episode_0058

Ariel’s massage was more bearable than Killua’s, I had thought.

However, it didn’t take long to realize that thought was a misunderstanding.

Her slender, soft fingertips delivered a ticklish massage as warm magic and medicinal herbs seeped deep beneath my skin.

“Ugh… Ngh…”

The moment the warm magic and medicinal herbs touched the toxins, the tightly blocked meridians instantly loosened, and the intense, refreshing sensation of release made an embarrassing moan escape my lips, which I couldn’t possibly suppress.

“Does it feel good?”

As another toxin was neutralized, Ariel, hearing the moan that escaped my lips, beamed with a proud smile.

Having involuntarily let out an embarrassing moan due to the cool neutralization of the toxins, I was ashamed of my lack of patience, so I simply nodded in answer to her question.

“I’m glad it seems to be working! Though it feels like I’m giving you the illness and then the medicine, since it’s because of me.”

Ariel, smiling sweetly at me, reached her hand toward the bowl of medicinal herbs placed beside my head, as if to continue the massage.

“Ugh…”

The embarrassing moans that involuntarily escaped me the moment the toxins were neutralized were one problem, but a bigger problem was this very moment.

The moment Ariel extended her arm to grab the bowl of medicinal herbs beside my head, leaning her upper body slightly towards me.

Her full, soft breasts, influenced by gravity, drew near my face.

My nose was tickled by a faint, floral body scent, and my gaze couldn’t help but be drawn to their enticing lushness, whose softness was vividly palpable just by looking.

“This is the last part~”

Whether she knew my thoughts or not, Ariel, moving leisurely to allow me to fully enjoy the movement of her breasts, scraped the remaining medicinal herbs from the bowl with a spatula.

“La… last?”

Distracted by the luscious movement of her soft breasts, I muttered, repeating her words with a dazed expression.

“The last part is a bit tricky…”

Ariel, who had scraped out the last portion of medicinal herbs for the massage with the spatula, returned to her position straddling my thighs and gave an awkward smile.

“Why is that?”

Only then, escaping the allure of her enticing breasts, I swallowed the saliva pooling in my mouth and casually replied to her murmur.

Then Ariel, with the slender fingers that had calmly massaged my chest, gently stroked my left breast as she answered.

“Because the toxins are near your heart.”

Come to think of it, when she had tracked the location of the toxins, Ariel had indeed mentioned there were toxins near my heart.

Judging by the form of massage used to detoxify other areas until now… to detoxify the toxins near the heart, the area around the left breast would need intensive massage.

Since breasts are biologically classified as an erogenous zone, Ariel seemed to be letting out an awkward laugh.

“Ahahaha… Surely your chest isn’t particularly sensitive, is it?”

Perhaps finding the question itself funny, Ariel burst into awkward laughter as she posed the awkward question to me.

“I haven’t really had an interest in that kind of act.”

I had heard that there were men who sought sexual pleasure through breast stimulation for unusual or perverse gratification.

In response to her awkward laughter and difficult question, I answered firmly so that she wouldn’t think I was similar to such perverse men.

Ariel, nodding as if that were obvious, carefully dropped the medicinal herbs from the spatula onto my left breast.

“Ugh!!”

A cold chill from the medicinal herbs dropped on my left breast seemed to grip my heart as it burrowed into my skin.

But Ariel calmly caressed my left breast as if cradling it, with a hand imbued with warm magic.

The cold chill contained within the medicinal herbs, enveloped by her warm magic, was instantly heated and slowly seeped into my skin along with her magic.

“Hee hee… You’re firmer than you look~”

No matter that it was a therapeutic massage, the act of caressing someone else’s breast, especially a breast of the opposite sex, did not seem normal.

“Couldn’t you just use your fingertips like before?”

Until now, her massage had been a pressing down or light stroking of the skin with her fingertips.

Her massage, which felt like she was gripping my left breast, was completely different from what she had done so far, to the point where I could feel some unknown ulterior motive or dark thoughts from her.

“Because the heart is a sensitive organ. I need to operate the magic as precisely as possible.”

Caressing my gently cradled left breast this way and that, Ariel offered what she considered a reasonable explanation.

Not being a mage, I couldn’t refute her words and could only wish for this embarrassing massage to end without incident.

“Hmm… If you feel like you’re at a disadvantage… would you like to touch my breasts instead?”

As I silently endured her massage, which playfully explored and caressed my chest, her unbelievable suggestion reached my ears.

