“...You!”

The haze in Celicia’s eyes first froze in shock before instantly turning ice-cold. Bone-piercing chill spread outward from her body, rapidly lowering the temperature of the entire room.

“Hiss!”

Still intimately connected to her, Muen immediately sucked in a sharp breath.

Not because of the cold—

because of the pressure.

He nearly got snapped in half.

“What are you doing here?!”

Celicia demanded coldly.

“Oh my. Shouldn’t I be the one asking that?”

Anna smiled faintly as she replied:

“The dignified Empress of the Empire ought to be handling mountains of state affairs right now. So why exactly are you here indulging in lust instead? That’s rather irresponsible...”

“That has nothing to do with you. Get out!”

“Please don’t glare at me like that, Your Majesty.”

Faced with Celicia’s threat, Anna showed not the slightest fear. If anything, the disdain curling at the edge of her lips only deepened.

Her gaze swept slowly up and down Celicia’s body as she sneered:

“Do you really think you still have any intimidation left in your current state?”

“...”

Celicia said nothing, clearly falling into extremely urgent thought.

Indeed.

No matter how cold her eyes or severe her tone remained—

what intimidation could possibly exist when her silver hair was in complete disarray, her lovely face flushed crimson, and both long legs still tightly wrapped around a man’s waist?

If anything, her current state was disastrous.

“You’re acting awfully bold right now. Aren’t you afraid of what happens afterward—”

Even now, Celicia still forced herself to maintain imperial dignity.

“We can discuss afterward later. Right now, I’d much rather settle this score first.”

Anna’s pale fingers caressed gently downward, deliberately brushing across Celicia’s cheek in blatant provocation before continuing lower, along her swanlike neck, until—

“Don’t get carried away.”

Celicia took a deep breath.

Despite her body still weak and softened from the storm moments earlier, she forcibly gathered strength and seized Anna’s wrist.

“And what exactly can you do alone?”

Two forces collided invisibly.

Shadows and golden light crashed against one another in silent conflict.

Anna’s brows lifted slightly.

She suddenly realized that although Celicia truly was in a weakened state, perhaps because the Empire had won the war, even the strength of its ruler had noticeably risen alongside it.

For the moment, Anna actually could not overpower her.

“I see. Looks like there really isn’t much I can do alone.”

But Anna merely continued smiling sweetly, the curve of her lips resembling a little devil plotting something wicked.

“But...”

She suddenly glanced toward the side.

“Do you really think I’m the only one who came to arrest a thieving cat?”

“What?”

Celicia sensed something at the same moment, and her expression abruptly changed.

“It seems there are quite a few people eager to settle this score with Your Majesty.”

Still smiling faintly, Anna finally released her hand.

But that was not surrender.

Only the calm before the next attack.

“That’s right. This debt... must be repaid.”

A figure stepped silently from the shadows nearby.

An.

At some point she had already been standing there. Her elegant face was dark as water. As Muen’s personal maid, this was one of the rare moments when she openly displayed her emotions.

“A mere pest actually dared monopolize Young Master through such shameless methods. Unforgivable.”

“Exactly!”

Liya jumped out beside her.

She still wore the gorgeous Saintess robes from earlier, but the puffed-up expression on her face had completely destroyed any sacred aura she once carried. Instead, she looked oddly fierce in an adorable way.

“Stealing food—and hogging it all for yourself—is absolutely forbidden!”

Liya planted both hands on her hips and puffed out her chest.

Which only made her look even more adorably aggressive.

“...You three.”

Celicia sensed danger now, though she still maintained her icy pride as she gritted her teeth.

“And what if there are more of you?”

“Oh my, our Empress still refuses to admit defeat. Looks like she needs a proper lesson.”

“Exactly. The last stubborn one ended up crying and begging for mercy, you know?”

“Pests must be cleaned away!”

The three women exchanged a glance.

Without hesitation, they all lunged forward at once.

Celicia reacted immediately, both hands shaking as she attempted to counterattack—

only for An and Liya to seize her arms from either side.

Three terrifying forces collided together, causing the entire room to tremble violently!

