Only with Your Heart

How long has it been since then?

Chizuru slowly woke up feeling fluttered with warm bliss.

Gentle feeling that surrounds the skin smoothly. A sense of relief that warms up pompously from the core of your body...... I felt strangely calm, nostalgic for some reason.

"Mmm..."

As he tries to wander, the white hot air is dancing fluffy in front of him. I felt like I was still sagging through my dreams, and then I tried to close my eyes again.

Then,

"Chizuru, if you wake up, wake up."

Ruklov's voice whispers in his ear like a blur. Chizuru opened her eyes all the time… At the same time, she realized what she was doing and being done and tried to wake herself up in surprise.

But Luklov's big hand holds his chest, and he whispers his movements.

Pan, and the hot water jumped.

- Hot water?

"Ko... this, is...?

Chizuru looked around in surprise. Nevertheless, the place is the usual two bedrooms, and there's nothing particularly unusual about it.

Take a look at the bronze hot tub, where a thousand cranes are soaked in water to the top of your chest.

Ruklov was kneeling beside that bath bucket to support a thousand cranes immersed inside. He has a chair behind him.

"I wonder if you like it, my wife. Ecstasy Succubus"

Ruklov said so with a gentle voice on his back with words as he poured limp water on Chizuru's shoulder. My shoulders shrink to so much comfort.

At the same time, said ecstasy, Chizuru remembered everything and shook up. Still... does that drug still work? That passion you can't even breathe. Suffering and a piece of paper too deep pleasure......

"That old woman confessed everything. You should be honest with yourself."

Ruklov leaned in and shrugged the chin of the thousand cranes with one hand.

An old woman would mean Estabel. Be honest. Nothing, Thousand Cranes didn't know anything at all, except he went to talk to her about his pregnancy.

"I didn't know that was an ecstasy. Just, uh... about your health... just went to ask."

Ruklov looks serious. I'm not angry, but I don't seem to be willing to laugh off this story.

Chizuru accidentally avoided Luklov's gaze and looked down.

Then, over clear hot water, the nudity from the mistletoe enters his eyes, and he notices a number of red flowers of desire blooming there, breathtaking. A kiss mark from Ruklov was countless scattered across his chest, hips and thighs.

And I remember Luklov when he put this mark on, and Chizuru turned bright red.

"Oh, I'm sorry..."

Chizuru looked up at Ruklov softly, keeping himself as small and small as possible in the hot tub.

Ruklov frowns in a grumpy manner. And

"You keep apologizing."

And he affirmed in a tone that scolded Chizuru.

"If you apologize from before I even explain it that way, I won't be able to scold you. I've been thinking about what kind of sermon to give you when you wake up, and it's all for nothing. You know?"

Chizuru blinked his eyes, dipping them in hot water to his mouth to hide, spitting bubbles of bubbles and air.

"See, that's how you drive me crazy again"

A smile returns slightly to Ruklov's expression. Chizuru put his mouth out of the hot water because there was no way he could be stubborn and hidden forever.

"I really didn't know..."

"I know. According to that old woman, you prescribed it because you said it was a drug that would make it easier to get pregnant. Right?

"Ugh, yeah."

If they're listening that far, what causes Ruklov to be subtly grumpy? You ever shut up and go to Estabel's? Or.

Chizuru asked in horror.

"Luklov... child, don't you want it?

This question seemed to be a blue-hearted thunderbolt to Ruklov. Ruklov raised both eyebrows and turned to the front to soak Chizuru's chin again.

"I don't want a man trying to plant seeds in you every night like this. I want it with you."

Seeds, or something.

Plant it, or something.

Both Ruklov and Estabel, this vivid medieval idea sometimes frightens Chizuru into battle. Chizuru's breath rose and he wanted to take his gaze off again, but next time Ruklov wouldn't allow it.

"So you went to the pharmacist? Alone, without Alde or an escort."

"Ugh..."

Being naked in hot water is suddenly getting thinner. Though Ruklov doesn't wear clad clothes, he layers tunics on his thick jacket, wraps his belt tight and wears boots as well.

"Chizuru"

Ruklov's tone was harsh.

"That's the first thing you talk to me about. Not some dead old woman hiding behind a castle."

Thousands of cranes nodded in tears because they were perfectly right. I don't care if you leave your slightly rude remarks about Estabel aside.

A period of silence flows between them.

I felt that the tub-shaped bronze barrel was elongated and shallower in depth than what the Japanese commonly called a bath. It's the first thing I've seen today. This one doesn't have much habit of soaking in the tub, and Chizuru always missed a hot bath.

Ruklov often touched the fold and made fun of it.

That's it.

"This... Luklov made it for you?

He stares at his husband, the knight, as he taps the sides of the bronze with one hand. Ruklov nodded lightly.

"Actually it was the castle town ironmaker who made it... oh yeah. While my wife was getting powerful ecstasy at a suspicious pharmacist,"

"Ugh. So that's... I said I'm sorry"

"Just because you don't raise your voice doesn't mean you're not angry. I left the moxibustion in place for that pharmacist. You have..."

Ruklov's hands quickly sneak into the hot water. Shortly after he conceals or resists, he puts his left chest all the way into his palm and bullies the protrusion at the tip of his finger.

