19. In Front of Someone Else (5)

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"My stamina is fine. Thank you for worrying, Lady Dorothy."

…This was the expected sequence so far, but there was one problem.

That problem was Neria, who had just been putting on an act at the '0.2 Lady Erzel' level of proficiency, but was now frozen stiff atop my stomach.

The question was whether she would actually accept Dorothy's proposal.

The whole reason Neria had chosen the riding position, despite having zero proficiency with it, was that she was too embarrassed to show herself moaning beneath me.

Would she really change her mind for the sole reason that Dorothy wanted to see it?

If it were the Neria I knew, wouldn't she probably run away, claiming it was too difficult?

Just as I finished making that prediction, I heard her anxious voice.

"I-I have a stamina issue…!"...