Hit me

Hit me

I couldn’t help but freeze at the request to spank her bottom.

I never imagined that what she would ask of me in the dead of night would be spanking.

‘This is troublesome.’

Until just a moment ago, I was contemplating how to write my will.

Now that such a foolish request has come in, I thought everything had become ridiculous as I looked at Delia.

‘Does she really want to be spanked?’

Flushed face, reddened cheeks, and heavy breathing, perhaps due to excitement.

I thought Delia looked like a frightened chick, unnecessarily making a ‘peep’ sound, as I spoke.

“Why should you do that?”

At those words, Delia fidgeted and pondered.

Then, as if she had realized something, she spoke to me urgently.

“W-well? Because I did something wrong? Shouldn’t you naturally punish me? Isn’t that right?”

She seems to think it doesn’t make sense even to herself, as she answers me with questions between her words.

Hearing Delia’s response, I smiled slightly and slowly reached out my hand.

“Eep…!”

I merely extended my hand without doing anything, yet Delia flinched and squeezed her eyes shut.

It seems that regardless of asking to be hit, she hasn’t psychologically accepted it yet.

Seeing Delia like this, I inwardly chuckled, then slowly pinched her cheek and said.

“Let me be direct. You didn’t do anything wrong, nor did you make a misguided judgment.”

“……”

“And your actions were done entirely for my sake, so you should be rewarded rather than punished.”

At the mention of a reward, Delia closed her eyes in thought.

Then, opening her eyes wide, she hurriedly said to me.

“Th-then as a reward… spank my bottom.”

That bottom again.

I couldn’t understand what she was fixated on to say such things, so I said to Delia.

“… It’s funny to even ask this now, but why do you keep asking me to spank your bottom?”

To that question, Delia looked at me with an awkward smile and spoke in a hesitant voice.

“W-well, you know?”

… What do you mean, ‘you know?’

As this wasn’t the answer I wanted to hear in this situation, I crossed my arms as if to say I wouldn’t do anything unless she told the truth.

Seeing my stance, Delia hesitated for a while before finally confessing the truth.

“Oh, really! Just say it already!”

“Speak up quickly.”

“W-well… since my chest is much smaller than Rumi’s or Senior Sien’s, I thought it would be better to compete with my bottom instead…”

“What?”

“Ah, no, this isn’t my idea, it’s my friend’s. My friend said that if I let you spank my bottom, you’d fall for me right away. So I had no choice but to…”

At those words, I couldn’t help but hold my forehead.

From the unidentified fur she brought as a lucky charm last time to this incident.

It gave me a headache that this person, who was usually quite sensible, would so casually do such nonsensical things when it came to this topic.

‘What a headache.’

I spoke, thinking about what my past self from 10 minutes ago would say if they saw the situation I’m in now.

“To put it bluntly, this is nonsense.”

“… Is that so?”

“Of course, there might be people who like this kind of situation or timing, but at least not now, so let’s stop and go back.”

I wanted to reject and send her back, not wanting to form too deep a relationship when I didn’t know what would happen after the ending.

But Delia, not wanting that, shook her head quickly and said to me.

“No.”

At those words, just as I was about to forcefully push Delia out,

Delia, faster than that, lifted her underwear slightly, showing her bottom, and shouted.

“I won’t go until you sp-spank me!”

And then, as if to show her firm resolve,

She started to wiggle her bottom slightly towards me, as if tempting me, like a puppy.

Seeing this, I thought that if I left things as they were, she would go on endlessly.

Thinking it would be better to spank her lightly and send her back, I answered briefly.

“Don’t regret it.”

“Huh… huh? Okay.”

Delia, seemingly not expecting me to actually spank her, nodded with a bewildered expression.

As I approached Delia, I inwardly sighed.

‘How did it come to this.’

Of course, as a man, I don’t dislike this situation… But if I indulge in it endlessly.

The goals I need to achieve will become blurry, and I’ll end up chasing only immediate pleasure.

Deciding to keep things moderate at least until work is done, I lightly slapped Delia’s bottom.

– Smack!

“Eek!”

Delia trembled and flinched at the moment of impact.

Then, rubbing her bottom with her hand, she spoke to me with a slightly tearful face.

“You… you hit too hard.”

“Isn’t it normal to hit hard when it’s meant to hurt?”

“No…! I didn’t mean just hit to hurt… Oh, never mind!”

Delia, seemingly having a moment of realization about this situation, got up from the bed and covered her face.

Then, pulling down her nightgown that had risen up to her navel, she said to me.

“Idiot.”

“You too.”

“How can you be so stubborn about not losing an argument!”

At those words, I silently shrugged my shoulders.

Delia made a face full of mischief, stuck out her tongue, and then ran out as if escaping.

As I was sighing, thinking that it would finally be quiet in this sudden silence.

Suddenly, Delia came back in, put down a piece of cloth on the floor, and said.

“It’s my underwear. Want to keep it?”

“……”

I decided I couldn’t take it anymore and called Delia in a somewhat serious voice.

“… Delia.”

“Oh, what is it?”

“Come here for a moment. I have something to say.”

Not expecting me to call her like this, Delia came inside with an expression mixed with anticipation and tension.

I pinched Delia’s cheek tightly again and said.

“If you keep acting up any more than this, I’ll kick you out of the house. Stop it and go to your room and sleep quietly.”

“Neeeh.”

Hearing my words, she nodded with a disappointed expression and went straight out.

‘This is driving me crazy.’

While she’s helpful in many ways, at times like this, I think she’s rather the main cause of my headache. As I was about to get back to work.

I noticed the piece of cloth that Delia had dropped earlier.

I wanted to ignore it if possible, but.

Since it was lying in ‘my room’, it could raise suspicion from the maids or Rumi who would come to clean later.

Reluctantly, I picked it up to return it to Delia, and at that moment.

“Ah.”

Just as Delia opened the door and came in again, our eyes met.

Seeing her underwear in my hand, Delia showed signs of embarrassment, her ears turning red.

Then, pretending as if nothing happened, she waved her hand and said.

“I-I’m glad you seem to like it…!”

That one word was all it took for me to lose my patience.

I gave Delia a strong flick on the forehead.

* * *

‘Always causing trouble in the strangest ways.’

As I was petting Luna while deciding to discipline Delia later.

Luna looked at me and tilted her head.

[Master, why didn’t you mate?]

I sighed at that question and replied.

“You don’t need to know.”

[Master, you’re stupid!]

Now even Luna is causing trouble.

Thinking that I can’t have a single peaceful day, I let out a hollow laugh and slowly turned my gaze.

‘In any case, I should start preparing for the next step.’

Fighting the Demon King was almost certain now.

I needed to quickly finish the spatial expansion magic and then start researching the next stage, ‘spatial transformation’ magic.

‘I’ll need to think more about how to apply spatial transformation.’

It was certainly more difficult than spatial expansion and compression magic.

As I was stretching, thinking this might take the longest research period yet.

Luna licked her front paw and said to me.

[Master! I want to study too!]

“Study?”

[Okay! I want to enhance curse magic too!]

After pondering for a moment, I told her to go ahead.

After all, Luna getting stronger was also related to my combat power increasing.

I nodded, deciding to think about ways to use this later.

‘Then for today, I’ll rest and do some research, and when tomorrow morning comes…’

I decided to tell Rumi about the things I heard from Delia.