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The light of struggle flashed within Yumi’s eyes and she subconsciously gripped the sides of her amethyst miniskirt tightly. These movements of hers made it appear as if she lacked in upbringing, but there was yet another possibility behind the action, which was nervousness.
Lily just watched her calmly. In truth, even Lily didn’t know how Yumi was planning to convince her. Lily’s intuition also gave her an ambiguous feeling at this moment, that Yumi’s words were sincere, yet not entirely believable. Thus, Lily was planning to wait for Yumi to show her proof and then make a judgment based on her instincts.
After all, this demon kunoichi was someone who had tried to kill her not so long ago and almost drove her into desperate straits. Lily couldn’t cooperate with someone like that so easily!
Yumi’s bountiful chest that didn’t lose out to Lily’s heaved up and down clearly and after hesitating for a long time, she finally brought her half-clenched fist towards her soft and glistening lips and said, “You want me to show you proof, right? Follow me, then.”
Lily wasn’t afraid of Yumi, so she followed Yumi into the depths of the woods while maintaining vigilance.
After they arrived at a secluded spot within the woods from where the city walls couldn’t be seen at all, Yumi stopped in front of a tall and coarse tree and sat down before it. She gazed at the tree’s trunk momentarily and then checked the surroundings vigilantly before glancing towards Lily once reluctantly.
Lily stood behind her silently while still maintaining her vigilance, wondering what kind of trick Yumi was planning to play.
After that, Yumi hunched over suddenly and leaned against the tree’s trunk using both her hands, giving Lily a full view of her perfectly round buttocks as she raised it towards Lily1…
Lily blushed immediately after seeing this scene.
A few beads of sweat could be vaguely seen sliding down Yumi’s fair and plump thighs that were clearly trembling at this moment as she murmured softly, “Hmph… I-I heard you like pretty and mature women. Although you wanted me to show you proof, I know you were hinting at that. Albeit being a woman, you’re equally bad as those men and want me to show my most precious thing to you willingly so that you can use my secret as a handle to threaten and control me! Did I get it right? You demoness, humph! I’m telling you… I’m no s̲l̲u̲t̲ who gives her body to monsters as you claimed, I-I’m pretty chaste! This is my first time, you know, wait, I don’t mean to say you can do that to me… I’m just saying that… I’ve never shown it to others until now, so it’s my first time showing it to someone else… even Lady Haihime has never seen it that thoroughly…2”
Lily remained dazed for a few moments as she couldn’t understand what exactly was going in Yumi’s mind and was murmuring some incomprehensible foolish thoughts to herself there like a spell and pressuring herself, “Yumi, just what is going on in your mind?”
Yumi’s body quivered.
She’s already seen me like this and is still dissatisfied?
“Mirror Girl… humph! Don’t go too overboard now. You ought to prefer removing the final line of defense by yourself, right? You phony woman, you understand what I’m thinking about, right? Although I can’t understand this strange hobby at all, I can sense the nervousness and excitement in your breath…” Saying so, Yumi bit her lips as if she were enduring something and breathed deeply.
“What excitement! Enough with the nonsense now! Just what do you want to say, make it clear to me!”
“What, Mirror Girl? Is merely looking still unable to satisfy you? Then… you must like this kind of play, right? Let me satisfy you then.”
Yumi stretched her hand towards her waist and lifted her miniskirt up…
Lily was utterly dumbfounded at this moment, but she had to admit that Yumi was truly a beauty oozing with femininity…
What the hell is wrong with this woman’s head though?
“W-What are you waiting for, Mirror Girl? Aren’t you going to punish me? Aren’t you going to slap my…”
“Slap!” Lily gave a good hard slap and Yumi moaned out a groan that was accompanied with a quiver of her body.
“Don’t call me Mirror Girl, call me by my name, Lily,” Lily stated in a calm yet reverberant tone.
“Y-Yes… Miss… Lily… P-Please make it quick and do whatever you want, until you are ready to believe me…”
In that split second, Lily felt a wonderful sense of conquest and felt that Yumi, who had her back turned towards her, belonged to her, and that she could do whatever she wanted to her.
What do I want to do, then?
Hold on, something’s wrong!
I just wanted Yumi to show me proof that she wants to cooperate with me sincerely and never asked her to do such a weird thing!
Lily’s mind filled with an unprecedented rational fury.
She grabbed the strip of fabric in between Yumi’s fair butt cheeks and pulled it to the side firmly3.
“What will this be able to prove?” Lily looked down from above and gazed at her enemy’s most important secret, “We’re both women, Miss Yumi. What exactly have you proved by showing this to me and what exactly have you lost?”
Yumi remained silent and remained hunched over while leaning against the tree, sobbing intermittently in a low voice.
