Episode 216
"Hmm..."
Serena, standing at the entrance, glared at Lulu with cold eyes.
"......"
Lulu began to meet her gaze without backing down from Serena's stare.
Their staring contest continued for quite some time even after the front door had opened.
"Hello..."
In that suffocating atmosphere for some reason, it was Lulu who bowed her head first.
"...Master's fiancée."
However, her voice was slightly sharper than usual.
"It's an honor to meet the fiancée of the master I serve."
"Ha."
Serena looked at her with the corner of her mouth raised.
"...So being proper with me is just out of loyalty to your master?"
"....."
"You're interesting, aren't you?"
Before long, she covered her mouth with a fan and took a light step toward Lulu.
"Thank you for the compliment."
"...Haa."
Serena shot a sharp glance at Lulu, who bowed her head once more and answered thus.
"You shouldn't be interesting."
"What?"
Serena whispered in a low voice.
"Would you like to know... what happened to the people I thought were interesting?"
She was radiating an aura that would make most people's legs go weak.
"If you don't want to know, then be boring in front of me from now on."
"....."
"Don't play word games that I can see right through, don't engage in mental battles you haven't even practiced... just be plain. Then, I might consider tolerating you."
Serena continued whispering in a low voice to Lulu, who flinched slightly.
"I don't know what you think, but this is essentially my mercy. I'm the fiancée, and you're a pet. The hierarchy is clear."
Serena drove the point home.
"So think carefully about whether you'll be tamed, or thrown out into the yard..."
"...Serena, what are you doing?"
"Heek!"
But at that moment, Frey's impatient voice came from behind, having waited too long.
"...Hehe."
At the same time, seeing Frey's face she had been trying not to look at, her expression instantly softened and she began to giggle.
"It's Frey... Ehehe..."
Forgetting even about disciplining Lulu, she gazed at Frey beyond her with delight.
"Move aside."
"Eek."
Pushing Lulu aside who was in front of her, she scampered toward Frey.
"Hold me..."
But just before she could embrace Frey, he took a step back with a cold expression.
"What are you doing?"
Then, looking at Serena with a stern face.
"Master."
Meanwhile, Lulu quietly approached Frey's side.
"...Lick."
After glancing timidly at Serena, she gave his face a big lick.
"Churup..."
Usually, she would lick Frey briefly and neatly to show her loyalty and submission.
But for some reason today, her tongue licked every corner of Frey's face with an unusually long and wet movement.
- Slurp, slip...
After a while, swallowing the long strand of saliva from his face, she closed her eyes halfway and began rubbing her cheek against Frey's cheek several times with a melting expression.
"Then I'll... be going."
After glancing at Serena for a moment, Lulu scampered up to the second floor.
".........."
Then, silence flowed between the two for a while.
"F-Frey..."
Before long, Serena broke the silence and opened her mouth timidly.
"I-I can lick well too."
"......"
"Really, I studied the 101 ways to satisfy a man... No no, anyway, I studied hard. Really..."
She began to approach Frey timidly, but...
"Ah, ugh..."
Once she reached right in front of him, she started sweating profusely and hesitating.
It was the typical behavior pattern of a study bug who learned love and affection from books, with only enthusiasm but absolutely no related experience.
"......."
But Serena, feeling a crisis from Frey's touch remaining deep in every corner of Lulu's body and the skilled affection she had just shown.
"E, eve..."
Closing her eyes tightly and sticking out her tongue with pooled saliva, she grabbed Frey's shoulder with trembling hands and cautiously extended her head.
"Hah, lick."
After a moment, Serena's tongue touched Frey's cheek.
"...Ah."
At the soft and fluffy sensation rather than the salty or rough texture she had expected, Serena made a dazed sound without realizing it.
"Lick, lick."
Then, watching Frey's reaction, she quietly licked his cheek with the tip of her tongue.
"...Dirty."
"U, ugh..."
Finding the sight somewhat cute, Frey, who had left her alone for a while, said so with a condemning look while swallowing considerable regret inside.
- Rub, rub.
Serena, whimpering, rubbed her cheek against Frey's cheek like Lulu had done.
"I-I can do this too..."
"....."
"I-I can be a dog too. If you hate having a fiancée, I'll become a dog."
"Haa."
"M-meow... woof!"
Frey, who had been staring at Serena, uttered one word.
"One pet with Lulu is enough."
Stopping her actions at those words, Serena stared at Frey with her soft cheeks pressed against his.
"T-then I'm still the fiancée, right? Right?"
"Well..."
"I-I love you, Frey. I really, really like you."
Saying that abruptly, she buried her face in his chest.
"...But, what were you doing with Professor Isollet?"
"What?"
Then, she spoke in a suddenly lowered voice.
"From every corner of your body... I smell something other than your pet."
To her, who remembered Frey's scent down to the very last detail with perfect accuracy.
Isollet's characteristic body scent, the perfume she favored, and the smell of saliva from around the knee area were all too clearly transmitted.
"What?"
Enough to offend her temperament, as she was one of the few heroines with a goodness stat below 0.
"Whatever I'm doing, that's not really your business, is it?"
Frey, momentarily flustered by Serena's visibly cold demeanor, replied with cold eyes.
"Ugh..."
When he used force to pull Serena, who had buried her face in his chest, away, she flailed her arms and was pushed backward.
