"Dear client, would you like to change? It’s just for your comfort."
I started by doing my job properly. It was a massage focused only on the area above the neck, so she didn’t need to change, but I gave her the option.
"N-no, it’s not necessary. I’m fine like this."
"Okay, do you have any preferences regarding scent? Sothing that helps you relax—I have lavender, chamomile..."
I offered her several scents to choose from for the oil; we had a whole bunch, both ones I recognized and others whose nas didn’t even seem to belong to my world.
"Oh! There’s even one with a scent as strange as moon dew... I want that one. For such a remote corner, this place is really well-stocked. It even has... Ah! Wait, I haven’t checked if... I didn’t bring my..."
"Don’t worry about that, dear custor. If it’s to test my profession, I also have a testing stone. In fact, it was on the counter—didn’t you see it?"
"Y-yes, ahem!... I don’t know what’s wrong with . I think I’m a little distracted. With finals coming up, my mind is all over the place and..."
"Haha~ That’s understandable. I see why you want a relaxing massage, though I can also tell you’re a little nervous."
"N-no, I an, yes, it’s just my first ti in a place like this."
’This girl is just as bad at lying as you are... wait! If you’re good at lying... honey, now that I think about it, you only lie to badly—that makes feel left out. You have to learn how to lie to .’
"Alright, why don’t we get to know each other a little? I think that’ll help you relax and calm your nerves. My na is Astan, I’m a rank-one massage therapist. May I ask your na, client?"
"Oh! It’s Biancalys... b-but you can call Bianca or Lys; the people closest to usually call the latter."
’Hyaa! Honey, she’s so cute. Look how she blushes while dropping a hint. She has that air of innocent, pure love about her.’
"Oh, what a beautiful na. So, Miss Bianca, it’s a pleasure to be at your service."
’Honey!, you’re doing it wrong. You were supposed to call her Lys.’
"Y-yes, I’m at your service."
"Good, you don’t have to hold back. It seems the source of your stress is the academy. Why don’t you talk a little about it? You know, sotis saying things helps the mind put them in order. You can even say things you normally can’t say, like a complaint about an instructor or a classmate."
"N-no, there’s no such thing as..."
"Oh, don’t worry, Miss Bianca, everything that happens stays here between us; it’ll be our secret."
I told her while winking at her and making a "keep it quiet" gesture, while keeping my smile.
This girl seems to like my looks, and I’m not going to let that go to waste.
’ufff!, honey, what you just did turned on a little... or did it turn on that you did it to another girl?... Honey, I think sothing’s developing... hmm, honey, later you’ll flirt with like that to test sothing—it’s a serious matter..’
That almost broke my expression. Iris isn’t making things easy for , and I think it’s way too late to think about sothing like that, considering she’s been trying to set up with other girls since our past life.
..
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"That bald professor who teaches fire runes keeps getting into trouble just because his family is in conflict with mine. I’m sure he’ll do sothing to make my grades drop."
’Oh!, sadistic bald professors are multiversal—I had one of those too... ah! Now I get it—they’re like a natural law; they’re the anchor.’
"Yes, I understand your frustration. It was an unfortunate turn of events that, out of the ten realms and all those qualified to be instructors, you ended up with one who has sothing against you."
As we talked, I massaged her face, forehead, and neck a little. With my massage techniques and skills, it’s easy to get her to relax and speak her mind without restraint.
In fact, she seed more and more comfortable and stopped acting nervous; at this point, she was truly letting out what she’d been holding back.
That’s good because I could get more out of her than usual; my skill and the massage are a great combination.
"Yeah, right? I’m so unlucky. Besides, what do I have to do with these conflicts? And that bald old man isn’t even a major mber of that family. I already have enough on my plate competing with talents from other realms, and that bald old man isn’t helping."
For soone who claid there was no such thing as complaints about instructors or the like, she certainly had a lot to say.
But I was able to gather so very good, more precise information about this place: it’s the kingdom of Astraelyon, and the predominant race here are the "winged ones."
The point is that this kingdom is ho to the most prestigious academy in the world, where only the most talented young people were admitted, and graduating was a great honor even for mbers of royal families.
I didn’t think it was important before, but now I realize that Amarillys’ daughters are there too.
She complained a lot, and now I have a clear idea of the academy’s hierarchy and its influence across the ten kingdoms.
