Chapter 200
Chapter 200
"No, I don't think that at all."
I meant it. I don't particularly care about So-hee's orientation, or anyone else's. I like women, not men. My body is Sara's, but the 'me' inside still has a man's orientation, so in a way I'm not so different from a homosexual.
Besides, discrimination over that kind of thing doesn't make sense in this world to begin with. Same-sex marriage is legal, even in Korea. There's no reason to find it strange for a girl to like another girl.
What mattered to me right now... wasn't whether So-hee liked women.
The atmosphere at this moment was exactly the kind where someone has something to confess.
Which meant she wasn't just here to tell me about her orientation.
And if you really think about it, why else would she bring this up now? There's only one other reason.
Maybe my answer gave her courage. So-hee lifted her head.
Her face was still bright red. But the cowed expression from moments ago was gone.
In its place was a face tinged with anticipation.
Relief that I'd said I didn't care about that sort of thing. And probably, anticipation for what she was about to say.
So-hee kept her lips pressed shut for a while. Then she looked straight at me and spoke.
"For a while now... no, ever since I realized I had this orientation, I've been acting in front of people. Pretending I wasn't interested in girls. Pretending I was just a close friend. There were even times I got a little turned on when my friends casually touched me."
She probably did. If girls clung to me calling me a 'friend,' I'd inevitably have strange thoughts too.
In fact, it happened even after I came to this world.
So I could relate completely.
"Still, I couldn't pretend to like boys. But I think I managed to pull off the act of not liking anyone."
I had known about So-hee's orientation from the very beginning.
If I hadn't known that fact back then, would my attitude toward So-hee have been different?
...It probably would have.
I thought back to my first meeting with So-hee.
You couldn't really call it a friendly encounter. Our first meeting was me throwing a skirt right over So-hee's head, and So-hee grabbing me by the collar. If I hadn't known So-hee was a heroine from the game, if I hadn't seen the light shining from her face—could I really have treated So-hee the way I do now?
I thought about it for a moment, then quickly concluded there was no point in hypotheticals.
Whatever information I had when we first met—looking back now, it doesn't matter.
The more I got to know So-hee, the more I saw sides of her that didn't match what I'd known.
And it wasn't just So-hee. With Ha-neul, with Su-a, I saw so many sides of them that were nothing like the fragmentary images I'd gleaned from the game.
All those different facets. Not a perfect superhuman solving every trial effortlessly. Not a Human Capybara who only supplies information. Not a delinquent who simply hates being told what to do.
The relationship we've built is separate from all that information. Even if it might have helped with our first meeting, what So-hee and I have built since then was made from our own efforts and memories.
Thinking that, I looked up at So-hee.
Even with her face flushed red, So-hee wore a determined expression. She spoke as if making a declaration, her voice certain.
"I don't want to act anymore. Not in front of you."
"...Okay."
I nodded.
And So-hee smiled—
and placed her hands on my shoulders.
"Uh-heh...?"
Before I could even react, strength was entering So-hee's hands.
As was only natural, So-hee was on the larger and stronger side among the four of us.
It wasn't a strength that I, the weakest of the four, could possibly resist.
I flopped down onto the bed, and So-hee brought her face close to mine.
"I have lewd thoughts. All the time."
"Huh...?"
At So-hee's somewhat out-of-the-blue confession, I couldn't find words for a moment. I just echoed her.
"I've been like that for a long time. I'd see girls around me, or idols on TV, or celebrities, and those thoughts would come. Ah, how nice it would be to have a girlfriend like that. How nice it would be to hold her, kiss her, do this and that."
The conversation was flowing in a slightly strange direction.
This kind of confession was a little bewildering. The others had just said they liked me straight out.
Well, I mean, I had those kinds of fantasies when I was young too.
"I lived like that, just imagining on my own, and then I saw you. Do you remember when we first met?"
It was an incredibly provocative encounter. I remember. Forgetting it is probably impossible no matter how many years pass.
"You know, I still remember that day."
"Ah, uh, ehp."
I tried to answer, but once again, my body wouldn't cooperate.
Maybe this body has a terribly inefficient cooling system. The heat rushes to my head at the slightest thing and I can't manage a proper reply.
