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Chapter 5: Lucy's Romantic Feelings & Minerva's Rejection! Phoebe Hauntra, The Elite Dark Witch! Perfumes, Insecurities, & Shared Interests!
Lucy's POV
I slowly opened my eyes to see that I had been sleeping in this hotel room with Minerva, who still had her arms wrapped around me like a lover as she slept. Minerva was sleeping in a peaceful manner, quietly snoring as her cheeks blushed light pink. My face also blushed light pink from realizing that my large boobs were pressed against Minerva's huge breasts, and the fact that we were both naked right now meant that our shared experience of having sex wasn't just a dream. It actually happened, but I smiled down at Minerva in a loving manner.
She was right to think that we needed to have sex, since it really helped me get rid of several sexual feelings that were lingering for Erza. Did Minerva want to replace those lingering feelings of mine with romantic desires that were directed towards her? From my perspective, Minerva genuinely wanted me to be in love with her that felt evident because of our first kiss. When she gave me that kiss with passion in her warm lips, it felt very wonderful for that kind of intimacy to be in my very first kiss. I really enjoyed Minerva kissing me, even though I softly kissed back.
Softly kissing back was what I felt to be a good thing to do for a first kiss, and Minerva seemed to like it. Since we kissed and had sex, I nicely smiled at the idea of us now being in a romantic relationship. Weren't romantic relationships pertinent to sexual intimacy? Minerva and I both did like yesterday's experience of intimacy, but a romantic relationship also did require both people to agree to being girlfriends. Minerva refused to be my girlfriend when I previously admitted that I felt attracted to her, but my heart was slightly beating with warmth at the thought of her wanting to date me later on.
Minerva did get to experience that I could give her very soft kisses, along with how I could pleasure her during sex while also letting myself feel very seduced by her manipulative behavior. Letting myself get seduced by Minerva did cause me to blush more, since I even felt enchanted by her touch. The way that she roughly fingered my pussy and squeezed my breasts caused my body to feel blissful, and even making me kiss her pussy caused my body to feel more warmth. When I had given a kiss to Minerva's pussy, it just felt amazing to kiss Minerva's beautiful body.
"Mmmm..." Minerva sternly groaned in her sleep, still holding me against her chest as we were pressed against each other.
That caused me to cutely whisper, lightly smiling in this moment of letting one of my hands brush against her breasts, "Good morning, Minerva-sama."
As I nuzzled my face against one of her breasts and softly sucked on her nipple, Minerva responded in a groggy manner, "Mmmmm... It's... morning."
Even though Minerva heard me tell her that a new morning had arrived, she still calmly slept. She was sleeping with a happy smile forming on her face, almost like she enjoyed the feeling of me sucking on her nipple. I proceeded to gently let one of my fingers touch her nipple, hearing her groan as the nipple became more erect. I put my mouth on it while moving one hand to be under Minerva's breast, only for me to feel her pull my body upward. That caused me to look a bit flustered, blushing as I ended up kissing Minerva's forehead.
Minerva elicited a soft sigh of happiness, her eyes being closed as her cheeks blushed more for me to see that enjoyed that soft little kiss. She kept my lips down on her forehead by pulling my body down towards hers, and our legs rubbed together as I closed my eyes. I could only feel myself putting another sweet kiss on Minerva's forehead, and my lips calmly touched her skin. Minerva sighed softly as I tried to let my tongue lick her forehead in a somewhat sultry manner for a moment, but her lips formed a loving smile as she made one of her hands caress my hips.
That caused me to cease with kissing her for a moment to elicit a soft moan of happiness, and I let her hand go down to touch my huge ass. As Minerva's hand gently touched my large ass, I let out some hot breaths and lightly moaned. I elicited another moan as Minerva rubbed my ass, but she elicited a sweet moan from how one of my hands moved down to gently caress her stomach. That hand slightly slid down to touch her pussy, which gently rubbed against mine as Minerva lightly moved her body during her sleep.
"Minerva-sama..." I nicely whispered against her lips, blushing and smiling as I rubbed my pussy against hers in this moment where we were both still covered in each other's juices.
That prompted Minerva to seductively moan into my mouth, before opening her eyes and telling me in a somewhat cranky manner, "Ohhhhh... If you try to have sex with me while I'm... asleep, I'll... kick your ass."
