"I was wrong, Teacher... Please... punish me."
"How could I dare lay a hand on the Princess...?"
"Please... punish me."
The Princess was looking at me with a pleading expression.
If I said this, would Armonia believe me?
Even I wouldn't believe it if I were the one saying it...
'Damn it, who would believe this...?'
Who would imagine that the Princess would suddenly lift her skirt and ask me to spank her...?
Was it that the Princess's thought process had gone haywire, or had I unconsciously messed her up? There was no way to know.
'But I can't just let this slide...'
Since it's a dream, it probably wouldn't be a big deal even if I hit her.
But the sleeping drug she drank was said to have only a weak anesthetic effect.
If I were to spank her and she suddenly woke up, slashing my throat with her hand blade, that would be the end of my life.
I started with foreplay.
Foreplay to prepare for spanking...
If her panties were pure white before, this time they were pink silk panties, similar to her hair color.
The pink underwear with lace trim reflected the sunlight, shining brightly.
I grabbed her firm buttocks.
"Hng! Haah..."
"Princess, you were doing so well until the end, so why did you make a mistake?"
"Th-That... Hng!"
Squeeze, squeeze!
The Princess's body, hardened by war, boasted a figure without an ounce of excess fat, but her buttocks were full and plump.
"Hng, hng!"
"Are you moaning now? During this sacred lesson?"
"Th-That... Hng!"
"This won't do. With this attitude, it's no wonder such ridiculous mistakes happen!"
"Hng! S-Sorry..."
For the Princess, who strictly adhered to hierarchy, this kind of high-pressure intimidation was effective.
Even though I hadn't spanked her yet, her ears turned red, and she was breathing heavily.
The elasticity of her buttocks was the best among all the women I'd met.
I stopped kneading her buttocks and looked down at the Princess.
The way she shyly turned her head to look up at me fueled my sadistic tendencies.
But I held back.
'Let's take it easy for now. Things could go south...'
In any case, I had to avoid a situation where the Princess would wake up.
Slap!
"Hng..."
"I can't help but feel devastated by your performance in this sacred music lesson."
Slap!
"Hng... T-Teacher..."
"..."
She seemed embarrassed, as if asking me to stop.
I thought about stopping and using a sleep skill later to give her a proper spanking.
But as I lowered my hand, I heard the Princess's trembling voice.
"Th-That... That won't be enough for me to reflect. I-I need... harder..."
"..."
Excuse me, what did you say?
I thought I misheard.
I decided to push her harder.
"The authority to punish lies with me! Are you giving me orders now?"
"N-No! S-Sorry..."
The Princess quickly pulled down her dress skirt, stood up straight, and sat back down on the chair.
'Hehehe, this is more fun than I thought? But why is she having this kind of dream?'
It was fun, but I couldn't understand it at all.
From the previous dream about the Princess, I learned that she was living under oppression in the Demon King's castle.
But now she's asking to be spanked...?
What could be causing this?
The location? The person? The timing?
'It's about time to get kicked out.'
I decided to figure it out gradually.
As the dream time ended, I was ejected from her dream.
After that, I performed several more dream invasions, and the performance mistakes continued.
I concluded that day's dream invasion by gently spanking her buttocks several times.
I didn't even use hand techniques, fearing she might wake up.
Unknowingly excited, I held the Princess and continued the dream invasion longer than I intended.
And I discovered a fatal flaw of dream invasion.
'Ah... I'm sleepy. I might fall asleep here. Let's leave quickly.'
[Be careful.]
The Princess might have slept soundly, but I didn't feel like I had slept at all after entering someone else's dream.
Though I prided myself on being nocturnal, my regular lifestyle in Stura had turned me into a morning creature.
The problem was that the Princess hugged me and wouldn't let go.
Then she muttered.
"...Spank me more."
"Good grief..."
Words that you wouldn't expect to come from that innocent face of a sexual deviant.
Moreover, the strength with which the Princess hugged me was no joke.
If the Princess decided not to let go, there was no way I could escape.
