The first wave of harpies falls to our fusillade. Every ballista, every mage, every archer, and a good amount of warriors are all firing at the exposed harpies. Only a few manage to reach the wall before being disrupted by the wind elementals, turning into easy targets.
Ervin Krampus, the demon race mage from Great Destiny, has his [Fire Spirit] throw fast [
Fire Arrows
] like it's a machine-gun with tracer rounds.
Another volley of arrows and before the arrows hit the second wave is already approaching. The harpy archers are trying to catch us exposed while we deal with the suicidal wave of harpies.
A harpy approaches our tower and gets an arrow to the eye by Alissa.
"'Blinding Arrows' indeed, hahah," Nononya laughs nervously.
"She's just getting started," I say with a grin and tap her shoulder.
Nononya is wearing some really fine scale armor, likely gifted by Silvane. She uses a short spear and a small kite shield, her martial skills are just enough to qualify her as a shield for Alissa but nothing more. She knows enough [Wind Magic] to keep harpies busy while me and Alissa finish them off.
Another arrow volley falls on us and this time the suicidal harpies are getting numerous.
A harpy dives towards us and gets impaled by Lina's javelin. The harpy flies backwards and falls down inside the town while screeching.
Aoi fires a fast fireball into the wing of a harpy and she crashes on the floor of our tower, she immediately gets decapitated.
"TAKE COVER!" The Captain reminds us just as another volley hits.
The few remaining harpies fall to their own arrows. Another wave is already closing by. The harpies are good with their timing.
"[
Discharge
]!" Lyle yells and a good amount of harpies fall from the skies, plenty fall in our tower and get butchered.
"COVER!' The Captain yells again and we hide.
The harpy archers start coming closer and the angle the arrows fall from start to reduce.
The next wave of harpies has leather armor and clawed gloves on their bird feet. They survive our barrage and multiple start to get close.
Who did they kill to get that armor?
"[
Discharge
]!" Horvath yells and a huge area is covered in sparks of lightning. A clearing opens as every harpy falls down, stunned.
A harpy falls down near me and I slash her throat, she gargles and writhes on the ground. She tries to fly away but an elemental disrupts her flight and a fire elemental explodes her head with a well placed [
Fireball
].
I retreat to our cover with Alissa behind me and another volley hits us.
Roxanne is calmly firing small [
Ice Lance
]s and collecting kills. The harpies are charging towards her, making them an easy target to her fast projectiles. Aoi is on her shoulder happily firing fireballs on the enemies coming from behind Roxanne's line of sight. The harpies are afraid of charging towards Hana, her ferocious smile and threatening posture makes her inapproachable by most harpies.
A harpy dives on each side of us.
Nononya keeps hers busy, threatening her with her spear while Alissa starts to fill the harpy with arrows.
I cast a chantless [
Lightning Bolt
] into a harpy and she nearly splatters on the ground. Now that her claws are below my chest the harpy is an easy target. I slash at her and she protects herself with her wings, causing one to be severed.
She tries to take flight again but a wind elemental disrupts her flight. Grounded and confused, she gets a deep slash from me across her chest. The harpy waddles backwards and receives an arrow through the eye.
"COVER!" The Captain yells.
"S-suicidal, ehehe," Nononya laughs but her eyes are open wide.
"They have no coordination so this is all they can do," I say as another enemy salvo falls.
"We'll be fine," Alissa says and points forward as another wave is about to reach us.
The lionfolk Grosnok from Great Destiny swings his scythe and cuts in two multiple harpies with every [
Wind Blade
] leaving his artifact. The Wind mages are bunching up the harpies for Grosnok to butcher.
A harpy dives past me, she's wearing gloves on her feet which make her claws as long as a knife. She scratch my shield and breaks a scale or two. As she stops in the air for a moment so she can turn around, I cast an [
Earth Bullet
] and hit her right in the ribs.
She's forced down on the ground by a wind elemental and Horvath's knight finishes her off.
Ciel and Lina are doing well keeping the harpies away from Lyle while he chants a spell with a manic smile. His father has an even more insane smile.
