"I kissed him! I kissed another woman's husband!" Chantria hissed as she leaned against her door, her heart racing.
"No...not another woman's husband...Saint Chantria's husband." Chantria adjusted as she sucked in a deep breath to calm herself,
Although she was not Saint Chantria, at least this was still Saint Chantria's body and so Chantria figured had not done anything awfully wrong by kissing Amir Naeem.
Especially since she had done it all in the process of saving the silver eyed beauty.
"Saint Chantria would thank me, it was a difficult rescue I just pulled off." Chantria murmured to herself,
"Besides, Amir came unto me...I didn't have such intentions initially and in the end, it was all for a good cause. Anything to make the world a better place." Chantria murmured to herself,
Chantria did this while ensuring to focus on anything else other than her tingling lips, a mission which she failed terribly at as her hand soon shot up to her lips.
Memories of the softness of his lips and the tenderness with which Amir kissed her flashed through Chantria's mind against her will and Chantria lifted her hands to cradle her head in horror.
'Chantria Velasquez! Focus!' Chantria mentally lectured herself,
'Oh... but it was quite a great kiss, wasn't it?' A voice sounded in Chantria's mind and Chantria shrieked at the sudden interference with her thoughts, glancing around wildly.
It took Chantria a moment to recall the voice had come from her own mind and not her surrounding and so looking around would bear no fruits.
"Who... who are you?!" Chantria exclaimed in alarm,
'Oh calm yourself host, it's only me...' The voice came again and this time, the status screen popped up before Chantria's view.
Chantria heaved a sigh of relief to see it was only the Harem System, right before she quirked a single brow questioningly.
"You...you can speak now?" Chantria asked slowly,
'Clearly, what did host presume the voice mod reward was all about?' The Harem System asked, it's robotic tone still somehow able to convey sarcasm.
Chantria rolled her eyes, not bothering to give a reply to the system.
"I don't remember accessing that reward." Chantria pointed out instead.
'Well...I took some liberties there, but not to worry, just like the status screen, you are the only one who can hear me.' The Harem System assured as though that was supposed to be comforting.
Chantria was not sure if the Harem System understood she had just died a day ago and awakened to realize she had been transmigrated into a novel character who was murdered by her husband,
Only that this time, she did not die and ended up saving said husband from an execution, only to have him attempt to jump off a cliff,
From which she had to save him again with some rather... unsettling methods.
And then there was the Harem System who had showed up out of nowhere... and here it was telling her not to worry,
Compared to how overwhelmed Chantria felt at the moment despite not showing it, worry was a gross understatement!
"I have a voice in my head, it's official... I've gone nuts." Chantria said as she flopped back to lay on the ground, her eyes staring up at nothing in particular.
Chantria had always had her own strange way of dealing with situations that overwhelmed her mind and for the first time in her life, Chantria hated her method.
Chantria desperately wished she could scream and panic and sob till someone up there in heaven took pity on her and sent her back home,
But instead, she just lay on the cold marble floor and stared up in a daze.
'Does host wish to see the current mission update?' The Harem System asked dutifully after a short while of quiet.
Chantria hummed in response, watching as the status screen vanished and reappeared hovering above her face and pulled up the mission update.
HAREM MISSION: SAVE AMIR NAEEM!
MISSION LEVEL: HARD
MISSION STATUS: 50% COMPLETED
REWARD: 30% BASIC INFORMATION (UNLOCKED)
50% BASIC INFORMATION (LOCKED)
"We're still at fifty? I just saved the guy from jumping off a cliff and we're still at 50%?" Chantria asked in a blank tone,
'Host should take a look at the Harem Journal and judge for yourself.' The Harem System replied,
Chantria frowned as she nodded her approval and the harem journal was pulled up,
Chantria glanced over Amir Naeem's present statistics and heaved a sigh, although the bars representing his mood and will to live had increased by a little, that was as far as it went.
Chantria realized the mission to save Amir Naeem was tagged 'hard' for a reason, it was not just about saving Amir's life on one or two occasions...it was about bringing him back from the brink completely.
Amir Naeem would only be regarded as completely saved when Chantria had lifted all his stats to their optimum condition and upon realizing this, Chantria's gaze lifted to the stat that read 'Satisfaction.'
Chantria did not want to believe that was the kind of satisfaction she thought it was,
Satisfaction was a word that could mean anything, there were many things one could gain satisfaction from and Chantria decided she was most likely just giving it too much thought.
The 'Satisfaction' on Amir Naeem's personal profile most likely was not referring to anything sexual, or at least that was what Chantria would have liked to believe.
But the fact that she had been openly confronted about Saint Chantria's refusal to consummate her union with Amir Naeem by those other strange men still greatly unsettled Chantria.
"Tell me that is not referring to what I think it is." Chantria murmured,
'Oh...it is exactly what host thinks it is. Sexual satisfaction is an important aspect to ensure consort one is in optimum condition at all times." The Harem System confirmed without hesitation.
Chantria blanched, sitting up and crawling over to her bed whilst shaking her head repeatedly.
"Then I guess Amir Naeem cannot be saved then." Chantria said in a tone of resignation as she slumped down on her bed.
'Host is welcome to decline missions, provided host fulfills the conditions required to decline a mission.' The Harem System replied without hesitation.
"Are those conditions favorable to me?" Chantria asked in carefully
'It depends on host's definition of favorable...' The Harem System replied.