Kai waited patiently for the feeling of Anastasia's lips against his, but the feeling never came.
Slowly, Kai opened his eyes, only to be instantly blinded by Anastasia's hair tickling his face. The scent it strangely reminded Kai of coconuts, meaning that she must have had some sort of hair routine.
After a couple of seconds, Anastasia pulled away from Kai, a sly smirk on his face.
Confused, Kai was just about to ask what was going on when Anastasia opened her mouth.
"Well, it seems we will have to continue this another time, there's some bugs in the walls."
"Huh-"
Before he could even ask what she meant by that, Anastasia had already patted Kai's head and made her way to the door, opening it and walking out before Kai comprehended what was happening.
And with that, Anastasia was gone, leaving Kai perplexed.
What... was that.
Kai's body fell limp in the armchair as he exhaled deeply. He still felt the heat lingering on his face after that encounter.
That was definitely something that he had never gone through before.
And now that he thought about it, he had only spoken to four women in the last half a year, Noelle, Sofia, the woman he saved and Anastasia.
To be honest, maybe that was why he was getting so flustered.
He remembered reading somewhere about an experiment that was conducted on fleas. Normally, a flea can jump up to two feet high, an enormous distance considering that a flea is less than an inch tall.
But then you place a flea inside a jar and close the lid. The flea would just live inside the jar for a while, limited in the height it can jump by the lid.
However, after the lid is taken off, the flea can't jump any higher than the jar itself. Before it was placed inside the jar, the flea could jump many times the height of the jar, but now it physically couldn't, it was a mental block.
After its time in the jar, the flea was unable to do what it could do previously.
And while this may sound stupid, maybe even be considered extremely stupid, Kai kind of believed that the same thing had maybe happened to him.
While he could talk to girls just fine before the tutorial and white room, the tutorial had acted as a metaphorical jar.
Placed inside it, Kai's ability to talk to women had slowly deteriorated to the point that after getting out of the 'jar', anything Anastasia did made him blush or get flustered.
And the worst part was that he hadn't even realised that it was happening. He could hold a conversation with Noelle and Sofia just fine-
Actually, that might be a lie, while he had talked to Sofia quite a bit, he never really had an actual conversation which Noelle, which was kind of weird considering they had been together for quite a while.
But they could be considered acquaintances at maximum, Kai simply had the same goal as them, to survive.
Anastasia however, she had showed a genuine interest in Kai, and he had no idea how to react to that. It had him completely messed up, and he didn't know what to do.
Kai sighed as he brought a hand up to his face.
Maybe that wasn't actually what was happening and maybe he was just trying to justify why he was acting so weird, but it was the only possibility that he could think off. He had never felt like this about anyone else before, so he wasn't sure why he was feeling it now.
Unless there was some external factor, Kai had to admit that Anastasia made him feel... differently.
And to make it all even worse, he was stuck here for the next six months, with no way out.
It was like being locked in a cage with a tiger.
... Or a cougar.
For the next few minutes, Kai just limply sat in the armchair, unsure of what to do.
Maybe he should just go back to bed...
However, in the next moment, Kai's door opened once more, and in walked Anastasia.
Her nightgown was hanging a little lower than before, making Kai subconsciously swallow.
"Sorry about that, I had to deal with a little certain something."
Kai sighed and mentally prepared himself for what was to come, assuming that Anastasia was going to pick up where she left off.
"It's fine."
He had no idea what she meant by a 'little certain something', and he wasn't sure that he wanted to know.
Then, Anastasia slowly got closer to Kai, and just as she reached the armchair where she had previously sat...
She picked up the book and said:
"Well, let's continue."
Kai froze for a moment before relaxing. Turns out, Anastasia wasn't going to continue where she left off, and Kai wasn't sure whether that was a good or bad thing.
For another thirty minutes, Anastasia went on about Genesis again, telling Kai various things about the Main Dimension.
But Kai couldn't help but notice that she was acting strangely.
... As if trying to go for him while married wasn't strange enough.
But while she was acting foxy and sultry before, now she was acting quite refined and calm, only making Kai confused.
And while she had been going on about the strengths and weaknesses of Genesis before that whole ordeal, now she was mainly teaching Kai about what Subdimensions inside of Genesis that he should avoid and which ones he should visit if he got the chance.
But finally, thirty minutes after Anastasia had returned, she smiled and closed her book before standing up.
Kai jumped in shock at the sudden movement. To be honest, he had been falling asleep, Anastasia must have noticed his eyes drooping so she decided to end it there.
"I think that this is enough for tonight, we managed to get through quite a bit."
Anastasia then winked before turning around.
"And I'll make sure to return, considering that we still have another four Main Dimensions to get through."
And before Kai could even say goodbye, Anastasia had left, leaving him alone in his room once more.
However, the only thing he could think about was how she hadn't patted his head before leaving, making him feel kind of upset even though it was kind of weird to feel upset because of that.
After remaining still for a few seconds, Kai once more fell limp in his armchair.
Quite frankly, he felt as if he was going to forget all the information he had just learned by tomorrow morning.
Normally, one would think that having an attractive teacher would make learning a subject much easier, but Kai didn't agree.
No, having an attractive teacher made it much harder to learn, he was too focused on where to aim his eyes rather than focusing on retaining the information that he had just learned.
Every inch of her body felt like it was a sin to look upon, and that idea was only further amplified by the fact that she always wore dresses that revealed minimal body.
But when she showed up to his door wearing that nightgown...
Kai sighed as he brought a hand up to his head, slapping his cheek a couple of times softly.
He seriously had no idea what was up with him. Throughout his seventeen years of life he had never felt like this, not even once.
And because of that, he had no idea what he was meant to do in this situation.
Was he meant to encourage Anastasia, even though she was a married woman, or was he meant to downright reject her and just deal with the awkwardness for the next six months?
But if he did end up encouraging her...
Just what would happen?
Kai let out a soft groan as he gazed up at the roof of his bedroom.
"Seriously, what's wrong with me?"
Ah, that was the question, but there was no answer. At least, Kai didn't know the answer anyway.
And there was no one that he could ask for help. Sofia would have definitely been helpful in a situation like this, she had probably gone through some sort of situation similar to this. And even is she hasn't, she would probably still know more than Kai.
He couldn't go to Ezekial, that would just be like saying 'Oh yeah, your adoptive father's wife is trying to get with me'. There was no world where saying that would go well.
Quite frankly, Petunia was probably the person who could help Kai the most, and that statement was as ridiculous as it sounded. Still, there was no way he was going to ask a girl that was less than ten years old what to do in this situation, he still had some pride.
After going through all his options, and then realising that there was no way out, Kai pushed himself out of the armchair and made his way back to his bed.
He slowly got back under the covers before returning back to his previous activity of staring up at the ceiling.
He had been so tired just a while ago, but now his brain was racing non-stop. Thoughts were constantly whizzing by, only to be replaced by the sight of Anastasia in that nightgown, making Kai's heart race again.
He loosely lifted an arm up and covered his eyes.
But with his mind working rapidly, he was unable to fall asleep.