episode_0065

The moment we arrived at the edge of the lake, beneath the dark shade of a tree.

“A soft gasp…”

Though the lake water was only waist-deep, Ariel, as if she could no longer suppress her burning emotions, tightened her arms around my neck and pressed her lips against mine.

At the same time, her burning hot, yet moist, tongue entwined with mine as we shared a passionate kiss.

I, too, no longer needing to hide, revealed my clear desire for her as I caressed her hips and thighs, which were clinging to my body, and then lowered myself onto the soft lakebed, cushioned by the smooth sand and rounded pebbles.

“Heheheh… I never thought we’d do something like this in a lake…”

Ariel, having ended a kiss as passionate as her personality, climbed onto my body, which was seated on the lakebed, and licked her lips as if she had delicious food before her.

“Honestly, weren’t you expecting this kind of situation when you led me here?”

I moved my hand, which had been caressing her thighs as she sat on me, and gently stroked upwards, tracing the gentle curve of her side.

And at the end of that curve lay a plump, alluring breast, almost too full to be grasped by one hand.

Though not outwardly expressed, a clearly prominent nipple at the tip of her soft, pliant breast was distinctly felt between my fingers, showing that she was just as heated as I was.

“Welllll~”

Ariel, still playfully smiling with her eyes, answered with a short kiss, lightly touching her lips to mine.

Placing both hands on my shoulders, Ariel let out a sigh tinged with a slight nervousness, excitement, and sweetness, and slowly began to lower her hips.

“….!!”

But at that moment, Ariel’s face stiffened.

“Ariel?”

The moment I instinctively knew something was wrong from her sudden change of expression, Ariel, without answering my call, swiftly turned her body, slid off me, and crouched low, hiding herself in the lake water.

“What’s suddenly…”

“Shh… Shh!”

In response to my question, she urgently put her index finger to my lips as if to silence me. And with her other hand, she frantically pointed in the opposite direction from where we were in the lake.

There, two familiar figures were slowly walking towards the lake.

“Ki… Killua-nim?!”

It was the White Sorceress, Killua, and the Hero, carrying a large basket filled with what appeared to be big sheets of paper and paints for drawing.

“Why is Killua-nim here…”

Ariel and I submerged ourselves in the lake water until only our eyes were visible, watching Killua and the Hero approach the lake from the opposite side.

It seemed this wasn’t their first time at the lake, as they casually scanned it without much surprise or reaction.

The Hero, having apparently checked beforehand, began preparing to draw in front of a rock that looked good for sitting, located in calf-deep water.

Killua also took off her shoes and slightly pulled up her pant legs, preparing to enter the lake to avoid getting wet.

“They won’t see us, right?”

I checked the location of our discarded clothes with tense eyes.

Unlike Killua and the Hero, who had come straight to the lake from home, we had taken a detour through the logging area, so our clothes were on the exact opposite side of the lake, out of their sight.

“As long as we don’t make any unnecessary big movements… I don’t think we’ll be caught.”

Ariel let out a small sigh of relief, as if comforted by the fact that we were in the deep shadow cast by the large tree growing near the lake.

“What do we do now?”

But her relief was short-lived.

We couldn’t stay hidden in the lake forever.

Waiting for Killua and the Hero to quickly finish their business and leave was the only option, but…

“It doesn’t look like they’ll be done soon…”

The Hero took out a canvas, a stand to hold it, and a basket filled with numerous paints and tools, preparing to draw quite seriously.

“Let’s wait for now…”

I didn’t want Killua to find out that Ariel and I were playing naked in the lake, just the two of us.

With a hope that this would pass as quietly as possible, I cautiously held my breath and merely watched Killua and the Hero’s actions.

Splash splash…

With light splashing sounds, Killua, who had pulled her pants up to her knees, walked into the lake.

Soon after, she approached a rock of just the right size for sitting, perched herself on it, and looked at the Hero, who had finished preparing to draw.

The Hero then moved his hands here and there, as if requesting slight changes in pose, and Killua, in response to his requests, slightly altered the height of her shoulders or turned her head to the side, striking the poses he desired.

Then, as if satisfied with the composition, the Hero nodded vigorously and gave a hearty thumbs-up. After that, he began to draw quickly with skillful movements.

Killua, who had briefly glanced at the Hero, then lightly moved her fingers from an angle where he couldn’t see.

“Wow…”

The moment she moved her fingers, Ariel’s eyes widened in disbelief, and she let out a gasp.

“What is it? What’s wrong?”

“Even if she’s the White Sorceress, Killua-nim is still a woman, it seems.”

Ariel let out a small laugh at my question.

But to prevent her laughter from escaping, she hurriedly submerged her face in the water, turning her laughter into small, subtle bubbling.

“Did she use magic?”

Confirming that her fingers, hidden behind her back at an angle unseen by the Hero, did not stop moving, I carefully sharpened my sense for reading mana.

“Oh… my goodness…”

Though not clearly visible from such a distance, I could discern dozens of fine strands of mana flowing from her fingertips.

As if proving her incredible mana control ability, the strands of mana flowing from her fingertips were intricately and ornately interwoven, like a beautiful tapestry.

“Through partial spatial distortion, she’s creating splendid lighting effects and… well, it’s a bit hard to say, but she’s subtly adjusting her body shape from the angle the Hero sees her.”

