The noble's face flushed red. AA was fidgeting restlessly. The noble's child stood before Erina, who was looking around cluelessly, and her own father, with an innocent expression.
"May I ask... what you ant by that?"
The noble politely inquired about Erina's intentions, hiding his rage. The corners of his mouth were twisted and his face was contorted, but he seed to be maintaining his composure. I stopped eating and started watching the situation at their table. Erina, still seeming not to have grasped the situation, looked around before answering.
"I said she would beco an onahole because she looks like she'll grow into a mature beauty. Why are you angry?"
"W-What?"
"H-Hold on! I think there's a misunderstanding! Please, calm down for a mont!"
Just as the noble was about to scream, AA hastily stepped in between them to diate. The nobles, stunned by Erina's successive bombshell statents, were murmuring amongst themselves, and the child at the center of the fuss looked around before asking her father.
"What's an onahole?"
"Kuaaaaargh!"
At those words, the noble shrieked as if he were coughing up blood and gripped the dining table. He still seed to have the strength to hold onto his reason. Amidst the commotion about this insult, he pointed his finger straight at Erina and spoke.
"Princess Ahildern Erina! Please explain this insult properly! What on earth were you thinking, insulting my daughter like that?"
"Insult? What is an insult? Is the word 'onahole' an insult?"
It was only then that Erina seed to realize 'onahole' was the wrong thing to say. She tilted her head and asked the noble back. I had been hoping this situation would drag on, but Erina was smarter than she looked.
The noble jumped up and down on the spot, shouting.
"It is a trendous insult! How could you say such a thing?"
"Why is it an insult? What on earth does it an..."
AA gently took Erina's ear and whispered to her. After hearing a few words, Erina's face flushed bright red, and she looked around and flinched. She fidgeted with her hands, searching for sothing to say.
"Ah, uh... I an, that... statent just now..."
"How do you intend to take responsibility for this, Princess?"
"Th-That is... th..."
Sieri, also blushing, was looking back and forth between Erina and . It was because she knew where Erina had learned the word 'onahole'. I firmly grasped the hand of the fidgeting Sieri beside and said.
"Stay still, Sieri. It's more fun this way."
"Ah, yes... But where did the person in front of us go?"
"Who knows? Maybe he went to the restroom?"
The fact that the young master from the Western Coastal Region who had been sitting across from us was carried out had long since been buried in the commotion. I thought Sieri had seen kill him and simply ignored it, but it seed she hadn't noticed because she was lost in thought for a mont.
anwhile, Erina was trembling, the tips of her ears flushed red. She clenched her teeth, looked around, and then shouted at the roaring noble.
"I-I'm sorry... I-I'm sorry, but!"
"But?"
"This is all because Peta Lusius taught the wrong aning!"
It seed Erina didn't know I had co to the ball. If she had known, she would have co to greet . The ballroom was so noisy that it was often hard to tell who was arriving even if an attendant shouted loudly. As my na was dropped in real-ti, the gazes of those around subtly gathered on .
Erina followed those gazes, her eyes scanning, until she found . Erina's beet-red face contorted like a beast's as she strode towards . She pointed her finger at and shouted.
"Peta Lusius! Do you admit your wrongdoing?"
"Princess Ahildern Erina. It has been a while. Have you been well?"
I offered a greeting so leisurely it felt strange for the unfolding situation. At my greeting, the atmosphere seed to soften for a mont. People were whispering, and Erina was looking around. AA looked at Erina and with a sowhat bitter expression, then silently poured and drank a glass of alcohol.
And then sat down, quietly watching the two of us. Erina, unable to stand my pretense, shouted.
"How could you play such a prank? What would you have done if I had made a huge mistake sowhere else?"
"What mistake are you talking about? I haven't done anything."
Personally, I wanted to see Erina shout, "My mother is the Elf Kingdom's best onahole!" but unfortunately, that didn't happen. I clicked my tongue and played dumb. Erina seed to get even angrier as I feigned ignorance. She was stamping her feet on the floor, confronting .
"Didn't you teach that 'onahole' was a word for a very beautiful woman!"
"I did?"
"Yes! Peta Lusius! You, the Lord of Peta Territory and the Southern High Priest of the Archdeity Church! You! You passed on such nonsensical knowledge to !"
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure!"
I shook my head and said.
"I don't think so. Think carefully. Did you really have such a conversation with ?"
"Yes! I'm sure!"
"Where?"
