Volume 1 - CH ss - 3

The Aqua Slime was spreading out while splitting its body—from her chest area all the way down to her inner thighs and her feet. Some of its body was already extending to her back as well.

For the record, shaking off a slime was not that hard.

It was just gently clinging to her body; if she were to strongly rush out of the spot, much of it would likely detach itself from her body.

Even just by making slight movements on the spot, she could probably shake it off of her body.

However, right now Aine was not in the situation to do so—because a little apart, Lunois was still asleep.

He-he’s finally, sleeping… I must not wake him up…!

That was the only reason Aine was enduring it.

Other than above the neck, the Aqua Slime also miraculously didn’t try to touch her genitals.

Perhaps it instinctively knew places where touching them would undoubtedly be disliked—however, it was tougher that way for Aine right now.

“Haah, haah…”

On her breasts and all the way to her nipples, it kept moving to caress them.

If she were to continue to be subjected to such an offensive, even getting into the mood wouldn’t be anything weird.

If-if it’s just a little bit… then…

Aine reached her hand out to her secret place.

Rather than keep getting worked up like this, it might be better to just orgasm once. Aine thought so and then took action.

“…uw, nnh… fuh.”

Slowly, she went to insert her fingers into her vagina.

The already aroused Aine’s vagina was wet and her fingers slid in deep.

“Ahn, fuh…”

Raising inarticulate voices, Aine began to move her fingers.

All the while the Aqua Slime stroking her whole body, indulging in pleasuring herself—

It-it’s different. There’s just, no other choice to not wake Lunois up…

All the while reminding herself, Aine turned her gaze towards Lunois.

Even now Lunois didn’t seem to be moving, remaining quietly asleep.

However, if he were to wake up right at this moment, Aine’s freaky act would be exposed. If the sight of her indulging in pleasuring herself while covered by a slime were to be seen, she probably wouldn’t have any excuse if she were thought to be a pervert.

“Haahh, hah, nnh…”

Her breathing was becoming more ragged. There was a limit to how much of her voice she could suppress, but Aine was desperately enduring it while looking at Lunois.

Together with the peace of mind from seeing Lunois peacefully sleeping—I wonder what will happen if he wakes up right now.

Imagining the situation, Aine’s arousal reached its peak.

“Uwh, ah—”

With a small shudder of her body, Aine came once. Against her flushed body, the cold river flow felt just right.

However, without a time to soak herself in such a lingering sensation, Aine noticed the slime still fondling her body.

It-it’s still, not done yet…!?

Her body, which was sensitive from having just come, would be overly sensitive to the slime’s caressing.

“N-no!! You, can’t, right now…!”

Aine expressed her rejection.

However, without stopping, the Aqua Slime went further on its offensive on Aine.

“N-no—”

It was at this moment, that she raised her voice just a little bit louder. No sooner than the sound of splashes of water reached her ears, the sound of something cutting through the wind echoed in the surroundings.

What could slightly be seen was trajectories of a sword. Feeling that her body was floating lightly, she noticed—that Lunois was in front of her eyes.

As Aine was lifted by his arms, her eyes opened wide.

“Lu-Lunois…!?”

“Sorry, I thought of making sure that I could react to the surrounding ‘hostility,’ but I’ve been careless.”

Lunois’ expression was serious, and he was looking to be truly apologetic. The fact that he could react from Aine raising her voice just a little bit must mean that he’d been on alert.

In just a split second, he had cleared away the Aqua Slime clinging to Aine’s body, rescuing her.

He glanced down, and found the scattered Aqua slime trying to gather up together again.

“Is this… Aqua Slime? I’ve never heard it attacking people, but… having had its way with you, I guess I’ll just have to dispose of it,” extremely calmly, Lunois uttered.

Aine panicked, “wa-wait! Th-this child was, um… just eating the dirt on my body… err, it’s my fault for making weird noises,” and apologized. Lunois quickly sheathed his sword, perhaps after seeing Aine’s state.

“So I jumped to the wrong conclusion, huh. I messed up a lot.”

“N-not at all. I was glad, that you came right away.”

“If I hear your voice, I’ll come running in a heartbeat. But, as a result—I ended up seeing you naked up close.”

“…Ah.” Hearing it, Aine realized her own state. She was still flushed and stark naked, forgetting to even cover her important bits.

While averting his gaze away, Lunois tried to lower Aine down.

However, Aine wrapped her hands around his neck and hugged him.

“Aine…?”

Lunois looked a little perplexed.

Close to his ear, Aine whispered: “seeing my naked body, you don’t even think of anything?”

Even from the fact that Lunois was averting his gaze, she knew that it didn’t mean that he wasn’t conscious of it.

However, Aine simply wanted to confirm it.

“Of course, it’s beautiful.”

“…!!”

And then, having received Lunois’ immediate reply, it was Aine who was perplexed instead.

“Tha-thanks…?”

Something that she managed to do was just thanking him. Not knowing what to follow it up with, Aine was just silent. And Lunois, he simply gave a small nod at Aine’s words without saying anything; while still carrying her in his arms, he got out of the river.

