Chapter 37
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 37
Chapter Title: Returning to the Main House - 2
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Sian shared the most affection with his wife Chloe, but ironically, the person who had spent the longest time with him was Leon, who had returned from the war.
Whenever Sian had work like chores or hunting, he always took Leon along.
It was only natural that Leon, who had been dragged around and pushed here and there by him, had spent more time with Sian than anyone else in the family.
However, even though Leon had been with Sian for so long, this was the first time she had seen him naked. It was winter, so there was no reason to undress, and besides, Sian had such great stamina that he never even sweated.
Even on the way here, if he hadn't carried the exhausted Leon and dashed through the Dark Forest, there would have been no need to wash at all.
"Wow..."
"What's up?"
"No, it's just..."
The sight of Sian's body like that drew a gasp of admiration from Leon.
She had seen countless naked men against her will during the war, but this was the first time she had laid eyes on a male physique this beautiful.
Broad shoulders, contrasted by a surprisingly slim waist.
Muscular arms that looked as hard as rock. And even sharply defined abs.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a work of art.
She could understand why her sister Chloe and mother Sylvia went crazy for Sian every night.
"Leon, you okay? Your face is red."
"N-no. It's nothing. Don't worry."
"Alright. Then hurry up and strip."
"????!"
"Why are you so surprised?"
Now fully naked, Sian grabbed Leon's wrist as she averted her gaze.
"We came here to wash, didn't we?"
"Kyaa?!"
He pulled off Leon's top.
Leon tried to resist, but she could never beat Sian in strength, so she couldn't stop him from undressing her.
And just like that, her jiggling breasts were laid bare before him.
"Hm."
"S-Sian, that..."
Leon was mortified enough to die, but more than that, she was worried about his reaction.
What if he got mad that she had fooled him into thinking she was a man?
What if he was disappointed like her father?
Would she no longer live up to Sian's expectations?
A whirlwind of negative thoughts swirled in Leon's mind when Sian looked at her nonchalantly and said,
"Your breasts are bigger than I thought."
"Eh?"
And as if it were the most natural thing, he reached out and touched her breasts.
"????"
...
Occasionally, some men have breasts like women.
It's called gynecomastia, and in severe cases, they have to hide them just like a woman would.
'But Leon isn't a man—she's a woman.'
He had figured out long ago that Leon was a girl.
'Lately, she's been masturbating a lot more.'
Living in close quarters, he couldn't help but catch her distinctive feminine scent, and just to be sure, he had checked her pulse and confirmed it.
'Yeah, with that face, being a guy would be a scam.'
A guy with Leon's looks?
If it were him, he'd quit hunting, snag a rich widow, and live easy.
Anyway, Leon had the beautiful looks befitting Sylvia's daughter, but due to the family's circumstances, she had disguised herself as a man and grown up as one.
'But how did she hide those breasts? Impressive.'
Her mother Sylvia had large breasts, and her little sister Chloe had very large ones too, but compared to them, Leon's were on the smaller side.
Of course, that was just within the family. On average, Leon's were plenty big.
But how she had hidden them so well and gone months rubbing shoulders with men without getting caught was a total mystery.
'Magic or something?'
If not, maybe a few soldiers from the same village had noticed but kept quiet about it. Losing one squad member could be dangerous in war, and they might get chewed out by superiors for no reason.
Either way, curious about the mystery, Sian groped her breasts.
Unlike the compression bandages hiding them, Leon's breasts—toned from consistent training—were firm and beautifully shaped.
'The feel is pretty nice...'
Her perky breasts were addictive, so he kept kneading them.
"U-um, Sian... how long are you gonna keep touching?"
"Why? Can't I?"
"It's not that, but..."
Leon couldn't say a word to his brazen response.
After all, she couldn't judge whether it was weird or normal for close guy friends to grope each other's chests.
"D-did Chloe tell you?"
"Tell me what?"
"About my secret."
"About your breasts? Nah, she didn't say anything."
He wasn't lying, but he didn't tell her the full truth either.
So Leon, unable to grasp the situation, started hem-hawing just as he expected.
'She lied to the family—she deserves a little scolding.'
