Guild Massage Service (3)
The red-haired warrior Nanav sat preparing to receive my massage, her expression faintly stiff.
And the moment I slipped into Vitality Massage mode, her flustered voice began pouring straight into my head.
Recalling the line about Massage Mind Reading that had appeared on the translucent window just moments earlier, I roughly grasped that this was the skill's true function.
The ability to peer, unfiltered, into the innermost thoughts of whoever I was massaging.
It was a downright broken ability—so the instant I understood what it was, my heart couldn't help but race.
Calm down, Nanav. When you think about it, it's just a massage. Even if this is the first time a man's hands have ever touched your body, there's no need to get nervous.
"……."
Don't get worked up over something this small. The fact that the person massaging me is Guild Oppa is a good thing in a whole different way. Though the smell of sweat is a little bothersome…
…So this was really what Nanav normally kept buried in her head.
The voice flooding into my mind was so completely different from the impression I'd always had of her that I was a little thrown. The Nanav I knew always kept her composure with an easy smile even when dealing with a man like me, and never seemed particularly bothered when her attempts to seduce me failed. Yet inside, a voice nothing like that calm exterior was frantically pouring out all sorts of things—it was fascinating.
…Of course, fascinating or not, I couldn't waste forever just listening to her inner monologue. I gradually brought both hands toward the acupoints on Nanav's shoulders. No matter how intriguing this newly acquired ability was, I couldn't neglect my actual job as a masseur.
—Press.
"……!"
The moment my hands touched her shoulders, Nanav flinched slightly. It wasn't a dramatic reaction like the moans other people let out, but with my hands on her body I could feel that subtle tremor.
…And since an extremely flustered voice had flooded back into my head the second my hands made contact, I didn't need to carefully read her reactions to guess how she was feeling.
What do I do?! He actually touched me! A man's hands actually touched my body!
…Cute.
It wasn't just that her fluster was cute—the fact that it was Nanav reacting this way made it especially adorable. The complete reversal from her usual image was particularly charming. All of her usual composure had vanished without a trace, leaving only this reaction of a girl who'd never been touched by a man before, and it kept stirring something in me. A desire began to bloom in my mind to somehow draw that inner monologue out into the open as well.
—Press!
"……Hah."
—Press, press!
"……Nngh. ……Hoo."
As my hands began properly stimulating her acupoints, Nanav started letting out soft sounds. She was holding up better than anyone else I'd massaged so far, but even this level of reaction was more than enough. Separate from those shallow moans, her unfiltered inner thoughts pouring into me were excellent stimulation on their own.
W-what was that?! Something really intense just shot through my body.
"……Hah, haah."
It feels like something's rising from my shoulders up into my head… and it feels kind of good…
"Nngh…. Hahh……."
Thanks to Nanav broadcasting every single one of her thoughts without me needing any physical cues, I could be certain the massage was working properly on her. Having heard that much, it was about time to apply a little more pressure. If I focused too much on listening to her thoughts, my concentration on the actual massage would slip.
To loosen up Nanav's body over the thirty minutes allotted for the upper-body massage, I needed to start working her thoroughly from here on out. Since she was a woman with a strong desire for a pure massage, her body was covered in a considerable number of deep red acupoints.
—Press!
"……Nngh?!"
—Press, press!
"……Hahh. ……Hoo."
Every time an acupoint was stimulated, soft moans slipped from the red-haired warrior's lips. On the outside she was only letting out these calm little sounds, but inside my head every kind of flustered reaction was cascading. Nanav's startled thoughts about the sensation of being massaged kept flooding in.
Is getting a massage supposed to feel this good?! The massages I got from female masseuses back in the capital never felt like this…. And it feels like my muscles are actually loosening up too…. I wasn't expecting much from a massage by a man, but this might feel even better than the ones I got before…
Apparently Nanav had received massages from other masseurs before, even if not from me. Thanks to her inner thoughts, I learned that the masseur profession wasn't particularly rare in this world either—and that my massage definitely felt different from an ordinary one. Though it hadn't been her intention, I silently thanked her for the new information as I quickly focused on releasing the remaining acupoints on her shoulders one by one.
—Presss!
"……Hooo, hah…!"
—Press, press!
"Haaaah, hah…. ……Nngh."
…She was holding up well, this one. Then again, she'd always kept that flustered personality locked tightly under a thick skin, so holding back her moans at this point probably wasn't that hard for her. Plus, with the impression of a tough barbarian warrior I'd gotten from our first meeting, I could barely imagine her completely melting and blushing the way Elin or Coco did.
So just as the thought of wanting to break her even more took root in my mind, one of the acupoints on Nanav's shoulders turned green and vanished from her body.
"……Hahh, nngh…!!"
…She reacted pretty hard that time, though.
Whether with other women or now, women definitely seemed to feel the strongest stimulation at the moment an acupoint disappeared. Even this didn't produce a particularly dramatic reaction, but confirming it was enough for now. If I used this sensation well, I could make actual moans spill from Nanav's mouth—not just the telepathic voice ringing in my head.
—Presss, press!
"Mmph…. Hahh…."
—Press, presss!
"Haaa…. Hoo, haah…."
Once stimulated, Nanav's body became a little more defenseless against subsequent acupoint pressure. Apparently after one acupoint was released, she grew more sensitive when others were stimulated. Considering my goal of hearing her cute moans with my own ears, this was a clear opportunity—so this time I stimulated two acupoints on both shoulders at once and released them simultaneously.
"……Nngh!! …………Hyaah!!"
Head bowed low, Nanav trembled all over from the new stimulation, reacting unmistakably. Of all her reactions so far, this was the one that most clearly expressed everything she'd been thinking—so what I needed to do next was decided.
Better one than none. Better two than one. Better even more than that.
Stimulate multiple acupoints at once, release them all at once, and keep stimulating them in succession so the sensation of release would last as long as possible. That was the best way to conquer this barbarian warrior who always wore that composed smile.
"Feeling good, Miss Nanav?"
"…I-it's alright? Not bad."
I have to endure this for another thirty minutes? How many minutes have passed already? Can I hold out until then?
Smiling at the complete mismatch between her casual attitude and her inner thoughts, I focused my fingers on the last remaining acupoints on both her shoulders.
"Got it. Then I'll work even harder so that 'not bad' of yours turns into 'really good.'"
"Ah, no…. You don't have to go that far…"
—Presss!!
"Nngh, hyaaugh?!"
Mid-massage, Nanav tried to say something only to tremble in place from the renewed stimulation. The cute moan that had burst out for a moment was forced back inside by her stubbornness, but the reaction of her now-sensitive body and her inner thoughts were definitely stoking my desire.
So, once more.
Wanting to draw out another sensitive reaction from Nanav's body, I stimulated two acupoints with both hands simultaneously again, piling that hard-to-endure sensation onto her. Already made thoroughly sensitive from the process of multiple acupoints being released, Nanav's body couldn't hold back the stimulation and had no choice but to spill her honest feelings.
—Presss!
"Ughnnngh?! Hah, hyaaaah…!!"
—Press, presss!
"Hyaa, w-wai, t……!! Hoo, nngh…!! Nnghnnngh?!"
The moment I simultaneously released the knotted muscles near both shoulder blades, Nanav's lovely voice came back to me. It was the moment her moans—barely different from her inner thoughts—clearly reached my ears.