“…”
“Would you like to wash up first?”
“…”
“Sophia?”
“…”
In the end… this is how it turned out.
I ended up sharing a room with Kyle.
I resisted until the princess handed over the key to the room.
Please, just for today, let me sleep alone, I tried my best to keep this situation from happening.
But I failed.
After dinner, I entered the room with Kyle.
“Sophia?”
Isn’t it a bit too soon to be sharing a room?
Am I being too conservative?
No, that can’t be right.
Logically, it is indeed too soon.
“Sophia.”
“Uh, uh!?”
While I was deep in thought in the center of the room, Kyle suddenly stood right in front of me.
“What?”
Why was he calling me out of the blue?
I wasn’t really paying attention because I was thinking of other things.
“Why did you call?”
“Are you going to wash up first?”
“Oh.”
“Well, if you want, we can wash together…”
“Are you insane!?”
Kyle said something strange again, and I instinctively shouted loudly.
And immediately regretted it.
“…”
“No, um… I’m not really mad…”
“So what now?”
“I can just wash alone… right?”
There were only Kyle and me in the room.
If I upset Kyle and he got any bad ideas…
What if he suddenly pounced on me…
I wouldn’t be able to do anything.
If Kyle’s strong body pinned me down, all I could do was squirm helplessly.
“So… let’s not get angry, okay?”
“Got it.”
“Thank goodness.”
Kyle’s expression seemed to improve for the moment.
“Then… I’ll wash up first…?”
“Yeah, go ahead.”
“…”
So I packed my pajamas and headed to the bathroom.
Worried that Kyle might suddenly do something strange, I locked the door.
“Huuh…”
Even though Kyle wouldn’t really attack me…
I couldn’t help but feel anxious.
Really.
-Shhhhhhh
I started washing under the shower’s stream.
Cooling my head with cold water.
“What should I do…”
Having to share a room on the way to the capital…
It felt very dangerous.
What if Kyle suddenly couldn’t hold back his sexual desire and attacked me…
“Ugh…”
What a creepy feeling.
Is it fear?
My body trembled.
Being pounced on by a man was a terrifying thought, even just imagining it.
“Could it be…?”
Yeah, it couldn’t possibly happen, right?
I’d never raised Kyle to be that kind of bad person.
Yeah, let’s trust Kyle.
There’s nothing else I can do anyway…
“Oh, you’re out?”
“Gah!?”
As soon as I opened the door after washing, I was startled to see Kyle.
He came out with a voice so feminine.
“Wh-why are you undressed…?”
“Oh.”
Kyle was completely shirtless.
Fortunately, he was still wearing pants… but still, I couldn’t help but be shocked.
“Huh, um, could it be that… those kinds of…”
Was he planning to pounce on me after I came out smelling nice from washing…
“The room is a bit warm. You’re all done washing, right? Now it’s my turn.”
“… Okay.”
Kyle then entered the bathroom.
“Haah…”
Thankfully, nothing like what I imagined happened.
I was really worried that he might attack me.
Maybe that’s why my heart started racing.
“Thank goodness…”
While Kyle was washing up, I dried my hair.
With long hair, it took a while.
“Sophia, could you pass me a towel?”
“Eh?!”
“…?”
“Put on some proper clothes!”
Suddenly, Kyle burst through the door, not wearing anything but his underwear.
Even though it wasn’t tight-fitting…
That…
“Your silhouette is s-so… visible…”
I couldn’t find the right words to say.
It wasn’t out of shyness, but more like… it just… was too much.
In any case, that’s how it was…
“Give me the towel first.”
“Would you please get dressed first!?”
I shouted at Kyle with my eyes closed.
No matter what, we shouldn’t be seeing that side of each other yet.
We needed to take things a bit slower…
No, it wasn’t that; that was something only real couples do.
Not yet.
We aren’t actually a couple.
Regardless of Kyle having feelings for me, I…
“I said, give me the towel.”
“Hah!?”
Suddenly, I felt a strange yet firm sensation on my back.
I was wearing clothes, but I felt my outfit getting damp.
“Kyle!?”
“What?”
“Get away quickly…!”
“When you asked for a towel, you could’ve just given it to me!”
“That’s because… you were undressed, so of course!”
“And now you’re complaining?”
“Huh?”
“The one who used to help me change clothes every morning in my room until recently?”
“N-no, that’s just part of being a servant!”
I never meant for it to be anything weird…
“I didn’t realize it back then…”
I didn’t know that Kyle might see me that way; that’s why I never thought of him that way, either.
“Can you at least move back for a second…”
“No.”
“Huh!?”
It hadn’t even been a week since we became temporary lovers, and this was too much…
“Kyle, please don’t tease me… okay? We’re not ready for this yet…”
“Is that so?”
