Ed walked behind her to the second floor and stopped in front of room number seven. He watched as the lady opened the door and walked inside. He followed her in. The room's interior was quite nice, with everything painted pink.
It featured a queen-size bed with a purple mattress and a dozen or so small pillows, a pink-colored glass window, and a small bathroom without a door. The bathroom contained a large wooden bathtub, big enough for two people, a bucket for urination, a long couch, a large wooden chest, probably for belongings, and a small four-legged table.
"I hope you have a good night, Sir. If you need anything else, you can tell our employee, and she will definitely do her best to satisfy you. Alright then, I'll take my leave now," After saying this, the middle-aged woman gave Ed a respectful bow, walked out of the room, and closed the door.
Ed glanced casually around the room, checked the furniture for a moment, then removed his clothes and sat down in the bathtub filled with cold water. He had been shopping the entire day, which had made him very sweaty; he couldn't wait to clean himself. Otherwise, if he smelled bad and the lady complained, he might not be able to save face.
However, only five minutes after he had settled in the bathtub, a gentle knock sounded at the door. Helplessly, Ed wrapped a towel around his lower body and walked to the door, water dripping from his body onto the floor.
Outside stood an extremely beautiful middle-aged woman with white skin and long purple hair, aged around thirty or older. She wore a shy expression on her face, her eyes unconfident and not daring to meet Ed's gaze. Her small lips were pressed together, and she wore a loose kimono-like outfit. As Ed opened the door, she hurriedly bowed deeply to him.
Since Ed had seen her portrait in the catalog, he recognized his companion for the night and invited her inside. As she entered with hesitant steps, he closed the door and locked it. While he did so, the lady stole glances at him, and the first thought that crossed her mind was, "So young!"
"My name is James. May I have the honor of knowing yours, my lady?" Ed, not wanting to use his real name and attract unwanted attention, used his previous life's name and spoke politely to the woman. She was a decade older than him but as nervous as a teenage girl who had finally made up her mind to lose her virginity, wondering what would happen next.
"My name is Yukino, Master," The woman in the kimono-like clothes said while bowing. She looked so nervous that Ed even wondered if he looked like a creepy old geezer.
"You have a beautiful name, Yukino. And you don't have to call me 'Master' or anything, just James. Why are you standing? Please, have a seat," Ed, who was mentally the same age as Yukino and had gained some skill in making women feel comfortable after spending time with Raila, spoke with a smile. He poured water into a glass on the table and handed it to her, as she was still too shy to sit down.
"Please sit while I dry myself off. Otherwise, I'm afraid the entire floor will be wet," Saying this, and to give Yukino some privacy to calm down, he went back into the bathroom. He removed the towel and began cleaning himself but made sure to give Yukino a clear view of his backside and his erect member, which had hardened at the sight of her.
So big! Do all young guys nowadays have such large dicks? Even my husband didn't have one this size, Yukino thought, her face as red as a tomato. She nervously gulped down water with shaking hands, but her eyes remained glued to Ed's dick. When Ed turned around, looked at her with a smile, and waved, she nearly choked on the water in her mouth.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
"Are you alright?" Seeing his hopeless partner, Ed could only shake his head, rush over to her, and ask while gently patting her back.
"I... cough... I'm alright," Yukino replied after calming down, wiping tears from her eyes. However, when she realized Ed was standing beside her naked, looking at her with concern, she didn't know how to react. She simply lowered her head in embarrassment, but then she caught sight of his little brother, which made her even more flustered.
"Sigh, come here and sit down, please. And this time, drink the water slowly," After forcibly making Yukino sit on the edge of the bed, he sighed again and walked back into the bathroom. Five minutes later, having properly cleaned himself, Ed came out with a towel wrapped around his lower body and sat down beside her.
"So, what's next? Let me tell you something: this is my first time, and I have no idea what's going to happen. So, you'd better not expect me to take the lead. Tonight, the protagonist is you, not me. That's also why I chose you, I thought with your age, you'd surely be experienced in this... but it seems that's not the case."
After a moment of silence and seeing that Yukino had no intention of speaking, Ed finally couldn't take it anymore and blurted out directly. After all, he had come here to have fun, not to find a girlfriend or play the nice boy drama.
"I... I'm sorry. It's just that I'm not actually used to this work. It's only been a few weeks since I started here, and you're the second person to choose me. The first person left after seeing how unprofessional and shy I am. So, truthfully, I myself have no idea where to start," After some hesitation, Yukino, the older woman, finally spoke in a low voice.
"You're a virgin like me? But you're so much older than me, and with such a beautiful face, how has no one ever approached you?" Ed, confused by her words, tilted his head and asked, dumbfounded. It was hard for him to believe that such a beautiful woman with large breasts had remained single until now.
"No... no, I'm not a virgin. Actually, I'm already married and have two children. But recently, my husband died in a storm, and we weren't very financially stable. After his death, everything fell apart. I have no skills to earn money in an honorable way, so I can only sell my body. But even here, it seems my bad luck hasn't left me. No one is willing to spend money on me, which means no wages or tips either. Now I can barely feed my children."
It seemed that, perhaps because she had no one to talk to or had been hiding her worries for too long, Yukino started talking, and the topic drifted from her lack of experience to her miserable life situation without her even realizing it. It wasn't until Ed hugged her and patted her back to calm her down that she realized she had overshared.
"Sorry, Mr. James, I didn't mean to tell you about my situation to earn sympathy. It just slipped out. Please forgive me," Yukino spoke in a panic and tried to pull away from Ed's embrace, but the other party clearly had no such intention. Instead, he grabbed her chin with his index finger and thumb, lifted her face, and looked deep into her teary eyes. Without any hesitation, he locked his lips with hers.
"Life is far more cruel than you think. Either you become stronger instead of being a crybaby, hoping someone like your husband will come into your life and everything will go back to normal, or you won't even realize where it will take you. And by the time you do, it will be over, and there's no such thing as restarting everything."
"Listen, I came here to enjoy a wonderful night, not to give a woman a decade older than me, a mother of two, my shoulder to cry on. I will listen to her troubles patiently and comfort her, but that service is only available for my family, not a stranger. So now, you have two options: either do what I've hired you for, or go back and tell that middle-aged lady with the thick makeup to send the first lady in the catalog, the one with blonde hair. I believe she definitely won't disappoint me."
After finishing speaking, Ed let go of Yukino and stared at her calmly, waiting for her answer. Unless she was a complete idiot or everything she'd said was nonsense, he already knew what it would be.