The White Wind Howls (29)
The White Wind Howls (29)
#124
Why are you being so cheesy...
"Ah! Do-yun, your face went red."
"Well, you suddenly said something like that..."
"Hehe. Do-yun, do you love me?"
Love.
Love, was it.
Did I love Lily?
If I went into a philosophical inquiry, everyone might just die of boredom.
But I needed to think about it carefully. This was a very important question. Lily—maybe it was a word that could apply to Lucien just the same.
Honestly, I haven't known this girl for very long.
At best, hasn't it barely been a week? The depth of the feelings Lily holds for me and the depth of the feelings I hold are probably as different as heaven and earth.
Moreover... Lily's feelings, accumulated through countless regressions she experienced... I thought my meager understanding likely couldn't even begin to grasp them.
"Why are you thinking so hard...?"
Lily asked with a sulky expression.
"Th, that's..."
"It's not a hard thing to say. Here, repeat after Lily. I. Love. You."
"I... love... you—"
"Not hard, right?"
"............"
"Frustrating guys like that aren't popular with girls, you know?"
Lily might be disappointed—
For myself, and for Lily too.
Let me be honest.
"I don't really know if I love you, miss..."
"Why?"
"The time you've gone through with me... and the time I went through with you are different, aren't they?"
Kideuk.
I thought she'd be upset. But Lily smiled at me affectionately, as if she didn't mind at all.
"Then— during the time we have left, you can just love me enough to make up the difference."
"Pardon?"
"Once our expedition... our journey ends— Lily's time will end, too. But yours won't."
"Please don't say things like that."
"I already told you, the ending was decided long ago. No matter what happens, Lily will make sure the ending where you survive comes to be."
"...... I hate that."
"So... once things are over and you go back to your original time— then just love me with all your might during Lily's remaining time so I don't have any regrets."
"............"
Peck.
Lily's soft hand stroked my head.
"I'll take your answer through your body♥"
***
***
The passionate lovemaking, at once gentle and fierce, came to an end.
"Ah, the smell! It's so sticky... Do-yun, you're a total animal."
"Miss, the fluids you produced yourself were greater in volume, weren't they?"
Cheombeong!
When I turned my head, she was swimming in the river.
The surface of the water shattered the moonlight. Was it the upper reaches of the Letherion River? The river water shimmered calmly as if it had swallowed the whole night sky—
And the woman who, just moments ago, had been gasping for breath in my arms vanished somewhere, replaced by a mischievous little child now gliding gracefully through the water like a fish.
"Come in. We should wash up, right?"
"Is it really okay to go in there?"
Lily asked, tilting her head.
"Huh? Why?"
"Earlier, you said it was a river where the souls of mages flow. Isn't it something like a holy river? Like the Ganges River in India."
"Gan? Ges? Whatever, I told you I don't believe in stuff like that. I'm a mage who governs souls. There's none of that here."
"Well, if you say so."
Pungdeong!
I flung my body into the river.
"Ah, it's col—"
"River water is naturally cold!"
Lily swam toward me like a mermaid and spoke.
"Then, since we're at it— shall we have a race? The winner's prize is... a free-sex pass with Lily!"
......
Lily, cutting through the dark blue current, was fast. She was damn, unbelievably fast.
"Do-yun, you're slow!"
I had thought this before... but maybe Lily's Unique Magic isn't handling souls, but handling the body.
It wasn't completely out of the question—think about it. From the start, the weapon she used in a fight wasn't something like a magic staff; it was a sword.
She swings a sword and calls it a Soul Slash or whatever, but thinking about it again, it might all just be hitting insanely hard with a sword.
Lily, who had arbitrarily swum far ahead and stopped, stood facing this way and spoke.
"Ah— too bad. What a waste for our Do-yun. Lily's free-sex pass just flew away."
"I don't really need something like that."
"You could've had me do anything you wanted."
Then maybe I did need it.
"Anyway, how are you so fast?"
"It's you who's slow."
"It's my first time trying to swim in a river."
"Liar. The place you lived had a river, too."
If you stripped down like that and swam around freely in the Han River, it probably wouldn't end very well... You could get a skin disease. Or get arrested by the police.
However, I gave up on explaining it honestly. It seemed like it would take a long time to make her understand.
"The place I lived had a river, too, but I've never gone skinny-dipping at night with a pretty young lady like this."
"Yes! So I'm your first?"
Lily nodded as if she understood and approached me.
I thought it was a pretty deliberate attempt at flirting... but it didn't seem to have much effect.
She stood on her tiptoes and wrapped both arms around my neck.
Unlike the cold river water, her body temperature was extremely— extremely, extremely warm.
"How is it?"
"How is what?"
"Doing this kind of thing with me."
"Should I even write you a review?"
"Yeah."
Lily answered so brazenly.
"I'll write up three pages on A4 paper and submit it later."
"Eiii, for real?"
"Such things exist."
She knew what a cigarette was but didn't know that.
