WIEDERGEBURT Act II: Chapter 32

I couldn’t stop the content sigh from escaping my lips as I sat within the steaming hot water of the bath. The tense muscles in my back, shoulders, legs, and chest all loosened up as I sat underneath the griffin motif carved into the surface of the wall. Water fell from the Griffin’s mouth and onto my back. That helped further loosen the muscles that had been tense ever since the expedition into the Demon Beast Mountain Range took a turn for the worst.

The bath was shaped like a rectangle with a half-circle in the center. This tub, made from stone and embedded into the floor, was larger than the entire bathing room in my house. It could probably fit at least twenty people comfortably.

Last time I had taken a bath here was after the Spiritualist Grand Tournament, and I hadn’t stayed in for very long, but I decided to take my time and relax this time. I was exhausted. Actually, half the reason I was sitting underneath this spray of water was so I wouldn’t fall asleep.

Time passed and the door suddenly opened. For just a moment, I thought it might be Garret coming to ask me if everything was okay, but I turned out to be mistaken when I saw Dante walking into the room. He had a towel wrapped around his waist. His bare chest, chiseled from decades of training and covered in a few scars, complimented his broad shoulders and thick arms. I looked at his legs and frowned when I noticed even more scars.

“I thought you might still be in the bath,” Dante said with a grin as he waded into the water without even giving a thought to my privacy.

I offered him a gaelic shrug. “I just spent almost 20 days in the Demon Beast Mountain Range and haven’t had a single chance to relax.”

“So you decided to take an ultra long bath?” Sitting on the steps, Dante leaned back and grinned. “You’ll turn into a prune that way.”

“Don’t worry. I can use the water element to prevent that from happening.”

Dante laughed at my words, but then slowly settled down. He closed his eyes and leaned his head back. I watched him for a moment before sighing and stepping out from under the griffin head waterfall. Making my way over, I sat on the steps about a meter or so from the older man.

“Since it seems you knew I was in here, I am assuming you came in because you wanted something?” I said.

“Yeah. I wanted to relax.”

“We both know that isn’t true,” I shot back. “If you were going to relax, you’d do so in bed where you can get some shut eye.”

“Ha…” Dante released a gust of breath that seemed almost like a sigh. “You really are too observant for your own good. Fine. You’re right. I’m here because I’ve got some news to report that I thought you might be interested in.”

“News I might be interested in, huh?” I tilted my head to look at the ceiling far above me. Reaching up, I began toying with my bangs. “I’m guessing that news has something to do with the Leucht Family. That’s really the only news I can see myself being interested in right now.”

“Sharp kid,” Dante complimented, but I didn’t respond as I waited for him to continue. He released another sigh. “Rainer told Hilda, Valence, and myself about what happened in the Demon Beast Mountain Range. Before I talk about the news I have, I wanted to thank you for protecting my daughter. I know you didn’t do it for me or anyone whose name isn’t Kari, but I still appreciate that you got her back safe and sound.”

“You’re welcome,” I said simply.

“Now, as for the news,” Dante began again, “After Rainer informed us about what happened and how the Leucht Family seems to somehow be involved, Hilda has mobilized the entire Imperial Royal Guard. Valence is taking charge right now. He’s gathered a squadron of his best men and is traveling to the Leucht Family Estate as we speak.”

“Do you think they will find anything?” I asked after a moment’s pause.

“Maybe.” Standing up, Dante waded deeper into the bath and then sank down until he was submerged up to his shoulders. He turned around to face me. The expression on his face was surprisingly serious. “Hilda has issued an Imperial Edict, essentially giving Valence and the Imperial Royal Guard free reign to search and seize the Leucht Family’s assets. Something like this is normally impossible, but since we have an eye-witness account of Torgny Leucht working together with a man of unknown origins, we’re making it work. It helps that we just received a message from Catherina Kriger stating that we have her full cooperation in this matter.”

