14. This Is Too Much Like Sex Between Lovers (1)

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After pulling my cock, with the witch's scent clinging heavily to it, out from between her breasts,

Unfortunately, that wasn't the only thing clinging to my cock, so I borrowed the power of wet wipes and began cleaning the shaft.

Naturally, I had intended to do it myself, but this time I was receiving special assistance from the Team Leader.

…Actually, considering the time, it might have been better to deal first with the semen splattered all over the inside of the Team Leader's clothes.

Even when I asked her directly, she only made dirty jokes. By the time I'd pulled out my third wet wipe, she said,

"I think we'll need an actual Fleshlight first."

The Team Leader said this while holding out one index finger toward me.

The whole scene had the air of a teacher telling me to bring the necessary supplies.

"The 'remote' function was basically missing this time, wasn't it? It was more like a simple phasing spell? Something like that?"

"That's right. If you want to be precise, my cock was merely being squeezed against the Team Leader's breasts through her clothes."

"So all you did was push your cock into cloth wrapped around something soft…, and it would probably be inconvenient for actual use, wouldn't it?"

"…I think so."

"In the end, when it comes to convenience, nothing beats a commercially made product. Then I'll overlay my magic on top of it!"

She meant that we would use an ordinary-looking Fleshlight by connecting its inside to the Team Leader.

Since I'd been thinking of that sort of design myself from the beginning, I nodded without objecting.

"Will that be all you need? Is there anything else I can help with…?"

"No. You've worked plenty hard, Mr. Dowon, so get some rest."

"Even so…."

"Besides, it's more convenient for me to prepare it myself anyway. Rather than have you buy a Fleshlight and give it to me, wouldn't it be better for me to order one online?"

"…Understood."

"Huh? But if you're a subordinate, aren't you supposed to ask three times…?"

"……."

"I'm joking, I'm joking…. You did work hard, didn't you? Right?"

To call it working hard would be, as the Team Leader had just said, closer to throwing perfectly good food into a trash can.

So I timidly tried to gauge the Team Leader's mood, and she, who happened to be meeting my eyes, lightly pressed both hands against her chest.

…And then she even lifted the fabric slightly with her fingers, showing me the parts stuck together tackily because of the semen.

As they began to come apart with little clicks, I looked away first. The Team Leader let out her characteristic laugh and whispered,

"Including the time for delivery, probably two days? Three? It should be around then. So after that…."

"……."

"…Please be gentle, okay? Mr. Civil Servant from the Rehabilitation Support Department."

*****

Once the conversation had more or less wrapped up.

The Team Leader vanished completely right before my eyes.

Just as I'd seen once before in the living room, it was a very witch-like exit.

"Hmm…."

That reminded me of the final appearance of that Kihased-whatever witch I'd seen on the subway recently.

They hadn't disappeared neatly; they had vanished from the tips of their toes upward, as though being erased by an eraser.

Was it because there was a difference in skill between them and the Team Leader?

Or had what I saw on the subway been some other stealth-type magic rather than teleportation….

As I lay on the bed, tossing and turning while entertaining idle thoughts, one of the necessities of modern life naturally caught my eye.

It was none other than my smartphone.

The smartphone with that Kihased-whatever witch's phone number saved in it.

I only felt it anew now, but witches really had blended into modern society quite well.

"The Team Leader's a civil servant, Neria's busy playing games…, and this apprentice witch was apparently an aspiring idol."

An active idol. Or perhaps merely a trainee.

That Kihased-whatever witch hadn't explained in detail at the time, so I didn't know which of the two she was.

But I could make a reasonable guess.

Given a witch's appearance, she would definitely have been the subject of a commotion online, so it was probably right to assume she was a trainee.

Even if she were ridiculously gorgeous, I'd heard she might appear as a cameo in some music video, but even after taking a moment to search, there were no trainees who had recently become a hot topic.

At this point, it would have been reasonable to consider that she was probably signed to some no-name small-to-midsize agency.

"A witch, at a place like that…?"

Team Leader Eve.

Lady Erzel.

Neria.

And even that Kih-whatever witch I'd secretly spoken with.

They were all women beautiful enough to make anyone stare blankly unless they held tightly onto their senses, so there was no way they would be struggling along at some tiny no-name agency.

Honestly, wouldn't it have been perfectly fine if they'd just dropkicked their way through the front door of a major agency?

"……."

Helping the apprentice of another witch behind Team Leader Eve's back was…, …yeah.

I could chalk that up to the fact that I liked women too.

Still, I needed some concrete information before I could decide whether to accept or refuse.

Maybe that was why the phone number with Kihased written on it kept catching my eye.

…And the late hour written right above it, 11:27 p.m., did too.

It was one thing if she were a witch I normally knew to some extent, like the Team Leader, but leaving a message at this hour for a witch with whom I was barely acquainted….

In the end, I decided it was probably too dangerous and gave up.

"…Sigh."

If I could just meet Lady Erzel right away, I might have been able to resolve some of this frustration.

I should have gotten her contact information back then, knowing this would happen.

…Of course,

"Let's just go to sleep…."

Every day would have become exhausting in all sorts of ways as I tried not to get eaten by Lady Erzel, though.

*****

"Ah, Mr. Dowon."

