Chapter 54: Loneliness

Olivia nodded with difficulty.

She doesn’t like being separated from me.

She was trying to find peace of mind through me, an Earthling.

But I can’t keep holding her in my arms forever.

‘If I have her learn bard education, won’t it naturally foster independence?’

This is a kind of rehabilitation training.

It’s about constantly showing her that she can do something on her own, making her able to endure even when I’m not around.

Olivia thinks her only weapon is knowledge about the labyrinth.

I’m giving her another weapon. The weapon of music.

“Okay, it’s decided. Let’s start from tomorrow.”

“Okay..”

I can’t take Olivia into the labyrinth anyway.

So it’s better to have her work as a bard outside.

I can’t waste manpower.

The labyrinth city isn’t very kind to those who don’t work and just eat for free.

“Shall we eat dinner and rest now?”

“Um.. Could you.. maybe.. wash me..?”

“Hm? Ah. It must be hard to wash alone. Sure. Why not.”

Yesterday Yuria helped her, but today Yuria isn’t here.

It’s my job to wash Olivia.

After eating dinner with her, I headed to the bathroom.

When living at the inn, even washing every day was a chore.

Going to the well and washing with cold water was the daily routine.

But this house is different.

The bathroom structure is somewhat like a traditional Japanese bathroom.

If you light a fire in the furnace behind the house, the water in the bathtub warms up.

There was enough firewood to last until next spring.

Once I light the fire, the water should heat up quickly.

“Wait in the bathroom first. I’ll light the fire and come back.”

“Um, I’m sorry for troubling you..”

“It’s fine. I wanted to get in the bathtub after a while too.”

I lit the fire in the furnace connected to the bathroom with a flint.

Lighting fires was quick because I’ve been using flints like eating meals for the past 6 months.

Steam rose from the water.

If it gets too hot, I can mix in cold water to adjust the temperature.

“Alright, I’ll undress you first.”

“Okay…”

I took off the brown shirt Olivia was wearing.

Olivia was a bit shy, but she quietly waited for me to undress her.

Olivia trembling slightly.

Her reaction was interesting.

She feels shame at having her clothes removed by someone else, but on the other hand, she looks somewhat excited.

Is she happy about being undressed by me?

I’m not sure what she’s thinking, but I decided to finish taking off her pants and underwear too.

“Olivia.”

“Yes…”

“Hmm. Have you thought about hair removal?”

“H-hair removal…?”

“Yeah. It’s grown quite bushy.”

If there’s too much hair, it’s difficult to manage.

“Let’s do hair removal, shall we?”

“Um.. It’s hard for me to do it alone…”

“I’ll do it for you.”

“Okay…!?”

“Here, sit down.”

I sat Olivia on a chair of appropriate height.

It’s not that I have a hair removal fetish or anything.

But still, if there’s too much hair, it’s a bit much, right?

‘I promised to do hair removal for Yuria too. I’ll practice on Olivia first.’

Right, I promised to do it for Yuria too.

This is a necessary process to get closer in my own way.

“Alright, spread your legs slightly. That’s it.”

“L-like this….? It’s so embarrassing…”

“It’s okay. We’re living under the same roof, what’s the big deal.”

“Ugh…”

Olivia was embarrassed but finally spread her legs slightly.

I quickly brought a razor and soap to make lather.

‘This is kind of sexy.’

It’s absolutely not that I have any bad thoughts.

How should I put it, you know. When someone’s naked with their legs spread, it can’t help but be sexy.

“I’ll apply the lather.”

“Okay….”

Olivia’s voice seemed to be getting smaller and smaller.

I applied lather to her pubic area.

I rubbed the area covered with fat that protects the uterus, following the curve of the pubic bone.

As I gently rubbed the mound covered with pubic hair while applying lather, Olivia slightly bit her lower lip.

“Uuh…”

Her reaction is interesting.

Even though it’s not a particularly sensitive area, Olivia seemed to be feeling something just from the fact that someone was touching her pubic area.

“Alright, I’m going to use the razor now. You need to stay still.”

“Okay.. Uh…”

I lightly placed the razor and gently scraped.

Olivia’s hair fell down mixed with the lather.

It would be a big problem if I hurt her by being too rough.

I scraped off her pubic hair with the razor blade, being as careful as possible not to cause any injuries.

“Okay, it’s done. It might sting a little.”

“Is it all finished…?”

“Yeah. It’s clean now.”

Not a single hair remained.

As I satisfyingly stroked the clean mound, Olivia suddenly grabbed my hand.

“I-it’s embarrassing…”

“Oops. Sorry. I got carried away because I did such a good job.”

“Ah… Hahaha. What’s that about.”

I ended up stroking it because I was so satisfied with how well I did the hair removal.

“Alright, sit here. I’ll wash your hair.”

