Now for something of a specialty of mine: an ecchi hot springs chapter!

Chapter 57 – Expressive (Red Wolf Moon)

Dorothea let out a loud sigh of contentment as she lowered herself into the pool of natural water, clothed only in a towel. Most of the other girls were already soaking in the pool, clothed only in towels, though Byleth was still removing her clothes in the nearby changeroom.

"Ohh, this feels so gooood~" Dorothea cooed. "I could get used to this."

"You said it," said Anna, whose hair was unbound as she soaked across from the students. "If only sales were this good…"

"Feels really nice, doesn't it?" asked Hapi. "I normally don't come here too often. If I spend too long in here, I could end up sighing."

"Y-Yeah, wouldn't want a monster spoiling this," Anna replied.

"Come on, Mary," said Hilda. "There's no need to be shy. We're all girls here."

"B-B-But I– H-Hilda…!"

Marianne protested as Hilda tried to nudge her down into the bubbling pool of water, the blue-haired girl's cheeks visibly red with embarrassment.

"The water's just right, Mary~" said Hilda. "Come on, you need this."

"You are not needing the unwillingness to join in, Marianne," said Petra. "This water is of warmness very much like the springs in Brigid."

"Oh, so you've got hot springs there?" asked Annette. "That sounds nice."

While Annette was praising Petra, Dorothea noticed that Constance was giving the Brigid princess a silent glare. She wondered what it was about, but she was not inclined to get into a conversation with the arrogant blonde.

"The Professor seems to be taking her time," said Lysithea.

"I wonder what's keeping her," said Mercedes. "It's a shame Edelgard didn't want to come in. The water feels just the right temperature."

"You can say that again, Mom Mounds," Hapi said with a smirk.

"Mom Mounds? What do you mean by that?" Mercedes was completely confused.

The others, however, knew what Hapi was implying, with Lysithea staring jealously at Mercedes' chest. Hilda snickered at this notion.

Anna made a short laugh and said, "Ah, kids these days." Then, looking at the changerooms, she saw Byleth emerge and said, "About time, By! Come on in, the water's great!"

The girls all turned to look at Byleth as the Professor made her way toward the pool, with only a large towel covering her curvaceous body.

"Whoahohoa, Professor~" said Hilda. "Where've you been hiding that bod?"

"Is everyone enjoying themselves?" Byleth asked.

"I'd say so," said Dorothea.

"Indeed, this pool is meant to be enjoyed by all!" said Constance. "Please partake of it, Professor Eisner."

"Thank you, Constance."

Byleth then slipped into the pool with the students, letting her body relax in the warm waters. She couldn't help but let out a sigh of approval as she sat down.

For the next several minutes, the girls chatted amongst each other or helped the others clean their bodies. Several small wooden bowls were nearby to help pour water over their backs or into their hair. All the while, Ingrid kept her eyes peeled for anyone who might violate their privacy.

Then, as she sat and smiled at how the girls were having a good time, Byleth saw Lysithea looking at her with an accusing glare.

"Lysithea?" Byleth asked. "Is something wrong?"

"Professor, can you answer me something?" asked Lysithea.

"Of course, I can."

"Alright then…" Shutting her eyes in annoyance as she took a deep breath, Lysithea then said, "How in the world… did your chest get to be so big?!"

Byleth's face went to one of total surprise at such an inappropriate question, especially since Lysithea was now pointing at her in accusation.

"E-Excuse me?"

The others turned to Lysithea with looks of amusement on their faces. Petra, on the other hand, was utterly confused, while Annette started to take a gloomier expression, and Marianne's blush deepened.

"Look at you!" Lysithea snapped. "Compared to everyone else here, your breasts are simply massive! I've never seen anyone so top-heavy besides Professor Manuela, and you don't sag like she does!"

Dorothea almost burst out laughing at this. Seeing Lysithea get so worked up over someone else's endowment wasn't something she would've expected from the white-haired mage.

