Vol 2 Chapter 9 (1/2)
Chapter 9: Negotiations (交渉)
It’s a little hazy as I slowly open my eyes, I remember blacking out at some point. I was having a lively bout at the get-together and I felt like tidying up the cooking tools and the tables.
And then I was heading toward the workshop, no wait, after that, I was rushed by the Firefox girls. There was like a half-empty bottle of sake left over or so, there wasn’t any surplus food[After-party]. Because they were working behind the scenes, there were girls that didn’t have a chance to have fun. So they proposed it.
I tried to refuse them, but I couldn’t get out of it.
Being surrounded and served sake from all the fox girls, I ended up drinking too much.
It started with one girl serving sake, then it started to form a line with the others saying “me too, me too!”, if I refused, that girl would be like “am I no good?! no fair!”, and from that I drank too much and got smashed.
From that point I can’t remember anything.
When I opened my eyes, I found myself staring at the ceiling of the old workshop wrapped in a warm futon.
Then I started to remember a little bit more of what happened. I had given up going back to my house back in the village. Of course, sleeping in the new workshop with only the girls would have been bad. When I thought of how sleepless it would be doing that, a bedding was prepared in the old workshop and I slept there that night.
Kuu came to shoulder carry me and just before leaving that girl, Kemin……
「Kuu-ane-sama, do your best! It’s okay to stay out all night! Also get him in one shot!」
I had a feeling there was a thumbs up that went with that, and then it faded to black.
As I was thinking about it there was a sound of cloth rubbing.
I direct my attention to it, and I see Kuu taking off her dress, only wearing her underwear.
「It will get wrinkled if I don’t take it off, the clothing is certainly cute, but it’s tiring to wear it.」
Saying that she folds the dress. Even in her underwear that had no s.e.x appeal, loose and s.p.a.cious short pants with little exposure, my eyes went to the pretty thighs and big b.r.e.a.s.t.s.
「Only just little, it’s okay if it’s only a little right…」
While she said that she walked in my direction. I was silently watching her, remembering the feeling of guilt, I pretended to turn over in bed with my back to her.
「Cyril-kun, you’re asleep right? Even when I carried you, you didn’t show any signs of waking up, you’re okay right?」
Kuu said with a whisper
Of course, I am suppose to be asleep so I don’t answer.
Although my eyes are alert, because of the sake and normal stress from the day, my sense of reason is being challenged, and right now I’m in trouble.
With that, Kuu came and entered the futon and hugged me from the back.
Kuu’s softness and her smell was making my head spin.
「Lucie-chan, I’m sorry. But, for just a little bit please lend Cyril-kun to me. Just for today.」
Kuu said so in an apologetic voice.
Don’t sleep my sense of reason! If you go to sleep like that you’re going to quietly die.
「Please let me speak a little to myself.」
Kotsunto~(soft hugging sound effect) She pressed her volume against my back.
I have a good rapport with Kuu. Originally, that girl I thought she wasn’t a strong person but to go that far for her friends, her desperate struggle to do her best, I thought was just beautiful.
Not giving up no matter how hard it gets, knowing her own weakness and immaturity, and struggling to grow. That girl had the same s.h.i.+ne as Lucie, it’s why I want to help her.
For this situation, Kuu to be lightly dressed and glued to me is bad. Even not marrying Lucie, and being invited by Kuu, my mind is floating. Excuses that are coming to mind one after the other are desperately being erased.
Those b.r.e.a.s.t.s pus.h.i.+ng on to me, that softness and warmth feeling is like a fantasy.
「Cyril-kun, really for us to meet again, I couldn’t help thinking that it was good that Cyril-kun was still good friends with me. Even when father said you were my fiance, even without feelings between us. But, since there were no cultural exchanges happening between the Elf village, somehow I was wondering if the talk had just died out.」
It was because it was impossible right.
The final time we met was five years ago, even then it would have been better to have met once in February.
At the time, we were still young, so there were no romantic feelings. Even so, for her to have liked me since that time, and for those feelings to keep on going, that is without saying pretty scary.
People change. Five years, to not have seen them at all, but for them to like someone without changing, is just liking someone out of a convenient fantasy. It’s someone I can’t really believe in.
