episode_0326

When told that she needed something to cover her eyes, she looked around and grabbed a towel that happened to be hanging up.

“…Excuse me.”

And with those few words, my eyes were tightly shut with a towel.

“Is it properly tied…?”

Even though it was tied by hand, Harnier asked me again, perhaps still worried.

“Hmm. Yes. It seems well tied.”

After feeling around and touching it with a towel, it seemed to be tied well.

At least this way, Harnie’s naked body won’t catch my eye.

…but there is also the disadvantage that since your eyes are covered, you have to rely entirely on your senses. Even so, you can’t avoid covering your eyes.

I laid the groundwork in advance, just in case of an emergency.

“Even if I touch it, I can’t say anything…”

“Ah, I know that!”

“…You can’t hit them with things like this.”

“Don’t keep repeating the same thing!”

…Actually, I’m the one who’s really nervous.

My mouth is dry as I am afraid that one mistake in my future actions could lead to huge karma.

I hope that doesn’t happen.

sincerely.

After a short while, she took a deep breath and gulped, saying, “Hoo- ha- hoo- ha-.”

“Ju, I’m ready. If I feel like something’s wrong, I’ll tell you then…”

“…Yes.”

My hair stands on end.

I’m shivering. This is definitely not because it’s winter!

‘First of all…’

You must not forget the effects of this item.

If you rush out and try to take the clothes off your body, the effect of this damn item will be activated.

The first condition for this garment to fall off the wearer is the touch of another person, but just like the stone mask item, if that touch of another person requires too much physical force, it will be a complete failure.

If you do that, it will tend to stick to the wearer’s body more… so if the area of skin touching the clothing is not more than 60%, it will stick and become more difficult to clean up.

Then other people might think like this.

Why can’t we just take care of it by pulling someone else’s hand?

…But that doesn’t work.

If the above-mentioned trick had worked, I would have easily asked Harnie to do it for me. The problem is that it doesn’t work.

The second effect is that, like the stone mask, the mask can only be removed when the wearer is almost motionless. In short, Harnier cannot make any movements while the mask is being taken off.

So slowly. Very slowly, like peeling off the skin of a fruit, but taking care not to damage the flesh inside.

…Of course, this is a separate issue from the special situation where you have to remove only the clothes while blindfolded.

Why on earth does such an item exist?

And there were other things that weren’t implemented very well, but I wonder why the implementation was so crazy good in this regard.

A sigh escaped me.

‘I hope that the first place I touch is a place I can touch with my hand.’

The face… is a bit like that, but it’s easy to guess, so it’s okay.

Even the shoulders are okay. It’s within the acceptable range where you can somehow reach there.

But not below that.

…You really shouldn’t go down there! It’s dangerous!

I swallowed hard and stretched my hand out in front of me.

Intentionally hoping that the head or face will touch.

But… nothing touches it?

“Over there… Carcein. I’m way down there?”

“…ah.”

There’s a height difference.

I didn’t think about that.

…But if you lower your hand here and accidentally touch it, you won’t be able to do it.

Harnie spoke in a trembling voice as she was lost in complicated thoughts.

“I’m saying this because I can’t move my hands… It’s harder to be like this. I’m cold.”

“…”

“You could move a little more boldly, so hurry up and…”

Well, I guess that’s true.

No matter how much you stay indoors, winter is still winter.

It must be a struggle to stand in a place with no proper heating, with only one layer of clothing on.

For now, we needed to be a little more daring.

‘I heard a voice around here. Assuming the face was around here…’

Hands down.

It went straight down.

All I can feel is soft skin. Where on earth are my clothes?

After feeling around here and there, I finally found the collar.

“The collar is slightly caught, is that okay?”

“What…!”

“…Harnie?”

Could it be that I misunderstood something…?

When I felt that strong feeling.

Harnie asks to change the position of his hands.

“Here, a little bit, lift it up.”

“Up…here.”

“More. Going up!”

Then this time, I had a feeling that I knew where I was touching.

“This was the head.”

“…Okay, okay. Take care of it quickly. You can figure out the rest, right?”

“No?”

“Yes?”

“…I don’t know how to take this off.”

Of course not.

Where would a man wear women’s clothes?

Even if we apply that to reality, it is not common for women to wear pants, but for men to wear skirts, unless it is a very distant past.

But in this day and age?

Even a modern person who didn’t know anything about this culture just a few months ago?

As a person with a disability, just wearing my clothes was burdensome.

In the meantime, he told me to take off my clothes.

That’s nonsense.

“… You really don’t know?”

“Yes…”

“…”

Harnie was quite embarrassed and didn’t say anything for a while.

But this situation cannot continue.

No one knew better than him that he had to somehow take off that masked version of the costume.

“Uh, carcein…?”

“…Yes.”

“This outfit covers your entire body… so you can’t take it off by lifting it up over your upper body or something…?”

“…”

What the fuck?

“By any chance, you shouldn’t lift it up…”

“…You have to go down and take it off.”

I had a feeling it wouldn’t happen.

You’re saying that the lower body also needs to touch.

Oh crazy.

Suddenly I feel out of breath.

“It’s okay, so… Take your time… If you feel like your hand position is weird, I’ll tell you like I did before.”

…The voice heard at the end was quite a voice that seemed to be shuddering with shame.

I’m anxious.

Please, don’t let me make a mistake.

