Side Story – The Eagle and the Mouse (10)

A momentary sense of nostalgia for his wife, combined with a touch of pity for Mezlen who clung to him almost pathetically, led Harold to agree to hold her-yet his heart remained unsettled.

Considering the age gap alone, it was over thirty years. She wasn’t just daughter-aged; she was practically younger than his own daughter. Even his son, Ethan, was a full seven years older than her if you included the time he spent cursed in slumber.

Thus, even after reluctantly granting her request, Harold couldn’t easily bring himself to touch Mezlen. He had barely mustered the resolve to agree to her plea in the first place, as he didn’t truly desire her in that way.

“…Do you know how to do it?”

“N-No… I, I’ve never done this before… S-So, Harold-nim, if you could take the lead…”

“No, you do it. The request to hold you came from you, not me.”

“……”

“Since you wanted this, you should take responsibility. You didn’t go through all that trouble to win my heart just to back out now, did you?”

“O-Of course not… I, I’m fully prepared…”

…Mezlen had hoped that, at the very least for her first experience, Harold would take the initiative.

But she had no intention of backing down now. She couldn’t let embarrassment make her flee from this long-awaited chance to become one with Harold.

She had even prepared for this moment by persistently asking her older sister and brother for advice. (Thanks to Mezlen’s stubbornness, Seraphine and Antonio had often been forced to awkwardly recount their own sexual experiences.)

In theory, she knew exactly what men liked and what to avoid-at least on paper.

“W-Well, then, let’s start with a kiss…”

“…Sorry, but let’s save that for later. I’m not ready to allow that yet.”

“…O-Okay…”

…Once again, Mezlen was thwarted from the very first step by Harold’s blunt refusal.

But it didn’t matter. She had already shared her first kiss with him earlier by the lakeside. Even if she couldn’t remember it, the lingering sensation remained.

Comforting herself with that thought, she carefully began removing her nightgown.

*Rustle.*

“…Eek.”

*Rustle, rustle.*

“…Huuuh.”

It was embarrassing.

Baring herself completely before the man she loved for the first time was unbearably humiliating.

Sure, she had shown him her chest earlier by the lake, but the situation now was entirely different. This time, she was revealing her entire naked body.

Despite the overwhelming shame, she didn’t give up. After all, she had once listened intently to her brother’s account of his first time with his fiancée.

*’When Agnes started silently undressing, it felt like time stopped.’*

*’Why’s that?’*

*’Because Agnes never talks about that kind of thing normally. So when she silently showed me she wanted it, of course my heart raced.’*

*’I-I see. So men like it when women undress silently in bed…’*

*’If you’re taking it that way… Sigh, never mind.’*

…Thanks to Mezlen’s selective memory, she had mostly forgotten the latter part of the advice.

Still, she endured the embarrassment and silently stripped before him-only for Harold’s gaze to meet her with…

“……”

“……”

…an unnervingly calm and indifferent expression.

So indifferent, in fact, that it made her feel even more awkward for having mustered the courage to undress.

*’Antonio-nim is a liar… This isn’t working at all…’*

Though Antonio had never lied to her, he was now branded a liar in her mind-simply because Mezlen failed to grasp that his and Agnes’s dynamic was entirely different from hers and Harold’s.

Shoving that unfair accusation aside, she recalled her conversation with Seraphine and moved her body toward Harold’s lower half.

*’After kissing…? W-Well, the next part might be a bit much for you, Mezlen…’*

*’I need to know this to seduce Harold-nim, Seraphine-unnie.’*

*’…Hmm, in my case, I usually start by using this to stimulate the Hero.’*

*’You mean your chest? So men get excited just from seeing breasts?’*

*’Well, it’s a bit different. I rub the thing in the middle of a man’s body with my chest, then take the tip into my mouth and lick it.’*

*’…Isn’t that dirty? That’s where men pee from.’*

*’I-It’s not dirty between people who love each other! A-And now that I think about it, this might not be very helpful for you…’*

*’Why not?’*

*’Because, um, your body type isn’t really suited for rubbing a man’s thing between your…’*

Rub his shaft between her breasts while taking the tip into her mouth and licking it.

Though she didn’t fully understand, Mezlen resolved to try it anyway. …Once again, she conveniently ignored the latter part of the conversation that didn’t sit well with her.

With that in mind, she cautiously reached for Harold’s pants, stealing one last glance at his expression before proceeding.

“…A-Are you sure this is okay, Harold-nim…?”

“Yes. I won’t take it back now, so don’t worry about my reaction.”

After countless rejections, Mezlen had naturally grown wary. Only after his reassurance did she finally move her hands again.

As she removed Harold’s lower garments, a heavy, masculine object slowly revealed itself before her.

“H-Hyuuuk…!”

Her first encounter with a man’s member.

Seraphine had described it as resembling an umbrella or a mushroom, but now that she saw it in person, it didn’t quite match that image.

*’Rather than a mushroom, it looks more like a banana left out for too long…’*

It couldn’t be helped. Seraphine had mostly seen the Hero’s member in an erect state, so her comparisons were based on that.

But Harold wasn’t aroused by Mezlen yet, so it was only natural for his member to remain limp.

…Of course, if she had faced an erect one from the start, she might have panicked for entirely different reasons-so perhaps this was for the best.

*’First, she said to sandwich it between my breasts and rub it, then take the tip into my mouth…’*

Following Seraphine’s advice, she carefully took his member into her mouth and attempted the “kiss between the hills” position-but…

“H-Hyuk, uuuhk…!”

“……”

“Huuuh, yip…? Uuuuhk…!”

“……”

To Harold, it just looked like she was licking a fish cake skewer.

The “kiss between the hills” was impossible when his member wasn’t erect-and Mezlen’s “hills” were far too gentle to envelop it properly.

“What exactly are you doing?”

“H-Hyup, heh…! I-I was trying the ‘kiss between the hills’…”

“…You should give up. It’s too difficult for you.”

“……”

Mezlen was shocked that she had been rejected yet again.

…Once more, she failed to realize why.

*’She said men like this, but it’s not working at all… Seraphine-unnie is a liar too…’*

Seraphine hadn’t done anything wrong. If anyone was at fault, it was Mezlen for misunderstanding in the first place.

The only saving grace was that Mezlen wasn’t the type to be broken by such minor humiliation.

Though she lacked common sense, perception, memory, and many other things, her willpower alone far surpassed that of most people.

“Since you seem to know so little about men, let me tell you this: you should start by making it hard before trying anything else.”

“…M-Making it hard? What does that mean…?”

“*Sigh*, do I really have to teach you from the very basics…?”

Harold let out a quiet sigh, reminded once again that he was dealing with someone practically young enough to be his granddaughter.

But he couldn’t back out now-not when the princess already had his member in her mouth. So he reluctantly began her sexual education.

“First, curl your hand into a circle like this.”

“O-Okay… Curl it into a circle…”

“Good. Now, use that hand to grip my thing.”

“…I-It’s not working, Harold-nim. I can only hold about half…”

“…I didn’t realize your hands were that small. Then try using both hands together.”

*Squeeze.*

“L-Like this?”

“…Yes, that should do.”

He hadn’t expected her to be this inexperienced-to the point of needing to teach her how to hold a man’s member.

“Now, move it up and down slowly. It’ll harden on its own.”

“L-Like this? Slowly up and down…”

*Rub, rub.*

“I-It’s getting harder… A-Are you sure this is okay, Harold-nim…?”

“…It’s fine. Keep going.”

Suppressing the creeping sense of guilt, Harold let Mezlen continue stroking him to full hardness.