Chapter 74 – Imperial Palace ~ Darkly Permeating 2
The room where Natsuki’s older sister, Fuyuki, was located was in quite a corner compared to the rest of the place.
Unlike Natsuki, who gave up her right to succession and had to distance herself from officials in order not to burden her older sister, if she were the rightful sole successor, she would be in the most luxurious place, but it felt strange that she wasn’t.
“Isn’t it strange? “A person who is in a position that no one else envies lives in hiding?”
“… There are times when it’s for safety reasons, but her sister doesn’t have to live in hiding like that.”
“Huh. Even though it was dangerous, Natsuki was dangerous, and her older sister is the one who mainly gives instructions, right?”
Aiko, who was walking ahead, looked around and motioned for us to hide. As she paused and hid within the dark shadows created by the building, she was passed by a patrol of the imperial guards roaming the interior.
“The number of frequent encounters with patrol teams is increasing. Are you going to continue?”
When Aiko asked her if she was really going to be okay, she looked worried. Sophia whispered in her ear as she gently pushed her breasts against her back.
“Are you considering the possibility that there might be a trap waiting?”
“She was thinking that even if there was a trap, she could just attack it head on. Ain. What do you think?”
When she called out to her child, who had been silent and wary of her surroundings, she seemed to have already thought of her own answer and immediately spoke.
“I think it would be better to meet now.”
“Why?”
“… I don’t think my master can bear to hold her sister in her hands for even one more day.”
Her body was shaken by her demi-human’s dagger-like remark. Then Natsuki raised the corners of her eyes and looked at her Ajin.
“No matter how much Setsuka is a lewd woman who turns anyone into a horny lesbian just by looking at her, there’s no way she suddenly fell in love with her sister the first time she saw her and went out of her way to make her hers. ?”
“Isn’t she similar to her sisters?”
“… “
As expected, Ain. Unlike me, the owner, the pumpkin-like aspect of not letting Natsuki say anything was amazing. If Natsuki pushed me against the wall and slammed her hands against the wall and brought her lips closer, I think she wouldn’t be able to do anything and just let me do it…
“Are you thinking lewd thoughts again? “You can’t fool a succubus.”
When Sophia whispered in my ear while I was in a daze while looking at the two people with a smile, she came to my senses. It would be a big deal if she were caught flirting, but she’s just talking to me without thinking.
“Everyone calm down. First, she goes close to the room and sees what Natsuki’s older sister’s situation is like. If she thinks it’s going to be difficult, she retreats, and if she thinks it’s okay, she storms into the room. Let’s do that. Okay?”
Once the policy was clearly decided, Aiko took the lead, looking around first. The four of them followed closely behind and arrived near Fuyuki’s room in the far corner of the building without being noticed by anyone.
Without making a sound, Aiko held up two fingers, pointing in the direction of her eyes and Fuyuki’s room.
After she saw what we had confirmed, she made an expression to knock the finger away with her other hand, and Natsuki immediately nodded, as if she didn’t have to think much about it.
Aiko then jumped up from her spot, opened her ceiling flap, and climbed inside. She waited quietly, and after a few seconds, she knocked out the two guards guarding the door and tied her hands, feet, and mouth tightly.
While she admired the ninja, Aiko placed the guard that had tied her in the cleaning tool box and locked her in.
“It’s convenient because I have Aiko.”
“…”
Aiko, who looked pitifully as if she didn’t like her owner, Natsuki, or me talking casually, went straight into the ceiling again.
“We will monitor the surrounding area to make sure no one approaches.”
Before Aiko could answer, she closed her cover and hid, and she looked at Natsuki. Her body was still tense, perhaps because she was nervous about meeting her sister for the first time in a long time.
As she gently rubbed Natsuki’s waist with her palm, stimulating the base of her tail, her green eyes turned to me.
“Relax. Surprisingly, everything was a misunderstanding and could have been easily resolved, right?”
“That would be nice, but… “
Instead of Natsuki, who hesitated, I opened the door first and went inside, but there were no hidden people or traps in sight.
Instead, I could hear the sound of someone sleeping soundly breathing beyond the curtain that had been lowered to prevent anyone from peeking inside.
