WIEDERGEBURT Act III: Chapter 61

After reaching the Fourth State of Spiritualism with the lightning element, I went about gathering the necessary ingredients to create a Yin-Yang Spiritual Enhancement Pill for the water element.

The ingredients required for this pill were subtly different. While most of the ingredients were the same, some of them, like the scales from a Lightning Chimera and the essence blood of a Thunder Leopard, had been changed to bone marrow of a Six-Headed Water Serpent and essence blood of an Undine, which was the final evolutionary form of the Water Nymph and an A-rank Demon Beast.

The biggest change to the ingredients I needed was the S-rank Monster core. Last time, I needed the monster core of a Demon Beast with a lightning element; this time, I needed one with a water element.

It took years to gather all the ingredients again, mostly because every ingredient was spread across the Demon Beast Mountain Range. It wasn’t like these ingredients were all located in one convenient spot. I needed to travel from one side to the other.

While I avoided places like the Morkdypt Ravine, I ended up traveling very far south, past Nevaria, until I reached an archipelago. This chain of islands had numerous treasures. There weren’t just several of the ingredients I needed like the essence blood of an Undine. Many of these islands also had the ruined remains of ancient cities and towns situated on them.

On the largest island was the ruins of a massive city that spread for several dozen kilometers. Many Demon Beasts inhabited this city, though I made short work of them. It was almost laughably easy to kill them. A single wave of my hand was enough to annihilate anything below a B-rank Demon Beast, and even A-rank Demon Beasts didn’t give me more than a bit of trouble now. I guessed this was the difference between the Third and Fourth States of Spiritualism.

As I walked through the city, I studied the architecture. Most of the buildings were made from stone. Of course, the buildings were so old that a lot of the walls were faded and crumbling. Vines and moss was growing over everything as well. Interspersed between buildings were giant palm trees, which were a rarity and only seemed to grow in tropical places like this.  

The salty scent of the sea reached my nose and refreshed me. I didn’t really understand why. It was like the salts contained minerals or something that I breathed in, which soothed my nerves and helped settle my mind.

After wandering the area for an entire week, I was able to find several of the water-related ingredients needed for the Yin-Yang Spiritual Enhancement Pill. The only ingredients I hadn’t found was the Bone Marrow of a Six-Headed Water Serpent and the S-rank monster core of a Demon Beast with a Water Affinity.

One day, I returned to the camp I had created outside of the city. It was located in a thick jungle that hid my presence from Demon Beasts. They might not be a problem for me, but that didn’t mean I wanted to be attacked in my sleep either. My basic pitch tent was made from the hide of a Demon Beast I had killed and was set next to a small pond that fed into the ocean.

I started a fire inside of my firepit, filled a bucket with water, and began boiling the water to rid it of any bacteria that could infect me. Some of that water would go into my flask, but I planned on using the rest to create a stew with root vegetables and a Demon Beast I had killed awhile back. You wouldn’t guess it because of how powerful they were, but some Demon Beasts actually tasted pretty good.

While I was sitting by the fire, a soft splash caught my attention. I looked up to find…

“A girl?”

It was indeed a young girl who looked to be maybe in her mid or late-teens. Only her head and a bit of her shoulders and collar bone were visible, sticking out of the water of the pond, ripples spreading around her. She was staring straight at me with unbridled curiosity brimming in her eyes. However, the moment she realized I had seen her, she ducked back underneath the water.

I scrambled to my feet and ran over to the pond. I looked inside but couldn’t see anything except the backside of a fairly decent-sized fishtail swimming away.

The next morning, I did the same things as usual, leaving my camp and traveling out to sea in search of either a Six-Headed Water Serpent or an S-rank Demon Beast with a water affinity. My luck seemed to have run dry, however. I found neither of those. That said, I did run into a lot of Demon Beasts.

There were many different types of Demon Beasts that lived in the sea.

There were Sirens, Demon Beasts that looked like women with bird legs, wings, and scales. They made the islands their home and hunted in flocks. I’d been attacked by them numerous times, though I’m pretty sure I wiped most of them out by now.

