Please bury me. I want to disappear! I’ll never recover from this, but someone is going to suffer with me. One day, I swear I’m going to make Lucas say, “I’m dying of embarrassment” too!
“Please teach me,” I said.
“Huh?”
It wasn’t fair that only I had to suffer such mortification! Yes, I was the one who asked, but still! The reason I’d become so hopelessly obsessed with making that man happy was because he was the clingiest, most affection-starved husband in existence, so it was all his fault!
“Princess Yana, please teach me the tricks you used to seduce Prince Islan!”
I grabbed her hands and pleaded like my life depended on it. She looked thoughtful for a moment, then flashed me a wicked grin.
“Sure. I’ll teach you one of my best tricks. And I’ll even set up a place for you to try it out. But if it works, you’d better put in a good word for me with that Hero of yours.”
As I listened to the sound of Lucas taking a shower, I changed into an outfit of thin fabrics that had been prepared for me.
I fixed my hair in the mirror and twisted and turned, making sure nothing looked off. As soon as the sunlight fell upon my clothes, illuminating my skin through the sheer fabric, I felt a twinge of embarrassment. “Princess Yana said these clothes are for this exact purpose, so there must be a reason she gave them to me…” I muttered.
The cloth, which was meant to cover my chest, was a plain rectangle, without contour or structure. Just a flat piece of fabric with beaded decorations hanging like raindrops at the bottom edge.
It fastened with a gold ring at the center of my cleavage, so it was basically a wrap and a clip. Because it was so simple, and because I was so, well…blessed in the bosom department, the cloth pinched so tightly into me that bits of flesh seemed to spill over. It looked truly scandalous!
Every time I moved, the beads swayed and shifted, offering little glimpses of underboob. It had to be intentional. But the bottom part was even worse…
There was a golden ornament over my stomach, from which a sheer, practically non-existent piece of fabric hung down to my thighs. It was held in place by even more gold decorations, almost like garter belts. The terrifying part was that the fabric only covered the sides of my body. So that meant the front and back were in full view. This bottom piece of fabric is totally obscene!
There’s no way this counts as underwear, right? Yana said something about how the panties would be small and hard to notice, so I panicked and peeked into the basket again…and that’s when I found them.
And I just sank to my knees, truly at a loss.
The so-called panties were a tiny piece of gold work shaped like an upside-down triangle, designed to cover my most intimate areas…but it was crotchless.
In other words, no matter how you looked at it, this outfit screamed, “I came prepared for sex!”
I threw on a robe for the moment, but the thought of taking it off made me want to disappear. My courage was diminishing by the second. Please hurry up and get out of the shower, Lucas!
Miserable, I turned to the mirror again.
“He’ll be happy, right? I don’t look strange, do I?”
My ever-competent maids made sure I was polished from head to toe every day. But this time was supposed to be a surprise for him, so I’d gotten dressed all on my own. I wasn’t sure if I’d done it right, or if I could even pull it off properly.
I fidgeted nervously as I reached up with my finger to fix the pink tint on my lips. Then I locked eyes with a pair of golden ones in the mirror, startling me.
“L-Lukie! You could at least say something if you’re done!”
I spun around and raised my voice, only to fall silent under the weight of his gaze. He leaned against the wall and watched me, water droplets sliding down his chest from beneath a silk robe so beautiful it made my breath catch in my throat.
The thought that I had to seduce this beautiful man sent shivers of anxiety down my body. I bumped into the vanity and somehow ended up pushing my breasts toward him.
He closed the distance between us, muscles shifting with feline grace as he approached. His golden eyes shimmered from between the strands of his dark, damp hair, fixed on me like they’d never let a single inch of me go unnoticed.
“I just wanted to watch you. Thinking you might’ve been waiting for me like this… Touching you right away would’ve been wasteful. I was just so happy.”
He reached out to my chin, his touch so gentle you’d think that I was made of glass, that I was the most precious thing in the world. His caress coaxed warm tears to my eyes but also stoked my guttering courage back to life.
If something this simple could make him so happy, then I’d do it a hundred times over for him.
“S-sorry if it looks weird or anything. I’ll fix it,” I whispered.
His golden eyes softened. “If anyone looked at you right now and thought something was wrong, they ought to have their eyes gouged out. You’re beautiful, Cece.”
That’s supposed to be a compliment? That’s way too much coming from this sparkling, gorgeous yandere.
He probably meant it too, thinking the more people had their eyes gouged out, the fewer others there would be to look at me, and that meant he’d get to have me all to himself! It’d solve his problems all in one go.
There goes the romance, flying right out the window! But hey, I’m a bit more relaxed now, I guess.
“You’re really beautiful too, Lukie,” I answered playfully, as I tapped on his lips, still tinted with my lipstick, trying to hide my embarrassment.
But instead of getting all flustered like I expected, his gleaming smile curved slyly, and he turned the tables on me.
“Oh, yeah? That’s good, because I was planning on seducing you, so this works out perfectly.”
“Wait… Eek!”
I let out a tiny shriek as he tugged my sash loose, unveiling the scandalous outfit I’d been hiding.
If I moved even a little too fast, my breasts would pop out, so all I could do was shrink back and try desperately to cover myself, glaring at him as I went red with embarrassment.
“Wait,” he said, looking suddenly bashful himself, “You were planning on seducing me in that?”
Sure, there’s hardly enough cloth to this outfit to count as clothing, but why are you getting shy about it now? I’m the one in the position to be embarrassed here! This is all out of order!
He’s too cute when he acts like this, and I hate that it’s rubbing off on me! No, get it together! It’s your move, Cece!
“Y-yes, I just thought I’d try my best as well, since we’re on a trip together…” I steeled myself and took a step back into the sunbeams pouring through the glass ceiling, turning slowly so my robe floated gracefully around me.
The ornaments on my chest chimed with the movement. Then, with the faintest of whispers, my robe drifted to the floor.
You could practically see through to my nipples in this light. And after my little flourish, there was no doubt he’d taken note of the undergarments’ questionable design.
“Won’t you let me seduce you now?” I asked him, face blazing. There’s no backing down now!
Lukie stood frozen in place and stared at me like I was a statue before giving me a tiny nod like a little kid.
“P-please do. I mean it. Do whatever you want to me.”
Success, Yana and my brilliant maids! Right in his own words!
“Since we’re on a trip, this is what they call, um, the magic of the honeymoon effect? If this is a dream, I swear it’s the best dream ever…” He murmured through a hand covering his mouth. His starry-eyed gaze was so intense that I had to look at anything but him.
The walls were beige, and the floors were blue Majaarian tiles adorned with white floral patterns, like the ones I’d seen at the bazaar. The ceiling was made of glass, and I could only imagine how beautiful it would be after sunset, as you lay beneath a sky of stars. It was totally captivating.
This place felt less like a room and more like a fantasy.
Yana had set us up in this leisure hotel, one of the most exclusive lodgings near the bazaar. Supposedly only two couples a day could book it, and only with the endorsement of a high-ranking noble. And judging by the sheer size of the building, this room had to be the most extravagant one.
I had my hesitations about staying in a room this fancy, but Yana insisted that it was a bargain price to pay, if it meant deepening her friendship with someone who could sway the Hero (i.e., me).
So that’s how the experts balance their books! I should take notes.
And that was how I ended up putting everything Yana taught me into action, playing off the pride of my sweet, sadistic knight, who’d been feeling a little grimy after the arena matches.
“I didn’t sweat much, I can run back to the palace and change if you want,” he said, his cheeks flushed.