A Secret Operation with the Butler (4)
A Secret Operation with the Butler (4)
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"You came because you want to be maids?"
"Ah, yes, yes."
"Follow me!"
The little maid with the childish lisp guided us to the mansion's reception room.
Sivter's mansion.
I'd been to the bastard's mansion once before, but this time several things felt subtly off. For instance, the hallway strewn with shattered porcelain fragments, or the windows wiped clean only on the lower half while the upper panes were thick with dust.
Simply put, the place was a complete disaster. I didn't think it was this bad the last time I saw it.
"Wait here! I'll go fetch the master!"
The kid said that and vanished somewhere. Fortunately, the maid didn't seem to have noticed anything suspicious.
"It seems to have worked, right?"
"Not yet. We must not let our guard down until that man confirms things himself."
"Ah, right."
Rebecca still hadn't relaxed the tension in her eyes, but seeing her like that made a little laugh slip out of me. I mean, Rebecca, de-aged through the quasi-Polymorph, was... well, honestly, she was pretty easy on the eyes.
Normally, Rebecca always had her ear tips sharply pricked and teeth half-bared like a razor-sharp hunting dog, but now her impression was considerably gentler.
No matter how dangerous a breed of hunting dog might be, when a puppy growled at you, it was nothing but cute.
Rebecca swept her gaze around as if surveying the surroundings, then her eyes met mine.
"...Please stand up for a moment."
"Why."
"It seems your clothes need a little tidying up."
"...Yeah..."
I did as Rebecca instructed and quietly got up from the sofa.
"Yoo-jin, you must pay attention to your posture. Especially those long, swaggering strides are far too careless, and there is a risk that man may catch—"
I cut Rebecca off.
"No, wait. Think about how we look. Honestly, at this level anyone would think we're peerless beauties... Mm. Anyway, I don't think he'll make the kind of mistake you're worried about."
"..."
Rebecca shot me a look of exasperation and disgust, but objectively speaking we looked decent enough—no, let's be honest, we were stunningly pretty.
Of course, this wasn't because I had some peculiar fetish for crossdressing. There were circumstances behind it.
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A few hours earlier.
"It looks like I'll have to stick close to you to maintain the Polymorph. The time limit's pretty tight, see."
"What do you mean, time limit's tight?"
"Well..."
At Yuri's question, I swallowed a groan.
[Skill: Sex Morph — Age Change Only]
[Rank: ▼]
[S: Lasts 12 hours.]
[A: Lasts 6 hours.]
[B: Lasts 3 hours.]
[C: Lasts 2 hours.]
[D: Lasts 1 hour.]
[E: Lasts 30 minutes.]
It was something I had always felt, but openly explaining a sex skill was not normally the kind of thing I could do with a straight face. But at times like this, I had to be brazen about it. I was not doing this for my own desires, after all. I forced my face into as casual an expression as I could muster and explained about Polymorph.
"You know, right? How the level of amplification and its duration differs depending on the intensity of the act? It's the same here."
The moment I broached the subject, the girls' brows began to knit together. They'd caught on to what I was about to say. Well, after sticking together this long, it'd be impossible for them not to know.
Seeing them like that gave me an indescribably subtle feeling. Strange. I was clearly doing them a good deed, right? So why did it feel like I was doing something bad?
"Yeah... so. What do you have to do, and how much?"
Yuri interrogated me with an attitude that screamed she was thoroughly fed up. I averted my eyes for no good reason and mumbled.
"I-if it's at the level of touching... breasts, then the duration's about... 3 hours..."
"Touching... breasts... 3 hours..."
Reni, who'd been chewing over those words, began to tremble.
"Th-then that means... Ev-every three hours... Every three hours, just one time would be... Eight times a... day...!"
"...Hrk." "Mmph..."
The elf mistress and servant duo didn't voice any suspicion like before. They were just swallowing their groans.
"Th-then please do it to me instead! Do it to me! No, I have to do it! I'll go!"
"No, Reni. You can't. We need to sneak into the mansion under false pretenses and steal something, and you can't pull that kind of thing off."