「Even so, from the time I met Cyril-kun again, you were just really cool, like a prince you appeared and gallantly saved me, it was a little heart throbbing. 」
That is a story I already heard.
「When we went to my village, I was happy you scolded me. I was weak, and I wanted a person I could depend on. But, not only that I wanted someone that would lead me, to help me get stronger, because I didn’t want to be weak anymore. Someday, I want to be like father. To be a person who is both kind and stern, I thought there wouldn’t be a person who would be like that. That is until Cyril-kun. And then more and more I came to like you.」
Kuu put more strength in her embrace.
「Cyril-kun, always giving his best at various things, not only just that, but why did you do it like that for me? Wanting to do more like that for me, was to show me how important I was to you right? Doing such things made me very happy, it’s just that someday, I will become like Cyril-kun, because you believe in me.」
I certainly have that expectation for Kuu.
If it’s her, someday she can become my right arm.
Of course, right now it’s impossible. Not just because of Kuu’s ability and such, the Elves will not accept someone other than an Elf in a important position at this time.
Even so eventually, I want them to accept anyone based on their merits.
Kuu has the necessary element to be a leader, charisma. Seeing the Firefox girls yearning for her is easily understood. About charisma, it’s something that can be acquired through effort and trial and error, but it’s still heavily influenced from the qualities ingrained from birth.
「Even so, the feeling of embracing Cyril-kun is different from Lucie-chan’s. Not quite love but I think it’s more like yearning to, it certainly seemed like love at first sight and the feeling would cooldown and even disappear. That’s why even when Cyril-kun loves Lucie-chan, I am not sad from it, I actually feel relieved from it.」
Her pressed forehead was a little wet and cold to the touch.
「But, it didn’t disappear. With Cyril-kun, here it got enjoyable, believing that tomorrow will be more enjoyable and more become spectacular. For awhile I thought of wanting to be together with you, and that feeling only got stronger. But, it’s the first time for me and I don’t know if it is what it is, but this must be love right?」
I wonder if it’s okay to give an answer to that.
「I’m jealous of Lucie-chan. I wasn’t able to meet you for five years. She was always together with you making memories, even falling in love with Cyril-kun. If, the Elf village wasn’t under the control of the Empire, and I was still your fiancee. If I was able to meet you, I also would have come to like you. I can’t think straight and I am feeling like an idiot. Even though I don’t like it, I can’t help but feel drawn to Cyril-kun, to the point that I’m scared」
So that’s why she’s talking to my back while she thinks I’m sleeping like this.
This is Kuu’s confession.
「I know that if I don’t give up, Cyril-kun will be troubled, as it is I must not let you get into any more trouble. Also, I am such a coward, it really isn’t a joke, being turned down for real is scary to me. That’s why, I’m throwing out all my feelings all this night, for it all to be done. Even if it doesn’t end, I will end it.」
Kuu’s arms loosened, for sure she isn’t going to say it in the future, there is no way she would be saying whatever was on her chest unless she wasn’t.
If she is talking about me, this is a most convenient situation for her. Even so….
No matter what I would regret parting from Kuu’s warmth and softness…..
「Letting you sleep was good, if Cyril-kun was awake there is no way I could have said all that. I will let go of this feeling. Rather….. ya, of course that might be good too, loving a person I shouldn’t love might fit me.」
Giving up on it completely, Kuu made a smile while crying. And like that, she stood up and was about to leave. But, I won’t allow that, I grasped Kuu’s hand and pulled her into an embrace.
「Cy~Cyril-kun, you were awake…?」
Landing not on her back, Kuu settled on my chest, and said that with a panicked voice.
Hugging her like that, her smallness and fragility was a surprise to me, with such a body how was she able to do so much?
「I’ve been awake this whole time. I heard it all, that’s why I hugged you.」
「w~ wh~ why!?」
Her face turned bright red and she was terribly dismayed.
「Umm, for you to pretend not to listen and remain silent like that. Is that how a gentleman acts?」
「Quiet.」
I grasp Kuu’s tail hard.
