The Incubus System

108 Chapter 106. Kyah ~ Stop it ~

05.53 PM

”I ... donʼt think ... I can make it ... Leave me, buddy ... Run ... And save yourself ...” Larry said in a weak voice. His head leaned against the back of his chair, his eyes stared at me dimly, his hand lifted to me weakly as if his life almost escaped from his body.

”Hang on! You can do it!” I encouraged him.

”I ... Canʼt ...” His voice sounded like a dying tragic hero in a low budget action movie. Then his hand fell limply onto the desk and his eyes closed.

- Plak!

I smacked his head with a book.

”Awww!” He rubbed his head and opened his eyes.

”Donʼt be so dramatic. You just need one more page,” I said irritably.

”Huhuhu ... Can you do it for me?” he whined.

”Iʼve done half of your assignment. Thatʼs more than enough.” Again, I gave him another death glare.

”Huh ... uh ...” he whined as he gave me a pleading look, like a kid asking his parents for toys.

And my expression didnʼt change.

He pulled the end of my t-shirt repeatedly.

”Pleaseeee ....” he said with a pleading voice and an innocent smile.

I rolled up the book in my hand and smacked his hand like swatting a fly.

”Awww!” He pulled his hand and rubbed it with his other hand. His eyes were still looking at me with a pleading look.

I replied by shaking my head slightly towards his laptop on his desk, telling him to continue working on his assignment.

”Meanie,” he grumbled.

”If you say that one more time, I wonʼt help you anymore,” I threatened.

”Ahhh! Okay, okay. Iʼm sorry,” he said in a panic.

I shook my head slightly towards his laptop once again.

Even though his face looked sour, his hands were back on the keyboard. I leaned my back in my chair, opened the book in my hand and continued to read it. In contrast to Larry who sat facing his desk, I sat with the back of my chair facing his desk while I faced his room which was filled with game posters on his wall.

After that, we fell silent. All I could hear was the sound of Larryʼs fingers on the keyboard.

Minutes passed, I closed the book in my hand and turned to my side to check on Larry since I started hearing strange noises from him. I gasped in shock since Larry looked like an overheated zombie. His blank eyes fixed on the screen, his fingers kept moving swiftly on the keyboard while his mouth was muttering something.

ʼHe looks like an author on his deadline.ʼ

My gaze shifted to his laptop screen to check his work.

ʼWell, at least heʼs got it right.ʼ

ʼBody Pillow *?ʼ (Body Pillow / Dakimakura is a type of large pillow from Japan which usually has anime pictures as its cover.)

I walked to that pillow.

ʼI didnʼt know he likes something like this.ʼ As I approached, a faint smell like iron started to pierce my nose and I recognized it as the blood smell.

I knelt and lowered my head to check under his bed, following the smell. A half-wet demon hunter uniform lay there. After turning to Larry, making sure he didnʼt see me, I reached my hand and took it. Large bloodstains were visible on the uniformʼs sleeves. I knew it wasnʼt his blood, because I was sure his hands werenʼt hurt. Somehow I could imagine how desperately he tried to help his friend last night.

After putting his uniform back to the place, my gaze shifted to the body pillow in front of me. I realized that even though the body pillow looked normal, faintly, I could see there was something else in it. My hand took the pillow and examined what it was.

ʼAnother demon hunterʼs uniform ...ʼ It looked like it was his spare uniform.

”Khu - khu - khu ... Finished... At last ... Itʼs finished,” his weird murmur startled me. Quickly, I returned the uniform and stood up.

”AHHH! What are you doing ?!” his scream made me turn my body in shock. While Larry stared at me with wide eyes.

”I didnʼt do anything,” I defended myself.

He got up from his chair and walked towards me weakly. This time he looked like a hungry ghost.

”How could you do this to me ...”

”What are you talking about?” I kept pretending.

He grabbed the body pillow behind me and hugged it dearly. His eyes looked at me in annoyance.

”What are you doing to my beloved nana-chan?!”

”Huh?” I only could make a stupid voice since this time I was really confused .

He showed me the girl picture on the body pillow to me.

”This is my girlfriend, nana-chan. What did you do to her?”

I was stunned in shock with my jaw dropped.

”So ... thatʼs your girlfriend?” I pointed to his pillow.

”Itʼs ʼsheʼ not ʼthatʼ! She even can talk!” He pressed the pillowʼs chest. A cute female voice came out from there.

”I love you, Larry ~”

”Do you hear that? She said she loves me,” he said with a proud smile.

