Tohka was breathing heavily, her chest rising and falling slightly.
I just got out of the cold swimming pool not long ago.
The surface temperature should have dropped a little at this moment.
But for some reason, it was abnormally hot at this moment.
I even started to sweat and it felt like it was soaking through my underwear.
But...I'll be showering and changing clothes soon anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem...
Touka, who completely passively accepted Minamoto Senya's guidance, seemed to be able to taste the sweet taste called happiness from him.
"Senya...you..."
"…"
"We...can't...can we talk about it..."
"…"
"Please...~"
"…"
The long-dormant feelings of love burst out at this moment with amazing effect, so intense that it felt like it could ignite the air.
After enduring for so long, I can finally confess now that many things cannot be controlled by relying solely on reason.
The more you like someone, the more you want to hold her tight, and the more you want to take everything from her.
Touka is clumsy.
It means that when she was kissing, she completely forgot the physical instinct that she had mastered for more than ten years since she was born.
During this process, she seemed to be drowning, closing her eyes tightly and holding her breath.
Minamoto Senya had also seen this phenomenon on Saeko.
As someone who has been through this, he also understands that there is no quick way to become proficient, it just comes down to habit.
The most gentle thing he could do at this moment was to separate briefly in the middle of the kiss, nose to nose with hers, giving her a chance to take a breath.
Then no matter what she said again, he still approached her relentlessly.
Clinging tightly, wanting more...
Completely mesmerized by her sweet scent.
In this almost suffocating embrace, Tohka resisted several times, but to no avail.
Minamoto Senya attacked cities and conquered territories, forcing her to retreat step by step.
Finally, her hand, which had been gently pressing against his chest at first, slowly fell down helplessly.
Such an action also announced the fall of the last line of defense called rationality.
Some of the worries in my heart persisted and then collapsed.
Never mind...
It has become like this...
No matter what we do, there's no way to salvage what's happened between us...
Resistance goes from existence to non-existence, and from complete passivity to awkward initiative.
If the emotions are properly prepared and shame is put aside, women whose rationality is "broken" to a certain extent are far more lustful than men.
Minamoto Senya had already witnessed this in Saeko. The passionate girl was even obsessed with his masculinity at one point, which led to an imbalance in her mentality and a sharp decline in her kendo skills.
And now, Touka also showed him her unique way of attachment, which was a desire for closeness.
"Bo~"
An ambiguous sound was heard in the room.
Separated again.
How many times has that happened?
Touka gasped, her face flushed.
I can't remember clearly.
After the first kiss, she didn't have any time to savor or think. The second, third... followed one after another.
Touka narrowed her eyes slightly. Because her eyes were filled with moisture, everything in her eyes seemed less clear and hazy.
She thought that after just a moment, Senya, who was madly longing for her, would lower his head again.
But this time, half a minute later, her breathing slowed down and her heart rate gradually returned to normal, but she still didn't wait for him to lower his head again.
The kiss she longed for suddenly stopped.
She slowly reacted and opened her eyes wide.
I saw Senya with a faint smile on his lips.
I thought he was very handsome before, and now that I have completely crossed that line, my reservations and reserve are gone, and I think so even more.
But that's not the point!
Touka looked at him with a smile on his face, and her eyes slowly moved down to see her own hands. In that intense and fascinating atmosphere just now, she didn't know when she had wrapped them tightly around his neck.
And she herself didn't know when she was sitting sideways in his arms.
The way they interact right now is no different from a normal couple who want to be close to each other.
After a brief period of disconnection from Tohka's sense of shame, it reconnected at this moment.
She curled up into a ball, pressed against his chest, acting like an ostrich.
At this moment, Minamoto Senya officially won over Touka's heart, and thinking back to Touka's initiative in the second half, he felt that he should enjoy life to the fullest at this moment.
When he thought about how this layer of window paper had been completely broken, and that he would be living under the same roof with Touka in the future, all those things that he had to hide in his heart in the past, and those things that he wanted to get close to but could only do with various excuses, could now be let go without any worries.
Just anticipating such a happy future made Minamoto Senya so excited that his brain was trembling!
"I'm glad I can talk everything out with Touka. I'm very happy now. I feel like the happiest person in the world."
Compared to the eager and somewhat intense actions just now, Minamoto Senya's actions of hugging Touka and the tone of his words at this moment have once again returned to the ultimate gentleness.
"I'll probably be inseparable from Touka for the rest of my life. You have to take responsibility."
"...cunning."
Touka raised her forehead and gently bumped into him again. This action seemed more like a coquettish act than a protest.
"I don't know your answer to that."
"...After what we just did, there's no way we can go back to the way things were."
Touka didn't seem to respond directly.
