I Spread My Legs for the Woman Who Assaulted My Lord (End of Act I)
Thirty minutes later, Lady Zou awoke and, still naked, pressed her forehead to the floor in a deep ceremonial bow. Seven naked women sat in neat formation and bowed in unison beside her. Two slender figures — including the woman with the mussel-like pussy — occupied the front row; three girlish young women with baby-faced, teenage looks filled the second; and two foreign-born women with ample, heavy breasts brought up the rear, all of them prostrate against the floor. Eight peach blossoms had unfurled inside the chamber.
"We didn't ask you to bow to us!"
Lady Mi wore an expression of utter bewilderment, while Lady Gan had changed into spare clothes in place of her completely shredded garments. After a physically violent night — and having been forced, quite unexpectedly, to expose their naked bodies — their faces still burned.
Of course, something far more shocking than that lingered in the air.
I've gone mad. I must have gone mad...
The shock of having wrung the semen from her lord's cock — from the cock of Guan Yu, styled Yunchang. That member, now wilted to roughly the size of an ordinary man's erection, had been draped with a scrap of Lady Gan's torn clothing. Neither of the two ladies could bear to look at it jutting out like that.
"...I beg your forgiveness for the offense I have committed against you both... You girls, withdraw."
At Lady Zou's quiet command, the seven naked women rose silently and gathered their clothes. Swiftly wiping the semen splattered across the walls and the love juices spilled over the floor, they bowed once more as one and vanished into the darkness.
She must be cold...
Watching the woman with the mussel-like pussy slip away before she could even dress, Lady Mi felt a pang of pity.
"You should get dressed as well."
Left alone, Lady Zou clothed herself and knelt once more before the two ladies. Hair as long as she was tall draped mournfully over a body as white as polished jade.
She looks like a celestial maiden from a painting... Lady Gan thought.
"...Though I acted under orders, I am deeply sorry for having disturbed your night."
"Enough of that. What did you do to our lord?"
Lady Zou quietly approached Guan Yu and laid her palm against his neck. Set against the white of her hand, a single enormous acupuncture needle could be seen driven into his throat.
The two ladies were stunned. A single needle had rendered Guan Yu — a legendary general of the realm — completely helpless...
No. He had not been helpless at all.
"What you wanted was Lord Guan Yu's child, wasn't it? A pity you failed."
"...That is so. I had heard the phrase a match for ten thousand, but I thought it applied only to the battlefield. I never imagined he would be so formidable on the battlefield of the night as well..."
Lady Gan's eyes drifted, unbidden, to Lady Zou's lower body. The memory of Guan Yu's stallion-like cock trampling that place made her dizzy.
"Please wake Lord Guan Yu."
Lady Mi said it. Lady Zou shook her head.
"What do you suppose Lord Guan Yu would say if he saw this situation now?"
Only then did the two ladies grasp the predicament they were in, and they clutched their foreheads. If Guan Yu saw their naked bodies — if he saw Lady Zou — he would demand to know what had happened. And if he learned that he had been raped by women while sleeping in utter ignorance of the world, a man of his fierce pride would surely be wounded.
Worse still... if he learned that Lady Zou — and Lady Gan — had not only seen his cock but had stroked it with both hands until he came...
Even the two ladies couldn't imagine what Guan Yu might do. Lady Gan herself had no idea how she would explain it... even to herself.
"And you, Lady Zou! Even if it was an order, to do something so contrary to all propriety...!"
"...I have no excuse. I only ask that you understand I am a body that must obey orders..."
Lady Zou prostrated herself once more.
There's no point in pressing this woman. I need to see Cao Cao myself.
Lady Gan rose at once and declared that they must go to see Cao Cao immediately.
"My lady, it is the dead of night. At this hour, not even members of the imperial family may pass through the city gates. Until morning... you must wait."
"Very well. Then take us there in the morning!"
The two ladies, together with Lady Zou, straightened Guan Yu's clothes. To all outward appearances, the room was as if nothing had happened at all. Guan Yu snored on, as though truly nothing had occurred.
"By tomorrow morning, he will wake as usual," Lady Zou said as she drew the needle from his neck.
Only after confirming that Lady Zou had left the residence did the two of them collapse into each other's arms, exhausted, and fall asleep.
That both women's pussies were slightly damp was a secret no one would ever know.
And the next morning.
"...We asked to see Lord Cao Cao. What is this place?"
Having given Guan Yu a plausible excuse and followed Lady Zou to the imperial palace, the two ladies found themselves guided — of all places — to the palace baths.
"...I apologize. Lord Cao Cao departed urgently for the Guandu fortress last night. He is expected to return around afternoon... but before then, His Majesty the Emperor, having heard that the two of you have arrived in Xuchang, wishes to meet you."
Lady Zou's words left both ladies stunned.
"H-His Majesty the Emperor?"
Years ago, when Liu Bei had resided in Xuchang, Emperor Xian of Han had summoned him as a member of the imperial clan, confirmed his genealogy, bestowed upon him the title of Imperial Uncle Liu, and even granted him the rank of General of the Left. The two ladies, of course, had never had occasion to meet the Emperor themselves.
"Perhaps... His Majesty wishes to inquire after Imperial Uncle Liu's well-being."
