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Chapter 5: Unexpected

Tense filled the air around the three girls waiting for Sena’s return. Of course, they always wanted an optimistic outcome. But after witnessing such size difference between themselves and this ‘normal human’ that they’ve been reading about for years, it’s hard to not feel something could gone wrong anytime soon.

Azumi currently sorting out the fruits on the storage section in the living room. Unlike with her usual cheerful vibe, her face seems a bit tense than usual.

“…Azumi?”

“WHOA!!” Azumi jumps in shock as someone tapped her shoulder from behind.

“Hey! Calm down! It’s just me here!” Marina put both of her arms on Azumi’s shoulder. “You okay? You’ve been silent for a while now,”

“No, I… I’m okay,”

“Doesn’t look okay to me,” Marina raised her eyebrows. “It’s Sena, isn’t it? you’re worried?”

Azumi nods softly.

“Just remember this, she’s the strongest in our packs. Believe me that she’ll be okay, she’s maybe careless at times, but one thing for sure is that she’s not stupid enough to let herself fall into danger,”

Marina’s words managed to calm Azumi a little. Still though, a little concern is there in the corner of her heart knowing this unpredictable predicament that they never encounter before in their lives…

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Time stands still inside a room of the motel.

It has been a full minute, yet nobody even broke eye contact between the two. Sena clearly terrified and frozen in place as the two eyeballs bigger than a marble currently locked on right on her tiny body. Then there’s the giant, just staring with his mouth parted a little still in disbelief trying to register the events just a few minutes ago. Instinctively, the giant’s right hand lifts up and trying to reach for the tiny girl, but Sena quickly cowered in fear, forcing the giant to retracts her right hand trying to calm her down.

That’s it; there’s no use to stay here like this. The giant sees her move, he already felt her body up close, at the very least he could already conclude one thing: this girl is a human being as well. His lips parted…

“Are you okay?”

The giant’s voice ease Sena a little. The loud voice ringing in her ear and much to her surprise, the giant actually spoke the same language that Sena and her friends has been learning since they were little. Meanwhile, the giant seems to notice how Sena started to ease up hearing him speak.

“Do. You. Understand. Me?”

He spoke the same language… Sena tried her best to trust him by gently nodded. She knows that if this giant wasn’t that nice there’s no way this conversation would happen.

She nodded… okay, so this tiny girl understood English language. Let’s see… well, the giant knows that he’s the bigger one here and the tiny girl already scared shitless, it’s all his fault. Maybe he could continue to ease her up by doing something else…

“My name is… Jack,”

Jack… the giant has a name. Now the tiny girl thinks what should be the best response?

“S… Sena…”

“Um… I’m sorry?” Jack lowered his head a little toward the desk.

“Sena!” the tiny girl raised her voice a little.

“Sena… that’s your name then?”

The tiny girl nodded.

“Okay… uh…” the introduction finally done, now what? Jack tried to find a way to really completely ease up the atmosphere here. Then the giant noticed the tiny girl tried to stood up…

“AH!” unexpectedly, Sena tumbles back down, she holds her left ankle with her face grimacing. Jack observes the whole thing; is she hurt? He somehow understands it right away.

“What’s wrong? You’re holding your left ankle there, you hurt?”

Still grimacing, Sena nodded.

“Um…” now this is new; he wanted to help the poor girl, but… how to help a three-centimeter girl? He never done this before! Jack calm himself down, stabilize his breath, thinking and thinking… right, she’s tiny yet still a living breathing human being as he previously checked. “May I help? Maybe… maybe I could do something,”

Sena slowed down her move; allowing the giant to touch her? Should she? The pain of her left ankle urging her to do so, she couldn’t even escape with this injury anyway.

“Y… yes…” the tiny lips muttered an approval for the giant to help her.

“O-okay then! Hold on…” the giant grinds his gear inside trying to think how to handle this one. She’s hurting, yes, but a careless handling would only adding problems probably. “Now please just loosened your body, straighten it up,”

Her left ankle, alright. Carefully his right thumb and index finger wrapped around the delicate left leg of the tomboy. As soon as both skins made contact, Sena’s face turn red a bit, her heartbeat rapidly rises beyond normal; the sensitive yet gentle touch of the tip of his finger grazing her smooth thigh send shivers throughout her body as she covers her face using her tiny hands. Of course, she’s no stranger about skin contact between humans, but when the other party turned out to be more than a hundred feet tall? There’s a certain indescribable feeling of excitement that runs wild inside her mind.

