episode_0020

“Han, I fell in love at first sight! Please marry me!!!!!”

“… … …?”

The next morning, Friday was a day off, so I was on my way to the study group when I met Elfin, which was nice. However, I saw a calico cat for the first time, and out of nowhere, I received a marriage proposal.

“If the marriage is too fast, please accept it!!”

As I was wondering how to respond, Elfin hit the calico cat on the back of the head.

“Chesha, didn’t you clearly say yesterday that a pretty person is pretty no matter how pretty they are?”

“But Princess!! I’ve never seen such a pretty girl in my life!!!!”

A female calico cat named Chesha is raving about Elfin. This character is interesting because she doesn’t appear in the game.

“Ms. Chesha? Nice to meet you. My name is Ain Frostgarm.”

“Ah, ah! Nice to meet you! Just call me Chesha. Ain’t that Baron Youngsik of Ain Frostgarm!”

I bow my head to her greeting and look at Elfin, demanding an explanation.

“…Humpty and Dumpty withdrew at the Empress’s order, and my subordinate Chesha came instead.”

“Ah, so the surveillance is over now?”

“That’s right.”

“Huh? Isn’t it a secret that Senior Humpty and Senior Dumpty were guarding the princess?”

“That’s not what I said. Ain noticed.”

It was clearly my story, but it sounded strangely like something Elfin would brag about, so I decided to keep quiet.

“Ahaa~ This~ Humpty Dumpty seniors are also past their prime this~”

Chesha places her hands on the back of her head with her fingers clasped together and laughs, “Kyahaha.” It looks so cheerful and seems to fit well with Elfin.

“Are you a night crow?”

This time, Chesha’s eyes widened at my words again.

“Do you know the night crow too?”

“Yes, somehow.”

“This is a bit much. There are quite a few people among the high-ranking nobles who don’t believe in the Night Raven.”

Chesha nodded and returned to the main topic.

“But Ain, are you okay?”

“Yes, no.”

“Why?”

As Chesha delves into something no female has ever asked me directly before, I briefly cross my arms and collect my thoughts.

While he was looking at Elfin, he didn’t know why he was so nervous.

“…Would you believe me if I told you that Chesha was the first female in my life to directly say, ‘Accept me into the pack’?”

“I don’t believe it.”

“Surprisingly, it’s true. And well, there are some things I didn’t really feel the need for… That’s right.”

In response to my answer, Chesha gave Elfin a pitiful look, which was extremely disrespectful.

“Is that right, Your Highness?”

“… … …Is it okay for a subordinate to look at the princess like that, Chesha?”

“Isn’t this a top-down issue…”

Chesha sighs at Elfin’s pitiful answer.

It was fun to watch Chesha whine to Elfin to follow her, but she ended up getting dragged away after getting hit in the back of the head again by Elfin.

“Okay, see you later. Ain.”

“I’ll see you sometime this weekend. Good work on the lecture!”

When I smiled and waved my hand, Elfin smiled faintly, and Chesha, who had come to her senses, waved both arms wildly in greeting.

“Your Highness, I will specially give you the number 1 female seat.”

“Among the females targeting Ain, there are the Duke of Moratium’s daughter, the Marquis Anastasia’s daughter, the Duke of Knight Sustained’s daughter, the Marquis Goldbunny’s daughter, and the Count of Iron Foxtrot’s daughter.”

“This~~is~~undoubtedly last place~~This is so sad because it’s not even a title~”

As I watch the two people moving away talking, I grab them again and head back to the study group.

“Oh, it’s Ain. Hello~~”

As I entered the club room, leaving behind the unicorn-like gazes of the females belonging to other nearby clubs, only Hoyo was still inside.

“Senior Hoyo, it’s not good for your spine.”

Hoyo, who was reading a book in a posture that obviously looked bad for his spine, ended up lying down on the long sofa because of my nagging.

“…That’s better.”

“Ah~~ But if I lie down and read a book, I fall asleep right away.”

Even though Hoyo grumbles like that, her eyes are sparkling as she looks at the book. The book she is reading this time has the title, ‘I was a porter for the warrior party, but I was kicked out of the party and became the target.’

