WIEDERGEBURT Act II: Chapter 40

I woke up to the sound of crying. The bed shifted underneath me as the person who I shared it with climbed out of bed. Soft feet padded against the floor as a figure silhouetted in darkness headed toward the crib. Turning over, I watched with my eyes cracked open as Kari lifted our daughter into her arms and began cooing at her.

“Little one, you mustn’t make so much noise or you’ll wake your daddy,” she said, and I could almost hear the smile in her voice. Despite her words, however, Kayli continued to cry, causing Kari to give a gentle sigh. “You must be hungry, hm?”

As Kari wandered over to the sofa and sat down, I wondered what I should do. Let her know I’m already awake? Glancing at the sofa, I could just make out Kari as she sat. Her body, illuminated by the moonlight, easily transcended anything I’d ever seen as she brought Kayli’s mouth to her breast so she could feed our daughter. On that note, if it weren’t for the fact that Kari and I had always slept naked, I would have assumed she did so now to feed Kayli.

“Oh?” Kari glanced at the bed as I sat up. “You’re awake. I’m sorry.”

“It’s nothing to apologize over,” I said as he placed my legs over the edge and climbed off. I made my way over to them with a smile on my face. “Besides, if anything, I should be thankful. It’s rare that I get to see such a beautiful sight.”

“You think a mother breastfeeding her daughter is beautiful?” Kari asked with an amused smile.

“Isn’t it?” I sat down beside her, close enough that I could place an arm around her shoulder and pull them both closer. Kayli was focused solely on eating. “The human body is a truly amazing thing—the female body moreso. You can give this girl all the sustenance she needs. She was created within your body. Those are things I could never do. Besides…” I leaned over and placed a kiss on Kari’s temple. “Whether you’re covered in the blood of your enemies or breastfeeding our daughter, you’re always beautiful no matter what.”

“And you are a flatterer,” Kari said with a giggle.

“I try to be.” I reached out with my free and grabbed Kayli’s little foot, but just as I expected, she didn’t even seem to be paying attention. “She’s gotten bigger.”

“It has been six months since she was born,” Kari shrugged. “Children tend to get bigger as they get older.”

“Snark will get you everywhere.”

We shared a laugh but soon calmed down, with a gentle silence filling the room. I gazed at Kari in profile. The woman I’d fallen in love with didn’t look like she’d aged a single day since that time she had saved me during the Demon Beast Invasion. No matter how many years passed, her skin remained unblemished and her hair retained the same brilliant golden luster as ever. Granted, we were still considered young, but there were people our age who looked far older than we did.

Spiritualists aged more slowly than normal people. Our Spiritual Power kept our bodies not just looking young but also feeling young. The stronger a Spiritualist was, the longer it took for their bodies to age, and the longer they would live. The leader of the Paladin’s Sect was 165 years-old and still doing missions.

Kari and I were exceptionally strong Spiritualists, according to Erica and Tungsten. I didn’t know how strong we were. There was no ranking system to determine our strength, but Kari was able to fire off A-rank Spiritual Techniques several times in a row before exhausting herself, something that not even our two friends could do. I didn’t use Spiritual Techniques like other people. However, all of my powers required an obscene amount of Spiritual Power. Erica had once told me that if most Spiritualists’ Spiritual Power was the size of a cup, then mine was the size of a lake.

I wasn’t sure how well that comparison worked.

“It looks like she has fallen asleep,” Kari said with a tender smile. I looked down to see that, indeed, immediately after she finished eating, Kayli had gone right back to bed.

“I’ll put her back in her crib. Why don’t you go back to bed?” I said, taking Kayli from her mother’s grip and cradling her in my arms. My daughter shifted a little but soon settled back down and went to sleep. I went over to the crib and, after rocking Kayli for a little bit, set her inside and just gazed at her. However, as I did, a pair of arms slowly wrapped around me as a head came to rest on my shoulder.

“I don’t really feel like going to bed yet,” Kari admitted as she leaned over and nibbled on my ear. I had to stifle a slight groan.

“Is that so? Then maybe we should get some exercise.” I turned in her grip, wound my arms around her waist, and pulled her closer as I grinned down at her. “We can burn off that extra energy you have.”

“Sounds like a plan.”

I leaned down and kissed Kari, a soft, slow kiss that caused her to release a gentle humming sound in the back of her throat. As I felt her lips in contact with mine, felt her breasts push against my chest, my arousal spiked and caused my pecker to spring up. I could feel Kari’s smile as she trapped my dick between her thighs and rocked her hips to slide her entrance along my shaft.

“Mynx,” I mumbled before pulling back so I could sweep the woman off her feet. Kari placed her arms around my neck and leaned up to keep kissing me as I carried her over to the bed. I almost missed my step. My legs hit the bed, causing me to nearly pitch forward before I caught myself. I could feel Kari giggling into my mouth. I stopped her by inserting my tongue, slipping it past her lips and teeth, and rubbing it against the inside of her mouth.