“Does it hurt?”

Sena shook her head. Okay, so her left shin is alright. The giant lifts it off the ground just a little. Now comes the critical part; Jack didn’t want to hurt the innocent tiny girl here, but when even he had to squint just to be safe and precise, it didn’t make the job any easier. Gently, his left thumb and index finger pinched the bottom part of the shoe.

“Urgh…” slight moan of pain escaped Sena’s mouth.

“Please just hold a little, I need to remove this so I could check,”

Sena nodded. Even if there’s small part of her still being cautious about the giant, she knows logically if he’s not a kind one, he won’t put any effort to help her like this. However, her thought suddenly interrupted as her left shoe being removed by the giant fingers. Slight tiny yelp reaches Jack’s ear.

There it is, the exposed bare left sole of Sena. It’s a funny yet cute sight for Jack to witness a tiny foot even smaller than a newborn baby. Fascinating, the curves of her sole, those toes just slightly bigger than a grain of salt, the tiny noticeable details in that sweaty skin of hers. There’s no visible bruise though, maybe just a light sprain?

“How does your ankle feel right now? Explain to me as detailed as possible,” Jack asked.

“Uh… even the slightest twist hurts, and when I tried to walk earlier… it also hurts,” Sena tried her best.

“But when you’re not moving it doesn’t hurt?”

“Not really, no,”

Probably just a light sprained ankle, Jack thought. He already knew what to do though; moving away from the desk, Jack browse through his backpack, searching for anything that he needs to heal the injured tiny girl here. Moving back to the desk, Jack placed a few things in front of Sena: an ointment tube, a roll of bandage with scissors attached to it, and a few tiny pillow-like cottons. The size of these stuffs intimidates tiny Sena a little.

“Uh… Sena, right? Now please get yourself comfortable, lay down and let loose,” Jack picked up one of the white round cotton between her fingers. “Here, use this as your pillow,”

Sena picked it up and placed it behind her before resting her head on it, trying to obey the giant’s instruction. Now she could only observe what the giant going to do with her as he picked up the ointment tube and squeeze it with his left hand as white paste squirts out into her awaiting right index finger before rubbing it all over between his thumb and index finger.

“It’s a specialized ointment that could cool down your body like an ice pack, don’t worry,”

Delicately, Jack once again with her left thumb and index finger pinched Sena’s left leg and raise it up a little and finally rubbing her naked left sole of Sena using the ointment on his right thumb and index finger. The ticklish sensation seems to titillate Sena once more, it’s a strange yet charming feeling when her left foot being lightly rubbed by a finger the size of a trunk. Then the cold sensation creeping inside her left foot, the hurting left ankle slowly relaxed…

Jack picked up the roll of bandage and removed the scissors. Now this is confusing; what’s the right length he had to cut it? Usually it’s easy to measure it, but not when the patient is only three centimeters tall! How small he had to cut the bandage to fit her size? The confusion really shown in his face that Sena unexpectedly lets out a chuckle seeing the weird face that Jack makes.

Maybe this is enough? Jack cuts just a little fiber from it resulting in a gauze only as long as a matchstick. Squinting his eyes once again, Jack carefully wrapped the bandage around the tiny left ankle of the injured girl. It’s more difficult than he thought, Jack didn’t want it to be too tight or too loose, but how can he measure it? is it how the kids feel playing nurses with those dolls?

There, the tiny left ankle bandaged real nice. For the final touch, Jack put another cotton ball beneath and putting her left ankle on top of it, making sure that the injured ankle is elevated above the level of the heart just to reduce the swelling. Finally done with the process, Jack pulled herself back from the desk and leans on his bed, tired once again after learning how to handle an injured tiny, something that he didn’t expect to do it in his life.

Nah, screw that; how the heck there’s a human being only a few centimeters tall? Is he going crazy after all that long journey? But he already touched her, feel her; she’s real, she’s authentic, she breathes, she could talk… there’s no doubt.

