So That She Slowly Falls For Me
I’d find out soon enough whether the top and tie would remain even after Mimicry ended. After committing the information to memory, I finally noticed Yeonhee’s soaked blouse and lay down beside her as she covered her chest with her arms.
“Hic… I-I definitely… told you. That I was going to wash up… It’s all wet… It must have been see-through. You saw everything, didn’t you?”
“Yeah.”
“Huup—?!”
My smoother reply made her clap a hand over her mouth, eyes widening like a startled rabbit. She clearly hadn’t expected me to admit it so boldly.
I slid closer. Once again, just like yesterday, I found myself lying face-to-face with her. And just like yesterday, there was no talk of being so embarrassed she could die or stuttering in confusion. I wondered if I had always been weak to the opposite sex, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
“Haa— Haa—”
Yeonhee’s breathing, roughened from using her ability earlier, seemed beyond her control. Even with her hand over her mouth, the gasps that escaped tickled my face.
“Ahht…!”
I wrapped my left arm around her waist. She showed a brief flicker of resistance before letting herself be drawn in, as though she couldn’t help it. We were now close enough that I could kiss her forehead with just a slight tilt of my head. A few strands of her hair tickled my nose.
She kept her arms crossed over her chest, simply lying in my embrace and breathing, as if that were her sole purpose in life. She must have been feeling exactly what I felt yesterday. The tremors running through her body and the moist corners of her eyes told me as much.
I didn’t drape my leg over hers. Her body was far too small and precious for that, and I was enormous in comparison. Had I always been this big? I wasn’t sure.
I have no idea what I should do.
Was it because I had spent so long as a brainless skeleton? There were times like this when my mind went completely blank. I needed to think of something.
I tried to recall faint memories. It felt like I might have had experiences like this in my previous life, but then again, maybe not. Selective memory loss had become a familiar affliction.
“Heu… Haa…”
Even though I wasn’t doing anything, she reacted differently by the second. I gently lifted her trembling chin with my finger. Without resistance, her gaze rose to meet mine.
“……”
“……”
We simply stared into each other’s eyes without speaking. Yet time flew by like an arrow.
I pulled her a little closer.
“Hng…! Aah…”
At the tight distance, the texture of her full breasts pressed clearly against me. Her already damp body grew wet again from the humid air without any chance to dry.
“Kiiit…”
She let out a strange, pained sound, then hurriedly flapped one hand to grab the blanket lying nearby. She pulled it over her lower body, her face turning bright red. For a moment it seemed she wanted to say something to me, but the words wouldn’t come.
Perhaps she thought covering her lower half would give her some psychological stability, or maybe she was embarrassed about how much skin showed in her shorts. But with the deep cleavage visible between her breasts, it didn’t seem to make much difference.
Strange. I think I understand why Yeonhee acted that way yesterday.
I wanted to tease her. It was like going back to my immature elementary school days.
At this close distance, I decided to use my legs. I didn’t need to move much. Soon my knee touched her thigh, and without withdrawing it, I very carefully pressed against the inside of her thigh.
“Hng… Ah!”
She quickly tried to push my leg away with one hand. But—
Press— Squeeze—
“Kkheu… Eup… Uk…”
I ignored her and continued the thigh massage, gradually moving upward little by little.
She kept looking back and forth between my leg and my face, trembling. She didn’t know what to do. It seemed she was even too embarrassed to ask me to stop.
“Aaahk… Uu… Ut…”
In the end, it seemed she decided to endure it. As I expected, it was the most foolish choice. But it was also what I wanted.
I had seen fragments of the life Yeonhee had lived. It was safe to say she was almost completely ignorant about sexual matters. Yesterday she had simply been teasing me and ended up in an unexpected state of arousal. She probably didn’t even understand why she felt that way.
How should I make Yeonhee mine…
I had been thinking about this a lot lately. Looking at my current form, it seemed like an impossibly difficult task. I knew that, but I had to try.
Yeonhee had come to rely on me for many things. I hadn’t intended it, but now I would do it consciously.
“St-stop… Hng… Hikit…!”
Yeonhee pulled the blanket covering her legs up tightly, trying to wedge it between my leg and hers.
I knew there was another intention behind her hurriedly covering her lower body, but I naturally pretended not to notice. Shame and embarrassment were different things, after all.
The time when we felt each other’s warmth as if two people had become one body. I even felt grateful for the warmth circulating inside me. If my body had been cold, I wouldn’t have dared to hold her like this.
Should I thank Tania?
She, who had been lost in moans for a while, now seemed somewhat resigned. Was she trying to surrender her body to the sensation of her thighs rubbing against my leg?
Not yet.
