After the threat of the tiger went away, we've secured the cave.
Furthermore, the thread of tension we're in cuts off.
Then, those that we forgot come back after waiting.
「 I'm hungry! 」
Arisa hangs her head as we're inside the cave.
Everyone's attacked by hunger, including me.
Our stomachs are growling.
「 Actually, I don't want to move as soon as it's dark but our hunger is unbearable. It can't be helped, let's look for food! 」
「 Ooh! Are we going to the river and start fishing? 」
Arisa makes a reeling gesture.
「 Making a rod takes time and so we have to eat mushrooms for tonight 」
「 Ugh, mushrooms? 」
「 It's better than nothing, right? 」
「 Well, true, but still… 」
Arisa hangs her head again.
「 But, are mushrooms okay? There are poisonous mushrooms, right? 」
Karin asks.
「 You don't have to worry about that. Knowing mushrooms is the basics of survival, I can see which are edible and which are poisonous. I've marked some while we're walking so we just have to gather them 」
「 That's reliable of you Hokage. Then, is it okay if we just gather twigs? We'll need to set fire 」
Karin's quite smart.
It helps to have people like her.
「 That would be a huge help. Although, I want someone to come with me 」
「 I'll come with Hokage-kun 」
Eri raised her hand.
The other girls had no objections nor complaints.
「 We will be gathering nearby twigs
「 And if you have some time, get some mushrooms too. I'll check if they're okay or not later 」
Eri and I and the other three split our work.
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Naturally, I have lights in my survival goods.
Though it's small, it has an average luminance like the car headlights, furthermore, it's long-lasting as it uses LED.
I used that to find ingredients in the forest dominated by the night.
「 There it is. Found one here too. This mushroom is elastic and delicious 」
I picked the edible mushrooms indiscriminately.
Then, I tossed it all to Eri's bag.
We left the stuff in her bag back at the cave.
「 Hey, Hokage-kun 」
「 What? 」
「 Why do you use twigs on an open-fire? 」
「 Hmm, what do you mean? 」
「 Couldn't we just use our textbooks? I mean, we also have a lighter 」
Eri and I both have lighters.
Mine is the pistol-look lighter used for setting a fire.
Eri's got the ordinary lighter.
She carries it around just in case the sugar daddy she's entertaining is a smoker.
「 You need to save up your stuff if you want to lengthen your survival 」
That said, I think we're going to use a lighter for today.
I can use fire plow but it'll take time since I'm still an amateur.
Therefore, we'll use lighter for tonight and try using the primitive methods tomorrow.
「 There's also the problem of time. This should be good enough 」
I harvested enough mushrooms for everyone's stomachs.
I can still toss more into the bag but I'll keep it to this much for now.
「 What's left is for us to return to the cave with this 」
I stood up and head back to the cave.
「 Wait, Hogake-kun 」
Eri stopped me.
She puts down the bag and sticks her body to me.
「 W-What? 」
I can't move.
When I noticed, my back is leaning on a tree,
「 Hogake-kun, do you remember when we took photos around the river? 」
Eri leans to me while asking.
「 That was just earlier, so yes. What about it? 」
「 When Arisa's chest hits your face, you got erect, right? 」
「 Ugh 」
She's right.
It's embarrassing to say but I got an erection.
I never thought that Eri would see that.
「 I-I-I didn't… 」
「 You don't have to hide it. You're a guy after all 」
Eri touches my pants.
She slowly unhooks the belt and lowers it down.
My briefs are exposed, then she pulled it down too.
My half-erect penis shows itself.
「 H-hey, what are you doing? 」
「 Currently, we have to depend on Hogake-kun to survive. Therefore, if Hokage-kun's lust starts rampaging and started raping us, we have to accept it 」
「 T-That won't happen 」
Eri holds my penis with her right hand.
I leaked out a groan of pleasure.
It's my first time having a woman touch my penis.
Yes. I'm a virgin.
「 I trust you, but nobody knows what can happen in this place 」
Eri starts stroking my penis with a serious look on her face.
The stimulation is weaker compared to my hand but it's much better.
My half-erect penis turned full-erect in no time.
「 And so I'll extract it with my hand to make sure that you don't rampage 」
「 Huh, no, but… 」
「 You don't have to hold back. Just think of it as my way of thanks 」
「 Okay 」
I have no reason to refuse anyway.
Eri's handjob is melting my hand.
I stopped thinking.
「 You do this when you date your sugar daddies? 」
「 Nope. I only touch them on top of their pants 」
「 This is amazing, considering that you're not used to this 」
「 Hey! I'm telling you, it's my first time touching a man's penis. I'm not a slut like you think, Hokage-kun 」
「 No, I don't think that you're a slut 」
My sensitivity's rising while we're talking.
I have a long experience with masturbating and so I know when it's coming.
「 Shit, I'm about to cum 」
「 Sure you can, but don't smear it on my face or clothes. We can't wash our clothes 」
「 I know 」
As soon as I saw Eri's face, it's rising up already.
She has such a cute face that my ejaculation came earlier than expected.
「 Shit! 」
My ejaculation's coming sooner.
My thoughts go around as my semen waits for its release.
It's gonna smear Eri's face or clothes if this goes on.
This will become a big problem as soon as we get back to the cave.
That said, it would be hard to turn my penis to either side.
I can turn it to an angle in a hurry but it'll still smear Eri.
「 Eri, sorry! 」
I decided at that moment. I'm going to cum inside Eri's mouth.
「 Ngu! Ngugu!!! 」
My swelling penis released semen inside Eri's mouth.
I can feel a huge amount of semen leaking inside her warm mouth.
My penis pulsed and withers…
Eri glares at me bitterly.
Then, she spat the semen from her mouth to the ground.
「 Defiling my mouth. Hogake-kun, you're much pushier than I thought 」
「 Sorry, I had no other way of avoiding your face or clothes 」
「 I think that was a good call. It hurt me a little bit though 」
Eri carries the bag and goes back to the cave.
I put on my pants in a hurry and followed her back.
「 It's a secret between the two of us, okay? 」
「 I know. Still, thanks 」
「 I'm the one who should say that. Be sure to keep us safe from now on 」
「 Of course. I'll keep you safe, even if it costs my life 」
I'm an easy man, I thought.
But, that thought disappeared as soon as we stepped in the cave.
「 Ninja's back! Nin nin! 」
「 Seriously? Hokage's managing Mana and the girls 」
There's another group other than Mana in front of the cave.
It's the top of the class caste, the Sumeragi brothers, and their followers.