The red moon outside the window disappeared and the morning sun peeked its head out. The bright light that illuminated everything in the world seemed like it would reveal all the things I had done. Guilt that bound me, along with shame and emptiness, tormented my heart.

Even though I had trembled and reached climax several times throughout the night, my heated body showed no signs of cooling down easily. The m*sturbation device Emily had recommended eventually exhausted its power and stopped moving at some point.

In the end, I couldn’t sleep a wink all dawn and had to struggle to relieve my burning body.

‘What on earth did I do…?’

What was even more tormenting was that my heated body still wasn’t relieved. Even without touching myself, my whole body had become like an erogenous zone, becoming extremely sensitive and repeatedly reaching passionate climaxes while gushing hot liquid.

I couldn’t understand whether this was normal or if my body had changed strangely.

I was lying in bed, barely swallowing thick moans in my throat, when the people sharing the same room opened their eyes one by one with yawns. Emily, who had been sleeping next to me, finally sat up. She stretched languidly and looked at me with a haggard face.

For a moment, an inexplicable smile appeared on Emily’s face. Gripping the blanket tightly with my hands from anxious worry, she came close to me and whispered in my ear.

“Eliat, you were really something else all night.”

“……!”

“Even for me, enjoying yourself so openly in a place where everyone’s together would be… pretty difficult.”

My ears burned hot at her words. I had expected that people in the room might have heard the sounds of me writhing in pleasure all night, but hearing it directly made me feel even more ashamed.

People heading out to the corridor glanced at me sideways as they passed. Under the pouring gazes, my face was about to burst.

“So how did you like the thing I gave you? Amazing, right?”

“Well…, I mean…,”

“I have business in town next week, so should I get you something else? Since you’ve never tried it before, enjoying yourself with a male replica might not be bad this time.”

Even now it was hard to control my heated body. But separate from that, my heart turned cold at the mention of a male replica. The fact that I had m*sturbated all night dominated by s*xual desire like an animal was already horrible enough, and now she was talking about a male replica.

I bit my lips hard at Emily, who was looking at me with sparkling eyes. Then I slowly shook my head. Disappointment immediately appeared on her face.

“Why on earth? Haven’t you discovered pleasure now? Why would you refuse something this good? I don’t understand.”

“Actually… I didn’t do it because I wanted to. This is all about how it happened…!”

Just when I was about to explain everything to Emily – Rebecca’s last appearance, the somehow creepy man, and even what he had said when he appeared in my dream – she burst into laughter. She clutched her stomach and teared up, finding something so amusing about my words.

“Wow, really. This is the most outrageous lie I’ve heard all year. Eliat, why don’t you be honest? Just say you did it because you wanted to m*sturbate.”

“I’m telling you it’s not true. I didn’t want to do such dirty things in the first place!”

Frustrated and upset, I unintentionally shouted loudly. Emily’s face, which had been laughing just moments ago, immediately turned cold.

“What? Such dirty things…? You really have a talent for making people feel bad with your words.”

“What…?”

“Right. Unlike someone, I really love such lewd and dirty things. I didn’t tell you because I thought you’d be uncomfortable, but to buy one toy like I gave you, you’d have to work here for a full week. If I knew I’d hear such unpleasant words after giving you something precious, I wouldn’t have given it to you in the first place.”

“No, Emily… That’s not what I meant….”

Emily didn’t give me a chance to speak. She didn’t try to listen to me and just went outside. Even if I tried to follow her, I couldn’t go anywhere in my soaked clothes, and my extremely sensitive n*pples and cl*toris would make my body strange just from brushing against the fabric, making it impossible to move.

When Emily disappeared, the other people in the room looked at me and snickered openly. They had always disliked me anyway, so they would deliberately say nasty things loud enough for me to hear as they passed by, and this time was no different.

“Really, what a disgrace to ladies. How could someone do such things all night when they’re not even an animal in heat?”

“Exactly. Rather than working for the Herlin family, being a street pr*stitute would suit her better, don’t you think?”

