I Can't Believe It
After sleeping soundly, I woke up, glanced at Nuna who was still lost in sleep, carefully climbed out of bed, and got dressed. The moment I habitually touched the necklace tucked against my chest...
'Huh?' The texture at my fingertips felt slightly different. The edges seemed a bit sharper.
'Lia.' No answer. I pulled open my collar, took out the necklace, and frowned. It wasn't the pendant Lia had transformed into.
'When did it switch?'
I closed my eyes and focused. Tracing the faint divine power that Lia's main body emitted, the energy led upward to the floor above.
I followed it to the front of Iris's room. I knocked twice, but there was no response. She must have gone out to the training grounds for early morning practice.
That was when it happened.
- Hey! Is that you?! You're finally here—please, help me quick... Ugh!
Lia's urgent voice slammed into my mind. It wasn't her usual shrill nagging tone, but the voice of someone being horribly tormented and suffering.
There was no time to hesitate. I raised my mana, smashed the doorknob in one strike, and burst into the room.
- Over here, over here!
Lia's voice was coming from inside the closet. The moment I flung the doors open, neatly arranged uniforms filled my sight.
- The corner! The corner, I said!
Following her shout, I reached deep into the back corner. Soon my fingers closed around a necklace rolled up in soft fabric. As I pulled it out and started to unwrap the cloth, I froze the instant I realized what it was.
It was a pair of men's underwear. The design and size were all too familiar.
'....Isn't this my underwear?'
Why was my underwear—something that should have been in the laundry basket—coming out of the corner of my disciple's closet? The absurd situation hit my brain like a hammer and my thoughts ground to a halt. As I stood there dazed, Lia screamed.
- Hurry up and get me out of this filthy rag right now!!
"Uh, yeah."
I quickly peeled the underwear away and lifted out Lia's true form.
- Aaaagh! Quick, quick—wipe me! Wash me with clean water this instant!!
"What the hell happened? Why were you wrapped in my underwear?"
To my question, Lia shouted in a trembling voice.
- That crazy bitch...!
"That bitch?"
- Your disciple bitch, that's who!!
"What did Iris do?"
- That crazy bitch shoved me inside her pussy and pumped me in and out!! Aaaaaagh!!!
"No, explain it properly from the beginning. What exactly happened?"
- Ha, it's so disgusting I don't even want to remember... Listen carefully. It started last night when you threw me into the closet basket and went into the bath!
Sian took off his clothes and entered the bathroom. A short while later, I saw that woman blushing in front of the bathroom door as she folded his clothes, then slip inside.
- Sigh, she's going to have another wild round with that lady. It's not even building up any coupling energy... ugh...
I let out a heavy sigh from inside the pocket. Sure enough, sticky wet sounds and the pair's embarrassingly heated moans soon echoed shamelessly from the bath.
Just as I resigned myself and tried to close my eyes, careful footsteps approached and Sian's disciple, Iris, entered the changing room.
- What the—?
"Haaang!"
At Marina Nuna's sticky cry from inside the bathroom, Iris's steps halted abruptly. I naturally assumed she'd blush and run away, but...
- ...Huh? She suddenly buried her nose in the clothes Sian had taken off, huffing as she inhaled his scent!
- Look at this? There was no time to be shocked. Iris pulled a silver pendant from her bosom.
- Huh? No way?
My bad premonition was spot on. Iris rummaged through the pocket she'd been smelling, snatched me up, and stuffed the fake in my place.
- Hey!! Sian!! Your disciple is stealing me!!
I shouted, but there was no chance that guy—completely lost in sex—would hear my voice. In the end, I was kidnapped to her room, clutched tightly in Iris's hand.
Once back in her room, Iris locked the door, climbed onto the bed, and pulled down her pants. Holding me in one hand, she began to masturbate, carefully stroking her breasts and the front of her panties with the other.
- W-what the hell is this bitch doing right in front of me! I was horrified, but there was nothing a pendant like me could do.
Her lust had risen to the limit. Eventually she pressed me against the crotch of her panties and began rubbing me against herself without mercy.
- Aaaack! You crazy bitch! Let go! Let me go!!
"Heut, hut..."
My cold metal body started heating up from her burning passion. Holding me, completely lost in fantasy, she begged toward empty air with glazed eyes.
"Haa, aht... Master, please use me. This is my first time..."
The words were so explicit and obsessive that it was impossible to believe they came from that prim, disciplined face.
"More than that lewd, vulgar cow who sucks up Master's energy every night... I, who am still clean and unused, heut, can please Master so much more."
Jealousy and pleasure had soaked her completely; degrading words kept pouring from her lips.
"I am far more suitable for Master than that vulgar, lewd woman... Haa, aang! Master... please, embrace me...!"
The harsher the insults became, the faster she rubbed me. Then—
"Haaaaaaaang!!!"
Having reached climax, Iris arched her back like a bow and shuddered violently. A little while later...
'...Ah, my eyes. My senses. Somebody save me...'
Sticky love juices had completely drenched the pendant, leaving it slick and glistening. Breathing hard, Iris wrapped me tightly in her panties and tossed me into the dark corner of the closet.
Inside the pitch-black closet, covered in that sticky mess, I screamed.
- You son of a bitch, Sian!!!!!!!!
After hearing the full story of Lia's long and horrific night, I froze in the middle of washing the pendant.
"....."
