It's Not Night - Chapter 6
Bang! As an experiment, when he hit the iron pillar, the iron pillar was dented in the shape of his fist. His colleagues looked at him in astonishment. Dustin was surprised too when he hit it. He looked at his hand in disbelief. One of the closest colleagues shouted.
“Dustin Airak has Awoken!”
In this world, there have often been people who worked miracles with otherworldly powers. People grouped them together and called them the Awoken. However, the last Awoken who had been seen was several decades ago.
‘Am I an Awoken?’
Dustin, who had suddenly Awoken overnight, found a bright red ring-shaped pattern on his wrist amid the confusion. The pattern was similar to the magic circle that attacked him in the dungeon. But he didn’t know what it meant. Before long, a part of the red ring lost its light and disappeared.
It wasn’t until he used his strength a few more times to shatter half of the practice range, Dustin realized that the ring pattern was related to the power he had used, considering that part of the ring lost some of its light each time he used it. It was like a wax candle that shrunk as it burned.
‘What happens when all the light is lost?’
When he first saw the pattern, the whole thing was shining. What would happen if he continued to use his powers and the ring no longer shines? Would he simply be out of power? Besides, if it wore out the power, there must be a way to refill it.
So Dustin decided to find out. He decided to use up all of his power at once.
If Andra had seen it, it was a choice she would have called ignorant.
With the permission of the academy president and faculty, Dustin was allowed to use the large abandoned vacant lot at the academy. Little by little he tested the limits of his power. He began to gradually increase the range of power he could use. The force that had bent the iron rod shook the ground in a matter of days and made a huge pit.
People looked at Dustin in awe.
But everything came with a price.
Dustin, who was steadily exhausting his strength and wiping out the light from the ring, was faced with an unexpected ambush. After he used his power, his body and his manhood became hot, and his libido began to increase like crazy. What makes Dustin crazy above all else was…
It was just that he couldn’t make it to the end.
When he masturbated, he felt no pleasure as if he were touching a rock, and he tried to seduce a woman, but paradoxically, when he stood in front of a woman, he couldn’t even get an erection. Even if he tried to borrow the power of a drug, his mind and body were perfectly fine as if the drugs had no effect on an Awoken’s body.
Dustin couldn’t climax no matter what he did.
His manhood only spilled opaque fluid, making him feel a horrifying pain, but it didn’t solve the constantly raging sexual desire.
‘Sh*t!’
Dustin banged his head against the wall. He exercised every night to shake off his sexual desire, but now he was at his limit. It did get better for a while when he used his power, but if his power and sexual desire were linked, then his sex drive would only be doubled as much as he used it, making the vicious cycle repeat.
It had only been five days since he became an Awoken and began to use his powers.
The ring on his wrist had lost more than half the light, and Dustin was going crazy because he couldn’t climax at all.
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‘Was it all a fantasy?’
Andra closed the last book and leaned back against the wall. Dozens of books and wads of paper were frantically scattered around her.
As soon as Andra returned to the academy from the ruins, the first thing she did was collect data related to the dungeon. She was investigating what had happened to her. However, none of the sources told Andra any information related to her experiences in the dungeon.
What’s more, now that a few days had passed, even her memory was fading. It was as if she had dreamt it all.
‘Yeah, maybe it was just a dream created by magic…’
At first, the dream itself was clear when she just woke up, but it became murky after that.
In fact, that dog-like incident couldn’t possibly be real.
Andra then stretched out with a slightly refreshed expression on her face. Even though she was so determined as she searched, she couldn’t find any information related to it, so she thought maybe it was really just a dream.
Andra threw the book she was holding to the table and got up. She took a deep breath and thought about getting a good sleep. During all four days of searching for any related materials, she couldn’t decide whether it was real or a fantasy, and she had been filled with anxiety. Now, it seemed like she’d be able to sleep with her legs stretched out in peace.
“What’s the trouble with that Airak bastard?”
It was unlucky to be tied up with that son of a bitch in the first place. No matter how randomly the grouping was selected, she had to be paired with that vulgar northerner. Andra was lying on her bed, hugging the pillow in her arms, and clenching her teeth tightly.
For the past four years, Andra and Dustin hadn’t much to do with each other, even though they were studying at the same academy. Dustin was a student of knighthood and Andra was a student of archeology, so the range of their activities within the academy did not overlap at all.
Thanks to that, the days they saw each other face to face within a year could be counted on just one hand, and even meeting by chance was unlucky. Unless it was inevitable that they should be in the same place, the two of them avoided each other on their own.
It was possible because they literally hated each other.
‘I don’t want to see him again until graduation.’
