THIS IS R18 NOVEL — IT CONTAINS NSFW MATERIALS AND I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SPOILER
“──Excuse me, you there”
He was suddenly called out on the street.
There happened to be no other passersby other than Kouichi. He tried to look around just to be sure, but there was no one nearby, except for Kouichi, and then the other person who seemed to have called out to him.
“U-umm, are you talking to me? Maybe?”
“There’s no one else here, you know?”
It was morning — he was on his way to his vocational school.
The vocational school Kouichi was attending was a bit distance away from the train station. It would take him about ten minutes by foot if he used the straightforward main street.
But if he walked in as much of a straight line as possible, weaving through small alleys that seemed to be known only to locals, it would save him about three minutes. And if he had three minutes to spare, he could also take the later train.
For Kouichi, who wanted to sleep until the last possible moment in the morning, the difference of three minutes was huge.
Thus, Kouichi would often commute to his school through those alleys — however.
“Umm, excuse me…?”
Kouichi, he slightly put himself on guard — it was because the other person was dressed a little strangely.
In this early fall, a period of time where the summer heat was still lingering in the air, wearing a hood fully pulled over the head and a long overcoat-like outfit. In addition, a desk covered with a piece of velvet and sitting on a folding chair.
Seeing the stack of tarot cards on the desk, the person seemed to be a fortune teller. The so-called street fortune teller was rarely seen these days, however──
“You are haunted by a demon, you know?” that person appearing to be a fortune teller suddenly told him so.
Since the fortune teller was sitting with the head down on top of having the hood pulled over the eyes, from Kouichi’s side, all he could see was the mouth, but the fortune teller seemed to be a young woman.
“Ah, ye-yes”
Kouichi immediately gave a nod.
He didn’t know if the expression of “haunted” was applicable, but there was a vampire girl staying in Kouichi’s apartment. It seemed that, different from the folklore, she would not turn into ashes when exposed to sunlight, but she said, “I try my best not to go out during the day when the sun is strong,” and would always stay inside the apartment during the day.
“……”
Since Kouichi so easily affirmed it, the other side seemed to be a little bewildered, however.
“You have the divine protection of someone, so no demon should be able to harm you in a half-hearted way, but…”
“Divine protection? Not some kind of curse or anything?”
“……Well, it’s kind of a similar thing,” she said, and cleared her throat.
Then the fortune teller reached her hand to her chest pocket, seemingly rummaging for something.
“For the poor you who are haunted by a demon, let me share this with you,” she said, presenting him a small bottle that would fit in a palm.
It seemed to be made of glass, and was so elaborately made that it looked like a perfume bottle. Many flat surfaces were intricately combined — sunlight raining down from the sky was split into pieces as if it were a prism, and it drew a small rainbow on the fortune teller’s palm.
“What is this?”
“It’s holy water. It has the effect of repelling evil spirits. It also works on demons. You can open the lid and shower them with it, or throw the whole bottle at them with enough force to break it” the fortune teller said, in an indifferent, without-any-sense-of-human-emotions tone of voice.
“Umm, well, I’m a student, so money is──”
“It’s free of charge during free service period,” the fortune teller pushed the bottle to Kouichi a little forcefully.
Her hand immediately went back into her pocket, and the next time it came out, there was a small piece of paper between her fingers. He thought it was some kind of a tarot card, but when he took a look at it, there was only a row of letters on the white surface that looked like an email address.
“If you ever wish for more, please contact me here”
“….Uhuh”
Kouichi gave a vague nod and took the business card-like piece of paper.
This is that, isn’t it. The business where it’s not free from the second one, isn’t it. Holy water would be sent for a fixed monthly payment, isn’t it. And setting up a free holy water dispenser in the corner of the room, isn’t it.
Then Kouichi snapped out of it──
“Ah, excuse me, I’m in a hurry, so I have to go!” he said, heading towards his vocational school in a hurry. Unlike in middle and high school, he wouldn’t be yelled at if he was late for 5 minutes or so, but missing a lecture would be a waste of tuition.
“……”
When he exited the alley and looked back over his shoulder… Surprisingly, the fortune teller was no longer there.
●
At another place at the same time — in Kouichi’s apartment room.
“Hmmm? ……Oh, I see?”
Astrid was lying down on the bed, using Kouichi’s computer tablet to gather information by herself.
Although she was gathering information, she didn’t have a specific objective in mind. She was simply trying to find how the world had changed as a result of being sealed for about twelve years.
Unlike the turbulent twentieth century, there was less dramatic technological innovation since entering the twenty-first century… But, subtle changes were occurring evenly across various fields, and she couldn’t be negligent.
“… Muber, Eats? What? Are they deliberately saying ‘home delivery’ in another way? Japanese people’s love for loanwords is still the same, isn’t it?”
If Kouichi was next to her, he would’ve quipped with “It’s different,” but unfortunately, he was going to his vocational school, and Astrid would be house-sitting alone until evening.
It was an information gathering that she started to also kill time until Kouichi came back, however… Astrid had already reached a dead end, or rather, she had pretty much looked up all the changes in the areas of politics, economics, law, and such. So Astrid now was repeating the endless cycle of finding words that seemed inconsequential and looking them up.
Among those──
“… Huh?”
Her fingers, which had been gliding over the tablet, suddenly stopped.
Not sure how she got there — however — on the screen, there was something that said “Love-Making Technique to Make Him Go Crazy.”
“……”
Astrid sat up on the bed and used the tablet again.
“Oh… Ohoh? Even that, too? Ah, is that so? Uwahh…”
While muttering to herself, she continued to follow the love-making instructions, or rather, bed techniques.
“I-I’ve only heard about it, though. … I see… Oh, I see?”
For a while, she eagerly stared at the page with its questionable contents.
“……”
She then reached out her right hand between her slightly open thighs.
The sweatpants she had borrowed from Kouichi, which she didn’t return, were as baggy as ever, and especially around the waist which was very loose. So reaching her hand down to stroke her belly, her hand naturally slipped into it.
For underwear, she wasn’t wearing one.
“……”
When she flopped down again and stirred her legs, the sweatpants ended up slipping off down to her knees.
No one was watching, and she was a vampire girl who was fine with walking around stark naked in the first place. If anything, Astrid was flapping her legs and took it all off, as if to say, “Annoying, it’s in the way,” and then put her fingers on her secret crack.
First, a light stroke on the labia.
“… Ahh”
That alone was enough to make her let out her voice.
“… Kouichi…” and muttering his name, who was not in this place.
She was a vampire over two hundred years old — naturally, she had at least some experience with masturbation before she met Kouichi.
However, to tell the truth, Astrid wasn’t much of a “feeler,” and her sexual desires were truly only very occasionally relieved. It was just something she would “do” if she came up with the idea as a way to kill time.
Even when it concerned bed techniques… In the first place, she had never shared a bedroom with the opposite sex, so this was the first time she had actively researched and gathered knowledge about it on her own.
For vampires who had no real lifespan, the voice of instinct that pushed the act of “having children” — the sexual drive was, as a matter of fact, not that strong.
