I ／ Men Forbidden!? The Secret Garden of Maidens!
Now, the day after the aforementioned Sports Festival—…
It was a so-called “compensatory holiday,” a miraculous day where one could openly skip school despite it being a weekday. In such a student paradise, two people were holding a suspicious meeting from early morning.
Hakua Shiragiku and Meina Akeboshi.
The next head of a world-class confectionery company and her capable secretary candidate.
The two were in a room of the apartment where they lived, facing each other with serious expressions and discussing something. Their menacing aura was enough to make even a demon run away barefoot. Just what kind of important matter were they discussing?
Between the two of them, spread out on the table, was—…
See-through lingerie!
A beautiful negligee woven from high-quality, lustrous, pure white fabric.
Sparkling as if studded with jewels, it gave off a sublime presence that made one forget its original purpose. Facing this masterpiece, the likes of which you wouldn’t normally see in a home shared by two high school girls, Meina clenched her fist and raised her voice.
“Now, my Lady! Now is the time to claim Izumi-sama’s purity!!”
“WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT~~!!?”
Hakua was fed up with her attendant, who was already at full throttle the morning after the Sports Festival.
Somewhere along the line, they had ended up living together in the apartment, and the master, Hakua, was the one cooking the daily meals. Meina takes out the trash. But she does nothing else.
Just when it seemed this “useless secretary” with a fancy title had finally done some work, it was this. Meina had said, “I have something important to discuss,” so Hakua had braced herself, only for Meina to pull out some scandalous “Sage” (H-rated) equipment first thing in the morning. Even the Sun watching from the blue sky would be shocked.
But Meina,
as if there wasn’t a single shred of guilt in her actions, puffed out her towering [H-cup] chest.
“Kufufu. Now that you’ve declared your feelings, My Lady, is there any reason not to attack? For what purpose did we secure this prime location as his neighbor?”
“At the very least, it wasn’t so I could attack him in his sleep!”
“This is why pampered young ladies are such a problem~. The essence of this world is ‘survival of the fittest.’ In America, those who don’t take action never win, you know?”
“Ugh!”
Actually, “Ugh” wasn’t the right response.
Realizing she was about to be talked into it, Hakua hurriedly tried to keep her mental strength.
“Even so, this lingerie is too much! This is, well, um… it’s like a beast drowned in carnal desire!”
“You’re dropping some pretty scandalous words while turning bright red, My Lady~.”
It felt like her high level of education was backfiring.
“Is that really all right with you?”
Meina leaned in close.
Despite being the master, Hakua instinctively backed away from the silent pressure. As she was driven all the way to the wall, she found herself unable to move, pinned by a pressure [H] that even exceeded her own.
“You should know, My Lady. Even if you managed to confess, currently, you’ve only just barely reached the starting line.”
“…!”
She hit the mark.
Yesterday’s Sports Festival… the confession Hakua blurted out was a sensational and innovative event for the school. A normal man would have had his soul obliterated on the spot.
But next to Izumi, there is that Nanao.
During the two months Hakua had lagged behind because she couldn’t make up her mind, Nanao had been steadily closing the distance with Izumi. Yesterday, Hakua described herself as being one lap behind, but in reality, she might as well estimate it as two laps… no, five laps behind.
Then Meina smirked and whispered into Hakua’s ear.
“Can you think of any other way, My Lady… to make that dense prince Izumi-sama more intensely aware of you as a girl?”
Meina’s words were an incredibly sweet temptation.
Regardless of the content, the stance of “obtaining maximum performance with minimum cost” was an answer that Hakua, with her business mind, found extremely appealing.
(It’s true that Nanao Nanase’s invasion is extremely fierce. At this rate, even if I don’t make a move, soon… what should I do… what should I do!?)
Hakua was agonizing.
Her lips were tightly pursed, and beads of sweat appeared on her white forehead. Her serious gaze was fixed on a happy future for herself and Izumi Sumie. Such a grim expression… she hadn’t looked like this since she faced a rival company that tried to snatch away an important client from Shiragiku Confectionery.
