Chapter 128
Chapter 128
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 128
Chapter Title: Wise Queen #3
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"Tail?"
Aira's stern expression, which had been scolding me just moments ago, instantly melted away.
Her face lit up like a child spotting a Christmas present right in front of them, making the tension from before feel downright awkward.
"Theo, you mean you have a tail?"
She seemed genuinely amazed that I had a tail.
Well, it wasn't exactly a tail, but you could kind of think of it as a tail growing out from the front, so I wasn't lying.
Still, before Aira could misunderstand in some even weirder way, I quickly added a few words of explanation.
"Uh, it's a tail that only grows on men...."
At this point, most people would get the gist. But Aira, rather than understanding, looked even more intrigued.
"A tail growing on men? I've never heard of such a thing. Theo, you've never once mentioned to me that you had a tail growing."
"Well...."
At this rate, I was starting to think she was teasing me on purpose. Anyone else would definitely be messing with me, but Aira was as inscrutable as ever.
"Theo, show me your tail."
I shouldn't have called it a tail. Now she was even more interested.
I had no choice but to admit it.
That it was my fault for exaggerating things on my own. Adding more excuses would just be like pouring oil on a fire—it'd only make the situation spiral out of control.
"Lady Aira, please, just know that I have no intention of disrespecting you. I would never dream of insulting or belittling you."
Swish, swish.
I untied the knot and pulled my pants down. I didn't take off my underwear, but at this point, even Aira would surely realize what my "tail" really was.
Even a kindergartener would get it now.
"...Hmm?"
Aira stared at my bulging underwear with narrowed eyes. For those few seconds while she paused, the spacious changing room fell silent.
A mix of slight shame, the bizarre thrill of exposing my underwear in front of Aira who was only in hers, and the tension of potentially being condemned for blasphemy swirled chaotically in my head.
What happens to me now?
"Theo."
Aira's voice was unusually chilling. The emotion radiating from it was icy wrath.
"This isn't a tail. You lied to me. And you know better than anyone that I hate lies the most."
Whoooosh.
An aura of intimidation poured from Aira. My skin prickled. If I stayed like this, her mana storm might shred my mind. I hurriedly spat out the excuse I'd prepared.
"Will you grant me just one chance to explain?"
"The sin of lying to me is grave. I have no reason to hear excuses. But Theo, given all your loyalty to me so far, I'll listen."
Aira crossed her legs and sat in midair, as if on nothing at all.
Swish, swish.
I wondered if she'd laid down an invisible mana platform under her butt, but that wasn't important right now. I gathered my thoughts and spoke.
"I couldn't dare use frivolous words unfit for the presence of Queen Aira. So, even though you might see it as a lie, I called it a tail."
"Frivolous words?"
"Um...."
"Tell me quickly."
"Words that refer to the male organ. I didn't want to sully Queen Aira's bath with talk like that."
It sounded plausible when I said it. Because it was true, after all.
The issue now was whether Aira would accept it. She just kept staring at my underwear with those narrowed eyes.
I still couldn't read her mind.
I was racking my brain for what to say next when Aira parted her heavy lips and spoke.
"What words refer to the male organ, exactly?"
Seriously?
She was making me say it now?
Her expression was dead serious—no joke. If I hemmed and hawed here, an angry Aira might rip my head off with telekinesis.
I had to make a decision.
"Well, words for the male organ would be things like...."
"Things like?"
"Dick or cock...."
Even saying it made my vision swim.
Saying such words stone-cold sober in front of a woman, even in this lewd situation, was mortifying—and yet it sparked a strange excitement.
It felt like I was violating Aira's ears with my mouth and tongue. Since things had come to this, I added confidently, refusing to back down.
"In more refined terms, it would be phallus or penis."
"Hmm...."
Aira's reaction was bland. No anger, just a calm like a duck drifting on a still lake.
The fact that she wasn't exploding in rage already meant my plan had worked halfway. A good sign for me.
"Theo, I understand your intent. But my ears aren't sullied just from hearing such talk."
Aira spoke haughtily, without losing her composure. But now I noticed—her ears, peeking through her black hair, were flushed bright red.
That's when the trait of my level 7 job 'Lothario' activated.
