Chapter 115: Dirty Laundry

As expected, Celian’s plan hit the mark, and even when we lifted the flap of the tent and went outside, no one recognized us.

Even if there were people who occasionally turned their heads towards us, me and Celian were already far away during that brief moment when they looked at us with puzzled expressions.

“Phew, we finally got out of there.”

Looking back, I could see the crowd still gathered, fueled by the heat of the opening ceremony that had been going on for several tens of minutes.

I caught my breath and temporarily took refuge in an alley where there were fewer people.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

Of course, I don’t think that Celian, who is a Sword Master, would get hurt just by pushing her way through the crowd.

But even though I know it in my head, I can’t help but worry, so I naturally checked her condition.

She didn’t seem to have any particular injuries, but her clothes were slightly disheveled and her hair was messed up, so she looked like she had been through a lot in many ways.

However, even while she was feeling uncomfortable in many ways, Celian was hugging the envelope containing my clothes tightly to protect it.

“Can you stand still for a moment?”

Feeling sorry for her for no reason, I took the opportunity to calm down her stray hairs and straighten her disheveled sleeves.

“You really don’t have to do that…. Wait a moment. Let’s fix El’s appearance again before we go.”

Since Celian, who was following behind me, was in that state, I could guess the situation I was in at the front of the line.

So, when I raised my hand to fix my hair first.

“Tsk!”

Flinch.

At her disapproving sound, my hand, which was going over my head, stopped instinctively.

This scene, even though the situation is different, it’s a familiar picture, isn’t it?

“There’s no mirror, so I’ll do it for you. El, just stay still.”

Well, that’s true too. It’s not like there’s no one to help, and since Celian is here, there’s no need for me to do it when I can’t even see my own appearance properly.

Celian handed me the bag of clothes she was holding, and then raised both hands and began to stroke my hair.

Perhaps there were more disheveled areas than in Celian’s case, Celian stroked my hair several times.

After stroking it several times, Celian’s hand, as if my hair was finally fixed, came down.

Celian’s hand patted my shoulders once or twice, and then came down a little further.

“Hiyak?”

When Celian’s hand, which had patted my shoulders, came up over my chest, my sensitive senses reacted immediately.

“T-that…. Celie…?”

“Just a moment. It looks like there’s a stain here. I think it’ll come off if I rub it with my hand, so please bear with me for a moment.”

Sure enough, when I looked down, I saw that there was a stain on my chest from someone holding ice cream among the people I had bumped into while escaping the crowd.

“But…. Haeuk!”

I was going to stop Celian by saying something since I could wipe it off myself, but when Celian’s thumb lightly brushed over my chest, only an embarrassing groan came out of my mouth.

I was startled by the sound that came out without my knowing it and looked around, but fortunately, there was no one in the alley except me and Celian.

Celian, concentrating on removing the stain from my clothes, didn’t seem to have noticed that I was flustered.

Since it’s her own clothes that I’m wearing now, she must be worried about leaving a stain.

If the stain gets stained and doesn’t come off even after washing it later, I might have to throw away the clothes as they are, so as someone who borrowed the clothes, I wasn’t shameless enough to stop Celian’s hand.

Moreover, it wasn’t like the stain was only on one side, Celian’s hands were now rubbing my breasts.

“Ha…. Euht….”

But no matter how hard I tried to endure it, it was very difficult to suppress the groans that leaked out of my mouth.

Each time her fingers put pressure on my chest, pinching and squeezing slightly to remove the stain, sticky breaths leaked out through my tightly closed lips.

Celian is concentrating on removing the stain right now, so she doesn’t hear my voice, but I don’t know when she’ll notice.

Even though I’ve become used to a woman’s body, Celian still feels more like a man than a woman to me.

But Celian hasn’t had her gender switched like me, has she?

If Celian finds out that I’m feeling pleasure from a female friend’s hand, from a helping hand, she’ll think I’m a pervert.

I had to avoid such a situation if I wanted to continue seeing Celian’s face in the future.

So I raised my hand that wasn’t holding the envelope and covered my mouth.

Thanks to that, the groans were still coming out, but the sound was much smaller thanks to the hand covering my mouth.

So, at the moment when I was relieved even a little-

“Eup…!”

Celian’s fingers, which had been removing the stain, pinched a sensitive area a little harder.

Perhaps because I was wearing Celian’s bra, which was bigger than my size, Celian’s fingers pinched with only a thin piece of clothing in between.

A sensation that ran up my spine like an electric shock made my mouth gape open, and I almost shouted, but fortunately, I was able to endure it with the extreme patience I had trained as an assassin.

Thud. Thud.

However, as it became difficult to block the leaking sound with one hand, I even threw the envelope I was holding in my other hand roughly on the floor and covered my mouth with both hands.

