The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 327: Spicy

”Let me get this straight, you want us to wear a disguise of what in your world is a fat, mustachioed old man who raids houses to drop off gifts of dubious provenance to children all over your world in a single night?”

”...”

”Isn’t that a god?.... No, more importantly, I get that you have weird tastes, but this is... too much.”

It was lunchtime, which for our class started early. Already for some reason there was an urgent meeting of instructors.

It was an hour of self-study, to which I, like Chris, without a care in the world, took the twins and dragged them to our quintessential place behind the Magic Classrooms.

As I set up a barrier so as not to be detected, I explained to Eira who asked me about what kind of clothes were the sexy Santa clothes I had Felix make.

I showed her in the morning hoping to wear them later, it was a curious design for her that she had never seen before, which I explained to her while setting up the barrier.

But after hearing her summary of what I explained to her, instead of refuting her, I started thinking seriously that she was right.

’What the hell were the people of my old world doing?’

It was such a common thing to think to imagine, to even see (over the internet) a woman in a sexy Santa dress that even when I gave Eira the explanation of who Santa was I hadn’t thought of it that way.

Now I felt a strange jolt of reality, but still I couldn’t let them think I had such bizarre taste as seeing them dressed like an old man.

”Wait Eira, let’s see, it’s kind of complicated... but Santa’s costume is more like... hum, well, let’s be clear that I don’t relate it in any way to his origin and it’s just for aesthetics.”

”Uhm... well, I still don’t want to wear them now that I know where they came from.”

”Damn, Eira, even I now hesitate to use them when you put things that way.”

I finished putting up the barriers, based on an artifact I made with Elena, so we won’t be easily caught. And why so much preparation?

”Hey!!! Why are you taking that bed out? Rather, you used to put an anti-detection barrier, we already did it in the morning!!!!”.

Well, for the same reason I’m pulling my bed out of storage. Obviously, to have a nice lunch, especially since we were lucky enough that they were especially long.

”Tsk, Eira, I only put it in because a bed would draw attention. Let’s just go eat quietly. Yesterday I my doppelgänger toured the capital and found many good things. Look, my little angel, this is a new dish from that restaurant you like.”

”Oh, seafood...Salmon!!!”

”Yes, it’s seafood. Besides I know you like salmon very much. It’s a dish with a 4 star red salmon.”

I sat down on the bed which, at my will, became a little firmer and with no trouble I was able to put a lot of things on it without spilling.

Selene, out of habit, sat between my legs. It was her privileged place when we ate in secluded places.

I don’t know what Eira thinks, but obviously we’re going to eat.

”Hmph! You think I don’t know you. I know you’ll say something like ’let’s eat quietly for 15 minutes’ and then get started.”

”Oh, my cutie, you know me so well. and yes, you got it right! Huehuehuehue!!! Eat well, we’ll burn calories later. There’s a little bit of everything here. Look, there’s chicken. I know it’s your favorite. Plus it’s from a 6-star lava cockatrice.”

”hmph, well... first of all you are the real thing, aren’t you? don’t think I don’t know what you do lately”.

”...”

Well, she’s got me there. In fact, I’m not really sure and I didn’t check if I was a doppelgänger today when I took my role.

Well, the truth is that lately I’ve been alternating between Seraphina and Chris, because, well, I’m so strong that it doesn’t even matter that I can only use the ability to do morphogenesis.

My doppelgänger can with either identity without any problem, not like at the beginning of the year when I had to be careful.

I do it mainly because there was an anonymous complaint that it wasn’t fair that I spent most of the time being Chris, so I alternate.

come to think of it, by this time, since I haven’t used any skills besides morphogenesis today, we could be anyone and yesterday we mixed I up a bit.

Even I don’t differ, since even the breathing art we use to maintain dopelgangers, I commonly use it almost out of habit even though I is the original, since doing so helps me to passively accumulate mana, which is also good.

I could find out at this very moment, but it seems funny that it’s an unknown even to me, who doesn’t clearly remember who was who today.

”So are you or are you not the real one?”

”’I don’t know, it’s a mystery!!! You can try to destroy me, but keep in mind that if I am the real one I will die’”

”Damn!!! Activate the resonance!”

”’Come on Eira, don’t be mortified by small things’”

”Grrr..., Fine!!! Whatever... is it spicy?”

Eira, looked a little dissatisfied, but eventually came over and sat down next to me. She seemed interested in the saucer of a chicken, which was an unnatural red from my perspective.

”’Course, I know my lindurita likes spicy things and chicken. I also brought some extra sauce, made from the fruit of the salamander tree. If you’re not careful, it might hurt your palate, but I know with our vitality we’ll be fine.’”

”Hmph, I know you just want to... Wait, Selene, that’s mine! He brought it for me!”

