Chapter 11: A Date To Remember (Part 2/4)
"I knew they were supposed to be big, but these arches are huge!" Yuka exclaims, astonished as we slowly walk under them. "I wanna climb to the top of one."
"I'd rather you not. We'll surely get kicked out of the park," I advise, holding my phone up to take some pictures.
"Then let's come back at night. I'll carry you up there and we can do it on the top," she boldly suggests.
"I'm not goin' up there, Yuka," I decline swiftly.
"What? You chicken or something? Aside from your CCG rampage, you've done plenty of crazy stunt shit while fighting, haven't you?" She inquires.
"Yeah, it was goddamn stupid and reckless too," I answer, putting my phone away. Got some nice pictures of the scenery. "So much pointless flashy movement while fighting just to stand out with my brother. It's much more effective to make every action in a fight have a purpose backing it instead."
"What was your little handstand maneuver supposed to be then?" She grins.
"I-I told you I messed that up! It would've been different if I had a quinque," I reason.
"Where's your quinque anyway?" She asks.
"Somewhere locked up in a CCG armory. You thought they would let me keep it as a souvenir or something after that incident?" I chuckle.
"I've seen the CCG do a couple dumb things before so I wouldn't be surprised if they did something as foolish as that," she laughs. "Tell me, if you did have it, would you try to kill him again?"
"Hell yes I would!" I accidentally yell, bringing attention to us from the other people walking around.
"Too loud, Sato," she warns, holding up a finger in front of her lips.
"S-Sorry!" I stammer, sheepishly scratching my head. Everyone else starts minding their own business and looking away from us.
"And you kept talking about me causing a scene," she smirks, fishing my phone from out of my pocket.
"Why did you take my phone? You have your own for a reason," I sigh as she quickly unlocks it and goes back to the camera app.
"Smile for the camera!" She grins and holds my phone up, making sure that we're in the shot as well as the arch before snapping a bunch of selfies.
"Y-Yuka! T-There's too many people around for this!" I blush.
"It's cute how easily embarrassed you are. What happened to not caring about being seen as a couple?" She asks.
"It's one thing to hold hands but another to be taking pictures in front of a bunch of other people," I answer.
"You should've been more embarrassed from the kissing if that's the case," she snickers.
"T-That was different! We were having a deeply intimate moment and my focus was all on you," I say defensively.
"Deeply intimate, huh?" A smug look paints her face.
"Let me guess, it wasn't that deep for you?" I inquire, rolling my eyes.
"I'm just fucking with you, Sato. Don't take it so hard," she says, lightly elbowing me in the stomach.
"Doesn't mean I enjoy it all the time," I sigh.
"Anyway, take one serious selfie with me in front of these arch things and I'll stop," she offers.
"Deal," I accept. Moving into position, she raises my phone up and we put on our biggest smiles before snapping the picture. "Satisfied?"
"Yes, I am. Now c'mon so we can go to the arcade," she tugs on my arm.
"The arcade? We haven't even checked out the rest of the park yet," I remind her.
"Good excuse to come visit again in the daytime. I wanna spend the next few hours schooling you at games," she says, pulling me along.
"Very well. We won't need to drive there so let me refill the parking meter," I say. Returning to the car, I pay for a couple more hours of parking and we make our way to said arcade.
"Ma… ca… bre… Ma.… nia?" She slowly pronounces the name of the arcade as she stares at the red logo, butchering it a bit.
"Macabre Mania, yes," I pronounce it correctly.
"Sounds like it's owned by a foreigner," she comments as we go in.
"Probably so," I say. Looking around, the arcade is dark with most of its lighting coming from the game cabinet screens of people playing and dim ceiling lights. Skeletons, bats, and other decorations are all over the place. I'm sure this place is really popular in October. Yuka's grip on my hand increases significantly. "Something wrong?"
"Stay close to me," she mutters in my ear. That's concerning.
"If you sense trouble, then let's go somewhere else," I whisper back.
"You already paid for more parking. I'm sure it's fine as long as we stick together," she assures. That isn't helping my danger radar go down.
"Yuka, do you smell another ghoul?" I ask bluntly.
"There were ghouls at the park, y'know?" She says casually.
"What? Why didn't you warn me then but you're doing it now here?" I inquire. It's not like my guard wasn't up or anything but a heads up would be appreciated.
"Because that was a wide open area. This is a closed space. There's still enough humans around that the chances of an attack are slim but really stay aware," she answers.
"Understandable," I nod.
"Now enough debriefing, let's have some more fun and enjoy ourselves!" She drags me over to an automated machine. Putting some yen into the machine, it pops out two arcade cards.
"That should be enough to tide us over for our visit," I pick our cards up. "Your card, ma'am," I hand it to her.
"Why thank you, kind sir," she says. As soon as our eyes meet, we practically already know where we're going first.
"Culpable Cog! First to three!" We declare in unison, a little surprised at how in sync we are with each other. "You're on!" With that, we rush off to the nearest Culpable Cog cabinet and slot our cards in to play.
"W-What the hell?! You're cheating! Where's all this sudden skill coming from?!" She shouts as I'm completely decimating her in the first round.
"Hehe! You haven't seen me play using an arcade stick before! I told you I don't suck!" I laugh. Catching her with her block down, my hands swiftly input a super move, knocking her character out.
"Slash! Player one wins!" The game announces while showing my victory screen.
