Ch.365Side Story: Apology

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The weight of a man and woman forming a relationship.

I felt like that weight had finally properly settled on my shoulders.

Erika explored my lips as if yearning for something. When she slowly pulled away, her eyes held a distant longing.

She wanted me to desire her of my own accord.

Just as I was about to carefully kiss her this time.

“Wait.”

Findenai immediately stretched out her hand to block the space between Erika and me. The twitching at the corner of her mouth was strangely intimidating.

“Let’s follow the order, shall we? I’m first.”

Normally, Erika would have yielded to Findenai, but today was different.

“If we’re talking about order, isn’t it my turn now? You’ve already finished.”

Erika glared sharply at Findenai, thinking she had ruined the mood.

The anger in her voice was impressive.

“Shit, do you know how long I’ve been holding back? I’m about to melt from the heat.”

She’s not wrong.

In Findenai’s case, she hadn’t just been patient for today, but had been interrupted by others multiple times over quite a long period. I personally thought it might be right to go with Findenai first, but.

Erika immediately grabbed my head with both hands and buried it in her chest.

This was a clear display of her strong possessiveness, unwilling to let go.

“Sorry, but I’m the fiancée.”

“Wow, still calling yourself the fiancée. Besides, you were engaged to Deus, not Shinwoo Kim, weren’t you?”

“Deus was Shinwoo Kim. By that logic, you were just Deus’s maid, which means you have no relationship with who he is now.”

The conversation went back and forth quite intensely.

“Both of you, calm down.”

Both of them turned their attention to me.

Since I was ultimately the subject, it was right for me to decide, and they both swallowed hard while looking at me.

[…Hey, why am I being left out?]

When the Dark Spiritmaster grumbled and interjected, both women immediately shot her a look.

“Red head, get lost.”

“After you’ve had your fill already, how greedy…”

[Wow, wow!? Listen to how they talk!]

The Dark Spiritmaster was about to shout something while jumping up and down, but Stella stopped her.

[Senior, we’ve done our part. Let’s leave today to these two.]

[Why?! I think I have every right too!]

After a brief squabble, the Dark Spiritmaster was eventually dragged away by Stella.

When they left the room, Stella gave me a chilling smile, which could be seen as a kind of warning.

Or perhaps a signal to look forward to tomorrow.

“So what are we going to do?”

“…Shinwoo Kim.”

I had been momentarily distracted by Stella, but the problem at hand called me back.

Erika and Findenai.

The two of them stood there staring at me, and sitting on the bed, I began to feel somewhat conflicted.

It felt strange to have to choose just one person.

I imagine the two of them felt the same way?

If I were to pick just one when I said I wouldn’t choose anyone, wouldn’t it feel like I was creating a gap between them?

In the end, what I chose was.

“…Rock-paper-scissors?”

A simple and light method, but truly fair. The two who had been nervously waiting for me to choose someone slumped their shoulders and sighed deeply.

“I don’t think I can win.”

“Sorry, but me neither.”

They both immediately faced each other and extended their hands.

The moment of fate.

I told them that it was just a matter of who goes first and they would both get the same experience anyway, but they were already focused.

“Hey, fiancée pleader.”

“…What?”

“I have a proposal. The loser just watches from the side until the winner’s turn is over. If you interfere, I’ll split your head open.”

Somehow.

“Fine.”

I felt like Findenai shouldn’t have said that just now.

This feeling like I could already see the outcome.

The rock-paper-scissors match with fate on the line began, and the result was settled cleanly in one round.

“I, I, I won!”

Erika jumped up and down with her hands in the air, laughing. Looking childlike in a way that didn’t suit her was part of her charm that she showed only to me.

“…”

Findenai’s body trembled as she stared at her own fist that had been so miserably defeated.

Looking back and forth between her fist and mine, she finally cried out miserably.

“Sh-shit. This isn’t right!”

“…”

“This isn’t right! You bastard! After touching me like that! How many times did you subtly flirt with me, and now you’re putting me last?!”

“Weren’t you the one flirting?”

“Shut up! You, you, you think you can handle this?”

She said the same thing when she was leaving earlier… honestly, I don’t know if I can handle it or not.

Anyway, I can tell that Findenai’s tightly compressed desire will pour down on me like a waterfall the moment we start.

“Say it right now. Say you’d rather break my hymen than deal with that so-called fiancée!”

“Your language is really…”

When I made a disgusted expression at how vulgar she could be, Findenai’s eyes reddened slightly.

