74. A Noisy Encounter

74. A Noisy Encounter

-Now she’s even bothering her own sister…?

-Just how cruel a person can she be….

“Hmm.”

I could hear the young ladies whispering. They seemed to be speaking softly so others wouldn’t hear, but they couldn’t escape wolf ears.

A cruel person who bothers her own sister… I don’t know who they are, but as someone who loves my sister, I can’t understand them at all.

I turned my ears away from them and looked at Freya, who was lying with her head on my lap. Freya groaned and then slowly began to lift her eyelids.

“Freya. Are you feeling a bit more yourself now?”

“Ugh… Wh-where is this?”

After ‘sincerely apologizing’ to dozens of children, Freya trembled and lost consciousness. It was as if she had faced an unacceptable reality.

It was about ten minutes ago that I ended up sitting on a bench and giving her a lap pillow. Freya blinked and then, looking at my face peering down at her, her black eyes sparkled.

Freya immediately tried to rub her cheek against my thigh.

“Hehe, Sister… I love- Gak!”

“Physical contact is still forbidden.”

Giving a lap pillow to someone who is sick is common sense, and I only did it because it was an unavoidable situation. The punishment of no physical contact still remained.

I grabbed my sister by the back of her neck and lifted her, dangling, to sit beside me. Freya pouted and grumbled.

“Tsk….”

Regardless of the outcome, Freya had successfully completed her apologies, so I praised my sister.

“Anyway, you did well, Freya. Since you did a good deed this time, I’ll knock off one day from your punishment.”

“…!! Really?!”

“Yes.”

It was right to reward good deeds if you punish bad ones. With this, Freya’s no-physical-contact period was reduced back to a week, and Freya’s eyes lit up as if she had found a ray of light in the darkness, trembling with joy.

Is she that happy, my cute sister.

I suddenly reached out to stroke Freya, but then remembered it was the no-physical-contact period and pulled my hand back.

Yes, I only have to wait a week. Just a week.

And so, we arrived at the dormitory.

Claire and Henir were already back in the room. As soon as the door opened, Claire rushed over, looked up at me from below my chest, and asked.

“Skadi, where have you been?”

“Just, I had to go out for a bit.”

Looking past Claire at the dormitory bed, I saw someone sleeping soundly, covered in a blanket, naked. The distinctive red rolled-up hair- it was my friend, Priscilla. She seemed to still be asleep.

Did she have such a tiring day?

Meanwhile, Henir, who was sitting next to Priscilla, stood up urgently upon making eye contact with me and shouted. Her brown tail swished.

“Y-you’re back, H-hic….”

Henir suddenly covered her mouth, stopping mid-sentence. Seeing tears welling up under her brown eyes, perhaps she bit her tongue.

A moment later, Claire looked at me with narrowed eyes and asked. Henir followed up.

“So, Skadi, can you explain why she’s naked?”

“That’s right! Was I not enough for you? I-I was the young lady’s first…!”

Claire and Henir suddenly started saying things I couldn’t understand. It was so noisy I considered folding my ears, but then Freya shouted.

“Wh-what are you talking about!! What did you guys do to my Sister…!!!”

“Wh-what? Freya, why are you here-“

“Shut up! Claire, what did you do? You didn’t even do what I told you to do…!!”

Freya, who had been scolding Claire, then turned her head towards Henir next to her and exclaimed.

“Who are you!”

“Ah, hello, Young Lady! I am Hen- from the Special Operations Unit White Fang….”

“Cut the self-introduction, you said ‘first’ earlier, what kind of bullshit is that!!”

Freya grabbed Henir by the shoulders. Considering the difference in strength between Freya and Henir, it would be easy to break free, but as a servant serving the young lady, she didn’t seem to do so.

“Th-that is, the eldest young lady called me last time for night duties….”

Veins bulged on Freya’s temples. Then followed by loud shouts.

Just as I was about to warn Freya against saying something bad, a small silver-haired figure quietly popped up next to me.

“Sister, you’re back?”

“Yes, Iris.”

“Please come over here!”

Iris took my hand and led me. However, Freya tightly grabbed my hand from the other side, leaving me stretched between the two like a spring.

