Do You Think You Can Run After Reincarnating, Nii-san?

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“Ja-kun and Master and me, we’ll sleep together today!”

Phil strongly declared after dinner, so that’s what will end up happening I guess.

The maids were now leaving the room since they were done setting the bed for us.

“Those three are always so close, are they not?”

“Sure are! They’re practically siblings.”

“But I do wonder if it’s Raquel-sama or Philene-sama that Jack-sama will settle for in the end.”

“Philene-sama, duh! Raquel-sama’s older than him.”

“Oh you fool. Raquel-sama is an elf, so give a few years and Jack-sama will look just dashing at her side.”

“Hey, whoever he marries, we’ll get to see a beautiful bride and groom, no doubt about that!”

I can hear you, you know. You maids need to do your gossip where we can’t hear you.

Well, I wasn’t going to bother complaining. I was used to this.

It’s a hobby all the maids seemed to partake in.

Phil landed on the bed with a large puff.

“Soft pillows~♪ Ja-Kun, Master, get over here~!”

“That’s not the energy of someone who’s going to bed…”

I also got on the bed with a thin smile.

Raquel followed me, and we settled on the bed in a row.

Raquel, being the tallest, was in the middle.

“I’m turning it off.”

I was closest to the lamp so I turned it off.

It became dark.

Only the faint light coming from the window illuminated the room.

“Fufu~♪ Master~, you’re so warm~♪”

I was, well, at least trying to be reserved and had positioned myself separated from Raquel, but Phil, in contrast, was hugging her tight.

They really were… like mother and daughter.

Something panged inside my head.

In the back of my eyes, memories, a scene.

I was young.

It was a time when I was actually 7 years old.

Me, my mother―― and my sister. A memory of the three of us sleeping together.

I was suddenly recalling the warm feeling from back then.

“… Master.”

I suddenly felt my reserve fade.

My voice was trembling.

“Can I come, a little… closer?”

I got extremely embarrassed right as I said that, and couldn’t look Raquel in the face.

But somehow… I felt like she was happy hearing that.

“… Mn. Sure.”

I shuffled my body closer, and wrapped my arms around Rakel’s slim figure.

… Warm.

Soothing…

I buried my face in her and took in that sweet smell.

I somehow felt like I just did something very perverted, but I wasn’t getting aroused at all. It was the opposite, the act had calmed me down.

This warmth, this fragrance, I wanted more of it. Much more.

I brushed my arms around her to get into a more comfortable embrace, when,

“Anh~”

Raquel moaned, softly.

That definitely sounded like a moan.

I was momentarily surprised by the action, but quickly realized that I’d caused this.

I’d somehow ended up grabbing on to Rakel’s breasts.

Maybe because I felt that they were easy to hold on to.

I carefully lifted my gaze up to find her staring pointedly at me.

“… … … … … .. Rascal.”

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t thinking about what kind of reaction she’d make if I gave her another squeeze, but her look told me that doing that would be very unwise.

Then, Raquel lightly laughed and while I was still frozen in place, she hugged me in turn.

And she whispered, softly into my ear.

“There, it’s going to be 5 times the training tomorrow for you.”

“Aakh!!”

H-have mercy…

“Leaving me out again~!”

Phil, who was on Raquel’s other side, climbed over her, and squished in between us.

“So, what were you talking about?”

“Jack here touched my breasts.”

“Wow~ Ja-kun’s such a pervert~”

“It was an accident… please believe me…”

I’m ashamed of the actions I’ve done, I swear.

“Careful now Phil, Jack is a boy, who knows what he’ll do.”

“Eh~? I’m totally~ fine if it’s with Ja-kun~”

“That’s so…. Phil, do you love Jack?”

“I do! I love love Ja-kun!”

“Oh, and what about him do you love so much?”

“Hm~, let me think~ Oh, he shares sweets with me, right~? And then, he also goes walking with me, isn’t that nice? I also love it when we race super fast~”

“I have a feeling a lot of those can apply to a pet dog…” I commented.

Well, with how she’s always popping out everywhere, she was more like a cat really.

“Oh, and, and… … he’s really really nice, just to me.”

My heart skipped.

In that voice, in only that line… I felt this sort of heat.

Raquel smiled and looked towards me now.

“That’s true, isn’t it. Jack is always very sweet to you.”

“He sure is, isn’t he~?”

“I am…? I don’t think I’m that nice…”

I mean, I’m always getting dragged around by her.

“Okay then, Phil, here’s a big one. When you get older, do you want to be Jack’s bride?”

