After the private audience with the emperor, I was guided to the guest room. Is it not a private audience since Chris unnie is with me?
A place furnished with much more splendid and luxurious furniture than the waiting room where we gathered with everyone before entering the audience chamber. It was clearly a place to treat state guests like kings from other countries visiting the empire.
"Suddenly headhunting? Drifting from adventure to territory management? Still, they're giving titles and territory, isn't that good? Money will follow too...! But, why did Rain refuse?"
"Hmm...?"
I tilted my head at Chris's reaction with shining eyes.
Actually, after meeting the emperor, I kept watching Chris's reactions.
With Elaine and the emperor's reaction too. One by one, my connections to this continent were being revealed.
And Chris was always there with me.
Chris unnie.
Can you accept all these stories without doubt?
Chris, who had only been smiling brightly, suddenly got angry.
"Still, I can't forgive him k-k-kissing Rain's hand! If he wasn't the emperor, I would have cut his neck right away...!"
"Unnie... We're still in the imperial palace...? And, a hand kiss is just a greeting to show respect?"
"Waaah! I haven't even done that yet!"
Chris suddenly started wailing.
"U-um."
If I keep talking with Chris unnie, it seems I won't have time to think.
Leaving Chris who started acting childish, I fell into thought alone for a while.
A thousand years, some will.
By those, the names of the hero party were erased, but their existence and deeds still remained in various forms. Like the portrait here.
Wealth? Honor? I think there was a time when I thought about such things.
Does it feel like being rewarded by their descendants only after a thousand years have passed?
I imagined myself for a moment, planning to live leisurely in the Astria continent after everything ended. I would have traveled with my companions too. Hmm, looking at it that way, I probably didn't want things like titles that would tie me down even then.
A time when I was full of hope to save this world and live with the people I love.
If all my companions hadn't died, I would have lived here without thinking. I wouldn't have even remembered the previous world.
The newly born me, the girl Rain whose past life identity was disappearing, was clearly a human of the Astria continent.
How about now?
I found this continent again and was getting buried in it, but.
Where do my precious people live now?
I looked at the sobbing Chris for a moment.
And smiled wryly.
"Unnie, do you want a kiss?"
"U-um?"
I smiled with my eyes.
Stealthily.
And approaching Chris, I said.
"Ki. Ss."
"Ahhh..."
Chris swallowed hard. And closed her eyes tightly.
"N-no! Rain, d-don't do this! It's too stimulating for me yet!"
I tilted my head, but without erasing my eye smile, I crawled towards her on the soft guest room sofa.
"Ha... haah..."
A sigh flowed from Chris's mouth. Her breath is felt by me positioned at close range.
Smooch.
I lightly kissed Chris's cheek.
And gently embraced her reddened face.
My first kiss with affection.
I did it because my precious person, unnie, seemed too sad.
This is really embarrassing.
Chris had a dazed expression, blankly opening her eyes.
Grab!
Then she strongly grabbed my shoulders.
I was startled.
"Rain!"
"Y-yes!?"
"I'm really, really sorry but."
"...?"
"After logging out later, would you do it one more time at home?"
Actually, there was one more reason I didn't officially become affiliated with the Alpharion Empire.
I'm a person who shouldn't dig deep into this world's history.
Unlike before, now that there's clearly 'Seulbi's' body existing. After defeating the threat that has come to this world, I should just enjoy the 'game'.
And this time the Alpharion Empire reached out first, but there's no guarantee the Betarion side won't do the same.
Great Mother of the empire, they said?
Then I'm a fair mother. I can't take sides with one of the brothers.
There was something like this in the past too.
After driving out the demons from the central continent, before the hero party invaded the Demon King's castle, 'Leonhart' of Betarion and 'Bernhardt' of Alpharion fought over me.
-Miss Rain should work in Betarion! Bern, I can't hand her over to you!
-Are you still calling Rain "Miss"? Rain, you'll come to Alpharion when everything's over, right?
I smiled for a moment, recalling Bern and Leon, the leaders of the two countries who were always bickering.
I became quite close with them too, though not as much as the hero party companions.
Come to think of it, I didn't say goodbye before leaving.
Knock knock.
I gently opened my eyes at the knocking sound while being patted in the arms of Chris who became groggy after the cheek kiss.
The door opened, and a servant entered the guest room.
"The attire for today's ball is ready."
"Oho! Indeed, they prepared outfits!"
Life returned to Chris's eyes, which had been dazedly patting me.
In the imperial palace room we arrived at, guided by the servant, female users were already gathered in crowds.
"So, there's no need for dressing assistance."
"Understood."
Users can itemize outfits, so they don't need assistance, right.
