The Yellow-Haired Villain in Soaring Phoenix's Novels Also Desires Happiness

“...”

When Ariel gave that reason, Muen felt his brain very visibly crash for a moment.

Just... just because of that?

But after calming down, he found that Grandma Tailor’s words actually made a great deal of sense.

Dressed like this... they really did look a little bigger.

After all, those two pieces of fabric were simply too small, so small that it felt as if any color other than pale white might be visible at any moment. With that contrast setting them off, unless she was completely flat, it would make them seem at least somewhat rounder and perkier.

“H-How is it?”

Ariel twisted her body, rarely unable to meet Muen’s eyes, and stammered, “Does it look good?”

“It looks good, but there’s no need.”

Muen gently moved aside Ariel’s shielding hands. He seemed to be admiring her, but in truth, he was taking advantage as his hand stroked over that area.

“This size is more than enough for you. You don’t need anything to set it off, because it’s already the cutest.”

“R-Really?” Ariel curled in on herself shyly. Muen’s movements made her feel terribly embarrassed, but the affection in them also made her instinctively want to feel more.

“Of course it’s true. Doesn’t an old saying put it well? Small things are very cute too!”

“You’re still calling me small!” Ariel bared her teeth.

“No. What I mean is, in this world, there should be towering peaks, and there should also be adorable little hills. There should be apples, and there should also be grapes and sweet dates. Nothing is absolutely better. You shouldn’t dislike it.”

Muen lowered his head and said tenderly, “Because I won’t dislike it either.”

“Mm... Muen...”

That burning affection made Ariel almost unable to restrain herself.

Words like these, as if they could fill the softest, weakest place inside her, could melt even the hardest shell. And besides... when it came to him, she had long since had no shell left at all.

She moved slightly, feeling the warmth from the person she loved.

This fearless chosen heroine, the destined master who could defeat any enemy, looked so soft in this moment. Like a stream, like soft candy, like melted syrup inside an oven. One breath of it was sweet and mellow.

If one really had to say it, then just as mentioned earlier... the only thing left on her whole body that could still stay hard was her mouth.

“Your sweet talk is pretty good, but don’t think I’ll be gentle with you tonight!”

Sure enough, after being a bashful little wife for only three seconds, Ariel immediately toughened up again.

“You won’t be gentle with me?”

Muen’s expression turned strange. “Shouldn’t I be the one saying that?”

“Hmph! Last time, you made me end up like that. Don’t think I’ll forget it so easily!”

Ariel ground her little tiger teeth, her expression vicious. Unfortunately, her flushed cheeks had no deterrent power right now. If anything, they made a person want to rub them hard a few times.

“Oh? What did I do last time?”

Muen rubbed as soon as he thought of rubbing, and deliberately asked as he did. Of course he still remembered how Ariel had looked last time. That sight had been so beautiful that he would not forget it even in a hundred years.

But precisely because of that, it carried a teasing meaning.

“You forgot those things?”

“Can you describe them in detail? My memory isn’t very good. If you put it that way, I really can’t remember.”

Muen looked innocent as he leaned in and kissed Ariel’s neck. Amid their entanglement, his clothes gradually slipped away as well, and skin brushing against skin made the fire burn higher, hotter, and more intense.

“You really forgot?”

“I really forgot.”

“Damn you. Last time, you made me do that... and this... and even... You did such excessive things, and now you say you forgot just like that?”

Ariel’s lips moved, her watery eyes full of grief and indignation, but in the end, she still failed to give any specific explanation.

After all, being taken until she begged for mercy, and even having her little bottom spanked—how could someone as proud as her possibly say that out loud?

That was her humiliation. A humiliation she had to wash away.

Being toyed with like that by this hateful blond menace was something she would never swallow for the rest of her life!

Indeed, the old her had been weaker than this hateful blond menace in that aspect, so losing to him had been an undeniable fact.

But this time was different.

This time, she had come prepared.

She had come for revenge!

This time, she would definitely make Muen beg for mercy too, then spank his bottom hard!

“What do you want to do?”

Muen finally became somewhat nervous, because he could sense Ariel’s determination as well.

After all, he had only just experienced that kind of torment during the day. Muen was already wary of certain special methods, and with Ariel’s adventures, it would be perfectly normal for her to have obtained some extraordinary means.

“Hmph, you’ll know soon enough!”

Ariel suddenly threw herself at him of her own accord.

Her smooth, tender limbs filled his arms. Although it was different from the majestic presence brought by towering mountains, this soft fragrance still made his whole body go numb.

Ariel tested and explored. Although she still could not be called experienced, compared with last time, she had clearly made tremendous progress. Her every movement began teasing Muen, while she avoided his sudden attacks by slipping around the critical points.

That rate of growth startled Muen.

Although her endurance was clearly still inferior to those other vixens, if this continued for long enough, she would eventually train herself to a degree that surpassed anyone.

This was the chosen heroine.

