Chapter 25
[Poster:Childhood Friend Rape■]=[Eveline Marigold]
[My childhood friend is a fucking insane bastard]
I went to my childhood friend's house today and happened to see that bastard jerking off, fucking lol.
He said I turned him on and asked me to be sex partners? Is this fucking lunatic for real?
ㅇㅇ(892.151) : So what did you do?
ㄴChildhoodFriendRape■ : What do you think? I just slapped him and left. Even thinking about it now, it's fucking ridiculous.
ㄴㅇㅇ(892.151) : ㅋㅋ You even raped him in his sleep.
ㄴChildhoodFriendRape■ : How is that the same as this?
ㄴㅇㅇ(892.151) : Right? At least sex partners are upfront about it. Sleep rape crosses the line, ㅇㅇ.
FlameSandwich■ : ...But being sex partners might not be so bad.
ㄴChildhoodFriendRape■ : What the fuck are you talking about? It's bad. It's fucking terrible.
ㄴFlameSandwich■ : No, but you fucked your childhood friend too.
ㄴChildhoodFriendRape■ : Ah, fuck! My libido wasn't the priority, but this bastard only thinks about sex!!
ㄴㅇㅇ(892.151) : For real. You don't know how terrifying sex-induced attachment is ㅋㅋ Even if it's just lust now, you'll definitely develop feelings once you keep doing it.
ㄴFlameSandwich■ : For real. As long as you've got a firm grip on the tip of his dick, your chance will definitely come.
ㄴChildhoodFriendRape■ : Is that so..? But sex partners... What if he gets a girlfriend... then I...
ㄴㅇㅇ(892.151) : A harem would actually be better.
ㄴChildhoodFriendRape■ : What's good about that, you fucking bastard!!
ㄴㅇㅇ(892.151) : Surprisingly, research shows that childhood friends are losing heroines in pure romance stories, but have a high chance of becoming the official wife in harem stories.
ㄴChildhoodFriendRape■ : Fuck off. Who conducted such a stupid study?
ㄴㅇㅇ(892.151) : Pavus, ㅇㅇ... (Link) Surprisingly, this is Pavus's ranking of harem heroines most likely to become the official wife.
ㄴChildhoodFriendRape■ : For real, that Pavus bastard only researches completely useless shit.
Eveline bit her lip as she read the comments.
“Sex partners...”
Tears almost sprang to my eyes, yet I felt a little happy at the thought that Ian had been looking at me that way. Was I a crazy bitch?
“I really... am guilty of falling for him...”
If I'd known this would happen, I should have somehow staked my claim.
After doing everything I could to get Ian to confess his feelings to me, all I got was being sex partners...
Wham!
“...You bastard.”
After punching a stuffed doll that looked like Ian, Eveline buried her face in the pillow.
***
“...I'm tired.”
I hadn't slept a wink after Eveline slapped me and left.
Of course, there was no way I could fall asleep.
‘...Haa. What should I do?’
To be honest, I thought it was fortunate that she'd stopped at one slap.
Eveline had looked genuinely happy right before she brought up being sex partners.
But...
‘If you marry me, the world will be destroyed!!!’
...Would she believe me if I said that?
Now that I had to make up not only with Estelle but also with Eveline, my thoughts were becoming more and more tangled.
Click! Slam! Step, step!
Just then, the front door opened, and someone entered.
“Evel...ine?”
“You haven't eaten lunch, have you?”
Eveline, carrying grocery bags in both hands, asked with a nonchalant expression.
“Uh... yeah...”
“I'll make something, so wait.”
After tying up her hair with practiced ease and putting on an apron, Eveline began preparing the ingredients.
Chop! Chop! Chop!
Eveline cooked with familiar movements and a steady rhythm.
Eveline was a young lady from a family wealthy enough that she could have gone her whole life without learning how to cook, but at some point, she'd decided to learn and started making meals for me at my house.
Of course, there had been countless trial-and-error attempts along the way...
But in the end, my palate had become accustomed to Eveline's cooking.
“...Here. Eat.”
Eveline quickly prepared lunch and set the dishes across the table.
Turtle soup, braised eel, grilled oysters, and bokbunja juice.
It was the same menu we always ate.
“...I'll eat well.”
Mm, they say home cooking is the best, right?
It was familiar, but incredibly delicious.
But...
“....”
“....”
“....”
The silence was so uncomfortable that it seemed to cut the taste in half.
‘...What am I supposed to do?’