"Ooh, someone sounds jealous," Hilda said with a smirk. "Is it because you're flat as a ki–"

"Hilda, utter one more syllable and I'll drown you!" Lysithea snapped.

"Now, now, Lysithea, there's no need to get mad," said Mercedes. "You're still growing, after all. Maybe you'll get as big as her in a little while."

"W-Who said I wanted to get THAT much bigger?!" Lysithea blushed as she said, "You think I'd want breasts as big as the Professor's? How does she even stand up straight with those things?"

Now Dorothea couldn't stop herself from laughing loudly, and this made Byleth's face flush red from embarrassment.

Though she tried to stay serious, Ingrid couldn't help but let out a short laugh as she said, "Honestly, I agree with Lysithea. If I had a chest that large, I'd never be able to keep my balance. It must be rather inconvenient for you, Professor."

"I concur!" Constance said with an entertained smile. "I already have beauty to spare, so I would not need such a massive endowment."

"If you say so, Coco," said Hapi. "But seriously, Chatterbox, your tits are huge."

"W-W-Why are you all going on about such an inappropriate topic?!" Byleth stammered.

Everyone stared at Byleth at this moment, which made her face go even redder. The others laughed at this, though Lysithea continued to sulk a bit, and now Annette was starting to show her own envy at Byleth's bust size.

As she finally stopped giggling, Dorothea said, "That's a really cute blush."

"D-Dorothea…!" Byleth whined.

"You know, Professor, when you first came to the monastery, you never made a face like that. In fact, whenever I looked at you, your expressions were always more like… like a statue's."

Now confused, Byleth asked, "A-A statue? What do you mean by that?"

Smiling, Dorothea answered, "You were never this lively back then, and nowadays I see you smiling a lot more. Oh, and making cute faces like that."

Hit by sudden realization, Byleth glanced down as she said, "I… I guess you're right…"

"Yeah, Dorothea's got a point," said Hilda. "You were honestly a bit spooky at first, but now you're so much happier these days."

"You really think so?"

"Of course, Professor!"

"I must concur with Hilda's point," said Lysithea. "Truth be told, your expressions were somewhat unnerving, as if you didn't feel anything."

"Oh, I can tell you she feels things now," Dorothea said with a sly smile as she slipped through the water. "Especially things like THIS!"

Byleth realized what was coming a second too late and let out a shriek of embarrassment as Dorothea's hands grabbed her huge breasts through her towel.

"AHH! DOROTHEA, STOP THAT!"

"Oho no, this is too much fun!" Dorothea giggled.

Hapi, Hilda and Anna started laughing at the display, while Mercedes had to giggle as well. Petra continued to remain confused while Ingrid let out a sigh of disapproval toward Dorothea's raunchy actions. Annette and Lysithea both let out loud groans of discontent, clearly jealous of Byleth's womanly features.

Then, Hilda said, "Heh, that kinda makes me want to join in. Hey, Mary, watch out~"

"Huh?! Wait, no! Don– EEEYAAA!"

Marianne let out a loud embarrassed scream as Hilda began groping her. One hand was to Marianne's covered chest while another caressed her thighs.

"H-H-Hilda, stop that!" Marianne mewled. "Please, stop touching me like that!"

"Oh, come on, Mary. I'll let you do it to me~"

"B-But I don't want to– DYAA!"

Hilda gave Marianne's butt a small pinch, leading to more cries of protest from Marianne.

"Oh my, how lurid," Constance said as she watched the amorous display. "Must you all be so uncivili– AAAIEEEEEE!"

Constance's cheeks turned red as Hapi slipped up behind her and started groping the blonde as well. Constance shrieked and thrashed to try and break free, but she lacked the physical strength to stop Hapi from squeezing her reasonably sized chest.

"H-H-H-HAPI, CEASE THIS AT ONCE! Y-YOU KNOW I HATE IT WHEN YOU – AAAHHH!"

Constance let out another yelp as Hapi yanked down the blonde's towel and started pinching her nipples. Constance was about to consider trying to cast a spell, but the dark-skinned redhead stopped her as she started nibbling on Constance's left ear.

