Chapter 154 – Semifinals (6)
Night.
After the semi-finals, only strange warmth lingers in the empty seat of Leticia and Daisy, who gave up the night to Iris’ news that she had fallen in the semi-finals.
Scarlett was sitting on the bed with Iris.
Iris pursed her lips. She seemed to be a little flustered, and she felt a flurry of movement. Scarlett was embarrassed. Why does he want to be like this?
“Iris.”
“Why?”
“… Look this way.”
“Joy.”
Scarlett’s soothing voice almost trips her, but she turns her head away from her gaze.
Iris was also nervous inside. She succumbed to the enticement of the goddess, and she did it once, but was afraid of her Scarlett’s reaction.
“So what she’s doing is that you’re setting her mood first so that Scarlett doesn’t argue?”
‘Oh, it can’t be helped.’
Iris was offended by her goddess’ scorn. She fell for who she was. Shouldn’t she at least have the Goddess take her own side?
Even if she grumbles inwardly like that.
“… It’s no big deal.”
Ashamed of herself, she pursed her lips and turned her head to meet her scarlett and her eyes.
“Is it a big deal or what?”
Scarlett also wondered if it was because she was resentful that she had lost to Anna, who was of a lower level than herself. The fact that she was careless and lost was because she lost. In fact, she didn’t understand as Scarlett. No matter how careless she was, there was no way Iris would ever lose to Anna.
Or not.
Did she lose on purpose?
“… Sniff.”
Iris swallowed in vain. Scarlett’s red eyes scared me for nothing. She wiggled her fingers, gently crumpling the hem of her skirt.
“… That’s right. What I lost.”
“I see.”
Iris mustered up the courage to reveal the truth. Scarlett nodded her head calmly. She didn’t close it, and her fingers wiggled again as she gazed at her quivering iris.
“Are you okay.”
Her extended fingers wrapped around the back of her Iris’s hand, digging into the gap between her fingers and pinching them weakly.
Her cool sensation somehow reassured Iris. So she relaxed, and she opened her mouth little by little.
“… I thought my brother wouldn’t like it when I lost on purpose.”
“Huh.”
“Even if he doesn’t like it, I thought it was something that would help him.”
“Okay.”
“… Was I too presumptuous?”
Scarlett shook her head slowly. The moment her Iris face was about to brighten, her Scarlett’s mouth opened.
“You can’t do that next time.”
“… Huh.”
Iris nodded her head with her sullen face, and opened her arms with her sneer. She meant to hug. Scarlett held her in her arms without saying a word. Rubbish… , She was in the arms of the man she loved, and Iris, who was rubbing her body, looked up at him.
“Brother.”
“Huh.”
“I’m angry?”
“Because it is not. What are you so worried about?”
“Huh…”
At the sight of Iris blurting her tongue, Scarlett finally realized that she was hiding something from her.
“What do you have?”
“… What, what?”
“Are you asking me if I’m angry right now, not because I wanted to do something if I was really angry, but for some other reason?”
Of course, she wasn’t worried at all.
However, the times the two of them had communicated so far made Iris feel that Scarlett was not angry.
Similarly, Scarlett also noticed that Iris was hiding something inside her.
“You know.”
Eventually, Iris, who had been harassed, opened her mouth. Hesitantly… Her slurred expression wasn’t that she was stabbed, but rather that she was ashamed of something.
“… Oh, brother.”
“Huh.”
With her bashful face, her quivering fingers start wiggling again. ‘Brother’, she even calls her by a title she doesn’t often call these days.
“… Is there something I prepared for you?”
Scarlett nodded her head and waited for Iris to continue her words. Finally, she closed her eyes tightly and said,
“Could you please close your eyes… ?”
“Okay.”
Scarlett obediently closed her eyes. At first, I wondered why he was like this, but I was a little excited to hear that he had something prepared.
Fury? She was never angry in the first place. She knew that Iris had deliberately lost to her Anna, even if she didn’t have to confess.
I’d be lying if I said she wasn’t offended.
More than that, I guessed Iris’ feelings about sending her lover a woman who would become her love interest.
Just for Scarlett.
How much it hurt
He closed her eyes and waited.
*
Scarlett thought that Iris must have suffered a lot in her heart.
‘… It’s all good.’
“I’ll close my eyes for a moment.”
Actually, Iris didn’t mind.
She became nonchalant Right before she lost to Anna, she wasn’t okay to be honest. She was a righteous dragon and a benevolent princess, and she just hated it.
