City of Witches
chapter-168

༺ Friendship? (1) ༻

1.

As Siwoo woke up in the morning, he noticed a different atmosphere with Sharon.

“Thanks for the food!”

Like usual, Sharon was the one in charge of ordering breakfast.

But today, she only ordered two servings worth of meals for herself.

The sight was unbelievable to Siwoo.

Like, normally she’d eat more than three servings without batting an eyelid, but today she only ate two and said ‘Thanks for the food’ without complaining.

“Are you sick?”

“Huh? No? Why do you ask?”

The question came out of Siwoo’s mouth before she could realize it, while Sharon answered it with a question of her own because she didn’t understand why he even asked that question.

“You’re eating less than usual today…”

“Ah, that. Well, I don’t normally eat much to begin with. Like, I barely ate any before I met you.”

‘Is that really the case?’

This wasn’t the only anomaly that Siwoo noticed from her, though. She acted strangely during the whole breakfast itself.

‘How should I put it…? The atmosphere is… Awkward…?’

It was the first time since they became friends that they had a meal in silence, so Siwoo was feeling a little flustered.

He suspected that the conversation they had yesterday was the cause of this current situation. The one when she asked him whether he had kissed or had sex or not.

‘Come to think of it, she began to act strangely ever since she asked that…’

While Siwoo was pondering about this, Sharon had done the dishes, wiped the remaining water off the plates and went to the living room.

“Siwoo.”

“Yeah?”

“Do you want to come to my room?”

“…What?”

‘Her room…?’

Ever since she moved in here, Siwoo had never entered her room.

Likewise, Sharon never entered his room, unless they were holding a magic class there.

After all, despite them living together, they weren’t lovers or anything of that sort. There were certain lines that they shouldn’t cross.

Those lines became unwritten rules that they abided on their own.

“It’s nothing big. Follow me.”

‘She’s giving a vibe as if she’s going to do something big, though…’

Siwoo felt uneasy.

He suspected that there must be something important she wanted to talk about, otherwise, she wouldn’t go out of her way to invite him to her room.

“Alright, I’ll go there after I clean this up.”

“Okay.”

‘What is it?’

‘Did something happen?’

‘Maybe it’s about her debt?’

‘Or did I offend her somehow yesterday?’

“What is it…?”

Even when he tried to rack his brain, he couldn’t come up with a reason. So he gave up on thinking and decided to hear her out.

He knocked up on the door to her room and entered.

Inside, Sharon was sitting on her bed, wearing a subtle look.

Across her, there was an empty chair, a perfect setup for an interrogation or something similar to that.

“What happened?”

“First, can you sit down?”

Siwoo complied and sat down.

As he did, a hesitant look appeared on Sharon’s face.

It seemed like she had something to say, but the words just refused to leave her mouth.

“…Can you close your eyes?”

“Can you tell me what’s going on first?”

“Um, no…”

Normally, Sharon would respect Siwoo’s wishes.

But this time, she didn’t.

‘Is she trying to give me a surprise…?’

“Fine.”

He decided to comply and closed his eyes tightly. Soon afterwards, he heard rustling sounds from Sharon’s direction.

“You can open your eyes now.”

“Okay…”

“W-Wait! Wait a second! D-Don’t do that! Wait a little longer–!”

“What? What are you even up to?”

This only confused Siwoo even more.

But, he decided to trust her, after all there seemed to be a reason behind this.

He could hear her taking a few deep breaths. Clearly.

“Okay, for real this time. You can open your eyes.”

“Can I really?”

“Mhm.”

So, Siwoo opened his eyes.

“Huh?”

And he couldn’t believe what was waiting for him when he did so.

His jaw dropped.

Like a pitiful warrior facing the notorious Medusa, his whole body stiffened, and incorrigible sounds were coming out of his throat.

“Aa…aaa…”

The reason was Sharon’s bare chest that was sprawled out in front of his face.

She held her black tank top up above her chest.

The bra that she had come to wear recently was gone.

Nothing obstructed his view to see her entire chest.

