Cattleya's eyes went wide as she watched her beloved adoptive mother suddenly change outfits. Although Her Majesty the Queen had always dressed rather casually and strangely, she had never worn anything like this before.
The red top and shirt had something of an Intis formalwear variant for women about them, but that skirt... Cattleya was almost too embarrassed to call that thing a skirt. At that length, it would be more accurate to call it a waist wrap.
Then there were the black silk pantyhose that perfectly enveloped those sleek, flawless legs, making the very concept of "leg shape" strikingly apparent. Combined with the impossibly short skirt, the theme of this outfit was practically written in plain sight—
It was meant to emphasize beautiful legs.
In fact, even someone with relatively short legs would look as though they had long legs in this outfit. And when worn by Bernadette, the woman with the most perfect figure in the Mystery World, even Cattleya, another woman, found those long legs rather captivating.
"Physical qualities have received a certain increase, roughly equivalent to Sequence V of the Warrior Pathway. Resistance to the mysterious has improved, though not by much. Several Supernatural Abilities have been added: creating illusions, deceiving perception, enhancing linguistic expressiveness and bodily flexibility... The core is merely the characteristics of Sequence Eight... Hmm, the enhancement uses myself as the baseline. It seems closer to the authority of 'completing' rather than 'improving.' The key lies in the bestowal of spirituality... So that is the principle? It really can maximize the effects of Beyonder Characteristics..."
Bernadette raised a hand with an indifferent expression. Her eyes, flickering with streams of data, followed her sleeve downward toward her body. Though she looked serious, Cattleya still noticed the slight twitch at the corner of the Queen's