As Lady Yuzuriha turned to me with a triumphant look, she declared with a beaming smile:
“Well then, why don’t you tell me to switch out with Suzuha for a piggyback ride?”
“Absolutely not.”
“Why noooooot!?”
There’s no particular reason, really.
If I were to be intimately embraced by Lady Yuzuriha’s supple thighs squeezing my neck, or have her massive, bouncy melons dangling above my head and occasionally dropping like hammers, or catch whiffs of her distinctly feminine, citrusy scent from behind, it would be extremely difficult for me to endure.
As I wondered how to explain this in a roundabout way—
“Ah, stop right there, Lady Yuzuriha.”
“What’s wrong?”
“There’s a trap here.”
“…Where?”
“Right here.”
I pointed out a spot where the ground color was subtly different, and after squinting several times, Lady Yuzuriha finally understood.
“Well spotted. No one else would have noticed something like that.”
“I wouldn’t have realized it from just the color difference either. The flow of magic felt unnatural, so I instinctively noticed it.”
“I think only you could find it that way…?”
As I carefully dug around, there was a cleverly camouflaged magic circle trap.
“…Was this set by a hunter?”
“This whole area was a battlefield during the last war. Our country’s army, led by the foolish prince, was utterly crushed and had no chance of winning… This may be a remaining magic circle trap from back then.”
“Shall I disarm it?”
“Yes, that would be wise.”
Though I considered it could be a hunter’s trap, Yuzuriha said hunters wouldn’t use magic traps.
So we should probably get rid of it.
Just to be safe, Suzuha picked up a rock from a good distance away and threw it at the trap to set it off.
“Here goes!”
KADOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooM!!!
An explosion far bigger than expected erupted.
Its sheer power froze Suzuha and Yuzuriha in place, their skirts blown up by the shockwave.
Once the smoke cleared, there was a 20-meter wide crater in the ground.
“U-Um…Brother…?”
“Definitely not a hunter’s trap…”
“Obviously. Any animal caught in a trap like that would be vaporized, no pieces left. But anyway…”
For some reason, Yuzuriha hugged me tightly from behind.
Her overly ample chest pressed against my back, spreading the sensation all over.
“Once again today, you’ve saved my life…Fufufu.”
I wanted to say that wasn’t true.
After all, if I wasn’t there, Yuzuriha wouldn’t have been in this place to begin with.
Though if I pointed that out, I could envision Yuzuriha tearfully scolding “You really can’t read the air, can you? That’s just how you are!” So I kept quiet.
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3
After crossing fields and mountains, we finally arrived at a small town.
“Past this town is the frontier territory of Lohengrin, your domain.”
“But Yuzuriha, my territory was completely occupied by the enemy, right?”
“That’s right. So effectively, this town is now the border.”
As they entered the town and had that conversation,
a stoic but disturbingly pitiful beautiful girl standing in the middle of the street stared at them.
She had silver hair in twintails, tanned skin, a loli figure with massive breasts, and was even wearing a maid outfit.
To put it bluntly,
she was a jewelry box full of fetish appeal.
“B-Brother? Who is that…?”
“Shh. Don’t look at her.”
Leave dangerous things alone.
We pretended to look for an inn while naturally detouring around her—
Shyun! As if teleporting, the maid girl naturally blocked their path.
Ehhhhh!?
“U-Um…”
“You’ve passed the first test to be Kanade’s new master…by surviving that mine unscathed!”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about!”
“…I’ve come to greet my new master.”
“You’re totally a professional assassin, aren’t you!?”
“…Just your imagination.”
“It’s not! You just ‘shyun’d’ right over here!”
“A capable maid quietly appears by her master’s side without a sound. That’s all.”
“Seriously!?”
Well, the maids at the duke’s mansion were pretty capable too, so maybe it’s true…?
“I definitely don’t think so, Brother.”
“I definitely don’t think so either. As a duke’s daughter, I can say that for certain.”
“…Such trivial things don’t matter. Who cares?”