Ariel, whose sensitivity to mana was superior to mine, noticed what I hadn’t seen and explained it to me.

At her words, that she was distorting space itself to correct her body’s appearance from the Hero’s perspective, I hurriedly submerged my face in the water, just as Ariel had done, to conceal a small laugh that escaped me, turning the sound into bubbling.

“Thanks to that, the chances of us being discovered are very low.”

“As long as we don’t do anything strange.”

Though only partial, distorting space was a magic that required immense concentration.

Furthermore, from Killua’s perspective, with her mana already significantly depleted, maintaining spatial distortion magic would require extreme concentration.

As Ariel said, if we didn’t do anything strange that would draw attention here, Killua and the Hero would finish their business and leave without ever noticing we were in the lake.

“Ugh… isn’t it a bit cold?”

Our relief at Killua being too focused on her magic to pay attention to us was short-lived.

We belatedly realized that the cold chill of the lake was steadily drawing away our body heat.

We hadn’t noticed it when we were swimming or burning with desire, but now that we were holding our breath and hiding to erase our presence, the chill of the lake water was undeniably more pronounced.

“A warming spell, like before… that won’t work, right?”

“The moment you try to draw mana to use magic, you’ll be immediately discovered, you know?”

No matter how simple the magic, Killua’s keen senses would never miss the artificial flow of mana in the surroundings.

Ultimately, this meant we had to shiver in this cold lake water until the Hero’s drawing was finished.

Perhaps susceptible to such cold, Ariel began to chatter her teeth, seemingly from the chill.

“Excuse me for a moment…”

Unable to merely watch her, I cautiously approached her and gently embraced her from behind.

“A soft gasp…”

At the sudden back hug, Ariel let out a small gasp, seemingly a mix of surprise and delight, and then burst into laughter.

“This… isn’t bad, is it?”

As our bodies pressed close, our warmth became even more distinctly felt, even in the cold lake water.

As if craving each other’s warmth, Ariel twisted her body and burrowed deeper into my embrace.

Pressing our bodies so close that we could feel each other’s heartbeats, I held her soft body and rested my cheek on her hair, which carried a subtle herbal scent.

Ariel, too, placed her hand over mine, which was embracing her body, and as if playing a trick, she ran her fingers between mine and asked,

“When do you think… they’ll finish?”

“Indeed…”

I caught Ariel’s fingers, which were running between mine, and lightly intertwined them, then looked at Killua and the Hero, who were absorbed in their drawing on the opposite side of the lake.

The Hero was moving his hands quickly and without pause, but looking at the variety of paints laid out beside him, it seemed the drawing wouldn’t be finished in a short amount of time.

“Oh… it’s standing?”

Ariel, who had been playfully fiddling with our intertwined fingers, felt my member begin to subtly prod her thigh and let out a small laugh.

“It’s an unavoidable reaction when a woman as alluring as you is in my arms, isn’t it?”

As if I had no intention of hiding it either, I lightly moved my hips, rubbing my slightly awakened member between her thighs.

“Hmm… your words and actions are completely different from the Jazel who was hesitating this morning~”

“It’s thanks to a certain bold young lady who told me I needed self-belief and courage.”

I lightly kissed her cheek as I replied to her playful teasing.

Ariel then giggled, seemingly pleased with my answer, and leaned her body into mine.

“It would be a little dangerous like this, wouldn’t it?”

Ariel subtly parted her legs and carefully moved her hips, lightly encasing my member with her crotch.

I felt her soft, pliant skin gently wrap around my member, and a distinct warmth that was palpable even in the cold lake water.

Ariel was also pretending to be nonchalant, but she was already quite heated, having been interrupted at a crucial moment by Killua’s sudden appearance.

“If both of us keep our mouths shut tight and stay quiet… don’t you think we won’t get caught?”

“Ahahahah… are you confident?”

Ariel burst into laughter at my suggestion, then subtly twisted her body to face me, clinging to my embrace.

And with a cunning movement of her hips, she gently rubbed her labia—which held a warm fluid, completely unlike the lake water—against my member, which was swollen with blood and straining to rise.

“I am confident.”

Swallowing a groan at the warm heat held within her labia and the soft sensation as it wrapped around my member, I answered her question.

Ariel, her face slightly flushed, smiled with her eyes and said, teasing me by cunningly moving her hips as if, with just a slight separation of our pressed hips or a small change in the angle of rubbing, insertion would instantly occur.

“I’m not confident~ We’ll definitely get caught.”

Her mischievous reply, delivered with a lovely eye-smile, seemed to pass the choice to me.

I alternated my gaze between Ariel, who was clinging to me like glue, playfully teasing me with an obscene cuteness and an eye-smile, and Killua, who was posing for the Hero’s drawing over Ariel’s shoulder.

As I caressed Ariel’s captivatingly soft body, I considered that being discovered by Killua might not be a big problem after all.

There seemed no need to suppress our already burning desires by being overly conscious of Killua.

In the first place, Killua and I were merely in a master-servant relationship.

There was no reason or basis for her to take an interest in or interfere with our private personal relationships.

“If we get caught, then so be it…”

Ignoring the fact that we should be hiding from Killua’s gaze and attention, I once again kissed Ariel’s lips, as she remained wrapped around my neck, embracing me.