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[Episode 176] – Have You Gained Weight? (2)

“Please endure it a little even if it’s ticklish.”

“…Okay.”

Titania spread the measuring tape once again and wrapped it around Vivian’s lower chest. She wanted to kiss this flesh right away and express her affection, but Titania held back and focused on taking measurements.

“Could you lower your arms? I’m going to measure your shoulder width.”

Because she had promised her mother. Titania was well aware that this was not the time for joking around. She knew that embracing her mother at a time like this would surely provoke anger rather than endearment.

“Please hold your breath for a moment. I’ll measure your lower chest and waist.”

Titania, instead, measured her mother’s dimensions slowly and precisely. Shoulder width, chest circumference, lower chest circumference, waist circumference, neck circumference, arm length, arm circumference, thigh and calf length, hip circumference, and so on—

She began meticulously writing down all of her mother’s measurements in her notebook. As she carefully learned the exact figures of her mother’s body, an inexplicable sensation tickled Titania’s heart.

It felt like getting to know her mother’s body, which she had been unaware of until now. Her mother had such narrow shoulders, thin arms, and large thighs. Her mother was smaller than she had thought.

When she was young, she always looked up to her mother, but now realizing that she was looking down at her mother, seeing her mother fitting snugly into her embrace, stirred strange emotions within Titania.

“I’ve grown quite a bit too. When I was young, I couldn’t even imagine growing taller than my mother. I always thought I would look up to my mother.”

As time passed, many things changed, but some things remained unchanged. Her feelings toward her mother remained the same, then as now. Her love for her mother.

Nothing had changed.

Titania measured Vivian’s thighs, then stood up and tidied the measuring tape. Smiling as if to say it was all over, she kissed Vivian’s forehead.

“It’s over. Just in case, please wait wearing this gown. I’ll call the tailor.”

“O-Okay.”

Titania handed the gown to Vivian, which was lying next to her, and then rushed out of the dressing room. Although she honestly wanted to kiss her mother provocatively in the dressing room…

“Sigh…”

She would have been scolded if she did. For now, she had to be content with just a kiss on the forehead. Titania washed her excited face with cold water to hide her flushed cheeks, then went out and found Sylvia waiting in another room.

Sylvia and the attendants waiting in the other reception room were displaying the undergarments and dresses they had brought, eager to show them to the queen and herself at any moment.

“Oh, Your Majesty, we greet you. Have all the measurements for Her Majesty the Queen been taken?”

“…Yes.”

Titania pulled out a notebook with her mother’s measurements written in it and handed it to Sylvia with an awkward expression. She didn’t like sharing her mother’s sensitive information with others.

After reading Vivian’s measurements, Sylvia nodded slightly and said, “Ah,” then picked up a few of the displayed undergarments and showed them to Titania.

“Fortunately, among the clothes we brought, there are several sets of undergarments that fit Her Majesty the Queen’s measurements. It’s not much, but it should be enough until we come back.”

Titania nodded as she looked at the undergarments Sylvia had laid out. For now, buying undergarments that fit her mother perfectly was the most important thing. As Sylvia was packing the undergarments…

“…? What’s that?”

“Oh, those are undergarments, but…”

Titania approached the undergarment that caught her eye, speechless, admiring its appearance. Goodness, I never thought such undergarments actually existed. I thought they only appeared in novels.

Sylvia quietly approached Titania and whispered softly in her ear. Whisper, whisper. When the story ended, Titania’s face turned red to the tips of her ears, and Sylvia was smiling subtly.

There was a moment of silence. Titania, clearing her throat, pointed to the “underwear” and instructed Sylvia that it was something not to be missed now and would be used someday.

“…Pack this too.”

“Thank you for purchasing!”

*

After Sylvia left, Titania and I took a brief rest in the reception room. It was always on my mind that making clothes here wasn’t an easy task. There were many tedious things.

It was also a problem that it didn’t end with just one visit. There was still a busy process ahead, coming at least three times to re-measure the dress, decide on the design, make alterations, and so on.

