"A monster in the abandoned mine…"
"Yes… we were careless, thinking it was the work of some bandits. It killed my comrades—I hid inside the cave and managed to escape."
Sitting around a fire burning with twigs and branches that had fallen from the surrounding trees, Fiana attempted to organize the information she got from listening to Frederica's report as much as possible.
Their enemy was a single slime. Fire magic, its weakness, could not be invoked safely within the abandoned mine. Frederica reported that she had managed to survive by fleeing further inside.
When she heard that the girl had been forced to eat things like bats and rats, she flinched, but according to Frederica, that was the reality of it. As for her taking a bath, after hearing everything she had went through in order to escape from the slime's clutches… no one doubted her anymore.
She had just been driven that far.
Satia's testimony was practically the same. She was helped by Frederica, and it appeared as though the other adventurers that had come with her were attacked as well.
"To spend a month inside that cave… it must have been tough on you."
"Let's not talk about those sorts of things anymore—alright?"
"… Yeah."
Alfira, who was also a woman, brought tea to the two girls after they finished telling their story.
As she accepted it, the blonde, Frederica, smiled towards Satia.
An incredibly tiny flicker of emotion besmirched Satia's doll-like countenance for an instant as she nodded.
(For them to endure all of that themselves…)
Everyone in the camp thought something similar.
The adventurers that knew these two or the deceased adventurers that had come with them in particular had listened to their report in frustration.
"Umm, it's hard for us to tell you this, but we're…"
"… Going to the abandoned mine, is it?"
"Yes. Now that we know our target is a monster, we must annihilate it with everything we have…"
Monsters were the enemies of mankind. Although Fiana knew that the two were victims of it, she did not want to divide the forces she'd brought with them.
In other words, she would tell the two to stay in the village at the foot of the mountain.
"… We'll go, too. To the mine."
"Are you sure? Aren't you to… tired?"
"… We're alright."
"Besides, we have to hurry back… my children are waiting."
Satia was expressionless as usual as she spoke.
Frederica, however, spoke with a slight smile.
Hearing that she'd be able to have two more mages to help, Fiana's expression brightened.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it."
Now, all they had to do was lure the slime out of the cave and kill it.
Although the existences known as monsters were troublesome, if you know what they were, they could be dealt with one way or another.
A slight burden lifted from her, Fiana let out a small sigh.
"Frederica, you had children?"
One of the adventurers that had kept himself silent so far spoke out to Frederica in surprise.
This was the first time he'd heard of it, so he was leaning very far forward. As they were all looking at Frederica, the other adventurers appeared to be interested as well.
"Yeah, lots of them. They're all so cute."
"No way!?"
"Eeeh!?"
Reactions like that came from the various adventurers. They all thought that Frederica was single.
Seeing the adventurers so depressed, Fiana and Alfira could do nothing but smile.
"… Yes, they are all cute."
Their voices were all so loud that they drowned out Satia's small voice.
Her expression seemed empty, not reflecting her inner emotions. She held her large staff to her chest as though she couldn't settle down.
No one noticed, but her fingernails were digging into her staff.
No one there had been close with Satia, so none of them knew what kinds of habits she had, after all.
"Well then, why don't we all have supper? You two should be worn out, so let's retire early today."
When Fiana said that, everyone started to bustle about.
By the way, the preparations for the dinner were done by those male knights from before. This was one of their punishments.
*
After they finished with their supper, the men and women bathed in turns. After that, a problem popped up once related to sleeping.
Thus far, Fiana and Alfira shared a small tent as they were the only women in the group. However, the tent was too small for all four of them to use it.
However, they also hesitated having them sleep together with the men. Frederica had told them that it wasn't a problem, but it was a problem related to morals. Feeling the mood coming from Frederica, Fiana deemed it unacceptable.
Fiana was self-aware that she minded what adult men and women did together a little too much. Even so, knights were people that should be a source of discipline and order.
At the very least, Fiana did not intend bend the rules herself. Because of that, Alfira decided to choose the option of having all four of them sleep in the small tent.
"I'll be going on night watch tonight as well."
With that, Alfira left.
Fiana thought that what she did was poor, but there wasn't a good choice to be made. Accepting Alfira's decision, the three entered the entered the tent.
Fiana looked apologetic, Frederica didn't feel anything in particular… And Satia was just excessively doll-like due to her loneliness from not being able to embrace her beloved that night. At least, that is what Frederica thought as she looked at her comrade that she'd become friends with recently.
"You seem to have something on your mind."
"Don't worry about it… to be honest, I feel as though I should act like her, but…"
Hearing Frederica's words, Fiana sighed and placed her hand on her cheek.
After she finished bathing, the woman wore a white blouse and black pants. It was a rough appearance.
When she asked if Frederica was alright with being so lightly dressed, she responded saying that she would be wearing a robe-like clothing above it with armor.
Frederica was an adventurer that preferred being lightly dressed under her armor. She had found this out the first time she was assaulted under her clothing. Satia was the same, of course, but neither said it out loud, nor did Satia show much interest in the conversation as a whole. She simply watched Fiana and Frederica as they talked.
"Didn't Alfira-san say it? You're the captain, right? Part of your job is to rest your body."
There wasn't any bedding on the ground, but there were enough towels laid out across the ground to blunt some of the ground's hardness.
It was decided that the three of them would sleep inside the tent with Fiana between the other two. The three were laying side by side on the makeshift bed.
"It might be hard to sleep on, but please endure it."
"It's alright. It's different for Satia, but I was sleeping on the abandoned mine's floor."
"R-really…? What about Satia-chan?"
"… It was warm."
"?"
Satia's explanation was insufficient.
"It must've felt good…"
Fiana inclined her neck, but Frederica just seemed to be envious of Satia for some reason.