Ciel is doing short work of the harpies, she can easily chop off the wings of the harpies at a distance with either spell or glaive, then it's just a matter of slashing a throat. Lina lacks the follow up to finish off the harpies she manages to stab, but when an elemental disrupts their flight then Lina chops their wings and crushes their skulls with ease.
"[
Discharge
]!" Lyle releases his spells and more harpies fall to the ground. Hana and Lina butcher the vulnerable enemies
I stab a harpy repeatedly on the neck and face as she tries to crawl away. A harpy tries to dive me while I'm busy but I jump backwards and glide to safety with [
Telekinesis
].
Horvath's [Electric Spirit] fires a bolt into the harpy and she stiffens up. Now she's too late to try to find cover and gets peppered by friendly-fire.
The harpy archers get close enough that they are firing directly at us, which also means that they are in
our
range.
"NAHAHAH! [
Dead End
]!" Werner Rizek's laugh is oozing evil and sadism.
The archer harpies slow and stop in the air, having difficulty to move. Even their arrows that were already in flight stop. The level 60 [Electric Magic] spell makes everyone's "path" stop, forcing them to slow down or stop, the inverse of [
Rush
].
The archer harpies get shredded as they are basically immobile in the air. The mage harpies have some difficulty dispelling Werner's spell due to his inhuman power.
"ABOVE! LANCERS!" The Captain yells.
From above the archers comes a unit of harpies in thick padded leather armor. They hold with their claws a long lance pointing downwards.
Helena's [Water Spirit] spits high-speed droplets of water that enter the eyes of the harpies and make them blind.
Everyone casts high-damage spells towards the harpies and their charge gets blunted. It's annoyingly difficult to hold back and chant when I have been casting chantless for so long.
Lina casts an [
Earth Bullet
] and a harpy gets her lance destroyed. She veers off course and falls near us.
"MAGES!" The Captain yells.
The lancer harpy gets up and tries to crawl towards our cover. A kick in the face and a painful one between her naked legs and she's sent away with a shriek. Alissa looks at me with a frown.
Our cover that looks more like a pincushion loses chunks of wood as [
Wind Blade
]s and [
Fireball
]s hit it, there's also feathers of Needler harpies being thrown. The lancer harpy starts burning from friendly-fire as multiple [
Fireball
]s hits her all over her body. Alissa finishes her off with an arrow.
"Dear Gods," Nononya says, staring at the burning harpy.
"Nono! Incoming!" Alissa warns and fires another arrow.
An area spell starts being cast right on our cover and I interrupt it.
The mage harpies retreat and get ready to make another bombing pass at us. Their numbers are already greatly reduced, they won't last long.
More harpies, now with thicker armor, dive towards us.
Nononya skewers one harpy and her spear gets stuck. I cast an [
Earth Bullet
] on the harpy and knock it out, allowing Nononya to pull out the spear. I immediately turn around and slash at a harpy that's getting disrupted.
"Thank you!" I hear her say as I slash again.
The harpy's bodies are protected but not heir wings, I cut off one wing and wound the other. The harpy shrieks and writhes, trying to jump on me and claw my face. She misses but her blood is splattered all over me.
I kick it down and jab my sword at the back of her head, killing her.
With a glaive on the gut, a harpy is held down by Ciel until Lina comes and opens the harpy's skull with her hammer, spilling the brain matter.
I see Haaran and Alaraste are on a dance of death. They swing their flaming swords and crescents of fire fly out of them. I see that the swords are actually throwing flaming oil. The sword blades are in the shape of flames, completely impractical, they must be artifacts.
Vanea is behind them, freely throwing balls of darkness at the harpies while a knight keeps the harpies away from her. Her mother is beside her, doing the same with her own knight for protection.
Another salvo of magic hits our cover, blowing it in half. I cast [
Grow
] on it until it returns to its original size. Now there's bark on it, adding a little more protection. Lina casts [
Earth Wall
] and reinforces her cover. Roxanne pulls out a barricade from her [
Item Box
].
Silvane moves to another cover to help heal a wounded soldier.
