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"...Mayumi, your tail and horns..."

It seems that due to Mayumi Haga's own weakness, she was unable to retract her form during the process of returning to human form.

Hitomi Tono asked with great concern, "Is this alright?"

Mayumi Haga was unable to answer immediately.

Her vision was blurry, with only Hitomi Tono's face slowly becoming clear. A strange sensation washed over her; a surge of heat rose within her. If she weren't unable to use elemental magic, even her simple breaths would likely be burning with fiery heat.

She instinctively reached out to stop Hitomi from getting any closer, her voice hoarser than usual: "Hitomi... don't... don't come any closer. Something's strange."

Hitomi Tono didn't understand why, but she did as she was told.

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After the initial examination, Mayumi Haga and Hitomi Tono returned to Mayumi Haga's home together with the examination report.

Mograine, sitting on the table, got excited when she heard someone come home. After all, no one else had been home for a while, and she, a water nymph, had been quite lonely by herself. She really wanted to talk to someone: "You're back... Huh? Mayumi, what's wrong?"

As Mayumi Haga was helped into the room by Hitomi Tono, her fair face was flushed red, and her eyes were already glazed over, indicating that she was feeling very unwell.

Tono Hitomi is considerably shorter than Haga Mayumi, making it rather difficult for her to support him. Fortunately, even though she was feeling unwell, Haga Mayumi didn't put all her weight on Tono Hitomi.

She can actually walk on her own, but her speed is somewhat affected.

So Hitomi Tono flew directly to her front door and then opened it.

Faced with Megaran's question, Hitomi Tono gave an awkward smile.

This was not something she could explain for Mayumi Haga, but Mayumi was clearly a little out of it in order to suppress her instincts, and she always spoke a beat late, so there was nothing she could do.

Simply put, taking advantage of this weakness, Mayumi Haga, as a dragon, has entered her mating season.

Dragons are creatures with strong sexual desires and should spend all year round in a state of intense urges. However, before becoming a dragon, Mayumi Haga was first and foremost an exceptionally strict guardian of herself, unwilling to let such impulses control her, so she usually suppressed them.

Unable to release their pent-up desires, and with Mayumi Haga's willpower being so strong that it was difficult to break through, these long-accumulated sexual desires finally erupted during Mayumi Haga's period of weakness due to a lack of magic power.

That's right. In other words, Mayumi Haga is currently suffering from the backlash of her heat cycle. If she cannot replenish a large amount of magic power in time and release her excessive sexual desire, her body will remain in a state of high fever. In the long run, even the best physical condition will be damaged by the fever.

After diagnosing the condition, Dr. Terasaki Ayasa did not prescribe any medication, but instead asked Tono Hitomi to take Haga Mayumi back with her.

After all, this is something you can only solve yourself.

So this is the scene we see now.

After Tono Hitomi stammered and briefly explained the situation to Megaran, she felt Mayumi Haga, who was leaning against her, breathing more and more hot. Before she could react, Mayumi Haga grabbed her wrist and gently and proactively tugged at it a few times with an inviting tone.

Tono Hitomi thought to herself, "No way," but when she turned around, she bumped into Haga Mayumi's wet, misty eyes.

The other person's ears drooped in discomfort, their brows were tightly furrowed, and their thin lips were unconsciously slightly parted. Their lips, which were usually pale, were now tinged with a cherry pink from the heat, and their sharp canine teeth were faintly visible.

The scalding hot body enveloped Tono Hitomi, and the orange shower gel scent on her body seemed to transform into a more aggressive fragrance as the temperature rose, filling Tono Hitomi's nostrils.

When dragons are in heat, they release a pheromone used for courtship. This pheromone is usually only detectable by its own kind. Since Mayumi Haga has returned to human form, this pheromone has become an indescribably strong fragrance. Just by looking at the concentration, one can tell just how high Mayumi Haga's desires are right now.

As her desire surged, Mayumi Haga impatiently wiggled her beautiful, yet extremely revealing, tail, wrapping it around Hitomi Tono's calf. The sharp tip of her tail didn't scratch Hitomi; instead, it gently slipped inside her capri pants, touching the skin of her calf, which was noticeably cooler than her tail.

Those crimson vertical pupils contracted and then slowly dilated, the uncontrollable excitement making Mayumi Haga almost lose control of herself.

"...Sorry, you didn't really need to come over. I'll just go take a shower."

Her expression was still as serious as usual, but her bright red ears, restless tail, and even her forced tone made Hitomi Tono think she was a little aggrieved.

Tono Hitomi didn't say anything, and in fact, she couldn't say anything embarrassing. She just stood there without moving, and then opened the door to the room behind her.

After a moment of silence, Mayumi Haga seemed to be struggling and trying her best to restrain herself, but in the end she realized that this was a consensual situation, and her willpower was defeated at this moment.

