Chapter 62
In the end, I did get smacked by Elettra, though.
“No, I was just wondering if you were cooking something—”
“Die!! Seriously, just die!!!”
I showed Iris to her dorm room, and since it was her first time there, helped her get settled in.
“Th-thank you for today! See you again tomorrow!”
“Yeah, see you tomorrow.”
At last, when I got back to my place, the fatigue hit me and my body went limp.
“Uaaah….”
So much had happened.
‘I should really go to sleep now.’
Tomorrow was Saturday, the day after that was Sunday, and next week was midterms.
‘I think I’ll do well on the midterms, won’t I?’
Unlike the flower-brained idiots in romance fantasies, I actually studied properly.
Though compared to the hell of entrance exams, it was all pretty lukewarm.
As I went inside, thinking about what I’d do to relax tomorrow,
Lucy was asleep on the sofa in my house.
“…Lucy?”
I called her, but she didn’t budge, apparently fast asleep.
Only her deep, gentle breathing continued.
‘Was she waiting for me the whole time?’
I’d told her I’d be out for dinner tonight, but had she planned to greet me when I got back?
‘I feel a little bad.’
It wasn’t my fault.
Still, hearing that she’d waited for me and fallen asleep like this made me feel grateful.
If we had a superior-subordinate relationship, I’d probably think she was so diligent.
‘But I should probably wake her.’
If she slept like that much longer, her neck would be stiff and sore tomorrow. That was obvious.
“Lucy.”
I whispered and gently shook her.
A soft moan escaped Lucy’s lips.
She smelled fresh and sweet, like vanilla ice cream.
“…Lucy.”
I called her again, but there was still no answer.
She was really deeply asleep. It seemed like she wouldn’t even notice if I touched her.
Every time Lucy breathed, her breasts—especially enormous even among the women in this subculture god-tier game world—rose and fell.
Watching her made an impulse stir inside me.
The impulse to take Lucy’s clothes off, draw those breasts into my mouth, suck on them, and nibble on them.
My hand twitched before I could stop it, but I held myself back.
‘Get a grip, you lunatic.’
The drink I’d had with dinner was low in alcohol.
Had the alcohol gone to my head because my blood was pumping after that leash race with the Saintess?
‘Good grief.’
But I couldn’t just leave her on the sofa like this.
Even if I carried her to her house, I didn’t have the key.
‘…Can’t be helped.’
I slipped one hand behind Lucy’s knees and the other behind her back, then lifted her into a princess carry.
Lucy let out a sleepy moan. I smelled that vanilla ice cream scent again.
Lucy’s hair tickled my shoulder and neck.
Her breasts pressed against my chest, squishing softly.
A naughty thought crossed my mind.
I resisted.
I carried Lucy into the bedroom and laid her on the bed.
“Phew.”
Now I could sleep on the sofa.
However, Lucy’s fingers caught on my sleeve.
“Don’t… go….”
Along with the whisper, Lucy’s eyes fluttered beneath her eyelids.
She was still asleep.
‘…Can’t be helped.’
I should stay beside her until she fell deeply asleep again.
I lay down on the bed again.
I closed my eyes. Sleep came pouring over me.
‘I have to be careful not to fall asleep like this….’
Right, be careful. I’ll get up once Lucy’s sound asleep again… just a little longer….
Blink… bliiink…….
The peaceful breathing of a deeply sleeping man and woman filled the room.
In her sleep, the woman’s leg came to rest over the man’s body.
She wrapped herself around him as if he were a body pillow, draping an arm over his chest and resting her face near his armpit and shoulder.
“Snnnnfff….”
Even unconsciously, Lucy’s face turned blissful.
To lay her leg more securely over him, she pulled herself closer. The woman’s crotch touched the man around the pelvis.
She could feel the man’s body between her legs.
“Hnnngh…♡”
The woman gently rubbed herself against him, still asleep.
In the woman’s dream, the man she loved appeared. He began doing all the things she desired.
“Snnnnfff…♡”
The woman drew in a deep breath, inhaling the man’s scent.
Her hips began to twitch in circles.
The night grew deeper.
.
.
.
Sunlight.
Sunlight touching my eyelids.
A hand gently stroking my head.
A sweet scent.
I blinked.
Right in front of my eyes, instead of white sheets, was a large-breasted beauty with silver-blue hair.
“You’re awake, boy?”
“…Lucy?”
I was about to ask why she was here, then realized what had happened last night.
I’d laid her down and fallen asleep just like that.
And Lucy had woken up before me, stroking my hair until I woke.
“Oh. I’m sor—”
Lucy pressed one finger firmly against my forehead as I hurried to sit up.
“It’s all right. If anything, I want to thank you.”
“Still—”
“Boy.”