Two harpies decide to focus on me while Alissa is busy. I cast [
Discharge
] and amp up the power until both fall down on the ground. I quickly stab the throat of one but the other manages to jump on me and latch on my chest armor. Her claws rake on my helmet while I stab her in the gut repeatedly, I eventually pierce through the armor and wreck her internal organs.
Her attack is slowed by my [
Wind Armor
] but it does nothing for the sharpness of her claws. I get a few scratches on the face and a painful cut on the neck, then the harpy pukes blood on my face and releases me. I quickly cast [
Clean
] on my eyes and see the harpy with the wounded throat right on top of me, she slams me and I fall backwards.
Nono's spear stabs the chest of the harpy that slammed, the harpy's armor prevents her from getting too wounded. Meanwhile a fire elemental burns the gutted harpy.
Another harpy claws at Nono from her flank, latching on her armor and pushing her to the ground. With a slide from my [
Telekinesis
] I reach the harpy and slash at her neck, nearly decapitating her. She passes out from sudden loss of blood pressure and slumps over Nono.
"You are now level 23," says the female announcer.
Alissa blinds the harpy with a spear on the chest by using [
Ghost Lights
] and fires an arrow on its eye.
I pull the harpy's body off Nono and pull her back to cover just as another magic salvo hits. The salvo's strength was greatly reduced, only two spells hit our cover.
I cast [
Heal
] on Nono and then on myself.
"Eh? Chantless?" Nononya asks, she looks at me with confused eyes and a face full of harpy blood.
"That's the first thing you say?" I snort at her.
"S-sorry, erm, thank you!" She bows lightly.
"Focus," I say and give her a hand chop on the head. Ah, she's so fluffy.
I move out and keep another harpy away while Alissa fires at her.
A harpy impales herself in Hana's spear. The harpy desperately tries to claw Hana but she kicks the harpy away and reverts her [Extend], easily pulling the spear off from the Harpy. Hana follows up with a stab on the throat, she forces the harpy on the ground and stomps on her until the harpy passes out.
A pillars of fire comes out of the forest, something exploded over there. Suddenly I see 3 huge balls of something on fire being lobbed at us from the forest. One veers off course and falls on the empty grassland, the ball breaks apart and burning oil spreads out starting a small fire. The second ball falls right outside the wall on the heads of unlucky soldiers, screams of pain arise and magical water jets immediately start to extinguish the fire. The third ball is slowed by the wind elementals and other mages when it crosses town but eventually it breaks apart and some burning oil falls in the slums, the rest is extinguished while floating in the air.
"Your 'surprise' wasn't really a surprise, Cookachickadoodoolee, pathetic," Alaraste says in a disdainful tone, his voice sweeps the battlefield.
"BAKAWWK! BAKBAK BAKAWWK!" The Cooka-(...) bellows and my ears ring in pain.
Another harpy comes and gets grounded by a wind elemental. Lina's javelin pierces her on the flank and while she's struggling to get up I step on her naked chest and stab her face until she dies.
Lyle stuns a harpy for Lina and she opens another skull with her hammer. Her armor is peppered by spatters of blood, brain, bone chips, and feathers. As a first it seems Hana is the one the least bloodied of the front line.
Out of the forest comes a huge black mass. A human face full of wrinkles, a very long and conical nose, triangular pointy and sharp teeth, a long feathered neck, a fat and brown huge chicken body. It's flight path is erratic, it's wings flap wildly and without coordination, it's a wonder it's still airborne. This is the Cooka-bitch.
"ALARASTEEE! BAKAWWK!" It bellows again.
"BAKAWK!" The harpies answer.
Suddenly the Dragon's Bane starts silently firing the huge bolts without anyone touching it. The Cooka-rooster has to jerk its entire body to dodge. The fat jiggles with every movement.
Suddenly a bolt enters the flabby belly of the ugly-ass-Cooka and it's sent back into the forest.
"I HATE YOOOoou~..." The Cooka-fat yells one last time and disappears in the Sea of Trees, for now.
"BAKAWK!" The harpies yell again and make one last suicide charge.
"[
Discharge
]!" Werner yells.
"[
Discharge
]!" Horvath yells.
