Sisters of Sun and Light
Sisters of Sun and Light
Hook! Hook! Hook! Hook!
Suddenly, Kate started throwing punches in the street, like she was shadow boxing with someone.
The voluptuous breasts wrapped in her nun's habit jiggled with every motion, a display that drew my eye far more than her fists.
"Urk!"
Then, Kate mimed taking a hit from an invisible opponent and plopped down onto the cobblestones.
"Rebecca unnie beat me in our imaginary sparring match. She's so strong, as expected. Since I lost, I don't think I can make it to the celebration party."
"What kind of bullshit is that?"
"Mongma-nim, don't you understand what I'm trying to say?"
She picked herself up off the ground, dusting off the skirt of her habit with a few brisk pats.
It's not that I didn't know what she was getting at.
She was just feeling awkward about being around Rebecca, which meant she didn't want to go to the party.
But tonight, I intended to get her there, by any means necessary.
"I get it. I get all of it. You don't want to hang out with Rebecca, right?"
"People will get the wrong idea if they hear you say that. It's not that I don't want to. I'm just trying to maintain some boundaries with her."
It was my turn to do the convincing.
The whole reason I'd visited the church today was to sweet-talk Kate and bring her to the party.
As an incubus, I was confident I could pull it off.
"If you keep maintaining those boundaries, it makes me sad."
"Wh-what? Why would that make you sad?"
I put on a slightly dejected expression and spoke.
A brawny, tanned blonde guy with a dejected look—it didn't really suit me. But to get my feelings across, I had no choice but to throw in a little acting.
"I want to treat both of you well, as your boyfriend, you know. If you keep pulling away like that, what does that make all my effort, then? Honestly, it makes me a little sad when I'm only stuck close to one of you. It feels like I keep growing more distant from you, Kate."
"...Growing distant, you say?"
Feeling emotionally distant.
Truth be told, I had been feeling that way for the past month.
Whenever Rebecca was around, Kate would always hide her true feelings and act demure.
I was starting to fear that if this kept up, one day she might even start acting that way with me, her lover. No matter how close a couple is, when the emotional expression fades, insecurity inevitably creeps in.
Hearing my words, Kate looked flustered.
"M-me, growing distant from you, Mongma-nim? It's all in your head. You and I are going to be together until we're old and senile."
Senile? Where did that come from?
I barely stifled a laugh and, keeping a serious face, spoke again.
"Then don't just say it, show me with your actions. You can prove our bond is strong by coming to the party tonight. If you do, I think that anxious feeling of mine will ease up a bit."
"Ugh...."
Clutching the hem of her habit, Kate was lost in thought for a moment.
But I knew her deliberation would lead to a positive answer.
What she'd needed all along to get along smoothly with Rebecca was a bridge between them.
And building that bridge was my job, as their lover.
"Fine. If Mongma-nim is feeling anxious, I have no choice. I shall attend the celebration party and ease your worries."
"Good, I'm glad you understand. Let's go right now."
"R-right now? I haven't even gotten to dress up a little. It's a party, after all."
"It's a party between adventurers, what's there to dress up for? We just go, stuff our faces with meat, and that's it."
I grabbed Kate's wrist and led her toward the inn.
She didn't resist anymore and walked with me through the city.
"Will there be alcohol?"
"Of course there will. You can drink until you pass out tonight."
At dusk, as darkness was falling, the two of us chattered away like brother and sister as we walked.
Maybe it was because I was with my lover, but the streets along Yoen-su, bathed in the sunset glow, looked incredibly beautiful. Back in my solo adventurer days of clubbing goblins, I'd thought there was no place shittier than this.
'So this is what they mean when they say dating makes the world look different.'
Before the night of the celebration party arrived, we reached the inn run by Mr. Brown. Seeing the smoke rising steadily from the rooftop, it looked like Rebecca had timed it perfectly and was already grilling the meat.
*
"Oh, you both made it?"
That was the first thing Rebecca said when she saw us step onto the rooftop.
The rooftop was furnished with outdoor tables shaded by parasols. Near one table was a grill, where Rebecca was expertly tending a fire and cooking up a barbecue.
The meat and vegetables, sizzling to a golden brown on the grate, blended their aromas to create a mouthwatering scent.
"You actually brought her. Honestly, Luke, I thought you'd be the only one showing up while I cooked."
Rebecca gave me a second glance as I appeared, holding Kate by the wrist.
"I seduced her, like any good incubus would. You should've seen her at the church, Kate was completely losing her mind over me."
"How did you seduce her? That's impressive."
"I showed her my manliness by having a duel with a paladin."
"A duel? What does that have to do with seduction?"
"I'll explain later."
The bit about arriving at the church and ending up in a duel with some crazy paladin. Or that I was baptized by the Father and might become a churchgoer starting this week. A lot went down, but I didn't want to get into a long, complicated story right now. I could tell it over drinks later as a side-dish for gossip.
While Rebecca was looking puzzled at my words, Kate suddenly spoke up.
Even with Rebecca right there, instead of keeping her distance from me, she wrapped her arms around mine and stuck to my side like glue.
The sensation of her soft, plush nun's breasts pressing against my arm was truly superb.
"Unnie. I have something to say to you."
"What is it? I'm kind of busy grilling here."
I tactfully unwound myself from her, walked over to Rebecca, took the tongs, and started grilling the meat for her.
With that, my two lovers began to talk on the rooftop.
"That thing I said about yielding Mongma-nim to you, unnie. I'm taking that back, right now."
"You're suddenly revoking it?"
"It is sudden, but I've thought about it a lot. After spending time with Mongma-nim today, I just couldn't stand it anymore. I don't want to have to walk on eggshells around you, unnie, when the man I like is right beside me."
