Chapter 24

“No matter how interested you are in women, Young Master, you shouldn’t be walking around with your upper body exposed like that. Do you understand?”

“Yes… that’s the fourth time you’ve said that…”

“I’m saying it because it’s that important. Someone who hasn’t even made their debut shouldn’t behave like that.”

“Yes… yes…”

I lectured Kyle.

Of course, I wasn’t the only one—Adela joined in too.

“Brother… do you have an exhibitionist tendency?”

“What kind of nonsense is that, Adela…”

“How could you take off your clothes no matter how hot it is? Hmm?”

“Sigh…”

Adela was lecturing Kyle almost as much as I was.

Kyle probably found Adela’s scolding harder to bear than mine.

It was something like… the kind of scolding that triggered automatic defensive reactions.

“Well, I guess since that female knight is pretty, brother wanted to seduce her by taking off his clothes. Your little sister understands everything.”

“Adela, I’m telling you it’s a misunderstanding…”

It seemed like she was partly just teasing him.

Kyle might not realize it, but as a woman, I could tell.

That Adela was just joking around now.

“Young Master, if you need a woman…”

So I decided to join in on the joke.

“How about using me instead?”

“…”

“I’m just kidding.”

“……”

“……”

Suddenly, the atmosphere became awkward.

Adela also lost her words.

Why?

Weren’t we teasing Kyle together…?

“Sofia, that kind of talk doesn’t seem quite right.”

“…Is that so…?”

Apparently my joke didn’t amuse them.

I thought it would be funny enough.

“Sofia, you… let’s not joke about such things.”

“Yes…”

“Sofia…..”

“What is it, Louise?”

The question “what” was unnecessary.

I already knew why she was calling me.

“I… lost everything….”

“What?”

Finally, it was complete.

A 7-year magic slave exclusively for Eristirol.

“…The money I received last time…. I lost it all!!”

“Why did you lose it?”

“…..”

Louise couldn’t answer easily.

Yes, it was clear she couldn’t resist and spent it all on gambling.

That’s why she approached me like this as soon as she saw me.

“I… I really tried to hold back this time….”

But you couldn’t, right?

Go on, say it.

“I couldn’t hold back and spent it all!”

“Really?”

Thank goodness.

The large expenditure wasn’t an expenditure at all but returned as profit…

Honestly, I was worried that maybe Louise wouldn’t blow it all, but fortunately, the plan succeeded.

Thanks to this, the domain’s funds could be used for better purposes.

It was a structure where both the gambling house operators and we benefited.

A truly excellent arrangement.

“What should I do now?!”

“Hmm? Isn’t it fine since the castle provides food and lodging? You don’t have any other expenses, right?”

“Ah…!”

I didn’t actually intend to screw Louise over.

I genuinely wanted things to work out well for her too.

Gambling so much was dangerous.

I planned this because I thought she needed to get badly burned once to come to her senses.

“So can’t you just live like you normally do? Right?”

“I guess so…!”

She must be smart considering her magic abilities, but she had many moments of stupidity.

Well… if she could properly use her head, she wouldn’t gamble.

It was fortunate that she at least used her head well when it came to magic.

If Louise lacked talent in magic too… she would probably have lived dangerously in many ways.

“Right, just stay in the castle as usual and you’ll be fine.”

“That’s right! I must have worried too much!”

Today, Louise’s unusual eyes looked even more foolish than usual.

“Then I’ll go teach Kyle now!”

“Okay.”

Teaching, huh. Louise probably wouldn’t do anything strange like someone else.

Louise didn’t seem interested in men, so that was certain.

“Kyle~”

“Yes.”

“What’s wrong with your expression?”

Only Kyle and Louise were in the room for the magic lesson.

Louise was puzzled looking at Kyle’s face.

Somehow his face was redder today, and he seemed unable to focus properly.

“Did something happen?”

“…Nothing happened.”

“Huh?”

Despite his words, Kyle’s condition didn’t look good even to Louise’s eyes.

Louise thought he looked worse than she did when she told Sofia she had blown all her money.

That’s how bad he looked.

“Um… did something happen because of Sofia?”

“How did you…”

“So it is about Sofia?”

People around don’t have a very good opinion of Louise.

