“Then ask your parents to send the money.”
Saito said to them both. Then Guiche raised his forefinger and started talking.
“Listen. This world has two kinds of nobles. One kind are nobles that do not have the good fortune of money, another kind – nobles that have the money. For instance, de Montmorency. Montmorency's family, fails in the land reclamation and the management of the territory is horrible.”
Montmorency cut in.
“Or like the de Gramont house, Guiche’s family, that for the sake of honour got involved in a war and wasted all of their money…”
“Anyway, there are moneyless nobles. Actually, and I am not exaggerating, half the nobles in the world have enough money only to maintain their residence and the territory around it at best. However, it is not for a commoner like you to understand the hardships of keeping the honour and pride of the nobility.”
These guys… Saito reluctantly started to search for something in his parka and jeans pockets. Then he pulled out the golden coins that he received from Henrietta before. Half of the amount he left in Louise’s room and the other half he carried with himself.
“Will this suffice?”
He spilled them out on the table.
“Uwaa! Why do you have so much money? You!”
Seeing that amount of gold lying all over the table took Montmorency's breath away.
“Awesome, and some are even 500 écu coins.”
“Don’t ask where it comes from. Just buy that expensive medicine with this by the end of tomorrow.”
Montmorency nodded reluctantly.
When he returned to his room with light pockets, the room itself looked weird.
Somehow the whole room was filled with cigarette-like smokes, yet the aroma was sweet. Louise was sitting in the center of the room with joss-sticks fuming around her.
“Hey, what? What’s up with all this?”
When Saito said so, Louise, who was watching him, answered in a teary voice.
“Where have you been...?”
Only then Saito noticed how tempting Louise looked. She wasn’t wearing her skirt.
“You left me all alone…”
She said in teary voice while sulkily looking up at Saito. It seemed like, while feeling lonely, she started burning all these incenses.
“So-sorry…”
Why doesn't she put on a skirt?! He tried to turn his eyes away from her body when he noticed another unexpected fact. Well… Lo-Louise, Louise Françoise – that rascal, the skirt wasn’t the only thing that she missed… Her panties are gone as well.
Her lower waist line was peeking up from the gap of her shirt. There were no signs of any underwear beneath.
Saito began to tremble.
“Y-you, p-put on some p-p-p-p-panties!”
Trembling, he shouted while looking to the other side.
“I w-won’t!”
“Why not?!!”
“I am not sexy enough. I know this because night after night Saito sleeps by my side in bed, but doesn't do anything to me. I cannot take this anymore.”
Louise said in a weeping voice.
“T-that’s, you, me, are you saying you want me to p-push you down and then d-d-d-d-do those things to you?”
“I-is it bad…?”
“That’s right.”
“But, I'll shut my eyes and for an hour, I will pretend not to know.”
But by saying that she would pretend not to know… Louise made a huge commitment.
Louise pulled the hem of her shirt down to cover her private parts and stood up. Louise moved her bare, slender legs. Saito's heart pounded inside his chest, sounding like a constant ringing of a bell.
Louise jumped onto Saito’s chest. The sweet smell of her hair was even stronger than the aroma of the incense in the room. She never used perfumes, it was her natural body’s smell.
With her face buried in Saito’s parka, Louise trembled and twitched.
“I am lonely… Idiot…”
Both of Saito’s hands positioned themselves on Louise’s body.
They seemed to embrace her firmly on an instinct.
Saito bit his lip. He put some pressure in his bite seeking to regain part of his calmness through pain.
Louise of today… is not the Louise whom I know. It is a love potion that’s making me lose myself. My Louise is the one I protect and like… For this reason, I cannot embrace her this way now. What if his brakes would fail him? He surely would covet Louise like a beast.
Because of love, this cannot be allowed.
Saito with trembling hands gripped Louise’s shoulders. Then he looked straight into her eyes and squeezed out as gentle a voice as possible.
“Louise…”
“Saito…”
“W-well… You are acting this strange today because of a medicine.”
“Medicine…?”
Louise looked up at Saito with moistened eyes.
“That’s right. The present you is not the real you. But don’t worry, I will find the cure somehow. Okay?”
“It is not because of medicine!”
Louise looked straight at Saito.
“These feelings are not because of medicine. Because whenever I look at Saito my heart starts beating wildly. Not only that…I cannot breathe and feel helpless. I know, this feeling is…”
“I-it’s different. I would like it if they were your real feelings, but it isn't, it is different. This is because of the drug. The antidote will be ready by tomorrow night, so wait till then. Anyway, go to sleep now, okay?”
Louise shook her head.
“I don’t understand. It doesn’t matter. Anyway, you must hug me tightly or else I won’t go to sleep.”
“If I do, you’ll go to bed?”
Louise nodded. Saito carried her to the bed. Then laid down, snuggling next to her. As usual, Louise clung firmly to him.
“Don’t go anywhere. Look only at me, no other girls, only me.”
She repeated, as if some kind of spell.
Saito nodded.
“I won’t go anywhere. I’ll stay here for a long time.”
“Really?”
“Aah. Yes, so rest, ok?”
“Un… If Saito says to sleep, I will sleep. Because I don’t want him to dislike me.”
However, Louise didn’t go to sleep. Instead, she shuffled a little and brought her blushing face to the scruff of Saito’s neck. Before Saito could even think of what she was doing, she started to kiss his neck. It felt as if a torrent of small needles ran down his spine.
“Haaaaaaaaaaah...”
Saito started to shake in fear. Meanwhile Louise started to suck strongly on Saito’s skin.
“Louise! Louise!”
If you don’t stop I’ll die. However, Louise didn't stop. With flushing cheeks she watched the place that she just kissed. It reddened as if bitten by an insect.
Noticing this, Louise proceeded leaving marks on Saito’s skin with an absorbed interest.
“Louise, stop! I already! I! Aah!”
His mind could not take it anymore. When Louise separated her lips, she muttered in a sulky way.
“No. I won’t stop. Saito is mine and mine alone. Therefore, I will leave marks to show that he is mine and keep the other girls away.”
After that, Saito’s torture continued for a while. Louise started to leave hickey marks not only on the scurf of his neck but even on his chest too. By the end, there were ten of them.
Saito’s strong convulsions turned into a faint shiver, when Louise’s lips finally left his chest. Then Louise, turned her head to the side, presenting Saito her own neck.
“Now you mark me.”
“B-but…”
Saito looked at Louise’s slender, snowy white neck.
“If you don’t do this - I won’t go to sleep.”
There was no other way. Saito closed his eyes and brought his lips to Louise’s neck. He touched it. A deep sigh escaped Louise’s lips. Never hearing such a cute sigh from her, Saito almost died.