calling him that. She called him Carbon, every time, by name. After she was hired on as his sidekick, she even put a little more distance into it and called him Mr. Carbon.

And yet now, of all times, here she was in the depths of heat calling him mister again. The guilt he had been trying to bury came crashing back over him.

Just as Carbon was being pulled under by that torment, Hyde pushed her chest forward. She slid a palm underneath and lifted, and her full br*asts pressed together and rose in a soft, rounded swell. Carbon went blank.

“Touch me, mister. I’m…… itchy here……”

Hyde whined, rubbing her thumb over where her n*pples were. Carbon let out a slow, heated breath. He raised his hand and closed it around Hyde’s br*ast.