A mischievous smile was evident on the silver-haired beauty as she leaned forward on her wooden office desk, seemingly brimming with interest in my presence... which unfortunately, I found slightly unnerving.
"Uh... hello there?" I tried to greet the smiling woman, though it came off a bit awkward rather than natural.
Yet somehow, it worked out well enough, as I saw this woman giggle upon hearing it.
"Yes, hello there to you too, Mr. Isaac Hunter~," she greeted me again with the same cheerful demeanor. "Gasp, where are my manners? I haven't even introduced myself yet."
She stood up from her leather swivel chair, revealing her alluring figure through her semi-formal gray office dress.
It was no exaggeration to say that she was... well-endowed. She flaunted that very figure as she turned and walked around her office desk. Every step she took seemed to emphasize her alluring charm.
"Allow me to introduce myself properly," she said with a regal air, her smile never wavering. "I am Yunxia, the Titan's Descent's Branch Guild Master. It is a pleasure to finally meet you, Mr. Isaac Hunter."
"Branch... Guild Master...!" I repeated, taken aback by the very presence of this woman.
I knew about the whole 'Guild Master' position and what their duty entailed through the adventurer beginner's guide, but... I had never actually seen the person who held the title... until now.
"So... the Guild Master herself summoned me here," I began, raising an eyebrow at the supposed mystery behind her hidden identity from the public. "To what pleasure do I owe you, madam?"
"Hehe... I wonder~," she purred... as she began to approach me.
"...!"
Suddenly, I felt an alarming sensation upon witnessing the high-ranking official's closer approach to me in such a sensual manner.
I noticed by now that something odd had been happening to me just recently...
This time, though, it wasn't because the madam herself was casting something strange on me. If she had, I would have noticed it by now, like the pressure that the 'snake's eyes' woman had given me a few times before.
No... It came from within me.
I realized that I had been appreciating the women around me... quite a lot more than I normally would. Under normal circumstances, that would have been fine as it was, but... It seemed that I had been appreciating them... a bit too much, to the point where it was not normal anymore.
My female superior, Maya... after I'd woken up from my relic-induced coma, the first thing I did was confess to her how much I wanted to "score" with her...
The 'snake eyes' woman? Who was currently standing nearby, and I could feel her glaring at me through her dark sunglasses?
I didn't really like her at first, based on initial impressions and what she had involuntarily done to my caring superior...
But after that? I had been trying to rile her up. Her 'snake eyes' that she was currently using to glare a hole through me, the ones that had once filled me with pressured dread?
I had started to relish them...! And not just that! I just realized now too that when we had been walking toward this place, I'd been staring at her rear the whole time...!
And now this? I couldn't take my eyes off every movement this silver-haired vixen was making—!
"Mr. Isaac?"
"...!" The same silver-haired woman suddenly called my name, temporarily breaking me out of my... appreciation of her alluring charm.
"Is there something that you find amusing, Mr. Isaac?" she asked, with the same mischievous smile plastered all over her beautiful visage.
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"Hehehe, are you not aware?" The Guild Master asked again, seemingly amused by my obliviousness. "Your face, Mr. Isaac. You have quite the 'delightful smile' on you~."
"What...?!"
I immediately reached for my face, touching it and feeling the grin that was spreading from ear to ear. I didn't even realize it, and even though I did now...
I couldn't close it. It was as if my whole face was locked into this... uncontrollable wolfish grin.
"What the...?!" I muttered, bewildered by the very existence of this grin of mine. This grin... it was something that I didn't realize I could even make, nor something that I wanted to make. It was a grin that would have landed me in trouble...!
And now... another realization hit me again... that I felt... excited.
"Interesting~," the vixen-like woman circled around me, a playful tone in her lovely voice. "Very interesting indeed~."
I felt her deep gaze, observing me and assessing me from top to bottom, measuring my very merit. She did so while also flaunting herself as close as possible to me...
Tempting me...!
On the other hand, another pair of eyes were also getting to me. It was, of course, from the 'snake's eyes' woman...!
I saw that she had removed her dark sunglasses and had revealed her deep glowing 'snake's eyes' in their full glory, glaring daggers at me as if she were prepared to eliminate me at any given notion of trouble...!
But... again, her dreadful gaze didn't faze me at all. It only made me feel more excited... no, challenged!
"Hehehe, Mr. Isaac~," she suddenly addressed me, catching my attention. I saw her smile of mischief turn into a smile of malice. "Did you also perhaps not realize that you have been cursed~?"
"Cursed...?" I repeated, my voice tinged with confusion. "What do you mean... cursed?"
"Hehehe... Hahaha~."
The Guild Master let out a hearty, whimsical laugh, a sharp contrast to the unsettling revelation she had given to me. She seemed to find my supposed obliviousness amusing.
"Oh, Mr. Isaac, you really didn't notice? How delightful~."
She tilted her head, her eyes twinkling with amusement.
"Why don't you check for yourself? Open your status effect info... and see what you find~."
"..."
My excitement faltered for a moment, replaced by a morbid curiosity. Her 'challenge' felt odd, almost as if she were toying with me... but eventually, I heeded her word.
"Open: Status Effect!"
A hologram screen materialized in front of me, similar to the stats status display... and my eyes focused on the only single line listed there...!
"What the hell...!?"|
[Curse: Extremely High Libido]