Chapter 20 - The ’Fatal’ Weakness

Chapter 20: 20 - The ’Fatal’ Weakness

[As you command, master.]

There were many things the system couldn’t do, but something as simple as making King lose consciousness was extremely easy. It wasn’t some kind of miraculous magic or rule power, but simply the system affecting King’s brain.

Because this wasn’t something miraculous like stopping time, if he stayed unconscious for too long, King would die if his body reached its limit.

King’s orders were absolute. The system would carry them out faster or slower depending on how urgent King was, and it wouldn’t give any advice unless the order endangered King’s life. If the system suddenly started talking nonsense, it meant it really couldn’t fulfill the request.

King was trying to resist Iris when he suddenly became like a robot that had run out of battery, all the strength leaving his arms and legs, yet he couldn’t fall because she was holding both of his hands.

"Hehe, there’s this kind of play too? Maybe I..."

She was about to use force to ’help’ King wake up but suddenly stopped. Thinking about it more carefully, there was still plenty of time, so there was no need to rush like that.

So she let King lie flat on the bathroom floor while she leisurely went back to bathing. While bathing, the corners of her lips kept curling upward and refused to come back down.

"So you’re just a girl-shy brat? If that’s the case, don’t even think about acting all high and mighty in front of me in the future..."

As she muttered, she smiled wickedly like an old witch who had just successfully set a trap for an inexperienced young boy who had never been through the world before.

"Wait, that’s not right. What if some other woman uses the same trick on him in the future?"

She suddenly thought about how she wasn’t the most beautiful woman in the world, and there were still plenty of women more beautiful than her, or just as beautiful, or close to her level. If one person wasn’t enough but a whole group tried to seduce King, wouldn’t that be disastrous?

"No way! I can’t let humanity’s strongest combat power in the future have such a huge weakness. Looks like I have to train him more in this area. There’s no way he can just freeze up like an idiot whenever he sees a naked woman."

Iris immediately decided to add a few ’unique’ elements to the process of helping King grow. Whether this was good or bad for him was still unclear for the time being.

Because King didn’t tell the system how long he wanted to be unconscious, the system only kept him unconscious for a dozen minutes or so.

After that time was up, King slowly regained consciousness. Before he even opened his eyes, he heard the sound of the TV, seemingly talking about his appearance. This wasn’t very clear because the TV only kept talking about a mysterious person without directly identifying him.

Feeling like he was lying on something soft but not very big, something like a sofa, he slowly opened his eyes.

As soon as he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was Iris sitting beside him watching TV while wrapped in a towel. Part of her chest was exposed, immediately catching his eye and making him turn his head away.

The paradox here was that Iris’s towel covered more than the usual dress she wore, yet seeing her in a dress hadn’t caused him such a big reaction.

This time, there was indeed quite a bit of improvement. After fainting for fifteen minutes, his arms and legs were indeed more responsive and no longer trembling.

But King’s legs felt as if they had been poured full of concrete. The sofa could be stepped off with one step, but he just lay there motionless.

Earlier, Iris had originally planned to let King lie straight, but she also wanted to sit, so in the end she let him lie down with his legs resting on her.

Thankfully, King was wearing long pants, while Iris was wrapped in a towel. If he had to have direct skin-to-skin contact with her, King would have asked the system to make him pass out until tomorrow.

"You... what exactly do you want?"

"Is your bratty head filled with nothing but dirty thoughts? This is my house. What I like to wear and what I like to do is my right."

The corners of Iris’s lips curled up, her attitude arrogant, smug, and extremely provocative. Before, when she didn’t know King’s weakness, she still felt a little awkward, but now that she knew, she had to act even more smug.

King’s face froze for several seconds, and his expression suddenly changed as well. He had still been very embarrassed, but seeing Iris’s extremely punchable expression made him grit his teeth in anger.

"Hmph, don’t lower me with your lowly thoughts. You’re just a ’little’ character in a novel, so what’s so attractive about you? Your body was already beautiful, yet you trained it into such ugly muscles."

He pouted and glanced at her from the side. His words sounded very sincere, but the reaction his body had just now completely contradicted them.

King’s stubborn mouth had been very grating to Iris before, but now she suddenly felt that it was actually quite cute. The more stubborn his mouth was, the more amusing it would be when he was helpless.

She didn’t say anything and directly grabbed his collar, pulling him close to her. The distance between King’s face and Iris’s chest was less than a centimeter, but no matter what, he couldn’t touch it.

"I’ll give you a chance to say that again. Just say what I want to hear, and I’ll let you bury your face in my chest, okay?"

As she spoke, Iris licked her lips with an extremely lewd look. She looked just like an older rich woman preparing to ’devour’ the innocent young man in front of her.

He had been angry just a second ago, but the next second, King’s face turned red again. At such a close distance, he could clearly smell the fragrance of her body wash. His view was even better when that ’bottomless abyss’ came straight into his eyes.

As much as he hated to admit it, King knew that Iris had him completely cornered now. To escape this situation for the time being, he could only think of two ways.

The first was to train his mind to become unshakable, disregard women, sever all desires, and become the strongest person without any weaknesses.

The second could be called a way, but it could also be considered half a defeat already. That was... castration!

Using this method would mean admitting his own weakness, so King really didn’t want to do it at all. Only when there was no hope left of resisting her would he use this method to officially escape these invisible shackles.

"Hmph, I already said you’re not attractive at all. It’s just because I haven’t seen a woman in a very long time that you got the chance to feel smug."