"[
Discharge
]!" Lyle yells.
"[
Discharge
]!" I yell.
"[
Firestorm
]!" Roxanne yells.
"[
Firestorm
]!" Silvane yells.
"[
Wind Storm
]!" Ciel yells.
The sky is filled with the light of spells as no mage holds back their mana. The harpies lump together and get stunned, falling like rocks. Down on the ground the battle turns into slaughter.
"AHAHAHAH, OHOHOH, HAHAHAH!" Lyle laughs maniacally in the same tone as his parents. "AHAhah... Ooof~..." He slumps over as his mana runs dry and Lina catches him before he falls on the ground.
I jump over to their side and slash at a writhing harpy. I cautiously look around, searching for any harpy that could endanger Lyle.
The sky clears and a considerable amount of harpies retreat back into the Sea.
Their coordination was rather impressive, for monsters. They aren't even the breeder kind, the Little Cooka is only a leader-type.
Down below there's a few sources of fire being contained, adventurers and soldiers running around hunting for harpies and wounded, and priests working around their fortifications, healing the ones in most danger. Outside the wall the fire is already contained and the troops slowly reorganize, focusing on transporting the wounded to the healer's bunkers.
"Recover the wounded and finish your duties, soldiers! Then, celebrate! You deserve it, the town is safe again and we have achieved victory!" Alareste encourages us, his voice has a new reverb to it that brings a smile to my lips.
Our tower had a few wounded but no losses.
Horvath signals to us and we gather, the other noble house and Captain Entoli joins us and removes his helmet.
"No casualties, a perfect battle," the Captain says with a smile, "The elementals were a great help, the harpies were being constantly disrupted."
"Your boy has some talent for [
Discharge
], Horvath," says a male wereowl noble.
"Both my children do, Sir Rooter," Horvath says with large grin.
"Anyway," Helena says with an eye roll, "this year's fight was certainly a breeze. I would like to thank Helios and Nononya for their help with the elementals."
Silvane casts [
Clean
] on the blood spatters on Nono's face. She turns to us and says, "I can say that Haaran Anara also sends his appreciation for the help". She smiles at us and continues, "But now I must go down and join the healers."
"Should we go too?" I ask, looking at Ciel and Silvane.
"The temple is prepared to deal with this," Ciel answers.
"You are not prepared to deal with emergency healing, it could cause problems," Silvane says and bows lightly, "but thank you for the offer."
"The battle is done, you are all dismissed," Captain Entoli says to us and his subordinates.
"T-thanks for protecting me, Mr. Ryder," Nononya says and bows deeply, she's blushing lightly.
"My pleasure," I say with a smile.
"It has been a pleasure to fight alongside Helios, until then," Horvath says and turns his Emergency Ring green, a [
Gate
] opens and he leaves through it.
"Until tomorrow, Wolf," Lyle says and we share a handshake, "It was good fighting with you."
"Likewise," I say.
The wereowl noble silently observes us and then leaves.
Nononya is escorted out of the slums by two guards and Silvane goes to the south gate escorted by another two.
I turn to the girls and ask, "Right, no problems? No wounds?"
They shake their heads and Alissa pulls out a gnomic [
Clean
] tool to remove all the harpy blood from my body, then Ciel and Lina get a [
Clean
] too.
We wait for Aoi to finish eating a harpy's heart and we go home.
As I drive the dinghy home my heart beat slows and I feel heavy. It started and ended so suddenly I'm still processing things.
The town slowly returns to life as the population cautiously go out of their homes to check the damage. Corpses of harpies litter half the town, even a few blocks from our home there was blood spatter.
The harpy's suicide attack is just another part of life here, and also just another cycle for the harpies too. Their numbers grow until unsustainable levels, then they attack with all they have.
I'm getting used to the sudden need to fight. I won't have a second episode like on our first trip to the Morning Dew, but it doesn't mean that the aftermath is getting easier. The smell of blood is stuck on my nose, the screams of pain ring in my ears, the chaos of battle repeats in my mind.
