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"Since you're losing so much, how about you teach the class naked, Ms. Ralli?" Liam asked with a friendly smile, as though it was the most reasonable request in the world.

"Denied," Ralli said immediately, crossing her arms. "Make a reasonable request like the Dustaines, Baldwin."

"Huuuh? I didn't think it was against the rules..." Liam sighed, facing away from Ralli as he looked at his friends with one twinkling green eye open. "So it's gotta be smaller than that, huh...? I guess that's fair. Well, losing just your undershorts is probably fair, right? That's not any more than your helmet or all of your armor, which I'll remind you Harvey was granted."

"Tch... Why do you want me to teach without undershorts?" Ralli asked, tapping her finger on her arm with irritation.

"I guess I'm just that age where such a thing excites me. Sorry, Teach!" Liam apologized, laughing at himself. "Even if you're decent otherwise, knowing you're teaching without those on will keep me motivated and awake, I'm sure."

"That would be a welcome change... Okay," the sergeant gave in, blushing a bit at the ridiculous request, thankful that (at least for one more day) her helmet would hide it. "I suppose that is not too much to ask. In case you had some lewd thoughts, be advised that I am not nude beneath these shorts."

"Of course, ma'am. And it's really such a little thing," he added, smiling sweetly. "Now, class... you have similarly little requests for Teach, right?" His smile turned into a grin as he raised his hands, as if conducting, and the remaining class joined in one after another, as though not leaving Ralli a chance to refuse.

"Your skirt!"

"Your tunic!"

"Your bra!"

"Your panties!"

The cocky Baldwin actually bowed, then, savoring his instructor's stunned silence, swaggered over to the one remaining student who hadn't spoken up yet. "And you...? You know how it has to end, right?"

The chubby knight trainee he was coercing thought carefully for a moment. "... I request... for Ms. Ralli not to wear anything extra to class. Nothing she isn't wearing right now, I mean."

"And there you have it!" Liam cackled, throwing his arms wide and his head back as though he had just completed an evil genius's masterstroke.

"Liam, you despicable pervert!" Harley shouted, clutching her hands at her chest as she marched to him. "That would leave Ms. Ralli completely naked!"

"Oh, it would?!" Liam asked, putting on a dumbfounded expression of shock. "And here I thought each of us was only asking for one tiny little thing..." Liam leaned in closer to her, cracking open his flashing green eyes just visibly as he spoke in a lower voice. "Aren't you being a little high and mighty, just 'cause you get to see Teach naked whenever you want, Harleeey? Then again, maybe there's nothing to see...? Tell me Teach is nothing to look at in the buff, and I'll convince everyone to take it all back... Actually, let me narrow that down. Tell me, on your honor as a knight, she doesn't have a butt worth looking at."

If she were thinking properly, Harley would surely have denied that request. Instead, she winced her eyes shut and bit her lip, finding herself completely unable, even for Ralli's own benefit, to deny the fantastic ass she had seen with her own eyes.

"Ah... I knew it!" Liam declared with a triumphant hiss, actually jumping in place and doing a strange victory dance. "I knew it, I knew it! Aaah, Harley, your honest reaction truly displays your honor as a knight! You certainly are the best of us, hee hee heeee!"

"I have not agreed to teach you in the nude!" Ralli reminded Liam sharply, the usual gruff, gravelly tone of her voice cracking at the shock of her protest.

"But won't you, ma'am? I mean, I can't make you... but won't the class be so very, very demotivated if you don't? What are you gonna do if everyone sleeps in tomorrow, Teach...?"

"Go into the sleeping quarters and start kicking asses," Ralli wanted to say... but the words wouldn't come out. If the strategy she'd chosen didn't motivate her students, she'd have to admit she had failed as a teacher. Would her pride allow that? "Gh... H-Harvey Dustaine," she reached out, as though having just one more student on her side would resolve things in her favor. "This is preposterous, is it not? Surely a knight trainee of your character will not permit it?"

"... Heh, I dunno, sounds pretty funny to me!" Harvey responded with a big grin. "I wanna see if you can still chew our asses when you're butt naked!"

"Damn you, Harvey, think of me as a woman...!" Ralli demanded in her head as she clenched her teeth and fists.