Sharon let out a cough and averted her eyes, clearly embarrassed, but she didn’t do anything to hide her chest from him.

As for Siwoo, while he knew that the appropriate action to take was to avert his gaze, his instinct screamed to him to do the opposite. Hence, his gaze was locked into the spectacle in front of him.

Those were undoubtedly E-Cup.

There was no doubt in his mind that this pair of breasts was worthy of the moniker ‘Excellent Cup.’

Her skin, white as milk, pronounced the subtle movement of the pair of mounds made as she trembled restlessly.

If she were to lay down on her back, the pair of mounds would sway to her sides, creating quite the feast to anyone’s eyes.

‘I don’t think I can hold one of them with one hand…’

‘Maybe I can if I stretch my palm wide enough…?’

Siwoo shifted his gaze, albeit slightly.

Her nipples, possessing the same color as her lips, stood tall in the middle of both her peaks. Surrounding them were pale-colored flesh, supporting their existence and enhancing their charm.

If there was another amazing thing about her chest, it was the fact that despite their size, they didn’t sag at all.

Not only did they possess a well-balanced shape, as if they were a work of art crafted by a divine being, but they also clearly defied the well-established laws of physics.

Lastly, on top of her left chest, sat a single mole, decorating it.

It didn’t look out of place at all.

If anything, it only added a sense of reality to her chest, as it looked as if it was a pure work of art instead of someone’s body part.

Siwoo alternately looked at Sharon’s face and her motherhood, slack-jawed

“T-This…”

‘What the hell is going on…?’

He wanted to ask that question, but the words couldn’t come out of his mouth.

The poor man was way too flustered to even move his tongue.

Though, there was one thing that he’d willingly admit.

The fact that seeing her body gave birth to an urge to pounce on her.

In fact, if he didn’t try to restrain himself right now, he’d do exactly that while shouting ‘Mommy!’, completely disregarding their current relationship.

“Um… Y-You’re watching too intently… M-My chest feels…strange…”

A pink blush appeared on Sharon’s face.

For some reason, there was a proud smile on her face, accompanying her previous embarrassment, making it even harder for Siwoo to guess the reason behind her current actions.

He shook his head and closed his eyes tightly, trying to shoo away all of his urges.

‘Calm down… I can’t give in…!’

But even when he closed his eyes, her white chest still lingered in his mind.

It was as if the image was imprinted in his eyes.

While this wasn’t the first time he’d seen a woman’s chest…

He still couldn’t help but feel this way.

“S-Sorry… I-I’ll be more mindful of my gaze from now on…”

Because he didn’t know what she was up to, he decided that apologizing would be the best course of action here.

He suspected that she was doing it because of him stealing glances of her chest in the past. She was a kind woman, after all, so she probably decided to indulge him after noticing his gazes for so long.

“N-No, you don’t need to… Y-You know, since it seems like you want to see them that badly, I-I figured that I should just show you… I-I owe you a lot anyway, so this isn’t a big deal… S-So you don’t have to worry too much… I-I’m doing this because I want to…”

‘But, even if you owe someone a lot, you don’t normally show your chest to them, do you?’

“U-Um… Are you sure you’re okay with this…?”

“W-Well, this is my first time doing it, so I feel a little embarrassed… B-But, yes, I’m okay… O-Only because it’s you, though…”

Siwoo opened his eyes again.

When he did, he saw Sharon leaning over, as if encouraging him to look

“S-So, what did you think…?”

‘Nice.’

‘What a feast…’

He enjoyed the sight to the point that he got the urge to make her go topless all the time as a payment for her living in his place.

But of course he wouldn’t say that out loud. Instead, he cautiously asked a question.

“What do I think… About what exactly…?”

“U-Um… W-What do you feel when seeing them… A-And can you tell me your… Impression…?”

“I… Feel good…? And, my impression… I think they’re nice…”

After hearing his answer, she let out a giggle.

Her response made him look at her with a puzzled expression. At that moment, their eyes met, and she showed him a shy smile.

