“Why are you holding your waistband?”

“Ah, me?”

Allen quickly removed his hand and pretended to adjust his upper clothes while swiftly covering his lower area. A question mark appeared above the woman’s head. ‘Is he uncomfortable somewhere?’ The voice echoed in his mind. It was her first actual thought today.

Allen pressed his forehead as flesh-colored scenes rose like foggy mist along with the words flowing into his brain. The woman before him couldn’t resist creating yet another fantasy.

‘This is exactly why I wanted to avoid her.’

Who would have thought he’d run into her here of all places.

Looking at Lea, the woman with tightly bound long hair standing indifferently, he gritted his teeth.

In his 27 years of life, he had never met someone like her.

First, she was the only person whose mental images appeared so vividly to him. With others, he only heard thoughts. Occasionally, people’s imaginations would enter his mind faintly. But they were truly so faint that he couldn’t properly see them and could only hear the sounds clearly. She was genuinely the first to send both images and sounds into his mind.

Second, he had never met anyone with such fantasies. Yes. Lea’s fantasies were the problem.

The fact that someone could exist with so many mindless fantasies was shocking enough, but their content was quite… something.

Allen had to mentally sing military songs to somehow suppress his constantly rising lower region.

While serving as the knight commander, he had heard his direct subordinates thinking about how they would spend nights with their lovers after work a few times. But he had never in his life met someone who had endless s*xual fantasies regardless of place—during training, eating, or important announcements.

“Commander, are you really feeling unwell? Your face is bright red.”

“I’m hot.”

“It’s the middle of winter.”

“If I say I’m hot, then I’m hot.”

Allen glared at her. She had dared to think, ‘Has our commander finally gone mad?’

Strictly speaking, he was used to hearing knights badmouthing him all the time, so getting angry now was unnecessary. But this case was different.

Lea was someone who fantasized about outdoor humiliation play between a male weapon shop clerk and a female fruit shop employee in broad daylight.

Who was calling whom crazy? It was truly irritating and unfair. He felt like destroying Lea’s harmless-looking face.

“Vice commander, aren’t you going home?”

“The shop employee asked me to wait a moment. What about you, Commander?”

The moment Lea finished speaking, the image of the weapon shop employee’s c*ck being inserted into the fruit shop employee’s deep cleavage flashed through his mind.

Allen almost let out an involuntary moan.

Even when he accidentally saw adult magazines smuggled by the knights, he hadn’t reacted, but in that moment, he almost raised what he had just managed to calm down.

Allen spoke through clenched molars.

“I’m next after the vice commander.”

“I see. Then please wait quietly.”

「An important scene is coming up, so please don’t disturb me.」

How on earth could she have such lewd fantasies while talking to her commander?

For the first time in his life, he wanted to reveal his secret. He even wanted to shout, ‘I can see all those lustful fantasies of yours, so please stop!’

But he couldn’t reveal his ability to read thoughts, which he had kept hidden since childhood, over something like this. His pride wouldn’t allow it.

“Lea! Sorry for the wait!”

But still.

“Ah, thank you……”

“Why are you putting that there!”

“Wh-what?”

He had reached his limit of just watching Lea’s dirty fantasies.

“Please, just stop already!”

Allen bent deeply at the waist and panted. He was clearly the strangest person here right now. Even knowing this, he simply couldn’t endure anymore.

“How can you put that there, how.”

“…Commander, have you really caught heat stroke in this dead of winter?”

“The one with heat stroke isn’t me but you!”

Perhaps he shouted too loudly in this small shop, because the n*ked weapon shop employee in Lea’s imagination looked at him with surprised eyes. Lea too, who had been half-closing her eyes, now fully opened them and stared directly into his.

It was ridiculous.

Until just now, she had impure, cloudy eyes, but now she was wiping her mouth clean and innocently, her blue eyes bright. He really disliked it. It felt like she was mocking him with an ‘I’ve done nothing wrong’ attitude.

Allen pinched his thigh hard with one hand, then quickly grabbed Lea’s collar and pulled her toward him. Thanks to this, Lea’s face rapidly came close enough for him to see each of her facial features clearly.

Caught off guard, Lea widened her eyes in surprise and stood on her tiptoes.

“Ugh…! What are you doing, why have you been acting like this?”

“Why are YOU doing this to ME!”

“Explain so I can understand. I really don’t know what you mean.”

“You! You!”

Allen couldn’t continue. Pressed so close to the woman as if about to kiss her, he couldn’t bring up what he had seen in front of the shop people. Though he had never been particularly tactful in his life, this time he had to be. He was an intellectual after all.

Wouldn’t any decent person be embarrassed to openly discuss male and female affairs in front of others?

Especially when it wasn’t even ordinary affairs.

“Argggh!”

“Ugh, you’re spraying spit.”

So Allen beat his frustrated chest. Having one more thing he couldn’t talk about anywhere made him feel like he had a sweet potato stuck in his throat.

He truly wanted to go into a coniferous forest and shout at the top of his lungs like the tale of the king with donkey ears.

‘Why would a woman put a tasteless man’s c*ck in her mouth. Why! WHY!’

He could only scream internally using profanity he rarely used, blaming the reality that forced him to do so.