EP.4.5 Under the Moonlight -2
EP.4.5 Under the Moonlight -2
The space beneath the information desk.
I was hiding there, covering my mouth with both hands.
To avoid being caught by my fox companion in heat.
-Tap! Tap!
The only sound echoing through the silent space was the tapping of Miho's flower shoes.
The closer the sound drew, the faster my heart pounded.
"Where could he be~? My dear husband?"
Madness layered over Miho's characteristically clear voice sent a mind-numbing terror rushing over me.
I nearly let out a sound by accident, but the hands clamped over my mouth let me get past it.
"Not here, perhaps?"
Miho circled the waiting area near the information desk once.
Then, seeming to decide I wasn't around, her footsteps gradually grew more distant.
"D-did she go...?"
"As if I would~♡"
"Gyaaaaaaah!!"
The moment I let myself relax, Miho's head poked down from above the information desk, the shock so great my heart nearly stopped.
"Aaaah! H-how! Did you know it was me?! I didn't even breathe!"
At the same time, it made me scramble out from under the desk and bolt again.
"You really think I wouldn't catch your lovely scent, husband?"
Right.
Because she always took the form of a beautiful woman, I'd briefly forgotten, but her true nature was a Nine-Tailed Fox.
A species whose sense of smell far surpasses that of humans.
"Scent...! I had to do something about the scent!"
But there was no way a hospital would have deodorizer.
In that case, there was only one method.
In the hospital's medical supply room, I grabbed the ethanol disinfectant.
Using this would make my wounds hurt like crazy, but I didn't have the luxury to be picky.
"Ahhggh...!!"
I doused my entire body with the whole bottle of disinfectant ethanol.
It felt like the unhealed wounds were searing away, but that didn't matter.
The important thing was for the harsh alcohol smell to soak into every part of me.
"Done! With this, even Miho can't...!"
With her keen nose, Miho wouldn't be able to push through this alcohol stench and close in...
"I don't care what scent my husband carries, you know? Whatever scent my husband has is wonderful to me!"
Miho, who had somehow appeared behind me, wrapped her arms around me.
At the same time, she inhaled deeply, taking in my scent, and then—
"Haaah...♡ Still, that sort of chemical really can't erase my husband's rich scent after all!"
She let out a lewd sigh, as if enraptured.
"That's impossible...!"
All I could smell was the alcohol stabbing at my nose!
Just what scent of mine was Miho picking up to act like that?
"More importantly, haven't you forgotten that I've caught you?"
Miho, who had me firmly in her grasp from behind, began running her hands over my body, slithering like a snake.
Her hand, starting from my cheek, passed over my jaw, neck, collarbone, and abdomen, and was now making its way into my underwear.
"S-stop!"
"Do you truly think anyone would actually stop when told to stop?"
Her hand crept closer and closer to my groin.
Just as I was giving up, figuring this was the end, and thinking of the bad ending, my fingertips brushed something.
"This is... a tail?"
Ah, this soft and fluffy sensation, it had been so long.
The last escape route left to me now.
Without hesitation, I stimulated Miho's tail.
"Kyahaung?!"
I'd heard something once, while I was enjoying the fluffiness of Miho's tail.
['I'm happy too, that my tail can make you feel good, husband! Ah, but please try not to touch the tip of my tail.']
['Why?']
['Because it's an erogenous zone!']
At the time I just thought, oh, okay, and didn't think much of it, but it had turned out to be useful information.
Knowledge really was important.
"How's that!"
"Hyaat...! If you stimulate me there...!"
It gave me complicated feelings, making Miho let out such lewd moans, but I had no choice if I wanted to escape.
The more I stimulated the tip of her tail, the weaker her hold on me grew.
"Kyahng...!!"
Only after I'd pushed Miho to climax through her tail was I able to slip free of her grasp.
"Hah...! Hah...!"
Miho's breathing turned ragged, her body gave a few tremors, and then she slumped to the floor.
"D-did I take her down?"
Just then, her beautiful blonde hair and golden tail were gleaming brilliantly in the moonlight.
Her pure-white thighs were also clearly exposed in the moonlight, revealing the thick, transparent liquid trickling down them.
That was proof she'd climaxed so intensely she couldn't move.
"Alright, now..."
And at the same time, it meant that as a woman, she was ready to receive my everything whenever I wished.
"...What the hell was I just thinking?"
I'd been unconsciously seduced by the sight of Miho in disarray.
I needed to get a grip.
I was the person in danger of being pounced on, not the one doing the pouncing.
"I'm sorry, Miho..."
As I tried to leave her slumped there and get away, a single hand grabbed my ankle.
"Husbaaand...♡ Do you really intend to leave after making my body burn this hot?"
"Hiiik...!!"
Miho's burning crimson eyes were fixed covetously on my crotch.
"I'm still not satisfied, you know...? Your fingers were certainly nice, husband, but my lower mouth needs something even nicer and more magnificent...♡"
I was seriously going to lose my mind!
Even without this, my reason as a Human Companion and my instincts as a man kept seesawing, driving me crazy enough as it was!
If I took one more step toward her here, I'd definitively cross a line.
To cross, or not to cross—that was the question, and it was giving me a headache.
I didn't think I'd ever miss Yata's prophecies as much as I did at that moment.
'Come to think of it, hadn't Yata given me a hint?'
If I thought back to the only hint she'd given me before she left...
I turned my head toward the window and looked up at the moon hanging in the sky.
It was only a brightly shining full moon, the kind that made you think of a cratered rice cake. Nothing was wrong with the moon itself.
That meant the full moon and Miho were connected...
"Wait? Could it be...?"
On the day of the full moon, a Nine-Tailed Fox went into heat!
