WIEDERGEBURT Chapter 23

We stayed in the desert for two whole years. During that time, Kari and I traveled with Zane for awhile before joining a mercenary company, where the both of us made a name for ourselves as powerful Spiritualists who could even contend with the likes of Queen Medusa. However, once we had learned the ways of the desert, we left. Neither of us wanted to remain in that dune-infested land forever.

It took six months to reach the other side of the Endless Desert, and the only reason we reached it that quickly was because the mercenary company we had joined was located near the desert’s edge. According to what I had learned from Zane, the Endless Desert was over 15.5 million square kilometers long. Of course, no one knew the true size of the desert. It was a rough estimation based on thousands of years worth of people traveling across it.

Kari and I were inside of a small cart that trundled along a dirt road that had been formed after centuries of use. The driver was a dark-skinned man from the desert. He had agreed to take us outside of the desert because he had some business in a city called Hendersby. It was the town nearest to the Endless Desert.

“Hrk!”

Kari clamped a hand over her mouth as her thighs quivered and her buttcheeks clenched. She was lying on her back, small droplets of sweat dancing along her skin. Her large breasts shook as she squirmed. I looked up from where I was licking the sweat off her firm belly, but all I could see was her jiggling bosom. She was currently not wearing anything aside from a small string thong around her hips. Her mountainous breasts were on full displayed as they jiggled in a manner that enticed me to continue looking.

“Hnnnn!”

I worked my tongue around her belly button before traveling back up, placing kisses and licks along her skin, enjoying the slightly salty taste. The moans Kari made as I worked over her body was music to my ears.

Despite having lived in a desert for two years, Kari’s skin was still very fair. She and I had learned how to cover ourselves with a layer of Spiritual Power that protected us from the Sun. Her milky white stomach and breasts remained as pristine now as they ever had. I was glad for that. Kari was perfect the way she was. I had no desire to see her change.

“E-Eryk…” Kari gasped through her muffled mouth as I sucked one of her nipples into my mouth and swirled my tongue around it. Her nipple quickly stiffened into a fine point, which I gently nibbled on. “I-if you do that… the driver might hear us—hk!”

“Let him,” I muttered. “I don’t care.”

Kari and I did not get to have much sex while we were in the desert. Even after joining the mercenary company, we only had a few chances to be alone. Perhaps that was why she and I began making out the moment we left the desert behind. Of course, we should have known that neither of us would stop at just that.

I really did believe that Kari had perfect breasts; they were large, soft, and impeccably perky. They seemed to defy gravity, or maybe it was like they had their own centers of gravity. As I dug my fingers into her left tit, each digit sinking into the softness of her chest, I continued attacking her right one with my tongue. I flicked her nipple back and forth, blew on it, and tugged it with my teeth. Kari’s body shook and heaved, her spine arcing as she released a muffled cry. More sweat broke out on her skin as her hips bucked upward, and then slammed back down.

“Is everything okay in there?” the driver suddenly asked. “It sounds like you two got tossed around a bit.”

“Ha… ha…”

“We’re fine,” I said as Kari breathed heavily. I looked down at the woman to find her face flushed, her shoulders and chest heaving, and her eyes narrowed as though she was trapped in a sensual fog. Her chest was coated in a mixture of saliva and sweat.

“You’re being bad,” Kari said, but despite the words spoken through her heavy breathing accusing me, there was a smile on her face.

“I learned to be bad from you.” I shrugged.

“Lie down please,” Kari instructed me. “It’s not fair if I’m the only one receiving pleasure.”

I did as she asked after divesting my clothes, lying down on my back and using our clothing as a blanket to protect me from the hard surface of the cart. The last thing I wanted as to get splinters. That would be so not sexy.

Kari moved over me, straddling me. As she leaned over, her butt came close to making contact with my face. Like the rest of her, Kari had an amazing ass. Each cheek was perfectly shaped. Her butt was firm and round, a perfect combination of soft flesh and hard muscles. Her pucker hole was also a nice pink color, though it was darker than her pussy.

I could feel Kari undoing the string to my underwear and removing it. I was already harder than a rock. Her gentle hands touched my shaft, the coolness of her fingers sending a chill through my spine. My dick twitched as she almost glided her hands along the shaft before reaching my head and playing with it.

“It’s so hot and keeps twitching in my hand,” she muttered. “Is it weird that I think this is cute?”

“I don’t know,” I groaned as her actions sent numerous pleasant thrills up and down my body. “I think your pussy is cute. Does that make me weird?”

