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Chapter 9: Minerva's Possessiveness! Lucy's Confidence Falters At Sorcerer Magazine's Fashion! Aoikina's Confidence! Meshing Romance of Purple & Blue!
Minerva's POV
After finishing that job in Blizzard Town, Lucy and I had gone back to Mauve Town. In the town of Mauve, I chose to visit that high-end fashion store where Phoebe had purchased some clothes. The clothes in this store were very fancy, evident by one of the purple coats that looked very shiny. The purple coat that I retrieved from the dark purple coat rack was a grape purple coat that had such soft fabric, along with having the designs of mauve purple petals forming beautiful roses on the coat. I wanted to try on this coat, prompting me to walk towards the light purple door of the fitting room.
I entered through the door that led to the vacant fitting room, before simply putting the coat in there. After placing the coat in the fitting room, and I proceeded to grab a neon purple midriff shirt with some mauve purple yoga pants that had a lattice pattern with a hard texture. These mauve purple yoga pants would go well with some midnight purple underwear, which had been next to some wine purple bras on a shelf. After getting that fashionable set for my lingerie, I also smiled at the idea of getting some midnight purple stockings with a garter belt.
My hands gently felt some stockings that were on a nearby light purple shelf, and I loved that these stockings felt so comfortable. They also seemed to perfectly suit my thick and large thighs, causing me to smile in a proud manner. I smiled more at my desire to get a garter belt, and I picked up the stockings right before my eyes noticed a deep mauve purple garter belt. It had been as lovely as some deep mauve purple high-heeled shoes that were on a nearby rack, and I really admired how the intensity of this hue of people just seemed to reflect the feeling of dominance.
Dominance was something that I enjoyed having in my life, especially since I felt my heart beat with some warmth at how I felt like I regained all of my confidence. The feelings of confidence that were flowing through my body were even being displayed in how I walked through this high-end store, walking around as if I owned the entire building to where no one could bother me about getting my hands on some clothes that they would be prevented from buying. After all, it was only natural for the most confident woman in a town to be the one who looked gorgeous.
After taking all of my clothes into the fitting room and closing the door, I thought to myself with a confident facial expression, "These clothes will look wonderful on my body!"
Putting all of the fashionable clothes down on a small mauve purple bench in the fitting room caused me to softly smile, before taking off all of my clothes for me to be naked again. I let my huge and bare ass brush against the door in a soft manner, causing me to sigh happily, and I stretched my arms high above my head. Stretching also made my muscles click and pop while I readied myself for putting on some new clothes, and I proceeded to put on the lingerie first. The underwear and bra were both in my size while this high-end fashion brand's clothing felt a bit tight, but I wouldn't mind.
I confidently put on the garter belt, sighing happily as I let myself embrace its tightness. The tight garter belt squeezed against my waist, but that amount of pain felt very minimal after having to endure the coldness of Blizzard Town and all of those nearby icy areas. My body had felt very cold in that situation where I wore a drenched coat while gathering all of the ingredients for a cure that would make me feel better, so the throbbing pain of the ice and frost during those moments where I had been sick made me feel like this garter belt was merely grazing against my skin.
As the garter belt grazed against my skin, I slightly groaned in pain as I put on the deep mauve purple shoes. These shoes may have been in my size, but my feet would have to get adjusted to them. As I started to sternly look down at the shoes, the thought of adjusting to them prompted me to have a thought enter my mind. Would I really need to adapt myself to Lucy having romantic feelings for me? It didn't seem like her romantic feelings would be going away anytime soon, and I didn't feel like sharing those feelings.
"I care about that klutzy girl, but she's just my teammate and my submissive little follower." I thought to myself with a smirk of assurance on my face, thinking that Lucy was sharing some interests with me whilst also wanting to admire my beauty.
Lucy could just fawn over my skills and admire my beautiful body, and I would just respect that she was trying to become as good as me at certain tasks. She actually earned some more respect from me by picking out some decent pieces of jewelry from that gem shop, but I would've personally bought her a necklace. The necklace wouldn't have been a romantic gift, but the thought of standing behind Lucy and gently putting it around her neck as my hands touched her smooth skin just felt like an enjoyable moment.
Not only would Lucy view me as the woman who had a superior sense of fashion when it came to jewelry, but getting to touch her skin and have her wear the necklace of my choosing just made me smile in a proud manner at my own feelings of being dominant. In regards to jewelry and dominance, I did love that Lucy gave me this neon blue bracelet that had more intensity in its color that the little accessory that she picked out for herself. Lucy was not only knowing her place around me, but she would probably love it if I bought some accessories for her.
As I thought about buying her some lingerie and took off my bra, I picked up the midriff shirt and slowly put it on. The midriff felt so warm against my body, feeling like heated hands that rubbed my chest and my back. If I had purchased this shirt for Lucy, then the act of making her feel all of its warmth would be followed by me caressing her skin. Even though I touched her skin when we had sex, I felt my cheeks blush rose pink as I put on my yoga pants and let them constrain me in this same moment where I was feeling possessive of Lucy.
The next morning, at Lucy's apartment... (Lucy's POV)
Even if Minerva felt possessive of me, I simply smiled about that while laying in bed. The bed felt as comfortable as when Minerva and I slept together in that hotel in the town of Sunnysol, but my bed just felt a bit empty without someone else sleeping beside me. Sleeping with Minerva would've been nice, especially we didn't even sleep on the train. We had both been very focused on getting out of Blizzard Town, and that day had been tiring for both of us. However, I would personally not be tired of being subservient to Minerva.
Seeing her smile down at me yesterday while she was so tall and dominant actually made feelings of warmth enter my heart, since Minerva seemed like she was getting past her insecurities about being a weak mage. I personally still felt like a weak mage for underestimating how powerful Glacienne had been in that recent battle, but the fact that it resulted in a victory for me and Minerva meant that she wouldn't let me feel too humble. After all, too much humility could result in me having a lack of self-confidence.