I also fought a Scylla. It was an A-rank Demon Beast that had eight tentacle-like appendages in place of legs and a deformed upper half that reminded me very vaguely of a person. In fact, I was almost tempted to believe this Demon Beast had, at one point, been human and was somehow transformed into a Demon Beast. Despite its human-like upper body, it, like the Sirens, did not have the ability to speak the human tongue.

Aside from those two Demon Beasts, there were also turtles the size of an island, whale monsters big enough to swallow an island, and a myriad of shark-type Demon Beasts. A lot of the creatures I saw were quite big. I supposed it was because the sea itself was very vast. It stretched on for hundreds of kilometers, this big, open puddle of water that seemed to have no end and nothing hampering the growth of these creatures.

Sadly, I still had yet to find an S-rank Demon Beast or a Six-Headed Water Serpent.

During my fifth day on the archipelago, I was frying up some Scylla tentacles over an open flame, using a pan that had miraculously survived the destruction of the nearby city. I breaded the tentacles using a makeshift bread I had created with simple flour dough and water. The Scylla tentacles were sizzling as I fried them in oil, and the scent that wafted from it was honestly pretty mouth-watering. It contained a hint of saltiness that mixed well with the floury scent of the bread.

Sniff. Sniff.

That girl was back again. She was over by the well once more, submerged in the water so I could only see her face, elegant neck, and shoulders. I pretended not to notice her while observing her out of the corner of my eyes.

I had not been sure what this girl was at first, but I could now tell that she wasn’t human. Her ears had been replaced with a pair of fin-like appendages, which emerged from her long pink hair. The color of her hair honestly impressed me. My own green hair made me look exotic according to some of my compatriots from when I was living in the Northern Plains, but that girl’s hair was simply something else.

She was also very pretty. Her pure white skin had a glossy sheen and looked impeccably smooth and soft. Jade eyes peered out from behind a fringe of pink hair. Her profile contained an elegance that I would have expected from royalty. Her small nose gave her a somewhat adorable appearance, and her full lips made her seem like a seductress.

While she obviously wasn’t human, I didn’t think she was a Demon Beast either, since a Demon Beast would have attacked me the moment they saw me. This girl was something else, like the Lamia of the Endless Desert or the Beastfolk of the Northern Plains. I didn’t know what she was, but I knew she was at least not my enemy.

“Do you want some?” I asked.

“Eep?!”

The girl released a soft squeak when I spoke out loud and looked like she was about to duck beneath the water.

“H-hold on! I’m asking if you want some food!”

She halted her actions before fully submerging her head. I turned to look at her. Now I could only see the upper half of her face. She stared at me from this position, which caused a small droplet of sweat to trickle down my face.

“Um… can you understand me?” I asked.

The girl didn’t say anything at first. She bobbed in the water and seemed to scoot her face even closer to the edge of the rock she was hiding behind. Then…

“I understand you,” she said.

“Oh, good.” So she could talk. Sighing in relief, I looked at the pan of finished Scylla tentacle, then turned back to the girl. “So… did you want some of my food? I don’t mind sharing.”

“… Can I?”

“Well, I did offer.”

Taking the pan off the fire, I grabbed two plates from inside of my tent and served up the Scylla tentacles. I walked over to the edge of the pond under the watchful eyes of the girl. She seemed wary of me, like a frightened rabbit staring into the terrifying muzzle of a Dire Wolf. However, she didn’t run away like last time.

I sat down, then set one of the plates on the ground in front by the edge of the pond and placed the other on my lap. My butt was getting a little wet because of how damp the ground was, but I didn’t trouble myself over such a triviality.

The girl hesitated for a while longer, but then, ever so slowly, like a mouse coming out of its hole, she moved around the rock and swam up to the pond’s edge.

Now that she was close enough for me to observe her, I could see that the girl’s skin was glossy because it had a layer of slime-like substance coating it. What’s more, her lower half was that of a fish. I blinked when I saw how her body shifted from human-like skin to fish scales just a little below her hips. Unlike normal fish scales, however, these were a beautiful pink color just like her hair. Gills on the sides of her torso moved as though they were breathing for her.

