What Should Only Be Two, Is Actually Four

I realised what I said and looked at Astrid's face, which had gotten pale from shock from the words I was supposed to say in my mind.

"L-Luca...W-What did you just say?...I'm sorry, but my ears must have been clogged since I heard you say the most absurd thing I've ever heard in my life." 

Astrid muttered incoherently as she held her head like she had a headache, and denied to believe what I said, and coped with it, thinking she heard it wrong. 

But, since the cat was already out of the bag, I decided to double down on my statement and say

"No...The words you heard, were exactly what I said. I didn't mean to say it aloud. But I got a little too excited when you removed your stockings and showed off your marvelous legs, which made me blurt out what I was thinking." 

After Astrid heard my shameless entourage, she immediately covered her legs with her skirt, with a deep blush on her cheeks. And she looked at me in disbelief, wondering how I could have such crazy thoughts about her legs, when they were something that humans normally find very unattractive. 

She then looked at me, like she was looking at a new specimen, and slowly asked

"...Then, from what you said, does that mean that, even these barbaric-looking legs of mine excite you?"

Pa!~

I didn't reply to her question and gave her chest another slap, only from the other side this time, which made her breasts jiggle like they were made of jelly, and they only stopped moving after a few solid seconds.

"W-What was that for?!" Astrid shouted with a fluttered and angry look on her face, as she covered her chest, afraid I would slap them once again.

"That's what you get for calling your breathtaking legs barbaric." I said, righteously, as if I were fighting for the sake of her legs.

"But they really do look quite crude! They-...O-Okay! Fine! I won't say anything about them, so put your hand down!" 

Astrid shouted in fright when she me lifting my hand again. 

She then looked at me with a doubtful look on her face and asked

"But I really don't understand. As a human, do you really find them to be attractive?"

"Do you want me to repeat the words I said earlier?"

"No!" She glared.

"Then I don't have anything else to say." I sighed, a little tired from having to prove her worth.

"Then what about my hooves? What do you think about them?" She asked with a peculiar look on her face, wondering what I was going to say.

"Do you really want to know?" I narrowed my eyes, which made her hesitate about whether she should proceed or not.

"I do. Tell me." She said, making her decision.

I looked left and right, as if I were looking out to see if anyone else was around, and then went closer to her face and whispered to her as if it were a secret

"...I want you to step on me as I lie on the ground with those sturdy-looking hooves of yours."

"Dirty pervert!" 

Astrid jumped and pushed me back, not expecting me to say that.

"That I am." I said with a chuckle and steadied myself. 

"Ahhh! To think that you would be such a big pervert, to even like a minotaur's legs and even want to do such lecherous things with it!...If I had known about your abnormal nature, I wouldn't have challenged a massive fiend like you!" 

Astrid held her head and said, in frustration, at her continuous loss. 

She then looked at me with a look of doubt on her face and said

"I actually had a trump card, just in case you were an enigma, that found whatever I showed attractive...But now I'm wondering if that trump card of mine, which is something so repulsive about me that even the members wouldn't find it pleasing, would actually be something attractive and pleasing in your eyes."

"Show it to me, so I can say without a doubt that I find it appealing." I said with conviction.

Hearing my words, her hands moved, as if she was going to show it like I said.

But then suddenly stopped, as a look of realisation came on her face about what she was going to do, and her face slowly started to turn pink in colour. 

She then shook her head and covered her chest with her hands, and started to mutter a few words to herself in confusion and panic

"What is wrong with you, Astrid! I can't believe you were going to show him something so embarrassing that you've held a secret your whole life...And especially to a boy like him, when you haven't even said a word about it to your closest friends!...Well, it's not like you have any friends to speak of. But I still wouldn't have told them, even if I had any!...Something really must be wrong with your head!" 

She then looked at me warily and said with a shy look on her face

"N-No. Forget it. It's not something; I can show you so casually."

"But you already removed your stockings and showed me your bare legs. How can it be any worse than that?"

"I mean, I even saw a bit of your underwear." I smirked, which made her blush and give me a light punch on my chest out of embarrassment.

"It's really not something I can simply show you. It's something really private that I've only shown to my mother, afraid that others would look at me weirdly if they saw it." 

Astrid said with a slight pityful look on her face, thinking about how everyone would react if they saw her insecurity, which made me realise what she was talking about.

"Oh! So you're talking about that!"

After confirming the doubt I had since the moment I saw her, I exclaimed in realisation, already knowing about this 'insecurity' of hers.

I then gave her a reassuring smile and said

"Don't worry. You'll be pleased to know that, not only do I not find your insecurity bizarre, I find them the most attractive out of all your characteristics you got from your race." 

I then patted her head to soothe her worries and said 

"So don't ever think of it has a insecurity, that you can never show anyone, as there's someone right in front of you that adores them with all his heart."

Astrid's eyes lit up when I patted her head, and she even lowered her head so that I can pat her more easily. 

But after hearing my words, her expression turned to that of thundering shock as she realised that her biggest secret might have been found out by me.

She quickly pulled my hand down from her head but didn't let it go of it, and held it front of her chest, and said with a look of disbelief on her face

"Why are you talking as if you already know what I'm talking about!? There's no way you know about it!"

She looked like she wanted me to say that I was just joking, and her secret was still safe. But I simply shook my head and said 

"It's because I really do know."

"That's impossible!" She shouted in disbelief. 

"Other than me and my mother, no one else knows about it!"

"Then it's you, your mother, and me that know about it after today." I said jokingly.

"No, you're lying!" She held my hand tightly, not willing to believe what I was saying. 

"You must be joking with me, like you were doing earlier. Yeah, that must be it!"

She nodded her head as if she had already decided in her head that I was simply joking since it was absurd to believe that I knew her deepest secret, that she had never told anyone else other than her family. 

"If you truly know what it is, then why don't you tell me what it is to make you believe me...Prove it to me, by telling me my biggest secret. Right here! And right now!" 

Astrid shouted in desperation and looked at me fiercely, as if she had already confirmed that I was lying.

Since she insisted, I accepted her bet and said one single sentence with a smile on my face 

"What should only be two, is actually four."