CH 65

Warning: Yet more frank discussion about female puberty and biological woes.

Half a year has passed since I turned 13. My breasts are expanding more and more, but they are hard to touch. They seem to be getting stiffer. Is it really going to be that hard? I’d like to think it’s not an illness, but… is it really just growing pains?

Construction of the Caanburg shipyard and Cien port is progressing well. In Caanburg, construction of the shipyard zone has already been completed and construction of caravel ships is underway. The wharf is also undergoing expansion work, but it will still take some time to complete.

To put it in extreme terms, the shipyard itself only needs to be a large, empty building, so as long as the dock isn’t dug out and the ship can’t be pulled up from the water and then launched, the construction itself cannot be started. Of course, simply digging a dock and surrounding it with buildings is not the end of the story, but it is an extreme example.

Caanburg only needs to build a shipyard, and the expansion of the wharf is a separate project, so it doesn’t affect each other. Compared to that, Cien is a large-scale construction project, so I think it will take a considerable amount of time until the entire port is completed.

Even so, Cien’s shipyard construction has progressed considerably, and the construction of carracks has begun. A launching ceremony will be held at the same time as the port is completed, and the carrack ship currently under construction will be the first ship in Cien’s new port. It’s a long story, but if you don’t look ahead and proceed with something like this, you can’t just say you’ll wing it.

“Geeze! Floto! You’re late!”

And I get scolded as usual as I came at the usual time at the usual place. But I already know that this isn’t about her being angry.

“Sorry,” I said.

“I… I’ve been waiting for you for so long, you know…” Mikoto said.

As she did, she gently hugs my arm and then walks to the usual stone and sits down. That’s right. Lately, Mikoto has often been like this. In the beginning, she was angry all the time, but lately, she’s become quieter and calmer.

Is it because Mikoto has matured mentally? Or maybe it’s because she’s become open to me and started spoiling me. It’s hard to judge in the heat of the moment, but it doesn’t matter. What’s important is that Mikoto is hugging me tightly and pampering me.

Also… she’s got the same blue buds as me…! They’re pushing against me. But it’s hard or too hard. I’ve been thinking about it lately, but maybe…

“Hey, Mikoto, are you wearing a chest wrap or something?”

That’s right. It’s so unnaturally hard that it would be strange if it wasn’t wrapped up in cloth.

“Huh? Ah, yes,” Mikoto said. “How do you know what a chest wrap is? Everyone in my house wears one.”

Just as I thought……. no matter how hard our chests are now, I thought this was too hard. Is this firmness because it’s tightened with a chest wrap?

It might be better to tell Kruck Trading Firm to develop modern underwear in earnest. It may not be good to tighten it too much with chest wraps. Above all, when Mikoto hugs me, I can’t enjoy Mikoto’s budding chest!

“What’s wrong, Floto? Shall we start?” Mikoto asked.

“Yeah, then you’ll be the teacher again today, Mikoto,” I said.

Since that day, we’ve been teaching each other words and letters, and in fact, I’d go so far as to say we’ve memorized them to the extent it’s we already understand them almost completely. But we are still teaching each other like this as a daily routine or as we usually do. Especially when it comes to technical terms, you have no choice but to learn the words, so even if you think you’ve learned everything in your native language, there will be words you don’t know, so there’s no end to language learning.

While teaching each other our languages, I had Mikoto bring me some rice seeds and asked her about the cultivation method, which I’m also experimenting with at House Caan’s territory. We are currently cultivating rice and soybeans, and the growing conditions are good. I have also heard about how to make various things from harvested rice and soybeans.

Mikoto’s personality has become calmer, but her sloppiness has not changed. I asked her to find out how to make soy sauce and miso, but in the end, she didn’t ask about the most important thing, so I asked her many times and finally figured out the general process myself.

Even so, I don’t know if it will be successful, but I produced a small amount of real soy sauce and miso, so it will be much more feasible than before as there are samples of the final goal of development. Even if I verbally say something like this and have them develop it, it won’t go well.

