“More?”

Raiden asked gently, and Rihana shook her head. Raiden naturally wiped Rihana’s moist lips with his thumb and sat back down in the chair.

Thump thump thump. 

Her heart suddenly began racing. She hadn’t expected that the act of casually receiving and drinking water through his mouth would bring such embarrassment afterward. So why had she accepted it so naturally? Why hadn’t this man simply offered her the water normally? Her mind felt confused.

“Rai.”

“Yes.”

When Rihana called his name softly, a soft response flowed from his lips as well. Their gazes met and intertwined. 

The black eyes whose depths couldn’t be fathomed and the blue eyes reminiscent of blue gems clung persistently to each other’s gaze. Rihana felt a tickling yet throbbing sensation in her lower abdomen.

Even after calling him, she wasn’t quite sure why she had done so. Watching Raiden stare at her intently while waiting for her next words, Rihana unconsciously moved her lips.

“I’m hungry.”

* * *

She didn’t have the energy to go to the dining room. Actually, she had tried to get up and go, but each time her legs gave out and she collapsed. 

To think her legs would give out from just one session of s*x—she wondered how everyone else managed their daily lives the day after doing this. While eating the meal brought to her room at the sofa table, she thought about how Letia, who had s*x like eating meals, managed to return to the Knight Order the next day.

“Do you feel somewhat better now?”

Raiden, who had been eating across from Rihana, looked at her and asked. Rihana chewed the meat in her mouth and nodded once.

“I was a bit rough because of my promise to make you forget.”

“…”

“Actually, I lost my reason midway through, and since it was your first time, I couldn’t be considerate.”

“…”

“So, did you forget?”

He asked with a subtle yet intense gaze. Rihana chewed the meat in her mouth, swallowed it with a gulp, then immediately picked up her water glass. After swallowing the cold water a couple times, she set the glass back on the table and swallowed her dry saliva once more.

“Yeah. But you just asked, so now I remember again.”

“The promise was only ‘while doing it.'”

Raiden emphasized “while doing it.” At the suddenly crude words, Rihana’s face blazed red with heat.

“You should watch your language a bit…”

“Did you enjoy it?”

“…”

“I’d like to hear your thoughts on screwing a mere slave to get back at your cheating fiancé.”

“…Do I have any obligation to tell you?”

“I need to know for reference during our next time.”

In an instant, her already red face burned even hotter. Next time. The fact that they would engage in the same act again made her lower abdomen tingle.

“You… you call yourself a mere slave with your own mouth, but you’re not acting like a slave at all right now.”

“…Mm?”

“The Empire’s slaves aren’t as shameless and insolent as you in front of their masters.”

Though I’m not really the master. When she muttered the afterthought quietly to herself, Raiden squinted one eye and smiled, saying “Aha.” For some reason, that smile made her cheeks burn hot.

“Of, of course, since you were the Duchess’s precious bedroom slave, unlike other slaves…”

“That’s not right.”

Suddenly, Raiden cut off Rihana’s words.

“…It’s not?”

“No.”

“You’re not a bedroom slave?”

“Correct.”

“…Then what are you?”

Raiden stared at Rihana, who asked in bewilderment, for a brief moment before shrugging his shoulders once and saying.

“Mm, just a slave?”

“That’s ridiculous. But then how are you so good at it?”

“Mm?”

“…That, earlier…”

“Ah. s*x?”

“…”

“It’s not really a situation where you can be certain whether I’m good or bad at it.”

“…?”

“Since it was your first time, and no other c*ck besides mine has ever been inside there.”

“That’s why I keep telling you not to use such crude language. And theoretically, I know much more than you.”

“Oh ho. Then next time you can put that theory into practice. Should I look forward to it?”

“…! You want to do it with me again?”

“Didn’t I already answer earlier? I said ‘yes.'”

“Why?”

“Because I promised to make you forget.”

“…Then what you said about becoming my bedroom slave…”

“I don’t know why that d*mn phrase ‘bedroom slave’ keeps popping out of that pretty mouth, but my lower half is more decent than you think.”

“…!”

“I don’t stick my c*ck into just any hole.”

“…Your manner of speaking is vulgar.”

Rihana’s face turned red enough to burst. Actually, it wasn’t because of the vulgar language, but because he had called her mouth pretty.

“My current status is vulgar.”

“…”

“But nobles whose status isn’t vulgar also speak vulgarly.”

“…”

“Especially in bed.”

After saying this, Raiden stabbed a piece of meat with his fork and brought it to Rihana’s mouth, who was staring at him with a face ready to explode. When Rihana instinctively opened her mouth, he slipped the meat inside and chuckled low. That laughter made her heart flutter again.

“Why are you laughing?”

“Because it’s cute how you eagerly accept whatever I give you.”

“That’s why I’m saying your manner of speaking to your master is bad. Even if it’s temporary.”

“But you like it?”

At Raiden’s words, her heart sank weakly, feeling like her true feelings had been discovered.

“Li…like it, you say. I’m…”

Rihana was visibly flustered. Raiden chuckled low again.

When he first met her, he had been somewhat indifferent to her proud and cold appearance. The woman called the Emperor’s Sword couldn’t have looked favorable to begin with. But as days passed, the various new expressions she showed felt cute, pretty, and sometimes even alluring.

That’s when his interest began. Thoughts about her stirred through his mind so much that he sometimes forgot the reason he was here.

And today. Only after taking advantage of the woman weakened by seeing her fiancé’s affair did he realize it. He had set his eyes on the Emperor’s Sword he was supposed to use.

* * *

“A…again?”

Rihana asked while watching Raiden climb on top of her. After eating lunch, she had spent the entire time lounging on the bed until evening, when she finally washed and went down to the dining room for dinner. 

As soon as they returned to the bedroom, Raiden brought wine, and they sat facing each other drinking wine until late at night.

The story of falling in love at first sight with her fiancé Casian, the story of having a one-sided love for him for a long time, so when His Majesty the Emperor said he would grant one wish as a reward for the Northern subjugation, she had asked to be engaged to Casian, but because of that, she seemed to be hated by Casian.

Rihana calmly told Raiden all these depressing stories that made her feel gloomy just speaking them aloud. Raiden had listened to her stories silently throughout. 

After getting a bit tipsy and feeling somewhat embarrassed, she changed the subject to stories about Letia to divert the conversation.

Stories about receiving various er*tic books as gifts from her only friend Letia, who had tremendous s*xual desires since childhood, stories about hearing who spent a night with whom and how they spent it, and so on. 

When she said that her theoretical knowledge was all thanks to Letia, Raiden looked at Rihana and showed a pleasant smile. That smile seemed to make her heart flutter.

So she seemed to have unconsciously pulled his neck toward her and kissed him, but when she came to her senses, she was lying beneath Raiden. On the bed, no less.

“Yes.”

Raiden said boldly. Rihana looked at Raiden, who was stripping off her chemise in one swift motion, and spoke in confusion.