Hendrick's Arms and the Curse's Claim
Hendrick rushed toward Lisbel as she collapsed. Her cheeks flushed bright red, and beads of sweat dotted her forehead, signs that her condition was far from ordinary.
“Professor Belloc, pull yourself together.”
“Huh…?”
Hendrick lifted her from the ground and steadied her while checking her state. Lisbel moaned, her expression more tormented than before, and his brow furrowed. Even in such sudden chaos, he maintained his composure.
“Excuse me for a moment.”
Lisbel unconsciously rubbed her forehead and cheeks against the cool palm touching them, trying to cool the fever. Hendrick’s hand trembled for an instant, but Lisbel had no time to notice.
“A curse…?”
The person who had been memorizing notes moments ago suddenly collapsed. No suspicious items had been consumed or touched in the ruins, so poison was unlikely. The only plausible suspect was a curse.
“First, we need to get out of here….”
To prioritize escape, Hendrick steadied her and lifted her into his arms.
“Hah…!”
A lewd moan echoed through the enclosed space. As Hendrick’s hand brushed her back over her clothes, an intense pleasure surged through her entire body. Even as waves of ecstasy overwhelmed her, Lisbel fought desperately to hold onto her reason and managed to speak.
“I… I can manage on my own. You don’t need to help.”
Lisbel felt her body slipping out of control and pushed against Hendrick’s chest.
Her intuition warned her that in this dangerous heat, facing him would lead to an irreversible mistake.
“Do you even know how bad your condition is right now? Just hold on a little longer. There should be a cure for the curse in the baggage we brought from the ruins’ border.”
However, Hendrick was not about to step back. He had his own method, but for the current Lisbel, distancing herself from him was urgent.
“Huh… please…”
Lisbel twisted desperately in his arms to escape. But the moment his firm grip closed around her wrist, she could no longer contain the spreading heat and let out a moan.
It was strange. The more she heard Hendrick’s voice and felt his body heat, the faster her body’s temperature rose. It was as if this symptom was…
“Ah…!”
Before she could even grasp the source of the heat enveloping her, suppressed excitement exploded like a tidal wave and finally broke free from her control. Her mind went blank as the last thread of reason snapped.
“Hmph, Professor Belloc. What exactly are you….”
Hendrick glanced at the suddenly still Lisbel, who had stopped struggling against him, wondering what to do.
But in an abrupt change, Lisbel grabbed Hendrick’s wrist and, like an animal marking territory, rubbed her face against his shoulder. Her hot breath seeped straight through his rigid clothes.
Hendrick’s posture faltered from the sudden action. Without missing the moment, Lisbel climbed onto him, wrapped her arms around his thick chest, and buried her face deep into his chest. Hendrick’s dark red eyes flickered wildly from the sudden shift in behavior.
“Lisbel Belloc, stop.”
Even as he pushed her away firmly, his arms remained unmoving.
The behavior was unlike her after their reunion, when she had guarded herself like a wounded beast.
“Professor Belloc, you’ll regret this later….”
“…Rick.”
Hendrick tried to deliver another stern warning, but her quiet utterance silenced him. His eyes widened in shock.
The beloved nickname she had once called him only in the sweetest times, one he should have long erased from memory. Hearing it now, when her mind was clearly being devoured by the curse, showed how thoroughly it had eroded her rationality.
“Rick… my body feels wrong….”
Lisbel lifted her head slightly from his embrace, and their eyes met.
Her flushed eyelids and cheeks, along with her glistening eyes, proved she had been completely consumed by the heat spreading through her body.
Hendrick clenched his fists tightly, closed his eyes for a moment, and took a deep breath, suppressing the madness churning inside him. After a while, he asked calmly.
“What do you want from me?”
Having steadied his emotions, Hendrick asked in a cold, composed voice.
Considering the circumstances, Lisbel appeared to be under the influence of a curse from the ruins or the inscription. Her condition suggested it was one that stimulated physical arousal.
“Huh… Rick….”
Instead of answering the cold question, she clung to his neck like a vine and pressed her entire body against him.
Unlike the outside, where snow piled high and she had been on guard, the interior of the ruins maintained a gentle warmth as if time and seasons had stopped. Both of them had dressed more lightly because of it. Through the thin fabric, their breaths mingled with the pressing heat and touch of their bodies.
“Hah…”
Whether she truly recognized or remembered the situation, Hendrick exhaled helplessly and fell into thought. Should he carry her out and force her to take the antidote, or calm her fevered body here and now? He could not decide.
“Hah… ah…!”
Meanwhile, Lisbel’s heat symptoms had worsened. She wrapped her legs tightly around Hendrick’s thigh and pressed hard between them. Due to the lascivious act that dissolved her reason, moisture seeped from below and soaked the fabric over his thigh.
“You started this first, so don’t blame me.”
There was no time for further deliberation.
She used her own body as the medium to chase pleasure in earnest. Searching for a drug whose effect could not be guaranteed in this situation would be foolish. Solving her heat directly in this secluded space was the most reliable choice.
Hendrick bit off the lid of the canteen at his waist and rinsed his hand with the remaining water. Then, after dropping the clinging Lisbel, he tore open her top and firmly grasped her full breasts.
“Hah…!”
Even just gripping her breasts, Lisbel moaned and arched her back. She circled her nipples with excitement and squeezed Hendrick’s thigh between her legs with force.
Lisbel responded violently, arching her head backward.
“Huh… Rick… more….”
If this was enough, she would not feel pleasure at all.
Hendrick observed her state closely as waves of pleasure swept over her. However, Lisbel’s arousal showed no sign of subsiding. In the end, he loosened the leather belt wrapped around her waist.
“Where do you want most? Tell me with your mouth.”
Unlike Lisbel, who panted in excitement, Hendrick’s expression remained coldly professional. For a proud woman, this might have stopped her, but for Lisbel already consumed by the heat curse, such things held no importance.
“Here… right here….”
Finally, Lisbel pulled out the arm tucked into her sleeve, pulled down her top to bare her chest, and exposed her full breasts with sharply raised red nipples against her pale skin.
“…How should I help you with this?”
In the extremely lewd and obscene sight, Hendrick bit his lip for a moment. Lisbel, seeing a response different from her expectation, squeezed her own breasts and pleaded, making her nipples even more prominent.
“Touch me. And with your mouth too…”
Hendrick’s eyebrows twitched at the demand that was far too naked and erotic. He soon clicked his tongue and grabbed her breasts firmly with his large hand.
“Touching them, and then sucking them, right?”
After the question, Lisbel’s waist was pulled toward Hendrick by strong force, and the nipple of the other breast he had not yet touched was sucked into his mouth.