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Chapter 1109

For a moment, Kishiar's smile froze.

"...Make it come earlier and disappear faster? Is such a thing possible?"

Yuder hesitated for a moment.

"To be precise, I haven't actually seen anyone do this intentionally."

"Then you mean you've seen someone experience it unintentionally."

"Yes."

During his time as the Cavalry Commander, observing numerous awakeners, Yuder had noticed a curious tendency related to heat.

"Although heat doesn't come at exact intervals... some individuals do experience it at regular intervals, almost like clockwork. For such people, the timing of their heat hardly ever changes, but occasionally, it would come at a different time than usual."

Yuder first noticed this because of Ever Beck.

Ever, a first gender female and second gender alpha, was also a second gender awakener that Yuder had observed longer than anyone else. The interval at which she took heat leave was always exactly 4 months, and the duration was 5 days each time. She kept to this schedule so consistently that later on, the administrative staff would set her vacation schedule even before she said anything.

However, there were a few times when Ever, who had lived a life as regular as a clock no less than Yudrain, had to hurriedly leave her post due to heat coming earlier than usual.

This always happened after returning from particularly difficult and challenging missions, when heat would suddenly come early after recovering from exhaustion.

'Though it didn't happen more than five times.'

Even among the Cavalry, which consisted only of awakeners, the proportion of second gender manifested individuals was smaller than those without second gender, and among those few, those with such precise heat intervals were even rarer. And how many people could have encountered enough variables to know that among those precise individuals, changes occur where heat comes earlier than usual in certain situations?

Yuder had only seen a handful who experienced earlier heat under similar circumstances, including Ever.

"Ever was extremely skilled at fine control of her ability, and rarely lost her composure. She always maintained her physical condition consistently, like undisturbed water."

She even maintained the types and amounts of food and drink she consumed consistently. It was to create the best condition to exert her ability in any situation, not knowing when a big incident might occur.

'Although the current Ever doesn't manage herself to that extreme anymore, still...'

"I thought that because her body was like that, she might have reacted more sensitively to changes that occurred in her physical body. So..."

Yuder paused for a moment to choose his words carefully.

"During heat, the biggest change awakeners experience is that they become almost unable to use their abilities, isn't it? The body is in pain due to heat fever, the mind becomes simple, and all activities like eating, drinking, and excretion almost stop without feeling strange even if they don't eat or drink until it's over, as all reactions decrease."

There were many second gender manifested individuals who disliked the very existence of heat because they couldn't properly use their abilities.

"But if you think about it, couldn't those who have experienced almost depleting their usable power, temporarily being unable to use power properly, and then going through a rapid recovery period be seen as in a somewhat similar state?"

"..."

“It’s not exactly the same, of course. But I wonder if the body might be tricking itself into believing that the conditions for heat have been met.”

“There are people who, by convincing themselves they’re sick, end up exhibiting symptoms, sometimes even developing the illness. You’re suggesting something similar?”

"Yes. That's exactly it."

Kishiar, who had been lost in thought, closed his eyes tightly and then opened them.

"It makes sense. But is it possible? I haven't been living with such precise heat intervals, and the state of my interior is quite different from others."

"But you've been living trying to maintain the balance of the power you possess more than anyone else."

Yuder looked at the man's interior still visible to his eyes.

To control the four energies, Kishiar habitually uses a little power even in normal times to balance them against each other, as naturally as breathing. Thanks to this, even now, although his interior was filled to overflowing with numerous powers, the amount of each was maintained at an astonishingly similar level.

Water that is full but maintains calmness without waves.

Yuder planned to carefully throw a stone into that water.

"I judged that it might be worth trying precisely because you're in such a state."

"How do you plan to do it? Should we think of a way to forcibly exhaust myself?"

"That's not necessary. Think about it. When we experience heat, we can't use our abilities, but that doesn't mean our abilities really disappear, does it?"

The bound abilities all return to normal as soon as the heat ends. What this means is that the power itself doesn't disappear inside the body of an awakener who has entered heat. They simply lose control.

"So I think the key to this is to 'deceive' the body into a state where it feels it can't control or move power on its own."

In other words, a state like the beginning of heat.

Yuder moved his hand to stroke the man's skin. As he did so, the awakener's energies settled in Kishiar's interior also undulated again, drawn by the energy enveloping Yuder's hand.

"Can you feel it?"

Kishiar frowned and exhaled a rough breath, then laughed.

"...I see. I understand. You mean I should stop trying to control the powers inside me and entrust everything to you."

"It's not that you don't do anything. There's something you need to do too."

"What is it?"

"When we start this, I will also fully release my scent at the same time. Although it's usually like that between alpha awakeners and omega awakeners, we especially... react strongly to each other's scents, don't we?"

"That's right."

In fact, the best way to forcibly induce heat might be to meet an awakener who has just manifested or is experiencing heat, like in the West. But in this case, that method could never be used even if they happened to meet such a person by chance. They didn't want to either.

It might be more accurate to say that they didn't want to give even a grain of sand's worth of room for thought that it might be similar to the previous life where everything went wrong because of a similar incident.

"However, it will be difficult to focus on two things at once. So, please draw out my scent as much as possible."

Kishiar was silent. In the gaze that met his, he answered carefully.

"If we do that... you will inevitably have to be with me throughout my entire heat."

"Didn't I already tell you I had no intention of sending you to the tower alone?"

"What if you get swept up by me and are affected by the heat together after drawing out your scent too?"

Wasn't that exactly what happened in the previous life? Although the roles were reversed.

Yuder raised the corners of his lips in a smile. And towards the red eyes that widened in surprise at that sight, he declared very clearly.

"To be honest, that's what I'm hoping for."

"What you're hoping for?"

"If that happens, you won't say things like going to the tower alone or staying apart anymore, will you? Because you won't be able to think of leaving me behind."

"..."

Kishiar couldn't answer for a long time. It was rare for Yuder to make Kishiar speechless in this way during their conversations, so Yuder felt a slightly secret pleasure.

"Anyway, this is the method with the highest probability of quickly dealing with heat under control while putting the least burden on the body. Based on what I've seen, heat induced by making the body misunderstand in this way all ended very quickly. Of course, it might differ from person to person..."

In Ever's case, every time she experienced this, her heat that originally lasted 5 days would finish within 1-2 days, and other people who were estimated to have experienced similar situations were almost the same. Some even returned bewildered, wondering if it really ended after expelling all their heat fever in less than a day.

However, the continuing thoughts came to an abrupt halt as soon as he heard Kishiar's words.