Defeating Magic Chapter 13: I’m Not Interested in Sleeping With You

Chapter 13: I’m Not Interested in Sleeping With You.   

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Kiramekineko

 Thank you Wendy for the Ko-Fi!

After Luo Futu cleaned up the bathroom, he walked out carrying his wet black robe. The wound on his neck, which was not deep, had already healed on its own, and Zhou Yan’s pheromone had long since changed back to its usual un-smellable state.

It was as if nothing had happened between the two of them.

Zhou Yan was polishing the crystal he bought from Liu Yi, when he heard footsteps and glanced that way. He saw Luo Futu wearing only a pair of black pants, walking over topless, his chest pale white. He averted his eyes expressionlessly and rubbed off the edges of the crystal. “Put on some clothes.”

Luo Futu was not very concerned. After having his true face seen by Zhou Yan, he completely let himself go. He shook the robe in his hand and wrung out a stream of water in front of Zhou Yan, which dripped onto the floor. “It’s too wet to wear.”

Zhou Yan finally raised his head, Luo Futu looked at him innocently. “Lend me one.”

Zhou Yan lowered his head expressionlessly and continued to polish the crystal in his hand. “Go find it in the closet yourself.”

Luo Futu did not deliberately pick a fight this time, and obediently went to the bedroom to look for clothes. However, the closet was full of clothes of Zhou Yan’s size; Luo Futu was tall and not a dried up type, so Zhou Yan’s clothes were generally small on him. Luo Futu went through the closet before he found one that he could wear. He put the clothes on his body, looked at Zhou Yan from afar and said with a smile, “Omegas are so petite.”

This half-flirtatious, half-provocative remark was naturally said on purpose to Zhou Yan, who, Luo Futu could see, was very concerned about his gender. However, Zhou Yan did not take such a childish provocation to heart, nor did he want to pay attention to it. In fact, except for necessity, anything Luo Futu spoke, he would mostly ignore. Zhou Yan was doing an important thing at the moment, he held his breath and used tweezers to carefully hold the polished crystal piece embedded in the lens and put it in place thoroughly before exhaling slightly.

Zhou Yan was so focused that when he turned his head, he was startled by Luo Futu’s face, which had come very close to him at some point. But he also did not wear this bathrobe properly, hanging it casually on his body, as if just out of the bath.

…Although he did just get out of the bath.

Zhou Yan’s clothes were basically black, white, and gray, and this robe was the first silk product he experimented with. There was an animal here, very much like the silkworm, but the thread was finer and heavier than silk, and the clothes woven from this thread not only had a dazzling pearlescent luster, but was also very smooth and drapey, so soft that it seemed to flow. This fabric was so high-profile that Zhou Yan deliberately made the robe black just to make it a little more stable, but Luo Futu had it resting on his shoulders, with his entire chest exposed, looking very immodest.

“…” Zhou Yan looked him up and down once, exhaled heavily, and then refocused his attention on the super telescope that was about to take shape.

He ignored him, but Luo Futu was not willing to be ignored. “What? You seem to want to say something, why don’t you say it?”

Zhou Yan said indifferently, “I don’t care about you.”

Luo Futu smiled. “I have a question for you, why has your pheromone changed?”

Zhou Yan was amused, expressionlessly dialing the focus of the telescope to adjust. “Magic can not explain?”

Well, strange, Zhou Yan seems to have a deep prejudice against spirit abilities, he rejected mysticism and everything related to spirit. Luo Futu propped his chin on his hand and compromised. “Indeed, so can you tell me?”

“It’s just a simple hormonal agent… Just injected something called inhibitors. It can suppress the smell of pheromones and also can protect the physiological period of omegas.”

This point Luo Futu was clear on: if omega in the estrus period could not be smelled, indeed, no alpha would find him, but this really had a “protective” effect? “You are very strange.”

Zhou Yan looked at him suspiciously. “What’s strange about me?”

“Do you know that there is a disease called malignant yoke, which means that omega’s pheromone cannot be dispersed, resulting in the inability to properly attract alpha to complete mating? Such patients often do not live past 20 years old, since during their estrus stage, they will suffocate alive. Your inhibitors are basically this effect, right?”

Luo Futu described a disease that Zhou Yan’s world also had. Although he had named the pheromone disorder, and this disease, until the day he left his home planet, there was not a 100% cure, just as Luo Futu said. From the pheromone level, this was a very cruel disease.

