Chapter 11
“I-I want to disappear...”
“Huh?” Carla-san’s eyes widened.
Ah, crap.
Apparently, I’d said that out loud.
“Ah, no, it’s nothing,” I tried to play it off, but Carla-san’s expression remained frozen.
“Y-you... want to disappear...?”
Carla-san asked timidly.
“................”
This is becoming a hassle, I thought.
It was obvious Carla-san was suspicious of me.
Can’t blame her.
That hopeless young master was acting nothing like usual.
On top of that, in an unprecedented turn of events, Kuzutos-sama hadn’t shown off his signature move, ‘Aah,’ even once.
Still, this was bad.
I needed to turn things around.
...I don’t want to.
I really don’t want to, but I have no choice.
And so, I—
“I-I seeee!”
I put on an idiot-sounding voice from the bottom of my gut.
...I used the forbidden tactic.
No, I went and used it.
To keep her from distrusting me, I imitated Kuzutos’s way of speaking and acted as idiotic as possible.
This should at least make me seem a little less strange.
“Beyond-Domain Magic, huh? I-I guess I really am a genius!”
But this plan had one serious flaw.
Namely, it made my HP plummet.
“................”
“Guffuffuffuffufff!”
I laughed like an idiot in front of the silent beauty.
...Ugh.
I-I want to die.
Why did I have to laugh in such a lame way?
At the same time, though, I was sure that if I went this far, I could make it work somehow.
I leered at Carla-san, letting my gaze crawl over her even more lasciviously.
“...................That’s okay.”
“Huh??”
Carla-san, still looking down, approached me while muttering.
Which was it? I watched her, trying to gauge her reaction.
Had I made her angry????
Or had she just gotten fed up with me??
And then.
Carla-san, who’d been looking down, lifted her face—
But this time, I was the one who—
“Huh?”
“It’s okay.”
Carla-san’s eyes were brimming with tears.
She then grabbed me and hugged me tight.
“It’s okay. You don’t have to pretend to be someone you’re not...”
“Huh?”
Carla-san was tall, so her chest ended up right around young Kuzutos’s face.
In other words, my face was buried in her soft breasts.
Sure, it felt incredibly good.
Incredibly good.
If I were young Kuzutos, I might’ve been so overwhelmed with joy that I’d have cried.
But—
“No, no, no, no...”
“It’s okay... You were suffering too, weren’t you? I’m sorry I didn’t realize...”
“Uh...”
I didn’t understand what was going on.
Before I knew it, I was being hugged by Carla-san, who was crying with her eyes red for some reason.
“P-please stop, Instructor...!”
I struggled to pull away, but she wouldn’t budge an inch.
Huh, is she way too strong???
Or rather, shouldn’t this be the other way around? I thought.
Usually Kuzutos was the one who sexually harassed people in a sleazy way...
This is weird.
Why had Kuzutos ended up on the receiving end of sexual harassment?
Could there have been some foreshadowing that Carla-san liked younger men, and I just hadn’t known about it???
I was pretty sure she was supposed to be the type who didn’t like physical contact with others and only opened her heart to the protagonist for the first time...
And as Carla-san and I squirmed and pushed against each other, I heard a cheerful voice.
“Ultos-sama~ How did the appraisal go? I’ve brought some tea for you both—”
The door swung open with a clatter.
It was Liera.
Oh, crap.
I thought this pose looked really bad.
Lately, for some reason, this maid’s loyalty had been shooting through the roof.
Even without me asking, she’d say things like, “Would you like me to feed you ‘Aah’?”
Or ask, “Ultos-sama... do you like bikini armor?”
What would Liera think if she saw this scene?
“I-I-I...”
“Liera...! This isn’t what it looks like!!”
And, just as I’d expected, Liera—
“N-no, noooooooo!!! Ultos-samaaaaaaa!!!!!”
screamed.
...Yeah.
This was complete chaos, no matter how you looked at it.
But there was nothing I could do,
—I was completely frozen, powerless before the overwhelming violence known as ‘softness.’