Catherina Kriger was the current head of the Kriger Family, having succeeded her grandfather, Grimm Kriger, several years back.

The Kriger Family was a warrior family. In other words, the family head was chosen not through hereditary practices like the eldest son or daughter succeeding their parent. The next head was chosen through martial prowess. When the current head died or stepped down, a tournament was held to determine who among them would succeed as the Head of House. Catherina Kriger had won the last tournament. She was Catalyna’s and Marko’s mother.

“What about the Eieran Family?” I asked.

Dante scratched his head. “We haven’t heard anything from them, but they don’t really have much to do with political matters like this and generally stay out of the affairs of others. Of course, we can’t afford to step on their toes. They might not be a family with a lot of powerful Spiritualists like the Kriger Family, but they do own nearly three quarters of Nevarian land. This includes land outside of the city.”

Given that my own house came from the Eieran Family, I could understand why Dante and even Empress Hilda would need to be wary of them. They didn’t involve themselves in politics. However, it wasn’t like they couldn’t. Between the Three Heavenly Families, I honestly thought they were the most dangerous to have as enemies.

“Anyway, that’s the current situation,” Dante finished. “We’ll probably have some news by tomorrow morning, but I thought it would be best to let you know what’s happening right now since you have a vested interest in this matter.”

“I appreciate that,” I said, standing up and stretching my arms, wincing only slightly as my back cracked. “I’m getting out. Thanks for letting me know what’s happening.”

“Not a problem.”

Dante waved me off as I stepped out of the bath and into the changing room. I saw his clothing strewn across a long bench in the center of the room and shook my head. Walking up to the clothes folded at the end of the bench, which I assumed were for me, I got dressed and left the chamber.

Garret was waiting for me outside. “Did you have an enjoyable bath, Master Veiger?”

“I did.” I nodded. “Sorry for making you wait on me for so long.”

“Not at all.” The old man with the handlebar mustache bowed to me.

I was soon led up to what I was going to call my bedroom from now on. It was the guest room I stayed at on the second floor whenever I was here, which Empress Hilda had given to me for whenever I stayed in the Imperial Royal Palace.

The room felt a little empty to me, probably because it was so large and undecorated to boot. The lack of furniture made the room seem bigger than it really was. All this place had was a bed, a dresser, and a desk situated underneath a window that overlooked Nevaria. On a more pleasant note, Kari’s room was literally one floor down.

I wondered if Kari and the girls were finished with their own bath. After briefly considering paying Kari’s room a visit, I decided not to. Ever since we’d returned to Nevaria, I’d been feeling sluggish, and that feeling had only increased after getting out of the bath.

Falling onto the bed, I didn’t even bother getting underneath the covers as I fell asleep. Darkness engulfed me. I was so tired I didn’t even dream about my previous life.

I didn’t know how long I slept, but when a knock suddenly echoed from my door, my body jerked into a hazy state of alertness. Sitting up in bed, I glanced out the window. The stars were out. When I’d gone to bed, it was sunset, meaning I had only gotten a few hours of sleep.

Someone knocked on the door again. It was followed by a voice. “Eryk? Are you awake?”

“Kari…”

I climbed out of bed and made my way to the door, opening it and smiling at the girl on the other side. “Hey, what are you still doing awa—”

My words stopped mid sentence when I saw what Kari was wearing. The sheer pink nightgown was made of a material I couldn’t recall by name. Lace? Nylon? It was see-through and Kari wasn’t wearing any breast bindings. My eyes didn’t obey my will as they traveled across her slender shoulders, devoured the sight of her nearly bare breasts and soft pink nipples, and then traveled further down to her flat stomach. She was wearing string underwear. It was a patch of fabric that covered her crotch and was tied together on either side of her hips with a string. I traced the magnificent outline of her womanly hips until I reached the gap between her thighs.

I took a deep breath, and then looked at Kari’s face.

