[Spirit of Lust] Chapter 55: Feeling like shit. (Patreon)

But sickness or not, William would still go to class. It didn’t matter that he felt dizzy, that his head hurt, that his throat hurt or that his body felt lethargic. He wasn’t about to waste his family’s efforts of sending him to university. That said, he couldn’t concentrate in the slightest, and to make things worse, he got a bad evaluation on an assignment because he forgot to buy the piece to repair his camera. Yesterday hadn’t been a good day, and it didn’t look like today would be any better.

‘Call a woman over. You’ll feel better.’

‘No. I won’t call anyone. I don’t want to see anyone.’

‘What!?’

‘You heard me. Your power is making us feel like shit. I don’t want to risk using it more, either on me or on other people.’

It was a good thing he hadn’t been called to work yet, but he had another ‘special’ shoot with Reina in two days. He didn’t know what to do about that. He felt afraid to see Reina, Cynthia and Anna. Ruth had sent him a message asking to hang out, but he had to tell her he was feeling sick, which was true, but he also didn’t want to see her. And it wasn’t because he disliked them, but rather because he liked them too much. What would he feel when he saw them? What if they did or said something he didn’t like and he overreacted because of his augmented emotions? He was starting to get paranoid, he knew, but he couldn’t help it.

‘William. You do realize I need to eat, don’t you?’

Ishtar’s voice was cold.

‘Yes, but I can’t help you until we find a way to fix the issue of my emotions going haywire because of your power.’

His reply was firm, yet with an upset tone.

‘So you’re blaming me for this?’

‘Who else would I blame?’

‘Listen kid, it’s your own damn fault you screwed up controlling my power. I did nothing more than giving it to you.’

‘Why did you have to give it to me in the first place? How do I know this isn’t all part of some scheme of yours?’

‘If this was a scheme of mine, you’d be FUCKING SOMEONE RIGHT NOW!’

“Aaugh!”

‘Aaugh!’

Her yell sent a sharp pain through William’s head, and of course, Ishtar felt it too. And yet they continued their bickering all the way to William’s apartment, both growing more and more annoyed with every word. Worst part was they couldn’t just step away from each other. They were stuck together, sharing irritation and sickness.

‘Fuck it, that’s it! I’m taking over your body! I’m not gonna starve just because you’re being a little bitch and scared of seeing people.’

‘Hah! Try it!’

He felt Ishtar’s energy through his body, a familiar sensation that told him she really was trying to take over him. But it was now such a familiar sensation that he could not only resist it, but push it back.

‘DAMMIT!’

‘Ahahaha!! At least you were telling the truth! Learning to use your power really did help me resist your takeover!’

‘YOU PIECE OF SHIT! Well, whatever. You have to sleep eventually.’

‘What the fuck!? You can’t do that!’

‘When humans can’t easily get their food, they go out and hunt, don’t they? I’m just doing what I need to.’

‘You will NOT use my body to go out and rape people!’

‘Aaugh!!!’

“Auugh!!!”

Their bickering was only making them both feel worse. William was getting exhausted, but he feared Ishtar would make good on her words and take over him when he fell asleep. Thankfully, he was a university student, which meant he had energy drinks in the fridge.

‘You can’t stay awake forever!’

“I just need to be until you run out of strength. If I don’t sleep and don’t fuck anyone, you can’t take over my body even if I’m asleep!”

‘You fucking idiot! If you feel sick, I feel sick. Didn’t it occur to you that if I don’t feed you’ll feel it too!? You’ll kill us both!’

“Might be better that way! I’ve always wanted to be a martyr!”

Will chugged down a can of energy drink and tried his best to ignore Ishtar’s attempts at flooding his body with sexual energy to make him horny by working on his school assignments.

He fell asleep at like 6:00 am and Ishtar was too exhausted to actually take control of his body.