DUANG! DUANG!
Inside Yelena’s boudoir at the Sword Saint’s Mansion, two muffled thuds echoed.
“Ugh!! I… What was I doing yesterday?!”
In the room, Yelena, standing in the corner, tried to headbutt the wall.
But it was barely effective; her head only got more dizzy.
Early in the morning, Yelena’s Charm state had been lifted, though she didn’t know it was Anna’s doing.
Of course, the first thing she did upon waking was recall yesterday—those vivid, mortifyingly embarrassing events.
Releasing the Phantom Eye everywhere, crashing the banquet party, teasing Aisha and Yvette like that, and becoming a gold miner…
Yelena crouched down, then plopped onto the floor in defeat.
‘Could it be… my heart is gradually degenerating into what others call a fox spirit? I don’t want that, nooo!!’
She tried to drown everything out with loud noises, but soon, it was her personal maid who responded.
Knock, knock, knock.
A knock came from outside the door.
Yelena was immersed in her own world and didn’t hear Anna’s polite tap.
Knock, knock, knock.
Still no response from Anna.
“Lady Yelena, are you awake?”
“Hnnnngghhhaaaahhh!!” The little fox girl’s brain was trembling.
The sudden wail startled Anna, so she had to enter immediately to check.
“What’s wrong, Lady Yelena!”
Anna rushed in anxiously, only to see the black-haired little fox girl banging her head against the wall with duang sounds.
Seeing this, she panicked and ran to Yelena’s side, using her right palm to block Yelena’s impact point before she could continue her headbutt.
Anna’s palm hurt, and she grimaced in pain, but she had no time to worry about herself.
Instead, she brushed aside the bangs on Yelena’s forehead and found it already slightly red and swollen.
“Lady Yelena… please calm down…”
“Waaah! Anna, why didn’t you knock before coming in!”
“I did knock, but you didn’t respond…”
“Ah… is that so…”
Yelena said, already out of strength. Seeing Anna take out medicine and a wet wipe to clean her wound, she felt guilty.
She looked at her final, full-force blow, which had caused large red swelling on Anna’s right hand…
So her personal maid cared about her that much. Why hadn’t Anna shown it before?
And now Anna, having witnessed the awkward scene, couldn’t help but worry.
She seriously wondered if, after yesterday’s incident, Yelena was having some mental issue.
Though she hadn’t used Fox Clan magic in a long time, a Type B Sleep Talisman shouldn’t have any harmful effects.
‘It couldn’t be from my talisman, right?’
“L-Lady Yelena, let me check your condition. I’m worried that damned succubus might have caused mental damage.”
The black-haired, black-eyed personal maid looked worried.
“Mm-hmm… I’m sorry for worrying you, Anna.”
Yelena agreed readily, thinking Anna wouldn’t do any improper check like Sylvia would.
Anna felt Yelena’s pulse and examined her complexion, pupils, and tongue coating.
After a careful examination, Anna showed a relieved smile and said to her.
“Lady Yelena, you haven’t suffered any aftereffects from last time’s Mila incident. I’m relieved.”
“Huh? Anna, you can take a pulse? When did you learn that?”
Yelena’s sudden question caught Anna off guard.
She hadn’t expected her young lady’s focus to be on her long-unused pulse-taking skill.
She had been caught in a small slip.
“Ah… well… I recently consulted a mysterious physician on Mercenary Street…”
In this world, it seemed only the Moon Tail family knew how to take a pulse.
‘How to cover it up?’ Anna thought about using Yelena’s vague memories of her childhood to fudge it.
“Oh? Is that so?” Yelena tilted her head.
“Ahem… Lady Yelena, let’s talk about something else,” Anna tried to change the subject, avoiding giving Yelena a chance to dig deeper.
“Your nearly hour-long self-humiliation performance yesterday was your first time, right?”
“What performance?”
“I saw everything, Lady Yelena… Your sheets yesterday… I changed them to new ones before helping you to bed.”
Huh?
“This is a special ointment. For your first time, it was too rough, so there might be lingering effects… Next time, take better care of your body…”
A small, cool bottle of ointment was placed into Yelena’s hand, and she gradually realized what Anna meant.
Yes, that was it…
“N-No…!”
Even if the first time was exciting, it wasn’t voluntary.
It could be considered a new departure after the legendary captain’s crash, even if it happened under Anna’s full view…
Yelena’s lips trembled. The ointment dropped from her hand, but Anna caught it. Her pupils shook, and she started shutting down again.
A layer of mist rose in her eyes, her lips gradually pouted, and soon tears fell.
“Anna, before I fell asleep yesterday, I only remember those embarrassing fragments. Please don’t tell anyone else! Otherwise, I really can’t go on living!”
Yelena bit her cherry lips, glanced back with shame, and stared at Anna with tear-filled eyes.
In fact, the charm state yesterday didn’t distort the caster’s or target’s true nature; it only released the deepest feelings.
After emotional release, feelings became somewhat exaggerated and stronger than usual.
Yelena did care about Yvette; she was just usually hard-mouthed and didn’t express it.
But Yvette’s perverted nature being exposed was something Anna hadn’t expected…
She thought that in the days to come, she’d have more drama to enjoy.
Anna showed a comforting expression, patting Yelena’s back and soothing her, which was true.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry~ Lady Yelena, you’ve always been a good girl. Anna will keep your secret~”
“It’s not my fault! It’s all that succubus Mila’s fault!”
“Alright, alright~ Don’t cry, Lady Yelena. Cry anymore and you’ll become a little crybaby~”
However, Yelena only said not to tell outsiders, and Anna didn’t consider Yvette an outsider.
At noon, Yvette and Yelena sat across from each other at the dining table. Anna had gone out early to buy groceries.
Both diners were blushing and didn’t dare look at each other.
“Uh… Yvette, thank you. Thank you for helping me lift the charm yesterday.”
Yelena spoke first, but Yvette’s response was unacceptable.
“Huh? I didn’t help lift your charm. You had me completely under your control. I passed out in the end…”
“Hmm? Didn’t Anna say you saved me?”
“No, I didn’t save you while you were pleasuring yourself. Anna said you saved yourself.”