Self-confidence wouldn't have been something that I had in a situation where I would fight an A-Class outlaw by myself, but I felt very confident about winning yesterday's fight because Minerva stood by my side. Minerva was such a strong teammate, and I felt very glad that she saved my life. Rescuing me from drowning and making those medicinal cupcakes really made Minerva feel like the best teammate that I could've been paired with, since she would never let me die. Minerva made me feel safe, and I cutely giggled at the thought of seeing her again today.
As I felt happy from wanting to meet up with Minerva again, I quietly heard the mailman softly open my mailbox to put today's mail into it. He also softly knocked on the door, which prompted me to softly get out of bed while only wearing my light pink bra with some light pink panties to match. My lingerie felt comfortable as I walked out of my bedroom to reach the living room, and opening my apartment's front doors allowed me to see that the newest issue of Sorcerer Magazine was quietly left at my doorstep.
After ignoring the sight of Annette Rosia sultrily smiling and posing as she sat down in front of a black background, I opened the magazine and asked aloud with a curious look on my face, "Is this magazine just going to entirely consist of Annette Rosia, and her skills with modeling?"
Upon seeing a blue-haired woman from that same high-end fashion company on the first page, I went inside and asked aloud, "Wow, who is that?"
According to this issue of Sorcerer Magazine, the woman who I was looking at had been known as Aoikina Frosslyn. She had been a mage in the Aroma Flair guild, but not as prominent as Annette. Aoikina smiled softly as she wore a lacy light blue bra with lacy light blue panties, and the words on this page even referred to her as being the goddess of mint blue seas. She had mint blue eyes, which went well with her long and flowing neon blue hair. One hand gently touched her hair while the other hand was lightly groping one of her huge breasts, and she had her guild mark on her left leg.
Aoikina's thighs looked very thick, evident by the next page displaying her lustfully grinning in a hot spring as she lifted one of her toned legs out of the water. The sight of water being frozen in time after dripping off of her really caused me to lightly blush, but I wasn't romantically attracted to her. I only admired how confident she looked in that photo, and she certainly had more confidence than me if she wanted to be in a hot spring by herself. I honestly couldn't bathe at a hot spring resort by myself, since many women who entered the hot spring after me always made themselves seem more beautiful.
They would always seem beautiful with their wet hair and shiny skin, just like how Aoikina seemed so beautiful in the hot spring while being featured on the next page of this magazine. The sight of her facing the camera and bathing in the hot spring with water on her huge breasts caused me to be attentive towards the confidence in her eyes, along with her seductive smile while one hand was gently underneath her chin. The bored, yet immensely confident look in her eyes seemed so captivating. Just like how Annette could pose for photos with so much confidence, Aoikina was just as self-assured.
"I really aspire to be at this woman's level of confidence." I calmly told myself, looking a bit worried about my own poses.
As I tried to pose like a model and turned a few pages to where Aoikina's advertised campaign ended, the last page that featured her in a sky blue evening dress near some large icicles caused my eyes to calmly see the ad's sentence mundanely saying, "Aoikina may be celebrating in Blizzard Town, but your own campaigns can thrive if you have some elegance."
I looked at her dress that was neatly cut in several places to display her breasts and stomach while Aoikina even had one of her bare hands touching the sharp icy stalagmites, and Aoikina was just so confident. My admiration for her confidence started to fade from turning the pages and seeing Annette confidently smirking at the camera during her own fashion campaign. Annette's newest fashion campaign simply involved her first page featuring her wearing a penny brown fur coat while a younger woman with plain brown hair and a walnut brown coat was gently opening one part of Annette's coat to just touch Annette's mocha brown panties.
The next page featured Annette in mocha brown lingerie while the younger woman was wearing walnut brown lingerie in the image where she was on a dark brown elegant-looking couch with Annette. Seeing that woman surprisingly have my hairstyle from that day at Sunnysol's beach caused me to look a bit miffed, especially since the woman in the advertisement was kissing Annette's feet. The next page involved her licking Annette's feet, before the final page that featured the woman involved her massaging Annette's nude body from behind as Annette herself lovingly blushed in her moment of sexily smiling at the camera.
Sexily smiling had been something that I didn't really do, since I hadn't been a very sultry woman like Annette. Annette certainly looked sexy in that image where she gave a lustful smile to the photographer while wearing caramel brown lipstick, but did she practice with making her poses and smiles seem natural? Were the women of Aroma Flair wanting me to admire their beauty, only for me to simultaneously diminish my own beauty? Those questions prompted me to save the rest of Sorcerer Magazine for when I'd see Minerva again, and her fashion sense would probably cheer me up.
Later, at the Seductive Witch guild... (Minerva's POV)
When Lucy walked into the Seductive Witch guild with the newest issue of Sorcerer Magazine in her hands, her soft smile and the somewhat unsure look in her eyes informed me that she needed to be cheered up. Lucy's soft smile was interestingly followed by the sight of her gasping at me in an awestruck manner while her cheeks blushed bubblegum pink, and I calmly walked towards her with my hips gently swaying from side to side. As my hips gently swayed in this moment where I had a dominant and sultry smile on my face, Lucy blushed more.
Lucy's blushing face caused me to giggle in a sweet manner, and I assumed that she was admiring my dominant attitude that seemed as amazing as my fashionable outfit. I quickly turned around while being close to her, allowing my large ass to gently rub against Lucy's stomach and the bottom of her bubblegum pink crop top. The crop top went well with her light pink miniskirt, which complimented her plain pink flat shoes. Lucy would definitely need to improve her fashion sense for today, but the outfit would just have to display more cuteness and need something neon pink to display the intensity of Lucy's confidence.
Lucy had always been very confident, and she should've been feeling very optimistic about the job that we would handle today. Since Lucy's job was the one that we handled yesterday, that meant it was my tun to pick out which job we would handle. As I walked over to the request board with a proud smile on my face, I heard Lucy elicit a soft sigh. The way that she sighed made me wonder why she wasn't seeming as confident as yesterday, but my eyes soon glanced at the issue of Sorcerer Magazine that she had been tightly clutching.
