A Date with Maika

The dungeon I'd planned to monster-hunt in today apparently grew more active in the evening and nighttime hours, with better experience efficiency then.

That left me with some time to kill, and since I'd promised Maika a while back, it struck me that we could try walking around town together.

Ever since coming to this world, my days had been battle, battle, battle, with breaks back home for ecchi things…

Either charging straight at an objective, or charging too hard at my reward. Come to think of it, I hadn't really had a chance to calmly walk around town.

This seemed like the perfect opportunity.

"Maika. Like I promised before… want to walk around town with me?"

"… Yes! Gladly…!"

Maika, looking very happy, snuggled up against me.

"Mn… I'm jealous. Maika, you really know how to ask for a good favor."

"Hee hee, Kanan, do you want to come too?"

"I want to, but… I'll pass today. I got my breasts properly fondled, after all. Maika, go enjoy your reward."

And so everyone smiled and saw the two of us off.

The outfit Maika was wearing was the Reido Academy uniform.

Noda had thrown out the uniform Maika had originally been wearing, so we'd shown Kanan's uniform to a tailor in this world and had them remake one for her.

The tailoring craftsmanship in this world was solid, and the result was indistinguishable from anything you'd find on Earth. It even came with a gimmick where one tug pulled it right off, which was impressive.

I'd had a few replacement student uniforms made for myself too.

… So this was a school-uniform date, the kind I'd always longed for.

If we'd stayed back on Earth like that… well, I'd have remained Kanan's slave my whole life with no chance of ever surfacing, but still.

If I'd never met Kanan and had simply gone to Reido Academy with Maika normally, would I have ended up in a relationship like this with her, going on after-school dates?

… Then again, by now the mere thought of never having met Kanan was enough to make me shudder.

"So, Maika. Is there anywhere you'd like to go?"

"Hee hee… not really, actually. I was just thinking a little. If we'd been back on Earth like before… eventually, going on dates like this might've been possible.

"Once that crossed my mind, I wanted to try a date… so where we go specifically, anywhere's fine."

"Maika… all right, then let's just wander around."

"Mm."

I took Maika's hand. Her fingers were slim and supple, her palm soft.

The G-Class town of Amen.

Around 500 G-Class Masters were registered there.

Where were those 500 people, you ask? They were in the many inns lined up along the town's main street, most of them at a tenth, sometimes a hundredth, the price of Leone's Inn. Cheap lodgings where the G-Class Masters with no money apparently lived in cramped little rooms.

During the rookie season of March and April, lots of young Masters burning with hope arrived, and the town apparently got pretty lively. When I'd first arrived, the afterglow of that liveliness was still lingering.

But the talented Masters who could climb their way up cleared their 10 wins in no time and vanished from this town. What remained were the Masters who couldn't seem to make it through, the rundown G-Class Masters and the unimpressive N-Class Garumon they kept in tow…

Most of the residents, too, were former G-Class Masters who'd ended up as G-Class NPCs. Since they aged normally, many were old.

And as G-Class NPCs, they couldn't afford to turn their Garumon into NPCs, so many of them remained single.

They couldn't take on particularly skilled work either, apparently scraping by with day-labor jobs one day at a time.

Few children were born in this town, and even those born went off to school at age six. The lively voices of children were also a distant memory.

Honestly… it was a desolate town. If this world had its light and shadow, this was clearly the shadow.

She'd said anywhere was fine, but it was plainly unsuited to a date course.

So why were we living in a town like this? Because the land was free, and Leone's Inn was a really nice building.

Since we had Gates, the town didn't matter. Anywhere was fine.

In reality, we rarely stepped out the front door, going straight to our destinations through Lyuka and Yuria's Gates.

It had been months since I'd actually walked through the town of Amen.

"… Sorry. Leone tried to stop me too, said this place was a bit much for a date, but I wanted to take a look at least once."

"No, no, I'm having fun. So, Naoto-kun, when you were G-Class, this is the town you spent your time in…"

"Yeah, that's right. The place Kanan and I transferred into was a lake nearby. Well, even on Garumon foot it's two hours away, so not really that close. That's where I met Adelia…"

Maika listened to my story looking very happy.

If you brought a regular woman on a date to a desolate town like this, she'd probably tsk her tongue and walk off.

But for Maika, anywhere we walked together was like a path lined with roses.

For me too, anywhere I walked with Maika was fun.

"Then, want to go to that lake?"

"Yeah… I'd like that."

"All right, let me try something…"

I dropped by the magic shop in this town.

Lyuka's successor mage… the sign read "Merca's Magic Shop."

"Excuse me, I'd like a Gate, please."

"Yes."

The one who came out was a mage who wasn't unattractive, but only in a passable sort of way.

She gave off an SR-Class mage impression.

