Chapter 169
Chapter 169
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 169
Chapter Title: Cat Fight
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[Oh, oh... Liru, who couldn't eat even when the table was set, showing this kind of growth...!]
I could hear the blue guy behind my back babbling something.
‘...This was your idea from the start, wasn't it?’
Such grumbling naturally slipped out.
‘It’s times like this when you need to go one step further than the other girls!’ It was the blue guy behind me who kept egging her on.
Of course, getting this far was partly because Dawood's attitude was unexpectedly so... ‘docile.’
“...”
But.
So.
It was great that I’d pinned this guy down and let loose however I wanted.
[...So what are you doing now, Liru?]
Until the blue guy behind me said that, Liru stared blankly downward while still pinning Dawood down.
Her mind was filled with just one thought.
‘...What do I do next? Uh, what do I do-?!’
Liru thought that with her eyes spinning in circles.
No, she would have known if she’d ever been taught.
She’d talked about having kids and all that, but when it came to the actual process, she was completely clueless...!
[...You’re serious about this, Liru?]
‘I, I really don’t know! Granny never taught me this!’
[...]
She could vividly feel the blue guy floating behind her looking down at her in disbelief.
After staring like that for a while, a deep sigh soon followed.
[...Well, I knew you were the type who could only act tough, a total nerd.]
‘W-what do I do? Should I apologize and back off now?!’
[If you’ve drawn your sword, at least cut some grass, Liru.]
That’s what I’m asking how to do!
Such a scream burst from inside Liru.
‘...Cut grass or whatever, maybe I should just back off now...’
To begin with, she already felt like she’d crossed the line quite a bit.
Where had her resolve to compete fairly gone...!
Liru looked down below with a tense expression as she thought that.
Then.
“...”
“...”
Dawood.
Squeezed his eyes shut.
It definitely wasn’t a gesture to push her away.
Rather, it was more like he was ‘bracing’ himself for what was about to happen.
‘...Uh, huh.’
This.
This situation.
‘I-it’s okay to do it, right? He’s allowing it, right?! This is all consensual?!’
[...You seem a bit too excited, Liru?]
He was babbling something from behind again, but this time, at least, there was justification to take one more step forward.
Fair and square, done deal. Anyway!
‘...In times like this, first...’
Liru swallowed dryly and brought her hand to Dawood’s upper clothing.
Whatever it was, she’d start with what came to mind.
The soft sound of unbuttoning trembling fingers echoed quietly in the room.
Coat, vest, and finally shirt.
All of them, flung open.
A well-trained man’s upper body was laid bare before her eyes.
“...W-wow...”
She couldn’t hold back the exclamation that leaked out.
[...You sound like a pubescent boy seeing something naughty for the first time.]
Ignoring the oddly specific remark with one ear in and one ear out, she couldn’t help but trace the vividly defined muscles with her hand.
Dawood twitched at her fingertips, the sensation transmitted through every inch of skin.
And as her fingers crawled over his skin like insects, brushing past his chest.
She felt his heartbeat.
Loudly, very clearly.
“...”
“...”
Liru looked down at Dawood, who had his eyes squeezed shut, with her own wide open.
Yeah, this guy too.
He wasn’t the only one tense; this guy was tense as well.
It was his first time too.
Even this guy who always had women lined up around him, this was the first time he’d gone ‘this far’ sober.
And.
Right now, she was ‘monopolizing’ that.
The moment she realized that fact.
“...Eep.”
Her heart dropped with a thud.
Her whole body’s temperature seemed to rise by dozens of degrees.
The tingling sensation coursing through her body and lower abdomen from earlier amplified several times over.
“...”
She lowered her face and pressed her lips to that chest.
It was an unconscious act, but it seemed to have a definite effect.
The guy who only twitched at her touch now gasped in surprise, swallowing air.
It was a ‘cute’ reaction enough to make Liru wear the fierce smile from before again.
“Hey.”
“...”
No response.
But Liru took a deep breath and continued.
“Dawood Campbell.”
“...Yes.”
“Keep going?”
“...”
“Last chance to resist?”
“...”
Still, no response.
At that, the smile on Liru’s face grew even wider.
At the same time, a cheer-like voice came from behind.
[...Here we go, here we go...!]
“...”
[We who couldn’t even touch him before, we who could only watch as others chewed, bit, tasted, and enjoyed...! We’re going first...!]
“...”
Didn’t this guy just complain about her being too excited?
She couldn’t understand why he was in an even worse state.
“...Then.”
Anyway, there was no stopping now that they’d come this far.
Liru glanced down at Dawood’s lower half.
“...Keep going?”
“...”
Still, no response.
Liru swallowed dryly.
Truth be told, she’d encountered a man’s upper body somehow multiple times before.
But from here on, it was definitely uncharted territory.
