episode_0017

Lily became more serious than ever.

The reason was none other than her mentor, Camilla. Perhaps it was because she was a dragon, but without Amelia noticing, she discreetly used magic to steal Amelia’s panties and stockings, just as Amelia had warned her about.

Surely, they would be on her head, smelling of her scent.

Despite trying to endure it, storing the scent in her necklace and suppressing it as much as possible, Lily’s mentor had secretly stolen it to fulfill her desires.

In the early morning, Lily rose more discreetly than ever before. Fortunately, Amelia slept without embracing Lily.

Quietly getting up from the bed, Lily cast a silent spell only on the latch part of the door.

-Creak.

The door opened without making any noise. Thanks to that, she could leave without alerting Amelia.

Then, she entered Amelia’s room right next to hers. She cautiously walked over and carefully opened the drawer.

-Swish. Thud!

“…!”

Startled.

The drawer, being quite old, made an unexpected noise as the wood inside bumped against each other, causing Lily to freeze in place with the drawer still open.

It was such a small sound in the quiet dawn, but it felt like a bomb going off.

Trying to stay as quiet as possible, Lily listened intently for any signs of Amelia waking up in the room across from hers.

-…

Fortunately, Amelia did not wake up.

[Lily…]

Amelia’s sleep talk reached Lily’s ears. Blushing at Amelia’s words, Lily opened the drawer.

‘I love you. Mom.’

Neatly arranged underwear lay inside.

However, unsatisfied with this, knowing all of Amelia’s habits, Lily reached for the underwear at the end of the drawer.

Only then did she find the kind of underwear she had seen before. Lily lifted them out as carefully as possible.

As soon as she held the underwear, vivid images of Amelia’s body from the bath she saw in the bathroom came to her mind.

She then hit her head and took a deep breath.

But the distinct smell of Amelia…

Was absent. Only the scent of the clothes lingered.

It suddenly dawned on her. Amelia was exceptionally good at laundry.

‘Did she wash these too thoroughly…?’

Suddenly, everything felt hollow.

In sneaking into Amelia’s room in the early morning to sniff the risqué underwear, Lily was hit by a strong sense of self-reproach.

But Lily didn’t give up.

She realized that the laundered underwear was useless. While she could imagine it in her mind, that was just fantasy. Not reality.

Thinking of returning, Lily could come up with a brilliant idea.

‘What if I leave the necklace on the underwear for a while? Would the smell not fade then? In that case, let’s stop this.’

Feeling pathetic for having such thoughts, Lily understood that the scent on the underwear was merely a copied smell stored in the necklace.

‘The answer lies in taking a bath…!’

Deciding to do as she did with the necklace last time, Lily tidied up the underwear and returned to her room.

She tried to lie down on the peacefully sleeping Amelia, resting her head on her chest to fall asleep. But something felt off.

‘Huh?’

Lily prodded Amelia’s body.

‘Is it lumped?’

Certainly. Having touched Amelia’s body every day without fail, Lily realized that Amelia’s body was lumped.

It had slightly but noticeably grown.

‘Does it grow more from here…?’

Not sure how much more it would grow from there, and since it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing but a good one, Lily decided to ignore it and drifted off to sleep.

-Squish squish.

==

I woke up at my usual time. Today, I planned to make steamed dishes, so I tried to get up diligently.

“Ugh…!”

However, my body didn’t move as expected. Moreover,

“Ow…!”

I tried to get up, but the pain made me lie back down.

The chest and head weren’t seriously hurting, but the pain was irritating enough to poke at me.

Especially my abdomen, which involuntarily wrapped my hands around it due to intense pain.

Then, memories of Amelia surfaced in my mind.

“Ah…”

It was then that I realized my condition. I should have prepared in advance, but I had forgotten because I hadn’t fully adapted to a woman’s body yet.

As someone who was originally male, I never imagined experiencing such a thing.

“Ugh.”

Nevertheless, I couldn’t let Lily, a child, go hungry in the morning, so I got up with aching body.

I had only heard about it, but I didn’t know the pain would be this severe. Just the thought of enduring this monthly made my head ache severely.

I had planned to make steamed dishes, but judging by my current state, I decided to opt for a simple dish instead.

Returning to my room first, I took out the sanitary pads that the previous Amelia had packed in the luggage and attached them to the panties I was wearing.

I tried to put on a bra, but it wouldn’t fit, so I decided not to wear it today.

Struggling with my sore body, I put on a servant’s dress but skipped the corset.

With the panties feeling awkward and the sanitary pad adding discomfort, it was more inconvenient than I had thought. Nevertheless, since I now had to use it every month, I gritted my teeth and went down to the kitchen.

Looking at the ingredients in front of me, I grabbed my head.

