episode_0422

-Filth, filth.

“Um, umm… .”

-Well, well.

“Hmm, uhm… .”

Ethan and I escaped from the park gardener and ran to a bench a little far away.

We were now concentrating on a game with a cherry in our mouths, thanks to my suggestion that the other side of the game had caught our interest after seeing the cherry berries.

The name of the game is ‘Tie the stem of the berry in your mouth’.

The reason I’m doing this now, which is usually done in media that targets otakus, is because I became interested as soon as I saw the berries.

There’s even a popular saying that if you’re good at this, you’re a good kisser, so I wanted to try it out. Since Ethan is definitely a good kisser, I wanted to see if he could tie a bud stem in his mouth with just his teeth and tongue.

…I also wanted to find out how my kisses felt to Ethan on a regular basis.

‘I know the strategy, so I can do it easier than Ethan.’

-Filth, filth.

First, chew the stem of the burdock lightly with your teeth to make it soft. The softer and looser the stem is, the easier it is to move it with your tongue.

By the way, you should start working with the fruit left on. When tying the knot, if you hold this round fruit between your teeth and secure it, it will be much easier to tie the knot.

I was trying to use the knowledge I had learned in my past life to somehow win the competition with Ethan, but since my practical experience was sorely lacking compared to what I knew in theory, it wasn’t easy to tie a knot with my tongue in my mouth.

-Fidgeting, fidgeting.

‘This isn’t working well… .’

The characters I saw in comics seemed to be tied together very easily, but I guess creative works and reality are different.

Still, I felt like I had a feel for it since I was moving while holding the softened stem still. I rolled the tip with my tongue to make a circle, and then held it with my teeth and moved the tip again… .

-Same.

“… … .”

… Oh, shit. I chewed too hard.

It was a moment when I felt a sharp, broken sensation in the middle, not even the beginning, on the tip of my tongue, so this was already as good as a failure.

Well, there’s nothing I can do about it. In the first place, there was no reward or bet for winning, so there was no need to get excited.

I, who had prior knowledge, had failed, so I thought that it would not be easy for Ethan either, and while I was waiting for him to fail, he tapped me with his finger as if calling me from the seat next to him.

-Knock, knock.

“ed?”

“… Ah.”

“… … Huh?”

… No, wait.

You’re going to succeed at this? And in one go?

Just in case, he put his hand in Ethan’s mouth and pulled out the burdock stem, and it was indeed tied together in a smooth curve.

There wasn’t even a trace of chewing on the stem or anything like I tried.

“Lily, that was in my mouth just a moment ago, and you’re staring at it like that… .”

“How did you do it?”

“Huh?”

“How on earth do you tie it so smoothly? Did you really tie it in your mouth?”

“Ah, yeah. For now, I just tied it with my tongue like Lily said.”

“… … .”

“If you ask me how I did it, it might be a little hard to explain. I can only say that I held one end of it with my teeth and tied it with my tongue… .”

No matter how good the technology is, is this possible? Without any prior knowledge?

… Now that I think about it, maybe the reason this guy was good at tongue skills was because he had talent for it from the beginning. Somehow, it always seemed like he was really good at using his mouth.

“Anyway, as Lily said, we’ve succeeded like this, so there’s no reward or anything?”

“… It wasn’t really a prize or a bet, Ed. ”

“That’s true. By the way, I guess Lily failed because she didn’t show up. If she had succeeded, she would have been so excited that she would have stuck her tongue out in front of me.”

“… … .”

Now, Ethan’s tone of voice, as if he knew without even looking, was strangely annoying, but somehow I couldn’t help but quietly admit that it seemed like that must have really happened.

“So. What was this? Since Lily said to do it, it must have been a meaningful act.”

“It’s just a common game in my hometown. There’s a saying that if you can tie a burdock stem in your mouth, you’re good at other things too.”

“Something else?”

“… The saying goes that if you can tie a cherry blossom stem in your mouth, it means your tongue is flexible, and therefore you are a good kisser.”

“… Aha.”

“… … .”

The moment the word kiss left my mouth, the atmosphere became a little awkward.

If things had gone as planned, I would have succeeded and naturally told Ethan by kissing him, but in this situation where I had failed and Ethan had succeeded, I just didn’t have the courage to do something like that.

When our faces were both blushing and the atmosphere was becoming awkward, I suddenly felt Ethan’s hand wrapping around the back of my head.