But in fact, the feelings that cannot be expressed in words have indeed been conveyed at this moment.
The atmosphere was good. Minamoto Senya held Touka's face and made her face him, and was about to bow her head again.
However, Touka extended her index finger and placed it on his lips.
She did not reject kissing him, and was even a little dependent and obsessed with him.
But not now.
If he comes closer to me again, I, who have finally calmed down a little, will turn into a stupid woman who only wants to respond to his intimacy.
"I need you to promise me something."
"One isn't enough. You can definitely add multiple zeros after the one."
"I'll consider it when I have the chance, but for now, there's only one."
"Well, go ahead."
"No one can know what happened between us."
It's "something between us," not "something that just happened between us."
This sentence itself once again confirmed Touka's recognition of the relationship between the two of them.
It's not a momentary distraction or infatuation, but a tacit agreement that the tone will continue in the future.
Minamoto Senya was about to answer.
Touka once again pressed her fingertips against his lips;
"No need to speak, just respond to me with a nod or a shake of your head."
Minamoto Senya didn't hesitate at all and nodded immediately.
"But..." He bit Touka's fingertips and was about to speak when she shyly withdrew her hand.
Touka interrupted him again: "There's no but. You can't let anyone know. This is my bottom line. If you don't comply, then I will... I will..."
Touka, who tried hard to make a threat but couldn't think of a specific way, was also very cute in Minamoto Senya's eyes.
He gave a hint.
"You won't give me a kiss?"
"Yes, I won't let you kiss me... Bang."
The sound that followed was the sound of Touka hitting his chest again.
This time I used a little more force.
Touka also reacted immediately and rubbed his hands for him immediately.
"You keep teasing me... I'm not kidding you, I'm serious."
Touka attaches so much importance to this matter, of course she has her own considerations.
The reasons on her side were only a small part. The most important thing was that she didn't want to bring trouble to Senya's bright future because of her relationship.
As for what the trouble is...the relationship between them is the biggest trouble.
Minamoto Senya understood everything and knew that the safest approach was to keep the progress between them secret according to what Touka said.
But he also understood that this was only a temporary solution, and he couldn't let Touka hide in the shadows for the rest of her life.
He would announce their relationship to the important people around him at the right time, which was something he had decided from the beginning.
But now, in order to reassure Touka, he nodded obediently.
"Yeah, I understand."
"You swear."
"I swear, as long as Touka keeps thinking this way, I will always support and respect you unconditionally."
There was a secret door left slightly.
"Um..."
"Is it okay?"
"Okay."
Touka finally breathed a sigh of relief after receiving such a positive response from him.
Her plump, healthy body, overflowing with feminine power, was no longer tense and softened again in his body.
This weakness didn't matter, she suddenly discovered something very fatal.
She suddenly let go of her hands and broke free from Minamoto Senya's embrace.
Minamoto Senya was a little confused at first, but when he saw her subconsciously reaching her hands behind her to hold her buttocks, and her eyes simultaneously looking towards his lower body, he immediately understood everything.
"If you're curious, it's okay to look closer."
"Who wants to be curious about that kind of thing...it's getting late, I'm going back to my room to rest."
"Hey! But I still have a lot of things and a lot of things I want to tell you."
"It's already past one in the morning. Have you forgotten what your plans are for tomorrow?"
"It doesn't matter. Let them go out and have fun tomorrow. We can just say we're not feeling well and stay in the hotel to rest."
"Can't."
Minamoto Senya reached out to grab Touka's wrist, wanting to hold her in his arms again, but she dodged him with a deft move backwards.
"There's no need to rush... We still have plenty of time to spare. No matter what you say, I'll listen to you."
She looked at Minamoto Senya's hand hovering in the air, and mustered up the courage to take the initiative to hold it.
Minamoto Senya breathed a sigh of relief.
"I see."
"Then...I'll go back to my room first."
"Um."
This is what Minamoto Senya agreed to.
But as he waited for Touka to release his hand, he stood up and suddenly made a "tsk" sound.
There seemed to be some kind of disgust in the tone of voice.
It's a bit sudden.
However, just as she was about to leave, Touka turned around and saw him looking down at her and the small spot on the bed where he had just sat.
"What's wrong?"
"Ah, nothing, nothing."
"Hurry up and tell me."
"It's not a big deal, actually. I was just thinking of going to the front desk to change rooms later."
"Change rooms?"
"Look, we just came back from the swimming pool and sat down here without even taking a shower."
"What do you want to say?"
"Swimming pools are a place shared by many people, so there might be a lot of bacteria in them. I feel a little uncomfortable when I think about it. If I don't change rooms, I always feel like I won't be able to sleep well tonight."
