Converting excessive stimulation into affection.
When he heard the answer that came from Agnes Tachyon's lips, Shinji Kitahara went completely numb.
Lady—no, at this point, you're my big sister. Don't you read the side effects before using your potions? And isn't this effect a little too fantastical?
He was already starting to regret it.
If he had known earlier that her potion had this effect, he would have never used fifty percent of his strength, not even if you beat him to death...
No, forget fifty percent, he wouldn't have even touched her.
But now...
"You know this feeling is fake, right?"
Feeling her completely undisguised, fervent gaze, Shinji forced himself to ask.
"Yes, I know." Tachyon nodded, still smiling. "But what does it matter? The fact that I like you exists right now, doesn't it?"
"But the problem is that this love itself is fake..."
"Love was never an objective thing to begin with. Where is the line between fake and real?"
Moreover, this was by no means completely fake. It was more like a forced bloom. After all, even if you convert all pleasure into affection, if the heart itself is a barren wasteland, then no matter how much affection there is, it will have no place to stay and can only dissipate with the wind.
She blinked, looking at the worry in his eyes, and smiled as she reached out and poked his stomach. "Alright, you silly guinea pig, you don't have to worry about me so much. This effect isn't permanent. Otherwise, I would have definitely discovered it during my previous tests."
"...Then how long will it last?"
"Hmm... about half an hour more?" She tilted her head to look at him, the love in her eyes undisguised. "So, could I ask you, Mr. Guinea Pig, to cooperate with me for this half hour and act as my temporary lover?"
"No."
Shinji refused flatly.
Act as her lover? What a joke.
First of all, this kind of thing could easily turn from fake to real, and the risk was huge. Even if it didn't, after she returned to normal, she would probably hunt him down, and in a ruthless, "if I can't have you, no one can" kind of way.
"Then you just wait here for half an hour. I'm going to go check on Eclipse..."
This was the best solution he could think of for this situation.
But...
Just as he finished speaking, the smile on Tachyon's face clearly faded a little.
"Um, Mr. Guinea Pig, you don't have to leave. It's okay if you don't agree to my request. The nursing care can also continue. I'm fine on my side..."
"No."
"Just stay here with me until this state is over. I won't use you to test potions, and I won't do anything else. Just as long as you're here..."
"...No."
"I won't do anything. It's just that I really don't want to leave you right now. Just half an hour is fine. Just as long as you're here. It's even okay if you're a little farther away from me. I'm begging you..."
"...No."
Although her expression had clearly become pitiful, and her tone had a hint of pleading, he still did not agree to her request after a moment's hesitation.
Because no matter how she acted now, it was all a side effect of the potion, not her own will. Moreover, although she said it nicely, who knew what she was capable of in this state. Whether for his own sake or for hers, he had a reason to leave.
And so, after speaking, he took a step and walked towards the outside.
And as he walked away step by step, the light in her eyes began to gradually disappear, her mood also visibly dropped, and her expression gradually became sad.
But she did not try to stop him from leaving. Even the hand that had subconsciously reached out, as if wanting to hold on to something, slowly retracted.
Then, she began to curl up her body, bit by bit, and buried her head between her knees.
Because he was worried about a possible accident if she couldn't control herself, even though he was walking out, he had been paying attention to her situation. He naturally discovered these small movements and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
But he could only sigh.
Although she looked a little pitiful, he knew very well that this was just a false emotion brought about by the side effect of the potion. If he did something, it would only cause problems. Leaving was the best choice.
Click.
Thinking this, Shinji unlocked the door, his hand on the doorknob.
But, he did not push it down.
Because from behind him, a faint sobbing sound was heard.
"As I thought, you hate me, don't you, Mr. Guinea Pig?"
"Selfish, willful, a pile of trouble, and my results aren't even good..."
"Even though I can't even take care of myself without someone's help, I always act so arrogant..."
"Alright, alright, I get it. I won't go out, okay?"
He knew she was probably acting, but faced with these self-deprecating words, he really couldn't take it anymore and helplessly turned his head.
And then he found that her performance, it seemed, was not an act.
She was curled up on the bed. After he looked over, she turned her head away with red-rimmed eyes, and then took a few deep breaths, as if trying to suppress her emotions. But in the end, she could only suppress them for a few seconds, and then the sobbing sound started again.
Shinji was numb.
No, I know this is fake, and you know this is fake, so why can't you just wait for this half an hour to pass?
Where's your rationality? Save yourself!
Oh, right. I think I kneaded a bit too hard just now. At this point, the affection is probably beating up rationality.
Then that's fine.
With a helpless sigh, Shinji braced himself and walked back, sitting down beside her. "Alright, alright, I'll wait with you for this half an hour. Stop crying, okay?"
"...I'm not crying," she answered with her head buried.
"Ah, right, right."
He didn't know what to do in this situation, so he just went with the flow as usual.
Then, after a simple exchange, the two of them fell silent again.
So, when did things turn out like this?
She couldn't say for sure.
At the very beginning, it was just because of an accident that she learned of his existence. For the purpose of curiosity, she went over to take a look at him. At that time, she was still very confident in her own trainer level and had no intention of relying on others, so she just wanted an interesting guinea pig and, by the way, to step onto the racecourse under his name.
But gradually, things started to get a little strange at some point.
Actually, she had no feelings for him in that way at first. In fact, she was quite disdainful of things like love or romance, thinking that it was just a boring waste of life, far less interesting and meaningful than conducting research in the lab.