Upon feeling Minerva's hand firmly press down on both of my ass cheeks as she began to smirk, I tightly clenched my teeth and closed my eyes. She proceeded to quickly rub my ass cheeks, prompting me to try suppressing a moan, and Minerva even put some of the juices from her face on to my ass cheeks before trying to peel them off. The softness of the sticky juices peeling off caused me to elicit a loud moan while blushing more, my eyes widening with mixed feelings of shock and pleasure as I felt happy from how Minerva dominated over me after waking up.
Minerva aggressively rolled over on the bed with me for a moment, allowing herself to be on top of me as her massive breasts pressed down against my huge breasts and pink nipples. Minerva simply placed her hands above my nipples, almost like she wanted to rub them. However, rubbing my nipples hadn't been her priority and Minerva gave me a teasing smirk. As Minerva smirked down at me like how Annette had rudely done, I simply looked at Minerva in a pleading manner. Begging for her to seduce me with her rough and warm hands caused her to quickly rub my breasts, before she aggressively groped them.
As Minerva aggressively groped my breasts and placed a passionate kiss on my lips, my body experienced feelings of bliss as I moaned in ecstasy. I elicited another moan during the passionate kiss with Minerva, and I softly kissed her back while closing my eyes. As her hands moved around to gently caress my pussy, I opened my eyes and they contained feelings of love as I looked up at Minerva. Minerva also had feelings of love in her eyes, blushing as she made her hands gently go around to rub my back. She briefly rubbed my back, before ending our passionate kiss and gently biting my lower lip. As I sighed sweetly at how Minerva bit my lip, she seductively smiled at me.
Minerva's POV
I seductively smirked at Lucy for a moment, feeling very glad that she was letting herself get tempted to actually want to have sex with me after we had both woken up. Since she desired and begged to experience more intimacy with a dominant and beautiful woman such as myself, my lips started to form a lustful smile at how my methods of seduction were able to make Lucy stop thinking about Erza and Annette. Lucy was probably now thinking of only being submissive to me, and she even kissed me with such softness to display that she was inferior to me.
By making Lucy believe that she still had to obey my every command, I was able to seduce her into making her heart's feelings be directed towards me. Lucy's romantic feelings would only be felt by her, since I viewed this experience as therapeutic sex. Our lovemaking was a good type of therapy for Lucy, as it helped her sweat out all those emotions of stress and jealousy by making her burn up so much energy during sex. The fact that Lucy even moaned my name during sex caused me to giggle in a sweet manner, happy that she was letting herself drown in romantic feelings for a dark witch.
Lucy was also a dark witch now, so making her fall in love with me would allow her heart to stop being torn up over Erza while she also wouldn't let herself be tempted to fall for Annette. Even though Lucy gave several kisses to Annette's ass and let her heart be pained during those moments, the kisses that she recently gave to my forehead felt very sweet as if she was finished with picking up the pieces of her shattered heart. Of course, repairing her emotions would truly take time. That time could be spent away from Annette and Sunnysol's biggest beach, though.
Lucy and I weren't going to spend our day in Sunnysol, since the smell of chocolate would still be in the beach's air, and I didn't need any of the gossiping locals laughing at my little partner. Lucy didn't want to be laughed at, and she also didn't need anyone teasing her by guiding her to any shops that sold chocolate, either. Chocolate personally wasn't my favorite treat right now, and I would've rather had some lavender-flavored cupcakes. The sweet smell of lavender would be relaxing to my body, and it probably would relax Lucy in this moment of her continuing to blush at me while smiling blissfully.
"Minerva-sama, did our newest passionate kiss officially signify that we're girlfriends and dating?" Lucy asked me with a joyful smile on her face, her cheeks blushing rose pink as her eyes were filled with the feeling of love.
That caused me to respond with a startled look on my face, before narrowing my eyes and harshly frowning at Lucy, "Lucy, that's...! No, we're not girlfriends and we aren't in a romantic relationship!"
I continued speaking, my eyes starting to have a somewhat calmer look in them, "Romantic relationships don't usually start with therapeutic sex that makes you feel good!"
Lucy asked me with a soft smile on her face, her smile becoming somewhat larger to display some happiness, "Minerva-sama, you wanted me to feel good? Is it great that every part of my mind and body feel wonderful right now? Does your beautiful body feel good, too?"
Lucy's last question caused me to blush more while I turned away from her, my face looking a bit miffed at how she asked another interesting question. If I even told Lucy that my body genuinely felt sore and wonderful from our experience of having sex, then the soreness of our bodies would probably be overshadowed by Lucy thinking that we both had desires of romance in our hearts when we had sex. All I desired yesterday was the result of making her heart and mind move on from Erza and Annette, but I guess that my greatest success came with this drawback.
