Iris laid down on her bed, hugging a pillow.
Her face was beet-red as she recalled the memory of what happened a few hours ago.
"I can't believe it," Iris muttered to herself after remembering that she had also taken the initiative to kiss Lux and even pinned him down on the picnic blanket, kissing him passionately on the lips.
'There must be something very wrong with me,' Iris thought. 'That was my first kiss, yet I gave it to him without any second thoughts. But… being kissed by him felt so good.'
The young lady's face turned a shade redder when she also remembered the thing that happened afterward.
While she and Lux were kissing, he moved to switch positions with her. This time, she was the one being pinned down on the blanket, while the young man was above her.
His hand then snaked toward her breasts and gently groped them through her clothes.
Iris was surprised at first and wanted to pry his hands away, but before she could do that, she felt herself losing strength as if her whole body had turned to jelly.
The only thing she could do was hold onto Lux's wrist as he lovingly kneaded her softness with a look of longing on his face.
If there was an outsider watching them, they would think that the one forcing Lux to knead her chest was Iris, who had muffled moans escaping her lips.
At that point, Iris no longer had any strength to resist any of his advances. She even thought that Lux would take her then and there and that she would probably not hate him for it.
But, the Half-Elf didn't go that far.
Perhaps he came back to his senses and apologized to her after seeing her flushed expression.
Helping her fix her crumpled clothes, he waited for her to recover a bit of her strength before bringing her back to the Academy in a princess carry.
"Why do I feel relieved and disappointed at the same time when he didn't go further?" Iris muttered, burying her head in the pillow due to the embarrassment that she was feeling. "I didn't think that I was this loose as a woman. What is happening to me? Why are my heart and body reacting this way toward him? Are we THAT compatible?"
Iris' mind was in a mess, unable to think properly about whether she liked Lux or not.
While the young lady had locked herself up inside her room, the Half-Elf headed straight to Aurora's room, where his lover was already waiting for him.
"Why didn't you go all the way?" Aurora asked in a curious tone. "Iris was ready for it."
"She might be, but I was not." Lux sighed before sitting down on top of Aurora's bed. "I was almost unable to hold myself back. If not for the fact that I was afraid that making love with her could trigger her memories to come back, I would have already done it."
The Half-Elf sighed a second time as he looked at his hands.
Hands that had held Iris's soft breasts, which he had missed so much.
"I see. So you want to take the slow approach." Aurora nodded in understanding. "This way, even if she recalls her past memories from you, the new memories that you have made with her won't disappear."
"Yes," Lux nodded. "This is what I plan to do for now. Slowly but surely create new memories with her so that even if she suffers from a headache, there will be a waypoint in her memories she could return to."
Simply put, Lux planned to create anchors that would embed themselves deep inside her subconscious mind, allowing the young lady to retain the new memories that they had created together.
"Are you planning to do the same for Cai?" Aurora inquired.
"Yes," Lux replied. "Iris has received too much stimulation for the day. She needs some time to rest and reset her emotions. Tell me. Did you find anything while you were sharing her senses?"
Aurora smiled sweetly before nodding her head.
"Yes," Aurora said. "At the beginning, she was doing her best to not look at you because it was making her heart flutter. Then, when you kissed her, her emotions burst forth. Her heart and body, which have been deprived of your love, finally lost control. That was why she pinned you down and took the initiative to kiss you of her own accord."
Aurora then held Lux's hands and looked at him straight in the eye.
"I'll just tell you this. I'm pretty sure that Cai will react the same way as Iris," Aurora stated. "Don't underestimate skinship. The more you touch them, the more their body will react to you.
"Even if you only hold their hand, you will make ripples in their subconscious minds, allowing you to plant your seed deeper into their minds, making them unable to forget the current you."
Lux nodded. "Thank you, Aurora. I'm glad you're here with me."
Just as the two were about to kiss each other, they heard a knock on the door, startling the both of them.
"Lux, are you there?" Alicia's voice called out from the other side of the door. "The Headmaster wants to talk to you. He said it's important."
Aurora sighed before giving the Half-Elf a quick peck on his right cheek before urging him to go and see his Father.
Lux obeyed and headed straight to the Headmaster's Office to find out what important things he wanted to discuss with him.
The moment he entered the room, he saw three people inside.
Alexander, Maximilian, and Keane's Master all had solemn expressions on their faces.
"The Abyssal Lords have grouped together and launched an attack," Alexander stated.
"Where did they attack?" Lux asked in a cold tone. "Did they attack Karshvar Draconis? The Crystal Palace? Or did they target the World Tree of Espoir Frieden?"
"They targeted neither of those places," Alexander replied. "The Abyssal Army had started to move, and from what the Scouts of the Grand Alliance had reported, all of them seemed to be headed away from the center of Elysium."
"Isn't that a good thing?" Lux asked.
But, before Alexander could even answer Lux's question, a familiar voice reached his ears.
"Master, I just saw a vision. The Abyssal Army is going to launch a massive invasion," The Oracle of the Divine Army, Maeve, said in an anxious tone. "And their target is going to be the Kingdom of Agartha."
Lux's expression turned icy the moment he heard the Oracle's vision. He then shared this news with Alexander, Maximilian, and the Void before leaving the Headmaster's Office to talk to Aurora, whose kingdom was about to be attacked by dozens of Abyssal Lords of the Demigod Rank.
