Chapter 10

"...Why?"

 The pain in his voice was so audible that even Ichigo - who was the cause of it - felt a pang of pain in her already unsettled heart. Her face cringed ever so slightly, reflecting the guilt she was feeling inside.

She felt very ashamed of herself, admitting that she didn't deserve to be Goro's partner.

Goro had done nothing but his best, and even before that, he was already a competent pilot. One could even say he was one of the best in their batch.

But....

"Goro I...." Ichigo's hands clenched as she uttered out an apology, before her eyes glancing at Hiro. "....I'm sorry."

"...." In that moment, Goro felt something break inside him. He stood motionless for bit, confused as to why his chest was aching.

He didn't understand it. No, he doesn't want to understand it.

So, taking a deep breath, the tall bespectacled boy closed his eyes and forced a smile at her.

"...I understand."

***

When Adam entered the room, he could see that the girls were now chatting.

"Hey, hey.... What did it feel like to pilot with Adam?" Sitting on the side of the bed, Miku questions Naomi who was eating lunch from the food tray Adam gave her earlier.

"Honestly? It was the best." Naomi answered. "It was completely different from Hiro. I didn't feel a single struggle or discomfort at all."

'It even felt good....' The shy brunette thought it her mind but refused to say it out loud. But that didn't spare her cheeks who blushed at her shameful thoughts.

"Ara? What's this?" Miku slyly smiled as she suspiciously looked at Naomi's face. "I think there's something else that you aren't telling us~."

Ikuno took a seat next to Naomi on her bed, joining in on the fun. "I think so too~."

Kokoro only watched over them with a smile, feeling slightly happy that someone else was being teased this time. However, being the kind girl she is, she helped out the troubled and flustered Naomi since she knew what it was like to be teased relentlessly.

"Miku-chan, Ikuno-san... please don't tease Naomi too much."

"What's this? Is someone jealous?

"Ah! Adam!" Upon noticing Adam enter the room, Naomi immediately greeted him.

"Hey, Partner." Adam approached the group casually.

"Thanks for the lunch.... but you really shouldn't have. I could've went there myself."

"Yeah, well, it's my fault that you still need to rest and as your partner, I have the obligation to take care of you. So don't mind it."

Naomi smiled softly. "...Thank you."

'Ahh.... He's so considerate...' (A/N: This is teenage hormones at work making her look at Adam with rose-tinted glasses.)

Adam shrugged with a smile. "No problem."

He then took a seat at the lower end of the bed, looking at Miku, Ikuno, and Kokoro who were curiously looking at him. Receiving their stares, Adam thought that they were too shy to speak to him, so he decided to talk to them.

"So... can I have the pleasure of knowing your names?"

Miku blinks for a moment, then immediately introduces herself. "I'm Miku!" She inched closer to him and extended her hand. "Nice to meet you!"

The corners of Adam's lips curled upwards as he took her hand and lowered his head before kissing the top of it. He looks at her and sees the lass' completely red face. He smiles charmingly, "Nice to meet you too."

As for Miku, the poor maiden girl's heart was practically exploding right now. 'OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH!!!!!'

The corners of her lips were twitching uncontrollably. She tried her best to stop herself from smiling like a fool but was evidently failing terribly at it.

"Oooh.... tone it down a bit, would you?"

Ikuno joins the conversation with an amused smile. She looks at him and Miku, finding entertainment in her cheeky friend's completely flustered state. Meanwhile, Adam looked at Ikuno and he could immediately tell that she was feigning her smile. In reality, the bespectacled freckled teen was both curious and cautious of him, something he was able to grasp in a glance.

Of course, he could understand why she felt that way. Not to be a narcissist or anything, but Adam rarely encountered any female parasite that looked at him cautiously. With a few exception who was knew a couple of the privy things about him. In any case, he simply found it mildly interesting that Ikuno wasn't as flustered or as dreamful as any other girls in her age when meeting him.

"And you are....?" Adam asks as he extended his hand towards her.

Ikuno politely smiled back and shook his hand.

"Ikuno." She answered briefly before saying, "That won't work on me, you know?" She was referring to Adam's bedazzling smile.

"Really?" Adam tilted his head and raised a brow. Grinning mischievously, he leaned closer to her, staring directly into her eyes with a demure smile and asked, "Are you sure?"

