Chapter 45
“Ugh... It hurts...”
“I told you to stop.”
Arin and I were in the bathtub together.
At first, I was pretty embarrassed... but then I thought, after bathing with Ian, what was there to be embarrassed about?
Once I thought of it that way, I calmed down and just got in.
“Aww. Plia's reaction isn't fun anymore...”
Arin said, sporting a huge lump on her head.
Hmph. I won't play along with what you want.
“Come to think of it, I don't think we've been alone together like this before, Plia.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Now that she mentions it, I guess so.
“Since we're here anyway, let's talk about things only we can talk about!”
“Talk?”
“Yes! Things Ian can't hear! Girl talk!”
“Uh-huh...”
Is it okay for me to do something like that?
It feels a little... weird.
“Ahem. Plia!”
“Huh? Yeah?”
“Why are your breasts so big?!”
“Pfft?!”
What a direct question all of a sudden?!
“They're so big, they're floating in the bathtub!”
“No... this is...”
“I'm bigger than average, too! But yours are on a whole other level, Plia! What do you do to make them grow like that?!”
“...Genetics?”
There's no other way to explain it... is there?
I think my mother, Lauren, was pretty busty, too, and my older sister, Plon, was bigger than Arin, even if not as big as me.
“...Grr! And you say that so casually!”
“Honestly, having them too big is inconvenient. It's hard to move around. Besides, Arin, if yours get any bigger, your proportions will be all off. They're the perfect size as they are.”
Honestly, I think they're already big for her height. She's the very definition of a petite girl with huge breasts... No, Arin isn't exactly that petite.
“Hehe... Is that so?”
Arin muttered with an ominous look on her face.
...Huh? Did I hit a nerve?
“That's just what big-breasted people say! I wanted mine to get bigger than this!!”
“Whoa?! What are you doing...?”
“I'm going to tear these enormous breasts right off you!”
“Wait?!”
Arin began assaulting my breasts?!
“Ugh! How are your breasts so soft?! They're way softer than mine! And how do they keep such a much prettier shape than mine?!”
“Ah?! Stop! Stop it!”
“No! This is your punishment! Punishment for deceiving the weak!”
Does having small breasts make you part of the weak?!
My soft breasts changed shape every time Arin squeezed them.
No one's ever touched them before...
“Aaaaaaah!!!”
“Please stop...”
I'll never be able to get married now...
...
“...Have you calmed down now?”
“Hmph. I'll let you off for today. I'll touch them again next time!”
So she'll do it again...
“Ahem. Enough about breasts. Let's move on to girl talk.”
“We're still doing that, huh...”
“Plia, is there someone you like? Oh, I already know it's Ian, so just tell me why you like him.”
“Huh... I don't like anyone! Ian's the one confessing on his own! I don't like Ian yet!”
“There you go with ‘yet’ again. So you're saying you'll like him someday.”
“That's...”
Honestly, I... don't know.
I said I wouldn't push Ian away just because he's a man, but that doesn't mean I can accept him right away, either.
I feel happy when I see Ian, and my heart pounds, but I don't know if I can call that love.
Am I still clinging to the delusion that I used to be a man? I thought I'd let go of my pride, but maybe I haven't.
Every time Ian says he loves me, I feel my face grow warm.
Surely I'm not actually flushed from annoyance, right?
But when I think about accepting Ian... I can't do it.
It's not even a matter of liking or disliking him; I feel like I can't even think about it.
Still, someday I'll be able to decide whether to love Ian or reject him.
I hope that day comes soon.
“Ah! Plia's gone into a deep thought. Was this really something worth worrying about that much?”
Arin's words snapped me out of my thoughts.
Oh, right. I was talking with Arin.
“Ahem. I was just thinking about something else for a moment.”
“Sigh... Let's move on to another topic.”
Arin sighed, then suddenly looked at me with a gleam in her eyes.
What is it? I have a feeling I shouldn't hear what she's about to say.
I hurried to cover Arin's mouth, but I was a moment too late.
“Let's talk about naughty stuff!”
“What?!”
N-naughty stuff?!
“What kind of girl has no shame?!”
“Huh?! That's gender discrimination! You can't say that!”
I mean, it's not okay... but does that apply in a fantasy world, too?
“No... I mean...”
