ALDN-246 A Week of Tender Memories Between the New Wife and Her Father-in-Law — 通野未帆

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Miho returns to her husband’s family home in the countryside. This year they held the first Obon memorial for her mother‑in‑law. The father‑in‑law, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time, looked a little tired and faintly lonely. Still, he put on a brave face and tried to act strong as a man in front of his son and daughter‑in‑law. That different kind of masculinity and the occasional glimpse of his loneliness struck a chord with Miho — very different from her city‑bred husband. One day, the husband suggested doing fireworks to lift his father’s spirits. Seeing the father‑in‑law wearing his deceased wife’s yukata while doing the fireworks made the image of the late wife come flooding back; he began to cry and clung to Miho. Overwhelmed by uncontrollable emotion, the father‑in‑law ended up having sex with Miho. But the act felt different from being with her husband — Miho sensed the father‑in‑law’s love for his late wife. She resolved to limit things to just that Obon week; torn between guilt toward her husband and a strange sense of fulfillment, she nonetheless can’t stop the escalating encounters with her father‑in‑law…