“I guess not.”

“Then I don’t think so either.”

Kari hummed at my response before leaned over further, causing her ass to raise higher. I gritted my teeth as she pressed her tongue flat against my dick and licked me from my balls all the way to the head. She didn’t just stop there. The moment she reached my head, Kari engulfed it in her mouth. I tried hard not to moan as she flicked her tongue over the tip.

Not wanting to be the only one among us who received pleasure, I grabbed the knot tying her underwear together and undid it. As I peeled the underwear off, I noticed that there was a wetness keeping it stuck to her crotch. Her juices were already leaking out of her pussy and trailing down her thighs. It was probably from my actions earlier.

Her glistening wet cunt caused my mouth to go dry. I felt like a man who, after traveling through the desert for years without water, had finally found an oasis. I leaned up and licked her lips, getting them nice and wet. Since I didn’t want to miss out on her taste, I used my thumb to work her clit out from underneath the hood and began rubbing it. I tried not to be too vigorous, though from the muffled cry that escaped Kari’s lips, maybe I hadn’t succeeded. On that note, because Kari had my cock in her mouth, her moans caused my dick to vibrate, which nearly made me cum right then and there.

I groaned around her honeypot as I spread her pussy lips apart and pushed my tongue into her folds, slurping up the juices she released as I coated her walls with saliva.

Because we had been living in a desert where water was scarce, we hadn’t been able to do much more than take very basic sponge baths. Perhaps because of that, Kari’s scent was really strong. I was sure mine was too. However, neither of us seemed to mind as we pleasured the other.

Kari’s hips and ass began shaking as I continued to rub her clit with my thumb and pushed my tongue into her entrance. Her juices began flowing into my mouth, and I did my best not to spill a single drop. At the same time, I could feel myself coming close. Kari had begun fondling my balls as she licked me, dragging her tongue across my skin, and then sucking on my head as though she wanted to milk me dry. I would probably cum first if I didn’t do something.

“NNNNN!!”

I pressed down on her clit with a bit more pressure. Kari’s entire body suddenly jolted and shook. Her ass shuddered, jiggling and shaking as her thigh muscles tightened and quivered. The increasing flow of her love nectar let me know I’d succeed in bringing her to an orgasm. The expulsion of fluid splashed across my face.

Kari screamed loudly around my cock, which created a unique vibrating sensation that I couldn’t withstand. I released my load into her mouth. Part of me wished I could see what was happening on her end, but I was also busy with my face buried in her snatch and ass.

When our orgasm subsided, Kari fell on top of me, her breathing nothing more than nasally, ragged gasps. Her pussy was twitching as it leaked juices onto my chest. I didn’t mind. My mind felt blank just then, so I needed some time to recover myself.

“Hey… are you two okay?!” the driver called back. “I’m hearing some strange noises coming from in there! Is everything all right?”

“Yes…” I said after recovering my wits. “Everything is fine.”

“Just fine.” Kari sighed contentedly as she nuzzled her face against my cock, causing it to twitch and harden again. “Hee-hee, it seems you still haven’t had enough.”

“With a woman like you in my life, I can never get enough,” I groaned. “How should we do this?”

“Hmm…”

After pondering my question for a moment, Kari got off me, allowing me to move back and sit up. What I saw upon sitting up left me stunned.

Kari was as naked as the day she’d been born. Her porcelain skin glistened in the sparse amounts of light that came in through the cracks in the leather tarp surrounding the cart. She was on her hands and knees, her breasts hanging from her chest. As she wiggled her butt at me, she looked over her shoulder and gave me a sultry expression that made me so hard I could have probably used my dick as a blunt weapon.

“Why don’t you take me like this?” she suggested with a half-lidded smile.

I had no trouble complying with her request. Crawling over to her, I grabbed her hips and lined my cock up with her cunt. She was already dripping with juices from her last orgasm, so it was easy to slide inside. I watched as first my head disappeared, then my shaft was slowly pushed inside of her centimeter after centimeter. Kari released a deep, low groan as I filled her up. Once I was fully sheathed inside of her, I took a deep breath. Kari was always extremely tight. No matter how many times we’d had sex, it was like she refused to loosen up—not that I would complain about that. Few things were more pleasurable than being stuffed inside of Kari’s sodden entrance.

“Are you ready?” I asked.

“Hmm…” Kari nodded. “You can begin any time.”

