“Miss Lillian, did today's lunch suit your taste?”
“What would you like for dinner?”
Standing in front of Ain's wardrobe, Lillian looked like a startled kitten, her body instantly flinching.
Snapping out of her daze, the young girl frantically stuffed the clothes she was clutching back into the depths of the wardrobe. She spun around abruptly, her stiff gaze locking directly onto the head maid standing at the doorway.
“Um... I'm not a picky eater! Anything is fine! Anything at all!”
The head maid bowed with a smile and replied, “Understood. The Master and Mistress have gone on a long trip this afternoon and probably won't be back for a few days.”
“If you need anything, please feel free to let me know at any time.”
Lillian waved her hands frantically, suppressing the frantic fluttering in her heart as she replied nervously, “Th-thank you! I understand!”
Like a child caught red-handed, Lillian quickly added an excuse. “I just wanted to take a nap and happened to walk into the wrong room!”
The head maid nodded gently and said with deep meaning, “Of course I know. Where you wish to sleep is your right; there is no need to explain it to me.”
“However...”
Showing an “I know what you mean” smile, the head maid continued, “If Miss Lillian has other needs, I also have some, well... toys that can help you fall asleep peacefully, you know?”
Lillian waved her hands in a panic, her small face instantly turning red.
“T-Toys?!”
“There are three kinds, you know?”
“I-I-I didn't! I wasn't planning on doing that kind of thing!”
“Oh my, so you still prefer traditional handiwork?”
“Mgh!”
The head maid bowed once more and closed the door for Lillian.
“I won't disturb your rest. Once you wake up, you can find me in the main living room.”
Lillian sat blankly on the bed. Only after several minutes did she finally manage to get up, crack the door open, and peek outside several times.
After confirming no one was around, the young girl finally began her plan.
“Hehehe, hehehe...”
Lillian opened Ain's wardrobe, took out a few pieces of clothing that she felt smelled the most like him, and threw them under the covers.
The young girl quickly shrank back, diving headfirst into the soft bedding.
A moment later, a slightly trembling hand emerged from beneath the covers. In her palm lay a purple crystal shimmering with a faint, mysterious glow.
It was a Heartwave Shadow Crystal.
Its function was to use mana to construct inner fantasies and project them onto the crystal.
Generally speaking, images produced by pure imagination were not vivid; they could even be described as crude.
Only images constructed from events and memories that the mage had actually experienced would appear more realistic.
The young girl under the covers stared intently at the purple crystal in front of her, channeling the mana inside her body.
The first memory she recalled was the scene of Ain saving her that night.
However, with Lillian's bizarre train of thought, the scene before her eyes had clearly veered completely off track.
“Wesley!”
“I will never allow you to hurt the girl I love most in this life!”
“Today, no one is taking Lillian away in front of me!”
“She can only be with me!”
Staring at Ain's figure in the projection, the young girl pressed her small head against his clothes, her face flushed as she murmured softly.
“Ain...”
“I miss you so much...”
Soon, the young girl hugged Ain's pillow, rolling around under the covers as if she were holding him.
“I miss you, I miss you, I miss you so much!”
Only when there was no one else around did the young girl dare to let her guard down, speaking the words hidden deep in her heart without any restraint.
“Mgh...
“Why do you still have six or seven days before you come back...
“Lillian misses you so much...”
Suddenly, her thoughts expanded boundlessly. Her consciousness involuntarily drifted back to the day before they arrived at Erylin's manor, specifically the moment when Ain had forcefully pushed her down onto the ground.
At this moment, the scene projected by the purple crystal also quietly changed.
Lillian stared blankly at the emerging projection, growing more and more mesmerized the longer she looked.
With her wild imagination in overdrive, the scenes in the projection became increasingly scandalous.
Lillian had practically conjured up every position she knew.
But she still didn't seem satisfied.
In the projection, Lillian and Ain were panting heavily, seemingly without a single moment of rest.
As if addicted to watching a movie, Lillian's right hand began to wander restlessly, her rational mind completely shattered at this moment.
“Ain...”
The young girl simply stripped off her own clothes, changed into Ain's clothes, and then buried herself in Ain's bedding, taking a deep, intense sniff.
“Ain's scent...”
“Hehehe, hehehe...”
Her wild imagination went into overdrive once again.
Fantasizing that Ain was right in front of her, the self-muttering girl put on a performance worthy of a Hollywood action blockbuster.
A moment later, as if she had been suffocating under the covers for too long, she panted heavily. Slowly lifting her head, she left a trace of drool on Ain's pillow.
“Ugh! I'm doomed! It's over! This time, not only the sheets, but even...”
The young girl felt a bit troubled. Suddenly, as if she had noticed something, she pulled a small silver badge out of the pocket of Ain's trousers.
Lillian gently held this badge, feeling a bit vexed.
“Ain won't blame me, right...”
“Sigh... Since things have already come to this, why not do it one more time? Hehehe, hehehe...”
Just as she was about to slip back under the covers, she realized there was someone else in the room.
“Oh my~ I really didn't expect that the Lillian whom no one in the academy likes would actually be like this in private~”
Lillian's brain instantly short-circuited.
“D-Dean?”
“Why are you here? No! Since when have you been here?!”
Loretta summoned a Card of Canal, pressing it against her lips as she chuckled. “From the very beginning...”
“...I've been here, you know?”
“By the way, Lillian...”
“Before your nap, you seem to like...?”
“Does Ain know about this?”
In an instant, steam practically hissed from the young girl's head. Her flushed cheeks and trembling body seemed to announce her total mental collapse.
Lillian didn't want to live anymore.
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