Chapter 96: She doesn’t look like she dislikes it. She looks like she wants more

The memory of when Yuri named the Fallon sisters as candidates for women who seemed to like him.

"A woman with no interest in you wouldn’t get involved. The Fallon sisters seem interested in you, so there’s more possibility with them than with a woman who doesn’t care, right?"

Kazui had answered Yuri when he said that.

"Even if they have an interest in me, it’s only a negative one. They’re way too harsh with me!"

"There are clumsy women who can’t treat the guy they like honestly and end up being harsh with him."

Yuri had added shortly.

"To put it simply, the so-called tsundere type."

"Those two are only tsun! There’s zero dere!"

"Well, that’s obvious, since you haven’t done anything that would make them go dere. If you change how you treat them, they might."

"I can’t imagine those two going dere for me. No matter how I look at it, they hate me."

Kazui remembered that conversation.

While looking up at Monica’s face, which had an embarrassed expression like an innocent girl.

(Is this... is she going dere?)

Asking himself, he remembered Monica’s Sexual Appraisal result.

(Right. This one... prefers the younger, cocky type.)

He had just been told by Monica he was "cocky for someone younger," so it was easy to remember the preferred type on the Sexual Appraisal result.

(Could it be that I really am... Monica’s preferred type, and Monica is a tsundere?)

He asked himself, but he thought there was no way he would know just by thinking.

He also thought there was a chance Monica was tricking him and trying to make fun of him.

But if she really was going dere toward him and making an invitation, he thought it would be far too much of a waste not to take it.

(Even if I’m being tricked and made fun of, whatever. Even if I’m being tricked, I should take this invitation!)

Having made up his mind, Kazui twisted his upper body left and turned toward Monica.

He lifted his hips, leaned in, and brought his face close to her.

"Eh? What?"

Eyes wide with surprise, Monica asked Kazui.

"What... I was thinking of kissing you."

Stopping bringing his face close, he pulled his face away from Monica.

"All of a sudden... here?"

"If you don’t want to I’ll stop, but you were making fun of me after all?"

"It’s not that I don’t want to, and I’m not making fun of you! I was just surprised because it was sudden..."

Murmuring with flushed cheeks, Monica closed her eyes.

"...Continue."

With a face waiting for a kiss, Monica declared.

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(This... doesn’t seem like she’s making fun of me. It seems like she’s serious.)

At this stage, the suspicion that he was being tricked disappeared from inside Kazui.

He could not bring himself to doubt Monica when she was exposing herself to him with her eyes closed and openings everywhere.

(She really... has a good face.)

Staring at Monica’s well-featured face, Kazui muttered in his heart.

(Maybe because her eyes are closed, her eyes aren’t scary, so she looks even more beautiful than usual. Her eyes are usually scary.)

He brought his face close to Monica again and this time did not stop, pressing his lips to hers.

(Ah, she smells a little like alcohol.)

Monica had drunk a fair amount, so he noticed the smell of alcohol.

But for Kazui, unused to women, the emotion of kissing a real woman was larger, so he did not mind it much.

He quickly got used to the smell as well and stopped even being aware of it.

(It’s her first time with a man, so maybe I shouldn’t put my tongue in right away.)

Thinking that, he pulled his lips away and checked Monica’s state.

With her eyes still closed, she looked to Kazui like she was waiting for more kissing.

(She doesn’t look like she dislikes it. She looks like she wants more.)

Kazui kissed Monica again.

This time he parted her lips with his tongue and exchanged a dense kiss, entwining his tongue with hers.

With a kiss drilled into him by Vice, he entertained the unused Monica.

Kazui had little experience too, but he remembered the tongue movements Vice had done to him, so unlike Monica he was skilled at kissing.

Before he knew it, the force had left Monica’s right hand, which had been holding Kazui’s left.

He had become able to move his left hand freely.

Having regained his freedom, he clung to Monica and stroked her body.

(Come to think of it, I didn’t check Monica’s erogenous zones.)

Kazui had used Sexual Appraisal to get back at Monica.

He had not thought it would turn into having sex, so he had not checked as far as erogenous zones.

Casually pulling his lips away, kissing not her lips but by her right ear and cheek, he activated Sexual Appraisal.

From his position he could see Monica’s profile from the right, but he put himself in a position where she could not see his eyes and made both eyes glow faintly blue.

Before long, overlapping Monica’s profile, the Sexual Appraisal result appeared in his vision.

He immediately wanted to know Monica’s erogenous zones.

Then the erogenous zones item was displayed preferentially in his vision.

(Erogenous zones are... breasts and underarms, navel and inner thighs.)

Having finished checking the erogenous zones, he canceled Sexual Appraisal and returned his vision to normal.

(Touching her breasts, navel, or inner thighs right away is a high hurdle, so underarms would be good?)

Underarms seemed to him easy to touch in a way that would not be unnatural when hugging.

He kissed Monica’s lips again, pretended it felt natural, slipped his hands under her arms, and first held her.

After stroking her back while continuing to kiss her, he naturally drew both hands back and stopped around her underarms.

Casually stroking around her underarms lightly with his fingertips, he watched her reaction.

At first there was no particularly different reaction.

But while touching other parts as well, when he kept stroking around her underarms intensively, Monica’s reaction gradually changed.

In the gaps between kisses he checked Monica’s reaction.

Sweet breath leaked from her lips, her cheeks were clearly flushed, and her eyes had started glittering lewdly.

Monica was revealing sexual excitement.

(She wouldn’t get this excited from kissing alone. Did this... work?)

Right after Kazui asked himself that, Monica whispered by his ear.

"When you were touching my underarms... I started going strange. Did you... do something?"

"Strange how?"

"Restless, or strangely good... my body’s getting hot..."

With a flushed face, Monica continued.

"I can’t... hold it anymore."

Saying that, she held Kazui and stood up.

Then she grabbed the left hand of Kazui, whom she had forcibly stood up, with her right hand and started walking quickly.

Walking after her as if being dragged, Kazui asked,

"Hey, where are we going?"

Without answering, Monica silently set foot in the grove.

Looking around, she pushed forward through the grove.

"There. It’s open!"

Finding what she was after, Monica walked up to it happily.

What Monica was after was an unpainted wooden bench that did not stand out among the trees.

Far from being off-limits, going inside and spending time among the trees was encouraged, so benches were placed at various spots in the grove.

During the day the benches were used for their original purpose, people spending time among the trees.

But when night came, the benches were often used for a different purpose.

Just as Kazui had seen earlier, they were often used by couples for sex.