Chapter 31: Sleep Learning
When I woke up, my cool, queen-like classmate was lying next to me with a completely sloppy expression on her face.
The situation was so absurdly shocking that my mind just stopped.
Also… my legs and around my waist feel kind of cold for some reason…
Well, the main cause probably has something to do with the queen sprawled out beside me.
“…………”
“―!?”
As I stared blankly at Emera, I suddenly became aware of a gaze fixed intently on me.
Raising my head in a hurry, my eyes met Shirayuki-san’s, her face bright red, smartphone held up and pointed straight at us as if she were about to say something.
For some reason, she was fidgeting her thighs together.
“S-Shirayuki-san, this is…! Wait, why are you recording this…!?”
“It was Maria-sama’s order. I have been filming since last night… I had heard what might happen, but this is far beyond what I imagined, and… I am finding myself a bit troubled…”
Shirayuki-san answered my question while trying to maintain a calm façade.
But her face was still completely red.
And, despite her cool demeanor, her thoughts seem to be in chaos as well.
“What happened last night…!?”
“…As I thought, you don’t remember, do you…?”
When I asked again, Shirayuki-san operated her phone and handed it to me.
Since she’d apparently been recording the whole time, she must have meant for me to check it myself.
Then, when I played the video starting from the middle, I, who had been asleep, rolled over.
And then—for some reason, I stuck both arms straight into Emera’s clothes.
“Hyaaahh!? Wh-what!?”
Because of the drug messing with her senses, Emera jolted awake in confusion.
But I didn’t wake up at all, and—
“Wh-wh-wh-why are you touching my chest!? W-Wait! No! D-Don’t knead it…! Stop, no! I can’t think straight because of the drug, s-stop touching meee…!”
—went right on kneading Emera’s flat chest to my heart’s content.
When I, pale as a sheet, snapped my head up to look at Shirayuki-san, she silently met my gaze with eyes that clearly said, “Keep watching.”
The things I was doing in the video were too inappropriate. So I skipped ahead a little, and then—
“Hiiiiii! Stop scratching, noooo! No, no! T-the stimulation is too strong!!”
—it had turned into something even worse.
The main issue… was Emera’s reactions.
“Y-you’re awake, aren’t you…!? Stop it right—nooo!! D-Dont lick my armpit!! D-don’t lick there! I-I can’t think straight because of the drug!!”
Panicking, I skipped ahead again, and somehow, I was lifting Emera’s clothes and burying my face into her exposed armpit.
My hands were in the exact same position as before, while Emera writhed on the bed, crying out in panic and pleasure.
“—It’s hard to believe, but… he is asleep…”
At that point, the voice of the person recording, Shirayuki-san, came in.
Emera, overwhelmed by everything happening to her body, only noticed Shirayuki-san after hearing her voice.
“Koori…!? Stop this right now!!”
Emera, being tormented by me, looked at Shirayuki-san as if she were a savior.
But—
“I am terribly sorry… but Maria-sama has strictly ordered me not to interfere no matter what happens…”
“Y-you’re kidding, right!? M-my body feels really weird right now…! If he keeps doing this— hyaaa!”
Emera pleaded, on the verge of tears as she tried to endure the overwhelming sensations, but once again she suddenly let out a shrill cry.
“N-not the ears, nooo…!! T-they’re already really sensitive…! D-don’t lick themmm!!”
Since everything was visible on the screen, I understood exactly what was happening. My face had moved from her armpit toward her cheek, and that shift alone seemed to intensify her suffering.
Apparently… her weakness was her ears.
Emera was writhing so much that I couldn’t bear to keep watching, so I skipped ahead much further in the video—
“No moooreee!! I really can’t anymore! I’m gonna break! I’m seriously gonna break! Why are you still ashleeeep during thissss!?”
Emera was still being tormented by me.
Skipping ahead again—just as my hand was about to slide down under her—I stopped the video.
“…………”
“Do you have anything you’d like to say for yourself?”
Shirayuki-san asked bluntly, seeing that I had lost my words.
No, what do you mean, “say something”… This has to be a lie… right?
“I-It’s edited or something… isn’t it…?”
