'If you don't work hard, you'll just end up as a woman's plaything.'
'But I've already worked this hard, so why is it still like this?'
After the Practical Test course ended, Miles was caught between two women, hugged tightly on both sides. In this loli body, he was completely helpless against Aisha and Ren's handling, his frail arms offering no resistance at all.
"(*≧∪≦) So cute, so cute. Miles-san, this is just too much~"
"Oh no, Little Ai, I think you might be flipping a weird switch here. Ehe~"
His soul trapped in Princess Nova's body, Miles felt like he had become nothing more than a toy.
"Playing is fine, but don't touch randomly! Keep your hands to yourselves!"
Of course, to protect the princess's 'purity,' Miles was still trying to resist verbally.
Even so, the key figure here, Princess Nova, didn't seem to care at all.
If anything, she seemed… to be enjoying it?
Miles said, "Nova, the duel's already over, right? According to the deal, we should be switching back."
Nova retorted, arms crossed, "The duel did end, but this is also part of my agreement with Aisha."
Substitution was fine, but once the duel ended, Miles had to stay in loli form and keep her company for a while. That was the wicked deal struck between Aisha and Nova.
Miles knew the details of the deal, yet still thought it was bizarre for the princess to agree to such conditions.
"Nova, this is your own body, you know."
"But Miles, I'm super excited right now!"
"Excited?"
"This feeling of your body being taken over by another soul, your will completely unable to move, just at someone else's mercy. This must be what Sally called bondage play, right? It's just so thrilling!"
'…She's beyond saving.'
He absolutely had to find a chance to report this to Lord Kaiser and make that head maid pay for filling her head with this nonsense.
"And also, listen, I'm only telling this to you, Miles."
The princess's soft, sweet loli voice came again, this time tinged with a shy innocence.
"When you're the one controlling this body, it gives me a strange sense of security. It's amazing… I really like it~"
'Damn it…'
The princess was just too cute after all. Compared to these two women groping him, only the child's pure honesty could soothe Miles even a little.
Of course, without that maid Sally feeding her weird ideas, Nova would've been even cuter.
Giving up resisting, Miles let Aisha and Ren grope him all the way back to the dorm during lunch break.
To save money and feed a certain glutton, Arnold and Lishia had gone off to food stalls outside the school again.
So Aisha's dorm should've been empty.
At least, in theory…
Abruptly, as the three stood at the dorm entrance and exchanged glances, their faces grew tense.
There was clearly someone inside Aisha's room.
How did they know?
"Hahahahaha~"
From a room that should've been empty came an unabashed, lively laugh.
"C-could it be a thief, Ren-chan?"
Instinctively, Aisha grabbed Miles's (Nova's) small hand and stepped back behind him.
Ren stayed fairly calm and whispered, "Stealing from Duel Academy? How many lives would that thief need to survive it?"
Every student in Duel Academy was a Duelist, without exception.
Breaking into this school as a thief was a fate even worse than that guy in the news who tried robbing a sports university dorm and got beaten from the dorm entrance all the way to the school gates.
"Besides, a thief wouldn't be laughing so openly. Anyway, let's just go in."
Only Aisha, Lishia, and Miss Lily, the dorm supervisor, had keys to this dorm room.
Ren took the key from Aisha and stepped forward to unlock the door, showing an unexpected kind of 'boyfriend power' in this tense moment.
The click of the metal key turning proved the door had been locked from the outside.
So how did the 'person' inside get in?
Nova muttered, "Could this be… a locked-room murder case?"
Miles frowned deeply, "Nobody's dead yet. Okay, okay, I get it… It's just another one of Sally's 'manga' ideas, isn't it?"
The door slowly opened, and as if realizing the owner had returned, the cheerful laughter inside suddenly stopped.
"Who's the idiot bold enough to sneak into a girl's dorm!?"
Ren instantly assumed a battle stance, her Spirit Eyes activating, ready to strike.
"Yo, I've been waiting for you guys. Being stuck alone here for so long sucked, but at least I had some silly manga to read."
Sitting cross-legged on the floor, holding a manga, the little green-haired shota had no trace of guilt for intruding. The Millennium Key hanging from his chest swayed in plain sight.
"Ah, it's you!" Aisha's eyes lit up with recognition.
Suddenly, halfway through her excitement, she faltered. "Crap, I totally forgot your name…"
Miles reminded her, "Camille, the spirit of the Millennium Key."
"Oh, right, right!" Aisha snapped her fingers. "The one with the girl-sounding name, Camille!"
They had first met the spirit of the Millennium Key in the underground trial chamber beneath Fusion Academy, when the High-Level Spirit Research Society tried to unseal the Despair God card.
When the trial ended and the underground collapsed, they hadn't seen Camille again.
Camille had also once said he preferred staying underground alone, so no one really questioned his disappearance afterward.
For Ren and Princess Nova, however, this was their first time meeting Camille.
From the conversation snippets, they could only piece together that this green-haired shota had a connection with the Millennium Items.
Controlling Nova's body, Miles asked, "Weren't you supposed to be holed up underground? Why'd you suddenly pop up here?"
"What do you mean by 'pop up'? Don't make me sound like some potato buried in the dirt."
Camille grumbled, his eyes drifting to the Millennium Puzzle hanging from the princess's chest.
"And you… spirit of the Millennium Puzzle. It hasn't even been that long, and now you've got yourself such a cute body?"
"I didn't change bodies!" Aisha quickly hugged Miles protectively. "It's just temporary. And Camille, why are you suddenly in my room?"
"For a shut-in like me to actually leave the underground, there's only one reason… It's something extremely important, something I absolutely must do."
Camille rose slowly, expression turning solemn. He placed his right hand over his heart and bowed slightly.
"That important thing is… I must thank you. Thank you so much for avenging my host."
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