F-Rank Puppeteer!! But I'll be Queen, and I'm not a narcissist!!!!! Chapter 290: Learning New Things

I wake up feeling a little sore, looking around as I push myself up from the sofa. I notice I’m already wearing my clothes, but when I rember yesterday, I feel mortified.

"Awake, sweetie?" I hear Nerina’s voice as she cos out of the kitchen, carrying a tray with an elaborate al—a mix of fish and fruit. The sll is wonderful.

"G-Good morning..." I murmur, a bit embarrassed, as she approaches .

"Good morning. I made your breakfast, sweetie. Are you feeling better now?"

"A little." I glance at her groin. That "mighty mber" from yesterday is gone. Since she always walks around naked, I had learned to ignore it, but after last night, it feels weird to pretend I don’t notice the obvious.

"I can always give you more every night. No need to stare. Now, let’s eat," she flirts, sitting down on the sofa and offering the tray to . I sit down too.

But the mont I settle in, a shiver runs through my whole body because her tail wraps around mine. I look at her, and she gives a gentle smile.

"A-About my race... you said you would explain."

"Of course, I’ll explain. But first, I want you to know that a friend will be arriving soon. She’s going to help you. Her na is Arial, and she’ll be living on this island too."

"I just need to manifest her body with magic first. It’ll take a little while, but she’s really nice. I’m sure you’ll be friends with her too."

"Alright. It might be nice to have soone else around." I smile at her as I taste the fish. The flavor is good, though still just what you’d expect from fish.

"For now, we can start with what I know, because my information is limited too..."

"Asura are a type of demon with a specific trait: within a certain category, they can extract magic and certain abilities related to it. The most well-known are Berserkers."

"Those are Asuras who use rage and hatred to increase their power and influence others nearby with effects like anger. However, they aren’t the most dangerous, since their magic focuses mainly on general physical and magical self-enhancent."

"That’s because Asuras can influence the minds of everyone nearby. So, the ones who focus on manipulation fare better. Since you’re a hybrid, your effect is much weaker, but your voice has a slight brainwashing capability."

"When combined with your nymph seduction abilities, it increases your persuasion power and addicts those affected over a long period."

"This race also explains why your magic status is so extrely high," she begins to explain while I listen attentively, still eating my breakfast.

’Fruit juice...’ I drink the fruit juice, sensing the magic within it. It’s quite tasty. The fruit on the plate is also that "blue apple" she created, chopped into tiny little cubes.

"Nerina-sensei, so should I combine the powers of an Asura with those of a Nymph?"

"It’s a good idea, but I think we can do better. Tempest Demonic Dragons use electric fields to emit magic and information."

"With the power of a Nymph and an Asura, you could generate a sort of ’field’ around yourself that applies this effect much more efficiently." She gives a brilliant idea.

’That’s interesting... like turning things into puppets.’ Obviously, I haven’t mastered this yet, but I’m practicing, and I will improve.

"Nerina-sensei, but I don’t have any physical traits of an Asura, do I?" I don’t see anything that connects to that.

"True. It’s probably because your dragon side is more dominant, so you inherited its characteristics as primary and the Asura ones as secondary. One of those is high vitality."

"...Ah... yes, I do have a lot of vitality, but I thought it was because of the blessing."

"That’s a possibility, or perhaps it’s both combined. It’s impossible to know for sure what good traits you got from each race. However, since being a nymph is a complete thing, you have all the nymph powers. So focusing on those is better." When she says that, I try to create a fruit.

And with so effort, a tiny little cherry appears in my hand. It’s a purple color, but it seems difficult to create a larger fruit.

"Look, I did it!" I finish my al, handing her the cherry. She puts it in her mouth and tries it.

"The speed at which you learn is frightening, but the speed at which you master sothing is... low, not to say diocre. I wonder why." She gets up from the sofa, taking my hand and pulling with her.

"Evelyn, what is magic to you?"

"A form of energy? Like... that’s kind of what it is to ..."

"That’s a very simplistic way to view what Hikishin is. I think that’s the problem. Don’t think of Hikishin as re energy. After all, if Hikishin were just energy, we wouldn’t be able to manipulate it freely with our hands."

"Then how should I see it?"

"Think of Hikishin as everything. As air, as blood, as water, as food, as a source of life. Treat it as if everything that exists is composed of it."

