Chapter 22: We Even Had a Special Pacifier for Our Little Bitch
Though I’d told her I could manage a bath on my own, Rosenberg had gone so far as to scoop me up and carry me to the bathroom herself.
She had stayed glued to my side ever since, except for the brief moment she’d gone to tell a maid about the food, and by then the tub was already filled with warm water dotted with floating red petals.
She hasn’t stepped foot in here except to bring in food. Is this magic too?
Just the faint scent of flowers was enough to make my body and mind feel strangely at ease.
“Why don’t you put me down already?”
“Isn’t it nicer to be held in your master’s arms?”
“I can walk on my own.”
“What a shame. Your flesh is so soft and warm, Aria. I rather liked holding you.”
Even when her treatment of me carried that usual heavy-handed sense of domination, if I voiced real resistance, she’d stop as obediently as if nothing had happened.
It was an utterly unfamiliar feeling.
Just because my body wasn’t in good shape, her attitude had changed this much?
“Get in, Aria.”
“Why are you getting in the tub?”
“Because we’re bathing together.”
After setting me down, she climbed into the tub first and sank into the water.
Their suggestive gestures and the look in her eyes made me hesitate to step into the bath at all.
“If you keep standing there, I’ll get embarrassed.”
If I sat facing her, I’d have a perfect view of her cock; if I sat with my back to her, I’d feel that cock pressing against me.
I was deep in thought over how exactly I was supposed to sit in the tub.
“And don’t touch my body. Obviously that includes hugging me, and it also includes stroking me.”
“How many times do I have to say I’ll do that?”
After everything she’d done to me up until now, it was only natural that I kept doubting her.
Still, the bathwater looked so comforting that staying here—or refusing the bath and leaving—felt impossible. My body was in poor shape, and before I could think through any of it, my legs moved on their own.
“It’s warm…”
“Good, isn’t it? If you keep soaking, your skin will get much softer too, and all that fatigue will drain right out of you.”
“Considering that fatigue piled up because of you... hah, this is just giving me a disease and then curing it. Or maybe not even curing it.”
“I didn’t think your body would be this frail.”
“It wasn’t frailty so much as my body reacting strongly to stimulation it still hadn’t adapted to.”
Curled up in the warm, soft bathwater, I hugged my knees and let myself enjoy the comfort of it.
I had no idea what she’d mixed into the water, but as time passed, my condition clearly improved little by little.
“If I think about it, this kind of rest is important too. A decent break means Aria will work that much harder to clench around my cock.”
“Is that all that’s in your head?”
“Well, I have my filthy bitch to thank for that.”
Just as I heard the water sloshing softly, her hand rose above my head. I tensed and tried to keep my distance, but instead of touching me lewdly, she began to slowly stroke my hair with a gentle hand.
“You worked hard, Aria.”
“You saying that won’t change anything.”
“You still want to kill me?”
“Of course. I’ll kill you and go back to my original body.”
“Why not just enjoy it? This life isn’t so bad.”
Living in luxury was certainly a tremendous advantage. But the condition that I had to become her bitch in order to enjoy it was something I could never accept.
“Looks to me like you’re starting to enjoy it already.”
“Th-that’s... because you made this body weird...”
“Oh, are you getting shy? You really are becoming more and more like a woman, Aria.”
“I am the First Knight Commander of the Holy Kingdom of Eos—”
“Yeah, yeah, I know. I’ve heard it so many times I’m about to get a rash in my ears.”
In truth, the boundaries between us seemed to grow hazier with every passing moment.
Argentius Vale, the First Knight Commander of the Holy Kingdom of Eos, and Aria, Claudia von Rosenberg’s bitch.
More than once, I found myself doubting which of those was the real me.
Whenever that happened, I reminded myself over and over that I had once been a man, that I had once been the commander of the knights—but when I gave myself over to pleasure as a bitch, my mind went white.
“Hngh?! W-What the hell...!”
Something heavy and soft pressed against my tailbone all at once, sending a shiver down my spine. Before I realized it, Rosenberg had moved close enough that her cock was touching me.
“G-get off...! Why are you getting so close?”
“Body heat gets better when skin touches skin, doesn’t it?”
“I-It’s not skin touching skin, you stuck your cock against me!”
“Your flesh is just too soft and warm. I can’t help myself.”
“Don’t hug me!”
She even wrapped both arms around me from behind and held me tight, her breasts and cock pressing against me with sickening clarity. I struggled again and again to break free, but all I could hear was her laughter and the sound of water spilling over the tub’s edge.
“You’re so cute when you get embarrassed like that, Aria.”
“Let go of me, pervert!”
“You say that because you want me to dote on you even more, don’t you?”
The harder I resisted, the more openly delighted she became.
By then she’d gone so far as to rub her cheek against mine.
“Let’s live happily from now on, Aria.”
“Shut up!!!”
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After being tormented by her for what felt like ages and finally finishing my bath, my body had grown tired again. Even so, it was still better than before.
“But... why are we doing this?”
“Doing what?”
“Why are you lying beside me and looking at me with those gentle eyes?”
“Ah, do you want me to pat you too?”
Even though she must have understood exactly what I meant, she calmly patted my shoulder as if she had no idea.