“Mmm!”

Kari’s moan was stifled by my mouth as I climbed onto the bed and set her down. She didn’t lay down like normal. Sitting up, she reached out and wrapped her fingers around my shaft, making me twitch.

“It looks like the little one is jumpy tonight.” She wore a mischievous grin as she leaned down. I would have said something in return, but then she kissed the tip of my cock, which made it twitch again. She giggled. Then she placed her mouth against the mushroom-shaped head and slowly engulfed me.

“Nnng!”

I placed my hands behind my back to support my upper body as Kari took in just my head. The warm wetness of her mouth felt unbelievably good, but then she swirled her tongue around the tip, and I nearly lost it. I bit my lip hard to keep myself from making any noise. The last thing I needed was for our daughter to wake up and begin crying because she heard us having sex.

“Hmmm…”

“Hk!”

Kari hummed as she slid forward, engulfing more and more of my dick into her oral passage, her eyes never leaving my face as she looked up at me. Those sky blue eyes that normally made her appear so innocent currently seemed quite sinful to me. However, after pulling my eyes from her gaze, I found another sinful sight as I followed the contours of her sloping spine until I reached the tops of her heart-shaped ass. She was on all fours right now.

It wasn’t long before Kari had engulfed my dick completely. With her nose pressed against my skin, I could feel her hot breath as she breathed in and out through it. Using one hand, she began to fondle my balls and then slowly moved backward, revealing my glistening dick coated in her saliva.

I didn’t want to be the only one receiving pleasure, so as she moved until just the head of my dick was still in her mouth and then went back down, I coated my fingers in my own saliva, reached over her ass, and found her puckered hole. I inserted a finger.

“Hrrn!”

Kari moaned around my dick, the vibrations sending lightning shooting through my spine and straight into my brain. I pumped my finger into her ass. When I felt like there wasn’t as much resistance, I added a second finger. Now with two fingers pumping into her, Kari began moving faster. I glanced down to her head traveling back and forth, and I could feel her tongue licking the underside of my cock as she moved.

My balls tightened.

“K-Kari!”

I released a whispered scream as my body shuddered and I released my seed. Kari had once more pressed her nose against me, so my sperm went straight down her throat. As I breathed heavily, she moved back and released my dick with a soft plop. Despite now being somewhat flaccid, Kari was able to bring it back to full mast by stroking it with her hands.

“We’re not done yet,” Kari said as she turned around, bent over, and thrust her ass into the air. She reached out behind her and spread her ass cheeks apart. Both her dripping wet cunt and her asshole were visible. “I need at least one of these holes filled.”

“I’ll do you one better and fill them both,” I told.

“Bold words. You know what they say about that, don’t you?”

I chuckled as Kari wagged her ass back and forth, which made my cock even harder than it had been. There was just something about Kari lying on the bed on all fours and sticking her ass in the air that made me lose control. As I reached out and grabbed her hips, I lined myself up with her asshole, and then slowly pushed myself inside of her.

“Hnnnn! Ooooh!” Kari released a low grunt as I bottomed out inside of her bottom. “It feels like I’m being stuffed.”

“You don’t mind if I begin moving, right?”

“W-wait. Just give me a minute. I need to get used to you. For some reason, I always feel like my body is about to be torn apart when you’re inside of me.”

I nodded even though she couldn’t see it and waited for awhile. Being inside of Kari’s ass felt different than being in her pussy. It wasn’t as wet for one thing. It also felt a good deal tighter, like her muscles were contracting harder to push me out.

“O-okay. Go ahead.”

“Here I go.”

I began thrusting slowly at first, pulling back before pushing in, but I soon picked up the pace. The sound of my crotch slapping against her ass soon echoed around the room. It mixed in with the sound of Kari’s moans and my grunts. I looked up from where I was pounding into her butt to see Kari arcing her spine as her face scrunched up. Her tits were swinging back and forth with every thrust of my hips. It was like they were calling to me.

Leaning over, I placed one hand on the bed and pawed her breast with the other. The appreciative moan Kari released as I played with her nipple spurred me on. However, I soon felt Kari’s body begin to shudder and switched my target, traveling down her stomach and over to her snatch, which had already grown so wet her juices were flowing down her thighs. This made me wonder if maybe taking it in the ass was more pleasurable for her, but I didn’t think so. It wasn’t like this was the first time we had butt sex.

I cupped her warm and glistening vagina and began rubbing her lips. Kari’s breathing grew harder and her moans a little louder. Grunting as I continued thrusting into her ass, I worked out the small nub from underneath it’s hood before gently pinching it between two fingers. Kari’s upper body fell forward as she buried her face into her pillow and released a muffled scream. Her butt cheeks jiggled as the juices pouring from her cunt splashed against her thighs and the blankets. She twitched several more times, but then she went still.

