Seeing the determination in Ais' eyes, he decided it was better to let her do as she pleased. Removing his hands from her shoulder, he decided to 'help' in her 'research', placing his hands on her back.

Ais, feeling Ethan's warm hands on her back, placed her hands on his c.h.e.s.t. With a focused expression, she looked at him while he said

"Do you feel.. something?"

Hearing his words, she tried to think about it and, with a heat that started to spread in their surrounding, she didn't reply his words.

"can you hold me.. tighter?"

'Approving' her request, Ethan now was hugging her more tightly than before and, with her face so close to his, he started to feel the 'butterflies in the stomach'.

Seeing the reaction of Ethan, Ais continued

"Do you feel...something?"

He wanted to say the situation was difficult to hold for someone like him but, having time to try something like this with Hestia, he felt relaxed again.

"Well, yes. I can feel the warmth of your body and, your hands on my c.h.e.s.t make my heart beat faster and faster..your face so close to mine makes me want to kiss you.."

She thought about it for some seconds and, with a 'light' blush on her face, she asked

"What is a 'kiss'...?"

Seeing the innocent expression she was making, Ethan brought his mouth close to hers, saying

"A kiss...means overlapping our lips, once overlapped--"

Without having time to explain, Ethan felt Ais' lips on his. He 'blacked out' for some moments before he slowly detached his lips.

Tightening his hands on Ais' back, he said

"That was...a kiss on the lips, there are many types of kisses but--"

Feeling her lips again on his, Ethan started to feel the butterflies on his stomach more noticeable than before.

He decided to reply on the kiss this time, kissing her soft lips back. This brought the two to continue their 'battle' for a short period of time before Ethan lost awareness of space, falling on the bed with Ais still on top of him.

Seeing this, he 'stopped' their kiss again, breathing for some moments before he said

"Wait a moment, you want to continue..?"

Showing her classic confused expression, Ais felt the heat on her body reach a critical point and, without minding his question, she asked

"You said..there were many types of kisses.. I want to try.."

Feeling the topic becoming more and more serious, he said

"For now, we should try something slightly different, I will show you."

"I will place you on the bed.."

Doing exactly as he said, He looked at her for a moment.

'Hell.. I'm feeling so weird...'

She saw him get on top of her, intertwining their hands in the aftermath. This action brought her to feel the heat increase a great deal. Without add anything, He placed his lips on hers again.

Feeling it even more than before, they continued their kiss for a moment before saying

"We can try..another type of kiss"

Nodding her head, she had the same focused expression as before, even if the 'blush' was still there.

"For this new one, we need to place our mouths together as before but, this time, we need to use tongues to do something similar"

Without a clear explanation, Ais felt confused but, before she could say something, Ethan squeezed their intertwined hands, adding

"Just go with the flow, you should understand how to do it with some practice"

Nodding her head, she saw him kissing her like before but, this time, his tongue was trying to enter her mouth. Granting access, she started to feel the kiss was different from the last one. The 'passion' of it felt completely different and, after some time, she started to understand how to do it.

Feeling her tongue adapting to his, Ethan wanted to say it wasn't fair because she didn't even made the mistake to make their teeth touch. She was so skilled the only think she needed was understand what she had to do.

After 2 minutes, the two stopped for a moment because he was out of breath. With some breathing sound, he said

"You are amazing..."

With a smile on her face, she decided to use one hand to stroke his hair.

"There are other types of kisses, like a peck on the lips, or something different.."

Hearing this, Ais looked at him while he reduced the distances between them another time. Without uttering a word, Ethan brought his lips on her neck, kissing and l.i.c.k.i.n.g it a little.

Feeling his tongue on her neck, Ais felt good and made room for Ethan to continue kissing her. Seeing her action brought a smile on his face before he continued his previous attempts.

With her hand now on his neck, he continued to kiss her neck for a while before he said

"Does it make you feel good?"

Seeing her replying with a nod, he decided to show her the 'last' kiss he wanted to show her. With his face now close to hers, he kissed her right cheek.

Although it wasn't nearly comparable to what Ais felt during the earlier kisses, this one seemed intimate enough for her to feel the heat stabilizing. She felt relaxed while he kissed her on the cheek and, without having it repeated, he kissed again and again, getting closer to the side of her mouth with each kiss.