For most creatures, breeding was an intuition to “prolong” their life by dividing it to another individual — but immortal creatures that did not need to prolong their life were having sexual intercourse, not out of fervent survival instinct, but simply as a part of their “taste.”
So if the act of sex simply didn’t interest them, or if it didn’t suit their taste, they wouldn’t think of actively trying to have sex with others. In the case of Astrid, she should be that kind of “sexually indifferent” vampire.
And yet──
“Kouichi… Kouichi… Oh no… Nahh…”
Murmuring, Astrid sped up the movement of her fingers.
At first, she was playing around with her labia, but as her secret place got wetter, that became not enough.
Without hesitation, Astrid inserted her fingers and fingered her own vagina, which until a few days ago had never even accepted a foreign object. Her secret place, which was secreting a lot of love juice from the fingering, accepted her fingers without any particular trouble — though.
“… Kouichi… It’s… It’s your fault… Okay…?”
Astrid called out Kouichi’s name in a stifled voice.
It was like accusing him, but… Right now, Astrid was strongly seeking for Kouichi.
Him by right beside her, him piling his skin on top of hers, him panting, him touching her… There was no such stuff. She wanted to be hugged. To be licked. To be bitten. She wanted him to do all kinds of things to her. In addition — she wished for that hard, erect penis to fill her own vagina.
Fingers alone weren’t enough. Truly not enough.
When Kouichi’s penis was inserted, there was a sense of satisfaction of having the void inside of her was being filled fully, thoroughly──
Kouichi…! Just from three or four acts… My inside has… Already adapted to the shape of your thing, you know…?
If Kouichi himself heard it, he would surely panic, saying, “That’s a false accusation.” But those words only echoed in Astrid’s chest, not spoken. And as already mentioned, there was no one else present.
“Kouichi… Kouichi…!! Ah, ah, aahh…”
The movements of her fingers going in and out of the labia drooling with love juice quickened up. Schlop, schlop. Astrid’s arousal was stirred up fiercely by the sound made — however, it was still not enough.
Or better say, she felt lonely.
“……”
How would Kouichi make love to me?
She recalled the act done with Kouichi in the back of her mind in detail. She persuaded herself that these fingers were Kouichi’s fingers, and assumed she was being held by Kouichi — she imagined what would be next if it was him.
“… Kouichi…”
Speaking of which, he was tenaciously licking Astrid’s breasts.
As expected, Astrid’s breasts weren’t big enough for her to lick it herself, and her body also wasn’t that flexible. So instead, she tried to massage her breasts with her free left hand.
“Kouichi… Ahh… Ahhh… More… More… Stronglyy…”
While strongly teasing both sides — her nipples and labia — with her fingers, she tried to appeal as if she was being held by Kouichi. Directly, since that blockhead would surely be puzzled and tilt his head if it was in a roundabout way.
“My… Vagina… My pussy… Lick it, lick it more…? More strongly… Good, like that, Clit… My clitoris is… Ah, aahh, around my clitoris, more…”
Obstinately. I want you to lick me relentlessly.
“You can do the nipples too… Kay…? Nn… Ah… Don’t, one side only… Play… With both…”
Astrid continued masturbating, aroused by her own words.
It was still somewhat tantalizing compared to when Kouichi was holding her, however──
“Kouichi, Kouichi… Ahh… More, moore… Do me… More…”
Her hips bounced unconsciously.
Pushed by the pleasure, Astrid writhed her body and rubbed her thighs together.
“Good, it’s so… Gooood… Moore…”
Lick me more. No. Enough with the licking. So quickly — I want you to plunge that erect, throbbing, thing between your legs into my wet crotch. I want my inside filled with your hot meat rod and cloudy liquid. Astrid appealed to Kouichi in her imagination.
And then──
“Kouichiii…!”
She wanted him to call her name, just like her calling his name.
But naturally, there was no voice to respond to Astrid’s voice──
“Ah… Cumming… I’m cumming… Kay…? Nn…. Naaahhh!”
Astrid was climaxing as she bent up in a big arch on the bed.
Stretching out her feet and shuddering, enjoying the pleasure that ran through her body — and several seconds later, pomf, her body plopped down on the bed. Still, her breathing was ragged, and it took her a while to settle down.
“……”
Dimly looking up at the ceiling, she blinked. Twice, thrice.
“──Alright”
Astrid suddenly got up from the bed with a strangely refreshing expression… And then fished through the wardrobe fitted into the room and took out Kouichi’s jeans and shirt. Of course just like the sweatshirt and pants, the sizes were totally not for her, but if she fastened it with a belt or something, there was nothing she couldn’t wear.
“Goodness, Kouichi… He’s a hopeless kid, isn’t he?” Astrid muttered, hurriedly put on sandals, took out one of the umbrellas from the umbrella stand at the entrance, and left the room. After closing the door — and locking it by making only her fingers pass through from the outside with “wall slip,” Astrid, like a maiden on her way to a date with her lover, walked away cheerfully.
●
Kouichi’s vocational school’s faculty for manga artist education.
As the name would suggest, it was a place to teach manga artist candidates the technical skill to draw manga… And of course, while attending school, students were expected to actually draw their own mangas, and have them critiqued or looked over by lecturers, such as professional manga artists and editors.
“……”
Lunch break, Kouichi had received his corrected manuscript from the Office of Academic Affairs, and was looking at it while munching on a sandwich from a convenience store in the resting area.
What Kouichi drew was a sixteen-page one-shot manga.
The genre was romantic comedy and fantasy. It was a rather trendy theme these days.
Kouichi, a serious person at heart, neatly crammed in all kinds of things he was taught at school, also followed the lecturers’ teachings, and drew carefully… Or so he thought.
‘It lacks decisiveness’
It was scribbled with a red pen on a largish sticky note on the returned drafts. Other drawing errors and such were pointed out on small sticky notes, but the first one caught Kouichi’s attention the most.
“Decisiveness…”
He had carefully practiced what he had been taught, and also had thoroughly read the technique book that had been given as a textbook, and thought he had completed it exactly according to that.
But nevertheless, the evaluation of Kouichi’s manga wasn’t very high. Always. This time as well.
Not that it was bad, but it didn’t feel interesting. No freedom. It wasn’t daring.
Generally, that was the evaluation.
“I wonder what’s bad exactly……”
It wasn’t that he was doubting the lecturers’ evaluation, but their words were often vague, or rather, lacked concreteness, making it unclear for Kouichi to know what to do to improve.
Even if he was told, “it lacks decisiveness,” would that be about story building, or perhaps the way the lines were drawn, the background of the characters, or about the balance between the background and the characters…
“It lacks decisiveness… Hmmmm”
“Certainly, you have a thing about being indecisive in every opportunity, right?”
“You might be ri — eh?”
Kouichi looked up in surprise at the voice that suddenly came from his side.
When he looked — he found a blonde vampire girl standing with her hands on her hips.
“A… Astrid!?”
“Yup. It’s me, Astrid”
Astrid nodded with a sunny smile.
It wasn’t vampire-like when she was so thoroughly doing it. There was nothing of the gloomy image that should’ve come attached to the word “vampire.” Just what kind of human life, or rather, vampire life she had led so far.
