episode_0087

In the late afternoon, Deborah and I headed to the empty lot after class, as always.

Although I told her there was no need for her to help me, once she learned the situation, she said she couldn’t just ignore it and has been assisting for a week now.

A short while later, we arrived at the empty lot.

There, we found not only Alisa but also another person waiting.

Her fiery red hair, blazing like flames, and her golden eyes, shining brilliantly like the sun in the sky, symbolized her high status.

Her name was Regina Solias.

She was the second daughter of the Solias Imperial Family and one of the vice presidents of the Solias Academy student council.

“Oh!” “You…” Deborah and I, recognizing her identity, let out a slight gasp, and only then did Regina uncross her arms.

“You’re finally here. Take this.” Then she tossed the document envelope she was holding.

I lightly caught it, glanced down at the envelope, and asked,

“What is this?”

“It’s information investigated by the Imperial Intelligence Department. It contains details about the main culprit who spread the rumors, so use it wisely.”

“The main culprit!?” I stared at the document envelope, startled.

The fact that this thin envelope contained information we couldn’t find even after a week of hard work felt a bit futile, yet it also made questions about why Regina was doing this spring to mind.

As if all my inner thoughts were revealed, Regina shrugged and blurted out the truth.

“I didn’t particularly want to help you, but Isis was very worried.”

“My elder sister…”

“She couldn’t focus on student council work at all. She even said she’d be out for a while, so I offered to help. Anyway, it’s information obtained from the Imperial Intelligence Department, so there’s no way it’s wrong. You know that, right? Well, that’s that, I’m leaving.”

As if she didn’t want to get deeply involved in such bothersome matters, Regina left the empty lot without an ounce of hesitation.

I watched her retreating figure, and after she had completely disappeared, I shifted my gaze to the document envelope.

“Open it quickly!” Alisa, who had approached without me noticing, urged me.

I looked around at everyone present once, then made up my mind and opened the document envelope.

Inside, there were only a few photographs and documents supplementing them.

I focused on the photos.

The first photo showed a woman’s back as she headed to the information guild, the second showed an individual dispatched from the information guild spreading rumors, and the last photo captured the woman sitting on a balcony chair with another woman.

I knew both women.

In particular, the woman who appeared in the last photo was someone everyone present knew.

“H-how is this possible?” “No way, are you saying *that bitch* spread the information?” Deborah and Alisa seemed utterly confused, finding it hard to believe.

And I was simply calm.

“…Skadia.”

Perhaps I had subtly sensed it from the moment Deborah told me about it.

While logically thinking that it wouldn’t happen given her personality, a corner of my heart still held a lingering anxiety.

Having confirmed it now, I was even feeling a sense of exhilaration.

Of course, that wasn’t all.

“W-what do we do now?” “What do we do? We go find her right now! How dare she spread such a rumor? I’ll rip out all her hair!” Alisa, whose life had almost been ruined, was furious and rampaged uncontrollably.

If Deborah hadn’t clung to her and stopped her, she would have already grabbed Skadia’s hair.

I put the evidence back into the document envelope.

“Let’s go. We need to find out what Skadia was thinking when she did this.”

“And then?”

“…I haven’t thought that far yet. But at the very least, I need to get a promise that she won’t do something like this again.”

“Right. Let’s go first. I’m curious what she’ll say.” Alisa took the lead and exited the empty lot.

Deborah and I exchanged glances, then followed her to the girls’ dormitory.

After that, we went to the dorm supervisor, signed the visitor log, requested her presence, and waited in the reception room. Soon enough, we were able to face Skadia.

“What brings the three of you─” here? Before she could even finish her sentence, Alisa lunged forward and slapped Skadia.

Splat! Skadia’s head snapped to the side!

Being a mage, her body was likely weak, so Alisa must have held back somewhat, but even so, Skadia’s cheek swelled up red from the slap.