But since he appeared, everything had changed.
He had easily poked through her seemingly perfect theoretical plan, mercilessly pointed out the problems on her body, shattering her confidence to pieces while also denying her future possibilities.
If it were another horse girl, at that time, she might have thought he was talking nonsense and would have thrown a tantrum or willfully refused to believe it.
But the problem was, she was Agnes Tachyon, so she quickly realized that what he said was all true.
No racehorse doesn't long to run, and no racehorse doesn't long for victory. But the problem was, the cold, hard facts were right in front of her, so she could only choose to accept them.
Then, that clipboard had tapped her on the head, and his voice had followed.
"Anyway, although it's troublesome, I'll help you find a way."
What a strange person, she had thought.
He's not even my charge, he's so afraid of trouble, and I've already said it's fine. So why does he have to look for trouble for himself?
And speaking of which, the reason she had fallen into that state was also because of his words.
First, smash others' confidence to pieces and tell them the cruel reality.
And then, take advantage of the vulnerability, extend a hand to the girl who is deep in the mud, and tell her, "I will save you."
Isn't this going too far?
If before, when she was competing with Teio on that chair, it was mainly because of curiosity and wanting to tease that little girl, then from the moment the clipboard had hit her on the head for the second time, she had truly begun to see him as her Mr. Guinea Pig.
But that was still just the beginning.
There were too many mysteries about him, so many that even when she was doing experiments in the lab, her mind was full of questions about him.
In the end, she had to put down her research and start to circle around him, wanting to satisfy that thirsty curiosity.
Curiosity and interest are basically synonymous, and are often seen as the beginning of a fall.
Not to mention, due to her own reasons, she had very few friends to begin with.
In school, she couldn't be said to be very popular. At the very least, she was disliked by people and dogs. She was the type who could instantly create a large vacuum zone just by standing in a crowd.
She didn't think there was anything wrong with this before. After all, she was the type of person who did as she pleased.
But after he appeared, the number of people around her had slowly increased.
But even the most maverick person, as long as they are a person, will always need certain things.
And those who can say they don't need those things either have a firm substitute, or have never been in contact with those things before, so they think they don't need them.
She had originally thought she was the former, but after actually experiencing it, she realized she might be the latter.
Unlike the others, although he was also afraid of her on the surface, after getting along for a while, she would find that it was less fear of her and more fear of trouble.
He was a rare existence who did not treat her as some kind of weirdo. Although he was always saying "troublesome," he had never once not been there when she needed him.
In fact, even with her usual sneak-attack drugging, he would just defend against it with a helpless look, had never once gotten angry, let alone taken any measures to try to forbid her from doing so.
She enjoyed, and very much liked, this feeling.
And, although he had found Agnes Digital to take care of her, it was precisely because of this that, to avoid being stuck to by that pervert, she had to start trying to learn to be self-reliant.
Going out, buying meals, washing clothes, especially underwear...
Although the "useless person in daily life" attribute had not been eliminated, at least she had made some changes.
And, it wasn't just changes in her life.
After joining his team, with the increase in members, she had also started to be able to chat with others. Although their relationship couldn't be said to be very close, at least her world was no longer just experiments and drug testing. Her personality had also become slightly more outgoing and lively.
At the same time, because of her work as an assistant trainer, she had collected more experimental data, which not only had not delayed her research, but had even made her progress faster than before, and she had even discovered several previous errors.
Then, as time went on, when she looked back, she suddenly found that her life was already full of his shadow.
In fact, even she herself had been changed by him, both physically and mentally.
After that Maiden race, she hadn't hated him. She had just realized something and didn't know how to face him.
And in the period that followed, because of his long-term neglect, she had gradually returned to normal and no longer thought, or rather, was unwilling to think about certain things, just stubbornly not wanting her guinea pig to be snatched away.
But now she understood.
She liked him.
Not a side effect of the potion, but an indisputable fact.
It's just that that "like" was not as lush and flourishing as it was now. All the feelings and courage now were just a false prosperity. It was even possible that after the effect of the potion wore off, she would return to her original state.
But regardless of whether the side effect of the potion existed, whether the love that was almost overflowing from her chest was false, she at least knew one thing was absolutely real.
And that was that she did not want to be disliked by him, let alone lose him.
But the potion only enhanced her affection, not her courage or desire. In fact, because of the excessive affection, she was now completely unable to have any dangerous or bad thoughts about him and could only blindly obey his commands.
So faced with his departure, she could not take any action. On the contrary, because the emotion in her heart was too strong, it further magnified her sadness and reluctance.
But what she didn't know was that this was precisely his weak spot.
So he came back.
So she stopped sobbing.
So she carefully raised her head, peeked at his face, and then, under his helpless expression, she quietly moved her body and got closer to him.
After another period of silence, her mood returned to tranquility, and she began to think about what she could do now.
According to her estimation, the effect of the potion could last for about forty minutes, and now nearly twenty minutes had passed, with half of the time remaining.
And in this half an hour, she had to do something to keep her guinea pig.
Otherwise, when the effect of the potion wore off and she returned to her original state of not even daring to face the feelings in her heart, everything would be lost.
And so she raised her head.
"Mr. Guinea Pig."
"...What's wrong?"
She looked at him, moved closer, and leaned over to his ear, her words entwined with a strange meaning.
"Why don't you take this opportunity and make me yours?"
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