The Pantyless Lady of the House
“Then why aren’t you wearing any underwear…?”
I returned to the estate with a carriage full of loot, right in front of the eyes of the Calster villagers. The bandit who had survived the skirmish was handed over to the village chief. I told him to put the man to work as a slave; since he was originally a resident of the territory, the chief would know how to handle him properly.
“Are you hurt? Thank goodness… But where did you get this carriage, and what is all this?”
The carriage was filled with sacks of grain, money, and jewelry—anything of value that the bandits had plundered. The last surviving bandit had spilled the location of their stash without me even asking, so I’d claimed it all as spoils of war.
“I brought back what the bandits had stolen… It should help with running the estate, right?”
“Even if some of it is old, there’s more here than I thought….”
Irina began to think of what she could do immediately with the goods in the carriage. We were so short on farming tools that we couldn’t even cultivate the land properly, and with news that the war would soon be over, it was time to prepare for the aftermath. The Calster barony was a place where one wouldn’t starve as long as they farmed, but if we didn’t revitalize agriculture, the estate would wither away and vanish.
‘I had no answer for how to manage the estate moving forward….’
The future had looked bleak. There were almost no young people left, and even those who remained were fleeing to the big cities. On top of that, the workers from my father’s generation were falling ill one by one; there was no guarantee what would become of this land in five years. But the moment Ian arrived, he had pulled off a miracle.
‘…I have to use this as a cornerstone to rebuild the estate, piece by piece.’
She looked at her younger brother with pride. “You did so well! As expected of my brother! How can I be so proud? Whoever ends up marrying you, they’ll never have to worry about starving!”
“…Shouldn’t you call me ‘My Lord’?”
“Yes! You did a wonderful job, My Lord! I’ll make you something delicious for dinner tonight!”
“Ah… no, that’s fine. I know we don’t have much to spare. Just prepare what we usually eat.”
I was secretly glad that what I had gained from my life as a knight and the long war was actually helping my family. Honestly, I had been worried sick about how we would survive once the war ended. Mercenary work, monster hunting… I was confident in swinging a sword, but I had no idea how to do anything productive. Yet, to be able to bring profit to the house just by securing spoils of war like this….
‘…I wish things like this happened more often.’
I moved the cargo from the carriage to the warehouse. Meanwhile, Irina prepared dinner, her imagination running wild with how she would manage the estate from here on out.
After dinner. Even though I was away from the battlefield, I couldn’t afford to slack off on my training. Even if I had to focus on managing the estate as a frontier lord, I had no intention of putting down my sword. I felt anxious if I didn’t have the strength to back myself up.
‘Hoo….’
After circulating my Aura through my body and working up a sweat, the day had already turned dark, given how long my training sessions were—just as long as my physical stamina.
I thought about washing up lightly with water drawn from the well and going to sleep, but since I was finally home, I decided to soak my body in the bath for the first time in a while.
‘A sauna… that’s probably out of the question, right?’
My father’s only luxury had been the sauna. When I was much younger, we used to use it all the time, but there was no way we had the resources to run it now. Instead, I could at least use the bathtub connected to the water pipes from the groundwater.
However, there was already someone in the bathroom. None other than Irina.
“Eek… you’re going to wash up?”
The older sister who had been quietly soaking in the tub—I ended up admiring her translucent body hidden beneath the water before I could stop myself. Her wet hair and her white breasts floating above the surface… I barely managed to turn my gaze away.
“O-oh… I didn’t know you were in here… I, I’m sorry!”
“N-no… I should have at least made some noise….”
Why was this? Even just yesterday, I hadn’t felt the slightest bit embarrassed about showing my naked body to my younger brother. …Irina naturally covered her chest with her hands, feeling her heart pounding.
‘A-am I crazy… W-why am I like this…?’
As it happened, I had already walked in completely naked from outside the bathroom. She found her gaze drawn to my body, slick with sweat, my defined muscles and firm thighs. And then… for some reason, my ‘member’ began to grow in real-time.
