Farewell Banquet – 1

“How’s your back?”

“I can’t walk. My back feels like it’s broken.”

“You’re not just lying to stay in my arms, are you?”

“……I’ll try that method someday.”

I was carrying Rije, holding her from the front, as I descended the stairs.

Rije leaned her head on my shoulder, wrapped her arms around my back, hugging me tightly, and pressed herself against me, rubbing her chest against mine. With her legs, she tightly wrapped around my waist.

Given the position, my hands had no choice but to support her buttocks. It naturally turned into me kneading her buttocks, but Rije didn’t mind at all, pressing her body even closer.

Well, we weren’t the type to be embarrassed by something like this. We’d already seen everything there was to see last night. We’d come too far to be embarrassed by kneading her buttocks.

‘……Why isn’t my erection going down?’

Of course, the lack of reaction was limited to Rije. I had to make a desperate effort to calm my lower body, which had started to perk up again at the sensation of her buttocks against my palm.

To divert my thoughts as much as possible, I looked outside. A hemispherical sun, emitting a vivid orange glow, was slowly setting beyond the horizon.

Rije had come to me late at night, so we had been entangled in bed for nearly 15 hours.

Moreover, as evidenced by the fact that my lower body was still throbbing, it was still entirely possible to do more if I wanted to. I had only stopped because Rije was completely exhausted and had gone limp.

Even to me, it was a strange situation. After pouring out so much affection towards Rije for so long, I wasn’t even tired, let alone experiencing a refractory period. I wondered if this was even physically possible.

It was awkward to brush it off as a joke, like ‘Rije, it’s just because your body is too hot.’ The more I thought about it, the deeper my questions became.

As I descended to the first floor, holding Rije and harboring such doubts, the gazes of the Knight Captains, who were gathered on the lobby sofa as if by appointment, pierced me. My body flinched for a moment.

The nuns waiting near the wall exchanged glances, then each gathered a full load of cleaning tools in their hands and rushed up the stairs. A look akin to awe brushed past me.

Before long, only Rije, clinging to me, I, holding her, and the Knight Captains, shooting sharp glances at us, remained in the lobby.

Rije had long since given up on conversation and buried her face in my shoulder, and I could only offer an awkward laugh. Erica and Iris shook their heads. Their expressions showed complete exasperation.

Only Claudia, as usual, waved to us with a hearty laugh.

“Wow, Delta! Long time no see! I thought my neck would break from waiting.”

“……Yes, Claudia Captain-nim. It’s been a long time.”

A playful smirk appeared on her face.

“Just how incredible are you? Rije can’t even collect herself. Was it that good?”

“…….”

“Don’t make that face. Do you think I’d actually ask you? Don’t worry. We’re not that bad.”

Claudia strode towards me. As her footsteps grew closer, the strength of the arms wrapped around my back gradually intensified. The thighs encircling my waist tightened even more.

“Right, Rije? It’s more appropriate to ask you this, not Delta, isn’t it?”

“…….”

Rije, clinging to me, seemed intent on avoiding an answer somehow.

With a tap, a hand was placed on her shoulder.

“Right?”

“I, I won’t say anyth-“

“Oh-ho, you know that’s not allowed, don’t you?”

Claudia roughly pulled Rije away, who was desperately squirming to avoid being separated from me. Her limbs, having lost their anchor, flailed in the air.

Rije wouldn’t be easily outmatched in strength anywhere, but her opponent was too powerful. Claudia, who had lightly lifted the squirming Rije with one arm, casually slung her body over her shoulder.

A desperate look for help was directed at me. Just as I was about to help Rije, a pair of pink eyes turned to me.

“Delta.”

“Yes, yes?”

“There’s something we women need to talk about, and since you’ve been starved for quite a while, aren’t you hungry? Since things are this way, why don’t you go out and get something to eat first?”

Something held in her left hand was tossed towards me. I instinctively caught it. It was a brooch. A brooch with the sun drawn on the left half and the moon on the right half.

“The Inquisitor gave it to me this morning. It means you’re a guest of His Holiness the Pope. With just that, you can use any shop in the Holy Kingdom for free, they say. Go eat at the most expensive-looking place you can find.”

“……But they serve food at the dormitory, don’t they?”

“I’m sorry, but there’s nothing left. Go out and eat.”

“No, if you just prepare it agai-“

“From now on, I’m going to ask Rije, one by one, how she sucked your cock, how many times she was vaginally ejaculated into your uterus, and how many times she orgasmed. Do you want to listen in? If so, I won’t stop you. Rije would be even more embarrassed if you were here, so it might even be better.”

“I understand, Claudia Captain-nim. I will go out and eat.”

I quietly backed down. There was no way I could find a reason to interfere when she was saying such things so openly right in front of me. And as Claudia said, Rije would be even more embarrassed if I were there.

Rije, who had been squirming to herself, asking why Claudia would say such things in front of Delta and if she was out of her mind, soon seemed to sense her fate and let her limbs go limp. Her face clearly showed resignation.

