Chapter 102: Three-Way Battle
Chapter 102: Three-Way Battle
Morning.
Jiha opened his eyes and surveyed his surroundings.
This was Lijin's room.
Lijin was fast asleep under the same blanket, breathing peacefully.
"......."
No surprise there.
He'd gone three rounds with her yesterday.
An ordinary virgin wouldn't have been able to endure that on her first night.
Truth be told, he'd wanted more but held back out of consideration for her body.
'My Bloodsucking seems to dull her pain somewhat, but.......'
That didn't mean the pain vanished entirely.
Enril and Leticia had both struggled with it themselves.
Lijin, who had no combat ability at all, would have trouble even moving around.
"......."
Jiha tsked inwardly and brushed the hair back from Lijin's forehead.
She was clever, so why did she keep testing the boundaries so cautiously?
It wasn't that she didn't know her place and had no sense of what was appropriate. Lijin knew exactly where she stood, yet she still kept slyly, subtly probing Jiha's limits.
Fully aware that she risked getting smacked down for it.
"......."
Softly.
Lijin's hand caught Jiha's wrist while her eyes stayed shut.
As if she'd been awake for a while.
She adjusted her grip to lace her fingers with his and sighed.
"......It's morning."
"Did you grow up alone?"
"......."
A question out of nowhere.
But Lijin flinched and opened her eyes, looking at Jiha's face with a flustered expression.
He'd struck a nerve.
Jiha shook his head.
"Fine. Don't answer."
"I......."
"I said don't."
Jiha kept his fingers laced with Lijin's and pulled her close with his other arm, holding her against him.
Lijin's ambiguous attitude—trying to help Jiha while simultaneously testing the waters.
A form of affection deprivation.
Wracked by the anxiety that she might be abandoned at any moment, agonizing over it endlessly, she'd rather throw herself away first in a kind of despair.
She wanted to check: if she went this far, would he still take her with him?
At the same time, she didn't genuinely want to be discarded, so she always left herself an escape route, room for an excuse.
Lijin's peculiar behavior made sense now.
"I grew up the hard way too."
"......."
Lijin remained rigid for a long moment, then gave a small nod.
Very cautiously, she placed a hand on Jiha's chest.
Silence.
"......May I ask one favor?"
"You can ask two."
Lijin's shoulders shook as she laughed at Jiha's joking reply.
She relaxed slightly, then made her request carefully.
"......When it's just the two of us like this... may I call you Jiha?"
"Go ahead."
Lijin wanted a sense of security from Jiha, the person to whom she'd devoted her loyalty and affection.
Hoping to dispel that anxiety peculiar to someone who grew up with no one to attach to.
Give her that security, and she would never turn her back on him.
"......Thank you, Jiha."
Lijin pressed her ear against Jiha's chest.
Listening to his heartbeat.
Jiha sat quietly, repeatedly stroking her hair.
Moments like this had their own value.
A long silence.
"Should we get some breakfast? I'll bring it, so just wait here."
"No. I should obviously prepare—— Ahk!?"
Lijin hurriedly tried to sit up and let out a yelp.
The dull ache from where Jiha had worked her body all night, where her hymen had torn, flared up.
As Lijin trembled, Jiha pulled the blanket around her and spoke.
"You rest today and tomorrow. You can't do anything in that condition."
"......I-It's fine. I can manage."
"You can't. And even if you could, I won't allow it. Should I make this unofficial policy? Any woman who spends her first night with me gets two days off."
Virgin graduation leave?
Lijin gave a slight nod as Jiha said it with a grin.
"I'll remember that."
"Good. Then you're the first to get it. Stay in your room and rest today and tomorrow. I'll let Uben know, so if you need anything, tell the others. And if you need to see me about something, just call for me."
"Ah, no. How could I...."
Lijin stopped mid-sentence.
She froze, staring at the space between Jiha's crossed legs.
Jiha's manhood was standing rigidly erect.
"Ah, don't worry about it. That's just how men are in the morning."
"......Ah, I know. But that still won't do."
Covering herself with the blanket, Lijin shifted her position.
"If it's not enough for you, then more would be....... Nngh."
Moving her body made Lijin yelp again.
He'd literally torn living flesh last night, after all.
Jiha tsked.
"You can barely even sit without pain, so how can we do anything more? It's fine. Don't worry about it and let's just eat."
"......I-I'll do it for you."
Lijin reached out and grabbed Jiha's arm.
A stubborn look, with anxious eyes.
Jiha stared at her for a moment.
"I told you I don't like you pushing yourself when you're not well."
"I won't push myself. Then it's fine, right?"
"How?"
"With my hands and mouth...."
Lijin's face went bright red after she said it.
Even under Jiha's incredulous stare, she didn't take it back.
"Where'd you hear about that?"
"......I picked it up from the women at the tavern."
"It's too much. I'm telling you, you can't."
She wasn't a succubus.
A half-elf who'd just lost her virginity was going to finish off a battle-hardened Jiha using only her hands and mouth?
