Demon Sword Maiden Chapter 86 (Patreon)

Chapter 86 - The Female Samurai’s Vassals

The thick, white fog covered the flowery bushes and even the moonlight.

Lily still felt a little shy when she let the two women support her to the wooden booth bordered by only three walls. 

Doing this gave Lily the feeling of being a princess. 

‘Of course, a princess wouldn’t bath by herself. There should be a servant to help her undress. Besides, we’re all women here. There’s no need to be shy. No need to be shy,’ Lily told herself that even though she was blushing. 

Lily then thought, ‘They are serving me. If anyone should feel shy or embarrassed, it should be them.’ 

‘However, I’m doing all of these to protect senior sister’s pure body. If that wasn’t the case, just based on my character, even if when I defeat them in battle and win the bet, I would have no reason to enslave them. I will definitely be kind enough to set them free. Wouldn’t I?’

Moreover, even now, Lily still felt embarrassed and stimulated whenever she looked at her body. This was detrimental to her training. She could use chado to stabilize the demon in her heart, but would the tea be able to neutralize her excitement? She wasn’t so sure.

Half of her breasts had sunk into the sakura petal bath. This way, even if Lily opened her eyes, she wouldn’t feel awkward. 

However, just at this moment, she saw two people looking at her with completely different looks.

Shiu, not in the least embarrassed but sincere, admiring, and totally delighted. 

Meanwhile, Nanako looked shy, unwilling, and bits of grievance could be seen on her tense face.

Lily couldn’t help but feel heartache. These two girls were so innocent and naïve. Although their characters were different, they both had a maiden heart, which was delicate and tender.

A glimpse of sadness flashed in Lily’s eyes. ‘I actually enslaved these two innocent children. Even if I did it for senior sister, would she really be happy?’

The warm water rippled, pounding against the breasts that were half-submerged, which brought about a comfortable floaty sensation. 

Lily recalled what Sakiko told her when she had a one-to-one chado lesson with her several days ago. 

She had told Sakiko about Shiu and asked how she should interact with and treat the young girl. 

Sakiko told her that in Heian Empire, it was common for the losers to become the winners’ slaves or henchmen. Of course, if the winner respected the opponent and acknowledged their ability, they could make them into a vassal. But if the offer was rejected, the winners could give the losers a chance to follow their samurai path, which was to give them a chance to perform Seppuku.

“Recruit them as my vassals…” Lily felt a little sorry. If she had known about such possibility, she would have made Shiu her vassal; that way, the latter could use her ninja skills to work for Lily. 

However, at that time, Shiu wanted to assassinate her. After the battle, both of them hadn’t had time to cool down yet, so she wouldn’t have been as merciful as she is now. 

At this moment, Lily was sitting inside the wooden barrel. Her small hand gently pushed against her cheek. Her moist eyebrows hung low as she was immersed in thoughts: 

“Right now my strength isn’t ordinary, and it’s much higher than the normal samurais. If I use my spirit power with the Demon Maiden attribute, my penetration force exceeded 800 kwans. It’s also the upper limit of the High-Class Samurais. If I use the first phase of Genji Swordstyle, then the penetration force can reach up to 1,300 kwans. That power is already reaching the middle-level of Low-Class Kengo! A female samurai with such power should probably recruit some vassals. All the other samurais seemed to have a vassal or two. Although my understanding of the samurai clan is still pretty limited, it should be better than to let Shiu and Nanako be my slaves. I really like them and I don’t want to see them being tortured or lose their honor. Moreover, Matsuda Nagahide has several vassals. What harm is there in recruiting two girls anyways?”

“Right, looks like I should tell them after the bath. They will surely be happy,” Lily was delighted with her own thought.

As far as bathing was concerned, she would temporarily ask them to give her a hand. After she earned more money, she could hire two maids from the dojo to take over the responsibility of bathing her. It was just two kwans per year so it wasn’t necessary for two martial artists like Nanako and Shiu to do such things. Of course, it would be for the best if they were willing to continue. This could be negotiated. And she dare say this way was more in line with senior sister’s kind nature.

“Um…” When the two girls washed Lily’s arms at the same time, Lily felt both of her body and mind relaxed. Shiu seemed to concentrate on her service, but Nanako looked distracted. 

“Shiu, isn’t this your first time? I didn’t expect that you’d do so well.” Lily felt so comfortable so she shyly gave the other a compliment. 

“N- no way, Master, hearing your compliment, I feel overwhelmed by happiness. Serving Master ---be it assassination, investigation, battling, or even satisfying master’s other odd interests--- is a female ninja’s obligations.” Shiu’s arm shook in excitement. 

“Tsk, that’s such a shameless profession!” said Nanako energetically from the other side. 

“You, what are you talking about? T- that’s the honor of a female ninja!” Shiu was determined with her philosophy. It was unknown how she was educated as a female ninja. 

Lily didn’t know how to respond to their dispute. She just silently stretched her arms to make them continue the massage to shift their attention.

After bathing, Lily let the two girls help her dry her body and put on her yukata, only then did she opened her eyes, “Shiu, Nanako, thank you for tonight.”

“You’re welcome. Serving Master is Shiu’s responsibility.”

Nanako seemed dissatisfied and remained silent. Lily had no idea why she was in a bad mood. 

"It’s really late now. You two should go and bathe yourself. Afterward, come to my room.” 

"What?" Nanako was bewildered. She asked cautiously, “For what? What do you want?” 

Shiu blushed, “Master… could it be that when you heard what Shiu said earlier, you wanted Shiu to fulfill the other duties of a female ninja…” 

"Eh? Hehehe!" Lily helplessly gave them a tender smile, “Did you two misunderstood something? Since I called you to my room very late at night, I naturally have something important to tell you.”