But, in his world, this disease was not a disease at all, because there were many small toys for omegas sold in stores; small toys could also ‘inject alpha pheromone’ with similar composition, helping an omega complete a mark and completely replacing the existence of an alpha.

So even if there was a dispersion disorder, omegas, who were so sought after in the dating market, did not have to smell of pheromones. Their body structure was still very normal, okay?

Well, it was Zhou Yan’s company that pioneered the development of artificial liquid for marking, he was very thorough… He knew all about the ingredients.

Zhou Yan stared at Luo Futu in silence for a long time. “Inhibitors will not only eliminate the smell, but also calm down the hormones, that is, remove the effects of pheromone on the body. So, even if I don’t mate with an alpha, my body will not have any problems.”

Luo Futu raised his eyebrows slightly. “How can you have so many strange and weird things?”

“How are inhibitors strange and weird? This kind of basic medicine is very popular on my side and almost all the omegas use it.”

Luo Futu keenly caught the important words. “Your side? Where are you from? You’re not from here?”

Zhou Yan didn’t answer, but lowered his head and fiddled with the telescope’s collimator with his finger.

Luo Futu did not continue to ask. “The guy who made the inhibitors was not killed by alphas?”

Zhou Yan fiddled with the instrument for a moment before continuing, he did not speak again, his mood suddenly became not very good—he was right, people who develop such things do attract a lot of hate. For example, after his company developed the marker simulant, it was scolded very badly. Because this simulant was not only used by sick omega, some normal omegas also gave up mating with alphas and solved their own physiological period.

For some time, Zhou Yan had been criticized by public opinion, and after knowing that the guy who developed the simulant was an alpha with a 99.9% genetic optimization rate, many alphas claimed to want to honorably assassinate him.

Well, in contrast, he also gained the hearts of a large wave of omegas.

Zhou Yan was not an active advocate of the omega-rights movement, and had no intention of stirring up gender antagonism between alphas and omegas. The reason he decided to let the company produce this simulant was simply because…it happened to be researched by him.

Tink— A small sound came from the machine in Zhou Yan’s hand, and the corners of Zhou Yan’s mouth, which had been tense, finally relaxed as the telescope’s collimators finally overlapped.

Luo Futu saw this and went over, lowering his head to look at the instrument in Zhou Yan’s hand. “What is this?”

“A super telescope, used to look at the stars.”

Luo Futu was quite surprised. “I didn’t expect you to have such a romantic hobby.”

Zhou Yan gave him a puzzled look. “Romantic?”

It seemed that someone once described astronomy as romantic, but that was in the ancient times when people didn’t know much about the stars, and Dense Cloud Planet had already realized interstellar travel and relocation. Dense Cloud Planet was a place that could be dangerous.

Some planets in the Dense Cloud Planet system were home to creatures called “Lurians”, huge monsters that feed on humans and had been rampant in times when there were no mecha. There was a time in history when humans were almost slaughtered by them. Later on, although the Lurians on the home planet were wiped out and silenced, some of them remained hidden and ambushed other stars. So until Zhou Yan’s time, they maintained the habit of spying on distant planets.

The crisis was always there, and humans could never let down their guard.

Of course, now that he had come to this world, Zhou Yan’s purpose of observing the stars was different from before. He just wanted to see the galaxies of this world to see if there were traces of Dense Cloud Planet.

“This has nothing to do with romance…” He pointed to the instrument in his hand. “Interested?”

Luo Futu laughed. “Sure.”

Together, they moved the super telescope into the attic, a place Zhou Yan had built specifically for stargazing, and he pressed a button that opened the roof of the attic to two sides, turning it into a full area of lighted glass. It was the best place for stargazing in winter, as it kept him warm and allowed him to see the stars.

Especially for a guy like Luo Futu who only had a robe to wear.

Luo Futu stared closely at Zhou Yan and whispered, “It’s hard to believe you’re not a mystic.”

Zhou Yan sat on the fur blanket and concentrated on adjusting his telescope, hearing this with a dismissive grunt. “I’m a researcher.” After adjusting it, Zhou Yan looked at the sky and waved at Luo Futu. “Come and look.”

Luo Futu came over, and Zhou Yan gave him his place. Luo Futu saw a pockmarked rock in the telescope’s view and asked, “What is this?”