“May… may I come in?” Kari asked. Her cheeks were turning pink as I continued to stare at her. She brought her hands together so she could twiddle her fingers, but the act pushed her large breasts together as well, further emphasizing her most notorious assets.

“Yes,” I said after a moment. I stepped aside and allowed her to walk past me, then shut the door. I didn’t turn around her. Closing my eyes, I took several slow, deep breaths to calm my racing heart.

Finally, I turned around.

Kari was standing in the center of the room. Her hands were no longer clasped, but she was clutching the fabric of her sheer nightgown in what I believed was embarrassment. In the soft moonlight pouring in through the window, her beautiful figure was illuminated with a halo-like effect, and the pink coloration of her cheeks was somehow enhanced.

“I’m guessing Fay and Lin are asleep?” I said.

Nodding, Kari looked down at the floor. She was clenching and unclenching the soft carpet with her toes.

“They were exhausted after the bath and went to sleep almost immediately.”

“Are you not also tired?”

“I am,” Kari admitted. Her head was still tilted down, but her eyes flickered up to look at me before looking away. “But I… um… that is…”

It had been a long time since I’d seen Kari acting this embarrassed. When we first met, I’d teased her and she’d gotten so embarrassed she ran away from me. However, the more time she and I spent together, the less embarrassed she acted when it came to matters of teasing and intimacy. At this point, she had no trouble displaying her affection in public. We’d held hands, shared kisses, and even made out in the library once.

On that note, Ms. Nadine had actually caught and scolded us that time. We never made out in the library again.

Kari was the type of girl who, once she became used to doing something, the embarrassment she felt disappeared. It was the exact opposite of Fay, who acted confident at first and became embarrassed more easily as time went on. The reason Kari was acting this way now was, I believe, because of the reason she’d come to visit me this late at night, wearing nothing but a sheer gown.

I stepped up to her. Kari was about average height for a girl of her age, while I was considered taller than average for a boy of 17 years. At about two heads taller than her, I wouldn’t say I towered over the girl, but we definitely couldn’t see eye to eye.

“Kari…” I placed a hand under her chin and tilted her head up. Her vibrant blue eyes glowed with an otherworldly luster as moonlight from the twin moons reflected off them. They complimented her blush nicely. “Do you want to spend the night with me?”

The pink coloration of her cheeks darkened into a reddish hue and spread to her ears, the rest of her face, and even down her neck and to the roots of her hair. Her eyes flickered away. She nodded once.

“Okay. Then…”

I leaned down and kissed her. I didn’t force the kiss or try to make it more passionate. Like always, I kept it light at first, offering her a chance to push me away should she choose, but she didn’t. Barely a second passed after I initiated contact before she brought her arms around my neck and began kissing back.

She pushed her tongue into my mouth and swirled it around, stirring up saliva and generating heat as our tongues entwined together. Soft noises escaped her lips, muffled by my mouth. As our kiss continued, she pushed her chest into mine, her nipples rubbing against my skin through the sheer fabric of her nightgown.

Our kiss soon heated up. Kari’s arms tightened around me. One of her hands suddenly reached for my head, delicate fingers threading through my hair as she pulled me down as if to somehow make our kiss more forceful. I kept my arms wrapped tightly around her waist, pinning her body to mine. I didn’t doubt that she felt the sign of my arousal. My dick was wedged firmly between her thighs.

“E-Eryk…” Kari mumbled as we parted for breath. A string of saliva remained to attach us, but it broke after a few moments.

“Come on,” I said as I released Kari and guided her to the bed.

I reinitiated our kiss after sitting her down. Kari released a soft, delicate moan into my mouth as I pushed her onto the bed. This time, I was the one who pushed my tongue into her mouth, sharing with her the sweet nectar our tongues had created. She didn’t seem to mind. Her thighs squirmed as I leaned over and kept kissing her silly. And while we engaged in a passionate oral foreplay, I slipped my right hand underneath her nightgown, traced my fingers up her stomach, which twitched and shuddered, and then cupped her left breast.

