"Impossible. There's absolutely no way I would ever do something like that!"
Ash practically wanted to swear to the heavens. "There must be some extremely evil villain trying to frame me and ruin my spotless reputation! I would never disrespect women like that!"
Felix raised an eyebrow and shot him a sidelong glance, wanting to spit right into this trash can cup—I've never met anyone who disrespects women more than you. Other people might be loose and fickle, but at least they only play with bodies, let go once they're bored, and usually pay with money or other resources. You're the only bastard who cheats both body and heart, likes so many girls yet doesn't want to let a single one go, and still needs those girls to protect you... Compared with you, even my father doesn't seem like quite such scum.
While savagely cursing Ash in her heart, she trimmed his nails with a nail clipper. "Actually, you didn't seem to have any ill intent. It looked like you were trying to treat them."
"Treat them?"
"Mm. To break through the Water Coffin, they detonated their Soul Fragments together under Sister Vishy's hypnotic guidance, and their Soul Bodies suffered severe trauma," Felix said. "Their injuries were very serious. Purple-blue cracks appeared all over their skin, making them look like porcelain about to shatter."
"You had already passed out on top of them, but for some reason you picked up Sword Maiden again, looked at her wounds, mumbled, 'You fell and got hurt,' then stuck out your tongue and licked the crack on her neck."
As Felix spoke, Ash gradually recalled the scene as well—even his tongue remembered the feel of Sword Maiden's collarbone.
"Did it work?" he asked.
Felix nodded firmly and said, "Sister Vishy analyzed it afterward. You