A trickle of fresh blood flowed from the corner of her mouth, as if her inner cheek had been torn.

“What… what do you think you’re─” Splat!

This time, a slap landed squarely on Skadia’s other cheek, just as she was about to voice her question.

She bit her lip tightly and glared fiercely at Alisa.

Of course, Alisa didn’t flinch at all.

“You really don’t know? You should know, right? You’re smart, aren’t you?”

“…”

“Why aren’t you saying anything? Do you know what you did was trashy? So why did you do it?”

It seemed the thought that it might be a misunderstanding hadn’t even crossed Alisa’s mind.

She pressured Skadia relentlessly.

Sitting on the sofa, quietly observing the situation, I intervened at an opportune moment.

“Why don’t both of you sit down first?”

At my words, both their gazes focused. They looked at me, then at each other, repeatedly exchanging glances, before eventually approaching the sofa.

Alisa sat next to Deborah, and Skadia sat down opposite them.

Without delay, I placed the documents on the table.

“Read this.”

“…What is this?”

Skadia pretended not to know, even though she must have already guessed the reason for our visit.

Alisa seemed to find that despicable.

“Why are you still feigning ignorance when you know? Do you need a few more slaps to come to your senses?”

“…Do you think I’ll just take it again?”

“Or what? Are you going to cast a spell or something?”

Their aggressive stances clashed fiercely.

The hot-headed Alisa and the cool-headed Skadia. Their conflict was like a battle between fire and ice.

The atmosphere, which had only been defused for a few seconds, started to heat up again. I swallowed a small sigh and took out the photos from the documents, scattering them.

Skadia’s gaze, which had been directed at Alisa, immediately dropped downwards.

Her interest lingered particularly long on the photo of herself sitting on the balcony chair.

Skadia’s lips, which had maintained an expressionless face to the point of being unreadable, subtly moved, forming a faint smile.

It was a self-deprecating sneer, and at the same time, an admission of wrongdoing.

“Where did you get this?”

“…Her Royal Highness the Princess gave it to me. I couldn’t deceive the Imperial Intelligence Department.”

“Her Royal Highness the Princess? Why would she… Ah, it’s because of Isis, isn’t it? Then will that person also find out? I wonder what she’ll think.”

Skadia’s expression when mentioning Isis was strange. It seemed both happy and sad, and I could feel a certain anger and resentment.

While I felt a question about it, I didn’t do anything foolish like deliberately changing the subject.

“Why did you do this? What’s your reason?”

“Reason… Don’t you already know it?”

Skadia’s head turned to the side.

I glanced sideways at Deborah, whose eyes were wide in surprise, and then opened my mouth.

“Just because you want to separate me and Deborah? You spread such a rumor for *just* that?”

“*Just* that? Maybe for you, but not for me. Isn’t it better to separate you in advance than to be betrayed and hurt by you like I was? Don’t you think so?”

“…Didn’t you think about the people who would be harmed by that rumor?”

“Exactly! Even so, you’d spread such a rumor?”

Alisa, seizing the opportunity, cut in.

Skadia, seeing her, flinched her cheek as if the wounds from the slaps were throbbing, and clenched her fist.

But no matter how angry she was, she couldn’t bring herself to harm the innocent victims who got caught up in it, so she slowly bowed her head.

“I apologize for involving you in the rumors. This was my mistake.”

“…Then why did you spread such rumors?”

Emotions are contagious.

As Skadia apologized more easily than expected, Alisa also regained her composure.

In response to the question, Skadia raised her head.

“…To be precise, I didn’t spread rumors about you.”

“What? What do you mean?”

“The rumor I spread was only that Ruan was the culprit in the rape case. Anything else, like the possessor or things related to you, were not rumors spread by me.”

“Th-that kind of thing…” Alisa’s expression was confused. It was understandable. She must have assumed there was only one person who spread the rumors.

If she had known this fact, no matter how angry she was, she wouldn’t have thought of slapping Skadia as soon as they met.

