It was the method Marina used to suppress Felix’s ability in the novel.

‘Making as much skin-to-skin contact as possible for as long as possible.’

Offsetting Marina’s water power and Felix’s sun power through contact was the only way to save him.

“Kugh……!! Whe, where are you touching me right now?”

Flustered Felix glared at her as she touched his chest. However, since he couldn’t even control his own body properly, he had no choice. He had no choice but to quietly accept her touch.

‘Anyway, so irritable…… Just get better quickly. I’ll disappear from right in front of your eyes.’

Every time she touched him, she could feel his solid body at her fingertips. With the thought that she had to bring down his fever quickly, her touch gradually started moving more explicitly. It was because she didn’t know exactly how much or how she should make contact to bring down the fever.

Her hand that had come down along his chest swept over his ribs and even his defined abs.

“Ku, kugh……! Get away…… get out of here… right now!”

At her bold actions, Felix finally growled lowly. As he thrashed his body trying to shake her off, her hand kept slipping away. She felt a bit wronged. At this moment, she was the one who wanted to run away outside that door more than anyone.

“Could you please stay still?!”

Finally getting frustrated, she shouted quietly. She was worrying that other people might come rushing in while cooling down his fever, and he was being irritable telling her to leave!

“You don’t… know… anything, so what… are you planning… to do?”

Felix barely managed to speak while panting.

“I don’t really know either! But I have to calm you down first, don’t I?!”

She placed her hand on him again. Was it her imagination? She felt a cool sensation at her fingertips. At the same time, Felix pulled her into a strong embrace.

— Grab

“Ah, hot!”

“Haah…… just for a moment, excuse me.”

Felix collapsed onto the terrace floor and lifted her up in his arms. Held in his blazing hot embrace, she realized his condition was serious.

“More…… just a little more……”

“Sho, should I touch a little more?”

She unbuttoned more of his shirt when it seemed like he was craving her touch with his whole body. He let out a dissatisfied moan at her fumbling hand movements.

“Ugh…… quickly……”

“Don’t rush me, I’m doing it now!”

The heat didn’t subside as quickly as expected. She needed to widen the area where their skin touched. She untied the dress ribbon that was stuffily fastened up to her chest. Soon she pressed her collarbone and upper chest that were coolly revealed against Felix’s bare body.

‘The closer the contact to the heart, which is the source of power, the faster the offset will be……!’

It was a scene that anyone would misunderstand if they witnessed it, but surprisingly, it was the most important thing for us, the protagonists of the original work.

‘Bare skin! Our bare skin must definitely touch.’

Even the thinnest clothing wouldn’t do. Skin and skin absolutely had to touch. That was the setting of 「The Villainess Defiles the Sun」.

‘Right, this is my sin for liking Rated-R dark romance stories……’

Felix, who didn’t know even a fingernail’s worth of the original content, also moved instinctively. He realized that touching her helped suppress his power. His hand supported her slightly exposed back, and his face burrowed into her nape.

That movement was so intimate that she felt strangely uncomfortable.

‘Hyeeek—! Ah, even if water power is needed, this is too much……!’

She couldn’t even scream and had no choice but to stiffen her body.

“Ex, excuse me……?”

“Just a little more……”

“Um, I can’t breathe……?”

“Haah, this won’t do!”

Regardless of her flustered state, Felix embraced her even deeper. The breath escaping from his lips as if satisfied somehow made her body feel heated. She reflexively buried her face in his shoulder from embarrassment.

Could that have been the trigger? Felix completely took off his cumbersome upper garment. Before she knew it, her dress had gradually slipped down to dangerous areas, but she didn’t even have the capacity to fix it.

‘Ugh, hot……! Is the sun power flowing out this much?!’

She gritted her teeth at the hot heat that was much higher than normal body temperature. But what choice did she have? She hugged his body tightly so more skin could touch.

‘Ah…… warm. And a nice scent……’

The more she stayed close to him, the more Felix’s temperature that had only been hot gradually felt warm. With the cozy sensation plus warm temperature…… she unknowingly entrusted her body to his movements. Their bodies fit together like puzzle pieces, and it felt undeniably good. She could feel his body calmly settling down through their touching skin.