“Ha… ha…”

Kari had turned her head as I pulled my still hard cock out of her ass. Her cheeks were a bright red and her eyes were clenched shut. As I let her recover from her orgasm, I grabbed my dick and sandwiched it between her buttcheeks, then slowly rocked back and forth, stimulating it to keep myself hard.

“Eryk…”

Smiling when she called my name, I rolled her onto her back. However, Kari surprised me by sitting up. She put her hands on my shoulders and moved her hips until she was perfectly lined up with me, and then pushed herself onto my dick while I was still sitting.

“Oooh!”

“Haaa!”

Kari released a deep breath as her pussy took me in up to the hilt. She curled her legs around behind me, an easy thing to do as we were both more or less sitting up. And while she did that, I grabbed two plentiful hand fulls of her ass, which earned another wonderful sound from Kari as I massaged her two cheeks.

“Ready?” I asked.

“Yes.”

I used the strength in my arms to lift Kari off my dick, and then let both gravity and my biceps do the work of bringing her back down. Her pussy juices acted as a great lubricant. Despite how much resistance I felt from her tight walls gripping me, I was able to slide in and out easily enough. As we continued to move, Kari’s face became increasingly red, perhaps from exertion or maybe something else.

“Eryk… kiss…”

“Mm… Hold out your tongue.”

Kari stuck out her tongue and I did as well. I leaned down and brought our tongues into contact, twirling and hooking them together, though they constantly slipped apart. At some point, Kari had enough and took my tongue into her mouth, sucking on it. The slurping sounds coming from her mouth mixed with the smacking and squelching sounds of our passionate embrace as I continued impaling Kari on my dick. I think she had taken my tongue into her mouth because she could no longer contain her screams. My dick was hitting against something every time I bottomed out, and some small part of me absently wondered if it might have been her womb.

“Hn! Hn! Hn! Hk!”

I could tell my end was coming soon, and from the way her body tried to suck me back in each time I pulled out, I was sure she was nearing her end too. However, a soft glow got my attention as we did. Those symbols, which I saw everytime she and I made love, appeared on her right breast once more. Curious to know what this was, I stopped kissing her.

“E-Eryk! Don’t! I—AAAHHHHNN!!”

Kari threw her head back and released a loud scream as I placed my lips against this strange symbol. Her body quaked against me, her legs tightening to the point where I could only thank my strong body for not breaking, and her vaginal walls clenching me so hard I could no longer move. As I buried my face into her chest, I let myself go as well. My body felt a moment of incredible pleasure, and then a sweeping exhaustion hit me and caused me to fall forward against Kari’s chest.

The glowing symbols had once again disappeared.

What were they?

“WAAAAAAAA!!!”

As we lay there on the bed, thoroughly exhausted, the sounds of a baby’s cries filled the air, and I groaned as I realized we had been too loud.

Next time, we were having sex in the office.

***

The Imperial Royal Palace had its own library. It was not as large as the Nadine Library, which featured an extensive collection of biographies, autobiographies, and fictional stories. However, the library owned by Empress Hilda had many technique scrolls of various Spiritual Techniques. It was located in one of the towers. It’s cylindrical shaped walls were covered in shelves, which could be accessed via a ladder with wheels on its feet, and several small tables sat in the center of the room.

Lin and I were in the library at the moment, but while Lin was pouring over the few story books this place had, I was thinking about what I should do in regards to Fay.

It had been about half a month now since I began giving Fay space. We still talked, still trained together, and still ate together, but I wasn’t being as affectionate with her. Kari said I should give her space so she can deal with her own conflicted feelings. However, in the half a month that had gone by, this new relationship change seemed to have become the status quo.

I didn’t want that.

“Is something wrong, Darling?” asked Lin as she stopped reading to look at me.

My first thought was to tell her that nothing was wrong, but as I opened my mouth to say just that, I realized how wrong it would be not to share my conflict with her. Lin was also going to be my wife. It would be nice if all of us were on the same page. I didn’t want to leave anyone out.

“Fay and I seem to have grown distant,” I admitted. “I don’t know what to do.”

“Distant?” Lin tilted her head. “Have you two really grown distant? It never seemed like that to this princess.”

“What do you mean? Of course we’ve grown distant.” I frowned as I thought about what happened. “We’re no longer acting like a man and a woman who are engaged to be married. It’s like our relationship has reverted back to what it was before she’d been kidnapped by Grant Leucht.”

“This princess does not believe that is the case.”

“What do you mean?”

Lin was sitting on the opposite side of the table, so she could look me in the face as she talked. I almost jumped when the tip of her tail reached up and coiled lovingly around my leg. However, I’d grown a little used to her signs of affection.

“You might have distanced yourself from Fay, but Fay has not distanced herself from you.” When all I did was frown at her, Lin offered me a smile. “This princess has seen the way Fay looks at you with such longing that it’s almost painful. She wants to be with you. However, you haven’t made a move on her. Fay is wondering whether or not you will ever come to her like you do Kari and this princess.”

