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Episode 24

As the harvest approached, the Duchy of Baston was bustling with activity as knights prepared for the tournament.

The stiff atmosphere that Rose de Baston had when we went to buy equipment quickly disappeared, and once again she started teasing and flirting with me.

“Are you preparing well for the tournament?”

Rose de Baston was still the same, smiling mischievously again as if asking when she had ever treated me coldly.

“…”

[Answer.]

“…Yeah.”

One thing that has changed is that she has become more active in using contracts.

After Rose told me that I would not submit to her of my own free will, no matter how much she threatened, she began to coax and order me into responding as she wanted.

It was as if he thought that if he continued to follow his orders using contracts, one day he would come to take it for granted that he would follow his orders even if he didn’t use contracts, so he used contracts consistently and persistently.

“Haha, good job. Do you want to sleep with me in my bed today?”

“…”

She started flirting with me more and more often as the days went by.

Perhaps the temptation he had before going to buy tournament gear had worked quite well.

In fact, her seduction was quite effective, as if she was constantly wishing for my tired and weary body to put aside its pride and desire for revenge and become comfortable in her arms.

But whenever I had such thoughts, I would recall my separation from my father and with difficulty pull myself together.

“Leon, have you decided what you’ll wish for if you win the tournament?”

I’ve already thought about what I want to wish for.

“Hehehe, if you want, you can do whatever you want with my body. Don’t you think I have a lot of things piled up?”

-Sigh…

Rose began tickling my chin with her slender fingers.

“…”

“How about pouring out all the humiliation and pain I’ve inflicted on you onto my body? Or…”

She clung to me more and more, whispering softly in my ear.

‘I’ll give you back the pain and humiliation I received…’

It’s not bad, but it’s not a fundamental solution for me.

Because I have to get away from this Duke of Baston, take my revenge, and return to the Duke of Normandy.

I can’t afford to waste this precious opportunity on a one-time revenge just to vent my resentment.

-Ding ding ding!

“Oh my, lunch time is already over. What a pity. See you later tonight, Leon.”

She left the training ground with a look of regret on her face, winking at me as she couldn’t stay with me any longer.

As Rose leaves, the knights begin to gather around me with unpleasant gazes.

I guess it’s annoying that I’m monopolizing all the attention and affection of the Duchess of Baston.

To be honest, Rose de Baston is one of the most beautiful women in the Frankish kingdom, so I can understand why they are jealous of me.

I’m not sure if they’re jealous because they know how I’m treated by her.

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Captain Marceau gathered all the knights together and began to explain the upcoming tournament.

“The schedule and structure of the upcoming tournament in our Duchy of Baston are as follows…”

The tournament consists of three events: jousting, one-on-one duels, and small-group combat. Participants can choose to participate in one of the three events.

I was told that, except for small group battles, jousting matches and one-on-one duels must be held in a preliminary round before advancing to the main event.

“From now on, choose the event you want to participate in.”

After finishing his explanation, Captain Marceau came down from the stage, and his adjutant began to accept applications for the tournament.

I have already decided which event I will participate in.

“Where are you going to join, Leon?”

Amir, who had come up behind me, asked.

“I want to participate in a one-on-one duel.”

“I knew you would do that.”

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The next day, the closed preliminaries for the one-on-one duels I participated in began.

Since it is a duel without any hierarchy restrictions, those with higher ranks have the advantage, but since the use of techniques higher than Sword Aura is prohibited and players must compete only with swordsmanship and mana, those with higher ranks do not necessarily have the advantage.

Of course, the higher the rank, the more mana and experience one has, so the higher the rank, the higher the chance of winning.

Before it was my turn, I decided to watch the duels between the strong contenders with Amir to get a sense of their strengths in advance.

-Kaang!

-Ugh… I lost.

“The winner is Auguste!!”

“As expected, 5th place, definitely a strong candidate to win. Will I be able to be like that someday?”

Amir nodded in admiration at how easily Auguste defeated his opponent.

“It certainly seems difficult to overcome the difference in hierarchy.”

Looking at Auguste, who easily subdues his opponents by using explosive mana usage and clean swordsmanship, he certainly looks like a tough opponent.

It seems like I was born with a lot of mana, and if I were to use that amount of mana to drag out a long-term battle, it would obviously be at a disadvantage for me.

Looking at my bracket, I’m lucky I won’t be facing him in the preliminaries, so if I advance to the main tournament, I’ll probably face him in the finals.

Before I confronted him, I thought about how to attack Auguste while recalling the duel with my father.

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All the preliminaries for today were over and night had come.

Normally, I would have knocked on the door and gone into Rose’s room, which is now a familiar behavior, but recently, since Rose started actively seducing me, I started to feel uncomfortable going into her room.

The reason why I kept getting embarrassed and in trouble was because my spirited young body responded to her seductions without my consent.

-Knock knock knock…

“Who are you?”

“…woof.”

-Squeak…

“Hehehe, come in.”

