Alice Overwhelms with Physicality (3)
Alice Overwhelms with Physicality (3)
Yujin found himself in a desperate crisis.
The reason was absurd: his beloved wife had body-slammed him while wearing a swimsuit.
That had made him draw his sword, and she immediately noticed it.
His vision spun.
'Why did it have to be Alice...!!'
If it had been Sia, she'd have forgiven him by saying it was her fault for being so attractive.
If it had been Master, she'd have apologized instead: "I-I was sorry for turning you on...."
But it had to be Alice.
She was the most innocent of his three wives and knew nothing about anything lewd.
Although, considering her preferences in bed, she was a little—no, extremely—hardcore...
At this point in the timeline, however, she was still an innocent woman who knew nothing.
And she'd caught him like this?
A slap would be the bare minimum. She might even report him to the police.
'At this rate, I was going to enlist alongside Winterer...!!'
—Trickle, trickle.
Cold sweat gradually soaked his clothes.
Yujin himself had produced very little of it; most of the sweat belonged to Alice and had rubbed onto him. In any case...
That was how badly he was panicking over this life-or-death crisis.
Meanwhile, Alice...
'It looked completely different from what I'd seen on Eye! And it was incredibly thick... It had to be about two inches!!'
Contrary to Yujin's expectations, she wasn't disgusted in the slightest.
If anything, she was fascinated.
'Oh my. Was this the thing I'd only seen in books? So this was what people used to do this and that...!!'
Her head merely spun with fantasies like those.
Thanks to that, Alice completely forgot about questioning the restraint techniques and the whole "tag: bondage" matter.
'That was pressing against my lower stomach....'
—Press.
Even her instincts welcomed the situation.
'Ah, so this was the kind of practical exercise they meant. Fascinating. Proceed.'
She rubbed herself against him hard enough to convey exactly that.
Their upper bodies pressed together without the slightest gap.
They could plainly feel each other's contours. Smack.
"W-What is this...?"
"Alice. That's, um...."
Yujin's thoughts grew even hazier.
He had to find a solution immediately, but...
'Wow. Those breasts were so firm.'
'I seriously wanted to lift her up and give her the Breeding Guy treatment right now.'
Far from subsiding, his arousal only intensified.
As for Alice, faced with that innocent reaction...
—Thump, thump.
'W-W-What was I going to do? I had hugged him tightly without even thinking... At this rate, I'd become a depraved woman who took it upon herself to grope him! I would be a sow on Ninomiya's level!!'
Unexpectedly, she was panicking as well.
'No. At this rate, it would look as though I had forced myself on him.'
She knew perfectly well that a boy had become aroused, yet she held him even tighter?
Inside a Gate? While wearing a swimsuit?
'...I was a complete pervert!!'
'I was on Ninomiya's level. No, I was an even hornier sow!'
Those thoughts were what had sent her into a panic.
Alice was remarkably objective about herself.
'Yujin would be disappointed in me....'
She was also terrified that Yujin might hate her.
'What would that needlessly upright Yujin think of me?'
'A sexual harasser? A molester?'
'...A cock-crazed sow?'
'It was unfair! I truly was not that kind of pervert!'
Of course, rather than pulling away, she was holding him even more tightly.
As though that weren't enough, she subtly moved her body to stimulate him.
But that was purely instinctive. She was doing it without realizing.
She had absolutely no intention of molesting Yujin.
'I was not a sow like Ninomiya!'
Her illogical rationalizations spiraled endlessly.
"......"
"......"
The result was a dreadfully heavy silence.
Yujin fidgeted, terrified that Alice would hate him.
Alice was equally restless, terrified that Yujin would hate her.
The fact that neither of them attempted to separate was very fitting for a married couple.
But that lasted only a moment.
Sensing that the situation was becoming dangerous, Alice acted first.
Not by pulling away, but by hugging him even tighter.
'I didn't want him to think I was a cock-crazed sow, so... I was sorry, Yujin!'
—Squeeeze.
"T-There's something hard here. Is it a katana~?"
She also pretended to know absolutely nothing.
Rather than becoming a pervert who knowingly clung to Yujin while he was aroused...
She would rather become a fool who had somehow reached her age without receiving sex education.
'I was Haru right now. I was an innocent baby who knew nothing!'
'Of course I'd cling to him without feeling embarrassed!'
That train of thought produced her painfully obvious acting.
Yujin sharply inhaled at the transparent performance.
