Chapter 36 (2/2)

Her head isn’t even up to my chest.

She probably only reaches the pit of my stomach at most.

「Ahahahaha, well then, see you laater.」

She energetically parted with me and entered the toilet.

「Haa~」

I involuntarily let out a sigh.

This isn’t the first time I’ve dealt with a drunkard.

At the times I drink with those bunch from the Chivalric Order, there’ll always be some people that get wasted.

However. Is it really this difficult to deal with a female drunk…?

Although I thought about having another drink, it’ll be difficult to imagine her drunkenness settling when she leaves from the toilet. Probably, today was her first time drinking alcohol.

It’s likely she’ll bother the surroundings if I leave her as she is in her current condition, above all, the one who urged her to drink today was myself. I should at least send her to her room.

If I do that, how do I persuade that drunkard, I need to think of a way na.3

「Slow.」

A long time has pa.s.sed since she entered the toilet.

During that time, I can’t help but think the people waiting by the toilet have already left.

I’ll try to search for her presence a little.

…There’s a presence. But, it doesn’t seem to be moving.

With her unsteady legs, did she stumble and hit her head?

With that image crossing my mind, I made up my mind and entered the toilets and tried knocking on the stall’s door.

konkonkon…

There’s no reaction to the knock.

「Sakura? It’s Sedrim. Are you okay?」

I tried speaking, but there was no reaction either.

「Oi, Sakura! I’m going to enter!?」

Slightly fl.u.s.tered, I try to open the stall’s door.

gacha

Without it being locked, it easily opens.

Why wasn’t it locked?

While thinking it was strange, I open the door.

She, was, there.

Sitting on the toilet, with her, head down.

「Suu~, suu~」

A sound of a sleeper’s breathing spreads through the stall.

It seems after she sat on the toilet, she fell asleep just like that.

That’s, good. No, it’s not, but.

The problem is, she fell asleep「in the middle」of the going to toilet, is what I mean.

Right, her pants and underwear are down, she’s sitting on the toilet in that current condition and sleeping.

It’s unintentional, it’s the fault of a man’s nature to stare, it’s that kind of thing?4

「Oi, Sakura. Wake up. This isn’t the place to sleep.」

Calming down, I carefully avoid looking down there as much as possible as I call out to her and lightly tap her cheek.

「n, un… Prince…?….is it?」

For an instant, I thought she had woken up but, after leaving some ambiguous words, a sleeper’s breathing can be heard again.

「Oi hey, don’t sleep! Get up!」

Grabbing her shoulders and shaking her, she slightly opens her eyes and stares at me.

Unintentionally returning her stare, I was. .h.i.t with an unprecedented shock.

Limply would be the closest way to describe it. She displayed an enchanting smile, without any change, koten, she leaned her head onto my arm.

How long was it.

Several seconds? Or was it several minutes?

My face is most likely bright red.

And this situation.

「How do you want me to…」

After that, it was work which wore away my nerves like never before. I’ll just say it like that.

But my retribution still continued.

I carried her out from the toilet, received the key to her room from the counter, then carried her to her room.

Finally placing her on her bed, I took a breather.

「When you sleep with your mouth open like that, it’s cute…」

While speaking to myself, I was about to brush off her hair covering her face, would it be bad if I continue to reach out my hand…?5

gui dosa

All of a sudden my hand was pulled, when I noticed, I had already fallen on the bed.

「What…!?」

The instant I instinctively tried to get up, gyu, I feel something warm coiling around my body.

dokun

My heart jumped out when I realized.

Looking besides me, the girl that should’ve been sleeping was clinging onto me.

Small, but obviously a woman’s soft body was clinging to me.

What’s her intention?

I wanted to take a look and examine her face, but I couldn’t see her face from my position.

When I listened carefully, I could hear her regulated breathing from sleeping.

Is she unconscious?

Did she unconsciously aim for me to cling onto, or was it just fine to cling onto whoever…

Thinking about it, if it’s the former then my heart would be excited, but if I think of the latter, it’s an awfully unpleasant feeling.

Thinking to myself, I persuade myself that it’s probably because she’s drunk.

「Sakura, let me go.」

Oddly enough, with my gentle voice, far from her separating, she clings onto me harder and nuzzles her face against my arm.

My reasoning may drop to a dangerous level at this rate.

Sensing the warmth from the areas being clung onto, I try to separating my body from that soft feeling.

However, I can’t get away no matter how I move my body. On the contrary, each time I twist my body, I have a feeling we’re getting more entwined.

It appears that I won’t be able to escape.

From now until she wakes up, the time of my long retribution had begun.

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