episode_0057

Feeling apologetic towards Killua and nervous about receiving treatment from Ariel, I didn’t even realize how I fell asleep. Before I knew it, I realized a new morning sun was rising.

“Ugh…”

Usually, around the time I started to wake up and open my eyes, the door would open, and Killua would walk in with a bowl of medicine, offering a calm morning greeting.

But perhaps today was different because Ariel, not Killua, was in charge of the treatment. Unlike usual, waking up alone, a pained groan involuntarily escaped my lips due to the churning nausea in my stomach.

“Th-this was what it felt like…”

The moment I tried to put strength into my waist and back to lift my upper body, my body simply went limp and weak, like air being blown into a punctured balloon.

This was why Killua had told me to stay still and relax until the treatment was over, as soon as he entered the room.

“I’m sorry! I’m a little late!”

As I lay helplessly on the bed, realizing the truly wretched state of my body. The door burst open, and Ariel entered, holding a bowl containing what looked like the medicine Killua had prepared.

“Ah… Ariel?”

Had she rushed to find me right after waking up? She had entered my room wearing a thin, soft nightgown.

“It’s very uncomfortable, isn’t it? Just bear with it a little longer!”

Ariel placed the bowl of medicine on the bedside table next to me, then took out a hair tie and pulled her long, soft hair back, tying it tightly so it wouldn’t interfere with the treatment.

The moment she lifted both arms to tie her hair, her ample bosom gently swayed before my eyes, as if being emphasized.

Unlike Killua’s small and compact chest, my gaze was involuntarily drawn to the ample and freely swaying movements of her breasts.

“Oh…”

Looking closely, was she wearing no underwear beneath her thin nightgown? I could easily spot a pair of protuberances at the tips of her softly swaying, ample breasts, faintly tinged with pink.

“Are you having a lot of trouble?”

As a groan involuntarily escaped my lips at the sight of her softly swaying, ample breasts and the surprisingly captivating pair of pink tips, Ariel looked at me with worried eyes.

Flustered by her worried question and gaze, I quickly averted my eyes from her ample bosom and fiercely stared at the innocent ceiling.

“Ah… no way…”

There was a saying that women with attractive figures were usually quite sensitive to others’ gazes. Ariel, too, seemed to have clearly felt my gaze, letting out a small gasp before smiling with her eyes as if to say it was fine.

“Oh my… I showed you my bare skin so clearly before, are you getting shy now?”

When I first met Ariel, trapped by slimes, all the clothes she had worn during those five years were tattered, and I had seen her almost completely naked. There simply hadn’t been time to feel embarrassment due to the urgency and desperation of the situation.

“That was then… and now the situation is different.”

“Even so, unlike then… now I’m at least wearing something, aren’t I?”

Ariel playfully smiled with her eyes, grabbing the hem of her nightgown and gently swaying it.

Every time the hem of her thin, silky nightgown swayed, the shape and color of the skin enveloped within seemed to become even clearer.

“You… un-underwear?”

Desperately trying to fix my gaze on the ceiling, as if my eyes were being pulled towards the clear outline of her breasts and the soft hue of her skin visible beneath the fluttering fabric, I quickly blurted out the first question that came to mind.

“I don’t wear underwear when I sleep. The constricting feeling makes it hard for me to fall asleep.”

It was a perfect answer that naturally made sense when looking at her ample breasts.

Imagining her ample breasts, constrained by underwear as if about to burst out, my mouth involuntarily watered.

Finding my reaction amusing, Ariel let out a small laugh, then began mixing the herbs Killua had prepared with the fluid in the bowl.

“You know this fun will only last for a moment, right? Judging by the components of the mixed herbs and fluid… this is going to be incredibly cold.”

Perhaps it was thanks to the considerable time she had spent by Rai’s side as his fiancée. Ariel, too, seemed to have considerable knowledge of herbs and fluids, as she knew the effects and benefits of the herbs and fluid Killua had prepared very accurately.

“It’s okay. I think I can endure it now that I’ve gotten used to it.”

It wasn’t just a day or two that I had been subjected to that mixture. Killua, perched on my body, would let out a mischievous laugh every time I thrashed my body from the cold of the medicine, so I had tried to endure it somehow.

To avoid becoming a laughingstock for Ariel too, I swallowed the saliva pooling in my mouth and glared at the bowl in her hand with determined eyes.

