## Chapter 187 – 187. The Border
#187. The Border
What could a woman be thinking, visiting a man’s room late at night like this?
Especially dressed in what was practically a nightgown, with only a thin cardigan over it?
‘…Is this the moment?’
The thought briefly crossed my mind as I looked at Amelia sitting on the sofa, but I quickly shook my head.
In any case, we’d be arriving in Pendria, the capital of the Principality of Orsia, in just four days.
After that, all Amelia had to do was rally the nobles who supported the Grand Ducal family and drive out the rebels.
There was no reason for her to offer herself as a sacrifice, as she had before.
“Could you tell me what brings you here?”
“…”
I called out to Amelia, who was sitting on the opposite sofa, but she wouldn’t even meet my eyes, only moving her lips repeatedly.
*Snap!* I flicked my finger hard.
Only then did Amelia startle and lift her head.
“You’ll hurt your lips if you keep doing that.”
“Ah…”
Her hunched shoulders and bright red ears kept catching my eye.
And the way she kept glancing at me made me nervous too.
What was she trying to say that was taking so long?
“…There’s that method I mentioned during the day. Actually, it’s something that requires Hyunwoo’s help.”
“My help?”
Amelia nodded with difficulty.
“I’m sorry, but I’m not familiar with magic tools or artifacts, so I don’t think I can be of much help. Maybe Iris could…”
“N-no!”
Amelia jumped up before I could finish. She looked visibly nervous.
Her eyes, as she looked at me, were shaking like leaves in the wind.
“It’s something only Hyunwoo can do!”
“…?”
Something only I could do?
Frankly, the only thing I was better at than Iris was firepower. But she probably wasn’t planning on smashing the artifact.
“What can I do to help?”
I had no idea what she wanted me to do.
“…A kiss.”
“Pardon?”
Her voice was too small to hear properly.
“A k-kiss!!”
“…?”
For a moment, my mind went into overdrive.
What did I just hear?
“…I thought I heard ‘kiss,’ but did I hear correctly?”
Amelia slowly nodded in response to my question for confirmation.
Sweat dripped from the end of her head, which was bowed so low that her knees and forehead almost touched.
“I’m sorry, but I already have two wives…”
“N-no, it’s not like that!”
Amelia waved her hands vigorously and shouted.
The way she emphasized that she didn’t want me to misunderstand made me feel like I’d been rejected before I even confessed.
“It’s just to temporarily make Hyunwoo’s magic wavelength similar to mine, to deceive Arca.”
“…That’s possible with a kiss?”
That was news to me.
In the first place, magic wavelengths are different for each individual. It’s like a fingerprint for a magician.
It didn’t make sense that you could change your magic wavelength with just a kiss, but deceiving an artifact was possible?
Above all, if it was a dependent artifact, it would have a self. There’s no way it would be fooled just by changing the magic wavelength.
“It’s an ability passed down only to a very small number of direct descendants of the blood of Orsia. It can overwrite the magic wavelength of the person who ingests their bodily fluids with their own.”
“Overwrite the magic wavelength… with bodily fluids?”
It was an ability I’d never heard of before, but if it was a hereditary ability, I had heard of it on Earth.
However, the number was too small, and the ability weakened as the blood thinned, so it was now a rare case that could only be found in Europe.
“Is there any advantage to changing the magic wavelength?”
As I said before, the magic wavelength is like a magician’s fingerprint.
It would be good for committing crimes, but other than that, it didn’t seem to have any merit.
“I’ve heard that people with similar magic wavelengths form a sense of closeness. It may not seem like much, but my father said that it was thanks to this ability that our family, which was only a minor baronial family, gained the status of Grand Ducal family and eventually became independent.”
If it formed a sense of closeness, it was definitely not a bad ability for a leader leading a country or family.
But it seemed like it wasn’t an absolute ability either.
The fact that the nobles revolted as soon as the king who had sworn allegiance fell showed the loophole in the ability.
“But if it’s an ability that’s activated with bodily fluids, you don’t necessarily have to kiss, do you?”
Blood is also a bodily fluid.
“That’s… I’m not strong enough yet, so blood isn’t enough like my father… And contact between mucous membranes is also a condition that can maximize the effect of the ability…”
Amelia’s voice gradually became as small as an ant’s. Wiggling her fingers whenever she was nervous seemed to be a habit.
After thinking for a while, I finally moved to sit next to her.
Amelia flinched as I approached.
“Are you sure you’re okay with kissing someone like me, Princess?”
Chastity is important to noble young ladies in this world.
If the other person finds out that they’re not a virgin on the first night, it can be grounds for breaking off the engagement.
“…A kiss is okay. Above all, Hyunwoo saved me.”
Her voice no longer trembled, nor did she stutter. I held her hand as if to cover it.
“Ugh…!”
It was soft and warm.
I blatantly touched her small, slender fingers and watched Amelia’s reaction.
Her face turned as red as a persimmon, but she didn’t pull her hand away.
“Excuse me.”
I carefully stroked Amelia’s cheek and grabbed her chin.
I looked closely at her face from the close distance.
Her slightly closed lips had a subtle glow like soft flower petals, and her blue-gray hair was like silk.
Above all, her eyes, which were busy avoiding me, were still as deep and beautiful as the sea.
Amelia closed her eyes tightly.
Soon, our lips met.
“Hngh…?!”
Amelia’s body stiffened as if she was tense. I gently placed my hand on her waist.
“Can you try to relax your body slowly?”
We weren’t going to have sex, but it was going to be difficult to keep doing this while kissing.