The drawback of Lucy wanting a romantic relationship with me was that she would probably be thinking about kissing me on every single mission while being overly sexual, but I felt like her desire for intimacy on this calm morning needed to be quelled. Quelling romantic feelings also applied to me, since I was currently on top of Lucy while we were both naked. Seeing her nude body honestly made me smile a bit, as she did have large breasts that went well with her thick thighs, huge ass, and wide hips.
As on of my hands moved down to caress Lucy's hips in a gentle manner, I watched her use one hand to just put a finger to my lips. Even though I hadn't spoken, Lucy smiled as she got to see my lovely body still glisten from all of our juices and sweat mixing together. I caressed my own ass with one hand for a moment, before rubbing my fingers against Lucy's mouth and nose. She simply let her lips touch my fingers, before sighing in a happy manner as her body also gleamed, and Lucy even licked my fingers like a cat who wanted to be on the lap of her mistress.
"If you want to be on my lap like a cute cat when you're around me, then at least put on your swimsuit before we go back to the Seductive Witch guild." I told Lucy with an arrogant and sultry smile on my face, as my eyes glanced at the pink shopping bag that was in front of the bed.
Lucy got out of bed and replied with an obedient smile on her face, her tone of voice sounding as if she was mesmerized my beauty, Yes, Minerva-sama. You're such a beautiful witch."
Lucy's cute compliment caused me to nicely reply as we got out of bed together, "Thank you for saying that, my dear little Lucy."
Lucy happily giggled in response, before going over to the shopping bag and taking out some fuchsia pink striped underwear. Lucy put on the underwear, which had some bright fuchsia pink lacy trim, and Lucy proceeded to put on the fuchsia pink bra that had fuchsia pink lacy trim. The fashion brand of this lingerie was high-end, and the bag even included some hot pink high-heeled shoes that had the design of pink lipstick tubes on the front of them. The shoes were part of this same brand, but I picked out this outfit because I wanted Lucy to think about kissing me.
The sight of Lucy kissing Annette's large and thick ass did make my heart experience some feelings of stress, however. I had seen the chocolate brown lipstick on Annette's face when we locked eyes, and I did make sure to look at Lucy's body for any chocolate brown lipstick stains. If Annette had been kissing Erza, then she didn't need to kiss the cute girl who had been working under me. Wait, did I just refer to my lustful little witch as being a cute girl? Lucy was cute, but only in terms of being submissive.
She obediently knelt in front of my bare body as I got in front in front of her, smiling as I turned around to just let my large ass softly brush against Lucy's face. She let out a soft sigh of happiness, before putting her head under my ass in a clingy manner as if she didn't want me to leave. As she nuzzled her face against my thighs, I turned around to gently pat her head and smile in a calm manner. Lucy would get to see my beautiful ass in this moment where I walked towards the bathroom, and I had a proud smile on my face at how I would finally get to have my morning shower before leaving this hotel.
Later that day, in the Seductive Witch guild... (Lucy's POV)
After Minerva finished taking a hot shower and paid the receptionist 10,000 jewels as we checked out of that hotel from Sunnysol Town, we took the train back to Mauve Town. Going back to Mauve Town allowed us to get back to the Seductive Witch guild, which was currently filled with many dark witches right now. Several of the dark mages stood in front of the request board, meaning that Minerva and I would have to either wait for them to leave or simply push past them for the chance to get a good job before anyone else could take it.
Minerva pushed past some people who stood around in the guildhall, making her way to the request board while I followed her. I managed to stand right behind Minerva as she unpinned a mauve purple flyer from the request board, but Minerva was soon shoved aside by an older woman who had eggplant purple hair. That dark witch wore an eggplant purple midriff shirt with lavender purple Capri pants that showed off her huge ass. That woman's huge ass nearly slammed against my face when she leaned down to check out the request board, but I stepped back and calmed myself down.
I calmly glanced at Minerva for a moment, seeing that she was lightly being pressed against the request board by some other dark witches who wanted to handle some new jobs. The thought of Minerva accidentally getting stuck with a boring job prompted me to calmly smirk in an evil manner like Minerva, and I crouched down to be right behind the dark witch who just pushed her aside. As Minerva gently shoved that woman's arm for her to stand up straight and casually lean down with her ass stretched out towards me, I used this opportunity to make my hand unpin a light blue flyer from the request board.
