Chapter 129: A Morning of Accusations and Torturous Tickles

The first thing I saw when I woke up was Presia’s peacefully sleeping face.

If I were in my male body, there might have been an awkward situation in the morning, but fortunately, nothing like that happened in my female body.

I tried to subtly pull my body out as much as possible so as not to wake Presia, who was nestled in my arms, but it was no use, as Presia groggily rubbed one eye and woke up.

“Elysia?”

Presia called me with a voice still full of sleep.

“It’s still early. Get some more sleep.”

I subtly lifted the curtain and saw the sun, which had just risen in the distance, creating a morning glow.

“But…. Aren’t you going back to your room now?”

“Well, yeah. I have an appointment today, so I have to go back and get ready to go out.”

Presia, who was sitting on the sofa and looking at me, still had sleepiness in her eyes.

I woke her up, so it would be right to put her back to sleep.

I approached Presia, slowly laid her back down on the sofa, pulled up the blanket that had slipped down, and covered her.

Presia also seemed to still lack sleep, and she didn’t seem to want to hold me back, so she obediently laid down on the sofa, following my touch, and looked up at me.

“You must be tired from walking around a lot yesterday, so sleep well and wake up.”

I raised my hand and gently stroked her head once, and then again.

Then, Presia tilted her head slightly like a cat and rubbed her face against my hand stroking her head.

Rather, my hand stopped, and her face was stroking my hand.

I felt the corners of my mouth rising as I looked at our little Boss’s cute antics.

“Okay, okay. You can act cute later, so hurry up and get some sleep. You’re already falling asleep, but you’re pushing yourself too hard.”

“No…. I can still stay awake….”

However, her voice was gradually losing strength, and her movements were also gradually slowing down.

I took my hand away from her cheek for a moment and gently swept her bangs back again.

Chu

Just like my mother used to do when I was a child and couldn’t sleep because I was afraid of the dark, I lifted her bangs and lightly kissed her forehead.

Crack

I glanced at her face for a moment, wondering if she was upset by my careless action, but fortunately, she didn’t have a displeased expression.

Rather, she smiled bashfully, and then pulled up the blanket she was holding tightly in her hand and covered her face up to just below her eyes.

“Yeah. I think I can sleep now….”

Fortunately, it had a good effect, and Presia’s attitude, which had been insisting that she could stay awake until just a moment ago, had completely reversed.

As expected, after sitting in place for a while, I soon heard her steady breathing.

Leaving Presia, who had once again traveled to dreamland, behind, I headed to my dormitory room.

As soon as I returned to the dormitory, I was caught by the dormitory supervisor at the entrance.

However, fortunately, my friends, who had received the teddy bear’s note, had made a good excuse to the dormitory supervisor on my behalf, so I was able to get away with just a little scolding without any demerit points.

It was almost time for morning training, but everyone was still asleep, so I stood in front of the door and slowly turned the doorknob.

I turned it slowly, very slowly, so that even the sound of the doorknob turning couldn’t be heard, and I pushed the door slowly, very slowly, so that even the sound of the door opening couldn’t be heard.

As befitting a well-managed dormitory, the door opened slowly without even the sound of creaking hinges.

The room was very dark because the curtains were drawn and the lights were off, so I slowly entered the room, relying on the light seeping in through the crack in the door I had opened.

I carefully closed the door so as not to make any noise, and I tiptoed, lifting my heels to avoid even the sound of footsteps, and looked at the beds.

The first thing that caught my eye was my bed, which was the closest.

On top of my bed, where no one should have been, Anne, who had kicked off the blanket and had her pajamas slightly lifted up, exposing her belly, was sleeping soundly, drooling as if she didn’t know the world.

Whew, fortunately, it doesn’t seem like she woke up at the sound of me coming in.

Well, if an assassin can’t even do this properly, they should go out and die.

The room was so dark that I couldn’t tell if Celian and Yuri were awake, but they were probably sleeping soundly like Anne.

With a satisfied face, I moved my feet and headed towards the bathroom.

By the way, how dark is the room? Even though I’ve adapted to the bright place and came into the dark room, I can barely see around me.