Those words made my eyes widen as I finally realized that the problem was not Fay. I was the problem. I had been so hung up on the idea of letting Fay take the lead, of letting her come to me, that I’d forgotten something important in all this.

Not all women were as agressive as Kari.

While she might have come to me with the intention of giving herself to me, Fay did not have the same gumption that Kari did. Despite her seemingly confident attitude when she confessed to me, she became easily embarrassed over simple displays of affection and had an inferiority complex. Now that I was thinking on it, every hug, every kiss, every moment the two of us shared together had been something I initiated. This had led me to assume she was avoiding me. However, what if that wasn’t the case and she just felt too embarrassed to act on her emotions?

“I’m going to talk to her tonight,” I decided out loud.

“Are you just going to talk?” asked Lin.

I shrugged. “That will depend largely on how Fay reacts.”

Regardless of what Lin or anyone said, there was still a chance Fay didn’t want to sleep with me, and I would never force her to do something she didn’t want.

After spending time in the library, Lin and I went out to the courtyard. The warm sun heated up Lin’s body. As she rested against a wall, her snake tail sprawled on the ground, I practiced the more advanced spiritual control exercises like creating stilts made from condensing my Spiritual Power underneath my feet. It sounded easy, but it was incredibly hard. Since Spiritual Power liked to disperse when manifested like this, it required a lot of control to keep it from drifting away, and the more Spiritual Power that was released, the harder it was to control.

The goal of the stilt exercise was to slowly lengthen the stilts. You started out at one centimeter, and then worked your way up, increasing the length. My stilts were currently about a meter long. I liked to think I had fairly good control over my Spiritual Power, though I knew I could still be better. Right now, I did not have the control necessary to fight within a city. If battle came to Nevaria and I had to face more than C and B-rank Demon Beasts, I wouldn’t be able to safely wield my power without endangering the citizens.

As I continued exercising and Lin read, Kari and Fay returned from school and entered the courtyard through a corridor.

“Hey!” Kari greeted with a smile as she raced up to me. “I haven’t seen this sort of technique before. What is it?”

“It’s just an exercise to help me control my Spiritual Power,” I said as I let the stilts disperse. Landing back on the ground, I glanced at her and Fay. “I’m glad you are back from the Spiritualist Academy. I’ve been thinking a lot on your progress, and I think it’s time I began teaching you the second stage of the Flash Step.”

At this, even Fay perked up. “So you’re finally going to teach us the second stage of the Flash Step, huh?”

“That’s right.” Nodding, I took several steps back and adopted a lecture pose. “The first stage of the Flash Step is just a basic movement technique. By pumping Spiritual Power to the bottom of your feet, you propel yourself forward at speeds no human can reach on their own. The second stage of the Flash Step has two variations. The first is called the Illusion Step. This is when your body moves so fast that light particles can’t keep up with it, resulting in you forming an afterimage that remains behind. This is great for distracting opponents. The second variation is what I call Jump Step.”

“Jump… Step?” Kari tilted her head like she didn’t know what that was.

“Let me show you what it is.”

I looked up at the sky, plotting my course, and then bent my knees and channeled Spiritual Power to my feet. It flowed through my body like a current. I grabbed that flow and sent it racing to the bottom of my feet, gathered it there, and released it in a single burst. To Kari and Fay, it would have looked as if my body had disappeared. One second I was in front of them, and the next I was several meters above.

Moving my feet, I acted like I was about to kick off a wall, and then I channeled my Spiritual Power into my feet and released another precisely timed burst, but this time, I created a platform to appear underneath me, which I used to push off and ascend higher into the air. I did this again and again. Each push brought me higher into the sky, until I had reached the same height as the towers of the Imperial Royal Palace.

I landed back on the ground and looked at Kari and Fay, who seemed rather astonished. Come to think of it, I couldn’t remember showing them this technique. Coughing into my hand, I began my lecture again.

“The Jump Step is a technique that relies on the swinging motion of your feet to generate a platform beneath you. It requires a lot of Spiritual Power to use, so most people rarely use it unless they have a need to reach higher ground. It’s also not very useful in battle.”

The only time I’d ever seen Adult Kari use this technique was when we were battling Sekbeists. She would launch herself high into the air, and then while she was descending, she would create a powerful Spiritual Technique that could slice right through her enemies. Given that Kari now had even more Spiritual Power than she had in my previous life, I was sure she could use this technique to its full potential, and Fay was no weaker than her friend.

“I’m guessing there’s a trick to using this technique,” Kari muttered. “If all it took was creating a platform, it wouldn’t be so hard, right?”

“You’re partially right.” Nodding, I tried my best to think of how I should explain this. “This technique requires a lot of Spiritual Power, which means it isn’t very practical to use unless you have power to spare. Also, what you are doing is condensing raw energy into a physical form that you can step on, similar to the stilts technique I just showed you. This means you’re current states aren’t enough to use this technique. Both the Jump Step and the Illusion Step require you to have reached the Second State of Spiritualism.”

