Beneath the midnight sky shrouded in a thin mist, the Silver Dusk Palace stood grand yet silent. Pale moonlight seeped through the stained-glass windows, illuminating the room of Alice, the frail duchess's daughter. Her weak body lay on the soft, silk-covered mattress, but her mind was far from at peace.
"It's all King Ren's fault. If only he hadn't had s-sex in my residence, I wouldn't be this restless. His actions constitute sexual harassment, don't they?"
Alice took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. She had repeatedly closed her eyes, hoping to fall asleep, but every time her eyelids shut, that image reappeared—Rokuhara Ren and Hayasaka Ai having sex in the room she had provided for them.
As a duchess's daughter raised with strict etiquette, Alice had never imagined witnessing such a scene firsthand. The sex education she had received was merely rigid theory on paper, and although she had secretly watched pornographic videos, it was all incomparable to what she had seen with her own eyes.
"Today, King Ren defeated three Heretic Gods in a row—Karna, Atlas, and Thoth."
"As the God of Wisdom and Knowledge, his mind is his weapon. Thoth possesses near-limitless knowledge of anything and everything in the world. He has almost infinite intelligence and knowledge. So it's only natural that King Ren obtained a Divine Authority from Thoth related to magic."
Alice quickly deduced the reason for the magic barrier in Ren's room, which prevented her from peeking with her magic.
The previous night, she had successfully peeked at Ren and Hayasaka's activities using simple surveillance magic. The barrier hadn't been there then, and she could see everything without their knowledge. But tonight, something had changed. When she tried again, her magic hit an invisible wall—a powerful magic barrier, likely erected by Ren after realizing her presence.
If Alice forced its destruction, Ren would be alerted.
"Haaah... Campione's intuition is so cunning, King Ren probably sensed me secretly watching him. That's why he put up a barrier in his room."
Alice bit her lower lip, frustrated and filled with uncontrollable curiosity. She created a spirit body in exchange for her independent action. After all, her physical body had been weak since birth; even just sitting up in bed required the help of a maid.
"Even if I get caught, King Ren won't be angry, right? He knew I was peeking at his nighttime activities yesterday, but he didn't say anything to me. That means he doesn't mind."
The nickname Sage Princess attached to her was not just for show. Alice possessed keen analytical abilities, and she was confident she had correctly read Ren's mindset.
"Um, this is just observation to gather knowledge to avoid ignorance when engaging in intimate relations on my future wedding night. It would be very awkward if I didn't know how to serve my husband."
With a seemingly reasonable excuse—at least to herself—Alice controlled her spirit body, leaving her physical body asleep in bed.
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Because it was a spirit body, Alice could become a spiritual form, thus avoiding the patrolling maids and guards. The cool night breeze blew gently, carrying the scent of flowers from the garden, but it wasn't enough to calm the fluttering in her chest.
Arriving in front of Ren's room, the nervous Alice slowly pushed the door open just a crack.
As soon as the gap opened, a pungent aroma assaulted her—a mixture of sweat, bodily fluids, and something hard to define.
Alice hurriedly covered her nose, her eyes scanning the messy room. Hayasaka's white lace lingerie lay carelessly on the floor, mixed with Ren's crumpled shirt and pants. In the corner, a pile of used tissues was scattered.
And on the bed, two familiar figures were intertwined. Lying beneath was Ren, who had a peaceful expression on his face, as if he were having a sweet dream. He lay naked on his back with his arms and legs spread open. Between his legs was his maid and concubine, Hayasaka, who was kneeling there, wearing a short red cheongsam dotted with white spots, curled up like a kitten, her head moving up and down as if she were eating something very hard.
'Oh my God, isn't Miss Hayasaka afraid of getting pregnant at such a young age? They're not even using any protection!' Alice thought with wide eyes.
This was the second time she had witnessed them making love. Her heart pounded, her breath hitched, her face flushed, and there was a strange itching sensation in her lower abdomen. Unconsciously, a fetish within her began to awaken—a voyeuristic sensation she had never realized before.
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Inside the room, Hayasaka raised her head, swallowing the bitter and viscous white fluid in her mouth.