Furthermore──
“Can you try calling my name more?” so she said with a slight blush on her cheeks for some reason.
“Eh? Astrid──”
“Yep. Just like that. You can keep repeating it. Like, wistfully”
“Astrid… Astrid…?”
“Yep. Sounds nice… Can I record it when we get home?”
“No, why would you — wait, why are you here!?”
“Because I’m tired of surfing the net at home. I’m here to visit the vocational school you attend”
“Nuhuh, that’s not the reason I’m asking, alright? I’m asking how did you get──”
“If you’re talking about direction, I searched for it online, and the location immediately came with a map, you know?”
“Ah… I see”
Various documents and envelopes he brought back from the school would have included the name and address of this vocational school, so with a little research, it would certainly be possible to get here from Kouichi’s apartment.
Because Astrid was someone who was a hundred, two hundred years old, it was easy to unintentionally assume that she was someone who wasn’t familiar with the internet and digital devices… But she was sealed away only for twelve years, which meant whether she was born in the Edo period or something, it was natural that she would’ve been suitably adapted to the 21st century.
“I also got the permission from the receptionist at the entrance, here”
She pointed to her chest.
On the bulging area of the shirt, there was a small plate that said “Visiting” as though it was a name tag.
Incidentally, because of the thin fabric, the shape of her breasts could clearly be seen, or rather, her nipples could even be slightly seen through, and it was entirely clear that she wasn’t wearing any underwear, but… It would probably be futile to explain the need for underwear and pasties to this vampire who wouldn’t hesitate to go out naked.
“When I said I’m Hikawa Kouichi’s relative, I was immediately given this, you know?”
“Eh……”
Just as he wondered what she did for the name and address to get the permission for a visit, apparently, they had skipped the details since she was “a student’s relative.” That in itself was fine, but how could a no-bra girl, with facial features clearly not that of a Japanese, and blonde hair with unparalleled brilliance, be Kouichi’s “relative” — just how she was perceived by the Office of Academic Affairs’ staffs.
I hope it won’t cause any weird misunderstandings, thus Kouichi was at his wits’ end.
“Wait, you’re fine with walking around during the day, too!?”
“Eh? Aah, I didn’t tell you?”
For some reason, with a proud expression, Astrid tapped the floor with her umbrella.
“For those kins with thin blood, well, it’ll be tough to walk around during the day, though. But I’m a naturally occurring vampire — in other words one of the ‘true ancestors,’ whatever that means. I can sunbathe, too, you know? But it’s gonna be awful afterwards if I get sunburned so I won’t, though”
“Is-is that so?”
“In general, all vampires have weak skin. Direct sunlight is, of course, so I’ve got this to block it,” Astrid said, showing him holding up the umbrella.
It wasn’t a parasol, but it was black, so it should provide protection from sunlight, including ultraviolet rays, to a certain extent.
“I can also bend light with telekinesis anyway. And even applying sunscreen helps to some extent, you know?”
“… It’s very different from vampires in folklore, isn’t it…”
Big words like “folklore” were used, but in actuality, it was a “telephone game,” so to speak, that had been going on for decades, centuries of periods, and through hundreds and thousands of people. It would not be weird if the truths were twisted and passed down in a strange way.
“By the way, I’ve actually never been to this kind of vocational school before, but it’s pretty interesting, isn’t it?”
“Really? I think it’s a boring place for people who don’t have the interest”
In fact, Kouichi was indeed attending the faculty for manga artist education, but he practically had no interest in the faculty for voice acting or visual arts within the same vocational school. It seemed this was not limited to Kouichi, and there was not much exchange with other students from other faculties to begin with.
However──
“This is the birthplace of the next great manga artists, right?” Astrid said as she looked at the posters and color illustrations drawn by the students on the wall of the resting area.
“No, well, it’s not like it’s already certain. Like, every year, it’s also not uncommon for no one to be able to make their debut…” Kouichi said with a wry smile.
Just because someone attended a vocational school, it didn’t mean they could become a manga artist, much less everyone who made their debut could become a great manga artist and make a hit.
If anything, the corpses of those who couldn’t even make their debut, those who didn’t make a name for themselves even if they did and were forced to quit, and so on, were piling up under the feet of a handful of successful people — such was the basic structure of the entertainment industry. That was also something that Kouichi had been drilled repeatedly into him by the lecturers.
“Eeh? Is that so? You rejected my offer, betting on an uncertain possibility? Gosh, Kouichi, what’s with you? Are you a challenger?”
Kouichi thought that rejecting it was normal, but well, it might seem strange to the perception of Astrid who was a vampire.
“Speaking of which, do you read anything like manga, Astrid?”
He didn’t have a strong image of a vampire reading manga, however.
“Of course I do. Living eternally as a vampire means, in other words, like a never-ending game of killing time, okay? I read novels, and of course manga, too. I also watch anime, movies, and dramas. I even enjoy playing online games, you know? Naturally, the recent social games? I’ve never spent much time on it, though”
“I mean, I don’t have a smartphone,” Astrid continued and shrugged her shoulders.
“… My image of vampires is…”
Well, obviously there were online games twelve years ago, and since before the war — since the mid-twentieth century, there should already be mangas around. In the sense of “manga reader,” Astrid might be Kouichi’s great predecessor.
“If anything, thanks to the introduction of manga, anime, and video games, even vampires going on about ‘ruling the underworld,’ ‘human-livestock,’ and ‘world domination’ are fewer, you know? I think humans in this world should be more grateful to creators, you know?”
“No, wait, did vampires in the past scheme world domination to kill time!?”
Well, if you lived for hundreds of years, you’d probably exhaust things to do, and then perhaps you’d even feel like, “Alright then, let’s see how far I can go.”
“Anyway, I just feel bored when I’m home alone. Will you show me around? Or rather, spend time with me?” Astrid said — grabbing the sleeve of Kouichi’s clothes and talking like she was a cat or a dog.
She herself should’ve been considering herself to be the “master” of Kouichi, though.
“…Well, but,” then the ball signalling the end of lunch break rang.
●
Since he had afternoon class, Kouichi cold-heartedly left Astrid to go to the classroom.
As he was repeatedly bowing his head, saying, “I’m so sorry, I really am,” it was hard even for Astrid to force him to show her around.
And so──
“Kouichi is, really, he’s cold-hearted, isn’t he?”
As she was walking around the school while mumbling things, a lecturer who happened to be available approached her… Perhaps because seeing the “Visiting” tag on her chest. When she asked, the lecturer seemed to be a lecturer in the manga faculty, and when she mentioned Kouichi’s name, the lecturer immediately gave her a nod with an understanding look. It saved Astrid some trouble since the talk was going quick.
“Kouichi wants to be a manga artist, right?”
“Well, he’s even in the manga faculty, after all,” the lecturer smiled wryly.
The lecturer was a large, middle-aged man with a bandana wrapped around his head like a hat. His appearance didn’t look much like a manga artist or an editor, but… When looked carefully, there was a callus on the middle finger of his right hand, telling her that he was quite the veteran of a manga artist.
“Speaking of which, your Japanese is pretty good”
“Is that so? You won’t get anything from complimenting me, you know?”
