Chapter 13: The End (cont.)

Kotori Itsuka, probably the youngest of them all, coughed heavily, reminding a certain couple to show some restraint with their affection and stop scattering dog food everywhere.

However, such a reminder could not affect a certain selfish individual. This mana exchange ritual continued for quite some time before finally ending.

The girl's lips and cheeks were bright red. She rested her head on the boy's shoulder, her hair slightly disheveled, her gaze unfocused, panicked and dazed. Her breathing was ragged as she panted violently, as if she had just survived a near-fatal drowning.

Only after a long while did she lift her head from the boy's shoulder and take a step back. Her breathing remained hurried, and every breath she exhaled was warmer than her body temperature.

The boy watched the girl who had just left his embrace wipe the lingering fluid from her lips with her small tongue. Judging from the shape of her lips, it was an ending—yet even more like the serpent of the Garden of Eden explaining the deliciousness of the forbidden fruit.

"Thanks, Souji." The boy, who seemed to be feeling much better, thanked his Servant.

"Phew... It's nothing. Master, if you need it in the future, you can call me anytime."

With a drunken flush on her cheeks and a slightly unfocused gaze, the girl patted her burning face. She felt that perhaps the quality of the mana within her Master was too high, and her body had not quite adapted to it, so she had fallen ill.

But as she recalled those moments when her heart had raced again and again, she felt that being sick did not seem so bad.

"Then I'll head back and take care of dinner first."

Suddenly realizing that she and her Master still had no dinner for