Office Romance with a Werewolf - Chapter 124
Minutes before the bold disaster happened, Nida and Ranz were casually drinking beer. It was the last time Nida suggested drinking. Nida was actually an alcoholic. When she’s stressed, depressed or hurting, alcohol is one of her escapes. When she’s happy and celebrating, alcohol is also her partner. She’s been alone for a long time, which is why she’s used to relying on alcohol and craves it whenever there’s a sudden spike in her emotion meter.
Now that she’s celebrating being hired on the spot, she can’t help but lift her mood much more with alcohol. The only effect of her alcohol consumption on her is that she becomes energetic and extremely talkative whenever she drinks. That is why she’s not worried about drinking alone with Ranz. She still has the mind to act if something else happened to her.
She’s been letting her guard down recently after living with Ranz and Randell and confirming that they’re not a threat to her.
However, her dust was responding strangely to her drunken state.
“What’s wrong with you all? You’re not acting like this when I drank five beers last time.” Nida asked her dusts that went out of her body without her permission. The dusts is dancing around the living room and has a sinister glow around it.
Nida forgot to put her dust into consideration for drinking too much alcohol. She had consumed triple the amount of alcohol she drank last time, and that made her silver dusts uncontrollable.
“Nida, you’re drunk. Calm your divine powers.”
In Ranz’s eyes, Nida is the one acting strangely rather than the dusts, because only Nida knows that her silver dusts has its own will.
“I am fine. My dust is the one acting strangely. I think I can’t control them because of the alcohol. Let’s stop drinking. And umm… ” Nida stared at Ranz first before pointing at the bedroom. “Can you walk? Stay in the bedroom while I settle my dust. I actually don’t know what they will do. I can’t completely protect you.”
Ranz understood and tried to walk toward the bed room, but he could not walk straight because he was too drunk as he had also consumed the same amount of alcohol as Nida drank.
“Hey, hurry!” Nida exclaimed as her dust started to gather around Ranz.
Ranz tries to walk fast, but he trips on his own foot and falls.
“Hey, are you really drunk? even I can still walk well.” Nida said. She supported Ranz to stand up, but her dust gathered around Ranz even more.
“Hey! Hey! Stop! Get inside of me! I am not calling for all of you!” She shouted while shooing the dust away from Ranz.
“Aahh!” Ranz shouted in surprise. Nida’s dust starts to pull at his clothes. He and Nida fell on the floor while Nida was busy shooing away the dust that occupied almost half the entire living room.
“Hey! Hey! I said, Stop!” Nida shouted at her dust, but it wasn’t listening to her. “What are you? Perverts!” Nida exclaimed as the dust successfully stripped Ranz and carry round Ranz’s clothes in the air.
“What is happening?” Ranz kneeled down and covered his crouch because he had become completely naked in front of Nida. “Nida! Stop this! You’re drunk!” he shouted.
“It’s not me! I can’t control my dust!” Nida started to sober up because of their situation. She tries to calm her heart so that she can calm her dust and stop its strange behavior.
“Stop. Stop. This instant.” She clasped her hand to control her dust. They said a priest should pray to control their power, but she’s a priest that is not doing the norm. She doesn’t even know a single proper incantation.
“Aaaaaaaaaa!! Nida! Stop!” Ranz screamed when the dust started to stick to his skin and it felt like it was eating his flesh.
“W-wait! No!” Nida hurriedly dusted off the silver-dust that was wrapping around Ranz. Ranz’s flesh was exposed after Nida removed her silver dust from Ranz’s chest.
“But it’s not eating up my skin?” Nida is panicking, but she tries her best to observe the dust’s behavior to know how to stop it. The dust is not harming Nida and was only eating up Ranz.
“Come here, Ranz!” she shouted. She dusted off the rest of the dust that touched Ranz’s body and shielded him from the dust. Due to its violent behavior, it also ate up Nida’s clothes but not her skin. She keeps shielding Ranz away from her dust, but some of it can still pass through her guarding as Ranz’s body is still larger than her.
Ranz just crouched down while hiding inside Nida’s arms, trembling in pain because of his chest skin being peeled off.
“Bear with it. I’ll heal you later.” Nida spoke without looking at Ranz. Her eyes are focused on the dust that became her enemy.
“Why the fuck are you all going against my will? I thought you were my most trusted confidantes! Why are you harming my friend here?” She shouted, menacingly glaring at the swarm of silver dust in front of her. She never considered her silver dust going against her will to actually happen. She thought her dusts existed for her wellbeing and the reason why they were harming Ranz was simply because she was drunk, something she never thought her dusts could do.
Despite her stern order for her dust to stop, it didn’t listen to Nida and continued to attack Ranz. It grew more ferocious and drowned them in its million dust.
“H-help! Nida!” Ranz screamed while hugging Nida tightly. He buried his face in her chest, but his back and arms, which were exposed to the dust, started to lose their skin again.
Nida tries her best to protect Ranz from her dust, but only her clothes are being eaten. It only means her dust can still tell who their owner is. Nida felt her clothes slowly disappear as her dust ate them away and she focused more on covering for Ranz.
“AAhhh!! Nida! Nida!” Ranz screamed in pain while Nida watched his flesh getting exposed.
“Stop this instant!” She kept telling her dust to go away, but it was no use. She closed her eyes to think of a solution, but only curses came into her mind.
“You scumbags! Stop! I’ll fuck you all up!” She shouted, and that made her dust stop moving. The silver dust dropped on the floor and its silver light glow disappeared. It all became normal white sand lying on the floor.
“What the fuck? You only want me to curse?” She shouted again after seeing her dust stop moving. “Am I a priest or a demon?” she wondered to herself as she looked down at Ranz, who was still in her arms.
“Ranz? Ranz?” She shakes him, but he does not respond. “Shit,” she said, scowling.
“Disappear now.” She ordered her to dust on the floor, and it all disappeared, in Nida’s words.
“Now, they are being obedient.”
After the dust disappeared, she let Ranz sit on the floor and started to heal his peeled skin.
His entire back and some of his skin on his chest were eaten up. Also, some parts of his arms and legs had been wounded, while his face was completely fine.
“This must be painful.” Nida said, then paused for a moment after she returned the skin on Ran’s back. She laid him down and stared at his naked body that was still covered in exposed flesh.
“Should I call myself an evil priestess now?” Nida said, while smiling. She covered her face with her hand as she could not stop her lips from twitching up.
She suddenly remembers the tragedy that happened ten years ago.
The look of Ranz’s injuries was the same as her injuries ten years ago, and the helplessness in Ranz’s eyes while pleading for help was the same when she experienced the wolf attack.
Nida suffered a lot for years just because of that one single night of being scared and angry toward the werewolves, but she somewhat understood them after knowing what really happened that night. She thought she didn’t need revenge, but she subconsciously sought it.
“Am I really drunk? Why do I feel refreshed seeing him suffer like this?”
“What is this feeling?” She touched her chest. She thought she didn’t hate them anymore and questioned her reaction.
“Should I kill him?” Nida stared at Ranz for a moment, but then she shook her head and smashed her head on the floor really hard. That made her bleed.
“Haha! What was I thinking? They have been good to me these days.”
Her forehead immediately healed on itself, and she resumed healing Ranz again.
“Shall I give you a nicer memory?”
Nida didn’t like what happened and decided to take away the memory of this incident.
“Haha! I am altering someone’s memory.. I am doing the same with my enemies!” She loudly laughs at herself, starting to hate herself.