Chapter 111: Nene Cheats During Sexy Time!
"So doing this kind of thing feels that good. No wonder Kuro-chan ran off to get married."
In the pitch-black night sky, scattered stars flickered. Everything on the earth seemed to have fallen into a mysterious silence all at once.
The girl held a towel and carefully wiped away the crystalline sweat flowing down her flushed skin.
That sensation, as if even her brain was about to melt, was indeed intoxicating.
She covered her faintly steaming skin with her fiery red haori, then stretched out her white, tender lotus-like foot and lightly stepped on Shiro's leg.
"Want to go again? Yours truly is still nowhere near satisfied, you know~"
"No. Next time."
Shiro lightly squeezed the smooth foot resting on his leg, then turned around and began cleaning up the mess inside the room.
He still remembered that when he first arrived at Hagun Academy, it had been morning. After fighting Stella, it should have been noon at most.
But looking at the pitch-black scenery outside now, Stella had probably woken up long ago. Mental damage of that level would mostly recover after one good sleep.
If this continued and Stella asked him tomorrow where he had run off to in the middle of the night, how was he supposed to answer?
"I went off to do sexy stuff?"
No.
Shiro shook his head and threw that dangerous thought out of his mind.
If he said that, Stella would absolutely yell "pervert" and rush up to fight him again.
Besides, Nene had cheated!
Halfway through, she had been unable to withstand Shiro's Level 5 physique and actually started using magic power. As a result, the later activity had completely turned into a contest between the two of them to see who would beg for mercy first.
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After returning to the dorm, Shiro looked at the pitch-black window and carefully took his key out of the Gift Card. He inserted it into the doorknob and gently turned it.
Creak—
In the quiet night, the sound of the door opening was a little harsh.
To avoid waking Stella, who might already be asleep, Shiro deliberately lowered his footsteps as much as possible.
When he walked into the room, the sight inside surprised him.
Stella had not chosen to sleep. Instead, she was sitting at the head of the bed, supporting her chin with one hand as she stared blankly out the window.
At this moment, she was like a snow lotus atop a mountain peak, standing alone outside the mortal world.
Shiro understood the emotion in her eyes.
She was not admiring the scenery outside. She was looking at the sky, the same sky she could also see from her homeland.
The bedding on the bunk bed had already been laid out. Just as Shiro was wondering whether Kurono had changed his room, Stella noticed the movement by the entrance.
Her long, slender eyelashes blinked, dispelling that untouched, otherworldly air from before.
In the next moment, she turned her head and smiled at Shiro, who was standing at the entrance. Two pleased dimples appeared at the corners of her mouth, and silver moonlight spilled down from the sky, draping her in a thin layer of white gauze.
"You're finally back."
As if asking for praise, Stella puffed out her chest and looked at him.
"I saw you hadn't come back for a long time, so I went and bought you a set of sheets."
That was why, although Shiro had only just returned, the things inside the room had already become a set for two. On the table, he even saw a matching couple-style thermos cup.
Noticing Shiro's gaze, Stella's face reddened slightly as she explained,
"D-Don't misunderstand. I only chose those daily necessities because the couple-style ones had a discount. If I waited until you came back, the store might have already closed."
Although she was clearly the princess of a country, Stella unexpectedly had a thrifty, household-managing side.
Shiro walked to the table, picked up the blue cup, and glanced at it before speaking to Stella.
"Thanks. I owe you one for this."
Facing Stella's goodwill, he was not so tactless that he would say he already had all these daily necessities inside his Gift Card.
"U-Um..."
For some reason, Stella became a little fidgety. For a moment, she did not know where to put her hands.
After a while, she finally made up her mind, gritted her teeth, shut her eyes, and shot up from the bed.
"Plea—!"
Thud—!
However, she seemed to have forgotten that this was a bunk bed.
Because she stood up too forcefully, her head slammed hard into the underside of the upper bunk.
"Awuu..."
Stella bent over, holding her head with both hands as she let out a cute little whimper.
Shiro watched the scene before him with great interest.
Perhaps because the pain faded, or perhaps because Shiro kept looking at her too much, Stella quickly straightened up and turned her head aside, pretending that nothing had happened.
However, her reddened earlobes still betrayed her thoughts.
"Cough. What were you about to say?"
To prevent the awkward atmosphere from continuing to spread, Shiro lightly cleared his throat and changed the subject.
Sure enough, Stella's attention was immediately diverted.
She gripped the hem of her uniform with both hands, then put on the same determined gaze she had shown when fighting Shiro. Under his surprised eyes, she bent down and gave him a deep bow.
"I want to ask you to help me become stronger!"
During the previous battle, Stella had understood.
Although the two of them were both A-Rank knights, they were not existences on the same dimension at all.
Shiro had defeated her without even using his Blazer ability.
While that made her feel discouraged, it also made her faintly excited.
As expected, leaving the Vermillion Empire had been the correct choice.
Only after leaving her homeland did she understand how vast the outside world truly was.
And now, the man before her was the first target she had to surpass.
Listening to Stella's heartfelt words, Shiro fell silent.
To be honest, he felt that someone half-baked like him was not suited to being a teacher. Almost all of his own abilities had been learned from others.
More importantly, whether it was his Desperado state or his Blazer ability, Shiro had yet to fully dig out everything inside them. There were still many important ideas waiting for him to test.
He had agreed to Kurono's request because Ikki's combat ability mainly relied on swordsmanship, which had nothing to do with supernatural abilities.
Stella was clearly a natural-born Desperado like him.
Could he really teach someone like that?
Inside the room, Stella, who had gone unanswered for a long time, lightly bit her lip.
As expected, had she been thinking too simply?
How could such powerful fighting methods be taught so casually?
Just as the girl was starting to feel despair, the boy's light words entered her ears.
"As long as you don't mind that I can only teach you boring training and practical combat."
Stella raised her head and saw the boy's gentle face.
"Mm!"
She also showed a smile and nodded firmly.
"Then prepare yourself. Go rest right now. Tomorrow's training will probably be more exhausting than you think."
While taking out his student handbook and sending a message to Ikki, Shiro gave Stella his first order.
"Yes, sir!"
Stella clumsily imitated the etiquette she had seen in the palace. After Shiro gave her a glare, she sheepishly climbed onto the upper bunk and lay down.
Just like that, Stella fell asleep in an excellent mood.
Although that so-called excellent mood only lasted until four o'clock the next morning, at least the current Stella still did not understand what falling asleep at one in the morning would mean for tomorrow's her.
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