We both looked at each other’s bodies for a split second before turning away simultaneously.
“T-take your time… I, I’ll just be in the massage room loosening up my muscles.”
“Y-yeah….”
Once I stepped out of the bathroom, I realized my ‘member’ was standing at full attention, and my face flushed red.
‘D-Did she see it? O-Of course she saw it… You insane idiot, Ian! Since when do you get hard over your sister?! Irina noona is practically your real older sister!’
But the image he had just seen refused to leave his mind.
Ian was a war soldier. A war knight.
…Traveling countless battlefields had given him plenty of opportunities to relieve himself.
But no matter what prostitute or noblewoman he encountered…
Ian had never once felt sexually aroused.
Yet… the moment he saw Irina’s body….
‘Ugh… Damn it, get a grip, Ian… At this rate, you’re going to…’
Just as he tried calming himself with deep breaths and decided to swing his sword again instead.
In front of the bath… nearby, he noticed a laundry basket that his older sister had neatly gathered together.
At the very top was a white….
‘Noona’s… underwear?’
Unconsciously, he picked up the underwear that still retained a trace of warmth. A sweet scent lingered from the part that had covered her large breasts… and before he realized it, he had buried his nose in it.
*Sniff….*
‘N-No….’
Then his hand reached for the piece that had touched the most intimate part of his sister’s body….
*Click!*
The bath door suddenly opened behind him. Ian quickly hid the underwear inside his towel.
“H-Huh? You were still here?”
“A-Ah, there was something on the floor for a second… S-Sorry.”
“It’s fine.”
Irina’s gaze landed on her younger brother’s fully erect thing.
Embarrassed by her stare, Ian quickly covered his lower half with the towel.
“I-I’ll head out first!”
Ian hurried back to his room, breathing harder than ever before while cold sweat dripped down his back.
‘I-Ian… are you an absolute moron? What the hell were you doing…? A knight sniffing a lady’s… underwear… Hahk!’
Then Ian realized he had forgotten something and checked the towel he had brought back with him.
…Hidden inside the bundled towel were a white bra and panties.
Meanwhile.
After leaving the bath, Irina realized the underwear she had left in the basket was gone.
‘Huh?… Where did I leave my underwear? I definitely took it off here and put it in the basket….’
…Surely Ian didn’t?
No, impossible. A knight stealing a lady’s underwear? That made no sense… He was long past puberty, and besides, she was his older sister.
Yet after recalling the state of her younger brother’s thing, Irina couldn’t stop herself from wondering.
‘D-Does he…? N-No… T-That must just be its normal size.’
Irina wanted to believe that.
And yet deep down, she didn’t dislike the idea of her younger brother seeing her as a woman.
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The next day.
An awkward breakfast began.
Ian had many things he wanted to ask after seeing his older sister rubbing her thighs together while preparing breakfast, but he was too worried she would confront him about the underwear incident to start a conversation.
‘What’s wrong with her?… Her chest somehow looks even bigger too…’
“E-Eat up.”
“Let us give thanks to Lord Morian for this meal….”
It was an ordinary breakfast. While quietly eating according to noble etiquette, Ian accidentally dropped his fork.
“Did you forget how to use a fork?”
“Ah… I think I overtrained. My hands don’t have any strength in them.”
The naturally opened conversation eased the awkward atmosphere, and Ian let out a relieved sigh. But the moment he bent down beneath the table to pick up the fork….
‘Ah….’
His gaze drifted between Irina noona’s slightly parted legs.
Untrimmed golden pubic hair. Firmly closed outer lips.
The soft mound of Venus that looked so plump he wanted to bite into it immediately….
‘U-Underwear…? Why isn’t she wearing underwear?! Is that why she’s been rubbing her thighs together since earlier?’
Well, the reason was obvious, wasn’t it?
Because there was an underwear thief in the house.
Blood rushed downward, and Ian awkwardly sat back down in his chair.
When he nervously glanced at his sister’s expression… she had already realized her younger brother had seen between her legs, and her eyes were reddening from embarrassment.