"…Lady Erzel."

…They say speak of the devil and he appears.

On days when a steady downpour like today's fell, was Erzel, a Water-type Pokémon, guaranteed to appear?

On a noisy morning commute filled with the sound of cars cutting through the rain,

I arrived in front of Neria's apartment and found Lady Erzel, for some reason, squatting beneath an umbrella.

"Look at this. It's a giant earthworm!"

"……."

And together with her, a giant earthworm I was meeting for the first time.

A witch who could always make rain fall at will must have seen enough worms to get sick of them.

Even so, this one must have been big enough for her to squat down and admire.

It certainly was gross.

"What brings you here? Did you come to see Lady Neria?"

"No, I was waiting for you, Mr. Dowon."

"For me?"

"Yes, yes. For you. When we first met, it looked like you were commuting this way, so I waited here."

"Is there something you wanted to ask me to do?"

Surely she wasn't going to ask again whether I had no taste for older women.

For a moment, I watched the magic still pouring down from the sky as water, and Lady Erzel rising while lightly thumping her numb thighs.

An answer completely opposite to the thought that had crossed my mind slipped from between her lips.

"It seems Rin came to see you recently?"

"When you say Rin…?"

"Rin Kihased. Didn't you meet a witch the day before yesterday?"

Rin Kihased.

Apparently, that was the name of the witch I'd met last time.

Just as Neria and Lady Erzel shared the surname "Heka," Kihased seemed to be this one's surname.

In any case, one of the things I'd wanted to ask Lady Erzel had been answered naturally.

…But if that was the case, couldn't she have just given me her full name from the start?

To shake off the irritation flashing through my mind, I nodded and answered.

"Yes. I did meet her. She showed up so suddenly that it caught me off guard, but…."

"I'm sorry. Actually, I was talking with Rin, and…since she, like me, has an apprentice witch who is 'not interested in sex,'…."

"It's all right. I was only caught off guard; nothing went wrong."

"Still, she must have given you some trouble. She's not very sociable. She's a typical research-obsessed witch."

"Research-obsessed…."

If I translated it into human terms, would it be something like a study freak, a try-hard, or a goody-goody?

I forcibly held back the urge to nitpick.

"What did she say to you? All she told me was, 'I booked too.' Oh, and she also asked me to keep it a secret from Eve."

"That was essentially all she said to me too. She showed up out of nowhere and asked me to take her on after Lady Neria…."

"Hmm. Even if the other party is human, that's still a bit rude. If she planned to cut in line like that, she could at least have put out once, honestly…."

"……."

Still, as a witch, she was beautiful enough to stir up sexual desire.

This wasn't something to discuss right now, either.

For now, gathering information came first.

"…Um, Lady Erzel? Do you happen to know anything about Rin's apprentice witch?"

"I'm sorry. All I've heard is that she ran away because she wanted to become an idol."

"I mean, whether she's a trainee or an idol who's already active…."

"I don't know. Still, my guess is probably a trainee…? If I'd seen someone who looked like a witch on TV, I would have recognized her right away, but I haven't seen anyone like that yet."

"I see…."

"I'm sorry I don't know anything."

"Not at all. I have Rin's contact information, so I'll ask her myself next time."

Unfortunately, I hadn't learned almost any useful information.

At most, I'd found out that the witch I'd met last time was named Rin.

It would have been nice to work out a plan with Erzel's help here, but judging by the situation, it seemed better to contact Lady Rin later and have a separate question-and-answer session about her apprentice witch….

Now that I knew this was a quest that would be difficult to resolve immediately, it was time to move on to the next topic.

"…Ah, do you have Rin's contact information?"

"……?"

No, that wasn't what I meant to ask.

"That's strange. She's a research freak, a research type, so she isn't someone who has sex often. Yet she got your contact information so naturally, Mr. Dowon?"

"…Is that how it works?"

"I don't even know your number yet, Mr. Dowon, but Rin took your virginity first…."

"……."

"With her, you'd only be forcibly milked without any fun, whereas with me, we could always have pleasurable mating…."

"……."

Fortunately, Lady Erzel's teasing ended when I obediently handed over my phone number.

It absolutely wasn't because I wanted to have pleasurable mating; it was just that knowing each other's contact information seemed convenient.

So, to return to the main point once more,

"But, Lady Erzel."

"Yes, yes. What is it?"

"Is keeping me from having sex with the Team Leader really because of Lady Neria?"

"Hmm? Neria? No—more importantly, are you saying I kept the two of you apart?"

"…Didn't you? Because you wanted me to focus entirely on Neria…."

"Why would I…? Didn't I say from the beginning that I support Eve?"

"You…did say that."

"You know that well, Mr. Dowon. Then why would I stop you?"

"……."

"……."

I thought I'd be able to understand Lady Erzel's intentions.

…But contrary to my expectations, our conversation took a strange turn,

"Did Eve tell you I was getting in the way?"

"Ah, yes. That's right."

"……I knew it. This is the only possibility."

"……?"

Lady Erzel, who had been thinking deeply about something, spoke.

"I deliberately pretended to oppose you two and planted that lie so you'd feel a stronger sense of transgression when you had sex with Eve."

"……."

"…It sounds like a plot device in a novel. Don't you think?"