Lucy gently loosened her grip on the magazine, allowing me to gently have it in my hands. Seeing Annette Rosia being featured on the front and back covers of the magazine caused me to scoff in a disapproving manner, before opening the magazine to notice that a new model named Aoikina was being featured. Several of the lesser women from Aroma Flair had actually been rotated in and out of Sorcerer Magazine's different issues, so I didn't pay any mind to seeing a new model who would just be overshadowed by Annette.
"Listen, Minerva-sama. Even though Annette is more prominent, Aoikina looks just as confident and I... I wish to have the confidence of a great fashion model!" Lucy told me with a somewhat timid look on her face, before blushing as she blurted out that last part.
That caused me to ask Lucy with a curious look on my face, as my eyes displayed some feelings of concern, "Are you not even as confident as Aroma Flair's newbies, Lucy? Are you boldly thinking of taking on all those girls in a modeling contest?"
Lucy responded in a calm manner, looking a bit timid, "I just... don't want to be seen as a second-rate dog, Minerva. After all, I... saw the hairstyle of that girl posing with Annette."
Upon turning the pages to see what Lucy was talking about, I did frown from seeing the brown-haired girl with Lucy's hairstyle behave subserviently as she appeared to be pleasuring Annette. Annette certainly used Lucy's timid behavior from their meeting as inspiration for her newest photo shoot, and the pictures from her photo shoot in Sunnysol were also in this issue. Annette posed on the beach in her brown bikini, doing several sexual poses that showed off her huge ass and huge breasts. Was Lucy also wanting look as sexy as Annette, in addition to being more confident?
Even though Lucy hadn't been behaving in a jealous manner recently, looking at her eyes to see some feelings of determination informed me that she was probably going through her own moments of feeling insecure. Even though Lucy didn't look insecure in today's newspaper that featured her and I smiling in Blizzard Town after taking down Glacienne, confidence from winning a fight wasn't the same as having confidence in her own level of beauty. I personally thought that Lucy was just a cute girl, in comparison to my superior level of beauty.
Although, the sheer fact that I only got a minor mention in the last issue of Sorcerer Magazine while Lucy wasn't mentioned at all must have dealt a blow to her ego. Lucy's ego may not have put that issue at the forefront before, but her fluctuating levels of confidence had been bound to make this problem arise sooner or later. If Lucy was now wanting to be as beautiful as Aroma Flair's most recent girl who got featured in Sorcerer Magazine, then how could I deny my little subordinate the opportunity to prove that her determination wouldn't be meaningless?
"Well, Lucy, it looks like fate has smiled upon you." I told Lucy with a pleasant look on my face, after unpinning an ocean blue flyer from the request board.
After Lucy took notice of the flyer being written by Aoikina of Aroma Flair, she told me with an excited facial expression, "Minerva-sama, this job will give me the chance to see if Aoikina can make me become as confident as a fashion model!"
As Lucy proceeded to happily hug me and giggle in a sweet manner, I slightly frowned a bit at the notion that Aoikina could be the person who instilled more confidence in Lucy. Making Lucy become much more confident was something that I entirely wanted to be responsible for, and I had even won a fashion competition in Cyan Town. Even though I won that minor fashion competition by cheating in the second round, I still won! Since I was a winner, some feelings of frustration entered my eyes from hearing that Lucy wanted to hear another fashion model's perspective on confidence.
Even if Aoikina was a more prominent fashion model than me, this had only been the first time that she had been in Sorcerer Magazine. If this would be her only time being in the fashion magazine, then wouldn't her advice be useless? After all, the girls from Aroma Flair who failed to appear in Sorcerer Magazine were losers. That included the ones who were rotated out after debuting in some issues of Sorcerer Magazine, but was Lucy thinking that their few appearances in Sorcerer Magazine had been better than being insignificant?
Lucy probably felt like an insignificant little dog from seeing Annette's newest fashion campaign, possibly even imagining herself as the brown-haired woman who was being so submissive to Annette. That woman even had a walnut brown choker around her neck while it had been adorned with chocolate brown roses that went well with her cocoa brown eyes, but I ended the hug with Lucy and sternly frowned at her while believing that she wasn't Annette's second-rate little dog. In fact, I smiled a bit at the thought of this job resulting in Lucy hopefully thinking that she was a first-rate mage.
Three hours later, in Blizzard Town... (Lucy's POV)
This job in Blizzard Town probably wouldn't help me be a first-rate mage, but I would at least get the opportunity to talk with Aoikina. Aoikina interestingly sent out a flyer for mages in Seductive Witch to handle the tasks of being her assistants for the day, and the reward would be 600,000 jewels. Aoikina didn't have the money while she stood in front of the town's ice statue, her left foot tapping in an impatient manner as she waited for Minerva and I to arrive. When Minerva and I got to the statue, Aoikina simply guided us to the rightmost street where some businesses were located.
One of the businesses had been a hot spring, which was a business with a sapphire blue wide pitched roof while the building had been made out of plain blue bricks. There was plain blue carpeting in this place, the carpeting going well with the neon blue walls, and Aoikina led us to the light blue counter where her photographer with wavy and light blue hair had been waiting for her. This woman simply wore a plain blue winter coat with plain blue snow boots, and she guided Aoikina down the middle of three hallways to a hot spring.
Minerva and I followed them to that hot spring, which had a pale blue ground while the hot spring had light blue frost emerging from it. This hot spring gave off such a cold temperature, but Aoikina turned around to motion with her right hand for me to approach her. I walked towards her in a subservient manner while seeing her slowly turn back around to display the dark blue buttons that made her dress be very tight. I gently unbuttoned all six of the constraints, allowing Aoikina's dress to fall to the ground. She placed her neon blue shoes on it while now only being in admiral blue lacy lingerie, and Aoikina heard Minerva close the dark blue sliding door that had been behind us.
