Chapter 226
Chapter 226
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Translator: crow
Chapter Title: The Wolf's Decision (1)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
“Heh heh….”
Leah smirked as she plucked a black strand embedded in her voluptuous flesh.
She let it fall carelessly to the floor and spoke.
“Sorry, but I’m a bit tired today—”
Leah patted her waist and smiled.
Then, she tried to brush past her half-sister without a care.
“…!!”
The silver-haired princess set down her basket and grabbed her wrist tight.
Like a wolf sinking its teeth in.
“Stop right there, Leah.”
Irina glared up at the eldest princess with a feral intensity she’d never shown before.
Sharp fangs growled from between her soft lips.
“You dare lay a hand on the man who’s to be my husband first…?”
Her delicate eyes sharpened.
Her voice dropped lower and heavier than usual.
But the dark lioness paid no mind to Irina’s display.
“Oh my.”
Instead, she haughtily lifted her chin like a queen and shot back.
“Since when did a wild fox have an owner?”
The empire’s eldest princess raised her captured wrist.
With her free hand, she easily shook it loose and said.
“You talk like you’re his master because of some ‘special memories’ from your past life with Veil….”
Having already tasted the man’s essence, Leah no longer feared the bond between Irina and Veil.
If anything, it sparked an even greater greed to shatter it.
“From what I heard, it was just a cheap little memory of a chance encounter with a wild fox in the woods.”
Leah shook off Irina’s hand and boldly closed the distance.
Close enough for their voluptuous bodies to press together.
“Not some special qualification to be his mate?”
Irina swallowed hard at the musky masculine scent rising from their touching breasts.
The white stains on her cleavage and the lingering hot heat emanating from it.
“To hunt a fox, you need to be even bolder.”
That lewd crevice had cradled the man’s ‘thing.’
Her lips trembled at the thought of the vulgar scene—shaking her breasts up and down to milk his essence.
“Ha…. You used to act all noble as the empire’s eldest princess…. But when you got desperate, you threw yourself at Veil like a whore?”
Irina tried to confront her with as much dignity as she could muster.
“Is that what you’re bragging about now?”
But Leah felt no shame at her sister’s jab.
Her mind was already filled with thoughts of the next step with Veil.
“No. When the opponent’s a beast, I just acted on instinct too.”
To catch a fox, she had to become a predator herself.
Proud of her resolve, Leah removed her monocle, still bearing traces of semen that hadn’t been fully wiped away.
She hooked the hazy, fogged lens into the pocket of her bursting bosom.
“And you? You still seem miles away.”
The 1st Imperial Princess pointed at Irina’s basket.
She sneered disdainfully and continued.
“Pfft, what’s that? A lunchbox?”
Irina had practiced cooking diligently to keep up with Leah.
She’d grown to a level where she wouldn’t lose to her anymore.
But in that time, Leah had pulled even further ahead.
“How long are you going to play house like a kid? That’s not a wolf—that’s a pure little bunny.”
Leah pinched the hem of Irina’s white dress with elegant fingers.
She fluttered it mockingly.
“White dress, pretty silver hair—you’re the picture of a ‘white bunny.’”
Irina had always been hailed as the epitome of pure beauty among the imperial family.
Everyone said so, but in truth, all the men stared at Leah’s ample breasts and thighs.
As if she’d been born into this world solely to embrace men.
In other words, Leah was elegantly implying that she was what the man truly needed more.
“You don’t suit a fox as a mate. Prey? Maybe.”
The empire’s 1st Imperial Princess chuckled and flicked her fingers clean.
She swept her semen-stained bangs nobly to the side of her forehead.
“…”
Irina slowly looked down at her own outfit.
Then, when she raised her head again.
She saw her lewd older sister in the same white uniform, but with lace bra underneath.
“Trying to play innocent now by dredging up past-life memories? It’s all just pretense.”
Leah placed a finger on her sister’s ample—not quite as grand as her own—bosom.
She pressed down firmly and said.
“Didn’t you have Veil as your guard knight back then?”
Guard knight.
At those words, focus vanished from Irina’s emerald eyes.
“And yet you couldn’t even build a proper faction while basking in that fine boy’s loyalty.”
As if Veil had uncovered her pathetic history.
“Completely unqualified.”
Leah crossed her arms alone.
Her ample flesh was lifted by her arms.
“And now you think you can just sink your teeth back in? Isn’t that a bit too shameless?”
“…”
Leah smirked at her speechless sister.
Then, she placed one hand on her left breast—which was a touch larger and fuller than Irina’s—and spoke.
“Just give up. Superior men need superior mates.”
Leah tucked a handkerchief between her breasts to wipe away the white semen.
She shook the soaked cloth and said.
“Oh, you’re not thinking of barging in on Veil right now, are you?”
The empire’s 1st Imperial Princess held the musky cloth to her nose and inhaled.
Casually, as if preemptively checking Irina.
“You’d better not. Veil has to go see Father soon.”
While savoring his manhood, she’d casually scanned the state documents on his desk.
With her cool gaze, she’d noted he had to meet the emperor that afternoon.
「Academy visit with His Imperial Majesty from 14:00 to 20:00.」
Leah quickly judged that even if Irina intruded, she couldn’t paw at Veil in front of their father.
Like a strategist, she’d already planned to target the evening after the academy visit.
But Irina didn’t catch on to her scheme.