I smiled before pulling my hips back, watching my now wet dick glistening with her juices as it emerged from inside of her. When all but the tip had pulled out, I thrust my hips forward and slammed them against her ass. A loud slapping sound echoed around the cart. Kari’s breathing hitched as she raised a hand to her mouth, attempting to keep the moan from escaping her parted lips. I repeated the process once, twice, and then worked my thrusts into a steady rhythm.

The sound of our flesh slapping together sounded abnormally loud in this small cart. Kari was doing her best to keep herself from moaning. As I kept the steady pace up, I squeezed the plentiful flesh of her ass, massaging it with my fingers. Perhaps it was my actions that caused Kari to lose strength in her arms. It was a good thing she had landed on her clothes. Kari moaned as buried her face into her clothing and bit the fabric as though it would somehow keep her moans from reaching the driver.

My breathing had groan heavy by this point, my body covered in sweat as I gasped, grunted, and continued to thrust my dick into her cunt. The sound of our flesh slapping together had gained a wet quality. Kari’s juices were flowing out of her again, creating a slick lubricant that allowed me to move faster. As I increased my thrusting speed, I leaned over until my chest was touching Kari’s back. I reached my hands around her waist and pulled her up as I allowed myself to fall backwards.

Landing on my butt, I adjusted my position, placing my feet firmly on the ground and using the leverage to continue thrusting myself deep into Kari’s sopping wet pussy. Kari had shoved a mouthful of fabric into her mouth, which helped muffle her moans. Grinning, I grabbed the fabric and pulled it away.

“Eryk, what are you—”

I turned her head and, before she could finish her question, I hampered her mouth with my lips. My tongue penetrated her mouth swiftly. Kari’s moans were once more muffled, but this time it was thanks to my tongue. Our hips continued to move as Kari kissed me back with a furious passion that would have taken most people by surprise. I don’t think anyone aside from me knew that the normally reserved and polite young woman could act so voraciously. Her kisses contained an uncontrollable impulse that always left me speechless.

As we continued to kiss, Kari got the timing of my hip thrusts down. Every time I thrust my hips, she would slam hers down. It was harder for her because her feet couldn’t find good traction while I was just sitting on the ground, but it hardly mattered. I was completely lost in the sensations of our passionate act by this point. I placed my hands on her tits. Kari’s muffled scream vibrated through my mouth as I played with her nipples, rolling them between my fingers, pinching them, tugging on them. I knew her breasts were sensitive, so I made sure to keep playing with them as I pounded my dick into her pussy.

I sensed my end coming when my balls grew tight. Knowing this, I removed one of my hands from her breasts, traveled across the gleaming skin of her firm stomach, and stopped just above her honeypot. I quickly sought out her clit and rubbed it. Kari’s screams grew louder as her walls around my dick tightened to the point where it became too hard for me to move. In the next instant, I lost control and came inside of her.

Our breathing grew heavy as I slumped against the wall of the cart and Kari fell against me. My dick slid out of her pussy with a wet plop, and our combined fluids leaked from her engorged entrance. Even though I was still tired, I wrapped my arms around Kari’s waist and placed several chest kisses on her neck and shoulders.

“Mmmm… we haven’t been this passionate in a long time,” she murmured as she tilted her head, allowing me more access to her neck.

“Yeah…” I said. Ever since entering the desert, we hadn’t been able to really do anything like this. I think that was why we’d been unable to contain ourselves after leaving the Endless Desert.

As the two of us sank into silence, our minds still lost in the hazey afterglow of our love making, a concerned voice came from outside.

“Hey! Seriously, are you two okay in there?! Hey! Hey!”

***

The remnants of last night’s dream still lingered in my mind, which was probably why I felt so unbearably aroused. Groaning as I tried to will my body into calming down, I opened my eyes, expecting to find myself staring at the ceiling of my room.

What I found instead was a face mere centimeters from my own. I didn’t recognize her, but the person who was so close our noses were almost touching was a lovely girl who looked maybe a year younger than myself. She had a dark tan. Her chin was a little more pointed than other people I knew. Her somewhat sharp features gave her an exotic appearance that complimented the color of her skin. She had long black eyelashes, dark black hair, and soft lips that were currently parted as she rhythmically breathed in and out.

As I stared at this cute and gorgeous face, trying to figure out just who this girl was and why she was in my bed, I found myself looking down. I blinked several times. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

The first thing I noticed was obviously the snake tail wrapped around my body. It was about 6 or 7 meters long, consisted of black and yellow scales, and was surprisingly soft to touch. I couldn’t estimate exactly how big it was. Most of it was wrapped around my torso, but the tip had wound around my currently rock hard dick.