'Alice could not possibly understand what was happening to me, could she? Could anyone truly be this pure?'
Her performance hadn't failed, however.
Yujin was a devoted husband who trusted every word his wives said.
On top of that, his intuition regarding women had been sealed away.
Even such terrible acting worked on him.
'Come to think of it, that was the only reason Alice would press herself against it. If she knew what she was doing... she'd be a pervert, would she not?'
His faith in his wife also helped her performance succeed.
'Our Alice had done it only because she didn't understand.'
'Right. If she understood and still did this, she'd be a pervert—the swimsuit-clad kind from a porn game who molested a party member caught in an erotic trap.'
'There was no way my wife was like that, so she truly had to be ignorant!'
It was a glimpse of why, before his regression, Yujin had believed Alice was a pure and innocent woman who knew nothing.
"Well, you see. This is...."
'This was driving me insane. Was I supposed to give her sex education or hide the truth?'
He briefly agonized over the choice.
It was fortunate that she hadn't slapped him immediately, but...
Should he simply pretend nothing had happened and move on?
His conscience would hurt, and she'd be disgusted if she discovered the truth later.
But was he supposed to teach her about sex himself?
'Ah, this was called a penis. It was what a man used for the Breeding Guy treatment—like that?'
'Was I insane? That would be sexual harassment.'
"......You see, every man carries a sword within his body."
After deliberating, Yujin chose a middle path.
He would half acknowledge the truth while pretending not to, and speak as indirectly as possible.
Then, even if Alice learned the truth later, she might forgive him because he had not technically deceived her.
"A-A sword?"
"Obviously, I don't mean a real sword. It's a metaphor. There's that saying, isn't there? That the body is made of swords. It's something like that."
"I've never heard that proverb."
"It's a Japanese expression. Anyway, this sword likes women. Sometimes it draws itself without permission, like a cat getting excited over a tube of Churu."
"......"
His explanation tumbled out in a desperate rush.
Even Yujin thought, as he spoke, that it was complete nonsense.
Alice lowered her head.
"I-I see...?"
—Sink.
'I was sorry, Yujin! I was so sorry!!'
Alice was simply mortified.
'Did he truly think I did not know what that was?'
'I wasn't an idiot. Even ordinary dramas mentioned penises and morning wood. How could I not know?'
'I had known that much even before I gained access to Eye.'
After gaining access, she had learned a great deal about what to do with it and how to make it feel good.
She probably knew more than Yujin did. Far more.
And yet Yujin...
Believed she knew absolutely nothing.
That was why he was explaining it to her so kindly.
'I appreciated that he trusted me, but being trusted this much only made it more painful!!'
The triangle inside her heart spun at tremendous speed.
She was molesting Yujin while pretending to know nothing.
If he discovered that, he'd surely be disgusted with her.
'Still... it'd be fine as long as I was not caught, right?'
—Gulp.
"A-A sword, you say. C-Can I touch it~?"
"What are you saying!!!?"
Her guilty conscience suffered a glorious defeat against her curiosity.
'Since things had already gone this far, surely merely touching it would be...?'
It would be like those comics on Eye where someone taught sex education to a person who knew nothing.
'I could let Yujin touch my breasts in return, so this was not bad at all. It was mutually beneficial.'
After completing that rationalization...
Her slender hand slowly crept downward.
—Slide.
"Y-Yujin and I are fellow Pine-Needle Squad members, after all!"
"Wait!! Touching that is equivalent to a man touching a woman's breasts—"
"I'll let you touch mine too! This much physical contact is fine between Pine-Needle Squad members!"
As her hand slid down his side, desperation filled Yujin's eyes.
'At this rate, I would become a pervert who made an innocent, clueless Alice participate in some bizarre play.'
What was I going to do? Was I supposed to force her away?
'No. I could certainly push her off, but if her swimsuit strap came undone in the struggle, it'd be a catastrophe.'
He didn't want to use force against his precious wife in the first place.
'Could I solve this by talking?'
'She wasn't listening. She was only saying she would let me touch her breasts.'
'My Confucian persuasion would never work on this Westerner.'
'What was I going to do? Was I supposed to push her away and damn the consequences, even if it made things awkward between us?'
Resolve gradually hardened his gaze.
Veins bulged across Yujin's hand.
He prepared to push his own wife away, something nearly impossible for a devoted husband.
And then, at the final moment...
—Ding!
[Twenty-four hours have passed. The Overload on the skill "Complete Hypnosis" has been lifted. Switching to usable state....]