That was natural since Louise never properly observed etiquette and was always gambling or engaging in eccentric behavior.

Even Sofia, her closest friend, always called Louise a crazy woman.

“She said something weird again, didn’t she?”

But despite such evaluations, Louise was smarter than others thought.

She was also perceptive.

“She used to say weird things when she was an adventurer too. I figured she’d do it again.”

“…Was she like that back then too?”

“Yes. Doesn’t she casually touch men and say strange things with her mouth?”

“…..”

Kyle couldn’t refute Louise’s words.

They were all undeniable truths.

Every time she wiped his body tired from lessons with Elin, wiping his chest, abs, back—his entire upper body—he couldn’t help but have strange thoughts.

Having those large breasts close to him while she continuously wiped him down was too dangerous for a man.

“She doesn’t even realize how pretty she is. And her breasts are huge.”

“….”

It might be a bit crude, but it wasn’t wrong.

She had the largest size among the women around Kyle.

Catherine, whom he had met before, was young, and Elin had what could be called a very average size.

And Louise, who was in front of Kyle, was indeed large.

But compared to Sofia, she was small.

“Don’t you think so too? I may be crazy, but… isn’t she the real crazy one?!”

“…..”

Kyle couldn’t refute.

Sofia was indeed crazy in many ways.

Sofia’s wide hips that looked like they could bear children well, and breasts that children would enjoy both feeding from and touching.

That alone was crazy, but her appearance was also incredible.

So inevitably, she always became the material for Kyle’s “happy time.”

Though no one knew that fact.

“She doesn’t even know how crazy men are about those breasts and that butt, and she just makes weird jokes… It’s not like she masturbates regularly… If that’s the case, she should just give it to me…”

“…”

The lesson time suddenly became a time to gossip about Sofia behind her back, but Kyle didn’t try to stop Louise.

It was something Kyle couldn’t help but acknowledge.

“Still… she’s a good person.”

“That’s true. If she wasn’t kind, how could she still consider someone like me who gambles all day a friend?”

“That’s…”

Kyle began to seriously consider whether he should agree or disagree here.

‘If she knows that, why does she still gamble…?’

Many people knew that Louise gambled.

Even Elin, Kyle’s swordsmanship instructor, knew about it.

On top of that, the maids and servants knew too, so Kyle couldn’t help but know.

“…I don’t do it because I want to. It’s unavoidable….”

Louise, crazily addicted to gambling.

She never thought about treating her addiction, but she had tried to resist it.

However, after two months, she would end up gambling again.

Before discovering gambling, she used to engage in other eccentric behaviors.

For example, she would cast a spell on herself to make her body lighter and then fall into the river to float with the current.

Even just from what Sofia knew, there were more than ten such stories.

“Anyway, about Sofia, what did she do this time to make you like this? Just tell me once. It’ll be our secret.”

After thinking for a moment, Kyle told Louise about what happened yesterday.

The story about using her body and so on.

“….Crazy woman.”

Louise genuinely cursed Sofia.

Though Sofia wouldn’t hear it, she was truly serious.

“How can a woman suggest using her body like that?! No matter what, I’ve never sold my body or anything!!!”

“Selling her body… that’s not what she—”

“What’s the difference between asking if you’d like to use her body and selling it?!”

“…..”

“Does she really not know how men react when she says such things with those breasts of hers? Isn’t she an elite who graduated from a boarding school? Huh?!”

“…..”

“Is she just trying to seduce you? Wait, is that really it?!!”

“Isn’t that jumping to conclusions…?”

It was indeed jumping to conclusions.

Sofia was truly a blockhead who still didn’t understand that she appeared arousing to men.

Although she graduated from boarding school with high grades, due to the influence of her past life, she failed to properly recognize her own attractiveness.

The two of them, unaware of these circumstances, truly couldn’t understand Sofia’s intentions.

“No, think about it, Kyle… She wakes you up every day with that body? She follows you around constantly. And whenever something happens, she presses those breasts against you while wiping your sweat… If this isn’t seduction, what is it??!”

“….No matter what, Sofia wouldn’t think that way. Sofia is like my tutor…”

“You were super turned on by her!! I can tell just by looking at you!!”

“…..”

Kyle could no longer open his mouth.