“Y-yeah…”
Kyle was holding my waist with both hands.
Pressing his body against mine while I was sitting on the bed.
It felt like he was about to lift me…
“Just… let’s stop for now. Okay!?”
“Hmm…”
Kyle was deep in thought.
Thanks to that, my heart was racing even faster.
I was sensing a huge crisis in this situation and feeling worried.
So, that’s the deal.
“Alright.”
“Haah… phew…”
Kyle finally let go of me.
The strange sensation I felt at my backside disappeared.
And then, a peculiar image floated in my mind.
The silhouette I saw over my panties combined with the sensation at my backside…
“Ugh…”
But no way, that’s impossible.
I must have seen that silhouette wrong for a moment.
There’s no way it was bigger than my finger… right?
“Haah…”
Anyway, thankfully I avoided the first crisis.
Kyle was in the bathroom drying off his head and body.
By the way…
“My clothes are wet…”
Was it because Kyle held me while he was still wet?
The back and crotch of my pajama bottoms were slightly damp.
“I need to change.”
I quickly switched clothes before Kyle came out.
A little while later, Kyle emerged from the bathroom.
Unlike earlier, he was now perfectly dry except for his hair.
“Kyle…? Can you come here?”
“Yes.”
I carefully called Kyle over.
For a simple reason.
-Fwwooosh~
To use my magical hairdryer to dry his hair.
While it wasn’t as good as at the castle of Erystirole, Kyle needed some maintenance too.
Including skincare, I had to help him out a bit.
“Alright, that should do it.”
“Sophia, I’ve finished washing, so…”
“?”
Kyle suddenly brought something up.
Finished washing, so?
“Why?”
“Let’s get some sleep. The princess said I have to leave early tomorrow morning.”
“Ah… okay.”
I was worried he might say something weird again.
After remembering what Kyle said earlier, I felt even more anxious.
Well, it could happen…
It’s late evening, and here we are, two strong young adults, fresh from washing up in the same room…
“Sophia?”
“Yeah.”
“You look prettier after washing.”
“…”
“Please respond.”
“First, would you please let me go…?”
I was lying on the bed.
Oh yeah, on the same bed, together.
But that wasn’t the issue.
Kyle was hugging me from behind like last time.
Fortunately, he didn’t cast any strange magic like he did before.
“Alright.”
Thankfully, Kyle loosened his grip.
I really couldn’t sleep tightly hugged by him.
Today, with everything that happened with Kyle…
“Hah…”
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing much.”
Really…
It was nothing…
*
“Hehe…”
“Why are you like that from the morning?”
“Because it’s fun?”
“….”
And the next day, including the princess, we all got into the carriage.
The princess kept glancing at me and Kyle before she started to laugh.
Yeah, it must look funny…
“Sophia, what happened yesterday that made you like this?”
“…”
Even the princess could see my expression was awkward.
Honestly, it wasn’t just that; I also hadn’t slept well.
Kyle seemed to fall asleep without a care… but I couldn’t.
With Kyle sleeping next to me, and everything that happened before…
I just couldn’t sleep at all.
So I only managed to rest for about two hours.
“There was nothing unusual…”
“I see?”
“Yeah…”
But I couldn’t tell that to the princess.
She was clearly planning to tease me again.
“Hehe… this is really entertaining. It’s just the picture I wanted.”
“…”
What a little devil…
Is teasing me that amusing for her…?
I didn’t think my reactions during those teases would be entertaining.
“Young Duke?”
“Yes?”
“I had the tailor send a letter through the Mage Tower, and I’ll give you a rough idea of the reply.”
“?”
A tailor?
Ah, my dress…
Come to think of it, we did discuss that.
I had been so flustered about yesterday’s events that I completely forgot about that.
A dress…
“There wasn’t much content; they just asked for the preferred color and design, more or less?”
“Is that enough?”
“Well, they seem to be preparing the fabric, so it’ll probably be made properly once it arrives.”
I still hadn’t adjusted to ordering a dress from a tailor associated with the royal family.
And that dress was for me to wear.
“Sigh…”
“What will you do? Do you have a preferred color, Sophia?”
“Black.”
“?”
By the way, that wasn’t my response.
Out of nowhere, Kyle, who had been quiet, just answered the princess.
“Black would be good, I think.”
“Uhh…”
“Okay? Then I’ll ask them to prepare black fabric.”
Somehow, the color of the dress I was going to wear to the ball had turned into black.
I had initially thought of wearing some decent navy or something…
“But why black, specifically? There are many other nice colors.”
“Haha… there’s really no special reason.”
I wanted to ask why specifically black, but I didn’t voice it.
Kyle seemed pleased with the answer, after all.
“…?”
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