Now that we all had some privacy, Aoikina gently grabbed one of my hands and confidently smirked as she walked up to the edge of the hot spring. She began to apply light blue Ice Magic to her body, the aura appearing around her body as I felt her skin become denser and toned. As one of my hands gently touched Aoikina's back, she immediately released her grip on my hand. She quickly walked over to a bottle of lotion, before aggressively throwing it to where I lightly slid back after my hands caught the bottle.
"Well, are you ready to put lotion on my back?" Aoikina asked me in a nice tone, briefly turning around for me to see the calm smile on her face.
I replied in a kind tone while softly smiling, "Yes, Aoikina."
Upon putting the cold lotion on her back and rubbing it in for her skin to shine, I added with a kind facial expression, "Aoikina, you really know how to make your skin be very smooth."
"The most confident models always have smooth and soft shiny skin, along with proper posture where you stand up straight." Aoikina calmly responded, before letting me put the lotion on her legs and her feet.
After getting in front of her to cover the rest of her skin in lotion and feeling it become very softened with so much smoothness, I watched Aoikina jump high into the air. She let out a confident and happy sigh while diving down into the water, and Minerva teleported me close to her as a high amount of water drenched the ground. The photographer's Photo Lacrima Crystal was undamaged, however, and she started photographing Aoikina after she resurfaced from the water and faced the edge of the hot spring.
As Aoikina blushed cerise pink in an aroused manner and sighed lovingly in the chilly water, her eyes displayed some feelings of confidence. Seeing her look so confident caused me to look down at the bottle of lotion, and I wondered if having smoother skin would help me gain much more self-confidence. If my skin had been much softer, would I have not felt so much pain when Annette sat on me and beat me up? Softness and delicateness were traits that I actually lacked, causing me to frown a bit.
This moment of me frowning prompted Aoikina to swim towards the middle of the hot spring, and she proceeded to activate a spell of Water Magic. Aoikina proceeded to softly blow a kiss at her photographer, which caused several bubbles to emerge from her mouth while the bubbles were heart-shaped. Aoikina quickly jumped out of the water to stand in the middle of the bubbles, blushing and giggling in a cute manner. She proceeded to let the bubbles latch on to her skin while they exuded high amounts of frost, but Aoikina confidently smirked as the bubbles were bursting for the cold water to kiss her smooth skin.
"Now that my lingerie is wet, do you mind getting me another outfit?" Aoikina asked with a somewhat stern look on her face, drops of water dripping from every part of her body.
Minerva responded with a somewhat miffed facial expression, before leaving this area to go buy some lingerie, "All right, but they better have something in your size."
"This is my hometown, so they'll give you clothes for free when you work for me!" Aoikina responded with a somewhat irked look on her face, seeming very impatient.
The photographer told Aoikina with a somewhat worried look on her face, looking at the quantity of pictures, "Beautiful Mistress Aoikina, I still need more shots of you in this lingerie to create a small advertising campaign!"
Aoikina groaned in an impatient manner while the photographer murmured something about shampoo and water, so was Aoikina getting ready for the next part of a shower campaign? That question prompted me to go over to the rectangular plain blue tray that some rectangular blue bottles of shampoo were on, and they were accompanied by sapphire blue bars of soap. The soap had been drenched earlier from the water, causing several sapphire blue bubbles to be emerging from it while the soap couldn't stay in my hand as I ran over to Aoikina.
The soap slipped forward to glide across the puddles of water on the ground, causing many bubbles to float up and being around Aoikina while the bar of soap roughly landed against her foot. Aoikina stepped on the soap, only to be put off-balance by a bubble bursting under her foot. The bursting bubbles that occurred ended up covering the ground in more water, and Aoikina nearly ended up slipping when she hastily turned around to face me. She ended up sliding towards me while one of her hands tightly gripped the shower bottle, but her hand lightly opened it as she crashed into me.
When I fell down into the puddle of water, Aoikina landed on top of me and had a tighter grip on the shampoo bottle. She ended up making her hand pour it all over herself, before sliding off of me. Aoikina and I both groaned in frustration from what had just happened, but seeing her growl in a somewhat angered manner caused me to think she was as fearsome as Annette. Since I didn't want to get beaten up, I took off my own clothes and offered them to her. Aoikina simply soaked them all in the cold water, leaving me in my amethyst purple lingerie. However, the fact that I was now in my lingerie and looking depressed about losing those clothes caused Aoikina's photographer to look very excited as if Aoikina's fierce anger at my clumsiness and my own feelings of sadness were perfect for some photos.
Five minutes later... (Minerva's POV)
When I came back to the extremely cold spring with several lingerie outfits that were in varying shades of blue, I looked very shocked at the photo that was being taken in the cold spring. Aoikina was slowly getting out of the water while looking very sweaty as if she perspired, and Aoikina confidently smirked and blushed as she felt Lucy's head rest against her huge ass. Lucy's purple hair may have covered her eyes, but I got to hear her let out a depressed sigh as if she wasn't going to be rescued from the feeling of rejection. Lucy blushed as she made herself start sinking into the water, which caused me to have a worried look on my face.
I didn't want Lucy to nearly down again, prompting me to run towards the cold spring. However, Aoikina made a light blue aura engulf her body and she dived back into the cold spring. She quickly brought Lucy up to the water's surface, before pulling her close and using one hand to blow a kiss like before. Aoikina blew a kiss into Lucy's mouth, causing several blue bubbles to touch her lips. Upon seeing them burst against Lucy's lips while Aoikina's aura-covered hands rubbed Lucy's face in a comforting manner, my eyes twitched with slight feelings of jealousy and anger.
Why was Aoikina being the person who rubbed Lucy's face as if Lucy was her submissive teammate? Why was Lucy now sighing happily in a subservient manner while Aoikina smiled with so much confidence? From my perspective, I assumed that Aoikina was trying to make Lucy believe that the women of Aroma Flair were truly more confident than any woman in Seductive Witch! That subtle bit of humiliation had to be the reason for Aoikina acting so overly confident, and she even made Lucy's face blush rose pink as Lucy's hands gently touched her bra as Lucy looked timid.
