Dear, It's Time to Take Your Medicine! Chapter 37

But just then, a staggered yet unusually hurried set of footsteps suddenly sounded behind Qin Chu. Accompanied by the smell of alcohol, someone grabbed the corner of his clothes.

He turned around. Who else could it be but Ekaterina?

Only, Ekaterina looked especially off. Her cheeks were flushed red, her misty eyes brimming with confusion, her soft cherry lips slightly parted as she breathed out fragrance.

Her chest rose and fell rapidly with each breath.

"Don't go..."

The next second, she exerted force with her arm and dragged Qin Chu back into the room. With a bang, the door shut, leaving only a group of guards outside staring at one another.

With a glance, they could all see the envy in each other's eyes. As expected of the Hero—such romantic fortune was simply beyond envy.

On one side was the Hero; on the other was Ekaterina, a member of the Hero's Party and the Goddess of War...

Whatever was going on between those two, a few lowly guards like them had better not get involved, right?

Qin Chu, who had been dragged straight back to the bedside, was still a little dazed. Just as he was about to speak, Ekaterina's slender arms had already hooked around his neck.

Her flame-red lips pressed directly against Qin Chu's mouth.

By his ear, amid pauses between kisses, he could hear Ekaterina's hurried panting:

"Jello, love me..."

Jello?

Had this woman gotten so drunk that she mistook him for Jello?

If someone deeply loved this woman, hearing another man's name at a time like this would definitely make rage blaze to the heavens, wouldn't it?

But when Qin Chu heard that name now, he instead felt the thrill of being Cao Cao.

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Ruin (Revised Version)

Ekaterina had a beautiful face and a seductive body. She was a member of the Hero's Party, a Goddess of War. Angelica was merely a maid of humble status on the Skyvault Continent...

Yet compared to Angelica, Ekaterina was so utterly unbearable...

Ekaterina's expression grew increasingly muddled. Before her, the man's figure had completely overlapped with Jello's.

Under normal circumstances, Qin Chu would not have touched Ekaterina at a time like this. It was not that she lacked allure, but that it could cost him his life. When Ekaterina woke the next day and discovered what had happened to her, she would definitely go berserk. In her towering fury, Qin Chu might even be slaughtered on the spot.

However, this situation was not without a way to handle it.

Hehehe!

Saya floated quietly in midair.

An eerie smile hung on her face.

Things seemed to be getting interesting.

Qin Chu was like a king seated high above, looking down at Ekaterina with cold, indifferent eyes.

That gaze filled Ekaterina's face with terror. She did not know what she had done wrong to make her lover's eyes so icy. She desperately tried to please the person before her...

Outside the bedroom door.

Nicholas and his five subordinates stared at one another.

This was between the Hero and Ekaterina, the Goddess of War... well, a conflict?

In any case, they had no right to interfere.

It was just that the two inside were doing things that pleased body and mind, while the brothers could only stand outside in the cold wind. That feeling was truly somewhat subtle.

"Boss, aren't we going in to stop them?" one underling asked cautiously.

"His Majesty the Emperor instructed us that we cannot allow any woman other than Angelica to approach the Hero. This..."

This was Wadsworth's order.

Angelica had been personally chosen by Qin Chu, so Wadsworth could hardly refuse. Besides, no matter what, Qin Chu choosing Angelica was far better than setting his sights on Rosweisse. Compared to that, this was already a very good result.

Of course, Wadsworth was certainly not content with just this. He wanted to bind the Hero firmly to his own war chariot, so that after the war, the royal family could reap the greatest benefits.

He planned to select a chaste and beautiful princess and send her here to live under the same roof. If sparks happened to fly by accident, that would be perfectly normal...

Naturally, if Wadsworth had such thoughts, Augustus and Saint Monica were no exception.

The royal family, the Divine Church, the Sanctum... there was no difference between them.

No matter how bright and splendid they appeared on the surface, they could not conceal the filth hidden beneath.

Angelica had a grudge against the Holy Church and was difficult to control. Augustus certainly wanted to arrange for other nuns to come and replace Angelica. Saint Monica likewise did not want the Earth Mother Goddess Church to collapse into decline after the war, so she surely harbored all sorts of little schemes.

The two people Wadsworth guarded against most were these two, and of course, the young ladies from those great noble houses as well.

If a noble formed a marriage alliance with the Hero, that noble's power would flourish as never before, perhaps even threatening the royal family's status.

The crisis from a thousand years ago absolutely could not be repeated.

Although Maritis and Nicholas were ostensibly protecting Qin Chu's safety, more than half their effort went toward driving away women who came near the imperial residence.

Those noble young ladies, even the church's nuns, could be driven away. But... Ekaterina? They truly did not have the nerve.

Who did not know that this lady had a fiery temper?

She was someone who could trade blows head-on with a Rampaging Giant Ape, and she was drunk now. If you barged in at such a moment and disturbed her good time, she might just crush your head like a melon.

"Do you think your body is sturdier than a Rampaging Giant Ape's head?" Nicholas asked coldly.

The underling shrank his neck and immediately fell silent.

Ekaterina could poke a hole through his head with a single pinky finger.

Bang...

Just then, a strange sound suddenly came from inside the room.

"What was that?" one underling asked.

Nicholas's expression changed.

"All men, heed my command..."