At Bae Merong's firm words, the servants who came to assist stepped back out of the room.
Bae Merong greeted me and Chris with a welcoming face.
"Chris unnie, Rain! Where did you go? I thought you were taken somewhere since you didn't come for a while."
"Ah, didn't I say the emperor gave us a separate waiting room? Seems they wanted to give special treatment since Rain is first clear."
"What about unnie?"
"Me? I'm our Rain's guardian."
Chris looked at me with a wry smile. She didn't seem to be talking about my past. Well, who would believe it anyway.
The story the guild members need to know is about adventurers' planned advance to the east. This is content that can be conveyed after the ball too.
A brown-haired beauty who had chosen and put on a dress approached us. She was Scada, the raid leader of the third clear party.
"You're here."
"Oh, Scada-nim. ...Already in a dress?"
"Huhu, how is it? Isn't this game's dress quite pretty too?"
"Oh. It's pretty."
I genuinely admired.
Scada wearing the dress twirled once in front of us. An outfit with a fluttering and splendid but not too movement-restricting skirt. The beige dress matched well with her brown hair, creating a nice color harmony.
Chris glanced at my reaction and cleared her throat.
"A-ahem, it's nice."
"Huhu, I think it will really suit Chris-nim too."
Scada's dress with a plunging neckline revealed her slender figure.
Chris seems to have developed some competitiveness for some reason.
"Puhuhuk!"
Chris blew steam from her nose and strode towards where the dresses were hanging.
Swish.
Soon after, she picked one out and immediately 'equipped' it.
"Oh my, unnie!"
"Oh, certainly her figure..."
All the female users gathered around exclaimed in admiration.
Chris was wearing a dress in the same color as her hair, burning bright red.
And.
"The chest is extremely low-cut?"
"That kind of outfit appearing in Greek and Roman mythology!"
An incredible level of exposure reminiscent of the Archangel and Fallen Angel outfits obtained from the 'Berbeia Ancient Temple' before.
She was flaunting her chest, the bare skin of that explosive figure, through the gap of the plunging dress.
"Wow..."
I swallowed hard.
I covered my bright red cheeks and lowered my eyes.
"Huhuhuh! Rain, let me hear your thoughts!"
The situation became the exact opposite of earlier.
Chris approached me closely and demanded an answer. I felt like my face would burst with a pop in front of Chris's beautiful appearance.
"Y-you're too pretty."
That chest, that chest is nice.
A soft chest good for me to snuggle into.
If I let my mind wander even for a moment, I felt like I would bury my face in her chest and rub my cheeks.
Seulbi doesn't do that, but it's hard to control childish whims when I'm Rain.
"Kuhehe, is that all?"
"Unnie, unnie, you're too close."
I barely opened my mouth and chirped.
Hug.
"Haah...!"
Chris hugged my face to her chest.
It's different from feeling her chest over clothes. It's completely bare skin.
Seulbi, Rain. If you're going to be this embarrassed, why did you suggest bathing together then? Well, I guess I was mentally weak then too?
In a dazed state, I was moved to the front of the dresses while pressed against Chris's bosom.
"It's time to choose Rain's dress? Now comes the main event."
"Uhuhu, Chris unnie, you know your stuff."
Bae Merong removed a bunch of dresses hanging on the rack with a mischievous smile. And she held them out to me one by one, forcing me to try them on.
I couldn't resist their demands after becoming mentally weak from being buried in Chris's bare chest.
"Kyaah!"
"Wa, wa, wow...!"
"Rain, you're too cute! Haah... so pretty!"
As dresses started being put on my body one by one, chaos broke out among the female users.
"Huk, huk!"
Chris's nose-breathing became intense.
Red Hot Chicken, Full Moon, and Bae Merong from the Red-White raid party. Everyone was constantly screaming. The two women from the Scada raid party didn't hold back their screams either. At most, only raid leader Scada was barely swallowing her moans while staring intently at my appearance.
"Huah, th-this is dangerous!"
"The chest part is too low-cut...! Rain should wear something cuter..."
"Ah...!"
Seeing me in a dress with an extremely low-cut chest, Chris collapsed onto the sofa with a moan.
"Oh... t-today's stimulation was too much in succession..."
Chris's eyes lost focus. Groggy state? Even though she's seen me naked? Well, maybe what's felt through revealing clothes is a bit different?
With this, there was no one left to control the remaining female users.
"What should we do? What should we do? Is it okay to show this to the men?"
"Kyaah! Rain, try this on too!"
"Hii, hii."
I, who had become their dress-up doll, could only be a dress fitting model for a long time while constantly whimpering.