“It’s the surface of the moon.”

“The moon? You mean the moon moon?”

Luo Futu did not say anything, but Zhou Yan obviously saw the expression of disgust from his beautiful face, he silently adjusted the angle of the telescope. “Destroyed the romantic moon in your heart?”

Luo Futu still couldn’t believe how the moon, which was usually so bright and shiny, could be so pockmarked.

“The moon is like the land beneath our feet, it is a planet in itself. Only because it is so far away from us, you can’t see its surface. You can observe the moon through the naked eye, in fact, you will find that it has many shadows, those are the craters on the moon—that’s what you see.” After he finished, he suddenly remembered something. “What is the special meaning of the moon in magic?”

Zhou Yan also did not know why he asked this question, perhaps just simple curiosity?

“There is no special meaning, but some schools of mysticism will take the moon as faith.”

Zhou Yan nodded silently. People do need faith.

Luo Futu quieted down and sat aside to stare at him intently, Zhou Yan noticed his eyes and frowned slightly. “What are you looking at?”

Luo Futu moved in the direction of Zhou Yan. He sat next to him, but slightly back, and just reached out his hand, so he could hug Zhou Yan in his arms. “I am more interested in you than the stars.”

“Boring.” Zhou Yan had just finished speaking when he felt his shoulders being wrapped around Luo Futu, and then his whole body was forced to lean towards him. He reflexively pressed his hand, and when he looked up, he saw Luo Futu staring at him with downcast eyes.

The moonlight streamed down through the huge glass window overhead and shone on Luo Futu’s face, softening his entire face. He looked extremely beautiful at this time, with long amber eyelashes covering his eyes, looking very gentle, his long hair falling down, and the skin on his chest exposed so white that it reflected. Because the moonlight was very gentle, his pale complexion was covered with a thin veil, as if melted cream. It must be said that Luo Futu’s appearance and looks were extremely advantageous.

Zhou Yan stared at him in silence for a moment, grabbed his hand on his shoulder and slowly pulled it away. “I’m not interested in sleeping with you.”

Luo Futu did not expect him to be so direct and looked at him with a smile. “Not interested in me, or not interested in sex?”

“Not interested in low-level pleasure.”

Luo Futu puzzled, “Low-level pleasure?”

Zhou Yan pursed his lips and looked down at the telescope lens. “Humans are keen to get laid, mostly because they are addicted to the pleasure brought by dopamine and pheromones. The pleasure produced by sex is equivalent to 400 units of dopamine, the pleasure produced by gambling is 500 units, and the pleasure produced by falling in love is up to 1000 units, so the addiction to sex is essentially the same as the addiction to gambling, and is simply a manifestation of the lack of resistance.”

Luo Futu suddenly laughed strangely. “I always knew that love was meaningless, but I never thought it would be so cheap.”

Zhou Yan thought for a moment. “Love? Maybe so, I don’t really understand. But this can explain a lot of things. There are many people who can’t get over the pain of lost love, and even commit suicide, simply because they can’t bear the pain of being deprived of happiness. The best way to heal a broken love is to start the next hot love, the happiness continues, and then they come out of the shadows.”

Luo Futu listened with great interest. “Humans are so ugly in your mouth… Keep talking.”

“I once did an experiment where I put a monkey in a cage with its brain connected to a dopamine-releasing apparatus, and it quickly discovered that tapping a beacon would give it a sexual high…” He paused here. “Guess what happened to it?”

“What?”

“He couldn’t stop tapping the beacon and then died from too much dopamine.”

“Huh…” Luo Futu smiled even more oddly, and it was no longer possible to tell by his expression whether he was in favor of it or found it absurd.

Zhou Yan gave him an expressionless look. “I just want to illustrate to you the truth through this experiment: if human beings are addicted to the pleasure brought by dopamine without self-control, they are actually no different from monkeys.”

After Luo Futu heard this, his eyes became wilder as he stared at Zhou Yan, but he didn’t make another move on him, he just looked at him quietly. “Is that why you became sexually frigid?”

Zhou Yan gave him an expressionless look. “Boring.”

After a long time, Luo Futu suddenly whispered, “You are the first omega that interests me.”

Zhou Yan did not hear clearly, and gave a puzzled, “Huh?”

However, Luo Futu had already gotten up and left, seemingly not wanting to continue this topic.