"I turned it off a long time ago, otherwise my nose would have started bleeding." Draco was in a good mood as he looked at her dazed eyes and swollen lips.
"You!" Hermione finally realized she might have been tricked, and angrily punched him. "You lied to me! There's no such thing as a tongue-kiss shut-off device, right?!"
"Who knows?" Draco said innocently.
" Draco Malfoy! Listen up! If you dare use that weird ability to look... no, look at anything you shouldn't look at again! I'll get rough with you! Really!" Hermione stomped her foot angrily, put her hands on her hips, and threatened in her fiercest stance.
However, the blushing greatly diminished the power of this display.
"Yes, sir," Draco said, raising his hands in surrender.
However, Hermione's anger seemed to have found a new outlet; she narrowed her eyes, a sharp glint in them:
"You didn't use that skill at the casino, did you?!"
Oh no... It seems like things have gone awry... Having a smart wife isn't always a good thing. Draco's smile froze. Facing Hermione's fiery gaze, he Alexander!
After a three-second silence, Hermione's eyes, filled with suspicion and a dangerous glint, remained fixed on Draco's face.
Under Hermione's intense gaze, Draco's mind raced. "Think fast, you brilliant mind! Tonight's peace depends on you!"
In a flash, a brilliant excuse popped into his mind like a lifeline. He met Hermione's piercing gaze again, his face switching back to an expression of complete indifference.
"If I were in a casino, this nosebleed would have dried up long ago, and I wouldn't look so good when I got back."
Thinking back to Draco's complexion when he returned and the terrible state he was in when he had a nosebleed, it seems there's actually some truth to it?
No! You're focusing on the wrong thing!
Hermione Granger! What are you thinking?!
"Don't give me that!" Hermione snapped out of her wild associations and pinched Draco's arm hard.
Then her cheeks flushed again, but her momentum remained undiminished.
"You're not allowed to use this skill on people again, especially not in a situation like that! What... did you see? You'll have to face the consequences!"
Hermione felt uncomfortable thinking about how she had been enveloped by him, as if she had no secrets left in front of him.
"I saw... a view completely different from what I saw through the cloth. The feeling was entirely different, it was so breathtaking! I think I'll never forget what I just saw for the rest of my life."
"Go to hell!" Hearing his lingering satisfaction in his voice, Hermione felt a surge of anger mixed with shame rush to her head.
She grabbed a soft cushion from the sofa and slammed it against Draco's face, which was still contemplating the moment. "You shameless bastard!"
"It was bound to happen sooner or later!" Draco caught the cushion.
"You—!" Hermione's face flushed red with anger. "How can that be the same?! What you did just now was peeping! That's indecent behavior! If you ever get a nosebleed again, you're dead!"
"Yes, yes, I won't do it again!" Draco replied casually, but there was no remorse on his face; instead, his smile grew even brighter.
He was also rapidly calculating in his mind:
I need to find a way to control my nosebleeds...
Seeing that Hermione's anger was about to escalate again, Draco changed the subject, "Honey, let's get ready for a bath and bed."
"Go ahead and take a shower, I'm not stopping you."
"Let's go together."
"Together my foot!" Hermione retorted immediately.
"Hey, listen to me," Draco explained. "If we don't shower together, then after I'm done, you'll have to go in and shower too. While you're inside, you won't know if I've used that skill, and what if I take advantage of you while you're showering..."
He described the possibilities in vivid detail.
"So," Draco said with a "I'm doing this for your own good" look, "The right thing to do is for the two of us to shower together, isn't it?"
After hearing his twisted logic, Hermione narrowed her eyes, her gaze sending a chill down Draco's spine. She approached step by step, a half-smile playing on her lips.
"Looks like you're still up to no good. All you do is try to fool me. When it comes to things like X-Ray Vision, there's only zero times or countless times."
"It seems I must eliminate this threat completely..."
As she spoke, she made a scissor gesture, pointing the scissors directly at Draco's lower body.
"What do you want to do?" Draco's pupils dilated in shock. He felt a chill beneath him, squeezed his legs together, and took a half-step back.
"What do you think?" Hermione tilted her head, her smile still sweet, but her tone was chilling. "I can't suppress your X-Ray Vision vision, and that carries potential risks. So, to solve this problem once and for all, we must..."
At this point, she moved the scissors forward another half a step and continued, "We must solve the problem at its source, understand?"
"Wife! My dear wife! Heroine! Spare me!" Draco was truly panicked this time, his playful smile vanishing.
"I was wrong, I'll never do it again!"
"That won't do either." Hermione shook her head coldly. "Who knows when you might lose control? For the long-term stability of our marriage, I think physical castration is the only way."
"Wife! No! Don't do anything rash! This concerns your lifelong sexual happiness!" Draco quickly played his last trump card.
"If we can't control it, then it's someone else's sexual happiness. Rather than risking control, we might as well eliminate the risk now." Hermione made a simulated cutting motion with a blank expression.
"Actually, this skill is too overpowered! It can only be used to X-Ray Vision objects! If you use it on a person, it only lasts one time before it expires! That's why I didn't use it outside. Of course, I'm saving the chance to X-Ray Vision for you, my wife!" Draco could only confess.
Hermione's hands suddenly stopped moving, her sharp eyes trying to find even the slightest trace of lying on Draco's face.
But his panicked demeanor didn't seem like an act.
"Really?" Hermione asked suspiciously.
"Think about it, how could it be so incredible! Even Ancient Magic couldn't do that," Draco said earnestly.
In fact, Draco wasn't lying. Just as he activated his X-Ray Vision on Hermione, a ten-second countdown notification sounded in his mind, after which the skill expired.
So he was just trying to scare Hermione.
Hermione's cheeks flushed bright red, and she said helplessly, "You say you can see right through others with such confidence, I'm truly impressed."
"Hehe!" Draco grinned again.
"It had better be true." Hermione's eyes still held a dangerous glint. "If I find out, you know what will happen..."
"I promise!" Draco nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
"Hmph." Hermione reluctantly let him go.
"You want to take a shower but aren't you going? Stop dawdling."
"Yes, yes, yes! I'll go right away!" Draco walked towards the bathroom as if granted a pardon, a huge weight finally lifted from his heart.
My good brother is finally safe...