Chapter 78: Late-Night Surveillance Footage
[At two in the morning, you begin checking the surveillance cameras.]
[What catches your eye is the scene of Artoria Lancer heading straight to your hotel room...]
Eikou felt a bit uneasy as he watched the footage.
He hurriedly switched the camera angle from the corridor to his own room, secretly thinking that it was a good thing he had been far-sighted enough to conveniently install a camera in the room beforehand. Otherwise, if someone sneaked into the room in the middle of the night to do something, he would never even know.
Moreover, if he hadn't watched it, he wouldn't have known—Artoria had actually come sneaking to his room in the middle of the night as well!
What on earth did she want to do? Could it be that she was planning to play some kind of 'Love Sleeping' game?
"Knock knock..."
Artoria knocked on the door first. After waiting quite a while without any response, she finally carefully opened the hotel room door.
Even though the lights in the room weren't on and the camera didn't have night vision, under the gentle moonlight streaming in through the window, the tall figure of the King of Knights was still clearly visible.
"..."
In the footage, Artoria first cautiously stuck her head out from the doorframe, observing whether there was anything unusual in the room. After confirming that everything was fine, she then tiptoed inside, her target clearly being straight toward Eikou's bed.
Meanwhile, Eikou in the camera was already sleeping soundly, completely unaware that an uninvited guest was standing beside his bed.
"…Eikou?"
In the darkness, Artoria stood by the bed and softly called his name.
Seeing that he didn't wake up, the King of Knights glanced around with a bit of nervousness, then noticed the two Knights of the Round Table sleeping soundly beside him.
After confirming that there was no movement around, Artoria reached out her slender hand, her gaze softening as she gently stroked his hair.
"Oh?"
Watching the scene on the camera, Eikou was somewhat surprised.
He had originally thought that Artoria would do something excessive, like a midnight raid, but it seemed that she was merely a little lonely, so she had secretly come to his room just to take a look at him.
Thinking about it, that made sense as well. A solemn and noble King of Knights like Artoria—how could she possibly do something like a midnight raid?
There were always people around him who were excessively infatuated, to the point that he had almost forgotten that there was still such a pure and reserved kind of affection in this world.
After that, Artoria's beautiful, fair face gently leaned closer to Eikou's sleeping face. Those green eyes gazed at him for a long time, and the Lion King couldn't help but reveal a peaceful smile.
Then she gently brushed aside the bangs on his forehead.
"Chu~."
Artoria blushed, softly planting a kiss on his forehead.
"Sleep well, Eikou."
"Uwaaa…!"
Watching the scene on the camera, Eikou's heart involuntarily started beating faster.
This time, it really was pure love!
My Lion King is just too adorable!
His pure love heart (the thing that had recently been turning into a 'Lancelot's heart') was almost completely melted by Artoria's overwhelming sweetness.
Unable to restrain herself, she secretly came to the room of the person she liked, yet she was still shy and didn't dare to cross the line. Artoria, as a maiden in love, constantly testing the boundary between "secretly doing something bad" and "maintaining propriety," hit Eikou's cute spot perfectly!
The next time he met Artoria, he would definitely hug her tight and not give her any chance to react!
After secretly kissing the person she liked, Artoria revealed an expression that was both embarrassed and guilty, like a thief.
After a while, she finally prepared to leave the room. After thinking for a moment, she carefully pulled over the blanket from Gawain's adjacent bed, then, with an extremely thoughtful expression, covered Eikou with it.
"?"
So this blanket wasn't kicked over by Gawain, but was something you covered me with in the middle of the night because you were afraid I'd be cold?!
Isn't this a bit too unnecessary? Don't show your concern in such strange places! It's at least over 30 degrees at night right now! Or is it because you're used to wrapping yourself in thick blankets, so your sense of temperature is already different from normal people?! And also, you don't care at all about whether Gawain lives or dies, do you?!
Only after finishing all of that did Artoria leave the room with satisfaction.
"..."
After watching the footage, Eikou didn't know whether he should laugh or cry.
Well then, although he didn't find any supernatural phenomenon as he had hoped, he did manage to find the culprit who covered him with a blanket in the middle of the night.
It could still be considered an unexpected gain.
Immediately after that, he suddenly realized something.
Artoria took Gawain's blanket to cover him, so who covered Tristan with a blanket?
Just as he was about to fast-forward to other camera segments to see what was really going on, the image on the screen suddenly showed movement.
In the footage, after Artoria closed the door, a slender figure quickly crawled out from under the bed.
Eikou froze stiff.
No way, was there someone else in my room at that time?!
As early as eleven at night, before Artoria sneaked in, there was already someone else in the room?!
"…Phew, she finally left."
In the video, that figure crawled out from under the bed, her heart still pounding, raising a hand to wipe the cold sweat from her cheek.
Under the cool moonlight streaming in from the window, it was very clear that she was a woman.
Although she wasn't excessively voluptuous like Artoria, her curves were still distinct, her mature figure full of allure. Her dark purple hair gleamed under the moonlight, radiating a beauty that was both seductive and noble.
That woman seemed to be...
Scathach?!
No way, how did even you turn into the type who sneaks into a man's room in the middle of the night because you're obsessed with me?!
And the moment Artoria arrived, you immediately crawled under the bed—could it be that you had just been doing something that absolutely couldn't be seen by others?!
Eikou stared wide-eyed in shock, looking carefully at the woman in the camera with an expression of disbelief.
No matter how he looked at her, the person in the camera was Scathach…
But Eikou still didn't quite dare to believe it, so he rewound the footage to an earlier time.
Following the video's progress bar, he very quickly discovered a fact that was even more shocking.
As early as ten minutes before Artoria came knocking, Scathach was already in his room.
Scathach, staying in my room for a full ten minutes without leaving—what exactly were you doing?!
Eikou was greatly shaken and hurriedly continued watching footage from even earlier.
[Even earlier, which is ten minutes before that.]
[Inside your room.]
Ten minutes earlier, Scathach had sneakily slipped into his room.
She knocked and tried calling out, and when there was no response, she cautiously felt her way inside in the darkness, her target very clearly being straight toward Eikou's bed.
The light spilling in from the corridor, together with the pale, faint moonlight outside the window, vaguely outlined Scathach's toned figure in a sleeveless athletic top and shorts, fully displaying a physique brimming with feminine charm. Especially her loose, cascading purple hair, carrying the feeling of a mature woman with the air of a gentle, capable wife.
She lightly stepped up beside Eikou, then directly lifted his blanket…
Watching the scene on the camera, Eikou's heart immediately leapt up into his throat.
Hey, sneaking into a man's room in the middle of the night and even lifting the blanket—what exactly are you trying to do, Scathach? Artoria is in charge of 'pure-love', and you're in charge of 'Lance-love', right?!
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