OVERLORD- CH-56. Elimination of Hostility

"You sound sweet, but even if you say that, I won't be happy!" Angelina thought, shifting her gaze from the kitten to the boy.

'If you look at him from a normal perspective, he is truly a peerlessly handsome boy...' The girl was a little dazed, but at this moment, the kitten in Aya's arms suddenly jumped out.

If she hadn't been spanked, if Operan's grip hadn't suddenly become stronger, if she had endured the pain and not asked the head maid to loosen her belt, if Aya hadn't come here with the cat, if Angelina hadn't been distracted…

If these things changed even slightly, the results might have been very different.

Unfortunately, there are no 'ifs' in the world.

"Ah!" The girl's deafening voice echoed throughout the mansion.

Late at night, a young girl's scream suddenly echoed from the Duke's Mansion. When people arrived, only an innocent head maid was left at the scene.

And a kitten—who wasn't innocent, yet showed no remorse—strolled arrogantly around the room.

"What's going on, Sakuzuki?" Operan, who had rushed to the scene, asked the head maid.

"Uh, that... when the young lady was leaving her room just now, she accidentally... accidentally..." The head maid, Sakuzuki, racked her brain to come up with a plausible explanation.

"I accidentally saw a spider. Yes, a spider." The girl said, trying to sound convincing.

"A spider? How could there be a spider in the house?" Operan's body trembled slightly, unnaturally.

"The young lady was so frightened that she fell down, and her clothes were a little disheveled, so she went back to her room to change." The head maid lied, gritting her teeth.

"I see." Operan said, her voice trembling slightly, "Where is the spider now?"

"The young lady startled me, and I didn't catch it in time. I don't know where it went now."

"Then you should gather the maids and do a thorough cleaning of the room." Operan said, "I won't deduct your salary this time."

"Yes." Sakuzuki bowed slightly, feeling helpless about cleaning up the non-existent spider in the middle of the night, especially with the looming risk of having her salary deducted.

'Miss, Master Levu, I have taken the blame for you. Please don't let me down.'

In the room just across the wall, a man (well, a fake one) and a woman were caught in an extremely awkward situation.

"You hooligan! What are you doing in here? Don't look!" The girl held her skirt, which was about to fall off, with one hand and spoke in a shy, angry tone.

"How should I know? It was the maid who pushed me." Aya raised her hands in surrender, "But I didn't look at you either."

Aya was facing the wardrobe in front of her, basically reflecting on her actions, while Angelina struggled behind her to put on the dress.

"You've been watching for so long and you're still not satisfied? Pervert!" Perhaps because of her embarrassment, Angelina forgot her fear for a moment and spoke angrily.

Some minutes ago, when Angelina was distracted, the kitten, Lina, jumped directly from Aya's arms, seemingly wanting to land right in her chest.

Angelina, distracted for just a moment, didn't have time to catch the kitten. She instinctively took a step back, and the kitten fell from her chest to her waist.

The cat's claws latched onto the belt of her dress, pulling the entire skirt off. The clothes on her upper body also came undone, leaving her in nothing but underwear. Her posture, revealing more than she intended, was now visible to both the head maid and the boy.

Aya, at first, had no intention of looking away and had her eyes fixed on the girl's body.

To be fair, you can't blame her for this. After all, the subconscious notion that she is a woman herself is deeply ingrained. They're all women—what's wrong with showing off their bodies?

There were three things Aya was concerned about at that moment: Did lace underwear exist in this world? A girl of this age actually started wearing lace underwear? And why was it so big?

In her previous life, Aya grew up until the age of fourteen but was still too small to need even the smallest bra.

Of course, this was all pure curiosity, but from a man's perspective, it would have been considered outright harassment.

Present time...

"Pervert! Pervert! Obscene..." The girl continued to mutter, though she made sure to control the volume so that people outside the wall couldn't hear.

It was extremely embarrassing, and her butt was in extreme pain—her clothes had fallen off, she tripped, and the already-swollen butt from being spanked hit hard again.

Now, she couldn't tie the belt on her own, and Angelina found herself in an even worse situation.

"Let me help you put it on." Aya said, "Can you really tie such a complicated dress by yourself?"

"...Please help me tie the belt." Angelina said, clearly reluctant, but she had never successfully managed to wear this dress on her own.

Besides, she now needed to free up one hand to hold up her skirt and prevent it from falling.

Aya, looking at her helplessly as if she were a child, shook her head and walked around behind Angelina to help her tie the belt.

'He won't secretly touch me, will he?' She thought uneasily, but Aya seemed completely focused on the task at hand, concentrating on tying the straps from the back to her hips. She didn't feel teased by the gaze, and she certainly didn't feel touched.

As time passed, the girl calmed down, and once she did, she realized something quite serious.

"What did I just say?!"

Although the boy had taken advantage of her in a small way, it was ultimately her own mischievous cat's fault. And yet, she had used all sorts of words to curse him.

'Damn it, he is the monster whose vitality seems to rival that of a dragon king. What if he gets angry because of this?'

Angelina suddenly felt a chill run down her spine and broke into a cold sweat.

"You… aren't you angry?" The girl asked, her voice trembling slightly.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" The boy was finishing the last circle of the belt.

"I just scolded you..."

"Ah, those? They're not worth getting angry about." Aya said casually.

She wouldn't get upset over such trivial matters. After all, those people were no threat to her. Whether in her previous life or this one, there were very few who could threaten her.

Moreover, the "good words" from a beautiful girl wouldn't anger someone like her. Instead, it was somewhat charming. If it were a large, muscular man, however, it wouldn't have been met with kindness but perhaps a [Life Drain] instead.

"Really? That's good."

Angelina hesitated for a moment and activated her special ability, [Life Observation].

"Ah." Looking through her peripheral vision, it was still the same: the brilliant fire of life, shining like the blazing sun. It confirmed that her initial impression hadn't been wrong. The scorching heat didn't seem so intense, and it didn't feel so frightening anymore.

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