And then, the moment of decision.
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(No, there’s no need to think. I am Hakua Shiragiku—at no time shall I stop my progress!)
As if shaking off the sweetness lurking within her, Hakua turned back to her trusted attendant!
“Meina! Show me that lingerie once more… hmm?”
Suddenly, she furrowed her brow.
On the table, the pure white lingerie was spread out.
But separately, Meina was spreading out some bright red lingerie. She had likely ordered them as a set. The design was exactly the same… but it felt like the chest area was one size larger.
“Wait, what is that!?”
To Hakua’s question, Meina tilted her head.
“What do you mean? This is for me.”
“Stop with that ‘Why are you asking something so obvious’ reaction! Even if I concede and wear mine, there’s no reason for you to wear yours!”
Then, Hakua noticed something.
If she looked closely, Meina looked unusually well-groomed this morning. Her skin was hydrated, and her hair had a lustrous glow. Considering the elegant scent of shampoo wafting from her, it seemed she had taken a morning shower.
Meina, who usually preferred a long, relaxing bath at night, polishing her skin from the morning on this day of all days… it couldn’t mean many things.
—In short, she was “battle-ready”!
Hakua fearfully asked Meina:
“You… saying you liked Izumi-kun was a joke, right?”
“…………”
From the time Meina returned to the country until the incident at the Sports Festival—if you trace it back, the starting point was Meina’s rebellion.
It was she who lit a fire under Hakua by bringing up the convenient new information of “Actually, I like Izumi-sama~.”
The response from Meina came calmly
and without a shred of hesitation.
“Kufufu. Of course it was~. No matter how much I might like him, I wouldn’t dream of stealing My Lady’s beloved~.”
There was no falsehood or guilt in those words.
Having known her since childhood as her future master, Hakua could tell.
“I-I see. Sorry, I asked something strange…”
Hakua felt ashamed for doubting the heart of her devoted attendant.
As she voiced a dejected apology, Meina knelt down in front of her. Smiling gently, she took Hakua’s hands in hers. The warmth of her fingertips seemed to melt Hakua’s heart.
“Please rest easy. My heart is always filled with the trust I receive from you, My Lady.”
“…!”
At the rare, straightforward words of affection, it was Hakua whose face turned hot.
“Meina. I—huh?”
But seeing Meina smirk, a bad feeling swelled up instantly. The [H] cups she was so proud of swayed conspicuously right in front of Hakua.
And the bad feeling was spot on.
“Well, while my heart is filled by your trust, My Lady, my body isn’t. So I’m planning to have Izumi-sama fill that part~♪”
“MEINAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!?”
With a wide smile, Meina gave a firm thumbs-up.
Then she spun around on her heel and shouted “Let’s go!” as she dashed off. Naturally, the red and white see-through lingerie was gripped in her hands.
“Now, let’s strike while the iron is hot~!”
“Wait! You, really… WAAAAAAAIIIIITTTTT!!”
They scrambled out of the front door.
Are they about to dive into an “18+” world?
If this were a weekly serialized manga, the readers might hesitate to take the next volume to the register.
But that’s fine!
Well, it’s not really fine, but at least for Meina, it was fine.
Even if this world were a weekly manga!
Even if the wholesome rom-com turned into an 18+ series!
Even if it moved to a magazine for young men and changed locations on the bookstore shelf!
As long as she established a “fait accompli,” Meina would win! …Is it some kind of bug that the most capable character has the easiest victory conditions?
It’s all Izumi’s fault now… for Meina, who no longer needed to hide her ulterior motives, it was just a matter of how to use her master as an excuse to hook up with Izumi. In that high tension, she reached for the door to Izumi’s room.
“Izuuumiii-sama~♡ Your Meina has arrived~♡♡♡”
“Hey! Since when did you make a spare key to Izumi-kun’s room!?”
In this manner, the useless master-servant duo burst into their target’s room. Their plan was to go wild on the day after the school’s sports festival.
And what the two saw when they stormed into Izumi’s room was—…
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