"Ume, be honest. Are you trying to seduce me?" I asked, sighing in disbelief.

"Huh? How could you accuse me of such a shameful act?" she blurted. "I shouldn't have asked for your help. I'm leaving."

My body instinctively moved as I heard her steps fading. I opened the door in a flash, pulled her inward, and leaned her against it before closing it again.

Her breath brushed against my neck, and her hands accidentally rested on my chest. The illogically arousing, fruity aroma of her body was already turning my head blank.

Water from my still-wet hair dropped onto her head as she scanned my almost naked body with her pink pearls from top to bottom, carrying a red blush on her face.

"Who is trying to seduce whom?" she murmured, turning her eyes sideways in embarrassment.

"Why were you leaving?" I asked in a low voice.

"I never touched you wrongly, yet you repeatedly accuse me of indecent acts," she replied, looking downward. "It felt like you were questioning my character."

"I'm sorry, Ume. That wasn't my intention. I was only teasing you."

"Really?" she asked, looking into my eyes.

Her heavenly beauty combined with her innocent expression strummed the strings of my heart.

"Really!" I chuckled, patting her head.

"You do realize your hand is very close to my ears?" she whispered.

"Oh, forgive me," I replied, taking my hand off. "You were looking so cute that I couldn't help it."

"How many girls have you entrapped with that glib tongue of yours?"

"You and Nymeria are the only women I know in this world."

"It should remain that way in the future as well," she mumbled, touching my forehead with her index finger.

"As you wish, Your Majesty."

We sat on the chairs to get comfortable before continuing our conversation.

"So… how do you want me to help you bathe?" I asked, scratching my temple awkwardly. "Do you want me to wash your back or something?"

"Sh... sh... shameless!!!" she shouted, ready to pop from embarrassment. "Is that what you were thinking?"

"So how do you help someone bathe, then?"

"I only wanted your help to fill my bathtub with water," she blurted, hiding her face behind her hands.

"Is the tap not working in your room?"

"Tap?"

"Oh right. How would you know what a tap is?"

"Come with me," I said, grabbing her hand as I walked to my bathroom. "I'll show you something amazing."

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"Here, you can fill the bathtub with this tap."

I turned the tap, and water began pouring into the tub.

"What kind of spell is this?" Ume gasped.

"Look, you can also control the water temperature by rotating this mixer," I explained.

"Whoa!!" she exclaimed, her eyes gleaming and her fluffy ears twitching with excitement.

She was giving such adorable reactions that I couldn't stop teaching her more. I also showed her how the shower worked, for which she gasped in amazement, shouting about how it could rain under a roof. All my fatigue faded away seeing her breathtaking reactions.

"What is this used for?" she asked innocently, grabbing the water jet by the toilet.

"Umm... do you know what that's used for?" I countered, pointing to the toilet seat whose cover was down.

"Is it a seat to bathe while sitting?"

"Nope, it's to relieve yourself after eating," I replied, raising the seat cover. "And the thing you're holding is called a water jet. It's used to wash your privates after... doing your business."

I leaned closer to her ear and whispered, "Do you want to try it?"

The jet dropped from her hand, her face instantly turned red, and she shouted with closed eyes, pushing me back, "Girls don't do those dirty things!"

As she flustered from embarrassment, her foot slipped and she fell onto me. I tried to grab the tap to hold myself, but the floor was too slippery. I couldn't hold onto the tap properly and accidentally turned on the shower before falling to the floor with Ume on top of me.

"Ume, are you alright?" I asked.

"Wasn't this how you held me in the forest when we first met?" she murmured, clutching both my wrists in her soft hands and locking them on the floor above my head. "The only difference is—you're naked and on the floor this time."

Her wet pink hair covered my face as our eyes interlocked. My whole upper body was completely exposed. My chest pressed against her perky breasts while the towel below was holding on for dear life to preserve my dignity.

I should have felt embarrassed being exposed like this, but the mood inside the small bathroom was too intense for that feeling. Water from the shower poured like rain while an ethereal beauty held me forcefully to the floor. Ume hadn't noticed that the shower's droplets, gliding down her face to her lips, were falling softly onto mine. The sweet scent of plum blossoms from her hair was setting my body on fire.

"Ume... you're driving me crazy. I won't be able to control myself if you tempt me like this," I whispered. "I'm a man, after all."

She immediately let go of my wrists and kicked me out of my own bathroom, saying she wanted to bathe.

"I'm wet again," I sighed, lying on the floor beside the door.

"There might be something in the almirah," I thought inwardly, pushing myself to my feet.

Inside the almirah, I found two pairs of pajamas: one for a man and the other for a woman. However, there was one problem—it was a COUPLE SET.

The male one was blue in color with numerous tiny teddies drawn on it and came with long lowers, while the female one was pink with a similar design but had mini shorts to wear below.

"Ume, don't wear the wet clothes," I said, knocking on the bathroom door. "I found some clothes in the almirah. You can have them."

The door slightly opened, and in a flash, she snatched the clothes from my hands like a wild cat before shutting the door again.

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