She wasn’t naked, though that wasn’t saying much. Her breasts, which were larger than I expected, were covered by a pair of large sea shells that were kept in place by numerous pearl-like beads strung together with some kind of thread. Similarly, there was a skirt covering her lower half made of some type of… seaweed? It looked like seaweed, but it was very colorful.

“Careful, it’s hot,” I warned the girl as she reached out a tentative hand toward the Scylla tentacles. She looked at me, nodded, then slowly reached for the tentacles again.

I bit into mine and enjoyed the crunchy texture of the outer breading, which really complimented the somewhat chewy texture of the Scylla tentacle. The girl, meanwhile, had grabbed a piece of tentacle and blew on it several times before taking a tentative bite. Her eyes widened before she shoved the whole thing in her mouth and began chewing ravenously.

“Is it good?” I asked.

She nodded. “We don’t have anything like this in Atlantia! What sort of food is this?”

“Scylla tentacles.”

The girl froze. “W-what did you say?”

“It’s Scylla tentacles,” I said.

“You… you killed a Scylla?” the girl breathed in shock.

“Er… is that bad?”

I knew there were some cultures out there that worshipped certain Demon Beasts as gods. They were often primitive peoples who lived in isolated parts of the continent. So far from any civilization, they struggled to survive and often worshipped powerful Demon Beasts because anything that strong must obviously be a god… or at least, that was how I believed their thought process went.

“I-it’s not bad,” the girl said, still staring at me with her wide eyes. “But if you can kill a Scylla, then you must be really strong.”

“Well, yes.” I nodded. “I have reached the Fourth State of Spiritualism for the lightning element.”

“I don’t know what that means, but maybe you can help us,” the girl said.

I had no idea what she meant by help at the time. However, I did notice that she had said “us” instead of “her,” meaning she wasn’t the only one of her kind. I decided to lend her a hand. Maybe she could help me find the S-rank Demon Beast or at least the Six-Headed Water Serpent.

“By the way, what’s your name?” I asked.

“My name is Lorelei Aegir,” the girl said.

That was my first interaction with the girl known as Lorelei and my first time meeting a mermaid.

***

Fay had noticed that Siv was avoiding Eryk whenever and wherever she could afford to. She also noticed how the girl not only avoided him, but when they were forced into contact, she often refused to look directly at him. She was sure Eryk had noticed this as well. However, since he didn’t know what was going on and had other issues he needed to deal with, he hadn’t been able to speak with her.

That was why Fay had resolved to speak with the girl on Eryk’s behalf.

She had a good idea as to what the problem was anyway.

It was early afternoon. Eryk and Kari had gone to the Imperial Royal Palace to inform Empress Hilda about their plans to travel into the Demon Beast Mountain Range, and Lin was busy working with Felman to get some of the paperwork for the Nevarian Braves finished before their group began their journey. That left Fay pretty much to her own devices.

Ignoring the slight ache in her chest, Fay knocked on the door to what had become Siv’s room.

“Are you in there, Siv? It’s Fay.”

She waited for a moment. A soft thud echoed from the other side. Then the sound of padding feet grew louder before stopping. There was a click as the door pulled back just a crack. Bright green eyes that glowed with a soft luminescence stared back at her.

“Eryk isn’t here,” Fay said as if she had sensed why the girl was so hesitant. “It’s just me.”

At those words, the door opened more fully and Siv allowed Fay to enter.

The room Siv was using was the second bedroom, which had originally been the room Fay, Kari, and Lin slept in when they weren’t sleeping with Eryk. Now that Siv lived with them, they had gone back to sleeping with Eryk and given this room to their new roommate. Kari had once discussed the idea of giving her an unused room. Eryk had vetoed it, stating that he wanted Siv to be close by in case she needed help.

He’s always thinking about others…

“Did you… need something?” asked Siv.

“I wanted to discuss something with you.”

