episode_0147

“……What?”

At Fosao’s sudden words about wanting to finish inside, Tia snapped her head up.

Her flushed cheeks and disheveled hair framed red eyes that wavered.

She was flustered.

She couldn’t tell if Fosao was joking or serious, not while she was sprawled over the table.

She wanted to turn her body to see Fosao’s expression, but couldn’t. Her waist was held by his enormous hands, and she was pinned by his large lower belly, unable to move at all.

“Hah-! Hah-!”

As the frozen Tia hesitated longer,

Thud! Thud!

Fosao’s hip movements became stronger and faster.

Tia let out a short scream from the intense impact that collided with her whole body. The table, which had been holding up well until now, creaked and groaned as it was pushed by the rough force.

Tia also realized.

What it meant for Fosao to be so excited, snorting loudly, relentlessly thrusting his hips back and forth, and driving himself in.

……It meant climax was imminent.

“Nghhh–!! I’m, I’m coming!”

“No……!”

Tia squeezed her eyes shut and screamed.

The moment her single scream echoed through the kitchen.

Thwack…!

Fosao pulled his hips back.

And roughly spurted hot semen onto Tia’s back.

A long silence followed.

Tia’s legs seemed to lose strength, trembling as she lay sprawled on the table.

“Haa… haa….”

It was when he was breathing heavily, enveloped in the lingering sensations of sex.

“You s-said not inside?”

A deeply disappointed voice fell from behind Tia’s semen-stained back.

She couldn’t see his expression, but his voice alone was enough to tell that Fosao’s cheeks were sagging with disappointment.

Just moments ago, he had been holding Tia’s body and thrusting his hips wildly.

Fosao immediately asked again in a dejected voice.

A flustered Tia turned her head slightly.

“…We promised, didn’t we?”

“Mm-hmm. Y-yeah, we did……”

Fosao, with a disheartened expression, took his hands off Tia’s waist.

Tia, unexpectedly freed, turned her head all the way around.

Her eyes held clear bewilderment.

“……Uncle?”

He had never done that before.

For Fosao to turn away so coldly after sex.

It was a shock similar to seeing Fosao not stutter.

“What’s wrong? Suddenly……”

After seeing Tia cooking naked, he had gotten aroused on his own and wildly rushed to have sex.

But then, completely disappointed by her one word, “not inside,” he had left without even cleaning up.

“N-no. Nothing.”

He answered that way, but anyone could see Fosao’s face was full of dissatisfaction.

To me, it looked like a gaze with a hint of accusation, as if asking if she really had to shout “no” right then.

A promise was a promise, regardless.

Since Fosao had started and ended on his own whim, Tia didn’t care.

However….

This poor girl seemed a little frightened by Fosao’s unusual behavior.

Tia hesitantly got up.

“Is it because I said you can’t come inside me… that you’re like this?”

“N-no, I said it’s not that.”

“Not inside… but it’s okay if you come in my mouth instead!”

“It’s fine. I j-just suddenly felt like resting a bit.”

Fosao’s greatly erect penis was visibly shrinking. His excitement seemed to have quickly faded, and no sound came from Fosao’s panting mouth.

He always grinned broadly whenever he saw Tia, but now he turned his head away as if avoiding her and quickly exited the kitchen.

“……”

Tia, suddenly left alone, wore a bewildered expression.

Her ruby-like eyes clouded with complex emotions.

Guilt for ruining the good atmosphere by shouting “no.” Apology for greatly disappointing Fosao.

And “fear” that Fosao might have come to dislike her was present in her eyes.

Boil, boil-.

The water placed on the hearth was boiling vigorously.

Snapping back to reality at the sound, Tia couldn’t even clean her soiled body and immediately resumed cooking.

It wasn’t the joyful, light feeling from before.

Like when she used to make medicine under the villagers’ watchful eyes. She stirred the ladle with thoughtful eyelids.

* * *

He was disappointed, but not in his stomach, it seemed.

Fosao completely emptied the meat stew Tia had prepared for breakfast.

As expected, Tia ate hardly any food. She gave most of the meat to Fosao, and all that remained was thin stew broth with oil floating on top.

While she was filling her hungry stomach with that, Fosao flopped onto the bed and began snoring, as if waking up early had been meaningless.

Tia, having cleared the table, began cleaning the house by herself.

She had always kept it neatly organized, so there wasn’t much to clean. It was just a matter of dusting off thin layers of dust and tidying up the items she had brought.

Even while cleaning, Tia remained naked.

After all, Fosao was asleep, and even though the hearth had warmed the air overnight, it was still winter outside. One might think she could wear clothes for a short while.