"Eh-ut..."
Because Reni, who always got busted within five seconds of trying to lie, couldn't possibly pull that off. But Reni's expression became as stricken as if she'd just witnessed her beloved's affair in person. Taking you along would only put you in danger. Did she not understand my feelings?
In any case, if I got shot down one by one like this, there'd be no end to it. I couldn't afford to drag this out. I spoke with a degree of firmness.
"There is another way. If we have sex, it lasts 12 hours. So, want to have sex?"
"..." "..." "..."
At my threat disguised as a suggestion, the reception room fell silent. Mm. It looked like nobody wanted that. A little disappointing, honestly.
The truth was, if I'd done it with Rebecca last night, all our problems would have been solved. The first time was hard, but the second time was easy. But at my proposal, Rebecca shook her head as if determined not to miss this second chance to preserve her chastity.
"With breasts... please..."
"All right... then shall we test it first?"
"...Hrk."
We stepped out into the hallway.
...
After spending a short while together, just the two of us.
"Wooaah..." "Mm."
The girls, upon seeing Rebecca in her child form, let out exclamations one after another. The atmosphere when we'd left the reception room had been rather grim, but the moment Rebecca appeared the mood completely flipped.
Well, of course it would. The sight of the assassin butler, who always acted rigidly and made your blood boil, turned into an adorable figure could only produce this reaction.
"Y-you are so cute!"
"I didn't know she'd actually get younger..."
Yuri circled around Rebecca as if she were a marvel.
Mm. It really was a spectacular sight, in many ways. The way she grew younger the moment I aroused her by touching her breasts.
On top of that, Rebecca was still wearing her oversized butler uniform. I'd dragged her straight here the instant she transformed because I didn't want any other misunderstandings. Her age... mm... about similar to Ariel's. An age range that teetered precariously on the edge of being "possible."
"Wow! Her cheeks are so soft?!"
"...Hrk! L-let go, I say!"
Rebecca squirmed and struggled, but she couldn't break free of Yuri's clutches.
I didn’t know how Yuri planned to handle the consequences for this later. Rebecca's outward appearance might have grown younger, but her mental age hadn't.
Well, considering Rebecca was someone who'd done a full dogeza for me, I didn't think she'd dare act up. Because of what happened earlier, a so-called absolute hierarchy had been established. Foolish woman. Though, admittedly, now that she'd transformed this much I didn't feel like saying anything more either.
Yuri, who'd been fiddling with Rebecca's cheeks for a while, suddenly frowned.
"But what are we supposed to do if it's once every three hours?"
"About what?"
"No, you said we're infiltrating the mansion. Are we supposed to just steal it and get out the moment we get inside?"
"Who knows?"
I looked down at Rebecca. Because it seemed like the plan depended on her. As the gazes converged on her, Rebecca hemmed and hawed.
"I-it will take two or three days. I know the general location, but the detailed plan can only be formulated after I see the site, so..."
Rebecca made excuses with the face of a villainous organization's scientist asking for more time and budget. Somehow, I began to get the feeling that this woman was all bark and no bite too. Maybe I'd been too intimidated beforehand by her status as a future assassin butler.
"Uh... then what do we do? You have to... do it once every three hours, right?"
Yuri tilted her head at Rebecca's answer. Yeah. What were we going to do?
"...I hide nearby, and you come out once every three hours, and..."
"That would seem impossible, however..."
Rebecca shook her head from side to side. Then the remaining option was...
"Th-then, want to have sex? You could come out once every twelve hours, right?"
At those words, everyone glared at me. Mm. I was only presenting a rational alternative. Why were they looking at me with those eyes? It was absolutely not because I felt disappointed that I couldn’t do anything with Rebecca.
"Y-Yoo-jin... but why...?"
"Hm?"
"Why is... the duration only... that long? 12 hours and 3 hours is too big a difference..."
Hmm. It looked like Reni didn't like the idea of doing it once every three hours, but she also didn't like the idea of having sex to apply a 12-hour transformation.
"Well, it's not like there's no other way..."
"Huh? Then let's do that—"
"That... hold on, can I have your ear for a sec?"
