Only after he sat up abruptly did Isaac realize he was in his own bed in his dim room, and he let out a sigh, slumping his shoulders.

He had eaten a late lunch, done some long-overdue cleaning and organizing, and then closed his eyes for just a moment, but it seemed he had fallen into quite a deep nap. However,

“…… Good grief.”

“Why am I sweating like this just from a nap,” Isaac mumbled weakly, wiping the sweat from his forehead. Horden, who had entered the room at some point and was adjusting his clothes in front of the mirror, turned to look at Isaac with concern.

“Have you been having sleep paralysis often lately? You were groaning last night too.”

“……. You should have woken me up.”

“No, I was going to, but then you seemed fine again, and then you’d frown and seem fine again, so I just left you. Why? Did something happen?”

“I guess my body’s just a bit weak. Did you just get in? Or are you heading out now?”

“Yeah. I’m off-duty tomorrow, so Aire and I are going on a one-night trip. I booked a nice inn by the lake. We’re going to burn our bones and flesh all night long against the backdrop of a beautiful landscape and then come back.”

“HA HA HA,” Horden smiled a joyful, slightly lecherous smile, and Isaac just stared blankly at him.

“Didn’t you just tell me yesterday that you burned your bones and flesh with Aire the night before……? And you just got back from working the day shift, and now you’re going to stay up all night on a trip? Your stamina is incredible.”

‘I’m genuinely impressed. I’m exhausted just from having a dream. Just from dreaming. Just from a dream…….Lord.’

As Isaac covered his face with one hand, uncaring, Horden simply hummed a happy tune.

“There really must be such a thing as chemistry between people. No matter what I do with Aire, I don’t get tired. You have no idea how refreshed I feel the next day after sleeping with her. Hey, you shouldn’t just look at pretty faces; try meeting a woman you really connect with in bed. I’m telling you, it changes your life?”

“…….”

Whether Isaac’s face rotted or not, Horden was entirely unbothered, gazing fondly into the mirror. Checking the clock, Isaac saw that there was still some time left before his evening shift started. He flopped back down onto his bed. Meanwhile, Horden, finished getting ready, put on his shoes and threw a worried remark at Isaac.

“Are you sure you’re not sick again? Honestly, for a guy who looks perfectly healthy, you sure do wilt like that once in a while. Why don’t you go see a doctor?”

“I’m fine, I’m fine. I’m just feeling a bit sluggish. Don’t go exhausting all your energy until you collapse, and have a good trip.”

Isaac waved his hand from under the blanket, and Horden flashed that lecherous, confident smile again, saying, “I guess Aire will be getting exhausted a few times,” before leaving the room. As the sound of his footsteps faded down the hallway, the surroundings grew quiet.

Perhaps because it was late afternoon, the building seemed deserted, and everywhere was quiet. In the midst of that silence, he felt the presence of something lightly jumping onto his blanket without a sound *Pop.*

「Phew……, that smell…….」

Despite grumbling and scrunching its nose, what is this thing doing, poking its head under the blanket where Isaac had covered himself from head to toe?

「They say late-blooming passion is scary, and look at him doing this in broad daylight.」

「He must have starved for a long time. His desires must be skyrocketing even while taking a nap.」

「With who?」

「Well? Since he does it so often like this, it’s highly likely it’s someone he sees frequently, right?」

「Ah, then I know exactly who it is! It’s that guy.」

「Yeah, it’s him.」

「It’s definitely him.」

“Ah, shut up!!”

In the end, Isaac threw off the blanket and sat up. The three cats that had huddled together near his head quickly scattered and chattered, 「Phew, the smell,」 「The smell of heat is everywhere.」

You little beasts, acting like ghosts when it comes to smells. ……Of course, the moment he threw off the blanket, a faint scent reached his own nose as well. A fresh, slightly fishy scent, the smell of unleashed desire.

“Ah……, I can’t live like this, seriously…….”

Isaac buried his face in his knees. He didn’t just feel physically drained; his very soul felt exhausted.

It seemed the memory of that day had left a far more shocking imprint on him than he realized. Lately, he had been dreaming every single night.