There’s just so many questions piling up in his mind for the tiny girl, but he knows that she needs to rest for a while. Better let her relax for now as Jack took another shut eye…

Chapter 7: Ghost Town

The sun started to set; orange sky decorates the whole skyline above the two figures walking down the quiet road. Despite the scenery of an abandoned town around him, there’s a certain charm to see reddish light illuminates broken houses and buildings. The giant looked down on his cupped right hand and there’s Sena with warm smile written on her face, enjoying the pleasant evening breeze and the quietness of everything combined with the gentle movement of her giant bodyguard. Seeing the cute little thing drowned in coziness gave him a comfortable feeling inside.

After minutes of walking, there’s the house where Jack visited earlier. Then his mind thought on something; he remembered Sena says that there are three other tiny girls just like her. Now the gears started to grind inside him: how should he approach them? he already saw Sena’s reaction firsthand before. Do they really never saw someone like Jack before? Jack wanted to ask Sena about them, but… seeing that she’s injured currently, he’d rather hold off for now to allow her resting comfortably.

“Jack… you made funny face there, something the matter?” Sena noticed him.

“Oh, nothing… it’s just…”

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“It’s already evening…” Azumi gazes at the orange sky from the backyard. “She hasn’t returned yet,”

No reply from Marina and Athena either, their optimism slowly fades as hours goes by. Negative possibilities and horrifying thoughts started to seeping in despite their attempt to fight it off their minds. But… they saw him; the giant. His existence alone in the whole equation put Sena’s fate in doubt.

A subtle sound of footsteps reached their ears, snapping them off from their worry and deep thoughts. They turn their heads into the side of the backyard, anticipating the incoming giant…

Suddenly, a familiar human figure bigger than them appeared from the side of the backyard. There it is, black hair, leather jacket and worn off jeans. Hundreds feet taller than the girls, their eyes wide open looking at the moving mountain.

First, there’s Athena. Her serious look trying to anticipate every potential movements as she scanned everything bottom to top.

“Sena!!” Athena noticed her, cupped on his right hand right in front of his chest.

Then there’s Marina. The way she looks at the giant, her face turns red, it’s like she’s completely mesmerized by the appearance of this humongous human being.

Finally, there’s Azumi with her completely shocked face before her whole body gone limp and she passed out to the floor…

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“I’m Jack, nice to meet you all,”

Stood inside the backyard facing the patio, Jack waves his hand at the tiny girls. It’s such an amusing scene for Jack to see; there’s Sena being hugged by the other girl, there’s one… passed out no doubt shocked witnessing the giant. And then there’s one more… staring at Jack with angry face.

“Listen, uh…” crouching down, Jack reached inside his backpack and grabbed the remaining fruits. “I apologize for stealing this earlier… I’m here to returned them all to you,”

Still no words. The angry girl just keeps staring. Despite his intimidating height, Athena tried her best to look tough in front of him.

“Is there a problem?” Jack noticed the unamused girl.

“Yeah, there is a problem… Jack,” Athena crossed her arms and tapped her tiny foot. “You ate most of the fruits already, now we have food problem here. We wouldn’t have enough to survive for a month from now!”

Dammit, Jack thought. His mind trying its best to come up with solution, but how? He had just arrived here, the rest of this town is still unknown to him.

“Don’t even try to tell us ‘Just search for it’. No, we already did it, there’s nothing left out there,” Athena hammered down the nail even deeper.

“Wait,” Sena stood back up with the help from Marina. “Not entirely, there are places that we haven’t checked yet,”

“What do you mean?” Athena looks surprised that Sena seems to took the side of Jack on this one.

“What I mean is, there must be places that we’re unable to access to because of our… well, size,”

“I don’t understand… well, you’re the one usually travelling the furthest among us. What’s on your mind?”

“Give me one night rest… tomorrow, let me lead Jack to those places,”

Hearing Sena’s suggestion, Marina and Athena semes shocked. Is she actually trusted this giant?

“Come on! Look! I’m here, right? Trust me, he doesn’t do anything weird with me!”

Jack turns his face away in embarrassment…

“I don’t know…” Athena, being very cautious, thinks of every possibility why Jack keeps Sena alive… what if he’s convinced Sena so that he found their spot right now? Does he have any ulterior motives? Nonetheless, despite her cautiousness, Athena also didn’t want to betray her friend’s trust as well.