There are already a lot of people besides me, should I let it increase here again? Her heart ached at that thought.
Still, she eventually felt that this was the right thing to do. She’s got ahead of herself now because of this and that, but she knows Iris. That Anna would eventually reach a level she could not look down on.
That someday we will be able to look at each other’s world from equal heights.
And that that day is sooner than expected. Even if the goddess didn’t bother telling her, Iris knew.
Blessed talent.
The talent that had been passed down from generation to generation in the imperial family was manifested only in one person, Iris. In addition, she was even chosen as a goddess.
Comparable to that, the talent of the sword shines exceptionally in the bloodline of swordsmen passed down from generation to generation.
Goddess’ blessing, choice, protection. Compared to those things, it doesn’t fade at all… Iris suddenly remembered the figure of Anna growing up in an instant while fighting herself.
‘He’s far superior to me in terms of his sword-handling talent.’
Iris had to admit, though she hated to admit, that Anna was by Scarlett’s side, and that she was a woman who lacked nothing at all.
Even if not as much as Luna and Leticia, who are bound by fate with Scarlett, and Iris herself.
Even if not better than Daisy or Cristina, who had already served him for a long time.
‘N, if you come late, how about a little bit? I got bullied… Because it could be.’
No.
If that’s the case, Iris was the slowest, except for Anna.
In fact, she could have argued with Luna about the order in which she and Luna were related, but Iris couldn’t believe that she was ahead of Luna at all.
That’s when she first saw Luna, she thought of an airflow between the two of them.
Besides, we’ve known each other for a long time.
Iris didn’t even think about the point where Luna’s first experience wasn’t so different from her own…
That’s why Iris is the last.
That’s why it’s okay to be scolded for coming late, it’s just self-hypnosis to soothe the burning inside.
If she had to make an excuse, she was bound by fate with Scarlett, whom the world had foretold.
Thinking that way made me feel more at ease.
‘Apart from that…’
She thought that no matter how hard she tried to stop it, it would be difficult to block Anna’s mind.
It would be inconvenient to just push Scarlett away.
Apparently, she seemed willing to accept it to some extent.
‘Anyway, a flirt.’
Even though Iris grumbled, she chose to act for the man she loved.
So she just committed. Even if she wasn’t herself, she was something that any one of Scarlett’s women would step up and do that she would someday.
After she committed, her mind was at ease.
Besides, Scarlett wasn’t angry either. She could say that for Iris, she was in the best situation if she had to put it into words.
Goddess closed her eyes.
From now on, it will be the time between lovers.
Iris took out her clothes that she had prepared in her room.
‘… Eh, how do I wear something like this?’
Iris let out her screams inwardly. The sensation of the smooth black cloth in her hand sent chills down her spine. Even if you look closely, the area that covers your flesh is so small that you can’t tell if it’s underwear or clothes.
‘… Hey Goddess! It’s a goddess!’
“… Why are you calling?”
‘Why do you wake up as soon as I call you! Did she really mean that only her eyes were closed when she closed her eyes?!’
“When you woke up…」
Confused, Iris was reckless.
In fact, she said, ‘Don’t close your eyes…’ The way she said, no matter who heard it, she would put her own consciousness to sleep.
As soon as such a goddess called, she responded quickly, so it was only natural that Iris would be angry at her shame.
‘Could it be that she pretended to be sleeping all the time and was watching and listening… ?’
“… Rather, tell her why she called her.”
‘Goddess?!’
Anyway.
There was some bickering, but at her goddess’ advice that her Scarlett would get bored if she delayed further, Iris took off her clothes and arranged them neatly on her floor with tears in her eyes.
Squeak, squeak…
The sound of clothes rubbing against your skin. Scarlett’s expression shook slightly at the sound that was secret yet stimulated a person’s imagination.
“Oh. Scarlett responded.”
‘I’d like you to be quiet…’
Goddess shut her mouth Iris, with her fresh red face, lifted the clothes she had brought with her.
“Eww.”
Although she made a sound of pain. She already couldn’t even bite what she had decided to do. Besides, even just looking at it, I can feel that Scarlett is looking forward to it…
… Crab, besides.
‘… Wearing something like this, if my brother likes it.’
Gulp.
The flesh-colored feast that passed through her mind made her stomach throb.
…
After a few minutes have passed. Iris opened her mouth softly.
“It’s all over. You can open your eyes Oppa…”
Scarlett opened her eyes.
What he saw before his eyes was a rabbit.
“… How is it?”
It was a bunny girl.
