Chapter 47
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Chapter 47

Day 5 since entering the gnomes’ warren…

“Shun? Are you awake?” It was a soft whispering voice.

“Hmm?” I looked up. It was still too early. I wanted to go back to sleep.

“Did you guys really do it three times?” it was Rina’s voice. We’d talked about this so many times already. Why did it keep coming up?

“No! Oh my hell! Do you realize how much trouble you’ve caused! Seriously! We didn’t do any of that kind of skinship and you went off telling the whole camp we did!” I exclaimed. I think if I had any more stress I’d pop a vein. I also had a lot of heart ache. Accusations that are sexual in nature against someone shave off bits of their life at a time it seems.

“Really?! Oh thank goodness. I was worried I’d not protected your chastity enough. I can’t let anyone have you,” Rina seemed really happy somehow. She somehow missed the part about how much trouble it’d caused me. But she had tears of joy like she’d just seen the light.

“I’m so glad you’re still pure…*hic* sob*,” she tried to hug me with a latching on grip similar to how zombies dog pile people. I pushed her back a safe distance. It’s a close call however.

“Hey, why did you push me away?!” she sounds annoyed.

She’s so lost that answering won’t do any good.

But she’d asked and responded like this before hadn’t she? I think I remember a response just like that yesterday? Was this her version of having ‘the talk’ with your family…

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“But if you do lose your virginity with anyone Asakura would be best…or…you know someone you can really trust. Someone who won’t ever ditch you or run away. And she’s very glamorous too,” she said.

“Quiet.”

“You know what I mean right? Very ‘glamorous’.”

“I get it.”

“’Glamorous’. You know...those things?”

“Q-quiet!”

She then laughed.

“Its so hard to find someone that truly cares about you in this life Shun...” she sounded sad just like that.

“Hmm how do you find a person like that? It seems like everyone would want to be with that kind of person,” I said.

“Really? You think so too? That makes me so happy!” she cried out, with her fist of triumph in the air reaching towards the sky.

Uh oh, I realize I just said the wrong thing. I wasn’t thinking like someone with their mind in the gutter. Of course she meant herself.

Duh, stupid. How could I have not have caught it sooner.

“So you think someone like that would be a rare find? Like maybe a diamond in the rough? Someone that really wants to be with you?” She sounded happy. She kept also getting close but when I would reach out to push her away now she was catching on and jumping back.

She chuckles like we have some secret joke between us.

“Hmm well maybe you need to complement each other somehow. Like one of you has something the other needs and the other provides the other needs,” I said.

“You mean like how you help heal me and stuff so I can stay ticking?” she asked.

“Uh, that’s not quite what I meant,” I said.

“Well its a legitimate question?”

“Don’t worry, it’ll be OK.”

“Well you should be with someone you trust right? Don’t we have more trust with each other than anybody?” she smiled too big. She’s looking at me expectantly.

No…not that.

She was totally delusional. I couldn’t take advantage of that. But she is my step sister and not my real sister. I mean cousin actually in terms of blood. But I get confused by it. Without realizing it, I’d often thought of her like a sister...until she started to have feelings for me.

And she does have a nice looking body and face, with a lean look.

Then she tried to sit on my lap, wiggling her but. But there was no temptation. I wasn’t a sis-con after all. But she definitely is a bro-con. So I pushed her off, dumping her on the ground. She’s shocked, laying there on the ground.

“Rejected…? What? But I exercised so much…how? Why???” She cries out.

“I’m not going to betray mom and dad. Sorry kid, but you’ll have to do better than that,” I said. I shrugged.

“I can tell Yumi you pushed me down,” she said.

“EH?! Pushing you down from rejection isn’t the same as ‘pushing you down’ pushing you down,” I pinch my nose bridge from the stress.

Unexpectedly Rina is good at lying. I could really suffer if she says something like this and because it’s a half truth people could easily be swayed by it. I start to sweat as the danger level has gone up a notch.

“Ouch! What was that for anyway?” she stuck her tongue out at me as she got up from the dirt. Then she made faces at me a bit longer.

“Sorry kid. I’m not an evil bro that steals his sister’s virginity,” I said.

“Eh? How could you do this to me?!” she wailed in pain. Wow her tears even look real. She’s good. I’ve never seen a con this well performed.

“Huh?”

“I’ll tell the others you pushed me down! You have to do what I say or else,” she said vengefully. Her fists beat the cavern floor like a smaller kid might do when mom denies the cookies and milk after a nap.

“But you are my step sister...and my cousin at the same time. It’s like not what a good brother should do,” I protested.

“But it’s precisely what a good brother should do. And you don’t have to be weighed down by it. Doesn’t the forbidden aspect seem kind of hot?” she said feverishly. “If you don’t do what I say…” Suddenly she’s like picturing something delusional and you can tell it’s all over her face.

Not good. Time to escape.

“Eh?! You can’t do that. We still have to deal with the gnome guard that Akimoto’s goons speared. The gnomes won’t be able to handle any more drama! Think before you act!” I exclaimed.