"....." Ikuno reflexively leaned backwards but was prevented by Miku who pushed her back. Ikuno frowned as Adam's face became closer and closer to hers, leaving her no choice but to look at his pooling sapphire blue eyes that seemed to draw her in.

'No! No! Just look at his nose! Yes! Focus on his nose! ....Why does his nose look so perfect too?! And that smell?! Why does he smell so good?!'

It was reminiscent of a cool relaxing breeze, one that you would want take a deep breath in and relish the calming effect. Unknown to herself that her cheeks were getting rosier than ever, Ikuno boldly grabbed Adam's face and pushed him away.

Her rude action surprised her friends, but Adam surprised them even more when he took her slim fair hands from his face and kissed it. It was the same thing he did with Miku, but the mischievousness in his eyes and smirk on his face somehow made it... lewder. At least that's what the young teenage girls thought.

Naturally, Ikuno's face was blistering red as she was the one on the receiving end.

"Told you it works?" Adam states confidently.

"....please stop." An almost begging tone is all that left Ikuno's mouth as she looked away from Adam.

Adam chuckled and decided to spare the poor lass.

This has always been the case with Adam's charm and as exaggerating as it sound, his charm would affect even the adults who worked for APE. Which is why the general in charge of him had to emphasize that he keeps his nifty pretty face and charm away from them, unless he wants to get locked up again for trying to seduce his superiors.

Oh yes. That did happen. Unfortunately, he was caught before he could do anything to those adult women that he managed to charm.

'Who said that their desire is dead? Bunch of bull crap if I say so myself.' 

Pushing himself out of his musings, Adam turned to the last girl who had long ash-blonde hair. She too, was burning with red cheeks, which appeared very cute and adorable in Adam's opinion. The petite ash-blonde was the kind of gals he would want to push down and corrupt.

"Hey." Adam greeted casually.

"N-nice to meet you, Adam-san! My name is Kokoro!"

"Kokoro-chan is it?" Adam grinned. "What a cute name."

Ikuno scoffed mockingly. "I bet you say that to all the girls."

"He does indeed..." Naomi affirmed with a small voice.

Adam shrugged his shoulders. "But it's true though? I only say what's on my mind. If I think it's cute, then it's cute."

"And if I think she's pretty..." He looked at Naomi with a sensual gaze. The brunette shivered, feeling a slight tingling sensation on her stomach as Adam finished his words. "...then she's really pretty."

"Adam...!" Naomi knew that she was being teased again. But her cheeks can't help but grow rosier even though she knew she was being teased. 'Damn it, Adam!'

Just then, a simultaneous brief vibrating noise could be heard coming from Ikuno, Kokoro, and Miku's pockets. They also had a transmitter albeit the down-graded version. This one was a small white device and with a push of a button, a glass extended upwards and revealed acting as a holographic screen.

[ Contact: NANA - Audio calling.... ]

"It's Nana." Ichigo says.

The girls looked at each other before looking at Ichigo, who answered the call. Then, Nana's voice then resounded through the transmitters.

[Ikuno, Kokoro, Miku, Ichigo, We will be commencing our start-up drill now since it was interrupted yesterday. Please head to the locker rooms to get suited up.]

"Oh... I guess it's time to go." Ikuno stands up from the bed.

"Yes..." Kokoro stood up as well albeit with a slightly dispirited face. She really wanted to talk to Adam some more and it was a shame that her opportunity now was interrupted. 'Let's just talk to him later.'

"Nee... Adam-san." Miku pokes Adam's shoulders.

"Yes?"

"Will you be coming to watch us?" Miku asks while leaving the bed and straightening the creases of her skirt. "Better yet, do you want to join our drills? I'm sure you and Naomi can join as well, right?"

Naomi opened her mouth to say that she was too tired for the day but Adam beat her to it.

"Maybe next time, Miku-chan." Adam says, "I want Naomi to get a little more rest since I thoroughly exhausted her yesterday."

The brunette's face became red again as she recalled yesterday's events while the three other girls stared at her with a confused, but curious gaze. Although they knew about what Adam could do, they really couldn't tell what was so good about what Adam did to her.

Well, to be fair, All Naomi divulged was that Adam kissed her. No way in hell would she ever tell them that Adam played with her... pee hole.

'Oh god! it's so embarrassing!' Naomi blushed profusely again. She wanted to bury her head in a hole somewhere.