"Hmm. Really? You say that now, but when it's just us again from tomorrow, aren't you just going to quietly pull back? Honestly, when you act like that, I can't even tell if you really like Luke or not. I need to see something to believe it."
At Rebecca's pointed question, Kate shook her head fiercely.
Her voice was slowly starting to heat up.
"That's not it! Honestly, I like Mongma-nim just as much as you do, unnie. And Mongma-nim likes me a lot, too."
"Is that so?"
"If you really think about it, I'm the very first woman Mongma-nim met in his life here. We're both from the same orphanage, so if we had just talked to each other once, we would've been childhood friends. Are you disrespecting the almost-childhood-friend card right now?"
Childhood friends!
Hearing that word, Rebecca just shrugged her shoulders, as if to say "so what?"
"What does being childhood friends have to do with anything? I'm his first official lover. Being the first girlfriend easily trumps any so-called childhood friend."
Rebecca put on a confident smile and added one more thing.
"Besides, I'm the one who took Luke's virginity. That's why this unnie is always so relaxed and confident."
"Tch."
The virginity topic coming up out of nowhere was embarrassing even for me, just listening in.
I felt like I shouldn't butt in, so I kept silently grilling the meat, but the two women's conversation was quickly veering into strange territory.
"Unnie! What does taking his virginity matter? You know a man's virginity has no value, unlike a woman's, right?"
"What do you mean no value? Luke and I graduated from virginity together on the exact same day. Losing both our virginities simultaneously—isn't that incredibly valuable?"
"Ha! This is ridiculous. If I had just put my mind to it, that virginity would've been mine, you know! You should be thanking me for letting go of Mongma-nim when we were younger!"
I panicked as a sharp tension suddenly filled the rooftop.
The moment my virginity came up, the two women were squaring off fiercely, neither backing down an inch.
Seriously, fuck, was my virginity that big a deal?
"Pffft! It sounds a little weird when you say you 'let go' of him. Just be honest and admit you didn't have the guts to confess."
"Grrrrrrrrrk."
Hit by that fact-bomb, Kate reeled for a second as if taking mental damage. With nothing left to say, she let out a deep sigh.
"Fine. I was an idiot for not confessing. I'll admit that."
"Hehe."
Rebecca beamed like a little kid when she got Kate to concede.
To be honest, it was a little pathetic seeing a 21-year-old unnie gloating over making her 20-year-old little brother submit.
Still, seeing them talk so naturally like this, it felt like they were getting a bit closer.
"I admit it, but know this. If you get complacent just because you're the first girlfriend, I'll seize my chance and monopolize Mongma-nim. I'm telling you, I can become Mongma-nim's True Girlfriend."
"What's a 'True Girlfriend'?"
"It's short for 'a girlfriend who is truly, deeply loved.'"
And just like that, a new piece of slang was born between the two women.
Rebecca looked intrigued by the bizarre new term "True Girlfriend."
"Oh, True Girlfriend! That's a fun word."
"Right? I just made it up, but it is kind of fun. Honestly, I don't think the first woman he dates has a permanent lock on the role of head wife. I think there should be fierce competition, and the head wife position should be up for grabs at any time."
"......."
"......."
Silence.
A brief silence fell between them.
"So, you're saying you want to be the head wife?"
"Well, not exactly that, it's just... I just wanted to say something like that. Cheering you on, True Girlfriend Rebecca unnie!"
When Rebecca went on the offensive, Kate raised a thumbs-up and smoothly changed the subject.
Freed from the constraint of treating Rebecca with kid gloves, Kate was now baring her true feelings without hesitation.
I got a slight chill listening to Kate mutter to herself quietly.
"I can... dominate Rebecca unnie...."
"I can control Rebecca unnie's emotions...!"
But she was muttering way too loud.
It seemed like those ambition-filled comments had also reached Rebecca's ears.
"You're going to dominate me? You?"
"......."
"It seems our little sister has had a lot of complaints about me. Have you been jealous of the head wife role?"
"Yes, honestly, I am a little jealous, unnie."
Kate nodded, as if she had nothing left to hide.
Watching their conversation, I had absolutely no clue where the hell it was heading.
But before all that, wasn't the meat about to burn?
Sssssssss!
"Hey, you two, knock it off and come eat!"
"Luke. Just a second."
At my call, Rebecca made a hand gesture asking me to wait and continued.
"Kate. Back in my homeland, there's a custom among women. When discord arises between wives who are married to the same man, they settle it through something called a 'Body Conversation,' you see?"
"Body Conversation? What's that?"
Body Conversation, what the hell?
Not only Kate, but I'd never heard of it either.
I'd read about an "Iron Conversation" in fantasy novels back in high school. Was it something similar?
Listening to what Rebecca said next, I nearly fell over in shock.
"The quarreling wives spend the night together with their husband in a shared marriage bed. When the three of you commune naked, any discord naturally vanishes, depending on the husband's skill. And honestly, Luke's skills are more than trustworthy, so it's totally doable."
"...What kind of skill?"
"I'm talking about his bedroom skills."
Wives sharing a bed together.
Three people communing naked.
My bedroom skills.
All those words pointed to exactly one thing.
As I stood there grilling, I looked at my lovers and felt a heavy weight settling in my lower half.
'It's a threesome.'
At that moment, the red-haired swordswoman and the blonde nun both turned at the same time to look at me.
Whenever the two beauties were together, it felt like radiant spring flowers were blooming, no matter where they were.
"What do you think, Luke?"
"Mongma-nim, what are your thoughts? On this Body Conversation thing."
I raised a thumbs-up toward them and said,
"I like it."
A Body Conversation, huh? What an incredibly lewd and arousing custom.
I felt an urge to bow to the Zakarta Kingdom for giving birth to Rebecca.
Thank you.
Arigato.
Xie xie, Zakarta.
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