"It's quite difficult... Guinaifen, do you want to work on your swallowing ability?" Liu Bai said as he handed over a tofu-skin roll.
"...Who would even practice that?"
Guinaifen suddenly remembered the dream she had just had.
Swallowing ability... Did that mean the ability to swallow that kind of thing...?
Guinaifen's face reddened slightly. She tried hard to bring her thoughts back to normal and keep herself from showing any improper expression.
Then Guinaifen suddenly noticed something strange.
"...Huh?"
The soreness in her body was gone, as was the uncomfortable congestion in her nose and throat.
"You little pervert."
"—Huh!? Lord Liu Bai, what are you talking about!?" Liu Bai's sudden remark made Guinaifen, who had been about to ask why, let out a sound wholly unbecoming of a lady.
"You looked like one of those girls who read an adult book for the first time and started letting their imagination run wild."
"N-no-no-no-no-no, that wasn't it! What proof do you have to prove I was thinking about that kind of thing!"
"Hey..."
She was already speaking without thinking.
"Ah, no!" Guinaifen realized that her word order had gotten messed up. "A-anyway! I absolutely wasn't thinking those things!"
"So you were thinking about them?"
"Guh..." Guinaifen lowered her head, blushing.
"Was the other person me?"
"...N-no. It was... it was a fairy or something."
Guinaifen answered softly.
"It's... it's because I've been too tired lately..."
"I can tell. A nasty cold, huh."
Liu Bai shrugged. "If you're really not good at it, cutting your losses in time is also an option. It's not worth it if you wear yourself down with internal stress. Besides, I've got plenty of chances to turn you into a slave bird."
"Guh..."
Did he have to offer advice like that even now!?
...Though it was