An Encounter to Avoid
The two of them, Lua and Sia, were currently in the exact same predicament. Their bodies burned with unwanted heat, yet simple masturbation could not quench the fire. So what they chose instead was to add olfactory stimulation.
“Mmmph…♡ Lua…♡ Luaaa…♡”
Sia rolled across the coldly empty bed that belonged to Lua, frantically rubbing her clitoris with her fingers. The servants changed the sheets often, washing and disinfecting them thoroughly, but the potent scent of that magnificent male still lingered faintly. When she rubbed her body against it like a bitch in heat, she could almost imagine herself wrapped in Lua’s strong, reassuring embrace.
“I-I’m gonna…♡ I’m coming—haah…♡ Haaauuung…?!♡”
“Big sister♥ Big sister♥”
Lua, having prepared for moments like this, had collected a large amount of Sia’s hair. The long, thick strands that reached all the way to the floor naturally scattered everywhere whenever Sia moved. Before the servants came to clean, a quick search would yield whole fistfuls.
“Fucking slut♥ Hngh♥”
Lua wrapped those strands around her massive cock and stroked it with both hands. The rough texture, combined with the mucus-soaked hair, carried Sia’s rich feminine scent.
“Seriously, I just get hornier every single day♥ It’s coming out… Ah…!♥”
After taking a short rest, Lua stepped out into the market streets with her knights. She intended to buy gifts for Sia and the people of the Grand Duchy before returning.
“The person I must avoid as much as Lady Brigitte is Lady Anael.”
“You mean the Sacred Girl, Your Highness.”
Dimaria, disguised as a knight in full armor, replied. Even with Brigitte’s tacit approval, Dimaria could not walk the imperial capital openly. While Brigitte controlled half the academic world, the other half refused to follow her.
“Lady Anael holds the title of baroness and possesses a fief, yet she rarely stays there. A proxy actually governs her lands, and that proxy usually attends gatherings in her stead. So the chance of running into her is…”
“Bestow the earth’s grace upon the virtuous! Deliver the heavens’ judgment upon the wicked! The Sacred Girl, Anael, appears☆”
“……”
A ridiculously childish chant rang out from behind them. Lua’s expression darkened at once.
“Kyaa! It’s the Sacred Girl!”
“Sacred Girl! Please look this way!”
“Please shake my hand!”
“Kyahahat☆ Everyone, you’re bothering the passersby, so could you please form a line? We have plenty of time~☆”
A tremendous commotion erupted behind them, but Lua refused to turn around.
“Your Highness…”
“Pretend you didn’t hear anything and keep moving. She won’t necessarily try to make contact with me either…”
In a one-on-one encounter, this person posed an even greater danger than Brigitte. In her current state, Lua was at a disadvantage against her due to poor compatibility.
“Oh my? Isn’t that Lua? I was just looking for you! Hey! Let’s chat after so long, just you and Anael!”
Why was her luck so terrible today? Both Brigitte and Anael normally never showed up at gatherings like this. Even if they happened to meet Lua, they would avoid eye contact. Yet here they were, right when the curse had twisted her body in such a bizarre way…
She could feel the Sacred Girl’s presence drawing steadily closer. Lua frowned, her head beginning to throb.
“Dimaria. Do you remember everything I planned to buy?”
“Ah, well… I don’t remember every single item, but…”
“Buy whatever you can recall and return to the mansion with the knights.”
“Pardon? But Your Highness…”
The next instant, Lua had already vanished. It seemed she had used both her specialty of stealth magic and teleportation.
“What?! She’s running away?! How dare she flee when this Sacred Girl Anael herself has called for her?! Stand right thereee!”
A furious silver-haired girl shot past Dimaria at the speed of the wind. Lua’s knights stood awkwardly, staring in the direction the girl had disappeared for a long while.
A tavern at the imperial capital’s harbor. Beneath an endlessly blue sky and the empire’s vast territory stretching to the horizon, a woman sat at an outdoor table, sipping alcohol in broad daylight while using the scenery as her snack.
She wore armor, but it covered so little surface area that one had to wonder if it served any purpose at all. Her bronze skin, toned abdomen, boldly exposed armpits, and thighs all radiated a sensual presence.
“……What are you doing here?”
The woman swept back her golden hair—resembling a lion’s mane—and asked while looking at the seat beside her.
“……Please don’t speak to me.”
Although the seat appeared empty, a voice answered her question.
“What? Lua Tanalif, Grand Duke. Since when did our relationship get so bad?”
“I’m sorry. I’m in hiding, so…”
“You know your stealth magic doesn’t work on me.”
“I’m not hiding from you. There’s someone unpleasant chasing after me.”
“Aha. So you’re using me as a screen.”
“With your presence, my own should be well concealed.”
“Hmm. I wouldn’t be so sure.”
The woman lifted her cup and took another sip. A breeze blew past, making her shiver; she reached for the fur cloak beside her and wrapped it around herself.
“Damn it. The central region really is too cold.”
“……You call this cold? I find it rather warm.”
“This is why they call you northern country bumpkins.”
“I won’t retort by calling you a southern country bumpkin.”
“Hah.”
“Lua Tanalif! Where are you hiding?!”
Someone could be heard shouting at the top of their lungs in the distance. It was a girl with the same silver hair and crimson eyes as Lua.
“Aha. So you were running from the Sacred Girl. But doesn’t she have sharp senses like me?”
“That’s probably how she tracked me all the way here by instinct. Still, she’s nowhere near your level.”
The Sacred Girl’s gaze snapped toward the woman. The woman casually raised her cup in a brief greeting. She and the Sacred Girl had already exchanged formal introductions at the docking area earlier. The Sacred Girl returned the gesture with a wave, but showed no interest in the woman whatsoever.