I gazed at her face, tilted in confusion, for just a brief moment.
White hair drenched in moonlight. The bandages soaked with water, and the left eye like a blue jewel beaded with droplets.
And her flushed cheeks, still not cooled from the heat of our recent lovemaking.
The honest feelings of my heart spilled out like melted candy.
"I'm happy."
The corners of her mouth lifted up, beaming.
"Really?"
"Yes, really, really. To the point that I wish tonight would never end."
"That's a relief."
After saying that, Lily tightened her arms around my neck a bit more and spoke.
"Ah, this is serious."
"What is?"
"Lily might be a little wet."
"What's wet?"
She giggled.
"Ahh— Do-yun, you're so naughty. I think Lily's pussy is a little wet. Seems I got turned on again."
"Then shall we do it again?"
"No. If we do it more, we might not be able to walk tomorrow."
That was true, though. If we went past that point, we would probably explore each other until dawn.
"We should slowly wash up and go to sleep now. You won't grow taller if you don't sleep on time."
"We've both already aged enough to be done growing. And it'd be troublesome if I grew any more."
"True. If you got any bigger here, the height match with Lily wouldn't be right. You could practically lift and pound me like a living XX-hole—"
Squeeze.
I pressed my index finger against her lips.
"Please, watch what you say..."
She giggled and retorted.
"Hing. But that's a phrase you taught me... Alright. Today, Lily will only use pretty words."
"Only today?"
"Hehe."
She pressed her soft, squishy breasts against me and spoke.
"Then now, wash Lily. Just like the old days."
Like the old days?
"Um... miss, if I may ask, when exactly are these 'old days' you're referring to..."
"Mmm... About 30 years? Ago, maybe. How old was I back then—"
She started counting, bending her fingers one by one.
Wee-oo-wee-oo— wee-oo-wee-oo—
Bisaaaaang.
Red alert.
A red siren filled my brain.
"If you say any more than that, it might be dangerous. Anyway, I was wrong."
"What's dangerous?"
"It's a thing..."
Shit. That was a close call.
"Anyway, wash me."
"Okay."
With those words, we moved to a part of the river where the water was a bit more shallow.
Splash!
I cupped my hands like a bowl and poured water over her body.
"Ah, cold!"
"It's not a bathroom, so it can't be helped."
"Right. If it were a bathroom, you probably would've staged a protest to shove the shower hose back into my butt."
"......"
Being karma as it was, no particular words of rebuttal came to mind.
Anyway, starting from her arms, I washed Lily down to her shoulders, chest, waist, and thighs, in that order.
As my hands caressed her smooth skin, an exclamation nearly escaped my lips.
And even while being wiped down with just water, no soap at all, a soft baby-powder scent wafted from Lily's body, as if she had poured in some high-end bath salts.
Was this a characteristic of a mage's body, or was Lily just originally like this?
Splash!
I thought I had washed almost all of her by then...
It was when I came back to her waist and was rubbing Lily's body.
"...Do-yun, you're quite the gentleman. I've re-evaluated you."
"There's no gentleman quite like me. How gentle am I."
"But there are strangely a lot of parts you didn't wash?"
"There isn't any such thing. You must be mistaken, miss."
"Probably not a mistake? Why aren't you washing my chest and down there? They're the parts that got the dirtiest."
A bead of cold sweat ran down my forehead.
Maybe it wasn't cold sweat, but just cold river water dripping from my wet hair.
"...It's because I'm a gentleman."
Wasn't that an excellent response?
"But... now that I think about it again, properly speaking, a gentleman ought to take responsibility for the things he's done."
The things I had done, she said...
"With this, you can't become a gentleman. Lily can't approve of that! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Haa...
Lily lifted her body up, showing off her elegant, shapely figure in the faint moonlight.
"You have to wash the places you couldn't wash back then, right? Lily's all grown up now... the places you weren't allowed to touch when I was little. Fully grown breasts, and a pussy that's learned how to get wet. You may touch them all to your heart's content, Do-yun."
Her fully protruding, perky breasts. They were so soft and squishy that they wobbled gently with every word she spoke.
And those soft buttocks and thighs—
Between them, in her crotch, the bodily fluids still trickled down stickily.
Even after swimming so hard, the fluids flowing out were so vividly visible.
It was just beautiful...
Faced with that titillating sight, I had no choice but to freeze up like a statue.
"Why are you just standing there? Shall I explain it in a way that's easier to understand?"
"No. I understand perfectly well myself..."
"I'm telling you to wipe off what you shot into me. It's still pooled up in my belly, making gurgling sounds, see."
She swayed her soft body parts saucily as she approached.
Haa... I looked into her eyes and spoke.
"I'm saying this in advance, but we're not having sex anymore today. Promise—"
I held out my pinky finger.
Squeeze.
"Lily promises too— no more sex before we go to sleep tonight."
I brought my hands to Lily's soft chest and crotch.
But the thing is...
Could we really walk back to the camp the next day?