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"Newman! What were you talking with that Witch about?" she asked him, clearly pissed off.

John remained calm, since he did not choose to have this little conversation with Mrs Wentworth, even if he profited from it.

"She talked to me; I had little choice in the matter. And it would probably have not happened if you had done your job!" he told her. She almost choked hearing what he just said.

"What?!" she asked, looking really angry now.

"You didn't tell me the place I stumbled upon was cursed, or that it would taint me. She felt it on me when I got to school this morning. Apparently, she's very concerned about her students safety and wanted to school me on safety and being careful in strange environments," he explained.

"No that cannot be. You should be cleansed. I used the ritual; I even kissed you for it to work as written in the pages of her word," she tried to justify.

"No, you didn't, that wasn't a real kiss. It was on the forehead, and your lips barely touched me. Now I'm walking around with some sort of blight on my spirit and body, being noticeable and possibly getting sick. I thought it was your Order that was supposed to protect me, how can I avoid a threat I don't even know exists?" he continued.

"I thought it would be sufficient and would go away during the night. I must have forgotten to check on you this morning. I have failed my duties. I am a bit distracted today, and the thing you gave me is already broken. I'm sorry," she apologized

"I'll look at it later, but first, you have to make sure I'm no longer afflicted by what happened yesterday. And correctly this time," he cut her short.

"The Lady bless you!" she recited after some short hand gesture. She then kissed him on the lips, making it longer and more marked down than the last one.

But John wasn't content with this, he hugged her to prevent her from ending the kiss and opened his mouth, forcing his tongue inside of her mouth. They were quickly in a deep and long session of french kissing. John took this opportunity to hit her with a charge of Arouse, the effects of the spell easily explained by what they were doing.

When the kiss ended, Moira was panting; having never had a boyfriend, her experience in kissing was really limited, and she had trouble finding her breath during it.

"Remove your skirt, and give me your phone; I'll see what's wrong with the device," he instructed her. He did so in a tone that showed confidence and certainty that she would obey. A few days ago, he would have been totally unable to talk to a girl like that. But today, a sexy girl was stripping on his order.

He knelt down in front of her and started touching her thighs around the belt and her ass. He then looked at her phone.

"The belt might create interferences. Explain to me what happened," he asked her.

"Nothing, it just stopped working correctly, and there's an error message on the app," she eluded.

John opened the app and read the message he had set on it earlier.

"Overheating? You didn't use it on a setting higher than 5 for more than two hours did you? This mode is here to prevent the heat from damaging the battery and potentially harming the user," he told her.

"No, no, I mean, maybe it was slightly over two hours. I might have lost track at one point. Is it possible to unlock it?" she asked.

"It wouldn't be much of a safety feature if you could cut it off. Without it, people would do insane things like setting it on the maximum setting all day long. The battery could overheat so much that they would burn to the touch or catch fire. But with the safeguard in place, it is perfectly safe. Don't worry, it will reset itself in a few hours. And if you did use it that much, you will be in less of a hurry. You can still use it on the lowest setting anyway," he explained. Moira looked embarrassed, worried and anxious.

The first setting was referenced in the manual as the teasing setting. It was deliberately too low for someone to get off from it no matter how long it stayed on. To show her it still worked, he pressed the button on the app to activate it and closed the app before giving the phone to her.

"Hmm... Thank you... I mean it was a nice gift, and I should have been more careful with it. And sorry about the blight, I didn't want to leave you in that state. I... I... I should go back to... Class, and you too." she said.

"Wait! Have you found any of the things I asked you for to let me help you with your problem? The gold? The books? The crystals? I won't make any progress without them," he asked.

"No luck for the crystals or books, my dad would notice their absence instantly. But I found some gold, I hope can help. Will this be enough?" she asked. She grew her shield shaped amulet and put her hand inside of it. She put down in John's hand six heavy gold coins, with a rose on one side and a hand holding a sword on the other. Any one of these coins was large enough to be made into a replica of the small key to her delicate flower, but 6 would be worth a small fortune.

"Yes, it should be enough, but without the rest, it will go a bit slowly. As I will gain in power, my ability to store more energy will increase, soon it might not be the problem it is today. I'll tell you if there is any progress on that side," he told her.

Her Lady was probably some prankster at heart, and it confirmed so many things about what John knew of the universe. Powers that arouse their users but are conditioned on strict chastity were truly devious. But the strength and raw power it offered was impressive.

John left the classroom, leaving the door slightly ajar as Moira was hurrying to put back on her skirt, that she had removed for no real reason but John's desire for her to do so.

As he walked away, John took his phone out, and after a few seconds shuffling through the menu of the app, he had locked it so that any use of the lowest setting was automatically set for one full hour, without any way to increase it or stop it.

The gold would be welcome, he had great plans for it. And for once, his business class would be used for something of real value. He took the business card with the Abyss Auction site address on it out of his inventory and typed it on his phone.