Astrid nodded with a smile.
Based on her facial features and white skin, it seemed that the lecturer — or rather, the staffs of the academic affairs seemed to think that Astrid was a foreigner, if not a half-Japanese, or quarter-Japanese. But in fact, Astrid wasn’t born in Japan, and in over two hundred years of her life, she spent a greater proportion of it in Western and Eastern Europe.
“Well, setting that aside, how about Kouichi?”
“‘How’? Hikawa-kun is a serious student, though”
“I know that, but that’s not what I’m talking about, you see? I was just wondering if Kouichi had any talent to be a manga artist”
“Hmmm?”
For some reason the lecturer groaned, looking uneasy.
While Astrid had thought she had chosen a trifling topic, it seemed that she had touched a fairly deep-rooted issue.
“Regardless of talent, to be honest, I don’t think it has much to do with a debut as a manga artist. That being said, well, when it comes to Hikawa-kun, he has the impression of really lacking ‘freedom.’ That’s from my own judgement, though”
“Freedom…? Does that mean ‘decisiveness?’”
“Well, I guess so. Like, he lacks decisiveness”
The lecturer nodded.
“Where, exactly?”
“In everything, equally”
“…… Everything…”
“He is, someone serious, and has actually perfectly learned the drawing techniques. Like rough design, and the way to get the perspectives that everyone finds bothersome… And homeworks and assignments, he also finished it without fail. But that really is all,” the lecturer shrugged.
“He lacks showiness. I guess I could put it that way, too”
“Showiness…”
“So probably, this is his ‘way of looking at things,’ that’s what I think. Then no matter how much I try to explain it in words, it would often be too vague to get across”
He gave a short sigh… Maybe feeling ashamed of not being able to teach well as a lecturer.
“Having said that, he is overserious, so even if I explain every single detail of what was ‘haven’t been put thoughts into,’ he’d just fix that part and be happy. But that’s not solving the issue. We’re also having trouble on how to teach him, though”
“So complete treatment is necessary, not symptomatic treatment… Something like that?”
“Indeed. If I were to put it in terms of illness, right — I should say start from life improvement. If poorly done, you could end up breaching even into private life and sense of values. For other people to come and say ‘change it,’ well, it would be tyrannical, wouldn’t it?”
It seemed that this lecturer was concerned about Kouichi in his own way after all.
Hard work was not always rewarded, not only in the manga industry, it was the nature of the world. But even so, feeling that someone who was serious and continuing to work hard should be rewarded was also, a human nature.
“Decisiveness… Showiness… Hmm? Ah, thank you for the kind explanation,” Astrid said and gave the lecturer a light bow.
●
As usual, he also took the afternoon class.
And then also staying behind after class to use the school equipment to practice drawing manga.
Nowadays, it was not uncommon to use computers for manga production, and the equipment for digitally-related work had also become inexpensive… Nevertheless, to be pedantic, when compared to the days when all was needed was a pen and paper to get by, an appropriate investment was something still necessary.
Software for drawing, or rather image processing, tended to be “heavy” for the most part. It would be even more true if 3D materials were used for backgrounds to save labor. You couldn’t even draw elaborate drawings without thinking twice. If unlucky, it would even freeze, and you’d lose all the data of the drawing you spent hours drawing.
Furthermore, you’d also need a scanner to import the line drawing made on paper, and a pen tablet with LCD screen that was essential for modifying and processing images on the computer.
Naturally… When it concerned a computer and peripheral equipment that could be used without stress and anxiety, something high performance was required. And for such equipment in general, it would often be bulky on top of being costly, making it hard for Kouichi who was living in a small, old, cheap apartment to own his own equipment.
Thus, Kouichi was polishing his digital manga production skills using the equipment the school was lending as much as possible, but──
“Hnngg─…”
After working for a long time, his shoulders were getting stiff as expected.
Kouichi stretched out his body on the chair while letting out a voice that couldn’t be described as a moan.
There were no other students around. Nor were there lecturers.
The school equipment was expensive and well-equipped, but since they didn’t upgrade it to the latest model every year, some of it was becoming outdated. Students with deep pockets hated to use such old equipment and they’d buy everything on their own, so a student like Kouichi, who would stay behind until late at school to study on his own, was actually rare.
“I guess I should wrap things up for today,” Kouichi muttered, saving the file he was working on and closing the drawing software.
And then──
“What? What’re you doing? Just when I thought you’re not picking me up”
Such a voice came.
“──Astrid”
When he turned his head towards the entrance of the classroom, he found a blonde, cute vampire standing there with her hands on her hips.
“Ah, sorry. I thought you’d gone home”
Once the class was over, he went to check the lounge, but Astrid was not there. So Kouichi thought she had already returned to the apartment, and then he went to do “self-study” after class.
“Aah, so there’s a kind lecturer. Then I’ve got shown around the place, you know?”
“…Uhuh”
“It was pretty interesting, I think? But as expected, I got worn-out from wandering around in the daytime”
“… Didn’t you say you were okay with sunlight?”
“I’m fine, but vampires are night creatures by nature, so…”
“You mean a night owl?”
“It’s different. It’s the biorhythm — well, never mind that. In any case, I’m worn-out. I’m worn-out, you know? Kouichi,” Astrid said, closing the classroom door on her back.
Clack. Such a sound could be heard — it was most likely the sound of it being locked.
“Astrid?”
She was already right in front of Kouichi before he could ask “What are you doing?”
Her amber-colored eyes were staring intently at Kouichi.
Behind the blood color, a deep, deep penetrating darkness reminiscent of the night sky.
Something seeming to be swirling could be seen there──
──Ah
This is “charm.” He understood it. But if just once, if a vampire’s charm was cast just once, there was nothing Kouichi could do.
“I’m worn-out. And so, your drop of life… Please?” Astrid whispered into Kouichi’s ear, pressing her cheek against his.
“… Astrid…”
Eh? No way, right here?
Words of hesitation, too, however, did not come out of his mouth.
Calling her name without any meaning, trembling, Kouichi’s lips were lapped by Astrid’s.
It had been about a week since his first experience. During that time, he had slept with Astrid several times, but always — as if it was a promise — the first step in their love affair was to kiss each other.
And this time as well. Putting it the other way around, if Astrid kissed him, in other words, it was a signal for “let’s have sex.”
“……”
As if it was natural, inside his pants, inside his underwear, Kouichi was feeling his male genitalia getting harder. Even if there was no such signal to being with, Astrid’s kiss was so passionate that it was enough to arouse Kouichi.
But──
“… Kouichi”
Their lips parted, and Astrid whispered while play-biting his ear.
“Today… You can do as you like, kay?”
“……Eh”
A faint but surprised voice leaked out from Kouichi’s lips.
“What do you want? I’m in a good mood today, you see? I could even go along with your selfishness, you know?”
“…… Even if I was asked… What I… Want…”
Kouichi was nothing but confused.
In the first place, from the first time, Astrid had been telling him, “don’t hesitate.”