As for Kokoro, Ikuno, and Miku, they promised to see her later again but inwardly, they were thinking that whatever Naomi was hiding, they would definitely get it out of her later.

But for now, they left and headed to the locker rooms.

"Well, they're a nice and friendly bunch." Adam said.

"That, they are." Naomi agreed with a smiling face. Inwardly, she was happy that Adam liked her friends and that her friends liked Adam too.

'....But maybe they like him a little bit too much.' Now she felt conflicted.

"Oh yeah, two more kids wanted to check on you." Adam was referring to Zorome and Futoshi who was knocking on the door earlier. He didn't know why they didn't enter when he did, but he simply shrugged it off.

 He could sense their jealousy from a mile away and he wasn't going to bother with it at all.

"Oh? Was it Hiro-kun and Goro-kun?" Naomi asked, still feeling a little conflicted about her ex-partner but was also a little bit happy if Hiro really did check up on her.

Adam shook his head. "Actually, no. It was a short kid and the plump boy."

"Short kid and Plump boy?" Naomi repeated. "You mean Zorome-kun and Futoshi-kun?"

Adam shrugged his shoulders. "If that's their names, then yeah."

"I see... so Hiro-kun wasn't with them...." Her face looked a little down when she said that.

"Hey, don't look so glum." Adam grabbed her chin and turned her toward him. "I'm here, aren't I?"

Naomi stared at his face for a moment and smiled. "Yes... you're right. I'm sorry Adam... It's just been a really confusing development for me." She sighed. "I guess I'm still in the middle of processing it."

"Is that so?" Adam quipped with a playful tone. Looking her directly in the eyes, licked his lips and narrowed his gaze. "If that's the case, why don't I help hasten the process?"

Seeing that predatory look on his face, Naomi gulped nervously. But her body couldn't lie to her as she shivered in clear anticipation. Her breath hitched as she bashfully spoke, "W-w-what do you have in mind?"

Adam smirked wickedly, "Come to think of it, I still haven't given you your reward for yesterday. Even though we fought a monster that could've flattened us in seconds, you still gave me your full trust and going along with my crazy recklessness."

"That, my sweet girl..." Adam leaned closer to her lips. "most definitely deserves a great reward."

As soon as their lips made contact, the brunette almost immediately opened her mouth and welcomed Adam's tongue. Adam smiled, enjoying the sweet and soft lips of the eager young brunette. Since he wanted the inexperienced Naomi to enjoy as well, Adam started gently, intentionally kissing her in a slow, sensual pace. This allowed the brunette to adjust to the relatively new and hot experience. She squeezed her thighs together, as if trying to endure something.

Quiet soppy noises resounded in the room as Adam repeatedly teased both her lips and tongue, tracing the contours and roof of her mouth, eliciting Naomi to let out suppressed moans under their conjoined lips.

'Oh God... I love this... I love it....'

Naomi wanted nothing more than to keep drowning in Adam's kiss that felt heavenly and she would've continued doing it if she didn't run out of breath. Adam broke the kiss and a silvery viscuous liquid trailed from their separating lips.

Honestly, had Adam not noticed her need for air, she would've fainted from the lack of oxygen.

"Huff... huff...." With feverish red cheeks and misty eyes, Naomi tried to catch her breath as she eyed Adam's sweet succulent lips.

'....' Her mind was completely blank except for the desire to take the man's lips in front of her.

Adam smirked at her yearning sight and teased, "Well, Someone's eager~."

Instead of replying, Naomi simply leaned forward and stole his lips, taking Adam by surprise. Growing amused, Adam decided to take it one level further by putting in more vigor with his tongue and applying gentle suction on her tongue and lips, eliciting sweet gasps and moans from Naomi whose lower body was beginning to feel on fire.

She knew that she already felt hot enough, but for some reason, her lower body was feeling more intense heat than ever. As she continued to drown under Adam's heavenly kiss, an unsratchable itch was budding deep in her core. She began to subconsciously squeeze her thighs tighter together in response to the itch, but it made no difference at all. Soon, seconds turned to minutes and without realizing it, fifteen minutes had already passed.

"Huff... huff.. huff..." Naomi's face was completely feverish with her lips slightly swollen from their extensive exchange. She looked like she was completely drunk. Her eyes were unfocused with slight tears forming at the corner of her eyes. Beads of sweat trickled down her forehead while traces of saliva fell from the corners of her lips.