"Fall back thirty meters!"

What sound? It was the sound of Ekaterina's armor falling onto the floor.

Three hours later, the bedroom door was pushed open, and the Hero appeared in the doorway.

Qin Chu casually adjusted the strips of cloth on his body... no, his clothes, and quickly composed his expression.

When Ekaterina woke tomorrow morning, she would probably explode on the spot.

Seeing the guards dozens of meters away, Qin Chu inwardly remarked that Nicholas was a smart man after all. Otherwise, who knew how awkward things would have been.

As he walked up to the soldiers, Qin Chu discovered that all of them were looking at him with reverence.

As expected of the Hero. He had tussled with Ekaterina for three hours and still had not had his head crushed. Truly incredible.

Though those looks puzzled Qin Chu somewhat, this was not the time to ponder such matters. He had more important things to handle.

Qin Chu pulled a stack of banknotes from his tattered pocket and handed several to each person.

Looking at the three thousand Mana in his hands, Nicholas's voice was full of surprise and confusion.

"Hero, this is..."

"You've worked hard too. If you have time, go relax a little. It's on me."

With the smile every man understood on his face, Qin Chu departed amid the grateful gazes of the guards.

Money was the best way to buy people over.

Though such loyalty was almost worthless.

He quickened his pace and swiftly found a room. Rather than sleeping, he immediately sat cross-legged on the floor.

He could feel the Starflame Battle Qi within his body stirring restlessly. He had only entered the first level that afternoon, yet after his wild encounter with Ekaterina, he unexpectedly sensed faint signs of breaking through to the second level.

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Another Saya

No matter what level of magic cultivation manual or Battle Qi secret art it was, cultivation followed the same rule:

The beginning was easy; the further one went, the harder it became.

The higher the grade, the greater the difficulty.

Starflame, the Battle Qi cultivated by Ekaterina, could be considered one of the highest-grade Battle Qi arts on the Skyvault Continent. Those capable of surpassing Starflame could be counted on one hand, so its difficulty was easy to imagine.

First of all, talent alone had already cut off the hopes of the vast majority of people who wished to cultivate Starflame. This Battle Qi required extraordinarily high aptitude.

Qin Chu had no problem in that regard. After his rebirth, his talent had become even more monstrous.

Yet even with such astonishing talent, combined with the experience of living once before, breaking Starflame Battle Qi through to the first level in one afternoon was more or less the limit. To break through to the second level would require at least a month.

But while he had been going wild with Ekaterina, Qin Chu could clearly feel the scorching Battle Qi within her body flowing into his own, driving his relatively weak Battle Qi to whirl rapidly through his body. With every circuit, the quantity of Battle Qi grew rapidly.

In just three short hours, he had even reached the verge of breaking through to the second level.

Even now, scorching energy still filled his body to the brim.

Qin Chu did not wish to waste any opportunity to increase his strength. His eyes closed tightly as his consciousness guided the scattered energy within his body into his Battle Origin. He wanted to use that energy to break through the barrier of the second level.

Huff... huff... huff...

Waves of heat spread from Qin Chu's body.

The room's temperature kept rising. Beneath the moonlight pouring in through the window, even the air seemed somewhat distorted.

At some point, Qin Chu's skin had turned red like heated iron. Steam billowed from the top of his head. Powerful energy surged beneath his skin, constantly raising bulges one after another.

Just a little more, one final bit...

The air he exhaled through his nose had already turned into crimson flames.

Not enough...

Qin Chu could clearly feel that only one final kick at the threshold remained before he could break through his current limit. Yet that single step remained impossible to cross.

Every pore across his body had opened, beginning to draw in the scattered elemental power from the surrounding air. His body seemed to become the core of an enormous vortex, with scorching currents spiraling around him at high speed as more and more power was drawn into his body.

There was no wind in the room, yet the curtains and magic chandelier swayed violently under those strange currents.

Without the experience from his first life, Qin Chu might have obediently absorbed the scattered elemental power in the air to break through. That might have required a long time—at least a week.

But now, Qin Chu knew exactly what he lacked. Only an unprecedentedly powerful surge of energy could allow him to instantly cross that threshold.

The Holy Crystals kindly gifted by Rosweisse.

With a turn of his palm, Qin Chu took three Holy Crystals from his storage ring.

With a crack, all three Holy Crystals shattered beneath Qin Chu's force. The abundant energy contained within them burst out at that instant, and an energy storm nearly formed within the room.

Qin Chu stood at the storm's very center. Even the floor beneath him cracked from the force. With that energy supporting him, his Battle Origin instantly expanded by a full circle.

Elsewhere, Saya floated in midair, quietly watching Qin Chu cultivate, her face wearing a subtle smile.

Qin Chu might not yet understand why Ekaterina had lost control, but Saya knew perfectly well.

The Love That Topples Cities she had given Qin Chu was an improved version... but it was not the genuine Love That Topples Cities.

Saya had added her own understanding to the potion, infusing it with part of the Lust Authority's effects. After Saya's alterations, Love That Topples Cities was far more potent than the original.

The authority of Lust, coupled with the effects of alcohol, caused Ekaterina to experience a strange hallucination and mistake Qin Chu for Jello.

At the same time, it infinitely amplified the emotions buried deep within Ekaterina's heart. Under those multiple effects, tonight's events had finally come to pass.