#ticklish!perion

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TickleTober2023/Day 01 - Trap

Your Throne - Medea x Perion

Medea covered her lips with her hand, barely trying to hold back the amused chuckle that left her lips. Lowering her sword and walking towards her opponent, the duchess’s smile grew even larger. “At this point, I can’t help but think you enjoy getting yourself in this kind of situation, Perion.”

“S-shut it, will you?” The cardinal groaned, trying to free his leg from the ropes, swinging his suspended body left and right as he did so. However, no matter how much he squirmed or hit the knot with his free heel, it wouldn’t bulge the slightly.

As she approached the man hanging upside down, Medea crossed her arms. Watching his attempts to break free almost made her feel bad for him. Almost, after all, how could she even pity someone when the scene unfolding before her was this entertaining? “That’s not going to work,” she added, earning another frustrated groan from the redhead, “snare traps wouldn’t be made so often if animals could escape them like that.”

As much as Perion disliked it, he gave up. Dropping his arms in defeat, he sighed out loud, watching as the duchess stood in front of him. “I-I get it, help me now, will you?”

“I don’t know”, Medea teased,using the wooden sword to poke his stomach, making the cardinal flinch lightly, but enough to not slip past Medea’s attentive gaze. “Maybe if you ask me nicely?”

“You are enjoying this, aren’t you?” Perion hissed, crossing his arms as his body slowly swung around. “Fine, help me, please, Medea.”

Medea grinned wickedly, sending shivers down the back of Perion’s neck. He knew she was up to something - and it probably was no good. “Surely, Pel, leave it to me,” she mused, graciously swinging her sword around. 

Perion closed his eyes, already expecting her to use it to cut the ropes and drop him to the ground, but it shouldn’t be something that he couldn’t handle. However…

“M-Mehehedea!” He giggled, trying to use his arms to protect his middle as she continued to poke his sides and stomach with the sword. They were quick, nimble and… horribly ticklish. “J-just cuhuhut the rohope alreheheady!” Perion pleaded, trying to use his hands to stop her sword.

“I’m trying, Pel, but you keep moving so much… I can’t possibly land a blow with you moving like this, can I?” She mocked him, skillfully pushing his hand away before continuing to poke his sides, even aiming some pokes on his ribs.

The cardinal could feel the blood flowing down to his head - either because of the time he was hanging upside down or because of the embarrassment he felt. “I swehehear! O-once I gehehet out, you- ACK!!”

Before he could finish his threat, Medea swung her blade one more time, but, this time, directed to the rope keeping him in the air. Despite using a wooden sword, her blow had enough strength to make the rope snap, dropping Perion on the ground.

“You’re welcome,” she said sarcastically, placing her sword over her shoulder as she smiled down at him. “Now get up, we are done practicing.”

“You- a-agh…” Perion groaned, rubbing the top of his head as he gave Medea an angry look. “Yes, duchess,” he muttered, picking up his own sword before following her. What a difficult woman…

A/N: So, to start this year's TickleTober, I wanted to be a liittle self indulgent and spoil myself with one of my favorite pairings from this manhwa eheh

Hope you guys enjoyed it and stay tuned for the next days!