Chapter 378: Chapter 378: A Prank

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Taking advantage of Haru and Alice’s bewilderment, Touko, with a speed that was almost a blur, firmly grasped Alice’s shoulders with both hands, her slender fingers digging in, leaving red handprints on Alice’s shoulders through her black dress.

The immense force of her grip made the already-weak Alice cry out in pain.

Her tightly-closed cherry lips suddenly parted.

Seeing this, a teasing glint flashed in Touko’s eyes. With a quick movement, she spat out the several capsules she had been hiding in her mouth with magic, sending them down Alice’s throat.

A look of astonishment flashed in Alice’s dark eyes, but with her lips blocked by Touko, and her limbs weak, she could only let the capsules slide down her throat.

Looking at the stunned Alice, Touko, with a teasing expression, tried to take things further.

Sensing the foreign object trying to enter her mouth, Alice, realizing she was being sexually harassed by Touko, her face turned ashen. She summoned all her strength, lifted her slender arms, and, pressing them against Touko’s chest, she pushed.

Thud—!

The sound of snow being compressed suddenly rang out.

It wasn’t Alice who had pushed Touko away. It was Haru, who, having recovered from his shock, had hooked an arm around Touko’s neck and slammed her to the ground.

“…What the hell are you doing?” Haru’s eyelid twitched, his face dark as he sat on top of the fiery-red horse that was Touko Aozaki.

Haru didn’t know what to do.

Punch her? He was afraid that in his current, inexplicably complex emotional state, he would kill her. Not punch her? He was filled with a nameless rage.

After a moment’s thought, Haru’s long fingers viciously pinched her flushed cheeks, stretching them left and right, twisting her delicate face like a piece of play-doh.

It was fortunate that Touko’s face was exceptionally elastic. Otherwise, her cheeks would have likely been torn from her face.

Even with her cheeks being pulled painfully, Touko’s eyes were still filled with a smile. She lay on the ground, looking up at Haru, who was sitting on top of her, her brownish-red eyes filled with a faint, alluring charm.

Though it was only a little, she did have a slight affection for him. Though most of it had been conquered through their… deep… exchange, and though it had not been obtained in a proper way, it was still affection.

And since she was a child, Touko had always been the dominant one. Bullying the people or things she liked was a great source of pleasure for her.

But every time she met Haru, she was the weaker one, and had even been bullied by him several times. This made her proud self extremely dissatisfied.

Now, seeing his exasperated expression due to her prank, she was naturally very happy.

The slightly twisted Touko’s way of expressing her affection was, in fact, this kind of prank.

Her way of expressing her love for her sister, Aoko, was to snatch her most cherished dolls, to play pranks on her favorite furniture. And for Haru, it was naturally to bully the girl he liked.

Though drugging her was her main goal, she was after the pleasure of the process. And to pull this move on the unprepared Alice was exceptionally interesting to her.

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“Blech! Blech!”

In the snow behind Haru, Alice sat on the ground, her small, pale hand clutching her chest. She was dry-heaving, trying to vomit up whatever Touko had forced down her throat. Her face, which had just regained a hint of color, was now deathly pale from her efforts.

“…You won’t be able to vomit it up,”

Touko said, her cheeks still being pulled, her voice muffled. Her brownish-red eyes squinted at Alice beside her, looking strangely comical.

“…What… did you… give me?” A hoarse voice came from Alice’s mouth. Her deathly pale face was filled with a clear anger. She glared at Touko, like a bristling Persian cat.

The feeling of the capsules in her throat was still fresh in her mind. To have something with a completely unknown effect in her stomach… how could she be at ease?

She didn’t think Touko would be kind enough to give her a healing potion. A magus’s potions were strange and varied, and exceptionally sinister.

’Speaking of which, why did you have to feed it to me mouth-to-mouth!!!’

To be forcibly kissed, and by Touko, a fellow woman… a chill ran down Alice’s spine.

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As if sensing Alice’s confusion, Touko said with a teasing tone, “Well, it’s just some magic-sealing drugs. Don’t you dare use your magic~ As for why mouth-to-mouth, I just thought it would be interesting. Don’t mind it, Alice.”

Alice’s face instantly darkened.

She glared at Touko, her face filled with frustration. If not for her lack of strength, and the magic-sealing drugs, she would have rushed forward and kicked Touko a few times.

“Well, but judging by your reaction, Alice, was that your first kiss?” Touko said, a teasing look on her face, and let out a malicious laugh. Though she was being pressed to the ground by Haru, looking up at Alice’s face, she looked down on her with her gaze.

It seemed that she was so used to being pressed down by Haru that standing or not had no effect on her. When it was time to look down on someone, she naturally did so.

Alice subconsciously touched her cherry lips, her face flushing slightly. She stared blankly at Haru’s lips. She hadn’t forgotten his stolen kiss from that morning.

Now that she thought about it, it was a good thing her first kiss had been stolen that morning. She didn’t want to suffer the immense blow of her first kiss being with an old woman like Touko.

“It seems you’ve already been taken—” Touko said, a teasing look on her face as she saw Alice’s expression.

Alice’s pale face instantly flushed, and like a frightened rabbit, she immediately averted her gaze from Haru.

“Ooh—!”

Just then, a cry of pain came from Alice.

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