Milk From Her Mouth

While Astrid was contemplating how to return the beaker, Lucille didn't react when she saw that some liquid magically appeared in the beaker and just stared at it without saying any words.

After a minute of observing the beaker, I saw her shoulders relax, and heard her say in a calm voice,

"Isn't this trick of yours a little too easy to figure out?"

"Is it even considered a trick when even a five-year-old can figure out how it's done?"

"Oh. So you've found out how it's done," I inquired.

"How could I not when it's so obvious?" Lucille said and then turned her head to look up at me and said,

"Didn't Miss Astrid just spit it out from her mouth?"

Astrid tensed up when she heard Lucille find out the truth without any effort and looked at me in a fluster, as her tail moved from side to side as if they too were as nervous as her.

I simply gestured with my hand for her to calm down, as I had already told her that Lucille would probably get it, which I'll deal with when it happens. It was a good thing that Lucille was looking at me right now and not Astrid's look of panic or else it would have been a dead giveaway that I couldn't talk myself out of.

"Spit it out of her mouth?" I scoffed at her deduction, even though it was correct, and looked at Lucille in disdain, as if I was asking if this was all she could come up with.

"How could Astrid, an elegant and proud lady of Eden High who has won several distinguished awards for her work in Industrial Research, do such a vulgar action in front of you?"

"Do you think she's someone who would lower her status to do such a dirty thing of spitting out fluids in her mouth into a glass beaker for the whole world to see, just for a simple trick?"

"Is that how low you see her?"

I acted as if I was offended on Astrid's behalf and fought to clear her name. I looked like I wouldn't back down on my case until Lucille apologized for offending and disgracing my assistant with such words, which were all true to the bone.

While I was fighting her case, Astrid herself looked down in shame with a flustered look on her face after hearing my words.

She already knew that what she was doing was extremely shameful for an innocent girl like her, but still coped with it for her and my sake. But after hearing me say aloud about what she did, seemed to be too much for her as she hung her head in shame.

Luckily, this action of Astrid's could be interpreted as her feeling down after hearing Lucille's words and was perfect for my case.

I thought my rant would have some effect on Lucille. But what I didn't expect was that Lucille was one tough nut to crack and turned to look at me with a deadpan expression on her face as if what else she said didn't bother her one bit.

Seeing that she wasn't willing to believe a single word I said, I calmed down and started to reason with her.

"Cough-Cough... For your sake, let's say that Astrid did spit that fluid out of her mouth. How did that fluid even appear in her mouth when you've been talking to her this entire time?"

"She could've put it in her mouth when I turned around to talk to you and wasn't looking at her."

"Now that I think about it, that whole act of ours could have been orchestrated by you for you to make me turn around." She put her hand on her chin and thought carefully.

"There's no way that she could've put it in her mouth since even after you turned around she spoke to you." I argued back with another statement.

"She only said the words 'I'm fine,' which could easily be said with a mouth full of fluid as long as she trains in the art of ventriloquism where the puppeteer speaks without even opening his mouth."

Lucille brought in ventriloquism, which showed that she herself wasn't too confident with her answer, as bringing up an obscure act like that was simply shooting in the dark without proper evidence.

She was probably speaking so confidently so that she could catch me in a lie and pin it on me later, which was really smart of her to do.

"You think that Astrid is that talented to be able to speak with her mouth full of something?"

"If she can get multiple patents for her research at the tender age of 17, why can't she do a simple party trick like talking without opening her mouth?" Lucille argued with something that I couldn't really refute.

"Then how did she even get that fluid when you've already checked her body for any container or anything that could hold that fluid?"

"I did check her entire body. But there are some places that I had to leave behind for decency's sake." She turned back and glanced at Astrid's chest, which made Astrid perk up and cover her chest with her hands that were tied up in embarrassment at being stared at so blatantly.

Astrid's cool and calm cover was blown, and she was mostly back to her normal self after she heard my words describing the person she was after doing the vulgar action Lucille mentioned.

Lucille looked surprised at Astrid's behavior change and wondered why she was acting like a shy little girl when she acted so mature and adult-like before. But since she was too focused on finding how the trick was done, she didn't think about it too much and ignored Astrid's new behavior.