”’Yum!...Yumn! Delicious... No!, mine! (￣ε(￣)’”

”No!, it’s mine, hmph! Eat your salmon!”

”’Come on, don’t fight. I’ve got more. But, Selene, it’s wrong to take your sister’s.’”

Suddenly a fight broke out over the spicy chicken. I mean, Selene didn’t hesitate and, just as Eira and I were talking, she finished what I gave her and went for the chicken.

By the time Eira noticed, she had already devoured half of it and even complained when Eira took it from her.

Luckily, I brought more. Selene could be a bit selfish when it came to food, so I scolded her a bit.

”╯︿╰ sorry.”

”ugh!!!, my little angel, it’s okay, here, here’s more.”

Yes, I was very harsh. I can’t stand to see my little angel down. I think I scolded her too hard.

What a horrible person I am. I felt bad just making her sad for a moment, so I hugged her tighter and brought out more desserts, so she wouldn’t be down.

”hey, you spoil her too much... oh, this is delicious.”

”hue~ you know, the chef at that restaurant said that only people with more than 7 metamorphosis could handle this dish. I had to throw a wad of money at him to make it even spicier.”

”If this is the point, honestly, the more metamorphosis I had, the less spicy things felt.”

”Yeah, well, you could say that spiciness is kind of a minor poisoning, so with increased vitality and mana you gain stamina. But don’t worry, there are plenty of spicy things that affect us even at a higher rank.”

”You also said there are beasts that are naturally spicy, right? That’s curious. I’d like to try it.”

”Yes, the higher their rank, the spicier they are. There are also arboreal beasts that produce fruits so pungent that they are sometimes lethal.”

One thing I discovered about Eira besides chicken she likes spicy things to an extent that can’t be measured.

And she puts up with it relatively easily, even though they can be dangerous to our rank. Although I think part of that is because of the breathing I gave her.

Generally, mana breaths, compared to arts, are simpler, because they only serve to build up mana and increase said stat from my point of view.

But there are some high rank breaths, like the one I gave her, that have small functions.

The one I gave her had some like calming the mind, more coolness and calmness, and directly improve the ease with which you cast an ice and water spell, honestly it’s perfect for her who is explosive if you provoke her, losing calmness during a combat is not good.

Another feature of this breath is that this also suppresses the fire element of anything a bit, and spicy things are usually related to this.

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Eira was very interested in this topic, and I told her about all the beasts, demonic beasts and even some monsters that had this characteristic.

As we ate quietly, we talked about a few things until....

”by the way, you two, this really isn’t a joke that Lily convinced you to participate in, is it?”

”No...Yum, Mommy has good intentions....Yum”

”Hey! Selene I told you we’re too old to call her that!”

”Mommy says, Yum!...I have to call her that, Yum!...because we’re dating Chris...”

”Damn!!! and what’s the point haahh~ anyway... it’s like Selene says. she doesn’t plan anything, and I wouldn’t follow her tasteless jokes. I can’t tell you, but it’s nothing bad for you and you don’t have to worry. She has better plans than you do.”

”humm..., well, I believe in your common sense. You’re well... the conscience of the family.”

”uhm!, my sister is reliable Yum~.”

”ugh!, because those two are like that, than me...haaah~”

”aye even if you complain about them, you still love them a lot don’t you.”

”shut up, hmph!,...that’s obvious”

”I love my sister too”

”ugh!, stop! Selene, no need to... and you stop smiling like that, I’m going to get mad”.

What my question to the twins was referring to, is because of what I heard from my father-in-law, who I sometimes talk to on the weekends, and I fight since actually fighting with someone strong is very good for increasing stats.

I think we get along well now, only the bastar thing leaves me beaten to a pulp, but I get strong and it’s nothing that some spells and regeneration, can’t fix.

A recurring theme sometimes is that Lily is planning something, and that they have the whole family under confidentiality, including Eira.

From Eira I know it’s not totally one of her jokes, but more of a surprise. I don’t know if it has to do with her not wanting me to tell her my secret yet, although I honestly want to tell her.

It’s getting close to the end of the academy. It was a year, but technically it was only ten months of classes.

The banquet was a month ago, and besides the problem with Aurora nothing else really happened that night, at least nothing that involved me, and the kingdom repelled the attack correctly.

The point is that counting now there are only three months of classes left. I have already made arrangements with Astrid, but Lily is missing.

I want to come to an agreement with her, I don’t want to leave her behind if possible.

I have to see what she thinks. The twins told me that she was already arranging things and that I didn’t need to worry, that it was part of this whole thing she was setting up.

I honestly don’t trust much of anything Lily calls fixing and more with the bland suspicious look she gets when I ask her directly, But I trust Eira would be the first to stop Lily if she’s doing something wrong.

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