Chapter 69
“Oh? Are you sure I wouldn’t do anything to you just because I’m a girl? It seems you’ve already forgotten how you begged me for mercy last night, haven’t you?”
“Uu… I haven’t forgotten,” I blushed, too ashamed to look her in the eye.
Lian Qi pressed her body very close to mine, deliberately whispering in my ear with a ticklish voice: “If you’ve forgotten, I have ways to make your body remember, you know.”
A shiver went down my spine! Listen to her! What kind of shameful things is she saying? I think she’s definitely doing this on purpose. I sometimes wonder, could it be my easily embarrassed personality that provokes Lian Qi, making her unable to resist teasing me?
I’m really afraid that while she’s teasing me with her words, her hands will start to get restless and wander under my skirt, discovering I’m a boy. Then it’ll all be over.
“N-No need! I’ll never forget it for my whole life. It’s already… um, engraved in my heart.” I swallowed nervously, too ashamed to look at her.
What I’m saying is the truth! Everything Lian Qi has brought me has been a shameful experience I’ve never had in my entire life. How could it not be unforgettable?
“Just engraved in your heart? I was talking about letting your body remember, too.”
“Eh, eh, eh???”
My body? Remember?
I realized what she meant and was too ashamed to answer. Well, adding the kiss mark on my neck, it’s true that even my body has remembered.
“You’re blushing again.”
“It’s all because you keep saying such lewd things!” I retorted.
“Because I’ve discovered you’re getting more and more sensitive. I can make you blush just by teasing you with words,” she said with a wicked smile.
“What are you talking about! Go away!” I hugged the dragon egg and couldn’t be bothered with her.
“Hey, speaking of which, why have you been holding onto that egg this whole time?”
“Of course it’s because I’m used to holding something in my arms when I’m embarrassed.”
Just as I said, I was treating this dragon egg completely as a throw pillow. This way, there’s something separating me and Lian Qi, which gives me a small sense of security.
“I feel like you’re trying to hatch it,” she said, studying me.
“No, I’m not!?”
Connecting me, a boy, with hatching an egg is too shameful…!
“Why did you bring the dragon egg back if not to hatch it?”
“Er… I was just thinking I wanted to save it.”
“Save it?”
“Mm, this egg’s brothers and sisters were all smashed.”
—I told Lian Qi the whole story of how I rescued a dragon egg from Sister Liwei.
Lian Qi looked at me, both surprised and helpless. “Eh? So you just brought a dragon egg back?”
“Mm, I brought it back without even thinking. At the time, if I had hesitated any longer, this egg would have become a puddle of yolk too,” I said softly, staring at the egg in my arms.
It didn’t suffer the same fate as its siblings. What a lucky egg it is.
“By the way, can a dragon egg that’s been frozen for ten thousand years still be alive after thawing? Shouldn’t it have turned into a fossil?”
“The ice in the permafrost is different from normal ice. Before it was frozen, that place was a swamp. After it thawed, it just returned to how it was before,” I retorted.
“So suspicious. Is it magic?”
“I don’t know about that.”
“Then if the permafrost thaws and all the prehistoric creatures come back to life, won’t that be a huge problem?”
“The Adventurer’s Guild was formed to deal with things like that.”
“Alright, since you brought it back, you have to be responsible for it.”
“Eh? What do you mean by responsible?”
“First, we have to find a way to make it hatch, right?” Lian Qi stood up, hands on her hips, facing me. “Hatching requires warmth, right? Wait—are you sure it’s a dragon egg and not some xenomorph insect egg? If something else hatches, I won’t forgive you.”
“I’m sure it’s a dragon egg. Sister Liwei is an expert on dragons, she wouldn’t be mistaken.”
…
“Then have you brushed up on any knowledge about raising dragons?”
I looked blank, and said guiltily, “No…”
“Then do your adventurer sisters know how to hatch a dragon egg?”
“There’s no way they’d tell me… Sister Liwei thought I was taking it home to stir-fry for you, which is why she let me take it so readily. Right now, all I know is that the dragon eggs were soaking in a sulfur hot spring.”
“Sulfur hot spring? The school doesn’t have a sulfur hot spring.”
“I know…” I felt helpless.
“Just holding it in your arms definitely won’t work. Anyway, for the first step, put it in the blankets.”
“Eh? In the blankets?”
“Mm, come with me.”
I dumbly followed her into the bedroom. She felt the bedsheets and looked at me earnestly. “Nope, the bed isn’t warm enough. I’ll leave it to you to warm the bed, okay?”
“Warm the bed…? Alright.”
That, at least, I could do. Although there’s no special reason, like being sick, so getting under the covers in broad daylight is a little weird, I still listened to Lian Qi, obediently climbing into bed and lying down under the blanket. Gradually, the bed warmed up with my body heat.
And Lian Qi just stood to the side, watching me, which made me want to hide under the covers.
“You’re really professional at warming the bed. I slept very warm and comfortably last night,” she said with a mischievous smile.
“Don’t say things like that,” my face instantly turned red.
“Next, use your body to make it warm, too.” Lian Qi said, handing the dragon egg to me.
“Use my body… to make it… warm? W-Wait a minute, doesn’t that mean I’m hatching an egg?”
Lian Qi ignored my protest, directly lifted the blanket a little, and stuffed the dragon egg into the bed. What’s even more shameful is that she actually placed it on my lap! I looked at the little tent the blanket formed and instantly realized I had fallen into Lian Qi’s trap!
“No—No!” My face was full of resistance—No, no, not just my face, every cell in my body was resisting. “Uwaah…! I see now, you just wanted to see me hatch an egg, didn’t you?”
To think there’s someone in the world who wants to watch someone else hatch an egg. And Lian Qi is that kind of person. Uuu, how perverted.
“Don’t move, okay? Let your motherly aura shine, Fei’er.”
“I-I-I… I don’t have any motherly aura!”
I’m a boy!
“Just be good and hatch it for a little while. Otherwise, I’ll get in too. When that happens, you won’t just be hatching an egg; you’ll also have to endure me doing lewd things to you.”
I…
My face flushed, and I was at a loss for words.
Hmph, if she really dares to do that, I’ll kick her right off the bed.
I’ve discovered that Lian Qi is very eager to do anything that makes me feel ashamed. For example, making me change stockings in front of her, making me call her Master, touching my thigh in class, destroying my clothes with explosion magic, and… hatching an egg.
In broad daylight, wrapped in a blanket, hatching an egg… what kind of experience is that? Aah, I won’t say any more, I won’t. It’s truly too embarrassing to talk about.