I was lying on the bed staring at the ceiling, while Rosenberg lay on her side beside me, not once taking her eyes off me.
In a setup like this, the gentle hand patting my shoulder felt like a mother soothing a child, or like the touch of a lover.
“At least dress me properly.”
“I did dress you.”
“You basically undressed me. Everything’s showing.”
“Aria looks pretty that way.”
No matter what I said, she only smiled contentedly.
I didn’t think she was going to pounce on me right this second. If I fell asleep like this, she’d probably just keep watch beside me and do nothing at all.
So she wasn’t just a simple sex toy after all.
Thud—!!
Just as I let out a deep sigh while staring at the ceiling, something heavy settled over my pelvis. A moment later, a weighty warmth spread across my sex, covering it completely.
“...Move your cock.”
“You can say cock so naturally now.”
At that, I frowned and bit down hard on my lip.
“It’s uncomfortable. You had it tied up and hidden all day. You should let it breathe too.”
“All day, my ass. You had it out when you were fucking me.”
“Anyway, this is hard for me too. So be understanding, would you?”
Her cock was huge enough to make my jaw drop every time I saw it. Even flaccid, I still couldn’t believe it was that large.
“What? Does it look tasty?”
“Shut up.”
“If you want to eat it, just say so.”
She began moving her hips slowly up and down, rubbing her cock against my pelvis and my slit.
Because it was lax and half-limp, it kept sweeping across my skin like a broom dragging along the floor.
“I have a question.”
“Sure.”
“When everyone except you died in the witch’s attack... didn’t you ever want to kill the witch?”
“Not at all. She’s someone I’d never be able to beat no matter what I did. Knowing that and still wanting to kill her would just be foolish.”
Then was I the foolish one now?
Thinking I could kill her, when she could make me so aroused with nothing more than a snap of her fingers that I couldn’t even control myself.
“So you never even dreamed of revenge.”
“Nope, never. I looked for a way to solve the situation. This time, I’ll ask you something. Why did Aria, a commoner, work so desperately to become the knight commander?”
“To kill the witch.”
“Why?”
“Because Kalagan, who’d received power from the witch, killed countless comrades and subordinates of mine.”
“But the witch didn’t kill them herself.”
Her words were correct. But the witch had continued granting Kalagan power without any restraint, and even when he abused that power, she had simply looked the other way.
She had to have known exactly where her power was being used.
I could never forgive a witch like that.
“But she turned a blind eye.”
“So you’re going to kill her just for that. Then Aria has to kill two people.”
The hand that had been gently stroking my shoulder moved down to my stomach.
I thought she was going to toy with my lower belly and turn me on like before, so I tensed up, but instead she stroked and patted me with the kind of gentle touch used to soothe a child to sleep.
“And one of those people is the one you’re being stroked by right now.”
“No matter what happens, I’m going to kill you.”
“Yeah. I’ll be looking forward to it.”
It was an answer without even a trace of tension.
Even in a situation this defenseless, I despised myself for being certain that I still couldn’t kill her.
To think I’d become this weak just because I’d been turned into a woman.
“Do I still have to keep doing the attendant thing?”
“Why? Are you scared you’ll have to wear the chastity belt every time we go to a social gathering?”
“Shut up.”
“Don’t worry. This time, I was just teaching you.”
As I lay there staring at the ceiling and feeling her hand on me, my eyelids slowly grew heavy. That only planted another warning in my mind.
If I kept spending more and more time with her while waiting for an opening, I’d end up settling into this life. And then, before I knew it, I’d forget my old life entirely and become a bitch.
That could never be allowed to happen.
I had to return to my original body and reclaim a knight’s honor.
“Looks like you’re sleepy, Aria. Want me to sing you a lullaby?”
“Shut up. You’re making me sick.”
“But Aria really does look like a baby right now. Should I give you a pacifier?”
When she mentioned a pacifier, I unconsciously dropped my gaze and looked at her cock. Realizing I’d done it, I snapped my eyes back to the ceiling, but Rosenberg caught that brief glance perfectly.
“Ah, right. Our little bitch had a special pacifier called a cock.”
“My ears feel like they’re rotting.”
“You’ll have to get used to it. If you stay with me, you’ll hear it every time.”
Get used to it.
I didn’t want to imagine myself becoming used to this life at all.
“Sleep well. I’ll stay right here beside Aria the whole time.”
“You’re not going to fuck me while I’m asleep, are you...”
“I’m not going to do that. The most important thing to me is Aria’s condition. As long as Aria doesn’t want it, I won’t lay a finger on you. I promise.”
For some reason, I could trust her words deeply.
Once my body improved, she’d no doubt try to fuck me again somehow, but for now the fact that I didn’t need to worry about that left me with a strangely complicated feeling.
“What am I to you?”
“A very precious bitch. So I’m never going to let anyone else have you. I’ll treat you more carefully than anyone else ever could.”
To brazenly say she’d treat me more carefully than anyone else, while fucking me senseless like I was no different from some beast.
It was so absurd I almost laughed out loud.
“Good night, Aria. Sweet dreams.”
With her voice in my ears, I slowly closed my eyes for the last time.
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