Dear Master, you’re really something, giving it to her straight like that with me right here.

You need to realize that you can’t just put kids on the spot like this!

“Oh… erm… huh…?”

Surprisingly, Phil was contemplating the matter.

She took quick glances at me as she pondered.

It was dark… and I couldn’t make it out completely ――

―― But she was blushing…?

Phil was?

Being shy?

For a little while more, Phil kept humming in thought.

And when she was done,

“… … … … … … … yes.”

She answered.

With a small, tiny little voice.

But she had answered ――

Determinedly.

“… Got it. Then I’m sure you’ll work hard so you can be a great wife, won’t you?”

“Yes!”

“You too Jack, work extra hard and be a good husband for her.”

“Y-yes.”

… Wait what?

Did I just promise to get married?

“Ehehe~ ♪”

Phil laughed bashfully, like she’d been tickled somewhere.

… oh, alright.

Seeing my innocent childhood friend’s smile, I decided to think that this was fine.

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I was beginning to doze off.

I was on the border of reality and dreamland when a tiny voice pulled me back to the former side.

“Hey Ja-kun, Ja-kun.”

“Ng…?”

When I opened my eyes, Phil was right in my face with her own.

Remembering the subject from earlier, my heart beat faster.

“You’re too close…!”

“Shhh.”

Phil put her index finger on her lips, and then used it to point at Raquel.

My Master’s ample bosom was rising and falling. She looked to be asleep.

So you’re telling me not to wake her?

Is what I figured she was hinting at. Phil then slid under the sheets.

I felt a tug on my nightclothes.

Me too?

I was guessing she wanted to tell me something in secret, so under the sheets was better than out in the open.

I also slid inside the sheets.

It was of course pitch black in here.

With the collective body heat from me, Raquel and Phil, it was really warm too.

But now, with Phil being this close to me, I felt her warmth most of all.

I could hear her breathing in the darkness.

I felt her slowly repeating moist, warm breaths on my cheeks.

Phil’s breaths.

Once my eyes were adjusted to the dark, I could faintly make out the outline of her face.

“Quietly.”

Phil whispered in her quietest whisper.

Her breath hit my skin every time she spoke.

“W-what is it? Did you want to talk?”

I said, trying not to reveal my agitation.

Hey, where’s your cool guy now, huh?

Didn’t you say you ain’t no lolicon?

Was it maybe the natural sort of reaction for my 7 year old body?

“Erm, yeah, that.”

Every time Phil moved her lips, I felt as if they’d touch my own, and half my focus was fixed in that direction.

“Master said she had a present for you, right?”

“Uh, ohh. She did, yeah.”

“So I was kinda thinking about that, and I got an idea… why don’t we~ get her something too?”

“Like, a present?”

“Yes.”

So she was thinking about that. Huh.

Pretty surprising when all she did was swipe away other people’s treats and desserts.

“Not a bad idea, actually. Master will be happy too.”

“Great! Then let’s pick one out together, on the next off day maybe?”

“Sure, let’s.”

“It’s a promise!”

She put out her pinky finger, and I wrapped my own around hers.

And with a light shake, we let go.

And that ended our little rendezvous…

“… Umm, also.”

Right as I was feeling a pang of regret over having to go back out, Phil continued the conversation.

“We… said it right…?”

“S-said what?”

“That I’ll become a good wife. And that, you’ll become a good husband.”

“We did.”

I nodded awkwardly while Phil looked away abashed.

“Um, and, I, so I heard about this from Mother, right… … ”

―― That moment.

I, at first, failed to realize just what had happened.

In the darkness where I could only make out an outline, Phil’s face closed in to mine and――――

We kissed.

―――― That is what happened.

Something, something very soft had just touched my lips.

“Ehe. Ehehe.”

Her face now at the original position, Phil giggled as if to gloss over the fact that that just happened.

“A husband and wife have to do this… she said.”

“So they have to… huh.”

“Y-yes. They uh… have to.”

I wasn’t thinking.

Before I’d realized, I’d gotten close, and touched our lips on my own.

To Phil, who was blinking with her long eyelashes in surprise, I said,

“Have to do it… right?”

“R-right.”

Another kiss.

From Phil this time.

“Since we have to… so.”

“We… do.”

We,

Had to, after all.

Under the darkness of the bedsheets.

Enveloped within the heat of 3 bodies.

Inside the space where our breaths collided.

And right beside Raquel, whom we were careful not to wake――

―― We kissed. We kissed and kissed. Many, many times.

That was my,

Jack Lieber’s first kiss.