There weren’t many places to sit, so Fay went over to the bed, sat down, and patter the spot beside her as she looked at Siv. The young dragon girl, dressed only in a very light gown, sat beside her after a bit of hesitation.

As they sat there, Fay wondered how she should start this conversation. Unlike Kari, who was great at holding their group together with her wits and words, Fay was not as eloquent. She couldn’t convince people to see her side of things the way Kari could. As she thought about her first and best friend, Fay paused.

What would Kari say in a situation like this?

“You know… Eryk is worried that he’s done something to offend you,” Fay began. “He hasn’t had a chance to talk to you about it, but he’s been watching and noticed that you’ve been avoiding him.” Siv’s eyes widened. “Has he done something to offend you?” Siv shook her head. “Then can I ask why you’ve been avoiding him? He might be so busy that he hasn’t given any indication of being bothered by it, but I can tell he’s been worried about you.”

Siv placed her hands in her lap. Her hands had scales covering some of it and regular skin covering the rest. They were surprisingly dainty. Fay’s own hands were a lot bigger and more rugged than this dragon girl’s.

“He hasn’t… offended me,” Siv said at last. Her mouth twitched several times like she was struggling to figure out which words to use. Her cheeks suddenly turned a brilliant shade of red that made Fay wonder what was going through this girl’s head. “Other night… saw you… you four… um… on the bed… you and others… mating?”

It sounded a lot like a question, but Fay couldn’t tell if she was asking her what they had been doing, or if Siv was just not sure if “mating” was the right word to use. However, Fay could pretty much figure out what night Siv was talking about. After all, she, Fay, Lin, and Eryk had only “mated” once since the battle against the Sekbeist/Demon Beast army.

“Ah… y-you saw that?” Siv nodded, causing Fay’s cheeks to become just as warm as Siv’s. “I guess we forgot to lock the door. S-sorry. So, um, that’s the reason you’re avoiding Eryk?”

Siv nodded as she clutched the hem of her dress. She was so short her legs didn’t reach the floor, so she began swinging her feet back and forth with nervous energy.

“When I saw… my body… it became hot. Touch? Touched? I touched myself… embarrassed.”

Siv struggled to explain herself. This had to be embarrassing, but Fay thought her struggle was also because she was still learning their language. There were a lot of words she still didn’t know, so she was doing her best to extrapolate using words she did know.

While Siv’s explanation was a little confusing, Fay understood the gist of it. Siv had seen them having sex and masturbated while watching them. Since then, she had become so embarrassed that she couldn’t even look Eryk in the eye. That said, she could look at her and the other girls, and she didn’t have a problem talking to them. It was just Eryk, which could only mean one thing.

“You’re in love with Eryk,” Fay stated.

“L-love?!” Siv squeaked. Her cheeks became even more red, until it looked like her entire face was burning.

Fay was not surprised that Siv knew what love meant; she was sure Lin had taught her. It was a word Lin often used in conjunction with “Darling.”

“Do you not?” asked Fay.

“That’s...” Siv squirmed, rubbing her thighs together as she kicked her feet back and forth at an increased pace. Her face contorted into several complicated expressions. At one point, it even looked like scales had begun spreading out from the spot on her cheeks where scales grew. “I… um… think about Eryk… a lot. Always, uh, on my mind? In heart? Chest… um… feels like… like bursting.”

Fay nodded. “Right. It feels like your chest is going to burst when you think about Eryk.” Siv gave an emphatic nod. “You also want to be with him, right? You probably catch yourself looking at him when you don’t think he notices, yes? You find yourself wondering what he’s doing when you’re not around, wish you could be with him even though it’s embarrassing. That’s how you feel, right?” Siv didn’t say anything, but she nodded again. “That’s definitely love.”

“What should I do?” asked Siv in a small voice. She looked so defenseless and vulnerable that Fay felt an odd desire to protect her.

“Tell him how you feel,” Fay said. “Eryk will definitely accept you. I already knows he cares for you a great deal. Right now, he’s been too busy to really think about things like courting and romance, but I’m also fairly certain he finds you attractive.”