“What in the…”

When I looked at her with a flustered expression at the suggestion that made me doubt my ears, Ariel too seemed to belatedly feel embarrassed by what she had said, looking at me with slightly flushed cheeks.

“Just a joke… A joke~ Ahahaha.”

Ariel, meeting my gaze, smiled with her eyes, her cheeks flushed, and casually brushed off her words as a simple joke or a slip of the tongue.

“Ri… right?”

Looking at her, who was smiling with her eyes while calling it a joke, I let out a small sigh that was neither relief nor disappointment.

“I’ll focus for a moment.”

Soon, as her magic reached near my heart, a sensitive organ, Ariel closed her eyes, perhaps to concentrate.

“Ugh…”

As if significant concentration was required, Ariel not only closed her eyes but also began to grip my chest harder with her hand.

No matter the reason for treatment, the experience of having one’s chest squeezed by someone of the opposite sex was undeniably strange and bewildering.

Amidst that bewilderment, Ariel’s mischievous suggestion, thrown out playfully, began to echo in my mind.

‘If you feel like you’re at a disadvantage, would you like to touch my breasts instead?’

It’s natural for a man to cup a woman’s breasts, but…

For a woman to cup a man’s chest, didn’t it imply she herself was prepared to be cupped?

As my mind was gradually consumed by the vulgar instincts creeping up, a strange theory brimming with lust began to majestically unfurl within it.

Lured by the whispers of those instincts, my gaze involuntarily crept towards Ariel’s full breasts, as she had her eyes closed in concentration.

“Eek!”

It wasn’t just my gaze that followed her breasts.

When I came to my senses, my right hand had involuntarily risen and was lightly cupping her left breast.

When a bewildered moan escaped her lips, as she had her eyes closed and was concentrating.

I should have released my lightly cupped hand, but the soft, plushy flesh that gently seeped between my fingers made me lose myself.

Her concentration of magic, momentarily disrupted by my sudden action, was quickly regained, and her magic moved the medicinal herbs steeped in my body towards the toxins near my heart.

“Haaah!”

As if the medicinal herbs had reached the toxins, an intense sensation of liberation spread from near my heart throughout my entire body, and a vehement sigh escaped my lips.

“With this, the treatment is over.”

Ariel, hearing the vehement sigh that escaped me, opened her closed eyes and looked down at me.

And perhaps finding the situation amusing, with each of us cupping the other’s left breast, she burst into laughter, her eyes crinkling.

“So… sorry.”

Unlike her, whose actions were for treatment, I apologized for my own action of cupping her breast, having been swayed by a momentary temptation of desire, and released the sweet sensation and alluring warmth that had filled my hand.

“Why apologize?”

Ariel, chuckling softly at my apology, also released my left breast, which she had been holding for treatment.

Perhaps she had unconsciously applied considerable force for the operation and concentration of magic, as her handprint remained red on my left breast.

Ariel, stroking her handprint that remained on my left breast as if apologetic, spoke.

“Even though it was for treatment… for me to have cupped someone of the opposite sex’s breast, doesn’t that mean I was prepared to be cupped myself?”

As if reading my mind, she whispered to me in a soft, sweet voice, with a seductive eye-smile.

“No… that’s…”

“Now now~ Don’t be too sorry~ It’s not like they’ll wear out, will they?”

Ariel, giggling softly as if even my flustered expression was amusing, grabbed my right wrist and pulled it, making my right hand touch her breast.

As the soft flesh filled my hand, I involuntarily tightened my grip, gently cupping her breast.

“How does it feel?”

As my right hand reflexively cupped her breast, Ariel mischievously asked for my impression of its feel.

“S-so incredibly soft… No… No, this isn’t right!”

I found myself involuntarily stating my impression of her question before realizing the situation wasn’t normal. I tore my gaze away from the soft, yielding breast in my grip and looked at Ariel.

“Wh-what are you thinking?!”

Stuttering in my bewilderment, I asked Ariel her intention in letting me touch her breast.

Even as I asked, Ariel answered with a strange eye-smile at my hands, which were unconsciously kneading as if enjoying the soft sensation emanating from her breast.

“Are you dense? Or are you pretending to be dense? I’m seducing you, you know.”

Soon after, Ariel subtly lifted her hips as if to readjust her posture and mounted my crotch, which was by now stiffly announcing its presence, blood having rushed to it.

Ariel, now sitting astride my crotch, her smile deepened even further as she confirmed the distinct presence of my ‘other self’ pressing against her lower body.