Nicole remained unmoving as Ethan shared his mory of what had happened inside the Painting of Enlightennt with her.
Ethan initially wanted to omit the things that happened between him and the Witch of the East.
But in the end, he decided to bare everything to her.
This way, his best friend would understand his sudden change in perception when it ca to having a close skinship with her.
Several minutes later, Ethan pulled back and looked at the young lady, whose eyes were still closed, deeply imrsed in the mories that he had shared with her.
Nicole stayed in that state for nearly half an hour more before she opened her eyes.
Her gaze was unfocused at first, but as the seconds passed by, clarity returned to them.
She then looked at Ethan, and to the young man's surprise, the young lady only smiled at him.
"It seems that soone had the ti of his life," Nicole said in a teasing tone. "Tell honestly, did you enjoy it?"
Ethan sighed after seeing the mischievous smile on his best friend's face.
It seed that instead of making Nicole feel embarrassnt the sa way that he did, the mories he passed over to her only served as her blackmail material against him.
"At that ti, I wasn't thinking of enjoying it," Ethan replied honestly. "But yes, I would be lying if I said that I didn't enjoy embracing the YOU from that world. Happy now?"
Nicole nodded. "It's fine. It's not a big deal since the one that you embraced wasn't the real thing. The real one is more amazing, you know?"
Ethan subconsciously glanced at Nicole's chest before shaking his head to clear out the thoughts that suddenly erged in his mind.
'Don't let your dreams remain dreams, young man,' Sebastian said in a mischievous tone. 'Immortality is there. Take it, it's yours!'
Ethan's Other Half, on the other hand, just laughed because he was finding his comrade's antics quite funny.
"Okay. Co here, and let give you a hug," Nicole spread her arms wide. "That way, you can continue to beco my bed warr."
"You... hah... forget it," Ethan sighed as he moved to hug his best friend. "Here I am feeling troubled about it, and you just shrug it off as if it is just a passing breeze."
"Well, it's not like I'm indifferent or uninterested in the act itself," Nicole replied as she hugged Ethan.
She then moved her lips beside his ear and whispered.
"Right now, I don't have any intention of relinquishing this power that I possess," Nicole whispered. "However, when I am about to kick the bucket, I will think of you."
"There is also sothing else that I need you to know," Ethan comnted.
He then told her about the Progenitors and the danger his body was currently facing.
The look of amusent on Nicole's face turned to shock, then to dread in less than a minute, making Ethan smile faintly.
"But know this," Ethan said as he held Nicole's hand firmly. "If I am given a choice between saving you and avoiding a fight against Progenitors, I will choose you anyti. So, don't worry, and do your best to master your Legacy at your own pace."
After absorbing Nicole's Legacy of Absolute Zero in the world of the painting, he gained a bit of information about it.
He made sure to pass this information to Nicole as well so that she could use it as a guideline to be able to master her Legacy.
"Thank you, Ethan," Nicole said. "I didn't know I ant that much to you."
"Of course, you an that much to ," Ethan replied. "I would not be here where I am right now without your help. In this lifeti, you are one of my teachers who has taught how to fight."
Nicole smirked before laying down on the bed.
"My head still hurts a bit due to that mory transfer," Nicole said. "Now, be a good hug pillow, and let hug you for a while."
"Such a slave driver." But Ethan obeyed the young lady's request and allowed her to use him as her hug pillow.
A few minutes later, Nicole's sleeper breaths reached Ethan's ears.
Truth be told, ever since he disappeared, Nicole had not been able to sleep peacefully at night.
Part of it was due to worry, the other was because the gift that Ethan gave her had stopped working when the teenage boy disappeared.
Because of this, the coldness she was feeling accumulated, and the feeling beca more intense than before.
It was like using a maintenance dicine and then suddenly stopping taking it. The absence of the dicine made the symptoms return, and the ailnt beca much worse than it was before.
Now that Ethan was back, Nicole was finally able to feel relief, allowing her to fall asleep in his arms like a baby.
"Lilith, go to the Dud Manor for a while and tell the others that I will be a bit late," Ethan said to Lilith using telepathy. "I'll wait until Nicole wakes up on her own. It seems like she hadn't had a good rest for the past week."
"Understood," Lilith replied before jumping out of Ethan's shadow in her cat form.
Since Nicole might be sleeping for several hours, Ethan decided to sleep with her as well.
The heavy load in his chest was lighter now since he decided to co clean and tell his best friend everything that he knew about her Legacy, as well as the things that he experienced in the painting.
For so reason, Ethan felt more at ease as he held the young lady in his arms.
Although his body was still heating up due to her softness, and although her fragrance still reminded him of those intimate monts in the painting, his heart was no longer troubled and conflicted.
'It's just a normal physical reaction,' Ethan thought. 'As long as I don't think about it much, it will go back to how it was before.'
With these thoughts in mind, Ethan fell asleep without a care in the world.
Perhaps because he was too tired, he had a dream.
A dream where he and Nicole were doing intimate things together.
But unlike the one in the painting, the young lady in his arms was indeed more amazing and more spirited, making Ethan feel as if he had t his match in the ways of passionate
lovemaking.
A/N: Only one chapter today. I'm too tired from the Author et-Up I had yesterday, and I couldn't stop my eyes from drooping while writing this chapter.
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