It had to be said that Hayasaka Ai's maid outfit Stand had been extremely helpful in various situations.
With the maid outfit Stand's amplification ability, plus the ability to restore stamina and energy when performing "maid work," it provided considerable convenience for Zuke's activities.
Even though it was Reines's first time engaging in such intense combat, with the help of the maid outfit Stand, she didn't faint even at the end. The results could be said to be quite fruitful.
After a while, Reines lay on the bed, gasping for breath a few times, feeling the maid outfit Stand on her body restoring her considerably again.
Zuke had already gotten off the bed and dressed—although Zuke was the one mainly exerting effort, unfortunately, Zuke's stamina was too strong, so the one who ended up exhausted was often the woman.
"Zuke-san..."
Reines turned her head to look at Zuke, her face showing a satisfied expression—not just physically, but also spiritually satisfied.
She knew very clearly that Matou Sakura and Zuke hadn't gone this far, so now that she had beaten Matou Sakura to it, she undoubtedly carried more weight with Zuke.
The sense of crisis she had felt earlier about possibly being surpassed by Matou Sakura had dissolved considerably. She felt like she had returned to being that somewhat confident self from the beginning.
However, before she could say anything to Zuke, her gaze swept to the side, and her hair immediately stood on end.
Because she suddenly discovered that a figure was crouching by the bed, staring at her with an extremely resentful gaze—it was none other than Sitonai, who had somehow entered the room.
"Si... Sitonai! How are you here!?"
Seeing Sitonai actually crouching by the bed and staring at her intently, Reines instinctively sat up from the bed, retreated to the wall, and asked somewhat nervously.
As she retreated to the wall, she accidentally bumped into Matou Sakura, who was also lying on the bed—Matou Sakura clearly hadn't woken up from her touch.
Come to think of it, with all the commotion Zuke and Reines had made earlier, if Matou Sakura would wake from that, she should have woken long ago. This showed just how deep her current unconscious state was.
In Part 4 of JoJo, when Hirose Koichi fell into unconsciousness, Higashikata Josuke once thought he was dead, which was enough to show how exaggerated this unconsciousness was.
Sitonai obviously didn't care about Matou Sakura's condition. She just stared at Reines and said in a somewhat drawn-out tone:
"Did you guys think your noise couldn't be heard from outside? I even helped you isolate the sound, you know."
As she spoke, Sitonai pointed to the room door behind her—Reines looked up and only then discovered that the door was actually covered with a thick layer of ice.
Hearing Sitonai's words, Reines's face also turned red—indeed, her voice had been quite loud earlier, and the room's door wasn't enough to isolate such loud sounds.
Sitonai had obviously noticed something, so she used ice to seal the door, enhancing its sound-isolating ability.
Otherwise, Reines's voice would probably have been heard by Waver downstairs.
But even if Waver didn't hear it, didn't this mean Sitonai had heard everything?
Although Sitonai was also a girl, Reines still felt embarrassed.
"Don't worry, Sitonai was waiting outside the whole time and only came in after we finished."
Seeing Reines looking like she couldn't lift her head, Zuke smiled to comfort her.
He had noticed from the beginning that Sitonai had approached the room and used an ice layer to thicken the door, isolating the sound inside and out.
So he knew very clearly that Sitonai had been outside the whole time and had only come into the room through the ice after it was almost over.
Of course, she might have heard something more or less... but Sitonai was also a girl, so Zuke didn't particularly care.
As for whether it would corrupt a child...
Although Zuke treated Sitonai as his second "daughter," he also knew that Sitonai's real age was already 17 years old, so it didn't count as corruption.
"Anyway, that guy in the living room seems to have something to find Dad about, so I came to pass on the message."
Sitonai stared at Reines for a while, then finally moved her gaze away from her and said to Zuke.
"Since that sort of thing is done, Dad should hurry downstairs."
"Got it."
Zuke smiled and rubbed Sitonai's head. Probably noticing that Sitonai was in a bad mood, he joked:
"Don't worry, I won't make you call Reines 'Mom.'"
"Who would call her Mom!"
Sitonai pursed her lips. Her mother was only Irisviel. No matter how many things other women did with Zuke, she would never call them Mom.
She had been staring at Reines earlier not because she was worried about having another mom, but simply because she felt a bit jealous.
She hadn't made any progress in her plans for Zuke yet, but Reines had reached home base in one go. This made her conflicted.
Should she also learn from Reines and be straightforward?
But with her figure... even if she was straightforward, could she really pique Zuke's interest?
When Zuke came to the living room, Waver was sitting on the sofa smoking a cigar, causing the entire living room to be filled with the smell of tobacco.
However, Waver's tobacco seemed to be specially made. Although smoke curled up, it didn't seem very unpleasant—Zuke remembered that these cigars were even Waver's mystic codes.
By inserting different tobacco, they could produce different magical effects... the tobacco inserted this time seemed to have the effect of stabilizing the mind.
"Ah, Zuke-san, are you finished over there?"
Seeing Zuke come down, Waver quickly stood up from the sofa and put out the cigar in his hand in the ashtray.
Although Waver had grown and matured considerably over these years, when facing Zuke, he was still like that greenhorn from before, involuntarily feeling awe and respect.
"Finished."
Zuke nodded, looking at Waver with a somewhat odd expression, and said:
"Actually, you guessed what we were just doing, right?"
Waver was momentarily speechless—Zuke was right. Although Sitonai had used ice to seal off the sound from the bedroom so Waver couldn't hear what was happening inside, he had guessed something.
After all, Zuke and Reines had stayed in the bedroom for so long, and when he asked Sitonai to pass on a message, Zuke still waited almost over an hour before coming down.
He sighed and said to Zuke:
"I can indeed guess... but I think this was Reines's own intention as well. I can only hope that you'll take good care of Reines, Zuke-san."
"You can rest assured about that."
Zuke smiled in response.
"So, you specifically called me down—is there something you need?"
To be continued...