Kari’s and Fay’s eyes widened simultaneously.

“I think you both know about the Second State of Spiritualism, but let me explain so you have a frame of reference,” I continued. “Spiritualism is divided into several stages. The first is the manifestation of your Spiritual Aura. The Spiritual Aura is basically just that, an aura that coats your body in a brilliant flame-like shield that protects you against physical and spiritual attacks. The second state is the exact opposite. Rather than manifesting your Spiritual Aura outside of your body, you are taking it into yourself. The results of this is that your entire body, from your muscles and organs to your skin and bones, becomes incredibly powerful and durable. People who have reached the Second State of Spiritualism gain such strength that they can even destroy Spiritual Techniques with a simple punch.”

I was sure the two of them already knew this, as they were nodding along with my explanation like they’d heard it before, but I had a point with this. I wasn’t just explaining it for my own sake.

“When you use the Illusion Step and Jump Step, your body is moving at a speed that exceeds even light. This puts an incredible amount of stress on it. If you aren’t careful, your body can break down and your muscles can tear themselves apart.” I gave Kari and Fay a wry smile when they paled. “This is why I’ve been creating alchemy pills to make your bodies stronger and more durable. It was mostly in preparation to teach you two this technique. Now that you’ve mastered the First Stage of the Flash Step, you can begin learning the next stage by achieving the Second State of Spiritualism.”

Their bodies were already quite strong, which meant that if they reached the Second State of Spiritualism, their physical prowess would increase several fold. Once they reached that level, they wouldn’t have any trouble learning the Illusion Step and Jump Step.

“How do we reach the Second State of Spiritualism?” asked Fay.

“By meditating,” I explained. When all they did was tilt their heads, I elucidated further. “What you must do is meditate. Find someplace to sit, unleash your Spiritual Aura, and then pull your Spiritual Aura back into your body while keeping it active. This is different than just letting it disperse. Your aura is still there, but now it’s underneath your skin instead of manifesting outside of your body.”

“That… sounds really difficult,” Kari admitted.

“It is difficult,” I said. “Very few people manage to reach the Second State of Spiritualism, never mind the third or fourth states.”

“There are more states?” Kari and Fay gawked at me.

“Let’s focus on the second state for now,” I said with a smile. “Find a place to sit that’s away from everyone else. You don’t want to be distracted while training. Accidents could happen, and if you aren’t careful, you could wind up crippling yourself.” They both gulped, but I reassured them. “Relax. I have already refined several Spiritual Revival Pills. Even if your Spiritual Pathways are destroyed, I can heal them.”

“That doesn’t really make me feel better,” Fay admitted with a sigh. Kari nodded several times.

Despite their words, both of them traveled across the courtyard and sat on opposite corners of each other, forming something of a triangle with Lin. As they crossed their legs, closed their eyes, and adopted a meditative pose, I wandered back over to Lin and sat down. Almost immediately, Lin moved her tail so it was resting on my lap and snuggled up to me while she read. I chuckled and began rubbing her soft scales.

“Do you want to try attaining the Second State of Spiritualism?” I asked.

“There is no need,” Lin said, still reading her book. “This princess already reached the Second State of Spiritualism.”

“Really?”

“Yes. She’s told you before, didn’t she? Lamia do not require training to gain strength. Our bodies and Spiritual Power naturally grow stronger with age. As we grow older, we adapt to the power instinctively and can reach all four states without having to train.” She flicked out her tongue and paused as though thinking. “This princess’ mother had reached the Third State of Spiritualism last she saw of her.”

That would make her mother one of the strongest and oldest Lamia in the world. I wondered who she was.

***

I stepped out of the bath feeling refreshed. Walking down the hallway in simple pants and a shirt, I made my way to Kari’s room instead of my own.There were a few servants going about their nightly activities as I passed, cleaning, carrying baskets of laundry, or heading off to wherever they were needed. Each one bowed to me as I walked by. It made me a bit uncomfortable, but I tried to nod and smile at everyone.

Stopping in front of the door, I knocked just once. Lin opened it as if she’d been expecting me.

“Darling.” Her fangs poked out of her mouth as she smiled. “Are you here for Fay?”

“Yeah. Can you get her for me?”

“Mm. Hold on a moment.”

Lin didn’t close the door as she moved further into the room, so I could see Kari and Fay sitting on the bed, dressed in simple but elegant nightgowns. They also noticed me. As I stared at them both, Lin grabbed Fay by the hand and pulled her off the bed.

“Ah! Lin! W-what are you doing?!”

“Darling is here for you. You’re going with him.”

“W-what does that even mean?!”

Lin didn’t answer Fay’s questions as she pushed the redhead out the door and into me. I stumbled backward as she hit my chest, having not expected the Lamia to be so forceful. I glanced at the girl now staring up at me with a shocked expression framed with crimson locks, and then looked at Lin, who merely gave me a wide, fang-filled grin.

