45. It Means a Ridiculously Sexy Body
45. It Means a Ridiculously Sexy Body
"I want to see Chrono and Mars 'making love' together!"
"..........!!!"
A bright smile and a not-so-innocent request
Mars shot up from her seat at Yuno's demand.
"Y-you, youu, uuuh....!"
In a love hotel.
She wanted to watch them make love.
The implication was already blatantly clear.
Mars could barely string words together and stamped her feet in place, while Yuno urged her on as if nothing was wrong.
"Mars, you like Chrono, right?"
"Well, that's!... I like, him....."
Mars glanced at me.
Yuno smiled brightly at Mars and continued.
"How much do you like him?"
"That's, I mean......"
Her head gradually lowered.
Eventually, she hid her reddened face with her hands.
"I like him... a lot...."
"How much exactly?"
"....A lot."
"To put it figuratively?"
"Figura...tively....."
Mars peered at me through her fingers.
"....I want to have his baby."
"Huh? What did you say?"
"I said, I want to have his baby."
"Have what?"
"............."
Her shame and embarrassment gradually faded, and sincerity began to bloom.
A singular emotion. About the 'love' she felt, wanted to have, and wanted to keep giving endlessly.
Mars placed one hand below her stomach and murmured.
"That guy's... baby...."
"............."
"Chrono's baby. I like him enough to want to have it."
".....Uh... yeah."
I see.
At words far more direct than she had imagined, Yuno's flow was broken.
I didn't miss that opening and wedged myself between Yuno and Mars, pushing them apart.
"Alright, alright, stop teasing like that. She'll think you're serious, Yuno."
"....What?"
Mars finally lifted her head at my words.
Alright, now if I just smoothly brush past this...
"I wasn't joking though?"
"Hey....!"
...Yuno apparently had no intention of stopping.
No, rather, acting like this was even better, she looked back and forth between me and Mars with eyes full of interest.
"Now I'm even more curious. How you and Mars 'love' each other."
"What the... if it were a joke I could at least laugh it off...."
It seemed she genuinely wanted to watch a little, gazing at me with eyes brimming with curiosity.
'If I leave this as is, she's really going to go through with it.'
Mars and I gave off the vibe of a couple who'd been through thick and thin together, but in reality, we'd barely been together for not even two months.
And suddenly we're supposed to call in a spectator and do... that kind of thing?
Even right now, just the two of us, if we were told to do it sober we'd be stuttering in embarrassment, so what kind of nonsense was I supposed to say?
"We're not doing it. Why would we? Even if we did, we'd do it alone. Not in front of you."
I shook my hand back and forth in refusal.
Unfortunately, I didn't have some fetish for getting off on being watched.
So please, go ask someone else, and we'll just head outside for some other wholesome fun...
"...Chrono."
"Nope."
No.
What's not okay is not okay.
Don't look at me with those eyes.
Why a thing you shouldn't do is a thing you shouldn't do.
"I... like you."
"No, no matter how you put it."
"You... like me too, right?"
"...No... no, nooo...!"
I get that you like me.
Of course, I like you too.
But that isn't a valid justification for doing public sex.
As the saying goes, let not your left hand know what your right hand does, but while there certainly are a tiny minority of people who'd enjoy having the sacred act of baby-making openly displayed for someone else to see!
'They even make money off it and stuff!'
But that doesn't mean we should be filming live adult videos.
I kept telling Mars no, but she stubbornly persisted.
"Are you embarrassed to do it with me?"
"Why is it suddenly going there?"
"I asked if you're embarrassed to do it with me. Or don't tell me... you have some weird feelings for Yuno?"
"Haah......"
Her tone grew rougher and rougher.
A conversation losing reason and leaving only emotion.
This wasn't something to drag out.
On the surface, it was truly the worst possible situation.
'Still... haah, I see.'
I silently looked at Mars.
"....Why are you cracking up all of a sudden? Trying to laugh it off 'cause you're embarrassed?"
"No, because you're cute."
"!.... You think I'll fall for that again?"
"Then I'll say you're lovely."
"That's!.... May-be, I might want to fall for that..."
Mars hung her head and crumpled again.
Yeah, this side of her was cute.
She was so cute and lovely that I found myself wanting to pull her into a tight hug without realizing it.
'The girlfriend I had back then was really...'
Should I call it a past life, the story of before I became a possesor.
I'd dated a girlfriend once. Around the time I joined the army, she put her rubber shoes on backward, and the way she acted in front of me back then still stuck in my memory.
[I can't just wait for you forever, can I?]
[......You, really.]
How much that had hurt me back then.
She usually showed aegyo and approached me emotionally, but the moment my girlfriend suddenly turned cold and rational, I could tell she had completely given up on me from her heart.
'But looking back now, she was a saint in comparison.'
At least it wasn't a ghosting breakup.
Thanks to that, I was able to cut ties clearly when it came to that.
Anyway, the point is, when a woman draws a line with a man, the first thing she cuts off is her 'emotions.'
So conversely, if she keeps showing reactions filled with 'emotion,' rather than truly 'disliking' it...
"...What are you staring at."
"Because you're pretty."
"S-so, I said stop... teasing me, you son of a bitch....!"
Mars scratched furiously at her head, trying to regain her composure.
But judging by the tail attached to the back of her head swaying gently, she seemed to be in a good mood after all.
Truly, there's no woman who dislikes compliments. And if love is mixed in on top of that, what more is there to say.
"I'm not teasing you. In the old days, maybe I did it to tease, but... now, it's because I sincerely like you."
".............."
Mars fell silent.
Truly, sometimes silence is golden.
However, that's 'golden' only in the sense of meaning 'don't do useless things.'