The light blue flyer caught my eye from how the reward was giving 700,000 jewels to a dark witch, and I smiled happily as I got to see that the job would take place in Blizzard Town. The town of Blizzard had been known for its cold temperatures, and my lips formed a happier smile from how Minerva and I would get to fight against an outlaw. This outlaw was apparently a dark mage who had been producing dangerous blizzards, along with other ice-based attacks that were troublesome to the wizards who lived in that town.
After seeing Minerva aggressively get out of the crowd and tightly grab one of my wrists, I told her with a kind smile on my face as we walked over to a table, "Minerva-sama, I found a great job for us to handle."
Minerva sat down at the table with me, before rudely replying as she read the flyer, "Well, you sure are as evil as me if you want us to deal with people who wield Ice Magic."
Minerva added with an annoyed frown on her face, rolling her eyes as she explained the situation to me, "Cold weather just isn't fun to endure, Lucy."
The fact that Minerva didn't want to endure cold weather actually caused me to nod in agreement, since I also didn't like the idea of freezing to death. Freezing was also dangerous in fights, since enemies could take advantage of that by torturing me with explosive attacks that would break the ice right before making me get frozen again. I didn't want to become an ice statue, since getting too cold would probably allow enemies to easily shatter every bone in my body or freeze my blood. Dealing with icy enemies seemed scary, but I looked as annoyed as Minerva.
I wasn't annoyed with her, but I felt annoyed at the thought of losing another battle. I had already lost a battle in an emotional sense, since Annette was my superior rival who Erza loved, and I didn't want to experience another loss. In fact, my feelings of annoyance caused me to clench my fists to where the purple aura that lightly engulfed them felt hot like my burning passion to do well on this mission. Since I could get burned by purple flames of my dark Celestial Spirit Magic, didn't that also mean I could burn my enemies?
If I could make my magic be strong enough, then my hot flames could melt ice that was as cold as glaciers. Explosions of cold ice could probably prove to be problematic for my magic, since they could likely freeze my flames. If frosty cold weather and Ice Magic froze my flames, then I would just need to adapt to the situation. Adapting to tough jobs was important, especially since this was going to be an A-Class job. This tier of jobs was right below the S-Class jobs, which were reserved for some of the elite mages. As my eyes glanced at Minerva's flyer to see if she picked out an S-Class job, the woman from earlier slowly approached our table with a smug smile on her face.
"Hey, Minerva. Sorcerer Magazine's most minor news issues said that you won in Cyan Town's local fashion show. You're certainly looking fashionable when you're up against weaklings, just like in Sabertooth." The woman with long and eggplant purple hair rudely told Minerva, before giving her a vicious smirk.
That caused Minerva to scoff, before folding her arms and frowning in an uncaring manner, "Hello to you, too, Phoebe. Just because you take jobs related to higher-ranked missions, don't diminish my success."
"Mistress Violetta said yesterday that your recent successes involved jobs that weren't as tough as mine where I effortlessly succeeded, and she told my team about your little servant. It's adorable that you partnered with the new girl, truly compensating for your lack of skills." Phoebe retorted with an arrogant smile on her face, before rudely laughing.
That caused me to get up from my chair to tell Phoebe with a nervous facial expression, seeing that my face only reached up to her abs as she towered over me in this moment where Minerva's eyes displayed a bit of fear, "Hey, you.. can't talk to Minerva-sama like... that! Yesterday, she... helped me through... tough tasks."
My moment of being intimidated by Phoebe whilst Minerva's eyes also expressed some feelings of being scared only resulted in Phoebe laughing in a heckling manner. She continued to laugh, along with making one hand rub my hair in a rude manner. She whispered some words in my ear about plain purple being the gaudiest shade of purple for my hair, before smirking at Minerva as if that was her decision. Minerva simply turned her head away from Phoebe while frowning in a manner that expressed disappointment, leaving Phoebe to walk out of the guild.
As Phoebe left the guildhall of Seductive Witch, my eyes glanced at Minerva's mauve purple flyer. The job that Minerva picked out for us interestingly involved helping Reira, who was working at Mauve Town's perfume shop today. The reward for helping Reira at the perfume shop would be 90,000 jewels, which would come from the owner that left Reira in charge while she would be on a little vacation in a place known as Fuchsia Town. I had never been to Fuchsia, but maps of Fiore did indicate that it was somewhat close to the Aroma Flair guild.
