Chapter 27
“Come on~ Shall we give up now?”
“Kkh….”
As I whispered softly into Heter’s ear in an ASMR-like fashion, he clenched his molars and endured it.
“If you back down now, I’ll overlook you refusing my order, too. But if you move first and touch me… I won’t let that slide.”
I used Heter’s own words against him: as long as he didn’t move and touch me himself, it would be fine.
He had fallen into his own trap.
“Whoo~.”
“Kk!”
When I blew on his ear once more, Heter’s body trembled violently as though he were having a seizure, and his posture faltered.
And finally.
Tap.
“Huh?”
I felt something blunt tap against my abdomen.
“!”
“That touched me just now, right? You touched me first!”
Before he could deny it, I quickly grabbed the part that had touched me before he could pull it away.
“M-my lady!”
With the evidence in my hand, had he finally accepted that he had lost?
He lowered his head, looking dejected.
“Heh. You’re in big trouble now.”
I was grinning from ear to ear, planning to pull him off me and dump some of the paperwork I’d been working on onto him.
‘Huh?’
I sensed something strange.
‘This… why is it so thin?’
No, strictly speaking, it wasn’t thin, since it seemed thicker than my wrist, at least.
But I had assumed that what had touched my stomach was Heter’s knee.
If what I had grabbed was Heter’s thigh, it was incredibly thin.
“That’s strange. This isn’t your thigh?”
“M-my lady, please don’t lower your head…!”
Heter tried to stop me, but I lowered my head faster than he could stop me.
“Ah….”
And then I could see it.
What I had grabbed.
It wasn’t Heter’s thigh, but something standing erect between his legs.
“Eek, wha—?!”
My face grew hot, and strange sounds burst from my mouth as though I had malfunctioned.
‘R-right. Come to think of it, men had one of these, didn’t they?’
After being reincarnated as a woman, I hadn’t seen a man’s… thing for nearly twenty years, not even in a photograph, so I had completely forgotten about it.
“Uh, Heter, about that….”
“….”
Heter’s ears were bright red as he lowered his head, unable to meet my eyes.
“S-sorry! But don’t be too embarrassed. This happened because I blew air in your ear, right?”
I gently removed my hand from his member and spoke as brightly as I could, as though nothing had happened.
“Besides, it’s not like you can make it move as you please, right? It’s like salivating when you eat a lemon, so I understand perfectly.”
“….”
“Come to think of it, it’s kind of funny, isn’t it? If you’d just moved aside obediently in the first place….”
“….”
Damn it, I’d messed up.
No matter what I said, he didn’t react.
It would have been fine if he had acted sly as usual, or even gotten angry, but his silence was somehow even more frightening.
“H-Heter?”
“I’m fine… I am fine….”
Heter barely answered in a strained voice.
However, despite saying he was fine, he clearly didn’t look fine at all.
He seemed to need a little more time to recover.
‘That guy, though….’
Gulp.
‘He has such a handsome face and a good personality, and his junior is this big?’
As I replayed the sensation lingering in my hand, I swallowed involuntarily.
It had definitely been large enough that I could barely grasp it with one hand.
It was clearly much thicker than I had been in my previous life.
If something that size entered me?
‘This is insane.’
Just imagining it sent a chill down my spine and made cold sweat spring up.
I took back what I had said about perhaps being able to marry this guy.
I had never done it or experienced it, but even so, I could state with certainty that—
I would never be able to handle something that size.
“Heter. If you’ve calmed down, get off me. This is your punishment for touching my body first.”
I tried to push him away.
Whatever the case, some part of him had moved and touched me.
“My lady….”
“Hurry.”
Even now, Heter glared at me as if to ask whether I really wanted to work at a time like this.
‘What an idiot.’
Did he not realize that, given the situation, he should move even farther away from me?
“Understood.”
Just as Heter was about to move away from me—
Knock knock.
“My lady.”
Along with the knock, Sir Gold’s voice came from beyond the door.
“An urgent matter has arisen at the soap factory. Please excuse me, but I will enter.”