To the point where I was having irrelevant, idle thoughts like: Is it because the surface area in contact with the air is too small?
...No.
This was avoidance.
Avoidance born from the urge to somehow escape the thoughts of So-hee, who now filled my entire field of vision.
It wasn't polite to So-hee, who was confessing something so important—
—No, honestly, this situation is just way too intense.
So-hee's dress was precisely tailored to reveal the advantages of her figure. When I first saw it, I honestly thought it was pretty, not lewd, but thinking back now, I'd been living daily while looking at So-hee's cleavage.
When she wore her school uniform, she'd leave several buttons undone, and even at home after work, she'd wear a shirt with several buttons open and very short dolphin shorts.
That was probably why I'd gotten strangely accustomed to it. The reason I looked at So-hee's dress and just thought 'she looks like a young lady.'
So-hee's dress had a fairly deep neckline at the chest.
When she was standing, it straddled the line between modest and suggestive, but in this position—'looking down from above' at a 'prone So-hee'...
Her weighty bosom was revealing its shape and heft even more clearly thanks to gravity.
The slightly loose dress was the same. The center had sagged significantly from gravity, which made it incredibly suggestive.
Did she sense my gaze?
"What about you?"
So-hee asked me.
"Uh, uweh?"
"Just now, you looked at my chest, right? How is it?"
So-hee's face drew closer by a few centimeters.
Even a distance I wouldn't normally mind felt devastatingly powerful when she drew nearer from this close, even just a few centimeters.
"Do you have lewd thoughts too?"
"...."
I do.
Of course I do.
But....
"I'm having them, even now."
So-hee's face drew so near it filled my sight—no, overflowed beyond it.
"Every day, I think the same thought. Ever since that day—"
Every time So-hee spoke, her breath touched me.
"—ever since I saw you, I don't think of anyone else. That scene I saw that day, the sides of you I've seen since. I only think of you. After that, you're the only one in my lewd thoughts."
"......."
I... I don't know what I'm supposed to say to that.
So, does that mean—I'm the subject of So-hee's, that, those kinds of activities?
At a statement I had never once imagined I'd hear, my head spun.
"So I thought about it. Starting today, how about we make those fantasies into reality."
Even though she had been propped over me, keeping our bodies apart, So-hee was now gradually pressing closer.
The dress So-hee wore was by no means thick. Naturally, the shape of her figure was starkly apparent.
Before I could say anything,
So-hee's lips overlapped with mine.
What Ha-neul and Su-a had done was just pressing lips together. So-hee even slightly parted and closed her lips.
It wasn't as explicit as what I'd seen in those kinds of videos long ago, but it was shocking all on its own. Even the Sara in my dream hadn't gone that far.
"W-wait, So-hee!"
In the brief gap when our lips separated slightly, I cried out.
So-hee's eyes widened a little.
Only then did she seem to come back to her senses. So-hee's already red face turned an even brighter crimson, and she quickly pulled her body away.
As the bodies that had been pressed tightly together moments ago separated, it only made me more aware of the fact that we'd been pressed together.
"S-So-hee, we're, um, still...."
"...Still...?"
So-hee had covered her face with both hands by now. She asked back.
But because she was looking at me through her fingers, I didn't get the sense she was hiding all that well.
"We-we're minors!"
At my words, So-hee's mouth fell open.
I couldn't see it because of her hands, but anyway, that's how it looked.
"...I see."
Really unexpectedly, So-hee murmured as if she understood.
Though she still hadn't gotten off my body.
"So that means we can do it when we're adults?"
"...Huh?"
"Promise?"
"...U-uheh?"
Before I could properly process what So-hee said, she quickly lowered her body and planted a light kiss on my lips.
Then, with an expression that looked ready to fly away, she got up.
"Tell 'Sara' in advance too! I'll be looking forward to that day. Got it?"
And with a refreshed expression—
her body was excitedly running away.
"Ah, uh, wait, So-hee...!"
I scrambled to get up and chase after her, but So-hee had already slammed the door shut and left.
.......
This is bad.
Something is spiraling in a really weird direction...?