Editing Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume15 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 5===

"R-Remove our underwear, w-what is the meaning of this!?"

"Princess maidens serving the dragons do not wear unclean underwear."

Leonora answered seriously.

(...Oh right, I think I remember something like that.)

Indeed, during the Blade Dance, Leonora had not worn underwear either.

Since walking out in the streets without underwear was dangerous in all kinds of ways, Kamito had picked some out for her.

...It looked like Claire and the others did not know about this.

"L-Lies... Lies, impossible...!"

"H-How can such indecent attire be permissible!?"

"Hmm, as the captain of the Sylphid Knights in charge of public morals, I-I absolute cannot agree to this."

Claire and the girls protested with red faces.

"You must adhere to this rule if you are paying respects to the Dragon King. Once the fact that you are wearing underwear is exposed, His Majesty's wrath would be incurred."

"N-No way..."

Claire and the girls looked at one another with troubled looks.

...As expected, pure maidens like them would feel repulsed by such a requirement.

&mdash;At that very moment.

"Obey the Dragon Princess' instructions. ''That'' is the formal attire in these lands."

Rubia spoke calmly.

Claire widened her eyes and asked:

"N-Nee-sama will... remove your underwear too?"

"I have already done so on the ship."

Rubia declared openly. ...Holy crap.

"...~Oooh... Sigh, fine..."

Claire sighed in resignation.

"Hmm, since it is this country's etiquette, it cannot be helped, right?"

"I-I suppose..."

Ellis and Rinslet also agreed reluctantly.

"I go without them sometimes, so it doesn't bother me."

...Finally the princess apparently murmured something strange to herself. Kamito really hoped he had heard wrong.

At that moment, he suddenly remembered and asked Leonora.

"Say, do I need to take mine off too?"

"What... What do you intend to do after taking them off, you pervert!?"

"What the heck!?"

"Y-You are not some kind of pure maiden in the first place! To think you intend to... e-expose that you-know-what in front of the Dragon King, what sacrilege!"

Leonora shouted with her face red. ...What ''you-know-what''?

(Well, that's actually a relief for me...)

"Kamito, turn around. If you dare look back, I'll roast you into charcoal."

"Yeah, got it..."

Glared at by the girls, Kamito turned to face the wall.

After a while&mdash;

Rustle rustle. Rustle.

With eyes closed, Kamito could hear the sound of clothing friction behind him.

''Say, why do they all have to strip here?''

...Even just the sound was enough to make his heart start pounding.

"...Ooh, s-so embarrassing..."

"Hmm, th-there is a strange feeling."

"Oh my, a cat embroidery. That is really cute. Where did you buy it?"

"I-I think you can find it anywhere..."

"I guess it must be the underwear store at the Academy town. Their underwear is famous for being adorable."

"Hwahh, Rinslet, w-why did you say it out!?"

"Hmm, I want to check it out too."

"...A-And you, what's with that underwear? I-Isn't it too sheer?"

"Fufu, I bought it when I returned to the capital."

"Uh, isn't that kind of fabric see-through? Too indecent."

"Is that so? But Ellis, aren't you wearing adorable panties too?"

"Ah, w-what are you doing!?"

"Oh my, isn't this...?"

"Y-Yes, this is the same style as what Ren Ashbell-sama wears."

"&mdash;What?"

Kamito turned his back involuntarily.

(...Oh crap!)

In that instant, all the girls froze.

"Hyah!" "K-Kamito-san!?" "K-Kamito!" "Oh my♪"

"S-Sorry!"

Kamito hastily turned his head back.

However, the scene had already been imprinted clearly on Kamito's retinas.

Claire was wearing white panties with a cat embroidery.

Rinslet's was a pair of clear blue panties.

Fianna's was a pair of black lace panties with an adult flavor.

And Ellis was wearing... a pair of panties with cute frills.

...Of course, Kamito had no recollection of ever wearing such underwear.

Presumably, it was one of those knock-offs taking advantage of Ren Ashbell's popularity. Although there were many products in the market that used Ren Ashbell's name without permission, he never expected them to go so far as to sell underwear.

"...J-Jeez, you jerk, what the heck!? Turn into charcoal, charcoal!"

"Kamito-san is dirty!"

"Shameless!"

The girls' piercing gazes stabbed into Kamito's back.
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