Senya makes her appearance with a presence not overbearing but not too shallow. Her smile is soothing and her eyes are calm like a clear spring even though they are close. She must be one of those people…the one with always close eyes but can see perfectly…
One could say that she might just be blind but no, apparently, that is not the case. Her gaze which one would immediately feel is a dead giveaway. The thing that bothers me the most is the apparent fact that Senya is bounded in a wheelchair. There must be something that happened in the past…
Everyone could just stare at her ephemeral figure which seems to exceed any normal woman in this world…of course, with the exception of my mother who is a literal goddess…
“It seems that this is not the appropriate place for us to talk or the time. Since I’ve already expected your arrival, I’ve already made preparations in advance.”
Words of pure kindness whittle our remaining hostility. Even the white tiger, Eternity Lightning Fang loosen his guard and becomes completely passive in the presence of Senya.
With that said, Senya begins rolling her wheelchair again when…
CLACK
CLACK
“Eh…? There’s a stone beneath?
CLACK
CLACK
“Eh? Eh? It won’t come off.
CLACK
“A stone appeared from the back too? Eh?”
CLACK
“…Um…could I receive some assistance…please?”
As her wheelchair got stuck between two stones, she cried for help towards us. Pathetic as it may look for a first impression, it’s actually a relief to know that she is not that overly perfect type. Upon her plea, the white tiger, or should I call Fang because his name is too long, immediately rushes to her side.
“Senya, forget that junk and just ride on me.”
“Ah, the will be unnecessary. I’ll just use a little magic to do the trick.”
“Goddamnit Senya! You should listen to what we say! Stop using magic for this kind of petty thing!”
“It’s fine. The others can maintain the barrier by themselves anyway.”
“But your health…!”
“I’m fine. Compare to Astlan, this amounts to nothing. Who would die in using a droplet of magic anyway?”
“Just ask them…”
Fang glances over us followed by Senya. I wonder how such trifling matter like that immediately becomes this big. Since we don’t have any choice and I am not even occupied, I head towards where Senya is.
As I got closer, I immediately inspected the stones beneath the wheelchair, however, there are none to be found…eh?
“Um…this is…”
“Oh, my? Is your magic sensitivity dull?”
“What do you--?!”
In an instant, she grabs me and hurls me towards her by flailing my body in the air. Her thin and fragile looking arms has so much strength and I didn’t totally expect that she could easily lift me like that.
“AH?!”
“Asagao!?”
Ichirou’s concerned voice resounds as I was seated on Senya’s lap. Finding such act harmless towards me, his tension broke off accordingly and stands there quiet.
Meanwhile, I am looking at Senya’s countenance at the blank point as I already felt her faint breath that smells so fragrant that brushes off my skin. She holds me tightly in a sudden and we engage in an embrace.
“W-Wait! M-Miss Senya! This is all too sudden!”
“You smell like a morning glory blooming in the wilderness, a flower whose fragrance drifted in the air, attracting the attention of a passerby. If you are thinking that I smell nice, then I’ll have you know that you smell more fragrant than you thought.
“Why are you cuddling me like this?!”
“For various reasons such as going through your entire magical traces, confirming the blessing that Mrothgir and I gave to you. Remember that night?”
“Ahh…yes…”
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My last lesson with master…
“So…how is it?”
“Well, at the very least, it’s there.”
“Any more reasons for this…? It’s getting a little embarrassing…and I’m all wet…”
“It’s because you look exactly like Nivalis and I thought that…you needed a hug with all of those circumstances that you’ve gone through.”
“Is that so…? Thank you.”
“I think this is enough!~ Let’s head inside and have you guys rest in a comfy bed!”
“Eh? Suddenly?”
“Yes. I would like to know more about what happened during your travels and what happened to Mrothgir, however, sleep is optimal for young girls like you.”
“What? This is going too fast…!”
“Un, enough talking.”
SNAP!
Senya snaps her finger.
At that very moment, the strong urge of sleepiness attacks me. My body immediately feels tired all of a sudden and my mind didn’t seem to care about falling asleep in someone’s lap. I tried fighting it with willpower but resisting it only made me sleepier.