How can the Lord get used to this? Seeing his own men die, see them cry before their deaths, the helplessness before such a large amount of enemies, the confidence that in the end everything will be okay. Warfare is so different from hunting.
We reach home and suddenly Hana lifts me off the ground with a bear hug. She takes me to the sofa in the living room and pulls down my pants with a yank. She pulls back the skin of my member and gobbles on it, I lift my head to talk but Roxanne's tongue keeps my mouth busy.
Roxanne's robes fall down and I grab one of her perky breasts. She breaks the kiss and sits on my face. I spread her lips and do my thing. I penetrate her with my tongue and nibble on her clit.
Suddenly Hana sits on my dick and I grunt, biting Roxanne's clit harder than I should.
"AH!" Roxanne yells. "Ow, d-don't bite so hard."
Roxanne spins around and they kiss while riding me. I feel Hana's hand come over Roxanne's pussy and finger her.
Hana slams her hips on me, squeezing her insides hard. She quickly wrings out a shot from me and pulls Roxanne to clean her.
"I want a baaath," Ciel complains.
Hana carries Roxanne to the bath and they continue their cleaning in there.
We spit roast Roxanne, Hana uses her mouth while I pierce her pussy. I use her tail as a handle and Hana uses her horns.
I pull Roxanne off Hana and hug her from behind. I twist her body so I can taste Hana on her lips. She gives me bewitching eyes that intoxicate me. I feel like kissing and biting every piece of her body.
Hana uses Alissa to get off, she sits on her face and rubs her pussy on Alissa. She grabs her by the ears and forces Alissa's head to rub her harder.
"Impregnate me," Roxanne whispers and I instantly cum inside her.
I get off her and she sits on the border of the tub. While she cleans herself I kiss and [Massage] her perfect thin legs, I lick her all over her thighs and lower my self to her calves. She moans sensually while I work on her.
"Oh yes, right there. Hm..."
I lower to her feet and start sucking on her toes. She stands and presses her foot on my mouth. Those delicate cute little toes, that perfect pale skin, her enticing slit asking for more dicking, her loose hair slightly covering her grin, her sultry eyes. I feel like cumming without even her touching me.
She lowers herself on my body, my dick touches her belly. She closes her thighs and drops lotion on my dick. With her hands she moves up and down, squeezing my dick on her thighs and rubbing my shaft on her entrance.
I continue sucking on her feet, I have to control myself not to bite her. I massage one foot with each hand and strongly lick the skin in between each toe.
I cum again in the air and most of it splatters on her hair.
Hana pulls Roxanne off and lowers herself on me. She does the same as Roxanne and pushes her feet on my mouth, but this time I'm penetrating her.
"NAAAAH!" Ciel yells and orgasms. Lina slows down her fingers then licks them and returns to sucking on Ciel's breasts.
I cum inside Hana again while Ciel looks at me with hunger, her feet pointing forward, trying to entice me.
I enter the tub and start working on her feet. I pull Alissa, who just entered the tub, and shove her on Ciel's pussy, who eagerly accepts. Lina kisses Ciel and uses her hands to stimulate her breasts. We keep going until Ciel orgasms again.
I lean on the tub and relax while Hana and Roxanne play with Alissa.
Lina straddles me and slowly moves her hips, my member massages her insides slowly.
I last a long while until I finally finish inside her too.
It seems everyone was in need of some stress relief.
After we finish our dinner everyone's faces are of content.
Gih.
Oh, right.
"So, Alissa. You never told us who your parents really are," I say.
"Neither did you," she answers calmly.
"We guessed you weren't comfortable talking about your family," Ciel says.
"I guess that you guessed right," I say and smile wryly. "I wanted to forget but it's not that easy."
"You shouldn't forget," Ciel says.
"So," Alissa claps her hands, "who are your parents?"
I breathe in deeply. I really don't want to talk about this but...
Gih.
Yeah, I should.
"My mother is a teacher, she teaches young children. My father was a factory worker, he's retired now."
"Factory?" Lina asks.
"Like a craftsman, but he works in a much more methodical way and with equipment instead of handcrafting."
"What did he create?"
"Cars. It's like a wagon that has a magic stone and allows it to move without animals."