As we lounged on the sofa, I saw the “bag” that Sylvia had left behind. Clearly, it was a bag containing underwear that Titania had bought. I had entrusted Titania saying, “If the size fits, anything is okay,” so I didn’t know what was inside that bag. Out of some curiosity, as I rummaged through the bag and examined its contents—

“…What’s this?”

“Oh, that’s—!”

Among the clothes Titania had ordered, I found one strange piece of underwear. As I took out the underwear hanging on the hanger, Titania rushed towards me, her face turning bright red.

“Oh, it’s nothing! Please give it back!”

Titania must have intended to snatch the underwear from my hand, but I quickly got up from the sofa, avoiding Titania’s gesture, and fled. What could it be that made Titania so flustered?

Seeing Titania so flustered was truly something new. Her face turning red and her bewildered state, which always seemed composed, somehow gave me a strange sensation.

I used to make such expressions. Is it because the roles have reversed? I felt a budding sense of mischief. I looked down at Titania, who lay on the sofa, grimacing and only moving her lips, and smirked.

“What did my daughter buy to react like this? Did she buy some risqué lingerie that she can’t show me? I understand everything as a mother. My daughter is at that age.”

“No, it’s not like that…!”

As I turned my head and looked at the underwear in my hand, Titania buried her face in the sofa and covered herself. Her blushing face was an added bonus. What kind of underwear could she have bought to react like this?

“…?”

What is this?

What I held in my hand was clearly underwear. It was a delicate lace-patterned underwear set consisting of a bra and panties with lace above and below. I could understand that much.

However, the important thing was not that the underwear was black lace or translucent. First of all, I was worried that the area covered by the underwear was too small to cover all the important parts.

The fabric covering the buttocks was too small, and the bra was almost just straps without cups to support the chest. Was this Titania’s taste?

“????”

As if expressing my puzzlement, when I examined the underwear, I saw something that made me doubt my eyes, something that completely overturned my previous thoughts about the underwear’s function, and I involuntarily screamed.

“Gah…!”

The moment I realized what this underwear was, a burning sensation surged as if blood was flowing backward. I glared at Titania, who was bowing her head, but she only hid her face.

“Why did you buy this?! What is this for down here…!”

I couldn’t even speak properly.

Well, this underwear was split down there. It was an item commonly known as “split panties.” It was split vertically, top and bottom, so it didn’t cover any part at all.

Because it was underwear hanging on the hanger, it seemed to indicate that this was definitely not “underwear,” as my finger went through the torn part without being seen, and it was not underwear at all. I grabbed the hanger tightly and shouted at Titania with a trembling voice.

“You, you…! This, this kind of thing!! Who is this for…!”

“Oh, no, it’s not like that…”

“If it’s not like that, then what is it?!”

As I yelled and questioned, Titania, who had been hesitating while kneeling on the sofa, looked up at me with a small sigh. Yes, just at the moment when I was about to see what excuse she would come up with—

“Um, could you check the size of that underwear…?”

“The size?”

I checked the size of the thing in my hand, which was hardly worth calling underwear. After confirming the absurd size of the item, I barely turned my creaking head to look at Titania with shocked eyes.

“You, you… you…! This…!”

I couldn’t say anything at all. It wasn’t even easy to breathe deeply, let alone speak. I just called out to Titania, unable to forget the words, and my lips trembled like a goldfish.

The size of this underwear…

“I thought it would look good on you, so I bought it… Maybe you’ll wear it later…”

“Are you crazy?! How can you ask me to wear this?!”

A scream echoed in the reception room. This absurd thing was not Titania’s, but mine. And it was something that Titania hoped I would wear.

‘How could my mother give me this kind of underwear…!’

For a moment, I imagined myself wearing this underwear and my head went blank. And in front of Titania, too. I threw the underwear at Titania’s face and ran out of the reception room as if fleeing.

I’m completely insane. No matter how strange our relationship is right now, how could I ever think of giving my mother such underwear as a gift? For a moment, it felt like I was so ashamed that tears were about to come out.

“Really, crazy…!”