"Llo-, Lloyd! I'm sorry about earlier! It was my carelessness..."
She should have checked before entering, since she was not alone. She cried out desperately, still feeling the heat on her cheeks, when she heard a faint noise on the other side of the door.
Then the door swung open again, this time with more force. Wisteria reflexively looked up and froze, her eyes widening to the limit.
──There it was - the stunning upper half of her body from earlier. The jacket, which was barely hanging on to his arm, was no longer there. He was leaning against the door frame in front of Wisteria's eyes, arms folded into a magnificent ridge line that could be mistaken for a sculpture. From the back of his head, which was tilted slightly, his loose silver hair fell over his raised shoulders and rested on his collarbone.
“I don't have the kind of body that would make me feel ashamed to be seen with,"
Lloyd said blandly. He looked at his mentor, who froze in her tracks, the edges of his shapely lips rising faintly.
"If you're interested, would you like to touch it?"
His voice was mildly sarcastic. Golden eyes sparkled for a moment like a cat's. Wisteria was absolutely mortified. After a few heartbeats - and a lot of them - the blood rushed to her head.
“You-...idiot!!”
Wisteria was indignant in front of the living room table. She stood intimidatingly with her arms folded, looking down at her disciple. The disciple in question was dressed and was sitting in a chair, but he was leaning back and looking up at his teacher languidly, with his surprisingly long legs crossed.
"Listen! To begin with, it's outrageous for a gentleman of the Duke of Ruening's house to show off his skin indiscriminately! And to think that a gentleman of the Duke of Ruening's house would even open his mouth and try to show off his skin!"
"...Am I a young lady or something? I didn't mean to show it off. In the first place, master looked very interested and peeped at me."
"I-I ‘m not interested!! I didn't peek at it!!! It was an accident!!"
"But you were looking at it very carefully."
"I-I-I-I-I didn't look at you!! No, I saw it, but it wasn't for such an obscene purpose!! And you!! Saying something about touching you!!"
As Wisteria roared in anger and impatience, Lloyd suddenly smiled that fearless smile again.
"In other words, you were looking at it without even realizing it. I guess you were fascinated by it."
"...!?"
Wisteria was speechless. The young man uttered a retort without a trace of humility, and looked up at his master with a sly smile on his face.
“It’s so noisy, Elaine. What's the fun in seeing a naked child or two? Nonsense."
The holy sword that was leaning on the table said in an uninterested voice. That piercing tone of voice suddenly brought Wisteria's composure back to normal. Just as she thought for a moment that Saltis might be right, the corners of Lloyd's mouth turned up again. Lloyd's lips are much sharper and more provocative than before. A long finger rests on his collar.
"Heeh? Then, would you like to see everything?"
"!? N-no, stop..."
``Your nakedness is worthless. Isn’t that right, Elaine.''
“Shut up, Salt! Stop it, Don't do it, Lloyd. Don't take it so seriously, don't take it off...!!”
(Wh-what is this...!) Even though she hadn't done any strenuous exercise, Wisteria was already feeling out of breath.