"When you get happy, the hair you tied back sways gently like a puppy's tail, it's cute."
"Uheut....."
"The way you try to act proud in front of others, but get super shy when we're alone, it's pretty."
"...Euh.... ah-euh...."
"The way you hug me and get on guard every time a woman passes by, then later act nonchalant and pull away after they're all gone—it's so loveable."
".....St...stop... stooop...!"
I spoke to Mars.
"Do you really want me to stop?"
"...Don't just say it with words."
"What? Pfft... puhahah!"
I casually moved over and sat right next to Mars.
The mattress dipped slightly under the weight.
I gently placed my hand over Mars's, and though she flinched in surprise, she didn't pull her hand away.
"Euh.... euheut....!"
I interlocked my fingers between hers.
Tightly, I folded my fingers to grip hers. When Mars followed suit and folded her fingers to make a fist───my hand just got squeezed right out?
'No, it's not just being squeezed out...'
The bones of my hand were being compressed between her fingers.
"Ah... aack....!"
Is this what they call finger joint torture?
I never knew I'd come to experience the hearts of the martyrs who sacrificed for the Republic of Korea in this way.
"!, Did it hurt?"
Startled by my pained groans, Mars quickly relaxed her grip.
I narrowed my eyes and stared at Mars.
"I thought they were gonna break...."
"....Sorry."
"It's okay. 'Cause that's your charm."
".............."
"Actually it's not really okay so don't raise your fist, okay?"
If I get hit wrong do I get carted off?
Am I not a gag character? I'm fully prepared to cry 'Teeeeeeng!' while running to the school nurse, you know?
Ultimately, unable to withstand my threats, Mars silently relaxed her hand.
'That's a relief.'
A wrong move and I could've had my spine bent backward and been carted off to the hospital.
Especially after just waking up, it'd be too unfair to cross the river again.
"...But, it's kinda funny."
"Huh? Funny?"
Seeing Mars completely deflated over having hurt me, a laugh really did leak out.
Though Mars herself seemed unaware, wasn't that the truth?
"Why is it that every time we try to set the mood, we end up like this...."
"....I said I was sorry."
"Don't be sorry. You acting a bit thoughtless is your charm."
"You're teasing me right now, aren't you?"
"It means I like you enough that even your flaws look like strengths."
"................."
....Somehow.
It felt really fucking annoying.
But oddly, that also made me feel better.
Ultimately, unable to define her own feelings, Mars just quietly stared at me.
"What. You mad?"
"....Are you mimicking me right now?"
"They say people in love start to resemble each other."
"I-is that so...?"
"Actually I was just messing with you."
"............"
"Jooo~ke, it's a joke. I'm not teasing you, okay? I didn't tease you, okay?"
Why on earth would I tease you.
If I tease you wrong, I'm bound to be smashed to bits like some Ace player.
"Do... that again and you really will die by my hand."
Even on the surface, she was dead serious; it was clear that if things went wrong, at least one hole would be punched through me.
At this rate, she really seemed like she would sulk.
"But you know I love you, right?"
"......Euuh-euuh..."
Yet when I actually got close and pressed my body to hers, she crumpled back down as if she'd never been angry.
I had no choice but to find her adorable.
I quietly slid my hand onto her waist and gently rubbed it, and Mars leaned her body against my shoulder.
"....Chrono."
"What."
"....I, you know."
I like you.
Mars's confession.
I was about to respond in kind──but.
"When I... throw a fit, you just take it without much fuss."
It seemed Mars wasn't finished yet.
I silently rested my cheek against Mars's head and listened to her story.
"When I... a bit, no a little.... a verrrrrry tiny bit made a mistake... even when I got angry, you kept taking it."
"Even when I sometimes did weird shit, you laughed it off, let it slide, and that's, I mean....."
"...Isn't that just being an emotional dumpster?"
If someone takes anything you throw at them, that's just a dumpster.
Did you like me because I was convenient?
"Hey, that's not.... not, it? It's not, right?"
"Why are you the one getting confused about that?"
At the very least, you should say no.
Tsk, at my short tongue click, Mars trembled slightly.
"Sorry... I guess it's hard to put up with me throwing a fit, huh...?"
"My body's into it, so it's fine."
".........."
"Hot women are hot even when they're angry. I can just grit my masochistic guts and deal with it."
"That's just being a pervert."
"So are you."
No I'm not?
Yes you are?
I said no.
What bullshit, girl who sucked it with fur still on her mouth.
That was! Th-the.....
"....It means I'm a woman who can love even the dirtiest parts of the man she loves!"
"How damn shameless."
Well, it was precisely because she was this kind of Mars.
"That's why I like you, though."
"Mm...!"
"You're my number two."
"............."
"Number one is Ur."
"....Son of a bitch."
Too harsh.
Even knowing that, you still liked me and followed along.
"Later on, I'll become number one."
"I'll be looking forward to it."
At any rate, probably not the absolute best one, but at least an only one.
Mars's character was simply too unique.
I caressed Mars's waist and silently soothed her.
"I've been thinking of ways to beat that woman."
"Ho. Like what?"
Let's hear it.
"First, cooking is out. Because I can't do it."
"And?"
"Makeup, clothes, grooming myself, I'm bad at all that. Since I'm just starting out."
"So?"
"But there's one thing I can confidently say I won't lose in."
"That being?"
Mars looked up at me and declared proudly.
"That I've got a body that's fucking hot."
"....I'll concede that."
If Ur was a cozy shelter,
Mars's case was like the blast center after being shelled.
Meaning she was extremely fiery.
As a side note.
"Mars.....!"
"Chrono.....!"
Before they knew it, the two had built a world all their own.
"......................"
Yuno silently experienced pure love.