Ch.373373. The Next Step (4)

“Reni- I’m here, hm?”

When I returned home after lunch, the house was strangely empty. While looking around wondering where Renias had gone, I noticed a note attached to the table where we always eat together.

The note had a familiar address written on it, and she was asking me to come slowly because she needed time to make herself pretty.

“Honestly. She’s already pretty without dressing up.”

Well, maybe she still wants to prepare properly. One might think of it as a casual trip, but if you consider it a precious journey to create memories just for the two of us, I can understand why she’d put in the effort.

She wants to look prettier. That’s why she left a note saying she needed time to get ready.

For whom is Renias going to such trouble? Simply for herself. To show me an even prettier version of herself.

The other bag that was in Renias’s hand, not the lunchbox, was probably for that purpose.

“Hmm. Then I should… properly prepare today too, right?”

If that’s the reason, I feel the need to step up my game as well. I wanted to meet her in an outfit that I put more effort into than my usual clothes, to draw out a satisfied smile from my lovely girlfriend.

And so, a while later.

I arrived at the hotel that was our meeting place, but Renias was nowhere to be seen.

I thought that might be the case.

To be precise, our meeting place wasn’t the hotel entrance or a nearby café, but a hotel room. In other words, the room Renias had reserved in advance was our meeting place. With the feeling that she might be waiting inside the reserved room, I stepped in.

But Renias wasn’t waiting in the reserved room either.

‘Hmm… hasn’t she arrived yet?’

It took quite some time to choose my clothes, and if I include the time spent washing the lunchbox Renias had brought me, I thought it would be enough time for her to get ready.

‘No, unlike me, Renias has much more to do.’

Although Renias’s elegance is never hidden no matter what she wears, she is still a woman. She has more things to care about than a man—arranging her hair, applying skincare to her face, and paying attention to how her clothes look.

Considering how long it took me just to choose clothes for this trip, perhaps the time wasn’t nearly enough for Renias.

As I was about to turn my head, thinking of going to pick out a gift for Renias while passing the time.

“Junon oppa.”

My eyes widened involuntarily.

Since she called my name, I wasn’t mistaken. But the visual of the woman who appeared before me made me wonder if it really was Renias—she was emanating an atmosphere distinctly different from before.

As everyone knows, Renias’s beauty is legendary. She’s treated almost like an idol or goddess within Levrant, to the point where there’s hardly anyone who doesn’t know her, and even those who don’t know her well would still glance at her because of her beauty.

Thanks to my pretty girlfriend, I often get beaten up after being thrown into a sack for supposedly rubbing salt in others’ wounds…

“Reni…?”

Renias, who had come all dressed up, was breathtakingly beautiful for a moment. I couldn’t tell if she was human or a divine creation.

But at that moment, I felt like I was in big trouble.

“What’s wrong, oppa.”

While I was hesitating, Renias’s voice wrapped around my ears. She moved toward me with light steps.

With that clear voice and the fragrant shampoo scent that grew stronger as she approached, I felt dizzy for a moment. As I tried to compose myself by regulating my breathing, I realized it wasn’t just the scent of shampoo.

This was…

-Gulp.

It was a woman’s scent, deeply permeating my nostrils.

***

Click-

The front door locked. Unless that door chain is opened and the lock is released, no one will come in through that door now.

Of course, no one at this hotel would try to open our room without permission, but…

What mattered was that it wasn’t my hand that locked that door.

‘There were no shoes at the entrance… No, the fact that the front door is locked means that from the beginning. From the beginning, she was already inside. Then…’

While my head was filled with all sorts of speculations.

“Reni…?”

She approaches. With a face so different from usual.

It should just be her approaching, but I instinctively step back due to a sense of crisis. My gaze… I can’t look at her straight, so it drops.

Nevertheless, the distance gradually closes. It meant that Renias was tiptoeing toward me.

I don’t know what she’s thinking or what her intentions are for doing this. But knowing that this can’t continue, I swallow hard and try to steer the conversation toward what I hope is happening.

“If you stay like that, we won’t be able to go to the night market, Reni.”

There’s a small harvest festival nearby. It’s quite a scenic spot for travelers, and there’s also a night market. Since I proposed while reminiscing about old memories, perhaps she’s also recalling our past strolls through the night market?

“Night market… yes. The night market is nice. But we can see that next time too, can’t we?”

I was wrong. That’s not it.

As soon as I hinted at going outside, Renias firmly rejected it, meaning she doesn’t want to change her attire.

“I heard there’s a dress made of traditional silk from this region…”

“I don’t need that.”

The fact that she locked the front door means this is something only to be seen here. Yes. The view is quite nice, isn’t it? During the after-party, Renias liked to look at the stars while listening to the sound of waves in the late evening.

“L-lens! We’ll need a lens. Should I quickly go buy one outside?”

A hotel near the sound of waves with a great view. I thought maybe she wanted to look at the stars from here, but.

No.

“Your face is actually overflowing in my photo album. I’d like to add more, but… I don’t need that right now.”

“Then the sound of waves or…”

“I prefer it quiet today. Because I want to hear everything.”

