The warm comments continued for a moment, and then,

With that comment as the last, the preview for the next episode played and the broadcast finally ended.

The people who had been watching live and chatting and commenting scattered. To work through the lingering afterglow, they each went to their preferred corners of the internet and left their thoughts.

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The impact of their broadcast appearance was enormous. Every spot from number one to ten on the real-time search rankings was occupied by something related to Carbon and Hyde. Articles poured out, and related posts and social media updates appeared with every refresh.

Carbon had always been hugely popular and famous, so the reaction to discovering his unexpectedly romantic side on the broadcast was largely one of delighted surprise.

Hyde was different. Her recognition had been noticeably lacking before, so a wide range of reactions came in. Among them, an enormous number of posts were uploaded from people saying they had only just discovered her charm and were now fans.

Carbon read through the comments flooding the article section, all of them fawning over Hyde, and frowned. He didn’t dislike his beloved partner receiving the attention she deserved. But……

“Mister.”

Hyde used her ability and pulled the phone out of Carbon’s hand with a shadow. Carbon let her take it without resistance. He had been growing more and more unsettled the longer he kept reading the comments on the articles, so having it taken away from his eyes was probably for the better.

In the meantime, Hyde wrapped her arms around Carbon’s neck from behind and pressed herself fully against his back. The comfortable weight and warm heat against his back wrapped around him like something soft.

“What have you been looking at this whole time? Your expression isn’t good. Hmm? An article about our broadcast…… oh! They’re saying nice things about me!”

Hyde pulled the phone screen toward her using her shadow and her face brightened. She was well aware that public opinion about her was running hot in a positive direction right now.

She hadn’t particularly wanted to become popular, but she couldn’t help feeling good about the warm words of support directed at her.

Still, Hyde found herself puzzled.

“But why were you looking at this with such a serious expression?”

“……”

“Mmm, were there bad comments? No, I didn’t see anything particularly unkind.”

Carbon stayed silent, unable to bring himself to admit his petty feelings, and Hyde narrowed her eyes at him and began reasoning it out on her own.

Before long she caught on, and her eyes lit up as she turned to look at him.

“Are you anxious? Worried that irresistibly charming me might run off with another man?”

The soft voice settling against his ear was unbearably sweet, but the meaning in those words sent Carbon’s already restless heart into turmoil. The large hand that had dropped to his side after his phone was taken clenched into a fist. The veins stood out on the back of his knuckled hand.

“……No.”

“It’s true!”

Unable to hide how obviously rattled he was, Carbon heard Hyde let out a small, bright laugh as she buried her face in his neck and rubbed her nose against him. Then, lips pressed to the space between his neck and shoulder, she murmured.

“There’s no chance of that, so you don’t need to worry about something that isn’t going to happen.”

Carbon, who had been still, replied in a reluctant tone.

“……Nothing can be guaranteed.”

Hyde turned her head. With only a view of Carbon’s profile this close, it was hard to read what he was feeling.

After thinking for a moment, Hyde sent the shadows pooled on the floor surging upward. Whoosh! Shadows bloomed from every direction and swept over Carbon.

“Ugh!”

Carbon was startled for a moment, but he stopped the instinctive counterattack. He let himself be held by the shadows and laid back against the sofa. Hyde vaulted over the sofa and landed on top of him.

Straddling Carbon’s lower abdomen with her legs spread, Hyde undid her pajama buttons one by one. While she did, thin shadows branching off from the ones binding Carbon began to remove his clothes. They rolled his white T-shirt up to his chest and pulled his pants down, nudging his briefs along with them.

This was not the first time something like this had happened, so Carbon was no longer flustered the way he used to be. He watched the shadows calmly as they undressed him and made no particular effort to stop them. The surface-level reason was that forcibly breaking Hyde’s ability would send the backlash to her, but the real reason, deeper down, was the desire rising from somewhere inside him.

“I’ll help you not feel anxious.”

Hyde finished taking off her pajamas. She hadn’t been wearing anything underneath, so her bare chest was exposed. She exhaled a long breath, and her br*asts swayed faintly. As the cool air brushed her skin, her soft n*pples began to harden. The heated gaze shooting up at her from below sent excitement rising and her n*pples stiffened to points quickly.