"A-A-Aaaahhh…! N-Not that…!" Constance gasped.

"Come on, Coco," Hapi said as she nibbled Constance's ear. "You know I won't sigh if you let me have some fun."

"T-This is h-h-hardly f-fun for m-me! AAHAAHAAHNN~! M-M-Mercedes, help!"

Mercedes looked at Constance and could only give a nervous laugh at this.

And then Mercedes made a surprised "OH!" when she felt Annette swim up in front of her and place a hand on Mercedes' own huge endowment.

"A-Annie, not you, too!" Mercedes whined.

"Please, Mercie, just let me feel your Mom Mounds for a bit…" Annette whimpered.

"M-Mom Mou– Oh, that's what Hapi meant?" Mercedes blushed at this. Then, in a tone of acceptance, she said, "Oh, alright, Annie. B-But please, be gentle…"

Annette buried her face in between Mercedes' boobs after pulling down the blonde's towel, giving the mounds occasional squeezes.

"I'll never get boobs like these…" Annette whined.

"Y-You know, I've heard that if you drink a lot of milk, it can make your chest grow bigger," Mercedes said somewhat nervously.

"M-Milk?" Annette backed up for a second and took a long look at Mercedes' chest. Amusingly, her breasts were floating in the water now that they were unbound by her towel.

Then, in a fit of pique, Annette said, "Let me have some of your milk, Mercie!"

Mercedes then let out a loud gasp of surprise as Annette latched her mouth over her right nipple and starting sucking on it.

"A-A-Annie, not so rough!" Mercedes gasped. "Oh my, you're just like an infant. E-EHH?!"

To Mercedes' further surprise, Lysithea had swam over to her and, mimicking Annette, started sucking on the blonde's left teat.

"AHH! L-Lysitheaaa! N-N-Not you too! AAHHNN!"

After a good ten seconds of sucking, Lysithea briefly released her mouth's grip on Mercedes as she said, "There's nothing coming out. I'll just have to try harder!"

Lysithea then started sucking harder, prompting more cries from Mercedes.

"Y-Y-You two… Even if y-you suck harder, nothing w-will come out… Ahh! I… I need to have a b-baby first…! OHH!"

Unfortunately for Mercedes, Annette and Lysithea did not listen and continued to suck at her nipples.

Sitting next to Anna, Petra looked around at the lewd display at a complete loss of comprehension.

"I do not have understanding," said Petra. "Why are the others having such interest in each other's chests?"

Anna let out a silly laugh, knowing she would have to explain it to the Brigid princess.

At that moment, Byleth let out a loud "NNGH!" as she finally wrenched herself free of Dorothea's grip, but in doing so she ended up losing her towel. Byleth glared indignantly as Dorothea held the tower in her hand and giggled.

"Will you be wanting this back?" Dorothea asked playfully.

Shutting her eyes briefly, Byleth said, "That's alright… I think I'll just take YOURS!"

To Dorothea's surprise, Byleth lunged forward, grabbed the singer's towel, and almost literally ripped it from her body. Dorothea let out a loud "OHH~!" as she was stripped naked, yet she didn't seem nearly as flustered as everyone else.

"Oh my, Professor~" Dorothea said playfully. "Getting into this, are we?"

Byleth did not move to grope the singer, not wanting to stoop to her level, but instead wrapped the stolen towel around her figure.

Then, just as Byleth was considering dunking the singer underwater for a bit, she stopped as she heard Sothis in her head.

"I do hate to interrupt your fun," Sothis said, "but someone appears to be spying on us."

Byleth immediately darted her eyes around and, after a second, saw a familiar set of red hair hiding behind some rocks in the semi-natural cave. She reached over to the side of the pool and grabbed one of the wooden bowls, and then threw it at the interloper.

Sylvain let out a loud yelp as the bowl struck his forehead.

This caused all the girls to stop dead in their tracks. Then, upon seeing Sylvain had been spying on them, the girls all let out a series of loud screams.