After telling Sophia to take care of the hesitant Natsuki, she and Ain went behind the curtain. While Ain was looking around, she walked closer to the bed.
The owner of this room, who appeared to be Fuyuki, had the same vivid golden hair as Natsuki and was slightly smaller in stature. Her arms and legs are so thin that I think I could defeat her with just my strength. It was something I wanted to see.
I brought a small chair next to the bed, sat down, and looked at it more calmly. Her long eyelashes, soft lips, and clearly swollen breasts that rose and fell with each breath made her presence known, so anyone could tell that she was an adult.
“The room is safe. “Master.”
“Huh. “Can you let Natsuki and Sofia in too?”
While Ain walked briefly through the screen and talked to the two people waiting outside. Fuyuki started to wake up from her sleep because of my voice, and after a short moan, her covered eyelids opened.
Fuyuki, who had the same eye color as if we were sisters, looked around with half-awake eyes and made eye contact with me.
“… “Who?”
“Setsuka.”
When he heard my name, he tilted his head and blinked. Because of her small body, I felt like I was looking at a cute doll. While I was looking at him with caution so that I could subdue him if he panicked and went wild, Fuyuki spoke with small lips.
“… Fairy?”
“I’m glad you see her that way, but she’s not a fairy.”
“But, other than my parents, no one spoke in such a frivolous manner.”
“Chaff, frivolous…” “
Seeing that speaking informally was considered frivolous, it felt like she never wandered around the imperial palace other than her own residence, unlike Natsuki, who was exposed to many people.
“Most people would speak politely to Fuyuki using honorifics, but can I speak a little frivolously?”
“Why?”
“Because you’re going to marry Natsuki?”
“… ?”
Fuyuki blinked as if he had heard something incomprehensible, but he made no reply. The thought of him polluting her, like a flower in a greenhouse, with her lack of experience in the world, with her own color made her feel immoral and the corners of her mouth twitched.
“Marry Natsuki? But, woman… Right?”
“What’s wrong with that? “Women can marry each other.”
“To? Yes? When was that law passed… ?”
“We will pass in the future.”
It was fun to tease Fuyuki for being confused, but while we were happily talking, it was a little noisy outside. When I looked in the direction of the screen with Fuyuki, I saw Ain and Sophia grabbing Natsuki from both sides and forcibly dragging her in.
“Oh, I’m not going in! “I’m not going in!”
“This is the master’s order.”
“They say my love is calling. Still, you won’t go?”
“I’m not mentally prepared yet… !”
Sofia was smiling brightly like her friend playing a naughty prank, Ain was calmly doing her job, and Natsuki, who didn’t know what to do as she was being dragged, entered her room. When the eyes of Natsuki, who had been struggling for a while, and Fuyuki, who was lying on her bed, met, the world became quiet as if there had been no sound.
“… Uh, uh-“
“Hey! Go away!”
Natsuki reacted violently by throwing her pillow at Natsuki, who tried to muster up the courage to speak out first. Ain caught the thrown items and put them down calmly on the floor, so there was nothing to throw, and Fuyuki, who couldn’t hit them the way she wanted, screamed and hid behind my back.
“You’ve finally come to kill me! Sue, I will not die gently!”
No, wasn’t it Fuyuki who tried to kill him? When I looked at Natsuki with her thoughts, she made a cold expression that I had never seen before, shook off Sofia and Ain, and came towards me, grabbing Fuyuki who was hiding behind her.
Hehe… !”
“Sister. “Let me touch your hair for a moment.”
The light seen when healing the patient emanated from Natsuki’s hand and wrapped around Fuyuki’s head. Natsuki, who was biting her lip and looking quite distressed, only stopped using her magic after almost taking a bath in cold sweat.
Looking behind her, Fuyuki, who had been scared to see Natsuki, was fast asleep again. He gestured for an explanation of what was going on, and Natsuki responded by clenching his fists.
“Someone put a curse on her sister and made her obsessive about being murdered by me.”
“Therefore. “You’re saying this wasn’t something you did with your own thoughts?”
“She would just hide here and nod her head. In fact, the people who did her work were the same bureaucrats who always looked down on me.”
Natsuki added that she was confident, even though she had no physical evidence, and quietly looked at the sleeping face of her older sister whom she had never seen before.
