Even after the physician confirmed that his c*ck was unharmed, Allen couldn’t calm down. Whether Lea had intended it or not, her thoughts and actions had caused him to show his shame to numerous knights and the Emperor.

Fortunately, he had quickly grabbed his waistband, or his pants might have fallen down.

The knights scattered to their duties as soon as the sparring ended, reading the atmosphere. Edner giggled for a while before leaving the training headquarters with his guard knight. He even left Allen with a message to not worry, saying he would spend the night inspecting the Northern territory before returning to the mansion. That he should have a passionate reconciliation time with the vice commander.

Allen rushed to the sparring grounds where Lea was waiting as soon as the pain subsided. The words he had been holding back rose to the tip of his tongue. That place hurt so much. While it wasn’t uncommon to get hit there during fights, today he realized that the pain multiplied when struck while in a hard state. It was truly a pain he never wanted to experience again.

“Commander, why did you want to see me?”

Late at night. At a time when everyone had left the training grounds, Allen called for Lea. Lea was puzzled. Allen had always been eager to let her leave early. This was the first time he had asked her to stay until such a late hour.

Lea first asked about his well-being, recalling that Allen’s body had been in pain.

“Commander, are you feeling alri—”

“Stop it already.”

“Pardon?”

Lea’s head tilted at Allen’s sudden words. What was he talking about? Lea didn’t understand.

Allen was brushing back his bangs with a reddened face.

Lea stared at him with a blank expression. During the sparring, the way he wielded the wooden sword had been so s＊xy, but now his hesitant behavior, opening and closing his mouth, somehow seemed cute.

Following the flow of her consciousness, Lea imagined placing her hand on Allen’s lips. His plump lips touched her fingertips. How soft would they be? And how moist? They looked smooth without any roughness. She wouldn’t dare touch them in reality, but imagination was free. Lea fixed her eyes on the flesh that briefly appeared and quickly disappeared between Allen’s parted lips.

In her imagination, she gently stroked Allen’s upper lip, pressed his lower lip, and then inserted her finger into his mouth to tease his thick tongue.

That’s when Allen spoke in a seething voice.

“Stop those d＊mn fantasies already.”

“Excuse me? Fantasies?”

Lea let her words flow naturally before sensing something strange in the atmosphere and stopping her imaginary hand. The lips she had been caressing while thinking ‘pretty, pretty’ pushed her hand away and opened irritably. And then—

“I can see everything inside your head.”

That brought her back to reality.

Lea fully opened her half-closed eyes. Allen’s face came into clear view. His contorted expression was distinctly visible. Lea was flustered for the first time in a long while. This had never happened before. She had never stopped her imagination at any moment. Whatever she thought, the images in her mind moved along with it. It had always served as a screen from reality.

But now those vivid fictional images shattered and disappeared before her eyes, thrusting the real Allen in front of her. It was like her thinking had stopped, making it impossible to grasp the situation. Perhaps she had misheard just now.

After a moment of silence, Lea barely managed to speak.

“……I don’t understand what you’re saying.”

“Hah……”

Allen ruffled his hair. He knew that since the ability to hear people’s thoughts and see their imaginations was impossible, not many people would believe it. Even if he pointed out ‘You thought that,’ if the other person denied it, claiming he was lying, there was nothing he could do. And even if someone did believe him, it rarely led to good results. Some people would find him creepy and treat him like a monster.

It was practically a troublesome ability. A useless ability where he had to pretend not to hear even when he did. It was only useful on the battlefield. In these peaceful times, its only use was to tip off the Emperor about who was a traitor and who was committing corruption.

Still, before coming to the North, he mostly heard only voices, and he had grown so accustomed to it that he could bear it. But now, having to see other people’s imaginations too? This was beyond his limit of pretending not to see.

Allen inhaled to regain his composure. But it backfired, making him dizzy. The sweet scent still vibrated from Lea. Struggling not to be drawn to that fragrance, he emphasized once more.

“I can see all your… lewd fantasies.”

“……Don’t make strange jokes.”