The fact that my usually emotionless, stone-faced disciple harbored such feelings for me was shocking enough, but to think she had masturbated with my underwear while badmouthing Marina... As I stood there speechless, Lia couldn't hold back any longer and shrieked.
- Hey!! Don't just stand there like an idiot—apologize first! Because of you, my noble life as the Holy Sword has for the first time been reduced to a crazy bitch's masturbation toy!!
"....So Iris really did all that."
- Are you even listening?! Hey! I told you to apologize right now?!
While wiping away the moisture, I reluctantly nodded.
"Ah, yeah. I'm sorry."
- Sorry for what?!
"Uh..."
What kind of pattern was this? For a moment I felt the strange déjà vu of trying to soothe an angry girlfriend. I cleared my throat and carefully chose my words.
"Well... my disciple made a rather serious mistake. It's also my fault for leaving you unattended."
It was an apology that tried to assess the situation objectively, but Lia's anger was aimed somewhere else entirely.
- That's not it!!!!
Lia shouted, clearly frustrated.
- If you hadn't dragged your feet and had just formed a bond with your disciple bitch sooner, I wouldn't have had to suffer such a humiliating ordeal!!
"....."
She had hit the bullseye; I was at a loss for words. If I had properly relieved Iris's suppressed desires from the start, the catastrophe of the pristine Holy Sword getting soaked in love juices, wrapped in my underwear, and shoved into a closet could have been avoided.
"All right, all right. I'm sorry for everything. I'll take care of it, so calm down for now."
I hurriedly soothed the fuming Lia, then began cleaning up the scene. I rolled the fake silver necklace and my underwear back into their original state and stuffed them deep into the corner of the closet. For the shattered doorknob, I flagged down a maid walking down the corridor and gave her instructions.
"I accidentally failed to control my strength and broke it. Fix it so that everything looks normal before Iris returns."
After roughly covering things up, I headed straight for the training grounds. There I found Iris sweating profusely as she devoted herself to training.
"Have you woken up, Master?"
"Yeah. Good morning."
Sensing my presence, Iris lowered her wooden sword and bowed. Her posture was flawless, without the slightest disorder.
I stared directly at Iris's face.
'With that face, she does those lewd masturbation sessions...'
I tried to overlay the sticky, vulgar image Lia had described so vividly onto the face in front of me. But no matter how hard I tried, they refused to match. The idea that this girl would bury her nose in my outer clothes, sniffing them while feeling jealous of Marina Nuna... The person standing ramrod straight before me was simply a polite, blunt disciple who followed me.
'Looks like I'll have to see it with my own eyes.'
- What?! Hey! Are you saying you don't believe me?!
Lia jumped up and down in a frenzy. I quickly made an excuse.
'No, it's not that I don't believe you. If I suddenly interrogate her now, given her personality, she might bite her tongue and try to die of shame or just run away. It would be better to catch her red-handed so she can't deny it, then talk it out.'
To my logical rebuttal, Lia snorted.
- Hmph. Then to catch her in the act, you'll have to use bait—so you'll be rolling around naked with that lady again?
'...Deliberately using Nuna for sex just to catch the moment feels a bit wrong. Though if the mood naturally leads there, that's another story.'
- Oh please. Look at Mr. Pure Heart over here! Whatever, do as you like.
I let Lia's grumbling voice go in one ear and out the other, then smiled at Iris.
A few days later, the opportunity came sooner than expected. Word arrived that the fitting preparations at the Golden Scales atelier were complete. The moment she heard the news, Iris volunteered to drive the carriage herself.
Inside the rattling carriage heading into the city, Marina Nuna seemed conscious of Iris sitting right in the driver's seat ahead of us. She tried to sit in the seat opposite mine. Her cautious glances to check if anyone was watching were so cute that I spoke up playfully.
"Nuna. Are you really going to sit that far away? Should I just pull you onto my lap and hold you the whole way?"
At my blatant teasing, Nuna jumped in surprise and waved her hands frantically.
"S-Sian! Iris is right there in front. She'll hear everything. Please hold back a little while we're outside, okay?"
"All right. Then I'll just hold your hand nicely, so sit next to me."
Nuna fidgeted with her lips, then eventually came over and sat beside me. As promised, I took her soft hand, laced our fingers together, and rested them on my thigh.
The carriage soon set off, and the scenery of the capital's bustling streets began flashing past the windows. Having only lived in a small rural village, everything seemed new and fascinating to Nuna. She couldn't tear her eyes from the view outside while holding my hand.
"Oh my, Sian! What is that building? I've never seen such a huge clock tower before."
Her voice brimmed with excitement as she looked out the window. Instead of answering, I precisely calculated the angle her head would turn and readied my lips in advance. The moment the unsuspecting Nuna turned toward me with a puzzled expression...
"...!"
Our lips met. Nuna's eyes widened like a startled rabbit, and she slapped my shoulder with her other hand.
"Really...! You said you'd only hold hands!"
She whispered so Iris in front wouldn't hear. I put on an aggrieved face and played innocent.
"I'm the wronged party here. I turned my head toward the window to look at that clock tower you mentioned, but you suddenly turned at the same time and our lips bumped."
While acting innocent, I gently stroked the back of her hand with my finger.
"Or did you do it because you wanted a kiss like this?"
Chu. When I gave her cheek a light kiss, Nuna hit my shoulder again and tried to make a stern face, but to me it only looked adorable.