The Strongest Daughter-In-Law Of The Black Lion Family [EN]: Chapter 39

#39.

“To Zerachiel?”

“Yes. I heard from Merina that Zerachiel influenced Chi Chi’s humanization. I thought if you were exposed to pheromones like back then, we might find an answer.”

“Are you telling me to go get beaten up by Zerachiel right now?”

“That wasn’t my intention. Just for treatment purposes…….”

Ayala smiled awkwardly and avoided my gaze. In the first place, Zerachiel’s pheromones were dangerous, with a high mortality rate.

Even if adjusted, there was no guarantee that there would be no effect on the body. I could only say that I was really lucky back then.

To be exposed to that again!

Just because I live in the Lion Castle doesn’t mean I’m a real lion!

I glared at Ayala’s heartlessness, but I had no choice but to admit that there was no other way.

The problem was that I didn’t know how Zerachiel would react if I asked him for a favor.

He didn’t seem like he would do it willingly. He would definitely add strange conditions!

“Ugh.”

I couldn’t do anything and tore at my hair, wondering if Ayala was eating her fist or not.

“The elders will arrive soon. If you can’t hide your ears before then, they might find fault with you for no reason.”

“I guess so?”

I heard that the council of elders would be convened because of the marriage. Since the letters had already been sent, they would arrive at the annex one after another.

Even if the head of the family, Zachari, allowed it, I didn’t expect the elders to be favorable to me.

I needed to prove myself to some extent. I reluctantly got up from my seat.

Well, I guess I’ll find an answer if I get hit once. He wouldn’t kill me, would he? Zerachiel is a guy with tremendous pheromone control.

I turned on a happy circuit—a mental victory—and tried to relax. And I was just about to go to Zerachiel.

“Where are you going?”

As if speaking of the devil, Zerachiel opened the door and came in just in time. He must have just finished training, because he was giving off a pheromone scent that hadn’t been fully managed yet.

Feeling the power, my body flinched.

‘I, I’ll be okay, right?’

I couldn’t help but feel nervous when I was faced with it.

He approached me and touched my twitching ears.

“You still have them.”

“Ugh.”

“Well, I don’t care.”

Zerachiel didn’t seem to care whether I was stupid or outstanding. I was grateful for that, but I didn’t think everyone else would think like that.

“Zerachiel!”

“Yeah.”

“Hit me.”

“?”

“Just one hit!”

Zerachiel tilted his head with a face that didn’t understand my request. Then his hand went to my forehead.

“Did you eat something wrong today? I told you not to pick up anything and eat it.”

I trembled, suddenly feeling like a white ferret who had a stomachache from eating anything.

It seemed like I didn’t explain enough.

Then Ayala, who was next to me, explained further.

“Chi Chi was humanized thanks to the young master’s pheromones, so I thought that if she was exposed to pheromones one more time, it might help with complete humanization.”

“Ah.”

Zerachiel smiled with a face that he finally understood.

“If that’s the case.”

He reached out to my partially humanized ears. I closed my eyes without realizing it. He fiddled with my ears.

“You don’t have to be nervous.”

“…….”

“I’ll hit you without hurting you.”

How can you hit me without hurting me?

I couldn’t bear to open my eyes and trembled, clutching his clothes.

After a while, I felt sharp fangs touching my ear, and then, *snap*, a vivid sound rang out. When I was surprised and opened my eyes, it was already after I was bitten.

“Gasp!”

At the same time, his pheromones swirled through my body through my ears. A chilling sensation flowed through my body, making me feel languid.

And it was the moment when my deeply hidden pheromones and his pheromones came into contact.

Uh?

Just as my vision seemed to be getting lower—

“Chew…….”

I, who had lost my human form, stared blankly at Zerachiel.

* * *

A bigger problem arose when I tried to solve the problem.

“Chew!”

“Good girl. It’s difficult if you keep moving.”

Zerachiel stroked me. I couldn’t calm down my excitement even with his soothing touch, so I bit and clung to his finger.

‘It’s your fault! What are you going to do now?!’

I was suddenly de-humanized by Zerachiel’s pheromones. I tried to humanize again, but I had no strength in my body at all.

Something seemed to have gone wrong as my pheromones met his pheromones.

In the meantime, Merina, who had finished the diagnosis, opened her mouth.

“It seems to be a temporary maladaptation.”

She decided to stay in Jabesi Castle for the time being, worried about me, who had unique pheromones.

This was because my existence itself was a good research subject as a doctor.

No less than two unique pheromones, after all.

There weren’t many unique pheromones known yet. So there was endless research to be done.

Originally, I was going to find my abilities sequentially through pheromone practice after humanization was stabilized. It was such a mess.

“Judging from the fact that you accepted the young master’s pheromones without any repulsion, it seems that the basic characteristic of pheromones is that they are permissive. If it was a closed pheromone [a pheromone that rejects external influences], it would have bounced the pheromones instead of receiving them.”

Pheromones were largely divided into permissive pheromones and closed pheromones.

It was a classification according to the degree of acceptance of other people’s phermones, and closed pheromones were generally considered to be stronger pheromones. Closed pheromones, which destroy everything, had tremendous power.

In contrast, the permissive system was mostly pheromones specialized in defense.

“But you’re the first guy who’s okay even after swallowing my pheromones.”

“You said that Chi Chi recovered faster than expected when she was exposed to pheromones before, right?”

“That’s right. I thought it was a coincidence at the time…….”

Zerachiel’s gaze turned to me. After a while, he said quietly.

“It seems like my pheromones don’t work on Chi Chi after all.”

“Is there such a monster?”

Ivan, who was listening, tilted his head. I couldn’t readily agree with Zerachiel’s words either.

Zerachiel was a fascination system [a pheromone type that captivates others] that was at the very top of the closed pheromones. A pheromone that his pheromones don’t work on.

Originally, it wouldn’t have been possible, but I knew one such case.

‘It didn’t work on Ella.’

The first time Zerachiel became curious about Ella was because his pheromones didn’t work on her. To be exact, she was the first beastman to easily purify his pheromones, so she caught his attention.

I chewed my lips, recalling Ella and Zerachiel’s first meeting in the original work. A sense of foreboding was creeping up.

Merina said.

“The fascination system is a powerful pheromone that is difficult to develop resistance to. Even if it’s a permissive pheromone, it’s difficult to block it without internal damage.”

“That would be the case normally. But if Chi Chi is a unique pheromone, doesn’t that change the story?”

“That’s right. Maybe Chi Chi is…….”

Merina hesitated, staring at me intently.

I swallowed hard and waited for Merina’s next words. She glanced away and said.

“I think it’s a healing system.”

Healing system!

That was Ella’s unique pheromone.

‘W, what’s going on?’

Why is Ella’s pheromone in my body? In the original work, Ella was almost the only beastman with a healing pheromone.

It was a unique pheromone that appeared once every 100 years, so there weren’t many beasts that targeted it?

Healing pheromones were the only pheromones that could cure pheromone outbursts [a dangerous condition caused by pheromone imbalance], and it was a panacea-like power that could quickly restore beastmans exhausted from excessive pheromone use.

Therefore, in 『Ella’s Kingdom』, Heathcliff, who was in crisis, was quickly restored and the tide was turned.

It was a pheromone that belonged to almost the upper class among the revealed unique pheromones. Does it make sense that two such pheromones can be created in the same era?