In his dream, the Prince appeared, holding someone’s naked body and fulfilling his desires. It was naked body on naked body. A light sweat beaded on his bare skin as he performed waist movements with his signature expressionless face. The moment Isaac found his gaze captivated by the vivid movement of the muscles flexing beneath that sweat, suddenly, as if noticing, the Prince looked right at Isaac. And then, Isaac found himself face-to-face with him, as if he were the one being held.

Heat rose on that expressionless face with those vivid blue eyes. Whether it was his heat or the heat Isaac was feeling, he didn’t know. The sensation of his breath catching as he was enveloped by the heat radiating from inside that sturdy chest pressing down on him.

It was a completely unfamiliar sensation that Isaac, despite knowing what it was, had never actually experienced. As the increasingly intense sensation grew more embarrassing and bewildering, just as he was trying to turn his body to avoid his gaze, at that exact moment, he found himself right there—in the very spot of the person being held by the Prince.

The vivid blue eyes visible right in front of his face. The somewhat threatening and chilling sensation churning darkly within them. And the sweltering heat digging into his lower half, accompanied by an intense, crushing pressure gripping his entire body.

The heat ravaging his lower half was so vivid it was hard to believe it was a dream. Amidst those vague and hazy circumstances, only that intense pleasure remained clearly——.

“……Looks like the laundry is just going to keep piling up…….”

Isaac collapsed back onto the bed and muttered.

Isaac was someone who rarely dreamed. Maybe once or twice a year? Perhaps because of that, the dreams felt exceptionally vivid……

…… What a shock. Doing something like this almost every day at this age.

It would be one thing if it were just once or twice; he hadn’t touched his lower half in a while, so he figured it must have built up without him realizing, but lately, it had been happening almost every day. Even during a short nap like today. What was even more shocking was the partner.

“…………………”

Isaac grabbed his hair and writhed. When he was awake, just imagining it made his breath catch and his mind go blank, but in his unconscious dream state, he surrendered his body as if possessed.

「It’s fine, it’s fine. They say a hero loves beauty. It’s the law of nature for men to like beauties. Even though you’re definitely not a hero.」

「Of course, of course. He’s the greatest beauty in this country, so it’s only natural.」

“Don’t do it. Don’t say it.”

Isaac quickly reached out and grabbed the snouts of the cats. But since he only had two hands, inevitably, one of them was free.

「What’s the big deal. Our Manbang is a fully grown adult. It’s normal to have wet dreams, and it’s normal to masturbate. You don’t have to be embarrassed at all just because you got caught.」

“Shut up!”

As he snatched that one too, the two he had been holding found their freedom: 「It’s normal to be a little embarrassed about masturbating. He’s old enough to eat as much as he wants,」  「It’s strange, though, our Manbang is a bit dense, but he’s a decent guy, so why don’t any women stick around him?」 「Should we stick a man onto him instead?」 they chattered.

‘I’m going to die of frustration.’ Isaac pulled the blanket all the way over his head. Waking up in the middle of a vivid dream in the dead of night the other day, he had been in an ambiguous state, neither fully asleep nor fully awake, with his excitement unresolved. So he had relieved himself for the first time in a very long while, …… but then, discovering those three pairs of eyes staring intently at him from the darkness. That feeling. He had thought he might lose his biological functions forever right then and there.

Isaac let out a long sigh as his energy plummeted.

He really felt like he was losing his mind. Ever since that day, it was an ineradicable mood that those vivid blue eyes—which never left him for a single moment—were deeply etched into his brain.

“No……, this isn’t right…….”

Isaac let out another sigh and mumbled.

First of all, having sexual fantasies about one’s superior was highly disrespectful, but the real problem was that the superior was that person. It was an absolute no. Absolutely not. He felt that if he didn’t firmly lock the door to his heart, because of this ‘taste’ of his, he might end up losing his mind too. What kind of nonsense am I even talking about.

As if they could see Isaac pounding his own head under the blanket, voices full of worry slipped through the gaps near his pillow: 「Is he planning to just destroy that already ruined brain?」 「What if he gets even denser doing that?」 「That won’t do, he’s already a handful.」

‘Rather die than that.’ Isaac pulled the blanket over his head again. A few days ago, in the middle of the night, he had been dreaming such a dream when he woke up halfway, in a state of limbo, both excited and not. So he masturbated for the first time in a very long time, ……. and then, when he discovered three pairs of eyes shining brightly in the darkness, staring intently at him—oh, that feeling. He nearly ended up permanently impotent.

