"I want you to tell me. The baby inside you—it's Takashi's, isn't it?"
The drop that made Yuriko release her glass from a third floor and shatter against the undergrowth. Her heart was racing a mile a minute, and her mind began flooding with guilt…
"What are you saying... He and I haven't—" Yuriko knew she was facing her end.
"Please. I've noticed that for a few months now, after you come back from visiting Komuro, you've been more cheerful than usual, or you show anxiety for the weekend to arrive," Souichirou had noticed everything.
"If I neglected you these years, it was because of the news that I could no longer be a father. I actually assumed you'd end up in another man's arms because of my neglect—but I never imagined that man would be the boy you convinced me to care for as a son. I never imagined it."
"Souichirou, let me explain—" Yuriko wanted to cry from shame and embarrassment.
"I don't really care," the man declared after drinking his entire cup. "At this point, I'm not surprised you cheated on me."
"Are you angry?" Yuriko asked, her pride on the floor.
"Of course I am, but... right now, I can't worry about that matter," Souichirou said, looking at the ground as well. "Tell me one thing first: what you feel for that boy—is it love or just lust?"
The answer Yuriko gave him would leave him sadder than the topic already was. She was no longer his woman; another had claimed her.
"Very well," Souichirou said before letting out a heavy sigh and saying what he really had to say. "Yuriko, there's something you need to know."
"What is it?" Yuriko asked, without much hope that it was anything good.
"The things we know, society, the era we live in—it's all about to end," the Takagi patriarch declared, leaving Yuriko intrigued.
"Listen, because I'll only say this once. No one else knows about this, but you mustn't let others find out either. You could say the end times are near."
A conversation about a topic she'd never heard Souichirou speak of came out of his mouth and into Yuriko's ears. She listened to the man's words just as their daughter was making love with Takashi beneath them.
And speaking of them...
Saya had Takashi's cock in her mouth, devouring it eagerly, sucking her boyfriend's dick like a sweet popsicle. Likewise, Komuro licked delightedly at the flavor of Takagi's pussy, his tongue moving like a snake within the pink-haired girl's inner walls.
Obtaining a sweet but salty larger sample of Saya's flavor. Giving her as well an even larger sample of his own nectar to his girlfriend.
"Mmmmm!" Saya's mouth sounded as she felt the salty, thick discharge of Takashi's semen. "How delicious."
She cleaned Komuro's dick with her tongue after eating all the milk he'd released into her mouth. Even memorizing the size and shape of Takashi's thing in her mouth. Not caring that the other had the flavor of the other's reproductive organ in their mouth, they kissed, full of youthful lust. Amid so many caresses, Takashi ended up on top of his girlfriend.
After two rounds of sex, they were going for a series of more sessions. Without difficulty, Komuro managed to get his dick inside Saya and began moving hard from the start.
"Haaa! Takashi, your dick is scraping my insides." Saya had her eyes closed, feeling every thrust of her boyfriend reaching deep.
"You make such a pretty expression, Saya..." Takashi's breath was cut short, not taking his eyes anywhere else. "So pretty and so proud." He passionately bit his woman's neck, his hips slamming against Saya's pelvis.
"I'm all yours, idiot. I'm your woman." She had him all to herself—she had Takashi. "Fill my insides... Let out all your stinking semen inside."
She wrapped her legs around her boyfriend's back so he wouldn't escape.
"Saya!" He shouted her name before releasing his essence inside her one last time.
Despite showing her perverted side to her man when she was with him, Saya still didn't have as much stamina as Komuro's other girlfriends—whom she didn't yet know about.
"I can't take any more. I'm full and exhausted." Saya rested beside her fiancé on the bed, her body uncovered, showing how sweaty she'd ended up. As for Takashi, the boy was just recovering his energy and breath after an hour of making love with his fiancée.
"That was great," Komuro said, smelling the hair of his girl that touched his face. "I didn't expect you to have more initiative than usual."
"It's your fault, for showing me that something so dirty is so pleasurable to do with the person you love," the pink-haired girl said, snuggling into her man's chest.
"Doesn't it worry you that we might end up parents too soon?" It seemed that only with Saya or Rei did this topic worry the dark-haired boy. Especially with his hand on Takagi's left breast after she snuggled into him.
"Believe me, that won't matter in the future," Saya said in such a low tone that he couldn't catch the last thing the pink-haired girl said before she fell asleep, nestled against his chest.
Takashi closed his eyes so that his agitated mind, after such a long day, could rest for a moment, as could his sight. But there was no pleasant dream, nor even a sweet nightmare—only a premonition of the future.