Aira had no immunity to lewd, vulgar, frivolous words after all. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Well, it made sense.
Born the youngest princess in the royal family, doted on endlessly like a fairy-tale princess. She'd never heard dirty talk.
Even now as queen of the fading Angmar, no one would be bold enough to speak obscenities to her face.
Aira was weak to dirty talk. I recalled how she'd reacted to me calling Finance Minister Belmot an incestuous whatever. Hearing and saying it were different, huh?
Anyway, I'd file that away in my head.
"May I pull my pants up now?"
"No, wait."
Why now.
I was tense, unsure what she'd say, when Aira casually lifted her leg. Her toes brushed my rigidly standing member.
"Then why is this—your thing—standing up like this?"
"My thing—"
"This one. Why is it so hard?"
"Well.... Because being alone with a beautiful woman like you, Lady Aira, in just our underwear—anyone would get like this."
"Hmm, why?"
"Because men are born to react that way. Or you could say we're made that way."
"Made that way? Why? Why does it need to get this hard?"
Squish.
Aira pressed down on my member with her foot. She must've been annoyed at my lie. Like a cat toying with a mouse in its paws, she seemed eager to play with me.
Maybe she'd known all along and was just tormenting me for fun. After all, back at my house in Monarch City, she'd once made me cum by gripping it.
Maybe she just wanted to see me flustered and fumbling.
「Calm Situation Assessment!
Gain experience via talent 《Composed Thinking》.
All job experience +5」
Yup, called it. Naughty girl.
It reminded me that Aira was once the massive villainess, queen of the antagonists.
I'd thought she'd mellowed since coming to Ark, but that sadistic, tyrannical side hadn't gone anywhere.
"Tell me, Theo. Why did you make this thing of yours so big?"
No way I was losing now. This was a power struggle with the current queen herself.
So, like drawing a hidden dagger, I said,
"...Because that's what males are. It swells up to impregnate a female. To plant seeds deep in the womb."
"In the womb... seeds?"
Her pupils trembled faintly. As Angmar's last heir, I couldn't let her win like this. I landed a finishing blow.
"Men need to get this hard to penetrate a woman's soft insides."
Who'd have thought I'd say something like this to Aira? Never crossed my mind. Probably the same for her.
She had to be flustered.
Sure enough, Aira slowly withdrew her foot from my member.
"Theo, are you saying it's hard because you want to impregnate me?"
"...You could see it that way."
Now, how would Aira respond?
I felt cold sweat trickling down my back and forehead.
" Kuhuhu—."
Then Aira burst out laughing. Kuhuhuhu—.
I couldn't even remember the last time she'd laughed like that, so I was a bit thrown.
What was so funny?
After laughing for a while, she elegantly wiped a tear from her eye with her index finger and said,
"Theo, a mere fifth-circle mage like you couldn't possibly impregnate me."
"You're right."
Come to think of it, yeah.
Aira was a seventh-circle grand mage. Consorting with one like her carried risks, right?
For mages, sex was an important act exchanging emotions, mana, and more. Mismatched ranks could endanger the lesser partner fatally.
That's why Prince Kasim, a fifth-circle grand mage, had been eyed as her match. Of course, Aira recoiled at his name alone....
Aira said,
"You know it's impossible, yet it still gets hard. Men are such pitiful creatures."
"Yeah."
Things were going smoothly.
I'd worried my erection might cost me my head, but Aira seemed in a great mood, like she'd heard a hilarious joke.
Guess I won this round.
Mhehehe—.
I was inwardly celebrating my victory when—
Swish.
My underwear slid down on its own. Like something had pulled it.
"Theo, I can't bear your child. But as queen, it's only right to reward a loyal retainer who's suffered in many ways."
Swish.
Aira clenched her fist in a circle in midair.
At the same time, I felt my upright member, pointing toward my navel, gripped by something.
It didn't take long to realize it was a telekinetic hand.
"L-Lady Aira—!?"
"Stay still. I might crush it if I misjudge the pressure."
Crush it?
What could be scarier? Having seen her telekinesis crumple rebar, no threat terrified me more.
Swish, swish.
But that fear melted away as a strange new sensation from my lower half blanked my mind white.