Well, putting aside what a capable maid is like…
“Um, who are you exactly?”
“Kanade is the sole surviving maid of the Lohengrin frontier household. My name is Kanade. Pleased to meet you.”
“I see.”
“Kanade is 142cm tall and her weight is a secret. Her measurements from top are 100-“
“You don’t need to tell us that!?”
“But my previous master really wanted to know.”
Seeing Kanade’s puzzled look, I glanced at Yuzuriha.
Yuzuriha gazed off distantly and said:
“Well, you see…The Lohengrin frontier family was apparently full of loli lovers. Toko and I used to had our chests ogled lecherously from a young age.”
“Ewww…”
“Still, for a noble’s fetish, that’s relatively tame…”
“…What would count as not tame…?”
“You want to know? A certain noble once spent an hour passionately lecturing me on the intricacies of necrophilia.”
“No thanks, I’ll pass.”
The depths of a noble’s fetishes are clearly dark. That much is clear.
“…Anyway, from now on Kanade will be serving her new master.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
And so our group gained the uniquely eccentric maid girl Kanade.
*
Setting aside Kanade’s over-the-top fetish appeal, she did seem genuinely capable.
“These are reports summarizing the current enemy occupation situation.”
At the strategy meeting in the inn, the documents Kanade handed over contained exactly the information they needed most.
“Brother! It has detailed locations and numbers for the enemy forces…”
“And information on damage and food stockpiles in each town too!”
“It even lists the names, appearances, and combat styles of the enemy commanders…”
“Eheheh.”
As Kanade was showered with praise, her seemingly expressionless face had a slightly puffed up nose, likely indicating smugness.
“With this much intel, it’ll be easier to plan strategy.”
“Of course.”
“Up till now I simply thought we’d find and beat up any enemy soldiers we came across.”
“That’s way too simple-minded a plan!”
“I’m joking. It’s a simple but effective strategy, but doing that would devastate the towns. However, looking through this data…”
Yuzuriha stroked her chin thoughtfully.
“The buildings don’t seem very damaged at all, surprisingly. Our foolish princely army likely fled before any real fighting broke out.”
“I see.”
“Perhaps directly assaulting each town’s command center is best after all. What do you think?”
“Well…”
“Just you and I charging in would make short work of decimating each town’s commanders. You could probably handle it easily alone…b-but I need to watch your back as your partner!”
Though really, Yuzuriha alone would be more than enough.
I’m more like a liability.
Still…
“With that plan, how much town damage are we expecting?”
“The town centers would likely suffer catastrophic damage. Our targets are the commander’s buildings, but I doubt the enemy mages would just stand by. Stray attack spells would inevitably destroy surrounding structures.”
“So there would be civilian casualties?”
“Some, yes. But far less than a prolonged siege at least.”
“Couldn’t we just engage the enemy soldiers in open battle?”
“Difficult. Word of your strength from the Ogre Tree Forest has likely spread, and I’m somewhat infamous myself. Maybe one or two commanders foolishly brave or catastrophically overconfident would engage us in the field, but any with basic intelligence would never chance it.”
“So a siege then…”
I don’t know about the sensibilities of the nobility.
As someone who was a commoner until very recently, I really want to avoid harming innocent civilians in this war if possible.
And the buildings seized as command centers are often important town symbols that can’t be easily rebuilt if destroyed.
I had to think if there was another way.
4 (Toko’s Perspective)
Even after achieving his goal of making Toko the queen, Toko would still meet secretly with the Sakuragi duke, though irregularly.
One late night,
Toko entered the duke’s private study to find him alone.
Looking around, Toko asked
“Oh, Yuzuriha’s not here?”
“…That idiot girl…”
“What, what happened?”
With a somber expression, the duke handed Toko a letter.
“Let’s see… ‘I’m going on a journey to protect my partner’s back. Father, take care of yourself’…? What’s this?”
“That idiot left this note on her bed. No word since.”
“This means she definitely went to join Suzuha, right? And you allowed it?”
“Of course I didn’t allow it!”
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