-Ugh.

“… Then, would you like to check it out?”

“… … Do whatever you want.”

-Tsup.

I didn’t avoid Ethan’s lips as he slowly approached me, but rather accepted them obediently and kissed him.

I quietly bumped lips with his without caring at all about what other people thought.

-Tsup.

“eup, ssup… .”

-Tsk, tsk.

“Euuup, hmm… . Hmm… .”

Come to think of it, how long has it been since I’ve kissed?

In fact, I thought that kissing wasn’t an obscene act and that I could do it whenever I wanted, but I had never actually asked to do it, so it was my first kiss in a long time.

Rather, considering that there have been more kisses where the lips are lower than each other recently, I don’t know why, but I feel like a kiss where the lips meet each other is more erotic.

… Actually, it felt quite erotic for a normal kiss, so my impression wasn’t that wrong.

-licking.

“Up, hmph… .”

-Tsurup, tsurup.

“Ugh, huh… . Huh huh… .”

Ethan’s tongue naturally intertwined between their lips.

It felt like my tongue and his tongue were rubbing together, but at some point, his tongue began to actively wrap around my tongue and intertwine with it.

It was a bold move, as if he was trying to prove the old saying that he was a good kisser. Today, I was a little embarrassed by his tongue, but the back of my head was already blocked by his hand.

“Ugh, huh, huff… . Huff huff… .”

… So, well. I guess there’s nothing I can do.

For now, all I can do is just go along with this kiss until Ethan is satisfied.

To make sure that I didn’t feel like Ethan was holding me back and forcing a kiss, I put my hand on the back of Ethan’s head and brought my face closer to him.

… and placed the remaining hand on Ethan’s chest.

-To-ok.

“Ugh, hmph… . Hah, hmph… .”

“… … .”

-Malkan.

“Ugh, huh?!”

Ethan naturally put his remaining hand on my chest as if he had taken my thoughtless action as having some other meaning.

Ethan must have known that by this point, it wasn’t just a kiss, it was the next level, but it was Ethan’s most cheeky behavior that no one could match.

‘Well, it’s an extension of the kiss up to the chest…’

Rather than wrapping my hands around my stomach or waist for no reason, I felt it was better to put my hands on my chest.

It’s not that I’m particularly obscene or anything, but I couldn’t help but be conscious of whether or not I had belly fat when I put my hand on my stomach or waist.

On the contrary, my chest was the part I was most confident in, so I didn’t mind touching it as I pleased. Considering my relationship with him, I thought I could allow it to that extent.

-Malkan, malkan.

“Ugh, hmph… . Phew… .”

-Tsurup, tsurup.

“Ugh, huh, hhh… . Huh, hhhh… .”

Ethan also seems to think that touching my chest is just a part of kissing, and he doesn’t really do anything to arouse me by playing with his hands.

So Ethan and I continued our ‘kiss’ on the bench, our bodies overlapping each other.

-Tsurup, tsurup.

“Ugh, huh… . Hah… .”

Ed’s tongue moved up and down, as if licking my tongue.

-Rubbing, rubbing.

“Euhhhh?! Huh, hmm… .”

Then, suddenly, Ethan licked the bottom of my tongue with a skillful movement, so I could definitely feel that he was quite skilled in using his tongue.

If you can move to this extent, does that mean you can tie a bud stem with your tongue?

After a few minutes of kissing that naturally made me feel that way, Ethan let go of my face, and a long string of sticky saliva stretched between our lips.

-Tseuup.

“Ugh, ugh… . Haaa… .”

“… How was it, Lily?”

“Yes?”

“Speaking of kissing, how was it? There’s a saying that if you tie the stem of a berry with your tongue, you’ll be a good kisser.”

…Do you really think you’ll feel better if you hear it from my mouth?

I wasn’t that embarrassed, since I was just stating the objective fact that he was a good kisser.

“Good, Ed.”

“Is that all there is to it?”

“… You’re good with your tongue. I guess we can assume the rumor was true.”

“Lily is good at that kind of thing. She even puts her hand on my chest like this.”

“… I just left it there because I had nowhere to go. I didn’t do it with any particularly lewd intentions.”

“I never said Lily did this with lewd intentions.”

“Thank goodness. I didn’t think Edgar had any lewd intentions when he touched my chest.”

“You really don’t want to say a word.”

“Who would say that?”

… Anyway, I have to tell you that you really have stubbornness.