A place where the mysteries of the human body were condensed, something she’d never encountered in drawings, words, or any medium her whole life.
‘...Let’s go! This is different from before...!’
With that thought, Liru steeled her resolve and moved her hand toward Dawood’s lower half.
Anyway, this great exploration happening under mutual consent—
Nothing could stop her now...!
“You slut—!”
That’s what she thought.
Until Liru was sent flying by someone’s kick.
-!
With the sound of the window next to Dawood’s dorm shattering, someone leaped nimbly into the room.
A kick so fluid it showed extreme proficiency in martial arts followed seamlessly.
Liru, struck by it, crashed into the wall without even a yelp.
“W-what the hell are you doing-?! Assaulting an amnesiac patient on a whim, do all you Empire bastards lack conscience like this?!”
Flowing white hair swaying wildly. Dual daggers gripped in both hands. A student uniform close to a suit clinging tightly to her body.
Dawood, lying blankly on the bed with his upper body fully exposed, stared blankly at the intruder.
“More importantly, Senior! Are you okay?!”
He looked at the person rushing to the bed.
He knew her.
Her name was definitely...
“...Seras?”
“Oh, you remember me?!”
“...Pardon?”
If he couldn’t even remember the name of the person who came to his hospital room when he collapsed, what would that say?
As he thought that and looked her way, Seras continued hesitantly.
“No, I mean, compared to the other girls, we’ve only met for a short time. I didn’t think you’d been paying such close attention...”
“...”
“With so many others around you...”
“...”
Dawood clutched his head with a dizzy expression.
Just how many women were around him that someone could so blatantly say ‘I thought you wouldn’t remember me’?
“...”
Wait a minute.
No way.
It couldn’t be.
“...Um, Seras.”
“Yes?”
“Did I... do something to you too, Seras?”
“...”
Seras scratched her cheek with a troubled expression.
That is, well.
How to put it.
She wondered if she should reveal it or not.
‘...He looks really desperate.’
Seeing Dawood’s face almost brimming with tears, Seras swallowed dryly.
Anyway, this man was her ‘current assassination target,’ but he had all sorts of complicating factors.
She’d jumped in to save him for those reasons too.
He looked like he’d get even more depressed if she outright denied it, so a vague explanation should be fine.
“I was the one who... tried to do something bad to you, Senior.”
“...Pardon? Something bad? Did I do something to hold a grudge against you, Seras...!”
“N-no, it’s not that you did something bad to me! It’s just that there were a few people around who hated you...!”
Dawood’s mouth gaped open.
What the hell had he been up to that there were even third parties hiring people to get him...!
Seeing his expression, Seras hurriedly added.
“Ah, no, I mean...!”
Waving her hands as she approached Dawood’s bed, Seras suddenly froze.
She hastily covered her eyes with both hands, but her fingers left wide gaps, peeking through blatantly.
Well.
Moonlight filtering through the window was illuminating his upper body that Liru had just stripped.
“...W-wow...”
“...”
Didn’t Liru say the exact same thing earlier?
Was blurting that out upon seeing his upper body some kind of custom now?
As Dawood thought that blankly.
“...Calling her a slut and all that. You’re just as hopeless.”
Liru was striding out from the wall she’d been embedded in.
Even in the dark room, her eyes gleamed fiercely.
Seras narrowed her eyes and turned toward her.
She’d definitely landed a critical hit with one strike. She’d felt the sensation of damage that would knock an opponent out instantly.
Yet why was she so fine?
‘...Guess she’s not ordinary.’
A Grand Assassin’s martial arts could toy with even regular knights at minimum.
Yet this girl took it head-on without a scratch.
She wasn’t just some average powerhouse.
“...And hey.”
Liru brushed back her bangs and continued.
Thanks to that, the vein-bulging forehead was slightly revealed under the moonlight. She was clearly furious.
“If you barge in out of nowhere like this, doesn’t that make you just as guilty of stalking without permission? Unless you’ve been constantly watching this guy, there’s no way you could intervene like this.”
“...”
Well, that was true.
Though it was under the pretext of observing her assassination target, Seras had indeed been monitoring Dawood’s every move.
“Acting all pure, so pure. You voyeur.”
“...I’d rather not hear that from an attempted rapist.”
“...It was consensual.”
“You’re not even denying you planned to cross the line, you psycho. Do you even have a conscience?”
“...”
“You’re just imagining he consented because he’s letting you off the hook, right?”
At Seras’s words, another vein popped on Liru’s forehead.
“...Seeing you kick someone out of nowhere, seems you’re used to solving things violently too.”
She continued, her cheeks quivering.
“Come to the rooftop, bitch. You that good at fighting?”
“...”
Something.
Things were escalating.
Dawood thought that as he blankly looked back and forth between the two.
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