"Haa."
Frey, who almost burst out laughing involuntarily at her action, quickly turned his head to the side and sighed, while Serena shrank back and lowered her head.
"...Haa."
Miho, who had been standing at the entrance watching the whole scene, finally couldn't hold back and spoke up.
"Human, why do humans only act like that around that man?"
"Hmm?"
"Even when a thug comes as a client, when a high-ranking noble comes, when a big shot from the underworld comes, you don't even blink... and even when the Empress comes, you toy with her knowingly or unknowingly, so why do you only show weakness to that man?"
She, who usually spoke in short fragments due to her still-clumsy Imperial language, surprisingly began speaking at length in excitement.
"Did he catch some weakness? Or did you undergo mental manipulation? If not that, what on earth is the reason? I'm curious, so tell me, human."
Hearing those words, Serena answered with an expression that said it was obvious.
"Because I like him."
"What did you say just now?"
Miho asked with a dumbfounded expression, and Serena, smiling at Frey beside her, said again.
"I don't know, I just like him so much just from looking at him. I just like him. Like like like."
Saying that, she took a breath for a moment.
"...I-I'll go to the bathroom."
After saying that while gazing into Frey's pupils.
"67th method... to seduce a man, use scent... if I spray the pheromone perfume specially ordered from the magic tower... first, I need to erase that old maid smell..."
She ran off to the bathroom.
"Grr..."
Then, Miho began to growl lowly and look at Frey.
"Human."
She instantly pushed Frey against the wall and began to whisper fiercely.
"I remember what you did to me. All of it."
"......."
"Handling all those slaves roughly, grabbing my neck and twisting it to threaten me, giving me orders to make me submit, I remember it all clearly."
Even so, when Frey just looked at her calmly, she gritted her teeth.
- Slurp...
Holding Frey's collar, she brought her sharp teeth to his neck and whispered.
"I could bite your throat out. With these teeth. Right now."
"Hmm."
"It's not a joke. If I transform, I could eat you whole. Very deliciously. No evidence would remain either."
"Really?"
"Yes. If only I weren't in a position to be watched. And if that, that only-good-at-studying-but-zero-social-skills human weren't around. I would have swallowed you whole alive right this moment."
Of course, she was someone who would get scolded by her father, the chieftain, just at the sight of wild animal blood, let alone human flesh, but Miho was doing her best to scare the hateful man in front of her.
"You wouldn't want to live inside my belly, would you? It would be cramped. It would be damp. It would be dark."
"Um..."
"So. If you don't want to go inside my belly..."
As she was trying to drive the point home with mumbled pronunciation while drooling, her teeth slightly biting Frey's neck as she stroked her own belly.
"...Lie down."
"Habup!"
At Lulu's cold voice as she beamed her magic eye from the second floor, she ended up lying down while still holding Frey's neck in her mouth.
"Sp, spit it out! Spit out what's in your mouth!"
"...Bweh."
At Lulu's hurried command, she quickly spat Frey out of her mouth.
"...Master, should I kill her?"
Lulu, who quickly came down to the first floor, saw that although Frey's neck was safe, it was covered in someone else's saliva rather than her own, and asked coldly.
"No."
"Then, should I make her a slave? Or, to suit Master's taste..."
"Heh, heek..."
At that, Miho, who actually had a timid personality, began to tremble.
"...She has five tails?"
Frey, examining her, tilted his head and murmured.
"Originally, four was supposed to be the maximum until the ending...? What is this..."
"Should I torture her? She dared to try to hurt Master. I need to teach her a lesson. Should I do it myself?"
Frey, hearing Lulu's unrestrained remarks, smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"No, she's useful. She might even extend my life. So..."
"What?"
"What?"
Hearing their reactions, Frey quickly changed his words.
"...Anyway, she's Serena's, so don't touch her."
"Master, what did that just mean...!"
"What's going on?"
Lulu, asking excitedly after hearing the unbelievable remark, and behind Frey who had a troubled expression, Serena appeared, having apparently poured an entire bucket of expensive perfume over herself.
"...Let's talk about it later."
So Frey cut off his words and headed toward the sofa.
"......"
"Hi, hik."
Lulu began to look at Miho with a strange gaze.
".....???"
Serena, who had been full of expectations thinking she would make Frey go all gooey, made a blank expression and tilted her head.
Before they knew it, the time was approaching 12 in the afternoon.
.
"Ahem, hem!"
"......."
Serena, with an expectant expression, organizing the documents in her hand, and Miho, with a terrified expression, came into my view.
"...Grr."
Before long, Miho, who briefly met my eyes, tried to bare her teeth again.
"...Hah?"
"Kying..."
When Lulu, who was lying next to me rubbing her cheek wildly, looked at her coldly, she quickly retracted her teeth and lowered her head again.
"There! Found it!"
In that situation, Serena, who was emitting a fragrance so strong it made me dizzy, handed me a document.
"This is...?"
Seeing the document, I felt my perfume-soaked brain snap awake as my eyes went round.
- Sun God Imprisonment Plan
"So... what is this?"
When I asked in a low voice, Serena answered.
"It's what you requested."
Looking at her quietly at those words, Serena answered with a serious expression she hadn't shown in a while.
"The true identity of the youngest Saint Knight."