So after that, even only on the second time he slept with her, Kouichi had been allowed to do what he wanted to do. Like licking, fondling, and lightly biting Astrid’s boobs. Or like rubbing his raging penis penis against Astrid’s boobs, thighs, and stomach.
But, well, only to that extent.
“Things I want to do” that he had, who had been a virgin just until the other day, didn’t amount to much.
For Kouichi, as long as he could kiss Astrid again and again, and ejaculate deep inside her vagina at the end, that was already great. There was nothing in particular that he──
“I want to be serviced… By you… Astrid…”
──Nothing in particular that he wanted to do, was what he should’ve been thinking, however.
Kouichi expressed a desire that he himself wasn’t even aware of. Perhaps this was also the effect of “charm.”
“… Serviced? Even if only temporary — it’s really just temporary, but do you wanna be serviced by your master?”
Astrid was tilting her head. However, she was also smiling satisfiedly, for some reason. As if she had exactly expected it.
“How exactly?”
“I want you to… Kneel down… And suck… And lick… My standing… Dick… Like a dog… And I… Look down… From above… Astrid”
“Oh, I see?”
Astrid smoothly slid her body down and knelt in front of Kouichi.
She lovingly stroked Kouchi’s first-rate specimen inside the pants once — then unbuckled the belt, undid the button, and slid Kouichi’s pants down to his knees along with his underwear.
In the process, his underwear got caught on his erect penis — the next moment, Kouichi’s unleashed meat stick, pang, slapped the vampire girl’s cheek, making a dry sound.
“… Nn”
For a moment, a scared look crossed Astrid’s face.
Seeing that──
“……”
Kouichi felt a jolt of pleasure running up his spine.
Even if he had been told to by Astrid to embrace her as he liked since the first time until now — during the act, it always felt like she was in control. Kouichi didn’t do anything she disliked, nor did he want to. He simply wanted to make her feel good.
However — right now.
Seeing a frightened-like expression on Astrid’s face had ignited the sadistic desires lying dormant inside Kouichi.
The pleasure of being serviced by a vampire girl claiming to be the master.
And──
“Lick it… Don’t use your hands…”
“……”
A moment of hesitation.
“……Nn”
And then — as though making up her mind, Astrid nodded her head and lowered her hands, placing her palms on the floor and making a posture like a dog doing “sit.”
From there, she stretched out her neck and stuck out her tongue, and began to lick up Kouichi’s erect penis from below, like an animal drinking water.
It was the first time for him to have her do oral.
Perhaps because not used to it, her blowjob was somewhat clumsy. There were moments when the tip of her tongue scraped the air in vain, unable to lick his throbbing meat stick well. Though, that also excited Kouichi, who was looking down from above.
Moreover, the place was not at home, but at his school’s classroom.
He was making a beautiful vampire girl kneel down like a dog, and lick his erect penis in that room where he was usually studying seriously with other students aspiring to be a manga artist. The sight of Astrid earnestly stimulating Kouichi’s meat stick with her lips and tongue, despite showing a slight hint of confusion at the unfamiliar act, gave him a strong guilty pleasure and a sense of conquest.
“Ahh…”
Even the sight of her chasing Kouichi’s penis jerking and throbbing up with her tongue and lips looked extremely laudable.
Before long──
“Nnnn…”
As if to say, “got you,” Astrid slightly lifted her hands and stretched out her body to catch Kouichi’s penis with her lips. With plenty of saliva on the rod, her lips went down to the base instead of the glans. And eventually, she even went to carefully and thoroughly nibble at the sack containing the testicles and the pubic hair with her lips and crawl her tongue, smearing it with drool.
She licked, licked, licked, and then as if she just remembered it — she pulled away her lips briefly, and lovingly kissed it. Chu, chu, chu. The sound of her lips kissing it, making a wet sound, was extraordinarily obscene.
“… Astrid…”
“──Nn?” Astrid stopped her tongue and stared at Kouichi with upturned eyes.
That sight of her was truly adorable — lewd.
“It feels… Good…”
“Really? …I’m glad. So you’re feeling it that much with my mouth?”
“…So… Good… Sorry… I think it’s coming soon…”
“Is that so? But — you’re still holding back, right?” Astrid asked, looking up at Kouichi as she knelt down.
“Was licking all you wanted, Kouichi?”
“──Eh?”
“Do you want me, to just lick?” Astrid asked while rubbing her cheek against Kouichi’s penis, much like a cat than a dog.
He could tell by her hot breath touching his lower abdomen that she was also aroused.
Kouichi, who was controlled by “charm” even to the level of his instincts, could not resist her words. The lust, which he practically wasn’t even aware of usually — the desire which he had suppressed with his serious nature, he spoke of it brazenly.
“Hold it… In your… Mouth… All the way in”
“……”
Next instant, Astrid opened her mouth, and swallowed Kouichi’s bulging thing.
“Astrid…!”
The warm inside of the mouth’s mucous membrane, the lips, tongue, and then — the teeth.
Those wrapped up Kouichi’s rod seething with desire, and stimulated it. In the inside of already slippery Astrid’s mouth, her tongue was licking all over the sensitive glans. And sometimes he could feel her teeth, no, her fangs, lightly caught on the glans’ corona — the umbrella part of his penis.
Will she bite it? Such a momentary fear was immediately washed away by pleasure, and his mind was filled with simple pleasure and the sense of conquest from violating her mouth.
“Astrid, Astrid, aahh, it-it feels good, feels so good…”
“……”
Naturally, Astrid couldn’t reply with her mouth stuffed full with Kouichi’s genitals, but she began to shake her head wildly.
From her cute lips, a man’s thing that should also be called friendish began to move in and out.
Astrid was servicing Kouichi’s penis with her long, characteristic blond hair disheveled — unmistakably in such a wholehearted state. She slipped in her both free hands inside her shirt and jeans, respectively, and began to caress her breasts and crotch herself — perhap she also became so aroused, unable to endure it.
Her lips tightened even more.
“Astrid!”
Kouichi unconsciously grabbed her head and started to rock it back and forth.
From blowjob to face-fucking. Kouichi was now in control of the caressing action in her mouth.
He engrossingly moved Astrid’s head, rocked his hips back and forth, and shoved his male genitalia deep into her throat. Although such a forceful act should also be a heavy burden on the woman’s side — Kouichi already had no room to worry about Astrid. He was simply obeying the animalistic lust that had been set free by “charm.”
Before long──
“Ahh, no good, sorry, it’s coming — out…!”
While raising a scream-like voice, Kouichi reached the end of his endurance — unleashing a blast of semen into the back of Astrid’s throat. For a moment, Astrid’s body trembled in surprised, but never separating her mouth from his meat rod──
“……!”
Astrid, with her lips clamped down around the glans, went to gulp and drink up Kouichi’s semen.
Together with several convulsions, intermittent pleasure assailed him. As if every last one of them was trying to storm into Astrid’s inside, the semen from his testicles passed through his urethra — each time, a small wave of pleasure ran through him.
“Uwahh… Ahh…”
Kouichi looked up at the ceiling and let out a womanly moan.
And then──
“Uuwh… Cough… Cough…”
Perhaps it was tough as one would expect — Astrid, who had pulled her mouth away from Kouichi’s penis, was having a coughing fit.