“What’s wrong, Floto? Your face is pale!?”

“Hmm? What? But nothing’s wrong?”

It’s not “nothing”, but I pretend to be fine. But it doesn’t seem to work for Mikoto.

“It’s not ‘nothing’s wrong’! Is something up?! Why won’t you tell me!?” Mikoto said.

Hmmm… I thought it was about time, but I didn’t think it would suddenly hurt like this… and I can’t say I have a stomach ache…

“It’s okay. It’s because of that thing…” I said.

“That thing?” Mikoto asked.

Mikoto doesn’t understand me when I’m beating around the bush words. Wouldn’t it be better to speak clearly at a time like this? It seems like I’m worrying Mikoto unnecessarily, so maybe I should tell her… but it’s kind of embarrassing… I never thought it would be so embarrassing to say it was that day.

I guess all women are like that. Or is it because I’m a former man? I guess it won’t be the same as I get older, but maybe girls in their teenage years feel the same way I do.

“It’s just that my stomach hurts a little from that day…” I said.

“That day, what?” Mikoto asked.

Ah, geez! I want you to guess! This is just like someone with a stomach ache!

“It’s that time of the month! Menstruation! I’m on my period!” I yelled.

“Ah… I’m sorry…” Mikoto said.

I was irritated, so I ended up speaking harshly. Mikoto hangs her head.

“Ah, I’m sorry, too…” I said. “It’s not your fault, Mikoto. I’m really sorry.”

I hold Mikoto’s drooping head close to my chest. I’m the worst for yelling at Mikoto when it’s not her fault…

“Mmm,” Mikoto said. “It was my fault just now… but somehow I feel relieved.”

Mikoto hugged me back a little. Gyuh! And not with all her strength, just a little bit, lightly. As I was stroking Mikoto’s head for a while, I could hear her breathing relaxing, and falling asleep before I knew it.

Hmmn… it’s tough… even though “that day” was painful enough, Mikoto buried her face in my chest and fell asleep… I can’t move.

That’s fine. If you move now, my bottom half will definitely be a disaster zone… I know this because I have already experienced this many times. If you move poorly now, my bottom will be covered in blood… it’s not okay because it will drip even if I stay still, but if I force myself to stand up and move…

Stop that… don’t think too much about it.

“Hmmn…”

“Oh?”

Did Mikoto wake up? I thought so, but it didn’t happen. She was still sleeping comfortably with just a little bit of shuffling. She’s burying her face in my chest, I thought she’d be suffocating but she’s still snoring peacefully.

“Nuu…, Floto… love…”

“eh!?”

What? What did she say? Did she just say, “Floto, I love you?” Did she just say that?

…… No, no, calm down me. First of all, just now she was talking in her sleep. I don’t know in what context she meant to say that. Maybe she was having a dream where she was eating something with me and she said she loved it.

If you think about it, there’s no end to the possibilities, so it’s not necessarily the case that Mikoto said she liked me. On top of that, I don’t know what kind of love she means. You may love me as a friend, or you may love me as a lover. It’s the worst if I interpret it at my convenience and do something bad and that makes her hate me even more.

First of all, it is important to confirm Mikoto’s feelings, so don’t get carried away just because you heard something like that in her sleep.

So calm down, me! Calm down this pounding heart! And my gaze, locked on Mikoto’s lips, move already!

It is useless……. the more I try not to be conscious, the more I become conscious of her. Mikoto, who at first thought she was just a pretty girl, has recently become oddly feminine.

A grown-up face that suddenly appeared, a change in her body that makes you conscious of her becoming a woman, and these soft lips…

If I look down, I can see Mikoto’s lips leaning sideways on my chest. I want to kiss those lips. Just a little…if I lift Mikoto’s face just a little and match it with mine…if I kiss her lightly, she won’t wake up…

With my heart pounding, I slowly pull Mikoto’s face away from my chest. And gradually rolled my back so that Mikoto’s face was about the same level as mine…

“Hmm… Floto?”

“Huh…? Hyaah!”

