Nurturing the Hero to Avoid Death
chapter-15-3

To be honest, I’m relieved. Alfred’s the same as before, with his usual relaxed attitude.

…Yesterday’s matter has already passed, so. I’ll just let it go. It’ll probably be better not to mention it again.

Not only that, I want to purge my brain of my embarrassing actions last night. For some reason, I’ve got the sinking suspicion I said a lot of embarrassing things, so much that it’ll make any normal person blush in shame and wish to disappear. I definitely need to forget it all!

Nothing happened! I can’t believe it; I was just like the kids at the church back then, crying so that he wouldn’t leave me! What the hell was wrong with me?!

I can’t be so out of character! I have to fix the mess I made, and quickly kick the plot back on track.

If not, it’ll be impossible to step back into my role as Alfred’s rival.

In fact, I feel like it’s almost past the point of no return. I wonder how our relationship developed in this way? And why?

Why did he try to calm a crying person with a light kis—

No. Stop! I need to forget this. I really need to forget this.

That’s right.

It’s better to pretend nothing has happened and go with the flow.

As long as I do this, everything will become normal between me and Alfred again.

After making my decision, I attempt to get up from bed. Suddenly, someone pushes me back down.

“Woahh!? Eh, what… Ah!”

It’s Alfred. He shuffles closer to me in an instant, and nibbles on my throat.

His large hand slides under my shirt, slides from my side to my back in a slow agonizing pace. As if he’s stroking me.

“Eh, A-Al… fred? What are you…”

“…Yesterday’s continuation. You immediately slept after all. I couldn’t do anything.”

“C-continuation…!?”

His hand arrives at the side of my pants, and I panic.

“W-wait, Alfred. What are you doing? Wait… No, that’s… not good…. Hey!

It’s obvious what he’s planning to do. I quickly grab his wrist.

But why? Why… are you trying to… take off my clothes?

No, no. I must be mistaken. That can’t be true. That…

As if. No way. No way!!

He shouldn’t be thinking of doing ‘that’ with me.

Even so, Alfred grabs my pants with both hands. Then, as if thinking it’s bothersome, he also reaches for my underwear.

And he tries to pull it down.

My hand shoots out, clutching my underpants desperately and pulling them back up.

“W-wa… wait, wait, wait, l-let’s calm down a little, okay? You shouldn’t be doing this with me—no—me. You’re just teasing me, right? Right? Let’s put an end to this bad joke…”

No matter how dense someone is, they will definitely understand what this situation is! But he doesn’t stop. Instead, he deliberately trails his tongue from my neck to the bottom of my ear. I try my best to push down the weird noises threatening to leave my mouth.

“Ah, Alfred, wait, this… I, no, I am a male!”

“Yeah” he says, lightly brushing it off.

“Eh!? W-wait, Alfred. What’s with that light reply? Don’t tell me… You like boys?!”

Like I thought, Alfred lifts his face. There’s no way he can ignore words like these. There are wrinkles in the middle of his brows.

“As if.”

I feel relieved. That’s right. Yeah. Even at school, he never looks at or touches other people in a lustful way.

Well, actually, he doesn’t seem to be interested in people, period.

“I-I see. Then…Hey, wait!”

He licks my chin.

“W-why…?”

“…You are… special. I feel like I really want to touch you… I want to feel you. Hey, will you let me touch more…?”

“N-no way!”

Eh, what…

Wait, wait, wait. What do you mean with you want to feel me? Oi, oi!

I quickly come up with an excuse. “Ah, you see, I didn’t take a bath yesterday, so I must be dirty…”

“Lian always smells good, and… you’re clean.”

“Eh!? N-no, I’m dirty!”

“Then, we can just use the ‘cleansing magic.'”

“Y-you shouldn’t use it for this kind of purpose!!”

‘Cleansing magic’ is a treatment technique taught in our intermediate magic class. It’s used to clean wounds.

It’s not like it’s impossible to use it to clean oneself the way one would use a bath. It’s just wasteful to use magic like that.

Ah, but this guy has a boatload of magic power, doesn’t he?

“D-doing something like this recklessly is bad, okay? Hey, please think about it more. Calm down. Let’s do something like this when we’re adults. When we’re older, okay? This is too early for us, right? That’s why, stー hey, I told you to stop!”