Appearing on the rooftop of Fujimi Academy, Komuro Takashi witnessed the city consumed in flames, as if a bombardment had been ordered upon it.
All the buildings lay in ruins; the night sky, where the stars should have been shining, was nothing more than a black curtain so he couldn't see beyond the catastrophe. For there was not a single sign of life—nothing at all—in this place.
"What happened?" Takashi exclaimed in terror. Then an enormous roar struck his eardrums, and the floor where he stood trembled.
"What... is... that?"
Takashi watched as a series of beasts began manifesting over the destroyed buildings and the city. Some flew, others slithered, or were reptiles that managed to walk on two legs and emit deadly roars; others had more than six legs or emanated some element, as if that were their anatomy—fire, lightning, or metal.
But what Takashi could see clearly was that beneath all those beasts, hordes of the undead were rising and walking under the command of those calamitous creatures.
"I don't understand?"
"You don't need to understand," that mysterious priestess manifested before Takashi, standing atop the wire fence that served as the rooftop railing. "You only need to be prepared."
Those were the words he heard from such a mysterious emissary of a fallen god before waking with a jolt. Only thirty minutes had passed since he had lain down to sleep in the company of Saya. Without waking her, Takashi got out of bed, grabbed his clothes, and went looking for fresh air.
"Souichirou-san?" Takashi went up to the terrace but found only Saya's father, without her mother.
"Hello, son," he greeted him that way out of courtesy.
"Where is Yuriko-san?" he asked without getting too close.
"She went out for a walk," he commented, averting his gaze from the boy.
"Alone? At night? Why?" Takashi asked, finding this strange about Yuriko.
"She said she needed to be alone. Could you do me a favor?" he said to the boy. "Can you make sure my wife is alright for me?"
That was what Souichirou said before the boy went out to look for her on his behalf, just as he'd asked.
Meanwhile, Yuriko arrived at a secluded spot on the beach. Seated on a fallen log facing the sea, with the full moon over the ocean, she stared off, lost in thought, wondering about existence and life.
"The end of the world..." Yuriko repeated the words of the topic her husband had spoken to her about. "Why are you telling me this now, Souichirou?"
"Telling you what?" The voice she knew appeared behind her.
Komuro found Yuriko sitting there, wearing a blue robe, talking to herself. She found the boy wearing casual summer clothes. He approached and took a seat beside her without any concern about it.
"Takashi-kun, what are you doing here?" Yuriko asked, surprised by the boy coming to find her.
"I needed fresh air, but I also wanted to find out what you were doing out here alone," he asked without ulterior motives.
"I needed to clear my head, that's all," she replied. Then, Takashi rested his head on Yuriko's shoulder, and she felt Komuro's breath on her neck, followed by light kisses on the spot. "Umm... Takashi, I'm not in the mood for affection."
"Alright, then I'll just hold Yuriko on this lovely night," Takashi said. He embraced her, as a boyfriend would with Yuriko. A couple of minutes later, the woman ended up lying against the dark-haired boy's chest. She was surprised that Takashi held back his hormones—she thought for a moment that the boy would insist, but no, he didn't. "What's wrong?"
Komuro asked after a few minutes when he saw that Yuriko was gazing at him tenderly.
"Sometimes I wonder what would have become of me if I had never met you," Yuriko commented.
"I don't," Komuro declared. "Losing my parents is something I wish had never happened, but I don't want a life where I never met Yuriko-san, because that would mean never having met the others."
"Little fool." There are people worth living for.
Under the moonlight, they could do whatever they wanted. No one would know what they did—only the moon would bear witness. I can only tell you that they ended up swimming naked in the sea under the moonlight, their clothes waiting on the sand far from the waves, while they kissed, their arms wrapped around each other's necks. It was just the two of them—nothing and no one else mattered. In love.
"Our vacation is over," Saya said after being helped by Takashi to load the suitcases into the car in which Yuriko and the dark-haired boy had arrived.
"In this paradise, maybe, but summer vacation still continues," Komuro said after loading the girl's three suitcases; he had only brought a backpack with his belongings.
"There are still many plans to carry out, dear," Yuriko said.
Yuriko's time had ended. But summer wasn't over yet—it continued. There were others with whom Takashi had to spend time. That didn't mean he wouldn't see Saya or Yuriko anymore; this week had only strengthened his forbidden romances with the Takagi women. Yuriko's arc ended here, but the story continues.
Who would be next now?
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