Chapter 145

Chapter 145 \nChapter 145: Confession\nAfter taking multiple random turns, we arrived at the next fairy square. When we parted ways with the Souma party, we had intentionally gone along paths different from the direction pointed by the compass so as to make tracking us that much harder. I guess this should be difficult enough.

 

“Welp, sorry Souma-kun. Reina’s body turned bad after all”

 

Because of the curse’s effect, as soon as we’d arrived at the square, Reina’s corpse had ceased to move and turned to ash. It’s the same thing that happened in Masaru’s case.

But unlike my best friend, whose corpse-doll went bad after receiving heavy damage from Higuchi, Reina’s was in prime condition.

But it nevertheless crumbled to nothing, which might just have been Reina’s resistance of sorts. Seriously, what a bitch.

 

“Haaah…”

 

I heave a deep sigh.

Reaching this safe zone after that mess from before really took a lot out of me. I had a lot to think about, but my head was starting to draw a blank.

I was in an extreme state of fatigue. Physically as well as mentally.

 

“Kotarou-kun, how are you holding up?”

“Tired… I think I’ll sleep”

 

I dropped everything I was carrying and plonked down on the soft fairy square grass. I didn’t have the energy to make a spiderweave hammock like usual.

And this happened just as I went to lie down.

 

“Wha!”

 

She was hugging me. This incredible softness, this warmth, and this amazing smell. Mei-chan was holding me close to that large chest of hers in a face to face hug.

 

“Eh, umm, what is it?”

“I’m so sorry… For not staying by your side”

 

My face was buried in her tig ol’ bitties so I couldn’t exactly see her expression. But I could imagine it well enough.

Mei-chan, she was crying.

 

“No, it’s all good… You did end up saving me after all”

 

Her simple act of holding me like this was more than enough. This was my salvation. In heart, in body, in everything.

 

“I’m so, so glad you’re alive… but still, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, Kotarou-kun”

“Heey, you don’t need to apologize”

 

What matters is that we’re alive.\nI’m alive and not in imminent danger anymore. All thanks to Mei-chan. She’s someone who could tip the power-balance between me and Souma Yuuto’s cohorts.

She’s the berserker who had become my ally. I couldn’t even begin to express my gratitude for just that, and yet. And yet, just what cause did she have to apologize?

 

“It was tough, wasn’t it?”

 

Sure, it was tough.

 

“You went through a lot of pain and hardship, didn’t you?”

 

I did. I suffered and suffered. Almost to the point of death, multiple times.

But what about it? We were all in the same situation, all here, in this merciless isekai dungeon with monsters around every corner. The hardship came as a set.

 

“Please, Kotarou-kun… Don’t cry”

“Eh”

 

I’m not crying.

I think.

 

“I’ll always stay with you. I’ll carry your share of pain and hardship. So please Kotarou-kun, you don’t have to hurt anymore”

“I’m, not… ”

 

Crying, not particularly hurt either.

 

“I’ll protect you. Absolutely, no matter what”

 

I just had to struggle, over and over, only in order to survive.

 

“Anything and everything you’ve done, I’ll forgive them, I’ll accept you”

 

Right, I, to survive I…

 

“Even if God himself won’t forgive you, I will. It’s not your fault Kotarou-kun, you haven’t done anything wrong. So, c’mon, please don’t cry. Please don’t hurt. Please, believe in me”

 

Aaa, stop, stop it already. If you say it like that, all that stuff I buried deep down, tried to forget, all that shit I desperately tried to ignore –– It’s all coming back.

 

“It was so painful… so scary… Mei-chan was gone and I, I was alone”

“Mm”

“Rem was there, so I could manage somehow. We even beat a basilisk… But that, was really pushing it”\n“Mm”

“But then, I just HAD to end up meeting Higuchi… And I… Ahh, shitshit, I had to do it”

“Mm”

“I met up with others too. This time, we did get along… But it took everything to get there. I had to work hard to get them to trust me. I’m just a Shaman after all, I can’t fight alone”

“Mm”

“I got separated, again. Then met more people… It went to shit. Why couldn’t she think, why couldn’t she understand, seriously, why couldn’t she at least try… She started hating me for no reason”

“Mm”

“I… Killed people”

“Mm”

“I killed Higuchi. Because he killed Masaru”

“Mm”

“I killed Reina. Because she killed Yamajun”

“Mm”

“Was it, was I wrong to do that?”

“Not at all, you did the right thing. Because, thanks to that, you’re here alive now”

“Uuh… ”

“You gave your best to survive, every time. When no one would believe in you, all alone… When you needed their strength, but just being with them only gave you pain, stress, anxiety, misery, and put intense pressure on you”

“U-uuu… ”

“Welcome back, Kotarou-kun. You don’t need to hold it in with me, alright?”

“[Crying intensifies]”

 

Aaah, Mei-chan’s absolutely right, I’m crying like a bitch.