“Are… Are you okay?”
“Ah, yep… I’m okay,” Astrid replied — scooping up Kouichi’s semen remaining at the corner of her mouth with her finger — and slowly licked it off with her tongue. Thoroughly. Meticulously. As if to show it off to Kouichi.
She had the looks of a young girl, yet the obscenity of a skilled prostitute.
Moreover──
“Even more, okay?” was what Astrid told him.
Her amber colored eyes, once again, looked into Kouichi’s eyes.
Something even stronger than the earlier “charm,” he could feel it penetrating into him through the gaze.
Strongly, strongly, all the way to Kouichi’s — innermost, depths.
Something was afflicting him. Something was violating him.
What… What is she…?
“Really, you’re so stubborn, you know? Kouichi,” Astrid said, sweetly smiling.
“Can’t you simply do what you want with just releasing the ‘restraint’ with ‘charm?’”
“…Eh…?”
“What’s with you? Are you an ascetic monk? Are you trying to be some kind of saint?” Astrid asked, looking slightly astonished.
“I do think it’s admirable to have a strong spirit of self-denial, but putting up with it too much is bad for the body, you know? I’m a vampire, so I’m not gonna break so easily anyway. There’s no need to hesitate, so your lust, will you thoroughly — show it to me?”
Her amber colored eyes blinked even more strongly.
In the next moment──
“Ah… Ah… AAAAAAAOOOOOHH”
A voice that sounded like the howl of a beast escaped Kouichi’s mouth.
●
Great physical strength on the scene of fire — there was such a phrase .
The strength that normally couldn’t be exerted no matter what, could be exerted in a highly urgent situation like in the scene of fire. And from such a precedent… There was a statement that said, “humans normally unconsciously put limits on their own strength, but when they are in desperate situations, these limits may come off.”
It was said, “the reason why humans unconsciously limit their own strength is because if it was always running at full power, it would instead drop the body’s durability, and it’d start to break down.”
However, there should also be a case where you were incapable of doing what you could simply because you were convinced that you “could not.”
“Astrid…!”
While calling out the vampire girl’s name in a groan-like voice, Kouichi grabbed the shirt she was wearing with both hands — and tore it off in one go.
Like peeling off the shell of an egg, her white, juicy naked body became exposed.
It was originally Kouichi’s, so maybe because the size was too big, the jeans — the belt metal fitting sprang open when Kouichi put his hands on it, and it easily came off without needing to be torn off.
Naturally… There was no way the usual Kouichi could do this.
Not in the sense of pure physical strength, but in the sense that he would be highly incapable of tearing off a girl’s clothes like a rapist. In the first place, he couldn’t possibly do anything like this without thinking about the consequences. It wasn’t like this was his home where there was a spare shirt either after all.
— There’s no need to hesitate, so your lust, will you thoroughly — show it to me? —
Those words from Astrid, and the power of the “charm,” they unleashed Kouichi’s lust and suppressed his reason. The current Kouichi was, a beast, violating the girl in front of him with his gushing, youthful, inexperienced sexual desire.
Once again, his raging penis was thrust before Astrid’s eyes as she was sitting on the floor.
“──Want me to lick again? Was my mouth, really that good?” Astrid said happily instead, however.
“……”
But, Kouichi didn’t thrust his penis into her mouth, but instead began rubbing it against her cheek.
“Kouichi… What are you?”
“Astrid…”
Breathing heavily, Kouichi went to rub his penis against her cheek again, again, and again. While holding her head with both hands so as not to let her run away, he dirtied that cheek of hers with the transparent, pre-cum leaking from the hole on the glans.
“Kouichi… You are…”
“……”
Astrid’s blonde hair became coiled around Kouichi’s male genitalia. The more Kouichi touched her hair, the more aroused he became, and he began to swing his hips back and forth as if having an intercourse.
“Fufu… Is that so? …You’re a pervert, you know that? …My hair… Do you like it that much?”
“Astrid, Astrid, yeah, I, ever since I saw it… This hair… I…”
“You were still at the age when boys could or could not ejaculate for the first time, you know? Since such a small age, did you wish to dirty my hair…? Did you wish to violate my hair?”
“……It’s beautiful… Beautiful, so… So…!”
He wanted to dirty it. He wanted to make it all gooey with his own filthy lust.
But thinking of the consequence, and the feelings of the other person, such an action was exceedingly──
“I’m happy, Kouichi,” Astrid smiled, and if anything, lovingly — she went to squeeze Kouichi’s penis over her hair. Her hair wrapped up Kouichi’s meat rod even more, and from her hand that was rubbing it on top of the hair… It was giving off a somewhat dry and unique stimulation that was different from oral or intravaginal.
“So you love my hair this much? Wanna dirty it? Like an animal, do you wanna spray your semen or something on it and say it’s yours?”
“……”
“Sure, go for it all you like? My hair, all of it, violate it?”
“…Astrid…!”
His hips were moving faster and faster. He couldn’t stop.
That this was what he wanted to do, no longer was there the need to doubt it.
Srrsh, srrsh. With a faint sound made as if Kouichi was masturbating with his hand, his penis was violating Astrid’s charming blonde hair. Although she herself should not be experiencing sexual pleasure, Astrid, with a somewhat entranced smiling face, was staring at Kouichi swinging his hips.
Before long──
“Uwwh…”
Kouichi stopped moving his hips.
From the tip of the greatly raised penis — splurrt, splurrt — with a vivid sound, the welled up cloudy white liquid was poured onto Astrid’s hair and cheeks. With her fingertips, she scooped up the droplets of life that was slowly falling down her cheeks──
“… Kouichi…”
And that sweet lips of hers, which was lovingly called his name, engulfed her semen-covered fingers in such a way that created a hopelessly obscene scene.
And then, she once again held Kouichi’s raging thing in her hands and latched her lips to his glans’ hole.
As if to say, “it’s wasteful,” Astrid puckered her lips, and went to suck out every last bit of semen that was still inside his penis.
A forced sensation of ejaculation, which was delivered as a follow-up to the spot that was becoming more sensitive due to the pleasure of discharging──
“Uhiaahhh…!”
Was making Kouichi reflexively arch back and shout.
“…Kouichi… Feels good?” Astrid asked as she licked her lips.
“Astrid…!”
It was completely — not losing strength.
That alone was not enough.
As expected, he wanted to violate all of her. Not just the hair. Also not just the mouth.
“Astrid!”
“──Eh, ah”
Being violently pushed down on the floor, as one would expect, even Astrid raised a surprised voice.
But Kouichi didn’t care, proceeded to spread open her thighs, held it with both hands — and into her vagina already dripping wet and secreting plenty of love juice, he shoved in his furious, raging other self.
“Ah… Aohh…?”
Perhaps greatly surprised, Astrid also raised an animal-like voice.
But without a care, Kouichi began to pound his own hips against hers.
Rapidly and mercilessly, Kouichi was thrusting his penis into Astrid with such a force that it seemed he wanted to reach deep into her and penetrate her.
“Ko… Kouichi… !!?” Astrid called out his name as she was repeatedly being pounded on the floor with her breasts shaking violently.
