Rut Fever - Chapter 4

What the hell is he saying, that damn High Priest?

That wasn’t the kind of language one would expect from the High Priest, who supposedly served the gods up close. What about my pussy? It was a word I was hearing for the first time, but why did I understand what it meant?

This situation, being dragged around by my hair, was incredibly humiliating. I wanted to slap Asha’s hand away, but the problem was that I didn’t have the strength to do so.

Asha stared down at me, who couldn’t resist at all, then lowered his head and suddenly brought his face close to mine. All I could think was that I had to avoid him. I tensed up, wondering what he was going to do, and he seriously flared his nostrils in front of me and smelled me.

‘What’s he doing…?’

He sniffed a few times like an animal, then tilted his head.

“They said there’s a special scent that drives men crazy, but I guess it doesn’t work on humans.”

That made me think of the ‘adult scent’ Robel had mentioned. Robel definitely knew about the heat cycle.

To know and only lightly explain it with a nice-sounding phrase like ‘adult scent.’ If he had told me it was such a terrible symptom, it would have been better. Even if I was mentally prepared, it wouldn’t have changed the pain.

“Haa… Asha— Ugh!”

I didn’t even have the strength to get angry right now. The pain, as if my uterus was being squeezed repeatedly, was so irregular that I would rather lose consciousness. My vision was blurry, and I couldn’t control anything.

“Oh. I was in such a hurry that I didn’t prepare anything. I’m very excited in many ways right now. I feel a great sense of elation at the thought that I can finally finish this annoying research and go back. All thanks to you.”

I wanted to ask for some medicine. It felt more painful than when I was shot with an arrow. I was still trapped in a hot inferno, and it was agonizing.

Asha, not seeming to notice my groaning pain, simply let go of my hair, causing my face to slam into the bedsheets.

“I should go wash my hands a bit. Wait a moment. I’ll go prepare.”

Prepare what? Just bring me some medicine first.

Asha’s footsteps faded away, and eventually, he opened the door and left. What a disaster.

As time passed, I felt strange sensations all over. The high fever and the squeezing of my internal organs were still there, but I felt moisture between my legs, and my crotch felt slippery.

I wasn’t completely ignorant about sex, so I knew even though I didn’t want to. I was getting aroused.

“Ugh… haa, aah—”

Now, even rubbing my cheek against the blanket felt stimulating. I rubbed my whole body against the blanket, awakening and summoning the sexual desire that had been dormant in the depths of my being.

I shouldn’t be doing this, I knew instinctively. I realized that if I felt sexual desire and was stimulated, the pain of my uterus contracting would subside a little.

I had tried masturbation out of curiosity a few times while living alone in that deep forest. I didn’t have any experience with men, but I was confident that I knew quite a bit about sex. When I was full of curiosity, I would turn into a cat every night and go down to the village and see all sorts of things.

‘But I can’t masturbate now. Asha will laugh at me again.’

I understood that in my head. But my hands disobeyed my commands.

While lying face down on the blanket, I fondled my breasts with one hand, filling my palm. The other hand passed over my abdomen and slipped inside my underwear. The inside of my underwear was soaked and slippery, filled with arousal-induced fluids.

“Aah…!”

As soon as I ran my finger along the cleft, a jolt ran down my spine like a lightning strike. It was a completely different thrill than when I usually masturbated. Usually, I would end with clitoral stimulation, but if I stimulated it now, I might fall into a waterfall of pleasure that I couldn’t handle.

Maybe the saying that it could be calmed down with sex was true.

Since pleasure was much better than pain, I put the blanket in my mouth, bit my lip, and gently rubbed my wet, trembling vulva as if comforting it. The wet sounds became increasingly sticky, and I was lost in ecstasy, enjoying the light stimulation. Even a light touch of my wet finger on my clitoris caused a secret pleasure to surge, and my waist twisted involuntarily.

“Living alone in the forest, so this is how you relieved your desires?”

I was so focused on my own comfort that I didn’t even realize Asha had returned. Even though Asha’s mocking voice echoed right above my head, I couldn’t stop the act of steadily building up pleasure. Apart from the embarrassment, my hands wouldn’t stop. I became even more impatient, my body heated up, and I chased only pleasure.

Asha seemed to notice something and forcibly pulled my hand away from playing between my legs.

“Stop. My research hasn’t even started yet.”

“Ugh…”

“That kind of coquetry won’t work. Well, it’s not difficult to stick mine in, but try to make me want to.”

Was I hearing nonsense because of the fever? Was I dreaming?

Belatedly, I felt a strange sensation on my arm, which was held in his hand. I looked down and saw Asha wearing tight-fitting white gloves. The slightly soft and slippery material of the gloves covered up to his wrists, as if proving that he was a germaphobe.

Asha followed my gaze and looked down at his hand, smiling brightly. What was so funny?