Aoikina elicited a soft moan, before going away from Lucy and getting out of the water. After Aoikina got out of the cold spring, she confidently walked towards me with a smile of assurance on her face. She looked very self-assured as she took off her lingerie, now being in the nude while I looked over at Lucy to see her persisting with blushing at Aoikina. She blushed in a manner that displayed admiration while Aoikina approached me, but Aoikina simply took a matching neon blue set of lingerie from my hands.
"The next portion of photos are where we should be hot, along with displaying me as an admired woman." Aoikina told her photographer in a confident tone, before turning around to smile at me in a thankful manner.
Aoikina asked Lucy in a sultry tone of voice, after rubbing her forehead, "Since this hot spring is so cold, don't you think that we should heat it up?"
Lucy responded in a flustered manner, her face still blushing as Aoikina's cheeks lightly blushed pink, "Yes, Aoikina-san."
Upon hearing Lucy speak to Aoikina in such a respectful manner, I elicited a soft breath and tried to calm myself down. I needed to relax, instead of constantly never wanting Lucy to ever act like she was seduced by another woman. In fact, Lucy was probably just trying to be a good actress for this photo shoot and she would be able to help our team earn more money. If Lucy was able to conceal her eyes with her hair and make this job end in success for us without her being humiliated, then I would be glad that Aoikina wouldn't be able to claim Lucy as her possession. After all, Lucy was my subservient teammate.
Wait, did I just speak about Lucy as if she was my possession instead of a person? Even if that made me look as crazy as Aoikina switching to a sapphire blue aura of Water Magic and heating up the water, why did I feel so heated at the thought of Lucy being around another woman? Was I starting to have some romantic feelings for that klutzy dark witch? Lucy's clumsiness and my perfection were certainly opposite traits that could make us gravitate towards each other, but I had always turned her down and I would always reject her romantic advances!
Although, rejecting her romantic advances could've probably been a factor in why she wanted to learn about having more confidence from the girls of Aroma Flair! Just because Aoikina held Lucy close to her in the water and smiled confidently before kissing her forehead, there was nothing stopping me from being that sexually appealing! Lucy may have giggled happily while Aoikina made waves of water form the shapes of large hearts, but Aoikina giggling seductively as Lucy's face looked more cheerful was such an amateurish way of seducing my cute little teammate!
"Wait, did I refer to Lucy as being cute? Even if she's my cute teammate, are my possessive feelings stemming from love? How is this possible?" I quietly asked aloud to myself, groaning in frustration as I indeed heard myself refer to Lucy as being cute.
"If I'm wanting to be so possessive, does jealousy increase feelings that stem from love? Am I wanting to be physically possessive out of love?" I asked myself in a somewhat miffed manner, trying to internally battle with my own insecurities.
The thought of being physically possessive towards Lucy made me look at the hot spring, seeing Lucy nuzzle her face against Aoikina's huge breasts while Aoikina gently wrapped her arms around Lucy's neck in a comforting manner. As Aoikina proceeded to rub Lucy's back with one hand, she looked over at her photographer while confidently smiling. The photographer confidently smiled back, before getting a neon blue necklace out of her blue bag. The small necklace that had been made from diamond-shaped beads with an electric blue teardrop as the dense pendant had been thrown to Aoikina, who caught it with one hand.
Aoikina gently placed the necklace in one of Lucy's hands, which caused Lucy to look up at her with a curious facial expression. Aoikina simply gave her a confident smile, before Lucy placed the necklace around Aoikina's neck. Aoikina gently touched the necklace for it to start swaying back and forth like a pendulum, which led to Lucy making a hypnotized look enter her eyes as she lowered herself down into the water. She submerged in the same moment where Aoikina lowered her right palm down to the water, almost like she had Lucy in a trance.
Aoikina swam down with Lucy, before grabbing her and carrying Lucy out of the water in a bridal-style manner. As the photographer took several pictures of Aoikina standing and facing the camera with Lucy's long and wet hair obscuring her eyes, Lucy sighed happily. Aoikina sighed lovingly like a seductive and beautiful mermaid, even lifting up Lucy to where her lips kissed her breasts in a somewhat obedient manner after Aoikina made that necklace sway back and forth again. Water even dripped from Aoikina's necklace and her face for all the drops to land in Lucy's mouth, and the final photo ended with Aoikina leaning down with a confident smile for them to almost share a kiss. Aoikina was so confident that Lucy wouldn't try to kiss her, yet how could she be so confident and even smile down at Lucy in such a smug manner?
10 minutes later, after leaving the hot spring... (Aoikina's POV)
After giving a smug smile to that young assistant, I left the hot spring and I walked over to the other assistant from Seductive Witch. I walked in my usual confident manner, walking with self-assurance as I felt like these women would idolize my beauty. The younger woman with purple hair got out of the water while sighing in an admiring manner, doing her job as my assistant by loving the sight of my nude body as I took off my wet lingerie. I quickly put on a neon blue lingerie set that the other dark witch handed to me, before turning around to smirk at her partner.
I confidently walked back towards that girl, who seemed similar to the girl from Annette Rosia's prominent fashion campaign. Annette had told me and other women in Aroma Flair that her campaign felt inspired by how she saved her relationship with Erza from being wrecked by a purple-haired girl, and I wondered if this girl would also try to fight me. As I posed like a model in front of her and still had water dripping from my smooth and beautiful skin, she timidly got out of the water and noticed some sternness in my eyes.
As I confidently walked past her and did a hair flip to make sparkles of water join some of my hairs in landing on her body, she sighed in a depressed and insecure manner. She looked into my eyes, the feeling of nervousness being in them as she felt that she would never reach my level of beauty. Being as beautiful as me would require her to be calm and confident, along with being sultry, hot, and cute whilst having some poise for fashion modeling. She turned around to walk towards me, only to slip on the water and fall to her knees in front of me.
Even though she made her hair be more wet and made some blue dirt cover her lingerie, this dark witch couldn't resist sobbing with feelings of insecurity. As some tears fell from her eyes and she tried to stand in a confident manner, I actually respected that she attempted to walk past me with much more confidence. Although, a confident model's eyes would never be displaying feelings of sadness and insecurity. This woman seemed like she aspired to be a great fashion model, yet having feelings of insecurity were like sticky water weighing down on her feet.
