“Hee-hee! You were worried about me, weren’t you? I can tell.”
I spat quietly, angry that she saw right through me.
Yeah, that’s right, motherfucker. Your keen sense of human emotion despite your naive exterior is peak-royalty shit—and it pisses me off.
Savage Fang would roll his eyes if he heard about this. But the truth was, a part of me was relieved to see Colette smiling.
“Shut up,” I muttered. “So what’s up? If you’ve got nothin’ to say, I don’t mind, but what the hell are you doing in my room this late? What did you come here for? I doubt even the great powers of Colorne can pacify the dorm matron.”
It irked me to be stuck in the palm of her hand. I evoked the name of the dorm matron—a name that sent terror down the spines of all the students in the girls’ dormitory—and asked Colette what she was doing in my room at this hour.
Crossing her arms in satisfaction, Colette gave a snort. “I didn’t come here for anything! I didn’t come here specially to see you either, Mylene.”
“Huhhh?” I raised my eyebrow at her nonanswer.
She had no reason to come here, and neither had she come to see me. That only meant she was here to see my roommate Holly, but she was nowhere to be found.
“Hee-hee… You’re smart. Surely you’ve figured it out by now?”
Colette’s smug. Like she thinks she’s won something. Could it be—
“No…you didn’t—!”
“I’m waiting in my room before lights-out—wouldn’t you say I’m a model dorm resident?”
Did this bitch pull some strings and switch room assignments?!
The Zelfore Academy of Magic was a school attended by sons and daughters of the nobility. As such, the school was used to their entitled complaints. It took a lot to get them to consider the personal wishes of the students…
“Oh god… You used the incident to get your way. And that’s what your little errand was this evening…”
“Now, now, don’t put words in my mouth. All I did was tell them they would get in trouble if my father found out about the incident.”
The academy had a weakness. The princess of the great empire of Colorne had been kidnapped by a drug-pushing cult and nearly lost her life. It was a huge scandal, and her school was covering it up. If Colorne found out that its princess was involved in such an incident, we’d have an international crisis on our hands.
The academy sure was brazen.
Colette was the victim of the incident, and it was she who had requested it be kept secret. Now she was using that as a weapon to get her way.
“Use all the tools you can use—I’m just putting your motto to practice. Now we can always be together, Mylene!”
An angelic smile appeared on Colette’s lips.
But looking at things pessimistically, you could say Colette had become a hostage because she was well aware of her worth—it was beyond unscrupulous. As I watched her, smiling innocently as she casually explained her scheme, I saw shadows of the future empress in her.
I just had to pray her cunning wrath would never be directed at Eltania—
“Argh…”
When you consider she did this all out of love for me, I guess it wouldn’t hurt to let it slide.
“I like to get a good night’s sleep. I hate noise.”
“Indeed! Lack of sleep is the enemy of beauty, as they say!”
“Do they, now…? Anyway, I’ve gotta change. Turn around.” I gave the still smiling princess a cynical smirk.
Er, is this what they call hungry eyes?
I slowly unbuttoned my uniform. Why do girl clothes have to be so annoying? Wait, I guess it’s rich-girl clothes, not just girl clothes.
I suddenly felt a pang of longing for my former mercenary days—but then I felt a presence.
“Hey…don’t stare at me.”
“I don’t see the problem. We’re both girls. And we’ll be sharing a room. We shouldn’t let a little thing like that bother us, now, should we?”
When I saw the hungry look in Colette’s eyes as she watched me change for bed, I gave her a death glare. From the way she was acting and the things she was saying, it was pretty clear that she wanted me.
When I met her in the future of my first life, I had heard she was unmarried…but I guess that didn’t matter now. Colette wasn’t going to make a move on me until she considered us equals.
“Well, I’m going to bed. Turn out the light whenever.”
“Then I suppose I shall sleep as well. May I turn out the light now?”
I nodded as I climbed into bed and Colette waved a finger at the magic stone lamp in our ceiling. The room fell into darkness as the magic stone, imbued with feeble magic energy, slowly faded out.
Another day behind me, another busy day ahead of me tomorrow. Better get a good night’s rest.
“……Hey.”
I guess that was wishful thinking.
“Hum? What’s the matter, Mylene?”
“Why are you getting in bed with me?!” I sat up and scolded Colette, who was lifting my covers and sneaking into my bed. “Your bed is over there, bitch!”
“Don’t be like that. We finally get to share a room together, so it’s time we became more intimate.”
“Weren’t ya gonna hold off being intimate with me until you were satisfied with yourself?”
“I’m just showing a little affection, that’s all. To cement our future together…yes?”
Colette gave a bewitching grin, her ample body clad in thin fabric. To be honest, I felt dizzy. Though I felt I had completely acclimated to being a lady, if I didn’t think too deeply into it, I still considered myself male.