Chapter 288: Preparing for the Request
Chapter 288: Preparing for the Request
Hearing Sara’s voice, I was wide awake in an instant.
“W-Wait a minute. Calm down. It’s not like that…”
“What’s not like that? Isn’t that a hickey?”
“No. I mean, yes, it is, but…”
“Hmph… So you prefer older sister types like Leia over your little sister, huh, Oppa? She even worked so hard to mark you as hers. Ah, is that why you told me to call you Oppa?”
It was the first time in my entire life that the word “Oppa” had ever sounded so terrifying.
“No! It’s not like that! Leia just asked me to do it! Right, Leia?!”
“Yes. I won’t be able to see you for a few days, Guwon. I wanted to at least have a trace of you with me…”
Leia smiled shyly, placing a hand on her chest as if to gently caress the hickey in her cleavage and the Apostle’s Seal above it.
I was grateful for her quick response, but could you please stop with the gestures that seem to emphasize it?
I could feel the combat power of not only Sara but also Diana, who was standing right next to her, rising in real time.
“…But that is a bit much. What if it leaves a scar on her skin? You wouldn’t want Leia’s body to be scarred, would you, Guwon?”
But she didn’t lash out right away. She took a deep breath and spoke, her voice tight with suppressed anger.
“W-Well, of course not, but…”
“He says he wouldn’t. How about you treat it?”
“No. It’s fine. I may not look it, but I am a priestess. I know how bad a mark has to be to leave a scar. This won’t leave one.”
“But what if…!”
“If it looks like it might, Cardinal Matilda is right here. For Cardinal Matilda, getting rid of a scar like this would be simple, wouldn’t it?”
“Y-Yeees?! Y-Yes… I-It would… be…?”
Matilda, why are you so scared? I mean, I get it.
I felt a strange sense of kinship with Matilda. Not that I had any intention of getting close to her.
“Hehe. So you don’t need to worry.”
“Th-Then, in that case… Ugh! You!”
Diana, seemingly at a loss for words, looked up at me and pointed a finger accusingly at Leia.
Hey, what do you want me to do? And why are you making such an aggrieved face in the first place?
“What? You want one too?”
I took Diana’s chin in my hand, turned her head slightly to the side, and pressed my lips to her cheek, sucking hard to leave a hickey.
“There. I put it on your cheek so it’s easy to see. Is that better?”
“M-Mmm… Vanessa!”
“Yes, milady.”
As soon as Diana called, Vanessa immediately produced a hand mirror and held it up to Diana’s face.
Diana examined the hickey on her cheek, then huffed through her nose.
She then nodded, as if to say she was satisfied with this.
Thank goodness. It looked like I’d managed to handle Diana, at least.
Now, only Sara was left.
“Sara, don’t pout like that.”
I brought my mouth to Sara’s ear, nibbled it gently, and then sucked hard on her earlobe.
“Have you forgotten who I started dating first? Why would you say something like that?”
“B-But…”
“Sara.”
“Okay… I’m sorry…”
Sara seemed to realize she’d gone a little too far, because she apologized meekly as soon as I said her name.
I smiled gently and stroked her hair.
While I maintained a gentle demeanor on the outside, I was screaming with relief on the inside.
Phew. Thank God. I really thought I was fucked.
The moment Sara started in with that “Oppa” talk, I felt my blood run cold. To think I navigated this crisis so brilliantly.
I could feel that I’d made some great strides myself.
Heh. It seems I’m starting to develop the air of a Harem King.
“What are you smirking about all of a sudden?”
Oops. It seemed my inner thoughts had shown on my face.
“Hm? Oh, nothing. Just thinking about how nice your butt feels.”
“You big idiot!”
Seemingly back to her usual self, Sara slapped my chest lightly before getting up and sitting in the chair next to me.
But as soon as Sara moved, Diana shifted as if she’d been waiting for the chance, sliding between my legs.