Whether in strength or in anything else, she was absolutely not the most outstanding one at the very beginning. But through her own tireless effort, through her constant climbing, she would ultimately become the bird soaring highest above the clouds, looking down on every defeated opponent beneath her.

“You think this is all?”

Ariel suddenly sneered and pushed Muen down.

“Cultivation can proceed one step at a time, but the humiliation you gave me—tonight, I’m making you pay it all back!”

“Hiss... What are you planning to do?”

Muen sucked in a cold breath. He had originally thought Ariel was merely being stubborn again this time. He had not expected that, judging by her current actions... she really had prepared something?

“Hmph. Get ready to beg for mercy!”

The chosen heroine, already certain of victory, straightened her waist and made the standard motion of sheathing a sword. Though she was still wearing thin lingerie, those few pieces of fabric offered no protection at all. With a light hook of her finger, she pushed them aside.

Then...

“Mm~”

A sweet sound escaped Ariel’s nose. Her little head lifted high, and even her body began to tremble faintly. Every inch of her skin flushed with a tempting red.

“Damn it... as expected of you...”

Ariel bared her teeth, forcefully dragging herself back down just as she was about to rise into the clouds.

After looking forward to this for several months, ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) the pleasure brought by that single instant still exceeded her imagination. She had nearly lost tremendous face the moment the sword entered the sheath.

Fortunately, she held it in.

“That’s it?”

Muen’s expression turned strange.

Although Ariel had stopped herself in time, with this kind of negative-distance contact, how could he fail to notice her current state?

With her like this, forget making him pay back his previous debt. As long as he launched even the slightest counterattack, she might well throw away her armor, collapse, cry, and beg for mercy.

“Hmph. What are you acting so arrogant for? This is only the beginning!”

Ariel suddenly began to move.

At first, her movements were very slow.

It was only a rider guiding her beloved horse, advancing gracefully across a green prairie.

Gradually, the rider began to quicken her movements, and the beloved horse beneath her began to gallop.

That speed grew faster and faster, faster and faster, until it was almost like a charge. The scenery on both sides retreated constantly. Only the clouds... gradually drew nearer.

The rider’s movements were still somewhat clumsy. She clearly could not fully control the beloved horse beneath her. From time to time, she was thrown into utter panic by a sudden acceleration or sudden leap from the horse, losing all rhythm completely.

But as the charge continued, she seemed to begin grasping a bit of the trick, starting to try to tame the horse.

Sometimes fast, sometimes slow.

Sometimes left, sometimes right.

Sometimes up, sometimes down.

Sometimes heavy, sometimes light.

Sometimes teasing, sometimes enticing, yet when the beloved horse galloped, she would take the initiative to retreat. And when that horse began to feel tired, the rider would suddenly speed up the charge again.

“Hiss... Wait.”

Muen finally noticed something was wrong. “You were clearly already in that state just now. Why are you now instead...”

“Hmph. I already told you. I have a trump card!”

“What trump card?”

“I’m not telling you!”

Ariel continued trying to tame him.

“This...”

Muen’s face turned bitter. “That isn’t very nice, is it? Look, you already have the absolute advantage right now. You’re about to win. Can’t you at least let me lose knowing exactly why? Is winning through despicable means really honorable?”

“What do you mean, despicable means? This is the result of my hard work clearing ancient ruins!”

Ariel was smug.

She was extremely satisfied with the current situation. She believed that before long, this hateful blond menace would surrender his weapon and then be tamed by her!

When that happened, if he did not beg for mercy properly, and then let her spank him, she absolutely would not let him off!

“Clearing ancient ruins?”

Muen was completely dumbfounded. “Ancient ruins even have things that strengthen this aspect?”

“Not exactly. There was nothing specifically strengthening this aspect, but there was something similar, so I applied it.”

Ariel swayed her head smugly and hummed. This was exactly where her genius lay: using every technique that could be used in battle, all for the sake of victory!

That way, even if the hateful blond menace had an innate advantage, he would still eventually be stepped beneath her feet!

“...How did you apply it?”

“So stupid!”

Ariel mocked him viciously and humiliated him fiercely. However, considering that she was about to win, she still magnanimously explained it to Muen.

“Look here.”

She pointed at her neck.

“This is...”

Muen focused his eyes and looked over, then discovered that there was actually a faint brand on Ariel’s neck. The brand circled her entire neck like some kind of seductive ornament, and its pale pink pattern was intensely alluring.

However, because its color was too close to her flushed skin, Muen had not noticed it at all before.

“What is this?”

“Ancient combat technique!”

“Ancient combat technique?”

“That’s right. A special technique from ancient times. Pain suppression!”

“Huh? Pain suppression? What the hell?”

The moment he heard that name, Muen’s brain overloaded on the spot.

No way... This so-called pain suppression could not be the usage he was imagining, could it?

No, this was obviously the sort of thing used to enter berserker mode, used to defeat stronger enemies while weaker, used for duels and killing enemies.

How could it possibly be used at a time like this?

That made no scientific sense!