Chapter 96: The 'Weight' Of Misunderstanding

"Ahah! So you’re the impregnator!"

Noelle’s finger was aimed straight at his nose.

Adonis leaned back with big, clueless eyes.

Anyone would be clueless in this situation. Five minutes ago he had been taking a small walk around the commerce district to kill time, minding his own business and trying think about anything other than the second prince. Then a familiar scent had wrapped around his arm, and now Alpis was cuddling him from the side like a fuzzy cat looking for warmth.

And Noelle was calling him an impregnator like it was another word for rapist.

Behind her, Prussia stood with the reddest, most vulnerable face he had ever seen on a woman like her. Strong women weren’t supposed to be able to blush that hard.

The only normal thing here was Lloyd, glaring at him from the corner with pure jealousy.

’Right. A blessed protagonist isn’t used to all the women turning to another man while he’s standing right there.’

Adonis tilted his head.

’What in the world is going on?’

Noelle planted both hands on her hips and huffed, pushing her bouncy chest forward like a ship’s prow.

"Prince Adonis! How can you be so nonchalant about putting a baby in a woman?! It makes me worry what kind of father you’ll be! When I saw you at the orphanage, I thought you’d be good with children, but maybe I was wrong!"

"Hm?" was all he said.

Even a usually aloof young beauty like Noelle was blowing her top. He couldn’t make sense of it.

"Don’t act so clueless!"

Her finger shook.

"And to think I imagined the two of us as husband and wife with a house full of neat little children—!"

She slapped both hands over her mouth and stumbled back.

Her heel caught on a cobblestone.

Lloyd’s eyes widened like a lion’s spotting a gazelle.

’This is my chance! A damsel in distress, a moment for the taking! I must save her!’

He darted forward with his arms already spread.

But Adonis moved faster.

Alpis, who’d been snuggling him just a second ago, didn’t realize she was snuggling empty air until her face met nothing. By then Adonis was several steps away, with one arm around Noelle’s waist, holding her close.

Lloyd’s hands closed around nothing, too.

Noelle opened her tightly shut eyes and found the fifth prince above her.

His face was calm and smug, the way it always was, and it was always a little too charming for her heart.

"U-, Uhm..."

"Are you alright?" he asked, leaning closer.

"I-, I’m... I’m f-, fi—"

She couldn’t finish.

Even flustered, she managed to look beautiful and dignified, just like Prussia. Adonis tilted his head at that thought. Then he thought of Mariella, and how after everything they’d done in that bedroom, he found it very hard to call that woman dignified.

’Heaven help your soul, my wife.’

He swallowed the pained look that tried to creep up his face, and gently helped Noelle stand upright.

"Would you like me to look at your ankles?"

"Wh—"

Before she could answer, he had already crouched down and taken one in his hand.

His fingers were careful, and warm, and slow.

Noelle’s cheeks burned hotter with every second. Her legs wanted to pull away. But a quieter part of her didn’t mind at all if he kept going.

Prussia stared in amazement.

’How can he just touch her like that...?’

And Lloyd, in the corner, was trembling with rage and could do nothing about it.

’Tch, this bastard... does he have some kind of affinity for one-upping men whenever women are involved?! How shameless can he be?!’

Very shameless, in fact.

You could tell from the goblin grin Adonis was fighting to hide while he examined the convent’s big sister’s ankles. He had it figured out: Noelle was a closet pervert. Hiding his intentions behind the mask of a gentleman was the most fun way to mess with her.

’Hehe.’

He stood up and cleared his throat.

"They look fine."

Noelle didn’t answer.

Her mind was blank. She was still trembling from being touched so casually by a man, or maybe the worse part was that she had enjoyed it. So many years in the convent, so many prayers, and she still couldn’t keep herself together around handsome men.

No, around HIM, especially.

Adonis tucked his hands behind his back.

"Now, back to what you were saying?"

It took Noelle a moment. She cleared her throat and spoke softly, her eyes on the ground.

"It seems... you’ve impregnated Prussia here."

She presented Prussia with both hands, like an offering.

Alpis shook her head at the scene. ’She went all mellow after getting touched by Master. She should be grateful. Hm, but come to think of it, is Master a feet person?’

She looked at her smooth, shiny feet with great interest.

Adonis lifted a brow.

"Impregnated? Prussia isn’t pregnant."

Prussia placed a hand on her flat belly. She looked up at him with those soft blue eyes he was still trying to get used to.

"Actually, I am. I woke up this morning with a mysterious weight that came out of nowhere. It can only be pregnancy."

She looked so sure.

It shouldn’t have been funny. He tried to hold it in.

Really, he did.

"Pfft— hahaha! Pregnancy?! That’s not how it works, okay? Ahaha, good one!"

He laughed so loudly that Prussia began to feel embarrassed. She looked away shyly.

"So... these aren’t pregnancy breasts?"

She hugged herself right under her weighty breasts, pushing it up for him to see.

Adonis nearly fell into the bulging cleavage. He caught himself at the last second, coughed hard into his fist and looked away.

"No, no. It’s just a lot of vitality, you see."

An enchanter boosting a vitality spell cast on a woman was the equivalent of a woman taking weight gain supplements in his old world.

Of course, he couldn’t tell them that.

So he explained his [Enchanter] class instead. How he must have gotten excited last night during "activities" and enhanced the vitality spell that was already on Prussia. He went into a little too much detail about grabbing her breasts, and naturally, a perverted look rose on Noelle’s face every now and then. There were even a few moments where he caught her trying not to drool.

"Oh..." Prussia said. "So I’m not pregnant?"

"Mhm."

"And the weight isn’t permanent?"

"Mhm."

"And my breasts will go back to normal?"

"M... hm..." he nodded, reluctantly.

Right now, the two beautiful cantaloupes on her chest were nearly rivaling Minerva’s.

But they would be gone by tomorrow.

Every woman had her own beauty, he reminded himself.

Mariella had a beautiful face.

Minerva had a seductive body.

Prussia had an athletic one, with a big, perfectly round bottom no man could ignore.

’Still, I will say it’s not a bad thing to want more, as long as you don’t demand it. Right?’

A man who is given two bowls of food won’t reject it.

Prussia released a long sigh of relief.

Alpis sighed too, much more heavily. She looked down at her own chest and squeezed it.

"I wish mine were half the size of Prussia’s. Master seems like the kind of person who likes big things."

Adonis leaned in with a smile and whispered.

"Psst, don’t worry about it. I’ve seen you in your mindspace, and you’ve got plenty."

"...Hm, master says plenty?"

"Mhm, mhm. Big tits, my dear."

Alpis triumphantly rubbed the tip of her nose with her index finger and chuckled like a proud old man.

"Ehehe, you always know how to cheer me up, Master!"

He gave her head sweet pats.

Then Noelle raised a finger.

"There’s still one problem, though. Prussia is still quite... fat."

Prussia frowned. "Not fat."

Adonis snapped his fingers.

"Right, new clothes for her. Heh, I have that covered!"

Prussia tilted her head.

"...Hm?"