In all this, Bianca, a noblewoman from the human kingdom of Aeloria, is a good student with excellent grades—she ranks among the top ten in her class—but there’s one teacher who’s giving her trouble, and as it happens, he’s the fire magic instructor, the very subject in which Bianca excels due to her "profession."
I have to say it was bad luck, because at that academy there were many teachers from all the realms, and the academy is so large that there’s more than one teacher for the sa class and year.
Even so, he ended up taking lessons from soone who didn’t get along with his family, which caused him a lot of stress, especially now that the end-of-sester exams were approaching.
As an outstanding student, she wanted to stay that way, but she’s very worried that the instructor will play dirty.
"Honestly, soone like him shouldn’t be a teacher... hmmm, so you said that if it weren’t forbidden, you’d use a device to record him and expose him, right?"
"Haaah~ yeah, I get what you’re thinking, but I can’t bring sothing like that in unless I have a good reason, and security is really strict... honestly, I’ve already talked to other instructors about this problem, but they couldn’t do anything without proof; that bald old man is really good at keeping things under the radar."
"I see that it’s really a problem... hmmm~ you know... no, I don’t think I should say sothing like that."
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"But your situation is... well, I’ll tell you sothing I’ve learned from my limited life experience, though I don’t know if it’s advice you should follow."
Now that she’s told about her problem, I realize that the mission seed relatively simple; it seed that the biggest hurdle was getting her to tell about it.
I think that without her initial interest, it wouldn’t have been so easy, since she doesn’t seem like the kind of person who would talk about her personal problems with a stranger, not even under the influence of my skills.
But she started by telling about herself, subtly highlighting her strengths, which helped the conversation flow and get to the heart of the matter
"Huh? Did you think of sothing? Honestly, no matter how hard I thought about it, nothing ca to mind. At this point, any idea is a good one."
"Well, look, there’s a pattern that repeats itself everywhere, and that is that even when sothing is forbidden, it doesn’t stop people from wanting it, and as long as there are people like that, there are those who take advantage of that desire to make a huge profit."
"What is it? ... Ah! Are you saying that..."
She’s a smart girl, and she seed to get my point right away.
"Well, I’m sure that sowhere in that massive academy there must be soone smuggling forbidden items inside. You just have to find them and pay the right price..."
"..."
"It might just be my superficial understanding, but I think that even if it’s forbidden and there’s punishnt, it would be worth it if it gives you peace of mind for the rest of the year. Besides, if you actually manage to get sothing, you’ll have the support of so instructors... or am I wrong?"
"..."
She fell silent when she heard what I said, but honestly, if I were in her shoes, I’d do the sa. In fact, I’m speaking from personal experience: Iris was drawn to many things considered off-limits, and sotis I had to get creative to get them.
"Well, I was just saying—I know it’s not sothing that should be done, but I think that for people who do such an things, the thods don’t matter much. But it’s just an idea; maybe sothing like that doesn’t even exist."
"No!.... It’s an excellent idea! And there must definitely be a way. It’s against the rules and there are consequences, but... why not? It’s like you said, for that bald old man, the thods don’t matter."
"So is it feasible?"
"More than feasible. In fact, now I understand where my roommate got that personal communicator to talk to her boyfriend. I shouldn’t have believed her when she said the academy allowed it. All this stress really makes overlook a lot of things."
"Hmm, but what if they punish you? I an, you have to turn in the evidence no matter what, right? So, obviously, they’ll find out what you’ve done."
"Oh... hmm, whatever. I don’t even need the instructors’ help. It’ll only be a two-day suspension. It’s totally worth it. The hard part was getting the device in there... and not just that, now that I think about it..."
She quickly seed to start thinking aloud, weighing the consequences and benefits of my idea and refining her plan.
"-Yeah, I don’t even need to report it. Once I record it, I’ll make so copies and just threaten him with that. that way, not only will he stop bothering , but he’ll even have to support . Being an instructor is all he has; he won’t want to lose that. Plus, my reputation as a model student who hasn’t broken any rules so far will make him let his guard down, and if everything goes well, it’ll never co to light that I broke the rules. Yeah, the more I think about it, the better it is."
’Honey, I really like this girl. When are you going to start seducing her to add her to our harem?’
"I’m glad my advice was helpful. Nothing satisfies more than a client who’s satisfied in every way."
’Honey, don’t ignore —this is important.’
"Haaah~ I really appreciate it; I feel so much calr now. And this massage is lovely too; your hands feel so good~. You’re just what I needed, aaah~(‾◡◝)..."
[mission complete]
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