‘Do I still need to stay longer……?’

Felix didn’t move at all. Well, in the original too, to prevent going berserk, the two stayed with their bodies tightly pressed together for a very long time, so even this level of near-berserk state probably needed quite some time.

Her body that had suffered in the cold weather languidly relaxed in the warmth, and she too didn’t want to separate from him. Her water power was also undoubtedly instinctively drawn to the sun power.

‘It’s a bit immodest, but between fellow humans, sharing some warmth is fine. Let me feel some humanity……’

“Hey.”

“Ah!”

She immediately bolted upright at the voice ringing above her head. It seemed she had been the only one clinging to him. And as if he had come to his senses in the short time, Felix was looking at her with menacing eyes.

What humanity, feeling something for a human who would burn her at the stake?!

“Now, I’ll stop……!”

She snapped to her senses and tried to escape from Felix’s embrace, but her wrist was caught by him.

“Who are you? Are you really…… a lady from a noble family?”

“Ah, ahem……”

Felix pointed out her appearance even while staggering. Flustered, she pushed him and stood up. Although she pushed forcefully, since he still wouldn’t let go of her wrist, she couldn’t escape as is.

“Since you seem to be fine now, I’ll be going……”

“I don’t permit it. Tell me what you did. How did you calm me down?”

If she got entangled now, she might get caught up in the nasty succession struggle between the first prince and second prince.

‘Then I’d become a handful of ashes……? So let me go so I can run away!!’

She avoided Felix’s eyes. His grip was so strong that her caught wrist burned as if scalded. She moved several times trying to pull her arm out, but he growled as if he wouldn’t let go easily.

‘Th, this…… human who repays the favor of stopping your berserk state with enmity!’

In the end, she had no choice but to use force. Marina’s arm looked a bit unsatisfactory compared to her original body that was thinner and weaker, but it couldn’t be helped.

“I clearly asked you to let me go!”

“Who exactly are you……”

Before he could finish speaking, she used her other hand to slightly twist his wrist. It was a technique a classmate had taught her at the Central Police Academy.

“Ugh!”

Felix screamed and loosened his grip. She didn’t miss that opportunity and pulled his hand.

“Haah—!”

With a battle cry, she wrapped around him as if carrying him on her back. Then she threw him to the floor drawing a large circle. It was ‘back throw,’ one of the judo techniques.

“Kugh!”

— Bang

Instantly sprawled on the floor, he looked up at her with an expression of disbelief. She quickly got up and ran outside the terrace.

“St, stop……!”

In case he might catch her again, she ran without looking back.

⁕⁕⁕

“How dare…… me?”

Felix, thrown to the floor, looked down at himself with a dumbfounded face. A mysterious woman in a shabby dress. He blankly stared at the wrist the woman had grabbed. The handprint of the woman, who wasn’t even clearly a noble lady, remained vividly.

‘She definitely calmed the sun power……’

A long afterglow remained in his body. This feeling was a first. The heat that had been rising extremely had subsided.

The sun power was the pride of the Solium imperial family. Among them, Felix was born with unprecedentedly strong sun power in Solium Empire history. The imperial family regarded his power as a curse rather than a blessing. It was because the power was very unstable.

「”Ugh…… No…… st, stop now.”」

Every time Felix was about to start going berserk, he entered a secret room built underground. There he had to tie both his arms with iron chains and endure pain until the sun power subsided. That was the only way to control himself from going berserk.

— Crack

When the pain was too severe, he would whip his own body. It was quite a masochistic method, but other physical pain was necessary to avoid being absorbed in the sun power. Thanks to that, his back and forearms were full of mottled scars.

Every time he saw those scars, Felix cursed the power he possessed. If he could, he wanted to eliminate all that power because it was so painful.

‘How exactly did she do it……’

She who had erased the overflowing sun power. With the power given by that woman whose name and status he didn’t know, Felix felt great liberation for the first time in his life.

Moreover, now that first prince Kervic was on edge toward him, her ability to restore stability to him was desperately needed.