June 9, 72nd

“Good morning, Miss Pandora.”

“Doctor. What’s your name?”

Everyone in the mansion calls the doctor ‘Doctor’, so she haven’t asked him his name.

Though she doesn’t know if the name he will say is the real doctor’s or his own.

“I am Erf…… Darling.”

After a moment of silence, the man says his name.

He said it awkwardly, as if pronouncing his name for the first time, and then opened his mouth to ask the question, “Do you have any pain in your eye?”

“Erf.”

But first, Pandora, who had muttered his name in a low voice, stretched out her arms and groped for air.

Erf gently grasped her flailing arm.

He seemed to think she wanted support.

Pandora grabbed Erf’s arm with one hand and whipped him by the collar with the other.

Despite her weakness, Erf didn’t resist and came along easily.

Erf was now sitting on Pandora’s bed.

Pandora didn’t stop there; she reached for Erf’s face, grabbed it with both hands, and pulled him down to meet her lips.

“!”

The red lips crushed against the pale pink lips like a bad fruit.

Pandora squeezed her eyes shut and pressed her lips together, shifting her feet without Erf realizing it.

Her heart pounded like a child who had done something wrong.

After realizing that even Erf, her last hope, didn’t remember her, she decided to completely change her attitude toward life.

‘Let’s just live.’

If she doesn’t have a future, if she can’t plan her life, she’ll enjoy the intense pleasure of the moment.

They say if you can’t avoid it, enjoy it.

‘No matter what I do, no one will remember.’

She was going to enjoy herself properly from now on.

She decided to do whatever she wanted to do, however she wanted to do it, just for the sake of enjoyment and fun.

She’s not afraid to do bad things and crazy things.

In that sense, Erf was the one Pandora was currently most interested in, fond of, and curious about.

A strange being that had suddenly popped up in front of her after she swallowed the poison.

The only one who, for some reason, seemed genuinely concerned for her and showed anything resembling affection.

The one she was afraid would run away or disappear.

A being with beautiful eyes, a hot body, and pretty lips.

Pandora longed to kiss the lips that had breathed life into her once more.

The gods loved love.

So they made love simulation games, played them, tried to win the favor of their favorite male characters, and at the end of it all, there was a kiss.

A kiss. What was it that the gods were so enthusiastic about?

Pandora couldn’t help but wonder.

But now that she’d tried it, she didn’t know any better.

Their lips parted, slow and deliberate, unlike when they had joined.

Pandora took off her lips and looked at Erf’s countenance, which was as hard as a rock.

She felt her breath catch in her throat.

She had never been so afraid of not being able to see the other person’s expression in the dark.

After all, by 11:59:59, the clock would be back to morning and Erf would have no idea this had happened.

But, even though she committed this…… it would be very painful to receive his scornful glance, even for a moment.

“…….”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to…….”

Unable to stand the stifling silence, Pandora tried to come up with some sort of excuse.

Erf’s eyes grew dark as he watched her sulk.

Erf’s hand wrapped around the back of Pandora’s head and pulled her close.

Soft lips met soft lips, and Pandora’s lips were swallowed in an instant between Erf’s.

Pandora gripped his arms in surprise. She could feel his vein sticking out his thick arm.

The hot kiss that followed was so different from any kiss Pandora had ever known.

It was a new world that could not be seen or known through illustrations designed for a 12-year-old audience, such as those quietly pressing lips together in ‘The Villain’s Love Method’.

Slowly, Pandora’s eyes snapped shut.

Gentle, hot breath drifted into the corners of her mouth. The urgency with which they coiled, uncoiled, and coiled again was dizzying.

Her heart dropped with a thud and jumped back up like a high jumper.

Lips pressed together, the heat of a large hand digging into her hair, a firm arm beneath her small one, a knee brushing through the covers.

It was only partially touching, but her whole body was tingling and tickling.

Pandora straightened her crumbling back, and Erf’s hot arms slipped around her waist and pulled her close.

Pandora’s chest rose and fell.

A shiver of excitement ran down her spine and a dull heat pooled in her lower belly.

The air in the room, which had been moderately cool on the early summer morning, suddenly felt hot.

Bam!

That’s when it happened. The sound of silverware clattering to the floor caused Pandora and Erf to part their lips in surprise and move away.

Their heads snapped toward the door where the sound had come from.

Anna, carrying a tray with breakfast, stared at them, her mouth agape.

“Oh my! Oh my God. Oh my God!”

Anna, who was about to cross the threshold, smiled evilly and turned quickly.

“Oh my, I didn’t see that coming, oh my, sorry, finish what you were doing!”

“No wait…….”

Wait. Not that. No, that’s right. No, I mean…

As she stammered and mumbled her thoughts, Anna’s backside disappeared down the stairs.

Pandora’s face brightened at the embarrassment of being caught kissing her doctor by the maid she saw every day.

She was so distracted by the kiss that she didn’t even hear Anna’s quick footsteps.

“…….”

But she was told to finish what she was doing, so here goes.

“Doctor.”

Pandora beckoned to Erf. But Erf hesitated, not coming closer.

“Doctor?”

“…….”

Erf scooted farther away from the bed and pressed his back against the wall, as if wanting to disappear in it.

He swiped a shaky hand across his reddened face.

“Miss Pandora, this is…… I’m not in my right mind…… I’m so sorry, I just went crazy for a second…….”

Erf rattled off a series of excuses as fast as he could rap, but most of them fell flat on the air.

The man’s voice, still reeling from his excitement, shook as dizzily as his accelerated heartbeat.

“I’m sorry.”

Erf apologized again, and then he was gone, running away faster than Pandora could catch him.

The room seemed eerily empty without him.

Pandora stared blankly at the spot where he had disappeared, then pressed her lips with her fingers.

She could still feel the heat of another’s lips on hers.

Her face flushed with regret.

Only now did she realize what she had done, and what the other person did.

‘Why did you kiss me?’

Why did he accept her selfish, vile prank?

Pandora swallowed hard, the question lingering in her mouth, unable to follow through and ask.

This was going to be a long day somehow.

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Morning, morning, morning again.

“Good morning, Miss Pandora.”

Pandora was glad to hear the greeting.

Once she was sure he’s the quack Erf, she could either play dumb or pull his arm in for a kiss.

The lack of visual stimulation made her cling to a more primal, direct sense of touch.

Erf was embarrassed, but eventually gave in and kissed her.

She was disappointed that it wasn’t as deep as the first time, but satisfied that he didn’t pull away and linger.

“Miss. You should probably get going, I have an appointment at another house at nine.”

Nine o’clock in the morning.

Pandora grabbed Erf by the scruff of the neck.

“Doctor. I can draw with my eyes closed. Don’t you ever wonder how that’s possible?”

To Pandora’s frustration, the kindly man took her left hand as she sat down in front of the canvas.

He found the paint she wanted and squeezed it for her, held her palette, cleaned her brushes, and didn’t judge her when she wiggled her fingers and nibbled.

When Pandora wanted it, Erf was a sweet lover, a best friend, and a fatherly, loving protector.

Eight in the morning to one in the afternoon. Until she was dragged off to the museum.

Pandora basked in this joyful, anxious excitement to her heart’s content.

But as this state of affairs repeated itself four, five, ten, twenty times over, Pandora grew increasingly distressed.

The hundredth June 9th dawned.

“…….”

Pandora glared at her bedside calendar and clock and cursed the developers.

T/N: Love this episode (´?`???)