“Everything you saw happened exactly as shown, from last night until early this morning. I believe Emera-sama’s current condition should make that evident.”
Early this morning… meaning Emera had been tormented by me all night long.
No… no no no no… t-this has to be wrong, right!?
“I-I didn’t even have a perverted dream last night! Th-there’s no way I could do something like that in my sleep!”
“Are you saying you were actually awake?”
“If I were awake, I wouldn’t have done any of that!!”
Even if she is my fiancée, doing something like this when we’re not even lovers is way too awful!
And besides, even with the drug involved, there’s no way I’d have the kind of knowledge needed to make Emera end up like… that!
“How the hell did this even happen…!?”
“Even if you ask me… you are the one who did it, or so I would normally say. However, the root cause this time lies in Maria-sama’s… whim.”
I thought she would look at me with contempt, but Shirayuki-san seemed to know the situation.
That woman… what did she do to me this time!?
“Eito-sama, you may not be aware of this, but you were enrolled in a certain development project from early childhood. And just before the project was completed, Maria-sama apparently said something like ‘If we’re going to turn him into the perfect man, he needs the skills to please women, right~?’ However, directly teaching such things to a middle-school boy was… well, inappropriate. So instead, she decided to implant the knowledge into your brain while you slept—in short, she subjected you to sleep learning.”
“What’s that woman doing!?”
No wonder I kept having weirdly indecent dreams for a while!
So something was being done to me while I was asleep!
Seriously, unbelievable!
That devil…!
“However, even after a full month, there was no noticeable change in you, Eito-sama… So Maria-sama, finding it strange, decided to have a maid in her early twenties sleep beside you as a test. And then—what happened last night, happened. They tried it several more times, having different young maids sleep next to you in turns, and every time… whenever a woman slept beside you, you would somehow find her weak points and mercilessly exploit them to the limit. It became quite a problem…”
“I… I don’t even know where to start commenting on this anymore…”
I held my head and slumped over.
Seriously, what is that woman doing…!?
I did think it was strange that sometimes, when I woke up, my hands or body felt strangely warm…!
And when I asked her about it, she just said, “You’re imagining it, aren’t you?”
“Maria-sama was laughing as she said, ‘Well, this is getting out of hand, isn’t it?’”
“She was laughing!?”
She clearly doesn’t think it’s a big deal at all!
Wait, is that the reason why Hina stopped wanting to sleep together with me!?
I swear, I’m actually going to resent you for this, Maria-san!
But I can’t say anything!!
If Hina ever found out that I’ve realized what happened, I’m seriously dead!
“Wait, doesn’t that mean all the maids hate me…?”
Even though it was Maria-san’s order, they were completely taken advantage of by a man they barely knew.
They’re young women too—it wouldn’t be strange if they held a grudge or two.
“You don’t have to worry about that. If anything, the maids kept trying to sneak into your bed night after night, because of that, Maria-sama got furious, and every maid who ever slept beside you ended up being sent far, far away.”
Yeah… that sounds like it would cause a different kind of grudge.
But getting chased down by a maid going, “Take responsibility for what you did that night…!” would be even worse, so maybe this actually saved me.
“Seriously… she really did something insane. If I’d gotten a girlfriend and she were sleeping with me, this would’ve been a disaster…!?”
“Apparently, she said there’s nothing to worry about, and she laughed and said, ‘There’s no way that siscon Eito-kun will ever get a girlfriend anyway, and if anything happens, my girls or Koori-chan will take responsibility, so it’s fine.’”
Yeah, why was she laughing when she said that!?
…Well, she wasn’t wrong, but still!!
“Wait, with how loud Emera was screaming, shouldn’t Furei or Hina have heard and rushed in…?”
“You may not have noticed, but yesterday Okaa-sama covered the entire room with high-grade soundproofing material that doesn’t alter the walls or the way the room looks. Because of that, not a single sound escapes from here.”
I thought it was weird that I didn’t see her around, so that’s what she was doing…!
She must have done it secretly so I wouldn’t notice and get suspicious…!
The lengths these people go to… seriously…!!
The reason why Shirayuki-san was trying to listen to the sounds inside by pressing her ear against the door last night was probably that the sound was being suppressed by the soundproofing material.
