Are you a proper member?

No, don't pause there.

If you're not going to say it, I won't mind, but don't just say half of it.

By pausing deliberately like that, you're only making me more curious about what happened then!

Speak!

Are you doing this on purpose to keep me in suspense?

Herbert really wanted to ask this at the moment, but his soft-hearted nature made him only smile and silently play along with Fremay's performance.

"But that wasn't a summons for me; it was a summons for your body, with a faint attraction."

"I don't know what that means, but since you have some connection here, it's likely some kind of treasure."

"I was worried about missing the opportunity, so I brought your body over to check it out."

From Fremay's perspective, since Herbert was connected to this place, such a special summons was likely to be a good thing.

An opportunity not seized is an opportunity lost.

If such a summons were missed, who knows when it might be felt again.

So she cautiously brought Herbert's body under the spring water, tunneled through the underground waterway, and found her way here.

After initially exploring, Fremay didn't venture deeper but returned to Elda with Herbert—at that moment, she happened to meet Herbert waking up.

After saying all this, Fremay gradually calmed down on the surface—but her eyes still occasionally darted around Herbert.

I'm not looking because I want to!

But since he's been delivered to me, wouldn't it be rude not to look?

So, I'll reluctantly take a look!

Herbert sensed the Sea Siren's gaze below and secretly pouted, feeling like he was being stared at by a creep in a dark alley.

Turns out, other people's gazes are this obvious.

"I see, now I understand. You've worked hard."

After figuring out the cause and effect, Herbert thanked her and then asked, "So, the question is, why am I naked?"

There shouldn't be a rule that says you have to be naked to respond to a summons, right?

Clearly, the mermaid lady didn't expect Herbert's slow and drawn-out question, and she froze for a moment before saying:

"Uh, the, um, clothes got wet, and I was afraid they'd run off on their own..."

"Hmm?"

"Ah! No, that's not it, you took off the clothes yourself because you were worried they'd catch a cold... no, that's wrong too!"

Herbert: ???

Miss, do you want to listen to what you're saying?

After quite a while of confusion, Fremay finally managed to come to her senses, awkwardly lowering her head.

"...Sorry, it wasn't the clothes, it was me."

At this point, any explanation was powerless.

She wasn't good at lying, so she might as well confess honestly.

"Hmm."

Herbert wasn't angry either, he was just curious about the reason behind her actions.

"Fremay, why did you secretly take off my clothes?"

He just found it very puzzling.

Because with their current relationship, if Fremay asked, Herbert wouldn't refuse at all.

What, you won't accept a charity meal and insist on doing it yourself?

You want an all-you-can-eat buffet?

"Hmm..."

Fremay thought for a moment and hesitantly said, "Because... curiosity?"

"Curiosity? What kind of reason is that?"

Herbert blinked, almost laughed at the reason—no, he was already laughing, unable to stop.

"Hahaha! You're just too cute, hahaha—"

Are you a hormone-driven teenager curious about the opposite sex?

"Don't laugh!"

"Alright, alright, I won't laugh, pfft haha!"

"You!"

Since it had come to this, Fremay simply abandoned all shame altogether, shouting red-faced: "Why are you laughing? What's so funny, I'm just curious!"

Fremay herself loved the romantic plots of stories and legends and always wished to become the protagonist of such stories.

But later one day, she suddenly became curious about a question—how do the protagonists live happily ever after in stories?

More specifically, what exactly do they "do", and what should be done specifically?

Fremay then went searching for information... and she opened the door to a new world.

Wow!

First like this, then that, and finally that… Wow!

Ever since then, she'd hidden her interest in such matters deep in her heart.

In the past, when she didn't meet her ideal person, she had no plans to act on her curiosity.

But when she finally chose her hero, those long-dormant thoughts surged again.

As emotional warmth grew, coupled with Herbert's inexplicable attraction to her.

Those thoughts in her mind quickly spiraled out of control.

Beneath her calm exterior, she was constantly daydreaming.

Yes, she'd been craving Herbert's body.

In the beginning, she could suppress it a bit, but later as the relationship deepened, those thoughts became increasingly uncontainable.

Especially after being accidentally interrupted last time, it practically became her Heart Demon.

She looked at Herbert still chuckling and couldn't help but shout, "Stop laughing! Don't you want to know what my body looks like?"

Darn it, why am I the only one this embarrassed!

"Of course I do."

"Hmm?"

Fremay blinked, looking at Herbert with confusion.

"You do too?"

In Fremay's bewildered gaze, Herbert shrugged his shoulders and said frankly, "When did I ever say I didn't want to?"

"Though I'm a Paladin who has taken a vow of purity, I still have desires."

"And my desire... is you."

Herbert stepped in front of Fremay, catching the instinctively retreating mermaid and placing her hand on his chest.

"Do you hear it? This heart, still beating for you."

He pulled the mermaid into his arms and chuckled softly:

"Now, whatever you want to understand, I can oblige and teach you."

"And in return, you must satisfy my... curiosities."

"How about it?"

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