性瘾者

NEOMA already knew it, but she was still amazed that the key to everything she needed was already embedded in her soul.

This time too, what she needed was already inside her soul, so she just had to close her eyes and concentrate. And voila, she reached the part of her soul where the coral pink rose was planted on a small hill.

[Is the hill supposed to be the representation of my heart?]

It was a strange sight to see a hill with a single pink rose inside a plain white room.

"You remind me of the rose from The Little Prince," Neoma whispered to herself, then she squatted down and hugged her knees. "Ruto said you weren\'t meant to be a decoration. But what am I supposed to do with you? How could you help me unleash my Roseheart Blood?"

Wait, blood?

The rose was embedded in her heart as if someone had stabbed her with it, right?

[When someone gets stabbed, it\'s bad to take the knife out because the knife serves as a plug. It helps to seal any blood vessels that may have been severed. So, by pulling the knife out, it\'s like unplugging those vessels which would worsen the bleeding.]

Then the pink rose embedded in her heart was the reason she couldn\'t freely use her Roseheart Blood?

"Will it be painful if I pull it out?"

But it wasn\'t like she had other choices.

"My little rose, you have to help me purify Darkness," she said, then she touched the stem of the single rose. It had thorns, but it didn\'t hurt her. Maybe because she wasn\'t in her physical body. "Here goes nothing."

She pulled out the rose unceremoniously.

Just like she expected, the small hill bled. Then, all of a sudden, blood gushed out until the whole white room was literally painted red. Only her wasn\'t touched by her own blood.

"Will this be enough to purify the whole temple?" she whispered to herself, worriedly.

When she talked to Paige earlier, the mage told the mysterious Darkness substance that seemed to have come from the people of the temple themselves corrupted her the whole temple.

Paige also told her she put a dome over the temple to stop Darkness from spreading out.

"Once Lewis breaks the roof, I\'ll ask Mochi to use flight magic on me," she whispered to herself. And yes, she was thinking aloud at the moment. "But it would be cool if I could fly on my own."

As soon as she said that, she felt a shift in the air.

Then, much to her surprise, the blood splattered in the whole room turned into hundreds of red rose petals.

[Huh?]

It didn\'t end there.

The rose petals were carried by a gentle breeze, then they spiraled around her until they settled behind there.

[Oh, it\'s warm.]

She felt a warm feeling on her back when the rose petals began flocking on her back. At first, she didn\'t realize what was happening. Not until her feet weren\'t touching the floor anymore.

[Wait, I\'m floating?!]

When she looked behind her, she was shocked to see she grew wings!

[And my wings are made of red roses!]

To be precise, those wings were made of her Roseheart Blood that turned into rose petals.

[Did this happen because I said earlier I wanted to fly on my own?]

"Mama Boss, the blood I inherited from you is so awesome," she whispered to herself while practicing flying higher. Since she was naturally gifted, it didn\'t take her long to fly like she was born with wings. "Now I understand why the nobles are so afraid of the Rosehearts."

She could feel the Light attribute in her rose wings, but she had a feeling it wouldn\'t be enough to purify the Darkness that swallowed up the temple.

[It\'s not like I don\'t trust my Roseheart Blood. But my gut feel is telling me the Darkness that we need to purify is stronger than it looks. If that\'s the case, then I need to step up my game. But how?]

That was when she heard Ruto\'s voice in her head again.

["You have the three major attributes in your soul."]

Yeah, but she would only use one at a time. But that was exactly why her power remained stagnant all this time.

["Neoma, you often seem to forget that you\'re half de Moonasterio-half Roseheart. Just because you\'re using a technique that requires Moonglow doesn\'t mean you can\'t use your Roseheart Blood."]

And vice-versa, right?

That was Ruto\'s advice to her before.

"I\'m using my Roseheart Blood right now," she whispered to herself while gathering the Moonglow in her body. "But it doesn\'t mean I can\'t use my Moonglow at the same time."

She closed her eyes and focused.

That way, she could visualize the flow of her Moonglow. Since her body was overflowing with Moonglow, it was easy for her to control its movement. After getting a hold of it, she directed her Moonglow to her back until it spread on her wings.