My fingers sank into the softness of her breasts, which were more pliant than any pillow. Kari’s breathing picked up the moment my hand landed on her. Her breath hitched when I began kneading her breast with my hand. I felt like a baker kneading soft dough.

Kari’s breasts had always been sensitive. I didn’t know if it had something to do with their size or if there was another reason, but I could make her orgasm simply from playing with her tits. Her nipples were particularly erogenous. That was how it had been in my previous life, and as I moved my index finger in a circle around her nipple, I could tell that it was the exact same in this life as well.

“E-Eryk!” Kari gasped when my mouth left hers. “That feels… it feels… ahn!”

Her words came out in incomplete stutters as I trailed kisses down her jaw and then her neck. Kari had a number of areas around her neck, like the junction between her neck and shoulders, which were sensitive. I found those areas and began licking, nibbling, and sucking on them. Sometimes I left shiny red marks and other times I kept going until her skin had bruised. I listened to the sound of her cries and moans, deciding what I should do based on which sounds she made.

“Hyk! Eryk! That—hnn! Ah! Ahn! Hyrk!”

I trailed my tongue down her collar bone, kissed her shoulders, and then finally removed her nightgown.

This particular nightgown was held to her body by a simple pair of strings. I slid the strings off her shoulders and arms. Kari wasn’t much help in this regard as her mind seemed to be elsewhere. Her eyes were glazed over, cheeks flushed, and chest heaving as she tried to recover her breath.

I couldn’t fully remove her nightgown because she was lying down, but I at least uncovered her breasts. The two large hills sitting proudly on her chest were fully revealed. I could not help but admire both their size and softness. They were capped with light pink nipples that had currently become stiff from a combination of the chilly night air and me playing with them.

There comes a point in time where the will of every man breaks. Certain things just can’t be resisted. To me, seeing Kari partially naked and lying before me, her breasts exposed and jiggling as she tried to recover her breathing, was my breaking point.

Leaning down, I took Kari’s right nipple into my mouth and swirled my tongue around it, enjoying the mild flavor of her skin and the feeling of her hardened nipple against my tongue. As for Kari…

“OOHHH!!!”

Her body jerked as though she’d been jolted by a Spiritual Lightning Technique. Her hands went to the back of my head and pulled me further into her tit. I didn’t resist. I continued to work her nipple over, coating it in saliva, lightly scraping it with my teeth, and tugging on it. The way her breast bounced as I continued enticed me to keep going, and the lyrical cries she released only further eroded whatever self-restraint I possessed.

As I switched from her right breast to her left, I slid my hand over her stomach, swerved around to her hip, and found the small knot tying her underwear together. I undid the knot, then pushed the underwear aside and cupped her pussy. It was already wet. Juices were leaking from her lips and onto my hand as I began rubbing her outer lips. Her hips bucked a little and the volume of her cries increased.

Just like the last time I had felt them, Kari’s vaginal lips were smooth as though they had never been used. In my previous life, her pussy remained this way no matter how much sex we had. I didn’t know if that was how all women were. I’d never had sex with anyone else. In either event, Kari’s pussy was an irresistible oasis that I could never get enough of, and as I continued to rub my hand over it, my inability to resist showed when I pushed a finger past her lips and slipped it inside of her.

“Hrrrnnn! Hrn! Ha! Ahn!”

Kari was tighter than I remembered. Maybe I was just imagining things because I knew she’d never been with anyone, and it wasn’t like having sex with Grant one time had loosened her up in my previous life. Then again, it could just be that I’d gone so long without Kari that I couldn’t remember how tight she’d been. My finger had a slightly hard time fitting in, which did make me worry a little. I mean, my fingers were pretty thin. If I was having trouble now, how would it feel when I actually inserted my dick into her?