Even Fay could admit that Siv was an incredibly beautiful woman. Her small and lithe figure possessed an ethereal elegance that made her seem otherworldly. She looked so delicate and fragile, yet packed within that tiny body was an explosive power that couldn’t be underestimated. Eryk probably appreciated the dichotomy between her appearance and her strength. He had a thing for strong women, after all.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

Siv’s tail began gently striking the bed and her wings extended and retracted as if expressing her anticipation and nervousness.

“Do you really… think so?” asked Siv.

“I do.” Fay nodded with certainty.

“What should… I say? How can I tell… un… confess?”

Fay needed a moment to think about that, but she eventually came up with what she thought was a good answer.

“I have an idea. Please listen as I explain what you should do,” Fay said before explaining her idea to Siv, whose cheeks became pinker and pinker.

***

I returned home with Kari after we spoke to Empress Hilda. Lin, Fay, and even Siv greeted us upon our return home. Nothing seemed overly odd, but I could tell something was up from the way Fay was trying really hard to make Siv talk. Outside of how out of character it was for her to be this nosy—nosiness was more Kari’s forte—there was also the fact that Siv herself was trying to converse with me more than she had in the past few days.

Even during dinner, Fay had somehow convinced Kari to give up her spot on my right to Siv, who looked like her face was about to burst as she tried her best to stutter her way through a conversation with me. Lin didn’t speak much at all, but that was natural. It was dinner. Lin rarely ever talked during dinner because she was so focused on her food. On the other hand, I noticed Fay leaning into Kari and whispering something in the blonde’s ear.

“What are you two talking about?” I asked.

“Nothing.” Kari smiled at me, but it was full of mischief. “We were just discussing something among us girls.”

There was definitely something suspicious going on.

I decided to ignore the girls and their suspicious conversation since Siv still wanted to talk more. We didn’t really talk about anything particular. In fact, she mostly asked questions regarding Nevaria and words that she still didn’t know.

After dinner, I stood up from the couch that had become our makeshift dining room table and stretched.

“I’m going to take a bath. Do any of you want to join me?”

“This princess wants to—ouch!” Lin yelped quite suddenly and leapt to her feet—um, her tail. “Why did you step on this princess’s tail?!”

“You can’t take a bath with Eryk right now,” Fay said. “There’s something we want to talk to you about.”

Lin frowned at the redhead with an increasingly moody expression, but then she looked at Kari, who merely nodded at her, and released a sigh. Slowly nodding her head, she looked back at me with an expression so regretful I was tempted to tell her that she could take a bath with me if she wanted to.

“This princess… has some things to discuss with Big Sister and Fay,” Lin muttered.

“I understand.” I smiled. “Some other time.”

Since it looked like the girls didn’t want to join me, I went to our private bath by myself, stripped down, and entered the bathing room. I washed my hair, scrubbed my body with soap, and rinsed myself off with a bucket of water. Then I climbed into the bath.

I sat on the first two steps of the square bath. The hot water soothed my muscles and made me relax. Leaning back, I closed my eyes as steam drifted across my body, heating me up. This really was the life. My only regret in that moment was that Kari, Fay, and Lin couldn’t join me.

As I was thinking about the girls, the door to the bathing room suddenly opened. I thought it might be the girls coming to surprise me. Maybe that was their plan all along. However, as I stood up and turned around, the person I found wasn’t Kari, Lin, or Fay.

It was Siv.

Siv was completely naked, though she did have a towel covering her chest and vagina. She seemed a lot more self-conscious now than she had when we first met. I wondered if this was because she was adopting a more human sense of modesty, or if she was just embarrassed. Her small body, covered in skin that shifted into glistening scales along her arms, legs, and torso, created an alluring image that took my breath away. I hadn’t paid as much attention to her body the last time I saw her naked because we were in a dangerous situation. However, Siv was an extraordinarily beautiful woman. There was no denying that.

“Siv?” I blinked several times, wondering what she was doing here, but really, there was only one reason she would come into the bathing room when she knew I was there. “Do you want to take a bath with me?”