"Are you saying you don't even rember that? I'll tell you clearly, so listen! That day, you ca to my bedchamber, and you told I was just like an onahole! When I asked what you ant, didn't you say this? That 'onahole' is a word for a very beautiful woman!"
Erina, as if to say 'see?', confidently broadcasted the details of that day. AA silently finished a bottle of wine, then called a servant and ordered another. And without pouring it into a glass, she chugged the wine straight from the bottle. This situation was so funny I felt like I would die.
I chuckled and asked Erina again.
"Princess. Are you really sure?"
Erina, red to the tips of her ears, repeatedly boasted of her mory.
"Yes! I'm sure! In my room, you called an onahole and..."
"When it was just the two of us?"
"Yes! It was just the two of us! It seems you're finally ready to confess properly!"
"While doing what?"
"What?"
I asked Erina again. Her thoughts seed to freeze at my question. Erina pondered the aning of my question and asked back.
"Wh-While doing what?"
"Yes. While doing what did I call our Princess Erina an onahole?"
"Th-That's... I an... th..."
Erina started to stamr. She looked at AA, her face pale. AA was now finishing her fourth bottle of wine. She chugged the wine straight from the bottle, then slamd her face onto the table and sighed. I asked.
"I think I'm starting to rember sothing, may I describe the events of that day in more detail?"
Hearing that, Erina was startled, clamped her hand over my mouth, and looked around. But the gazes on Erina from those around were already as cold as could be.
It was a simple deduction quiz. A man and a woman were alone in a room. I made a very vulgar joke, calling Princess Erina an onahole, and Princess Erina fell for it and used it on soone else. What on earth happened in that room?
Erina quickly did the math, then hastily waved her hands and babbled incoherently.
"N-No! I said no! Nothing happened that day! Do you understand? You didn't co to my room that day, and you didn't call an onahole! It was all my delusion! Do you understand?"
"Yes. I understand, Princess. Then I'm innocent, right?"
Erina nodded at that and looked back at the noble. She looked at , frowned, then spoke to the noble who was staring at her with a dumbfounded expression.
"S-Sorry! Because your daughter looks like an onahole... No! What I an is! I actually knew... No! I didn't know! I said it without knowing! As for where I heard it... well..."
The noble, caught up in Erina's rambling, shook his head back and forth before coming to his senses and confronting her.
"Princess, what are you trying to say? Please give a proper apology! To think you would try to shift the bla by dragging soone else into this, how could you act in such a way as a princess?"
Erina replied to the noble's counterargunt.
"I-Iik...! It's none of your business where I heard the word 'onahole'! I swear I didn't know it ant a masturbation tool! I wanted to praise your daughter with modern language, but I guess I was too hasty! Do you understand? I'm truly sorry!"
"I'm telling you to apologize properly! How can you do it this way...!"
The verbal argunt showed signs of overheating. The banquet's atmosphere had long since been shattered by Erina and the noble's quarrel. There were already nobles starting to leave, and Sieri, with an anxious expression, looked back and forth between and Erina before urging on.
"Lusius. Let's go ho now..."
"Shall we?"
I had no intention of having sex with Erina or AA at the ball anyway. I didn't want to get any more involved in that commotion, so I was just thinking it was about ti to leave. In the middle of the escalating argunt, AA, who had been slumped over, stood up and hugged Erina from behind.
"So, I... A-AA?"
As if only just rembering AA, she looked at her with a bewildered expression. In the spot where AA had been sitting, more than ten bottles of wine and high-end liquor were piled up. She leaned heavily against Erina's body and muttered sothing in a small voice. The noble, seeing that AA was drunk, shut his mouth.
As he too quietly left the scene, the center of the stage was now AA and Erina. Erina spoke in a flustered tone to AA, who was pressing against her.
"H-Hold on, AA... what... Don't you sll of alcohol? You seem very drunk, you should go inside quickly..."
"Erina... because I'm a woman... is it because I'm a woman?"
"A-AA? P-People are watching, you know? Q-Quickly, let's go inside, what are you..."
"Because I'm a woman, is that why you're always having sex with Sir Priest?"
A scandal of the century. I couldn't help but freeze at AA's bombshell statent. The nobles began to cause a commotion at the successive twists. It looked like people would have a lot to talk about with this new gossip.
"A-AA! I'm begging you, please let go! Q-Quickly, won't you go inside? AA! AA?"
"Erina. Can I make you feel better? Huh? So... so please don't... don't abandon ... Huh? You said you loved , didn't you?"
To escape the gazes slowly gathering on , I grabbed Sieri's hand and ran out of the ballroom.
Fuck.
I'm screwed
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