“Ah, your right. But maybe you should check my body for you know…my treatment to make sure I’m growing properly,” Rina said seriously. While doing so she pushed up her own small boobs with her hands. Thankfully she was wearing the jacket over the overalls. But it was still pretty lewd behavior.

What the heck? Did she have a screw loose?

“You know just make sure you use birth control and everything will be OK. It’d be really bad if you knocked up Asakura Sensei and me in the middle of a medieval world with no hospitals. You need to get used to thinking this way so you can take care of us in the future,” Rina added. She had a sort of delusional look on her face.

“Rina! You….that’s never going to happen! I am not going to make you pregnant or have sex with you!”

Ah shit. Too many people heard me rebuking her loudly. Suddenly many girls were staring at me.

NO!!! She’d done it again!

People were looking at me now like I was a criminal.

The gnomes are subtle in that Steve asked me if everything is going OK with things at home. But he doesn’t bring up the rumors. Of course the look on his face tells me he’s heard them. But when he observes Rina around me, he kind of figures out the truth somehow from her behavior.

The rest of the day we have to put all the other survivor healing work on hold to try to take care of the two injured gnomes. It can’t be helped that it’s somewhat political. Normally I don’t care for politics but this was a mess that does need attention to mend the truth broken.

The gnomes observe us working today on their people and are placated somehow. The spider bite guy I think would have died if we hadn’t healed him. He still doesn’t look good.

The stabbing guy is in a lot of pain and a bit of a whiner. He expects a free ride and even his own people I think are tired of it. After a few hours the gnome guards save everyone’s sanity by stuffing socks in his mouth and tying him up.

How ingenious…

Asakura and I practice sparring a bit using long sticks.

But because we like each other we’re having more fun than actually getting much out of it. But I can’t really change that even though I know it, because when you like someone you have to show them favorable treatment to feed the friendship.

You might think we’d train with real weapons but that’s actually too dangerous. The gnome elder cautions us even the sticks can cause bad injuries like crushed finger bones and then the person may have trouble using their hand the whole rest of their life.

“So the movies always have it wrong huh?” Asakura says.

“Looks like,” I shrug. Since I’m not an expert of course I have to only hypothesize.

Gnome explains how using real metal weapons for sparring would pretty much have an army recovering from training injuries all the time.

“Hmm, I think I get it now,” Asakura says.

The gnome elder helps us and acts as a referee while we play. Some of the gnome kids watch since with the gnome elder here they think it’s safe.

But I’m so tired from trying to get enough energy for heals. For some reason I also suspect that heal magic is way more mana intensive than other types of magic, though I haven’t thought of that before.

Right after I go rest some more.

But I’m woken up by nap sometime before everyone is going to dinner. I feel someone tugging on my sleeve. “Hey, Shun wake up.”

“Huh? What?” I blink a few times.

Because I’m vulnerable to fatigue it takes me a few minutes to recognize what’s going on. It’s like the second or third time my arm is being shaken before I realize it.

“Who is it?” I asked.

When I see who it is, its Rina again.

Uh oh. What does she want?

“Hey Shun, sorry to bother you. Asakura wants you to go meet her. She’s in the tent. She says it’s urgent,” Rina says.

“Eh? Did someone get hurt? Do you know what she wants?” I asked.

Why didn’t Rina help her instead? The only explanation was that for Rina to have not been able to help her meant it must be something related to my ability. Maybe she’d gotten hurt?

I rush down the tunnels and underground intersections of the warren. Soon I find myself in front of our tent. Without thinking I rush inside, thinking Asakura’s in trouble.

Asakura’s eyes are wide and she stares at me. “What are you doing here?!” she says firmly.

She’s angry?

What?

Is this...oh no. It was a trick.

As my eyes get used to the darkness I suddenly realize she’s naked from the waist down. She has her miniskirt but she is also fumbling around looking for something. When she sees me, there’s a look like what the hell is going on.

“I was told you needed me and that you were in trouble. I came as fast as I could,” I said. My face was beat red.

Asakura Sensei was still looking around for something while trying to cover herself up. She hits me a few times and I end up leaving the tent. She accuses me of stealing her clothes. But of course I’m innocent.

At least she didn’t try to spank me…

But then I heard the giggles. It sounds like it’s coming from not too far away, but it’s hard to see in the dark. I hold up the bug lantern a bit higher to see and peer around.

Those little fuckers…

I see two heads hiding behind a boulder about fifty yards away. In fact, I could tell who it was before I even saw them. As expected, it’s both Rina and Yumi. They give each other high fives in plain sight. Yumi even flips me off.

Now I get it, Asakura was trapped in the tent because they hid her clothes.

But were they just trying to create sexual mischief between us or break us up?

So how do I fix this? Do I torture them into confessing or just steal their clothes too? They think they can pull the wool over my eyes so easily but I can play this game too…

In war there will be losses on both sides.

Yep. Even if it’s Rina…

I’ll get them back for this!

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