The Prickly Lady Knight in Pure White (2)
"What? What do you mean, my lord? Do you suspect I've poisoned it? I was always taught that with food, one must wait until an elder or a person of noble standing takes the first bite. That's all I did, my lord — I merely offered it to you first."
"Your thinking is admirable, but I'll eat only after I see you eat first."
Whew, this girl is one suspicious creature. But what am I to do? I saw that answer coming from a mile away, you see.
Cloud calmly scooped a spoonful of soup from his plate and swallowed it down his throat.
"See? Nothing wrong with it."
He thumped his chest with his fist as if to prove the point, and the lady knight slowly nodded, at last withdrawing her suspicious gaze.
"I shall serve yours on a fresh plate, my lord."
"Fine."
"I'll ladle it out right away. Please wait just a moment."
As Cloud picked up the empty plate, he squeezed down hard on the jepine herb he'd been secretly clutching in his hand. The stem burst, and a white liquid smeared across the plate's surface.
"Hee hee, here you are, my lord. This time, I do hope you'll enjoy it without a shred of doubt — if not for anything else, then out of respect for the cook's sincerity."
Cloud beamed and held out the plate of soup. The lady knight shot him a glance, accepted the plate, and sniffed at it first. Perhaps the aroma of the food had softened her wariness, because before long she was eating with her spoon, without a trace of suspicion.
Watching her with bated breath, Cloud silently cheered within. He lifted his own plate and ate his soup as well.
"My lord, may I ask you just one thing?"
"Ask away."
"What might your name be?"
"What do you need my name for? Introductions are pointless between two people parting ways by noon tomorrow."
"Hmm... then how did you come to be in a place like this? This is the first time I've laid eyes on a noble in this region. It's hardly a place with noble houses."
"I graduated from the knight academy in the capital and was on my way home. Then I lost my way."
He'd expected her to dodge the question with more of her prickly attitude, but she answered surprisingly easily.
"You must have been away from home a long time, then? They say even mountains and rivers change in ten years — come back after ten and you could well lose your way."
"I left home at eighteen, so it's only been six years."
"Six years is a long time, if you say it is. By the way, my lord."
"Hm?"
"That hurt earlier."
"What hurt? What are you talking about?"
Cloud meekly set down his plate, then flashed a sly smirk and mimed caressing both of his own cheeks.
"These hurt quite a lot, you see."
While the lady knight was still thinking, what is wrong with that man?, paralysis suddenly seized her hand, and the plate she was holding dropped straight to the floor.
She was startled and thrown into confusion.
In that instant the thought I've been had flashed through her mind. She frantically tried to move her arm to grasp her sword hilt and rise — but her body would not obey.
"You bastard, you...!"
She glared at Cloud with a furious face, grinding her teeth.
"My lord. Was the food I made you truly that terrible? Throwing it on the ground — how cruel of you... You might as well have given it to a dog."
"Who... who the hell are you!"
"Don't worry. I'm not a suspicious character."
Cloud slurped down the soup remaining on the plate in a single gulp. Then he set the cleanly emptied plate on the ground, silently rose from his seat, laid her paralyzed body flat on the floor, and dusted off his hands.
"This is fun."
"I am a noble! If you value your life, you'd best not attempt anything foolish!"
Cloud gazed quietly down at her flushed, furious face, snickering — then he could no longer contain the laughter bursting up from his chest and let it rip.
"Hahaha! You little wench! This great one is no servant of yours — I am the esteemed Cloud New Qoo Sara Pon Athran! How dare you order people about like that!"
Thwack!
He delivered a deeply satisfying kick to her shin — but the armor wrapped around it sent a jolt of shock straight into his ankle.
"Ow, that hurts! Ow, fuck! That fucking hurts!"
He prodded at his ankle; it felt like he'd sprained it.
"Wh-what are you going to do to me...?"
The lady knight's voice trembled.
"I didn't set out to target you, but that slap earlier left such a bitter taste. I was so annoyed, you know? How do you plan to take responsibility? Pay up for the slap! You hit me twice, so you owe me compensation worth ten slaps. I always collect three times three times three over!"