“It’s… The first time that anyone ever praised my chest…”

“I’m just telling you the truth.”

“But there’s a mole on my left chest… Doesn’t it look ugly?”

“No.”

“Phew, that’s good then… I was worried that you’d find it repulsive…”

The tone of her voice implied that she had been treating this whole affair like some sort of an important mission.

It wasn’t something that Siwoo particularly mind, but it did make him question, ‘Why?’

In normal cases, she was pretty straightforward, but it seemed like she did possess strange quirks in some specific cases.

“So, does it make you feel better?”

“I’m not sure what you’re trying to ask, but I guess it does?”

Even his lower body parts would agree to his words.

“Then, do you want to touch them?”

“…Huh?”

“Do you want to touch them? My chest, I meant.”

‘Ms. Sharon, things are progressing way too fast, I can’t keep up!’

Siwoo felt like he was approaching his limits.

He knew that if he were to cross that line, this peaceful cohabitation would turn into something else entirely.

There was a huge chance that Sharon, being naive as she was, heard about something strange and followed it without even realizing what her actions entailed.

If the reason behind her current action was because she was acting on impulse, even Siwoo himself didn’t know what would happen between them afterwards.

The atmosphere quickly turned awkward and rather suffocating for him.

“I-I still feel embarrassed to go beyond that, but… I’m fine with you touching them with your hands…”

At that moment, her tank top fell down a little, but she quickly readjusted it, shaking the pair of mounds in the process.

After looking at them again, Siwoo just couldn’t hold himself back anymore.

Just like Adam when he reached for the forbidden fruit, Siwoo grabbed Sharon’s chest with his hand.

He grabbed the lower part of her chest, supporting its weight with his hand.

“Ngg…”

At this unfamiliar touch, Sharon’s whole body froze.

“Ah…”

While Siwoo exclaimed at the heavenly feelings that he felt with his hand.

‘It’s heavy.’

What he felt was the texture that was softer than velvet, yet more elastic than pudding.

Sharon’s chest distorted because of his grip in such a way that it made her nipples stand out more than before.

It invoked an urge to lean closer and suck them out to his heart’s content.

After that, he started touching her chest in earnest.

Every time he moved his fingers, it sank into her chest, but as soon as he moved them away, it’d immediately return to its former shape without any hitch.

This also happened to her erect nipples as he kneaded them with his palm, the sensation he felt was as addicting as taking up drugs.

After all that, he barely could take his hands off her chest.

He really was nearing his limit. If he were to keep going for another minute, he was sure that he’d lose all his rationality and attack her right there and then.

“W-Was it good?”

Of course, Sharon was no better; She also almost reached her limit as well. As soon as Siwoo took her hand off, she immediately covered her chest with her tank top again.

She corrected her sitting posture and clasped her knees together, placing her folded hands right on top of them.

The corners of her mouth were twitching upwards, showing that she didn’t actually find the experience detestable.

“I think… It’s time to proceed with our magic lesson now…”

“Okay, let me get dressed first, then I’ll come over… You can leave now…”

Just like that, the two of them exchanged such words, trying to treat as if nothing had happened. Albeit, there was a slightly awkward atmosphere between them.

As Siwoo tried to leave the room, trying to hide his fully erect rod, he could hear Sharon’s voice in his ears.

“Siwoo…”

“Yes?”

“If you want to see… Or touch them again… Feel free to ask me, okay? Especially when you feel depressed or having a hard time…”

“A-Ah… Okay…”

He responded as such to her provocative suggestion before leaving the room.

“What just happened…?”

Siwoo knew that Sharon’s knowledge about male-female relationship was as lacking as the twins.

Her only source of knowledge were the few romance movies that she had watched.

If it was any other woman, he could assume that she was doing it because she was interested in him, but this was Sharon he was talking about. He was completely clueless on what she was up to.

‘In any case…’

“That was fun…”

Still recalling the lingering sensation of her motherhood in his hands, its weight and its softness, he went into his room to prepare for his lesson.