At Lady Zou's words, Lady Gan's face darkened.
We ourselves have no way of knowing whether Xuande lives or dies... Xuande...
"But why have we been brought to the baths all of a sudden?"
Lady Mi asked.
"By the laws of the imperial palace, before an audience with His Majesty, women must wash the impurities from their bodies in the baths and present themselves in a state of purity before the throne."
"...So you're telling us to take a leisurely bath, then."
"It is the law. I ask that you please comply..."
Even in the face of Lady Gan's barbed tone, Lady Zou kept her voice consistently low. Lady Mi glanced anxiously at her sister. Lady Gan sighed and stroked Mi Lin's hair.
"...Very well. We will bathe."
"Yes. Then I shall undress you."
As Lady Zou approached, Lady Gan recoiled in alarm.
"W-why the clothes?!"
"...It is only proper that a lady of rank be attended while bathing before an audience with His Majesty. You cannot wash yourselves alone."
Lady Zou's expression — as if to say, it is the law — landed with considerable effect on Lady Gan. She had been raised to lower her defenses the moment she heard the word "propriety."
"Hah... but why you?"
"I have been ordered to attend the two of you, and besides..."
The way Lady Zou lightly adjusted her collar seemed to say, Haven't we already seen each other naked? — and Lady Gan no longer felt like arguing.
"Let's undress, Lady Mi. Come on, let's take them off..."
"Yes, Sister..."
She had no desire to dredge up the events of last night any further.
Lady Gan and Lady Mi stripped off their clothes and stood naked.
"This way..."
Following Lady Zou, Lady Gan found herself once again marveling at her younger sister's figure. In stark contrast to that young, innocent-looking face, a pair of outrageously massive breasts swelled heavily forward. Weighted by gravity into a magnificent downward curve, those breasts still possessed such astonishing elasticity that the nipples launched skyward. Baby-smooth skin, a plump waist and hips that looked languidly at ease — and yet her legs were barely fleshy at all, which was frankly infuriating.
I'm... not so bad myself, at this level...
Lady Gan ran a hand over her own taut, lean figure. Her fingers traced down a slender waist, and she glanced carefully at the pretty ass that flared out below. That ass had always been her secret weapon, quietly propping up her confidence. It was a body of healthy beauty, different from Lady Mi's plush, thick-bagel figure.
"These are the imperial palace baths."
Ah! Neither of them could close their mouths. Dozens of bathing pools spread out among trees and flowers blooming in a space like an indoor garden. All manner of fragrances rose on the air, and hot water poured endlessly from somewhere, flowing from pool to pool.
"I-it's like a paradise of bathing..."
"S-sister, are we even allowed to enjoy such luxury...?"
Lady Zou quietly led them to the pool with the deepest, richest water.
"Please enter the bath."
Lady Gan stepped in slowly. Lady Mi, apparently afraid of the heat, dipped a toe in and pulled it back — then hurried in after her. As the two beauties submerged their naked bodies, the water sloshed over the rim. When Lady Mi's breasts sank in with a heavy plunge, even more water spilled out. Lady Zou knelt demurely outside the pool and turned over an hourglass that had been placed beside it, setting the sand flowing.
"Ahh..."
"M-my body is melting, Sister..."
It was the taste of a hot spring that felt as though it would literally melt the body. Xiapi Castle, where they had prepared themselves for death; the long journey to Xuchang; the shocking night just past... they realized they had never once properly shed their exhaustion. Not only were their limbs growing languid, but even the hearts that had been seized with terror, even the minds packed tight with wariness, felt as though they were going soft...
"I shall serve you tea bestowed by His Majesty the Emperor."
The two of them received the teacups with humble gratitude.
"It smells wonderful..."
Thirsty as they were, they blew on the tea and gulped it down.
"May I have another cup?"
Mi Lin seemed especially taken with the tea. Lady Zou nodded and lifted the teapot. Then she turned the hourglass over once more, its sand having run out.
Dressed now in plain white robes that could get wet, Lady Zou radiated a fresh beauty entirely different from her nocturnal allure.
"Lady Zou, you should get in the bath too."
Lady Gan said it, and Lady Zou looked startled.
"Pardon? Why would I..."
"You... your body took quite a beating last night. Soaking in hot water would help..."
Lady Zou's lips curved faintly as she drew her legs together.
"I am quite all right. And a woman in attendance is not permitted to enter the bath."
When she added that this, too, was the law, Lady Gan did not press further.
The two ladies enjoyed a leisurely bath for the first time in ages. Lady Zou moved between them with a ladle, pouring warm water over their bodies and wiping their arms and backs with hot towels. When her hand slipped, just slightly, beneath the water and brushed across a lower abdomen, Mi Lin burst out with a little squeal of laughter — but Lady Zou's face remained composed.
"It is the law that every corner of the body must be cleaned, you see."
And when Lady Gan heard the word law, it was only natural that she quietly spread her legs as Lady Zou's hand reached toward her.
By the time the two ladies had let down their guard and even begun splashing each other in play, Lady Zou's gaze was fixed on the hourglass beyond the pool.
...The sand in the hourglass had run out.
This time, Lady Zou did not turn it over again.