“What, did you want me to put my fingers in? That will also depend on you, right? Of course, for a kid like you to seduce me… it would take more than just ordinary effort.”

I couldn’t help but wonder if the title of High Priest was a lie. I couldn’t imagine that a holy and sacred High Priest would utter such vulgar words.

Give me back the pure image of the High Priest in my imagination!

“Then let’s start the research. Now, first, the subject should lie straight.”

“I, can’t move—”

I wanted to argue that he had seen me unable to move from exhaustion since earlier, but Asha acted faster. Before I could finish speaking, he flipped my body over like flipping meat.

Even lying on my back and looking at the ceiling, I was too exhausted to do anything but catch my breath. How long would this last? If I really needed to have sex to calm it down, Robel should have been here, not that pervert Asha.

“Stay still.”

I wanted to retort that I would stay still since I couldn’t even think of moving, but I didn’t even have the energy to do that. Fortunately, the pain in my stomach had disappeared, so I felt somewhat alive. I really thought I was going to die from the pain earlier.

But what kind of research was he going to do? If he wanted to learn more about the heat cycle, surely he wasn’t just going to watch me writhe in pain? I hoped that the purpose was treatment, but looking at Asha’s actions, it didn’t seem like the latter…

“You look more normal than I thought? The fever seems to be the same, but how’s the abdominal pain?”

Asha, who had been moving busily on his own, sat down, pulling a chair close to me, as if he had finished organizing things. I barely lifted my heavy eyelids and answered with difficulty.

“A little, better.”

“What were the symptoms?”

“…It felt like my insides were being torn in half. It was a very painful feeling.”

“Is it true that the pain occurs irregularly?”

He muttered to himself, then got up and sat on the edge of the bed. He sat at my head, so my head fell back limply.

“They say that when the heat cycle comes, even a touch of a human hand can cause great pleasure. So, if I do this…?”

Asha’s gloved hand brushed over my eyes, startling me. Soon, the palm of his hand landed on my right cheek and gently stroked it.

As he said, a chilling pleasure instantly permeated the cheek he touched, and a groan escaped me involuntarily.

“Aah…”

Asha’s eyes seemed to narrow, and soon he slowly traced my lips with the tip of his index finger. It wasn’t skin-to-skin contact, but even that was electrifying, and my closed lips slowly parted. Not missing the opportunity, his index finger entered my mouth and stirred roughly.

“Ugh, h…”

His finger, pressing and rubbing my tongue, moved flexibly. The glove felt strangely slippery, making me feel strange. It felt like a tongue had entered, like kissing. I had never kissed before, so I couldn’t compare it.

“This level of fever is usually difficult for a normal human to endure with a sane mind. Is it because the Navi are cats that their body temperature is different? That’s one thing, but… Jay.”

“Yes, Lord Asha.”

Jay was here?

I suddenly heard Jay’s voice and rolled my eyes, but he wasn’t visible in my field of vision.

“Take off all her clothes, starting with the dress.”

Even though I wasn’t in a completely sane state due to the fever, I understood well enough what Asha had just said. He was telling him to strip me naked in front of him.

No, even if I were a Navi, I was no different from ordinary humans who felt shame. Wasn’t this harassment disguised as research?

“Then, excuse me, Lady Lua.”

Jay, who had approached me, carefully lifted me up and sat me down. I was still unable to support my body, so he helped me lean against the canopy post erected at the end of the bed.

It was a kind thing to do, but I knew that this was not help for me but to obey Asha’s orders, so I couldn’t bring myself to say thank you. Jay boldly untied the straps of my dress, gathered the skirt, and lifted it over my head to take it off.

Now, I was only left with underwear and a slip that barely covered my thighs, and even that was soaked with sweat and clung to my body, revealing all the lines I wanted to hide.

“Take it all off. There’s something I need to check.”

“Yes.”

If I had any energy left, I would rather take it off myself, but it didn’t feel good to be undressed by someone else’s hands. Well, what could I do? There was no priest who would refuse the orders of the heavenly High Priest, and I wouldn’t see a good outcome if I resisted, so I obediently complied.

In the meantime, what was strange was that while I felt a thrilling pleasure when Asha’s hand touched me earlier, I didn’t feel any particular stimulation when Jay’s hand brushed against me.

Did the heat cycle also discriminate against gender? If so, wasn’t it almost like a different personality?

The underwear covering the important parts inside the damp slip was tied with straps on both sides, making it easy to take off by simply untying the straps. When I first saw this underwear, I scoffed at who it was made for.

The underwear that had been covering my crotch was also soaked with sweat, so there were no traces of me not being able to control my excitement earlier. That was a relief. It would have been more embarrassing if everything had been visible.

“It’s all done, Lord Asha.”

Even after seeing me in my natural, naked state, Jay didn’t lose his composure. Did he experience this often? More than that, now that I was stripped naked, it was a little cooler, which was somewhat better. The cool air in the air pleasantly permeated my skin.