To help loosen her up, I began pumping my finger back and forth, trying to gently widen her inner walls so I would fit. Kari’s breathing had grown completely ragged by this point. Even her moaning had become weak as her body jerked and shook as I continued my two-pronged attack. Her hands were still buried in my hair, but they seem to have gone slack. That said, as I slowly inserted a second finger and began rubbing both of them along a small and somewhat rigid area inside of her, she suddenly raised her hips and began humping my hand. I think it was an unconscious gesture. She didn’t even seem to be aware of what she was doing.

“Ha…! Ahn…! Ha…”

I didn’t need to be a genius to know that Kari was close to cumming. Her body was shaking, her breathing was stilted and gasping, and her juices were flowing into my hand and dripping down her butt crack. Reaching out with my thumb, I found the small hood that hid her clitorus. I worked her clit out from the hood and began stimulating it.

“Ahn! Ah! Ah! Hrn! Hyk!”

The extra stimulation caused Kari to begin screaming again. I couldn’t see her face, even when I looked up. She’d thrown her head back against the pillow, back arched. Her hands weren’t even on my head anymore. They were clenching the blankets in a vice grip. While I couldn’t see anything, I could imagine how her eyes had widened, how her mouth was hanging open, and how drool was leaking from between her lips.

Kari’s clit began pulsating. Her legs suddenly lifted more, thrusting her hips higher into the air as she released a loud scream. A flood of love nectar suddenly covered my hand as her pussy clamped onto my fingers like a vice. Her body shook, then twitched once, twice, and then her hips and lower back slumped onto the bed.

I removed my fingers from inside of her and brought them to my face, wondering what I should do for a moment. I honestly wanted to taste her again. However, this was her first time and I didn’t think she’d appreciate it if she could taste herself on my lips when I kissed her. After staring for a moment, I grimaced and reluctantly wiped my hands on the bed.

Such a waste.

Standing up, I removed my clothes, taking off my shirt and pulling down my pants. The underwear I was wearing was not the simple loincloth most commoners wore. It was a codpiece made of Giant Silkworm silk. I removed that as well. Then I climbed onto bed and laid on my side as I stroked Kari’s cheek.

Kari was not all there at the moment. Her eyes were glazed over and drool leaked from her mouth. There was a somewhat dopey smile on her face, though, so I could only assume she enjoyed our activities so far. Her expression was a little too hard for me to resist. I leaned down and placed a soft peck on her lips, and then another and another, until she came back to her senses.

“Eryk?” Kari blinked several times.

“I’m here. How do you feel?” I asked.

“I feel goooood…” I almost snorted at the way she drew out that last word like she was sighing. She blinked several times and looked at me with a curious frown.

“What’s wrong?”

“Um… it’s just… what you did. It felt really good.” Her cheeks became heated as clenched and rubbed her thighs together.

“I’m glad you liked it,” I said.

“Yeah. But, um… I haven’t, you know, made you feel good too, so…”

Ah.

Realizing what she was getting at, I shook my head and smiled. “We can worry about you returning the favor later. Tonight, I want this to be all about you. Speaking of, are you really sure about this? You can still back out.”

Kari’s immediate response was to shake her head. “I decided the moment you and Fay ran off to act as decoys that if we returned to Nevaria alive, I would give myself to you.” Perhaps it was on account of what just happened, but her embarrassment seemed to diminish as she spoke. “I love you, Eryk. The truth is, I’ve loved you since before the Spiritualist Grand Tournament, but I was afraid of committing to you because of everything that was going on.”

“What changed?” I asked.

“Nothing. Everything.” Kari shrugged. “I guess I just realized how dangerous this world really is. Either one of us could die without warning.” She reached out and cupped my face. I placed my hand over hers, turning my head a little so I could kiss the tips of her fingers. “I don’t want to live my life with regret, and I know that if something happened to either of us, I would regret not giving myself to you now.”

