Amazon Lily-
In the corridor outside the Royal Palace, Sephiroth was being lovey-dovey with Hancock.
"...Sephi... I can walk on my own..."
Hancock was practically soaring with happiness inside, but she was still terribly embarrassed.
The Kuja Tribe had no custom of husbands supporting their pregnant wives as they walked.
Plenty of these tough women went into group brawls with their unborn children still in their bellies.
There had even been a few outrageous cases in Kuja history where their numbers increased halfway through a fight.
Of course, those were isolated incidents. The Kuja Tribe's custom was to stop going out to sea once a pregnancy visibly changed a woman's figure.
But even at home, aside from no longer taking part in arena activities, everything else went on as usual.
They worked and hunted normally, with no concept of resting to nurture a pregnancy. They were even more badass than the American superwomen on Blue Star.
So to Hancock, what Sephiroth was doing amounted to a kind of embarrassment play.
"It's fine. Getting a little exercise at a time like this is good for you."
Sephiroth "supporting" her was one thing. Pressing himself against Hancock, stealing kisses or kissing her breathless, was another matter entirely.
"...Mmm..."
Hancock wanted to point out that she already moved around normally every day.
Meanwhile, the other Kuja guards hid at the far end of the palace corridor, stacking their heads one above another like a human pyramid.
They whispered excitedly about all sorts of things involving the Empress and the Prince.
-I heard all of that!
Hancock swept the area with her Observation Haki, then grew even more embarrassed.
The young women living in Kuja territory knew very little about such matters.
But precisely because they knew so little, their imaginations ran all the