Chapter 61: Rooftop Whispers(Part 9): Breaking The Terror
Rika's screams bounced off the corridor walls, but it wasn't fear anymore. It was me, every brutal thrust forcing her voice higher, every wet slap echoing like a drumbeat of submission.
Her body clung to me like she'd fall apart without my cock inside her. Her cunt sucked me in, sloppy and desperate, juices streaming down my shaft as I hammered her against the wall.
The System's voice burned hot in my skull:
[Fear Conversion: MAX Overdrive.]
[Partner's Trauma: Fully transmuted into sexual dependency.]
[Warning: Partner's restraint breaking.]
~You went for one more round honey, you horny master!!!
Her tits burst free of her bra, bouncing with every savage thrust. Tears streaked her face, sweat plastered her hair to her cheeks, and still, her hips rolled to meet mine, begging for more punishment.
"R-Renji! Oh fuck—oh fuck, I can't—I can't—ahhhhhh!"
Her cry cracked, torn between agony and ecstasy, her pussy clamping so tight it almost hurt to move. She convulsed around me, squirting suddenly, violently, soaking both of us in her release.
I gripped her throat, steady, not crushing, just owning. Forcing her wild eyes to lock with mine. Her panic, her shame, her lust—they were all mine now.
"You think you'll break?" My voice was low, a growl against her lips. "No. You'll take it. You'll remember who fucked the fear out of you."
Her sob came out as a moan, her legs trembling against me. Another orgasm ripped through her, her nails clawing bloody crescents into my shoulders. She couldn't stop chanting my name, broken and breathless:
"Renji—Renji—Renji—!"
I slammed deeper, grinding my cock against her womb, pinning her harder to the wall. Her body shook, her tears mixing with drool as she threw her head back, screaming my name to the ceiling.
Her fear wasn't just gone. I'd turned it into something she'd never escape.
I cummed deep inside her once more, load enough to knock her brains out.
Rika's body still trembled in the aftermath, her thighs quivering around my hips, her nails leaving red trails across my shoulders. Her pussy clenched weakly, milking me even as she tried to catch her breath.
She wasn't crying anymore. Her face was flushed, lips swollen, eyes glassy but locked on me like I was her anchor in a collapsing world.
"Renji…" she whispered, voice raw, "I thought I was going to disappear in her eyes. But you—you pulled me back."
Her words weren't just thanks. They were confession, surrender, worship. The tears, the terror—every jagged edge of her soul was cut open and laid bare.
The System surged alive again.
[Emotional Sync: MAX.]
[Fear Conversion complete.]
[New Bond Achieved – Terror Anchor: When Rika faces traumatic fear, her psyche will instinctively cling to you, converting fear into arousal and trust.]
System: And Maybe....Lust!
The notification burned through my mind, and I almost laughed. The System was cold, merciless. But in this case? It had done what I'd already promised, it rewired her fear into mine.
Her trembling hand pressed flat against my chest. "You feel… unreal," she breathed, almost like she couldn't believe I was still here. "Like I'll wake up and—"
I cut her off with a kiss, slow this time, deliberate. No frenzy. No desperation. Just lips pressing until her body melted, until her panic softened into heat again.
"Then don't wake up," I murmured against her mouth. "Stay in this moment. Stay mine."
Her eyes closed, tears slipping out again, but they weren't tears of fear anymore.
The soldier in me, the fifty years of blood, loss, and instincts, knew this was dangerous. That girl, Saki, wasn't finished. She wasn't some shadow to dismiss. And we were in no shape for round two.
But the man I had become, the one who had chosen Rika, who had claimed her body and fear both—knew this had to come first.
Rika's voice was softer now, broken but steady. "Renji… promise me. No matter what she is, no matter what happens… you'll fight her. For me. For us."
I gripped her chin, forcing her to meet my gaze, and let the iron in my voice carry the weight of fifty lived years.
"I've fought worse than her. I've bled, I've killed, I've clawed through hell and come back. You think I'll let some fucking ghost-girl tear you from me?"
Her breath hitched, her body tightening around me again—not from fear, but from the heat those words lit inside her.
"No," I growled, thrusting slow, deep, just enough to remind her I was still inside her. "You're mine. Even your fear is mine. And I'll break anyone...human or not,who tries to touch what's mine."
Her moan echoed off the corridor walls, soft and desperate, her arms wrapping around my neck like chains.
And in that moment, the fear was gone. All that remained was us—two souls bound tighter than any System could measure.
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We stayed like that for a long minute—pressed together, heartbeats syncing, breath slow enough that the corridor's hum returned and the world felt salvageable. Her tremors eased into ragged, grateful sighs. The system's confirmation faded to a steady glow, satisfied and watchful.