Lea denied it, but she couldn’t stop the corners of her honest mouth from trembling slightly. This shameless Lea had taken a hit. Allen considered whether to tell her clearly to make her understand fully, and despite his embarrassment, delivered what felt like a finishing blow.

“You were touching my lips earlier.”

“……”

Lea’s body froze. She showed no movement, like a petrified person. Allen quietly waited for her to answer. Seeing Lea’s face gradually turn red made him feel a bit sorry—belatedly—but honestly, it was satisfying.

After several seconds of silence, Lea finally managed to speak again.

“Since when have you seen it… since when exactly.”

“Since when? From the beginning.”

Lea’s expression was crumbling. She must be feeling extremely ashamed. Lea hadn’t stopped her fantasies for even a moment since the day they first met. And before long, she often imagined having fun with her superior. Allen was about to tell her ‘it’s fine if you just restrain your fantasies’ before she ran away, unable to bear the shame.

He wanted to say that everything would be fine if it didn’t interfere with work. That he was capable of accepting that much.

He planned to pretend not to be aroused by such lewd fantasies, to act like he had never been swayed, to maintain a rational face devoid of emotion, and to act like a broad-minded superior. Then Lea might respond with embarrassment, ‘Thank you for hiding it for the sake of my honor despite seeing my fantasies. I won’t fantasize in front of the commander anymore.’ That’s what he thought.

So he had calmed his earlier anger, frustration, embarrassment, and excitement. But then…

“Complete pervert……”

“What?”

Lea was no ordinary woman.

“You’re a complete pervert, aren’t you!”

Suddenly shouting like she had nothing to lose, Lea’s face had changed. With a lewd smile, she finally blurted out words that bypassed her brain.

“You must have gotten off quite easily watching my thoughts!”

“Wh-what do you mean ‘got off’? Wh-what are you saying in this s-sacred sparring ground!”

Allen was so flustered that he stammered. Got off? He felt a pang of guilt. Just this morning, he had secretly released the liquid filling his center and flushed it down the water.

When he flinched, Lea became more excited and raised her voice even louder.

“Stop pretending! We’re both perverts here!”

“Pervert? Are you talking about me?”

Allen was so dumbfounded that he lost his words. Lea’s shameless behavior with her bright red face didn’t seem sane. Lea was literally going wild.

“That’s right. Why are you only bringing this up now! You’ve been enjoying it with me all along, haven’t you?”

“Enjoying it with you?! I kept quiet because I thought you’d be embarrassed!”

“Fine. Just tell me quickly. How many times did you get off?”

“G-get off? I didn’t……”

“Commander, your expression reveals everything. Just tell me honestly.”

This was the pot calling the kettle black. Allen unconsciously took a step back. He had intended to corner Lea and make her feel the same shame he had felt, then act like a considerate person and persuade her to restrain her fantasies, but Lea’s unexpected remarks had him on the defensive instead.

Allen wasn’t accustomed to such obscene conversations. Perhaps because of the increasingly strong scent, his head was spinning, and he couldn’t think of anything good to say.

“I-I don’t know because I didn’t count.”

“Ah, so you got off too many times to count?”

“No, how did you interpret it that way?”

“Commander, you’re already caught.”

This wasn’t what he had planned.

Allen gritted his teeth. The last thing Lea said should have been his line. Veins popped on his forehead. His neck reddened, and the anger he had suppressed rose again.

“Then why do you imagine things about me?”

“That’s……”

“Even now, you’re imagining me pouncing on you.”

Hup. Lea’s eyes began to shake wildly. Allen snickered.

“You just imagined me rushing at you, saying I’d do everything according to your fantasies.”

Only then did Lea realize. The fantasy that had momentarily stopped was somehow rolling along naturally again. Earlier, the flow of consciousness had been briefly interrupted by shock. She had forgotten that her fantasies didn’t disappear so easily and that they flowed on their own, regardless of her will.

Lea turned her head sharply. But the Allen in her fantasy neither stopped moving nor disappeared. He was tearing his clothes apart and kissing various parts of her body with those pretty lips. Even though she knew this imagination would be visible to him, Lea became excited like a pervert in the current situation.