“Please… besides,” Sena whispered. “We didn’t have a choice, right Athena? Either we died of hunger or at least let me with the help of Jack here to find something,”

Deep in thought, Athena tried to think rationally… should she entrust the life of her friend to this giant that she only had been introduced just minutes ago? Is this all a clever trick for the giant to get into us? Why did he enter this town at the first place, even?

“Look, let’s talk for tonight then…” Athena tapped Sena’s shoulder. “Jack… you’re not sleeping here,”

“Hey, it’s alright, I’ll sleep at the motel for tonight,” Jack knows to play it cool for now as he stepped away from the backyard. “Well, if you wanna talk about it first for the night, go ahead. I’ll come back first thing in the morning, alright?”

With that, Jack is gone from the house for the night…

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The next morning…

Jack walks the empty road once again deeper toward the empty town. On her left shoulder… there’s sitting the three-centimeter girl Sena.

“Really? She actually does that?” Jack is glad that he’s not walking alone anymore now.

“Yeah, Athena stood guard all night while we’re sleeping… she doesn’t trust you yet,”

“Well… I won’t blame him. Being your size, I probably understand how it feels seeing someone like me for the first time in your life,”

“Seeing it in photos is nothing compared to looking at the real thing… it’s uh… breathtaking,”

“I see…” Jack still amused at the reactions of these tiny girls at his presence. “By the way, how’s your left leg?"

“Oh, it feels much better now, thanks! Looks like your medicine works well!”

“Really? It didn’t hurt anymore at all?”

“Yeah, it’s like I was never injured!”

That’s interesting… is it because of her tiny size that the medicine works faster? Another reason why Jack couldn’t sleep really well last night, he is so intrigued at these tiny girls. Giving a slight glance, Jack noticed how Sena seems to be a bit more relaxed than yesterday sitting on his shoulder now. In some ways kind of warming his heart even more knowing how he’s being trusted as her protector now. Especially after being alone for a really long time before, it’s kind of nice to finally have somebody to talk to…

“That blue house seems interesting, may I take a look?” Jack saw a blue single-story house ahead of him.

“Yeah, but the doors closed, you need to go through the window there,”

“You usually did that?” Jack cupped Sena on his right hand as he put her on the ground.

“Yeah, I’m just climbing up there usually… but currently there’s nothing left inside,”

“Well… let me take a look, at least. Maybe there’s something for me,” turning the lock, it won’t budge. Then Jack took the step back and dashes forward, his left shoulder collides with the door as it breaks open. Sena just stood speechless witnessing the power display, the scary power that this giant possesses…

…and Sena wonders how is she still alive until today.

Inside the house, Jack looked around; nothing but scattered furniture covered in dust. Interestingly enough, there are many decorations consisted of medals and military photos. Guess what Sena said is true, there’s nothing useful left to plunder. But Jack noticed something… the wooden floor. His scavenger mind came up thinking about possibilities…

Onward to the living room, there’s a carpet already torn after years of being abandoned. Trusting his feeling, Jack grabbed the edge of the carpet and lifts it away as cloud of dust spreads out all around him.

Bingo.

Years of scavenging around made Jack a lot more observant to many things. If there’s a wooden floor, most oftentimes there’s a secret door to the basement.

“Find something, Jack?” Sena approached from behind.

“Yeah…” Jack crouches down and pulled the handle, revealing a set of stairs leading downward to the basement.

“Whoa, there’s a secret path there!?” the tiny girl looks completely surprised at the discovery.

“It was beneath the carpet,”

The discovery really blowing Sena’s mind. Looks like the decision of scavenging alongside Jack started to bear fruits, after all.

“Well, shall we?” Jack placed his right hand on the ground. Excited at the discovery, Sena jumps right on top of it as they descend the secret basement…

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Everything gets darker as the two scavengers descend the basement. Thankfully, Jack got a lighter on his left pocket and turning it on. Still, darkness envelopes them all around as the lighter only gave them a spark. Reaching the bottom of the stairs, Jack extends his right hand forward trying not to bump into a wall.

“Damn, it’s too dark here… ah!”

What a miracle; Jack stumbled upon a lantern on his feet. Not wasting time, Jack lights up the lantern and unexpectedly, probably because there’s a leak or faulty inside it, the lantern shines brighter than expected. Gone the darkness, now the whole room is completely illuminated by the bright lantern. What Jack saw around him though, caught him completely off guard…

Rows and rows of shelves stretched out around the entire wall of the basement. The shelves are stacked high with boxes and containers. On each boxes written ‘FR’.