Damn it…what is this, magic?
Unable to resist the urge to sleep, my consciousness slowly fades and my body asks me for a rest as if it is tired. The last thing I saw before succumbing to the temptation of dreamland is Senya’s smiling and relieved countenance…
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In front of me, a man and a woman stand side by side while holding hands. Tightly gripping onto the man’s hand, the girl spoke in a very lamenting way. Her voice is inaudible for me but the man’s face contorted in pain and despair.
Background became clearer.
Burning houses and dead bodies of people, all bloodied, lays down from afar which they observe. Tears started streaming down from the man’s face as they both face each other. A longing glance with each other bounces back and their eyes glisten with tears accumulated due to negative emotions.
The man who looks androgynous has a black hair and wears a suit while the woman has silver hair and her eyes are somewhat yellow as they gleams through the shade of the night and she wears casual clothing with a normal brown shirt and white skirt. I can’t tell how they actually look like but I know I have seen them before.
After staring at each other’s eyes, the man lets go of the woman’s hand and tried to embrace her, however, the girl refuses it softly and grabs the hands of the man. Holding both the man’s hand in her left and right in her own, she places them on her neck.
Tears continuously gush out from the man’s eyes and the girl just smiles at him.
In that very moment, the man strangles the woman.
A second, a dozen of a second, a minute, a dozen of minute…the woman becomes a cold corpse right in the hand of the man. After knowing that the woman has died, the man whose embrace was denied earlier embraces now the cold dead body.
He started screaming and cursing.
After that, everything turns blurry again…the figure of the man and woman slowly fades…
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My consciousness slowly returns and I immediately knew that I am surrounded by people because they talk so loud.
“How many days has she been sleeping?”
“Three days now I think.”
“Eh? Really, I hope she wakes up soon. Miss Senya told us not to try to move her much but, I really want to feel her up!”
“Yes, yes! I felt her up yesterday you know! She’s like a living perfection!”
“No fair! You got ahead of us!”
“It can’t be helped!~ The two elves are cute too but they are too cautious! The girl with brown hair looks really cute too but I heard that she is a devil in a human form.”
“Really? What a waste. I do have a lot of assortment and variety of dress for them to wear!~”
“Just try not to get on Miss Senya’s nerve.”
“What about the guy? There was a guy with them, right?”
“I don’t know. Since men are strictly forbidden here, I guess he’s been living with the guardians.”
“I can’t believe this! That guy has been traveling with young maidens like them! If he somehow tried anything funny to them, then Miss Senya won’t stay idle for this!”
“If he’s found guilty, you think he’ll get castrated?”
“I really hope he didn’t do that with these young girls.”
Scary! That’s too scary! The man inside me just shivered hearing the word castration. Also, Ichirou may be a little perverted but he is not a sex fiend that you people thinks of. Since I’m at it, I open my eyes to see what’s actually happening.
What beholds my eyes are dozens of girls talking, whispering and staring at me with wonder ranging from young girls to young adults with various races from humans, demons, beast kin, elves, and dragons.
Everyone’s faces brighten when they saw me getting up. They immediately flock around me like I am some new species needed some attention and naturally, my shy nature just kind of resurface as they started fawning over me and I push my back behind me.
“Umm….umm…!”
“Oh! Oh! She’s awake! Someone call Miss Senya!”
“Ah! Move it! I want to see her up close too!”
“Tsk! You already felt how smooth her skin is, get lost!”
“This and that are different things!”
“Wow! The dress really suits her! Also, dibs on the one who made her the flower garland!”
“Hey, that’s me who made that!”
“Hey! What did you do to mine from yesterday!?”
“I threw it away! It doesn’t just sit right with her!~”
“Want to step outside?!”
“Ah, she’s getting flustered! How cute!~”
Stop it!
Don’t stare at me! Don’t stare at me with your curious, perverted eyes! They are literally itching to touch me…no…their eyes are licking me all over!
“Umm…Please stop…”
“AAAHHH! I want to bully her!”
“That’s no good! If keep making us excite like this…!”
“Okay everyone, it’s time to stop.”
