...
Special Week silently repeated Silence Suzuka's words in her heart.
A deeper friendship...?
But those words felt like adding fuel to the fire—the more Special Week thought about it, the hotter her body grew.
"Spe-chan... are you okay?" Silence Suzuka lightly pinched Special Week's cheek. "So hot. Are you still unable to accept it after all?"
"No… no... This outcome is already really good, and I'm the last one to come." Special Week tried hard to steady her breathing; even the air she exhaled was scorching.
But it was already much better than at the very beginning.
"Suzu-chan, I don't want my face to be this hot either, but just thinking about facing Sky and Trainer Lucian tomorrow makes my heart pound like crazy."
"Mm... Just let it happen naturally." Silence Suzuka more or less understood. "How about we sleep? Or change the topic?"
"I can't sleep yet."
"Then let's talk about something else. Like, I bought some new books recently. You finished the ones I gave you last time, right?"
"Not yet..." Special Week's mind was still lingering on the three words Silence Suzuka had said earlier—"horse riding jump"—"Suzu-chan, if we talk about this, won't I be even less able to sleep?"
"Okay then, we won't talk about that. Let's talk about the class you failed last semester." Silence Suzuka said very seriously. "As your roommate, I didn't fulfill my duty to supervise Spe-chan's studies properly."
Special Week: "..."
"Let's just talk about books, Suzu-chan."
"Okay, where did Spe-chan get to?"
"I got to the last one, About My Trainer Being a Total Succubus." Special Week recalled the plot in her mind and bit her lip. "I got to the part where the protagonist and the trainer are afraid of being discovered and hide in the girls' changing room locker..."
Even though it was straight from the book, saying it out loud was still… so embarrassing!
"You read pretty fast. Did you finish the previous ones?" Silence Suzuka asked.
"I finished them all. The scenes inside… were all so intense." Special Week, who had just cooled down a bit, turned back into a steam engine.
Actually, at first she thought the books Suzu-chan kept hidden were just light, pure romance stuff.
Of course there was romance, but the descriptions were way too detailed—no way they qualified as "light and pure."
Special Week suddenly had a question. "Suzu-chan… you were already reading these back then? So does that mean you already… horse… horse-rid... jumped with Trainer Lucian back then?"
"No, at first I thought they were just romance books. I didn't expect..." Silence Suzuka's "fall" seemed to have happened unintentionally too. "Later it felt really fresh, so I kept reading more and more."
"Why did you read more and more?"
"Because I really wanted to try it with Lucian-kun." Since they'd already opened up about everything, Silence Suzuka dared to talk about any topic now. "And most guys like it when their partner knows a bit more, right?"
"I-Is that so?" Under the blanket, Special Week's legs unconsciously pressed together tightly.
Trying more things with Trainer Lucian... the stories depicted in the books.
Thump—thump—
Powerful heartbeats thundered in her ears, shaking twice—while her mind was still tangled in embarrassment, her heart had already made its declaration.
But in reality, after that one time during New Year, Special Week hadn't done it with Lucian again.
On one hand, she was too shy; on the other, the knot in her heart about Silence Suzuka had bound her, leaving her no mind for it.
But now, that knot had been untied.
It was like how she used to only have eating her fill and getting steamy as daily tasks—now Special Week had eaten her fill.
"Yeah, and Spe-chan, you know too—human stamina can't compare to us horse girls... If you know more, maybe the controllable time can be extended or something."
Okay, even Silence Suzuka was starting to find it hard to say.
But for the stability of the harem, she was going all out.
Spe-chan probably won't think I'm too different anymore...
"But… but..."
Special Week buried her head lower again. Her mind replayed the scene from that night, the crimson aura not only in the memory but swirling in her head too.
Because she'd experienced it herself, she really couldn't agree with Silence Suzuka's words. No matter how good the stamina, the sensitive parts were still sensitive, right?
Was it because of her?! But she'd held the one-leg stand for so long too... One leg up on Trainer Lucian's shoulder—that kind of stretching training, not many horse girls could last that long, right?
"But what?" Silence Suzuka saw her take forever to finish a sentence and couldn't help asking.
"But I feel like Trainer Lucian is really amazing..."
Despite that, she still remembered Lucian's praise for her persistence until the end of training—"Spe-chan's body is really xx… but I like it a lot."
"Lucian-kun's body really..." Silence Suzuka's voice grew lighter, like a feather falling, and her mind unconsciously replayed the recent movie she'd appeared in.
It should be said that his stamina had gotten even better...
The two of them fell silent at the same time.
After a while, Silence Suzuka spoke. "Spe-chan, ready to sleep now?"
"Still a little unable to sleep."
"Then how about we call Lucian-kun?"
"But it's already really late. Trainer Lucian might be asleep."
Unknowingly, time had reached 12:30 a.m. Neither Silence Suzuka nor Special Week had expected to talk this long.
But the conversation continued.
"Spe-chan, so you've read so much... but in reality you haven't practiced anything with Lucian-kun?" Silence Suzuka asked with interest.
"N-No… after kissing, I just feel all limp and no strength left."
"Spe-chan, you're just too gentle. That'll only make Lucian-kun more arrogant."
"Isn't Suzu-chan gentle too?" Special Week's eyes sparkled with big question marks. "Suzu-chan… what do you do then?"
"I..." This kind of thing was still too hard to say, so Silence Suzuka was at a loss for words too. "Sky… Sky will teach you."
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