Well, at least now I knew why I’d dreamed of that erotic memory of Kari and I having sex in a cart after leaving the Endless Desert.

Panic rose inside of me, but I kept calm, taking several deep breaths. I quickly analyzed the situation. There was a girl in my bed. She had the lower body of a snake. Obviously, she was one of the Lamia who came from the Endless Desert. I had no idea how she’d managed to reach Nevaria (Lamia lived deep in the Endless Desert), but that hardly mattered. Given that she was in my bed, I could only conclude that this girl was actually the snake who’d been living with me for around a month.

Now that I was able to work out who this girl was, I calmed down a bit. I was still very aroused though.

“Hey,” I muttered to the girl. “Hey, wake up.”

“Hnn…” The girl just released a soft sigh and scooted her body a little closer. Her tongue flicked out, and I realized that it was a lot longer than a regular human tongue. Holy crap! This thing might actually be over two dozen centimeters!

“Don’t just sigh at me!” I snapped and began shaking her shoulders. “Hey! Come on! Get up already!”

“Hnn nn hrn?”

The Lamia girl finally stirred, her eyes opening as she pushed herself up. Her black hair shifted like a curtain around her head. She had perfectly straight bangs hovering over her face, just above her eyes, but the sides were longer. As I gazed at her, I realized that she was not wearing any clothing. Her somewhat smallish breasts were being proudly displayed. Even though they weren’t very big, they were incredibly perky, and the light pink of her nipples created a sensual contrast with her skin tone.

“Darling… good morning,” the Lamia girl muttered as she yawned.

“Don’t good morning me,” I muttered as she reached up and cutely rubbed her eyes. “What the heck is going on here?!”

“Hmm?”

The Lamia girl seemed confused about why I was screaming, but then she looked down at herself. Her eyes were blank for a moment. Once the moment passed, however, a joy soon surged onto her face. Her eyes began sparkling.

“This princess’ body has been restored!”

“Restored?” I asked.

The Lamia girl nodded. “This princess had been attacked several years ago and was badly injured. When this princess woke up, she had no idea where she was, but she had turned into a snake and just wandered around. That was when she was attacked by those stupid boars. Normally, animals like that would not have posed a threat to this princess, but she was already weakened from hunger and being unable to transform back into her Lamie form. Then you saved her.” The Lamia girl placed a hand in the center of her chest. “That is why this princess decided to reward you by making you her husband.”

“Huh? When did you do this?” I couldn’t help but ask. I was confused, rightly so. What the heck was this girl talking about?

“It happened when this princess put that ring on your finger.” She pointed at my right hand.

I looked at my right hand, and more specifically, at the dark thorn-like ring that went around my ring finger. This had appeared a few days after the snake—this Lamia girl—bit me. She’d sunken her fangs into my skin. However, there hadn’t been any poison in her bite, so I hadn’t given it much thought at the time. Even after this rose-thorn pattern had appeared, nothing bad had happened.

“So this is… what? Like a wedding ring?” I asked as I looked from the rose pattern back to the girl.

“Heh heh heh.” The Lamia girl placed her hands on her hips and thrust out her chest. She seemed so pleased with herself. There was a smug smile on her face, which allowed me to see cute little fangs poking out of her mouth. “That is the Ring of Marji. What this princess did was inject a small portion of her spirit into your hand, binding you and this princess together. This is what we Lamia do when we find a man whom we take a fancy to.”

“Uh huh…”

I think some part of my brain shut down as I listened to her talk. Marriage? Binding the two of us together? Ring of Marji? I needed several seconds to process this.

My first thought was to ask her to undo whatever she had done to me. In fact, I had half a mind to demand that she undo this Ring of Marji or whatever it was called, but I could already tell from this simple conversation that she had no intention of doing that. She’d probably get upset if I asked her to. That would cause even more problems than I already had to deal with.

“So… this Ring of Marji,” I began, “I have some questions about it, but first, would you mind unwinding yourself from around me? It is hard to get up with you squeezing me like this.”

“Hm? Oh, sure.”

The Lamia girl slowly unwound her long tail from around my chest. I sighed in relief as I sat up. This girl’s tail was extraordinarily strong. She hadn’t even been holding onto me that tightly, but it still felt like my chest had been crushed by several tons of weight.

“Okay, so about this Ring of Mariji,” I started.

The Lamia girl tilted her head. “What about it?”