Andra, who was looking at the ceiling, quickly raised her upper body.
‘Let’s find a replacement partner now.’
There’s also the matter of the dungeon, so if she talked to the professor carefully, she might be allowed to change partners. Wasn’t it because Dustin Airak couldn’t properly escort her? Instead of falling into the dungeon together, the escort should have held her hand so that she wouldn’t fall.
Andra hurriedly got her clothes on and left the dormitory. Less than a month left for this quarter’s training period. There wasn’t enough time that she could leisurely stay at the dormitory if she wanted to find a knight student to replace Dustin. She ran to the professor’s lab, her long hair cascading behind her.
There wasn’t much time left for the professor to leave work.
Andra, who had run a 20-minute distance in 10 minutes, gasped as she entered the building. It was already the evening, so the building was relatively quiet. Andra caught her breath and slowly climbed the steps. The professor’s lab was located on the 7th floor.
“Did you hear that? It is said that Lord Airak has become an Awoken.”
Andra, who arrived on the 7th floor, stopped for a moment when she heard a voice coming from behind the corner. Unknowingly, she held her breath at the familiar name.
‘Dustin Airak is an Awoken?’
“I heard in physics class. It’s a skill that goes well as a knight.”
“But after awakening, there must have been a problem with the body. That person is…”
The voice faded again. Then Andra came out of the corner. At the end of the hallway, the backs of the two women, who were supposed to be the voice’s owner, were seen moving away. Andra narrowed her brow and folded her arms.
‘Is it because of him that the academy is stirring?’
As soon as she arrived at the academy, she was confined to the library and archives unless she was in the dormitory. So she hadn’t been able to properly hear rumors circulating within the academy. Instead the atmosphere was so chaotic, she was just guessing what was going on. But of course, the cause was Dustin Airak.
‘How long has it been since he’s been back to have such rumors following him already?’
After all, the vulgar northerners couldn’t stand still for even a moment. Andra clicked her tongue. But in any case, it was really unexpected news that Dustin had become an Awoken.
Then Andra hurriedly ran to the professor’s lab at the alarm clock that signaled the time. Dustin Airak didn’t matter now. It was most important to her to meet the professor and ask to change partners.
When she arrived in front of the lab, Andra was soaked in sweat. She cleaned her tangled hair and knocked politely after taking a deep breath. But when she heard no sound from inside, she carefully opened the door and stepped inside.
“Assistant Professor Ren?”
As she entered the lab, what she immediately saw was the empty assistant room. Andra looked around, fanning the sweat on her forehead with her hand, and then she knocked on the professor’s door. However, the room was empty and she didn’t hear any signs of other people’s presence either.
“Where have you two gone…?”
There was a bag here, but the owner wasn’t there. It didn’t seem like they’d gone home yet, so Andra decided to wait for the professor for now. She sat with her bottom on the chair in one corner of the room.
No, she was going to sit down. But then someone slammed the door open and came in.
“Professor?”
Andra wondered if it was the professor who came into the room, so she got up and went to the door. But the person she found was neither Professor Bellott nor Assistant Professor Ren.
It was Dustin Airak.
“…What. Why are you here?”
Andra was perplexed. Because she never dreamed she would see Dustin Airak again. And in her professor’s lab.
Dustin, on the other hand, glanced inside, made sure no one was there, and locked the door. Click. The sound of the door being locked echoed out loudly. At the same time, Andra could feel goosebumps running through her body.
It was because Dustin’s eyes were a little odd, just like the gaze she had seen in the dungeon. It wasn’t completely the same, but she was anxious at the eyes that looked like things were about to go crazy.
“Wh-what? Why did you lock the door?”
Instinctively, Andra picked up one of the ashtrays that was around her. She thought she would break Dustin’s head and run away. Somehow it felt like she had to.
“I don’t know what business you have here, but you just stay there and—”
“Andra Avelin.”
Dustin cut-off Andra’s words and strode towards her. The distance between the two decreased sharply. Andra hurriedly backed away from him and put out the ashtray threateningly. But Dustin didn’t blink his eyes even once. He didn’t seem to care at all. He muttered under an unfamiliar tone.
“Let’s try it once to understand it.”
“What do you mean—your words don’t make sense, ah!”
Dustin very easily grabbed Andra’s wrist, which was holding the ashtray. Because of that, Andra lost her balance and leaned towards Dustin. Then Dustin grabbed Andra with one hand and draped it over his right shoulder. Andra shook her body in astonishment as she was hanging upside down on Dustin’s shoulder in an instant.
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( e/n: the first part of this chapter confirms that Dustin is, in fact, a himbo, and we love him for that lmao )