”Right ...” I didnʼt know he was afraid that I would find his uniform or he really liked that pillow. But either way, it was fine for me as long as he was happy.

”Are you trying to snatch her away from me?” he asked again.

I shook my head side to side.

”Iʼm not into that kind of thing.”

”Itʼs ʼherʼ not ʼthat kind of thingʼ,” he asserted.

”Ah, yeah. I mean her. You should take care of it - her. It would be really bad if you lost her.” What I mean was the uniform inside that pillow. I needed to admit, no one would have thought there was a demon hunter uniform in there.

He turned the pillow over facing ʼnana-chanʼ and smiled.

”Of course. Iʼll take care of her.” I could see his gaze was at the demon hunter uniform inside the pillow, not to the pillowʼs ʼfaceʼ so I could guess that instead of making the pillow as his girlfriend, he was just using it as a hiding place for his uniform. He turned the pillow to me again.

”Hey, do you want to talk to her? She can say other things besides she loves me.”

”Nah. Iʼm good. Thanks,” I refused.

”Cʼmon. Itʼs okay. I wonʼt be mad at you.” Looks like he tried to disperse my suspension about that pillow.

”Okay,” I accepted his offer only to make him feel he managed to hide his big secret.

My hand reached out to the pillow and pressed the ʼchestʼ. At the same time, knocking sounds came.

* Knock * * Knock * * Knock *

We turned to the door as Larryʼs mother opened it.

”Dinnerʼs ready!” Then she gasped in shock after seeing Larry hugging the pillow from behind, while I squeezed the pillow ʼflat chestʼ, making us look like two single pathetic boys who were trying to **** an innocent body pillow.

”Kyah ~ Stop it ~” A cute female voice came out of the pillow.𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

I pulled my hand, while Larry quickly threw the pillow on the bed.

”Maʼam, this is just a misunderstanding,” I said quickly.

”Mom, itʼs not what you think,” said Larry at the same time. We looked like brothers in crime now.

Larryʼs mother still stiffened in shock.

”Larry said the pillow could talk so he asked me to press it,” I tried to explain.

”Yeah, this is a custom pillow. It gives a different soft feeling than the others. I thought Ethan would like it after he tried it,” Larry added. Now, he used ʼitʼ instead of ʼherʼ.

”You want Ethan to ʼtryʼ it?” Larryʼs mother said in disbelief. Then she turned to me.

”And you agreed to ʼdoʼ it ...”

I turned my gaze to Larry and we talked to each other with our eyes like telepathy.

ʼThat sounds wrong. Now she thinks you managed to degenerate me.ʼ - Ethan.

ʼYouʼre right. Let me explain it one more time ʼ- Larry.

Larry turned to his mother.

”Mom, we are just playing with the pillow. Itʼs a normal thing for grown-up men to do it. Thereʼs nothing to worry about,” he explained in a calm tone.

I facepalmed myself as I turned to Larry again since his sentences sounded ambiguous and it would only exacerbate her misunderstanding.

ʼAre you stupid or something?ʼ - Ethan.

ʼHey, we were really playing with it.ʼ - Larry.

”Ethan ... I thought you could set a good example for Larry. But I was wrong ...” Her shock expression did not change.

”Maʼam, believe me. Itʼs just a misunderstanding, we didnʼt do anything to the pillow. Besides heʼs not that bad,” I tried to defend Larry since I knew he was only using the pillow as a hiding place for his uniform.

”Mom, Ethan wonʼt do that kind of thing.” Again, he said that at the same time with me, making we were trying to cover up each otherʼs crime.

”Right ... I believe in you.” But despite her words her eyes stared at us in disappointment, she looked like a girl who just caught her boyfriend cheating on her. She turned around.

”Donʼt forget to clean it after you are done. Iʼll be waiting for you in the dining room.”

”Wait! We really donʼt -” we said at the same time.

- Blam!

Before we finished our sentences, the door closed followed by the sound of footsteps. We were stunned in shock.

”Explain it to your mom,” I said.

”But how ?? She wonʼt believe whatever I say.”

”Are you going to let her think that we are body pillow rapists?”

”Well ... a body pillow rapist doesnʼt sound as bad as a pathetic single,” he tried to be funny. Some of his chuckles mixed up when he said it.

And I replied with a flat stare.

”Thatʼs worse.”

He sighed.

”Yea, I know.”

”We better get out of here before she thinks we really ʼrapedʼ that pillow.” We sighed as we thought how to explain it before we stepped out of the room with the same thought in our heads.

ʼHiding identity isnʼt an easy task ...ʼ