“Alright… then get ready!”

Ariel, giving me a signal as if cheering me on, sat beside the bed where I lay and scooped up a spoonful of the medicine with the stirring ladle.

Staring at the medicine filling the ladle, I took a deep breath and tensed my entire body to suppress the sudden thrashing that would occur as the cold pierced my skin.

Splat.

“Ugh!”

Immediately after, the ladle tilted, and a spoonful of medicine dropped onto my chest.

The cold seeped in quickly, deeply, and sharply, as if stabbed by a sharp dagger, but having prepared in advance, I was able to easily suppress the trembling that would have convulsed my entire body.

“Ohh… you really endured it? That’s impressive!”

At my sight, enduring such cold and trembling, Ariel smiled lightly with her eyes, letting out an exclamation that could have been genuine admiration or teasing.

Soon after, Ariel, similarly to Killua, enveloped her fingertips with mana to create artificial heat and cautiously began massaging my chest.

“Hm?!”

Ariel’s massage felt distinctly different from Killua’s.

Killua’s massage used his entire small hand, imbued with warm heat, moving diligently and meticulously, as if gently covering my entire chest with warmth.

However, Ariel’s massage involved using her slender fingertips to persistently touch the areas presumed to contain toxins.

“It might be a little uncomfortable… but please bear with it.”

Ariel, slightly furrowing her brow as if concentrating on controlling her mana, focused all her senses on the fingertips tracing my chest.

The medicine, heated by the concentrated mana in her fingertips as they skimmed my skin, permeated very deeply, guided by her mana.

The strange sensation of artificially heated warmth penetrating beneath my skin wasn’t painful or agonizing, but it felt so alien it was hard to describe.

“Got it…!”

And as the heat enveloping the deeply penetrating medicine finally seemed to make contact with the toxins remaining in my body, Ariel let out a small gasp of exclamation.

Immediately after, with a sense of relief as if a blockage in my blood vessels had loosened, the penetrating warm heat dissipated, beginning to pleasantly circulate within my body.

“Haah…”

As if a choked airway had opened, or a full stomach had settled. A refreshing sense of liberation, indescribable in words, made a sigh involuntarily escape my lips.

Startled by the strange and refreshing sense of liberation I’d never felt before, and the lingering sensation of warmth slowly fading within my body, I blinked and looked at Ariel.

“What… what just happened?”

Ariel then confidently shrugged her shoulders and replied.

“I accurately injected the antidote into the toxin cluster. While the toxin cluster won’t be completely detoxified… its size should have decreased slightly.”

At Ariel’s confident words, I felt the area she had massaged so intensely.

I didn’t know if her words were true… but the comfortable sense of liberation, like a blocked flow easing, that I felt the moment the warm heat reached the location of the toxin, was not a lie.

“By the way… doing it myself, I understand Killua-nim’s actions now.”

As if the treatment wasn’t over yet, Ariel put the ladle back into the bowl of medicine, stirred it, and stood up.

“This posture, sitting next to you, makes it hard to concentrate.”

At my bewildered murmur, Ariel, with a mischievous twinkle in her eye, suddenly climbed onto the bed where I lay.

“W-what? W-wait!”

Recalling the strange situation I had with Killua, I frantically tried to stop her.

“Saying I’m heavy is a no-go.”

But Ariel, ignoring my attempts to dissuade her, nonchalantly climbed onto my thigh as I lay on the bed, along with a small warning.

“Ah…”

As she sat on my thigh, I let out a sigh of relief.

Killua, being smaller than Ariel, had to sit on my groin to comfortably massage my chest.

But Ariel could massage my chest sufficiently even while sitting on my thigh.

Relieved that an embarrassing situation like with Killua, where our crotches were pressed together, could be avoided, I was able to relax my tense body.

“I’m not as heavy as I look, right?”

As I sighed in relief, Ariel playfully smiled with her eyes and lightly bounced her body, perched on my thigh.

My breath hitched involuntarily at the sight of her ample breasts, beautifully swaying with soft curves as she bounced.

“Ah… don’t worry, you’re not heavy!”

With Killua, I had been troubled by the sensation of our embarrassing parts pressed close together.

But with Ariel, I couldn’t help but be flustered by the astonishingly strong visual assault.