Book 2: Chapter 32 (1/2)

“Mako…”

“Master…”

“Ahem… can you please stop calling me Master?” I asked, a wry expression on my face.

Mako shrugged helplessly, “I’m not sure that I can. As soon as this contract took hold, suddenly, I could feel your power over me. I feel completely naked in front of you as if I can’t hide a thing from you. Before, you were my student, but now you’re my everything. I feel like I must be subservient to you, but rather than frightened or scared, I feel happy to be your slave. Is that weird?”

“This contract actually sounds pretty scary,” I admitted.

“It is taboo for a reason,” Mako explained with a wry smile.

“Ahem… in that case, let’s see if it works now.”

“V-very well…” Mako slowly lifted up her hands while she unbuttoned her blouse and slide it off her olive-skinned shoulders.

Meanwhile, I was pulling out a magical rune. When I turned up, my eyes landed on Mako sitting before me without a shirt on. Her hands shook, but she avoided covering herself. She still wore her bra, but my eyes still found themselves delightfully fascinated by the shape of her cleavage and the dark nipples that just barely showed through the thin, white fabric.

“O-oh… I meant…” I lifted up the piece of paper.

Mako’s eyes landed on the rune, and she realized I was talking about testing our magic rather than having sex. Immediately, her face turned red and she covered her front with her shirt.

“Ah! R-right…” her voice stuttered as she looked genuinely flustered.

“It’s just that it’d be easier to test…”

“Right, right… I understand pregnancies take time and if we found our magic was fixed by the bond then we could have a greater hope that everything was fixed.” She spoke in a rush, trying to hide her own embarrassment.

“Right…” I responded, forcing a grin on my face.

I put the paper down while Mako remained quiet, her face still glowing slightly pink. However, as soon as I thought about what came next, I started to worry. This wasn’t the kind of thing where two people inserted magic together. If I started to send in my magic and it didn’t work, wouldn’t that mean I’d have an overdraft? That meant the whole thing was going to explode! I really wasn’t looking forward to that happening!

“Um… Mako, just a thought. What will happen when I put magic into this?” I asked nervously.

“Ah! I forgot to explain that!” Mako raised a hand, holding her shirt over her exposed body with the other. “Basically, the only way to tell is for you to put magic into an invocation and see what happens. If the invocation fails, you will start to overdraft. I can feel this surge of power. At that point, I can interrupt your invocation by channeling my chakra into you.”

“Completing the circuit…” I mumbled to myself. “So, it can even me used in this way?”

Mako cocked her head to the side, “I’m not sure what you mean by circuit?”

I smiled wryly. My one month of classes naturally hadn’t explained every piece of magical invocation. Whatever they understood as the source of chakra, it was clear to me that this source was not known as a circuit. That was merely how I interpreted it based on my own observations. I had already noticed that Mako and my chakra seemed to merge, making our incomplete circuits complete. It seemed like the same thing could be done without the glue of a Lilith contract. That said, what was the point of completing a circuit if you sealed the means of transferring the chakra to a magical rune?

The point was apparently a sort of interruption ability. You could block someone else’s magical power essentially but forcing your own chakra against theirs. This should work whether you were aseeded or seeded. The difference between the aseeded and the seeded wasn’t the existence of these faucets, but that seeded had a regulation valve while it was broke in the aseeded. Simply turning on the faucet caused all of the power to leak out of an aseeded. Thus, when someone opened their faucet, another person could push theirs in front of it, interrupting the flow of energy and sabotaging the invocation.

Mind you, this was what I cobbled together from a month of magic classes, the books I read, and ultimately my own assumptions. Whatever the naming scheme was for faucets or interference or any of that was unknown to me, and I didn’t want to bog Mako down too much with these kinds of questions.

“That sounds like a very powerful weapon. I’m surprised magic is used as a weapon at all.” I voiced one of the questions that was humming around in my mind.

“It’s not really how it works.” Mako shrugged. “Actually, this is something that can only be done by those of the opposite sex.”

“Huh? Seriously?” Well, so much for my theory.

Mako nodded. “Only men can block women, and vice versa. This isn’t that well known. As I said, I did a lot of research on this, especially after that woman sent me the Lilith contract. In normal life, men and women rarely interact at all, let alone with magic on the line.”

I nodded, still feeling excited by what I learned. Next time that bitch tried to lightning me in the back, I could resist! Well, it probably still involved very fast reflexes and I’d rather not be in a situation where I was being shot with lightning bolts. I grew even more depressed when I realized that this would have done nothing to help me with Ben. I wondered why this kind of thing only worked between men and women, but I decided I had wasted enough time pondering things that weren’t really important right now.