“Holy…” Jack couldn’t believe it. “This guy… he hoards all of this or something?”

“What are those?” Sena saw the boxes.

“’FR’ stood for ‘Forever Rations’,” Jack carefully lifts down one of the boxes and quickly opened it. Stacks of ration packages wrapped in gray plastic containers revealed with various writings about its content. “Basically from what I’ve read somewhere, years ago, scientists finally found a breakthrough to made food that could last for more than around fifty years,”

“WHOA! Really!? It’s that possible?” Sena got taken aback by the ridiculous fact.

“It’s kind of artificial though… more chemicals and substances than real ingredients, but it really was a food replacement. People opposed this back then, so it wasn’t sold freely into the public. Usually they’re only provided as emergency food or military needs,” Jack opened one of the rations and sure enough, food that shapes like a clay filling up the entire plastic container. Looks unappetizing and unappealing at all with its bland colors, but Jack dig through it with his fingers and after such adventures for days previously, it tastes like heaven. “Hmmm… meat,”

“Meat?” Sena tilts her head.

“Oh, right… you only eat plant-based the whole time, huh… why don’t you try this?”

Jack extends his finger toward Sena on his shoulder. Curious, Sena gave the crumbs of food on Jack’s finger a tiny bite…

“Mmmm…!!”

Shocked, Sena closed her mouth with her hands… what is this taste? It’s… salty. There’s no fruits or vegetables that tastes like this! The glimmer on her eyes tells Jack that she had just discovered something entirely new in her life with that tiny tastebud.

“St-strange! What is this taste!? It’s kind of strong! It’s… good though… really good!” now Sena is excited after tasting the unknown flavor.

“Look, I’ll explain later, alright? Let’s carry one of these to your hungry friends… oh look, there are some bottled waters up there as well. Might as well,”

Up above the highest part of the shelves there’s a bunch of bottled water lining up. Getting back up, Jack planted his right foot on the lower shelves, trying to reach for the bottled water above and…

CRACK

The lower shelves collapsed under Jack’s weight, causing him to stumble back down and landing with a thud on the concrete floor. Some boxes and plastic bottles scattered around as Jack tried to hold onto something earlier.

“Ouch…” feeling a bit dizzy, Jack tried to recover himself but he felt something on his face. Refocusing his eyes, he saw Sena’s face right in front of him… turns out Sena fell right on Jack’s face, now her tiny body hanging on his nose bridge.

“Wha…uaaaah!!” clenching her whole body, Sena clearly embarrassed as her whole purple tanktop-covered chest now pushing against Jack’s nose alongside her short jeans-covered hips and her exposed thighs wrapped nicely around it. Now she’s paralyzed in place, so embarrassed that Sena didn’t know what to do.

“H-hey, you can get off my face now!” Jack obviously flustered especially feeling those tiny amounts of smooth skins currently making direct contact with his face. Ticklish yet adorable but Jack didn’t want this to get weird fast, he needs to get off this awkward position smoothly. “Hold on… I’ll lift you up if you wanted me to help,”

“Ye-yes…”

Couldn’t see clearly, Jack tried his best as his right hand move toward his own face. Thumb and index finger extended. He reached for tiny Sena, yet he felt something tiny and squishy…

“HYAAAAAA!! NOT THERE!!” Sena felt her butt being pinched from both sides by the gigantic fingers.

“Oh shit! Sorry! Sorry!” Jack quickly eased his grasp, his face redder than before. At least after knowing tiny Sena’s exact position, Jack moves his hand above just a bit and this time he did it. The fingers positioned right on her torso and carefully grabbed her under the armpits, lifting her up gently not to stagger her with sudden movement.

Now that Sena secured tight on his right hand, Jack lifts himself up into sitting position. The whole mundane motion unexpectedly stopped in the middle as both of them locked eyes. There’s Jack examines the tiny girl being held firmly between her two fingertips under her armpits where Sena’s tiny arms holding on the trunk-sized fingers on each sides trying to balance herself as her feet hanging in the air below, all while looking back at him in awe everytime the size between the two parties became the main focus inadvertently.

