Being made to sleep in a place like a coffin made Lonis feel terribly embarrassed.

But once she actually lay down inside, Lonis realized…

It was so cozy!

The space was cramped, but it was just like a train sleeper berth: there was a little night-light by the pillow, the blanket was soft, and no matter how much she rolled around, she couldn't fall onto the floor.

The only inconvenience, though, came from her own body.

Remember, to make her partner look cute, Lonis had designed herself with a C-plus cup size.

That meant she felt a strange pressure across her chest whenever she turned over. Sleeping on her stomach was even more impossible.

Once she took off her clothes, a pair of slimes sprang out.

(Th-this kind of thing…)

Lonis's cheeks flushed, and she forcibly suppressed the urge to fondle her own boobs.

It wasn't because Lonis was some kind of paragon of virtue. She just thought… if she'd fallen so low that she had to fondle her own boobs to feel better, that would be way too embarrassing.

Besides, humans are born with a kind of desensitization mechanism. No matter how much you rub your own waist or the soles of your feet, you won't feel ticklish. Even if Lonis fondled her own boobs, it wouldn't feel “really good.”

“Haaah… What am I thinking?”

Lying in bed, unable to fall asleep and unwilling to do anything strange to her own body, Lonis couldn't help thinking of Elucia.

Come to think of it, Elucia was the silver-haired princess Lonis from the past, wasn't she?

She was also supposed to be the person Lonis would marry.

The Elucia of the past was kind and adorable—practically the perfect romantic partner, wasn't she?

Nothing like how she was now… so devious.

Wait, no…

Come to think of it, Elucia had violated her and humiliatingly made her into a maid.

But wasn't that the only thing Lonis was capable of doing?

If she didn't even do the work of a maid, what else could she do…? Let Elucia keep her like a pet?

(Sigh. When all's said and done, I'm just too weak, both in knowledge and in strength.)

…

Thinking about so many complicated things was starting to wear Lonis out.

And so, she slowly drifted off to sleep.

…

…

…

Early the next morning, Lonis woke to a sensation of shaking.

At first, she thought Elucia was tormenting her again… but Lonis soon realized that it wasn't just her chest shaking. Her whole body was being shaken.

“Ugh… What's going on?!”

It felt like an earthquake, and a dizzying sensation spread through her whole body. Frightened, Lonis hurriedly sat up.

But don't forget, she was lying in a storage compartment… So with a thump, the silver-haired girl's forehead hit the bed above her.

“Oww!”

She'd hit herself so hard that the bed gave a loud crash, and even Lonis's nose started bleeding.

(That hurts so much QAQ!)

As Lonis lay there dazed, her vision swimming and her mind a little foggy, Elucia's voice came from outside:

“Oh, looks like my little maid-pet is quite the masochist today, too. You woke up first thing in the morning and couldn't resist hurting yourself~”

“I didn't do it on purpose!”

The cabinet door wasn't shut. Rubbing her bruised nose, Lonis slowly crawled out.

Beyond the window stretched a vast blue sky. It looked like the magitech airship had already left the Snowrealm Kingdom and was sailing through the clouds.

Elucia sat nearby with her right leg crossed over her left. The toe of her high heel tilted slightly upward, giving her an unmistakable queenly air.

At the sight of Elucia like this, Lonis instinctively panicked. She was afraid Elucia had thought up some strange new game to bully her with.

“G-good morning.”

“Hmph. Look at you, with that idiotic nosebleed.”

“I…”

“Go clean yourself up first. Hurry.”

…

Following Elucia's order, Lonis went to the washroom and wiped the blood from her nose.

The mirror reflected an incomparably beautiful silver-haired girl. Her features were so delicate she looked like a work of art, but her eyes were pitifully timid and full of fear.

Looking at herself like this, Lonis finally understood why Elucia was always teasing her. If she had a wife like this, she probably wouldn't be able to stop herself from bullying her every day, either.

And yet this pretty little wife was Lonis herself.

Lonis let out a heavy sigh. Just then, Elucia urged her on, sounding impatient:

“What are you doing? Why's it taking you so long to wipe off a nosebleed?”

“I-I'm done…”

“Then hurry out and kneel right here.”

“Huh? Kneel?”

…

Elucia pointed to a rug in front of her, signaling Lonis to kneel there.

The silver-haired girl felt her heart sink… Had the inevitable finally arrived?

Lonis's legs felt stiff, but she still brought her knees together and knelt in front of Elucia.

The tips of Elucia's feet, wrapped in black stockings, were only twenty centimeters from Lonis's own toes. She was so close Lonis could almost smell the patent leather of her high heels.

Elucia looked Lonis up and down, studying her boobs, shoulders, waist, and thighs with interest.

(Next, Elucia's definitely going to order me to lick her toes, isn't she?)

Lonis's cheeks flushed. She couldn't think of any way to resist. The magitech airship was already high in the sky, so there was no chance of escaping even if she tried.

Besides, saving Elucia and traveling with her had been “Lonis's own choice.”

(Someone once said that girls' toes taste really good. Could they… actually taste that good?)

As she looked at Elucia's toes, Lonis realized she felt a faint stirring inside her. She seemed to genuinely want to stick out her tongue and find out what they tasted like.

And yet…

“Haha, you really are a depraved little masochist of a maid, aren't you? So desperate to lick them…? Too bad. I'm not going to let you have your way.”

“Huh…?!”

“Because your master here just loves seeing you all frustrated~”

“W-who's frustrated?!”

Lonis swallowed the saliva in her mouth and spoke in a panic.

“Hmph. Now, I'm going to teach you how to be a maid. You're really hopeless. You don't even know the basic facts about this world.”

“Huh…?”

“Lick this.”

With that, Elucia tossed a blue crystal onto Lonis's thigh as casually as if she were throwing away a piece of trash.

The clear stone gave off a faint glow, as if the sea had been sealed inside it. When Lonis leaned closer, she could even hear a sound like the tide calling.

“This is…”

“It's a Tidechime Stone, one kind of crystal.”

“Oh… So this is the energy source everyone uses in this world now?”

“That's right. Besides these, there are five major types—Fire Crystals, Ice Crystals, Thunder Crystals, and Wind Crystals, along with Tidechime Stones—and more than a dozen other main categories. They're the foundation of modern magitech. The ship we're on right now is powered by crystals.”

“Oh…”

The more Lonis looked at the crystal, the more it seemed like a delicious piece of candy.

Maybe it would taste good if she licked it?

So Lonis cupped the crystal in both hands, then opened her mouth…