But Tia seemed intent on properly keeping her promise to Fosao.

……Even though Fosao himself had tried to break his promise to her.

Tap, tap.

She held a duster, tapped the wardrobe a few times, and brushed off the grayish dust that had accumulated along the wood grain.

As she dusted, her fingertips followed the surface until a shelf appeared.

Tia looked up at the shelf.

There was a glass bottle there. Tia stared at it intently, then reached out and picked it up.

Inside, it was full of dried flower petals.

Tia turned the glass bottle this way and that, a faint smile on her face.

“Starflower.”

That was the name of the gift.

A precious gift she had received from children in a mountain village quite far from here.

She stroked the glass bottle with a nostalgic gaze, then carefully placed it back on the shelf.

Her eyes slowly moved to the next shelf.

There was a silver trophy there.

It was shaped like an overlapping sword and shield, with the name “Desio Swordsmanship Defense Association” engraved in the center.

Tia’s eyes, as she carefully dusted it, seemed to recall the events that had taken place in Desio.

The time she had proudly taught swordsmanship, displaying her prestige in front of men who dreamed of becoming swordsmen, despite being a small girl.

At that time, no one looked down on Tia, and everyone unanimously praised her excellent swordsmanship skills.

But. All those people who had attended Tia’s swordsmanship lectures wouldn’t know.

That brilliant and intelligent girl… was now naked, holding a trophy, with a fat, ugly man snoring asleep behind her.

Thud.

Tia placed the statue back in its spot, then turned her head to the next shelf.

There was nothing there.

“……Huh?”

Tia reached out and swept her hand across the shelf. But all that remained on her hand was grayish dust. Nothing else was there.

She looked around with bewildered eyes.

“Where did it go?”

The sapphire.

She was looking for the sapphire Fosao had given her as a gift on the last day they left Desio.

Ah……

A chill ran down my chest.

While reading memories in Tia’s house, I had accidentally picked up that sapphire.

Seeing Tia being touched by Fosao on her chest, I was so shocked that I threw it away with all my might.

I had definitely heard it bounce somewhere.

I don’t know. Where it went.

I had no desire to find such a thing, and I wished it would just disappear completely from this world.

But… Tia was looking for it.

She was looking for that item, which held memories of herself and Fosao.

Tia, pacing around, eventually couldn’t find it and lowered her head.

“As expected… the villagers must have taken it.”

Since it was the most expensive jewel left in the house, she seemed to think the villagers had taken it.

Looking up at the empty shelf, Tia murmured in a weak voice.

“……What a shame.”

She moved to finish cleaning.

Fosao woke up only after the sun began to set.

He continued to say little afterwards. When Tia asked if he wanted to warm up the remaining stew, he merely turned over, saying he didn’t feel like eating.

It was completely different from his attitude just yesterday, when he had whispered how much he loved and adored Tia on the bed.

They exchanged a few short words, but he didn’t suddenly hug Tia and have sex.

Seeing his penis limp until nightfall, it seemed he really had no desire.

Tia tried not to show any signs, but it was clear she kept glancing at Fosao’s shrunken penis, constantly aware of it.

And until the two of them fell asleep together.

Nothing happened at all.

It was such an unusual event that Tia had a restless night’s sleep.

* * *

The next day.

When day came, the two of them went outside the house.

Now there was really no food left, and not enough firewood for the hearth. Tia persuaded Fosao to go with her to look through the empty houses in the village for useful things, and eventually, Fosao was reluctantly dragged outside.

As expected, the first place Tia visited was Aunt Merid’s house.

Since she was the one who handled all the cooking in the village, there was a high probability that food supplies would remain in her house.

Also, having learned cooking from Aunt Merid, she knew exactly where the ingredients were stored.

Clatter!

Tia opened all the kitchen shelves and every single jar.

But after all that diligent searching, all she found were a few seeds. It wasn’t enough to be used as food.

“None……”

Behind Aunt Merid’s house, a wine barrel was buried. It was something they used to dig out one by one whenever there was a party.

The only thing Tia found was the wine contained in this barrel.

The search for food continued.

Our village generally kept everything in the warehouse. Food and firewood were all stored there, to be taken out as needed.

However, the village warehouse had been completely burned down due to Tia’s carelessness, and Aunt Sherry’s house, which had many possessions, had also been engulfed in flames and disappeared.

In the first place, there was almost nothing left in the village.

Ultimately, Tia and Fosao had no choice but to check the hillside, which the fire hadn’t reached.

……There, my house and the pharmacy were located.