[Fear Conversion: STABILIZED]
[Emotional Sync: +25% (Rika/Renji)]
[Passive: Anchor Bond active — She seeks your presence as safe ground.]
I could feel the change in her: the sharp edges of panic dulled, a fragile steadiness hardening under my hands. Fifty years of survival lived behind sixteen-year-old eyes—old muscle memory in a young body, told me this was only temporary. Saki's influence had been pushed back, not ended; urgency hummed under the relief. That part of me that had been a soldier longer than she'd been alive catalogued escape routes, likely weaknesses, the exact tone to make fear become defiance.
"Sleep," I told her softly, letting the command be an embrace. "I'm not going anywhere."
She wanted to ask more, about why, about what had happened but her lids drooped.
The exhaustion of terror and release collapsed her into a small, trusting weight against my chest. I shifted to make room, holding her like a thing to shield rather than satisfy.
The animal in me wanted more....possession, reassurance, but the man buried in those memories knew to let wounds clot before you reopened them.
Footsteps came then: soft at first, then halting, the sound of a familiar presence deciding whether to knock or push the door open.
"Renji? Rika?" Reina's voice was low in the doorway, professional but threaded with concern. She stood framed in the threshold with the faint halo of the corridor light behind her. Mayumi hovered a little further back, arms folded, eyes scanning the scene like a coach assessing injury.
For a second I tensed, expecting anger, accusation, the inevitable lectures about propriety. Instead, Reina's face softened. She stepped in, closing the distance with a nurse's ineffable mix of authority and care.
"You two ok?" she asked. She didn't sound shocked; she sounded tired, like a woman who'd seen too many crises to be surprised. That steadiness let something in the room breathe easier.
Rika shifted, murmuring in my arms. "We're… okay. For now." Her voice was small. Vulnerability still clung to her like damp fabric, but it no longer swallowed her.
Mayumi's jaw worked, a steel-and-softness expression that meant she was riled but steady. "You scared the hell out of me," she said bluntly. "If anyone else had found you like this—" She didn't finish the threat. It hung there like a promise.
Reina crossed to Rika with quick, purposeful steps. She crouched, checking for visible signs of harm like a doctor and a mother rolled into one. Her hands were professional and gentle. "You need rest and observation," she said. "And you need water. And food." Then, softer, more private: "You're safe now."
I let them take the lead, because I wasn't finished thinking. My mind circled the facts—Saki's identity, the archive clipping, the way the spirit had reacted when I'd pushed back. The system had given us a new target: eliminate the anomaly, start with her origin. The clue was blunt and ugly: Hoshino Saki, died on a rooftop, file buried in a box. That meant motive. That meant leverage. That meant a way in.
"I found something tonight," I said, voice low. The soldier in me made every word a tool. "Records. A name. She isn't random." I watched their faces take that in—Reina's expression hardening, Mayumi's eyes narrowing.
"We go after it smart," Reina said. "Not heroics. If it's tied to the school, then there are people who know things. Old teachers, admin. Old grudges." She looked at me with an appraisal that said she trusted me enough to follow the plan, but not so much that she wouldn't call me on any reckless move.
Mayumi cracked a wry smile, the kind that promised surveillance and muscle. "And I'll sit on the perimeter," she said. "Any funny business, I'll light up the whole campus."
Rika, still curled in my arms, whispered, "Will it come back?"
"Yes," I answered without flinching. The truth was flat and small and necessary. "But we'll be ready. We'll find what keeps it bound and pull on that thread."
Reina met my gaze then, the lights in her eyes like flint. "Then you'll need backup. We can't be careless."
I nodded. The soldier in me liked plans. The man in me wanted to hold Rika through every nightmare. They could both be true.
We moved slowly out of the corridor, Reina taking Rika's arm, guiding her like a tether, Mayumi sweeping the long view with a coach's vigilance, and me shadowing the edges with the quiet calculation of someone who had survived worse. Fear had been converted for now; it would become a weapon, but only if we sharpened it into purpose.
And that was what we would do. Tonight we regrouped. Tomorrow we hunted. The system's quiet glow promised more stages, more rewards, but I didn't care about glows or points. I cared about making sure the woman asleep at my chest woke up and didn't remember the shape of teeth in the dark.
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We left the corridor slower than we arrived, careful, purposeful, each step measured like a patrol clearing a building. Rika walked between Reina and Mayumi now, fragile and steady in equal parts, leaning on them when the world blurred. She kept glancing at me, that small, wordless question in her eyes: What now? I answered with a look that had practiced calm in the middle of chaos.