Even if Amelia was just an ordinary person on the verge of becoming a magician, she was likely to suffer from muscle pain if she made a mistake.
I gently stroked her waist and laid Amelia down on the sofa.
With my other hand, I caressed her cheek and continued kissing her. Although it was just on her lips, it was still pretty good.
But I couldn’t just keep doing this forever.
“Kyaa?!”
Amelia screamed as I tickled her waist. Taking advantage of the gap between her parted lips, I inserted my tongue.
“Hup?!”
Amelia seemed surprised by the sensation of my tongue touching hers without warning.
I gently loosened her tongue, which was as stiff as her body, and continued kissing her more passionately.
Amelia, who had no experience in this kind of thing, only responded clumsily to my movements with her eyes tightly closed.
“Smooch, smooch… Haa, hup…”
As we shared saliva and body temperature and continued kissing as gently as possible, Amelia unconsciously hugged me as if she was slowly relaxing.
I had to sing the national anthem in my head at the sight of her taking my saliva as if a young bird was looking for food.
‘I’m going crazy…’
I wanted to grab her big breasts and take her virginity right away.
The fact that she chose such an absurd method as kissing was already proof that Amelia had some feelings for me.
But I couldn’t break my contract with Sylvia at this timing.
I could somehow gloss over the kiss, but sex was an undeniable breach of contract.
‘…Maybe just her breasts are okay.’
In the end, unable to resist, I carefully placed my hand on Amelia’s breasts.
“Heup?!”
Amelia flinched as if surprised by the sudden touch. But she didn’t refuse.
Sensing that it was permission, I immediately put my hand inside her dress and fondled her breasts.
The sensation of her soft breasts was unbelievably stimulating.
I continued to kiss her while touching her breasts for a long time.
“Chup, chup… Puhah…!”
Amelia took a deep breath as soon as our lips parted, as if she had forgotten how to breathe through her nose.
Her eyes, which I inadvertently looked at, were hazily unfocused. The way she was caressing her lips made it seem like she was reviewing what had just happened.
Amelia didn’t react even when I brushed her sweaty bangs aside.
But when I tried to get up.
*Thwack!*
She grabbed my clothes urgently and stopped me.
Amelia, who had been moving her lips several times while looking at me with pleading eyes, opened her mouth with difficulty.
“I-it’s not enough yet…”
In the end, I had to memorize not only the national anthem but also the irreverent things I knew until the kiss was over.
***
“W-well, then I’ll excuse myself!”
As soon as the kiss was over, Amelia hurriedly straightened her clothes and ran straight out the door.
I blankly watched her running away and lay down on the sofa.
It felt like a storm had passed.
“Haa… I almost couldn’t hold back.”
It was only after taking a few deep breaths and calming myself down that I could calm my head.
I almost pounced on Amelia as it was.
She was like a succubus.
I learned after getting the dating app, but a beautiful woman’s scent is no different from a drug to a man.
‘…A drug?’
I jumped up.
Only then did I remember that my saliva that Amelia had ingested contained not only drugs but also pheromones.
“I completely forgot…”
Of course, it wouldn’t cause any problems with her body, but her condition wouldn’t be good because of the drug.
‘…This is a disaster.’
I felt sorry for Amelia, but there was nothing I could do if I went.
If Sylvia found out that I had violated the contract, I would have to live as her mortal enemy for the rest of my life.
The only good thing was that the effects of the drug weren’t that long. And since it was saliva, not semen, it would only last about two hours at most.
For now, I could only hope that Amelia would hold out.
Knock, knock.
But I couldn’t help but stiffen at the sound of knocking that I heard right away.
I wondered if Amelia, unable to hold back, had come back, but thankfully that wasn’t the case.
“Iris?”
The presence beyond the door was too familiar to not know.
*Creak,* Iris peeked her head through the slightly opened door.
“I’ve been caught. I was going to surprise you.”
“Should I have pretended not to know?”
Iris was wearing a thin slip dress like Amelia. She was so beautiful that I was momentarily breathless.
Satisfied with my reaction, Iris immediately hugged me. The way she buried her face in my neck and rubbed her cheek against my face was like a cat headbutting.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m covering it up.”
“?”
“It looks like you had a good time.”
Iris smiled meaningfully.
“Did you know?”
“Yes, Amelia even consulted me.”
“Consulted? What kind of consultation?”
“She had to kiss Hyunwoo because of her ability, and she asked me if it was okay.”
I was a little surprised by that.
Honestly, I thought Iris had encouraged her, but Amelia had kissed me voluntarily.
I didn’t know she was that kind of person.
‘Should I say she’s bold…?’
Just as I was about to let out a hollow laugh, I suddenly felt a strange sensation between my legs.
When I glanced down, Iris was fondling my dick over my clothes.
“We have to leave tomorrow morning, can you handle it?”
“Hyunwoo will hold me, right?”
Unlike the lewd touch that stroked my dick, the smile that spread across Iris’s lips was so innocent.
When I thought that I had tainted the pure queen, my lower body naturally stiffened.
“You don’t have to call me ‘nim’.”
She used to call me “-ssi,” but at some point, Iris started adding “nim” whenever she called me.
I think it was right after we got out of the underground community.
“Then should I call you ‘husband’? Or ‘honey’?”
The moment she put the title “honey” on her lips, Iris’s smile was full of mischief.
“…Did you know?”
“Hehe, I wonder?”
Iris, who was pretending not to know, slowly lowered the straps of her dress. The moment I saw her full maternal love, I no longer had any questions.
I just realized one fact that Sylvia would be horrified to know.
“Aah♡”
That’s how I spent the night with Iris.