He could roughly guess why she disguised herself as a man. With only daughters in the house, they needed at least one to play the man's role for security.
But that was separate from not telling him, a family member, anything.
Did she think he was that unreliable?
"Get in quick."
"W-wait, I didn't say I was washing yet..."
"Want me to take off your bottoms too?"
"Ugh... f-fine."
Under his insistence, Leon made a reluctant face, then arched her back so he couldn't see well and slipped off her pants. She quickly covered her privates with her hands.
With Leon now naked too, they both slipped into the hot spring.
Leon flushed red right away from the heat.
Ah, she'd been red since earlier.
"It's hot."
"Hang in there a bit. You'll feel good soon."
Sinking into the spring melted away his fatigue.
Yeah, this is the life. Next chance he got, he'd enjoy the hot spring with Chloe.
"Hey Sian, you gonna keep touching my breasts?"
"Don't like it?"
"It's not that. Between us, this kind of..."
"What about us? If it's uncomfortable, you touch mine too."
He thrust out his muscled chest.
Leon made another helpless face and gently caressed his chest with her small hand.
"Hard as rock."
"Yours are so soft, it's addictive."
"Don't say stuff like that! It's embarrassing."
"Hmm, is it?"
Aroused by her shy reaction, he pinched her nipples lightly between thumb and forefinger.
Leon arched her back and panicked.
"Eek?!"
"With how beautiful they are."
"D-don't..."
"You say that, but it seems like you like it?"
Despite her squirming from the continued teasing, she couldn't escape his grasp.
After a few minutes of breast play, Leon finally climaxed and hung her head.
"Feels... weird."
'Did I go too far?'
It had started as playful revenge for deceiving him, but now it felt too lewd, and hearing her protests softened his resolve.
Suddenly, Leon reached out and gripped his manhood tightly.
"Leon?"
"S-Sian isn't weak here either, right?"
Her flushed face determined, she squeezed and started stroking up and down.
"Urk! Leon, even between us, this is—"
"What about us?"
She was turning everything he'd done right back on him.
Fine, if that's how she wanted to play.
"Eek?!"
He fingered her pussy just like she'd done to him. Leon's thighs clamped together.
'Not saying no even now?'
Teasing her G-spot, she bit her lower lip but never said stop, all while continuing her handjob.
With the mutual fondling heating them up, Sian and Leon groped each other's genitals while sharing a deep, intense kiss.
"Urk!"
He came in her hand, and Leon shuddered through her own climax.
'Ah...'
The release cleared his head a bit, making him realize what he'd done.
He hadn't meant to cross the line this far.
...
Leon prided herself on knowing men well. After all, she had lived among them in disguise during the war.
She had seen things she never wanted to.
She had even witnessed men and women having sex up close, thanks to the prostitutes who came to the barracks.
Soldiers relieving their lust to combat the fear of dying anytime in war.
Prostitutes selling their bodies to those soldiers to make a living.
At first, it had shocked her to the point of vomiting, but seeing it constantly throughout the war made it mundane eventually.
"Leon, you not going? I know an awesome girl."
"Pass."
"If you stand at the door, the girls will love it!"
"Johnson, don't bug someone who said no."
"Ah! Captain Carlson, come with too."
"You nuts? I'm a married man."
"Tch, the good-looking ones act all high and mighty."
"What'd you say?"
"Hehe, nothing, sir!"
When comrades blew their pay on prostitutes, she let it slide.
Lust was like that.
Part of her envied their honesty about it.
Leon had disguised as a man for over 15 years on her father's orders for the family—essentially castrated as a woman.
'Guess I can never marry.'
Now 21, she'd be 22 after this winter.
Normally, girls married at 17 and got pregnant that year, so Leon was firmly an old maid by womanly standards. If she kept the disguise, she'd live alone forever.
She had known it, but as she aged, the thought weighed heavier.
Watching her sisters marry off and start families as women, what about her, left behind?
Spend cold winters alone?
Die alone in old age, with no one by her side?
'I don't want that.'
But she couldn't abandon her family just because she hated it. The house needed a man. She had to keep playing Leon.
Such a man appeared to ease her worries.