After desperately scratching him with my nails, I finally see him stopping.

“…You mean, we can do this when we’re adults?”

“Huh?”

“You said it yourself. ‘Let’s do it when we’re adults.’ So that should be fine, right?”

Why did it suddenly become like this…!

Alfred’s replies are so sudden, and the nature of his replies are really troubling. I’m shocked speechless for a moment.

“No—”

“Promise me. If you do… I’ll stop this instant.”

“Tha—” My mind is fuzzy. What… are you saying?

“Hey…” Alfred’s voice snaps me back to my senses. “What will you choose?” He whispers this close to my ear, his voice low and dropping a few octaves. Then he licks my ear. A shiver runs down my back.

Should I choose to do it now? Or wait until we become adults, evading the current situation?

Eh, wait a minute.

Why are there only two options?

“…Where’s the ‘won’t do’ option?”

“Doesn’t exist.”

“Eh!? W-wait a minute! What the hell is that!? Thatー waaahhh!”

In one fluid motion, he pulls down my underwear. I try to fight him on that, grabbing his arms.

“I-I understand! I understand, already! Let’s do it when we’re adults!”

…I choose to evade the current situation.

I mean, if this keeps going, I’ll definitely be done by him─no, no way! Don’t be stupid!

Anyway, for now, my top priority is to escape from this inevitable situation.

After that, I can think about the next step.

“Then at that time, I can do it?”

“Eh!? D-doー”

Do what? To who?

I probably shouldn’t ask. I definitely shouldn’t. My gut feeling says so.

All of a sudden, I recall something extremely important.

The ‘Holy Maiden’.

That’s right.

In two years, you’ll meet the Holy Maiden, right?

And then…

“A-after two years!!”

“…Two years?”

“Yes, two years. You probably won’t feel the same in two years, but if in two years you somehow get the impulse to do things to me againー”

After you meet Holy Maiden…

You will surely come to realize that your current delusional feelings are just a misunderstanding.

For some reason, my chest hurts a bit thinking about this.

I am certainly… under the same delusion too, huh…

Since we have such great chemistry, it is easy for us to be washed away with our feelings. Probably.

I have to be careful. If we touch each other too much, this will happen again.

“…Why in two years?”

“T-that…”

How should I explain it?

I mean, there’s no way I can mention the ‘Holy Maiden’ to Alfred.

He won’t know who that is, since it’s someone he’ll meet in the future. And I shouldn’t let him know either, to keep the plot on track.

Soon, his hands release his grip on my underwear. Yet before I can feel relieved, he caresses my body once more.

“Hyah! I-I told you, no…”

Even if I want to run away, I’m pressed down on the bed, unable to escape. My heart beats out of control; my breathing becomes hard and painful.

“I-I beg you, A-Alfred, wait… no…I really …don’t want to…!!”

He suddenly stops.

Opening my eyes, I see his own narrowed. Reflecting upon his pupils is a shade of hurt.

“A-Al…?”

“The small star the Goddess tossed into this world, which will always twinkle beside me, illuminating my way, huh…”

“W-what?”

“…Nothing…That’s right… If you come to hate me… And disappear from my side… I don’t know what I’ll do…”

“Eh?”

His words confuse me. A long, no. A very long sigh escapes his lips, full of remorse and an unwillingness to part. As though he’s bearing the weight of the world.

“…I understand. Then… Can we do it two years later?” Alfred stares into my face.

His eyes tremble, filled with a heat. Totally unlike a child’s.

“Yes…”

“I can?”

“Eh, ah…”

“I can, right?”

“Huh? Y-yeah…””

But then I realize what I said.

“N-no! What I said just now doesn’t count!”

“You said I can.”

“No I didn’t! Just now I──”

Yet Alfred shuts me up with a kiss, eyes crinkling in a smile.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ADULT… ADULT…!?

WHAT

PROMISE TO DO SNUSNU WHEN OTONA

AMAZING

Here lies mii who had died 4683928 times in her whole life because of fluff, the will be uploaded by mii #4683929

Also, we will have another editor starting chapter 15.51! And if everything went well, 15.4 will be released tomorrow! (｀・ω・´)ゞ