So, she let out a long, dejected sigh—to be honest, Hitomi Tono found this gesture particularly, particularly, particularly cute—and then snuggled up to him, wrapping her arms around him and lifting him up in her arms.

The door to the room with the sign "Haga Mayumi" on it closed.

Main text: Chapter 205 Going Deeper

Megrana wanted to find the earplugs in the house, but she couldn't.

Mayumi Haga packed everything that might come in handy at an important moment into her backpack. Megaran didn't usually need to sleep with earplugs on, so she didn't buy any.

Just as she was wondering whether to stuff two crumpled pieces of paper into her mouth, a strange voice came from beside her: "Water demon? This is definitely a water demon's head, isn't it?"

Megrana was startled by the floating clouds that suddenly appeared in front of him.

The ghost lady, also dressed in a guardian outfit, returned to this house with Mayumi Haga.

Because she had used up a lot of energy pulling Hitomi Tono earlier, she had to rest in Ulzana's core for quite some time before she could manifest.

This sudden appearance startled Megrana, who was guarding the doorway.

"...The spirit of a guardian? What a joke! If a guardian really dies, wouldn't even the core be lost?" As the chieftain of the water tribe and one of the ancient races, Mograne also had some related knowledge in his mind.

She was surprised by the current form in which the clouds exist.

Generally speaking, the soul of a guardian is solidified into a "core" after a contract is signed. The strength of the core depends on the strength of the guardian's own soul and cannot be easily broken.

Soul solidification prevents guardians from having their souls carried away by the river of time after losing their physical life signs, thus enabling them to be resurrected with the help of the world's power.

But a problem arises: since the soul has a physical form, the death of the guardian is equivalent to the core being shattered, and even the soul disappears into the world.

Megrane had never even seen a form of existence like floating clouds.

What happened?! It looks like it's dead, but not completely dead.

Megraine was a freshwater fish and had never been to the waters where Labyrinth Island was located. Moreover, by then she had already led her people to migrate to the vicinity of the snow-capped mountains.

Therefore, being relatively isolated from information, she was unaware of the maze.

For most people in the Northern Continent, the existence of the labyrinth was merely a vague and unbelievable rumor. Its appearance at that time was simply a source of amusement for well-informed adventurers.

Moreover, the special rules of the labyrinth are a secret unknown to anyone except Mayumi Haga and Ukigumo.

What Megaran was unaware was that the labyrinth was essentially an ecosphere created by ancient wizards, completely isolated from the outside world. In that unique environment, the contract between the floating clouds and the guardians was largely rendered ineffective.

Floating Cloud can still revive and heal itself, and can still use blessings like "an eye for an eye," but a large portion of the restrictions in the Guardian Contract will be blocked in the dungeon.

For example, generally speaking, under the strong constraints of the world's consciousness, guardians cannot arbitrarily transfer their blessings to others and renounce their guardian status.

The Guardian Contract is a lifelong contract, and it will be enforced indefinitely unless the soul is worn down to the point where it is no longer possible to continue.

After Mayumi Haga received the blessing from the cloud within the labyrinth, the cloud naturally relinquished its guardian status and wandered the labyrinth as an unusual undead until Mayumi Haga arrived.

Later, when the calamity invaded, in order to gather all the limited power into the hands of Mayumi Haga, the world consciousness even loosened the restrictions on blessings, allowing the power of others to be used by Mayumi Haga.

Unfortunately, by that time, there were very few guardians who could still help Mayumi Haga, so Mayumi Haga only had a few blessing skills, and those blessings had many restrictions and could not be used at will.

Many of the Guardians' blessings have rather strict conditions for use. Compared to those blessings that require fulfilling some strange pre-cast animations, such as Mayumi Haga's [Self-Destruct], Fuukoku's [An Eye for an Eye], and Urzana's defensive skill, being able to use them anytime, anywhere is already considered drawing a good card.

After Fuyun transferred his blessing to Mayumi Haga, because he had been a guardian, his soul was nourished by the long river and was stronger than that of ordinary ghosts. He was also nourished by Mayumi Haga's dragon blood. Now that he has been released into the children's world, he has no sense of acclimatization.

It's lively and energetic, and can even come out and give Megranate a fright.

“But looking closely, your head-only version is still the scariest.” Fuyun was curious about the material of Mograine now. “How exactly is the True Bow made? Its head didn’t rot after being cut off, but instead turned into this…”

"You're being very rude," Megrana said, a hint of annoyance in her voice. Her attention shifted from the subtle noises inside the room, and she stared at Fuyun with deadpan eyes. "Shouldn't you introduce yourself before asking others?"

“Oh right, I’m Fukumo, you could say I’m Mayumi’s senior. And you are…” Fukumo was seriously considering Megaran’s place in this family.

Only a head remained, so all it could do was talk. I think I just saw this water demon eating, which means…

"Pets?" said Fuyun, the former guardian who always hunted down water spirits when they encountered them in his time.

