Volume 6 Chapter 2 (2/2)
He knew that if he disobeyed, her o foul Saito took the offered wine He tried to take it down in one gulp, and with a “Buaagh,” quickly spit it out W-rong with this wine? It was really strong stuff
“S-siesta This wine…”
“It was on a kitchen table”
Seelass of wine, and one gulp froh to make theft look okay Siesta was an indescribably bad drinker
“Y-you shouldn’t have taken it without permission…”
“Hey! Saito!”
“Y-yes?”
“Whatever Drink!”
“C-cheers”
Re one if he refused, Saito reluctantly drank the wine again
Meanwhile
In Cattleya’s room, Louise had her hair combed by her older sister
Cattleya's rooarden and zoo Potted plants were placed all around, a lot of poultry baskets were hanging fro around the room
Cattleya gently combed Louise’s hair
“Louise, Little Louise Your hair is so char, it has such a beautiful color”
“Big sister, you have the same hair”
Cattleya laughed happily
“Oh well Your hair – I like it”
Louise pouted and muttered,
“Big sister Eléonore’s blond hair color is the same as father’s, I think”
“Well, I asked big sister Eléonore about that She was offended”
“Right I don’t think big sister Eléonore matches her fair hair”
“Huh, why?”
“She is h it's been a long ti me”
“It’s because you, Louise, are so cute So cute that it“
“That’s not true”
Cattleya slowly ehtly from the back
“It is true Everyone in this house loves you, Little Louise”
“Saying such a thing, big sister”
Cattleya buried her face in Louise’s hair and closed her eyes
“But I'ht that you would become completely depressed…”
“Why?”
“Viscount Wardes He was a traitor, right? Half a year ago, he was a uard leader Wardes's mansion was attached to our territory When he betrayed you, weren't you hurt?”
Louise shook her head
“Not really I am not a child anymore Don’t confuse a childish crush for love”
Cattleya smiled when Louise said so firmly
“You are reliable You've grown up, Louise”
“That's right,” Louise muttered to herself
“I am not a child anymore, therefore, I want to make decisions for myself”
“Then, if father were to oppose it, would you go to ithout his permission?”
“If it's possible, I want hiree I want everyone to understand me”
“However, I do not feel admiration for the war either”
“Our mother country is in crisis And, Princess… no, Her Majesty, needs my powers Therefore…”
“It is useless to say that to me It is difficult for me to understand, for your elder sister always shuts herself in the castle “
Cattleya gently patted Louise's head Then, she had a strong coughing fit
“Big sister! Are you all right?”
Louise watched Cattleya with a worried expression Louise’s second elder sister’s body eak She had never taken more than one step out of La Vallière territory
“Did you call a doctor?”
Cattleya nodded
“The local doctor was called, and even though he tried to cast powerful ‘Water’ spellsis good for such a body The touch of water flow is useless”
The cause of Cattleya’s sickness was unknown Even if the sickened part of her body was treated with enerate Eventually, all doctors failed against such a cycle Her syics
Despite all that, Cattleya still smiled Louise felt pity for her elder sister Because of her condition, Cattleya could not get into the ic She also could notso beautiful
“H face? I lead a rather happy life everyday Look!”
Cattleya pointed at the bird cage
There was a bird shut inside A s
“Look, it is the young bird that I talked about in the carriage a while ago I picked it up recently”
“C-cute”
“This young bird was badly hurt Her ounded I was passing by when I heard the pain in this young bird's voice I stopped the carriage and picked it up”
It seemed that Cattleya, while she was in the forest, heard the cry of the bird, so she stopped the carriage and picked it up
“Big sister! It is just a bird!”
“Don’t you feel the same about your familiar?”
Cattleya sly Louise’s cheeks flamed up in an instant I do not understand what I feel about Saito Is it because he is a human?
“So you understandbird is the same”
Cattleya said, pointing
“Really?”
“Yes I’ in love”
Even Louise’s ears turned red
“What are you talking about?! I didn’t fall in love!”
“It is useless to hide it fro”
“I am not in love Really!”
Being very ee of tears
“Don’tThen, shall we sleep together after such a long time?”
Still blushi+ng, Louise nodded, biting her lips
On a soft bed, Louise, with her clothes taken off and only in her underwear, drew closer to her elder sister Cattleya, in her nightclothes as well, ehtly like a kitten
Louise placed her face next to Cattleya's chest and gave out a deep sigh
“What's wrong, Louise?”
“Nothing”
“Tell me”
After Cattleya’s words, Louise ly
“I wonder ifsister’s”
“Pfft,” Cattleya giggled Then she started groping Louise’s chest
“Hyaah!”
Louise yelped Ignoring her screa
“All right Don’t worry It will grow big soon”
“Really?”
“Yep I was like you at first too”
Louise tried to reo And I was eight Did Cattleya look the same as I am at that time? She could not recall clearly, because she had been too young then
Come to think of it, Cattleya always e those old ti byher pillow and going to Cattleya’s bed, while listening to elder sister's stories and breathing in her scent… she always calmed down and fell asleep
In Cattleya’s embrace, her eyes closed by themselves…
Various thoughts started co to her head
Henrietta
War against Albion
Possible death
Co her death A heavy load on her shoulders
The cruel and valuable lessons that she learned day by day
And, when she was thinking about her familiar, for some reason, Louise’s cheeks started to burn They hardly talked today Because she was being scolded by Eléonore, they could not talk But nohen she started to think about these things, she could not fall asleep at all
She started squir restlessly…
“What’s wrong? Can’t fall asleep?”
“Ye-yes…” she muttered embarrassed
“Fufufu You cannot fall asleep next toabout, child?”
“N-no one! Really!”