I should’ve realized it then…
By the way, I tried to delete the video Shirayuki-san recorded before it could be sent to Maria-san, but apparently, it’s automatically uploaded the moment the recording ends.
She even prepared for the possibility that I might try to delete it.
Damn it…!!
“Ugh…”
As I held my head in my hands again, Emera, who had been sprawled, appeared to regain consciousness and gave a small shudder.
I hurriedly pulled the blanket over her and leaned in to check on her face.
“O-oi, are you okay…?”
“Ah… y-yes… ♡”
“…………”
When Emera saw my face, for some reason she spoke in polite speech… and there were practically little hearts floating in her eyes.
Her demeanor was so different from last night that cold sweat ran down my back. When I looked over at Shirayuki-san—
“With her sensitivity multiplied tenfold by the drug… and being stimulated nonstop the entire night… her heart and body have likely… submitted.”
—she said something outrageous while blushing furiously.
I also overheard Shirayuki-san grumbling that she had to bathe both Emera and herself, and that she also had to clean the room. Then, when she tried to leave, she forgot to open the door and slammed right into it. It seemed she, too, was pretty shaken after having watched everything all night.
For someone who had to watch the whole thing all night… it must have been hell for her too.
Character Summary (non-official)
- Aima Eito (愛真 英斗) — A second-year high school boy and twin brother of Hina. Level-headed and cautious, he knows more about the Tenjouin sisters’ cruelty than most after being in their class last year. He tries to stay quiet and unnoticed to avoid trouble, especially from the Tenjouin sisters who despise men.
- Aima Hina (愛真 雛) — Eito’s twin sister, a tiny 148 cm girl who’s adorable, clingy, and very attached to her brother. Sweet-natured and polite, but easily frightened, especially upon learning she’s placed in the same class as the Tenjouin sisters.
- Tenjouin Emera (天上院 翠玉) — One of the school’s notorious “twin queens.” A beautiful girl with long straight hair: a single streak of her bangs is white while the rest is gold. She has heterochromia—right eye red, left eye blue, and a flat chest. Cold, arrogant, and dangerously influential thanks to her powerful, wealthy family. Devoted entirely to her sister Furei.
- Tenjouin Furei (天上院 風麗) — Emera’s twin sister, with opposite hair colors—one golden streak in her bangs, the rest pure white—and mirror-image heterochromia: right eye blue, left eye red. She has a bob cut and a voluptuous figure like a gravure idol. Quiet, expressionless, and mysterious, yet incredibly dangerous beneath her calm. Furei doesn’t care about anyone except for Emera and the girls she favors, and even then, she treasures them more like pets than equals.
- Tenjouin Maria (天上院 真莉愛) — Maria is the foster parent who took Eito and Hina in from the orphanage when they were in second grade. An unbelievably beautiful woman who looks to be in her twenties—and still insists she is in her twenties—she has striking half-gold, half-white hair parted cleanly down the middle, brilliant blue eyes, and an ample chest. Though she appears elegant and composed, Eito describes her as a “demon in human skin,” having put him through countless extreme punishments whenever he failed to meet her expectations. Yet despite her terrifying side, Maria is helplessly weak to cute things, which is why she absolutely adores Hina and has spoiled her since they were little.
- Shirayuki Koori (白雪 氷) — Shirayuki Koori serves under the Tenjouin twins. She is a petite girl with pale blue twin-tail hair and an adorable, youthful face, paired with an icy, emotionless gaze. Despite her doll-like appearance, she is a highly trained combatant raised under special training since childhood. Competitive and proud, she hates losing and becomes flustered or emotional when things don’t go her way, revealing a childish side beneath her cool exterior.
- Shirayuki Hitomi (白雪 仁美) — Koori’s mother and Maria’s loyal maid. Like Maria, she is an unbelievably beautiful woman who looks to be in her twenties despite her age. Her appearance and personality resemble Koori’s, though with greater maturity, and she possesses the uncanny ability to read people’s thoughts at a glance. Despite her gentle demeanor, she may also have sadistic tendencies, given how she smiled gracefully while “punishing” Emera, all the while calling her pitiful.