Under the sharp gazes that pierced like arrows, I couldn’t lift my face until they all left the room.

‘This is all… because of that man. If it weren’t for him, none of this would have happened….’

I don’t know how he could do such things. But adding a little imagination, maybe he fed me some kind of aphrodisiac without my knowing, or perhaps it was the power of a magician like those rumored about. Nothing else would make sense.

‘So what should I do now? If I keep going like this, I’ll be kicked out of the Herlin family.’

I tried to get up from the bed just in case, but it was impossible. It was already hard enough to suppress my heated moans, and it would be unbearably horrible if someone saw me reaching climax alone and dripping liquid while working.

Having no choice, I lay in bed all morning without moving when someone came up with heavy footsteps. The owner of the footsteps was Chef Ralph, who had come to find me in Emily’s place. He seemed to be in a bad mood, breathing heavily and spitting out sharp words.

“Eliat, are you a child? I’m already busy to death, and now I have to come tell you to come to work?”

“…I’m sorry, Chef.”

“If you know that, get up quickly. Don’t just stare blankly.”

At my appearance, still showing no intention of moving, Ralph frowned and let out a deep sigh. His eyes looking at me were filled with deep irritation.

“The thing is… I don’t think I can go to work today. I’m feeling too unwell….”

“How are you unwell?”

The Herlin family was closed off, so internal rumors spread quickly. Even if he had been in the kitchen all day, he couldn’t have missed hearing about me, so his expression of knowing nothing was puzzling.

‘Maybe people didn’t talk about it much…?’

Watching Ralph’s reaction, I carefully opened my mouth.

“I think I have body aches. I have a fever and my body feels limp…. So, couldn’t I rest just for today?”

For a moment, an inexplicable smile crossed his face. It seemed like he was holding back laughter, or like he was letting out a chuckle at hearing something absurd. Ralph watched me for a while, then spoke in an amused voice.

“Right, if you m*sturbated loudly all night, you’d get body aches. Isn’t that right?”

My heart seemed to drop at his words. I had suspected Ralph might know, but there was a huge difference between just suspecting and hearing it as clear mockery. I glared at Ralph angrily, then finally hung my head low because my reflection in his eyes felt shameful.

I didn’t even want to make eye contact, but a rough hand covered with thick hair stubbornly lifted my chin. The eyes I met were creepy like a snake flicking its tongue at prey.

“Why can’t you speak? Everyone who should know already knows.”

“…So you came here with this intention from the start. To torment me.”

“Torment? What are you saying? I just came because I wanted to make you a good offer.”

“A good… offer?”

“I wanted to specially let you taste my c*ck, you b*tch in heat. I may look like this, but I’m pretty good at night activities, so the women who’ve been with me were dying to get their crotches wet.”

Ralph’s thumb stroked my chin. Because of the calluses, my skin stung. But more than that, his touch felt dirty and vile, making my whole body break out in goosebumps. 

Unable to contain my anger, I roughly knocked his hand away with the back of my hand.

“I have absolutely no such thoughts, so get out of my sight right now.”

“Well, taming a feisty b*tch has its own charm. Anyway, if you m*sturbated all night, you won’t have the strength to have s*x with me, so I’ll let you rest today. Take good care of your body then.”

Not wanting to deal with this inhuman creature anymore, I turned my body completely the other way. Then my extremely sensitive n*pple brushed against my clothes, and intense stimulation swept through me. Maybe because I had been holding back for so long, my legs trembled and the area between my legs became damp.

“Hngh…!”

Ralph, sitting right next to me, couldn’t have missed the sound. As expected, his mocking remarks came right after. Overwhelmed with shame and misery, I wished I could disappear into a mouse hole if one were nearby.

“So the rumors about you being in heat are true. I’m looking forward to what kind of crying sounds you’ll make when you’re under me.”

I squeezed my eyes shut, and Ralph’s sneering footsteps slowly moved away.