Hmm. Actually, the reason this town had become so desolate was partly my fault for taking Lyuka with me…

Or rather, that was the biggest reason.

With excellent item creator Lyuka here, Masters from B-Class, A-Class, even occasionally S-Class, or rather their subordinate C-Class Masters, would visit looking for Lyuka's items.

That had kept the bare minimum of bustle going… but with Lyuka retiring from the business, those customers stopped coming around.

What was left in this town was the G-Class battleground, like a graveyard for the least-motivated Masters.

… F-Class and E-Class fought way harder, with way more energy, full of life…

I'd come face-to-face with some unexpected harshness in this world. Picking such a strange date course, I really felt sorry for Maika…

"… Wow… beautiful!"

"Oh…!"

But beyond the Gate we stepped through… I was stunned. Autumn leaves as far as the eye could see!

"Huh…? This is… right?"

I searched my memory. Yeah, no doubt. I remembered the shape of the mountain.

… This was the lake Kanan and I had transferred into.

This world's spring, summer, and autumn all stayed at roughly the same temperature, with no real sense of seasons…

But the seasons could be felt in unexpected ways. Well, "unexpected," I say. The plants, at least, had seasons of their own, naturally.

"In spring it was green. That was beautiful in its own way… but this is incredibly beautiful too.

"Ah… thank goodness. I got to show Maika a beautiful sight… It's a special date, after all."

"Naoto-kun…"

Maika's cheeks colored red like the autumn leaves.

"Hee hee, but… the water's warm."

"You're right. So winter probably doesn't change the temperature much either."

… Apparently even Garumon walking around outside in their lewd Spirit Garb wouldn't catch a cold.

A world designed that way… so it really was inside a game?

… Pasa,

Then Maika, with that one-touch string, slipped her clothes off in a single motion. Into the lewd string-bikini Spirit Garb she usually only wore inside the house.

"… Let's swim, Naoto-kun!"

With that, splash! Maika dove in beautifully.

Splash, splash, splash…

Slicing through the water, Maika gracefully reached the center of the lake in no time.

Even before becoming a Garumon, Maika had been athletic, and her swimming was truly splendid.

Aah… beautiful.

"Naoto-ku～n! It's shallow and easy to swim! Come on in, Naoto-kun～!"

Maika called out, smiling and waving.

"… All right."

… My clothes weren't one-touch, but I stripped out of my uniform. The pants everyone had made for me drained water perfectly and worked fine as swim trunks.

Well, when I went full mast my penis got completely exposed, so I couldn't use them in a regular pool. Then again, in a regular pool I wouldn't get a full erection like that anyway.

I did some light warm-ups… I didn't have much confidence about diving in, so I just stepped in feet-first.

Yep, a bit cold, but a temperature I could swim in normally.

Splash, splash, splash…

The clarity of the water was incredible… I could see Maika standing on the lake bottom in the shallows.

Only her face was above the surface, so just her body in that lewd swimsuit was visible…

… Crap. I got an erection and it became hard to swim.

And…

Splash…

Maika came right over to my side in no time and swam alongside me… A swim-along, I guess.

And so we made it to the center of the lake.

"Wow…"

The blue surface of the water was framed by red autumn leaves. The leaf shape was different from maple, but this color… the autumn-leaf red, like the cherry-blossom pink of spring, was a color that sank deep into the Japanese heart.

And beside me, beautiful Maika.

Aah, beautiful, like a dream…

"It's beautiful, Naoto-kun…"

"Yeah, but… more than all this beautiful scenery, you're far more beautiful, Maika."

Maybe because I'd been moved by the scenery, a corny line just slipped right out.

"… Hee hee, that's why we don't go out much.

"… I, too, think Naoto-kun is more wonderful than this beautiful scenery…"

"Maika…"

We embraced and exchanged a passionate kiss.

Aah, geez… it was such a beautiful world, but I only had eyes for her.

We lay down by the lakeshore, talking.

"… So this is where you and Kanan transferred to, Naoto-kun… A beautiful place. I'm jealous of Kanan…"

"Maika…"

When Maika had woken up, Noda had been at her side… poor thing.

"Hey, Naoto-kun, if I'd transferred together with you, what would you have done?"

"Eh? W-well, I wonder…"

"… I'd like you to act it out, with that in mind…"

"A-act? I'm not really confident, but…

"If that's what Maika wants, I'll give it a try…"

Um… I'd address her as Yukishiro-san.

"… Yukishiro-san… Yukishiro-san!"

After coming up from the lake, she still wasn't regaining consciousness. All right, mouth-to-mouth.

Reflecting on how, in front of a drowning girl, all I'd been able to do was kiss her, I'd properly studied the technique for mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

First, secure the airway, seal your mouth over hers, and breathe in firmly.

Whoosh.

Then, place your hand on her chest to confirm the lungs were inflating and the air was getting in.