I certainly wouldn't visit Aroma Flair, but it would be nice to just cheer up Minerva while we were in Mauve Town. She continued to look disappointed at the recent situation, causing me to have a feeling of disappointment enter my eyes as I wondered if I embarrassed her. If I made Minerva feel humiliated by trying to stand up to Phoebe, then I would make amends for it. I simply folded up my flyer while putting it in my bikini top, before putting Minerva's flyer in front of her face for her to simply get up from the table and walk out of the guild with me by her side.
Five minutes later, at the perfume store... (Minerva's POV)
I walked to the perfume shop with Lucy, seeing her frown in a somewhat disappointed manner like how I had been frowning as we entered the store. Going into the perfume shop's store allowed me to see the plum purple bookcases that were positioned near the entrance, which had a plain purple circular rug in front of the door while the rug complimented the amethyst purple walls that matched the grape purple carpeting. There was even a grape purple wooden basket on the mauve purple square table that sat in the center of the shop, and the basket contained several grape purple bottles of perfume.
There were some other grape purple bottles of perfumes on the dark purple shelves that were next to Reira's counter, but they were in baskets that contained many other perfume bottles. I glanced at the flyer that was pertinent to the perfume bottles, and my eyes became filled with some feelings of annoyance towards Reira. As I looked at Reira, I felt upset that her flyer gave us the task of sniffing many scented perfumes, since she didn't want her flames of Darkness Magic to make the flammable perfumes be ignited. As I groaned at Reira in a miffed manner, she sheepishly laughed.
"Minerva, at least you're here with the new girl. If you two had let Phoebe have this job, she would've bought all of the perfumes for herself." Reira stated to me with a kind smile appearing on her face, feeling happy that I took on this request.
Lucy asked aloud with a curious facial expression, "Minerva-sama, who exactly is Phoebe? Is she a very powerful mage?"
I responded to Lucy in an uncaring manner, folding my arms, "Phoebe Hauntra is a powerful dark witch, and her Darkness Magic can make her be ghostly. If she walks through the wall, then don't get scared of her flashy entrance."
Reira added with a delighted smile on her face, "Phoebe Hauntra also takes the best jobs for herself, and she's a high-end model in several beauty magazines for witches!"
The fact that Phoebe shoved me aside to take a good job and leave me with this one only made me utter a deep breath, calming myself down to where I could smile in a seductive manner. Lucy smiled back at me while our cheeks blushed light pink, and I gently grabbed one of her hands and guided it to touch the wooden basket of grape-scented perfumes. However, the moment that Lucy's hand got in the basket was when Reira sent her Darkness Magic into a nearby basket and levitated it towards Lucy's face. Lucy grabbed the basket, seeing the neon purple aura of Reira's magic start to vanish from being around it.
Lucy calmly looked at Reira, who smiled in an encouraging manner at us to spray the perfumes. I took out a lavender purple bottle of perfume, spraying it in the air to discover that the perfume merely smelled like lavender flowers. The scent of lavender flowers was followed by the scent of mauve roses filling the air, as Lucy sprayed some of that perfume on herself. She happily smiled at the aroma around her, the smoke being mauve purple as I blew most of it towards her. Lucy sighed happily, loving this scent that had been making her feel seduced towards me.
I happily smiled at her, glad that she was finding a way to enjoy this job, but Lucy soon sprayed some of that perfume towards me. Most of it ended up being right in my face, causing me to cough a bit. My eyes were a bit watery while picking out the royal purple bottle of perfume, and spraying it into the air allowed me to detect that it smelled like Taro milk tea. This perfume may have smelled extremely sweet, but I had gotten a whiff of it after Phoebe walked past our table in the guildhall. I quickly put that square-shaped bottle bask in the basket, not minding that it fell over.
One perfume bottle that fell over was dark purple, and I quickly grabbed it to spray its scent towards one of the store's shelves. This perfume's scent reminded me of the cupcakes from Mauve Town's dessert shop, the cupcakes oddly being made from a sweetened purple treat that resembled chocolate without even tasting like it. The aroma was very sweet, its scent causing me to softly smile as if I had been in a bakery right now. That scent was followed by Lucy heavily spraying a grape purple bottle of perfume, and my nose took in the aromatic smell of grape jelly.
"Minerva-sama, all of these scents smell so wonderful! They would've been perfect to have in Sunnysol, since we-" Lucy stated aloud with a joyful facial expression, her face blushing more right before I ran over to cover her mouth.
As Lucy tried to speak in this moment where my perfume-drenched hands covered her mouth, Reira asked in a bored tone, "What did you two do yesterday, other than not be in Seductive Witch to welcome Phoebe back?"
