The Wise Sheep in the Shadows (5)
The Wise Sheep in the Shadows (5)
#20
Ha Do-yun.
A vulgar man with no dignity, who had tossed cheap jokes at Estelle herself. How dare he look at her with those eyes. She had been shocked to hear such lowly words for the first time, but in hindsight, she should have cut off his cock the moment those vulgarities left his mouth.
Therefore, the reason Estelle had brought Ha Do-yun here could not possibly be because she found the man himself interesting.
Why had her sister Rubel tried to monopolize a man who was nothing more than a human test subject? In the end, that question was no different from what drove Estelle to don the White Sheep Mask and take action.
Rubel Valenor.
The successor of House Valenor, one of the six Count Houses known as the de facto rulers of Arcanum, excluding the two ducal houses that never moved. As a successor of a Count House herself, reading her moves in advance was a natural course of action for a strategist.
Hmph. Obviously.
So this was undoubtedly the most natural thing to do. Just what was happening around that man—
The Golden Lion would don the White Sheep Mask and go to sound out that man.
Though the hour was late, that vulgar man would never consider it discourteous if the Golden Lady visited him in the dead of night.
If only tonight hadn't been the very night an uninvited silver-haired guest arrived at the mansion.
#21
From the gap of the quietly shut door, a sound that Estelle had never heard once in her entire life leaked out. No proper mage, not just Estelle, would ever have heard it.
Mmph... slurp♥
"Ehehe. Like this?"
"Yes. Keep going. I think it'd be better if you focus there and lick it like you're sucking on a piece of candy."
"Ah... something is coming out like crazy♥"
Beeeeee...
She stopped sucking the tip of my cock like a candy and looked up with a cute smile.
"Ehe. You're about to cum again, huh. No, no♥ Did I say this place smells weird? You're too weak, you know. You're the one who asked me to suck you, Do-yun."
It wasn't exactly wrong. No, it was correct, but.
I'd simply asked Elysia to act out a fantasy I'd seen in a memorable porn video, as a gift.
Lick, lick.
No, pant, pant.
A pink tongue moved like a soft snake, teasing the pinkish tip of my cock.
Gh...!
"N-no. If you cum now, I won't do this anymore, so hold it in a little longer."
Amid the brain-melting pleasure, I gazed at her face. Even if this was part of an experiment, the fact that she faithfully indulged such an unreasonable request—and from one of those arrogant mages, no less—gave me an ecstatic thrill of conquest.
"You're spacing out again. Let's see if you have the leisure for that..."
...
What in the world is this sound... Though peeping into someone else's room was discourteous, as the vice-head of the mansion, I had no choice but to use clairvoyance magic to look inside, just in case of an emergency.
Ha, but.
How dare they engage in such vulgar acts inside my mansion.
Vulgar, vulgar, vulgar, vulgar, vulgar...
A woman with no pride as a mage.
To do something so shameful just for a mere experiment! That was a disgrace to all mages...
'...'
But what on earth did that half-wit like so much about sucking a man's cock like that?
Making such a delicious-looking expression...
Not that I was particularly curious. Still, it was an unexpected gain. To think someone born of a great mage's bloodline would dare entangle her body with a mere man like that. Surely, I would make her pay the price someday. After all, it was a countess's duty to teach mages of the Untitled Mage House their place and dignity.
So that was insurance, just in case.
Her golden eyes glowed with mana and pierced through Ha Do-yun's room.
『—fingere picturaー』
Clairvoyant imaging using her 『Unique Magic—Contract』.
Of course, using magic without getting caught by a mage was difficult, but when the opponent was a half-wit from the Academy, it was a different story.
With this, I'd secured material evidence. Now I only needed to worry about how to use it.
Hmm. But how long are they planning to go on?
A slight warmth spread in my lower belly. I wasn't sure, but my head also felt like it was floating. Could that half-wit's Unique Magic have been causing some kind of magical effect in the room? I needed to keep watching...
#22
My cock pulsed one last time, shooting out sticky cum in thick spurts before losing its strength. Elysia, as if mesmerized, grabbed the cock as it was about to go limp and began cleaning it with her tongue.
"Slurp♥ Stay still. I'll clean you up nice and tidy—"
"Haaah. Lady Elysia, you don't need to go that far. It's dirty."