“You bastard! You play with a virgin’s body like that and then tell her to just watch?!”

“You’re the one who added that condition…”

“Shut up!”

Findenai was about to push harder, but Erika, who seemed to have calmed down after getting excited, immediately stepped between us.

“Findenai, you promised. You agreed to step aside.”

“Sh-sh-shit!”

“Just watch from the side. When it’s over, I’ll step aside too.”

“Ahhhhhhh!”

Howling toward the sky like a real wolf, Findenai brought a chair from the room, seething.

Bang!

She placed the chair next to the bed irritably and sat down, glaring at me with fiery eyes.

“Finish her off, just kill this woman.”

“I don’t have experience either, so I won’t be very skilled.”

“Bullshit! Just knock her out! Stab her to death with your club!”

While once again marveling at Findenai’s vulgarity, I found it ridiculous to think that after all this, she’d probably shed tears once she got in bed.

“A-are you going to watch from that close?”

Erika, who was right next to the bed, showed a subtle reaction as if she was flustered, but there was no backing down under Findenai’s oppressive gaze.

“If you’re scared, just leave!”

“Haa, fine. I said fine.”

Since I was already in a state of undress, I pulled the blanket slightly and sat leaning against the headboard, but.

“What are you covering up for, you man!”

Findenai, who seemed to want to vent somewhere, immediately pulled away the blanket.

“…?!”

My naked body was naturally exposed.

She might not have known because it was hidden under the blanket, but due to the stimulation from Stella and the Dark Spiritmaster earlier, blood was still rushing to my member, making it stand stiff.

“Eek!”

Startled, Findenai jerked backward and hit her head.

“I’m glad you seem excited on your own.”

Erika, though finding it absurd, quietly climbed onto the bed.

Wearing only pajamas, she knelt in front of me and slightly opened the front of her clothes.

A silent request to undo her buttons.

I carefully reached out and unbuttoned Erika’s pajamas, revealing her snow-white body and the underwear she was wearing.

She had already removed her pajama pants, wearing only panties on her lower half.

Because her skin was so fair, her blushing face stood out even more clearly.

Though embarrassed, she didn’t avoid it. As I carefully approached the slightly trembling Erika and kissed her, her shaking body found stability.

I gently turned her body and laid Erika on the bed. Her gaze, staring straight at me, clearly revealed that she wanted something from me.

‘Come to think of it.’

This is my first time having relations with a living person. With Findenai, we never properly finished as her mechanical body broke down.

If I had to say, I learned some hand techniques through the Dark Spiritmaster and Stella.

‘I wonder if it’s the same with a living person.’

But Stella was a mental body not much different from a physical one, and I studied for hours, so I should be able to do it somewhat skillfully, right?

I was a man who learned quickly.

While kissing, my hands moved downward.

I didn’t bother removing her white panties that didn’t match her age.

* * *

The relationship had progressed to some extent.

As she took deep breaths to get used to the pain, she put her arms around my neck again and said.

“Hey.”

“Yes?”

“When I expelled you from the academy, was it very hard for you?”

“No, it wasn’t hard.”

At that time, I just thought I needed to find another way to save the continent since I was being removed from the academy.

Back then, I was full of thoughts about using Aria, so I was planning to make contact with her from outside.

But those words.

Did they not reach Erika?

She looked at me with a tearful expression.

“Whenever I think about how the things I did, saying I was saving you… actually hurt you, I feel self-loathing and pain.”

“…”

This wouldn’t get better no matter what I said. Since she was in the process of finding her own answer, I kept my mouth shut and waited.

“I, I caused you pain… I unnecessarily complicated things.”

“…!”

She tried hard to steady her breathing.

I stayed still for now, afraid that moving might make it harder for her.

“I, I’m, I’m…!”

Erika seemed to have something to say.

Breathing heavily, covered in sweat, she cried out.

“I’m a bad woman! I did terrible things to you that I shouldn’t have!”

Now I could understand why she had continued the act so roughly.

This was.

Erika Bright’s apology.

Something I had already forgiven long ago.

Something I had told her was not her sin.

She was still carrying it like a lump in her chest, wanting somehow to resolve it.

It was an apology.

Not for me, but an apology for herself.

“To this bad woman.”

Erika’s hand slowly moved toward her thigh.

Her legs, which had been wrapped around my waist, finally loosened and spread apart explicitly for mating as she declared with tears and ecstasy.

“Please punish me.”