That caused me to reply with a slightly nervous look on my face, not wanting Reira, Phoebe, or anyone else to think I was dating Lucy, "Lucy's just referring to how we were intensely training, and the heat in Sunnysol Town made us sweat to where we needed perfume!"
Reira simply rolled her eyes in response while frowning in a slightly snarky manner, as she also realized that Lucy and I visited Sunnysol Town when no festivals were occurring. If a huge festival had been going on, then the perfumes with the best scents would be available to tourists. Besides, I wouldn't lower myself to the standard of getting perfumes that smelled awful. Even if I desired to have perfume, wasn't I right to not settle for the worst-smelling perfumes? Having standards was important, but I could see that Lucy was going past the intended threshold of being seduced.
The scent of mauve roses was probably amplified by the other perfumes, which meant that a mauve rose in her hair would've also caused her to feel very blissful around me in this situation. I would probably buy her a bouquet of mauve roses, since seducing her and trying to keep her obedient to all of my commands was important for maintaining my high standards. If Lucy was being extremely romantic towards me in public, then some people would think I dated her out of desperation. I wasn't desperate enough to date Lucy, and she would never be the type of woman who I wanted to fall in love with.
Even though Lucy wasn't the type of woman that I would date, I moved my hand away from her mouth and joined her in sighing happily at how her hand sprayed the scent from a somewhat large amethyst purple bottle. The perfume was aimed at our clothes, causing Lucy and I to heavily smell the aromatic scent of amethyst crystals. Their scent smelled so soothing, the aroma having a sweetness pertinent to healing like plums and lavender. As I picked up a plum purple bottle and sprayed it into the air, Lucy and I lovingly sighed as the perfume touched every part of our bodies.
Lucy turned around to face me, her face blushing cerise pink and blissfully smiling as I also couldn't resist the urge to have a cerise pink blush on my face. My smile was also blissful while Lucy and I held each other close, enjoying the aroma of mauve roses that was the most prominent one around us, and Lucy and I let our lips get close to each other. Before we could kiss, I regained enough of my senses to just lightly gasp and I backed away from her. I gave Lucy a slightly miffed look for thinking that I could be seduced, and I strolled up to the dark purple counter where the plain purple bag of jewels was sitting. I quickly grabbed the money without thanking Reira, and I walked out of the store while just being happy that the job was finished.
Ten minutes later, on a street in Mauve Town... (Lucy's POV)
Minerva and I were finished with today's task, which meant that we could either go back to the Seductive Witch guild to get another flyer or go to Blizzard Town, but Minerva led us down a different street in Mauve Town. This street had several trees with mauve purple leaves on them, the leaves having a mauve purple substance like honeydew heavily dripping from them. The leaves smelled sweet, but there was a circular garden of mauve purple roses in between the trees. These trees had some of their purple liquid drip on to the mauve purple roses, causing the flowers to shimmer as they looked beautiful.
The flowers were beautiful enough for me to gently walk on to the purple grass and pick some of them, before placing two flowers in my hair. The flowers smelled wonderful while they were so close to me, but I smiled happily as I felt seduced by their scent. The feeling of seduction led me to hug Minerva from behind, my cheeks blushing with warmth as I smiled and placed my three other roses in her hair. I put two of them on the left side of her head while one rose was on the right side, but Minerva frowned at me in a stern manner.
She sternly picked up another mauve rose to put it on the right side of her head, before aggressively removing my hands from being around her waist. Minerva didn't want me to hug her, and she turned around to glare at me in a fierce manner. The fierceness in Minerva's eyes was her way of telling me to not even think that I could seduce her into being submissive, but why would she think that I was trying to be the more seductive person in our partnership? Expressing my romantic feelings to Minerva didn't seduce her, and I narrowed my eyes in a stern manner at how I felt that there was no upside to seducing Minerva if she didn't want to date me.
Still, why would Minerva assume that I was trying to have much stronger skills in seduction? Was it because of how I let myself be physically close to her while letting the scents of the perfumes make me feel more seduced and happy in the presence of Minerva? Minerva was such a beautiful woman, and the fact that she drenched us with that last sweet scent of perfume made me feel like we were meant to share that romantic embrace where we blushed and smiled together. Even if we had lovingly let out sweet breaths towards each other for our upcoming kiss to be more romantic, looking at Minerva's glare caused me to frown in confusion because I would never view myself as a woman who could successfully seduce her.
