(Thank you very much to 'Pokémon' for the reward!)
After such a farcical day, even Sakuya, who had never known fatigue, felt a little tired.
Remilia had gone all out preparing such an elaborate display, intending to defeat Chireiden and send them home in disgrace. She had planned to thoroughly humiliate Chireiden in today's contest.
Who would have thought that things would turn out like this?
Remilia herself was probably incredibly frustrated too, wasn't she?...
Not only had she failed to properly put the people of Chireiden in their place, but she had spent the entire day changing outfits like a doll and doing all kinds of costume play. For Remilia, whose pride was overwhelmingly strong, this had been a constant assault on her sense of shame.
And that was not even the most important part.
The most important part was that, after her shame had been pushed to its limits all day, there had still been no winner in the end.
Sakuya could already imagine it.
She could imagine just how frustrated Remilia would be when she woke up tomorrow...
It was already close to dawn.
After escorting Remilia and Flandre back to their rooms and closing Remilia's door with a soft click, Sakuya finally let out a rare sigh of relief and looked herself over.
Because Sakuya had always put her Young Miss's affairs first, she had not yet had the chance to change out of her clothes.
In other words, Sakuya was still dressed in nothing but an apron, practically naked beneath it.
Seeing how every slight movement caused the parts that should not have been exposed to faintly show beneath the apron from time to time, Sakuya uneasily tightened the thin, delicate apron around herself, a trace of embarrassment and irritation surfacing in her eyes.
Just