Minamoto Senya said this with a helpless look on his face, and then he looked towards Touka quietly, observing her reaction.
"It might be a bit wasteful, after all, the hotel charges are not low."
"...Oh, really, it's a waste."
Touka's eyes were dim, as if she was watching a very poorly performed drama.
"I don't mind such trivial matters. If you don't mind, you can change rooms with me and have a good rest. I'll sleep here tonight."
"Well, that won't work. If other people find out in the morning, they'll inevitably overthink it, and that goes against your idea of keeping it a secret, Touka."
"Yeah, then what should we do?"
"There's another way to get the best of both worlds without wasting room money. I'll go to your room tonight and squeeze in with you for a bit, and then I'll leave in the morning before everyone else gets up."
At this point, Minamoto Senya's true colors were completely exposed.
It was a bit awkward, but he felt it was no big deal.
"Oh, impossible."
Tohka refused coldly.
She felt that Senya was going a bit too far.
In the past, even if he had any desire for my intimacy, he would at least use some excuse and find ways to do it secretly, at least to maintain his dignity on the surface.
Now, after I confessed my feelings, I immediately wanted to rest in the same room and sleep in the same bed with him without any pretense.
No matter how much she liked him, Touka couldn't accept the speed.
It's not that I don't want to or anything... I just don't want it to be so fast...
They slept in the same bed on the first night after confessing their love, so how fast will things progress after that?
If things continue to develop at this pace, it will probably be less than a month before his previous vision of them having a baby will be realized within a year.
To sum up, this is related to your bottom line, so don't even think about it!
"...Listen carefully. This towel in the middle marks the dividing line. You must not cross this line when you sleep at night. Of course, the same goes for me."
"Understood, sir!"
Twenty minutes later.
In Touka's room.
Minamoto Senya was saluting her.
It was just as he thought, just like he liked Touka so much and wanted to be with her all the time.
Isn't it the same for Touka towards herself?
It was just the natural reserve of women that prevented her from expressing her feelings so frankly.
So the only thing we can do is to let him be more proactive. Minamoto Senya did not regard this as a trouble, but rather as an ambiguous interest in their relationship.
He smiled and said,
"It's getting late, Touka, you should go take a shower first."
"Um."
Touka's face felt hot at the moment, and she was secretly reflecting on herself falling into the law of true fragrance.
She went to her luggage bag and took out her nightgown with her back to Minamoto Senya.
To be on the safe side, she brought three sets of underwear with her before this trip.
At this moment, she chose to pick the navy blue suit that was slightly less comfortable but most beautiful, and wrapped it in her nightgown.
"I can help rub your back."
Minamoto Senya's lazy voice came.
"No need, just wait patiently."
"Okay~"
As soon as Touka Takanashi walked into the bathroom, she couldn't hold it anymore and covered her lips with her hands, knocking her head with her other hand "dong dong dong".
She had always thought of herself as a rational and principled person.
After all, there is a precedent. She has shown her strict and decisive side to Rikka many times.
But in front of Senya, this side of her seemed to no longer exist.
He held her hand, their eyes met, and he begged her with gentle words several times, then hugged her, leaned against her face and gently kissed her ear.
Senya was so handsome, with a nice voice and a great figure, but he was like a little puppy in front of me, showing no aggression at all...
So...it shouldn't matter...
As long as I pay attention to keeping my bottom line, Senya, who likes me, will never do anything to hurt me.
Minamoto Senya's smooth little combo made Touka pressed against his chest, and his whole body became limp again, as if he was in the clouds. He had no way to do anything to him, and he couldn't even say "no" anymore.
As if I had lost my mind, I followed his wishes without thinking and nodded in agreement.
Under the running shower in the bathroom, Touka covered her face tightly with her hands.
She felt that her brain was completely broken and completely useless.
She had watched a variety show before that tracked and reported the situation in real time.
The protagonists of the show are several different girls, some of them are NEETs, some are students, and some are working women.
They have different professions, different family backgrounds, and different life stories, but they all have the same "hobbies".
That is, they all like to go to places like gigolo bars and karaoke halls.
The program's continued coverage revealed their horrific side of being crazy and spending all their wealth on gigolos without any regrets.
At that time, Touka could not understand how there could be such a stupid woman who would give so much for an unrelated person.
But now, she seemed to understand a little bit and could empathize with him to some extent.
It seems that I am also a complete love-brained person.
If it was Senya, she would be willing to do anything for him.
There is no reason, I just like it to this exaggerated degree.
It was fine before. The feeling was suppressed deep inside my heart and I could pretend to endure it.
But now that the showdown has officially come, it's all over. There's no way she can stay rational in front of Senya, whom she loves so much. Whatever he says is the truth.