Pretending not to notice the ardent stare directed at her, Hyde pressed her knees down and straightened her thighs. She lightly pulled down her pajama bottoms and took the thin underwear off along with them.

Completely bare with her legs spread, the exposed feeling below was a little distracting, and Hyde opened her mouth to shake off the awkwardness.

“You must have always seen this when we had s*x.”

Hyde looked down at Carbon beneath her with a curious expression. She was reminded of the time she had massaged him to try to seduce him. A lot had changed, but having the bare Carbon underneath her and being able to look at and touch his muscular body to her heart’s content was a common thread that brought the memory back.

Without oil, the skin fresh from a shower was still moist and luminous enough to show off his well-built muscles. Unable to resist the urge to touch, Hyde reached out and grabbed Carbon’s pectoral muscles. Hard as brick, but still a human body, so kneading gently didn’t hurt her hands.

“Mmm, the texture is nice. I understand why you like my chest.”

Hyde marveled as she gripped Carbon’s chest muscle, which didn’t fit entirely in her hand.

But the large, white br*asts swaying on the Hyde who was saying such things caught Carbon’s gaze and wouldn’t let go. Carbon’s throat went dry with the desire to take her stiffened n*pples into his mouth.

Whether or not she sensed that longing, Hyde began to touch him slowly from his neck downward, just as he had done for her. Her slow fingertips tracing over his muscles grazed the light-brown buds, and a reaction sparked.

“Hkk.”

A parched m*an rose along his bobbing throat. Hyde’s body, seated on Carbon’s taut lower abdomen, trembled in response. A shiver ran up her spine with the vibration. But what truly sent a jolt through her was the sight of Carbon moving beneath her, swayed by the motion of her fingertips. When his beautiful olive eyes distorted with arousal, the lower belly of Hyde, whose gaze had met his, clenched tight.

“Ah……”

Her p*ssy grew wet. With nothing on, her arousal soaked Carbon’s lower abdomen freely.

Hyde shifted her hips slightly and the arousal from her p*ssy stretched in a thin thread. Finding it fascinating, Hyde pressed her p*ssy against Carbon’s skin and pulled away, then pressed again, over and over. The wet, lewd sound built the excitement. Hyde wet her lips and was about to squeeze her thighs together to press at her p*ssy the way she might touch herself, when,

“Wait.”

Carbon called to Hyde urgently with a furrowed brow, trying to stop her. Feeling the p*ssy clinging stickily to his lower belly clenching and releasing so vividly was driving him out of his mind. His head flooded with heat and the urge to drive himself into the fluttering opening and pound her until she was sobbing.

“Now undo this and―.”

“No.”

Hyde reached out and covered Carbon’s mouth with her hand. Her stiff n*pples rubbed against his body, and when Carbon’s lips pressed under her palm moved and parted, she trembled like someone being tickled. Hhng, Hyde let out a small m*an and slowly slid backward. Then, thud! A firm shaft struck her soft backside and she stopped.

She glanced back, saw the insistently twitching c*ck, and seemed to make up her mind as she straightened.

“Today, I’m, going to, take the lead.”

Hyde repositioned herself between Carbon’s legs and brought her hand down to take hold of his c*ck. Touching just below the head of the already fully *rect massive c*ck made fl*id run freely and wet her hand. It didn’t seem like she needed to put in any more effort to get him hard.

“Hkk.”

Looking up at the low m*an, the sight of Carbon’s flushed eyes glazed with arousal made Hyde’s own urgency spike. She was already flooding below, and her entrance was fluttering eagerly to take him in. But Hyde held herself back. Unlike before when she had needed to devour Carbon in a rush, today she wanted to take her time and savor having him beneath her.

“Haah.”

Holding the c*ck by the middle, Hyde lifted her hips and rubbed the head against her wet p*ssy. The sensation of the smooth head parting her folds was pleasant. Pressing her cl*t against the notch just below the head sent a particularly sharp jolt of pleasure through her, and Hyde parted her lips and exhaled a heated breath.