Episode 263
"Huu..."
Frey, straightening his clothes as he emerged from the room, let out a small sigh while surveying his surroundings.
"Hm?"
At that, his eyes caught sight of an empty table.
"Where are Serena and Lulu... Ah, I told them to have a carriage ready."
Finding it strange that his companions who had been there until just moments ago were nowhere to be seen, Frey recalled that he had told them to secure a carriage for a swift departure from this place, and slowly began to move his feet.
"Frey..."
"...!?"
But then, suddenly, someone from beside him began to approach while calling his name.
- Kwak...!
"Ugek."
In an instant, Frey was pulled into her embrace with a rough sound as he struck her waist.
"Poor thing..."
"K-keck... Sister... I can't breathe..."
However, she who had been drinking quite heavily from the shop's alcohol was only pressing Frey's face even more fiercely against her stomach.
"I'm really going to die like this... Sister..."
"Ah, s-sorry. Frey."
Thanks to that, when Frey, having reached his limit, grabbed Isollet's waist and trembled while muttering, she finally came to her senses and slightly loosened her grip.
"Haa... haa..."
Then Frey, with his head still buried in Isollet's stomach, breathed roughly.
"Heut."
Frey's warmth transmitted to her stomach. Thanks to that, Isollet, who was overlapped with the memory of hiding him inside her clothes during the inauguration ceremony, began to feel her body heat up as she embraced Frey once more.
- Kwak...!
"......!"
Then this time, Frey also held her tightly.
'...Warm.'
Just moments ago, he had been about to part ways with the last family member who remained by his side, until everything came to an end.
That was why he thought he would no longer be able to feel the warmth of family, but for some reason, from Isollet's embrace, he felt the warm temperature he had sensed in the old days.
'It's like being held in Mother's embrace.'
Although Frey was not fully aware of it, he had thought of Isollet as family since long ago.
And that thought had paradoxically grown stronger when he pushed her away to save his younger sister Aria.
The familial love that had to be buried in his chest for years overflowed outward all at once, with today's events as the catalyst.
"Sister, you know..."
Frey, who had been burying his face in Isollet for a while, slowly lifted his head and opened his mouth while gazing at her.
"I'm no longer a Starlight."
Isollet's pupils grew round upon hearing those words.
"I'm no longer legally a noble either. I've become a commoner now."
Frey, who said so with a slightly fearful expression, averted his gaze from Isollet who was staring at him intently and muttered.
"Now I'm just... an ordinary person with no property and no status."
Frey, having said that, looked quite pitiful.
"And... I no longer have family. I've become a public enemy, receiving no protection from the house."
"........"
"Would you really follow someone like that as a knight? Even now, you could sufficiently retract it both legally and mana-scholastically..."
"Frey... do you remember?"
Just as Frey, who had been muttering dejectedly, was about to reveal his true feelings with shining eyes, Isollet interrupted his words and began to speak.
"When you used to come to my house as a child, we trained and played together until sunset."
That was true.
Every time he went to Isollet's house, Frey always played with Isollet until the sun went down, sweating profusely.
In truth, that was partly because Isollet, who was a training addict overflowing with energy even at a young age, had been greedy since Frey was the only one who would associate with her.
"I remember everything, Sister."
Since it was true that he remembered everything, when Frey answered thus, she stroked Frey's head with trembling hands and asked another question.
"A-and... after we finished playing, we used to bathe together... do you remember that too?"
"Hm? Mm-hmm..."
Hearing those words, Frey nodded while recalling scenes of bathing or washing with Isollet who was covered in sweat, and scenes of her tickling him.
"S-see... Frey..."
At the same time, Isollet, who had recalled the exact same scene, blushed while thinking of Frey struggling while being tickled in her embrace, then continued speaking.
"Am I not like family to you?"
"......."
Hearing those words, Frey's eyes grew round.
"I will become your family now... Frey."
Isollet, who whispered while holding such Frey in her arms, began to have her eyes grow gradually unfocused.
"Stay at my house. There, no one will be able to touch you."
"Mm-hmm..."
"And even if you become a commoner, I am forever your knight. Did I not already give you the ring of vow? Therefore..."
As she said that and took Frey's hand, her eyes momentarily went blank.
- Swoosh, swish...
"S-sister?"
Her gaze, which was carefully stroking the darkened ring of purity shining on Frey's left ring finger, began to change.
"...I cannot keep enduring forever either, Frey."
"......?"
"Is it not already a step too late."
At the same time, Frey, who noticed that Isollet's body holding him was starting to heat up intensely, quietly began to break into a cold sweat.
- Squeeze...
"Ah, mm..."
Frey, who tried to escape from Isollet's embrace, realized that her arms wrapped around him were immovable.
"Heek..."
Flustered, he tried to undo Isollet's arms with quite a bit of force, but she still remained immovable.
The strength possessed by a sword saint right before awakening was that powerful.
"......Ugh."
Frey, who eventually lost his strength and went limp, began to look at her with an expression of indignation.
- Thump...!
Thanks to that, she recalled Frey who used to struggle beneath her in the old days, always muttering 'I want to beat Sister too...'