"You said you don't have magic on your world, so how does it move?"
I smile at Lina's curiosity.
"Fuel," I say, "Think of something that's so flammable that it can explode when it catches fire just like Roxanne's [
Explosion
], on a smaller scale, though."
"Wait, how do you use that to move? It's just an explosion."
"Yes, we harnessed the power of explosion!" I open my arms wide and smile. "With a piston you can make the power of the explosion go in one direction instead of every direction. So you can move things in a line, but when you add multiple pistons and some intelligent mechanical engineering you can make the linear movement turn circular. Then you attach that to an axle and you have a way to move wagons without horses!"
"Ooh..." Lina's eyes gleam and the gloominess fades.
Maybe I found something for Lina to do. I have to give my engineering knowledge to her. Wait until I tell you how we distill liquid ancient dinosaur into fuel, technically not true but she doesn't need to know.
"Are, dra-gons, there?" Aoi asks.
"No dragons, but we use it a lot on stories and myths. Dragons are just as beautiful and majestic on Earth than they are in here."
Hana grins and Aoi breathes fire out of her nostrils, then closes her eyes in happiness.
"What did your mother teach?" Ciel asks.
"Math," I answer.
"Does your world teach the same things as ours?" Alissa asks.
"From what I remember they start with addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division, then algebra, there's something about kinematics too. That's just for children, teenagers go further than that"
"Every child needs addition so they can calculate their skill points," Ciel says, "but multiplication is only for the ones who want to specialize."
"I know the multiplication table," Hana says with a proud smile. "I use it when buying in bulk, if you don't then someone's going to rip you off."
Lina nods in agreement.
"So every children learns these things?" Ciel asks and I nod. "It's quite the interesting world. We must look so backwards to you," she smiles wryly.
"Somewhat, though you have more progress than us on other things," I say.
Not to mention how much we were killing our own world.
"What about potions?" Roxanne asks.
"This is kind of a weird thing. There's no potions," I say and she puckers her lips in disappointment," but there's 'medicine', a way of studying the effects of things on the body and how to cure diseases that's quite similar to potions," and she smiles.
"Well, the person we really want to hear about is your wife," Alissa says.
My heart pangs with guilt.
"Lily is... Well she's someone special..."
"Talk about cliche," Roxanne says and rolls her eyes dramatically.
"Oh come on, how am I supposed to start? I have to delay while I think."
"Sure, sure. Just don't be corny like you always are," Roxanne says and blows me a kiss.
"Well... Firstly, Lily has the same skin color and hair as Ciel. Secondly, she is shorter than me and taller than Lina."
"There's humans shorter than you?" Hana ask and lifts an eyebrow.
"Damn, you sure there's no dwarves there?" Roxanne asks.
"There's a physical condition called 'dwarfism', but this is caused by problems on the body and is not a different race of people. But yes, a lot of people in my world are shorter than the ones in this world. In fact, I'm not actually short, aside from my brother I'm the tallest of my family," I say and puff my chest with pride.
Hana stifles a laugh and says, "What? Y-you're, tall?"
"Maybe I shouldn't tell you these things," I say and narrow my eyes at her.
"Come now, my little Wolfy," Roxanne comes to my side and throws an arm over my shoulder, "Tall, short, does it matter? We are just commenting the differences in heights between the humans of this world and the dwarv-, I mean, the little humans of your world," she smirks at me.
"Well you are big in all the right places," Alissa says and taps my thigh.
Lina nods along and Ciel massages her forehead with a smile.
"Go back to Lily, please," Ciel asks.
"Alright," I breathe in deeply, "Lily is, kind of an asshole. She's mean and abrasive, but she's good only to me. She works in business, erm, trading-stuff, so she has kind of a domineering attitude but she takes it off when she's with me."
Hana blinks blankly and laughs again, "Ain't that kind of a woman's dream? I have heard plenty of women who want a rough outlaw to take them but do them gently and with love."
Oh boy, I heard that one before.
"That kind of explains how he fell for both of us," Roxanne says with an evil smile, "you can't deny your wishes to be dominated by us, Wolfy. Just be honest with yourself and submit."