For a moment, Lily felt that perhaps Yumi wasn’t as bad as she imagined her to be and that she really wanted to cooperate with her. This was because she had seen Yumi’s chastity that was known to no one.
A girl like this probably isn’t a bad person.
Perhaps that Haihime, who Yumi mentioned, has a way to make Yumi serve her, which might have been the reason she followed her orders and attacked me, and she herself didn’t have any intention of doing so.
Lily turned around and said, “Miss Yumi, let’s stop at this point. I believe you, all right?”
“Y-Yes…” Yumi shuddered and revealed a faint yet staunch and calculative grin on her face whose genuineness eluded even her.
Perhaps everything had gone according to her plan. At the very least, this kind of mindset allowed her to feel that she hadn’t submitted to Lily internally.
Lily got up and sorted out her clothes bashfully before arriving beside Lily with her breathing still pretty rushed.
“I don’t know whether I should thank you for refraining from going any further…” Yumi wore a cold expression yet her tone was filled with unease as she hugged her chest.
“Huh? Going any further with what?”
“The thing you do with other mature women frequently.”
“I-I have done no such thing!” Lily stated in an amused yet embarrassed state. I need to give Shiu a good lesson once we’re done with this. Just what kind of weird things is she telling others.
“Thank you.”
“Huh?”
Yumi bowed her head and allowed the wind blowing through the woods to raise her skirt up, providing a feast for the eyes of the region under her purple ponytail, “Actually, I had already made preparations before coming to meet you and resigned myself to losing my everything to you in the wilderness today.”
“Yumi… just what kind of a witch have you imagined me to be?”
“Miss Lily, I could have offered up the treasure to Tokugawa as he can provide me and my sister with better protection with his strength.”
Lily turned aside to look at Yumi, “Why didn’t you offer it to him then and attempted to cooperate with me, a former enemy of yours?”
Yumi’s expression morphed into an unsightly one as she recalled Tokugawa’s ugly appearance. Although Yumi didn’t really hate an outward ugly appearance, what she really loathed was Tokugawa’s despicable, hypocritical and merciless heart! He was someone who she couldn’t see through, so she was very afraid of him!
Yumi also turned aside to look at Lily whose goddess-like features were a bit too potent towards her and blushed subconsciously, “It’s because… if there are only two options with regards to the same matter, I’d rather do it with you…”
“Huh?” Lily felt a little relieved after seeing the deadpan Yumi provide such a solemn and biased response after misunderstanding her words.
She smiled faintly and said, “Alright, then. Since that’s the case, shall we talk about the exact details of the cooperation now, Miss Yumi?”
“Mhm…”
Yumi returned to the top of the hillside with Lily and looked towards the interior of the castle tower before speaking again, “Tokugawa will be taking his vassals to continue the talks with Takeda in the castle tower during the day today while Sister Yukiko and a few clanswomen will remain behind in the side tower. This is the best chance to rescue Sis as only ordinary samurai will be protecting the place and Shiu can also aid us in the side tower at any time.”
“If there’s only a few ordinary samurai remaining behind, can’t you save your sister by yourself?”
“I can, but I don’t want to take any risks. If I fail, an unimaginable nightmare is all that would be waiting for me and my sister. Also, even if I managed to save Sis, there’s nowhere we can go to as Kamakura, Hundred Demons and Tokugawa, all of them would be hunting for me. Thus, my only choice is to ally with you4.”
“I will shelter you, but that’s only if we manage to save Yukiko. Speaking of it, I also have a slight connection with her,” Lily recalled Yasutarou, the unfortunate youth who had handed the Fuji-san teacup to her.
I have yet to find his sister, but saving his mother, no, she should be the stepmother, first should be fine too. It also seemed like Yasutarou loved his stepmother a lot as well, so saving her should be equal to fulfilling his wish.
“Let’s do it now, then. If we wait until lunchtime, Yukiko might get summoned for the meal and that would complicate things,” Lily suggested.
“All right!” Yumi nodded.
The two of them were 7th-stage Awakened, so they possessed a pretty swift speed. Naturally, Lily’s battle strength excelled Yumi’s by a lot in reality.
Yumi returned via the main entrance boldly, but the sentinels and Takeda soldiers she passed by felt a bit excited after seeing her flushed face and the subtle womanly aura around her, making a good guess at what she had gone out to do.
On the other hand, Lily used Shiu’s spider-silk cord that Yumi had brought back and climbed over the castle wall with ease.
Lily stood at the top of the wall and signaled Yumi, who then entered the side tower while Lily circled to the back of the side tower via the city wall and climbed onto the roof of the two-storied side tower.
Lily and Yumi’s joint rescue operation to save Yukiko finally began taking place5.