My eyes met with Mikoto who suddenly opened his eyes. I was so surprised that I lifted my hips a little and put strength into my stomach…

“Ah……”

An unpleasant feeling spread between my legs.

“I’m sorry……”

“It’s okay… it’s not your fault, Mikoto…”

After dealing with the disaster, I stroked Mikoto’s head as she continued to apologize. It’s unavoidable for a woman to have that come, and that day will come to Mikoto as well. I was surprised that she suddenly fell asleep and leaned against me, but it was a blissful time for me too, so I’m not going to get angry about that on its own.

In the first place, I tried to do some mischief on Mikoto as she slept so I deserved it. Normally, I shouldn’t have thought of doing such cowardly things to someone who was sleeping, but today I’m out of my mind…

Of course, I want to do yuri things with girls and “tee-hee, haha.” However, I want it to be consensual and fun for both of us, so I can’t force it when the other party can’t even agree.

“Um… it’s time for me to go home, isn’t it?” I said.

“Yeah… I’m sorry I fell asleep even though it was such a bad time,” Mikoto said.

In fact, it’s already past the time to go home today. I don’t know why Mikoto fell asleep, but I wonder if it was a lack of sleep. I think Mikoto came here while she was busy with various things.

“Are you tired enough to fall asleep? Don’t push yourself too hard. I’m more worried about you falling sick, Mikoto.”

“I’m alright,” Mikoto said. “I always sleep well, don’t I? I wonder what happened today. Maybe it’s because your chest feels so good, Floto…”

She says that while looking at me with a slightly red face. Could it be that Mikoto feels that way after all? Even if I push her down, it may be okay…

What in the hell? Stop, stop. Don’t be so impatient. This kind of thing is useless unless we communicate properly with each other.

“If you like my chest so much, I’ll lend you it any time,” Floto said.

“–! Is that…, mmn. It’s nothing. See you later, Floto,” Mikoto said.

“Good day, Mikoto.”

It seems like she was about to say something, but she stopped halfway through, and at that, Mikoto leaves. It’s a pity, but let’s go home today. With that in mind, I part ways with Mikoto and start running.

“……Ah”

And when I ran so far that I couldn’t even see Mikoto… there was another disaster between my legs…

I’ve been having a real problem lately. That is the underwear situation in this world. Men’s underwear is the so-called modern type of boxer that is tied with a string. And it’s normal for women to basically not wear bottoms. There wasn’t even anything for up top.

It’s inconvenient that my breasts aren’t properly supported, and I still can’t get used to the fact that even if my skirt flips up a little, my bottoms are exposed. After living like this for over 13 years, I can’t help but worry that my skirt might flip up.

What matters most is when that day comes. Like me, if that day suddenly happens, my bottom will be a disaster. No, I just don’t have the knowledge, and if it’s a normal person, it might be something they’re preparing for, considering it’s a cycle, but I can’t be bothered by such a thing because I’ve only had a short history of being a woman. No one can tell me how I can prepare for myself…

It would have been nice if I had at least found out about it on the internet in my previous life… but if I, a man in my previous life, knew about such things so intimately, that would be something of a problem. 1

That’s why, at the very least, when that day is approaching, I’m thinking about wearing something like underwear to prevent a catastrophe to some extent, but I can’t come up with a good idea. The fatal thing is that there is no rubber.

I feel like I can easily make underwear that I can just put on if I have elastic, but since I don’t have elastic, I have no choice but to tie my baggy underwear with a string. But it doesn’t make sense as a countermeasure for the day.

I want something that is not bulky but fits tightly to the body and suppresses leakage to some extent. If it’s baggy like men’s underwear in this world, it’ll end up leaking from the side and it’s meaningless.

But of course, many people have thought and developed various things so far, so even if I suddenly think about it now, there’s no way I’ll come up with a good idea. It would be easy to just obtain rubber and develop modern underwear…

I’ve been trying to figure out how to do something about the underwear problem, which is an urgent issue for me, but nothing comes to mind.