Meanwhile, Muen—the completely ignored bystander—shivered helplessly nearby.

But he could not escape.

Because the homesick dragon of his was still trapped deep within its homeland, utterly unable to leave.

“Hmph!”

Even one against two, Celicia still had not truly lost ground.

As her anger steadily rose, dense golden authority gradually began gathering within her eyes—

“No.”

Anna leaned close beside Celicia’s ear, voice meaningful.

“Using Imperial Authority at a time like this... does Your Majesty want the entire Empire to witness your shameless little slutty expression?”

“You—!”

The filthy teasing instantly dyed the Empress’s ears crimson.

Though she knew such a thing was impossible, Anna’s words still inevitably disrupted Celicia’s composure.

“Now!”

The instant Celicia revealed an opening, Anna struck.

She shoved hard against Celicia’s back.

Already softened from the earlier storm, Celicia’s body immediately weakened again, collapsing onto Muen’s chest.

Yet even after falling, Celicia still had not completely lost the ability to resist. She struggled fiercely to regain control—

only to discover Anna suddenly pulling out some strange object from nowhere.

It was furry.

Long and black like a tail.

But at the very tip sat a silver metallic heart-shaped ornament.

“...What are you trying to do?”

For the first time, genuine unease appeared in Celicia’s eyes.

Because she suddenly realized—

although this position did not fully rob her of resistance...

it completely exposed her one vulnerable weakness.

“Oh, nothing much.”

Anna’s smile brightened beautifully.

“If someone insists on being a little thief-cat, then naturally I thought she should become one properly.”

“You— stop!”

Celicia immediately began struggling.

But restrained by both Liya and An, there was no possibility of breaking free in the short term.

And Anna showed absolutely no mercy whatsoever.

She could not even be bothered tearing open the stockings.

She simply pushed the thing directly inside.

“Holy—”

Muen inhaled sharply again.

In that instant, he truly understood what people meant by heaven collapsing and giant serpents coiling around you.

“Mmgh—!”

The once lofty and untouchable Empress finally let out a pitiful cry utterly unbefitting her status.

Crimson spread across every inch of exposed skin. Her entire body trembled violently as she buried her face tightly against Muen’s chest.

Whether from uncontrollable fury—

or something else—

no one could say.

“Oh my. Such a dramatic reaction.”

Anna covered her lips in mock surprise.

“Could it be that Your Majesty actually likes this sort of thing?”

“Y-you... just wait... sooner or later...”

After a long while, Celicia finally managed to raise her head again with difficulty.

The frost had completely vanished from her usually cold face, replaced instead by burning humiliation and flushed beauty.

Yet she still refused to surrender.

She glared furiously at the three women before her as though engraving their smug expressions permanently into memory.

“I already told you—Your Majesty’s words have absolutely no intimidation right now.”

Anna somehow produced an absurdly cute pair of cat ears and placed them atop Celicia’s head.

And just like that—

a little cat demon appeared before everyone.

Silver hair paired with black cat ears and tail.

The overwhelming contrast instantly widened Muen’s eyes. He desperately wanted to carve this scene permanently into his memory.

Even Liya, who was still helping restrain Celicia’s hands, stared with shining eyes.

So this was possible too...

She had learned something new.

“What next?” An asked coldly. “Do we just keep torturing this pest?”

“This hardly counts as torture. With attacks from both sides, our dear Empress is probably feeling incredible right now.”

Anna laughed.

“Pull her up and tie her to that chair over there.”

“Understood.”

They acted immediately.

As the two women lifted the Empress—whose final strength had already been stolen away by the tail—from atop Muen and seated her directly in the chair—

the new posture inevitably stimulated the tail again.

Celicia let out a muffled moan, her body squirming uneasily.

“Keeping her restrained is a little troublesome...”

Liya wrinkled her nose.

She realized she was not particularly skilled at Holy Light restraint techniques and would struggle to trap Celicia for long.

If Celicia accidentally broke free midway, things would become dangerous.

After so many “intense battles,” Liya already understood very well how easily situations could reverse once someone exploited a moment of weakness.