She just closed her eyes, thinking that they must be on great terms with each other.
She was only concerned about this mission's target and the missing people. It wasn't everything, but she had managed to obtain some information and achieve part of their goal.
She fell asleep quickly.
*
Unable to sleep well, Satia opened her eyes. She was looking at something white.
Fiana had tossed about in her sleep, plunging Satia's face into her rich chest.
Unlike Satia, Fiana's chest was bountiful and had a sweet fragrance to it.
"Nn, uu—"
"… …"
The girl was still asleep, the air slowly being breathed in and out of her small lips.
Fast asleep—she was practically defenseless..
Satia hadn't particularly intended on waking up, but wound up doing so.
When she looked away, it was still dark outside the tent. Judging from the light coming from the flickering flames of the fire burning outside, she judged that it was still in the middle of the night.
"… Big."
Satia suddenly remembered that she hadn't received her Goshujin-sama's affection today and grew uneasy.
She wondered if that was the reason why she woke up. Wrapped in that comfort, exhaustion didn't exist.
Even if she cried, even if she pleaded, she would not be pardoned from it. Even if she fainted, she would be brought to a climax again and again, not stopping until she'd transcended into perfect ecstasy.
After being wrapped in that pleasant comfort for so long, Satia became unable to sleep properly without first feeling the gentle aftertaste of climaxing. Her body had long since grown accustomed to it.
While thinking about that sort of thing, she moved her hands as though to massage the blouse-covered breasts in front of her.
They were things she didn't have. When Frederica was violated, her breasts were always massaged.
Satia thought that it probably felt very good… Just by having her breasts massaged, Frederica—just with that, her eyes would glaze over in lust.
Satia slowly rubbed breasts that was about the same size as Frederica's with her right hand.
At that point in time, she wasn't even thinking about anything lewd. She simply woke up, saw breasts right in front of her, and started massaging them. It was a simple reason.
If forced, she might say she was merely interested. She didn't have them, and Frederica's were Goshujin-sama's. Therefore, she wanted to massaged breasts that didn't belong to anyone. She just wanted to feel how soft they were.
It was that sort of thinking. Again, she wasn't harboring any wicked thoughts in the least.
Her eyes had opened, but her ability to think properly was still sleeping. She continued massaging the girl's breasts, not thinking anything wrong about it. She found it amusing how her index finger would sink into them as she poked them and return to their original shape afterwards. Each time the girl breathed in and out, they would sway softly, a valley peeking through the neck of her blouse that had been stretched due to sleeping on her side.
"—Huu… uu…"
Her abundant breasts changed shapes as Satia's fingers moved over them.
As she massaged, she warped to match her. Her fingers sank in and were wrapped by the breasts despite still being covered with a blouse and undergarment. Satia gradually became engrossed with the action.
Yet even so, Fiana didn't wake up. Satia's massaging method was night painful nor pleasuring. It could be said that it wasn't even stimulating.
Wrinkling her brought, she spread her fingers apart and continued enjoying the breasts' softness.
Did her Goshujin-sama enjoy more abundant chests after all?
She was suddenly struck with that thought, yet she felt as though she could understand why.
They were incredibly soft. Moreover, it was fun to poke them with your fingers and watch them change shapes.
Like an innocent child, Satia guessed that the woman's weakness was the same as her own and rubbed Fiana's nipples on the other side of her blouse with her nails.
"Nn—huua…"
Satia hadn't noticed due to being so engrossed in playing with the woman's breasts, but Fiana's voice began to be laced with a tinge of emotion.
Heated sighs began to join the ranks of what used to be simple sleep breaths. After playing with her nipples for some amount of time, their feeling changed somewhat due to the pleasant feeling coming from outside of the blouse. Her nipples had become easily identified from outside of the woman's clothing.
Her nipples had stiffened as a reaction to the pleasant sensation. Satia knew this reaction well.
Her left hand massaged the well-developed bosom as her right hand focused on rubbing the woman's nipples with her fingers.
"N, nn…"
Still asleep, coquettish sighs made their way out of her mouth. Her white throat became visible for an instant as her head tilted back in what appeared to be a small convulsion. Her body once again returned to a standard sleeping position.
Once that happened, Satia noticed the changes in Fiana.
Her lips had parted slightly, her white teeth just barely visible. She heard somewhat heavy panting coming from her and it seemed as though a pleasant scent filled the tent.
(Even asleep… she's feeling it.)
After she herself had been brought to climaxing so many times and after seeing Frederica's expression from a third person perspective, Satia knew what the girl's expression meant.
She was enduring the pleasure. Her white hair stuck to her cheek due to a sweat unlike night sweat and her eyebrows were just barely furrowed a small amount.
Despite being asleep, this beautiful female knight was feeling Satia's fingers. When she rubbed her nipples with her fingernails, she trembled. Each convulsion grew more intense each time she repeated the process.
She continued on as-is for a while, the woman's nipples growing ever harder. They already felt as though they couldn't stiffen any further.
(I wonder if… I also feel it when I'm asleep?)
She was loved by her Goshujin-sama even while she was asleep. She wondered if she also panted like her while still unconscious.
Realizing that, she grew awfully embarrassed.
When she looked up after hiding her face in embarrassment—
"H-aah…"
No longer receiving sufficient stimulation, Fiana unconsciously let out a steamy sight. Her hot breath struck Satia's face, causing her bangs to sway.
When she went back to massaging her breasts—a little more forcefully than before—her body trembled much more strongly. Then, as though running away from the stimulation, Fiana rolled onto her back.
Due to her being on her back, her huge breasts yielded to gravity and leaned towards either side of her. Yet even so, their richness was still obvious. Her chest rising and falling with each breath attracted her gaze.
(… She escaped.)
As soon as she thought that, the long ears that were characteristic of an elf came into view.