"Weren't you the one who spoke and acted so rudely to me, a noble, first!"
The lady knight glared fiercely at Cloud, shamelessly turning the tables as though he were the offender. On the verge of tears yet still delivering her lines crisp and sharp — she must have quite the gall.
"A noble? Is being a noble a license to beat up strangers on the road? Hey, don't make me laugh. Here — you try feeling what I felt back then."
Cloud bent down and drew back his hand as if to strike her cheek. Her eyes went round with shock.
"You bastard! Are you insane? A commoner dares think of striking a noble?"
"Why? Am I not allowed?"
Cloud smirked.
Smack!
"Kyaaah!"
He slapped her without the slightest hesitation, and the lady knight, who'd taken it with her eyes squeezed shut, quickly turned red and mottled.
In all her life, this was the first humiliation she had ever suffered.
She had never even been struck by her own parents — tears of shame spilled from her eyes.
"Y-you... you son of a bitch...!"
"Huh~ how strange? I hit you thinking it would feel satisfying, but I suppose striking a woman really doesn't sit well with me? Hmm hmm."
Cloud shifted his gaze to her upper body, lying flat on the ground. Perhaps because of the slim armor that traced her figure, her ample cleavage was half exposed.
As he stared blankly at her chest, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"I've just had a wonderful idea!"
"Wh-what are you trying to do!"
"Just because I can't hit a woman doesn't mean I can leave the second slap unpaid. Revenge must be had, after all."
"If you're thinking of laying a hand on my body, think very carefully! I'll mobilize every one of our vassals and hunt you down to the very depths of hell! I swear it!"
The lady knight's eyes wavered. But despite her threats, there was not a hint of hesitation in Cloud's movements. It was the attitude of a man who gave no thought whatsoever to the consequences — to how dangerous the act he was committing truly was.
"To make a shameful confession, I lost my virginity for the very first time just yesterday. They say lust is instinct, and sure enough, one round left a powerful aftertaste. Before I knew it, I was craving a ripe woman's body all over again. But you need a partner for that, don't you? Perfect timing, really."
"D-don't touch my body!"
When Cloud reached out his hand, the lady knight tried to resist, wrenching her body left and right. But the jepine poison spreading through her kept her from moving so much as a single finger.
"Relax. I only want to teach a true lesson in life to a girl who struts around acting high and mighty because she's a noble. I have no intention of hurting you."
"Y-you son of a bitch!"
"You've got quite the foul mouth for a knight, you know. Today, why don't you find out with body and soul what it feels like to be on the receiving end of wounds?"
Cloud reached out and methodically peeled away the breastplate guarding her chest.
"Eeek!"
As he pulled the breastplate from her chest, the lady knight flinched and let out a terrified squeal.
"Calm down. This is only the beginning. What's the point of panicking already? Keep that up and you'll wet yourself."
He tossed the removed breastplate carelessly aside. Then he roughly undid her uniform-like top, and what finally revealed itself was a magnificently ripe pair of breasts.
Much like the lady knight's haughty personality, it was an incredibly alluring chest, boasting a noble beauty and a prim aloofness all its own. And her nipples, which no soul had likely ever laid eyes on, stood perkily erect, tinged with a pure-white glow.
"D-don't look!"
"Don't look, you say?"
Cloud closed his eyes with a mischievous smile. Then he reached out. As his palm met her breast, the soft flesh of it overflowed abundantly in his hand.
"Kyaaaaaah!"
The lady knight shrieked and writhed, but Cloud paid her no mind, seizing her breast and kneading it gently.
"Oops, I touched it. If you'd said don't touch, I wouldn't have — but you only said don't look, so what was I to do? My hand assumed touching was permitted and went and moved all on its own."
"I'll kill you! I swear I will kill you!"
"What's your name?"
As if to urge a quick answer, he tormented her nipple with his fingers, pinching it lightly.
"Ugh! D-don't be absurd! You think I'd reveal my name to the likes of you!"
"Really? If you won't tell me, I'll simply find out myself. Rummage through the bags on your saddle and something's bound to turn up. Wouldn't your name be written on your knight's graduation certificate?"
