Master and Slaves

“Now then, that leaves just the two of us… so, what do you want?”

Thinking it would be odd to talk on the bed, I stood up.

I tried to go to the reception set, but Helene blocked my way.

“Hiroyuki-sama, do you dislike older women?”

While saying that, Helene turned a seductive gaze on me and untied the neck cord of the robe she was wearing.

When the robe fell to the floor, what appeared was Helene’s naked body.

“I am a little damaged goods, but you may do with me however you like.”

Helene bashfully lowered her face and looked up at me.

It was so sudden that I was surprised and stared at Helene with my mouth hanging open.

However…

“…Pfft, ku ahahahaha.”

Even while thinking I shouldn’t, I ended up laughing.

“Hiroyuki…-sama…”

This time Helene stared at me with her mouth hanging open.

“No, sorry. I just thought it wasn’t like Helene.”

While saying that, I picked up the robe on the floor and draped it over Helene’s shoulders.

That was close.

I had nearly gone along with it.

I’m unexpectedly weak to this kind of temptation.

…Or maybe not so unexpectedly.

“Not like… me…?”

“Yeah. That’s right. Then I’ll give you an answer. With Muriel here, I’m covered.”

I thought Helene had forgotten that, at least physically, she was the same as Muriel.

“…Fufufu, that’s true. But that girl is a virgin, isn’t she? She has no technique.”

She arched her chest, making her large breasts sway, and wore a seductive smile.

The bashfulness from earlier had probably been an act.

However, whether she knew it or not, letting something like that slip was also unlike Helene.

It made me think she was quite desperate.

“If it’s technique, there’s Sara. That girl is skilled.”

As expected of someone who had been a slave for so long, when I did it with Sara I felt like I would ejaculate immediately.

I desperately held back in order to preserve my dignity as a Master.

However, “famous vessel” was probably a phrase that referred to Sara.

“…Are you saying I will not do no matter what?”

Completely different from a moment ago, she glared at me with eyes filled with anger.

This did not seem to be because I had embarrassed her.

It was probably because things were not going as she wished.

“That’s right. I’m covered.”

“…”

“…”

Helene remained standing in silence and glared at me.

I received that with a cool face.

“…”

“…So? If there’s nothing else, I’d like to have them come back in here.”

“…Hiroyuki-sama is quite devoted to the Dules, isn’t he.”

Whether it was sarcasm or not, she smiled with the corners of her mouth raised while her eyes remained angry.

“Was Mateus not like that?”

“…”

Perhaps because the words I returned were bad, far from Helene’s harshness easing, it grew even harsher.

“Helene. Do you want to keep me tied down that badly?”

“…What do you mean?”

“I think Helene knows very well what I mean.”

“…I see. Then what does Hiroyuki-sama intend to do from now on?”

Helene put on the robe, ignored my question, and asked me with a composed expression.

However, her voice was rising, and the harsh atmosphere had not subsided.

“Of course I’ll accompany you as far as Torrestia. I think I said it before, but I’ve received care from both Helene and Mateus.”

For that purpose I still hadn’t decided what to do with the Dules from now on—whether to evacuate them or have them fight together.

I also hadn’t decided what to do after that.

Of course I had no intention of dying, so I should decide what to do afterward as well.

…Somehow I also felt I should decide sooner rather than later.

Well, anyway.

“That’s what I’ve decided. So?”

“…I may believe you, then?”

“Nn? Yeah, of course. In exchange, don’t lay a hand on the Dules. If you do anything, that won’t hold.”

“…Understood.”

I gave a warning for the time being.

If I said this, even if it was not something Helene had done, if something happened to the Dules they would probably side with me.

…Honestly I didn’t want to do something like this, but I couldn’t quite trust the current Helene.

I wanted some kind of insurance on my side as well.

“Then I will return.”

Helene turned around and walked toward the door.

“Helene…”

“What is it?”

When I called Helene to a stop, Helene turned around.

“…Are you lonely?”

I ended up saying that without thinking.

Even from the side it was clear her head was full of Mateus.

“…Of course not. I have Julius.”

Contrary to her words, Helene said that with a lonely face, bowed to me once, opened the door, and left the room.

“…Excuse us.”

“”””Excuse us.””””

As if replacing her, the Dules entered.

“Master, what kind of talk did you have with Lady Helene?”

The moment Muriel entered the room she immediately asked me.

She seemed curious about what had happened.

There was no need to lie, so I told it as it was.

That said, I wrapped it in a wrapper for the time being.

“It seems she can’t trust me, so she came to seduce me.”

“Seduce… Master, how did she…”

“Did Master accept it?”

Cathy tried to ask me how Helene had tried to seduce me, but Muriel seemed to understand why I had phrased it vaguely and asked on top of Cathy’s words whether I had accepted it.

