182 – This is the Real First ki*ss

“I want to seriously date you with marriage in mind. You wouldn’t consider taking me as yours?”

“I too… want to be Oppa’s possession…!”

How strongly their individuality and colors were imbued in the words expressing their feelings.

Easily surpassing expectations. This was not ordinary.

Rohan couldn’t erase the smile from his face at the confession, which he was hearing for the first time.

He lightly crossed the line of distance he had carefully and deliberately avoided crossing until now.

“Come here.”

Rohan opens his arms wide, and the two girls cautiously, hesitantly approach.

Unable to embrace him even though they desire to, glancing at him for permission, Rohan pulls them into an embrace.

“Ah…”

Sion and Clara’s surprise can be felt in their fingertips.

But they do not resist, accepting his gesture.

Rohan opened his mouth for the two who were holding their breath and waiting for an answer.

“I was alone too, so I’ve had the desire to build a family. Though I haven’t been able to until now.”

The girls’ eyes, looking up at him from his arms, tremble wildly.

Their lips quivering, they seek confirmation.

“Oppa… then, that, does that mean…!”

“…Can I take that as a sign of acceptance?”

Rohan nods, affirming, while simultaneously conveying an important truth.

“Even so, let’s make one thing clear.”

The girls’ eyes shine as if to say they would hear anything he had to say.

Rohan, pleased at the two hanging on his every word, murmured softly.

“It’s that I love Sion and Klara too, so I accepted your confessions.”

““!””

The joy of knowing their affection wasn’t unrequited was enough to stir the tear ducts of these sensitive girls.

One could tell it wasn’t an empty promise just by looking into Rohan’s eyes.

“Uuh…”

“Rohan…”

Sion and Klara’s arms wrapped around his waist.

Rohan quietly watched them bury their faces in his chest.

‘Am I allowed to be this happy?’

Stroking their hair as they composed themselves, Rohan replayed the moment from just now.

He wondered if he should correct the words “possession” or “take me as yours”, but decided against it.

He’d decided to accept Sion and Klara exactly as they were.

He never intended to treat them like objects anyway, and since he cherished them more than anything, he thought showing it through his actions would be enough.

“…Oppa.”

“Hm?”

Unexpectedly, it was Klara, not Sion, who raised her head first.

He thought she’d recovered quicker, but it seemed not.

Judging by the way she was still blotting at the trails of tears on her face, she simply had something she needed to say.

“I… I have something to tell Oppa and Unnie…”

“I’m all ears.”

“D-Don’t… don’t hate me…? Promise…”

Rohan nodded, promising he wouldn’t.

At Rohan’s promise given without hesitation, Klara hid her face once more.

She inhaled deeply, filling her lungs with Rohan’s scent, then opened her mouth.

“Actually, before I came to the Academy City…”

Klara slowly began to recount how she’d lived in Xeno.

At some point, Sion also raised her head, pressing her cheek against Rohan’s chest as she listened to Klara’s story together.

“The name they called me there was Number 11… I’m not good at much else, but I was good at fighting and hiding…”

Living as a street urchin before going to the place with promise of food. She revealed without reservation what kind of training she received and grew up in.

The origin of the strength she now possessed.

As soon as she finished speaking.

Klara hugged Rohan even tighter.

“S-Sorry for being a possession, for blurting out… a despicable woman… don’t abandon me…”

The past revealed only after her confession had been accepted.

It was something Rohan already knew, so it didn’t evoke any particular thoughts.

But Klara, on the other hand, seemed to think she’d confessed something truly significant, and she kept stealing glances at him, anxious.

“Abandon you? Who would I abandon? It’s okay. I already expected it, seeing Klara’s abilities.”

“Klara. Struggling to survive isn’t something to be ashamed of.”

“Spy training is for the elite among the elite, right? It’s not an embarrassing origin. Especially when you consider the state of Xeno.”

“Hmm, that’s a fair point.”

Clara, hearing Rohan and Sion’s conversation, buries her face in her arms again.

“uuuh…”

A second sob session begins.

After Clara calms down, they continue their walk, hand in hand.

Rohan is a bit dazed, walking with a sweetheart on each side, but Sion and Clara, who just confessed successfully, are equally so.

“Somehow… this happiness doesn’t quite feel real yet…”

“M-me too… what if I wake up and it was all a dream…”

Rohan can only smile at their words. Just listening to them makes him feel warm inside.

They walk along the beach at night until they encounter a fence blocking the way, marking private property. There’s no choice but to turn back.

The lodging is quite a distance away now, barely visible.

“Should we head back soon? We have tomorrow, too.”

“…”

Sion and Clara exchange quick glances.

They hug Rohan again.

“Don’t want to go inside? Should we walk more?”

Rohan strokes their backs with a smile, and the girls suddenly look shy.

And then, the angle of their raised chins says more than any glance could.

The way they’re standing on their tiptoes makes it clear what they want. Sion and Clara’s glistening lips powerfully draw his gaze.

“I only have one mouth, so if you ask me to do it at the same time, I’m in a bit of a pickle.”

Rohan is happy but also bewildered.

If they act in unison like this, who should he ki*ss first?

“W-well, if Oppa is having trouble deciding… how about we just do our first ki*ss all together…?”

“Sensible and smart. That’s Clara for you.”

Rohan, who was listening, stops breathing in surprise.

It was a sentence that just left his eyes blinking.

“…How are we supposed to do that… all together?”

“Isn’t Rohan at the center of everything? Shouldn’t that make it possible?”