Her flushed white face was grimacing as if enduring something, but whether that was from pain, or whether that was from pleasure, Kouichi couldn’t tell. Although she couldn’t hide her bewilderment, Kouichi didn’t care, and just absorbed himself in pumping in and out his own genitals into Astrid’s soft and warm cunt.
From the start, Kouichi had a high capability to concentrate.
And right now, he was immersing himself in indulging the body of the girl in front of him.
Whether this was the classroom of his vocational school, or how they would get home after tearing off her shirt, or how to wash the semen that he had smeared on her hair, all of those many worries had been wiped clean from his head.
“Naah, ah, ah, it’s, too… Intense…”
While shaking her head — Kouichi’s use of his hips was so intense that not only her lower abdomen, but her entire body was shaking — words trickled out of the corner of Astrid’s mouth.
“Ama-amazin… Lik… Like this… Kouichi… Ah, aaahhh… Aahhh…”
She didn’t seem to have the leisure to speak coherent words anymore.
“Like this… M-my… Puss…. Pussy… Al… Already… Broken… Ah, but, but, aaahh… Hyah… Hiihh…”
“Astrid…!”
He just wanted to swing, to swing, and to swing his hips.
The pleasure was rapidly growing, however, Kouichi didn’t force himself to hold it back.
Even a thought, that premature was embarrassing, was not in the mind of the current him.
Without holding back, Kouichi kept up his growing pleasure of momentum and shot his semen deep into Astrid’s cunt.
An intense sensation — as if something big was slipping out from deep within his body.
Kouichi greatly bent himself backwards at the feeling of pleasure that shot up from between his legs.
“Hahh… Ahh…”
Splurrt, splurrt. He spit out his semen into Astrid — and then.
“……Aahhh…”
With a thud, Kouichi fell on top of Astrid.
As she caught him, wrapping her arms around him and hugging him──
“…Kouichi… If I was done this hard… As expected, I might even end up… Pregnant… You know?” she said in a teasing tone.
But as one would expect, after such an intense love making, even she might get a little tired. That voice of hers was somewhat listless.
For a while, Kouichi was burying his face in her breasts and breathing roughly — but.
“……Then, I’ll take it out somewhere else next”
He could hear his lips making such a declaration, as if he was speaking someone else’s remarks.
“──Eh?”
“……”
He picked up Astrid’s body, who was breathing roughly and languid, and turned her over.
As she was lying face down, this time, he pulled and lifted her up by the hips.
Not yet. It hadn’t lost strength yet.
Despite having ejaculated for three times in a row, Kouichi’s penis still maintained its erection.
Whether this was the effect of “charm,” or that Kouichi simply had a peerless sexual stamina was unclear, however.
“Astrid… Adorable Ast… Everything, everything… Is… Mine…!”
“──Hey, Kouichi? Wa-wait, ov-over there is not──”
“Amazing. It’s beautiful and pretty here, too…”
“No way, I’m happ… No, that’s not it, okay? Wai──”
He wouldn’t wait.
Kouichi — he was about to violate Astrid’s asshole from behind.
He pushed his hopelessly raging penis against that tightly squeezing place.
As one would expect, It didn’t go smoothly at first, but after repeatedly rubbing the glans smeared with her love juices secreted throughout the previous intercourse and the semen spilling out from between her bottom lips as a substitute for lubricant, he could feel her asshole loosening up just slightly.
“Ast…!”
“Hioahh!?”
Slrrch, together with such a sound, Kouichi’s lust stick was finding its way to invade Astrid’s asshole. Not like a vagina, it was so strong and tight at the entrance — giving the feeling of being clamped down so hard at the base of his inserted penis.
In part due to the position, Kouichi took a larger stroke than when he inserted it into her vulva, and began to pump in and out his penis.
“Amazing, it’s amazing, aahh, this also, this also feels good, so much, Astrid…!”
“Hiahh, ahh, that is, the wrong… Not, the right, but, ah, ah, aaahh?”
“Aaahh, amazing, Ast…!”
“Ah, naahh, ahh, Kouichi, your dick, inside my belly, my belly… Aah, so violently…”
Astrid panted with her gold hair disheveled.
Each time Kouichi pounded her, her white back would billow violently.
At first, that voice of hers was even laced with a hint of pain, but──
“No way… No way… Aahh, it’s my butt hole and yet… It’s not right and yet… Why… Kouichi, Kouichiii… AAAAAAHHH!?”
On all fours on the floor, in a posture only her butt stuck out, Astrid panted.
In front was a disheveled gold hair and white skin.
As he repeatedly pounded in and out intensely in large swings, Kouichi felt a sense of deep pleasure and satisfaction.
Irresistible. Feeling good. So dear that he wanted to cry.
Astrid was squealing under him, getting violated in the butt by himself.
Her mouth. Genitals. And butt hole. All of Astrid’s hole, every hole, he was making them his own.
He wanted to just pump out so much of his semen into her that it overflowed, he wanted to shower her with his semen until her whole body was sticky. Inside and out, he wanted to mark all of Astrid with his own scent. He wanted to dye all of Astrid with his color.
“Kouichi, Kouichi, aahh, aahh, Kouichi…!!”
“Ast… Astrid…!”
The rapidly rising pleasure.
Kouichi — he pushed Astrid’s butt to separate himself from her, pulled out his penis, and dumped his semen on her golden colored hair and snow-white skin.
●
“……I’m sorry”
Post-intense intercourse.
The first thing Kouichi did when he came to his senses after Astrid broke the “charm” was to prostrate himself before her.
Although partly because he didn’t know how to express an apology any stronger than that, it was also because he would end up feeling like looking down on her no matter what unless he prostrated himself on the ground, as she, the person he apologizing to, was on the floor, curled up and exhausted like an unborn child.
Of course, both Kouichi and Astrid were still naked.
In the first place, the shirt Astrid had been wearing was torn off by Kouichi, so it couldn’t be worn anymore.
In any case──
“……I didn’t… Intend to do something so absurd like that or actually, umm, certainly, I do think that that was my desire but, umm…”
Intoxicated by Astrid’s “charm” — losing his sense as a result was the truth, nevertheless, when he thought back on it, that was what he wished for from the bottom of his heart.
Her beautiful, golden hair — unchanged even if twelve years had passed.
The most distinctive characteristic of the woman of his first love.
Then whether it was natural to lust after her, it was. Then wanting to make every single part of her his, and wanting to smear a part of himself — his semen on her, and put his smell on her, was likewise, should be a matter of course.
“……I’m really sorry”
“──You dumb dumb,” Astrid on the floor said while catching her breath.
“What are you… Apologizing for?” she was looking at Kouichi with a somewhat affectionate gaze.
Just like an older sister who loved her very young little brother.
“Eh? But”
“Someone who can’t think about anything but themselves is… Really, they’re hopeless, but… Someone who only pays attention to others and has no ‘self’ is… They are not hopeless, but have no charm… You know?”
“…Eh?”
Just what was this vampire girl suddenly saying.
Kouichi was confused, but Astrid finally raised her body, “it’s not like, I just wanna use a doll to masturbate, okay?” and told him.