“Then, I’ll begin, please take care of me.” I nodded.

It was still a little scary like one of those trust exorcises where you had to fall backwards off a ledge. You needed to trust that the people behind you would catch you. Here, I was about to possibly cause an explosion, and only Mako could prevent it. Perhaps this was the true reason that all of the other girls took off earlier. No one wanted to be near two aseeded when we started trying to conjure spells.

I closed my eyes and started pouring power into the rune. I felt the magic sliding in. As to what spell this should technically cast? It was a simple spell that created light. Most indoor environments had many constant variables, thus there were runes that could be purchased and used situationally. Of course, complex lighting Runes also existed, including external power sources and an algorithm that could detect changes in the environment and automatically adjust the rune structure. This was how most technologies in this world existed, such as cars and airships. However, the difference between those runes and this light rune was like the difference between a DIY potato light and an lcd screen.

For this simple light rune, I grew more excited as my power started to fill it up. This could really wo- a moment later the flow started to grow heavier and heavier. I gave a curse as I felt the sheet in my hands grow hot. A second later, I felt my flow get interrupted. Mako kissed my lips, and when she did so, her power and my power became one. The flow into the rune was severed. As Mako pulled her lips away, I gave a sigh of relief.

“The kiss… wasn’t necessary… it just felt easier when I did it.” Mako admitted, blushing.

I nodded, dumbly, closing my faucets and ending the flow of energy between the two of us. After a moment, I looked back down at the rune, which was exactly the same as it had been a moment before.

“It didn’t do anything.” I sighed.

Mako nodded but didn’t look too perturbed. “I honestly did not think that it would. If fixing magic was something so easy, it would have been discovered before now.”

“Perhaps… you try now?”

Mako smiled and nodded, sitting down in front of the rune. I told her to go, but I realized that I had never really gone out of my way to feel magic. Would I be able to tell if there was an overdraft? What if I couldn’t complete the circuit and block her path? These were all questions I should have asked before she started pouring energy into the rune. However, I wanted to give off a brave and confidant façade after we just received such a failure, and thus did something stupid and dangerous.

Mako was already conjuring though, and it was too late for me to back out now. Surprisingly, I found it incredibly easy to feel her magic. Perhaps this had to do with the slave bond. Knowing her body intimately, I knew exactly what she was feeling. Even lacking experience in detecting magic, I could feel it moving out of her body. I thought I recognized the points the chakra was coming out from a picture I had seen in a magic textbook of chakra points. A moment later, I also felt the magic spilling out quickly.

I immediately shut them down, stemming the flow with my own magic. Her eyes were closed and her forehead was twitching. She looked cute, so I leaned forward and kissed her lips. Her eyes widened as my lips gave hers a surprised attack. With the bond, this wasn’t necessary at all, but I took the advantage anyway. I pulled away just as the magic once again stabilized. Mako gave a smile in a pleased manner, not seeming upset about her failure.

“Sorry, it looks like our magic isn’t fixed.”

“Perhaps we just need to keep practicing.”

“More practice?”

“I wouldn’t mind if every magic practice had ended with kissing you…” She purred.

I gently pushed a loose strand of her blonde hair back over her ear. “If that’s the case, let’s forget the magic right now and just focus on the kissing.”

“Mm… I’d like that.” Mako slowly lowered her arm, dropping her blouse.

I leaned forward and gently kissed her lips, savoring the taste of this beautiful woman in front of me. My worry from earlier seemed to fade once things started moving forward. When my hands touched her naked skin, I didn’t hesitate to enjoy her body fully.

“Mmm…” She moaned against my lips, enjoying the feel of her first true kiss with a man.

She stood up and the pair of us moved to the bed, our kiss refusing to separate as we continued to feel each other’s bodies. Mako seemed to exceptionally curious, her hands wondering up and down my body as if favoring the feel of a man next to her. Her bra came off, as did my shirt. We continued to kiss, our kisses growing more fervent and aggressive with each go. The rest of our clothing was tossed to the floor.

Our bodies pressed again each other. She felt warm, like the noonday sun, her soft breasts pushing against my chest. Her lips began to tremble under my attacks, her body growing more and more out of control. My tongue began to explore her mouth, tasting her delicious lips and tongue. I grew bolder and bolder, becoming entranced with her taste. On top of that, I could feel her own excitement growing. In essence, I could feel the effect I was having on her. I could kiss her exactly how she wanted to be kissed.