Chizuru bit his lip and bent his back.

"Ahhh... ahhh!

"I need you to punish me for putting this easily felt body at even greater risk."

"Hiuu."

Once in a while he turned his nipples hard like a spiral (thread), and Chizuru sobbed.

There is no more intense feeling like when the ecstasy was working. Still, the movement of Ruklov's hand, knowing every inch of his body, was enough to flirt with Chizuru.

"Ah... let go..."

"Let me forgive you. If they can take this."

"Yikes!

She rubbed her breasts even more gently, and Chizuru trembled. The skin lit by the hot tub was sensitive enough, and the caress I receive in the water has a different irritation than the outside air.

Ruklov turned the sleeve of his jacket and carefully placed the body of a thousand cranes sinking in the water everywhere...... he was adored. The guilty Chizuru could not even disobey, and was even confused.

"Ha... uhh!

When he reaches his peak and stifles himself with the stimulus to the petal, Ruklov finally releases Chizuru and gives him a loving mouthful on his forehead while stirring his damp hair with hot air.

"You can also use it this way... Flo, did you say that? From now on, every night, let's get it ready."

"Ho... really, it breaks..."

"I won't break it. Even so, I'm with you."

Ruklov grabbed both sides of the hot tub and let out the thousand cranes, wrapping her body with a cloth that had been prepared in advance beside her and carefully wiping it.

Chizuru, relaxed with a hissing bath and a given peak and ecstasy fatigue, silently left himself to Lucrov to cleanse his whole body.

I didn't know the strength to start a conversation with Chizuru, and Ruklov didn't say anything for a while.

The two just silently wipe their skin as they are flushed from time to time, toning their hair and putting on their clothes.

Though the morning sun had already slipped through the window, Chizuru finally realized then. The night has dawned. It was a rough night.

In silence, Thousand Cranes' thoughts danced through the scatter.

Embarrassment for what I've done. anxiety as to why I still can't have kids. And above all, love for the stern man in front of you.

The future.

Thousand cranes, who were done putting together their everyday dresses as they were done, chewed their lips softly and held their hands strongly.

Lucrov is gently wiping Chizuru's hair for me. And it broke my heart.

"Maybe... you can't have a baby... because I'm a person from another world"

Ruklov stopped his hand.

If I may have said something bad, my body instantly stifles. But now he couldn't even withdraw it, and Chizuru continued with a quick mouth.

"We look the same, but maybe something is different and it's hard to have children... 'Cause we spend so much time every night."

"Chizzle, don't"

A disturbingly low voice controls a thousand cranes.

The raw force, so incisive that the ambient air tends to tingle, is released from Luklov. Leaving his wet long hair wrapped in cloth, Luklov's hands turned Chizuru's face upwards.

"Even so, I can't give you back to your original world. Whatever the reason, no matter how expensive."

(Ah...)

Chizuru was ashamed of himself for so much inadvertence. I realized what I had said and how scared Ruklov felt about it...... I understood.

I want kids.

But I may not be able to make it with you. Because I am a man from another world. So I'm afraid that Chizuru might say, "I want you to go back to your world."

Even though that's not possible.

But it was a way of saying I could take it that way, depending on what I tried to take.

When I gently touched Lucrov's hand wrapped around his face, I felt his shivering arm faintly. Chizuru closes his eyelids and gently cheers his thoughts with mercy (whenever) marks.

"I'm sorry. No, I'm not. I'm never going anywhere. It's just... maybe I can't give Ruklov a baby... lonely."

Luklov holds Chizuru to his chest all the time.

It smelled like a man full of wild flavors with a mixture of sweat and hay.

"Not that you're the cause. I have been... doing things that God will never forgive me again. Even though it wasn't a fight, I killed a man with a family. Many times."

-What for?

That didn't even ask Chizuru, nor did Ruklov. So I wonder if Ruklov will say that this could be a heavenly punishment.

Maybe so.

Though that can't be true. But even so, Chizuru wanted to accept all of it wholeheartedly.

"Luklov still... okay?

"What?

"Even if we can't have children."

Luklov's arm strengthens holding Chizuru.

"If that's all right with you, I don't mind... I can keep you to myself until I die"

Thousand cranes didn't hang up, hehe, and laughed.

"Me too, if Luklov is okay with that, fine. If you don't have a successor to the castle or something like that, you don't have a problem."

Of course I don't want kids to inherit the castle. But that's still the time in this world, and Ruklov had a territory and dedicated an extraordinary effort to its governance.

"I'll even give it to the castle and other dogs. No territory or title has ever been devoted to it for its own good. I just don't want anything more if I let you have a safe bed and a rich life with no freedom."

What Chizuru, who opened his eyes softly, saw was an uncut, but sincere, Luklov smile.

"Yeah......"

Chizuru nodded in tears.

─ ─ I'm sure I don't need to repeat this story any more.

Maybe one day, some kind of miracle happens and the two give you crystals of love, or maybe those days don't come all the time.

Still, they lean in like this, they love each other, they do all they can every day... they live together forever.

Thus, on a night as hot as a fiery flame.

That was enough.

That alone was painfully happy.