Last Night's Vision Still Clung to Him.
Ren had woken up drenched in sweat.
The mirror. The blood. His own reflection smiling with black eyes.
And that voice—
"You died a virgin in your last life. Shall we fix that?"
He shook it off. Dream. Delusion. Whatever it was, it was over.
Or so he thought.
Seiren Academy – Nurse's Office
Kanon sat on the bed, cheeks pink, bandaged fingers tapping her lap.
"I… keep remembering it," she admitted. "The moment you touched me. It wasn't just pleasure. It was like something inside me melted and… became real."
Ren avoided her gaze. "You should see a therapist."
She laughed softly. "You are the therapist."
"I'm not—"
"Yes, you are. You're the only one who can reach people like me." Her voice trembled. "People who are broken."
Ren's stomach twisted.
Because deep down… he liked how she said that.
Later That Day – Velvet Society Archive Room
Akiho tossed a sealed folder on the table.
"Velvet Maiden #2. Mizuki Tenma. Class 3-A."
Ren frowned. "The track idol?"
Akiho smirked. "Yes. Gorgeous, loud, worshipped, and totally full of herself."
He opened the file.
[Subject File: Tenma, Mizuki]Age: 18Skill: [Kinetic Conversion – Sexual]Diagnosis: Psychosexual Energy OverloadDescription: Generates explosive kinetic bursts proportional to arousal. Dangerous. Has hospitalized three partners. One in a coma. Refuses to date. Shows signs of self-inflicted suppression.
"She explodes… when aroused?" Ren blinked.
"Literally," Akiho said. "A single orgasm could take out half a classroom."
Ren stared at the final note on the file:
"Subject may be suppressing masochistic urges. Subconscious death wish?"
That Night – Seiren Indoor Track Field
She ran like a storm.
Mizuki Tenma.
Black spandex, high ponytail, sweat gleaming down her shoulders. She moved like a weapon. Every footfall cracked against the ground like thunder.
Ren watched from the bleachers.
Suddenly, she stopped and looked right at him.
"I know why you're here," she said flatly.
Ren stiffened. "What—"
"You're that guy with the weird orgasm touch thing."
His face burned.
She smirked. "Relax. I'm not judging. I read the rumors. Nurse girl's been walking funny and humming pop songs for two days straight."
Ren coughed. "I'm not here for that."
"Then why are you following me?"
"Because you're in pain," he said quietly.
She blinked.
And then laughed. Not cruelly—just bitterly.
"Everyone thinks I'm just a slut bomb," she muttered. "But they don't know what it's like. To ache every time you're touched. Every brush of fabric, every glance, every stray thought—and boom, my body tenses like I'm about to go nuclear."
She stepped closer, her voice shaking now.
"I tried having sex once," she whispered. "He ended up in the hospital with shattered ribs. I crushed him. And I wasn't even close to finishing."
Ren didn't speak.
Her lips quivered.
"I want to feel it," she said. "Not fear it. I want someone to take me to the edge without breaking me."
Then—quietly:
"I want to be destroyed gently."
The Second Trial: Soft Detonation
She lay down on the padded mat in the gym's storage room.
Ren sat beside her, his fingers trembling.
"If it starts to hurt—"
"—You'll know," she whispered. "I'll explode."
He reached out. Hand hovering over her belly, just above the waistband of her shorts.
[Velvet Touch Activated]
Instantly, her breath hitched.
Ren felt it—a torrent of coiled energy rushing from her core.
He slowed his breathing. Focused. Don't push. Don't overwhelm. Let her ride it.
His fingers moved lightly across her navel.
She whimpered. But no detonation.
Instead, something strange happened.
Memories bled into him. Visions. Sounds.
Her as a little girl, watching her parents scream.
Her first kiss, when her power shattered the locker door.
Her crying alone in a bathtub, afraid to ever touch someone again.
Her legs shook.
Ren pressed his forehead to hers.
"Breathe. Stay with me."
She gasped.
"Why… are you still sane?" she whimpered.
And then it happened.
A perfect climax.
No pain. No blast.
Just release.
She wept.
And the room stayed whole.
Afterglow & Fallout
Mizuki sat curled in a towel, flushed and quiet.
"You're dangerous," she said.
Ren nodded. "I know."
"No. Not because of your power. Because you made me want to be broken. And you didn't even touch me like that."
A pause.
"Can I do it again? Later?"
Ren blinked. "What?"
She smiled.
"You're the first guy I could actually trust… to break me right."
Back in His Room – Midnight
[Velvet Touch – Level 3 Unlocked]New Ability: Resonance Field – Pleasure pulses can now affect multiple targets if linked emotionally.
New Trait: Sin Archive – Every climax now stores a memory fragment. WARNING: Viewing fragments may alter your own mental state.
Ren opened the new "Memory Fragment."
A vision flooded him—
Mizuki screaming in a room. Not from pleasure. From horror.Hands holding her down. Wires. Scientists. Akiho standing outside the glass wall… smiling.
Ren gasped.
It wasn't just Mizuki's past.
It was his.
He was there.
In the memory.
Watching.
Smiling with black eyes.
Final Line:
"The Velvet Eden is not a power. It's a curse.""And you… were its first god."
Chapter End