While she didn’t say anything, she did nod once.

“I understand. Why don’t you sit on the stool, and I’ll wash your hair and back.”

Nodding again, Siv moved over to the stool and sat down. As I walked up to her, I noticed how her ears and the back of her neck had turned pink. It could have been caused by the heat, but she hadn’t been inside of the bathing room for that long. I suspected the reason for this change in pigment was something else.

After filling up the bucket with water, I poured it on her head, using my hand to make sure none of the water went into her eyes. I filled then bucket once more. Then I sat down and began washing her hair.

I had a lot of experience with hair washing now. I washed Kari’s, Lin’s, and Fay’s hair whenever we took baths together, so it wouldn’t be inaccurate to call me an old hand at this.

“You have gorgeous hair,” I complimented.

“T-thank you,” Siv mumbled.

“You know, you and me are some of the only people who have such a unique hair color in this world,” I continued talking, mostly because I thought it would help Siv relax. Her shoulders were so tense I thought they might snap. “Humans don’t have our hair color. The most unusual color they tend to get is red like Fay’s, but colors like green, pink, purple, and the like aren’t colors I’ve ever seen a human possess.”

“Aren’t you human?” asked Siv.

“I believe I am half-human,” I answered. “Though I don’t know what my other half is.”

“Oh.”

I finished messaging the shampoo into her hair, then poured the bucket of water onto her again, rinsing the shampoo out. After cleaning her hair, I used a spare towel to twirl the hair around her head into a strange up do that revealed her slender back.

I didn’t start washing her back right away. Staring at the green scales that spread across some parts of her back, I could not help but admire their glossy sheen.

“You have very pretty scales,” I said at last.

“Th-th-thank you!” Siv squeaked.

By this point, I had pretty much guessed why Siv was here and the other girls weren’t, but I didn’t say anything as I used the soap to clean her back. Siv’s muscles twitched underneath my touch. The sensation was like that of an erratic heartbeat. Since I was already cleaning her, I decided to go the extra kilometer and washed her arms as well, though I let Siv wash her front and legs. I didn’t want to scare her off.

Finally, the two of us sat down in the bath. Siv sat close enough to me that are legs were almost touching. She had placed her hands between her thighs, and it looked like she was rubbing them together.

I didn’t say anything. I could have, of course, but I could also tell that Siv was working up the courage to tell me something. If I had spoken first, it would have invalidated all the courage she had built up.

“E-Eryk?” she said at last.

“Yes.”

“I… um… I…”

I recognized the struggle she was having, and for a moment, I really considered helping her by speaking first, but I still remained silent. This really was something Siv needed to say for herself. It wasn’t something I could help with. If she couldn’t express her own feelings, it would make life a lot more difficult in the future.

“I… love you…” she finally said it, though her voice was so soft I almost missed it.

“I love you too,” I said.

“Y-you do?” Siv’s eyes widened.

“I do,” I confirmed. Granted, I did not love her as much as I loved the other girls, but that was because we simply hadn’t interacted as much. I didn’t know her like I knew Kari, Lin, and Fay. We’d only known each other for less than half a month. Barely thirty days. That wasn’t a lot of time. However, while my love for her did not possess the strength as my love for the other girls, I could at least honestly state that I did harbor those feelings.

“Then… um...” Siv struggled to say what she wanted from me.

Seeing that she had gotten the hardest part out of the way, I decided to help her along.

“Eep!”

Siv squeaked as I scooted closer, until our bodies were touching, slid an arm around her body, and pulled her close until she was touching my right leg. Leaning down, I placed a hand under her chin and lifted her head so I could kiss her.

Siv’s entire body stiffened as my lips met hers. She didn’t push me away, however, and after the initial shock wore off, she was kissing me back. Her actions were clumsy and spoke of her inexperience, but I didn’t mind this. Actually, I thought it was kind of cute. As we continued to kiss, I pushed my tongue against her mouth. She had some very sharp fangs, which I rubbed my tongue against. Those things could probably poke a hole in my tongue if I wasn’t careful.