“Huh?”
The fact that he was about to enter came as a far greater shock to me than hearing that something had happened at the factory.
“W-wait, Sir Gold!”
Creak.
But just as I had lowered my head faster than Heter could stop me earlier, this time Sir Gold opened the door and entered the office before I could finish speaking.
“Ah.”
“…?”
When he saw Heter and me tangled together on the bed, Sir Gold froze in place as though he had encountered Medusa.
“….”
Neither he nor we could open our mouths, and the uncomfortable silence continued for quite some time.
“Heh heh heh.”
“Sir Gold?”
It was Sir Gold’s hollow chuckle that broke the silence.
The fact that his eyes weren’t smiling made it clear that he wasn’t laughing because he found it funny.
“Sir Gold. I’ll explain everything, so please calm down first.”
Creak.
Ignoring me, he closed the door and left the office.
“…Move.”
I kicked Heter, who was still holding his ground.
In any case, since something had happened at the soap factory, today’s paperwork was as good as doomed.
“Ah, yes.”
Heter must have been quite flustered as well, because this time he obediently backed away.
“He left without saying anything. He seemed to have gotten the wrong idea, didn’t he?”
“It certainly looked that way.”
“Sigh.”
Should I resent him for coming at this particular moment? Or should I consider it fortunate that he came after I had taken my hand away?
While Heter and I discussed how to clear up Sir Gold’s misunderstanding—
Knock knock.
“Excuse me, my lady. May I come in again?”
Sir Gold’s voice came from outside the door along with another knock.
“Ah, yes. Come in.”
“Thank you.”
This time, Sir Gold entered only after receiving proper permission.
However, there was one difference between this visit and the previous one.
“Um, Sir Gold?”
“Yes. What is it, my lady?”
“What are those swords you’re holding?”
I pointed with my index finger at the sword in each of his hands.
It seemed he had gone out and returned specifically to fetch those swords.
Why had he suddenly brought swords with him?
“Ah, these?”
Still wearing his genial smile, Sir Gold threw one of the swords to Heter.
“A duel. Come to the garden.”
“Sir Gold?”
“I understand you getting along with Miss Alice. But I cannot tolerate you forcibly pinning a lady down in broad daylight!”
“That’s not what happened!”
This man had misunderstood things thoroughly.
“What… Then was it done with mutual consent?”
“Well, it wasn’t that either….”
“Regardless, I will not forgive you!”
Shing.
In the end, unable to contain his anger, Sir Gold drew his sword and charged at Heter.
“Even if it costs me the rest of my life… I won’t let you off!”
“Sir Gold, please calm down. This is all a misunderstanding.”
“What misunderstanding?!”
“Kkh!”
Sir Gold swung his sword at Heter with a furious roar, while Heter blocked him.
How had things come to this?
This was literally five minutes before everything turned into a complete mess.
Throb.
Perhaps it was because I had been under too much stress.
It felt as though my stomach, which had settled down, was beginning to hurt again.
“Ha ha.”
Damn it all.
***
“Ha ha, it was all to prevent the head of the household from overworking? I had no idea.”
It took Sir Gold a full thirty minutes of persuasion before he finally calmed down.
“It was a situation anyone could easily misunderstand.”
Since I could understand where he was coming from, I decided to let his thirty-minute rampage slide.
“Heh heh, thank you, my lady.”
“So what on earth brought you here?”
I wondered how serious the incident at the soap factory had been for someone like Sir Gold to enter my office without permission.
“Ah, well….”
“Yes.”
“A magical beast has appeared at the soap workshop.”
“Oh~.”
I see. So he had come because a magical beast had appeared at the soap workshop.
If that was the reason, I could understand why he had suddenly opened the door.
But….
“Then this is no time for this!”
No, why had this crazy old man made such a fuss when a magical beast had appeared?
“That was because Sir Heter being in bed with my lady was a far greater incident to me.”
“….”
As I looked at Sir Gold, who was staring at me with a serious expression, I thought—
‘Has he truly gone senile?’
What was I supposed to do about this…?