episode_0076

They return to the reception room where Isabella and Tiara are.

As they were people who shared secrets and helped each other, they were exchanging information they had found out and sharing opinions.

“Okay, well then, we can stop this conversation here. By the way, what’s suddenly the matter?”

“Hmm? Why are you doing that? Looking at this lady like that.”

“I’m talking because of that face of yours. You took out a paper from your bosom during the conversation and looked at it, then suddenly started grinning. What is it? That strange expression.”

“Heh heh heh… Goodness, it seems it all showed on my face without this lady realizing. Just now, good news came, so I shall apologize.”

At her reaction, which was unpleasantly bright and positive unlike usual, Tiara felt vaguely displeased but also curious.

“…Hmph, doing something that doesn’t suit you, you see. What kind of news is it?”

“Oh oh, yes. Come to think of it, this is information that you, too, cannot help but be curious about.”

It was just something she threw out casually, but Isabella replied with a smile as if she had been waiting for that question.

“This is none other than about that R.O.P.E.L. T.E.U.F.E.L.”

Saying his name slowly, bit by bit like that, Isabella fluttered the paper she had in her bosom gently back and forth.

Something in the paper she was holding could be seen as a picture, but it wasn’t clearly visible from this distance.

However, Tiara, who soon focused her gaze and vaguely identified the shape in the photo, was startled and couldn’t help but pounce on Isabella.

“Wait..! That paper, Ropel’s? What, where did you get that?”

The curly black hair and black eyes visible in the photo, the good-looking appearance, and the manly, sturdy build – the man was clearly Ropel Teufel.

However, if it had just been a normal photo containing his appearance, Tiara would have had no reason to get this excited.

The reason she was so excited and pressing Isabella was that his appearance in the photo was not normal.

“Ah~ You must not treat such a precious photo carelessly. First, if you don’t calm down, this lady cannot show it to you with a clear mind.”

“Gah..! Give it here..! You… this bitch..!”

Isabella used telekinetic magic to fly the photo precariously in the air, almost but not quite within reach of Tiara’s hands.

Tiara swung her hands like a cat batting with its paws, raising both hands high to grab the photo.

Only after teasing the Princess thoroughly like that until Isabella was tired of it, was Ropel’s photo finally able to fall into Tiara’s hands.

Tiara, who finally got the photo in her hands, said,

“Ro… Ropel… a photo like this..? Th… That can’t be…!”

In the photo, Ropel was wearing minimal cloth, in lecherous attire that showed a lot of his bare skin here and there.

Furthermore, the pose was quite something, and even while holding the photo in both hands and looking at it right in front of her, she couldn’t believe her eyes.

As a person of the imperial family, and further, as a child of the Emperor, it was a photo so shameful that one absolutely should not see it, but she was unable to take her eyes off the photo, and merely stared intently at it with a face flushed bright red.

Then, she suddenly flicked her head around and looked towards Isabella with wide, round eyes.

Although she didn’t utter a single word, being startled by the content of the photo, Isabella instinctively understood that she was asking about the source of this photo.

“The source of the photo is Ropel; it came from him. He and I haven’t been able to meet each other for a long time, during the end of the semester. So it was just a simple request to take a picture of himself simply to alleviate longing. I never expected that he would send such a provocative and seductive photo. When that image first came to mind from the paper in my bosom… Ah, truly, this lady also doubted her own eyes.”

“R-really? Ro… Ropel took this photo himself and sent it…?”

Tiara couldn’t believe Isabella’s words.

However, while Isabella sometimes inflated her words with exaggeration or bluffing, she never included lies.

If so. This photo, according to her words, meant that Ropel himself took the pose and took this photo containing his own appearance.

As that thought came to mind, her gaze returned to Ropel in the photo, and she observed his appearance closely.

In the photo showing only his upper body, what first draws one’s attention is, as expected, his face.

His curly hair looked as if it was wet with sweat, the hair holding moisture hung along his face, sticking wetly.

Below that, his eyes were half-closed, his black pupils were wet, giving a strangely lewd yet even piteous feeling.

Furthermore, his face was flushed bright red as if excited, and his face in the photo, which combined these elements, was truly…

Gulp… To the extent that just looking at it made one swallow without realizing it.

And was it just his face? His body, too, was in a quite unconventional state.

The clothes he was wearing were merely a t-shirt he usually liked to wear, but for some reason, it was stretched out here and there, revealing his bare skin as it was.

Rolled-up sleeves exposed his trained, thick forearms and veins as they were, and the neck part was stretched long enough to show his chest and nipples.