“Come on, tell me something naughty about yourself, Plia! When and what was the first naughty thing you ever did?!”
“Um...”
How am I supposed to explain this?
I can't talk about my past life, so I have to talk about this life...
The first naughty thing I did since I was born...
“Well...”
“Come on! Don't keep me waiting—hurry up and tell me!”
“Th-the hot springs! When I went to the Manarian Hot Springs!”
Ah. I said it...
“Oh. The Manarian Hot Springs are where you went with Ian, right? Your first naughty thing happened then? Don't tell me...”
“Th-that's not what happened!”
“You did it, you did—”
“I said I didn't!”
I really didn't!
“Then what was it? Don't tell me you're calling it naughty just because you saw Ian naked?”
“That's not... Wait, how did you know I saw him?!”
“Since you were at the hot springs, I figured something might've happened, so I took a look~ And I was right! Why didn't you just bathe together while you were at it?”
“...”
“...Huh? Wait, you really did?”
Ugh... It's not like I wanted to!
I never expected to be forced into bathing together!
And I tried to leave at first!
It only happened because Ian stopped me!
“Wow... You're such a pervert. Bathing together when you're not even dating...”
“I'm not!”
A pervert...
“Now that we're on the subject, I have to ask. Ian's thing... is it big?”
“You little—?! What kind of question is that?!”
“But I'm curious! How big is it?!”
“Well...”
I guess I'd be curious, too.
“Come on, tell me. How big was Ian's holy sword?”
...Sigh.
“About as big as my forearm.”
“What?”
“It was as big as my forearm. No, it might've been even thicker than my forearm.”
It looked like there was no way I could wrap one hand around it.
“Eek! Wouldn't you die if something that big went in?”
“I thought so, too.”
Maybe the bulging belly you only see in manga could actually happen.
“Still, maybe trying it once wouldn't be so bad...”
“What?!”
“Ahem. It's nothing.”
What was I thinking?
“So? Did you just bathe together and leave?”
“Well... if anything else, I helped Ian out when he got excited?”
“What?!”
“He got really worked up because of me, so I helped him a little.”
His mana was going completely out of control. It might've been dangerous if I hadn't helped him?
“Plia, you're so bold...”
“Huh?”
“N-no... nothing.”
Arin's face had turned strangely red.
Had she been in the hot water too long?
“Should we get out?”
“Huh? N-no, I'm fine.”
“All right, then.”
If she's fine, then that's that. Arin can get out on her own if she gets tired.
“Th-then, Plia. What did you do after you helped him?”
“Hm? Let's see... We ate, some weird guy barged in and Ian knocked him out in one hit, and then he treated me to a delicious meal as thanks...”
...Come to think of it, that meal was the beginning.
“A delicious meal? What kind?”
“W-well... just! A really delicious meal! It didn't have any effects!”
“? Oh, okay. And then?”
“Huh?”
“What happened after you ate?”
“...”
We fell asleep in the same room, but there happened to be aphrodisiac incense in there, so I couldn't sleep much and went to the hot springs to masturbate.
How could I say that!!
“Something happened, didn't it!”
“N-nothing... happened!”
“What?! What are you talking about?! Tell me what happened right now!”
“I said nothing happened!”
“Grr! Then I'll keep tormenting you until you tell me!”
“Eek?!”
Arin grabbed my breasts again.
“I'll torment these naughty breasts of yours until you tell me!”
“I still can't tell you! No, I won't!”
“So something did happen! Hurry up and tell me!”
“Hyaaah!”
She pinched me! What is she doing to someone else's breasts?!
“Take that! Take that! Why won't you tell me already?!”
“I said I won't tell you!!”
Never! I'll take it to my grave!
...
Ian, who'd been beaten up by Plia, was cursing his excellent senses.
-Eee-yah!
-Hwaaa!
After becoming a Swordmaster, his sharpened senses let him hear every sound from the bathroom.
They hadn't even turned on the soundproofing, so every loud sound the two made carried out, and Ian's sensitive ears picked up all of it.
‘What on earth are they doing in the bathroom?!’
Of course, Ian could control his senses and block out the sounds.
But if he hadn't known about it, that would be one thing; once he'd heard them, his ears refused to block the sounds out.
-Ora ora ora!
-Haaah!
Listening to Arin's battle cries and Plia's moans, he had no choice but to hunch over.