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Much to Penny's disappointment, Emilia didn't stick around for too long after Mrs. Macmillan left. And since she wasn't carrying any sweets and chocolates around, there were no treats or free gifts either.
Moreover, she couldn't even take full advantage of the situation because of Dixie!
Well, the blonde girl couldn't deny the giddy feeling in her heart when Emilia had ruffled her hair with a smile.
And also…
"Commander, we've captured the footage perfectly."
Penny grinned gleefully. Although they already had plenty of extremely high definition imagery of the princess, the ones with her touching any of the knights were still extremely scarce. The only ones she seemed to show affection to were her personal slaves, which left the knights feeling increasingly melancholic.
The distribution of the rewards she got from her princess helped, of course, but the main issue was that Penny was reluctant to part with most of them. Even if she got her hands on Emilia's panties, would she hand it over to someone else? In their dreams, maybe!
Even the chocolates she shared were carefully picked out from the ones that her princess hadn't touched even the wrapping of, while any that she did were kept for herself. Unless there was a great requirement of rewards and there was nothing else left, Penny wouldn't willingly part with any of her treasures.
But although there hadn't been any cases yet, the ponytailed girl worried that the day might come when some of her knights started to wonder if they even had a good position in the hearts of their princess, or if they were just an annoyance. Wouldn't all their training, dedication, and hard work be meaningless if that were the case?
Of course, as the commander, Penny couldn't just let such a thing continue dropping their morale. With this fresh footage of Emilia showing intimacy with their commander, wouldn't it reaffirm all their beliefs?
Although this kind of intimacy couldn't even begin comparing with how far she had gone before, Penny didn't dare reveal her earlier 'achievements' to anyone, least of all her subordinates.
They may be able to readily accept such minor intimacy being bestowed upon her by the princess in public, and even appreciate it, but if she revealed that she had molested Emilia before… Penny knew she would be torn limb from limb.
Even if they had mercy on her for being the most devout worshipper of her princess, they would at least pluck her ponytail out of her scalp. Would the four-foot Penny still be herself without her five-foot ponytail?
Unaware of their commander's transgressions, the knights watched their princess leave with starry eyes. Although their club members were actually quite numerous now, the few of them were the most passionate of the bunch, and thus were given the honor of following Penny around to take care of the most urgent tasks for protecting their princess.
Having watched her grace so closely today, they felt like their hearts had been soothed.
"Commander, emergency! Neither camera eight nor thirteen are able to capture the back view of our princess perfectly because of obstruction from Dixie and Crystal!"
Listening to the communication, the upper-tier knights immediately snapped out of their daze, and even Penny's gaze turned grim. Each of the clips containing the sexy imagery of her princess was a priceless treasure that she could admire for countless eons. How could she allow a moment like that to be missed?!
But looking at how closely those two girls were sticking to her princess, combined with the fact that even they didn't have anything like an x-ray vision camera, they could only use their own eyes to tune out the other two girls and admire their princess in this fleeting moment of time.
Until the cameras started coming equipped with the ability of delusion, this was their only possible alternative.
"Ah… our princess is so beautiful!"
"Graceful!"
"Charming!"
Penny gulped as she heard the other knights' rather innocent compliments, and wondered if she really was the only pervert among their bunch. Anyway, she didn't dare to add her own thoughts, lest she corrupt their pure souls.
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The poor knights had no idea that as soon as their princess got inside the car with her friends, she immediately lost all her previous poise and grace as she carelessly sprawled in an uncultured position between her two darlings.
Had Dixie not been careful and grabbed the girl's legs in time, she might even have caught a kick to the face. Although she wouldn't really mind, Emilia would definitely be upset, and maybe even scold her!
Shaking her head with a smile, the dark-haired girl carefully took off Emilia's shoes before sliding the girl's socks from her silky legs. Having already seen the true form of her princess, Dixie couldn't be any more familiar with her sex appeal, but it still never failed to amaze her.
If her princess ever got poor, she could probably earn millions just by selling her photos to foot fetishists, and never need to do anything else. 'N-No! What am I thinking?! I would be the one to support her for her entire life if anything happened!'
After her shoes and socks were removed, Emilia rudely put one of her legs over Dixie's shoulder. "Tired~"
At first, Crystal had been a little shocked at how docile Dixie was to Emilia's naughty behavior these days, given how petulant she had been when her princess first moved to Crystal's home.
But considering how Emilia seemed to have opened up further with her only recently, and their relationship had developed even more, the heroine thought that it must be that they were more comfortable revealing this stuff to her now than they had been before.
In reality, Dixie had been reflecting on herself in most of her free time, and had decided that she would start changing her behavior around Emilia to better suit someone of her stature.
If she allowed her impulses to take her over in their regular interactions, what hope would she have of controlling herself when Emilia started removing her clothes?
Dixie realized that tempering herself to control her desires was quintessential to being of service to her princess! Otherwise, she would be no different from a rabid guard dog that ran the risk of biting its own master.
While Emilia had indulged her greatly on their first night together, what Dixie had ended up doing was the complete opposite of what she aspired for. She vowed to herself that she would never hurt her princess again, and if she was ever bestowed with another chance to service her, she would show her that she wasn't a vicious barbarian.
The dark-haired girl gulped as she tentatively placed her palms on her legs and started pressing.
"Ahn~ That feels so good, Dixie."
Not to mention the knight, even Crystal felt a twitch in her heart from the erotic sound. The atmosphere in the car immediately became awkward, and Dixie was very thankful that she had started making it a habit to close the privacy screen.
The driver already gave her plenty of weird looks since she took Emilia to the hotel, after all. And it wasn't like she could just fire one regularly and trust newbies with driving her princess safely.
"Keep doing that, okay~ Ahh… I feel like I'm gonna reach heaven…"
Having full trust in her knight's 'ability', Emilia had already closed her eyes on the blonde heroine's soft lap one hand dexterously catching the girl's palm to press it against her cheek.
"Ahh, Crystal, my head also hurts! Will your rub it for me?"
The heroine giggled. "You're being so spoiled today."
Emilia nodded. "Yes, so indulge me. Don't I spoil you all the time?"
Crystal sighed as she ran her free hand through Emilia's hair. "Of course. And why does your head hurt? Because of Penny making trouble with the teachers?"
Emilia groaned painfully, as if recalling something she wished she hadn't.
Dixie immediately panicked, wondering if she had squeezed her leg too hard. "A-Ah, did I hurt you, princess?!"
"N-No, Dixie, baby, keep going. I just remembered an annoying pest."
The dark-haired girl nodded in relief, though Emilia could tell that she was now much more careful with her hands on her legs, and wasn't peeking up her skirt nearly as frequently to avoid being distracted.
Emilia sighed. "Anyway, Crystal, I wish it really was like you said. That adorable little thing is the least of my worries. If anything, she helps me out. What's giving me a headache is that annoying little pest, Amos!"
Hearing the boy's name from Emilia's mouth, Crystal couldn't control the shudder in her heart. Even with their current relationship, she could never forget that Amos had once been Emilia's fiancé, and the girl supposedly had a singular, obsessive fixation with the boy.
Even if their relationship had broken apart now, and she knew it was absurd, but the thought of Emilia one day leaving all of them for that one boy still struck terror into her heart.
"W-Why would you be bothered by him? H-He hasn't been annoying us lately, r-right?"
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I should be able to start writing more from tomorrow or the day after, almost fully recovered now. >_<
Thank you for all your support! :>