Lucy firmly pushed me back down.
“Would you let me take care of you all day today? We couldn’t spend time together yesterday, either… Won’t you spend this weekend with me?”
“…If that’s what you want, Lucy?”
“Yes, I want that.”
Lucy got up.
“I’m going to make breakfast, so keep resting here. Okay?”
I didn’t mind that.
“But, Lucy.”
“Hm?”
“Doesn’t it smell kind of unfamiliar…?”
“N-no!? I don’t know what you mean!?”
“Is that so? I feel like there was a similar smell at Elettra’s place last night….”
“…I thought I’d washed everything.”
“Hm? What?”
“N-nothing!”
Lucy left.
For some reason, she seemed to be swaying her hips and wiggling her butt more than usual, but that was probably my imagination.
‘Was the smell my imagination, too?’
My thoughts turned to Elettra.
‘But what should I do from now on?’
Elettra and I were in that not-quite-dating stage now. Did that mean I should keep my distance from my other female friends?
‘Hmm… I don’t think it matters.’
Elettra didn’t seem to have a bad relationship with my female friends.
I recalled a recent conversation between Elettra and Maron.
—Lady Maron, doesn’t it get hot when you cling to him so much?
—I’m fine.
—You might be fine, but doesn’t Young Master Gilliam get hot?
—Come on, Liam likes it even more this way. Right, Liam?
—Really? If you’re both happy, I’m happy too.
—Ahaha, I’m happy as long as Your Highness and Liam are happy, too.
—Haha.
—Ahahaha.
‘They got along.’
And recently, I recalled a conversation between Elettra and Lucy, too.
—Lady Lucy, you seem to have a lot of free time these days, making Young Master Gilliam dinner every evening.
—I’m making time for someone precious to me.
—Is that so? And what am I supposed to do, now that I’m getting to eat the dinner you made for that precious person?
—I have no intention of being hostile toward Your Highness.
—Hmm….
‘Right, she got along with Lucy, too.’
I suddenly felt proud.
Maybe the three of them had become friends because of me?
I could just keep treating them the way I had been. I felt at ease.
‘Right. Today I’ll relax while Lucy takes care of me.’
But.
All of Gilliam’s plans were about to go awry.
The plan to relax.
And the plan to spend time with Lucy.
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“Hmm-hmm~♬ Hm-hmm~♪”
Lucy, wearing nothing but an apron over her pajamas, hummed as she prepared breakfast.
‘He must have worked up a sweat last night, huh?’
The thought that he’d spent the night with Elettra instead of her made her jealous.
But.
‘I decided to become his concubine.’
Lucy’s strategy.
Freely yielding the position of principal wife, while securing the position of Concubine No. 1 instead.
And what should Concubine No. 1 do the day after her husband visits his principal wife?
‘Feed him well.’
A concubine’s virtue lay in being docile and obedient, and not causing conflict.
Sizzle… The meat cooked in the pan.
Breakfast was juicy, high-quality sausages, fried eggs, and hot rice. For some reason, Gilliam seemed to like rice more than wheat bread.
‘Will he finally take me into his arms tonight?’
The other women seemed to think they were receiving his favors every night… but that was a misunderstanding.
He was surely spending his nights with other women, not her.
But that was all right.
For Gilliam’s sake, she could accept even that.
Suddenly, an unfamiliar color passed outside the window.
“?”
A pink-haired woman she’d never seen before was wandering around, checking the nameplates in front of each house.
‘Is she looking for someone’s house?’
Of course, that woman was Saintess Iris.
Iris stopped at the Everchess home, checked the nameplate, and stepped into the yard as if she’d found her destination.
‘Aha.’
Lucy had never met Iris before.
But she could figure it out well enough.
‘The woman my husband must have picked up recently.’
Lucy was rather proud of her own beauty, but the other woman was no less beautiful.
‘Phew… Good thing I secured the No. 1 concubine position in advance.’
Lucy praised her own wise judgment again today. Was that woman going to join the fight for the principal-wife position, where Elettra and Maron were competing?
‘It would be wise to claim the No. 2 concubine position even now.’
Feeling pleased with herself, Lucy opened the door before the pink-haired woman could knock.
“Ah….”
Iris stood awkwardly with one hand raised.
And Lucy, wearing nothing but an apron over her pajamas, faced her.
“Welcome. If you’re looking for Gilliam, he’s still resting in bed.”
It was an unmistakable show of force from Concubine No. 1.
Iris gulped.
‘What on earth is this man’s deal…?’
The prickling flames of jealousy began to kindle in Iris’s heart, too.
‘He’s supposed to be the man who becomes my master…!!’
Lucy gave the newcomer, who was glaring sharply, a relaxed smile.