At Night…
"Haaah haah ugh... why..."
After sunset, when the village lay asleep, Kaya slipped out of the mansion and resumed her ritual of outdoor exhibitionism and masturbation in the forest.
But one thing troubled her deeply.
"Why... can't I be satisfied..."
She had climaxed again and again since that morning. She'd touched herself over and over. Yet her body remained unfulfilled, desperately craving the next peak of pleasure.
Several times she'd nearly been caught by Merry or Klahadore, but even those close calls and subsequent orgasms brought no relief.
She had hoped that indulging her favorite outdoor exposure at night would satisfy her, but it didn't. If anything, her body only demanded more and more.
"Haaah haaah I want it... I want it so badly..."
She knew the reason. The scene she'd witnessed at dawn. Compared to that, her own pleasure felt like child's play—pathetic.
Naked?
Masturbation?
It was laughable, a joke next to that primal feast. A realm she, still innocent of a man's touch, could never reach on her own. She understood that masturbation would never get her there.
Yet her body craved it anyway.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"Huh...?"
A voice that shouldn't exist in this place. Trembling with terror and despair, Kaya whipped around and found a face she recognized.
"Eh...?"
There stood Nojiko. Completely naked.
Her body was sun-kissed all over, toned and lean without an ounce of extra flesh, yet her breasts were full and firm. Everything about her radiated the healthy, active vitality that stood in stark contrast to Kaya's own sickly pallor.
"What kind of outfit is that?" Nojiko asked.
"Um... you're one to talk, aren't you?"
Had they been on some sun-drenched nudist beach, they might have seemed ready for a refreshing swim. But here, in the moonlit forest, the scene was absurd: two stark-naked beauties standing face to face in the dark…
"Nami! I found a new addition!"
"Hah? ...Wait, Kaya!?"
Proceeding like a prisoner being escorted, Kaya was brought to the northern cove. Moored there were two vessels, and aboard the smaller sailboat sat Nami—Luffy's other companion, just like Nojiko.
But Nami was just as naked as Nojiko—and now Kaya. The only difference was that Nami wore an open shirt, unbuttoned down the front in a way that did nothing to cover her but instead seemed to emphasize her breasts even more.
"Eh? Why... and what's with that outfit?" Nami asked, looking Kaya up and down.
"Don't give me that suspicious look. She was already like this from the start," Nojiko clarified.
Nami had assumed Nojiko had stripped Kaya, but hearing that Kaya had done it herself, she stared at her in disbelief.
"Ah, um! What are you two doing here?" Kaya asked, clearly uncomfortable and desperate to change the subject. It was a blatant deflection, but Nami didn't seem to mind.
"Boat watch. Boat watch. We can't haul all our stuff ashore, so we're taking turns," Nami replied.
"Yesterday it was Luffy. Today it's Nami. I came to bring her supplies. We had some drinks, had a little fun, and I was taking a walk to clear my head," Nojiko explained.
And on that walk, she had found Kaya. The urge to snap, "You were taking a walk completely naked?!" rose instinctively in Kaya's throat, but then she glanced down at her own bare body and said nothing.
Nojiko boarded the boat, plopped down, and grabbed a bottle of alcohol left among the scattered supplies. "Sit down already," she said.
With no room to refuse, Kaya murmured, "E-Excuse me," and climbed aboard, settling across from the two of them. Nami, seeing her tension, shoved a mug toward her. "Here."
"Ah, um... I don't really drink..."
"Oh, this stuff's just water, actually," Nami said.
"Huh?"
It had a sweet scent that made "water" a hard sell, and the distinct burn of alcohol warming the back of her throat certainly felt real.
"It's Luffy's ability. He can alter how things are perceived," Nami explained. "Turn water into booze. Turn a hard rock into a fresh-picked apple you can actually eat."
"Wow... that's incredible." Kaya, who devoured tales of the mysterious and fantastic, was genuinely intrigued. Still, she hesitated, unable to bring the mug to her lips.
"If you don't want alcohol, swap it for this. It's grape juice for mixing," Nojiko offered.
"Ah... thank you."
What she received was still, technically, water. It was colorless and transparent, which gave her pause, but she steeled herself and drank.
"It's delicious..."
"Good. The way it looks messes with your brain, but the taste is the real deal," Nami said.
Kaya recalled a medical text she'd once read, something about the connection between sight and taste perception.
"You finally smiled," Nojiko observed.
"Huh?"
"You've been trembling since I ran into you in the forest. It's not like I'm gonna blackmail you or rat you out or anything," Nojiko said breezily.
But Kaya wondered—how were they not terrified of being discovered like this themselves?
"Nami and I... we weren't able to do a single thing we wanted, not for the longest time. Evil pirates killed our parents and took over our village. Nami was forced to become their navigator because of her skills."
"...For ten whole years," Nami added.
"Ten years...?!!"
It was so horrific that even pity felt insulting. Yet the two women before her radiated a brightness that betrayed none of that suffering.
"When you're finally free, you have a decade's worth of dreams: I want to do this, I want to go there, I want that, I want to try this. After ten years of storing up those wishes, you don't even know where to start anymore."
"So you just do what you want. I want to be with Nami. I want to see the outside world. I want to be fucked senseless by Luffy. I want to have wonderful encounters. I want to enjoy now."
Their words—the feelings of two girls bound for ten long years. They seemed like the very embodiment of hope itself.
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