Chapter 244
The two remained pressed together, kissing, until their ragged breaths gradually calmed.
When they finally parted their lips, the narrow space was thick with heat.
‘What should I do?’
Kissing her reddened eyes again and again, he wavered.
It seemed Serenia had been far more tense than he had realized. After being swept into climax so many times in that state, her body had gone limp.
‘It would be better to let her rest a little.’
And yet he did not want to pull out.
He wanted to remain inside her and savor this sense of fulfillment a little longer.
Watching Serenia as she blinked slowly, Lionel operated the mechanism behind the bookshelf and opened the door to the hidden space.
“It is all right. There is no one outside.”
Startled, she gasped, and he slipped his hands beneath her thighs and lifted her up, stepping out.
After a brief struggle, Serenia relaxed against him with his confident words, as though she did not harbor the slightest doubt that he might be lying.
That certainty made Lionel’s chest swell with warm satisfaction.
How could gaining her complete trust could hardly be an easy thing?
By the time they reached the bed and lay down together, his excitement had once again risen to the crown of his head.
“Mmm… Lionel….”
Serenia let out a soft, strained sound as his still-throbbing length stirred insistently inside her, but there was nothing he could do to settle it.
“It will calm down soon.”
Even as he said so, Lionel could not truly be sure.
Was such a thing really possible?
He was holding Serenia, their bodies pressed together without the slightest gap, and he was still inside her.
Calming himself while his member was buried in her narrow, heated depths did not seem possible at all.
And yet, unable to abandon the desire to stay like this, he ended up lying.
Even as he pulled the blanket over them so that Serenia would not grow cold, he did not withdraw. He wrapped both arms around her and endured.
“Um, Lionel….”
Serenia murmured in a drowsy, sleep-heavy voice.
“It was not because it felt good to be in a narrow, dark space, really….”
Had his words been on her mind all this time.
“It is not that kind of place I like. It is you that I like, so do not misunderstand….”
Lionel, holding his breath and listening, only answered in a low voice after Serenia had fallen into a soft, steady sleep.
“I know, Serenia.”
How could he not?
Even now, having lost all the memories of their many lives together, she still looked at him with the same eyes as she had in the past.
“I feel the same way.”
Just as he, despite having forgotten all they had shared, had fallen in love with her again at first sight and could not help but love her.
Serenia loved Lionel, and Lionel loved Serenia.
Perhaps that was the one fate of theirs that could never be changed.
* * *
There were many other places he was curious about besides the dormitory, but there was no time to look around the Academy any further.
They had to be ready to leave before midnight.
‘How did I fall asleep?’
When I woke, a great deal of time had already passed.
Even so, I did not feel inclined to blame the one responsible for putting me to sleep.
“Next time, we will be able to look around leisurely. I promise.”
How could I resent Lionel when he watched my face so anxiously, clearly feeling guilty.
And besides…
‘It was really nice.’
I had never been able to understand Dantère, who let others see him in the midst of intimacy, but after experiencing that nerve-racking sense of almost being discovered, I felt I could understand his feelings a little.
Not that I wanted to do it again, absolutely not.
The way Lionel gently moved and kissed me, still inside me, when he noticed I had woken, had been wonderful too.
‘…How did my tastes end up like this?’
Thinking back, it seemed rather problematic. Was this the side effect of having read too many adult novels?
Since I had thoroughly enjoyed the professor and student role-play from the start, who else was there to blame?
‘As Lionel said, there will be another chance to visit the Academy.’
After finishing their respective business, the group scattered inconspicuously at Lionel’s direction, then gathered again in front of the tower just before midnight.
Vivian looked satisfied, as though she had had a very pleasant day, and even Ardin, uncommonly, seemed in good spirits.
Dantère looked much the same as usual and yet somehow different. Judging by the way he kept glancing at Vivian, one could guess that something had happened between them.
And Halid….
‘Did he not go and spar to his heart’s content?’
With a face full of pent-up desire, he toyed with the hilt of his sword, then approached Lionel and said:
“I think I can no longer do without you, my lord.”
“……?”
What did I just hear?
