More Than Friends, Less Than Lovers (2) (Illustration Spoiler Warning)
As soon as I stepped out of the bathroom, I nearly burst out laughing at the sight of Han Mina's pristine white backside greeting me. She had spread out the bedding on the single-room floor, facing away from me—not with her upper face, but her lower one. The moment I saw it, I could somewhat understand why she'd tried so desperately to shove me into the bathroom. I didn't know the exact details, but it must have been because she was embarrassed about undressing or facing me directly.
I'd been pretending to be nonchalant in front of Han Mina, framing our intimacy as mere friendship while sharing our bodies, but truthfully, I felt just as embarrassed about the process as she did. No matter the genders involved, becoming physical with a close friend you'd never seen that way before was inherently awkward for both sides. I was just acting casual, responding as if it were the most natural thing, to keep her from overthinking it. Yet here she was, a girl enduring her shame by greeting me in this ridiculous fashion.
"Hey, Han Mina."
"……."
"What're you doing?"
No answer came, just her cautiously thrusting that pale, plump ass toward me, which nearly set me off laughing again. Still, I needed to grasp her exact intentions, so I asked once more, feigning composure.
"Hey, Miss Horny Mina, what're you up to?"
"J-just do it without looking…."
"You shove your ass at me right after I come out of the bathroom, looking like this—what else could you be but Horny Mina?"
"……."
Her face stayed hidden, but instead, a limp kick sliced through the air behind her.
"Ju-just finish it…."
"Huh?"
"If you're gonna thrust into my pussy during heat cycle relief, then just do it without looking at my face…."
I could tell she meant something like: since it was just about relieving her heat cycle, faces didn't matter. No need to look at each other.
"So, what—you want me to just ram it in like this?"
"……."
"You didn't like doing it while looking at my face? Enough to prepare something like this?"
"N-no, that's not it…!"
Her face lifted briefly in denial, meeting mine—flushed beet red like a radish—before she quickly bowed it again, unwilling to show me.
"I don't know… I just feel weird. I can't bring myself to look at your face while we… s-sex, I mean, relieve my heat cycle…."
She'd slipped out "sex" accidentally and covered it with "heat cycle relief," which told me Han Mina had given this a lot of thought. Unlike last time, when she'd come to with my dick already inside her, this would be her first fully conscious experience from start to finish. In a way, today's heat cycle relief might be her true first time—and the moment our relationship was redefined. After all, she'd sworn it would never happen again, yet here she was, asking me first. It was understandable she'd resort to something this bizarre out of embarrassment.
"Alright, got it. If that's what our Horny Mina wants."
"I'm not Horny Mina…."
"If you like doing it like this, I'll play along. I did promise to help relieve your heat cycle, after all."
I recalled Mr. Yang Ho-seon—suspiciously knowledgeable about beast-type hunters—saying it was best to accommodate animal awakening hunters' conditions as much as possible during heat cycles. I wasn't sure if this was truly her deepest fantasy, but it worked out perfectly. I'd been wanting to take her just like this, ass up and face down on the floor, so I went along with her odd setup. Sex like this, born from endured shame, seemed like it could be plenty fun.
I reached straight for Han Mina's tense, proffered ass. The instant my hand made contact, her body jolted upward with a twitch.
"Ahit!"
"……."
"Th-that was just surprise…."
I hadn't even asked, but she was already making excuses—adorable, I thought—as I gently stroked around her ass. Firmer than Do Sihee's bouncy, jiggly cheeks. Probably from all the constant movement building muscle there. Or maybe her beast-type physiology gave her denser muscles. I'd groped it before, faintly remembered from last time, but even accounting for that, it had been ages since I'd touched this ass.
I focused my palm's senses, methodically caressing her back and ass.
"Huit, hey, eut…?"
"……."
"Huuuit, ah, haeut…!"
My hand traced the deep line of her spine from back to ass, repeating the motion several times until lewd moans started slipping from Han Mina's lips.
"Heyyy, what're you doooing…."
"Hm?"
"How long are you gonna just touch… aren't you gonna do the sex—er, heat cycle relief…?"
She was dancing around it endlessly: when the hell are you gonna stick your dick in?
"I'm doing it right now."
"You're just touching…."
"But it feels good, right?"
"Well, yeah, but…."
She seemed eager to wrap it up quickly, embarrassed to stay naked in front of me so long.
"Don't rush. Take it slow. Sloppy thrusting won't properly relieve a heat cycle."
"Yeah… that's what I learned, but…."
"Cat-family awakeners have sensitive spots like this. Stroking from head to back down to the ass."
"Eut, eut, huu…."
"Feels good, doesn't it?"
"Yeah…. Go-good…."
She stretched out like a cat arching its back—clearly effective.
"No rushing. We'll go slow. I learned a bunch in high school, y'know. Ways to relieve beast-type heat cycles."
"Y-you learned that too? Awakening classes teach everything… h uit, hu…."
Those lessons were more for repelling the beast-types who approached me back then than for awakening itself. No need to correct her, though—I just kept caressing.
"Gruuu, gruu…. Gruu, yeah…."
She'd adapted to my touch, purring contentedly face-down on the floor, breathing easy. She really looked like a massive cat right now. No ears or tail, but the illusion was so strong it tricked me for a second.
I spent a few minutes just quietly stroking her naked body, no further sexual acts. Once I figured she'd grown accustomed to the sensation,
I lightly patted her ass.
"Hu, huit?!"
Tok tok. Tok tok.
Not a hard smack like with Do Sihee—just gentle taps. But even that flustered her plenty.
"Wh-what now…."
"What else? Tapping your ass."
"I-I'm cat-family, not an actual cat—eut, huit…?!"
"Look at you—cutest big kitty ever. No point denying it."
"C-cute…? Hute, ha, huut, eut…."
Her staccato moans synced with each palm-to-ass pat—pretty damn cute. And without even touching it directly, her slit below was starting to glisten. Better than jumping straight to dick-in, for sure—the foreplay would make the payoff huge. Not that I needed excuses. I just wanted to leisurely watch my female friend climax. Observing Han Mina truly become a 'female' in every sense was plenty enjoyable for me.
Once her lower half was soaked enough,
I slipped two fingers inside her pussy.
Squelch.
The closed slit parted, sticky fluids splitting with a wet sound.
"Hnyaah!"
…'Hnyaah'? Even her moan screamed cat-family awakener. The thought flashed as I rubbed my two fingers back and forth inside her lower body. No wild spreading or stirring—just quiet in-and-out repetitions. No need for more with other women, and same here. I matched her slow pace, her insides plenty responsive to my deliberate fingers.
"Huuut, hya, hnyaaat! Hu, nnyaaah…!!"
Han Mina clutched the pillow over her face, wailing in a sultry voice over and over. Her lower body expressed her peak just as vividly as her moans.
"Hnnniiing…!!"
Just two fingers, and she hit her first orgasm—body sprawling atop the futon. Her original goal of hiding her face was forgotten. She arched back, whole body announcing her climax.
"Uu ut, ha, haa, haaa…."
As she caught her breath to calm down, I brought my fingers—fresh from her pussy, slick and sticky with her juices—right to her face.
"Horny Mina."
"Don't call me that…."
"You can say that after seeing this?"
I spread my index and middle fingers, and thick strands of mucus stretched between them, a dozen thin threads forming. Realizing what the gooey fluid on my fingers was, she went silent and turned her head away.
"I haven't even put it in yet, and you're already drooling pussy juice like this. No comeback to Horny Mina now, huh?"
"…I dunno. How should I know."
Dunno, huh? Guess I'll have to teach her from here on out.