"Hm... hm...." Adam's face was relatively better, only having slight blush on his pristine cheeks despite their passionate kiss.

Honestly, Naomi really surprised Adam because halfway through their kiss, Naomi began to use Adam's own techniques against him. It seems that she's not only immersing and enjoying the kiss, but also learning from it.

Snapping Naomi out from her reverie, Adam poked her soft cheeks.

"Did you like your reward?"

"....I loved it." Naomi absentmindedly answered. All her shame and inhibitions were thrown out the window.

She really loved every second of their kiss, there was no doubt about that. But...

'Is that all?'

Somehow, she was still expecting something more.

Her inner core was on fire and her thighs were squeezing furiously against each other, making her look like she was enduring something intense. Naomi couldn't understand why her body felt like this, but what she understood was that the thirst, the itch, was deep inside her snatch. She looked at Adam with a pleading face, she wanted him to touch her in the same way he did before during their time in Chantrieri's cockpit.

Of course, having seen and received this kind of look countless of times, Adam already knew what she wanted. But his inner sadism was slowly awakening. He decided that he wanted to tease the cute brunette some more.

"Your reward still isn't over, you know?" Adam's eyes narrowed with playfulness, "What else do you want me to do?"

And as if those words were the trigger, the innocent teenage brunette followed her instincts and spread her legs in an M shape, revealing a very damp stain on the nether region of her pink pajama pants. If one took a closer look, the place she sat on was very wet as well.

Adam's eyes flickered with desire as he met with Naomi's misty eyes. As their gazes met, the brunette said with a bashful face and meek voice, "Please... please touch me here."

Adam grabbed the garter of her pajama pants and began pulling it down her slim, dainty legs. After doing so, he lowered his face in between her open legs.

Naomi gulped in anticipitation. Her legs quivered upon the notion of a handsome man like Adam nearing her snatch. She didn't even realize that she was already slightly raising her core, impatiently wanting to bury Adam's face between her legs and deep into her core.

Adam chuckled inwardly upon his seeing the eagerness no- the hunger in his brunette partner. He smirked evilly as his face continued to descend between her legs, stopping just a few breaths away from her core that was covered by her drenched underwear.

Looking upwards, Adam made eye contact with Naomi who was biting her lips in anticipation and eyes burning with desire. He then spoke while prodding her eager snatch under her panties with his long finger, "You asked for this so... try not to faint, alright?"

Naomi audibly gulped again. But this time, she answered enthusiastically.

"Yes!"

***

She fainted.

She didn't know when, but she definitely knew the reason why.

The things that Adam did to her, or more specifically, the things he did with her 'peehole'. No wait, let's refer to it as 'Pussy' as Adam told her to refer to it as. In any case, the things he did to her pussy was.... heavenly. That's all that she could say about it.

She felt as if she was in heaven when she experienced the pleasure she never knew existed. It was so good, so great, that's almost scary.

The way he touched, licked, and practically devoured her pussy... it was nothing short of an amazing and mind-boggling experience. It was addictive to the point that she kept asking for more. Heck, she would have Adam do that to her everyday if it was possible.

She lost count of how many times she 'released' or in Adam's words, 'came'. He said that the official world for it was 'orgasm', but 'Cumming' or 'came' was easier to say most especially during the heated mood.

In any case, it was her 'cumming' that sent her to high heavens several times while in other times, she felt so good that she felt as if she was flying. Adam played with her pussy so many times that she experienced losing consciousness for a short time before waking up to overwhelming waves of pleasure many times. Eventually though, her body couldn't take it anymore as she fully lost consciousness on the climax of her strongest orgasm.

By the time Ethan was done, it was already late afternoon and since he had nothing to do until dinner time, he decided to go watch the exercise drill of squad 13 if it still wasn't finished yet. However, on the way there, he found the FranXX being stationed back to the spacious garage that seemed more like a harbor for super big battleships. It was wide enough to size about 2 and a half football stadiums. Adult staffs and soldiers had to drive small vehicles to traverse around the garage.

"Darling!"

Suddenly, he heard the bright voice of his sister calling out to him in the distance. There, he found his sister waving her arm at him before running towards him. It seems that just like him, she was also checking out the garage. Behind her was Ichigo and Goro who seemed to be getting along quite well despite what happened.