NOVEL NEXT chapter 230
Chapter 230. Defeat Play, But Noah’s Acting (5)
To Clotilde’s questioning, Noah, of course, pretended not to hear, and instead began observing the room’s structure with great interest.
Having grown accustomed to this behavior from Noah, Clotilde could only follow along in their search.
Noah actually knew where the item that would trigger the side quest was, but to keep Clotilde from suspecting that he was behind this charade.
Being in the midst of acting, Noah could only restrain himself a little.
After about eight minutes or so, Clotilde finally, through a thorough search, located the suspicious object.
“This magic item looks suspicious…?!”
Just as Clotilde was about to touch the magic item, which looked like a pot, the magic item itself emitted a suspicious blue light.
This made Clotilde immediately retreat a few steps, trying to escape the spell’s range.
But it was actually too late, she was already under the effects of that magic item.
“Miss Nun, you’re really quite clumsy, even falling for a trap like that, are you planning to play a strict-looking but actually scatterbrained teacher? Miss Nun, you’re unexpectedly fervent.”
Just as Clotilde was checking to see if anything was wrong with her, Noah’s sarcastic voice sounded from behind her.
This made Clotilde feel even more displeased.
Seriously, could Noah not say even one nice thing?
He really did look at her like she was an older adult, if Noah were a child younger than her, Clotilde would absolutely let him know what cruelty is.
“Mr. Noah, you really love talking behind your back, why don’t you come try it yourself? I see how brave you’re acting, surely you’re not afraid of anything.”
Clotilde said to Noah with some discontent.
And she indicated that if Noah had the guts he should come do the same thing as her, go near that obviously suspicious magic item and try it.
“Are you kidding, I’m super brave, okay, Miss Nun, just stay there and watch.”
Noah deliberately pointed to his own body with his thumb, made this ‘deflated’ gesture, and then walked from the floor-to-ceiling window towards Clotilde.
Seeing Noah’s arrogant expression, Clotilde didn’t actually think anything would happen to Noah.
You have to remember the last time they had a similar encounter in the house.
Right, that time a few days ago when they were attacked by that aphrodisiac magic item.
Noah, like her, was completely unaffected.
No, it should be said that only Noah was unaffected.
She just delayed the effects until that night.
What’s more, this time she was hit with a suspicious blue light, and after checking her body, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
So Noah, whose magic resistance seems even higher than hers, should be even less likely to be affected.
“Look, I’m completely fine even bathed in this magic item’s light, okay.”
“Huh? Noah… Mr.?”
But how does that saying go again?
You never know what might suddenly happen the next second.
Just when Clothilde didn’t think anything would really happen, the unexpected did.
Bathed in a green light, different from the blue before, Noah completely ate the second effect of that magic item.
This magic artifact, which looks like a pottery jug, has two completely different effects.
When it emits a blue light, it puts people into a heightened, level-3 heat state, which shortly after reverses into an abnormal state of no libido.
That’s why Marquis Nelson is currently out of commission.
But when it emits a green light, it triggers an even greater abnormality, a more novel defeat-play – age regression.
Even though Noah clearly could have avoided this DEBUFF, could have shrugged it off right away.
But Noah still took the DEBUFF head-on.
Right in front of Clothilde, he performed a blatant size-changing act.
From a dashing young man, exuding an aura of danger and suspicion, he became a black-haired boy, his height only reaching Clothilde’s chest.
“Sister, what’s with that look on your face? You look like you’ve seen someone transform. Wait, Sister, why did you suddenly get so big? And my voice sounds kinda weird… Haha! Interesting! So I got smaller! No wonder my view is so low!”
Noah knew what was going to happen, but he pretended to just now realize he had shrunk, displaying a cheerful, healthy smile while looking at his clothes, now much too large for him.
“…This isn’t the time to be happy, Mr. Noah, you’re as self-centered as ever. Show a little concern, alright?”
Looking at Noah, who now looked like he was only thirteen or fourteen, Clothilde was genuinely worried for him.
This guy really had no sense of urgency at all.
…Come to think of it, Mr. Noah also has his cute moments, doesn’t he?
Worried as she was, Clothilde couldn’t help but start observing Noah’s current appearance.
Compared to the original Noah, the changes weren’t too drastic, at most his height was shorter, and his expression a bit more youthful.
But the self-centeredness that was present in his adult form now, due to becoming a child, made him come across as arrogant yet also very cute.
Like a tiger cub – still dangerous, but his attempts to act like a grown-up made his arrogance incredibly endearing.
Not to mention everything else, he was simply very cute.
“Ha, what is there to worry about? No danger will come of this, and it will all fade away eventually… Wait, who are you? You’ve got such a dumb face, you look like the type of person who’d get tricked easily.”
Just within that short amount of time Clothilde had been observing him.
Noah suddenly said something very strange.
This startled Clothilde.
What was going on? Mr. Noah’s personality seemed to be his own, but he didn’t remember her?
Could it be that memories disappear along with the regression of the physical body?
“Speaking of which, where is this? Why am I stuck with this goofy-looking woman, it’s a total disaster.”
To recreate the original, Noah wasn’t actually suffering from amnesia but still acted like he was.
He casually mocked the ‘big sister with the stupid face’ not far away, while taking in the scenery around him.
—Even though his age has regressed, he’s still infuriating, isn’t he, Mr. Noah.
At first, Clotilde was just simply annoyed by Noah’s words.
But she quickly noticed a blind spot.
—Wait a minute, if I think about it carefully, isn’t this a perfect opportunity to get back at Mr. Noah?
The usual Mr. Noah is older than her, and also her ‘benefactor’, so she can’t defy him.
But the current Mr. Noah is a child! And he can’t even be considered her ‘benefactor’ anymore.
So facing such an arrogant little boy, shouldn’t she, as a nun…no, as a teacher, educate him on what proper manners are?
At this thought, a fanatical glint flashed in Clotilde’s eyes as she looked at Noah.
As if in response to her thoughts, the lewd mark on her abdomen also slowly emitted a seductive light.
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PS. Today is also five updates!… Though I really want to say that, it’s actually only four.
The fifth update is moved to the evening for fear of being censored.
This chapter is the 59th bonus chapter for October votes, and there are still 4 updates left to make up for the promised 63 bonus updates this month. I’ll make them all up tonight.
Which means there will be six updates tonight.
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