‘H-He saw it, didn’t he?’
The reason Irina had been rubbing her thighs together uncomfortably all morning.
Was because she wasn’t wearing any underwear.
‘…Ugh, it’s itchy and uncomfortable.’
That place, dried out after being exposed to the cool night air all night long.
It was itchy enough that she wanted to rub and scratch it immediately, but she obviously couldn’t do that in front of her younger brother.
To make matters worse, the strange excitement had even caused her nipples to harden visibly. Such an indecent state that anyone could tell, even through her clothes.
‘I don’t have enough underwear to spare… Ugh, I should’ve done the laundry earlier.’
Then her younger brother suddenly dropped his fork and went beneath the table… and saw everything directly.
Startled, she quickly shut her legs.
But….
‘H-He definitely saw it… no doubt about it….’
Half-tearful, Irina asked.
“D-Did you see it?”
“H-Huh? See what?”
“Did you see your real sister’s pussy?!”
“W-Weren’t you showing it on purpose?”
“Uuu… I wasn’t….”
“Then why aren’t you wearing panties…?”
“…Because there’s an underwear thief.”
There was only one possible culprit. Ian’s ears turned bright red as he hurriedly changed the subject.
“W-Well, since we got some money from yesterday, go buy more underwear or something… A noble lady going around without panties or a bra—what would people think if they saw you?”
“What would they think….”
They’d probably think the household was on the verge of collapse.
In the end, breakfast ended in an awkward atmosphere.
“…Should we start sorting things out?”
After breakfast, they decided to organize the spoils they had obtained the previous day. After even washing the dishes herself, the noble lady Irina changed into lighter clothes and returned.
“The old grain should go into storage… Wow, they hoarded a lot of silver coins… Oh? This ring belongs to the village chief.”
“How are you planning to handle and use all this?”
“Isn’t that something the lord of the territory should be worrying about?”
“Umm….”
Ian wasn’t particularly knowledgeable about worldly affairs.
He had spent his whole life training his body, attending the military academy, and serving in the imperial regular army. He had no idea how to manage money or govern a territory… Though those were things he would have to learn as a lord eventually, Ian could state one thing with certainty.
Ian Calster was not someone naturally suited for finances or territorial administration.
“…You think about it instead, noona.”
Considering the future, it was only right for Irina noona to be the one actually shaping the territory while Ian simply served as the final authority who approved decisions and bore responsibility.
One way or another, the blood test would eventually expose everything.
That Ian Calster could not inherit the territory.
Thinking about what came afterward, it made more sense for Irina noona to handle the territory’s overall administration. A woman couldn’t become lord, so eventually the man she married would inherit the position instead.
“Aren’t you pushing too much onto me? It’s a lot of pressure.”
“The person who knows what they’re doing should handle it. Giving management work to a sword-swinger like me would just ruin things further.”
“…You underestimate yourself too much.”
“Didn’t father say the same thing?”
“…At least make some effort to learn. You’re going to become the lord someday.”
“Precisely because I’ll be lord, I should leave things to people who actually know what they’re doing.”
“You and your excuses….”
Irina was an outstanding graduate of the capital’s academy. She was highly educated and knowledgeable about managing territories. She already knew exactly what needed to be done here.
‘There’s too much to do without even a moment to rest… but the first thing we can do immediately is….’
“Can you intimidate a merchant for me? I strongly suspect he’s been ripping us off, but I don’t have proof.”
“Can’t you just order him to show his ledgers under the authority of the lord?”
“We didn’t have soldiers or any power in the territory, so he ignored us. But now that you’re here….”
Irina looked at her younger brother with eyes full of expectation. With the ‘strength’ he had honed in war, the existence of a ‘man,’ and the authority of a ‘lord,’ even a merchant trying to scam them wouldn’t dare dismiss them so easily.
Ian instantly understood the hidden meaning behind Irina’s words and clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘Like I thought, this household really does need a man around.’