Spring Never Comes to Stolen Fields - Chapter 34

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◈ Spring Never Comes to Stolen Fields ◈

Chapter 34: Cain (2)

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The endless stream of first-class dishes seemed to have finally reached its last course.

Considering how much we'd already eaten, we could probably go without food until tomorrow.

Even amid this feast of exquisite food, Raven only picked at her meal.

Maybe she couldn't eat much because of her small frame, but it still felt like a waste to watch.

Then again, maybe there were more people in the world than I thought who wouldn't mind wasting an opportunity like this.

"Phew~"

Yuri let out a long breath as she rubbed her stomach, apparently full as well.

Cain, the host, still had an incredible appetite.

"Ahh, there's nothing like home cooking!!"

Yeah. At this level, he had every right to say that.

My home-cooked meals had been humble, self-sufficient organic food, after all.

"Your final course."

The butler approached us carrying a strange, round, cream-like dessert.

The three of us stared blankly at it, served in a bowl shaped like a short-stemmed wineglass.

"Oh. Of course we're ending with this!"

Cain sounded excited.

Since we had no idea what it was, we quietly waited for him to explain.

"What are you waiting for? Eat it. You have to eat this quickly!"

As he raised his spoon to break apart the sphere, Raven spoke for the first time that day.

"How... are we supposed to eat this...?"

If I'd asked, he would've just sneered, "You don't have this at your house, do you?" I was grateful to Raven.

"Ah, this? Let me introduce it to you. It's Asukrim, the finest dessert in our territory."

"Asukrim?"

Raven tilted her head.

"That's right. Once you try it, you'll be amazed by the cold sensation on your tongue and its smooth texture. And once you taste its irresistible sweetness, there's no escaping it!"

Watching Cain take a huge spoonful and look blissful made me feel oddly uncomfortable.

Seeing a grown man make that face over dessert gave me a visceral sense of disgust.

I wondered if it really tasted good enough to make someone look like that...

Asukrim was, quite literally... paradise.

How could a human possibly create a flavor like this?

The sweetness on my tongue felt like it was training my entire body.

Right now, it would probably rank just below Luna's blood for me.

"Cain! This is incredible!"

Yuri apparently couldn't hold back the pleasure blooming on her tongue either.

This time, I couldn't hold back my praise either.

"Wow, this is seriously so good, Cain."

Cain had already emptied his bowl and set down his spoon.

"Hurry up and eat before it melts!"

Raven included, we scraped our bowls clean without leaving a drop of Asukrim behind.

I decided I'd get Cain to owe me a favor, then collect the recipe from him.

Luna would definitely like it too.

After finishing our meal, we sat there for a while, full to bursting.

Cain spoke to Raven.

"Raven, do you like animals by any chance?"

Raven nodded.

She'd put her mask back on after the meal. It felt like a shame to hide such a pretty face.

"Our family has a garden where we raise all kinds of rare animals. Would you like to go there?"

They had a zoo in their house. With this level of wealth, I'd have believed him if he said they raised dragons too.

Raven gave a small smile with her eyes and nodded.

The effect of that first eye-smile from someone usually expressionless was tremendous.

Yuri, Cain, and I probably all felt the same way.

Y-you're too cute...

It seemed that when someone did something they normally never did, it had an enormous impact.

"Good, good. It's plenty spacious, so you can spend the rest of the afternoon there."

I still couldn't understand why he'd singled out Raven.

"Huh? Are Yuri and I going somewhere else?"

Cain gave us the same lecherous smile as before, version two.

"I thought we'd have a little private time between men. You don't mind, do you, Raven?"

Raven shook her head. She must have really liked the sound of the zoo.

More importantly, private time between men? I don't want to, though?

"Do we really have to go with just men?"

Cain placed a hand on my shoulder.

"I told you, didn't I? Your big brother prepared the full course."

Yuri must have gotten chills, because she asked Cain again.

"Um... wouldn't it be better if we went to the zoo too...? H-ha ha..."

Come to think of it, Yuri wasn't actually a man either.

