Lunelle had no idea when her three Valkyrie wives would be back from their exams.
So naturally, she couldn't just openly expose the embarrassing state she'd been left in after being thoroughly handled by Himeko-sensei right in front of her other wives.
Still, as she ducked back into her room, Lunelle couldn't help feeling a little strange.
Why did she suddenly feel like some sneaky little housewife, afraid of getting caught with evidence of cheating by her own husband?
But this weirdly fitting—and utterly absurd—train of thought was quickly snuffed out on the spot.
After all, as a former seven-foot-tall man, how could she be the cheating wife!
Even if… even if she stretched the imagination, shouldn't it be more like… she was just too handsome, and thus forced to endure the agony of being the "reluctantly unfaithful" super-hot husband?
Yeah, that's right—it's all because I'm just too good-looking!
That's why so many beautiful girl-wives are crazy about me. What a sin, truly a sin!!!
Having successfully fooled herself on a psychological level, the adorable Lunelle once again used mental gymnastics to convince herself that this round wasn't a loss.
About an hour after Lunelle had been pinned to the couch by Himeko-sensei for some intense closeness, the three main heroines finally returned to Himeko's home, having completed their practical exams.
After changing into loungewear, Mei naturally and smoothly headed to the kitchen to start preparing dinner.
Bronya first habitually scanned the area for her beloved little sister Seele, and upon realizing Seele seemed to have gone back to her room to rest, she reluctantly retreated to her own room to play an online game called Honkai Realm.
Bronya had previously managed to coax her adorable little Seele into playing with her, so she figured the early-returning Seele might already be waiting for her in the game!
With exams finally over, it was the perfect time to fulfill her big-sister duty and take her cute little sister Seele on a thrilling rampage through the game!
After all, carrying your little sister was one of the best ways to boost affection!
Though outwardly, Bronya looked more like the little sister—even younger than Lunelle.
Since the other two who had returned home seemed occupied with their own things, the originally spacious living room soon contained only the self-satisfied Kiana—who thought she'd done well on the exam today.
Kiana couldn't shake a strange feeling as she noticed the living room smelled unusually sweet today.
But seeing no one around, her wandering gaze slowly drifted toward Lunelle's clearly closed door.
A thought crossed her mind:
'I worked so hard on the exam today—wouldn't it be totally reasonable to ask my sweet, soft little Seele for some closeness therapy?'
After all, during non-sleeping hours, Lunelle wasn't in the habit of locking her door during the day—a little trick Kiana had figured out after multiple attempts to sneak into her room.
Thinking this, Kiana began creeping toward Lunelle's door, her restless cat-like paw slowly reaching for the handle.
As expected, Lunelle hadn't locked it during the day.
The thought that this might be her first chance to enter Lunelle's private room since moving into Himeko's place—and in such a sneaky way—made Kiana grin with a certain you-know-what kind of smile.
'Hehehe, little Seele-wife~ your Kiana-husband is here for some cuddles!'
BANG!!!
But before Kiana could follow Lunelle's scent to find her, the door she'd just gently closed was suddenly pushed open by an uninvited guest!
Kiana: Gasp?!
The clear sound of the door opening immediately caught Kiana's attention.
Thinking her infiltration had been flawless, Kiana was stunned when she saw who had ruined her plans—it was…!
Mei, wearing an apron and holding a soup ladle, smiling but radiating an unusually dark and oppressive aura!
"Ki—a—na! Would you mind explaining to everyone what you're doing in Lunelle's room?"
Seeing that Kiana had used the brief time she was cooking to sneak in for such perverted behavior, Mei looked every bit the rightful wife who had caught her husband cheating red-handed.
Mei inwardly thanked Himeko-sensei for noticing and informing her in time.
If she'd let this top-tier lesbian lurker stay in little Lunelle's room any longer, she might have arrived too late and found a restless Kiana already in Lunelle's bed!
Caught red-handed by Mei, Kiana naturally didn't dare continue seeking closeness with little Lunelle in front of the head wife.
After all, if Kiana were bold enough to ignore Mei and force something with Lunelle, wouldn't that be a form of NTR?
But if something like that really happened… would it be Lunelle NTRing Mei, or Kiana NTRing Bronya?
Soon, the pitiful Kiana was dragged out of Lunelle's room by a dark-faced Mei, who pulled her by the ear.
Meanwhile, buried under the covers and afraid that a suddenly intruding Kiana might notice the lingering traces on her body, Lunelle quietly sighed in relief.
When Himeko-sensei had caught her for a kiss earlier, she'd been a bit… overenthusiastic.
Though most of the lighter lip marks had already faded thanks to Lunelle's innate resilience, leaving her skin flawlessly snow-pale again…
Even with her unusual recovery speed, in just about an hour—and with her life not in danger—the adorable cherry-blossom pink of her lips, swollen from suction, and the several bite marks left on her snowy, delicate neck weren't going to disappear so easily!
If Kiana hadn't been dragged away by Mei in time, the special relationship between Lunelle and Himeko-sensei might have been exposed right in front of her three beautiful girl-wives!
At the same moment, noticing the restless Kiana being dragged out by Mei, Himeko, who shared the same worry as Lunelle, also let out a nearly synchronized sigh of relief in her heart.
