Reconciliatory Oil Massage
“If I tell you not to come in, you won’t?”
“I-it’s not like that…”
“Come in. Since when do we ask permission to enter each other’s tents?”
“Then… I’m coming in…”
I handled the now-timid Athena roughly. Watching the once-bold girl hesitate at the entrance of my tent was oddly entertaining. Despite my continued provocations, Athena didn’t flare up. Instead, she lowered her tail and quietly stepped inside.
“Mother said she would give you a massage, so I thought I’d do it instead…”
Twitch…! Twitch…!
Athena had brought the Mohican lavender herb oil flask. Mohican lavender was a medicinal herb. When made into oil and applied or massaged in, it worked wonders on bruises and swelling. Her fingers fidgeted restlessly around the flask as she offered to take the Great Mother’s place.
“My body really isn’t in great shape. I’d rather get a massage from the expert, the Great Mother.”
“I-I’m an expert too, you know? Who else massages Mother when her muscles ache? I do.”
“Well, if that’s the case, I suppose I have no choice. I’ll accept. I’m not the type to make a fuss when something doesn’t suit me, unlike some people.”
“……”
Offering a childhood friend a massage must have taken courage for the tomboyish Athena. So I teased her lightly to ease her embarrassment. It worked perfectly. She reacted exactly as I expected, and the sight was so much to my taste that I laid it on a little thick. That landed a critical hit; my childhood friend could only shut her mouth and stop fidgeting.
“Let’s start with your back. I was wondering how to handle it anyway.”
Flop…!
I sprawled out leisurely, as if visiting a professional massage parlor. Naturally, I was wearing only my underwear.
“Then I’ll apply it all over first before climbing on.”
Meekly…!
“Sure.”
Athena knelt beside me.
“Climbing on” meant she was going to straddle my body. Heh… Massage really was an excellent form of treatment. Hug!
Soon came the sound of the herb flask opening, followed by a steady pour. Glug, glug, glug…! Athena poured a generous amount of Mohican lavender herb oil into her palm and began spreading it thinly across my broad back. Stroke… Stroke…!
“Feels good… Definitely different from doing it alone.”
It was excellent. My knotted muscles wouldn’t loosen immediately, but the mood alone brought deep relaxation. Though Athena’s palms were calloused, the body of a barbarian woman naturally gifted for sex gave her touch an entirely different kind of stickiness even during a massage.
“You should put some on my butt too. My glute muscles are seriously tight from following your Mana Step.”
“Ah, I know. I was planning to do your thighs and butt anyway.”
The relaxed atmosphere only made me act more like a demanding customer—the same vibe I’d had as the main beta tester. But it was also true that Athena’s hesitant hands, deliberately avoiding my butt despite offering a massage of apology, annoyed me.
“No need to oil my cock when you do the front later.”
“Of course not! Keep it decent!”
Athena was far too obedient to my obnoxious behavior, and I couldn’t suppress the urge to provoke her usual temper. Knead… Knead…!
“Feels great… Not just the tight muscles, but the fatigue too…”
Once she had oiled my butt as requested, Athena climbed onto my thighs and began the real massage. True to her claim, her technique was superb. As expected of a top-tier barbarian warrior, she understood the human muscular and skeletal structure perfectly, blending gentleness and strength to torment my overworked muscles. So this was why people went to massage parlors. I’d only ever satisfied myself watching videos until now.
“You could have blocked it. Why did you drop your guard? And right before my attack landed, too.”
As the massage deepened, Athena spoke in a low voice, finally voicing the feelings she had been holding back.
“I wanted to show off my toughness. To prove how strong I was—strong enough to chew up your ultimate technique.”
“Don’t talk nonsense. Before you passed out, you clearly… I mean, obviously…”
Of course she wouldn’t willingly confess her desire for revenge. I played hard to get, and as expected, Athena took the bait and opened the door to the important part herself.
“You know me well. The reason I’m quietly giving you this massage after taking your Tyrant’s Crushing Strike head-on is exactly because I wanted this. Thanks to that, I can receive it. Your mood has been on edge all week, so I gave you a strong shock treatment.”
I explained my deep intentions as if scolding her.
“……”
Athena fell silent at my explanation. I could almost see the expression on her face. It was guilt.
“I don’t even know why I did that…”
Athena wasn’t cowardly, only clumsy. Her voice trembled slightly with emotion as she made her sincere confession. While the Great Mother examined my condition, Athena had stayed in her tent, her mind racing with all sorts of thoughts. The core question had been: Why did I do that? She had been acting on instinct, almost possessed, until my shock therapy woke her up. Even she couldn’t understand it.
“When I saw you laughing with other women… I just got so angry… I wanted to pick a fight… That’s how it was…”
She must have replayed the past fifteen days of jealousy in her mind. No matter how she thought about it, it didn’t feel like her. After all, in twenty-three years of life, Athena had never once felt jealousy like that.
‘The status window was spot on. I was suspicious even while looking at it.’
My certainty about her jealousy didn’t come only from Thousand-Mile Insight or the Casanova trait. When her strange behavior continued, I had naturally checked her status window and found a clear clue.
‘Her favorability now includes romantic interest, and affection has opened up.’
