‘Insane.’

Evelyn, who had been completely focused on the red dot displayed on the mini-map, looked up at the sudden thick scent of blood invading her nostrils. She quickly raised her trembling hand to cover her mouth, nearly letting out a loud scream.

Dismembered corpses were scattered at the forest entrance. Splash.

At the ominous sound beneath her feet, she looked down to see puddles of blood pooled instead of rainwater throughout the forest.

‘Demonic beasts.’

This was clearly the work of the demonic beasts that exist in 〈Evelyn’s Manor〉. Scenes that she had quickly skipped past when viewing through a monitor screen were now unfolding before her eyes as vivid reality, making her blood run cold. Swallowing her trembling breath, Evelyn forced her increasingly freezing legs to move toward the forest center.

Though she wanted nothing more than to turn back and return to the Margrave’s castle. But if she ignored this quest, she would miss the meeting event with Nox, the first male lead and Knight Commander of 〈Evelyn’s Manor〉.

If that happened, the condition of “achieving 100% affection with all male protagonists” mentioned by the system would become impossible. Therefore, she had to ensure she maintained all meeting events with every male protagonist.

Evelyn’s heart pounded as the forest grew darker with each step, her mind racing at the thought of demonic beasts lurking in the shadows.〈Evelyn’s Manor〉 adopted a steampunk setting where firearms, magic, and demonic beasts coexisted.

These demonic beasts were black-formed creatures that continuously appeared through rifts between the human and demon realms, classified into various grades depending on their power level and presence of intelligence. It was said that even Grade 1 demonic beasts could mimic humans. If her memory served correctly, the demonic beast that attacked Nox was…

“Ugh… haah…”

At that moment, Evelyn’s head whipped around at the well-timed groan. Beyond her vision, now accustomed to darkness, she caught sight of transparent silver hair like melted moonlight and blue eyes whose light was fading.

Nox Leias.

It was ‘Nox’, the one blessed with the face most to her taste among all the male leads whom she had only ever encountered through monitor illustrations. His uniform, which should have been pure white, was now completely stained with dark red blood. Even while dying, his face was like a single lily.

Evelyn unconsciously held her breath at the surreally beautiful sight. However, true to his game setting as a Sword Master with keen senses, Nox immediately raised his head and stared in her direction. Deep wariness clouded his eyes as he leaned against a large tree, breathing heavily.

“A demonic beast?”

Then, right on cue, a system window appeared, disrupting Evelyn’s vision.

[Congratulations! You have successfully completed the sub-quest 〈Escape from the Margrave’s Castle〉. As a first clear reward, one basic skill and one advanced skill will be unlocked simultaneously. You can check your skills by saying ‘Skill Window’ out loud. The same applies to inventory.]

However, she wasn’t given the luxury of time to say ‘Skill Window’ out loud.

[Meeting event with ‘Knight Commander Nox’ has occurred! First main quest 〈Heal Nox Leias〉 has arrived!]

You have discovered Nox Leias, one of the core male protagonists of ‘Evelyn’s Manor’. Knight Commander Nox is currently poisoned by Grade 2 demonic beast venom and demonic energy. Use your given skills to heal Knight Commander Nox. Upon successful healing, you can acquire a special reward.

At least it wasn’t like the original, where she had to suddenly straddle the poison-paralyzed Nox and mix bodies. Moreover, behind Nox was what appeared to be the massive corpse of a demonic beast, and she desperately wanted to decline any intimate relations with Nox in such a terrible environment.

Breathing an internal sigh of relief, Evelyn slowly walked toward Nox, keeping her voice soft and gentle like a harmless small animal showing no intention of harm.

“Um, are you alright?”

When Evelyn asked while maintaining a certain distance, Nox’s eyes narrowed. It was a suspicious look, wondering if she might be a Grade 1 demonic beast disguised in human form.

It was understandable, given that she was a suspicious woman suddenly appearing in a forest infested with demonic beasts at this late hour. Moreover, due to the system’s conditions, Evelyn was completely covered in a robe.

“Don’t come any clos… kugh.”

Nox lowered his head, struggling to contain the blood surging from within. Right then, moonlight filtering through the leaves slid along his fine silver hair. His clear blue eyes, bright as a summer sky, were contorted with unbearable pain. Even the blood trailing down his delicate nose bridge seemed artistically perfect, making his face appear ethereally pure.

‘Wow, insane.’

Though it felt somewhat wrong to think this way about a dying person – he really had the face most suited to her taste among all the male leads. If there was a textbook definition of a face that made you want to bully it, the Nox before her would be it.

Every time Nox struggled to breathe, his chest rose and fell beneath the uniform woven with dense muscles. Upon closer inspection, Nox had sustained an injury to his thigh.

‘Originally in the game, the female lead mounted Nox in this state and ate- no, healed him.’

Nox was in such serious condition that he could barely string words together. Therefore, Evelyn hurriedly lifted her robe slightly and stepped forward. Then she recited a cleverly modified version of the dialogue she had used with Nox when playing the original game.

“I’m Evelyn, a maid working at the Margrave’s castle. I was waiting at the back gate because I had something to receive late at night, and I came here after hearing strange noises.”

The reason for deliberately spelling out her identity was that this was the only way to escape from that cursed Margrave’s castle and properly become entangled with the male leads. At her words, Nox, who seemed to have lowered his guard somewhat, tried to move his lips but ended up coughing up dark red blood.

Slightly frightened that he might actually die at this rate, she quickly crouched in front of Nox. Up close, she could see black demonic energy gushing out instead of blood between the nearly torn flesh of his thigh.

“It will hurt a bit, but please bear with it. I’ll heal you right away.”

“Wounds inflicted by demonic beasts cannot be treated with ordinary medical techniques.”

He was saying not to attempt something futile. Of course, according to this game’s setting, that would be true for ordinary medical techniques. Only healers praised as holy maidens could treat wounds inflicted by demonic beasts.

In the game, Evelyn was born with the most powerful healing magic of all healers in history. It’s just that the method of manifesting that magic had the primitive setting of ‘mixing bodies.’

Seeing Nox, who seemed to have half-resigned himself to death, Evelyn whispered ‘Skill Window’ in an almost inaudible voice.

Then a window appeared before her eyes showing basic skills and advanced skills. With the intention of checking the basic skills first, she murmured the basic skill.

[Heal – Can convert magical power into holy healing power to treat wounds inflicted by magical beasts.]

She was somewhat surprised to find a normal heal, quite different from what she had expected. Perhaps it had even been patched from R-rated to Teen rating. In the moment she softly murmured “Heal”, suddenly a red warning window flashed before her eyes.

[Basic skills cannot be used on the male protagonists of 〈Evelyn’s Manor〉. Would you like to use advanced skills?]

“…..”

Sh*t. No wonder she thought the balance patch seemed too extreme. Trying to ignore the ominous feeling creeping up from her toes, Evelyn said ‘yes’ in a trembling voice. Immediately, a list of advanced skills appeared before her eyes. All skills except for the one in the top row were in a locked state.

[f*llatio – Ability to heal lower body wounds by sucking the male protagonist’s p*nis. If the user also becomes aroused, the healing effect doubles. Pain also decreases according to the pleasure felt by the male protagonist. Proficiency: 0%]

…Haha, right. This was an R-rated body healer game. No matter how much the development team tried to implement balance patches after coming to their senses, they wouldn’t have changed the game’s core setting and rating.