“The title is really long.”

“Ah, back in the day, there were simple titles like ‘Sanya the Red-Eyed’ or ‘The Melancholy of Count Sumire Haru’s Young Lady’. But as time went by, it became trendy to make the titles long so that the content could be intuitively understood just by looking at them.”

If you look through the bookshelves around you while listening to Hoyo’s explanation, you will see many titles like “My childhood friend can’t be this cute”, “No matter how much I think about it, it’s you guys’ fault that I can’t join the group”, and “I don’t want to get hurt, so I’ll only take defense classes at the academy”.

I sit down on the empty space on the sofa above Hoyo’s head and open ‘Summoning Beasts’, which I’ve been watching for several days.

“Are you still reading that?”

Hoyo looks up and asks, looking at the title of the book I’m reading.

“I’ve almost finished reading it. I’m afraid that if I read it in my private room, it will interfere with my sleep, so I only read it in the study group.”

After talking up to that point, we quietly focused on reading the book.

All I could hear was the sound of the pages turning, and then suddenly I realized that I was the only one turning the pages. When I came to my senses, I realized that I was unconsciously stroking Hoyo’s head (as if I was stroking a pet) while reading the book.

“…woooo~~”

Hoyo seemed embarrassed and covered his face with the book he was reading, silently enduring(?) me stroking his head.

“Oh, sorry. I didn’t know…”

I smiled sheepishly and removed my hand, and Hoyo got up and stroked his hair. His face, covered by the book, his ears, the side of his face, his neck, and even his collarbone were all bright red.

“Okay, it’s okay.”

As soon as Hoyo answers like that, the club room door opens and Bandi and Bam come in.

“Hoyo and Ain were here. …Hoyo, where does it hurt? Your face is really red? ”

“That idiot doesn’t have any apples. He must have done something with Ain.”

Although Bandi was worried when he saw Hoyo’s flushed face, Bam glared at Hoyo and sat down in the chairman’s seat. Perhaps because he was hit on the nail on the head, Hoyo only made a ‘woo-woo’ sound as he crawled away.

“What did you do?”

To Bandi’s question, I shrugged my shoulders and answered.

“Ah, I was reading and without realizing it, I patted Senior Hoyo’s head.”

“Hmm.”

As I stared at Hoyo for a long time at my answer, Hoyo’s upper chest turned bright red and he said, “Chairman, you should do it too,” and blew himself up.

But when I looked up at the night, the night coughed in vain and turned its head away, pretending not to know.

“Is it a big deal to stroke someone’s head?”

“It’s a common cliche in books, but the scene where the male gives the female a lap pillow and strokes her head is always in high demand. It’s something every female dreams of.”

I nodded at Bandi’s explanation.

“Then how about making today’s meeting topic of the miscellaneous book research group ‘Do male lap pillows actually feel good?’?”

When I half-jokingly threw in a joke, the three of them looked at each other with a very mysterious expression on their faces. It was as if an alien had come to Earth and asked, ‘This is a time machine. Would you like to try it out?’

“Do you have earplugs?”

In response to my question, Hoyo (irreverently) pushes the chair he was sitting in with his butt while he is sitting naked on the chair, finds an earplug, and puts it in my hand.

“Hey, Hoyo, you…”

“I think it would be best for the chairman to try it first.”

Night tried to say something to Hoyo, but was stopped by Hoyo’s player and couldn’t continue speaking. Instead, he just looked back and forth between me and the earplugs in my hand, mumbling silently.

The night, when I was struggling like a Buddhist standing before Mara, approached me with a timid expression on my face, as if I had lost my country, as I smiled and tapped my knee.

“Okay, Chairman.”

“Ha, haa…”

As I grabbed her sleeve and pulled her (even though she could have resisted it), Bam lay down on the sofa and very carefully placed her head on my thigh.

To be exact, I put my head on her thigh, but she doesn’t want to touch me like a superconductor, so I gently press the side of her head to make it comfortable.

