Thanks to my Harem, I Rise as the Dragon King-Chapter 20: I want answers—now!

«Professor Lustsilk, I want answers—now!» I burst out, flinging the office door open and slamming it shut behind me with the same force.

She’s seated at her desk, busy with paperwork. She wears reading glasses that make her even more irresistible, giving her that classic slutty-professor charm. But this is not the time to let myself wander into thoughts like that about her.

«Jade Kyndrake, so impatient. I’ve told you a thousand times I only see people by appointment, even if it’s to fuck you. As you can see, I’m quite busy—grading the second-year students’ exams. A complete disaster—the headmaster Eisenfaust won’t be pleased, even though it was fairly simple. I must admit the level has dropped sharply in recent years—that old man seems to be losing his usual austerity... maybe it’s time he stepped aside and left this role to someone more deserving. Anyway, if you can’t hold back your urge to fuck me, come back in a couple of hours. I should be able to spare half an hour for you.» she answers in an unusually cold, detached tone, not even sparing me a glance.

«You know damn well why I’m here, and I won’t leave until you explain what the hell happened the other night! Vadim killed both me and Selene, but for some reason she remembers nothing—neither Vadim’s Demon Crystal Release nor the battle that followed. The moment I died, I opened my eyes in my bed as if nothing had happened! This has your fingerprints all over it, doesn’t it? It was a scheme you set up to push me into using Shadow Magic, wasn’t it?! Answer me!» I demand fiercely, but she doesn’t even flinch. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

She gives me a fleeting glance from the corner of her eye, then goes back to the papers she’s grading.

«It was nothing but a dream... or rather, a nightmare,» she begins. «You wanted confirmation of the Demon Crystals’ existence, and I indulged you, that’s all. The one you faced—Vadim Thalukvar—harbors the power of Valthorax, the Nightmares Devourer, a creature frighteningly powerful yet just as hungry. From its very name, it’s not hard to guess what it feeds on.»

«Fear...» I mutter. «So... I was trapped in some kind of nightmare?»

Morgana nods.

«More or less. It was an illusion rather than a nightmare, since you were awake,» she explains with disarming ease, as if we were discussing the weather. «Valthorax can sense someone’s deepest fear and turn it into a vision so vivid it feels real. Hard to feed on someone’s fear without scaring them first, isn’t it? It’s normal that Miss Selene Amarrasse doesn’t remember anything, since it involved only you. It was over in the blink of an eye, even if it felt like endless minutes to you. Otherwise, if he had trapped you both in that illusion, who would have brought you back to Astralea in time for morning classes? The amnesia that hit you was nothing more than a side effect of shock and his magic.»

«In other words... we were his meal! And you knew about it!» I yell, raising my voice even more. «I owed him a debt — that tome he lent me and you so kindly returned,» she replies, icy and cutting. «I simply repaid the favor by sending him a young prey to feed on. But that’s none of your concern. You’re both unharmed, the tome is back in his hands, and Valthorax is full. A success in every respect.»

«You seem to forget that I’m the future king of Kristalia, while you’re nothing but a lowly teacher of a second-rate subject! No one makes a fool of me and my friends or uses me like this! Be glad we’re within Astralea’s walls, otherwise—»

«Otherwise, what will you do?» she hisses, casting me a glance that freezes my blood. A look so sharp it cuts straight into my soul. Then she goes back to her papers.

Wait... now that I think about it... what does it mean that Vadim’s Demon Crystal needs nourishment? Since when does that even happen? They’re crystals, not pets. Neither I nor Viktoria have ever done anything like that.

I ask Morgana these doubts, a trace of tremor and caution in my voice. But she doesn’t answer right away.

First she lowers her glasses slightly down her nose, then crosses her legs in an excruciatingly slow, calculated motion. Her thigh comes into view beneath the short skirt of her black dress, revealing a thin strip of lace from her red panties.

I swallow at that alluring sight. She’s so irresistible... I could rip those damn panties off with my teeth! And yet I force myself not to look too eager—playing into her game again would mean letting her manipulate me once more.

«You and Viktoria don’t feed your crystals simply because you don’t possess a Demon Crystal. Demon Crystals are powerful, but that power demands a price, and each one has its own.»

She tucks her hair behind her ear with such a spontaneous gesture I’d never think it part of her strategy to torture me and break me down. She’s probably expecting me to jump on her at any moment, ready to extract another favor.

«Anyway, if you have nothing else to ask me, you can leave — I just told you I’m busy.» She hisses, her voice sharp with irritation. «Today I have neither time, nor desire, nor any reason at all to fuck you. I thought I was clear when I said I take your cock how and when I want, and that I’d be the one to tell you when to show up. Get out.»

Any reason to fuck me? What the hell does that even mean? Why would she need a reason? Anyway... who the hell does this bitch think she is? How dare she treat me like this?! I’m not her puppet! She thinks she has me under control, like a dog obeying for a treat... such humiliation... and yet the worst part is that if she asked, even now, I’d still fuck her without a second thought.

But it’s not her fault—it’s mine for letting her have such control over me. But this will change. Oh yes, it will change! And when it does, she’ll be the one down on her knees, begging me.