Chapter 188: 188

Max and Zerena walked out of the bathroom, both still naked with towels wrapped around their heads as they dried their hair. Zerena glanced at Max and immediately reminded him, “Hurry up and order something. My stomach’s been rumbling for hours…” she said, practically ordering him to get on with it.

Max, however, looked far too satisfied to mind her bossy tone. After all, Zerena had just given him a rather exhausting handjob, kissing him and rubbing her breasts against him, and she had done it purely to make him reach orgasm. There had been no System quest involved, no reward to earn, and no ulterior motive to justify it. For once, she had done it simply because she wanted to make him cum.

Max picked up his phone, which was still recording, and smiled when he noticed that Zerena still hadn’t caught on. He quickly placed the food order she’d asked for, then looked at her and said, “It’ll be here in half an hour at most…”

Zerena sighed when she heard how long the delivery would take, though half an hour was probably as fast as they could expect the food to be prepared and delivered.

“Well, don’t we have any snacks left in the fridge?” she asked as she continued drying her hair and body.

Max immediately went to check the fridge for her, hoping to find something they could eat while waiting for their actual meal to arrive.

“There’s some penne arrabbiata left from last night. Should I warm it up for you?” Max asked as he took out the plate, which was covered with clear plastic wrap.

Zerena shook her head. “Nah, let’s just wait for the food…”

Zerena picked up her phone and started doing something on it, but a moment later, she frowned at the time.

“Fuck, it’s already this late…” she muttered before turning toward Max. “We’ve only been at it for an hour at most, right?”

Max nodded. It was already six in the evening, and they hadn’t spent nearly as much time as Zerena seemed to remember.

“Then why does it feel like it’s been much longer…?” she continued, looking genuinely surprised as she tried to make sense of it. ‘I came four times in just one hour…’

That meant she had climaxed roughly once every fifteen minutes. Even knowing how exhausting their activities had been, Zerena seemed a little shocked by just how much had happened in such a short time.

Max took a water bottle from the fridge, poured some water into a glass, and handed it to Zerena before taking a few gulps straight from the bottle himself.

“Well, you came four times. Of course, it’s going to feel like you’ve been at it for much longer…” he said casually.

He had voiced the very thought Zerena had been trying not to say out loud, making her cheeks flush with embarrassment.

“It can’t be helped! It was because of those quests…” she blurted out, immediately putting the blame on the System rather than admitting anything else.

Max nodded with a smirk, then sat back on the bed and caught Zerena by the arm, gently pulling her toward him.

“What do you think the colonel is going to make me do?” he asked.

Zerena went along with it, settling onto his thighs while both of them were still completely naked. She placed her hands on his shoulders and began thinking about his question. As she shifted into a more comfortable position, she wrapped one leg around his waist, drawing herself closer until their stomachs pressed together, with Max’s penis caught between them.

“I don’t know. Before, I thought we might get some grants or permission to make better potions, maybe even some decent laboratory equipment. But now…” Zerena trailed off, still struggling to process what she had witnessed. “I can’t even begin to imagine what they’ll ask you to do after seeing you create those formations…”

She was still shocked by the formation Max had made at the army post, especially how it had caused all the plants to grow so rapidly and how its energy had remained stored within the bullets before being released. Even in a world where magic was commonplace, watching something like that happen right in front of her had felt like witnessing an actual miracle.

“Well, I just hope they don’t make me work in some secret lab or something…” Max said, grabbing Zerena’s breasts and fondling them as casually as if the two things had nothing to do with each other. “I wouldn’t be able to do my quests that way…”

“Then make sure the colonel allows me to stay with you while you do whatever he asks,” Zerena said.

By now, she had more or less accepted that her future would involve a lot more of Max’s shameless behavior, plenty of embarrassing System quests, and all sorts of perverted things she would never have imagined agreeing to before.

But there was still one thing that worried Zerena. She knew the System would probably issue another quest soon, and when it did, they would have to complete it.

She had never been this open about sex before. Even during her younger days, when she’d had some experience, she had never spent so much time naked with a man after the act itself was over. Yet with Max, things had gradually reached a point where being naked together had started to feel almost normal, and that was what unsettled her the most.

But perhaps part of the reason Zerena was becoming less hesitant was that Max had introduced her to so many things she had never experienced this way before. He had made her squirt for the first time, watched her masturbate in front of him for the first time, and led her into several other intimate experiences she had never imagined herself agreeing to. She had even crossed boundaries she had once considered unthinkable, all within the strange circumstances created by the System’s quests.