“Ha… ahn… ha...”

Siv’s breathing had grown heavy as she opened her mouth and let me inside, clumsily rubbing her tongue against mine. Of course, it wasn’t just because of our dueling tongues that she was breathing so hard. While I used my left hand to stroke her cheeks, I placed my right on her tiny breasts and rubbed her nipples until they had grown stiff. She yelped a little when I pulled on them. I guess that meant they were really sensitive. Since she didn’t seem to like that, I simply rolled them between my fingers. Her body shuddered against me as soft moans echoed from her muffled mouth.

The longer we kissed, the more of her I wanted to touch. I placed my hand on her stomach and felt the supple muscles beneath a layer of skin and scales. I would have expected her scales to feel rough, but they were actually quite soft. They weren’t pliant by any means. These things were obviously tougher than adamantite. However, they felt smooth and glossy, like a highly polished gemstone.

Siv’s body twitched as I moved lower, placing my hand between her legs, but this was where my ability to progress stopped. She closed her legs, trapping my hand between her thighs.

“Siv?” I asked, breaking away from our kiss.

“S-sorry,” Siv muttered. “This is… embarrassing.”

“Do you want to stop?”

Siv hesitated for a moment, then shook her head. She slowly opened her legs again. I grabbed the leg nearest me and placed it over my right leg, then slid my hand against the smooth skin of her inner thigh before reaching the prize. As I went back to kissing her, I placed my middle and index finger against her pussy lips and slowly rubbed against it.

“Hn! Hnnk! Hnn!”

Several lyrical moans, muffled by my mouth, escaped from Siv. Her body bucked slightly as though she was grinding her crotch into my fingers. After stimulating her for a while, I inserted a single finger. I wanted to insert two. However, the walls of her vagina quickly contracted against my finger and made me realize how impossible it would be to add a second one right now. This did pose a problem for me that I didn’t realize until this moment.

Would my dick even fit inside of her?

I wouldn’t say I was the biggest guy around, but twenty centimeters was still a lot to fit inside of this tiny hole. If I could just barely fit a single finger inside of her, then how could I possibly expect my fully erect cock to fit?

Despite this, I continued my actions, rubbing my finger against her inner walls, which contracted around me, squeezing like a vice. I thought Lin was tight. However, Siv was so tight that just moving a single finger was difficult. The thought of thrusting my cock into her tight little passage was… well, I couldn’t say it was unpleasant, but I was afraid it would hurt her.

As I found an area that felt slightly rougher than the rest of her, I used my thumb to peel back the hood near the top of her cunt, exposing her clit, which I began rubbing at the same time as I rubbed that ridged texture.

“Ha! Ahn! Hyk! Hrk! Ahn! Wh-what is this—ahn ah!—what is this feeling?! It feels like, like, hyk, like I’m going to explode!!”

The moment I stopped kissing her, Siv let out her beautiful voice. I enjoyed the loud wails she released as her insides tightened around my fingers. Her stomach muscles clenched as she continued grinding her hips against my hand, bucking and rubbing herself. Meanwhile, the loud splashing of her tails and wings, which were flapping and smacking against the water respectively, added to the music she was making.

I leaned down and began kissing her jaw, neck, and nibbling on her ears, which seemed to further stimulate her, until, at last, she released a loud wail that bounced along the walls. Her body went limp in my arms seconds later. I hugged the dragoness to my chest, stroking her shoulders and face as she caught her breath. After another moment, she looked up at me.

Her eyes were hooded with desire.

“Eryk… I…”

She never finished her sentence and instead lunged forward, kissing me harder than she had before. It was like some unknown passion had consumed her. She pushed her tongue into my mouth. It wasn’t as long as a Lamia’s, but it was longer than a human’s and slightly pointed.

I kissed her back, placing my hands on either side of her hips. The feeling of scales and skin really was quite pleasant. Her tail splashed against the water as it moved back and forth, while her wings had fully extended from her back.