「Hya~aaau. Suddenly doing that, what are you doing!?」
Kuu raised a strangely erotic voice, and then raised a voice of objection.
「I only gripped your tail, you know.」
「From the beginning you touched it because you didn’t know about the Firefox customs, but Cyril-kun knows about them now don’t you? Our tail is special to us, to grasp it so lightheartedly will make me angry you know?」
「I’m doing it cause I do know and anyway, the formal way to do it is for the girl to gentle put it in their hand right? Kuu, I like Lucie and she is the number one in the world that I like, that is something I absolutely won’t yield.」
It’s the lowest kind of confession, at least I’m not saying it as a person who is just in love with himself.
「That, I already knew that. I can tell from just looking, you know.」
「Even so, I also came to like you Kuu. That’s why I don’t want to hand you over to anyone. Kuu is kinda like my type, not giving into one’s despair, running to sacrifice yourself, I couldn’t keep my eyes off you. In any case, for the Firefox family, to dedicate one’s body to the person who is influential to the elves, you also thought about that too right? You did precisely that today punis.h.i.+ng yourself for loving someone you’re not suppose to fall in love with, above all as long as everyone is happy that would be for the very best. That is all that mattered so on and so forth.」
Kuu had a blank expression.
And then slowly spoke.
「……. Cyril-kun, are you using mind reading magic?」
「No, I can’t use that kind of convenient magic right now.」
Well, it’s not like I can’t use, but it’s just that I can’t use it as Cyril.
First of all, I don’t have to use it on such an easy to understand person.
「Kuu, please become mine. I want you to be the number two in the world that I love, of course you can call me just a despicable man, there is also that too. The choice is yours Kuu, If you feel up to it, please put your tail in the palm of my hand.」
Kuu is in a fl.u.s.tered, while her eyes dart about in a panic, she speaks.
「What are you going to do about Lucie-chan?! Even if I said yes, if Lucie-chan doesn’t like it, it would be impossible right.」
「I will convince her even if I get killed. And if Lucie says no, please go out with me in secret.」
「its really manly for you to say it like that, but that is just the lowest you know!?」
「It will be okay, since both of you are very special to me, and Lucie really loves me. It was only Kuu’s feelings that were a problem. I didn’t intent to extort you, you know. It’s just that I do like you and I wanted to be together with you Kuu, it’s just for that to happen it has to be done in this way.」
Yes, this is at present the best option.
It’s really just an excuse, but in the Elf village, polygamy for villagers is prohibited. In this small village for such a thing to be allowed would have the an effect on blood becoming more dense.
But, with the exception of the chief, it was recommended so that they could leave behind a lineage. Lucie knows about it.
「I have one condition. Three people wouldn’t be good. Girl’s get deeply jealous. Even if Lucie-chan would forgive it, I should think that Lucie definitely wouldn’t like it. Even so, I….. That’s why three people absolutely can’t be allowed.」
「I promise, there will not be three people.」
With me saying so, Kuu expressed a bitter smile.
And then, she buried her face in my chest to hide her face.
「umm, uhh…. Please take care of me.」
And like that Kuu placed her tail in my hand.
Unlike earlier, I gently gripped her tail, and then gently had my hand flow over it and combed it, I also lightly squeezed it.
「Kyau~, my tail is sensitive, please stop.」
That reaction is kinda interesting, I might wanna try various things.
「And Kuu. I think you already understand, but don’t think you’re safe entering a man’s futon in just your underwear.」
I hugged Kuu and pressed her down and hung over her. Kuu’s eyes water and her face gets red.
「Umm, that, now, I can’t think straight, my chest is full. I can’t organize my feelings, if can we do this later, I haven’t even cleaned my body.」
「But, I’m in a mood to want to do it now, and after taking the time to listen to Kuu’s real feelings I already know what’s in your heart Kuu, this time I want to know your body.」
I breath on Kuu’s ear. Because I enjoy moving with a beautiful girl, I slowly start to touch her body.
Morning came, I leave Kuu who is still sleeping inside the futon, and left the workshop.
Once, they showed their faces to my house and Lucie’s, Kemin was looking after me after I had gotten smashed thanks to them saying various things to Lucie, the matter was settled without much worry.