"So you're saying that some container that we used to store the fluid is in her breast's deep ravine?" I said looking at Astrid's bulging chest.

"I didn't expect you to be so direct about it... But yes. There should be something in there," Lucille also eyed her chest with an added hint of jealousy of Astrid's ability to store objects in her chest.

Astrid's face turned even redder after having her own gazed at so openly right in front of her and did her best to cover her chest with the beaker in her hands.

"Since you're so adamant, why don't we pop the trunk and check to see if there really is anything inside that extra inventory site?"

I said something that made Lucille raise an eyebrow, and Astrid looked at me as if I had gone crazy, with her eyes wide open in fright.

"You can do that?" Lucille asked, wondering if I truly had the guts to do what I said.

"Why not? It's not the first time I've opened that trunk."

I openly admitted to the kind of relationship Astrid and I had, since I never had the intention of hiding it from anyone in the first place. Someone as observant as Lucille would definitely find out on her own, so it was better to admit it directly. While Astrid looked like she wanted to cry tears of embarrassment after I admitted to what we had vaguely done, Lucille looked at me in wonder, not expecting me to be so open about my relationship with Astrid, and looked like she found a whole new level of respect for me for being so gutsy and honest.

"And you're telling me that you just met her today?" Lucille gave me a teasing smile.

"A lot of wonderful things can happen in a single day, especially when you meet the right person you've been waiting for." I gave a smile of my own and looked at Astrid, who was flustered after getting my message.

Bang~

"Would you two stop flirting with her right in front of me, so that we could open her hood?"

Lucille gave me an elbow to the stomach, cringing at the words I was saying.

"You really want to open her shirt and inspect the goods?" I asked as I rubbed the place that got hit and wondered if the princess in front of me had any shame as she was asking me to assist her in the inspection of another girl's breasts.

"Weren't you the one who said you were fine with it?"

"I did say I was fine with it..." I said, which made Astrid shake vigorously as if she was begging me not to agree, especially with how scared she was of her secret getting found out.

"...But that is only on one condition." I finished my sentence and gestured for her to calm down, telling her that I had everything under control, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.

"What condition?" She looked at me warily, sensing that I was up to no good.

"Since Astrid is willing to sacrifice her dignity to open her trunk, then in return, you should do something along the same lines too." I said with a grin on my face, which made Lucille frown as if she was caught at a crossroad she couldn't get out of.

Astrid was also satisfied with my condition, as no matter how shameless Lucille was, even going so far as to make another girl strip to find out a simple trick, she wouldn't dare to remove her own clothes, and there would be no need for Astrid to "pop her trunk."

"So a breast for a breast..." Lucille said in a low voice as she stared deeply at Astrid's chest.

"Well, it's more along the lines of a few kilograms of meat for the whole cow in return, since both of your sizes-"

Bang~

Another elbow hit me in the front, which made me unable to finish my sentence.

After patting her elbow as if it got dirty after delivering its attack on me, Lucille said,

"It seems like no breasts will be seen today, which is quite disappointing since I really wanted to see what was hiding under there."

She said some shameless words with a grin on her face as she stared at Astrid's chest, which made Astrid's hair stand in fright and made her take a small step back as if she was afraid Lucille would attack her at any moment.

Even I started to wonder if that whole argument was for Lucille to find out the trick or just so that she could get a glimpse of those tits she'd been eyeing this whole time.

She truly lived up to her image of a Tyrant Princess, doing whatever she wanted with no shame whatsoever, even acting like a hooligan who wanted to see some puppies.

"It is quite disappointing that I won't be able to share that wonderful sight I've witnessed..." I said to irritate Lucille for having seen something she really wished to see but couldn't.

"But you would be a little less disappointed to hear that the next part of my trick will prove that Astrid didn't spit the fluid from her mouth. And wouldn't leave you wondering if I was really just lying or you were right all along."

Lucille, who was glaring at me after I successfully taunted her, loosened up after hearing my words and went back into the position I put her in and looked like she was ready to see the next part of the trick.

Astrid also calmed herself down and went back into position. But this time her face wasn't as cool as before and was still a little red from the teasing before as she looked like she wanted this to be over as soon as possible.