Bonus Short Stories
That’s a Secret
In the girls’ dorm at the knights’ academy...
After getting out of the bath, Inglis stood in front of the mirror in the dressing room while toweling herself off. The rush of blood from the warm water gave her skin a faint pink tinge. The swell of her breasts was large, full, and round. She had a tight waistline and long, slender legs.
She really had grown into her body nicely. She liked seeing herself in fashionable clothes, but she also enjoyed looking at herself all over without a single thread in the way.
Front, back, left, right. There was something to see from every angle. A smile drifted to her face. Dressed—or undressed—as she was, she looked alluring.
“Ahh, I’d say this girl looks pretty good.” Inglis still saw herself as her old self, not solely as Inglis Eucus, the girl here. The stunning beauty she saw reflected was both herself and not herself. Thus, she could contemplate her image objectively, without any embarrassment.
Rafinha and Leone had already left the bath, and there was no one in the dressing room but her. She could enjoy watching herself in the mirror for a while.
“Tee hee... Tee hee...”
Inglis could hear laughter coming from somewhere. “Who’s there?!” she demanded. Before long, she found Rafinha and Leone in the shadows. “What are you two doing there?”
“Oh, just watching you, Chris. Seeing you keep staring into the mirror like that with a smile on your face, we couldn’t help but smile too, you know?” Rafinha said.
Inglis paused in shock before giving them a scolding. “Rani, Leone, that’s so vulgar.”
“Don’t worry about it! You looked cute! Right, Leone?” Rafinha replied.
“Well, it wasn’t my idea, but you looked so happy that I couldn’t not watch you, Inglis,” Leone said hesitantly. “When you’re alone in front of a mirror, you make oddly different expressions, don’t you?”
“That’s right! Seeing that, we thought it’d be best to leave you alone in front of the mirror. You got so absorbed—you weren’t paying attention at all to what was going on around you, so it was easy to sneak a peek.”
“Really, you should have noticed us sooner,” Leone added.
“Right? Usually you’re as sharp as a beast when it comes to noticing people,” Rafinha noted.
“Ugh...” Inglis moaned. Put that way, it was a bit embarrassing.
“I wish you could look that enthusiastic around Rafael too, just a little bit. I’m sure he’d enjoy it.” Rafinha had, for a long time, hoped that Inglis and Rafael could marry.
But no matter how much Inglis adored Rafinha, that suggestion was off the table. “This is for myself, not to show other people.”
“You’ve always been like that. That’s such a waste. You could be a little more friendly.” Rafinha let out an exasperated sigh.
“But Inglis is so cute. I bet people just can’t leave her alone,” Leone said.
“She’s like a magnet! She’s been confessed to by the son of another region’s lord, almost ravaged by a Highlander, and strangely enough, scouted by a troupe of traveling dancers. They said she could be a worldwide star!” Rafinha recounted.
Each of those events had happened while Inglis and Rafinha were still in their hometown of Ymir.
“Yeah, those all happened,” Inglis confirmed.
“That story about a Highlander... Was that when you met my brother Leon?”
“Yeah. You could say he saved us,” Inglis said.
“Speaking of which—Chris, if Leon hadn’t turned Rahl into a magicite beast then, what were you planning on?” Rafinha asked.
Inglis chuckled. “That’s...a secret. ♪” She tried putting on an air of cuteness.
“Whoa! Scary!” Rafinha yelled. “You absolutely were just thinking something scary! You were probably going to murder him, weren’t you?!”
“Y-Yeah, don’t make that face...” Leone stammered.
After a pause, Inglis sulked and puffed out her cheeks. “Okay, no more of that.”
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