The moment I whispered the details of the A-rank method into Reni's ear, her face turned bright red.
"Sh-shameless... Good heavens... H-how could you do such a... It'd honestly be better to j-just do it normally..."
"What is it, to make her react like that?"
Yuri's curt question. What did she think it was? What lay between sex and breast fondling? There were simulated sex acts, of course... like intercrural sex...
"I c-can't say... Can't say... That kind of thing..."
At Reni's answer, Yuri didn't press further. Instead, she stared fixedly at me.
"What. What is it?"
"What else? Do you really have to ask?"
"...I don’t know."
"It’s obvious. You have to... do it once every three hours. There’s only one way to manage that, isn’t there?"
"..."
Yuri grinned mischievously.
"What are you pretending not to know for? You have to go together. Crossdressed. Yoo-jin can transform too, right?"
"..."
I felt like I'd walked right into a trap.
"Now, hurry up and go do it!"
"No, I can't do it alone. Since there has to be a sexual act involved..."
"Th-then I'll do it!"
Reni's hand shot up.
...
"Nn-hmp!"
...
Back in the reception room.
In the end, I grew younger too. But the ladies' expressions upon seeing me were slightly uncertain.
"This is..."
"I-I think he's cute."
"But it's a bit iffy. Even if you make him crossdress, he's kind of too..."
Yuri critiqued my face from various angles. As I listened, my mood began to sour bit by bit. No, it wasn't just Yuri. The elf mistress and servant were also looking at me with strangely mixed expressions.
Th-these bastards, seriously...!
You think you can keep ignoring me like this? I opened my Status Window.
[Stats ▼]
[Level: 30]
[Life Force: 550 / 550]
[Mana: 250 / 250]
[Vital Essence: 700 / 700]
[Stamina: 39]
[Mind: 23]
[Strength: 40]
[Agility: 37]
[Charm: 45]
[Sexual Stamina: 35+30]
[Unallocated Points: 35]
I had 35 unallocated points...
"Ah, are you crying? Over something like this? Has your mind grown younger along with your body, Yoo-jin?!"
When I crouched down as if to cover my face, Yuri began jumping to her own conclusions. Just you watch.
[Charm has increased.]
[Charm has increased.]
[Charm has...]
...
"Here. How's this?"
"Uh... huh?"
"Y-Yoo-jin? Your face...?"
The moment I dumped a massive number of stat points into Charm, their reactions changed. And very blatantly at that! Damn it, fine! Looks were everything! It made me feel both annoyed and pleased. Even I had mixed feelings about it!
"A pretty-boy shota... p-possible... This much is possible..."
"Yoo-jin... the outside world is dangerous... I-I need to look after you...."
They fidgeted their hands while staring at me with deeply ominous eyes. Realizing that playing along with them would never end, I turned to the elf mistress and servant.
"There. This should be good enough, right?"
"...Ah, yes. Yes." "M-Mm..."
...Even those two had strange expressions now. S-somehow, I felt a threat to my chastity that should not even have existed.
"Ahk?!"
Yuri suddenly grabbed my shoulders. Sparks were flying from her eyes!
"Wh-what?"
"Now you have to try on the clothes, right?"
Yuri's face was brimming with desire. I turned to Reni for help, but Reni's face was no different. How could they be this ungrateful!
"Heu-heu... hold still... just a moment, just a moment, alright..."
"G-guys. D-don't do this..."
...
"No! I hate it! Don't do it!"
"Aren't you enjoying it too, Yoo-jin!"
"I am noooot!"
# # #
"Come this way!"
"Ah, yes."
The little maid's words snapped me out of my reverie. Well, after being subjected to something like a dress-up doll session, in the end I'd come here wearing the plainest thing, something resembling a robe. Though I didn't expect they'd even put makeup on me.
"By the way..."
Rebecca opened her mouth with a serious expression.
"Yes?"
"D-did you not say that the master is coming?"
"The master is in the stables!"
"The stables?"
The little maid nodded.
"Because there's a unicorn in the stables!"
...A unicorn?