“Leave it to me.”

An accepted expressionlessly.

She raised a hand.

Nearby metal instantly melted into liquid.

Yet after An carved several complex runes into it, the molten metal did not harden again. Instead, it remained in a slime-like state before wrapping completely around Celicia’s arms, which had been bound behind the chair.

Celicia struggled fiercely—

but could not break free no matter what.

“This is...”

Both Anna and Liya’s eyes lit up simultaneously.

A technique capable of completely restraining someone...

extremely useful.

“Just an old technique from ancient times.”

An had absolutely no intention of explaining further.

“Nothing worth mentioning.”

“All right...”

Liya puffed out her cheeks.

“So what now? We just leave this little thief-cat sitting here like this?”

“Of course not. The real event is only beginning now, isn’t it?”

Anna pulled out a pen.

She directly lifted Celicia’s skirt, tore open the stockings, and wrote the words “Shameless little thief-cat” across the smooth upper part of her thigh.

Then she produced a gag and stuffed it into Celicia’s mouth.

The poor Empress was finally completely immobilized.

Unable to retaliate.

Unable even to curse.

As she whimpered softly, sweet saliva embarrassingly dripped from the corners of her lips.

The ruler of an entire nation—

the Empress feared and worshipped by countless people—

now looked utterly pathetic.

Yet there was nothing she could do except glare furiously at the three women with widened eyes.

After finishing all this, Anna lightly waved a hand.

Her clothes drifted to the floor like falling snowflakes.

Naked without a single thread remaining, she walked toward Muen on long beautiful legs. In Muen’s utterly dumbfounded stare, she wrapped her arms around his neck and teasingly licked her lips.

Yet her eyes never left the furious Empress.

“What’s the most painful thing for our dear Empress?”

Anna smiled sweetly.

“Obviously watching other women enjoy her future husband while she can’t do a single thing about it.”

“Mmph! Mmgh!”

Celicia struggled violently.

The chair creaked loudly beneath her movements.

But the imprisonment technique An used was far too exquisite. She truly could not escape.

Even Muen swallowed nervously, silently thinking that if An had known this technique back then, there was no way he ever could have escaped her.

Unfortunately, he no longer had time to think about that.

Because An had also removed all her clothes, wrapping herself around one of Muen’s arms and pressing it deep into her overwhelming softness.

“Though I dislike this as well, educating pests requires necessary sacrifices.”

The overwhelming elasticity spilling from both sides of his arm delivered an unbelievable assault both visually and physically.

“Y-you can’t just sneak ahead too! No, no—I’m joining too!”

Liya naturally refused to lose.

And she looked the most starved out of all of them.

Without hesitation, she occupied Muen’s most important territory, completely ignoring all the traces the other women had already left behind as she enthusiastically began savoring him.

“Mmph! Mmgh!”

Unable to do anything against the three women, Celicia’s furious gaze gradually shifted toward Muen instead.

But what could Muen possibly do?

Under the overwhelming pressure from left, right, and below, even knowing perfectly well the terrifying rage the Empress would unleash afterward, he simply could not say no.

Not mentally.

And certainly not physically.

If a man could still resist while surrounded by three bodies this soft and fragrant, one would have to question whether he was truly a man at all.

Muen personally believed himself to be a very pure and masculine man.

Which meant...

right now, he was little more than tender meat stripped bare upon a serving plate, helplessly left for others to taste.

“Watch carefully, Your Majesty.”

Anna licked Muen’s ear, then his cheek, and finally his lips. Tongues intertwined as deliberately exaggerated °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° obscene sounds echoed throughout the entire room.

“This is your future husband... the Empire’s future Prince Consort... the companion meant to spend your entire life with you...”

“Mmn... and now...”

Anna smiled beautifully.

“He belongs to us... mmh... he tastes wonderful... such a shame you can only watch...”

“Mmph! Mmgh!”

“N-no... don’t look, Cia, don’t look...”

Faced with the Empress’s gaze, the yellow-haired villain could only cover his face in shame.

“I’m being forced...”