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Chapter 2 - Chapter - 2

Shinobu gazes down at Kenji, sleeping peacefully. Her heart swelled in affection as she just stared, planting few more kisses. `He's so adorable. Weak and helpless, reliable on me.' Was her thought. Though her words were something not a normal lover would say but then again, neither is she normal nor is her love normal.

Kenji stirred slightly, blinking before relaxing again. It just felt normal for him to feel so peaceful to be around Shinobu.

Staring at him for few more minutes, Shinobu stands up. Walking towards the door causing Kenji to frown and open his eyes. "Where are you going..." He asked in sleepy tone, rubbing his eyes.

"To do some research my love~ you can sleep orrrr you need me?" Her tone turned teasing, dragging the or just enough. She walks back towards the futon, sitting on the edge of it. "Happy?" She sits in seiza position, patting her lap.

Kenji nodded in agreement, understanding the meaning of the gesture he lays his head on her lap. That profound amount of euphoria travels through his body as he inhaled her scent. His cheeks flushed red, lips trembling slightly.

Shinobu kept smiling though her eyes turned a bit darker, running her hand through his hair, feeling him shudder. "What's the matter, my love?~ Something troubling you?"

"N-no..." When his voice came out, it was a bit shaky. He was trying to hide the euphoria like feeling by biting his inner cheek. Shinobu caught on that immediately and flicked his head.

"No. Stop that, you'll cause bleeding." Her tone was strict, not teasing anymore. Kenji nodded, burying his face in her lap to hide few things. Shinobu's smile returned, something Knowing shining in those large pupiless eyes.

Why the euphoria? Since that love of her turned into obsession, she has been giving him sedative and other drugs. The sedative was to keep him calm but other drugs were highly addicting, each one stronger than last one and she induced him with 3 different types of drugs.

She did that with such proficiency and excuse, to find a solution to his weak body, that no one suspected a thing. She started this after kanae died of course, now he was addicted to those drugs, not knowing why he always felt that deep pain in gut and chest whenever he didn't get the drug for more than 2 days.

Typically when she went on long distance missions. She could have told him to take certain injections but what was the fun in that? She always carried those 3 drugs in her scent so seeing him cling to her like a moth after she returns from missions was always satisfying and deeply arousing.

Right now, it was the same. Though not 2 days but he hadn't gotten the drug for more than 16 hours so smelling the scent of drug on her caused that euphoria like sensation.

But Kenji didn't thought like that, he thought it was the need to be close to Shinobu that caused that ache and that euphoria when he finally got to sniff her better. During the bandaging, he was just getting fleeting amount of that scent. She was glad he was so naive.

She never felt guilty about this nor did she regret it, the drug addiction was like collateral. If he grows defiant or try to leave, this was her trump card.

Atleast for now.

'Ah~ look at that blush, those trembling lips. I want to stay like this for whole day and night but I have to go do some research. I will have to give him a sedative to calm him down.' She produces a small box from he drawer, consisting of ten injection. Taking one, she injects it into his arm without any warning.

Saying something to him right now would be useless and just cause him to get irritated so she did it quietly. He didn't even notice that he was injected with sedative. She took out another injection and injects it into his arm again. Sleeping drug.

Now she just sat there, waiting for drugs to take the effect.

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She stood in her lab, the door closed, haori removed, hair loose. 'Big sister won't forgive me if she saw what I am doing but what else am i supposed to do. This is the only way to keep him away from the dangers that come as demon slayer.'

Shinobu sighs, a sigh indicating her exhaustion and burden. Being a hashira at 16, having to deal with all patients, going on missions, doing research, managing the butterfly mansion, keeping Kenji under control and safe, training kanao and her other tsuguko, training herself.

'I just need a break, even a day is enough.' She groaned, slumping down on the chair.

Just then she heard a chime, like a bell ringing. Opening her eyes, she looks around. 'Who is ringing a bell at this hour..' She wondered but her eyes widened slightly when an interference, an screen like projection appears infront of her.

The words on it were written in white while the rest of the screen except for boundaries was black, boundaries were white too.

This alarmed her but not in the way when she was fighting a demon, the possibility of an demon even coming here was zero to none. Butterfly mansion was hidden beyond what any mindless demon or even inteligent one could find. Not to mention the abundance of wisteria flowers and trees around the mansion.

This was something else, she tried to touch it and surprisingly she could touch it. She moves her head to see if it remains in one place but it remained infront of her vision. 'Am i finally losing it? Hallucinating..but if it were a hallucinatio-' She was cut off mid thinking.

[This is not an hallucination. Neither is it any demon's doing nor is it your brain playing with you. I am what people call 'System', i choose my host. Bound with them and then reveal myself.]

It's voice was something neither feminine nor masculine, something in between. It was robotic but concept of robot didn't exist in taisho era so shinobu didn't knew what it sounded like.

Her eyes narrowed, reading the words and listening to them. 'It can read my mind..' Now she was more convinced it was her brain doing it, telling her to take rest and some sleep.

[Are you dumb?]

'Excuse me?' Dumb? Shinobu? She was probably the best doctor in the demon Slayer corps, probably the best doctor who is a human. Though no matter how arrogant it sounded, she wasn't arrogant about it but prideful so being called dumb even by her own hallucination caused an twitch in brows.

[I will introduce myself now, I'm a system that'll help you to achieve whatever you want to achieve. I'm now bound to you, I can't unbound myself with you even if i wanted. The only way to unbound is your death or my erasure. I don't think the latter one is going to happen. Anyways, my features include

- Status

- Quests/Quest page

- System shop

- Dungeon/Tower]

One thing was clear to Shinobu now, this wasn't hallucination. She had never read about system and according to what she knew - Hallucination happend based on past experiences or something of knowledge. She had neither in this case.

'Elaborate.' She ordered with an doubtful look.

[Status - See your Name, Age, Height, Weight, Abilities/skills.

Quest/Quest page - It'll give you quests, upon completion of quests you will get rewards. Quests regarding Kenji give 5 times the normal reward.

System shop - You can use system points to buy stuff from shop. What stuff you can buy and what not will be unlocked in future.

Dungeon/Tower - It's an place where monsters will spawn, killing them gives system points + Increases your power + Gives you abilities based on the monster you kill + Items]

'That's...a child's fantasy..' She thought. An sudden screen appears infront of you, offers power and what not in exchange of what? Nothing? That was not what an sane individual would think.

Shinobu wasn't sane too but she had intelligence atleast.

[That's offensive.]

Now it has attitude too.

[Should I open the status screen?]

'Name, age, height, weight, Abilities/Skills...this looks more like an application for a job rather than whatever this. What even is the need of height and weight?'

[I lacked things to show on status screen so I chose them randomly. I can show you other stuff too, like waist size or breas-]

'It is a creep too now..' Shinobu was getting creeped up by this more and more.

[You are one to talk.]

'...so it knows that too.' Shinobu has few secrets but one of them is her diary, in it is everything about Kenji. Every single thing.

Age, every measurement of his body. Even that. His weak spots which were neck and waist, kiss him there and you've got a flustered and an turned-on Kenji. His birthday, first time they kissed, first time they got in argument. Everything.

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As promised, this chapter is longer. Chapters in future will be around 1500-2000 words.

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