"If you want to be seen as a very confident woman, then you have to commit yourself to not feeling insecure." I told her with an arrogant smile on my face, before gently pulling on her bra and only ripping it when she stepped back too quickly.
That prompted me to ask this girl with a confident and calm smile forming on my face, before sounding seductive, "Do you know how to relax? Would you want to take a nice relaxing break with a fashion model?"
Before she could respond, I roughly gripped her shoulders and I pulled her forward. This assistant named Lucy ended up having her face be right in front of my huge breasts, and I gently unhooked my bra. She watched my bra fall down into the water, before I grabbed one of her hands and allowed her to touch one of my breasts. Feeling my soft breasts caused Lucy's face to blush rose pink, but I proceeded to exhale a very soft and breath down on to her. Lucy also breathed softly, calming herself down as she touched my breasts.
As she started to rub my breasts and elicited soft breaths up to my nipples, I giggled in a soft manner while maintaining my confidence at how she couldn't arouse me. I wouldn't be aroused by someone who didn't really seem to have a liking for the color blue, and Lucy still also seemed too timid. Still, this was a good first step at getting her to display some genuine confidence. She confidently let her hands go down to my stomach, before they went further down for her to start wiping some water off of my thighs and my underwear.
Touching Lucy's underwear and bra with my hands caused her to move her hands away from my body, and she took off her clothes. Now that Lucy was naked, I could be like a critiquing fashion designer and smile arrogantly as I felt that she really did have a beautiful body. Having such huge breasts with a field of purple hair covering her pussy was cute to see, but Lucy turning around to display her hips and ass that weren't as thick as mine only caused me to smile at her in a playful manner. Even if Lucy wanted to be a prominent fashion model, she was still lacking physical beauty and the beauty of being fully self-confident.
"Even if you've got subservience and cuteness, you need more confidence and a much calmer attitude. Being calm and confident will help you truly be very seductive and work towards being hot enough to at least get a page in Sorcerer Magazine someday." I told Lucy with a confident look on my face, believing my own words to be extremely true.
Lucy proceeded to ask me with a somewhat excited smile on her face, having the confidence to not mind that she was naked, "Would it be possible for me to at least be the main star in a high-end campaign, since yours was so beautiful and amazing?"
I simply nodded with a confident smile on my face, thinking that Lucy would possibly get featured in a campaign of her own, "Well, you've already been featured in my campaign of how a confident mermaid can rescue a weaker girl from drowning in her own insecurities. Although, you were just my little assistant for this job and you did your job well enough for my photographer to reward you."
Lucy looked over at my photographer, who pulled out a small bag of 600,000 jewels from her bag of items. That small and neon blue bag was immediately teleported away to Minerva, who had been happy to receive the money. Lucy seemed happy about succeeding at this job, too, and she hugged me. Although, feeling Lucy's large and bare breasts press against my body caused her to comically blush light pink as she felt her breasts and pussy touch my body. I simply rubbed her back in a gentle manner, trying to calm her down.
Lucy's surge of feeling flustered was quickly quelled, and she picked up her wet clothes. Upon seeing Lucy's wet clothes, Minerva wasted no time with dropping my other blue lingerie outfits and she ran over to Lucy. Even though the job was now officially complete, Minerva could still buy more clothes from the fashion store and claim they were for me. After all, these two girls who seemed like low-level fashion models weren't really making many jewels be put on a tab of someone who succeeded as S-Class missions in Aroma Flair.
Speaking of missions, I had heard a bit of news about two purple-haired women being the heroes who saved Blizzard Town yesterday. Were Lucy and Minerva supposed to be those two mages? They had been featured in the newspaper, but I felt way too arrogant to read such a thing that didn't concern my successes. In fact, people who completed S-Class jobs or A-Class jobs seemed to only end up in the newspaper if there were no other jobs that caught people's attention. Whether Lucy and Minerva earned their fame by skill or by luck would be an interesting thought, but I would await the day when these women gave off the auras of being extremely self-confident.
Ten minutes later, in the clothing store... (Minerva's POV)
Despite the fact that I felt very self-confident today, I also felt uncomfortable at how Aoikina was so physically close to Lucy. Even if Aoikina viewed Lucy as being the inferior girl who would be featured in her next campaign's photos in Sorcerer Magazine, the way that Aoikina acted so seductive and encouraging made me feel like I had been a terrible mistress for allowing Lucy to not fully be in my clutches from the beginning. Even though I had seduced Lucy into thinking that Annette Rosia and the other dominant girls weren't worth her time, that issue of Sorcerer Magazine made me frown in a jealous manner.
My jealousy stemmed from how Aoikina was acting so overconfident, yet the amount of confidence that she displayed could've been replicated by any dark witch. Even I could've been that confident, but Lucy felt like she needed to take advice from the professional fashion models. Even if they gave good advice, I didn't want their words to diminish any suggestions that I would make. In fact, my suggestions still had to be followed by Lucy because of how I was the woman who was leading our team.
Leading Lucy into this fashion store made me feel like I needed to confidently find the right clothes for her to wear, and seeing her quickly go into one of the fitting rooms to put on some cerulean blue lingerie that I had dropped on the ground earlier allowed me to have some inspiration enter my mind. I hastily went over to a clothes rack for the purpose of picking out a cerulean blue midriff shirt, but that shirt would have to be complimented by a cobalt blue coat and some light blue yoga pants that had a plain blue plaid design on them.
These pants would make Lucy's ass look just as large as Aoikina's ass, but Lucy's ass still wouldn't be as plump as mine. I sweetly giggled while admiring the sight of my own ass in a rectangular mirror that had a navy blue border, before my eyes caught the sight of an indigo blue necklace sitting on one of the nearby plain blue shelves with other blue necklaces alongside it. This necklace may have had the same design as the one worn by Aoikina, but this indigo blue necklace was like my admiration of the color purple mixing with Lucy's little admiration for the color blue.