Henir, Claire, and Freya’s conversation was getting more heated, and Iris, who kept pulling me, and Priscilla, who was sleeping naked with a blissfully unaware expression, along with the incomprehensible chaos in the room-

“STOP!!!!!!”

-Freya slammed her staff on the ground and shouted. A faint green aura rose, and Freya, with her tail held high, continued.

“You, you guys, how dare you… to my Sister- I won’t forgive you!!”

Claire and Henir and Freya started arguing. As her older sister, I tried to stop Freya, but Iris quietly approached me and buried her body in my tail.

“Hehe, Sister….”

“Yes, Iris.”

I reached out and stroked Iris’s head. Silver strands flowed through my fingers, and her red eyes, with a captivating smile, looked at me.

Waiting for her small lips to open-

“Kiss me, Sister.”

“Okay.”

Leaving the increasingly heated situation of the three tangled together, I kissed Iris on the forehead. Iris smiled brightly.

“Do it again.”

“Sure.”

Our lips met again. This time, moving a bit lower to her cheek.

“Do it again.”

“Yes.”

Moving a bit lower, this time to her lips. Iris said with a slightly flushed face.

“Just one more time-“

“You!!!! What are you doing to my Sister!!!”

“Tch.”

Freya, noticing Iris’s actions, shouted in anger. Iris distanced herself slightly. Only then did Freya turn her head back towards Claire.

“I told you to watch Sister, not to like her!! I’ll give you all the swords at home! You like swords, don’t you!”

“W-well, swords are nice, but Skadi is cooler right now…!”

“Shut up! Sister is mine!”

Freya slammed her staff down, casting a spell. With a shimmering green light, tree trunks grew from the dormitory floor.

Plants encroaching on the room, reaching towards Claire, and then-

BANG!

With a single punch imbued with Claire’s aura, the plants were easily shattered. Emitting a golden aura, Claire opened her mouth.

“Are you sane? Attacking a princess?”

“You’re just the third princess from the very back! What princess! If you’re going to threaten me with that, why don’t you just drink milk? You’re so short, I can’t see you at all!”

“Y-you…! After not contacting me for years, this is what you say…!”

“Your Highness, please calm down. And you too, Young Lady!”

Claire and Freya, shouting at each other and throwing punches and spells, Henir struggling to mediate between them, Iris trying to pull me towards her again, and Priscilla sleeping soundly naked, oblivious to everything.

The fight was getting more intense, and I felt like my eardrums would burst if this continued. Someone might get hurt.

Inevitably, I slammed my foot on the ground, stopping the children.

CRASH!

“….”

Fragments of the floorboards flew into the air and then rained down. Debris shattered, and dust swirled. I scanned the children with a blank expression.

After a brief silence, a loud alarm blared from the dormitory hallway.

-Attention, all personnel currently in the dormitory. An unexplained attack on the women’s dormitory has been confirmed. Due to the risk of building collapse or further attacks, please evacuate to ensure your safety. We repeat. Currently, the dormitory….

I looked around at the children and said.

“Shall we go out for now?”

“Uh, uh-huh.”

As we went out into the hallway, not only us but also other students were pouring out. The blaring alarm, the crowds, and the staff guiding students to the exits.

As we were leaving, I whispered in Freya’s ear.

“Freya, one more day added to your punishment.”

“What?!!!”

Just as I reduced the days, I increased them again. It shows the power of puberty. As the saying goes, learning something late makes it more dangerous. It’s true.

For Freya’s proper emotional growth, I have to work hard.

With that resolve, I left the dormitory.

——

The dormitory incident fortunately ended as a mere trifle. After a lengthy investigation where guards searched each room one by one, it was confirmed that there were no significant issues with the dormitory.

Combined with the incident at the previous auction, there was lingering anxiety that a terrorist might have infiltrated the Academy.

Suddenly, Claire asked me, as if a thought had occurred to her.

“By the way, Skadi, did we bring Priscilla with us?”

“….”

Priscilla, who was definitely sleeping naked in the dormitory.

I quietly closed my eyes.

… And so, the day ended a bit noisily.