If a man with strong lung capacity blew with all his might, he could rupture the lungs, so caution was needed.

"Cough, cough…!"

Maika woke up, choking pretty seriously.

I had to wonder about doing mouth-to-mouth on someone already awake. Was that bad? Maybe a bit reckless.

"… Thank goodness, Yukishiro-san, you woke up."

"… Akai… kun?"

"E-erm… I don't really know what's going on either. When I came to, I was in this world… in this form…"

Hm? Saying she'd come to another world right off the bat was kind of strange too… acting aside, the setup was hard to build up to…

"We've come… to another world…"

But Maika understood, so we moved forward with the conversation.

"This form… it's so comfortable to wear… Surely this is a world where girls dressing this lewdly is considered wonderful.

"Hee hee, in our original world, I was a serious, prim girl who served as both class president and discipline committee chair, yet here I am in such a discipline-disrupting outfit… what do you think, Akai-kun?"

Maika asked, smiling seductively.

Hmm. Maika also seemed to be having trouble pulling off her former act.

But, well, at least she recognized this as a discipline-disrupting outfit rather than taking it for granted as a slave's, so that part was somewhat in keeping with her former self.

"A-uh, yeah… s-sorry, Yukishiro-san… your body is so beautiful, so erotic… I just can't take my eyes off it…"

Saying that, I kept gazing at her body.

Like the first time, I stared at her anew, unflinchingly. White, beautiful skin. Fine, smooth, truly snow-white.

How… beautiful she was.

Yukishiro-san was truly beautiful and charming…

"Because you're… the person I love…"

I'd said it. The old, spineless me could never have managed to confess that so casually.

It was a failure as acting, but…

I couldn't suppress the surge welling up from my chest.

"… I'm so happy, Naoto-kun… I, too, I… I've always, always loved you, Naoto-kun!

"Just the two of us in another world… I'm truly happy…"

Pchi, para…

Maika removed the bra and panty parts of her Spirit Garb, transitioning into the even more lewd Lewd Garb.

I couldn't take it anymore. The front of my swim trunks split open, and my fully erect penis sprang out.

"Naoto-kun, in this scary other world… I don't ever want to be apart from you… make me your slave.

"Make me yours alone, and never, ever let me go…!"

Maika pleaded, then kissed me.

Chu, nicha, kuchu, rero, chu, rero…

"Mn, mnn… Naoto-ku～n… this is my first kiss… Mn, hamu, nchu, juru…"

For a first kiss, this was way too passionate, but…

"Yeah, Maika's my first kiss too…"

If we'd transferred to another world together, would it have been like this…

With that thought, I passionately tangled my tongue with hers and drank up her saliva.

After that, things flowed straight toward the bed. Wildly kneading her breasts while we embraced passionately. My penis rubbed against Maika's body, gradually heading toward her crotch…

Aah, no, no! We'd never be able to go back to the original world!

… Not that we'd have known that, of course…

If I hadn't met Lyuka, it might've been too late… no, given how spineless the old me had been, that part was probably fine.

Besides…

"I'll save sleeping with you, Maika, for after we get back to the original world, back to our equal relationship. I don't want to have sex with you while we're still in this master-slave relationship."

Yeah, even the old me could probably say at least this much.

"… Naoto-kun… yes, understood…"

Maika nodded obediently.

"Instead…"

And then we went into our usual. Just like when I'd done mouth-to-mouth on Maika, I had her face up and straightened out her throat… and drove my penis in.

… Even more excited than usual, I kept toppling forward and clinging to Maika.

Embracing her upside down meant Maika's omanko was right there in front of me…

I ran my tongue along that pink slit.

"Fugu, mn, mnnn!"

Maika seemed to feel good but also pained.

A sixty-nine while having sex deep in the throat was actually a forbidden move for me.

The reason was simple: it went too deep into the throat and risked suffocation.

Sometimes I got so absorbed in licking her omanko that I wouldn't notice and would end up cutting off her breathing for too long.

But right now I was too excited… I couldn't stand not licking Maika's omanko too.

When I licked Maika's pure pink omanko, juwa, droplets overflowed and sweet juices spilled out.

Slurping them up… an unbearably rich deliciousness spread through my mouth, making me unbearably happy.

"… Haaa!"

Even in that blissful state, I had to push through and pull away once, or I'd end up suffocating Maika.

Well, even if a Garumon suffocated a little, her HP would just drop a bit and recover instantly. HP could replenish oxygen too. Incredible.

But actions that depleted HP felt like a bad idea, so I had to be careful not to let it happen.

Holding back from licking her omanko any further, zu, zu, zu…

I thrust my hips back and forth fiercely, focused on ejaculating quickly into Maika's throat.

And then…

Doku doku doku…!

Loads of it, released deep into Maika's throat.

