"An emergency?" Mira repeated, her voice sounding with absolute disbelief.
She took a slow step into the room, the heavy glass doors sliding shut behind her.
Her sharp eyes darted from the soaked pink panties on the floor to the ripped blue sports bra over her chair.
"Alex, my lab smells like a cheap motel room," Mira said, crossing her arms over her chest.
Her data pad glowed softly against her crisp white coat. "Did you seriously break into my private workspace just to hook up with some girl?"
"No! No, Mira, I swear it's not what it looks like!" Alex pleaded, taking a step forward.
He kept his right hand shoved firmly in his pocket; he didn't dare pull it out.
"Then explain," Mira demanded, her tone flat and dangerous. "Because right now, I am five seconds away from calling Association Security."
Alex swallowed hard. His heart was hammering against his ribs so violently he thought it might crack them.
There were very few people in this world he actually trusted. Uncle John and Elena were family, but they wouldn't understand this.
Mira, however, was a genius researcher. If anyone could figure out the biological nightmare happening to his body, it was her.
But he had to be incredibly careful.
He could tell her about the physical changes. He could tell her about the pheromones.
But he absolutely could not mention the Survival Simulation System, nor the ancient Naagin Empress living inside his mind.
Those were his deepest, darkest secrets.
If the Gene Association found out he possessed an ancient ghost and a reality-bending system, he would be dissected alive.
"My... my body is mutating," Alex stammered, his voice trembling as he forced the half-truth out of his mouth. "Remember the Star Leaf extract you gave me to stabilize my new mana circuits?"
Mira frowned, her anger slightly faltering as her scientific mind caught the keyword. "Yes. It should have just cooled your pathways. Did you take it?"
"I took it last night," Alex nodded frantically. "But it didn't just calm the mana. It triggered something else. A... a shedding phase."
"Shedding?" Mira took another step closer, her eyes narrowing as she really looked at him.
Under the bright, harsh lights of the lab, the changes were impossible to hide.
She looked at his face. His skin was impossibly pale and flawless, completely free of any pores or blemishes.
His jawline had softened, his eyelashes were thicker, and his lips were full and flushed.
"Yes, I started shedding my skin, Mira," Alex confessed. "Twice. And it's... it's turning me into a woman."
Mira's breath caught in her throat. Her eyes widened as she stared at his soft, panicked face.
"Gender mutation? That... that's incredibly rare, not seen even in high-tier demon gene awakeners. What else, explain everything in detail?"
"Then there are these pheromones," Alex quickly continued, feeling a tiny spark of hope that she was actually listening to it.
"My body started leaking these heavy, sweet pheromones. I can't control them. They act like a crazy aphrodisiac on anyone who gets too close."
He pointed a shaking finger at the examination table, where Lily lay completely unconscious under the thick training towel.
"She was just trying to help me at the training hall," Alex explained, his face burning hot with deep shame. "She got exposed to my scent. And then... she accidentally came into contact with my bodily fluids."
Alex carefully avoided telling Mira exactly how Lily had ingested his fluids on the washroom floor.
"The moment she drank my cum, her body just went crazy," Alex said, his voice cracking.
"Mira, it mutated her… it's like a secondary growth spurt. Her breasts expanded, her hips widened, her hair got longer in a matter of minutes."
"Then she passed out. I didn't know what to do or where to go. If the instructor saw her like this, my life would be over!"
Mira stood completely frozen in the center of the lab. Her mind was processing the sheer impossibility of what Alex was telling her.
Bodily fluids capable of triggering instantaneous secondary physical maturation in another human being? Pheromones strong enough to break a person's mental defenses?
Slowly, the anger entirely left Mira's face, replaced by a burning, intense scientific hunger.
She walked past Alex.
As a Major researcher that focused on Mutated biological study, she got used to all kinds of scents and built up a strong resistance. Ignoring the heavy scent in the air, she approached the couch where Lily was sleeping.
She gently pinched the edge of the thick towel and pulled it back just enough to expose Lily's shoulder and the top of her newly grown, heavy C-cup breasts.
Lily let out a soft, breathy whine in her sleep, her flushed skin radiating a massive amount of heat.
Mira quickly pulled a sleek, silver medical scanner from her coat pocket. She ran the blue light over Lily's sweating chest and neck, with few other appraisal spells of her own.
Beep. Beep.
Mira looked at the digital readout on the scanner, her jaw dropping slightly.
"Her cellular division rate is off the charts," Mira whispered, her eyes glued to the screen. "Her muscle density, her fat distribution... it's all been aggressively optimized. The biological energy required to force this kind of rapid growth without killing the host is staggering."
"It's no wonder she was unconscious," She slowly turned her head to look at Alex.
"You did this to her?" Mira asked, her voice hushed with awe. "Just with your cum?"
"It was an accident!" Alex panicked, completely misunderstanding her tone. "I swear, Mira, I didn't want this to happen! You have to help me fix her before she wakes up!"
"Fix her?" Mira scoffed softly, shaking her head.
She tucked the scanner back into her pocket and looked down at the unconscious girl. "Alex, her body isn't damaged. From what I can see, it's just temporary."
"Her body will return back to normal as soon as the pheromones in her body begin to lose their effects."
"However, there must be some permanent side effects that cannot be reversed… but it won't be much."
Mira turned fully to face him, her sharp eyes scanning the baggy gray hoodie he was wearing.
"Take off your hoodie," Mira commanded, her tone switching instantly to a cold, professional doctor. "I need to see exactly how far your own feminization has progressed. If your body is producing this kind of volatile pheromones, I need to know what stage of mutation you are in."
Alex froze. His heart stopped.
Underneath the thick gray hoodie, he was still wearing the tight white women's sports bra Lily had given him, which was currently compressing his highly sensitive, puffy nipples.
"Mira... I..." Alex stammered, stepping backward, his cheeks flushing a deep, embarrassed red.
"Don't be shy now, Alex," Mira said strictly, pulling a pair of sterile latex gloves from a box on the counter and snapping them onto her hands. "Hehee… If you want my help hiding this mess, you are going to let me examine you. Take it off."
"Haven't seen you this flustered since our first meeting… Haha.. Come on… Take it off… Don't hide it!!"
"Or do you want me to do it for you?"