Chapter 275: …You’ll Get Scolded?

I moved both hands as if teasing Setenia’s body and kissed her with tangled tongues when the door was knocked again.

At the small knock I stopped the kiss and tilted my head. Then I heard a lover’s voice I knew well.

"Raide-sama, here is bad. Let’s go to the annex. ’Everyone’ will scold you?"

"Ah~... true."

"Haa haa, ahn, yaa, who is it?"

Setenia breathed hot on my profile and asked with a melted face. I smiled with a troubled look.

Is it all right to show Setenia the fairies?

I had asked Sharle and the others to talk over whether we could show ourselves... how did it go?

"...Furlin, the result of the talk?"

"Fine to show. Open the door. I will explain to Setenia-sama."

"Understood."

"Wai? Hau nnu."

I stopped teasing, put my left hand on Setenia’s abdomen as if supporting her, unlocked the door with my right, and opened it.

When the door opened Furlin was standing with a fluffy face, not hiding the wings on her back, moving them a little.

Seeing Furlin, Setenia went quiet as if she had stopped breathing. Worried, I turned my face and checked her.

"Setenia-sama, a pleasure. I am Furlin, a fairy. Raide-sama’s lover, and I guard him."

"A f-fairy? I am not... dreaming, am I?"

"Setenia, if it is a dream I am in trouble. Becoming lovers would become like it never happened."

"Raide-sama, stop courting and let’s move to the annex at Nifa Inn. Nimi-sama and Elysia-sama have prepared it. The maids are already on standby."

"Courting. Muu... I think that just now was ordinary... Setenia, can you walk?"

Whether she was still processing Furlin in her head, Setenia had frozen like Erika. I laughed without meaning to.

I lifted Setenia in a princess carry. She still did not take her face off Furlin.

...Even Setenia freezes, huh.

I had an image of her handling any situation calmly. A sense of closeness wells up.

I asked Furlin to take several gold coins from a pouch-type Magic Bag and hand them to my right hand.

Still carrying Setenia I left the room. As expected the staff panicked. I told them it was all right, paid, and left the shop.

Well. I had expected this too, but Setenia’s aides waiting around the carriage also panicked seeing her state.

But when they checked Setenia’s expression their cheeks went red. They must have guessed the situation. They did not press and let us board the carriage.

Late to say it, but the aides are women too. Of course they can guess what happened.

When I told them the location of Nifa Inn they accepted readily. The carriage started moving slowly at once.

Even if it is a main street lit by streetlamps as it gets dim, operating a carriage at this hour takes a lot of care for safety.

When we arrive at Nifa Inn I will have the aides rest too... the guest rooms were empty today, I am sure?

A little after the carriage started running, Setenia came back to herself and listened to Furlin, sitting across, explain.

Is it my imagination? I feel like her eyes are sparkling terribly...

Even so she is keeping me in mind. When Setenia tried to ease away a little I put one arm around her waist, pulled her toward me, and kept our bodies pressed together.

The way she glanced at me, embarrassed, I could not stand, but I endured because we were in a carriage.

"...That is it. Setenia-sama. Promise. Do not say you saw us fairies. Lovers are the exception. You may talk to them. But do not tell anyone else. Can you Promise?"

"Yes. I Promise. Aah. Like a dream. Fairies I thought were fairy tales, right in front of me..."

"From now you can touch as much as you want. In return I will touch too. Together with Raide-sama."

"...That is not wrong, but why does it sound indecent?"

"That is not wrong either. Raide-sama has to touch me more."

Furlin nodded hard with a fluffy expression. I smiled with a troubled face.

I suddenly felt a gaze and turned toward Setenia. She was staring at my face and my heart jumped.

Even in the dim carriage her glossy lips and expression, and that seductive air, reached me. Being stared at with flushed cheeks made my chest pound.

"What is it?"

"You are a strange person. Past strange. Already a mystery person."

"And Setenia’s lover. Too late to regret it, and I will not let go."

"...Handful. That name fits too well."

"Setenia-sama, I get it so much. Raide-sama is truly a Handful."

Setenia and Furlin turned to each other and started laughing happily.

Them looking close makes me very glad... but was there a place in that talk to be called a Handful?

Muu... I meant to choose words so Setenia would not get uneasy...

While I thought that I felt Setenia lean her body into me. I looked and she was staring at me with a happy smile.

So instead of answering I strengthened the arm around her waist and pulled her in harder.

In that motion the soft, funyu feel of her chest hitting hard and Setenia’s scent called back the lust and excitement from before, but I told myself to endure until we reached the annex.

...I have a feeling I would get scolded even in the carriage, and I probably would not stop right away either.

Because we had been on 11th Street it did not take that long. We arrived in front of the annex at Nifa Inn.

I got out of the carriage first, lifted Setenia in a princess carry, and went in when Furlin opened the annex door.

Setenia’s heels were in my Magic Bag. I could have taken them out for her, but I wanted to hold her so I did this.

"I can stand..." she reacted, embarrassed. Seeing that I smiled and carried it out.

Foul play... truly. Do you mean to unbalance my feelings?

Inside the annex the maids split left and right like some noble house, bowed, and welcomed us.

Melaine came up at once. I asked in a low voice, "Is this not too grand?" and got a sharp "Please get used to it." I smiled wryly.

I asked to put Setenia’s aides in Nifa Inn’s guest rooms and to prepare drinks on the third floor.

Melaine bowed quietly, then gave instructions to the maids around... reliable.

"Welcome back! I heard Raide was being a Handful, and you really are being a Handful!"

"I am back, Hiero. This time... well. I will not deny it."

I turned toward the voice. Hiero had just come out the door to the living space.

She came up at a short run, looked at Setenia’s face, and spoke with a grinning, happy smile.

"I do not usually let you! Nice to meet you, Setenia. I am Hiero, Raide’s close guard. Treat me well?"

"Eh, yes, please treat me well. Close guard? Raide, are you sane? Using such a lovely young lady as a guard... kya."

"Naaah haaaaa! Setenia is cute tooooo! Raide is truly sly! Nothing but cute girls like this! But let me peek a little, all right?"

Hiero clung to Setenia in the princess carry with a full smile and started nuzzling her side-hair, hasu hasu hasu hasu.

...Un? Since when did Hiero become my close guard?

In the first place I should not be doing anything dangerous enough to hire a close guard... mmu. I will ask later.

Then Hiero left Setenia and for some reason looked at me with flat eyes and sighed as if fed up.

"Haaaa! You made her a lover and why are you making her uneasy!?"

"Wait, how do you know that?"

"...Nnn? What talk is this? Uneasy? Is Setenia carrying unease?"

"Auaaaa... you had not noticed! Enough already, love her a lot, all right?"

"Hmm? Of course. Thank you, Hiero."

"Nmyuuuuu! This honest part is truly too sly uuuu!"

Hiero went behind me and pushed my back while saying that, so I tilted my head.

More than that, what does carrying unease mean? I looked at Setenia’s face.

Setenia flushed and turned her face away with a huff, embarrassed.

...Un. Shall I hear it out slowly on the third floor?

Led by Melaine, and with Hiero pushing my back, I headed for the third floor.