"It's practically a fairy tale playing out all over again. Who would have thought we'd see a kingdom offer up a princess to satisfy an evil dragon's desires in the modern age? How does it feel?"
As Roland pushed open the door with a languid expression, Misaki Shokuhou, sitting across the table, gave him a resentful glance and dismissed the Light Screen before her.
"Oh, Misaki. You're here early." Roland rubbed his chin, looking thoughtful. "As for how it felt, I can only say it was thoroughly enjoyable. Despite that pitiful expression on her face, her body only grew hotter."
"Especially after the Contract suddenly broke and she regained her ability to move. By then, she was already so deeply caught up in it that all she could do was keep those slender calves intertwined. Her movements were simply exquisite."
"Who asked for those details?!"
Misaki Shokuhou instinctively shouted back.
Having reached the pinnacle of mental abilities at a very young age, the girl knew perfectly well how reality differed from fairy tales. She had no doubt that the evil dragon would devour the maiden offered to him completely.
"And you even brushed past the truly important part as if it were an afterthought, when work woke me up first thing this morning."
Academy City was a semi-closed city to begin with. Whether people were coming from inside or outside, entering or leaving required a series of troublesome procedures, so automated systems could handle routine affairs.
Everything from adjudication to construction received the same treatment, but even so, important political matters still required human decisions.
And although the Blue Dream Company's executive ranks were expanding by the day, combat specialists made up an overwhelming majority, leaving almost all work of this kind on Misaki Shokuhou's shoulders, as she alone possessed