Isaac suddenly felt exhausted and sighed.

His mind was really messed up. That day, those azure eyes that hadn’t looked away for a single second seemed to have etched themselves deep into his memory, impossible to erase.

“It’s not……. This really isn’t……”

Isaac sighed again and mumbled.

First of all, having sexual fantasies about a superior was already disrespectful, but setting aside the issue of superior and subordinate, the fact that the other person was ‘that person’ was the real problem. This isn’t right. Absolutely not right. I already find that appearance attractive, so I should be careful to lock my heart away, what if I end up falling for them……. ‘Ugh, what am I even saying.’

As if seeing Isaac banging his head under the blanket, from the gap at the top of the blanket, worried muttering came: 「「You already threw away your brain, now you want to throw it away for real?」 「What if he gets even dumber?」 「No, he’s already too tired now.」

Isaac stuck just his nose out through the gap in the blanket and mumbled.

“Hey……, be honest with me. Are you guys secretly summoning a succubus every night without me knowing?”

Otherwise, there’s no way he could be having such bizarre dreams day after day. The cats snorted at Isaac’s serious suspicion.

「You think noble and elegant beings like us would play with such lowly creatures?」

「And why would a succubus, with so many humans to choose from, come to a half-blood? It’s just because you’ve been holding back so long that your desires have built up.」

「Instead of doing that, go somewhere and sleep with a human. It’s good to relieve your desires and get some vitality.」

“……As long as I live in the human world, I’m going to live like a human…….”

Mumbling as if making a resolution, Isaac pulled the blanket tight around him. The three cats chattered away, but he pretended not to hear. Firstly, he abhorred the part where he would be absorbing a human’s vitality, but he was also not keen on mixing bodies for a single night just to relieve a purely sexual urge. ‘At this rate, I might really die a virgin……,’ Isaac sighed softly.

Even as time passed, peeking at the clock through the blanket gap, it was getting close to the time he needed to slowly get up.

Feeling unwell, he really didn’t want to get up from being buried under the warm blanket. He wanted to rest just as much. However, the more you dawdle, the harder it is to get up, so Isaac forced himself up. At the same time, wondering why he – even with only half witch blood – was feeling so heavy and sluggish while facing the full moon, yet these three brats were so lively, he glared at the ones rolling around near his pillow.

「Why is Manbang looking at us with such a dissatisfied look?」

「It’s probably just useless, pointless jealousy and envy, right?」

“Why are you guys so full of energy even on a full moon?”

「Full of energy? We’ve been aching all over since the other day. My joints are killing me.」

「In that case, go quickly and make yourselves some goat meat porridge,」 Isaac observed them quietly while listening to the nonsense they added. True, their mouths were definitely still alive and flapping, but their movements were noticeably less than usual. They really were feeling sluggish.

“I guess I can relax a bit today. Prince Kyan’s condition is exceptionally good, and the Witch of Roberni will probably stay quiet during the full moon.”

Isaac mumbled as he dragged his heavy body out of bed.

Ever since the Witch of Roberni possessed the young wizard’s body and vanished, her exact whereabouts were unknown. From her perspective, it was probably better to lay low until the situation quieted down, but Isaac couldn’t let go of his tension, fearing she might suddenly launch an attack at any moment.

However, today was the full moon. Even a witch’s condition wouldn’t be very good, so he felt he could rest easy on a day like this. Though his body was heavy, Isaac walked to the bathroom with a slightly lighter heart.

And after he entered the bathroom,

「Our Manbang truly deserves his title. He’s so clueless.」

「Mmm, mmm, a day like today when the witch’s consciousness subsides is exactly the day the young wizard’s own consciousness swells up even larger.」

「There are also spells designed to reflect the opponent’s power right back at them.」

「Mmm, meaning the stronger the person is, the stronger the attack they receive.」

「Why is our Manbang so ignorant about these things?」

He’s so incredibly clueless, what are we going to do with this ignorant child, the three cats, putting their heads together and chattering, fell silent for a while. At the end of that silence, letting out a deep sigh as if the ground were caving in,

「Haiya……. I guess we won’t be getting any rest either.」

They hung their heads low.