Wailing, screaming, the tears just keep coming.

But, it’s fine isn’t it? It’s just this once.

Because I’ve finally, finally reunited with the one person I can trust from the bottom of my heart.

 

“Fuaaaah…”

 

I cried, went to sleep, woke up, and yawned, loudly.

Y-yeahh, I ended up doing something extremely embarrassing… Didn’t think I’d cry so much in front of Mei-chan. I had zero intention of doing that.

 

“Haaah~”

 

No, I’ll admit it. I was broken, to the point where I didn’t even realize it. My heart was messed up from all the piled up stress.

Asuna shoved me out, I missed the teleport, went solo. That was just the first of my troubles.

Versus the basilisk, if Rem didn’t do what she did, I would’ve lost. It really was a close call.

And just my luck, the next person I had to meet happened to be Higuchi. Monsters, they’re scary as a matter of course, but humans, they’re can be a whole other vector of scary. I could feel no emotion the whole time I had to look at that bastard Higuchi’s face.

In the end, Masaru ended up dead, and I succeeded in killing Higuchi. But then, Reina stole my way out. I was already at my physical limits, and then thrown into a situation of complete and utter hopelessness.

But as luck would have it, Randou-san picked me up. Tendou-kun and his gang, with them, it actually turned out pretty well. We had a good relationship going. I can still think of them as allies I can actually trust… But I can’t deny that getting to that point was stressful.

\nShe was wearing our school’s signature deep blue jersey. Its zipper, halfway down. But that’s normal. You see girls wear it like that in gym class all the time.

See, the problem is, she was doing the laundry, meaning, that her undershirt and bra were both not at their designated locations, meaning, that under her jersey she was naked. Boobies, raw, naked boobies, my friends.

And since she happened to undo her zipper halfway in that state, look. You can’t not look, I can’t not look… Ahh, such a divine valley of white. Such, an impactful, explosive sense of eros.

Everyone in class knew Randou-san as the girl with the most bombastic breasts, but Mei-chan, sweet mother of the Lord. If we went by pure centimeters, Mei-chan topped our class, topped the school, heck, I bet she topped the whole town.

And she was actually showing off those ginormous jugs with just me here, meaning… Is she inviting me? Is she really? … No wait, didn’t I just have my face smothered by those naughty knockers? This is insane, my emotions were a mess at the time, and I literally wasn’t aware of my tremendous bliss. I only felt strongly relieved by the sense of being enveloped, and wasn’t in any state of mind to consider their hugeness, their texture, or their sexiness.

Aaah, I’m such a dummy, dumdum, why, WHY didn’t I take the chance to get a good feel. Having stepped into such a land of bliss, no well, I dove face first into it, but anyway, I, don’t, remember, a thing!

No, but, this in itself, is pretty bad too… Now that I’m back to normal, the radiance of her blessed cleavage are poison for my impure eyes. Oi, I’m getting poison damaged here, Venomic Vessel, do your damn job!

Shit, I, I can’t… Her massive mammaries looked taut enough that they would burst out any moment, and my eyes simply refused to budge. This is bad, I won’t be able to make any excuses at this rate.

 

“M-Mei-chan, urm… Your, uh, zipper, looks a bit low?”

 

I squeaked out, gathering the vestiges of reason left in me to angle my eyes away, but having them constantly flitting back on target.

 

“It doesn’t go up more, too tight, you see”

 

What’s with that sexilicious reason!? You’re only supposed to find that sort of line in hentai.

 

“I, I see”

“Mm, I kinda feel like they’ve gotten bigger, you know?”

 

They’re still growing!?

No, wait, they’re not JUST bigger. I can tell, I just know. For I am, the self-proclaimed top titty connoisseur in class, and I claim… That those breasts have transformed into something much greater.

In the beginning, Mei-chan’s out-of-bounds udders simply couldn’t fight the forces of gravity. They sagged quite a bit.

However, thanks to her dungeon diet, and the Blessed Body skill, she now had the proportions to put any bust boasting gravure idol to shame. For her breasts had slowly begun to rise. Like how a space rocket escapes the bounds of gravity, she went from having simply huge tits, to huge rocket tits that stood high and proud.

It was close to the limit before, but presently, even Mei-chan’s one of a kind XXL jersey became no match for her megalithic mountains.

Here I stood witness to something truly fearsome. Mei-chan, she might just be the one to kill me…

 

“Don’t, mind it too much”

“I’ll, try”

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“Erm, well… I guess it’s alright, if you look a little”

 

Yup, dead. I’m dead now. Goodbye world––

 

“I mean, well, I’m on the bigger side, so I tend to notice when people stare… But, if it’s Kotarou-kun, it doesn’t really bother me so, I don’t really mind”

“I see, sounds tough”

 

I spoke, to the breasts.

Excuse me. May I please use the washroom now?