The Sleepless Nights with My Girlfriends
The next morning.
In the end, after spending the entire night with the Yuli couple, we left the inn.
My head was hazy from the night before, which had been so hot and dizzy that I felt like I might lose my mind.
……
As the fog cleared, Yuli and Nadia and I couldn’t find anything to say in our awkward silence.
Where had all the energy from last night gone?
Every time our eyes met, our faces flushed red and we quickly looked away.
“Hmm~”
By contrast, Rouge-senpai hummed a lazy tune while she sat there relaxed.
*Just how is she still completely fine?*
Was her personality like that from the start, or was it because she was so experienced? I wondered if it was probably the latter.
Before we parted, Rouge-senpai quietly approached me and said, “Last night was really fun. To be honest, I’ve been thinking… maybe it’s not a bad idea for the four of us to do this kind of thing more often.”
“How about it?”
Her suggestion was delivered in a soft, teasing tone, and I hesitated.
The image of Yuli kissing me sloppily flashed in my mind, along with Nadia’s obedient obedience under the hypnosis, and I felt a wave of strange guilt and an inexplicable sense of déjà vu that complicated everything.
……
It had been overwhelmingly pleasurable, yet that was exactly what made it so twisted.
In the end, I couldn’t bring myself to answer Rouge-senpai’s proposal and simply saw her off.
Looking back now, our messy relationship had only just begun.
***
The morning after the weekend, I returned to the lecture hall at the Cradle.
I had expected nothing different from our usual routine, but tiny changes had appeared.
“Everyone, can you please move one seat over inside?”
“Uh, sure.”
Yuli, who normally sat next to Nadia at the three-person desk, had claimed the seat beside me as her starting move.
Sitting between Nadia and Yuli felt oddly uncomfortable, but once class began, that unease turned real.
A short while after the lecture started, Yuli leaned in and gave me some skinship.
……Very discreetly.
“Dorn, can you tell me about this?”
After asking a question about something she didn’t know, she would get so close—shoulders, arms, or even chests touching—while I explained it,
“Ah, sorry. I dropped my pen.”
When I bent down to pick up the fallen pen and stood up, she would “accidentally” rest her hand on the inner part of my thigh,
“Ah, I’m so sleepy~”
While yawning and chatting, she would lean her head on my arm for just a moment…
The touch was so subtle and vague that Nadia probably never noticed, and even I found it impossible to openly complain. Such skinship continued for days.
As more time passed, Yuli would stare directly at me from angles where Nadia couldn’t see, openly watching.
*Why is she really doing this…?*
The positive thought that maybe she would stop after a while faded away along with Yuli’s growing distance.
While I was still worrying about how to handle her, Rouge-senpai came to find me.
After class, she and I went to a café together.
While chatting about nothing in particular with her lazy smile, Rouge-senpai soon got to the main point.
“Your behavior lately with Yuli seems a bit strange, doesn’t it?”
“…Huh?”
I froze the moment the question landed.
Had she already noticed something?
I hadn’t done anything wrong, but explaining Yuli’s recent actions exactly as they were felt impossible.
*What should I do…?*
I debated whether to lie to Rouge-senpai or tell the truth, and in the end I chose the latter.
“Actually…”
I told her everything Yuli had been doing lately, word for word.
Surprisingly, instead of shock or betrayal, she looked at me with sparkling eyes—almost as if she found it interesting.
“Yuli said that, huh? Hoo, that’s just like her. Now that I hear it, it actually sounds pretty fun?”
My mouth dropped open at her reply.
“Fun? Aren’t you at all angry, senpai?”
Rouge-senpai shrugged.
“It doesn’t matter. Honestly, I already knew.”
You knew?
When I looked at her with disbelief, she smiled lightly.
Her gaze held no jealousy or discomfort.
“Yuli has always been very curious about sex. I used to enjoy men and women equally back in the day, so I can understand….”
“But isn’t it strange to just let your girlfriend do something like that?”
“However… I already enjoyed it plenty myself, and it would be too bad if I told someone who had only just started enjoying it that they shouldn’t.”
She brushed her own arm while saying it shyly.
“What…?”
I was speechless with disbelief.
What kind of twisted values did she have?
Her thinking was simply too different from mine.