“Thank you… Um, since coming to the labyrinth city.. This is my first time experiencing such luxury..”

Warm water and soap.

She’s moved just by these two things.

After washing Olivia’s hair, I put her in the bathtub.

It was big enough for two people, so I got in facing her.

“Ah…”

Olivia accidentally touched me while fidgeting with her feet.

“S-sorry…”

“It’s fine.”

I grabbed Olivia’s foot.

“Ah…!”

What tiny feet.

Yuria’s were a bit big, but Olivia’s feet were small like her small build.

She’s small all over.

Her breasts are small too. Her face is tiny.

“You need to eat more. You’re all bones.”

“Ah..”

Being close, I keep wanting to touch her.

“You can wear this as clothes. It might be a bit big, but it should be good as pajamas.”

“Is this… perhaps your clothes, master?”

“Yeah. It’s my pajamas, but let’s have you wear it to sleep tonight.”

“Okay..!”

Olivia seemed somehow happy when I lent her my clothes.

The sun has set.

It’s time to sleep now.

“Well then, good night.”

“Okay.. Um.. Do we have to sleep hugging tightly?”

“Yeah. We have to.”

To prevent the city’s earth-bound spirits or whatever Loa from getting involved, it’s necessary to sleep with someone else.

But since I don’t know the exact criteria for this sleeping together, I decided to just sleep hugging. I don’t want to risk anything bad happening by keeping a distance.

As I hugged Olivia and closed my eyes, fatigue soon washed over me.

Maybe because I had a full day today, I’m getting sleepy quickly.

It’s better to go to bed early if I want to start moving again tomorrow.

“Um… Master..?”

Olivia called out to Sion.

Of course, Sion, who had fallen asleep as soon as he lay down, didn’t respond.

“Hello… Are you asleep..?”

Olivia tried calling out to Sion again, but still there was no response.

“Hehe…”

Olivia confirmed that Sion was asleep.

She grinned.

“He… Hehe…”

Olivia turned her body to face Sion, who was hugging her from behind.

“Just falling asleep right away… isn’t that… a bit much…”

Olivia had secretly hoped that Sion would touch her tonight.

Because anxiety can sometimes be relieved through intercourse.

While receiving hair removal, Olivia started thinking she wanted to mix bodies with Sion as he caressed her.

At first, she thought she would inevitably lose her purity since she became a slave.

But after being with him for two days, she realized Sion was more of a gentleman than she had imagined.

His kindness was charming.

He had a tendency to speak bluntly, but his actions were not like that.

“If you’re so nice… to just anyone… You’ll get stabbed in the back later… Like me..”

Olivia whispered, nestled in Sion’s arms with sad eyes.

You shouldn’t trust just anyone.

You shouldn’t carelessly give your affection to others.

This was the truth Olivia had learned in the labyrinth city.

“Just in case… so no strange people get close… I’ll… watch over you from beside you…”

Olivia had one more ability she hadn’t told Sion about.

Her sound wave detection can discern lies from others.

It requires a high level of concentration, but somehow, if the distance is close, she could feel that a person’s heartbeat trembles subtly when they lie.

Through this subtle trembling, she can tell whether the other person is lying or telling the truth.

It’s a subsidiary effect of sound wave detection, and a new function Olivia discovered.

As Raphanel said.

Abilities are ultimately tools, and these tools can have completely different effects depending on the user.

Just as Sion’s spirit vision goes beyond simply seeing and enables possession and regression.

Somehow, Olivia’s sound wave detection allowed her to sense the heartbeat of subjects at extremely close range, and through this, she could distinguish whether they were lying or telling the truth.

“You… didn’t lie to me..”

When she asked if he wouldn’t abandon her, he answered that he wouldn’t.

It was clearly the truth. Sion will not abandon her. Even if she loses her usefulness.

That was enough.

“I’m not sure if I dare to have romantic feelings for you.. but I’m confident I can do my best.. I don’t want to be alone.. Loneliness is..”

For intelligent beings, the emotion of loneliness is a curse that doesn’t disappear until death comes.

That’s why intelligent beings form relationships with others and build societies to avoid being consumed by loneliness.

Olivia had cut herself off from the world until she met Sion.

She had the idea that she would return to Earth someday and that she was fundamentally different from the humans of this world.

Because of that, Olivia was always lonely.

She thought no one could understand her.

This cursedly cruel world always pushed her to the edge.

Every time she was consumed by the feeling of loneliness, Olivia’s mind crumbled a little more.

It’s different now.

Someone who understands her situation has appeared.

A person who can remember and recall Earth.

Only Sion. She can’t do without him anymore. Only Sion can soothe this terrible loneliness of hers.

She doesn’t mind if he makes love with other women.

Whether as a legal wife or concubine, it doesn’t matter.

She just wanted.

For him to always be by her side, erasing this terrible loneliness.

For that, she could do anything.