Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 397

Darkness came after light.

Although the top of the place was brightly lit, even giving them a sense of warmth, the hole that they jumped into was filled with pitch-black darkness.

It was an inky-black darkness that lingered, filling their vision.

It was strange, seeing how the light up above didn’t spill into the darkness below.

Yet, even though all they did was land at the bottom, they could feel the power that washed over their bodies, bathing them in a subtle glow that came from the inside. It was a magic that wasn’t intrusive, but it was obviously probing them to make sure that they weren’t a threat.

They couldn’t help but feel it was more automatic instead of being anything conscious. Just as the magic above had been.

It quickly disappeared after scanning them, and they frowned.

That should be Harou’s master, right?

But they couldn’t see anything in the pitch-black darkness.

Compared to before, where they could still faintly make out the outline of their arm, they could not even see anything in front of them anymore.

They listened quietly, but they didn’t hear anything at all.

Confused, the three split up as they wandered around with their arms spread out, acting like blind men.

At least this way, they would be able to find a wall… or even Harou’s master.

Otherwise…

Yuki suddenly stopped and smacked his face. He forgot that he’d already packed some lights that didn’t need to be lit up to be used. They all did.

As Yuki was taking it out of the Spectre mark, Hayden suddenly tripped.

Hayden quickly reacted to the feeling and placed his hands out to catch himself, but what he didn’t expect was to end up clutching someone’s body.

There was the sound of rattling chains.

Shocked, the teen tightened his grip on the body in his arms, only to realize that the person was breathing very shallowly.

They weren’t even awake.

Was this Harou’s master?

At this moment, Yuki finally got the light to work, and he beamed it upwards.

Luckily, the light was not affected by the darkness that seemed to coat this place.

Quickly realizing what Yuki was doing was the most logical action, Hayden and Rosabel got their lights out as well.

They suddenly realized that there were some unexpected developments in the short time that they were in the darkness.

Yuki coughed.

Rosabel’s lips split into a wide grin. Her eyes glinted. “Why, Hayden, I didn’t expect that you would throw yourself into someone’s arms so quickly! I thought that you liked Harou?”

Hayden, who realized what he was doing, quickly let go of his arms that were still clutched on the man’s body, his face burning a horrible shade of red at the teasing. She knew that it wasn’t intentional, but she took every chance to rile him up.

He wanted to dig a hole and crawl into it. He’d never been so embarrassed before.

He quickly waved his hands. “It’s not what it looks like!”

The three of them were stunned by what Hayden said.

Not what it looked like?

They obviously knew this, but when Hayden said it like this so ambiguously, it seemed like… a guilty conscience?

Cough.

Hayden’s entire face was red, and it had even spread down to his neck.

Up above, Harou, who heard the commotion down below, twitched his lips. What were these humans doing now?

Also, what was all that nonsense?!

Harou’s face darkened, then made a funny expression when he noticed that Hayden didn’t refute the thing about liking him.

He didn’t know what he was feeling right now, so he just glared at the darkness, as if he could pierce through it with his eyes.

Down below, the three had naturally calmed down, and they didn’t bring up the awkward atmosphere.

Rosabel looked at Harou’s master, who was hanging in the air with his arms strung up.

He was locked down only by the chains on his wrists, leaving him hanging there. There was also a single thick chain that was connected to a collar on his neck, causing her to sneer in distaste what she was seeing.

It was like some sort of bad s.e.x dungeon. She couldn’t say much for their tastes.

Now that they had a bit of light, the darkness didn’t seem as oppressing as before.

They could at least see the runes that were connected to the chains and faintly lit up.

After she finished observing the situation that he was caught in, her eyes widened when she took a look at his face.

She swallowed, licking her lips. Her heart was beating hard. She’d never seen such an ethereal man before. He almost seemed like he glowed. His skin was milky white, and his long hair cascaded down his shoulders, reaching the floor.

With a single glance, she could tell that Harou had copied his master’s hairstyle, but he couldn’t pull it off as well as his master.

Rosabel’s throat was dry as she stared at the pretty man in front of her. She swallowed again, her mouth opening.

She could even see his firm chest muscles and his abs since he was half-n.a.k.e.d.

Call her shallow all you liked, but *wow*!

Not even her Boss was this pretty!

Boss was considered a pretty boy, but he leaned more towards androgynous. If Boss put on a dress, no doubt everyone would think that he was a girl. Er… she waved the thought away.

On the other hand, Harou’s master exuded a thick sense of manliness that seeped out from his pores even though he was seemingly asleep.

At this moment, a voice cut into her fantasies.

“You’re drooling.”

Reflexively, she wiped her mouth, but there was nothing there. She snapped out of it and glared at Yuki, who was giving her smirk.

Hayden was chuckling in the background. He pressed a single finger on the chain that was connected to the man’s neck.

“Hmph. Well, appearance wise, he’s literally perfect. My dream man,” she said jokingly.

Suddenly, she heard a low, baritone voice behind her. “Why, thank you.” The voice reverberated through her entire body, causing her to whirl around.

To her mortification, Harou’s master was now awake and staring at her with faint bemus.e.m.e.nt.

This time, it was Rosabel’s turn to want to find a hole to crawl into.

Her face did its best not to turn red like Hayden’s did earlier, but her cheeks were still faintly pink.

“Er…” she said speechlessly. “You’re welcome,” she said in the end. She decided to just be shameless. She knew no shame. What was shame? Could you eat it?

Harou’s master chuckled again. “Are you here on Harou’s behalf?” His voice was not particularly warm, but there was something about it that spoke of power.

Rosabel put aside her embarrassment as she seriously answered him.

“Yes. He’s up there, and he probably can’t come down because the company made a move on him. Probably restraining where he can go,” she said with a shrug.

The man nodded his head gracefully. He ducked his head with his limited range of movement, stunning them. They thought that someone who was Harou’s master was naturally more arrogant than the magical beast.

Yet, he seemed so warm and courteous, not as domineering as they expected.

“Thank you for trying to unseal me,” the man said. “This Illyuken Nyre thanks you. Regardless of whether or not you succeed, we will always remember your help.”

There was a clank as the chains on his wrists loosened, and all of them looked at Hayden in confusion.

While they were conversing, the Sin had been fiddling around with the chains and runes that were still lit up.

Since they never expected that they would be able to do anything about it, all of them were stunned.

Even Hayden himself was stunned.

He slowly scratched his cheek. “Uh… I just tried it out. I didn’t expect it to work.”

Yuki and Rosabel quickly diverted their attention to the runes instead. There was no reason why they wouldn’t be able to combine their prowess to make some progress.

If Hayden could do it…

While the three worked busily as they studied the runes, Illyuken looked over at them curiously.

He’d not seen such curious humans in such a long time…