“I didn’t accept it. I originally intended to cooperate with Helene anyway. I asked her to leave just like that.”

“So that is why Lady Helene left so quickly.”

Muriel put her hand to her chin and nodded as if convinced.

Cathy also seemed reluctantly convinced.

“But Lady Helene is terrible for not trusting Master.”

Sara puffed out her cheeks.

“Well, she seems impatient.”

“…Why is that?”

This time she tilted her head.

“Hmm, Sara, what would you do if I were gone?”

“Eh? That is…”

“It’s fine. Try answering honestly.”

I prompted Sara, who seemed to find it hard to say, to answer.

Sara had probably had her Master change many times until now, so she would likely have a detached way of thinking about that.

“Um… I would look for the next Master.”

As expected, Sara said that while watching my face.

Immediately after Sara spoke, a dangerous atmosphere drifted from the surroundings.

They were probably angry at whether any Master would do.

“I thought you’d say that. But Sara has come this far that way. It can’t be helped.”

However, if someday she came to acknowledge me, that in itself would make me happy.

“But I think the other Dules are different. What about Muriel?”

“I… think I would keep chasing Master’s shadow forever.”

“My… shadow?”

“Yes. I would go to places where Master seemed likely to be and search for Master. If there were rumors of Master I would go there immediately and search for Master again.”

Muriel answered with tears in her eyes.

That’s right.

She had worked so hard for my sake for fifteen years.

Hearing an answer that was far too persuasive, all the Dules except Sara and one other nodded greatly.

“If Lady Sara stays at Master’s side, I think she will surely come to understand as well.”

Cathy said that as if admonishing Sara.

Sara said nothing and nodded vaguely.

“Well, Helene has probably been worrying about Mateus the whole time. And now I, whom Helene had been waiting for, am here. That’s why she doesn’t want to let me go.”

There was a bit of a sense that I had abridged it, but when I explained it that way, this time everyone nodded.

Apparently they had accepted it.

Now then… nn?

“Come to think of it, what about Rine?”

I couldn’t see Rine, so I asked Rina, who was her guardian.

“She was asleep, so I put her to bed in the next room.”

Rina explained bluntly.

“I see. Then… that’s right. Everyone, could you sleep in the next room today?”

“Um, why is that?”

Cathy asked me.

“Hmm, that’s right. I want to talk with Tiria a little.”

I named her and answered that way.

“…”

Everyone looked at Tiria.

“Understood. Then excuse us.”

“””””Excuse us.”””””

The Dules left the room with refreshed expressions, yet looking a little lonely.

They probably had their own thoughts about Tiria as well.

“Now then, Tiria…”

I looked at Tiria, who had been left alone.

“Ma-Master, um, I-I’m sorry. M-my nipples aren’t erect…”

Tiria looked down at her own body, noticed her nipples were not standing, and hurriedly pinched and toyed with the left and right nipples with both hands.

Because Tiria alone had been left behind, she had probably thought about what would come next.

“…Nn… nn… huh… ah, this isn’t erect either… nn… huh…”

No matter how much Tiria toyed with her nipples they would not become erect, and she also noticed her clitoris was not erect, but even when she pinched it the same way it would not stand.

“Um, Master, ah, I’m not wet… why… why…”

She also noticed her crotch was not wet.

Tears welled in Tiria’s eyes.

“Tiria.”

“Please wait a little longer… huh… why… why…”

“Tiria.”

“Just a little more, just a little more…”

She groped her own body, trying to prepare herself to serve me.

However, it did not seem to be going as she wished.

“Tiria.”

Together with the fourth time I called her name, I hugged Tiria.

“Ma-ster…”

Tiria was in a daze.

Tiria was probably not in that kind of mental state right now.

It had been since hearing Helene’s story this morning, so the cause was probably being told that Tiria’s parents had died.

Of course she would be in shock.

In fact, today she had had almost no presence all day.

For example, the one who had brought sweat towels and water during the sparring matches had been Cathy.

I had thought Tiria would also cling to Cathy, but that had not happened.

And so I had thought I had to do something for her.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

Tiria was apologizing in my chest.

“Tiria, you don’t have to apologize. More than that, it’s about King Rudolf and Queen Teresia. And you had a younger brother too, right.”

“Master…”

“It’s all right to cry. No one else is here now.”

“I am a Dule. Everything of mine is Master. I have no family… family…”

“It’s all right to cry.”

I hugged her tightly and said it strongly once more.

“I… u… guu… aah… waaaaaaaahhh!!”

As if a dam had broken, Tiria began to cry.

The crying voice echoed through the room.

While hugging her, I gently patted Tiria’s back.