“Umm… sorry, you were asleep and yet.”

The first thing coming out of Aine’s mouth after being lowered down was another apology.

Lunois looked a little surprised, and immediately gave a wry smile.

“So you noticed. I didn’t mean to sleep, though.”

“But as I thought, you’re also tired, right? You even feel asleep and all. In that case I want you to take a good rest, and something like that as well, I don’t want you to hide it either.” Aine expressed her true feelings. Lunois surely, must be exhausted from being on his guard all the time.

However, prioritizing Aine, Lunois would never show her such a behavior—but, he gently covered Aine with the robe he was wearing, and replied: “yeah, I don’t mean to hide things from you. And it wasn’t like I was tired.”

“If that’s true—”

“Why was I sleeping, isn’t it? Well, maybe I definitely got a little spent; though, it’s because I knew there were no signs of enemies aiming for us, and above all, you’re here by my side.”

As Aine’s gaze swam around from hearing Lunois’ clear remark, “I-I see. Hmm-mm…? Well, if that’s the case… fine, I guess,” she showed an awkward, shy face.

He could feel safe with Aine—in other words, this was what Lunois’ words meant. Not a chance she wouldn’t be happy hearing it.

As she turned her face away to avoid exposing her delight as much as possible, she suddenly realized her own current state.

“—Oops, I have to get changed…!”

Aine tried to stand up, but she couldn’t properly muster the strength in her body and fell to her knees. At the same time, she felt the arousal that should’ve been calming down increasing again.

Cou-could this be…!?

Aine noticed—that her body was getting into ‘heat’ in this timing.

Lunois supported Aine’s body.

“Are you okay? Aine?”

“Y-yeah… E-even though I just did it…”

“Nn? Just did it…?”

“! It-it’s nothing!! M-more importantly, I’ve to at least dry my body…”

“No, it would be best to settle it down quickly while you’re like this.”

“Eh—hyaah!?”

Her body was pulled by Lunois, and held by him.

As it was, Lunois began to extend his hand to Aine’s secret bit.

“W-wait sec…! I’m still wet!! Your clothes gonna get wet, too!”

“I don’t mind.”

Despite what Aine was saying, Lunois didn’t seem to be particularly bothered. In this state, she wouldn’t be able to properly muster the strength in her body.

Without being able to resist, Lunois’ finger touched Aine’s secret part.

“Nn…”

Without any hesitation in his movement, Lunois quickly inserted it deep inside Aine’s vagina upon confirming that it was already wet. Wet from having pleasured herself earlier—Lunois probably would never imagine such a thing, though.

Her already sensitive body was instantly aroused with just a little bit of fingering.

“No! Nnh, I’m still, like this…!”

With her legs slightly spread, Lunois’ middle finger was stimulating Aine’s vagina, pushing deep.

Lunois attacked Aine exactly where he thought she would feel good.

Next thing Aine knew, she was limp and surrendering her body to him; simply surrendering herself to the pleasure.

“Fuh, fuh, ahh…”

It was rough since she had just cummed earlier—however, Lunois wouldn’t know that. He was definitely thinking it was for Aine’s sake to finish this quickly.

As if asking it, Aine grabbed the hem of Lunois’ clothes, and Lunois held her hand with his other hand.

“…!! I’m, cum, ming…!”

Squeezing Lunois’ hand tightly, she made a faint voice. With a small shudder of her body, Aine orgasmed for the second time in just a short period of time.

While breathing so heavily, Aine looked at the finger that Lunois pulled out of her vagina.

Ooze—seeing the stretched love juice, she was suddenly overcome with embarrassment.

“…D-don’t look. Even though I told you I didn’t want it while looking like this…” Aine protested to Lunois, seemingly in displeasure. And he, simply had an apologetic look on his face.

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It was now night, and all that could be heard in the forest was the quiet sound of the flowing river.

Next to me was Aine sleeping soundly.

In the end, Aine’s mood hadn’t gotten much better until before sleeping. Although I said ‘hadn’t gotten better,’ it didn’t mean she was angry. It was common for her to be in a bad mood after calming down her heat.

Aine’s mood should be back to normal again by tomorrow morning.

When I took a peek at Aine’s sleeping face, her expression looked so peaceful. I stroke her hair gently, trying not to wake her up.

“Nnh…”

Aine let out a small breath.

It seems she’s sleeping well—after confirming it, I quietly got up and walked out of the tent.

Inside the forest was so dark that even only a little moonlight could pass through. With just a normal sight, it wouldn’t be possible to see what might be just a few meters ahead.

In fact, I could barely see anything at all.

However, I’d trained myself to be able to move in such a darkness—to be able to adapt. I should perhaps say that I’d ‘tempered my senses’ in order to be able to move despite not being able to see anything.

I’d just proved recently that I could fight even when I was totally not able to see.

“Now then…”

I left the base and walked alone for a while.

Just as I faced the other side of the river where Aine had taken a bath, I stopped walking.

“—You’ve been waiting for us to sleep all this time, haven’t you? In that sense, you were so close during the day.”