Once again, time stand still as the mood gradually grew intimate between the two, the empty and quiet basement only amplifying the sound of each heartbeat from both of them that grew louder with each passing second as their eyes completely locked with each other, admiring the ridiculous size difference of the two. Not helping how Sena felt the warmth of Jack’s fingertips through the gentle grasp on both sides of her body only made her feel smaller than ever, feeling him grabbing her whole body like this caused a feeling of insignificance to struck her mind. If Jack wasn’t such a nice guy, he could just tightened his grasp around Sena right here and now and her body probably squashed like grape effortlessly…

Somehow the wild imagination caused Sena’s face turn redder than before, her breath goes heavy thinking about it adding with her heartbeat rises uncontrollably thinking such thrilling thoughts. Considering her adventurous and thrill-seeking personality compared to the other girls, it’s no surprise there’s a small part of her that enjoys this…

Meanwhile Jack who held the tiny girl like this for the very first time albeit involuntarily, to have a delicate three centimeters girl wrapped nicely around his firm grasp takes him back to just previous day when he examined Sena for the very first time. Despite everything, he is the bigger one here, the one that has the power over this fragile human being whose life is literally in his hand. Seeing Sena unable to free herself from the gentlest grasp of Jack once again makes him self-aware of how much dominant he is, just apply enough force toward his grasp on Sena, he could take her life like nothing…

But NO, the nightmare that he had yesterday haunts him once more immediately, he won’t let his intrusive thoughts to took him over. Sena observes everything through the expression of the giant doctor, she just couldn’t help but holding her giggles whenever Jack shook his head. Sena don’t know why, it’s just a silly sight for her.

Through unspoken words a sense of trust and affinity manifested through a whole new level between them…

“Oh-uh…” Jack broke the silence, snapping the two out of their trance. “A-anyway! Got some foods to deliver! Don’t want your uh… friends get hungry, right?”

“Yeah! Yes! Let’s return!” Sena tried to compose herself, calming her intense heartbeat after the silent exchange of affection.

Grabbing a box and some bottled water, Jack carried it upstairs alongside Sena sitting back on his shoulder, successfully solving the food shortage for the tiny girls…

@TicTacLover-0 Thank you very much for the kind words! Here’s the next chapter.

Chapter 8: Nothing But a Memory

“Whoa! What it this?”

Marina tasted the clay-like food from one of the already-opened packaging of FR foods. The unknown meat-flavor caught her off guard.

“Tastes stronger that our usual fruits and vegetables, but… it’s nice!”

Athena though, she’s still being cautious.

“Is it safe, Jack?”

“Of course, I ate it just a while ago and I feel fine, see?” Jack tried to reassure the thick-skinned Athena. “Heck, even Sena is alright,”

“Yeah, there’s nothing weird, I didn’t feel anything,” Sena feels just fine.

“Look, now y’all got a whole box of this, and there’s still more from that basement. I’ll happily escort it out for you should you need more of this,”

Athena fell in her own deep thought. She’s still in the middle when it comes to trusting Jack. But he does help them out with the food shortage and Sena turned out to be safe with him all this time…

“Hey… we’re even now, right? At the very least I brought you the food replacement for all those fruits that I accidently eaten,”

“Well… okay Jack… we’re good,” Athena just sigh… at least she needs to appreciate Jack’s effort to fix their problem despite her constant worry.

“Alright then… look, no offense and it’s fine if you don’t want to, but… now can you tell me what actually happened to all of you that caused you to be this small?” Jack’s curiosity could hardly be contained anymore.

“Okay… how about tomorrow? Return here and we’ll try our best to explain everything, how’s that?”

“Sounds good,” Jack nodded. “Well, I’ll be on my motel then. Sena… thanks for today!”

“Oh! Yeah, sure! That was fun!” Sena waves her tiny right hand as Jack leaves the house…

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Later that night…

The four tiny girls are sleeping as usual in the living room of the empty house of theirs. Bathed under the glow of moonlight penetrating through a hole on the roof, everything is quiet just like the nights before it.

…except for Sena.

Her eyes wide open, her mind drifts away with the thought of being together with Jack for the past two days. Remembering everytime that she made direct contact with him sends her flustered. The way his gigantic fingers treat her tiny body… his powerful yet gentle touch when he helps Sena with her sprained ankle that miraculously already completely healed now, the way he carried her close to his chest, feeling his gentle heartbeat… but the most hardhitting to her was during the basement exploration.