“…Hey. Aren’t you going to move?”
“Hmm? Do I have to?”
“What a stupid question… How am I supposed to eat?”
“You can just eat like this.”
“Diana. Won’t that make it difficult for Guwon to eat?”
“Hmm… Is it difficult?”
Diana put a hand to her chin in thought, then suddenly grinned at Leia before looking back at me.
Do you even have to ask? Of course it’s difficult.
“No. Not at all.”
“There you have it.”
But there was no way I could say it was difficult, and Diana puffed out her chest, looking at Leia with an air of triumph.
Hey. Don’t go provoking my angel.
Why are you so competitive today?
“Mmm… Is that so? But you look uncomfortable… Ah, then I’ll feed you.”
Leia, who was sitting across the table, scooped up a spoonful of soup, stood up, leaned over the table with her hands on it, and stretched her arm out toward me.
“Here, say ‘ahhh.’”
With a gentle smile, she offered the spoonful of soup to my lips.
Her angelic smile was one thing, but the effect of gravity pulling her chest down, making it look even larger and emphasizing her cleavage, was quite a sight. The dress was cut so low that it looked like her breasts might spill out at any moment.
“Wh-What do you think you’re doing! Get that away from me! Silvia! Where is Silvia?!”
Diana, forced to stare at that chest from point-blank range, cried out while covering her eyes as if she’d been hit by a flashbang.
Hey, do you hate Leia’s chest that much?
And don’t go hurting Silvia’s feelings for no reason. I get that her flat chest is a source of comfort for you right now, but still.
“If you hate it so much, you can just get down…”
“I-I can’t do that! This is a rare chance for me to have won against Leia… Anyway, I refuse! What?! Do you not want me sitting on you?”
Diana seemed to have grown stubborn, and it looked like she had no intention of moving from this spot, even if it killed her.
No, from this angle, it looks like you’re completely losing to Leia.
Well, Diana trying to protect her pride like this is cute, so I guess it doesn’t matter.
“No, I like it, but… whatever.”
I just wrapped my arms tightly around Diana’s torso and accepted the soup from Leia, who was still holding out the spoon.
“You’re eating it?!”
“My hands are busy holding you, so I don’t have a choice. You want to feed me instead, Diana?”
“Hmph!”
At my words, Diana scooped up some soup and tried to bring it up to my mouth, which was above her head.
But getting the soup to my mouth without spilling it was no easy task. The spoon trembled so much it looked like the soup would spill at any moment, and in the end, Diana had to give up.
“Why are you so needlessly big?!”
“Needlessly? You seem to enjoy how big I am at night…” “Th-That’s not what I was talking about! You really! Are you an idiot?! Huh?! Are you an idiot?!”
“Hey, even I get my feelings hurt if you keep calling me an idiot like that.”
“Ugh. S-Sorry.”
“Nope. Not forgiven. Both you and Sara have been calling me an idiot too much lately. I see. If you say, ‘Your thing isn’t needlessly big at all. In fact, its size feels incredibly good,’ then I’ll forgive…”
“You! You!”
Diana finally turned around and started pummelling my chest.
Hey, don’t move around so much up there. The friction is going to make me hard.
“Hehe. Guwon. Then I’ll continue feeding you.”
Ignoring the conversation between Diana and me, Leia offered me another spoonful.
“G-Get your chest away!”
Then get off my lap if you hate it so much.
In the end, Diana endured the agony of having to stare at Leia’s cleavage and refused to get off my lap.
As expected of the Archmage. She’s got guts. Useless guts, but still.
*
“Sara. Let’s talk for a minute.”
After we finished eating, I stopped Sara as she was about to head back to her room and brought her to mine.
I could feel Silvia anxiously following me like a stalker from behind, but I did my best to ignore her, brought only Sara into my room, and closed the door.
I’m about to talk about you, so just be patient, Silvia.
“Talk? About what?”
“Are you still mad?”