“Is it the boy that you brought with you a little while ago?”
“Wrong! He’s just a familiar! I don’t love him!”
“Hmmm I didn’t say that you loved someone”
Louise hid within the futon
“I hate you, big sister”
“Oh dear, now I am hated”
Cattleya laughed happily
“But it’s all right If a child cannot sleep next to the elder sister, then it is not a compliment for the sister In fact, she should be embarrassed instead”
“Uuuuuh…” Louise groaned
“See you soon This is where you can be yourself”
Louise, rolled up in a blanket, walked through the corridor On the way, she asked the servants where Saito was staying It was at the end of an adjoined corridor behind the guest roo tools were stored
She took a deep breath once she found the storage room It is not because I want to e If the fatoday And if you do not talk even a little, the faht
“Really, nothing else” Louise ht red
However, it was Siesta who sat there on the bed
“Huh? Miss Vallière”
Her cheeks were crimson red And in her hand, she held a bottle of wine
“W-hat are you doing in here?”
Confused, Louise asked
“I came here to have fun” Siesta answered
Then she saw Saito behind the bed He let out a loud “Guah” It seeot drunk, collapsed and fell asleep
“Get out of my room”
Louise said, e all her pride
“This is not Miss Vallière’s room”
Siesta answered back
“It is my house”
Louise indolared at Siesta They both stared at each other, not backing off Both ready to burst into a flae
When drunk, Siesta was very strong-willed and daring She could snap back even to Louise Alaritated, she declared to Louise,
“I am a housemaid employed by the school I am not employed by Miss Vallière Besides, we are on vacation anyway It is up to us on hoe use our free time So please, do not disturb us”
It was absurd Louise rudely approached the bed, and tried to drag the sleeping Saito by his ankle Then Siesta grasped his other foot
“Let go!”
“You let go!”
“Well excuse me, but this fellow happens to be my familiar In other words, he is mine”
Siesta glared at Louise with eyes full of hostility She wasn’t listening to what Louise said
“…Are you disobeying a noble?”
Suddenly, the air in the room became tense
Siesta, with a jerk, drank more wine
And muttered in a small voice
“noblenoblenoble, shut up”
“Haa? You l-l-lout…”
The ht her face next to the young noble
“It's love, isn’t it? In short, you are just jealous Despite you being a noble How ridiculous!”
“Wha-wha…”
In an instant, her resolution ashed away and Louise panicked
“Have you confessed? Are you just jealous of my love?”
Siesta continued pressing Louise into a corner
“Ah, auuh uuh…”
Mu
“What? You haven’t confessed? Coward”
“Uuh…”
Strangely powerful now, Siesta made Louise to retreat completely
“But theto Saito-san…”
“Wha-what?! What are you talking about?!”
“He likes girls with big chests”
This made Louise to stop at once, at a complete loss of words
“And when you think about it, you don’t have much of a bust”
Siesta primly poked Louise's chest
“B-breasts”
“Let’s call things the way they are – you are flat as a board, a board!”
“Uuh,” Louise let out a strangled cry
She relances always aimed at the valley of the breasts?
“Saito-san said it himself Miss Vallière's breast size is the same as a kid’s”
With drunken bravery, Siesta declared an unexpected thing
Fir her lips, Louise dashed out of the room
Aftersure she had left, Siesta laid down next to Saito and fell asleep
Cattleya was surprised to see Louise co back to the room in tears
”Oh, what’s wrong, Louise? What happened?”
“Fueh…” Louise threw herself into Cattleya's chest
“It’s all right why are you crying?”
However, Louise just kept on sobbing, not saying a word
“Fuuh,” Cattleya sighed deeply
Just like during old ti Louise’s head until she fell asleep
Saito woke up and was instantly surprised It was because Siesta had been sleeping next to him
“Uuhn, uuhn,” she seemed in pain in her sleep Siesta, why she is next toon the floor, he remembered
“Oh no, I got drunk and, after that…”
I was forced to drink a strong, distilled liquor by Siesta and collapsed
“Siesta, Siesta,” he lightly tapped her cheek
However, she didn’t wake up
“Uuh, uguu, uu”
ItShe earing a shi+rt too small for her Had she borrowed underwear from someone in the castle? Really, when you wear a shi+rt whose size doesn't over, you must feel very bad Saito loosened a button on Siesta's shi+rt
Thereupon Siesta slowly opened her eyes Saito hastily removed his hand from her shi+rt
“Go-yawn-good …”
Siesta muttered with a still drowsy face, but in a instant it turned into a blush once she noticed her surroundings
“S-Saito-san, why? That! I!”
Hey hey, weren’t you the one who broke into my room all drunk in the first place? Saito smiled wryly
“Siesta, last night, you got drunk and…”
Saito said, increasing the blush on Siesta’s face even further
“Eh? I got drunk?”
“Yes Look!”
Saito pointed at the bottle of wine lying on the floor
“You brought it with you”
“I drank wiiiiine?!”
“Ye-yes…”
“Which relass But it seems like I took more than just one sip Ahh, what to do…”
Saito was surprised by Siesta’s worry
“Siesta?”
“II really did it, didn't I?”
“Y-yes”
“I think I drank toowine”
Averting her face, Siesta reed Seems like this maid was inclined to drunken frenzy
“After drinking all that wine, I don’t have any ht Was I rude, Saito-san?”
“No, not particularly…”
Saito shook his head
That h the corridor could be heard Bam The door opened and one of the castle’s housemaids jumped in
“W-ha-!” Saito shouted
“No ti…” she shouted, and with an ar tools, she ran out Soon, another employee cae roo tools, they were almost never used However, it seemed that today was an exception
Master? Siesta and Saito looked at each other
In short, Louise's father had returned