“This princess leaves her to you, Darling,” she said, and then slammed the door shut.

“W-wait! Lin!” Fay called out in shock.

“Fay.” The girl froze as I called her name. “Will you come with me?”

“Um…” Now seemingly self-conscious of the fact that she and I were alone, Fay could do little more than nod. “Okay.”

I took Fay by the hand and led her to my room. The door had fortunately been replaced after Lin broke it, so I could not lock the door behind us to keep people from entering. As I turned around, I noticed Fay standing in the middle of the room as though afraid to get too close to any one part. The way she was holding her elbow and awkwardly glancing at everything and nothing at the same time told me about how nervous she was.

“Are you really that afraid to be alone with me?” I asked.

“I… it’s not that I’m afraid,” Fay mumbled as she looked away. “It’s just… awkward.”

I sighed. “I suppose that is my fault. I’m sorry.”

“Huh?”

I marched up to the redhead and placed my hands on her shoulders, startling her. “Fay, I’m sorry. Even though you and I are betrothed, I haven’t been a very good fiancé to you.”

“That’s not true at all!” Fay suddenly shouted in surprise. “You have been amazing! You’re always looking out for me, Kari, and Lin. You train us, help us, and you… you…”

“I have been treating you like a friend,” I said when Fay trailed off. “Not like a woman I am going to marry. Unlike with Kari and Lin, I’ve kept my distance from you because I assumed you were avoiding me due to personal problems, but I never asked you about it or tried to close the distance myself. I kept thinking you would do it if you really wanted to and refused to take responsibility.” I took a deep breath. “I would like to do that now. Fay, I want you to spend the night with me.”

“Ah!” Fay released a little gasp as her cheeks became nearly as red as her hair. Her eyes flickered away from my face, then back, and then away again. She didn’t move out from under my hands, but it seemed like that was because her body had frozen.

I wondered if maybe I’d been too forward.

“You can say no, of course.” I added. “I’ll understand if you don’t want to.”

“I-i-it isn’t that I don’t want to. It’s just…

“Just?”

“It’s…”

“Yes?”

Fay looked down at her feet, wiggling her bare toes against the carpet. I couldn’t see what her expression was. However, knowing Fay as I did, I imagine she was awfully red.

“It’s embarrassing,” she admitted in a soft voice.

Right. That was it. That’s what this had always been. Fay wasn’t sleeping with me not because she didn’t want to, but because unlike Kari and Lin, who were surprisingly forward, Fay became easily embarrassed in regards to issues like sex.

“Also,” she continued in an even softer voice. “I was… worried that you didn’t want me.”

My eyes widened. “Why would you think I don’t want you?”

“Because…” Fay looked up for only a brief second before looking away. “Because you didn’t come to me. You always go to Kari and Lin whenever you want them to share your bed, but you never… came to me. I thought… maybe you didn’t find me as attractive.”

“That’s…”

Not true at all, were the words I wanted to say, but her answer left me stunned. I had really taken this entire matter the wrong way. By not coming to her myself, by assuming she would act just like Kari and Lin, I had in fact created the distance between us, making her believe I didn’t want her. This might just be my greatest failing so far.

“Fay…” I placed a hand underneath her chin and lifted her head so she was looking at me. Now staring into her seductive emerald eyes, which seemed almost like a juxtaposition to her submissive and easily embarrassed nature, I smiled and said, “I do want you.”

“D-do you really?” Fay asked, her voice timid.

I nodded. “Very much so.”

Leaning down, I claimed her mouth with my own. Fay’s lips were soft and more plump than either Lin’s or Kari’s. It was easy to take one of them between my mouth and nibble on it.

Fay stiffened as I kissed her, but then her body relaxed, almost as if she’d become boneless. I wrapped my arms around her waist to keep her from falling. Then I felt a pair of arms wind around my neck like sensuous snakes as Fay deepened the kiss, opening her mouth and allowing me inside.

“Mmm… nnn… hrm…”

I wasn’t sure how long I kissed her for, but I eventually stopped so I could begin kissing her neck. Fay released a gentle sigh as she tilted her head, either on accident or by design, allowing me to begin placing a mixture of soft kisses and rougher bites. I soon learned that Fay prefered the soft kisses over the biting. I moved up her elegant neck, all the way to her ear, and then nibbled on it.

“E-Eryk! That feels weird!”

Her ear had turned bright red just like her hair. I continued nibbling on it and flicking her earlobe with my tongue. Only after her knees began to shake did I stop.

“Lin,” I said in a soft voice, “stay the night with me. I want you.”

“Ah. Um. Y-yes. I will. I, um, I also… want you too, so…”

Her embarrassed words made me smile, but I soon felt a familiar hunger as I reclaimed her lips. Fay was startled, but she kissed back as best she could while I ravished her mouth with my tongue. A squeak escaped her lips when I placed my hands on her backside, grabbing the plentiful flesh there and lifting her up, forcing Fay to wrap her legs around me lest she fall off.