Her mind was consumed solely by the barb that she was lacking for Veil.
“I’m unqualified…?”
Irina’s eyes lost all focus.
With dull emerald pupils, she watched the empire’s eldest princess walk away.
Her black stockings stretched and torn.
White stains clinging to those stockings.
It was the image of a dark lioness who’d savored her prey and slipped away leisurely.
But Leah wouldn’t be satisfied with that.
She’d only tasted the fresh catch.
As if preparing to truly devour it, she sauntered off to primp herself.
“Then, I’ll be off. I’m a little busy—”
On top of that, she’d received a werewolf elixir too.
She was already so lewd now—what would she be like after taking it?
Even though her husband-to-be was a grandmaster, Irina started to worry.
“A superior man…. A superior mate….”
And as Leah said, Veil had truly become a superior man now.
Not just treated like a marquess as the empire’s guardian.
Born the eldest son of a border count.
In other words, pure marquess blood.
Most marquess-level men in the empire had numerous wives.
And among them, they distinguished a principal wife separately.
“No….”
Irina didn’t particularly care about competing for that principal spot.
But seeing Leah eye her man right in front of her ignited jealousy.
“Veil truly likes me…!!”
Her emerald eyes wavered strangely.
The 2nd Imperial Princess whipped her head around.
She bolted toward the man still in his office.
Forgetting even the lunchbox basket she’d dropped on the floor.
――――――!!
The office door burst open.
The princess cried out her fated partner’s name.
“Veil…!!”
Inside, I was hastily changing into my uniform, and she caught sight of me.
In a fresh shirt.
“Irina, Your Highness…?”
“Haa…. Haa….”
Irina panted so hard white breath poured from her mouth.
The generous curves under her dress shook along with her.
“You were changing…?”
Irina instinctively glanced down at my crotch.
Fortunately, the new pair hid any signs.
“Yes. His Imperial Majesty and I are going to watch a play at the academy today.”
I scratched the back of my head and replied.
“I see…?”
“Yes, since we’re heading to the theater, I was changing into proper attire.”
Irina swallowed deeply and approached me.
She sniffed like a wolf at the strange, sticky scent I’d never smelled before.
“The smell….”
She instinctively checked the floor.
While I turned to don my new uniform jacket.
“…!!”
She spotted a button under the chair.
From a woman’s dress shirt.
And white marks on the leather chair, not fully cleaned.
At that, Irina’s shoulders trembled with surging competitive fire.
“Leah…. You dared get ahead…?”
I approached cautiously, hearing her mutter.
With the gentlest voice I could muster, I asked.
“Your Highness, is something wrong…?”
Irina snapped her head up and replied with her usual noble smile.
“No. So you’re heading to the imperial academy now?”
“Yes, to the theater attached there, I believe.”
The meeting with the emperor that Leah had mentioned.
After this, Leah planned to visit at night for some serious time.
Sensing it, Irina closed her eyes briefly.
And then….
“I’ll come too.”
She declared it to me with resolute eyes.
“You as well, Your Highness…?”
“Yeah, we’ve watched plays together before. I love theater.”
‘She hasn’t noticed yet…?’
She didn’t mention the room’s atmosphere.
Relieved, I nodded.
“Very well.”
“We can take the carriage I arrived in.”
Irina drew back the curtain.
She flung the window wide to air out the sticky smell.
“Then let’s head out right away. I’ve finished changing.”
I shook out my new uniform and said.
I left first from the still-warm room.
“Right….”
Irina smiled as she watched me hurry out.
But the moment I rounded the corner and vanished.
Her face hardened coldly, like spotting a sly fox in the wind.
“You did it after all, Veil. Leaving me behind first….”
She already thought I’d gone all the way with Leah.
Biting her lip hard.
But it wasn’t too late.
We hadn’t spent a deep, intense night in bed.
To stake her claim first, the 2nd Imperial Princess toyed with a glass vial from her pocket.
“Unqualified….”
“Unqualified….”
“Unqualified….”
Irina reflected on whether she truly fell short for Veil.
She pictured Leah sandwiching his precious thing between her ample breasts and caressing it.
Even the lofty 1st Imperial Princess had seduced to catch her fox.
She’d felt secure as his pure first love, their shared regression a special bond.
If even Leah went this far, what if Miya or Lydia heard her past-life story…?
She could clearly imagine the fox lost in other women’s skirts, ignoring her.
“Your Highness…?”
The silver-haired princess, lost in memories.
At my call, she blinked her noble eyelids as if waking from snow blindness.
“Huh…?”
“We’re almost there, but you kept spacing out, so I called.”
How long had she been deep in thought?
She snapped to only after spotting the imperial academy building outside.
“Time to prepare to disembark.”
I grinned mischievously at her.
Irina nodded for now.
“Got it….”
The empire’s 2nd Imperial Princess eyed the grand approaching academy theater.
Then….
She took out the elixir from the vial.
“Let’s go.”
I stepped down first and opened the door.
Irina popped the elixir into her mouth from her palm.
“Yeah, thanks.”
The princess took my hand and descended the carriage steps slowly.
They passed leisurely by the knights guarding the theater—likely because the emperor had arrived first.
Up to then, Irina felt no particular reaction from the elixir.
But soon.
She began to feel a heat building in her lower abdomen, unbidden.
As if awakening to instincts she hadn’t known.
And that, in the theater where her father was.