"See Hikishin not as sothing you can rely manipulate, but as sothing in nature that allows you to harmonize with life itself."

"..." It’s too complex. I can’t understand where she’s going with this. She notices my confusion and then takes my hand, bringing my finger to her mouth.

I blush deeply as she sensually licks my finger before stopping. My finger is coated in a dense, dark blue liquid that radiates intense magic.

"This is magic, isn’t it? Hikishin, in a visible, tangible form, even possessing a scent."

"Yes?" When I reply, she puts her own thumb in her mouth and bites down. Then, she drips a drop of "blood" onto my hand. It’s dark blue, but clearly a little different from the saliva.

"This is still Hikishin, just from another source. Just like the ’sen’ that filled your body so much last night. Just like the delicious fruit you tasted."

"All of this is Hikishin. It just ca from different sources. Like water—water can co from the sea, lakes, rivers, rain, clouds, vapor... in the end, it’s all still water."

"What changes is just the source. Yet, Evelyn, you try to separate your knowledge by the source and not by what it is. You learn frighteningly fast because you have talent, but you never master anything equivalently fast because you treat each thing you learn as different."

"But tell , everything I’ve taught you, and everything you’ve learned so far... isn’t all of it still doing the sa thing, which is using Hikishin?"

"Oh... yes."

"Try to see what is being used rather than the source it ca from. You don’t drink water wondering where the water ca from. You already know it’s water, and you know what happens when you drink it."

"This is... very complex," I murmur, still confused about how exactly I’m supposed to use this to master everything I’m learning.

"Hmmm... I think I know an interesting way to make you understand. Evelyn, you can still feel my magic filling you, can’t you?" She asks an embarrassing question, wrapping one arm around my waist while her other hand rubs over my belly.

"You can still feel that dense, viscous, creamy magic filling you deep inside, right? But in the end, that magic is still just magic that ca from ." She rubs right above my womb, and I feel strange.

I hug her, feeling as if sothing inside is moving. Soon, I feel a tingling, burning sensation, like sothing is prickling inside that sensitive, private area.

"Do you feel that? I’m shaping my Hikishin inside you. What was once a viscous paste is now a small, solid sphere with points all over it. Thin points, but not sharp."

"And now..."

"Ghhmmm..." I almost collapse, feeling like my womb is full of sothing spiky.

"Now there are twenty small balls, each with tiny spikes, rubbing against each other with every movent you make."

"Nymphs have a rather brutal technique for killing enemies sotis. It’s not used often, but if we can get our Hikishin inside soone, we can mold its shape and shred the person’s body from the inside."

"Because Hikishin, no matter what form it takes, never stops being Hikishin. And it being inside you doesn’t stop it from being molded by its true owner."

"If everything you’ve learned uses Hikishin, then the logic isn’t to treat those things as different, but as different states of the sa standardized base." The spheres return to a heated liquid state inside , making gasp at this teaching thod that feels far too erotic for a lesson.

"S-So if you wanted to hurt , you could just make your Hikishin inside my womb expand like blades?"

"More or less. It’s still just Hikishin without altered properties, so it has its limitations, but yes, it would be possible." With her explanation, I think I understand.

"I-I think I know what to do now... thank you, Nerina-sensei."

’This feels so wrong and makes feel weird... but I really am learning...’ I can’t et her eyes, so I just look away.

"You’re welco, sweetie. I can see you enjoyed this lesson too. It seems your mind has an extra interest in more... intimate lessons. Or maybe your sweet little body just likes learning through practice," she says, gently rubbing my belly while her tail strokes against mine.

"I-I think we can move on to the next lesson."

"Let’s go outside. I’ll teach you how to mold Hikishin better. Your magical control is extrely refined, but your Hikishin control is terrible. And magical refinent is vastly inferior to Hikishin refinent."

"After all, if you refine a spell, it’s like refining a piece of rock with a tiny diamond. But refining Hikishin is like refining a raw diamond into its perfect form." She gently starts leading outside while I touch my belly, feeling strange about the lesson I just had.

’This is so embarrassing...’ I can’t believe I’m so susceptible to this kind of situation with Nerina-sensei. I feel so depraved. She was just gently teaching a lesson, and I was the one thinking dirty thoughts.