Roxanne sits on the table and puts her feet on my lap. She pushes one foot on my face and a thin heel of her shoe digs on my crotch.
I growl and pull her legs off me.
"You want to know who's in charge? I will show who's in charge," I say. I grab her throat with one hand and push her down the table, with the other I pull out my dick and spit on it, then I penetrate her.
Her moans grow hoarse as I squeeze the life out of her, tears leave her eyes as she tries to breathe in vain. Once I release her throat she gasps for air repeatedly and creams my shaft with an orgasm.
I slow down and painfully squeeze her breasts.
"Maybe I should act like Roxanne too," Hana says.
I glare at her and say, "Do that and I won't punish you, I will ignore you."
"Awn..."
Roxanne bites her lips and tries to seduce me. Her body language changes, her legs flex to show her shapely calves, she pulls her hair back so it gets into a beautiful shape, her eyes gaze at me sensually, her glasses reflect the light and give her a mysterious look.
I choke her again and growl.
"Not gonna work when I don't let it," I say.
The intoxication fades and she moans loudly as I pick up the pace.
I finish inside her and leave her on the table like a used doll with a stupid smile on her face. Hana moves towards Roxanne's legs to clean her but Roxanne covers her creamed slit with her hands.
"Let me enjoy this, I love to feel his cum inside of me," she says. Hana shrugs and returns to her chair.
"So how did you meet Lily?" Alissa asks excitedly.
"You remember how I explained video games?" I ask, the girls nod and Roxanne grunts, "Well, there's a way to play with other people across the world through near-instant communication. It's like there's someone acting as an intermediary between you and the other person.
"I met Lily on one of those games. It's somewhat similar to how we fight in here, she was a vanguard fighter and I was a support mage. We were simply two players who did well together and became friends, we eventually started our own clan, it's uh, pretend-clan, not a real one. Some months later we realized we live close to each other and then we met.
"Then things went kind of crazy. Months of sexual tension culminating in us fucking like rabbits. It's kind of a trust thing, we just had some mutual trust on each other after relying on one another for so long. We just
understood
each other," my eyes start to burn, "I know how she thinks and she knows how I think so we never really had a fight. We had arguments yes but she's someone you can
rely
on, someone you know that even when she does something bad, you can be sure she didn't mean it. So why shouldn't we forgive each other for our mistakes? We had no pride or face to maintain, we were honest and straight. We were a team, a duo.
"Three years later, when we were both on a good place in our careers, I try to ask her in marriage but she beats me for four days, she asks me in marriage and I laugh at how much money I wasted on a surprise that she 'ruined'," I smile bitterly and swallow the lump in my throat, "We changed our reservations for a family party where we announced the engagement. We ended up spending more money splurging on the food of the ceremony than the ceremony itself, she's more of a gourmet while I like to adventure on tastes so we focused on food instead of the more traditional aspects of the ceremony, like the music, or decoration.
"Then during the ceremony I was transported here."
I clean my cheeks of the tears and keep my head down.
Guilt, longing, and fear. Those three emotions are a storm on my heart.
Alissa hugs me tight and the other girls find a piece of my body to grab. Aoi curls on my lap and Gify nibbles on my ear.
I control my tears and breathe in deeply.
I'm loved, I have nothing to fear, I will live my life here like I promised.
"Tears, means, sad-ness," Ted says on his usual strained voice.
"Why, sad?" Suzy asks.
Like the elementals, they hold the same knowledge as I do, but maybe they can't understand the deeper or finer parts of my knowledge.
"I am sad because I have lost something important that I won't ever be able to get back," I say.
"Im-por-tant?" Suzy asks.
"Yes, Lily was someone very important to me so I am sad that I will never be able to meet her again."
Ted and Suzy look at each other then back at us and nod.
Ciel and Lina grab them and bring them closer to us.
"Hugging helps with sadness," Ciel says.
"Then, I, hug, you," Ted says and his fuzzy arms wrap around my shoulder. Suzy copies him on my other shoulder.
"Awn..." Ciel gushes and cleans the corner of her eyes.