'Haah... I'm going crazy, let me go. I'm going insane. Ah, I'm getting hard!!'
[What kind of dream did you make her have?]
'I'll tell you on the way... You won't believe it, but...'
I barely managed to shake off the Princess and left her room.
I locked the door and threw the key into the kid's room.
"Zzzz..."
"This brat was causing such a ruckus earlier, but now he's sleeping soundly..."
While someone was tired from fooling around with the Princess, this guy was sleeping peacefully.
...Ah, my situation is much better.
After making a sarcastic remark to the kid sleeping on the floor, I left the room.
As I headed to the guest room, the sun was beginning to rise over the mountains.
I explained what had happened in the dream to Armonia.
[...Are you asking me to believe that?]
'I knew it...'
Who would believe this...?
Of all people, the Princess wants to be spanked...
[...There's no sexual traits on her traits chart.]
'Then what is it?'
[But there are these tendencies:]
-[Dependency Craving], [Hierarchical Obedience], [Fear of Emptiness]-
They seemed to match the situation, but I couldn't be sure.
'...I thought knowing the trait would explain everything about a person, but the Princess seems different.'
[The trait explains everything. But we can't combine and interpret all traits. It would be better to gather more information through dream invasions.]
Even Armonia couldn't confirm all temperaments.
I'll try to get more accurate information when I enter the Princess's dream tomorrow.
***
"Would you like to eat?"
"...Huh?"
In my blurry vision, I saw the Princess looking down at me.
Her pink hair, neatly dressed in a maid outfit, seemed to pour down like rain.
She was looking down at me indifferently.
As far as I could remember, this was the first time she had gotten up and looked at me so closely.
"Uh... now..."
"It's lunchtime."
"...Huh? Where's Viola?"
I flailed my arm around the bed and asked.
My first love in reality wasn't on the bed.
"She said she was bored and went to find someone else."
"She went out to look for someone..."
No matter how much she likes manga, living friends are still the best.
Viola seemed happy just being with Beatrice.
The Princess looked down at me and asked again.
She was so beautiful it felt like a goddess had descended.
"Would you like to eat?"
"Yes, bring two portions today."
"...Yes, understood."
The Princess quietly left the room, even minimizing the sound of her heels.
I lay down and communicated with Armonia.
"Ah... I'll only use dream invasion while I'm here, and be more careful later."
[But thanks to you sleeping deeply, we've learned that the Princess likes you more than we thought.]
I asked Armonia excitedly.
"Oh? Really? What did she do?"
[She stood by the door while Viola was here, but after Viola left, she kept glancing around near you.]
"What about the pheromone effect?"
[It's a bit different. The Princess hasn't shown signs of pheromone addiction yet.]
"That's a shame."
Thinking about it, even Luna took a long time to be affected by the pheromones.
Even sitting next to her every day, it took that long.
The Princess might only show slight signs by the time I leave.
After some time, the Princess opened the door and brought in a meal cart.
She was pulling the cart toward the dining table.
Her buttocks were truly impressive.
It wasn't a vulgar shake, but a graceful sway.
In a daze, I sat at the table, and the Princess began arranging the dishes.
As expected, only one portion.
"Just put it all out."
"...If it's because of me."
"Eat, it's an order."
"Ehk... Yes, understood."
The Princess was startled by my command and immediately placed the food from the cart on the table.
'Oh! Her reaction is getting better!'
[It might be the influence of the dream, but it seems she's firmly imprinted you as her superior.]
The Princess, who had been sassy until yesterday, immediately moved at my firm command.
It felt...
'Come to think of it, it was similar when the Grand Duke got angry.'
[I like that about her.]
'Oh, so you like her now?'
Armonia highly evaluated the Princess but didn't seem to like her much.
She still rejected being replaced during missions.
[She'll follow my orders better than yours, as I'm her superior.]
'...'
Of course... Must be nice being the CEO.
Once I bring the Princess back, the command authority will likely belong to Armonia.
Well, Armonia is much better than me in this.
After finishing a lunch that felt like breakfast, the Princess quickly began clearing the dishes.
