Rise of the Eromancer

Chapter 12: Spider...man?

Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Spider...man?

"Open your mouth wider, Rhys."

"..."

"That... that's good. Hmn... hmn... Okay, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your mouth."

Katarina's curious hums whispered through her clinic; the sound of her gloves, snapping in the air as she took them off after checking the color of Rhys's tongue. Rhys was currently seated topless on a stool; his body, being professionally checked by Katarina.

Once the blood of a god that had remained dormant inside one's body awakens, there would usually be a slight change in one's body—increased muscle mass, a change of color, bone density, etc. Discover new chapters at novelhall.come changes, however, are less noticeable than others; some are even unnoticeable.

"Besides your eyes, I don't see anything different..." Katarina then carefully placed the gloves that were wet with Rhys's saliva on the clean steel plate on the table beside her,

"Do you see anything differently now? What did you say you were feeling again?"

"Nausea..." Rhys sighed, "It feels like my body is being left behind and I am sensitive to everything around me, it's... making me want to puke whenever I move."

"Sensitive how?" Katarina adjusted her glasses as she looked Rhys in the eyes, "It might just be a side-effect of the gravity shift."

"I... can hear your heart beating, Dr. Lopez."

"Wh—" Katarina was about to raise her voice, but she saw a smile crawl on Rhys's face, causing her to stop her puffing chest. Rhys, throughout his 6 years of coming and going inside the clinic, has never smiled even once.

Maybe even he himself didn't realize he was smiling...but for his first smile to be somewhat cheeky and a little teasing, it made Katarina think of what kind of cheerful person he could have been.

"Seriously..." And so, Katarina could really only sigh as she shook her head, "...Like how?"

"Like this."

And without even any slight pause, Rhys suddenly swung and stretched his arm to the side. And as he opened his hand, a small baby fly fell from it.

"...Interesting. That increase in senses is too drastic for someone who just awakened," Katarina once again adjusted her glasses. But then, all of a sudden, her hand blurred. And when it cleared, it was already right in front of Rhys's face.

"You... saw that?" Katarina could not help but blink a couple of times as Rhys seemed to instinctively lean his head back.

"W—No?" As for Rhys, he could really only take in a small gulp as he saw the fist in front of him.

'I just want you to be happy.'

"Because... you can," Rhys mumbled as he looked at the remaining two gray hearts. And right there and then, he decided that he will never fill the two, at the very least, not with intent.

He will never use Katarina—she is basically the closest thing he has to a family other than his sister.

The three red hearts above her head were probably purely platonic.

"You said you have the blood of Eros? I've never heard that name before," Katarina then said as she continued checking Rhys's other arm, "What about the other gods, you should know their names too."

"I... don't know," Rhys shook his head, "Their blood is probably too weak?"

"That's... weird, everyone should know what blood they have," Katarina sighed as she finally just focused on checking Rhys body. She had seen Rhys's body evolve throughout the years, and she still couldn't believe he managed to sculpt a silhouette as he has.

One could even encase him in cement and put him inside the Altar of the Gods, and no one would know.

He always seemed to have power—but now he has a real one. And for a person that has been beaten, abused, and humiliated his entire life... this was dangerous.

"Rhys..." Katarina then held Rhys's hand and placed it on her forehead, "Promise me...

...Promise me that you won't do anything rash with this."

"I... won't," Rhys slightly paused as he answered; his silver eyes, just staring at Katarina's face, "I know where I stand, Dr. Lopez—I'm still weak. But... with my increased reflexes, maybe this is the last time you'll be seeing me in the clinic."

"...I hope this is the last time I see you in my clinic," Katarina softly chuckled as she repeated Rhys's words, "You're graduating soon too. I hope the next time I see you, it will be outside."

"We can see each other during the graduation," a smile also formed on Rhys's face, "You are practically my school mother now."

"How dare—I'm just a few years older than you!" Katarina's eyes widened; the smile on her face, widening as she tightened her grip on Rhys's hand.

"!!!"

However, as soon as she did so... several white, sticky strings of something suddenly shot out from Rhys's fingers...

...and onto her face.

"W... what is this?"