"Mn, mnn, mnn…"

Byuku, byuku…

It felt like more came out than usual. Earlier… after class in the classroom, talking just the two of us with Maika…

Those sweet memories must have come back, getting me even more worked up.

"… Maika… from now on… no, you've always been…

"You're mine alone."

"Yes, Naoto-kun… I, Maika Yukishiro, am yours alone, Naoto-kun. I have been, and always will be…"

One last kiss to finish…

This was my first date with Maika.

… Actually no, the old me could never have gone this far! Doing what was practically sex on a first date!

"You know, sometimes, actually pretty often, I think about how things would've been if, back in our original world, I'd just confessed to you, Naoto-kun, and we'd dated normally."

Maika spoke up.

"But the old me was really prim and proper… I had this conviction that being serious was right. That ecchi things were wrong. That's how I'd convinced myself…

"Surely, even if I'd somehow managed to date my beloved Naoto-kun… I wouldn't have been able to do ecchi things so readily.

"You're so kind, Naoto-kun, that you'd have respected my way of thinking… so we'd probably have ended up keeping our bodies pure until marriage, something like that."

That was her prediction.

"… Yeah, you're probably right. I think I'd have ended up that way too."

"Right! So, I… I think the old me was wrong!"

Maika seized on my agreement eagerly.

"Because… doing ecchi things with you, Naoto-kun, with my master, feels so good, and makes me so, so happy… it's such a wonderful thing!

"To hold back from that for no reason at all, that's absolutely strange! It's silly!"

Maika denied her former self.

"I've turned into… a really ecchi girl…

"You know, I want to do more, more, lots more ecchi things with you, Naoto-kun…"

"A-uh, yeah… that goes for me too, but…"

Blushing and squirming, Maika kept going.

"And, um, I…

"This Spirit Garb… and, the, the Lewd Garb too…! I-I love them! I really, really like them!

"I'd actually like to walk around town in this outfit…! I'm so happy I get to be Naoto-kun's slave… I want everyone to see it…! That's how I feel…"

… Maika said.

… E-erm, this, this was… yes, a confession of her affection for me, but more than that…

She was confessing she had an exhibitionism fetish, wasn't she?

Maybe it was a backlash from being so prim and proper all this time. Maika had apparently awakened to that side of things.

It was definitely partly Noda's fault, too. The whole "embarrassed, hating it… but pleasure awakening within those feelings" thing did happen, after all.

I'd read plenty of erotic manga like that. Whether it really happened in real life, I didn't know, but Maika had actually become that way.

And that was… honestly, really… not bad?

The serious, prim class president and discipline committee chair awakening to the pleasure of exhibitionism… what was this, way too tasty.

"Oh, I see… um… it must've been hard to say. Thanks for telling me."

I started by acknowledging Maika.

Hmm. This meant I had to think about it too.

I was a little against showing the body of a girl I loved to total strangers.

Letting other men get a good look at this beautiful thing felt like a waste.

But Maika wasn't like that. Maika, kind to everyone with her abundant universal love, surely had a strong urge to share her happiness with others. Maybe that was manifesting as exhibitionist tendencies…? Or so I figured.

But if that was what Maika thought…

"Do you… not like me thinking that way? You think the changed me isn't the Maika Yukishiro you first fell for anymore… is that it?"

Yet Maika herself seemed anxious that such a fetish had taken root in her.

Sure, it was the kind of fetish I might reasonably back off from, but…

"That's not true! I… love you, Maika. I look up to you, just like before."

I reflexively denied it with force.

"Sure, Maika, I think you've changed too. But… we've all changed.

"After coming to this world, none of us are the same. Kanan, Maika, Haru, Setsuna… each of them, every one of them, has changed.

"… Of course, I think I've changed too.

"I've got more confidence than before, gotten more proactive about ecchi things…"

"A, mm, Naoto-kun… has gotten cooler… I-I mean, n-not that you weren't cool before!"

Maika hastily added.

"Thanks… But, by changing like that, everyone has become more attractive. You too, Maika, have become even more beautiful and charming than before. I want to keep watching you change like that… up close, closer than anyone else."

"Naoto-kun…"

"Just as everyone matches my preferences, I want to match everyone's preferences too.

"That way, let's all have more fun, become happier together.

"It must've been really embarrassing. Thank you… really, for telling me.

"I'll love you forever, Maika."

"… Yeah…! I love you, I love you so much… Naoto-kun…"

Chu, chu, chu… We layered kiss after kiss, endlessly.

Aah… to be in this kind of relationship with a girl I'd thought was forever a one-sided crush… I really was a lucky man.

The old me, resigning himself with the thought that she was a star out of reach, had really been an idiot.

If you can change, change. Just keep moving toward a better future.

Things were happy now, but they'd surely become much, much happier still.

That had been a good refreshment. Now then, the B-Class promotion exam was coming up.

… Just one more push.