To live a life without regrets. That was what Kari was saying. Part of me felt like it wasn’t the right reason to give herself to me, but I also understood that it was only one reason of many. It wasn't just that she didn’t want to live without regret.

After the Spiritualist Grand Tournament, I was essentially courting Kari—becoming romantically involved with her but not engaged. Kari giving herself to me now was her way of stating her intention and desire to marry me.

“I feel the same way,” I told her. “I’ve wanted to give myself to you for a long time now, but I’ve held myself back because I didn’t know if it was the right time. I didn’t want to drive you away by being pushy.”

“I know,” Kari said with a tender, loving smile. “You don’t have to worry about that anymore. You can be as pushy as you want.” She paused. My breath caught in my throat as the moonlight played off her golden hair, her flushed and sweaty skin, and enhanced the brightness of her smile. “Eryk, please make love to me.”

“I will.”

I crawled on the bed until I was sitting on my heels between Kari’s legs. We didn’t bother taking off her nightgown, though I did grab her soaked undergarment and toss it off the bed. Grabbing her hips, I pulled her forward, and then hooked my arms underneath her thighs before positioning myself at her entrance.

Her pussy lips were puffy and glistening. I took my shaft in hand but didn’t insert myself inside of her yet, instead choosing to rub my dick over her lips and coat them in her juices. I hoped the extra lubrication would make our first time less painful on Kari.

“P-please don’t tease me anymore,” Kari muttered with a hitched breath.

“Sorry.” I smiled at her. “That wasn’t my intention.”

“W-whatever. I know you like teasing me.”

“I won’t deny that, but that still wasn’t my intent.” I placed the tip of my dick against her sodden entrance, and then gave her a serious look. “Are you ready?”

“Y-yes,” she stuttered.

“Okay. I’m putting it in.”

“Mm.”

I slowly moved my hips forward, biting my lip as the head of my dick disappeared inside of Kari. The warmth of her vagina was already stimulating me beyond what I could imagine, and it was just my head! Ugh. It really had been a long time since I had sex if this was enough to make me want to cum.

“Hgrn!”

As I continued pushing forward, Kari released a groan of complaint. She was gripping the bed sheets and her face had scrunched up. It wasn’t in pleasure either.

“Kari…”

“Just keep going. Please. I can take it.”

“I’m aware of that, but…” Shaking my head, I thought for a moment before leaning over. I was careful not to move my hips as I leaned down until I was face to face with Kari. “Hey, Kari?”

“Yes?”

As I stared into her blue eyes, I reached out and stroked her cheek. “I love you. You know that, right?”

“I do.” A little moisture gathered on Kari’s eyes as she smiled at me. “I love you too.”

I kept up my smile as I leaned further down and retracted my hips just a little. With my mouth now near her ear, my shoulder was right next to her mouth.

“Feel free to bite down,” I told her.

“Okay.”

I placed her mouth against my shoulder, and once she did, I thrust my hips forward, breaking through her hymen in a single go. My thoughts was that it would be better to just get it over with than try and slowly break it. While I didn’t know if this was the best way to break a hymen (I’d never done so before), it was all I could think of to make her first time less painful.

Kari screamed as she clamped her teeth onto my shoulder. I flinched as she broke the skin and drew blood, but what I felt was nothing compared to her. As I settled inside of her, I sent some of my Spiritual Power into her through our connected hips, soothing her pain with the water element. Of course, I couldn’t heal her because doing so would just mean I’d have to break her hymen again, but I tried to lessen the pain.

It took a few minutes, but her mouth soon released me.

“I’m sorry,” Kari muttered.

“You have nothing to apologize for.” I channeled the water element to heal the wound and leaned back up so I could gaze into her eyes again. “How do you feel?”

“A lot better.” She shifted a little, pushing her hips against me as she smiled. “You can move now.”

“Kay.”

