"Ow! (Fleurdelys! Be serious! I'm serious!)"
"Amaterasu! You should call me master Big Sister! How can a newly born seihai be so rude? This won't do! I'm serious too!"
"Ow ow ow ow! (Fleurdelys! What I have to say is very important! If you keep this up... you'll regret it!)"
"Amaterasu! I am the master! How can you speak to me in such a tone?!"
...Wait a minute?
The Fleurdelys in Riel's memory shouldn't be such a rigid and strict person, right?
As expected, Riel saw the barely concealed smile in Fleurdelys's eyes as she righteously lectured him... This woman was indeed just having fun, wasn't she?!
"Hmph hmph~ If you obediently call me master Big Sister, this Saintess will give you a little treat! Think it over carefully~"
"Ow...? (What treat?)"
"Call me first."
"Ow... (...Alright, Fleurdelys, you win, I won't argue with you, but please listen carefully to what I'm about to say, okay?)"
"Yay! I won! Oh wait, you should call me master Big Sister!"
"Ow ow, ow ow ow... (Alright, yes, good, I'll call you—master Big Sister. Are you satisfied?)"
"Mhm mhm~ !"
"Ow...? (So? The treat?)"
"This Saintess will reward you right now—you can stay by my side for your entire life! How about that? Happy?!"
"Ow... (Emmm, that's it?)"
"You don't like it?"
"Ow... (Emmm, I do like it, I guess... but who uses that as a reward?)"
"You're still not satisfied?! Being able to stay by my side for a lifetime means you can enjoy this Saintess's personal protection for a lifetime, you know!"
"Ow...? (Personal protection...?)"
"Yes! Just for calling me master Big Sister, I'll protect you for a lifetime! How about it, you've hit the jackpot, right! Happy?!"
Upon hearing this, Riel couldn't help but inwardly chuckle—Great! She definitely likes me! This feeling of being promised protection by a girl is wonderful!
Although it seemed a bit strange, giving him a feeling of being a kept man... Riel muttered softly:
"Ow... (Idiot. Making such a promise after just meeting for the first time? A lifetime... Only a ghost would believe you.)"
But in his heart, he made up for his chauvinistic pride: With that promise, your Brother Sheng will protect you for a lifetime too!
Fleurdelys pretended not to hear, lifted Riel high, and spun around, making Riel dizzy... "Ow... (If I call you Big Sister again, can you not go to the Saintess Coronation Ceremony tomorrow?)"
"No, Amaterasu, why do you want to stop me from attending the Saintess Coronation Ceremony? It's a very sacred and meaningful event."
Fleurdelys, having gotten her wish, picked up Riel and placed him on her shoulder, affectionately rubbing Amaterasu's smooth, reflective, and textured dragon skin with the side of her face.
It was late, and Fleurdelys had sent Gehinnom back to the Pterosaur Echo's nest to rest. Under Gehinnom's hesitant gaze, she brought Little Amaterasu back to her bedroom alone.
"Ow... (Because... because I am a very special dragon seihai, you know, the kind that hasn't been recorded by the Data Dock. And, I have a magical ability to foresee the future.)"
Riel deliberated for a moment and decided to tell Fleurdelys what he knew using a benevolent lie that she could accept.
Although he didn't expect Fleurdelys to believe him, Riel would feel uncomfortable if he did nothing—even if he could raise a tiny bit of vigilance in Fleurdelys's heart, it would be good.
"Oh~ So, Amaterasu, you've seen that something unexpected will happen to me at tomorrow's Saintess Coronation Ceremony, and that's why you don't want me to go, right?"
Fleurdelys placed Amaterasu on the bedside, walked to the full-length mirror, and began to slowly remove her elaborate Saintess Priestess robes.
"Ow... Ow ow ow? (Yes, yes, yes, that's right... What are you doing?)"
Riel sat on the bedside, watching her undress without any hesitation, his dragon eyes wide.
This, this, this... isn't good, is it...?
Although there were only the two of them here—to be precise, one seihai and one person—this was too... too lacking in caution, wasn't it?
Even though I'm not human, I'm still male!
That's what he thought, but Riel's eyes never left Fleurdelys's alluring body.
His throat bobbed, and his eyes followed Fleurdelys's undressing hands closely... "Taking off my clothes, right? Then sleeping. The Priestess robes are very heavy, and it's not good to rest while wearing them. It's already so late, I should rest too—I don't want to be listless at the Saintess Coronation Ceremony tomorrow."
Fleurdelys didn't notice anything amiss and even looked at Amaterasu strangely—the meaning was probably: What? You don't take off your clothes to sleep?
"Ow...? (But I'm still here, aren't I? You doing this in front of me... isn't it appropriate? Do you usually do this?)"
Riel's mouth was dry, and his voice, which Fleurdelys thought was childish, became a little hoarse.
"Oh—"
Fleurdelys seemed to awaken from a dream, realizing something,
"I forgot you're a little male dragon! My apologies, my apologies~"
"But I'm your master Big Sister, we're family, so it's fine, isn't it~?"
"If you're shy, you can turn your head away and look at me again after I'm under the covers."
Fleurdelys was already undressed down to her pure white undergarments.
Her long, fair, jade-like legs,
And her smooth, straight, beautiful back,
As well as the softness and perkiness outlined by her undergarments... made Riel's blood surge, and his breathing grew heavy.
"As for normally... outside, I'm definitely wrapped tightly in those Saintess Priestess robes! It's exhausting."
"In my bedchamber, besides the maid sisters who clean my room, there's no one else—they're all women, so what's the big deal?"
"By the way, you're the first man... oh no, male seihai to enter this Saintess's bedchamber! How about it? Honored?"
Fleurdelys walked towards Riel with a graceful demeanor, not forgetting to answer his questions.
A fragrant breeze followed, a faint delicate scent lingering at Riel's sensitive nose. While he instinctively took deep breaths, he couldn't help but lean back.
It was truly a bit improper to look and smell... "The Priest grandmothers of the church all say that males are dirty and lowly creatures, and absolutely forbid slandering the purity of the Saintess, so within several miles around my bedchamber, you won't see a single man, and there's even less need to be concerned."
"Sigh... when I was little, the neighborhood aunties would always gather and discuss topics like 'playing with men,' but if males are dirty and lowly creatures, why did the aunties laugh so happily when they talked about men?"
"I've always been so curious, but after I became the Saintess, I never heard anyone discuss these things in front of me again, and no man dared to appear before me."
Fleurdelys shared her life and daily doubts with Riel with a normal expression, completely disregarding the ample display of her figure. She forcefully pulled back the covers, slipped into bed, and also lifted Amaterasu, who was at the bedside, onto the bed.
Then she pulled the covers up, only exposing her head, and turned to switch off the bedside lamp. The Saintess's bedchamber plunged into darkness, leaving only two bright pairs of eyes, one gold and one blue, gazing at each other on the bed.
Hearing Fleurdelys's recent sharing, Riel felt that something was a little off—but it wasn't important; what was important was to try and stop Fleurdelys from participating in the Saintess Coronation Ceremony...