[Ah, I suddenly feel cold.]

Her Roseheart Blood felt warm, while her Moonglow felt cold.

But soon, only a lukewarm feeling remained.

[It\'s done. I managed to inject my Moonglow in my wings made of my Roseheart Blood. Now I feel like we can purify the Darkness without a hitch.]

When she opened her eyes, she was surprised to see that the white room had changed.

Now, each wall had turned into a mirror.

And wow, her wings changed colors!

[My wings are purple now!]

It was probably because her Roseheart Blood was, well, red. On the other hand, her Moonglow had always been bluish. So when she combined her powers, the colors that represented them also got mixed in. When you combined red and blue together, you\'d get purple.

That made her smile wide.

[My wings have the same color as Ruto\'s hair.]

"Princess Neoma?"

Oh, it was Lewis\'s voice echoing in the room. Her "son" was probably worried since whenever she would enter her soul with her consciousness, she would be put in a vulnerable state.

Neoma\'s smile grew wider. "I\'m ready, Lewis."

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WHEN NEOMA opened her eyes, she immediately looked up.

The night sky greeted her, since there was a huge hole in the roof now. She could also hear a rumbling outside, and the ground was shaking as well. The dome that Paige created probably collapsed when Lewis destroyed the roof.

[We have to purify the Darkness substance before it spreads outside.]

"Princess Neoma, where did you get those wings?"

She turned to Lewis who was suspended in the air.

Mochi was floating beside her "son," and the two both had a shocked look on their faces.

[Ah, Mochi probably used flight magic on Lewis. I asked the two to work together to destroy the roof before my consciousness traveled inside my soul.]

"Princess Neoma, I can feel your Roseheart Blood in those wings," Mochi said in disbelief. "But I can also feel your Moonglow in them."

Neoma smiled and gave Mochi a thumbs up. "You\'re good, Mochi. You can sense both my Roseheart Blood and my Moonglow together because I combined them to create these wings. I did a good job, right?"

"You just didn\'t do a good job, Princess Neoma– you did an excellent work!" Mochi said excitedly. "Mona is a genius, so of course, her daughter would be a genius as well!"

She smiled at the Wind Spirit\'s compliment. [Kekeke.]

"I don\'t like the color of your wings."

It was Lewis, and he was using a rude tone on her again.

[Tsk, this rebellious punk…]

"Why does it have to be purple?" Lewis complained while complaining. "Can\'t they be silver?"

Was it because Lewis\' hair was silver?

And why was he hating on purple anyway?

[Wait, I think I know why.]

"I didn\'t make my wings purple because of Ruto\'s hair color," she explained even though she didn\'t know why she needed to do that. "My Roseheart Blood is red, and my Moonglow is blue. So when I combined them together, my wings turned purple."

Lewis looked satisfied by her explanation. "Your wings look powerful, Princess Neoma."

Look at this rebellious punk.

[Now he\'s using polite speech again?!]

Gosh, she didn\'t know how to handle Lewis and his mood swings lately!

"Whatever," Neoma said while rolling her eyes at Lewis. Then, she stomped her foot on the ground. "It\'s time to \'tobe fly!\'"

Neoma shot up the sky while singing \'Fly High,\' H*ikyuu!!\'s opening song in her head.

***

NIKOLAI let out a deep sigh after hearing Dion\'s report.

[Neoma, my daughter, you have a knack for turning simple matters into something big.]

His child said she would just visit the Hazelden Kingdom, then she went and swallowed it up. He heard his daughter even ask her "children" to destroy some palaces.

Then Neoma said she would just talk to the High Priest to retrieve the weapons they needed.

And now, the Astello Temple that was built more than a hundred years ago was on the verge of collapsing. It wasn\'t caused by Neoma, but it wouldn\'t change the fact that his daughter was the center of the mess.

"Dion, I don\'t care if you have to destroy the Astello Church, one of the continent\'s treasures," Nikolai said firmly. "Just go and fetch my daughter, then bring her back safely to me."

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