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199 – Why Does My Appearance Come from a Fantasy?

199 – Why Does My Appearance Come from a Fantasy?

…….

Silence settled in the store.

Meiko wordlessly put on her panties and skirt.

With her face bright red, Meiko kept her head down the entire time she changed clothes, not saying a word.

“……”

Seated at the table in the workshop, Meiko’s face was red all the way to her ears.

With her ears flushed red, she couldn’t say anything and just rubbed her thighs together with her hands between them.

Meiko was at a loss for what to do.

And I just quietly watched her like that.

What could I possibly say?

After hearing from an employee “The boss’s master was caught masturbating while calling out the boss’s name!”, what words could be said?

There aren’t many things one can say after hearing that a respected master masturbates while calling out your name.

Frelia, who had created this situation, was watching Meiko and me carefully.

Perhaps she regretted blurting it out impulsively.

Frelia also had a red face as she kept her mouth tightly shut.

The reasons for their blushing were likely different.

“Phew.”

I let out a deep sigh to break the silence.

This wasn’t going anywhere at this rate.

I had to resolve this somehow.

For that, we needed to talk.

“Master.”

“No!”

“…I haven’t even said anything yet.”

“I know what you’re thinking! So no!”

“……”

My master couldn’t look me in the face, her cheeks bright red.

I looked at Meiko like that.

Meiko glanced at me and cried out again.

“I said no!”

“I’m telling you, I didn’t say anything?”

“Y-you’re speaking with your eyes! Saying your master did… that!”

“……”

I did have that thought.

That my master Meiko had secretly masturbated in our store while calling out my name.

I’m only human, it’s embarrassing.

How could it not be?

I couldn’t speak properly as I ran countless simulations in my head trying to figure out how to steer the conversation.

Though younger than me, she was my master – a mage who had achieved far greater things.

While she sometimes acted immaturely and occasionally spent our school’s budget recklessly, I had never once doubted her abilities.

I’d heard over and over that if she hadn’t been in the Illusion school, she would have been a genius mage who could dominate the era.

‘She actually did achieve such results.’

To think such a respectable person had used me as material…

‘I had my suspicions.’

In the past, I had once witnessed Meiko’s sexual tendencies through an illusion in our store.

-Sis…

A young boy version of me clung to Meiko.

Seeing me like that, Meiko’s face was flushed with excitement as she didn’t know what to do.

That image was still vivid in my mind.

I helped satisfy Meiko, bringing her to climax over and over until she was finally content and able to end the illusion.

So I had roughly deduced she had that kind of hobby.

‘Who in the world doesn’t comfort themselves sometimes.’

Even Meiko, called a world-class genius, could masturbate.

It was just a bit shocking that I was the subject.

I looked at Meiko vehemently denying it in front of me.

“Really, you didn’t?”

“I-I’m telling you I didn’t!”

“Then are you saying Frelia lied?”

At those words, Meiko looked at Frelia.

“Th-that’s right! The employee must have seen wrong in her sleepy state! There’s no way the continent’s greatest mage would do such a thing!”

“Hmm…”

I looked at Frelia, who was standing there silently like a guilty person.

“Then I suppose we’ll have to punish Frelia for daring to lie to me.”

“What?”

“Wh-what?”

The two of them(?) were surprised.

They looked at me with wide eyes.

“That’s right. If what Master says is true, then you, Frelia, dared to say insulting things about my master. That my respected master secretly came to her disciple’s store at night, took off her skirt and panties, and masturbated while calling out her disciple’s name.”

“Ugh…”

As I listed each point, Meiko squirmed in embarrassment, not knowing what to do.

“That’s an act that tarnishes Master’s honor. Our master is a mage respected even in the Empire.”

“W-well, Boss…”

Frelia was flustered.

And Meiko was even more flustered than her.

“The crime of daring to insult my master can’t be punished with an ordinary penalty.”

“B-Boss?”

“First there will be physical punishment, then compensation for damaging Master’s honor. You may have to work without pay for several years. Like a slave who’s lost their freedom.”

“……”

Meiko’s face twisted with guilt.

“B-but Boss…”

“You have nowhere else to go if I don’t take you in, right? Isn’t this better than begging on the streets or living under threat to your life?”

“Th-that’s… I-I really…”

That’s when it happened.

“F-fine! I-I did it!”

Meiko cried out, unable to bear the guilt.

“Did what?”

“D-do I have to say it?”

“You’re admitting you lied, right? So you need to tell me what lie you told.”

“Y-you really…”

Meiko’s face was already as red as it could possibly get.