You shouldn’t give what they want right away. I had to make her desperate.
When I stopped, she looked up at me as if she didn’t understand. Our eyes met, but she no longer avoided my gaze.
Soon her eyes scanned every part of my face—from eyes to nose to mouth, then down to neck and chest—before rising back to my eyes. It didn’t take long.
I slipped my hand into her lush hair and felt the soft strands. Strangely, touching hair brought peace to my mind. I recalled reading an article once that people obsessed with hair were likely those who didn’t receive enough love as children.
To think that even after becoming a skeleton, the affection deficiency remains…
Of course, remembering that didn’t mean I would stop touching it. Playing with my hand in the forest of her abundant hair, the anxiety that had been fluctuating like a madman and cooling down repeatedly was replaced by a tranquil lake in my heart.
Yeonhee was my absolute sanctuary. Although we hadn’t known each other long, I was certain it would remain so in the future.
Therefore.
Please stay with me forever…
Because I had such feelings, I couldn’t carelessly reveal my desires. What a base and selfish thought this was.
If I pushed her more aggressively, I could close the distance between us in one go, but emotions that rise quickly tend to break just as fast.
Slowly… I have to make it so she can’t live without me…
Since I had been hit by her once yesterday, I knew full well that she wasn’t an easy opponent. Even so, my plan had to continue without wavering. This was an essential choice for me to exist as myself. I wanted to avoid being trapped in the Dark Space forever.
At first I thought there might be a way for me to escape alone, but after some time, I got a feeling. That space wasn’t some shoddy Cognitive Impairment spell or barrier.
I can’t escape it.
That’s why my mind gradually leaned toward changing course. Fortunately, I had obtained the good skill called Mimicry, and Yeonhee had given me direction as well.
Squeeze—I pulled the waist I had briefly released back into my arms. Just pressing with my thigh had already heated her body considerably.
“Uuk— Haa— Haa— I-Ilwol. You’re squeezing too tight… A little gentler…”
Squeeze—
“Aauk…! S-stop! It hurts… It hurts, I said… Huk… L-let go.”
I could feel Yeonhee biting her lower lip, desperately trying to endure. After appreciating her expression for a moment and only after she pleaded with me did I allow space again.
A few days ago, on the day I first received the effect of the Orc Adversary achievement, she had felt great pleasure from the sudden surge in magical power. While she was becoming able to resist such internal stimuli as her level rose, she was becoming increasingly sensitive to external stimuli.
As expected, her physical response exceeded expectations. It was said that Awakeners experienced more than twice the sexual stimulation and pleasure of ordinary people. Since Yeonhee possessed unprecedented talent, it would be far more than that.
But she probably didn’t know that fact. Given her human relationships, there wouldn’t have been anyone to talk to her about such topics.
So… I had to make her misunderstand. The misunderstanding that being with me makes her stronger, earns her lots of money, and even makes her feel endlessly good. Didn’t I even occasionally hand over artifacts as if I’d picked them up on the way?
“Huk… Haa… Ahut—!”
The reaction was completely different from yesterday. Me in her form and me in my original form—there was no comparison from the start. It was funny to feel a sense of defeat against my past self, but it felt a bit bitter.
“Huu— Heuu… I-Ilwol…”
“Yeah…”
She looked at me as if she could no longer endure it. Who was it that said this shouldn’t happen just a few minutes ago?
You have to become a person who can’t live without me.
Looking into her slightly unfocused eyes, I kissed her forehead.
“……!!”
Her body shook violently. With her mouth slightly open, she trembled like an aspen tree. Thin saliva flowed from her open mouth like water, but she didn’t even notice it.
There probably hadn’t been a moment this stimulating in her life. She must feel like she was going crazy. It must feel so ecstatic she could fly away. Is this what it feels like to reach another world? I’ve never been there, though.
Her arm slid around my waist. She stroked the firmly trained muscles of my back. After all, it was a body that had reached high-ranking hunter status. Even as a guide, I hadn’t neglected physical training.
“Haa— Aah— I-Ilwol, why, why am I like this… Hak!”
The first time is always like that. A person’s body heats up just from receiving a text from someone they like. Moreover, right now…
It gradually became closer to certainty. She would feel confusion seeing me return to my skeleton form, but at least for now, she wasn’t even thinking that I was her summon.
I slid the hand that had been stroking her hair downward and lightly touched her ear.
Tremble—
“Higut… Ah, th-this strange feeling… No…”
A shudder ran through her. She quickly pulled her hand away and covered her mouth. A single tear rolled down from her eye.
If the reaction had been a bit lackluster, I was going to go out with her, but that can wait for the next opportunity.