“That is…”
“There’s no way it’s fun doing lewd things with a doll who’s doing whatever I say, you know? I’ve said this again and again, but you can just do whatever you like. You can hold me however you like”
“Bu-but, Astrid…”
“Then when you have the leeway, will you also show your concern for me?” Astrid said.
She looked like a young girl, but she was still a vampire who had lived manyfolds longer than Kouichi. She might age differently than humans, but even so, she was a long-lived “senior” who was accepting Kouichi’s immature lust.
On the contrary──
“It’s not like, I’m just talking lewd times, okay?”
“…Eh?”
“It’s that seen one, seen them all. Kouichi, you’re too concerned about others. You suppress your ‘self’ too much. You are assuming too much, you are indecisive”
“……”
“The ability to be considerate is maybe a virtue, but a kid who hasn’t firmly established ‘himself,’ being everybody’s friend, will only end up as a safe, uninteresting guy,” Astrid told him with a gentle smile on her face.
“As a person, as a man, and probably — as a manga artist, too, kay?”
“……Astrid?”
Kouichi blinked his eyes and stared at the naked vampire girl.
She is… By any chance, so she can teach this to me, she?
She said she was shown around by a lecturer… Perhaps.
Kouichi wondered, whether she had heard about the issues he had as a manga artist candidate from the lecturer.
“……I…”
Certainly, he might have forgotten what it felt like to draw what he himself wanted to draw.
Technique first, technology first, theory first, practice first… Simply just running well, only and only on the path that had been laid out according to the textbook, was perhaps, what he was aware of.
Without thinking where to go. Only and only aware of just “running” well.
Before he knew it, that became his goal, and he lost sight of his place of destination.
“…I see. You’re right” Kouichi nodded and smiled.
“Yeah, it’s not ‘sorry.’ Thank you, Astrid. I love you”
“…!!?”
For Kouichi, he thought he was just expressing his gratitude honestly, though.
For some unknown reason, however, Astrid was briefly opening her eyes wide and froze in place.
“Ri… Ri-right, that’s right, of course, I was, already, aware of it, though…?” Astrid said, her face flushed red and looking in the other direction.
Maybe, this is her being embarrassed?
Just a moment ago she did such an obscene act, moreover so calm and collected, and yet why is this vampire showing such a cute side?
Kouichi himself was astonished, but he — he could feel his own crotch heating up.
“Umm, say, Astrid?”
“Wh-what, Kouichi?”
“That, about you telling me to do what I want without hesitation”
“Ye-yeah?”
“Umm… O-one more time…”
“──Eh?” Astrid stiffened, blinking those round and cute, amber eyes of hers.
But she immediately vigorously shook her head up and down──
“Ah, ye-yep, one more time, you want to offer me your drop of life, right? Yo-you’re so reliable!!”
“Ast…”
This time — placing his hand on Astrid’s cheek, it was Kouichi who kissed her.
He was sending rain kisses to her lips, then her cheeks, nose, chin, and eyelids.
“Fueahh… Ko… Kouichi!?”
“Ast…”
Astrid’s expression relaxed as though she was confused, which was very cute.
While fondling her breasts, Kouichi was──
“──Hmm? Is someone there!?”
Suddenly a voice was dumped into the room from outside.
“────!”
Kouichi and Astrid froze.
“It’s locked? Hey? Is anyone still inside? Open up!”
Clack clack, the door rattled.
Although the door was currently locked from the inside, if the lecturer returned to the office and brought back the master key, the door could be opened easily.
Trouble. At this rate — the school lecturer would see all kinds of things like nudity, and semen, sweat, and love juice splattered everywhere. No, even if being seen was already unavoidable at this point, or rather paying for his own mistakes, students who were having sex and stuff at school couldn’t complain even if they were expelled──
“Wh-what do we do, Astrid!?”
“Right, well, aaahhー…”
Astrid frowned and gave a short sigh──
“──Hey, will you sleep!?” and shouted.
And immediately──
“──Yes. I will sleep. Good night”
An awfully obedient reply came from outside.
Then, thud. Just after the thud came, a snoring sound could be heard.
“What… What did you do?”
“It’s the same as ‘charm.’ The medium is not the eyes, but voice, though,” Astrid replied, “with the eyes it’s like, more direct, and uses less magical power, okay? And you’ve thoroughly poured magical power essence, Kouichi. So there’s room for tonight. And the sun is also already going down, right?”
“……I-is that so”
Nonetheless, such a mood of “doing it here one more time” became no more, or better say, not feeling it, as one would expect… Like having cold water poured once.
“Err, th-then, let’s go home. Ah, but the shirt──”
Wouldn’t the smell of intense love-making linger in the classroom unless it was lightly cleaned and the windows opened? Kouichi was worried.
“Aah, you don’t have to worry about the torn shirt, okay? I told you I had a way to bend light, right? By using that, I can do something like making myself not visible to others, or casting a shadow over my body and using it as clothing… Well, I can do lots of things, you know?”
“And it’s also easier to bend artificial light like fluorescent lights and LEDs than natural light — the sunlight,” Astrid added. That seemed to be how it was. Kouchi didn’t quite understand the theory, though.
“Then, umm, let’s just wipe the dirtied spots, then qu-quickly go home”
“There’s no other choice, isn’t there? The rest is… After we get home, kay?” Astrid shrugged her shoulders
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The time was past seven in the afternoon.
The world was dyed with the color of evening from the color of twilight — the beginning of night.
There were two figures hurriedly leaving from the back entrance of the vocational school building.
It was a young wam with a slightly tall stature with a baby face, who gave the impression of being mostly ordinary at first glance.
And then a small build girl with golden hair — however, strongly asserting her existence even in this orange world.
Those two were──
“……?”
“~~~~!”
The way they were walking, holding hands tightly while chatting about something, and then while smiling softly at each other was… To an outsider, looking like a pair of young lovers, something extremely pleasant.
However──
“……”
There was a pair of eyes looking down at them coldly from the rooftop of a nearby building
It was unclear how the appearance looked due to the black overcoat with long hem and the hood pulled over the eyes. Even the stature, it was unclear as the result of sitting on the rooftop of a building — outside the fall prevention fence.
Perhaps if one of the two people walking beneath the eyes of that person took a look… Namely Hikawa Kouichi, he might’ve noticed that it was the same outfit as the fortune teller he had met before arriving at school today.
But then, the fortune teller at that time wasn’t holding any bladed tool, however.
“…The true ancestor, vampire princess Astrid…”
…Srrrrrrrrrtttt… Srrrrrrrtttt…
The dagger, no, the bayonet scraping the edge of the concrete created sparks.
M9MPBS.
It was a multipurpose bayonet system used by the US armed forces with the ability to combine with the scabbard like scissors to cut barbed wire — however — the hole in the sword blade used for that purpose was shaped like a cross instead of the original elliptical shape, and just for what reason?
“The twelve year seal… What effect did it leave on you?”
Such murmurs flowed into the evening sky and disappeared.
In the next moment, that personage with black overcoat also disappeared. As if the existence itself was an illusion that arose in the gap between day and night.
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