—Gulp
"No. What's dirty about yours, Do-yun? And keeping experimental equipment clean is a basic virtue of an alchemist. Please take good care of me in future experiments!"
The girl, having fully swallowed the white fluid, answered with a bright smile.
"By the way, Lady Elysia."
"Yes?"
"How did you enter this mansion?"
"I used the Invisible-Invisible Potion. It involved great risk, but you're more important than that, Do-yun."
Oh, so that was a thing. Well, even an apprentice mage was still a mage. I figured Elysia knew some alchemy in her own way. If it was worth the danger, the ingredients must have been quite hazardous.
"So what ingredients go into it?"
"I don't know either."
"?"
A cheerfully clueless reply came back.
"According to my mother, Grandma only made exactly ten bottles before she passed away, and no one knows how to make it. My mother went on a business trip to the present world, so I stole just one bottle!"
No, I had to correct what I'd just said. Still, to use such an important potion for someone like me... I might have been a little touched. But I thought I'd forgotten one important thing.
"Uh..."
"..."
My eyes met Elysia's.
"Do-yun. How do I get back now?"
This was driving me crazy.
#23
This idiot who hadn't brought two Invisible-Invisible Potions—no, I had to stop calling her stupid. There was affection born from sharing a bed, after all.
Thanks to this blockhead mage, my future had become no different from a candle in a gale.
'First, should I have had her hide her presence as much as possible and get over the wall? No, with the wall being so high, it might have been even more dangerous. Being a Count House, they might have had security magic set up.'
"Sniffle."
'Or maybe I could draw the servants' attention while she goes through the front gate. Could she disguise herself with something like black cloth? I might even transmute my vantablack briefs with alchemy.'
"Waaah."
Geez, seriously.
"Um, Lady Elysia, I'm thinking of a way for you to escape, so please be quiet unless you'd like to help think."
The silver-haired girl opened her mouth.
"Do-yun. I'm done for. This is the end. It was a short time, but thank you for everything."
"Stop talking nonsense and get up quickly."
"No. This is the mansion of the Eurasia family, one of the six Count Houses, isn't it? There's no way I can escape with my pitiful power. It's impossible without the Invisible-Invisible Potion..."
Sighing, I stood up and walked to the door. Taking action was probably far better than staying still. There was still some time before sunrise, so I'd settle it within that.
Thinking that, I opened the door, and there, a cute blonde woman was sitting quietly on the floor, looking up at me.
#24
Uh-uh-uh-uh.
For a moment, my body stiffened and I couldn't move.
It had to be because this man had opened the door so suddenly. It was not because I had failed to barge in immediately. It was absolutely not because I had kept peeping in the hope of seeing more. For now, I needed to show him the dignity of a Count House successor.
"Uh... Lady Estelle? What brings you here?"
Facing the black-haired man, the words she had prepared caught in her throat. His melancholy eyes, his hard muscles—as if forged by harsh labor like the gladiators of old fairy tales—and the strong, suspicious scent wafting from him... Estelle's mind went blank at the raw wildness of a male she was encountering for the first time.
"Th-there... I felt a surge of mana from inside, so as the vice-head of the mansion, I was in the process of checking the room in case of an unforeseen situation."
"In the middle of the night?"
"Yes."
"Still, that's no reason to sit on such a cold floor. Please take my hand. Here."
As she grasped his sturdy hand and was pulled to her feet, she felt her body grow hot. Was it always like this when you touched a male creature? She couldn't stay like this forever; she needed to show proper authority.
"May I check inside the room?"
"Yes, of course. It's for the safety of the mansion. Please come in."
However, what greeted Estelle was not the silver-haired uninvited guest. It was a bleak room, lit only by the soft light of a lantern and a mana stone heater. Inside, there seemed to be no one except this man.
'She probably slipped out the window.'
In any case, the important thing was not to catch Elysia here and now and interrogate her. Rather, if she could observe the secret experiments—no, the secret rendezvous—between Elysia and this man, she might gain something new. So Estelle concluded that the wisest course for now was to let them go and visit this room regularly.
"It seems there's nothing serious, fortunately. If you ever need help, please seek out the head maid. Good night."
With those words, Estelle vanished into the dark hallway. Only the damp floor in front of the door knew all the secrets, but regrettably, the floor had no mouth to speak its mind. Thus, the events of that night would remain a secret for a very long time. Well, though they might soon come to light by mutual agreement of the parties involved.