She looked at me and bit her lip, her face looking like it might burst at any moment, then squeezed her eyes shut.

“Fine! I’ll tell you everything! What I did!”

With her eyes tightly closed, Meiko blurted out in a rush:

“I masturbated while imagining your naked body as a young boy! I imagined you calling me ‘Master’ and clinging to me, rubbing your face against my chest! I rubbed my p-p-pussy while imagining your inexperienced little dick searching for my pussy! There, happy now?”

You didn’t have to say it so explicitly.

After rattling it all off, Meiko glared at me with tear-filled eyes, her face burning red.

A look that said “Are you satisfied now?”

Frelia beside her was also shocked, her mouth hanging open.

“Um, well… So…”

Frelia tried desperately to change the mood, but couldn’t get the words out properly.

I stood up and approached Meiko.

“You did it with the young me from the illusion?”

“……”

As I approached, Meiko flinched in surprise, her body trembling.

Where did that confident shouting from earlier go? Her cowering figure looked like a baby deer.

“Why my younger self specifically? There are plenty of other people. The Magic Department and magic schools had quite a few handsome men to your liking, didn’t they?”

As far as I knew, Meiko preferred pale, delicate people like mages.

Plus, I knew she liked people who listened well to what she said.

She also liked people who understood tea well and could brew various types.

On the other hand, I wasn’t delicate, nor was I particularly good at listening to others. My skin was a bit pale, but I didn’t have much understanding of tea.

I just used what I was gifted.

I didn’t think I was Meiko’s type.

Rather, I thought Colden, called the next head of the school at Goldmoon, was more Meiko’s type.

That man was exactly her type.

Delicate pale skin, good listener, and deeply knowledgeable about tea.

He looked a bit unpleasant, but was definitely handsome.

But come to think of it, her illusions always featured a young ‘Max’.

“Th-that’s…”

Meiko stammered at my question, unable to answer.

“…cause.”

She mumbled something in a voice so quiet it was barely audible.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t catch that.”

“…Because you’re my only disciple.”

Meiko looked at me as she spoke.

“B-because you’re the only disciple I can understand and embrace… Th-that’s why you appeared… I-I think.”

Our master, intimidated at the end, mumbling her words.

I was speechless at Meiko’s words.

It was truly unexpected.

That statement – that I appeared in her illusions because I was her disciple – was surprising.

After all,

I thought I didn’t match her preferences very well.

But Meiko had put those preferences aside and thought of me first, for the reason that I was her disciple.

‘Is this what they call a master’s love?’

Ah, how touching. A master’s love.

Then as a disciple, I should naturally repay it.

“I understand.”

“Wh-what?”

“I understand better than anyone how you think of me, Master. It’s my fault as your disciple for not realizing until you were consumed by such desires.”

“Wh-why are you like this?”

“I’ll repay you.”

“With what?”

“I’ll take care of all those desires that have embarrassed you, Master.”

“W-wait a minute Max, you don’t mean…?”

“We should finish what was interrupted by an uninvited guest.”

“D-disciple! Just wait…”

I looked at Frelia.

“Frelia, I’ll need your help.”

“Yes, Boss.”

No matter how skilled Master is in illusion magic, she won’t be able to break through an illusion created by a succubus and myself together.

“Oh, Boss. And if you use this Bretilla flower, you can create an even more realistic illusion.”

Wait, what?

“Bretilla flower? Master, is this what you were looking for?”

“I-I did find it, but…”

For some reason, Meiko couldn’t look at me properly.

“Boss, actually this flower is something that only unbelievable perverts can find…”

“S-stop talking!”

Meiko’s face turned red again at Frelia’s words.

Judging by her outburst at being called a pervert, it seemed something must have happened in the process of finding this.

Master’s dignity is taking quite a beating today.

But.

“Frelia, how do you know about this?”

“You know, Boss. I’m also a hopeless pervert.”

Frelia smiled suggestively.

She crossed her legs and crept towards me.

Seeing Frelia do that, Meiko suddenly stood up and placed herself between me and Frelia.

“S-stop right there!”

“What are you doing?”

“It’s just… I felt like you might be in danger if I didn’t.”

Meiko’s chest heaved as she breathed.

What an adorably younger master.

Showing this side of herself is why I can’t stop teasing her.

Though she gives me trouble sometimes, my master is certainly fun to tease.

“I’ll make sure you can properly enjoy the illusion.”

“……”

She bit her lower lip.

Meiko looked back at me and spoke carefully.

“B-be gentle.”

As she spoke with flushed cheeks, looking as if she had given up on everything, an indescribable charm was blossoming from her.

‘Was Master always this pretty?’