Being naked wasn’t unfamiliar. Whenever I turned into a cat and then back into human form, I was always naked. In the early days of living in the forest, I lived almost entirely as a cat. Once, when Robel secretly came to visit me, I was so happy that I didn’t even think and transformed into human form in front of Robel.

I still clearly remember Robel’s flustered expression, his face turning red as if it would explode. He was such a cute man. I wanted to make him cry once.

“Ugh…”

As soon as I imagined Robel’s face with tears streaming down, heat suddenly surged from my lower abdomen. I felt hot from the top of my head to the tips of my toes in an instant.

“Jay, you can leave now.”

“I will leave.”

“Tell everyone not to come near this place. No matter what sounds you hear from this room, never come in. That’s an order.”

“Yes, Lord Asha.”

Asha’s voice was so fierce that it wouldn’t be strange if someone died here. Was that dying person me? He wouldn’t stab me while I was alive, asking what color my blood was, or dissect me to see how many layers my skin had, all in the name of Navi research, would he? Surely not.

…Is it the fever? I’m having such bizarre thoughts. But he did put his finger in my mouth and stir it around earlier.

Soon, the sound of the door opening and closing was followed by a silent tension. I was sitting with my back against the bedpost, so I couldn’t see what Asha was doing. I could only pant and squeeze my eyes shut.

“If a normal human had this much fever, they’d be unable to breathe and would die. The Navi race has a slightly higher body temperature, so is that why he can withstand it?”

Asha’s voice came from above me. As if to prove he was next to me, his right hand suddenly reached out and brushed my messy hair away from my face.

“No heat rash either. Definitely unique in many ways.”

Then, he grabbed my arm, turned me to face him, and began to examine my body with great enthusiasm. With his eyes, not his hands.

“If you didn’t blurt out that you’re Navi, I’d think you was a normal human. It’s a suitable body for hiding your identity. Except for those eyes.”

Asha’s purple eyes flashed in my blurry vision. Are my eyes strange? I’ve looked at them in the mirror countless times, but I haven’t found anything unusual.

“Ugh!”

Then, the pain in my abdomen returned. Instinctively, I curled up and hugged my stomach with both arms. I think I hit his chest hard with my forehead. Or was that just my imagination?

“…You just aimed for my solar plexus with that rock-hard head. Is that revenge?”

No! Absolutely not! I wanted to say that, but I was in too much pain and could only groan. My whole body trembled as if convulsing, and intermittent pain like my intestines were being squeezed came, causing my back to arch and my mind to go blank.

“High fever and abdominal pain, so that was accurate information too. With side effects like this, it must be the price for stealing something that isn’t yours.”

I couldn’t hear or think about anything he was saying. This was not pain I could endure. Maybe someone insensitive to pain could, but not me. My heart would stop first.

After the pain subsided for a moment and I regained some consciousness, I could see my surroundings. I was kneeling on the bed, curled up and lying down, and Asha was sitting in a chair he had pulled next to me, legs crossed, observing me in a relaxed posture.

He’s so annoying. How can he be so human and yet so inhuman?

“Don’t just… watch me like that, can’t you help me a little? Bring me some medicine… or a painkiller.”

“You think medicine can solve what divine power can’t? No way.”

“So you’re telling me to just endure this pain that I don’t know when will end?”

“Well, there’s another way besides medicine, isn’t there?”

Another way. I know. ‘Intercourse,’ written in the note Asha showed me earlier. In other words, male and female copulation. It’s a very simple and sure way to get rid of this unbearable pain, but I have no experience.

I’ve seen it in theory a few times, so I know roughly how to do it. Above all, I thought my first time would definitely be with Robel.

“Then hurry, call Robel.”

“Lord Robel? Why?”

Why? Do I have to say it? I glared at Asha with resentment in my eyes. Then he smirked, raising only one corner of his mouth.

He definitely knows and is asking. He’s such a fox.

“I don’t have sex with just anyone. No matter how urgent it is. So—”

“I’m right here. Not just anyone, but your mating partner.”

Asha, smiling brightly, pointed to himself. I felt like I’d been hit in the back of the head.

Asha hates me. Judging by how he treats Robel, it doesn’t seem like he hates the Navi race itself, but I was curious why he hated me so much, even though we had just met and had no connection. But I didn’t really want to know.

But now I’m quite curious. Why would someone who hates me readily offer himself as a sex partner when I’m in pain?

“…Asha, you hate me, don’t you?”

“Yeah.”

Wow, he agrees right away without even thinking. And still with that expression that only he finds amusing.

But my body reacted differently. As soon as Asha’s purple eyes slowly scanned my naked body and stopped between my legs, the wet petals I had been caressing with my fingers contracted. I shuddered, feeling a strong tightening in my lower abdomen.

It was a reaction to lust. As proof, clear fluids flowed out from between my slightly dry legs, soaking my vulva.

Just one look and this happens? No way.