[The skill "Complete Hypnosis" comes toddling over!!]
'...Perfect timing! I loved you, Hypno!!'
Hypno, who had been waiting for her master to call, returned.
Yujin's eyes shone a brilliant gold.
'Alice, stop for a moment!! And erase my libido too!!'
[The skill 'Complete Hypnosis' activates!]
—Freeze.
"...Huh?"
"Alice, wait! Let go, and let us talk!"
"H-Huh...?"
The hypnosis made Alice freeze briefly.
The upstanding young man used that opening to escape.
Peace like a flowing river returned to his lower body.
—Ding.
[The skill 'Complete Hypnosis' puffs out her soft cheeks and complains that she did not give you a kneading massage this morning for this.]
In many ways, Yujin benefited enormously from Hypno.
* * *
Hypno returned just as Alice and I became tangled together.
Thanks to her, I escaped the crisis.
"Understood? You should only do things like that with someone you love. Don't casually offer to let people touch your breasts from now on. Understood?"
—Ding.
"Y-Yes...."
Since I had already escaped the crisis, I threw in a little extra hypnosis.
It was fine if she offered those things to me, but I would never tolerate her doing the same with another man.
I had to protect my Alice.
"Then what happened with Sia yesterday...?"
"Inside the Gate? We practiced one or two suppression techniques. We did not even take it very seriously."
I glossed over the kiss with Sia as well.
We had practiced suppression techniques yesterday, so she should believe me. That was the story.
We had done something else too, but that would remain secret.
Normally, such a crude excuse would never have worked, but...
"Don't lie. You did this with me too...."
"More importantly, Alice, don't you need to wipe off your sweat? You said it was embarrassing earlier. Aren't you embarrassed now?"
—Ding.
"......!!! Y-Yujin, do I smell sweaty!!?"
By using hypnosis to redirect her attention, I somehow made the excuse work.
It was a moment that reminded me anew how precious Hypno was.
Nothing else of consequence happened afterward.
Alice hurriedly wiped off her sweat.
Then she said her sweat had gotten on my clothes, took them away, drenched them in perfume, and dried them with a blast of hot air.
I waited wearing only boxer briefs.
—Stare.
'Alice seemed to be staring strangely at that area... Was it my imagination?'
I sensed her stealing glances at me in my underwear, but it was probably my imagination.
I waited patiently, and then we returned.
Alice and I went back to the academy.
That was how the eventful second day of practical training ended.
"Yujin. Nothing happened with Alice, right? You did not kiss her or anything?"
"Hm? Of course not."
—Mutter, mutter.
"That's a relief, but... tch. If I tell her to do it, it hurts my pride. If I leave her alone, it bothers me. This is driving me insane."
"What did you say? I couldn't hear you."
"Never mind. Open your mouth. I'm going to kiss you."
"......Yesh."
Sia summoned me and kissed me...
"My disciple. Nothing happened today, I hope...."
—Sniff, sniff.
"...What did you do to come back reeking of another woman's perfume?"
"Eek."
And Master subjected me to her stern interrogation.
But by then, something like that barely counted as an incident.
The real problem came the next day.
It was the long-awaited third day of practical training.
—Murmur, murmur.
"Kyaaaa!!! Saint, you're so cool!!!"
"Winterer!! We're on your side, so contact the Villain Rights organization whenever you need us...."
"Are you ready? DID, obviously, but also GAD and MDD. No, we need to consider every possibility. She can't even take the MMSE, so...."
—Tap, tap.
"Hey, Rice Cake. What kind of rice-cake-ass situation is this? Do I have to perform that kick in front of them?"
A crowd surrounded Winterer and me near the Gate.
Countless people had gathered and were making a tremendous racket.
They included reporters, Church of the Lord believers, attorneys, doctors, and other non-Awakeners.
They were the baggage we would have to drag through the Gate that day.
"Hah... Are you truly certain this is safe? A Gate isn't a joke. A stray rock could kill someone."
"I told you, it'll be fine~."
Unlike us, the more experienced Awakeners looked positively delighted.
They seemed utterly unconcerned about bringing non-Awakeners into a Gate.
Because...
"She's here."
"That's right, Yujin. I may be retired, but...."
—Smile.
"———My skills haven't declined at all since my active days. No one will be injured."
"......"
This practical exercise would be on an entirely different level from those I'd completed with my wives.
It was not merely a Gate-clearing exercise.