After he was on her lips, he started to give her light pecks. Without refusing his kisses, she heard him saying at a certain point

"Did I made you feel something?"

His question, made her smile

"Kiss you..feel so good.. Being kissed..feels good. I want to feel good.."

He thought about her words but, without having the time to, she added

"I want to make you..feel good.."

Hearing such words, he felt his lower body claiming his own part.

He was actually restraining his lower body from quite a while now but, knowing it wasn't right to make her try so many things together, he decided to ignore it.

While he was fighting against the erection, Ais was thinking about his earlier question and, deciding the answer she gave wasn't enough, she said

"I think.. I love you..."

Such words made his internal struggle to become irrelevant and, without the power to fight against it, a proud erection could be seen on his pants.

Feeling the hard thing on her t.h.i.g.hs, she had a confused expression while Ethan was thinking about her words

'She loves me...'

With a happiness that filled his soul with warmth and happy colours, he replied

"I love you too, but I think you should better understand what that means"

The moment she said she loved him, a warmth much more intense than before spread through her whole body but, after he said he loved her too, the warmth increased a great deal and, feeling such warmth refreshing, she wanted to understand it more and more.

Knowing Riveria would help her understand it, she replied with a nod.

"I will ask..Riveria.."

Although he knew things were going to be more and more problematic, he had a smile on his face before he kissed her on the lips for the last time, saying

"I need to go in my room now.."

With this, he tried to stand up but, Ais actually stopped him.

"Just another time.."

Was all that she said before kissing him on her own. Feeling the passionate kiss, he felt that the situation would have intensified further if he hadn't stopped, therefore, returning the kiss for what it felt like hours, the two kissed for 5 whole minutes.

"I will go..for real now.."

Nodding her head, she saw him get away from her before leaving the room. She felt sad for some moments but, with the warmth that didn't fade, she went to sleep.

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Exiting the room, Ethan wanted to go towards his room but, before he could head towards it, a pair of eyes peeked from the corner of the hallway. With a smile, he said

"Lefiya..."

Hearing her name, Lefiya revealed herself with a blush on her face, stating

"I am o-o-okay with this! You don't need to w-w-worry about me!"

Laughing at her reaction, he decided to tease her a little.

"You knew about Riveria's teachings.. I see.. is there someone you love too?"

With a blush, she squeezed her pink dress with her hands, looking down. This action brought her ears down too, something that Ethan decided to 'remember'.

"I..think I l-l-love..."

Understanding what she meant, he said in a gentle tone

"I don't know what your feelings are but you shouldn't worry that much about it. I want you to take care of her when I'm not here like you always do. I'm not some wall that will destroy your relationship with Ais, okay?"

His response brought Lefiya to tears but, without minding it, she ran towards him at full speed, taking his hands in hers, looking directly in his eyes in the aftermath.

"Y-You are the best!"

not expecting such a reaction from her, he looked away without having the surprised expression on his face showed.

Realizing she did such a thing, Lefiya immediately let Ethan's hand go before she said with a red face

"I'm s-s-sorry! You said such words to me... I..."

With a sigh, he said

"Don't worry that much about it, now I will go to sleep. Is there anything else, Lefiya?"

Hearing her name another time, she looked down again, saying

"N-No... Good Night, E-Ethan"

Replying with a 'Good Night', Ethan headed towards his room without saying anything more.

'Accepting such a person as Ais' partner doesn't seem so difficult..'

With this thought, Lefiya headed towards her room, mulling over her perverse thoughts about Ais and Ethan

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(I have a discord server. discord.gg/cpVr5X8 If you enter it, you can choose one of Ethan's future powers from the pool I created, but that's not all! On the server, you can see the reference on some things that will be present in the story! Right now you can freely see some things like the [Twin's Digimon], but I advise you to read the story further before seeing them otherwise you'll get spoilers!)

(A/N: Can you say in the comments what do you think about this chapter? I don't know if it's that good or not and I want opinions. Honest opinions.)

(Alternate Titles: "Ethan had a hard time here..", "Lefiya, you want to join the duo, you just need to express it with words.", "Riveria-sensei needs to do other lessons, Ethan-senpai isn't that skilled with s.e.x either")