As she continued kissing me, Siv turned around until she was straddling my thighs, reached down, and grabbed my dick, which twitched erratically in her grip. She guided it toward her entrance. Her lips were pushed apart, slowly, as the head went in.

“Urk!”

Siv pulled back and gritted her teeth as she found herself unable to continue. Her face had contorted into one of pain, wrinkles appearing along her nose and brow.

“Should we stop?” I asked. “I don’t know if it’s going to fit.”

“It. Will. Fit!”

As if my words had caused something inside of her to snap, Siv moved her hips back, until the head of my dick popped out of her entrance, then thrust her hips forward again.

“AAAAHHHHH!!!”

I winced as my dick became engulfed in an incredible tightness unlike anything I’d ever experienced. It was oddly pleasurable. Siv’s tight passage was squeezing me as it pulsated and twitched. My cock was being shocked by sensation I hadn’t felt before. At the same time, I couldn’t bring myself to enjoy it because Siv was clearly hurting. I should have stopped her.

“Ha… ha…”

“Siv?”

“S-stay still. Please.”

Siv pressed her face against my chest. Something wet dripped down my skin. It wasn’t sweat. I could tell Siv was crying, which only made me feel more guilty. As I looked down at her hair, now floating along the water like tendrils, I noticed the blood mixing in with the water.

I bit my lip. I didn’t move. I didn’t speak. I remained like this, waiting for Siv to make her move.

It was already too late to stop now.

“I… I think you can move now,” Siv said at last.

With her permission, I rocked my hips back and forth. Since Siv was on top of me and I was sitting, this was harder than it sounded, but then I grabbed Siv’s hips and began helping her move as well. The feeling of her impossibly tight vagina made doing much of anything difficult, but she and I continued grinding our bodies together, which helped me ease out of her pussy before pushing myself back inside.

I’m pretty sure this was hurting Siv. However, she didn’t complain at all. She released several pained whimpered as she continued to move, and soon, those pained sounds shifted.

“Ah… ha… ha… hnn!”

The longer we kept this up, the more Siv’s face relaxed. She picked up the pace, raising her hips and thrusting them down. If I looked past her small breasts and into the water, I could see her tight pussy lips, obscenely stretched around my cock as I moved in, out, in, and out. The sight of this and of Siv’s rapturous expressions mixed with her erotic moans and the sounds of splashing water to create an atmosphere that was altogether different than when I was with Fay, Kari, or Lin. Like the other three girls, Siv brought something unique to the experience.

“Hyk! Hyk! Hrrn! Hrn! Hrn! Hrn!”

Siv’s pace suddenly increased, forcing me to move to keep up. I could feel my balls tightening. Siv’s walls were contracting at an increasingly furious pace. It wouldn’t be long. Something was already building up inside of me.

“Siv! I—”

That was the last word I could get out as Siv’s passage tightened to the point where I couldn’t move. Siv released a loud sound that was like a roar mixed with a moan. For just a moment, a small spot on her chest lit up. I saw Runes appearing on her chest, but then Siv leaned forward and bit down on my shoulder. The pain jolted my nerves and caused me to release a flood of my seed inside of her. I felt blood trailing down my shoulders, but I didn’t mind as I wrapped my arms tightly around Siv’s body and hugged her to me.

Eventually, Siv released my shoulder. I winced as her teeth popped out of my flesh. As her body became completely relaxed against mine, I sagged backwards on the bench, rested my hand on the lip of the tub, and looked at the ceiling.

“That was fun,” I decided at last. “Thank you for confessing your feelings to me, Siv, and for this.”

“…”

“Siv?”

I looked down when Siv didn’t answer me to find the girl, her legs still straddling my hips but completely relaxed, and her head resting against my chest. Her hair fell in front of her face. Through the fringe of her bangs, I could see that her eyes were closed. I parted her hair with my hand and studied her face. A bit of blood was leaking from her mouth where she had bit her lip, but her closed lips had formed a very content smile.

“Hmm… I guess we can stay in here for a bit longer.”

Leaning back again, I closed my eyes and decided to remain like this until Siv woke up.