What was it? Is it the way he grabber her? The strange sensation of being helpless inside the grasp of someone thousand times bigger than her, it never leaves her mind even for a split second. The more Sena thought about it as her own imagination of the situation creates multiple possibilities of what could happen if they didn’t move on from that particular position. As her train of thought goes further and further down the track, the scene played inside her mind gradually turns from innocent interactions into… something obscener. Her thighs folded, her right hand reaches for her own crotch, her left hand playing around her own torso area, imagining what Jack could do to her in that intimate situation…

Dammit! Sena couldn’t take it anymore…

Quietly, Sena stood up and reaching for her clothes. The usual purple tanktop, blue short jeans and running shoes, she leaves the house…

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Athena opened her eyes…

“Sena…”

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The motel…

Inside the usual room, Jack hasn’t sleep yet. Lying down on the bed, Jack reads a book that he found before her arrival in this ghost town as the lantern hanging on the ceiling brighten the whole room.

“Hm?”

Putting his book away, his survival instinct caught a tiny movement near the door; of course, the familiar clothing, stood at three centimeters tall…

“It’s you… what’s up? Couldn’t sleep?”

Sena just stood there, seemingly nervous judging by her hand movements and head down.

“Come here,”

His gentle voice finally blew away her nervousness as Sena started to walk toward the bed.

“Need my help?”

With little trouble, Sena just climbs the bed sheets into the top of the bed. There she is, stood at the edge of the bed, looking at his statue-like figure as those naked sole looming high beyond Sena’s own height. Trying to get used at the sight of his gigantic body, Sena wills herself to walk on top of the soft surface of this giant bed. There, Jack’s open right hand awaits her. Quick to understand, Sena climbs on top of it as Jack carried her tiny form in front of his face.

“What’s with the night visit?”

“I…” Sena turns her face away. She seems flustered looking at Jack’s face up close. “I don’t really know… I just wanna see you,”

“Really?” Jack found that amusing.

“Uh… have you ever with a woman before?”

“Well, yeah… but not your size, that’s for sure,”

“There’s no one like us out there?”

“No, this is the first time I’ve seen someone like your size,”

“Hm…” Sena could only imagine a woman as big as Jack. What are they look like?

“My turn to ask… is there only girls in your… erm… pack? I didn’t see any tiny guy,”

“Oh yeah, well… I thought Athena gonna tell you all about it tomorrow, but… I could tell you a little about it if you wanted to,”

“Go ahead, I’m curious this whole time anyway,”

“Okay then…” Sena tried to remember everything about a tiny man that she knows in the past. “So… there were more than just us four before, we’re all at this size already. We’ve had our parents as well. But as time goes on, most of us died by old age when we were still very young, including our parents… there’s also those who died due to illness… many of the adults didn’t even successful in giving birth as well, the rate was so low. To the point there’s only just six of us; one male, five female. Thankfully, through hardships and using all the remaining tools that was left behind by those who died before us, we could survive this long until we’ve reached adulthood,”

Fascinating, Jack took a mental note of all Sena’s story.

“One day when we’re exploring as usual, there was an incident… Jesse, that was the guy’s name. when we’re exploring the book shop browsing for knowledge, there was a book from the top shelf, wind blew through the inside of the shop and that book fell… right on top of Jesse,”

Jack noticed Sena wrapped her own arms around her torso, her face clearly terrified remembering the bad memories.

“We were… depressed for days… there was five of us. But then the other girl, Jade… she hanged herself…”

Sena fell on her knees. The horrible past apparently too much for her own mind to handle.

“Azumi… she was about to do the same… but Athena stopped her and it was thanks to her encouragement that we finally forced ourselves to move on and helping each other. That’s why we could survive to this day despite knowing that we’re probably just be the four of us… until… the end…”

Tears rolling down her cheeks, she couldn’t hold it anymore. Suddenly, Jack pulled her hand back until Sena leans right on his chest, trying to comfort her as his cupped hands held her gently.

“Sorry… I shouldn’t ask you that…” Jack tried his best to comfort the tiny girl as she continues to cry remembering the painful past…

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Several minutes later…

“You okay now?”

Hands away from his chest, Jack watches Sena trying to recover herself.

