(M) Chapter 16 – Claiming His ‘Rights’
Chapter 2, Part 7
Novel Title: 融愛~Melt Down~ (Melted Love ~Melt Down~)
Author:風結子 沙野 (Fuyuko Sano)
Illustrator:雅良 水名瀬 (Masara Minase)
Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)
Protagonists: 葉越海理 (Yougoshi Kairi -MC), 葉越翼久 (Yougoshi Tasuku -ML)
*Please read at Novels Space.space, the original site of translation. TQ*
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⚠️TRIGGER WARNING: This chapter contains depictions of incestious rape and teenagers sexual exploitation. Readers’ discretion is advised.
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Tasuku first had sex when he was 14, in the winter.
The partner was a woman he had just met for the first time at the designated hotel. She was in her forties or fifties. As a middle school second-year, Tasuku couldn’t tell. He tried not to look at her directly, so he doesn’t remember her facial features. But she wore strongly scented cosmetics. Her lipstick was unnaturally sticky and unpleasant, with a toxic-like taste and smell… Looking back, it was probably a foreign brand.
He was short on money.
He had been out of contact with his mother for four months.
When Tasuku was in third grade, their mother had disappeared for two months, causing them trouble. But this time it seemed she had truly abandoned them.
Being broke was a huge problem. But he was actually happier to have cut ties with his mother, since she would often hit Kairi, who had become Tasuku’s shield.
Tasuku loves his big brother dearly.
It was about a month ago that his brother had said he wanted to drop out of high school. He couldn’t afford the tuition, so he wanted to quit school and start working. Tasuku had offered to drop out of middle school and work instead. But his diligent, high-performing brother had persuaded him that was impossible – middle school was compulsory education.
“And if I start working and saving up now, I can make sure you get to go to high school too. So just leave it to your Onii-san, okay?”
As a 14-year-old middle schooler, Tasuku had been so frustrated by that.
That’s when a bleached-blonde classmate approached him about a good part-time job. He said Tasuku could make several thousand yen a day. And apparently, as a middle schooler, he could get paid even more.
That classmate took Tasuku to a strange, multi-tenant building in Shibuya. There was a man there with an odd moustache, wearing a bizarre-coloured suit, who asked him some questions. One of them was “Are you a virgin?” When Tasuku answered yes, the man was delighted.
Apparently, they were looking for a ‘beautiful young virgin’ like Tasuku, as a client specifically wanted that.
“Well, the lady is an milf. She pays outrageously well. You can get a big payday just by letting her deflower you, you lucky guy.”
The woman apparently liked playing with virgins, so Tasuku just had to lie on the bed and let her do as she pleased.
And that’s exactly what happened.
Tasuku gripped the sheets, enduring the act. Shivers ran through his body. And when they peaked, he ejaculated. It felt completely different from the full-body, bone-deep liquefaction he’d experienced climaxing from rubbing against his brother.
After leaving the hotel, Tasuku ducked into a narrow alley and vomited.
But he didn’t regret it. His coat pocket was bulging with thirty folded 10,000 yen bills. This would prevent Kairi from having to drop out of high school.
…But if he just handed this over, Kairi would ask where it came from… What should he do?
As he pondered, he came up with a good idea. He could deposit it in their mother’s name. Then Kairi would use the money without question, believing it was from her.
Tasuku’s plan worked. Kairi was able to avoid dropping out of high school. In fact, he was overjoyed, thinking their mother still cared about them. Seeing Kairi’s eyes well up looking at the ‘Yougoshi Touko’ written in the bankbook, Tasuku wished he could tell him the truth.
No. That money was what I earned for you, Nii-chan.
But he couldn’t bring himself to say that.
“The client the other day was really satisfied. How about trying to get some more clients?”
The pimp, still with his strange moustache and suit, said to him.
“If you can pretend it’s your first time, I can introduce you to clients who don’t care about the cost.”
Having tasted the thrill of easy, big money, Tasuku now found the hard work of a newspaper delivery job laughably inadequate. And Kairi would be better off quitting his part-time jobs and focusing on his studies – with Tasuku’s help, he was sure to get into a good university.
Once he had become tainted, it just kept happening again and again.
Tasuku learned to shut off his rational senses as he entered the hotel rooms where clients awaited. He would act coy and flustered, panting in feigned nervousness. After getting paid and leaving the hotel, the nausea would hit. Once he had purged himself of the filth, he could return home with an innocent face, resuming his pure, normal life with his brother.
But the contamination steadily corroded Tasuku.
As he got used to selling his youthful looks and ‘masculinity’, by the time he graduated high school, this corrupted lifestyle had become second nature.
So at 18, he became a host, earning big money.
…It was all going well, until Kairi got a job and no longer needed Tasuku’s ‘protection’.
“I won’t let him say he doesn’t need me anymore.”
Leaning his bare back against the headboard, Tasuku gazes down at his sleeping, spent brother.
Finally today, he has violated his brother.
Twice in the hallway, once more in the bed. That’s enough for now – pushing Kairi, who’s new to taking a man, any further would be too cruel. But even so, his brother’s abused entrance is wounded, the semen Tasuku released mixed with blood.
In the time since Kairi became self-sufficient, Tasuku had felt so empty and restless. He was even struggling to hold back vomit during his host club work.
But now, everything is fine.
He has found a new way to be fulfilled.
The faint particles of light from the ceiling lamp cling to his brother. Kairi’s weary sleeping face, his dishevelled dark hair, his slightly thin shoulders, the hollow of his collarbones – each detail aches Tasuku’s heart.
Gently, his fingertips trace the contours of his beloved brother.
“…I love you.”
These words are far from enough to convey the depths of his feelings.
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*Translator’s Note: The part of what Tasuku had to do when he was 14 was unsettling for me. Because as much as this is fiction, hey, we all know in the real world, this is happening too, right? There are people doing God knows what to underage kids these days and they mostly get away with it. This story stands as a reminder to all of us that we should watch out and be sympathetic to those who were abused. But that being said…still…what Tasuku did to his brother was wrong. He doesn’t have such ‘rights’ to claim his brother like that. But why does my heart ache for him too? Mannnn… -K
*GLOSSARY:
- Onii-san / Onii-chan / Nii-san / Nii-chan / Aniki = (Big/Elder) Brother
☝🏻I’ll be using these throughout my translation.
Illustration 5 (available on the blog).
Next update: 2025.01.11