Cloud rose from where he sat and made to leave the cave. At that, the flustered lady knight hastily shouted.
"S-Sylvia! My name is Sylvia!"
"Sylvia? How do I know that's your real name?"
"I swear it upon a knight's honor! My name is Sylvia!"
"Certain?"
"A knight does not speak falsehoods!"
Cloud's lips curled upward.
"Good, Sylvia."
His hands seized Sylvia's breasts once more.
"Nngh!"
"Now, time to receive your punishment."
Cloud gripped one breast in one hand and began sucking the nipple of the other. In that instant, a moan burst from Sylvia's lips. Whether it was a slip or not, she quickly clamped her mouth shut, gritted her teeth, and struggled to the very end to hold back her cries.
"Mmph! Nngh! Mmmph!"
"You'd be better off not holding back — just let it all out."
"The moment this paralysis wears off, you'd best be ready, you insufferable bastard!"
She burst out at him, on the verge of tears.
"Your chest smells so sweet I could keep sucking forever. But you're right, there's no time — I'd better hurry."
Cloud rose to his feet and hastily pulled down his trousers.
As his underwear came down, his fully swollen manhood sprang free with a bounce, greeting Sylvia in cheerful salute.
Seeing a man's member for the first time in her life, Sylvia's eyes went wide, swallowed whole by despair.
"G-get away...!"
Cloud rubbed his thickly engorged member with his hand a few times, then brought it to Sylvia's lips.
"Bite it."
He gripped his member and tapped her lips with its tip. Eyes squeezed shut, she pressed her lips tightly together, desperately resisting, refusing to open them.
Cloud smirked and stood up.
"What an idiot. If it were me, I'd have pretended to suck it and then bitten the damn thing clean off."
"What?"
"If your dick hurts, who's going to be in the mood for sex?"
At Cloud's chuckling words, Sylvia's eyes flew open.
"O-okay! I-I'll suck it!"
"Too late. Just offer up that pussy below."
"No! Not there! Please stop! I'm begging you, please! I'll do it with my mouth! With my mouth!"
"What, is mine so unpleasant you won't take it in your pussy? What, does a knight's pussy require me to present a permit before I'm allowed in?"
"I don't want to lose my virginity, that's why!"
"Ah, for the sake of your future husband?"
Sylvia nodded and broke into heaving sobs.
Having abandoned all hope, she wept and pleaded.
"With my mouth... I'll do it with my mouth, so please...!"
"Nope. I'm scared, so I'll take the pussy. Besides, why fuss over a future husband you haven't even met? In an age like this, where might makes right, who knows what will happen. This is an era where if you fancy another man's woman, you carry her off, and if you're strong enough, you take her first — that's what possession means."
Emilia and Adelio flashed through Cloud's mind. Anger surged up in him without warning.
"It's the natural order — survival of the fittest. You were hunted, and now I devour you. That's all there is to it. You're not wearing some chastity belt with razor-sharp iron teeth down there, are you? Because that would be cheating."
He moved down to her lower half and stripped away even the skirt-like armor guarding her legs. Then he mercilessly tore apart the undergarments beneath.
When he spread wide the fair-skinned thighs of her legs, the modest hole that had been breathing demurely between them revealed itself to the world.
Cloud brought his face down over the mound thick with golden hair. Savoring its scent with his eyes closed as though tasting it, he wore a contented expression.
"Mmm~ so this is the esteemed Lady Sylvia's precious pussy..."
Sylvia was so wound up with tension that she was gasping for breath.
Her head pounded, and her breathing turned ragged.
"S-stop! Stop right now!"
"Stopping at this point would make me a damn fool, wouldn't it? Remember this well: the one who stole the virginity of the haughty, arrogant Lady Sylvia is none other than the esteemed Cloud New Qoo Sara Pon Athran! Hahaha!"
Gripping his manhood in one hand, Cloud pounced upon her at once.
"Ugh...! Ah...!"
A despair-laced groan escaped Sylvia's lips.
Mounted atop her belly, Cloud's member pierced her maidenhead in a single thrust, and with the torn fragments of her hymen clinging to its tip, it conquered her deepest depths in an instant.