"You can't seduce me into having a romantic relationship with you, Lucy! Perfume that smells like mauve roses, along with the roses themselves are just showing me how I outclass you in seduction! Don't think that royal purple clothes will help you outclass me as a seductress, either!" Minerva aggressively stated to me, giving me a scolding frown as she placed her hands on her hips.
That prompted me to ask Minerva with a curious facial expression, "Minerva-sama, why are you so worried about me being extremely seductive? Why is someone as confident as you acting so insecure? Does Phoebe-sama make you feel insecure to where you want to win by cheating, and take any victory that you can get?"
Minerva responded to me in an enraged manner, looking extremely angry, "SHUT UP, LUCY! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT PHOEBE HAVING SKILLS TO BACK UP ALL THAT ARROGANCE, SO SHUT UP! YOU WEREN'T THERE WHEN I JOINED, AND SHE VIEWED ME AS BEING WEAK! I'M NOT WEAK LIKE PHOEBE AND MY FATHER SAY I AM! EVEN IF THEY SAY I'M WEAK, YOU DON'T GET TO SAY THAT ABOUT ME!"
Minerva's words caused me to ask with a very calm and humble facial expression, "Why would I ever say a lie like that about you, Minerva-sama? Shouldn't I admire your brute strength and beauty, just like you always wanted me to? How can I not always be seduced by the strongest and most dominant woman I've ever been around?"
That last question caused Minerva to gasp with some shock in her voice, before closing her eyes and eliciting a deep breath. Minerva relaxed herself, slowly opening her eyes to look into my cocoa brown eyes. The calmness in my eyes was met with feelings of calmness entering her eyes, along with some sadness. Minerva had tears slightly welling up in her eyes as if my questions had struck some nerves, and I chose to wipe away some of the tears that were about to stream down her face. Seeing Minerva cry and be stressed had been new to me, almost like the thought of not being good at something would make her feel very unhappy.
As Minerva began to frown in an unhappy manner at how she lashed out at me, I looked just as unhappy in this moment. I felt pain in my heart at the same time where Minerva's heart experienced feelings of pain, and being viewed as weak was interestingly another aspect that we shared. I had been viewed as weak by Minerva and other people, but she was probably viewed as weak by several strong mages after losing the Grand Magic Games in such a humiliating way. After all, she had been humiliated as she hit the ground and slid across it with her dress ripping and tearing for everyone to see her striped bra and underwear. On top of that, her body and ego were both badly bruised by one powerful attack.
Similar feelings of weakness and humiliation were what I experienced yesterday, so I could understand Minerva's immense desire to not want to be weak at anything. Not wanting to ever be perceived as weak would lead to displays of arrogance, as Minerva and I were respectively arrogant in the fashion show and the Naval Battle. I admittedly endured her attacks to compensate for my weakness, but Minerva compensated for her weaknesses by cheating and not taking jobs where she could challenge herself. Even if the next job would be tough for us, I gave Minerva a soft smile as we calmly looked into each other's eyes.
"Minerva-sama, I'm weaker than everyone else in Seductive Witch. Phoebe and others might view you as weak, but I don't think you're weak when you act insecure. If we admit when we feel insecure, then there's no harm in that. We can encourage each other to be more confident and happier in what we do, so genuine vulnerability is better than feigning emotions." I explained to Minerva in a sweet tone of voice, my lips forming a calm smile.
Minerva responded in a somewhat kind manner, looking stoic after wiping away the rest of her tears, "Well, I... guess that I genuinely do feel threatened by the beauty and seductive skills of some other women. I'm willing to be vulnerable about that, Lucy."
That caused me to reply with a kind smile on my face, calmness in my eyes, "I can humbly say that I'm too arrogant sometimes, since I almost fought Phoebe-sama in a situation where she probably would've easily beaten me down. Although, Minerva-sama, I can also say that I'm nowhere near as beautiful or seductive as you."
Minerva replied to me in a somewhat nervous manner with a slight frown appearing on her face, "Thank you for that compliment, Lucy. Anyway, I'm... glad you didn't get hurt by Phoebe earlier. On that subject, I'm... I'm.. really sorry about the Naval Battle. I shouldn't.. have hurt you that much. I shouldn't have.. taken advantage of your pain about Erza and Annette for my own gain, either. I'm so.. sorry for yelling at you earlier, and thanks for... trying to make me feel better instead of just abandoning me."
