Editing Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume15 Chapter2 (section)

===Part 4===

Fianna's physical condition had weakened due to her imprisonment. After being treated by the castle's healers, she was taken to an open-air bath outside the castle.

Claire and Ellis, who did not need healing, had already finished taking their baths and gone to join Rinslet to help out in the courtyard preparations for the celebration banquet.

The outdoor changing area felt so cold that it was like freezing.

Shivering while removing her tattered dress and taking off her underwear, Fianna pinched the flesh on her arm while naked and sighed slightly.

"...I've lost quite a bit of weight and my skin has worsened too."

During the several day long prison life, not only was she deprived of bathing but she also did not receive enough sustenance apart from water. At the same time, while isolated from information of the external world, her body and mind were tormented by the fear of the upcoming execution whose exact date and time was unknown.

Fianna slowly sat down on a wet rock.

Dipping her feet into the open-air bath's hot water, she instantly felt comfortable stimulation on her skin.

"Sigh..."

Slowly, lowering herself into the water up to her shoulders, she exhaled.

Although it was not a natural hot spring, the water was very warm after being heated by a fire spirit crystal, thus soothing her weakened body. She could feel the received divine power circulating within herself while the lost holiness gradually recovered.

Fianna closed her eyes and breathed deeply and slowly.

With this, she could truly feel at peace at last.

(This place is no longer that prison...)

Staring at the gray cold sky, she murmured to herself mentally.

However, this was surely the only moment that she could relax like this...

Legitimate Ordesia as planned by Rubia&mdash;If Fianna were to become its monarch, it meant raising the banner of rebellion against the powerful Ordesia Empire.

That could possibly develop into a large-scale civil war, tearing the Empire into two.

(I cannot allow Ordesia to become the Holy Kingdom's puppet state... But&mdash;)

She still worried. Even though she had mustered her resolve at one point, her heart was still slightly wavering after all.

(Don't worry, I am no longer the Lost Queen from that time...)

Fianna wrapped her arms tightly around her wet body. Then recalling the sensations of Kamito's embrace, her lips moved apart involuntarily.

(Back then, although Kamito-kun was behaving a bit strangely...)

Arriving on the scene before Fianna's eyes and defeating Leschkir Hirschkilt at the time, Kamito was different from his usual self. He had given off a slightly scary impression.

(Still, having Kamito-kun acting that way once in a while was not bad either...)

Recalling memories from that time, that powerful embrace, the taking of her lips, she instantly felt her cheeks heat up.

Back then, a certain violent power had rampaged inside Fianna's body, allowing her to deploy her elemental waffe even when her divine power had been almost completely depleted. That power, like a howling storm, was still lingering inside her, smoking nonstop like a wood fire.

"Haaa... Mm..."

Feeling the inside of her body gradually heating up, Fianna moaned slightly.

(...Tsk, no good, I must calm down...)

Fianna's fingertips naturally reached for the tips of her breasts.

"...Ah, mmm...!"

Sweet numbing pain was an unknown feeling she had never experienced before.

Fianna forcefully dug her fingernails into her skin in an attempt to cover up her body's elevated temperature using pain, but it seemed more like adding dry firewood to a smoking flame.

"...Mm, ah... Hoo... Ah, ummmmmm...!"

Sweet sounds leaked out from her gorgeous cherry lips.

"...N-No good... Why, is... this...?"

...No, she was actually well aware of the reason. It must be because she was thinking about Kamito.

Her consciousness gradually grew hazy.

(A-At this rate, I am going to act weird...)

Fianna drove out the thoughts of Kamito from her mind for now, closed her eyes and regulated her breathing.

She was supposed to have fully mastered the method of maintaining a calm mind regardless of the situation, back during her training at the Divine Ritual Institute. The harsh training included spending a number of days while soaking her body underwater. However, no matter what method she tried, her body did not cool down at all. Instead, the more she tried not to think of Kamito, the more easily his face would surface in her mind...
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(...Ooh~, s-such shameless ideas when clearly even thinking such thoughts should be forbidden...!)

As a pure princess maiden, Fianna's entire mind was about to be washed out by a flood of terrifying lustful delusions that she had never imagined before...

Inside these thoughts were delusions including things that Kamito would absolutely not do in reality. Noticing a desire within herself to be treated violently like a plaything, to be violated beyond recognition... Fianna instantly felt ashamed of these hidden desires.

(H-How a-awful of me. I can't believe I'm wishing for Kamito-kun to do such things...)

He would surely despise her if he found out what she had been thinking...

As though punishing herself, Fianna dug her fingernails into her skin.

Red marks appeared on her pale skin but in spite of that, her body's aching did not subside.

"...Ah, mm, yah...!"

Amid her hazy consciousness, Fianna's fingers gradually slid down from her chest to her lower abdomen...