Isn't Megarane's form of existence just like a decoration hanging on the living room wall? But since it can talk and eat, it should be responsible for making Mayumi happy, so it's definitely a pet.

Megrana rolled her eyes: "Who are you calling a pet? I'm a proper family member."

"Then what's wrong with your head?"

"...It was cut off by Mayumi."

"What did you do to make her cut your head off?" Fu Yun actually knew the water demon's violent nature, and also knew that although the guy in front of him looked like a head that could only rage in a helpless way, his teeth could actually bite through anything.

What she was curious about was why Mayumi Haga would leave this dangerous individual in her home.

She breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that it was Mayumi Haga who had personally killed Megaranie and removed his head.

Mayumi Haga is not a child without sense of propriety. Since she brought him home on her own initiative, it means that Megaran is currently being closely monitored, so there is no need to worry.

However, isn't this water spirit a little too concerned about Mayumi's private life?

Seeing Megranie quietly move to the door, scratching his head and trying to find out what was happening inside, Fuyun let out a sneer.

She listened intently for a while, and thanks to her rich experience, she accurately pointed out the current battle situation: "The real bow is still a bit lacking in skill."

"...Don't be so disrespectful to your elders!" came the voice of someone who had been eavesdropping.

Ulzana, still asleep inside the core, had no idea when her home had become so lively: zzzzz...

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"The spiritual vein has been ripped open again..." The phantom thief and the abyss gentleman stood beside the large hole and looked down, seeing the shadow of the inner world.

Behind them, the enormous skeleton lay silently asleep. The flesh and blood on the black dragon's skeleton had been completely melted away, leaving only this massive skeleton with remarkably beautiful bones.

The two figures appeared quite small compared to it.

Perhaps it was the black dragon's beautiful bones that the world's consciousness took a liking to, because it did not disappear along with its flesh and scales, but remained here, like a giant specimen.

To be honest, it's not just World Consciousness; Miss Phantom Thief and Gentleman of the Abyss are also quite fond of it.

Please, a keel bigger than a building is really cool!

"The spiritual veins should repair this hole on their own, right?" The Abyss Gentleman glanced down and then asked, "When exactly was this labyrinth created?"

"The maze isn't from the Otherworld; it only appeared shortly after I fell into it," the phantom thief explained, scratching her cheek. "Besides, the maze wasn't open while I was there."

In other words, the labyrinth was only officially activated after Mayumi Haga and the others arrived in the Otherworld.

...By the way, did the little girl who turned into a black dragon take away or destroy the central core of the maze?

The maze that remains now is just an empty shell, which Miss Phantom Thief can still tell at a glance.

However, now is not the time to explore the maze.

The Gentleman of the Abyss turned around, almost questioning the Phantom Thief: "Why are they able to leave the Otherworld in this way while we remain undetected? Is there something you haven't explained to me?"

Yes.

The Gentleman of the Abyss felt as if he had been deceived by the Phantom Thief.

Miss Phantom Thief kept saying she would find a way out of the underworld, but now, the three of them, including Mayumi Haga, who fell into this situation later than him, have all left, while he is still foolishly assisting Miss Phantom Thief.

This is simply incomprehensible.

He realized that the phantom thief was definitely hiding something from him.

At least the Phantom Thief's activity permissions and the description of "a person trapped between the inner world and the outer world" are not entirely consistent. She can freely access what she wants to access, while the Abyss Gentleman cannot.

The phantom thief chuckled, "Don't be in such a hurry, it's not time yet."

How could the Gentleman of the Abyss not be anxious? There are people at home waiting for him to return, but now he's left to work as a laborer for the Phantom Thief.

“Well, I can only say one thing: my goal isn’t just to get us out of this situation,” the phantom thief said sincerely. “And I won’t hurt anyone else, so don’t worry.”

How could I possibly feel at ease...?

The Gentleman of the Abyss finally realized that the Phantom Thief was quite shrewd, unlike her carefree older sister.

However, there was no other way. The Gentleman of the Abyss neither had the power to become a black dragon, nor had he now boarded Miss Phantom Thief's ship. He had no choice but to go down this dark path.

His already dark face looked even darker: "I hope you can be more honest with your business partners in the future."

Miss Phantom Thief shrugged.

Judging by the days, it should be almost here.

That time.

After this matter is over, all problems will be perfectly resolved.

,en

Mayumi Haga didn't look to be in good condition, but with Hitomi Tono taking care of her, Rika Sugiyama wasn't too worried about her.

Although Xiaotong is often a bit eccentric, she never lets you down when it really matters.

Moreover, Mayumi and Hitomi have always played together since they were little. The two of them support each other, so Sugiyama Rika is at ease.

So when Hitomi Tono suggested taking Mayumi Haga home after her medical check-up, Rika Sugiyama cheerfully replied, "Okay, you guys go back first, I'll check on the others."

In addition to observing the physical condition of other people, Sugiyama Rika also wanted to talk to Terasaki Ayasa.