Watching Lijin's reactions, she clearly had zero experience caressing a man at all.
Lijin spoke earnestly.
"Please, let me at least try."
"......."
This wasn't normal behavior for a woman.
If she felt anxious after sleeping with a man, normally she'd be drawing up plans for their future together.
But Lijin was anxiously studying Jiha's expression.
On the off chance that Jiha left unsatisfied, she feared he might abandon her someday.
'A ridiculous delusion. Lijin knows that intellectually. But what the head knows can't always suppress the heart's anxiety.......'
Lijin must have grown up without the protection and love of her parents.
During the time when she could've been killed by elves at any moment, drifting without a single soul to rely on, she met Jiha and finally found a place to settle.
Even if that "settlement" meant hitching herself to a man who spilled blood and spun schemes to overturn the world.
On top of that, she already knew other women surrounded Jiha.
In that case, it was better to soothe this anxiety once.
Jiha laid down a condition.
"Fine. Then you do exactly as I say. Absolutely no pushing yourself."
"......Yes."
Lijin looked relieved yet tensed up again at the same time.
Jiha nodded, then pulled her close.
Lijin sighed as she sat shoulder to shoulder with Jiha, who was cross-legged on the bed.
She had stubbornly insisted, but now she was anxious about whether she could actually perform well.
Ultimately, she'd simply followed Jiha's lead all last night, and her body still wasn't in normal condition.
'She says she gathered knowledge from women she knows, but there's no way it'll work in practice. Guess I'll have to give her instructions.'
Jiha spoke calmly.
"Start with a kiss."
"......Yes."
"Do it slowly. No rush."
Lijin slowly pressed both hands against the man's shoulders and tilted her head.
"Ngh......"
A groan.
The pain in her lower body rose again the moment she moved.
Seeing this, Jiha instead lowered his head and kissed her first.
"Ji......"
He sealed the half-elf's lips with his own just as she was about to speak.
Her mouth blocked, Lijin hesitated, then closed her eyes.
She carefully cradled Jiha's face with both hands.
From his temples down to his cheeks, descending to his jaw, pressing lightly on his throat, then wrapping both arms around his neck as she kissed him.
"Mm, mmn......"
Anxious moans leaked through their joined lips.
Jiha repeatedly parted his lips lightly, pulled back, then pressed in again. Bit by bit, the tension drained from Lijin's body.
"Ah, mhm. Mmn......"
Now, as if she was gradually getting the hang of it, she tilted her head to match Jiha's movements as she kissed him.
Peck. Peck. Peck.
The light kisses continued for several minutes.
Their bodies subtly heated up, both of them wanting something more while suppressing it, repeating only the most restrained, gentle kisses.
"Mm, mmn."
Then, as if she'd made a decision, Lijin lowered her hand and took hold of Jiha's shaft.
Gripping it tight.
Jiha pointed out calmly.
"Too hard and it hurts."
"......S-Sorry."
"Don't let go. Hold it gently, as carefully as you'd hold an egg."
"......."
Following his words, Lijin wrapped all five fingers very cautiously around the shaft of his cock.
Teaching a girl who'd never known a man until yesterday like this had its appeal.
"Keep holding it and move slowly, back and forth."
"......Yes."
Sssshhlick. Sssshhlick.
Lijin gripped his manhood with her fingers and stroked it, very carefully and slowly.
Her eyes kept monitoring Jiha's reactions, checking whether he was okay or if she was hurting him.
Jiha spoke again.
"If something's wrong, I'll say so. Just go slow."
Peck.
He kissed Lijin again.
This time, he parted her lips and pushed his tongue inside.
"Ah......."
Lijin offered her tongue as his demanded. Eyes closed, she kept hold of Jiha's shaft and steadily stroked it.
This hot, throbbing, fireball-like thing—she had no idea how to handle it, but gripping and stroking it was definitely making it harder.
No wonder her body still hurt as if she'd been torn apart. That thing had been inside her.
"Ah, mmn......."
Sssssshhlick. Sssssshhlick.
While continuing to entwine her tongue with Jiha's, Lijin gradually began to alter how she handled his shaft.
At first, she'd only moved a little around the middle... now she was widening her range.
Like a pendulum swinging.
Sssssssshhlick.
Slow, but descending all the way to the base... then sliding up until just below the glans.
Throb! Throb!
Veins rose along the shaft as the stimulation struck it, swelling even thicker.
Lijin flinched at the reaction, startled, but she didn't stop her hand.
She'd heard about this from eavesdropping and confirmed it with her own body last night. She knew a man grew bigger as he got excited.
"Haaah, ahhh......"
Shlick. Sssssshhlick.
Lijin's breathing grew rougher.
Her hand gripping and stroking Jiha's shaft sped up slightly, a bit more strength entering her grip.
Jiha, who had been pressing the back of her head while kissing her, pulled his lips away.
"Slowly. Don't rush."
"......Yes."
Lijin bowed her head... then buried her face between Jiha's legs.
Her lips parted.
Without being told, she was trying to take his shaft into her mouth on her own.
How admirable.