“I’m okay… actually, thank you,”

“Why? It’s my fault for insensitively asking you such question,”

“No… it’s… I don’t know, I kind of feel better telling this story to other people outside my group…” Sena forced herself to smile to reassure Jack. “I feel relieved, like a whole weight off my chest, you know?”

“Really?” it’s been a long time since Jack felt a deep emotional connection with anyone, looks like that feeling somehow returned to him again. “But… you barely even know me… I’m just here for two days,”

“Like I said, I don’t know either…” stood up with hands on her back, Sena looks away from Jack again but still retains her warm smile. “What’s with me? Why do I feel comfortable around a stranger like you? A giant stranger, even,”

Giggles escaped Sena’s mouth, even Jack couldn’t hold himself either at the absurdity of this tiny girl at times.

“I wonder why too…” Jack at least relieved now that Sena could finally recover her own mood. “Hey, but if it really helps, then I’m glad,”

“Seriously. Heck, I even wish the other three girls also learn to trust you!”

“Come on, I think it’s only natural they’re being cautious when someone hundreds of times taller than them appeared, it’s alright,”

“But still…!”

“Why do you trust me though?” the straight question hits Sena like an arrow.

“Well… you treat my injury and… actually helping in solving our food supply problem. I mean… you, being the biggest here, I bet we’re not here anymore if you really are not a good person,”

Good person… suddenly Jack remembered all the cruel imaginations that somehow always automatically manifested inside his mind. He was toying with Sena’s body when she was unconscious, he even had a nightmare of eating her tiny form like a delicacy! Then the short moment between them yesterday when Jack grabbed tiny form… the exact point where it hits him that in the end despite everything…

…he could be the one in full control.

Should he wanted to do anything to them, no one among these four tiny girls are able to stop him. Really, he doesn’t need their approval at all for anything. Why should he hold back?

There’s the answer. Now it makes sense why Athena is being cautious with him…

“…Jack?”

The girlish voice snapped him from the deep thought.

“There you go with your funny face again,” Sena just giggles.

“Hey come on…”

“I think I read it in one of the books… they called someone like that… cu… cuckoolander? Yeah, that’s it,”

This tiny thing… while it’s comforting that Sena didn’t look like she’s hesitated anymore when interacting with him, he could only wonder… bringing his left hand forward, Jack extends his index finger and gently put it on top of Sena’s head.

“Uh… Jack?” Sena could feel the massive digit touches her tiny head. Then it moves gently back and forth, ruffling through Sena’s hair as Sena’s whole body bobbed a bit left and right due to the enormous force of Jack’s finger alone. Things calmed down for her as Sena closed her eyes and warm smile returned to her face, feeling the gentle sway as the gigantic finger nudged her from her right side back and forth… it’s like all of her worries are gone for a split second inside this euphoric bubble…

Jack pulled her left finger a bit as Sena opened her eyes once again… only to see Jack’s finger coming at her fast…

SMACK

The giant flicks tiny Sena lightly, sending her rolling a bit on the palm of Jack’s hand.

“HEY!!” Sena quickly got back up on her feet. “What’s that all about!?”

Now it’s Jack’s turn to laugh. “Sorry, sorry… I couldn’t help it… you’re too cute, you know,”

Just to play along, Jack retracts her right hand close to her chest, allowing Sena to vent her annoyance by repeatedly punching the shirt-covered chest of Jack. After a while, Jack pinched Sena beneath her armpits and lifts her up in front of him as she playfully struggles to break free by flailing her tiny arms and legs around despite the futility of such attempt.

Sena’s struggle slowed down until all that’s left is a pout while her whole body currently being held firm by Jack’s left thumb and index finger. The familiar feeling returned to both of them once more, but this time… there’s something more… Sena’s expression gradually turned into anticipation…

“Why did you come here?” another direct question fired upon the tiny girl.

“I’m… curious,” with her tiny hands holding on the gigantic fingers, there’s no doubt left in Sena’s answer. “I wanted to know… what you’re capable of… with someone like me,”

There it is again. That subtle dominant feeling that always creeping inside Jack’s mind. But just like Sena, it feels different than last time in the basement. The trust is already built between them and now it’s up to Jack in how he’ll play out this situation…

“You won’t stop me?” just one more reassurance is all Jack needed.

“I trust you,” ever so adventurous, Sena won’t back down.

A light nod from Jack made Sena held her breath, preparing whatever may come for tonight…