But if I turn on the lights, it might be a nuisance to my friends who are still sleeping, so I moved my feet, vaguely recalling the structure of the room, groping around.

I groped the bed frame and went forward, then passed the bed and groped the table to go forward again.

If I pass the sofa here, the bathroom is….

Squish

?

A sensation that is different from the softness of the sofa, something familiar but unfamiliar.

I looked at the place my hand was resting, and slowly raised my gaze, following the shape.

“Eugiak!”

A strange scream came out of my mouth along with the sound of me rolling on the floor, but I was so surprised that I didn’t care about that.

In the dark darkness where there was no light, two blue eyes were looking down at me, who was groping the sofa and crawling halfway.

Only then did I realize that the place my hand was touching was a person’s thigh.

I tried to get up from the floor, but this time I found another pair of eyes, different from the blue ones, looking down at me.

“Hiek!”

Thud!

I was startled again and recoiled as if a spring had sprung, and ended up hitting my head on the bed leg.

“Kkeueu….”

While clutching my head and writhing in pain on the floor, I heard the sound of the light switch being turned on, and bright light filled the room.

A little while ago, I was used to the bright place, so I couldn’t see the dark room, but in the meantime, I had gotten used to the darkness, so my eyes were so dazzling that I couldn’t open them.

But even after the lights were turned on, only Anne’s snoring was echoing in the room, and there was an awkward silence in the room.

I slowly tried to open my eyes, squinting as I barely adapted to the light again.

…….

“Ehehe….”

I rubbed my still throbbing head with one hand and gave an awkward smile to the two people looking down at me.

“Uung…. Good morning….”

Anne’s voice, greeting me good morning with a pleasant groan, as if she had slept well.

I heard a rustling sound as she was getting out of bed.

“Yuri, what time is it now…. Huh?”

“Oh, hello. Good morning….”

“You’re back, El. But what are you doing?”

Anne, who had been sitting on the bed, rubbing her eyes, with the teddy bear in her arms, asked me after finding me kneeling on the floor, probably because she was caught while delivering the note I had asked her to deliver yesterday.

“Ahaha…. That’s….”

I was about to explain the situation to Anne, but the sound of tsking stopped my descending hands and I raised them again, sticking them to my ears.

“Haam…. I’m going to go wash up first because I have to prepare for the competition.”

However, Anne’s interest in me seemed to be only up to that point, and she yawned loudly and moved her feet towards the bathroom.

Don’t abandon me, Anne! Save me from here!

I shouted a rescue signal towards Anne in my mind, but of course, my mental cries couldn’t be heard, so Anne went straight into the bathroom.

Instead, the teddy bear, who had been released when Anne entered the bathroom, jumped down from the bed.

Yes! You’re the only one who cares about me! Hurry up and save me from here….

The teddy bear approached the door with dainty steps, jumped up, and managed to turn the doorknob to open the door.

The teddy bear, who had put his body through the narrow gap that the door had opened, glanced at me, waved one hand, said goodbye, and left.

No! You’re not supposed to say goodbye and leave, you’re supposed to save me! Please come back!

“El? Should we add 10 more minutes?”

“Ah, no!”

At Celian’s cold voice, I despaired at the sad fact that there was no one to save me and raised my hands again.

“We were worried about El and couldn’t sleep…. But it seems like El slept well?”

“Heueung….”

Yuri came closer and poked my thigh with a sweet smile.

As my legs were numb from kneeling for so long, Yuri’s finger poking my thigh sent shivers up my spine along with the numb sensation.

However, Yuri wasn’t satisfied with just once, and she kept poking my thigh again and again.

There’s a devil here! There’s a devil here!

“Heuek…. P, please stop….”

A strange torture that I had never experienced before, even during my assassin days.

Despite my plea to surrender to the unfamiliar sensation, Yuri didn’t stop poking my thigh, as if she was enjoying it.

It would have been better if I could have surrounded myself with Aura to strengthen my body, but Celian, who is a Sword Master, warned me with a tsking sound every time she saw a sign that I was trying to move my Aura, so I couldn’t do that either.

“Heueung….”

In the end, all I could do was endure the pain while receiving Yuri’s torture, or rather, not torture, in front of Celian, who was watching me.