Chapter 272: …You Really Are Underhanded

Together with Setenia I used a carriage and visited a restaurant on 11th Street.

At a glance it looked like an ordinary restaurant with nothing special, but this restaurant had private rooms for VIPs.

The inside was not wide and not narrow, a just-right size, with one four-seat round table and a fair amount of paintings and decoration.

The one thing that bothered me was that besides the entrance there was one more door.

I do not usually go into restaurants like this, so I had no idea what room it was.

If I had to say anything, I wondered if there was even a toilet attached.

Even if I had played free play, I had not gone around every shop...

I do not know if she uses it now and then or often, but when Setenia entered the shop we were shown to a VIP room in the back and enjoyed the food.

When we were shown I looked. There seemed to be six VIP rooms. Besides the door we were led to there were five more.

I had not thought we would head to a restaurant. At least I took a jacket from my Magic Bag and put it on.

Setenia said, "You do not have to mind," but it was clearly a restaurant with a dress code, so I do take care.

We mixed small talk with after-meal tea. Looking at Setenia smiling happily, a smile slipped out of me naturally too.

When she talked about Timil and Myu her eyes were kind. Kind eyes and a face while giving off a seductive air is foul play, I muttered in my heart.

Aah. Come to think of it, in the carriage Setenia asked if Erika was really sixteen. When I said lately I doubted it too she blinked, then laughed.

Setenia quietly set her cup on the saucer on the table, smiled a little troubled, and spoke.

"Now then, the main topic. You were curious, I think. Talk of my husband and Myu’s husband."

"I was curious... um, sorry. Once I knew Timil was well I forgot a little."

"...Nfu. A sly person... honestly. But I will tell you."

"Aah. I want you to tell me."

I said it while rubbing the back of my neck with my right hand. Setenia bent the index finger of one hand against her lower lip and laughed at me happily.

She tilted her head a little, kept smiling, and started explaining what happened after the petrification incident.

To summarize simply, Setenia’s husband and Myu’s husband had not been caught.

They had apparently gone into hiding, but roughly where they were hiding was known and watch was set.

"Are they hiding in that wide an area?" I tilted my head and asked. Setenia smiled wryly. "Maritime City Wilb."

Hearing that I sighed as if tired, then smiled and told her, "That response of yours is the right one."

Maritime City Wilb looks small from the name, but it is actually outrageously wide.

Simply put it boasts a size you could call another continent. I remember players shouting, "That is not a maritime city!!"

But according to official setting, Maritime City Wilb floats on the sea, a floating island that for some reason does not move from that spot.

The origin of the name Maritime City Wilb is also said to come from the city Wilb seen from the opposite shore, so it is not wrong.

Not wrong, but looking at the name alone you almost mistake the scale.

Well, for some reason you end up running around it in free play...

Remembering that I lifted the cup, took a sip, and wet my throat. Setenia looked a little startled, kept her head tilted, and opened her mouth.

"I am surprised. You even know about Maritime City Wilb?"

"I know, but I do not know all of it. Just the impression that they hid in an outrageously wide place."

"That is enough. Fufu. A person whose interest never runs out."

"Serious talk. At that time I negotiated for you not to pry, but if I can give an honest impression, having Setenia take an interest in me makes me a little proud."

Setenia truly shows no interest in things she does not care about.

Before it was an event so she took an interest, but if that situation had not been tied to an event she would not even have heard me out.

That is why being able to have Setenia take an interest again and make small talk together like this makes me honestly glad.

...Being kept like in the game I will pass on, though.

I smiled happily and drank tea. Setenia turned her face a little away from me, flushed faintly, and spoke.

"...You really are underhanded. And sly... I am already an old woman, and I start to mistake it for being courted?"

"Hmm. I think I told you before... I have never once thought of you as an old woman, Setenia. Rather, I want you not to say it in front of me. In my eyes you only look like a beautiful, seductive woman who treasures her family."

"You fool... a troublesome person."

"Hahaha. Lately I hear that a lot too."

I put on a happy smile and went on, "My nickname is Handful." Flushed Setenia smiled, kusu, like she found it funny.

Then Setenia stood from her seat, walked to the other door I had been curious about, turned her face to me, and beckoned with one hand.

I tilted my head but stood and followed Setenia, who opened the door and went in.

Beyond the door was another room. The air felt like a room for private talk.

Inside, two sofas were set facing each other, and between them one stylish low table.

Only these sofas were two-seaters, and deep like couple seats, the backrest high enough that if you leaned you could look at the ceiling.

And a softly kind, slightly dark orange lamp light made a calm atmosphere.

When I entered Setenia closed the door and locked it, kacha, so I looked at her face without meaning to.

My expression must have been funny. She laughed, kus kusu, pulled my right hand, and sat me on the sofa.

...I sat, but it is deep. I try to put my hips all the way back, but even at my height I cannot reach?

I dropped my eyes to the sofa and muttered that impression in my heart when Setenia sat on my left and I started.

If she sits beside me my eyes almost go to the open chest, so I immediately face forward as if turning away.

But I thought a hand touched my chest, and then I ended up pushed down.

I blinked several times and looked at Setenia, who had only her upper body turned toward me, smiling seductively.

Flushed, she smiled seductively, tilted her head a little, and started stroking my chest with the left hand touching it.

A charming way of stroking as if tempting, and breasts like watermelons that swayed every time Setenia moved her body a little.

"I just noticed, but you have not answered one of my questions."

"...? Which one? Strange... I think I have answered every question so far..."

"You have not noticed? Nfu, nfufufu! The nickname Handful is not wrong."

With my back fully on the backrest, Setenia pressed her left breast against me, munyu, and kept stroking my chest indecently.

I supported her with my left hand so it would not burden her body. That must have made her glad, because she pressed her chest even more. Trouble.

I knew I was being tempted, but I was thinking about the unanswered question.

...I do not remember. What? From Setenia’s look it should have been in today’s talk...

I worked my head while looking at Setenia’s wet eyes, finally noticed the question I had not answered, and smiled wryly.

I gently stroked Setenia’s back with my left hand, then stroked her cheek with my right. She opened her eyes a little.

"If I said I am courting you... what would you do?"

"...To be honest, I think I would like to be talked into it. So I will ask once more. I am over forty, an ol... nmu?"

"Setenia, I will change how I say it. In front of me I want you never to call yourself an old woman again. You are a seductive, attractive woman... will you let yourself be talked into it?"

I sealed the "old woman" Setenia was about to say with the thumb of the right hand stroking her cheek, and smiled gently.

At my words Setenia narrowed her eyes, lay down beside me, turned her body this way, and pressed close.

She put her left leg over me and moved it as if rubbing a little, pressing her chest hard.

I kept my left hand on Setenia’s back. She rested her head on my left upper arm. I turned my face to her and took my thumb off her trembling lips.

"If I said I cannot promise?"

"Like just now. I would only close your mouth each time. If a lover says things that put herself down, you normally stop it."

"Nfu. I have not said I will become your lover yet."

"Hmm... true enough. Then give me an answer... nn."

I tried to say "will you not?" and a kiss closed my mouth.

She made the kiss that only touched lips short and pulled away, smiling charmingly and seductively as if that were the answer. I smiled, stroked her cheek once with my right hand, and kissed her again.

I enjoyed Setenia’s melting expression and gave her touch-kisses again and again.

Telling a kind heart with scent is underhanded after all, is it not? I muttered that in my heart.