I squinted my tightly closed eyes and looked down, and I could still see Celian concentrating on removing the stain.

Fortunately, she didn’t seem to have noticed the suddenly dropped bag of clothes and the appearance of me covering my mouth.

However, perhaps because the stain was on the most sensitive part of my chest, Celian showed no signs of letting go of the pinching fingers.

“Euht…!”

Rather, Celian was twisting the pinching fingers as if she was rubbing them to remove the stain thoroughly.

I wondered if it would be better if I felt pain, so I closed my mouth tightly and tried biting my fingers lightly, but the sensation that had been sensitized by Celian’s touch drew even more pleasure from the small pain.

The power of my whole body drained from the sensation I had never experienced before, and I barely managed to endure from staggering.

At the same time, Celian’s hand moved away from my chest.

It was clearly a situation where I had escaped the crisis, but why did I feel a sense of disappointment rather than a sense of relief first?

Fortunately, unlike this perverted me, the pure-hearted Celian didn’t seem to feel anything strange about my unnatural behavior.

“Well, then, shall we go?”

Celian, picking up the bag that had fallen on the floor, smiled at me and said.

Looking at Celian’s appearance of smiling brightly, my conscience pricks at me.

“Hooeng…. Yeah.”

I tried to answer Celian’s words normally, but since the lingering sensation hadn’t subsided yet, a nasal sound naturally mixed in.

I looked at Celian’s complexion in anticipation of an unexpected situation, but she only tilted her head and didn’t seem to have noticed anything.

“L, let’s go quickly!”

I was afraid that I would really get caught if I stayed in this place any longer, so I passed Celian and took the lead.

Thud. Thud.

“Kyaht!?”

However, at the moment of passing Celian, her hand lightly patted my butt.

“Ah, I’m sorry. It looked like there was dust on your butt.”

The face of Celian, who had turned around, had a surprised expression at my sudden scream, so it only made me feel even more guilty.

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“Where have you been! We’ve been waiting a long time!”

“Sorry, sorry. I wanted to come right away, but the people who recognized my face blocked me from passing….”

Anne, who was sulking, shouted as soon as she found me running towards her.

I apologized to her immediately to appease her, who had pouted.

“…It seems like you know what you did wrong, so I’ll forgive you this time.”

Fortunately, Anne wasn’t really angry, so she accepted my apology right away.

“I was worried about you as well, but Anne was very worried that something might have happened to El.”

“I, I didn’t…!”

Anne, as if she had been lying about being angry just a moment ago, had a flustered expression with her face turning bright red.

“Hehe. Thank you for worrying about me, Anne.”

I hugged the cute Anne tightly to express my gratitude. Since there was quite a height difference, she fit snugly in my arms.

“It’s not like that….”

Anne, not wanting to show her reddened face, turned her head away and denied it in a small voice, but there was no persuasiveness in that appearance.

“…Smells like sweat.”

“Ah! Sorry. I guess I sweated a little from running.”

Was it because I hugged her too tightly? At Anne’s words that she smelled sweat, I released her immediately and took a step back.

The reason I sweated was completely different, but since I couldn’t tell her the reason honestly, I made up a plausible excuse.

“It smelled a lot, didn’t it? Sorry.”

“…I didn’t say I didn’t like it.”

Fortunately, she didn’t seem to be feeling bad, so I felt relieved and turned to Yuri and apologized to her as well.

“Sorry for making you worry. And thank you for worrying about me too, Yuri.”

“No, it’s nothing. But…. Aren’t the clothes you’re wearing now Celie’s clothes?”

“Ah, these? Too many people recognized the clothes I was wearing, so Celie went to the room and brought clothes to change into. It took a little time because of that, but thanks to that, I was able to avoid the eyes of people like this.”

“But there’s no need for it to be Celie’s clothes….”

Yuri, harboring the same question I had, but Yuri stopped speaking and turned to Celian.

“Celie?”

“Ahha…. Ha…. Hey…. Yuri? Could you come over here for a moment?”

She could have just explained it to me like I did, but for some reason, Celian took Yuri far away.

I couldn’t hear them because they were far away, but they were talking about something.

After a while, Celian nodded with a hesitant face and handed Yuri the bag containing my clothes.

“Celie is then satisfied with the clothes she’s wearing now. Got it?”

“Yes….”

The two people, who were talking about something I couldn’t understand, returned to where me and Anne were.

“Why the clothes Celie is wearing? Is there a problem?”

“Ah, it’s nothing. More than that, I’ll put El’s clothes in the room. Celie said that something urgent came up. Right, Celie?”

Celian nodded silently.

But for some reason, her lips were pouting.

Probably the urgent thing that suddenly came up isn’t very welcome.