I had confirmed it around the fourth day. Athena liked me as a member of the opposite sex.
‘She has no experience with this at all, so she’s just feeling pure jealousy.’
There was no calculation, no fox-like behavior. It showed too plainly in every expression, every action, every word. Athena’s past fifteen days had simply been the tantrum of a child who had just awakened to romantic feelings.
‘That intense act on the first day must have had an effect. She started touching me more, and even checked out my body.’
I, Geum Taeyang, was the male who had claimed this pure Athena’s first love, her first handjob, and her first blowjob.
“I’m sorry. It was such a stupid thing to do…”
Having poured everything out, Athena apologized in a voice that sounded close to tears. This was making me soft again.
“It was stupid, but it was also natural. We’re adults now. This is the time when women feel attracted to men, and men feel attracted to women.”
I offered her a gentle, playful embrace.
“R-really…?”
Sniff…!Stroke…!
Comforted by me, Athena wiped her runny nose like a fool and responded.
“Of course. Besides, you’ve basically only ever deeply connected with me as a man. So developing an attachment to me after awakening to the opposite sex is just the providence of the Gaia Goddess. You’ve become a woman now too. Trust my smart words.”
“Mmm… In the past ten-plus years, the only person I’ve had private conversations with for more than ten minutes—besides Father—is you… And that thing three days ago too. You really are smart. Hehehe.”
Athena was the type who was very easy to coax. Enjoying it, I continued my motor-mouthed brainwashing, and even as I boasted without shame, she nodded along like an idiot.
“So… is it okay if I see you as a member of the opposite sex? Isn’t that weird?”
“What’s weird about it? Just accept it naturally.”
“Thank you, Taeyang… For thinking that way.”
She was so innocent that even now, she didn’t seem to fully understand that she liked me.
“Turn around. I’ll massage your chest and stomach now.”
“Okay.”
Anyway, Athena’s expression had brightened considerably. She actively asked me to turn over, then moved to sit above my head.
“You’re really strong. I was going all out with Mana Step, and I’ve never seen anyone without an opening except Father. You’re even using mana detection freely, something I still can’t do perfectly.”
Stroke…! Stroke…!Knead… Knead…!
“Hearing all these compliments is making me shy.”
“I mean it. You really have talent as a warrior.”
Once she switched from childhood-friend mode to romantic-interest mode, Athena’s attitude toward me changed dramatically. Where she used to get allergic to my praise and bicker, now it was an endless parade of admiration.
“Oh, that merchant leader Nadia from the other day—was she really from such a high-ranking noble family? Her skin was so white, and she smelled of perfume that was nothing like other merchants.”
“She’s probably one of the top nobles even in the Grace Kingdom. That’s why she can travel around so freely. No kingdom would easily stop her.”
Even her jealousy had become gentler. It wasn’t as if her wariness toward a recognized rival female could disappear. She simply expressed her feelings by mentioning her indirectly.
“And like I said before, I like the natural scent of barbarian women. The smell coming from you right now is plain and fresh. It makes me feel at ease and natural when I breathe it in.”
Seeing her like this made me want to soothe her heart as well. After all, it was a warm sun, not a strong wind, that made the traveler remove his coat.
“I just wash with Raonjena river water every day, though… You’re probably just used to it…”
Blush…!
A faint blush rose on Athena’s cheeks as she diligently massaged my abdomen.
‘Beautiful. Our Athena was this beautiful.’
She was beautiful. Until now, I had mostly thought of Athena as “cute,” but with a woman’s emotions added to her heart, the pretty tomboy had become a lovely young lady.
Was that why?
‘Why is my cock doing this? It’s getting bigger…’
Throb…! Throb…!
My cock, excited beyond control, began pitching a tent to show off its grandeur.
“T-Taeyang. Your cock is erect.”
And of course, Athena, who was massaging from above my head, saw the scene clearly.
“Yeah… it is.”
I answered calmly on the outside, though I was flustered by the unexpected erection. But the change wasn’t happening to me alone.
‘Athena’s lower half… looks really wet too?’
Since Athena was straddling with her legs spread above my head, looking up gave me a natural view of her crotch. The gray fabric there had already grown quite damp and dark.
“Oh my! What do we do? I gave Athena the wrong herb oil!”
At that very moment, Great Mother Sophia, who had been checking the storage tent beside the main tent before going to sleep, was also greatly flustered.
“I gave our daughter red lavender oil instead of Mohican lavender oil!”
Red lavender oil was the same as other herb oils when used for muscle pain relief massages, but it also had the effect of increasing sexual desire through its scent. It was one of the auxiliary sexual enhancement items frequently used by older barbarian couples. Sophia had mistaken the similar-looking flask and given Athena the red lavender herb oil flask instead of the Mohican lavender one. And now that oil had been used by a vigorous twenty-three-year-old male and female.
As a result, the two barbarian man and woman inside Geum Taeyang’s tent were now facing each other’s embarrassing private parts—an erect cock and a thoroughly soaked pussy.
“Should I… make you cum again, Taeyang…?”
She had been flustered at first. But this innocent female who had fallen in love now felt the desire to relieve the semen from her first love Geum Taeyang’s erect cock.