“Ah, Father, hnn, there is…… Ahh……”

“Ha……”

Along with the sound effect of bare skin colliding, lewd wet sounds came from their junction—fluids that could have been either his prec*m or her juices.

“Ah…… Hngh, Ludwig, Father……!”

“Laura, haa……”

He gripped her soft thighs hard enough to leave marks as he increased his pace and thrust deeper. Florencia unconsciously swayed her hips and twisted her bottom, desperately clinging to him. Her vision blurred as intense sensations like the fireworks she had seen at the Stefain festival exploded in her mind, coursing through her entire body.

“Haaa……”

Ludwig too was racing toward climax, biting one side of his lip. Finally, when he thrust his hips deeply and ej*culated into her innermost depths, Florencia could think of nothing more as her vision flashed white in a dizzying sensation.

* * *

In the end, things went exactly as he wanted. Ludwig brought warm, clear soup and fed it to Florencia one spoonful at a time, blowing on it to cool it down. Though controlling temperature would have been as simple as breathing for a holy priest, he sometimes acted like someone who never wanted to use holy power. Only after Florencia had finished the entire bowl of soup in bed did he allow her to go to the bathroom.

“I’ll wait outside, so call me when you’re finished, alright?”

Florencia showed slight discomfort as her swollen p*ssy rubbed together with each step she took. The inside seemed to throb with pain too…… Ludwig appeared quite worried and offered to wash her himself, but he finally backed down when Florencia, looking like she might cry, kept shaking her head.

“Laura, is the water temperature suitable?”

“Yes, it’s warm and nice, Father.”

Because Ludwig had carefully carried her like a fragile glass doll and placed her in the bathtub filled with hot water, Florencia felt like a princess. His warm, broad chest and sculptural face before her eyes were more splendid than any prince she had read about in books.

Although he wasn’t as consistently polite as a fairy tale prince kneeling to propose, which made things difficult for Florencia, and she was an embarrassing princess embraced n*ked without a tiara or dress……

“I want to wash you myself, Laura.”

“……Father, please……”

“Is it really not allowed?”

Her violet eyes were moist. Thinking about it again, if he washed her n*ked body thoroughly, he might easily lose his self-control, so Ludwig nodded and left the bathroom.

Due to their repeated intercourse from last night until morning, Florencia was completely exhausted, but for Ludwig, he had already shown considerable restraint.

Even this morning, he stopped midway the third time without ej*culating. Apart from her still finding it quite overwhelming, Florencia seemed to be accepting the pleasure given to her, but he discovered some blood seeping from the soft split flesh joined with his c*ck.

He immediately stopped and held the embarrassed, whimpering Florencia to carefully examine her lower parts in the bright light, inserting his finger to check thoroughly. Fortunately, the bleeding seemed to be residual from the shock of their first intercourse rather than a tear or wound in the vaginal wall.

“Father Ludwig…… why…… am I bleeding again?”

Seeing her serious expression, his little bride, ignorant of matters between men and women, looked frightened, so Ludwig quickly smiled kindly and reassured her it was fine.

“……My lower abdomen hurts a little too……”

“It’s normal for a woman to experience this after accepting a man’s body for the first time, it’s alright.”

Did it hurt a lot yesterday? When he asked softly, she nodded obediently, which made him feel proud and impressed. He had worried she might cry or throw a tantrum from the pain during their first night, but when had she grown so good and lovely?

Though he wanted to use God’s power to heal her immediately, if he did, she would have to feel the same pain again the next time. And separately from that, he somehow didn’t want to use holy power for this matter.

Florencia was his bride, and this was the proper pain that accompanied lovemaking between a man and a woman. It was a process that a girl must go through at least once to become a woman, so despite feeling sorry, he decided not to apologize. Instead, Ludwig hoped that by embracing her more and kissing her tenderly, her pain would be lessened and his feelings would be conveyed.

“It’s warm……”

The bath salts filling the tub had a pleasant scent. The sweet floral fragrance helped relieve tension without being too strong, appropriately refreshing. It wasn’t Ludwig’s usual scent, and the clear bergamot undertone felt like bath salts that women would use.