If I'd at least browsed the gallery before coming, I could have prepared myself, but she'd appeared so suddenly.
“...Thank you for the meal.”
“...Thank you for the meal.”
In the end, we didn't say a word until the meal was over.
“...Get me a toothbrush.”
“Yeah, here.”
Since we often went back and forth between each other's houses, we always kept a dedicated toothbrush for each other.
Brush, brush.
Eveline and I stood side by side in front of the mirror, brushing our teeth.
For some reason, this perfectly ordinary act felt burdensome now.
We had finished eating and brushed our teeth—in other words, we'd finished everything we had to do.
“....”
“....”
“....”
“...Haa.”
Apparently unable to put it off any longer, Eveline let out a deep sigh and spoke.
“Fine. Do it.”
“...Do what?”
“W-what do you think?!...S-sex...partners! I said, let's be sex partners!”
Eveline shouted with her face bright red.
“...Are you serious?”
“D-does this look like a joke to you?”
“....”
Honestly, I was surprised.
[Should I just fucking kill this bastard and then kill myself?]
[Wha...what should I do...if we become sex partners...?]
[Sex partners? Is he really a fucking lunatic? I should go stab him... ]
[Wouldn't being sex partners be better than letting someone else steal him...?]
Until yesterday, Eveline had been impossible to read in the posts she uploaded to the gallery.
“...Are you really sure about this?”
“I-it's fine. What... Being sex partners isn't a big deal, right? Yeah, I'm human too... Of course I have urges.... Sometimes... doing... it...”
Eveline's voice grew quieter and quieter.
By the end, I couldn't hear her at all.
“What did you say?”
Grind─
“...I-I sometimes masturbate too, you fucking bastard....”
“Ah...”
I wasn't sure whether calling three times a day ‘sometimes’ was fair, but I generously let it slide.
“But don't get the wrong idea. No matter how many times we have sex, the fact that we're childhood friends will ‘NEVER’ change. You're just a biological dildo. I'm nothing more than a biological fleshlight. There are no feelings involved here. Got it?”
“Got it...”
“.....”
After hearing my answer, Eveline wore an expression that made it impossible to tell whether she was relieved or angry.
“Phew... Fine, whatever. Then let's do it.”
“Do what?”
“S-sex... Obviously... What else do sex partners do....”
“...Now? It's daytime.”
“So what? Do you have something to do?”
“...No.”
When my gaze shifted toward the bed, Eveline grabbed my wrist.
“Not there.”
“...Then where?”
“Follow me. We'll do it at the Cream Pie Inn.”
**
「Cream Pie Inn」
Although it was called an inn, simply put, it was less a place to stay than...
A place where couples mainly went to have sex.
“....”
“....”
Feeling as though we were doing something wrong, we stood in front of the counter, where the old lady running the inn peered at me through a hole barely large enough for a hand to pass through.
“Ahem... One room, please.”
“...Day use? Overnight?”
Weekend day use (6 hours): 60,000 Eris
Weekend overnight stay: 100,000 Eris
The price list showed a considerable difference between day use and an overnight stay.
Six hours seemed like it would be enough if all we were doing was having sex.
“Then, day use...”
“...Overnight, please. The best room.”
“230,000 Eris. Room 703.”
Flick─
Before I could say anything, Eveline took out the money and paid.
“...Overnight?”
“It's your first time. Who knows how long it'll take? We should take our time.”
“You're not a first-timer?”
“Ha, what do you take me for—”
Eveline, who had been about to bluff, shut her mouth.
Even if it was a lie, she didn't want to make Ian think she'd slept with another man.
“...You know me. Even if it's my first time, I know everything.”
“Really? Impressive. I was nervous even on my second time.”
“....What?”
“It's my second time coming here, and I'm still nervous.”
“....”
After saying that casually, Ian pressed the button for the magic elevator, and Eveline's mind went blank as she stared at his back.
Second? He said this was his second time?
Why?
Why? Why was it his second time?
Had he come here with someone else before?
Why? Did he mean he'd had sex?
No, really, his second time?
Seriously? His second time?
Had I heard him wrong?
“He...heh...?...S-second time?...You...you didn't mean to say the first time...did you?”
“No? I meant my second time.”
“...I see.”
At Ian's natural answer, Eveline clenched her fists tightly.
‘W-what... It could happen!’
It wasn't a big deal.
Ian was an adult, and I might not have been his first.
Even though we were childhood friends, we hadn't spent every second of every day together.