“Ah, maybe…!”

The ki*ss with Ichinose was first aid, so it doesn’t count.

With their own free will now, this is Rohan’s real first ki*ss. At least, that’s how Sion and Clara see it.

Rohan is the only one who is confused.

It’s like encountering a new culture and not being able to forget the culture of his previous life, feeling lost and alone.

‘Is polygamy always like this?’

He understands that a first for a lover is important and valuable.

But the idea of doing it together… that never even occurred to him.

‘Just like I’ve realized on this trip, I have such a narrow perspective. My mind is too rigid.’

Faced with stimuli that defy common sense, Rohan’s brain praises the culture of this world.

He accepts the flow.

“Okay. If there’s a way to do it together, I don’t mind.”

Rohan’s consent ignited sparks in the girls’ eyes.

The reins on their minds shattered, releasing them into a flurry of chatter.

“S-Shouldn’t Sion unni and I insert our tongues together…?”

“Isn’t Rohan allowed to stick his tongue out too?”

“Lip contact is important, after all…”

How long did their debate continue?

The girls, naturally resuming a conversation they’d had at the mansion in Rohan’s absence, snapped back to reality.

They noticed Rohan silently observing them and averted their gazes.

“I won’t insist on doing everything simultaneously… or anything unreasonable like that.”

“…”

The mention of ‘more than a ki*ss’ brought something to mind, and Sion and Clara’s faces flushed crimson.

“In the end, it’s about who goes first. Isn’t that the core of it?”

“Even if it seems childish, it’s a very important issue for us…”

“Yeah…”

As the man at the heart of this, Rohan had no intention of interjecting.

He simply felt humbled. An idea, a decent solution, came to mind.

“No, I understand. So, both of you, close your eyes.”

Sion and Clara obeyed, shutting their eyes.

They didn’t question Rohan’s instruction, nor did they display any doubt.

“You can protect your ears with magic, right? To block out sound. And suppress your sensitive senses as much as possible.”

“Ah…!”

The girls realized what Rohan intended.

To gift each of them with their first, without knowing the order.

“I was thinking of doing it this way, is that alright?”

Satisfied, Sion and Clara nodded and began manipulating their magic.

With a lack of finesse, they used their magic to block their ears, severing their connection to the outside world, and redirected their heightened senses, suppressing them.

Looking at the girls, now prepared in his arms.

Rohan also pondered the order. The weight of his affection was equal for both, so he felt he shouldn’t become the deciding factor in the sequence.

His deliberation was brief.

‘The order I met them in.’

Rohan closed his eyes and ki*ssed Clara, who was waiting.

After a moment of startled surprise, the girl melted into bliss, gripping Rohan’s collar tightly.

“Mmm, heup…”

Clara cautiously accepted his tongue.

Rather than intertwining and sharing the ki*ss, she was preoccupied with sucking on Rohan’s tongue and gulping down his saliva.

She was a girl with an inherent ability to drive men wild.

Ending the short, albeit missed ki*ss, he looked to Sion who waited with closed eyes beside her.

As soon as their lips connected, a response followed.

“Eup…!”

Sion was assertive.

He ki*ssed her, and as if waiting for the signal, her tongue slid in. Her milky white hands groped at his chest.

Stiff with tension, yet he sensed a will to do his best, adhering to the theories he’d grasped.

After Sion, he exchanged another ki*ss with Clara, offering up his saliva.

Then, again, he traded sweet saliva with Sion.

[The Heroines are Focused Only on Me – Achievement Updated]

[As an Achievement Reward, Magic Consumption for Unique Skills is reduced when with the Heroines]

[When the Heroine is with Rohan, she gains Resistance to Status Ailments]

The achievement, earned thanks to Ichinose in the Succubus Nest, had been updated.

As he’d experienced, the condition was a ki*ss.

“Did both of you enjoy that?”

The girls, faces flushed and dazed, nodded.

“Let’s head back.”

““Mhm···.””

Rohan’s lower body felt heavy, and the girls felt a tingling in their lower bellies.

A situation ripe for arousal, but they held back, heading to their respective rooms.

The girls held onto the fantasy of a first experience.

And Rohan wanted to show Sion and Clara the joys that arise between lovers.

Since they frequented the mansion and saw each other every day.

The main event clearly wasn’t far off.

*

Juyeon sat at home, sipping coffee, scrolling through his contact list.

He could roughly see how the first-year cadets were spending their vacation by looking at their profiles.

‘Seems like they’re all doing well.’

He scrolled, observing the newly uploaded profile pictures.

Some cadets changed their profiles frequently, while others hadn’t even uploaded a picture.

Some maintained the same profile as always.

As he scrolled, something caught his eye. Not a cadet’s profile.

[Clara]

‘Huh?’

Rohan was boldly displayed in her profile picture. Even a heart in her status message.

Juyeon knew Clara was the type to hide her feelings and struggle inwardly, so this change was intriguing.

‘Things worked out, then?’

No other possibility came to mind.

Then Rohan’s face flashed in his thoughts.

‘He said he was going to Samhwa Kingdom alone, but Ichinose Yui and Noah Frozenheart were with him this time too.’

Not just those two. Clara and that elf girl were surely by Rohan’s side as well.

They stuck to him like shadows outside of Orion Academy.

‘They’re not children, they’re adults… I don’t need to lecture him about using protection, do I?’

As the instructor in charge, a time of deepening conflict.

Just thinking about it brings a faint heat to my face.

When Rohan returns, there will be quite a few stories to hear.