"...Sister."
"Yes, Frey."
In that situation, when Frey whispered in a low voice, Isollet waited with a trembling voice for what he would say, but.
"Lie down."
"...Yes?"
That moment, Frey wore a cold expression and gave that command.
'...Now is the time to play along with her antics.'
She was the one who had heard every bit of the shouting coming from Aria's room, so she decided to prioritize Frey over momentary impulse and slowly lay down on the spot.
"So it was true after all... seeing that you'd follow me even when I've become a commoner."
"Mm..."
Frey, who climbed atop her back, crossed his legs and began to whisper.
"If you had hesitated even a little... I would have disposed of you immediately."
His voice was so chilling.
"Well, if it wasn't sincere, you wouldn't have given me this vow ring either, right?"
"...What?"
"Why, did you think I really knew nothing about this ring?"
Saying that, Frey, with his hand on the ring, whispered again in a low voice.
"Lick my hand."
Frey, who said that, reached his hand toward Isollet's face as she lay face down on the floor with him on her back.
- Churup...
Then, she, blushing, began to lick his hand.
"With just this... I can give Sister any command, right?"
"........"
"Furthermore, it's an absolute command that cannot be disobeyed."
Frey's eyes, saying that, were quietly shining.
"Expose your stomach and lie down like a dog."
"...Yes."
When Frey gave the command again, Isollet immediately turned her body over, lifted her upper garment, and began to pant.
- Squeeze...
"Where on earth did you obtain this ring...? It couldn't have been easy to acquire, could it?"
"That is....."
When Frey, who had been pressing her stomach with his hand, asked that, Isollet's eyes began to unfocus.
"No, never mind. That's not what's important."
"Yes... heuk!"
Frey, who had been pressing Isollet's stomach and then climbed atop it, wore a cold expression, grabbed her neck, and began to whisper.
"What's important is that from now on, Sister must unconditionally follow my commands. Did you not know that I've been good to Sister all this time to obtain this ring?"
"......."
"Pushing Aria away today was just the beginning of my grand plan. Sister, you were perfectly falling into that plan..."
"It does not matter."
"What?"
But Isollet, interrupting Frey's words, said with a gentle smile.
"From the moment I handed that over, no, even before that... I was already bound to you."
"........"
"Nothing changes now."
And so, silence flowed for a moment.
"...Don't forget in the future either."
Frey, who had been sitting atop Isollet and looking at her with blank eyes, opened his mouth again.
"That you are beneath me. If you try to crawl up even a little, I'll punish you like this."
"I will keep that in mind."
"Good, then..."
Frey, who had been pondering for a moment, turned his head and spoke.
"Look into a way to incorporate me into your family."
"...Yes?"
"Not for real, but as a cover. Spread rumors around that I will become your family. Of course, not now, but when my survival becomes known."
"Ah, under... stood."
"Good, well done Isollet."
Frey, who was stroking her head.
- Churup...
".....!"
Closed his eyes and kissed her lips.
"If you carry out your duties well in the future, I'll reward you like this."
Frey, who licked the slightly trailing saliva with his tongue, whispered with a smile and stood up from his spot.
"Keep lying there, and when the younger sister in my room wakes up, you get up too."
"...Yes."
"And after explaining the situation appropriately, return to headquarters together. Make sure my identity cannot be immediately revealed to the world."
"Understood."
And Frey, who said so with a stern expression, covered the ring with his hand and gave a command.
"It is a command."
Then, Isollet nodded with blank eyes.
"Good... then."
Frey, who made a satisfied expression, quietly looked down at the ring he was wearing and headed toward the exit.
"Master? What did I just see..."
"Frey...?"
Two girls who had been quietly waiting for him outside and witnessed that scene in real-time were wearing blank expressions and asking him questions.
"To obtain this here..."
Frey, who was still looking down at the ring among them.
"...It's an unimaginable harvest."
He muttered in a small voice, wearing a satisfied smile.
- Click...!
Frey, who stepped outside like that, began heading toward the Solar God who had already come out, and at the same time, the door of the old inn closed.
"...What is this?"
In that situation, Isollet, who was also wearing a dazed expression, quietly tilted her head.
"Mana binding? Absolute command...?"
And then, she quietly rose from her spot and scratched her head.
"It seems like he's mistaken about something..."
The ring she gave him was a ring with significant meaning symbolizing a knight's vow from ancient times, but it had no other effects.
It was merely used when kissing the finger or proving legally that the knight was one's own possession.
"Well..."
She, who had been watching Frey heading toward the carriage with thinly opened eyes for a while.
"...Shall I play along for a while?"
She muttered in a low voice.
"It seems like it'll be fun."
Her body, which was already wearing a mischievous smile, began to heat up again.
.
Meanwhile, at that time.
"Euu..."
Rosewin, who had been collapsed on the floor clutching her head until then, slowly reached her hand toward the void.
- ...The one who always offered flowers and prolonged your life.
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Her hand, which had been unable to press a single button for tens of minutes, finally touched the system window at that very moment.
"Ah......."
A vast amount of information began to enter her eyes.