Back then, she had only taken a few extra glances at the utterly adorable little Lunelle, but looking back now, even Himeko herself could hardly believe that she had acted so outrageously and recklessly toward her lovely student in a moment of impulse.
But if asked whether she regretted it, Himeko couldn't bring herself to deny what she had done in good conscience.
After all, once she'd actually experienced some close contact with the adorable little Lunelle...
That blissful, clinging sensation—enough to make anyone utterly succumb—was absolutely the most wonderful feeling Himeko had ever experienced in all her years since birth!
That's why the usually rational Himeko had suddenly been seized by such an intense urge to do something improper to the adorable Lunelle!
After all, at that moment, Lunelle in her eyes was indeed a tiny bit too cute and a tiny bit too enticing!
So enticing, in fact, that it felt almost unnaturally intense!
And this secret, nearly exposed by Kiana, passed without major incident once the lingering traces on Lunelle's body had completely healed and vanished.
However, missing this chance to cling to the adorable little Lunelle this time allowed a certain dangerous idea simmering in Kiana's heart to accumulate once again to a rather frightening degree.
So much so that during the eagerly anticipated dinner that evening, Lunelle even suspected that her dear Kiana seemed on the verge of pouncing and devouring her whole as if she were the meal itself.
Though under Mei's 'kindly affectionate' warning smile, a mere unsatisfied Kiana naturally couldn't stir up much trouble.
But seeing Kiana's resentful, unwilling gaze, Lunelle felt like she was looking at a troublemaking student who'd been reported to the teacher, nursing a grudge against the 'tattletale,' determined to find a chance for revenge—that childish, vengeful vibe.
As for being inexplicably targeted by Kiana again, Lunelle felt nothing but exasperation and frustration.
If she had secretly tipped off Mei, she'd have owned up to it.
But she was just as clueless!
You blockheaded Kiana can't just keep picking on this one soft, helpless little lamb just because you can't find the real culprit, can you?
Honestly, Lunelle wasn't exactly opposed to Kiana's thirst for her body. After all, no matter how perverted Kiana was now, she still ranked pretty high among Lunelle's list of wives!
It's just that Lunelle was acutely aware of the nearly insurmountable gap in raw strength between her and her wife Kiana in reality!
Taking that time in Nagazora City when Kiana hugged her as a reference, Lunelle's seemingly high 94-point stamina stat still clearly fell short by a significant margin.
If she couldn't even beat Kiana a month ago when Kiana was still 'ordinary,' there was no way she could handle the current 'Valkyrie' Kiana, who'd undergone another major boost in combat ability at St. Freya Academy...
Though it wasn't clear if it was because the simulator Lunelle possessed was particularly janky, the attribute panel function had always been limited to Lunelle herself.
But using herself as a combat power benchmark to gauge others, Lunelle estimated that Kiana's starting stamina stat must have been at least 200!
It just goes to show—the true protagonist, blended with all sorts of ridiculously overpowered bloodlines from the Honkai series, really starts at a level as an ordinary person that others might never reach in their entire lives!
So Lunelle figured that only once she was confident she could handle Kiana's strength would her usual soft, cute self dare to act up a little.
But once she managed to shake off this weak position, with her inner little perv heart full of wives everywhere, Lunelle would probably turn into an arrogant, smug brat begging to be put in her place, right?
Time passed quickly, and soon it was the day the academy uniformly released grades.
The confidently beaming Kiana was still fantasizing about topping the class, only to find—utterly unsurprisingly—that she'd been marked as failing due to having the lowest written exam score.
Then, during dinner that evening, Himeko, as the teacher, saw for the first time a student as hopeless as Kiana, whose combined written scores totaled a mere 21 points.
She couldn't help but mock the dejected Kiana with a jab about being 'all looks, no brains.'
But when the discouraged Kiana heard Himeko mention 'looks,' her first reaction was oddly to peek down the neckline of her nightgown at her own notably impressive figure.
Aren't these pretty substantial, though?
Clearly, compared to the 'no brains' part Himeko was actually mocking, Kiana's unconventional train of thought meant the insult mostly went over her head.
However, if Kiana couldn't even pass the make-up exam a week later, then the once-confident Kiana, who'd boldly declared she'd become an A-rank Valkyrie, would truly meet her end before even beginning her journey.
While Bronya was quite pleased to see this schemer after her dear sister Seele about to crash and burn…
Since Kiana was being lectured that day by a certain Anti-Entropy leader disguised as a girls' school teacher, and since Lunelle was also a transfer student in the same batch as Kiana…
Plus Lunelle's academic progress was almost visibly remarkable—completely the polar opposite of the academically hopeless Kiana—it was only natural for the teacher to use the classic 'model student' example to motivate the underperforming one.
So while being scolded, Kiana was repeatedly compared to Lunelle by that certain teacher:
'See how Seele started out like this, and now she's already like that...' and so on, with all sorts of blah-blah, yada-yada.
Setting aside all that criticism about Kiana's lack of effort and how she couldn't measure up to Lunelle, what Bronya found particularly 'tactless' was that the same teacher just had to add:
"Since your academic performance is so poor, why not learn more from Lunelle?"
From a teacher's perspective, this was a perfectly normal suggestion.
But for Kiana, who'd been thirsting after Lunelle for so long, it was nothing less than a 'legitimate reason' to be alone with Lunelle for some one-on-one clinging!
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