The closest piece of furniture to me was not my bed but the dresser. I went over to it and set her on top. It was wider than it was tall, only coming up to about my waist, which made it perfectly suited to my needs just then.

“Eryk?”

“May I remove your dress?” I asked.

“Ah… g-go ahead.”

Despite her embarrassment, Fay did not stop me as I reached up and touched the neckline of her nightgown. It was just a simple nightgown made of cotton. The neckline was wide and round, with a satin ribbon in the center. I placed my fingers against the soft skin of her slightly bare shoulders, and pushed the dress down.

Fay closed her eyes as centimeter after glorious centimeter of her lovely alabaster skin was revealed. First her shoulders, then her arms and collar bone, before her chest finally sprang free from their confines. The two large swells were capped with pink areola. However, her nipples were inverted.

“You know, I’ve always wanted to try coaxing them out,” I muttered.

“Excuse me?” Fay asked.

I didn’t respond with words as I leaned down, grabbed one of her breasts, and gently squeezed it. Her breasts were incredibly pliant. They shook and jiggled within my grip. Fay bit back a cry of surprise that soon turned into a startled gasp as I placed my mouth over her areola and pushed my tongue into the small fold of skin hiding her nipple.

“Oh! Eryk! That feels… that tickles!”

Despite her words, Fay grabbed my head and pulled me in. I would have smiled if I wasn’t busy. My tongue continued playing with her nipple inside of the fold, while at the same time I massaged her breast to help push it out. Fay bit her lip and closed her eyes as she released several strained cries, but most of my attention was focused on making her nipple appear. Finally, after a bit of work, I felt her nipple pop out.

“Ah! Ahn! Aaaahhh!”

Fay released several screams as I took her nipple between my teeth, gently biting on it and flicking it with my tongue. She was pressing the back of her head firmly against the wall and shook it back and forth. As she continued with this course of action, she released a load of gibberish.

“What is this feeling?! It feels so weird! So good! S-something! I can feel something coming! You’re only playing with my nipple, but I feel like I’m going insane!”

Fay’s entire body shuddered as she opened her mouth in a soundless cry. I felt something drip onto my pants. The strange wetness caused me to look down. The top of her nightgown was bunched around her waist, but the bottom was still protecting her modesty. However, while the top half looked dry, the bottom half was definitely wet.

I looked back at Fay. Her body was flushed and glistening in the moonlight as she took several deep breaths, causing her breasts to bounce. Her left nipple was still exposed to the cool night air, but her right one hadn’t been coaxed out yet. I thought about doing that, but then decided against it. I was a little too hungry for the main course. Besides, she’d just had her first orgasm.

Grabbing her nightgown around her hips, I pulled it down. The dress slid off, though Fay almost came with it. She grabbed the edge of the dresser to keep from falling as it slid off her feet. I set it on the floor, then grabbed her left foot.

“You have very small feet,” I said as I kissed her toes.

Fay blushed right down to the roots of her hair. “That… um… is that bad?”

“It’s cute,” I said as I placed another kiss on the arch of her foot. Her toes wiggled a little as I trailed more kisses up her ankle, calf, and then thigh. Finally, I reached her underwear, which was just a patch of cloth tied together by a string. I undid the knot and removed it.

Her lips were nothing more than a thin slit that traveled all the way down to her butt. I leaned down and inhaled her scent, and then extended my tongue, pushed it past her outer lips, and gave her a thorough lick.

“Hyrk!” Fay released another startled cry. “W-wait! Don’t lick me there! That’s dirty!”

I couldn’t help but smile at how cute she was being. To be honest, I was really tempted to keep licking her, but she was already wet enough that I could probably fit inside of her, and I really did want to do more than just foreplay. We’d have time to explore other kinds of foreplay later.

“There’s nothing dirty about it,” I said. “That’s a part of you just like everything else. Personally, I think the light pink color of your pussy is beautiful.”

“That… that’s not… something you should say,” Fay released those strangled words as though she was choking.

I smiled. Unchinching the string tying my drawers around my waist, I let my clothing fall to the floor and stepped out of it. With my dick now free, Fay could not help but stare at the appendage that would be going inside of her with wide eyes.

“That’s… kind of big, isn’t it?” she asked.

“You think so?” I looked down. “I’ve never really compared myself to anyone else, so I don’t know how I compare to most men in size.”

“I don’t think it’s going to fit.”

“It will fit. Please trust me.”

“I… I do trust you.”

I placed my hands on either side of Fay as I leaned over and kissed her. Fay kissed back without freezing this time. It wasn’t a passionate kiss. Soft and gentle, I tried to poor my feelings for her into the kiss as I moved forward.