“Don’t worry, what I just said was a joke. It’s just as I said at first, there are things we women need to talk about among ourselves. It’ll take a few hours, so take your time eating and come back.”

A joke, huh? I wonder.

I could easily guess the questions Rije would be asked. They would certainly be more, not less, explicit than the lewd remarks Claudia had just made to me.

“……Yes. Let’s do that.”

“Hey, Claudia? I’m hungry too-“

“There’s leftover food, so eat while you talk. You can talk even while eating, can’t you?”

Claudia, who had openly contradicted her earlier statement about there being no leftover food, carried Rije and strode up the stairs. The two of them soon disappeared above the staircase.

Iris met my gaze with an expression that seemed to have a lot to say, then, as if deciding to hold her tongue, followed the two who had gone ahead, heading upstairs.

Erica was the last. Erica, who was about to follow Iris up the stairs, paused just before taking her first step, then began to scan me up and down.

Then, suddenly, her gaze stopped at one particular spot.

It seemed she was trying not to let her gaze be noticed, but unfortunately, it was completely useless. Even the gaze she tried to hide was very overtly directed at my crotch.

“Why are you staring like that?”

“Hick?! Ah, it’s nothing! Take your time eating and come back, Delta!”

Erica startled herself, then hurriedly ran up the stairs. I wonder if she knew that acting like that made her look even more suspicious. Well, she probably didn’t know, which is why she acted that way.

Left all alone in the lobby, I inwardly prayed for Rije’s peaceful rest. It felt as if I could already see her future, surrounded by three women, having to answer all sorts of questions mixed with lewd remarks.

Still, they wouldn’t ask truly embarrassing questions. At most, it would be questions at a level where they could enjoy seeing Rije flustered.

‘I thought the Knight Captains wouldn’t be interested in things like that.’

It was a little surprising.

I had thought that whether we did such things or not, as adults, they would naturally consider it normal and not care. But their reaction was the complete opposite of what I expected.

With eyes full of curiosity, they seemed intent on extracting every last detail of what had happened last night. It made me realize that Iris, Claudia, and Erica also had this side to them.

I left the dormitory, intending to just kill some time outside before returning. I didn’t know what Rije herself thought, but I had no intention of disturbing that harmonious time.

That day, as soon as I returned, Rije immediately threw herself into my arms and whined like a child. The surprise in the Knight Captains’ gazes directed at me was an added bonus.

Time quickly passed, and before long, it was the day of the banquet.

It seemed peaceful until noon, but as soon as afternoon arrived, the nuns I had seen when choosing dresses last time rushed into the dormitory, making a huge fuss and dragging the Knight Captains to their respective rooms.

It was a long time after that before I could see the four of them again. They were in those very dresses. They were much more wholesome than the see-through dress worn at Aurora’s banquet. A feeling of satisfaction naturally welled up within me.

As soon as Rije saw me, she clung to me, asking how she looked, and I told her she was beautiful and gave her a light kiss on the lips. I ignored the poking glances from the other three who were watching us.

Just like last time, the Inquisitor came to pick us up, but unlike then, it wasn’t the battle nuns by his side, but Selene. They said the fewer people who knew about this banquet, the better.

We entered the Grand Cathedral of the Sun via a teleportation spell personally prepared by the Pope. As soon as we moved inside the cathedral, Floretta and Luna, wearing sacred attire with an outrageous degree of exposure, greeted us.

“We sincerely welcome you, Honored Guests-isiyeo.”

“Did you experience any discomfort on your way here?”

The one wearing a golden necklace with a breast covering attached and a C-string with a uterus tattoo was Floretta, and the one wearing a micro slingshot that was nothing more than a single string with a pubic covering was Luna.

Seeing them actually wearing those made my head spin. I averted my gaze from the self-proclaimed sacred attire and subtly asked Rije, who was beside me.

“Rije. What do you think of those clothes?”

“What do I think of them?”

“Just. I was asking what kind of feeling they give off at first glance.”

“Hmm… sacred? How should I put it, it’s like a feeling that just looking at them makes you want to kneel and offer a prayer? Anyway, that kind of feeling. Why?”

“……Even with that much exposure?”

“What’s wrong with that? It’s sacred attire, so it’s natural, isn’t it?”

“…….”

Unable to give up hope, I even asked Iris and the other Knight Captains, but not a single one of them found that outrageous level of exposure strange.

Rather, they only thought that since it was sacred attire, it was natural to expose the body.

As I despaired in this bleak reality where no one took my side, His Holiness the Pope of the Sun opened his mouth with a gentle smile.

“This banquet is solely for our Honored Guests. So please, do not hesitate, and enjoy yourselves as much as you wish.”

With those words, Floretta looked at me with a strange, suggestive gaze. And Luna, too, was looking at me with the same strange, suggestive gaze as Floretta.

I had an ominous feeling.