"Lucy, I'd love for you to let me put this necklace on you after getting you those lapis blue shoes." I quietly stated aloud to myself, before giggling in a confident manner.
Upon seeing those lapis blue shoes on the cerulean blue shoe rack, the design of indigo blue icicles on those shoes caused me to have a small smile of happiness on my face. I felt very happy at how the color purple was blending with the color blue in the design, almost like it symbolized me and Lucy going from feelings of seduction to now focusing on our shared interests. We both may have had interests in fashion and posing for cameras, but I started to feel some warmth in my heart from remembering how Lucy boldly stood up for me in front of Phoebe while almost seeming a bit possessive.
Lucy's trait of being possessive wasn't really that different from my own possessive attitude, since I really felt like I wanted to protect my submissive little teammate. Lucy had been so subservient up until that fight against Glacienne, but seeing her end up drowning and getting sick made me feel like I really needed to look out for her. Caring for Lucy also caused more feelings to start welling up in my heart, but these felt like strong feelings of jealousy and paranoia. I honestly did feel paranoid from seeing Lucy and Aoikina together, especially since I had only just started regaining my confidence.
If I couldn't regain my confidence and a more confident woman came along to seduce Lucy and steal her away to a new team, then that would make me look inferior to the women of Aroma Flair. Aoikina could've stolen Lucy's heart by kissing her, and she could've even let Lucy's face nuzzle against her large breasts for hours until Lucy was no longer blushing in a flustered or aroused manner. In fact, I felt surprised at how Aoikina didn't ask Lucy to massage her smooth skin in the hot spring or even make the photo shoot be much more intimate with several shots of them almost kissing or having Aoikina kiss Lucy in several places.
"After Aoikina kissed Lucy's forehead, did a part of Lucy's heart make her feel happy enough to giggle from liking the kiss?" I asked myself in a somewhat worried manner, hoping Lucy wouldn't let herself get seduced by Aoikina.
As I also thought about how Lucy looked hypnotized in that moment where she kissed Aoikina's breasts and let Aoikina hold her, I asked with a curious facial expression, "Do I need to hold Lucy as if she's my bride?"
Thinking about Lucy being my bride only prompted me to imagine us almost kissing while we would both be wearing purple wedding dresses, but the image of seeing myself get replaced by the sight of Aoikina in a neon blue wedding dress as she gave Lucy that wedding kiss caused me to walk towards the lingerie section of this fashion store in an aggressive manner. Seeing the lingerie outfits in different shades of blue caused me to roll my eyes in a somewhat rude manner, and I picked out a cerulean blue lacy bra with cerulean blue lacy panties to match.
The underwear and the bra were actually in the same hue as those Cerulean Cosmos flowers, which had been on the matching bracelets that Lucy purchased for us. I still tightly wore my bracelet on my wrist, but I also realized that Lucy never actually let her bracelet slip off of her arm whilst being in the water. She was probably trying to make it fit well with the blue water, since this was her day of idolizing Aoikina. Lucy's choice to admire Aoikina's confidence made me wonder if she even tried to make Aoikina wear that bracelet, only for Aoikina to want a necklace that complimented her theme of being a mermaid who could put Lucy in a trance.
I felt that I could still be the dark and sultry witch who was capable of seducing Lucy, especially since I could give her sweet forehead kisses. She always enjoyed getting kissed on the forehead by me, and her gentle lips felt nice against my forehead because of how her soft touch complimented the roughness of my lips. The thought of being affectionate towards Lucy caused my cheeks to blush rose pink while I walked back to the fitting room, and I sighed in a defeated manner as I felt like I needed to resign myself to the feelings in my heart. My love for Lucy was increasing, just like how Lucy had been in love with me.
20 minutes later, in Blizzard Town... (Lucy's POV)
Being in love with Minerva allowed us to handle fun jobs such as this one, and I smiled softly at the fact that Minerva even bought me some new clothes after my own clothes were thrown into the hot spring. Aoikina had gotten them out of the water before leaving the hot spring resort, but she did leave them on the ground after confidently smiling with the perception that I deserved to wear better clothes. Minerva had purchased better clothes for me from a seemingly high-end store in the town of Blizzard, and I loved that my cobalt blue coat looked as fancy as Minerva's purple coat.
As I walked right behind Minerva and gently felt the soft and warm fabric of her coat to where I cutely giggled at its softness, Minerva suddenly stopped walking down this street that led to the train station. The moment that she stopped walking was when I also stopped walking, but Minerva proceeded to tie her hair back into a long ponytail right before she turned around to face me. She had a shy look on her face while her cheeks blushed light pink, but Minerva groaned in a somewhat insecure manner as I felt curious about what she would say.
"Lucy, I... I know you want me to love you, but I have... to wonder if you... would've massaged Aoikina's body... and kissed her skin with... genuine romantic feelings... if she asked that of you." Minerva told me with a nervous look on her face, her eyes slightly displaying a sense of heartbreak.
That prompted me to reply in a stunned manner, "Minerva-sama, I wouldn't easily fall in love with Aoikina-san! Aoikina-san may have given me much more confidence and provided good advice while being seductive, but you should know I'm not frantically going to fall in love with every beautiful woman from Aroma Flair!"
"If you're admitting that Aoikina is beautiful and you wanted to get advice from her today, then just tell me about all those warm feelings of confidence, bliss, and seduction that you felt in that forehead kiss. That kiss must have felt sweeter than when I kiss you, and you'll probably dislike how I sultrily seduce you into being my servant now. Even if you were submissive to her for that photo shoot, kissing and seducing with emotion isn't easily faked." Minerva responded to me with a somewhat jealous look forming on her face, her eyes displaying some displeasure at my answer.
"Is your heart making you believe a feigned idea of me being in love with Aoikina for you to obscure your own feelings of possessiveness and jealousy? If you felt uncomfortable from seeing another beautiful woman treating me as her pet, did your own insecurities about our dynamic stop you from intervening in this whole situation where I had to deal with my own insecurities regarding my own beauty?" I asked Minerva in a calm manner, my facial expression starting to look stoic as I really wondered why she never made the photo shoot cease at any point.