A familiar voice reverberates throughout the room. From the doorway, Senya, as usual, sitting in her wheelchair, scold everyone inside the room.
“Everyone, please step out of the room! It is too cramped and you are scaring her! Also, I have something to talk about with her!”
“Uwaah!~ Miss Senya is scolding us!~ Run for it!~”
“Run, run! She’s going to spank you!~”
Everyone began leaving the room while playfully teasing Senya as they exit. Senya who saw this can only sigh woefully. Most of them are even saying their goodbyes to me as they left with a smile on their face.
Then, before I knew it, no one is inside the room but me and Senya.
“……”
“……”
“Um…Miss Senya…”
“If I ever caught you girls eavesdropping, I will give out another punishment!”
CLACK
The door made a clicking sound…
To think that they are still there…
“I’m very sorry about that, Asagao. To see something like that after your three-day rest and also, you look lovelier today.”
“What?!”
I look around the whole room and saw a mirror perpendicular to my bed. I saw my figure staring back with surprise. I am dressed in a really girly way with this one piece sundress with frills and ribbon. Not only my I wear flower garlands in my head but my hair is also done in a cute way with braids connecting up to the back of my head and flowers being inserted.
I’ve been wondering why does my bed smells so nice and I realize that it is decorated with a lot of flowers from roses to lavender to even my own flower name, Morning glory.
“For the past three days, I am guessing that I became a living dress up doll…”
“I can’t stay beside with you for so long so I can’t really stop them…I’m sorry, however, I am confident that they are good so it doesn’t really lead to a demerit.”
“I got to say…I kind of hate it…”
“Oh, why?”
“Well…I am a guy not so long ago…”
“That’s news to me but it doesn’t change the fact that you look gorgeous.”
“Anyway, I’d like to ask something…”
Senya rolls her wheelchair close to me.
“Why did you do that, making me sleep for three days straight?”
“Oh? I did make you sleep but sleeping for three days straight was all because of you.”
“…what does that mean and how?”
“You see, I did use magic to make fall asleep that time but, it’s effect aren’t that too long. So here’s the trick, I also used Ki.”
“Ki?! You know how to use it too?!”
“Yes, I am. Magic I used is to make you fall to sleep, the reason for your long sleep is because I used Ki to bring out all the stress and fatigue that you accumulated.”
“……”
“Normally, a knight that has been battling in a war would fall asleep for a whole day but, you accumulated so much that you fell asleep for three days straight…”
“Is…that so…?”
“That is so. Stress and fatigues are just being buried beneath but…even the shallowest cut, even the smallest tinge of sadness, it accumulates to that but they are sometimes forgotten and never been relieve.”
“That’s why…I feel light and refreshed right now…”
Come to think of it, recently, it’s getting harder and harder for me to fall asleep. There are also times that I’ll just wake up in the middle of the night and sometimes, fail to fall back asleep. Not to mention, because of the recent events, my tension will always rise and drop.
“Also, Miss Senya, where are my friends?”
“Ah, right! Ichirou, since we do not allow men into this place, is living in the wooden lodge that you saw that night. Don’t worry, Eternity Lightning Fang, Giga Wolf, and Behemoth are together with him so he won’t get lonely.”
“Topaz! What about Topaz! You didn’t hurt her, right?!”
“Un…I’m sorry to say this but, although we didn’t hurt her, we confined her to a room. But don’t worry because we kept her occupied with foods!”
“Thank goodness…And…the twins?”
“Ohohohoh. You girls here for training and my guidance, right?”
“Yes…”
“You are a student of Mrothgir and to tell you the truth, I am his student as well. You ought to know what is in the top list of Mrothgir’s training menu.”
My face pales as I remember what it is. I can already hear Casablanca and Hibiscus panting and crawling on all fours like what Higan and I did during our time training under master…
That horrible strengthening course…
“Your face says it all.”
“Un…yeah…”
“As for you…first…,I’ve got to give you a decent warning…about the residences of this place.”
“Yes?”
“Everyone who lives here are all girls coming from any range of age and race. But one thing you should be careful about is that everyone here is bisexual or even homosexual so do be careful associating with them.”
Wait…what?!