“Ugh, ugh, whoosh… …!!”

The night moans, and after a while her face seems to turn red as her thighs feel warm.

“If you feel sick, please tell me, Chairman.”

“Oh oh…”

As I gently grabbed Bam’s ear and began to carefully clean it, Bam’s body completely froze, and Hoyo and Bandi became very nervous and watched us intently.

“Chairman, what do you think?”

“Ugh, ugh…”

“What are you saying?”

“I guess it’s so incredible that I can’t even speak.”

“Haaug, ugh!”

“What is this?”

“I guess Ain is in a really good mood because she’s so good at cleaning ears.”

“Ugh, hoooo…”

Since there was nothing coming out of his ears, as if he was taking good care of his body, he moved the ear pick with his right hand and gently massaged his ear with his left hand, which was holding Bam’s ear.

The night, which had been groaning and trembling for a while, seemed to have passed the critical point and sagged with a deflating sound.

“Hiuuu…”

“So what’s next?”

After moving the stretched-out chestnut to the chairman’s sofa, I looked back and forth between Hoyo and Bandi. The two of them had very tense expressions and neither of them moved, but when Bandi suddenly let out a ‘Wow!’ sound and started to move, it was clear that Hoyo had pushed him.

“Come here, Senior Bandi.”

“Poem, it won’t be on the test…”

Bandido mutters something that sounds like something straight out of a ninja tale and lies down with his head resting on my thigh, guided by my hand.

Bandi is a lop-eared woman, so she spreads her droopy ears and starts cleaning them. Perhaps because of her racial characteristics, she moans and flinches more than usual, but soon loses strength and droops again.

“Heehee…”

“Then lastly, Hoyo-senpai?”

I felt a sense of accomplishment as if I had dug my son’s ears when he was little, so I immediately moved to the sofa where Hoyo was sitting and laid her down.

“Heek, heeeek.”

After I finished with Hoyo, who had grown weary the fastest out of the three, I put the earplugs back in their place and patted the three of them on the buttocks to get them up.

“So, how was it?”

The three people who had barely managed to get up were silent for a long time.

“Was it not that good?”

“That…was very good…”

I tilt my head in confusion at Bam’s sudden appearance of using formal language. Was it not so good?

“I, I, I have something I left behind at the dorm…”

As Bandi leaves the clubroom with a bright red face, Bam and Hoyo also follow Bandi out of the clubroom, muttering something or other.

“…What the heck?”

I don’t know why, but since I was alone for a while, I read a book by myself for about 30 minutes, and then the door to the club room opens and the three people, who look much more refreshed, reappear.

“Are you here?”

“Ahem, hmmm, gulp… Ah, nothing happened.”

Night spoke with a slightly blushed face, and Hoyo and Bandido nodded behind me, so I gave a vague ‘yes’ and focused on the book again. This was the part where it got really interesting.

“You, you guys, did you do it too?”

“How can you not take it out after receiving something like that?”

“I thought it was leaking out between my legs. I’m scared someone might have seen it.”

It seemed like the three of them were whispering something, but since the book they were reading was nearing its climax, I could barely make out their voices.

“Then that’s the conclusion… The effect is somewhat reduced.”

“If a book ends with a scene with a lap pillow and ear cleaning and the main character is depicted as normal, it’s clear that the writer has no experience.”

“Come to think of it, in ‘S-Class Slave’, the main character who got his ears cleaned was fidgety. It seems the writer has experience. The ratings are bound to go up.”

“I think it’s safe to say that a book that describes falling asleep while having your ears cleaned has no experience.”

“Are you sleepy while receiving this? This is ridiculous.”

I guess I’m lucky that my seniors talk to me quietly, as if they don’t want to disturb me while I’m reading.

“How are you three?”

When I finished reading the climax part and asked, the three of them became dumbfounded.

“Uh… Is it not that great?”

Then the three of them shook their heads.

“Then shall I do it again next time?”

The three people looked at each other for a moment and didn’t say anything. However, judging from the way Hoyo nodded faintly, it didn’t seem to be a bad thing. That’s good.