If everything goes as before, I should be able to absorb her power, or more precisely, Aris’s power.
‘What happens next?’
After absorbing the raging power of water, will it become calm for me?
“Will this rain really stop as I think?”
The worst-case scenario is that I might go berserk too.
“But I can’t just not try.”
Shaking off hesitation, I lowered my hand as it was. I could feel the moist, cool texture of Aris’s skin, covered in sweat.
It was exceptionally cold. Strange, considering the room wasn’t that cold with the fire burning.
Even though I touched it, the tattoo wriggled like a living creature. My legs trembled with tension.
Several seconds passed like that.
“……?”
Nothing happened.
There was no refreshing sensation or coolness that swept over me when the tattoo of the priest made contact. ‘Is it a failure?’
At that moment, the movement of the tattoo stopped.
Frozen.
Without thinking, I tried to remove my hand, but it didn’t come off. Instead, it seemed to pull me in.
“Ah!”
As if it had been waiting, the tattoo shuddered. The previous wriggling seemed like a joke, as the tattoo convulsively erupted from Aris’s back like a bundle of daggers.
And ‘it’ penetrated my palm.
The first thing I felt was a freezing cold.
Through the hand stuck to the back like glue, the tattoo forcibly pushed itself in.
The power that was raging inside Aris was transferring to me.
It seems that the power of the rampaging priest can also be absorbed!
There was no time to rejoice in the accuracy of the speculation.
It was completely different from the absorption before. Incomparable.
It felt like forcibly embracing a massive block of ice.
‘Where does this power come from? Is this the blessing of the gods?’
It’s too sharp and cold for that.
At that moment, while enduring the indescribable weight of the power, Aris’s last remaining tattoo pierced through me.
Thunk!
A sharp force penetrated my heart as if a knife were stabbing it.
Cold. An indescribably cold feeling spread.
Goosebumps ran from head to toe.
“Ugh!”
My legs buckled, and I knelt on the floor.
Holding the convulsing hand, I looked up. Aris, who had been trembling just a moment ago, was now lying weakly on the bed. Soon, the sound of her feeble breath could be heard.
Lowering my head, I examined my hand. The hand, through which Aris’s power had flowed, trembled uncontrollably. The trembling that started as a slight shiver was gradually intensifying.
The cold energy flowed through the veins.
Feeling wonder at the powerful force was only for a moment. An unimaginable and terrible coldness invaded.
Could my heart freeze entirely like this?
I clenched my fist with my still trembling lips.
‘I won’t die like this, right…’
At the moment when my trembling lips were tightly closed, noise spread in my head.
And the next moment.
“I hate it, hate it, hate it! Human! Hate it!”
Screams echoed in my ears. As if a child were screaming, I covered my ears with both hands.
But it was futile. The voice was being transmitted directly to my brain.
Various intense emotions overflowed like a boiling pot.
Anger.
Hatred.
The target is…
“I hate it, hate it, hate it! Human! Hate it!”
It’s a human.
“Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it! Hate it, hate it, hate it!”
“Uweeek!”
My stomach turned. It quivered as if my organs were churning.
When the thought crossed my mind that I would rather die like this, the pain miraculously faded like a lie.
“……. ”
A silent room.
Swoooosh…
The sound of pouring rain seemed to come from a distance.
I slowly raised my head.
“Umm…”
Aris mumbled in her sleep and turned to the other side.
While looking at Aris sleeping peacefully, I managed to get up.
The pain disappeared, but traces remained, making my bones ache.
Squelch, I stepped back. I suddenly looked down at my trembling arms.
A bizarre tattoo that had spread over Aris’s neck and back was now on me.
The tattoo, coiled around my hand and arm, wriggled like a snake.
The rampage was not over yet.
Thud.
“Why is it so late for something inside…”
Giovanni, who saw me, widened his eyes.
“Your hair?”
Whether it was relief or not, the power that filled my entire body was released.
He embraced me as I collapsed.
His warmth was excessively sweet. I delved into his arms like a child seeking its mother.
“Your body feels like ice.”
“……. ”
“What happened?”
His voice only echoed in my ears, and I couldn’t hear it properly.
I focused on controlling the power that slowly began to rampage from within.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