Minerva simply scoffed at me in a rude manner while rolling her eyes, not even trying to answer my questions. The fact that I asked some questions where Minerva gave me no answers only meant that my assumptions hit their targets, and Minerva was actually jealous of me being in the arms of a beautiful woman. Even if that woman would be an A-list fashion model, Minerva wanted me to be in her arms instead! In fact, Minerva's question about me massaging Aoikina was likely her way of hinting that she wanted a massage from me while not wanting to imagine me massaging Aoikina as she wore blue lingerie.
Speaking of blue lingerie, I smiled from looking down in my coat and my shirt to see my new lingerie. Minerva must have thought I wanted some dry and blue clothes that would make me match with Aoikina, but the fact that Minerva herself picked them out felt as if her own possessiveness towards me was combating her own paranoia. If Minerva felt paranoid about a possible love triangle happening between herself, me, and Aoikina, then Minerva was the one changing the dynamics of our relationship.
Our relationship was that of a dominant lady with a subservient and lesser woman, but Minerva was now experiencing jealousy and shifting how we interacted because she was catching feelings for me. Minerva having romantic feelings for me may have finally happened, but I couldn't really be surprised at how her immense desire to keep me romantically close to her led Minerva to making her heart experience feelings of wanting that closeness to not be threatened in any way. Minerva made herself end up falling in love with me, even as she tried hard to avoid that.
Being subservient to her own romantic feelings wasn't a bad thing for Minerva, though. She indirectly just made me realize that she cared so much about how I felt about her in comparison to Aoikina, and that was because Minerva was starting to fall in love with me. She even continued to blush while looking at my face and my eyes, which caused me to blush from how I realized that Minerva was admiring my physical beauty. She had even seen me wear lingerie, along with being naked, and Minerva started to tightly pull me close as if she wanted me to choose to the path of falling in love with her.
"Minerva-sama, I've already been falling in love with you. In fact, I've been wanting to become your girlfriend and share that moment's sweet kiss." I cutely whispered to Minerva in a soft tone of voice while my face started to blush hot pink.
That prompted me to add in a soft manner, sweetly whispering as I closed my eyes and let my lips move towards Minerva's lips, "I want you to kiss my lips, Minerva-sama."
Minerva firmly put one hand against my lips, before sternly telling me, "Just because I'm getting romantic feelings for you, you're not allowed to use that as an excuse for trying to kiss me. Even if you think my lips are beautiful, you can't charm me enough to get a kiss."
I replied with a nice smile on my face after opening my eyes to see Minerva look at me with seriousness in her eyes, "Then, I'll wait for when you want us to be girlfriends. When we share that kiss and become a couple, I hope you'll look as beautiful as you do now. You look so pretty and stylish, Minerva-sama."
Minerva's face blushed hot pink from hearing me compliment her beauty, and we both blushed at each other in this moment where she started seeming slightly surprised. Minerva must have thought that I completely forgot about how she loved to be complimented. Minerva continued to blush from receiving that compliment, and I understood that she didn't want me to kiss her lips. However, I softly kissed Minerva on the cheek and sighed happily at how our feelings of romance were being very warm in the cold town of Blizzard.
Even the air's coldness and the iciness of the falling snowflakes couldn't quell the warmth in our hearts. My own heart was beating at a fast pace after kissing Minerva's cheek, and my heart kept palpitating fast from looking up at her. Minerva looked down at me, both of us blushing at how we were both falling in love with each other. Minerva proceeded to give me a passionate kiss on the cheek, before sultrily placing a sweet kiss on my forehead while she elicited a slightly lustful sigh of happiness. Minerva started to look at me with lust in her eyes, her smile being both happy and sultry.
I smiled back at Minerva with happiness and lust in my eyes, before we both sighed lovingly at how those kisses felt so sweet. We gazed into each other's eyes while blushing, both of us feeling like we were emotionally on the same wavelength right now. My emotion of happiness was bursting with high amounts of intensity right now, and Minerva felt just as much happiness. Although, Minerva soon felt happy enough to pull out an indigo blue necklace from one pocket of her yoga pants. Minerva's hips and ass swayed as she walked past me, lustfully hitting my butt with her ass, and Minerva soon got behind me.
She gently placed the necklace around my neck, its indigo beads feeling as warm as the pendant, and Minerva gently wrapped her arms around me. Minerva displayed more of her feelings for me by hugging me from behind, the hug being so tight to where I felt confident enough to just relax my back against her body. Although, this moment where we both felt comfortable was when I started softly smiling from seeing the reflection of myself in the ice whilst wearing this beautiful necklace. Its color of blue mixed with purple not only reflected the respective fashion choices of myself and Minerva, but the necklace also joined the ice in reflecting the sight of how our hug and closeness displayed that our hearts' warmest feelings were finally starting to mesh well together.
How was Chapter 9? Feel free to tell me your thoughts on it. Lucy has learned that relaxing herself is a part of being more self-confident for her to someday reach the levels of power and notoriety of the girls in the Aroma Flair guild, Speaking of Aroma Flair, that guild will eventually be seen in this story and its members are aware of Minerva's win in Cyan Town being a small piece of news in Sorcerer Magazine. Although, Lucy and Minerva may both end up in that magazine or a different fashion magazine in Fiore if they keep training to be powerful and beautiful witches. Speaking of beauty, Minerva's thought of Lucy massaging Aoikina and possibly kissing her is just a little Easter egg that references the original plot for these three characters.
The prominent romantic aspect of two people's hearts and feelings meshing on the same wavelength for them to work well together was displayed in this chapter, along with the romantic aspects of jealousy and possessiveness increasing a person's feelings of love. Furthermore, putting someone on a pedestal and idolizing them was also a romantic aspect. Anyway, this is the third part of the Cerulean Cosmos Arc! I'll update soon. :)
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