I sought out her hands and slid my fingers through hers before I began rocking my hips. While my movements started off slow, it didn’t take long before a steady slapping rhythm echoed around us.

Like always, I paid attention to Kari’s face and the sounds she made. Her breathing came out in light pants and moans. Her cheeks were pink. I could tell she wasn’t as aroused now as she had been during foreplay, so I decided not to hold back. After retracting my dick until just my head was still inside of her, I pushed forward with a swift thrust and pushed into her until it felt like I had knocked on the entrance to her womb.

“AHNN!!”

Kari’s back arced against me as I set a heavier pace and used stronger thrusts. Her breasts bounced up and down as I alternated my pace and the intensity of my movements. I didn’t use a set rhythm this time. I relied on Kari’s voice and facial expressions to guide my actions.

Kari was definitely tighter in this life than my previous one. I didn’t think it had anything to do with her being a virgin. In my previous life, Kari had never taken alchemy pills to strengthen her body. Those were things I got into later, after she had died and my quest for revenge began. While I wasn’t sure about the effects these pills had on women, the vagina was a muscle, so it would obviously be strengthened alongside everything else.

As I continued pounding into her with strong thrusts, her chest began glowing. I looked down. There, glowing a bright gold on her chest, was a series of symbols I felt like I should recognize but didn’t. They looked like Runes. However, the way in which they were arranged seemed odd. I thought I recognized Fehu, Uruz, Kenaz, and Wunjo, but I honestly had other things on my mind aside from Runes just then.

These were no more than passing throughs that flitted through my head as I tried to ignore the fact that I really wanted to cum. My balls felt like they were turning blue as they slapped against Kari’s ass. Her screams and my grunts drowned out the lewd sounds of my dick moving in and out of her pussy. Staring at her face as she clenched her eyes shut and cried out with drool leaking down her lips just made my dick twitch harder.

“Eryk! Eryk!” Kari cracked her eyes open and gave me an imploring stare that would have shattered my resistance even if it had not been broken already. “Kiss… kiss me! Now! Ahn!”

Her wish became my command. I leaned down and exchanged a wet, sloppy kiss as we continued copulating. Our tongues dueled as we drank the nectar offered by each other. I was sure our drool was staining the bed. Even when we ran out of oxygen, we just breathed through our nose, which produced loud, nasally gasps. Our hands were still locked together, fingers laced.

I was forced to pull back.

“Kari! I—”

“Inside!” Kari commanded as she shook one of her hands out of mine, grabbed the back of my head, and pulled me back into a sloppy exchange.

There was no way I could resist such a command. As our lips and tongues became entangled like ravenous snakes, my balls tightened for a short instant before a euphoric feeling washed over me. I groaned into her mouth as I shot my cum inside of her and ground my hips against hers. I think my actions also helped Kari achieve a climax because her insides became so tight I couldn’t move even with the increased lubrication flowing around me.

The moment soon ended, and I leaned back up. Kari’s eyes were closed for a moment, but then she opened them, and while her gaze was slightly cloudy, her smile was dazzling like the Sun.

“Eryk?”

“Yes?”

“I’m really tired.”

I wasn’t sure what she had been going to say, but that was not what I had imagined. Despite this—no, because of how random her words seemed to me, I smiled and pecked her lips.

“Then let’s go to sleep.”

“Mm.”

I pulled my dick out of her with a wet plop, and then rolled over until I was lying on my back. Kari immediately cuddled up to me. As she snuggled into my torso and used my shoulder as a pillow, her breathing quickly evened out as exhaustion claimed her. I didn’t blame her for falling asleep near instantly. We had journeyed into the Demon Beast Mountain Range, played a dance with death, and then returned home after being mentally and physically drained. I was honestly shocked she’d come to me tonight.

As thought after thought popped into my head, my eyes slowly grew dim, and then they shut entirely as the sound of Kari’s soft, gentle breathing pulled me into a deep sleep.