***

How much time did you spend in the bathroom?

I couldn’t quite figure it out. No, I couldn’t figure it out.

It took a tremendous amount of mental strength to be able to handle the strange body odor that tickled my nose and the enormous embarrassment I felt towards the person in front of me.

When I felt like I was trapped in a mental and temporal room where one second felt like ten minutes and one minute felt like an hour, I removed as much of my clothing as possible, distinguishing between flesh and cloth.

-Slurp.

“…Ah!”

Finally, the clothes, no, that damn item fell off Harnie’s body.

How I have longed for this moment.

It feels like I can finally breathe freely, even though I’ve been holding my breath.

The cold sweat that had been dripping down cooled down in an instant, and a sigh of relief came out on its own.

That guy named Naran.

Great job!

It wouldn’t be strange if I clenched my fists and became intoxicated with joy.

Well, Harnie hasn’t said anything in a while!

He took off the clothes from the shoulder straps to the upper body, bent down and slowly lowered the entire body and back area, and even when he reached the lower body, Harnie only adjusted the position of his hands and did not say anything else.

What does that mean?

Of course, it means that it was a success─

-puck!

“Ugh!”

I thought so.

Something feels strong.

“You are the real deal…!”

Ah, I can feel it in your voice.

It’s cold.

The energy flows down my spine.

The aura of someone’s palm print being engraved by the strong spike.

There can only be one reason why you’re showing signs of a back spike at this very moment.

-Pa, raise your arms. I can move my body… Ugh…!

-…Huh? Did I do something wrong…

-Just a little to the right… huh!

-…What? Did I do something wrong?

-Okay, okay, then move your hands first!

…Now that I think about it, I don’t think I handled it well.

I asked, swallowing hard.

“…Oh, how many times have I made a mistake…?”

“How many times…?”

His shoulders trembled, perhaps because of the anger he felt.

“I tried to hold it in and just let it go…! This, this…!”

This was likely to be the biggest spike of all time. An excuse for survival instinctively came out.

“I, I said I wouldn’t hit you! Since it was an unavoidable situation, I took it into account to some extent! And your body is so soft, I thought it would all be the same anyway…”

“Don’t say anything else─!!”

-Tsk tsk!

Oh, this is it.

It was truly an all-time spike.

The culprit is… Harnie…

***

Harnie took off her clothes and went into the bathroom, saying she needed to wash up.

On the other hand, I, who was hit by the greatest spike of all time, had to stand quietly facing the wall as ordered by Harnie.

My eyes were covered anyway… but I didn’t want to get hit any more. I had to listen, I guess I had no choice.

After quite some time had passed.

The bathroom door opened.

You must be properly dressed now.

I naturally turned around because I needed to wash up before I could get punished any more.

But, the condition of Harnie’s clothes…

I turned my head hurriedly.

“…What is this situation?”

“You can’t keep wearing those clothes. So you have to change them…”

Of course, you can’t wear that damn item.

You absolutely have to change. But even so, isn’t this wrong?

“That’s not it, but why are you wearing my clothes? Didn’t you leave some clothes for Camilla to wear?”

“That’s true, but… I can’t, wear it.”

“…Yes?”

You left your clothes behind and now you can’t wear them?

“The clothes Camilla left behind were normal. They were just ordinary, women’s clothes, right? She was trying to come out of the bathroom wearing them.”

“But?”

“That’s…”

Harnie blushes and comes out of the bathroom carrying something. It’s none other than Camilla’s clothes.

But…

Those were no longer wearable clothes.

‘Oh my god. So that’s why I was only wearing my top and was in such a precarious position?’

I hit my forehead when I saw the clothes with the chest ripped open.

I can’t wear it because the size doesn’t fit. I didn’t know there would be a problem here.

…but I have one question.

Camilla’s clothes aren’t that small, are they…?

It may not fit Harnie’s size, but does it burst so easily?

“What, what can I say? This is an act of God from my perspective. If you don’t wear your clothes, I have to wear that or be naked. And I can’t wear pants either, so this is what happens.”

“…”

I don’t know.

The material of these clothes is really bad, that’s why it looks like that.

Since I can’t say anything, I can only ask them to take care of it and send me another set later.

“Then, I’ll go wash up in the bathroom and come out─”

-Gulp.

My gaze naturally turned to Harnie.

Harnie protested with a red face and clenched his fists.

“…This, this isn’t the sound coming from my stomach!”

“Yes…”

“I told you, that’s not really what came out of my stomach?!”

“Yes…”

First of all, I need to eat rice.

***

-Cheek. Cheek.

Karsine is currently preparing dinner.

Thanks to that, it was comfortable, but I also felt a little disappointed with Harnie.

‘I was going to make it in advance while I was washing up in the bathroom.’

I told him to take his time washing up and that I would prepare dinner while he did so, but for some reason, Karsine quickly washed up and came out of the bathroom.

And then, just like now, I was preparing dinner.

Wearing nothing but pants.

My face gets hot when I see that.

There was no place that my hands didn’t touch while taking off those clothes.

Carcein’s hands passed over every place, and the thought of taking off these clothes made me feel ashamed to the top of my head.

‘But… this is enough.’

I purposely ripped off Camilla’s clothes so I could be closer to her.

It would be enough of an excuse to fall asleep while lying down in bed.

Again, Harnier was satisfied just by being able to be in Karsine’s arms.