Once we were out of sight of students and cameras, we found a back room in the staff wing—the one Reina kept for privacy. It smelled faintly of antiseptic and old coffee, and the fluorescent light above hummed like an indifferent sentinel. I sat on the edge of a table, folded my hands, and let the old soldier in me take over. Sixteen in flesh, fifty in mind; that gap was my advantage. Where others panicked, I catalogued.
"We don't rush," I said. "We move deliberate. Saki isn't random, she's tied to the school. That clipping proves it. She died here. That gives us leverage: motive, witnesses, maybe records someone suppressed." I tapped the newspaper clipping still folded in my jacket pocket like a token. "We start with the obvious: archives, former staff, the roof where she fell."
Reina nodded, already thinking like a clinician and a woman who'd seen more than her share. "There will be red tape. Old files, purged reports, custodial logs. But the administration keeps a paper trail. I can get us authorized access, medical logs, incident reports, if we phrase it as a welfare check for a teacher." Her voice was practical, but there was steel there.
"Give me tonight's list. I'll see what I can unlock."
Mayumi stretched, cracking two knuckles. "And I'll keep physical watch. If anything moves or shows up around campus, I'll spot it. I know the back routes, the maintenance entrances, if Saki tries to reclaim space, she's in my line of sight." She had the coach's bluntness, the kind that made threats feel like promises.
Rika's fingers twined with mine, small and shaking. "If we dig into the past… what if we wake something worse?" Her question was real. Her memory of Saki's smile had not faded; the cold had returned at the thought.
"We'll wake what's there," I replied. "And then we'll make it regret choosing you." The words were not bravado; they were a pledge forged in older battles. She let out a breath that was almost a laugh, thin, astonished at how easily she could still trust me.
We split roles like a unit preparing an operation. Reina would use her access to pull medical logs and restricted records; she had old keys, old contacts, and the kind of institutional memory that makes doors open. Mayumi would run perimeter control and canvass staff on small talk—gentle pressure, watchful presence. I would handle the archival dig: the library basement, the school board's older minutes, custodian logs for rooftop access. And Rika… Rika would rest, but she would also be the living link: who Saki fixated on, what moments she remembered from high school that might have intersected with Saki's life.
"All of us together," Reina said. "No lone heroics. We move in pairs and report in every hour. If Saki shows, we don't engage alone." Her nurse's instinct had translated into a strategy: heal first, then hunt.
I set a time. "Tonight, archives after lights-out. Tomorrow morning, interview whoever's left who remembers Hoshino Saki. We'll be quiet—no social media spills, no students in the loop." I wanted control; I wanted information before rumor could metastasize into panic.
The System chimed, polite and hungry for progress.
[Quest Updated: Eliminate the Anomaly – Stage: Investigation]
[Subtasks: (1) Secure archival access;
(2) Interview former staff;
(3) Monitor rooftop activity.]
[Hint: Begin with Rika's high-school timeline—dates, clubs, closest friends.]
"Good," I said. "Start with Rika's timeline. Who sat next to her, who she argued with, anything she's suppressed. The pattern will tell us whether Saki was revenge, accident, or something else. Motive gives us method."
Mayumi shot me a look—equal parts respect and impatience. "You realize this will probably get messy." She smirked. "I like messy."
It felt right to laugh then...short, brittle, but real. We were a weird little squad: the reincarnated soldier in a teenager's skin, a burned-out literature teacher who'd rediscovered connection, a nurse who knew how to pry secrets from paper, and a coach who could read people like plays. We fit together like miscut pieces in a plan that wouldn't let fear win.
We made a checklist then and there: where to start, who to ask, what to record. Reina would call an old contact at records and get us a keycard code disguised as a routine staff audit. Mayumi would watch the perimeter and send me a signal if anything anomalous appeared in the yard. I would review the archives—photographs, yearbooks, maintenance logs—and pull anything referencing a rooftop incident or a student who disappeared from the rolls. Rika would write down every memory she had from those years, faces, phrases, even smells that triggered recall. Little things build a map.
When the plan felt solid enough to move on, we sheltered the fragility of the night in ordinary actions: a cup of terrible staff-room coffee, Rika leaning into Reina while Mayumi checked the locks, me tracing the route we'd take to the archives with practiced attention. The promise of structure soothed like a bandage.
Before we left, Rika squeezed my hand. "Come back with answers," she said, barely a whisper.
I thumbed the edge of that newspaper clipping. Fifty years of instinct took over—no fear, only catalog, prepare, execute. "I will," I said. "And when we have them, we stop this for good."
We moved out into the night in pairs, Reina and Rika together, Mayumi covering the long sight-lines, me taking the flank toward the old archive door. The campus slept, but the lights on the roofed walkways blinked like a cautionary Morse. Somewhere above us, a roof waited: the place Saki had fallen, and the place we would pry open the past.
The hunt had begun.
It was now....4 on 1
.....Maybe!