As she soaked in the hot water, even the throbbing in her lower region seemed to ease, making Florencia slightly drowsy. In truth, what soothed the pain after her frightening first night wasn’t the warm bath water but his consideration and tenderness, which were even warmer.

‘But…… this doesn’t seem like a scent men would use…… I wonder why Father has it?’

Florencia suddenly felt a small doubt. Though she didn’t know, it was an expensive bath salt that noblewomen often used after their wedding nights, which Ludwig had naturally prepared separately for her.

‘Could it be that Father Ludwig has educated other saintess candidates in this way before? Somehow, he seemed too skilled at everything……’

I hate that……

Just imagining it made her so sad that Florencia quickly shook her head, trying not to think about it.

Though she had decided to acknowledge her inevitable feelings for him, what she felt now was different from before she had embraced him yesterday. She thought the expression “becoming one” that she had read in romance novels was just a metaphorical expression of two hearts joining, but it had such a direct meaning!

Although they weren’t in a romantic relationship and it was an unavoidable act for education, in that moment, she truly felt like her body and heart had become one with Ludwig. The warmth of their bare skin touching felt so good, and though it really hurt when his frightfully large and hard c*ck first entered her…… even that later turned into a dizzying ecstasy.

To think such a thing existed in the world…… Did other lovers and married couples always enjoy such secret pleasures at night? Even the throbbing of her swollen p*ssy felt like a sweet pain to Florencia now.

It seemed that he had invaded between her legs and also entered deep into her heart, leaving something behind.

Sitting with her small knees raised, her face buried in her hands in Ludwig’s bathroom, Florencia had to fully admit it.

Oh no, I……

Father Ludwig……

I like him so much……

* * *

“Hmm, Florencia Hazel?”

“Yes, Professor.”

“Your grades for this exam have dropped significantly compared to last time.”

The homeroom teacher, Countess Haley, said reproachfully as she handed out the grade reports.

“Lady Hazel, a cleric’s duties require higher knowledge than you might think. If you’ve truly decided on becoming a saintess at the Temple, you need to study harder.”

“I’m sorry……”

Florencia had performed the worst on this midterm exam since entering the Academy. She wasn’t an outstanding honor student, and her grades were always average in the class, but she was a good and diligent student who worked hard during classes and on assigned tasks. However, this time she had missed several days of classes due to various reasons, and her grades had dropped across all subjects.

‘Even theology, my best subject, has fallen a lot!’

The main reason for failing the exam was that her first love, as powerful as the summer sun, had completely shaken her. She found it difficult to concentrate on studying as she kept thinking about what had happened that night. For the first few days, she had the good excuse that her lower region hurt too much to sit at a desk (though she hadn’t thought of studying lying down or on her stomach), and later, Ludwig’s handsome face would appear whenever she opened a book.

Florencia, who had only been accustomed to falling asleep lonely in a cold bed, blushed as she hugged a large pillow, thinking of the tender night when she had fallen asleep in his warm embrace.

‘I want to be with Father Ludwig every day. Eat together, sleep…… together……’

Who said that the beginning of love is awareness? Though her heart had been fluttering for him for quite some time, once she acknowledged and accepted her feelings, they grew instantly like a snowball.

To think that she, who was supposed to become a pure saintess, dared to like Father, and such a grateful person who even made time in his busy schedule to teach her theology…… Even to herself, it seemed truly immature and blasphemous affection, but Florencia wanted to enjoy this happy, pleasant feeling of first love that she had never experienced before. The feeling of her heart becoming warm and soft just by thinking of Ludwig was incomparably better than when she had been confused, deliberately denying her feelings for him. Even if the other person’s feelings weren’t the same as hers, making it a one-sided emotion.

“Well, today is the day grades are released, so we’ll end with just the morning classes. Tomorrow is an Academy holiday, so everyone should study subjects they’re weak in.”

As soon as the homeroom teacher, Countess Haley, finished speaking, the ladies of the class excitedly chattered as they went outside. Conversations about going to see the shopping streets or visiting a new dessert shop in the capital for tea were constantly heard. Amid the ladies grouping together and leaving, Florencia quickly returned alone to her room in the dormitory.