Just moments ago I had been ready to get angry based on normal common sense, but now I had nothing to say.
With that in mind, Rouge-senpai continued.
“Anyway, since that happened, when Yuli said she wanted to try with a guy, of course I supported her.”
“…Yuli said that first?”
“Yeah. After seeing you and Nadia, she became more interested in having sex with a guy.”
She had definitely watched me and Nadia intensely at the time.
“So what did you say?”
“I told her I supported her, right?”
“That doesn’t seem like the whole story though.”
“…Clever. Actually, I gave her a little advice too—told her to choose a decent guy.”
Rouge-senpai stared at me intensely as she finished speaking.
In that blatant gaze, unease suddenly washed over me.
“…Senpai, do you mean…?”
“Yeah.”
At my worried expression, Rouge-senpai nodded.
“I recommended you to Yuli.”
“Insane—”
My mouth opened on its own and the curse slipped out naturally.
Looking back now, the real culprit tormenting me for the past few days stood right in front of me.
“Really? I know you’re dating Nadia, and…!”
Not to mention that Yuli was Nadia’s closest friend.
At my agitated voice, Rouge-senpai shrank back slightly.
“I’m truly sorry about that too—Nadia and I.”
She lowered her head with a guilty expression, but she didn’t back down.
“But Dorn, no matter how I think about it, you’re the only one who fits.”
“You’re suggesting such shameless nonsense now…”
“I’m being completely sincere.”
Rouge-senpai cut me off in a firm voice.
“If I asked you to suggest a man who would be a suitable first-experience partner for Yuli, could you answer?”
“What? No, that’s…”
I couldn’t reply to the sudden question.
Rouge-senpai watched my expression for a moment, then spoke again.
“It doesn’t exist, right?”
……
“I had the same situation. As her girlfriend, I looked for a man suitable to take on Yuli’s first experience. Someone with gentleness and manners, a normal guy…”
Rouge-senpai sighed like she was complaining.
“But in the end, I could only think of you.”
I couldn’t deny it. Most male demon students were just that irresponsible.
“I’m not harboring any ill will toward you and Nadia. I know my conscience is bad, but I worry what will happen if Yuli gets hurt after losing her first experience with some random guy…”
Her tone about Yuli carried a surprising sincerity.
In the end, Rouge-senpai had chosen what was safest for me.
*What am I supposed to do about this…?*
It didn’t make sense on the surface, but there was still the question of whether I could actually help.
I didn’t want Yuli, my precious friend, to waste her first experience with some creep, but I also couldn’t let Nadia have sex with another woman.
Just as I remained silent and hesitant, Rouge-senpai dropped another piece of information like a final nail.
“Dorn. Actually, Yuli is still a virgin.”
“?!”
That low, secret whisper sank deep into my mind.
“……What do you mean?”
“Literally. I’ve enjoyed a lot with women, but… Yuli hasn’t let anyone put anything deep inside her yet.”
Rouge-senpai believed wasting Yuli’s one and only first experience on a mere tool was wrong, so she insisted her hymen was still intact.
The funny part was that even after hearing that, my thoughts were still shaken and my heart still raced.
Did she notice the conflict flickering in my eyes?
As if waiting for me, Rouge-senpai poured out countless persuasive words.
“The heart of an old friend is truly admirable. But this isn’t just cheating. It’s helping a precious friend.”
“If Yuli gets trapped by some weird guy, suffers a terrible first experience, and gets hurt… would you be fine watching it happen?”
“You can keep everything secret from Nadia. There’s no chance of that, but I’ve already prepared a way to protect you even if it somehow gets leaked.”
A passionate plea mixed with a little blackmail and contingency plans.
Rouge-senpai bound me in every possible way, and I ended up unable to escape, lowering my head.
“……I understand.”
“Thank you, Dorn!”
She squeezed my hand tightly, as if she had heard my quiet reply clearly.
“Yuli will be really happy♡”
Rouge-senpai said she had to hurry and tell Yuli the news, then stood up.
A few days later, Yuli invited me to her dorm.
“Dorn, I’m sorry for imposing on you like this…”
“It’s fine. I’m already here, so what’s the point of apologizing?”
I shook my head at Yuli’s apology.
Right now I was naked with her on the bed.
“More importantly… when are you going to untie me?”
My limbs were still bound.