As if that thought hit her, Alisa glanced embarrassedly at Skadia’s cheek.

I leaned deeply into the backrest.

‘Then who exactly is the culprit?’

The rumors related to Alisa could be accepted as naturally spreading gossip, given that there had been whispers questioning her relationship with me even before. But the information about a “possessor” was entirely different.

Someone intentionally spread the rumors, and it was clearly an action targeting me.

The fortunate thing, at least, was that Skadia’s explanation revealed that this someone didn’t know my true identity.

Perhaps they themselves were bewildered by how much the rumor had expanded beyond their intentions?

Somehow, I felt like I knew their identity.

*

At that moment, in the girls’ dormitory bathroom, Pernia was sitting on the toilet.

She rested her feet on the edge of the toilet, spread her legs, revealing her vagina, and picked up the thick dildo placed beside her.

As she rubbed her warm, flushed labia up and down, a sudden concern came to mind.

“Anyway, what about the rumors?”

Originally, it was a rumor she spread simply hoping to cause trouble for the rapist, but somehow, it had escalated into an uncontrollable situation.

Furthermore, the problem was that two people she was acquainted with had coincidentally gotten caught up in it.

“At least Ruan is fine, but…”

After all, he was more like a friend of a friend, not someone she was particularly close to, and his behavior had always been strange, making him suspicious.

The problem was that the other person was Alisa, with whom she ate and talked every day.

Moreover, with her already suffering persecution from her family as an illegitimate child, and now this rumor spreading, Alisa must want to rip the culprit who spread the rumor to shreds!

If she got caught, it wouldn’t end with just a breakup of their friendship.

In the first place, she’d be suspected as a possessor and dragged to the temple even before that.

“Ugh… Not torture.”

Pernia, who had been imagining terrible things, shook her head, trying to shake off the thoughts.

“Ah, I don’t know. It’ll work out somehow.”

And she turned her eyes away from the problem she couldn’t handle, sinking into pleasure.

Thrust! The dildo disappeared in an instant.

“Ah! This is it…!”

Pernia felt a slight regret, but still let out a moan from the fulfilling sensation that filled her void.

It had been nearly a month since she started masturbating. In that time, Pernia had become completely accustomed to the dildo. Now, just holding the dildo would make her slick flow freely.

She tightened her lower abdomen, narrowing her vaginal walls as much as possible to leave no empty space, and continuously inserted the dildo.

Squish! Squish! With a squelching sound, pleasure overwhelmed her entire body, and her arousal surged to its limit.

But not satisfied with that, Pernia moved her free hand to fondle her erect nipples, finally moving to her engorged clitoris.

Squeeze!

“Aahnn…!”

As she rubbed her clitoris, her slick poured from her vagina like water wrung from a squeezed towel.

Pernia continued to masturbate as if possessed.

And in just five minutes, she reached climax, her hips thrusting as she spurted.

Squirt! Squirt! Squirt, squirt, squirt! Her stream, forming a weak parabola, hit the wall in front of her and ran down.

Pernia, submerged in the afterglow of pleasure, felt a faint sense of regret along with satisfaction.

“Haa… a dildo really isn’t enough.”

It wasn’t just a difference in size.

That strangely addictive body odor, the steel-like hardness, and the intense heat all combined to give her an unforgettable memory.

The sensation, once imprinted, remained like a brand, tormenting her.

If it hadn’t been in the form of rape, Pernia might have willingly accepted his penis.

“Trash bastard.”

How dare he turn someone else’s body into this.

At the moment her mind was spewing anger and hatred, her vagina, conversely, revealed longing and thirst, steadily expelling slick.

Pernia sighed at her rising sexual desire and aimed the dildo at her vagina.

“Just you wait until I meet you again. I’ll cut off your penis and turn it into a dildo.”

Thrust! The bathroom was once again engulfed in heat.