The sight of his chest and abs, wet with sweat and glistening, being laid bare, could truly only be described as lecherous.

It didn’t end there. Bright red marks that looked like lipstick marks were visible in various places on his exposed bare skin.

“Did he draw… draw these lipstick marks himself..? Hah… But really… it’s just the shape of lips on his skin… but it’s this stimulating…!”

Crucially, the pose Ropel, in such a stimulating and lecherous attire, took was the finishing touch of this photo.

His appearance lying down with both arms raised above his head with a bed as the background, while showing his defenselessness, it was because it awakened something in the hearts of those watching.

Furthermore, the lower part of the photo, cut off precariously so that his groin was almost but not quite visible, instead stimulated imagination and heightened the sense of excitement.

To summarize, Ropel’s appearance in the photo literally captured and condensed the lecherous image of a male in heat on a bed, wanting to be pounced on and sexually devoured.

“Ro… Ropel… Did… did you even have such a side to you…”

Tiara had always felt a strange suggestiveness from him, but she had never imagined it would be to this extent.

She was surprised that even though she was just looking at a photo, she was breathing heavily and was so excited that her lower body was slightly damp.

“Heh heh heh, it seems you quite like the photo. Well, since I’ve copied plenty, I shall give you one with generous magnanimity.”

“You… you! I admit that this is Ropel’s real appearance, and it’s a photo he took himself. But! But why did Ropel send you a photo like this? Did… did something happen between the two of you?”

“Hmm, explaining isn’t difficult… but it’s a bit bothersome, as expected. Well. Seeing it yourself is better than talking about it, isn’t it.”

Saying that, Isabella created paper in the air once again with magic.

This time, it wasn’t just a single sheet of paper, but a sheet of paper in the form of a letter.

“It is a letter exchanged between him and me. Especially if you read his reply carefully~, you will be able to understand what happened between him and this lady.”

Tiara hurriedly snatched the letter and read it closely.

She took in each and every letter clearly with her eyes, as if interpreting a work of literature.

“Marriage… Marriage proposal… Concern… What? Decided on a life partner..? Wait… This… How can this be… Said he would take responsibility for my whole life…?”

It was a content that truly contained a passionate proposal.

“Ah… Aah… Aah…!”

Tiara, who had finished reading the letter, forgot even the dignity of a Princess and knelt down and sank to the floor.

And looked up at the air and mumbled as if unable to believe it.

“How can this be… How can this be… Ropel… How could you…”

“I see, I see, the shock must be great. Since you, who always boasted to this lady, have been overtaken before you knew it. But what can be done, this is also his choice.”

Isabella made exaggerated gestures as if mocking.

“Oops! Come to think of it, the conversation is finished with this, isn’t it? If so, I shall take my leave now. Because I want to meet him, who proposed directly to none other than this lady, right away. Ah, that letter is also a copy, just like the photo, so you can take it, it doesn’t matter.”

Leaving behind the figure of Tiara, who was utterly disheartened with her head bowed, Isabella left.

Leaving behind the sound of laughter sounding “oh ho ho ho,” intoxicated with a sense of victory.

“Wait just a little, Ropel. Heh heh heh… To think he would tempt me so actively… This lady shall also reply to that lustful request with all her heart and soul…♥”

She, who had intelligence as outstanding as her magic, was turning her head faster than ever before.

Although she had lived as a virgin until now, since she first loved the man named Ropel Teufel, she had thought countless times about how she could please him.

Recalling all sorts of positions and plays, and imagining how she would torment and tease him, she was greatly excited.

. . .

“…Achoo! Ugh… As expected, hot water doesn’t come out well in this dorm… If the facilities for low-ranking nobles are like this, how bad are the dorms commoners use? No, in the first place, it’s clearly spring, but is this weather right? Since daytime and morning are no different from winter, honestly…”

Ropel, who had just finished showering, came out of the bathroom and mumbled.

It seemed that after his body had been explored by Seraphina once, he needed to wash his body because of body odor and sweat.

…Although taking the photo to send to Isabella incorrectly just now was a bit bothering…

With the mindset of thinking about later matters later, he decided to conclude it for now.

Knock knock knock

The sound of knocking on the dorm room door was heard.

“Huh? Who is it? Ah~ Come to think of it, the nutritional supplement Eligio said he would send by letter last time should be arriving soon. Since the security guard uncle said he would leave delivered items in front of the door… I haven’t even put on all my clothes yet, but I should quickly just bring the item in.”