”…… Ouga, really, he’s actually asleep……”
”…… I thought he’d be at least a little flustered…… seeing him sleeping this comfortably is a shock……”
Karen poked Ouga’s cheek.
The ease with which she touches him — must be because she’s his childhood friend.
I can’t do that to Ouga yet.
I’m always doing my best to suppress how thrilled I am.
…… Even now, if I calm down, my heart might burst.
Beside the boy I love most, in the same bed.
”…………”
A peaceful sleeping face.
…… The fact that he fell asleep even though we’re here is a little — no, a lot — of a shock, but I’ll forgive him on the strength of this face.
The usual Ouga is cool, but this one is cute, and I love it.
“But this makes me believe nothing happened with Reina.”
“Yeah. I want to enjoy his sleeping face more, but let’s sleep too.”
“Yes.”
Tomorrow is another early morning. Council work to do.
I’ll just… edge a little closer to Ouga…… there.
“Then, good night.”
“Mn, good ni——kyah!?”
Right as we were about to sleep, Karen let out a sudden sweet sound.
“Karen, what’s the matt——hyan!?”
I understood the cause via my own body.
S-skin touched……!?
I looked at my shoulder — there was the hand of the supposedly-sleeping Ouga.
“Eh!? O-Ouga!? What are——”
Before I could ask, I was pulled into close contact.
Karen, too, was apparently in the same state, her face red enough to rival her hair.
“O-Ouga! This kind of joke isn’t okay? It’s not funny!”
“R-right. ……I-if you said something first, I’d always be ready……”
”…………”
But Ouga didn’t respond to our voices.
Only his rhythmic breathing as before.
“He’s… asleep……? Not awake……?”
“Eh, so just now was…… sleep movements?”
Could that happen.
…… Wait. Is this what Reina meant by being held……!
While I was thinking, Ouga’s bad sleep movements ran wild — the arm wrapped around me extended further down from my shoulder.
I felt my large that enveloped softly in his warm palm.
“Ah, no……! O-Ouga……! Don’t touch there……!”
“K-Karen! We have to wake him up……”
My chest squeezed firmly; suppressing my voice took everything.
He really is asleep, right!?
“Mashiro…… Karen……”
Ouga muttered our names in his sleep.
His hand-invasion didn’t stop.
N-no…… I can’t put strength into my body……
Touched, pleasure ran through my whole body……mmh……!
We couldn’t even attempt to wake him — too desperate stopping his hand.
W-wait…… Ouga is doing this unconsciously, right……
Then until he wakes, this continues……?
I paled at my own terrifying realization.
“Ahn……!”
“Fah……”
After that, Mashiro and I battled Ouga’s offensive until exhaustion dragged us into sleep.
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“Good morning—— ahh, just as I thought.”
I smiled at the predicted scene in front of me.
Ouga-kun held Mashiro-san and Karen-san in each arm.
And with his arms shoved into their pajamas, their clothing had become extremely erotic.
Sweat, flushed faces.
Open enough that not just collarbones but more was visible.
To someone unaware of the circumstances, this looks completely post-coital.
“I told them, didn’t I…… I’m held by Ouga-kun every night.”
Ouga-kun apparently has very restless sleep — when he sleeps deeply, he has a habit of hugging whatever is nearby.
At first it surprised me, but I’m used to it now.
If anything, his warmth — embracing me, this chest and all — is comfortable.
“Right now…… I could wake him.”
“Mngh……”
”……Ah……”
“Fufu. Looks fun. Let’s leave it.”
Alice-san will surely handle it properly.
She knows about Ouga-kun’s habit and put the two of them in the same bed anyway……
In the sense of resolving the ducal house’s heir issue, this was the maid’s correct choice.
Originally, she was on the side of supporting Mashiro-san and Karen-san’s romance.
“I’m looking forward to seeing the face Ouga-kun makes when he wakes up.”
That day, Ouga-kun came to the Council room with both cheeks bright red.
◇ Chapter 3 starts next time! Comments appreciated! ◇