Chapter 15
In the end, because of all this, when the night was deep and quiet, I had no choice but to knock on the door to Lian Qi’s room.
Lian Qi, wearing her pajamas, stood in the doorway looking at me.
“Wh-What’s wrong?”
Her tone sounded a little surprised.
Facing her, I swallowed nervously. Speaking of which… this is the second time I’ve… asked Lian Qi… for this kind of request, isn’t it? I still managed to say my request, though it was very awkward.
“Could you… come sleep in my room with me too?”
“You… tooooo?”
She dragged out the last sound for a long, long time, and the look she gave me was very strange.
“Qifeng… she’s been acting very… weird… ever since she got back from the Church today.”
“…Yeah, I noticed,” she said, staring at me.
“Eh…? Lian Qi, is it because Qifeng kept feeding me?”
“…Who knows?” she said vaguely.
“I was worried you’d get jealous.”
“…Huh? Jealous? You’re actually worried I’d get jealous? My, my, you’ve grown up, haven’t you? She’s your bestie. What can I say.”
After a few seconds, she glanced at me again, agitated.
“Worried? Then why don’t you feed me something, huh?”
“Eh???”
“It’s nothing. Just keep talking.”
Was it really nothing? …
Seeing her attitude…
It’s a little different from her usual self.
“Well… Qifeng is acting like she’s drunk even though she hasn’t had a drop of alcohol. The way she looks at me is all… hazy. If we sleep in the same bed, I’m afraid she’ll…”
…
What exactly am I afraid of?
Am I afraid she’ll grope me in my sleep and discover I’m actually a boy?
“Anyway, if you’re there too, everyone will be a little more polite. It’s safer.”
Lian Qi looked at me silently for a moment.
“Alright, then.”
“Eh!? You really agreed?”
“Sure. If you and Qifeng don’t mind, then I definitely don’t see any problem with it. Besides, you and I… haven’t slept together in a long time…”
“Eh!? Wait… your… last… that’s not right!”
Why do I have the illusion that her last sentence was the real point?
“Th-Then… let’s go?”
I felt like even the air I breathed out was awkward.
“I’ll go get my pillow.” Lian Qi turned and went back into her room.
…
…
“I’m back.”
“Eh? Eh? Eh? Eh?”
When I pushed the door open, Qifeng, who was sitting on the bed, immediately started pointing wildly at me and Lian Qi, making us both feel completely baffled.
“…What’s wrong with you?”
“Fei’er! S-So you were planning to pull Lian Qi in to do lewd things together?” Qifeng asked, blushing beet-red with embarrassment.
My face flushed “whoosh” red.
F牡小玩 fix
“What nonsense are you spouting!” I snatched the pillow from Lian Qi’s arms and smacked Qifeng in the face with it.
“Eh? What? So that’s the reason you called me to your room?” Lian Qi looked at me silently, then said.
“It’s not! Don’t you dare listen to Qifeng’s nonsense!”
Can someone—anyone—please defend me and say that’s not what this is about at all!
Lian Qi just stared at me nervously without a word. Does she not believe me?
Uwaaah!
I feel like I couldn’t clear my name even if I jumped into the Lucerne River.
“If you’re both going to think that, then I’ll just go sleep on the sofa.”
I turned, really wanting to run out in tears.
Lian Qi suddenly grabbed me.
“Don’t you think you can just walk away.”
“Eh??”
“…Since I’m already here.” Her tone was a bit hesitant, and she didn’t look me straight in the eye.
“Eh? Eh? Eh???”
Wait.
Does Lian Qi mean… she chooses to believe me?
Suddenly, I felt so touched.
“Yeah, don’t just leave me to sleep all alone,” Qifeng said from the bed in a soft, sweet voice.
Because I had just hit her with the pillow, she was now hugging it tightly, unable to part with it.
“Hey, that’s my pillow,” Lian Qi reminded her.
“Well, I’ll sleep in the middle, like last time,” I said.
“Mm.” Lian Qi’s amber eyes stared at me, her expression a little subtle.
And so, I lay down on the soft pillow, sandwiched between Qifeng on my left and Lian Qi on my right.
“Let’s turn off the light, then. Good night.”
The ceiling light went out, and the room plunged into a pitch-black darkness where you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. Suddenly, someone kissed me on the lips—!?
“…Who was it?”
The light was flipped on again.
“What’s wrong? What’s wrong?” Lian Qi and Qifeng asked in unison.
“S-Someone just took advantage of the dark to steal a kiss!”
My face red, I gently touched my lips. That light, lingering touch… I have no idea who it was.
“Ha?” Lian Qi’s eyebrows shot up.
“Lian Qi, it was you, wasn’t it?” I glared, full of bashful anger, at this woman who had once stolen my first kiss…
“You know me. Do you think I wouldn’t admit it?” Lian Qi said, looking tense, glaring right back at me.
Then… was it Qifeng?
“Fei’er… you know me too… I’m… the passive type… I even had to kneel on a washboard last time. How would I dare do something like this?” Qifeng said timidly, covering her mouth with her fist, blushing.
I felt speechless. “Neither of you will admit it. Is there a third person in here?”
“It’s precisely because you wouldn’t dare that you’d take advantage of the lights being out to do it without anyone noticing, right?” Lian Qi said, one hand on her hip, staring at Qifeng.
“Eh? Eh? Eh? No, it wasn’t!” Qifeng retorted, face red.
“I really don’t know what to do with you two,” I said, pulling the covers up for myself. Then I rolled over—deciding to sleep on my stomach.
The bedroom light went out again.
A few peaceful minutes passed. Then, suddenly, a “sinful” hand reached into my covers, rested lightly on my back, and slid up~ and down~ my thin nightgown…
…
A shiver ran through my whole body. I lifted my head slightly from the pillow, all sleepiness gone.
I turned my head toward Lian Qi, glaring at her reproachfully in the darkness. That technique… I didn’t even need to guess to know it was her hand.
She smiled without a word, quietly making a ‘shh’ gesture at me.
Don’t think I don’t know what she’s thinking! Because Qifeng is right here, I have to silently endure her teasing, just like in class, too afraid to make a sound and be discovered. That way, she wins!
Uuugh… she’s really so brazen… I thought sleeping together was supposed to make us all more polite. Why does this feel like I let the wolf into the house?
Seeing no reaction from me, she grew bolder. Her hand crept bit by bit toward my lower body, reaching the part covered only by my thin nightgown… my bottom.
I bit down on the pillowcase, holding back from making a sound. That place… ever since Sister Aijieliya touched it last time, it’s become… very sensitive…
No, no…
If I continue to just passively accept this, she’ll definitely stick her hand under my nightgown next, and grope me with only my underwear in the way—
I have to reach back and stop her.
Just at that moment—
I felt a ticklish sensation on my other thigh. Whose hand is this groping my thigh?
Oh, great! That silly girl Qifeng! She’s actually taking advantage of the darkness to do this kind of thing, in concert with Lian Qi!?
Unlike Lian Qi, Qifeng seemed like she wanted to touch but didn’t dare. She carefully touched here and there, only growing bolder when I didn’t resist. But the way she did it was actually more ticklish!
In utter torment, I gripped the bedsheets. I was just about to shout and stop them, when… the hands of these two just happened to meet on my body…
“Ah-leh…”
The air was thick with an awkward atmosphere.
“You two… that’s enough. Can we please just sleep properly?”
I buried my burning hot face in the pillow and said.