No one to answer me; however, I pulled out the sword hanging on my waist and took a stance.

The presence was erased to the point it was almost imperceptible, but I knew. I sent out a bloodlust to the surroundings, and then several presence ran away—and one large presence began to move.

“!”

The ground behind me rose up. Splitting open the ground, a Glass Frog with its large, round body emerged.

Although I couldn’t fully verify its shape in the darkness, I knew that it was a semi-transparent, large bodied frog.

However, it was about a size larger than the ones I’d defeated in the past.

Without panic, I turned around and faced the Glass Frog. Up until it showed up, I couldn’t get a complete grasp of where it’d been.

It must have mistakenly thought that it was being targeted in response to the bloodthirst I’d purposefully sent to the surroundings.

Even during the day, I’d sensed its presence only for a brief moment—I’d woken up when Aine had been bathing not only because of hearing her voice.

“I knew you were trying to aim for Aine. And thank you for not showing up at that time; or Aine would be worried after all.”

If I were to fight the Glass Frog in front of Aine, it would cause her unnecessary worry. I’d promised her that I wouldn’t keep secrets from her, but—I’d like her to let me off the hook for this.

“…”

The Glass Frog finally moved. I could see its large mouth was slightly opening—it was trying to intimidate its opponent with a loud voice.

I heard that its voice was so loud that it could cause the earth to tremble, and that a human could easily be knocked unconscious when hit by it from up close.

“—Sorry, but I’m not going to even let you make a death throe. It’ll wake her up.”

“!?”

While keeping its large mouth open, the Glass Frog opened its eyes wide.

Where I was standing was on the head of the Glass Frog. My sword, already deeply pierced into the head, was a fatal blow to the Glass Frog. The reason it couldn’t make a sound was because I’d sliced its throat—before I was standing here.

Its large body was wobbling, and slowly, lost strength and fell flat on the ground immediately after.

I sheathed my sword and looked at the Glass Frog.

“By hiding itself, it’s like exposing how slow its movements are. Well, I suppose that huge body alone would’ve been enough to display its strength, but it’s got the wrong opponent.”

The ability to move at that size while leaving almost no trace at all was great.

Perhaps, this level of a monster would have no natural enemies around.

By some possibility, it might’ve been planning to settle here—in that sense, I could say it was great I could subjugate it here.

“Yeah, looks like I’ve got no problem with fighting after all. All right, time to go back.”

I was lucky to be able to get one of the subjugation requests done here.

I turned my back on the Glass Frog and left.

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The next day—Aine woke up inside a swaying carriage.

“…? Eh, huh? Why, in a carriage…?”

“Morning, Aine.”

Aine looked to the side and found a smiling Lunois there.

“Lunois, err, what does this…?”

“You were sleeping so pleasantly, so I carried you here without waking you up.”

“Ca-carried… You could’ve just woken me up,” Aine raised her voice.

No way, she thought, but it seemed he’d carried Aine from the forest without waking her up.

However, the feeling of ‘he should’ve just woken me up’ in her was greater.

With a wry smile, “sorry. I just wanted to watch your sleeping face a little longer,” Lunois said bluntly without a shred of embarrassment. It was Aine who ended up blushing after hearing Lunois’ words.

However, she could tell somehow from the air around Lunois—I feel like he’s hiding something.

“I-I won’t fall for it. Something happened, right?”

“Not really, nothing happened. You’re just overthinking.”

In response to Aine’s question, Lunois remained composed.

“Don’t lie. Yesterday, you said you wouldn’t keep any secret.”

“…You’re right. Then I guess I’ll tell you when we arrive at the next town.”

“Can’t you just say it now?”

“I could tell you now, but I just think it’s better at a place where we can relax.”

“A place where we can relax…? Ah, don’t tell me, you didn’t fight any monsters while I was asleep, did you!? And so you’re thinking I’ll get angry, aren’t you!?”

Hearing Aine, Lunois’ expression turned surprised for an instant, but he quickly resumed smiling, “…Hahah well, let’s talk later, shall we?” and said evasively.

“You’re being evasive… that means you did, right!? I’ve told you so much you can’t fight since you’re injured!!”

“Aine, it’s dangerous to stand in a carriage.”

“Isn’t it your faul—waah!?” The carriage suddenly jolted greatly, and Aine lost her balance.

Lunois supported her body, and now they were both face to face.

“I’ve told you; it can get shaky.”

“…’Cause, you’re keeping secrets or something… nnh.” While having a dissatisfied expression, Aine suddenly made a coquettish voice.

She immediately understood what was happening to her body—and then, Lunois was quick to respond.

“This is great. While the carriage is moving, it shouldn’t get exposed even if you’re making some noise.”

“We-we’re still not done, talking, okay!?”

“Let’s continue the talk after quickly dealing with it.”

“…! I-I don’t quite agree…!” Aine complained so, but it couldn’t be helped since she was in ‘heat.’

Inside the shaking carriage—Aine’s coquettish voice was echoing, but it wasn’t for long.