But I still think there is nothing wrong with it. I am willing to respond to his expectations, and I will be very happy when he agrees with me.
This kind of me, really...
Touka took this bath for half an hour.
Before she entered the bathroom, she clearly told Senya that they could sleep together at night, but no physical contact was allowed while sleeping.
But in reality, she seemed to be worried about something. She brushed her teeth before going to bed tonight, very carefully, inside and out, up and down, left and right...
She even used the soft bristles of a toothbrush to gently wipe her tongue several times. A few times, she accidentally pushed the toothbrush in too far, causing her to gag several times.
She also used shower gel after using soap, repeatedly washing every corner of her body carefully several times, rubbing out bubbles, and her body is soaked in the faint fragrance.
Before leaving the bathroom, she also shook her body left and right in front of the mirror and observed it carefully, fearing that there might be some part of her body that was not clean enough, which would cause discomfort or unacceptability to someone who was overly fond of cleanliness.
To be more precise, this can be considered a form of courtesy and etiquette in interpersonal communication! After all, no one wants to sleep with the person next to them smelling bad, right?
Well, that's all!
Just to be polite.
Touka hypnotized herself in this way and walked out of the bathroom.
The clothes she changed into were a gray one-piece nightgown she brought from home. It was made of pure cotton, a common home style, very simple, and without any sexy design.
But when worn by Touka, and in Minamoto Senya's eyes, it has an inexplicably alluring feeling, making him want to fall at her feet all the time.
"I'm done washing, go ahead."
Their eyes met, and Touka spoke shyly.
Minamoto Senya nodded, and when they passed by each other, he leaned over and kissed her on the side of her defenseless face.
The sneak attack was successful, and he ran away happily like a child, leaving Touka standing there in a daze, digesting the sweet and somewhat greasy relationship between them now.
Minamoto Senya is much more efficient than Touka. He takes a shower and brushes his teeth and walks out of the bathroom in just ten minutes.
Touka, who was blowing her hair at the head of the bed, looked up and saw him, and immediately turned her eyes away and spat.
"Put on your clothes before you come out."
Minamoto Senya now only had a bath towel wrapped around his lower body, while his strong and masculine upper body was completely naked. Touka's direct observation made her heart pound and she had a small orgasm in her head for a moment.
"Sorry, I forgot to bring in the clothes I needed to change into."
Minamoto Senya picked up his pajamas, turned back and came out again, took the hair dryer from Touka's hand, and did the job for her gently.
They used to do this kind of thing for each other at home.
But the feeling now is completely different from before.
Finally, all the preparations for bed are ready.
After drying her own long hair, Touka, who insisted on reciprocating the favor, withdrew her hand from Minamoto Senya's hair.
The time now is already past two in the morning.
"alright."
"Thanks."
"Go to bed early."
"Um."
"Senya, where do you want to sleep?"
"Touka, you choose first."
"Then I'll sleep by the window."
"Then I'll choose the window seat too... Haha, just kidding, I'll turn off the lights."
"Um."
The two of them went into bed one after another, one on the left and one on the right, and covered themselves with a thin quilt at the same time.
After obtaining Touka's consent, Minamoto Senya turned off the bedside lamp.
The room immediately darkened.
But a ray of light still sneaked in through the gap between the curtains that were not drawn tightly.
It allowed them to vaguely see the outline of the body of the person lying next to them.
"Good night."
"Well, good night."
There was silence for ten minutes.
In the dim environment, Minamoto Senya suddenly spoke softly tentatively.
"Toka."
I waited for a few seconds, but got no response.
"Are you asleep?"
It was quiet, and Touka didn't move at all.
Seeing this, Minamoto Senya slowly turned sideways, ignoring the pre-determined center line, and slowly moved his body forward.
The moment he put his hand on Touka's body, Touka suddenly spoke,
"Minamoto Senya."
It is the full name, and the warning is self-evident.
But she only spoke in this timid tone, without any other resistance.
Such a reaction and such an attitude made Minamoto Senya smile slightly, and then became even more aggressive.
No longer trying to hide herself, he went straight over and held her in his arms.
"I don't mean anything else. I'm just too excited right now. I thought if Touka couldn't sleep like me, we might as well chat before bed."
"What time do you think it is now? And do you remember what you promised me just now?"
"You said you couldn't cross the line while sleeping, but I'm not sleeping right now. To be more precise, I'm in the stage of getting sleepy, so it can't be considered a violation of the agreement."
"You are sophistry... well..."
"I see, Touka's weak spot is the soft flesh around her waist."
"Minamoto Senya, I'm not kidding you, let me go."
"well."
"…Hmm…"
The hand did loosen, but then the mouth moved back up.
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