“Found youuu! Lua Tanalif!”
“Ah.”
When Lua let out a short sigh, the woman clutched her stomach and burst into laughter.
“See? You’ve been caught.”
“……I will give you a proper greeting later, Lyona Arpis, Grand Duke.”
“Never mind that, just hurry up and—”
The other Grand Duke realized there was no need to urge her and closed her mouth. The presence she had felt beside her had already vanished.
“Where do you think you’re running?!”
“Tsk…!”
In a deserted alley, Lua was finally caught by the Sacred Girl. She decided that further escape was pointless. The fact that the girl had chased her this far suggested she had no intention of giving up unless Lua left the imperial capital entirely.
Lua spoke without turning to look at the Sacred Girl approaching from behind.
“……It has been a long time, Sacred Girl.”
“Hmmm— so you won’t call me Auntie like you did when you were little?”
The Sacred Girl, Anael. Her original name was Anael Tanalif. She was the half-sister of the previous Grand Duke of Tanalif. Because she had been far too young compared to her siblings, she had never been part of the succession struggle. Treated like a child her entire life, she had left the Grand Duchy to prove her worth. Wandering the world and saving countless people, she came to be called the Sacred Girl. The imperial family recognized her achievements and granted her both land and title.
She had already discarded the family name and severed ties with House Tanalif long ago.
“You are no longer my aunt. Besides, I assumed you would dislike such a title.”
“I do dislike it. It makes me sound old. Anael is an eternal girl☆ But that doesn’t mean I want to deny our blood connection.”
“……I thought you hated me.”
“You? ……Well, yes. Seeing you always reminds me of your father’s face, so I avoided you. Sorry☆ Why don’t we try getting along from now on?”
“Haa… First Auntie, now the Sacred Girl as well…”
Lua muttered with a sigh. To be precise, the bad blood existed not with her, but with her parents. Now that both of them were gone and some time had passed, perhaps the two women were finally ready to open their hearts to her.
“Hm? What did you say?”
“It was nothing. Is that all you wanted?”
“No? I have a separate main reason. But— why won’t you look at me?”
“Ugh…!”
Crimson eyes containing white, star-shaped pupils met Lua’s gaze. While she had let her guard down, Anael had moved directly in front of her. Lua squeezed her eyes shut in belated panic.
“What… what is this? Those eyes, overflowing with such filthy desire… Even your father wasn’t this bad…?”
This was exactly why she had avoided eye contact. Anael possessed the ability to sense the twisted desires of anyone whose eyes she met.
“As you know, I am under a curse… and experiencing certain urges.”
“Really? What kind of urge would make you hide it so desperately? Hunger? Greed?”
“Th-that’s…”
“Show me quickly! Let me see your brilliant desire☆”
Lua tried to resist, but Anael forcibly pried open her eyelids. In the end, their eyes met. Lua’s sticky gaze swept over Anael’s body in an instant.
Her frame was even smaller than the delicate Sia’s, yet her figure was mature. She wore an outrageously revealing outfit made of black leather. It was so lewd that the noble title of Sacred Girl seemed utterly incompatible with it. Her breasts were small enough to appear only slightly perky, but her hips flared wide in a perfect childbearing shape. She wore leather boots that reached above her knees, and the way her explosively thick thighs strained against them was the highlight.
“Kyaaaaaaaah!”
Anael screamed, covering her chest with both hands and staggering backward. Lua immediately squeezed her eyes shut again.
“Y-you… how could you look at me with… with those eyes…!”
“I’m sorry. Now you understand why I was running, yes?”
“Just what kind of horrific curse could do this…!”
“Until the curse is resolved, it would be best if you stayed away from me. Then… I’ll be going.”
Lua tried to leave quickly, but the soft, warm touch that suddenly grabbed her hand stopped her.
“S-sorry. I didn’t expect that, so I was too surprised. I’m fine. You’re still holding back those urges, right? I’ll help you☆”
“Sacred Girl. Are you certain you fully understand my condition?”
“Of course☆ To think the Grand Duke of Tanalif would be so weak that she couldn’t even handle a single curse☆ Isn’t guiding such pitiful beings the very duty of this Sacred Girl?”
“Ugh…!”
Anael shoved Lua against the wall. The stronger the twisted desire of her opponent, the greater the power Anael could exert. On the other hand, because Lua was cursed, her strength was weakened within the blessed imperial capital. Normally Lua would not lose in raw physical power, but the current situation was unfavorable.
“You perverted monkey who dares to go into heat for your own father’s little sister☆ Do you like me that much?”
When Lua cautiously opened her eyes, she saw a smile that genuinely seemed to despise and look down on her. Lua felt both humiliated and guilty at the same time.
“But don’t worry! This Sacred Girl Anael would never turn her back on someone’s suffering☆”
“S-Sacred Girl!”
When the hand wearing a black leather glove reached between her legs, Lua cried out in panic.
“I would never do this for anyone else. I’m only doing it because you’re the Grand Duke☆”
“F-family shouldn’t be doing this… right…?”
It was the correct thing to say, yet even to Lua herself it sounded incredibly shameless. If Sia heard this right now, she would probably spit out a string of curses.
“Who cares? I already discarded the family name, so we’re not family anymore, right? Hmm? What kind of magic did you cast here?”
“N-no, you mustn’t…!”
Lua tried to stop her, but Anael easily dispelled the magic. Since the spell drew power from desire, it was powerless before Anael.
“Kyahat☆ The more you tell me not to, the more I want to☆”
Squish.
“Eh…?”
Anael froze at the sensation she felt in her hand. It was a strangely unpleasant texture that should never be felt when touching another woman’s body.
“……I clearly warned you, Sacred Girl.”