"Ren-sama's thoughts are so dirty. You made me wear such embarrassing clothes." She complained in a soft but sarcastic voice.
Reaching out his hand to take a few strands of her pubic hair from her lips, Ren entered Sage Mode to justify his depravity.
"Ai is right, these might be dirty thoughts to you, but this is enough. Everyone has sexual fantasies, and men especially like them. No matter how beautiful and good a wife is, she is still just one woman, and she won't be able to satisfy a man's sexual fantasies."
"A man hopes his wife can be both a virtuous housewife and a motherly figure, and be a respectable lady in front of others but a whore behind their backs. However, the reason this is called a 'hope' is because the number of such women is too small."
"Most women only have one personality. Therefore, men will lose the novelty of living with their wives for a long time after marriage. Men who like to play around will go out to seek pleasure, while honest men will want to train their women to become what they desire. If his wife doesn't agree, he will be very disappointed, and most likely he will go looking for new things himself."
"..."
After hearing that, Alice, who was peeking through the crack in the door, and Hayasaka, who was listening on the bed, both thought the same sentence at this moment: Shameless!
Ren wrapped his lewd nature in wise words, as if it were a natural social norm.
"Alright, I can't match your rhetoric, Ren-sama. Anyway, I belong to you. You can train me to be whatever you want. Even if I team up with Itsuki-sama and Maria-sama, the three of us can't defeat you in bed. Ren's sexual desire is truly outrageous, just like your questionable morals." Hayasaka said in a tone of resignation mixed with coquettishness.
*Pa Pa Pa Pa!*
After having intimate relations so many times, Hayasaka was no longer shy and no longer spoke formally when they were alone. She moved her hips up and down, the soft sound of flesh meeting flesh and faint wet sounds blending with their panting breaths filled the room with an intoxicating rhythm.
Like two musical instruments played by a maestro, they created their own symphony that only the two of them—and Alice, who had inadvertently become an audience member of that night's concert—could hear.
"Human desire is a physiological reaction and has nothing to do with moral character. It's very similar to the singers and movie stars on TV, who are packaged like fairies separated from the mortal world, but in essence, they still need to eat, defecate, sleep, and have sex. People will feel hungry if they don't eat, and they will also feel hungry if they don't have sex. It's not good to hold something in for too long, and the same goes for sex."
As before, Ren justified his behavior with seemingly reasonable logic.
Hayasaka just rolled her eyes at him, continuing to serve him using the skills she had learned well. The two of them moved like two ocean waves meeting each other, creating ripples of pleasure that became increasingly intense.
With every movement, with every touch, they sank deeper and deeper into the boundless sea of passion. Their breaths met in burning hot kisses, their hands explored every inch of the skin they touched, searching for sensitive spots that would elicit moans of pleasure from their partner.
Hayasaka's body trembled delicately as she reached the peak of her pleasure, while Ren groaned softly, indicating that he too had reached the limit of his defenses. The two of them panted in a tight embrace, savoring the remnants of the waves of pleasure that still lingered in their bodies.
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Still peeking through the crack in the door, Alice felt her face burning hot to her ears. Her heart was beating so loudly that she worried the sound would be heard by the two people in the room. Her breath was short, her hands trembling.
A strange feeling churned within her. A mix of shame for having spied on other people's private affairs, an unfulfilled curiosity, and a jealousy she didn't understand the origin of.
'Do all couples do things like that? Will I also... someday?'
The thought made her face even redder. She realized she had been there for too long. If she were caught red-handed, where would she put her face?
Very carefully, Alice retreated slowly. Her spirit body moved silently along the dark corridor of the Silver Dusk Palace, back to her own room.
Upon reaching her room, her spirit body disappeared. Alice opened her eyes, her breathing still irregular. Her heart was still pounding, and there was a strange sensation she couldn't explain in her lower abdomen.
"King Ren is truly shameless." She whispered to herself.
But strangely, a small smile tugged at her lips as she finally drifted into a peaceful sleep, accompanied by dreams she wouldn't dare tell anyone.