The awkward way she laughed was kind of funny.

"The zoo is nice~ The place we're going is a zoo too. Just a special one."

Cain grabbed Yuri's shoulder with his other arm, pulling both of us close as he laughed heartily.

Compared to yesterday, the second day of my tour of the human realm was way too intense.

Cain told the butler to look after Raven.

After agreeing to meet again in three hours, Raven disappeared somewhere with the butler.

Yuri and I looked at each other with complicated expressions.

'What the hell is private time between men supposed to be?!'

'I don't know either! I've never done it!'

It wasn't going to be a gay party, right? Honestly, as long as it wasn't that, I thought I could handle anything.

Cain hummed as he led us along.

"All right. Let's go enjoy ourselves in Leventus's greatest underground paradise."

I'd heard of paradise on earth, but what was an underground paradise?

We followed Cain down a long, winding staircase.

After descending for who knew how long, booming music crashed over us, loud enough to make our hearts throb.

I didn't think I'd ever heard anything this loud before.

We still couldn't see anything. The sound was clearly coming from beyond some door, yet it was unbelievably loud.

"All right. Let's go in."

Huge guards built like Cain stood sternly in front of an enormous iron gate.

"Welcome, Young Master!"

Just as they had opened the castle gates for him, the guards opened the iron gate.

"Good work."

Cain gave each guard a couple of pats on the back, then led us beyond the bars.

The scene that unfolded after a long corridor was, without exaggeration, shocking.

First, there were hardly any men in sight. Countless women wandered around everywhere.

Second, all those women were swaying to the music.

Third, their outfits... looked like they covered only the important parts with scraps of cloth.

Cain turned to us at the entrance of the massive hall.

"I'm only bringing you here because you've become my party members. This is House Leventus's Underground Zoo in Musto, a place only insiders know about! Hahaha!"

Cain spoke proudly as Yuri watched him.

Yuri's reaction was quite something.

She looked like a sweating stone statue, as though someone had cast petrification magic on her.

Still, she was too nice to say anything harsh and forced herself to respond to Cain.

"Wow... it's really... impressive in scale, Cain... H-ha ha..."

Cain mistook Yuri's reaction for nervousness and approached her, apparently intending to help her loosen up.

"Yuri, is this your first time?"

"....What???"

Yuri jumped and replied in a slightly higher voice than usual.

If you keep making it that obvious, they'll figure out you're a girl even if I don't say anything.

"Don't be nervous. The women here are incredible! There are plenty of bitches who like pretty boys like you, so you've got nothing to worry about."

Yuri's face turned bright red.

"It's not called a zoo for nothing. The men and women here are all animals."

Lewd sounds carried through the music from all around us.

In fact, behind Cain, a young man wearing only pants and a woman in nothing but underwear were frantically devouring each other's lips.

"All right, let's get in there!"

Cain grabbed Yuri and me by the wrists and pulled us into the center of the hall.

The people who recognized Cain all cheered.

"Ahh~ Cain is here!"

"Cain~ It's been so long~"

"Who are those cute kids with you?"

"Can I take a bite out of the one on the left?"

A bite? That's a pretty strange way to put it.

Cain seemed to be a celebrity here.

Well, with a place like this beneath his house, someone with Cain's personality probably came here constantly.

If it had only been Cain and me, I probably would've been flustered and had no idea what to do. But with Yuri beside me, I naturally found myself paying more attention to her.

Anyone could tell Yuri was even more clueless than I was.

Cain took a seat at the most extravagant-looking table in the middle.

Then a beautiful woman with long, slender legs fully on display approached and sat beside him.

"It's been a while, Cain."

"Kadella."

"You said you had to go to the academy, and you begged and begged me to make time for you. Don't you think you came back a little too soon for that?"

Cain wrapped an arm around her waist as he answered.

"Ah, right. But I got lucky and received some legal time off."

Kadella turned her attention to Yuri and me across from them.

"And who are these two?"

"Ah. I brought them here today so they could have some fun too."

"Ooh~"