He could have had a relationship without my knowing.
‘...It could happen...’
Aside from being dense, there wasn't a single rough edge to his looks or personality.
It wasn't as if only one or two women had their eyes on Ian; I'd known that for a long time.
‘His...first time... It...it isn't a big deal, right?’
Even the elite-unicorn Virgin Appraiser■ had lowered his standards because virgins were so hard to find these days—so how important could a first experience really be in this world?
It was nothing more than a matter of order; otherwise, it was all the same experience.
And now that we'd become sex partners, I could just have sex with Ian more often from now on, couldn't I?
‘Right, until now, w-we...we were just...childhood friends... Yeah, yeah... From now on...we can...move forward...little by little...so it doesn't matter, right?’
That was what I thought, but...
Drip─ Drip─
“Ah?.. Ah... what is it... sob... why all of a sudden... ngh...”
The moment she opened the door to Room 703, her emotions overflowed in tears.
“E-Eveline? Are you crying?”
“Huh? U...ah...no...I...I'm not crying...hic...ah...I...I'm not crying...”
I hated it.
The truth was, I hated it so much.
Even if I tried to pretend nothing was wrong, I couldn't.
Just imagining that another woman, not me, had taken Ian's first time made my chest feel as though it were being torn apart.
“Haa..h-hic..sob...hic...heh...h-hic...sob...”
In the end, Eveline sank down in front of the door and began sobbing uncontrollably.
“Sob..hic...sob...I...you...bastard!.....W-why...why do you...go around...having...s-sex...with whoever you want!..hic...I...it was my...first time...sob..waaah.”
“C-calm down, Eveline... Stop crying...”
“Hic...sob...I...I'm not crying!..waaah...I...I said I'm not crying...you...you fucking bastard....hic....”
Even the sex at home, which I had thought was my first time, had all been a misunderstanding.
No wonder Ian had been so good that I couldn't even imagine it was his first time.
‘...hic...I...if I'd known this would happen...I...I should've...just...taken you...at the...hot spring...’
I shouldn't have held back just because I wanted to let Ian take the lead.
I felt wronged, furious, and stupid.
As his childhood friend, I'd had so many chances, and yet someone had stolen Ian's first experience from me!!
“Sob...s-so...who...who was it....sob...That...that...café lady?...That...girl...you...met...at church?...sob...Or...Delphicia?...sob....”
“Why is Delphicia coming up here? It was my first time. My first.”
“Sob...don't lie!!...You...you said it was your second time!!..hic...You said...it was...your second time!!!..sob....”
“No, I meant it was my second time coming to an inn. I stayed at an inn for a while after moving out, until I found a place of my own.”
“Wh...what a load of bullshit...sob..I'm...crying...so you're...just...saying that...to...comfort me...hic...”
“You said you weren't crying a moment ago....”
“Sh...shut up...!!..sob..J...just...answer me...sob...who was it...sob...”
“I swear on Goddess Ellis. When I said it was my second time, I meant it was my second time coming to an inn.”
“Sob...th...then...why...why did you...say it...so...confusingly!...You...you bastard...waaah...”
Maybe it was because I was relieved. Even though I thought it was truly fortunate, an even louder wail burst from my mouth.
“I'm sorry. I was wrong...”
I hugged the sobbing Eveline tightly.
I couldn't bring myself to say that misunderstanding it had been her fault.
Eveline and I were the sort of pair where I lost more than ninety percent of our fights, but I still managed to strike back.
This time, too, I'd deliberately said it even though I knew Eveline would misunderstand.
“Hic...sob...Hey.....It...it really was...your first time, right?”
“I told you, it was my first time... I swore. Who else could I have done it with?”
...Though I hadn't known she'd react this badly.
It was only after quite a long time of holding her that Eveline finally stopped crying.
“Haa...sniff...haa....Ah...phew...ah...I'm pissed...seriously..haa....”
“Sorry...”
“You're so annoying...seriously...”
Eveline glared at me as though even my apology displeased her.
Still, that was a sign that she'd calmed down to some extent.
Swish─
I moved beside Eveline, interlaced my fingers with hers, and spoke.
“...Eveline, should we just sleep today? Holding hands, like before. We can put the sex-partner thing off until later...”
“Sh...shut up.”
Eveline's eyes were swollen from crying so much.
But she still seemed—or rather, seemed even prettier than before....
“We're definitely having sex today.”
I didn't know whether it was my eyes or Eveline's beauty.