At my question, Sara chuckled and gave me a light kiss on the lips.
“I’m not mad, so don’t worry. Oppa.”
Yeah, I figured as much.
She gets jealous easily and is quick to anger, but she’s not the type to hold a grudge. In fact, she’s the type to vent her anger on the spot and let it go, which makes her easy to deal with in some ways.
“Is that what you wanted to talk about? You can be surprisingly timid, Guwon.”
Even as she said it, she seemed to be in a good mood, giggling as she teased me.
“No, there’s something else I wanted to talk about.”
“Oh? Really? What is it?”
“Well…”
There was definitely something I needed to discuss, but it was a little difficult to ask directly.
It was about having sex with Silvia.
Yesterday, when Diana scheduled the request for two days from now, Sara was there and didn’t say a word.
That must mean she was okay with me having sex with Silvia.
But the question was, why set it for two days from now?
If it was just about having sex, I could have done it with Silvia right after we got back from the Arachne Clan yesterday.
That would have meant we could have started the request today.
So, did scheduling it for two days from now mean she was giving me a night to spend with Silvia?
It was a question I could never answer on my own without asking Sara directly.
“What is it? Did you do something wrong to me again?”
Sara’s eyes narrowed with suspicion.
“N-No. What do you take me for? It’s, uh, Sara… should I sleep with Silvia during the day today, or at night?”
I finally steeled myself and asked her outright.
“……Are you an idiot?! Why are you asking me that?!”
Sara, who must have never imagined I’d ask such a question, slapped my chest as she spoke.
She must have been so surprised she couldn’t control her strength, because it hurt a little.
“But think about it. If you didn’t mean for me to sleep with her at night, and I did, it would be like I was standing you up, right?”
“Oh, that’s true… I didn’t think about that.”
It seemed Sara hadn’t thought too deeply about it when they were scheduling the request either.
“So, what should I do?”
“U-Umm…”
Sara stared at me, almost like a glare, as she thought it over, before finally letting out a deep sigh.
“Haaah. Fine. On a day like this, I should yield to Silvia for a day.”
“Are you really okay with that?”
“Yeah, you idiot. I don’t want you to hate me for being too greedy.”
“You’re the idiot. Being greedy for me just means you like me that much. Why would I hate it? No, there’s no way I could ever hate you, Sara.”
“Hmph. Says the one who didn’t say anything about making intense memories with me because we’d be apart for a few days.”
“Hey. We still made some pretty good memories, didn’t we?”
“That perverted maid play?”
“Perverted? I was doing something I really wanted to do with you. Did you hate it that much?”
“No, I didn’t hate it! I didn’t hate it, but… I just wanted a more… memorable…”
“So you’re saying you liked it?”
“W-Well, I did like…”
“I see. So Sara liked the perverted maid play. I guess I’ll have to put more effort into it next time.”
“You don’t need to put effort into that! You really are an idiot!”
“Stop playing hard to get and come here. I’ll give you a hickey, too.”
“I’m not playing hard to get!”
Despite her words, Sara brought her cheek to my lips.
Right, right. Honesty is the best policy.
“Ugh… being sucked on the cheek. It’s a weird feeling. How is it? Did it leave a good mark?”
“Yep. It left a perfect mark. My hickey.”
“Then me too…”
This time, Sara brought her lips to my cheek.
“W-Wait! On my cheek?”
“What, you don’t like it?”
“No, but I have to go out…”
“That’s why I have to mark you somewhere visible, to show you’re mine. Besides, Leia’s probably already marked up your body, right?”
Sara said, lightly pinching my cheek.
Well, I couldn’t deny that Leia had left hickeys all over my body like she was marking her territory.
“I still saved a spot for you. Here, leave a hickey on your Oppa’s chest. I’d rather have Sara’s mark right over my heart than on my cheek.”
“I feel like I’m being tricked somehow…”
Despite her words, Sara pressed her lips to my left breast.