I'd once read it in a book written by a Divine Beast researcher.
That certain specific Divine Beasts displayed abnormal behavior on specific days.
"Miho is one of those Divine Beasts!"
And then I remembered that the next page said you must never stimulate a Divine Beast on that day.
"But I already stimulated her...?"
"Husbaaand...♡"
When I shifted my gaze from the moon back to Miho,
heart shapes were now floating in her crimson eyes.
"Oh, my god...!"
I'd seen that in Yata's eyes before, but that had been an image my own mind conjured up.
But now it was certain—this wasn't an illusion. It was proof that Miho was genuinely in heat.
"Haah...! Haah...!!"
Miho's increasingly ragged breathing and the alluring trembling of her body signaled that she was about to pounce on me.
"Aaaah!"
My legs reflexively shook off Miho's hand, and the next thing I knew, I was running away with my eyes squeezed shut.
In the end, I was effectively running away from Miho again.
"Huff...! Huff...!"
The place I fled to from Miho was the men's restroom.
The instant I got inside, I locked the door and barricaded the entrance with all the scattered cleaning tools and various supplies.
"Let's hold out... Once the moon sets, Miho will surely return to normal."
If I held out for roughly one or two hours, the moon would set and the sun would rise.
Until then, I only had to hold my ground at the restroom entrance.
I knew it would be hard.
She was a Divine Beast, and I was a human. There was a fundamental gap in our specs, so I probably wouldn't last long.
Even so, I couldn't just sit there and let it happen to me, which was why I'd chosen to block the entrance.
"Please, please don't come...!"
But that wish was shattered by the sound of footsteps coming from outside the restroom.
The footsteps, drawing steadily closer, stopped—unsurprisingly—right in front of the men's restroom.
"Husband, you're in here, aren't you?"
A voice from which all disarray had vanished.
Miho spoke to me in a voice that wasn't excited or panting.
"I'm alright now. I'm sorry! For showing you such an unseemly side of me..."
"You're finally back! Miho!"
Overjoyed, I quickly cleared away the things blocking the door, ready to welcome the now-normal Miho...
-Drip! Drip-drip!
"Huh...?"
At the sound of droplets falling, I stopped moving for a moment.
If the sound were coming from inside the restroom, I'd have thought nothing of it, but the source was clearly coming from outside, and that was a problem.
There was nothing outside the restroom that could make that sound.
No water purifier, nothing else—just an empty space.
The only thing that could be dripping was...
"Hurk!"
"Husband? What's wrong?"
Only then did I realize.
The Miho outside right now was...
"You can come out now, I told you?"
She was still in heat!
"Husband? Husbaaand~? Please open the door. I'm worried about you, husband!"
The continuing sound of droplets falling told me exactly what state she was in—it was surely her fluids dripping from between Miho's legs.
"...You're not answering. That means you've figured it out, haven't you?"
"Miho, you're a really scary kid, you know that?"
"Calling me scary is so mean. I'm just a Companion Animal who loves her husband, you know?"
"The way you love me is hair-raising. You terrifyingly track me down, you suddenly appear from behind and grab me, and now you're putting on method-acting-level performances. My heart has probably stopped three times just today."
"But if I don't do it this way, you'd keep rejecting me to the very end, wouldn't you, husband?"
"I accept love expressed through normal, pure methods, not abnormal ones like this."
"That's not enough! I want you to accept a richer, more profound love. I want you, husband, to accept all of me!"
"That day might come, given time. Couldn't you have waited?"
"I can't wait for that day to come. Because I'm anxious and worried! Just yesterday, seeing my husband injured made my heart crumble to pieces. If I'd lost you then, I...!!"
It was true that the full moon had made her this way.
But the reason she clung this obsessively to my love wasn't the moon—it was entirely because of me.
"Miho..."
Before the operation began, I'd promised Miho I'd return safely and forced comfort on her when she was anxious.
If I hadn't done that, she would've tried to stay by my side the whole time.
But what was the reality? Contrary to my promise, hadn't I come back covered in wounds?
My stubbornness had only ended up hurting Miho.
If she had stayed beside me... if she had stopped me from carrying out that dangerous operation...
Recounting thoughts like those was what had been tormenting Miho.
"It was my fault...!"
This was wrong, so utterly wrong.
I had to fix this mistake, even now.
And so I cleared away everything that had been blocking the door and stepped outside.
To swiftly embrace Miho, who was surely outside crying in sorrow, as soon as possible.
"I'm sorry! Miho! From now on, I'll...! Huh...?"
But Miho, who should have been outside the door, was nowhere to be seen.
Where had she gone?
-Creeeak!
Just as I was panicking because Miho wasn't where I'd thought she'd be, I heard something opening from behind me.
The sound came from the restroom window.
Outside the window, Miho's vivid red eyes and fox ears were sticking out, peeking in.
"Divine Beast, oh my god...!"
A scene straight out of a horror movie.
The heart that had been dampened with emotion just moments ago froze solid in an instant.
"Caught you♡ I won't let you go now...!!"
Obsessed with the single-minded goal of devouring me, she'd climbed the building's exterior wall and infiltrated through the restroom window.
"Incredible, truly incredible..."
In many ways.
"Now, it seems hide-and-seek is over."
"Seems like it..."
I was completely pinned down by Miho, mounted with her on top and me underneath.
"So, what shall we play now? What shall we play...♡"
A woman smiling a lewd and ecstatic smile under the moonlight.
"There's really only one game left now, isn't there?"
A woman aiming to take the virginity I'd guarded for twenty years.
"The baby-making game...♡"
That woman was...
"Then, I'll put it in~♡"
My fox companion.