Perhaps because of what had happened, her cautious demeanor was evident.
The Princess quickly returned the dishes and came back to the room.
I thought she might dawdle, fearing she'd fall asleep and make a mistake, but the Princess was quick in handling such matters.
"Ah, it's boring here too. Isn't there something fun to do?"
"There's a library in the Demon King's castle. But I don't know much about the inside..."
"Let's go!"
"...? Right now?"
"Yeah, I'm bored."
The Princess led the way to the library, and I followed behind her, having changed clothes.
The library's exterior was nothing special.
Except for being stopped when I first tried to enter...
"Get lost! This is no place for humans."
A creepy giant centipede blocked my way, and the Princess calmly explained to the monster.
"S-Sorry! Please spare my life..."
"I just want to look around inside..."
"Thank you! Feel free to look around!"
I didn't even intend to kill it, but I received a grateful thanks for sparing its life.
Would it have been a fight?
If that giant centipede struck me with its venomous fangs, wouldn't I die?
And wouldn't I bleed out before the poison even spread?
It turned out that the giant centipede was the librarian.
It busily organized books, scurrying around the shelves with its hundreds of legs.
But the problem was that the books were too big.
When the princess immediately grasped my thoughts and asked the librarian about the location of books in a size humans could read, it came over, bowing respectfully, and guided us.
The place we arrived at was filled with shabby books haphazardly displayed.
"I apologize. This is all we have in sizes humans can read…"
"It's fine. I'll take a look."
With that, I began scanning the books.
[These seem to be books written by humans of this world, not demons.]
'Hmm, were these looted after a victory?'
This place was completely disorganized, with no proper management.
Important documents from various countries were scattered around like flyers on the street, and the books were crammed onto the shelves in no particular order.
I said to the princess,
"I'm going to look around. You can browse too if you want."
"...Yes, understood."
The princess seemed interested in this place as well, smiling faintly as she began looking around.
It was a good decision to come here.
But honestly, there wasn't much for me to see.
'What a mess. I came here out of boredom, but there's probably no manga, right?'
[…Guardian.]
'Oh? Is there manga?'
Contrary to my expectations, Armonia had something else to say through our telepathic link.
[The book right in front of you is related to succubi.]
'…Not manga, huh?'
[It might be helpful for your mission.]
'Hey, don't ignore me…'
She's outright ignoring me now…
I pulled the book from the shelf.
The friction from the adjacent books caused the shelf to shake, and dust rained down.
The book was incredibly thick, but since it was written on parchment, there weren't many pages.
The content was roughly about humans investigating and researching succubi.
'Let's take this. They'll probably let me borrow it, right?'
[I think they'll allow it easily.]
I wandered around, wondering if there might be any other good books.
The princess was standing and reading a book intently.
She hadn't noticed my presence at all.
Her long, pink, thread-like hair covered the book, so I couldn't see what she was reading.
I approached her and said.
"Hey, go sit at the table to read."
"Huh?!"
Thud!
The startled princess closed the book and looked at me with wide eyes.
'Did I disturb her?'
[….]
I said this because I found it interesting that she was so absorbed in reading that she didn't notice me.
At her level, I thought she'd sense my presence immediately, but she must have been that focused.
I spoke to her again.
"Go sit at the table to read. Don't get in the way."
"...Yes, understood. I'm sorry."
The princess, hearing my near-command, complied immediately.
She sat at the table, glanced at me, and then focused back on her book.
I didn't want to disturb her, but I was curious about what she was reading.
After browsing the library for a while, I cast a sleep spell on her from behind.
Thud!
The princess, who had been reading intently, slumped onto the table and began to sleep.
'This would be such a cheat skill in a world without magic resistance, huh?'
[Still, be careful. Even a little magic resistance could make it dangerous without a magic circle.]
As Armonia said, it's overpowered in a world without magic resistance, but if magic resistance exists, there could be side effects.
I quietly approached the princess and slipped the book out from under her.
The document contained records about the King of Feron.
Even as she slept with her head turned, tears were streaming down her face.
***
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