A bag left in the warehouse after yesterday’s bath with Lily. Opening it now and checking its contents, I was puzzled by the unexpected variety of ingredients, from those not commonly seen in this region to pepper, cheese, and ingredients that even nobles would think twice before eating.

It was clearly a bag filled with goodwill.

What does Helena really want to do?

Already feeling dizzy due to headaches, abdominal pain, and breast pain, I couldn’t seem to get myself together.

To quickly prepare breakfast, I started organizing the ingredients as much as possible and began making soup.

Leaving the soup on the stove to simmer and to alleviate the pain for a while, I sat on a chair, resting my face on the table.

“Just a little bit, 30 minutes…”

Closing my eyes, after a while, a certain smell began to waft.

“What’s this smell?”

After sniffing for a moment, I suddenly stood up. It was clearly a burning smell.

I rushed towards the pot containing the soup, where all the water had evaporated, leaving the vegetables stuck to the pot, burning.

In the almost hellish scene inside the pot, I unknowingly grabbed the pot handle to remove it from the heat.

“Ahh!”

It must have been an action I would never normally take, but the pain and inexplicable gloominess I felt upon waking up in the morning, seeing the fire, and the chaos of events overlapping led me to burn my hand.

-Clang!

As the pot fell to the ground with a loud noise and my hand burned, I hurriedly turned on the water in the kitchen sink to extinguish the fire.

Fortunately, it didn’t spread further, but the pot was completely burnt. Of course, so was breakfast.

[Amelia!?]

-Thud thud thud.

Due to the noise just now, Lily either woke up or heard me, as her voice calling my name and the sound of her rushing downstairs echoed throughout the house.

Hurrying down, Lily ignored the disaster in the kitchen and ran towards me, spinning around me to assess my condition.

“Amelia, are you hurt!?”

Ignoring the mess in the kitchen, Lily rushed to me and circled around me, assessing my condition.

“I’m sorry, Lily. I burned the breakfast…”

“Is that the problem!?”

As I instinctively tried to hide my hand, Lily quickly grabbed it.

“Ouch…!”

Forcing my hand open, Lily revealed the burnt palm, which looked worse than I had thought.

The skin was all torn, with blisters and pus forming already.

Lily glanced at my palm and I forced a bitter smile.

I didn’t realize it was this severe. I was so preoccupied that I hadn’t even felt the pain.

As Lily gently placed her hand on my palm, a warm energy spread out, enveloping my hand. Soon, the burn was rapidly healing.

Before long, what had been a gruesome burn on my palm had healed to the point where it looked like a mild burn.

“Thank you, Lily.”

“It’s not something that can be fully healed. Go upstairs now and rest.”

As Lily held my uninjured hand, leading me to the room, she reassured me it was okay.

As we headed towards the room, Lily turned back to look at me.

“You’ve had a tough day today. Don’t worry about me and rest well.”

“…Yes.”

Unconsciously, I found myself obediently responding to Lily before me.

Though only 8 years old, Lily, having grown up mostly alone, sometimes seemed more mature than me.

After helping me change clothes, Lily laid me down on the bed.

-Swish. Swish.

She gently stroked my abdomen, keeping me company until I fell asleep.

==

Startled by a sudden loud noise, I jolted awake. Looking around, Amelia was nowhere to be seen.

The sound clearly came from the kitchen downstairs. Then came the sound of rushing water. To top it off, I caught a whiff of burning here. I hurried downstairs to the first floor.

Upon reaching the kitchen, a scene unfolded before me. There was a large amount of water on the floor near a fallen pot, and the entire kitchen reeked of smoke.

I quickly checked Amelia, who seemed fine on the surface, but I made sure not to miss her pulling back one hand.

Grabbing Amelia’s hand and forcibly extending it revealed a terrible burn mark.

Amelia never made such mistakes, so why this accident?

Quickly drawing mana, I began to heal Amelia’s hand while pondering.

Glancing back at Amelia, as I descended once more.

Her chest area seemed unusually soft.

‘She’s not wearing underwear?’

Moreover, her breasts appeared noticeably larger than when I last checked before bed.

‘No way.’

Looking at Amelia’s face again, she indeed seemed more tired than usual.

That means…

‘It’s that time.’

Amelia tended to feel pain more intensely than others. Hence, she used to take a day off work every month.

Perhaps, due to my young age, I pushed her too hard to take care of her.

After finishing the treatment and helping Amelia change into nightwear, I led her to bed.

Gently caressing her to keep her belly warm, Amelia soon drifted off to sleep.

While I wanted to alleviate her menstrual cramps, interfering with this biological rhythm could lead to further complications, so it was best avoided.

Amelia shouldn’t be in too much pain.

I had planned to bury my face in the panties soaked with Amelia’s sweat during today’s bath, but she seemed to be struggling for a while.