“Ahem. The night market looks quite nice from a distance too!”

“I’m absolutely not opening the balcony door. Others shouldn’t hear.”

This and that. I asked whatever came to mind, but all were wrong.

The hopeful speculations in my head were being eliminated one by one. Each time, my voice grew increasingly faster, and Renias was gradually approaching.

Plop.

If it had been bare ground, I might have fallen, but I didn’t. My body, which should have fallen, maintained a seated position as a fluffy cotton blanket supported my bottom.

It was fortunate I didn’t fall, but of all places, I had backed into here.

Moreover, as my gaze naturally rose, my field of vision was filled with Renias’s body.

Her body… was barely covered by a white shirt that precariously concealed her fair skin.

Noticing my gaze, Renias grinned and climbed onto my thighs. What I felt on my thighs was… her bare skin.

By now, anyone could guess, but the reason I lowered my gaze was because of that bare skin.

Just one shirt.

A white shirt with nothing underneath, through which her skin was clearly visible.

That was Renias’s current attire.

“Junon oppa.”

A clear voice with a high tone and aegyo. That’s how Renias’s voice should have been.

However… the voice of the woman before me is too different. Instead of a nasal sound, it was filled with breathing, with a much lower tone than usual, creating a seductive timbre.

She calls my name with that voice. She calls me with the title “oppa,” giving a different feeling.

As if… seducing me.

Now it’s not just her attire but her voice too. If my concentration wavers even for a moment, this precarious thread of reason might completely unravel.

“Why won’t you look at me?”

“Well…”

Renias, who had climbed onto my thighs, stretched out her arms and embraced my stiffened body.

Thanks to that… her full breasts touched my face.

I had to hold my breath. It seemed impossible to endure without forcibly holding it. If this enchanting woman’s scent, which lingered in my nostrils, escaped from her entire body, I could no longer… resist. The only sense not yet dominated would be desperate to taste the woman’s scent.

But even with my eyes closed and breath held, there was a sensation I couldn’t block… it was touch. My heart began to pound gradually at the insane softness and warmth that seemed otherworldly.

Also, since my ears weren’t closed…

“You can look. Now… I’m yours, okay?”

That sensual voice was impossible to avoid.

“Ah.”

“Haa… haa…”

My eyes open. The sensual scent enters my nose, which I had been forcibly blocking, and my heart starts racing in rhythm with my breathing.

My stiffened body responds naturally, and she, who had climbed onto my thighs, switched places with me and was lying on the bed.

With her wrist grabbed, Renias looks up at me and smiles.

“Seeing how you tried to avoid it even when we lived together before… you really do love my breasts, don’t you, oppa?”

Renias’s other free hand took my hand and moved it to one of her protruding breasts.

“Don’t hold back so much. You can look all you want, smell all you want. I’m yours now.”

Her hand overlaps mine on top of her breast.

She was repeatedly squeezing and releasing this soft breast as if telling me to touch it as much as I wanted. That repetitive hand movement seemed like she wanted me to caress her.

While looking into my eyes, she whispers in that sweet voice.

“Our memories… I want to fill today with this.”

…Damn.

I vaguely thought it might be possible, but I didn’t expect her to be this aggressive.

Several invisible threads in my mind unraveled all at once. Nevertheless, trying to hold onto the remaining threads, I asked.

“Reni. Are you serious?”

Perhaps I don’t need to wait for the answer.

The hopeful speculations I wanted in my mind have long been eliminated.

On this bed, holding one of Renias’s wrists and having switched positions to be on top, the answer is already determined. Still, I asked… because I wanted permission.

Smooch.

“Yes. I’m serious.”

Lifting her neck slightly to kiss me, she was again wearing that bewitching smile.

“I… want to move to the next level now.”

Then she gently wraps around my neck. After that, her moist lips approached and slowly opened my stiff lips to insert her tongue inside.

It was undoubtedly a sign of permission.

As the slippery saliva was transmitted, my tongue responded naturally. I had already been holding Renias’s neck for a while. As I closed my eyes and received her lips and tongue in the pitch darkness, not only my tongue but another part began to stiffen.

I immediately detached my lips.

Thud thud thud-

As I forcefully tore off the shirt I was wearing, several buttons fell to the floor with a thud. It was just like that day.

Like the day we first started living together in Sirah and she borrowed my clothes. The borrowed clothes were a shirt, and the buttons flew through the air just the same.

But it’s clearly different.

The buttons flying through the air were due to my will, not Renias’s breasts, and despite seeing the shirt turning into rags, Renias isn’t surprised but rather smiling.

“Oppa. Haa, haa…”

When all the buttons were undone and the shirt no longer functioned as clothing, I kneaded the luscious flesh that rose above her underwear.

“Ahh.”

With a voice mixed with a nasal sound, she tightly closed her eyes. But only for a moment.

Opening her eyes slightly, she says to me with a seductive smile.

“Heh… now this is yours, oppa. You can touch it as much as you want.”

Damn it.

Who called her a silver rabbit?

This is a fox that bewitches people.