Since she was sitting back on the dresser, I had to grab her hips and pull them closer to me. My shaft soon came into contact with her lips. I didn’t insert myself inside of her at first, though, instead choosing to rub my dick against her wet lips to lubricate it. I wanted to make this as easy as possible for her. She seemed to feel this as well. As we exchanged saliva, her pussy grew warmer and wetter, and she was unconsciously rocking her hips against me.

“Are you ready?” I asked.

“Mm. Yes.”

I grabbed my cock and guided it to her entrance, then slowly pushed inside of her. Fay stiffened up as she released a groan. She wasn’t as tight as Kari. The soft warmth of her insides felt more like they were gentle conforming to me, as though I was being embraced instead of sucked in. The warm and loving feel was complemented by the juices leaking out from around my dick as I pushed further and further in, until I reached the back.

“No hymen,” I muttered in surprise.

Fay grimaced. “I lost it during training… before I met you.”

“Ah.”

I remembered back when Fay and I first met. She’d had Spiritual Poisoning. That was not something people got easily. It required someone to train so intensely that their Spiritual Pathways became clogged because they shoved too much Spiritual Power through them. As I recalled that, I also remembered how Fay had always been quite fit. She’d had abs even before she started training with me. It wasn’t so surprising that she’d broken her hymen from training too hard, though I did wonder how it happened.

“You’re inside of me,” Fay mumbled as she looked down at our conjoined hips. “You’re completely inside of me. It feels like your reaching the deepest part of my body.”

“Are you ready?” I asked.

“Yes! Please… make love to me.”

I nodded at her words and hooked my arms underneath her legs and grabbed her hips, and then began slowly moving inside of her. Fay’s walls felt soft but rigged. I wasn’t sure how to describe it, but it felt sort of like her walls were made of several rings that rubbed against me, increasing the pleasure I felt.

“So… so good,” Fay mumbled. “I can’t believe… this feels so good… I-I can feel you rubbing against my insides!”

“I’m… glad… you feel that way,” I grunted. “I’m going to go a little bit faster.”

“Wait. Faster? Did you say faster? H-hold on! I don’t think I can—ahn!”

I increased both the speed and power of my thrusts, until the sound of our skin slapping together became mixed with Fay’s cries and my grunts. Her wet insides grew increasing hot as I continued plunging into her. When I looked down, I could see how my soaked shaft was spreading her pussy lips apart. Meanwhile, her breasts shook with every thrust, and her mouth was open wide as drool escaped her lips.

Feeling a desire for more, I leaned over and licked the drool threatening to drip off her chin, all the way up to her lips, and then plunged my tongue inside of her. Her cries and moans were muffled as she kissed me back, swirling her tongue around mine. More drool spilled from her mouth at our slopping exchange, but neither of us cared. We continued kissing as I stirred her insides. If I were to use alchemy pills, I would have said I was refining an egg, but Fay should have also known the anti-pregnancy technique that Kari did. It was apparently well-known among noble circles, so fortunately no eggs would be refined today.

“Hrn! Hm! Hrm! Hhnnn!”

My balls tightened more quickly than I expected. I didn’t know how close Fay was to cumming, but I didn’t want to be the only one orgasming. That was why I reached out and grabbed her breasts, working both nipples out of their skin folds with my thumb before pinching and pulling them.

“HNN! HN! HRN! HMMM!”

The sound of her cries increasing in volume caused my tongue and mouth to vibrate. The passion in Fay’s kiss increased as she pushed my tongue back, shoving her tongue into my mouth and exploring their depths like a member of the Explorer’s Guild exploring ruins. I felt an increase in lubrication flowing around my dick. At the same time, her walls were beginning to squeeze me as her pussy pulsated and twitched.

I think that was a sign that she was close, and just as the thought crossed my body, Fay’s body shuddered against me before slumping. Feeling her orgasm caused me to release my own. I wouldn’t have been able to hold out much longer anyway. I thrust myself into her one last time, and then released my load inside of her. My dick twitched several times before it was spent. As I pulled out, the combined juices of our orgasm spilled out of her twitching pussy and onto the dresser.

“Ha… Fay, you feeling okay?” I asked. I received no answer. “Fay?”

I looked again and saw that Fay, while her eyes were wide open, didn’t seem to be all there. Her mouth was slack-jawed and her eyes sightless. She was slumped against the wall. Even as I observed her, the slickness from our comined lubricant was causing her butt to slide off the dresser.

“Let’s… just get you to bed,” I muttered to myself as I scooped the girl into my arms.

She was pretty limp. Her arms and legs were like soggy noodles as they swung back and forth. I pulled the bed covers back with my foot, gently laid Fay on the bed, and then crawled in myself. Turning Fay onto her side as I pulled the covers back over us, I wrapped my arm around her waist and spooned against her. I didn’t know if she could sense me or not, but she scooted closer to me, until her butt was touching my now flacid dick.

“Good night, Fay,” I whispered into her ear. “I love you.”

I don’t think Fay could hear me. She was pretty out of it. However, I could have sworn, just before I fell asleep, that I heard her say, “I love you too.”