Minerva's frown shifted to being a saddened frown of guilt and remorse, but I did have to frown in a somewhat appreciative manner at some parts of her apology. From my perspective, Minerva didn't have to apologize for hurting me in the Naval Battle. The Naval Battle itself was just a vicious brawl between people who were in different guilds, and getting beaten up so badly by Minerva actually taught me that I could endure many attacks that wouldn't be as strong as hers. She even made energy waves engulf her body when striking me, so I did start to feel like my body could've handled much more pressure.
Although, Minerva seemed to have some pressure on her mind from thinking that I would abandon her if she emotionally lashed out at me. Minerva was my teammate, and abandoning my teammate in their time of distress would be one of the worst choices to make. In fact, it was a bad choice for a mage to not care about other people who were in their current guild. If someone cared very little about their teammates, then they would just be alone and have to deal with loneliness. Loneliness was probably what Minerva experienced at some point in her life, but I would be here for her.
We may not have been friends, but I proceeded to softly smile at Minerva for being grateful that I attempted to make her feel better. At least she was thankful that I wanted her to deal with her insecurities, instead of stubbornly pretending to be arrogant. I wouldn't pretend to be arrogant, either, and touching my plain purple hair for a moment caused me to giggle in a cute manner at how I had been arrogant to think I could shower in Seductive Witch for as long as I wanted. Even as a dark witch, I probably couldn't shower in there for a few hours.
"Well, I'll go home now and finally have a hot shower." I told Minerva with a nice smile on my face, as I proceeded to walk past her.
Minerva responded to me in a seductive whisper as she got in front of me, smiling in an appreciative manner, "Well, you can't leave Mauve Town without getting your reward."
"Mmm.." I softly whispered, as I felt Minerva kiss my forehead in a gentle manner.
Minerva told me with a smug smile forming on her face, "You're not the only one who can give good forehead kisses, sweetie."
Upon hearing Minerva tell me that I gave good kisses to her forehead, I sighed in a joyful manner from receiving that compliment and that kiss. Minerva's kiss felt very seductive, yet gentle as if she was kissing me during her moment of being glad that I made her feel better. As I felt my cheeks blush rose pink, Minerva's face blushed rose pink as she kissed my lips in a soft, sultry, and alluring manner. Minerva pulled me close to her in this moment, kissing me softly before sultrily moaning during this kiss for me to softly close my eyes and kiss back as I let my heart fall into more feelings of seduction.
Minerva ended the soft and seductive kiss that we shared, her eyes displaying appreciation for my gift of putting the mauve roses in her hair. They shined beautifully alongside her glossy amethyst purple hair, and the roses smelled as wonderful as Minerva's lipstick. Lipstick, roses, and perfume were some of our common interests, but walking down this street did allow us to admire a mauve purple statue of the witch who founded this town. That witch had long and flowing hair like Minerva, hr podium being surrounded by mauve purple roses that had bloomed while orchid purple butterflies were on them.
Some of the orchid purple butterflies flew over to an orchid purple bake shop that had an amethyst purple pitched roof, the building having the aromas of cakes emerging through the cracks in the dark purple windows, and Minerva's slightly annoyed look at me for wanting to eat some grape-flavored cake before going home was followed by her stomach loudly letting out a growl at how she also got a whiff of the grape cake that had such a potent smell. Minerva and I proceeded to walk down this street to go into that bake shop for its sweet cakes, but we both calmly smiled at how this street also put us on the road to having sweet moments as enemies who could possibly become friends.
How was Chapter 5? Feel free to tell me your thoughts on it. Lucy and Minerva returned from Sunnysol Town to get back to Mauve, but Minerva wants to get back to having Lucy only as a subservient mage while Lucy wants them to have a romantic relationship. However, the idea of a romantic relationship with her worst enemy may be tough when Minerva cares about her reputation, jobs, and having more control and dominance in their team. Although, Minerva's desire for dominance will require her to start dealing with her insecurities and Lucy will need to start working on her own insecurities. That doesn't mean they can't work on their shared problems, though.
The romantic aspects in this chapter didn't just involve clothing colors, since shared feelings were also displayed, and Lucy and Minerva both felt comfortable enough to be somewhat vulnerable with each other. Speaking of insecurities, Minerva's guilt towards Lucy and her conflict with Phoebe will be expanded upon in this arc. Speaking of this arc, this post-arc serves as a bridge and a breather to connect the previous arc and the next arc. That is why the themes of seduction & shared interests were displayed. Furthermore, this is the first chapter of the post-Mauve Rose Arc! I'll update soon. :)
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