"S-S-SYLVAIN?!" Dorothea snapped.

"What are you doing here, Sylvain?" said Mercedes.

"You pervert!" Hilda shouted. "I can't believe you'd actually do this!"

"You detestable voyeur!" Constance snapped, having pulled back up her towel as she raised a hand, preparing to cast a spell. "I will incinerate you for your lechery!"

Sylvain let out a series of nervous laughs as he said, "H-H-Hey, ladies, let's not be too hasty…"

Constance was about to send a fireball at Sylvain when Ingrid grabbed her wrist and pushed it down.

Before Constance could protest, Ingrid said in a tone of tranquil fury, "Everyone, please leave this to me."

Ingrid stomped out of the pool and over to a nearby bench where she had laid a covered weapon. She swiftly removed the cover, revealing the Hero's Relic Luin. The lance glowed brightly as the bearer of the Minor Crest of Daphnel took hold of it.

"W-W-W-W-Wait a second, Ingrid!" Sylvain stammered. "You don't really need Luin for this, do you?!"

Ingrid simply stomped toward Sylvain with her lance at the ready, so Sylvain let out a cry of terror as he fled from the blonde.

"GET BACK HERE, SYLVAIN!" Ingrid shouted as she started running after him, still clothed only in her towel.

The others looked on stunned at their antics.

Then, after a moment of silence, Dorothea asked, "Professor, should we stop her?"

"No," Byleth answered. "He's reaping what he's sown."

The others murmured in agreement.

"Well, I think that's enough fun for now," said Dorothea. "Maybe we should get back to the library?"

"Yeah, I guess so," said Hilda. "Sorry about that, Mary."

Marianne could only keep blushing as she wrapped her arms defensively around herself.

"I apologize too, Professor," said Lysithea. "And to you, Mercedes. I just had to get that out of my system."

"T-That's alright…" said Mercedes. "I'm sure you'll grow bigger someday…"

"I guess we'll need to add more milk to our diet, right Lysithea?" said Annette, to which Lysithea nodded in agreement.

As the others began to leave the pool and headed back to the changeroom, Dorothea said to Byleth, "I guess I should say sorry too. But really, I couldn't help myself."

"I'm sure you could have," Byleth said in an unamused tone.

"Oh, come on, Professor. You looked like you were getting into it."

As Dorothea let out a melodious laugh, Byleth could not help but smile at the singer's infectious mirth.

…

Sylvain's heart thumped hard in his chest as he fled for dear life from Ingrid. He had never seen the blonde so angry with him. He was quite sure she was trying to kill him this time.

Of course, that was all part of the game to him. He just had made a really bad play.

Unfortunately, the redhead took a wrong turn in the hot spring cave and soon found himself at a dead end. He spun around to see Ingrid had caught up to him. Luin glowed in her hand as she stomped angrily toward him.

"I-Ingrid, you don't have to go this far, okay?" said Sylvain. "Come on, I don't deserve this!"

"Oh no, you deserve exactly what's coming, Sylvain," said Ingrid. "What you just did was unforgivable!"

Then, Ingrid stopped for a second as she looked Sylvain in the eye. She saw his gaze was wandering toward her body. Sylvain then realized that Ingrid could see that.

"Prepare yourself!" Ingrid shouted as she rushed forward.

But as she raised Luin to swing it at Sylvain, her towel snagged on a rock and came loose from her body, falling to the ground.

Surprised, Ingrid stopped her attack as Sylvain stared at her, the blonde completely naked.

Her cheeks began to flush bright red as she made a series of small embarrassed gasps.

Then, as if to set her off, Sylvain said, "Whoa…"

Ingrid screamed at the top of her lungs as she swung Luin at Sylvain, smashing him across the head with the lance's shaft and instantly knocking him unconscious.

Ahh, lewd writings. I never realized when I started it back in Bathhouse of Legends that I'd have such a knack for it.

I know some of you are gonna read this and just go "WTF", but please, just roll with it. I view it as fanservice with a purpose in that it builds bonds between the characters. ;)