"Y'know, we might as well call it there. I don't wanna embarrass you by making you go zero and three," I smugly smile.
"Oh yeah?! Think this fancy little stick can carry you all the way? We'll see about that!" She hits the rematch option.
"Time for me to mop the floor with you!" I crack my knuckles, preparing to unleash another beat down. As we smash buttons and twirl the fight sticks, our characters land stray hits and a few combos on each other. "Damn! Looks like you're learning!" I grunt.
"What was that about mopping the floor with me?" She taunts.
"That statement still stands," I smirk devilishly, immediately countering one of her attacks followed by a four hit combo into a super move.
"Slash! Player one wins!" The game announces my second win.
"Hmmm, you're suddenly trash now. What's goin' on here?" I tease her while wearing a shit eating grin. Clearly frustrated, she sighs deeply.
"I'm gonna win this, Sato," she claims, opting to not spew venomous remarks.
"You've yet to show me how," I keep poking the bear to see if she'll get tilted. As the third match starts, I suddenly feel something touch my ankle.
"The hell is that?" I mutter, looking down to see a thin red tentacle coming from the bottom of Yuka's pants leg and wrapping around my ankle. Seriously?! She's gonna get us caught!
"Pay attention to the game, Sato," she says calmly. Oh, right! Focusing back on the screen, I gasp as I realize she's been beating my ass while I was distracted.
"No fair! You're using dirty tactics!" I call her out.
"Whatever do you mean? Better focus on playing or all that gloating will be for nothing," she acts oblivious. Tch. Figures she would. I gotta just ignore it. Regaining my composure, I launch a comeback, successfully taking away her health lead. Her kagune tentacle keeps coiling up my leg already around my thigh. Beginning to input a super move, her kagune sensually strokes my thigh and throws my concentration off. I end up misinputting and she punishes the mistake, taking the match. Damn it! "Uh oh! I just got my first win. Don't tell me you're losing steam!" She giggles.
"Y-Yuka, this doesn't count! Get rid of this thing!" I mutter as I shake my leg to try to loosen its grip to no avail.
"What thing?" She whispers seductively in my ear, her kagune rhythmically squeezes and massages the particular spots on my thigh that she knows will excite me.
"Y-Your k-kagu—Gah!" I bite my bottom lip to stifle my soft yelp from her kagune suddenly breaching my underwear and playing with my dick. This woman's got some huge balls of steel doing this here! I'm at her mercy unless I try to reach into my pants but then that's just a god awful bad look from whoever happens to look my way!
"Hmmm? You need to speak up," she teases, her mischievous tentacle twirling around my erecting cock.
"N-Never mind," I say timidly. She presses herself against my side.
"Let me win and I'll entertain your little perverted ideas for my kagune some time soon," she proposes, placing a hand on my chest.
"Don't know what you're talking about," I say, trying to avoid eye contact.
"I think you do," she says softly, the tip of her kagune lightly poking at my urethra.
"Okay! Fine! You win!" I concede.
"A smart choice," she giggles, completely retracting her kagune back into her body. "Even if you didn't cave in, I still won anyway. See?" She points to the arcade cabinet.
"Huh?" I look at the screen. "HUH?!" When did she get two more wins?!
"Hehe! I was still playing the whole time during my distraction," she explains, amused with herself.
"I'd be raging to hell and back if you didn't already force me to forfeit," I sigh.
"You do that at home enough as is when you lose. No one here needs to witness you getting all salty," she points out.
"Don't pretend you don't have your moments at home at times too, not to mention you were about to be completely livid had I won flawlessly right here," I call her out.
"Maybe, maybe not," she casually shrugs, refusing to confirm or deny my statement.
"Regardless, I let you win that but I know a game where you can't pull any tricks and only honest skill will achieve victory. Before we do that though we need to handle something else," I say while retrieving our arcade cards from the cabinet.
"Oh, what's that?" She asks curiously. Putting a hand on her hip, I pull her close, pressing my hardened dick against her.
"Let's take care of this, Yuka," I mutter deeply in her ear.
"Oh my! How bold!" She bites her lip. "Where would we handle this big problem? The car's a little far away."
"I saw a family restroom in here as we walked over here. We'll just use that," I answer. I doubt that the restroom has families in mind anyway considering I don't see kids here.
"You? Wanting public sex? My little kagune stunt really stirred you up, huh?" She chuckles.
"You knew what you were doing." I say as we walk in the direction of the restrooms.
"And I'm glad it worked," she smiles. My stomach loudly grumbles and cramps up. There go the hunger pangs. "That empty stomach finally caught up to you it seems. How about we put a pen in this and get you something to eat first that isn't me?" She suggests, sounding a little too delighted by the timing of my stomach.
"I don't disagree but that's the perfect excuse you needed to blue ball me, isn't it?" I inquire.
"You know it! You can't even imagine the wonderful time I have from delaying you. It already took a lot of willpower to not use my kagune to make you bust in your pants," she responds. "I know you can handle one delay already so I wonder how many more times I can do it before you lose control and have your way with me."
"Horny as I am, I'm not gonna do something extreme like that. If anything, I'll just lose the drive to want it in public and wait until we get home," I say.
"We'll see in due time," she says, not believing me. "Anyway, let's go see what they got on the menu."
"I'm sure whatever it is will be tasty nonetheless," I preemptively dig my wallet out.