“…”

The door opened and Rose, wearing a barely-there black lingerie lace, greeted me.

Her underwear, barely visible beyond the lace, keeps dazzling my eyes.

“Oh my, why is my dog just sitting still?”

“…”

I tried to avert my eyes from Rose and moved to my seat.

It’s a good thing I’m lying face down so you can’t see my really angry lower body.

“You worked hard today too, enjoy your meal?”

-Gulp…

The sight of Rose crouching in a provocative manner and pouring food into the bowl of rice placed in front of me was very provocative.

As if conscious of my gaze, she smiled mischievously and deliberately got up from her seat more slowly.

‘Let’s eat and go to bed quickly.’

He quickly averted his gaze from Rose, finished his meal, went into the kennel, and lay down.

Even though I closed my eyes, I kept thinking about her in her underwear, so I tossed and turned a few times before falling asleep.

I had a dream.

I don’t remember the content, but I think it felt good.

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-Dreamy…

When I opened my eyes, I saw the now familiar ceiling of the doghouse.

And an unfamiliar, wet, unpleasant sensation in the lower body.

‘Oh, no way…’

I lifted my pants slightly, hoping that it wasn’t the worst I had thought of, but…

-Sigh…

‘Oh, fuck…’

In the end, the worst happened.

With Rose controlling everything, I didn’t have time to solve anything on my own, and my desires were only building up, so maybe this was a predetermined doom.

This wouldn’t be an unusual situation for a healthy man, but the problem is that I have no idea how to handle this situation.

If Rose is still sleeping, I can sneak out and do some laundry…

“Oh, Leon, are you awake?”

‘Fucked…’

She came closer to me as she heard me rustling around.

“Your expression doesn’t look good. Are you sick? And come to think of it, I think you smell something a little strange…”

“…”

-Sniff sniff…

My eyes met with Rose’s, who had been sniffing for a moment, and she glanced at me, my lower body covered in an awkward posture, then smiled with a mocking smile.

“Huh~ It looks like he hasn’t been properly potty trained yet? I guess I’ll have to teach him this later?”

“…”

It’s shameful.

“Tricia, I think our puppy has misbehaved. Take him in, give him a wash, and prepare some clothes for him.”

“Okay, miss. Follow me, you lowlife.”

The maid looked down at me with an expression that seemed to indicate something dirty and filthy and spoke to me with a look of contempt.

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The major accident that happened in the morning shook my heart, but I remembered my goal of escaping from here and successfully completed the preliminaries and advanced to the main event.

The three-day tournament will begin in earnest tomorrow, and the one-on-one duel I’m participating in will be held after the jousting competition, so the one-on-one duel main event will begin on the second day of the tournament.

The bracket for the 16 players who advanced to the main tournament, including me, has been revealed.

Looking at the bracket, Auguste and I, who are strong contenders for the title, are completely separated, so if we meet, it will be in the finals.

“You’re the bastard that Miss Rose is raising.”

As I was looking at the bracket, I heard an unfamiliar voice behind me.

When I looked back, I saw Auguste standing there with a look of contempt on his face.

“…”

“Congratulations on advancing to the main tournament with a 3rd place body. You must have had good luck with the matchup. But don’t even dream of winning. Hehehe”

“…We’ll find out when we get there.”

When I defeated Pablo, a 4th-rank player, on my first day in the Knights, he must have been out on a mission somewhere and wasn’t there, thinking it was luck that I, a 3rd-rank player, made it to the main tournament.

“Ha! Do you think it will do anything if the young lady spares you a little? Enjoy it now. After I win, I will publicly suggest that I give the glory of the victory to the young lady and kick you out.”

‘Don’t you dare save them. Are these guys all masochistic bastards who deserve to be treated like dogs?’

I appreciate the willingness to get me away from Rose, but I have no intention of giving up the win because it gives me a chance of getting out of here.

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I’m scared.

I’m already worried about how much more Rose de Baston will tease and tempt me about what happened this morning.

-Knock knock knock…

I sighed inwardly and knocked on the door as I always did.

“Who are you?”

“…woof.”

-Squeak…

“Come in.”

“…!”

The moment the door opened and I looked up at her, my breath caught in my throat.

Last time, she was wearing faintly see-through lingerie lace and underwear, but this time, she was wearing nothing underneath and only lingerie, so the prominent part of her chest stood out.

And the smell of incense coming from the room began to make me dizzy.

“Gulp…”

I swallowed without realizing it.

I couldn’t take my eyes off her, the bulge on her chest kept bothering me.

“…Isn’t it embarrassing if you keep looking at me like that?”

“…”

“You’re a bad dog, looking at your master’s body like that. You need to be punished, right?”

-Sigh…

As she closed the door, she crouched down in front of me, holding my chin with her slender fingers, and met my eyes.

Before I knew it, my lower body, which had become so stiff that it felt like it would burst, began to complain of a tingling pain.

Rose slowly brought her face closer to mine and whispered an order into my ear.

[Leon, stand up straight.]