This hurts my heart. I know they are robotic and simple minded, they are merely applying their knowledge to serve me better, but it's still touching. Even if it isn't a natural response, what they do is what matters to me.
We spend a minute like this before I have the courage to speak again, "What about your parents, Alissa? Who are they?"
"The Chief and the Chieftress of the Misty Fox clan," she answers.
Not unexpected but something is nagging me.
"Why did you never called them mother or father? You only call them 'Chief' and 'Chieftress'."
She smiles bitterly and speaks, "Once I became a Blood Slave I wasn't their children anymore. Not calling them 'Mom' and 'Dad' is also a mental exercise, my past is irrelevant so I must keep it separate. I became a new person when I became a Blood Slave, so I need to look at my past differently."
"Remember that you are only a slave on paper, I already consider you my wife."
She hugs me tighter and bites her lips, then she kisses my neck repeatedly.
"I love you," she whispers.
"I love you too. I love you all," I say.
"I love you," Roxanne says and gives me a peck on my cheek.
"I love you," Hana says and kisses my hand.
"I love you," Ciel says and kisses the back of my neck.
"I l-love you," Lina says and kisses my other hand.
My relationship with Alissa is the most unhealthy one. Our dependency on each other is too great and no matter how much I call her "wife", she's certainly going to always act as a slave. I don't know how I should fix this, or if I can, or if I should. As long as we are happy that's enough, right? Right?
Slowly we disentangle. Roxanne cleans herself and we clean the table.
The evening is spent like all others, cuddling.
I summon the [
Holy Spirit
] repeatedly for Ciel, I tell the golems to chase the Spirit while Hana coaches them in how to better control their bodies, Gify decides to play along and let the golems chase him too. Roxanne keeps pulling and putting items in her [
Item Box
] for Aoi. Lina maintains our weapons. Alissa cuddles with me while we read one of her books.
"Do you have siblings, Alissa?" I ask.
"I have a little sister, Allura", she answers and closes her book. "Oh, you will lover her, she has fox legs. Fox, legs!" She turns on my lap a nuzzles up to my neck. "She got Mom's color, Dad's eyes, and possibly his height too."
"That sounds adorable."
"She is. I wonder how much she grew, she must be 12 now."
"You said you lived 3 years on your own?"
She closes her eyes and speaks sadly, "Yes, I couldn't see my family because of the training. Only Mom, occasionally."
"You finally started saying 'Mom' and 'Dad'."
"I guess so..." She slowly falls asleep in my arms with a faint smile.
"What about you girls?" I ask to the other ones.
"I have an older brother, Fuda," Lina says. "He looks just like me but a little more masculine."
"A little?" Hana asks.
Lina smiles and nods. She says, "He should be learning enchanting so he could inherit father's shop. He wasn't that excited about it so I wonder how it went."
"Were you the one who wanted to inherit the shop?" Ciel asks.
"Yeah, until I was sold. I was much more valuable than brother so I was chosen."
"If your family is still troubled we will help them. I want to travel to Mountainhome when we become nobles," I say.
Lina's eyes open wide and she smiles wide, then she nods repeatedly. "Thank you, master," she says.
"Don't go back to calling me master."
"O-okay," she lowers her head and keeps smiling.
We turn to Roxanne.
"I'm an only child," she says and smiles bitterly.
Now we turn to Hana.
"My brother is called Hermann and my sister is called Mizushina, Mimi, for short," She says, her gaze loses focus and she smiles. "Hermann was supposed to be like me but he's 14, he must still be training somewhere to be a guard for a noble. Mimi is older and was training to inherit Dad's position as the head, so she might be in a better position, like helping an accountant or something."
Alissa opens her eyes groggily and finally slumps on my arms, asleep. I massage her ears for a while until we finally go to sleep.
Hall of Fame of Patrons
The patrons who support Rupegia shall have their names sung by the bards for they deserve the glory and honor. Their names are:
Oracle
Maximillian Hübner.
Lord
Andrew Meyers.
Lord
SenilePenile.
Lord
Hope.
Lord
Samuel Lim.