“Is it just a ring? What I mean is, you injected a portion of your spirit into it, right? I’m assuming that means you pushed your Spiritual Power into this rose-patterned mark. Does it only serve as a mark that signifies our… matrimony?” It took me a second to get that last word out. The idea of being married to someone I didn’t know and had no attachment to bothered me intensely.

“Of course it is more than just a ring.” The Lamia girl crossed her arms, and her smallish breasts were pushed together. There was something inherently cute about them. I was used to busty women, so this was different. “The Ring of Marji contains a portion of this princess’ power and soul. We are now connected. Not only can this princess sense you from over vast distances, but should anything happen to one of us, the other will know about it.”

“So it’s like a tracking signal,” I muttered as I stared at the ring. I used Spiritual Perception to send my subconscious into the rose-like pattern, and I discovered that, indeed, not only was there a unique energy signature inside of it, but I could feel a vague sense of pride and smugness, which I suspected was the Lamia girl’s emotions.

“Yes, you could call it something like that,” she said, tilting her head and furrowing her brow. “This princess does not really understand the intricacies of the Ring of Marji. She had only just been taught how to give it to someone when she was attacked and forced to flee.”

That’s right. She had been attacked. I looked at the girl, who seemed to sense my sudden seriousness, for her own expression became worried.

“What is wrong, Darling?” she asked.

I ignored her petname for me. Now was not the time.

“Do you mind if I ask who attacked you?”

The Lamia girl shook her head. “You may ask, but this princess has no idea who attacked her, other than the fact that they were vagabonds who dared to lay a hand on this princess. All of this princess’ guards sacrificed their lives so she could flee. That is all she knows.”

“I see.” I bit my thumb. “How long ago were you attacked? And was it in the Endless Desert?”

With her face becoming contemplative, the Lamia girl considered my questions for a moment. She lowered herself onto the bed, her snake tail coiling around itself. I had to admit, if only to myself, that she was very cute. There was a strange sort of exotic sensuality about her. I remembered most Lamia had this quality, but with this girl, that sensualness seemed magnified by several times.

I shook my head. I couldn’t think about that now.

“It must have been about one year ago when this princess was attacked and forced to flee,” she said at last. “It was indeed in the Endless Desert that she was attacked. This princess was traveling home after hunting in the desert with her guards.”

“Hunting?” I narrowed my eyes. “Did you hunt humans?”

She shook her head. “This princess has never even seen a human before leaving the Endless Desert. She did see many humans on her way here, though. After fleeing for as long as she could, this princess discovered the border of the desert and crossed over. There were a lot of humans living in strange houses on the way to this giant city, and there were even more in the city. This princess never realized you humans were so populous.”

A sigh of relief escaped my lips at her answer. Had she actually attacked and killed humans, I did not know if I would have been able to keep living with her, even though she didn’t seem like a bad person. Since she hadn’t, I at least didn’t have to worry about her being someone who saw nothing wrong with killing humans. That said, we still had a problem.

The problem?

I had no intention of marrying this girl.

“We can discuss more about the implications of this Ring of Marji later,” I decided out loud. “For now, I actually need to begin training. I’m pretty sure I’m already late.”

“Training?” The Lamia girl narrowed her eyes. “With that girl, you mean? The one who has hair like fire?”

“Her name is Fay,” I said absently.

“Fay…” A frown marred the Lamia girl’s face, though it cleared up soon enough. She nodded once in a decisive, resolute sort of way. “This princess shall allow you to spend time with that girl. She seems strong and polite. This princess will let you take the Fay girl as your concubine. Every king has at least one or two concubines. It is the mark of a great man that you can make such a strong woman fall in love with you. This princess approves.”

“Gee, thanks,” I muttered with a tired sigh. This girl was exhausting to deal with.

I stood up and went over to the basin, where I washed my face and wiped myself down. My body was covered in a thin layer of sweat, the results of last night’s erotic dream/memory and being wrapped up in the Lamia girl’s tail. As I washed myself, I could feel the hungry eyes of the Lamia girl on me. A soft thumping sound let me know she was beating her tail against the bed.

As I began quickly looking for my clothes, I said, “I don’t think I ever got your name. Mine is Eryk Veiger.”

“This princess is called Lin,” the Lamia girl introduced herself.

“Lin… that’s a very cute name.”

“This princess is glad you like her name. Her mother gave it to her.”

“What about your father?”

My pants were on the floor along with my vest and vambraces. I picked them up.

“This princess’ father… she doesn’t know.” Lin squinted her eyes as though peering into the distance. “She has never met her father, and when she asked about him, her mother remained silent.”

“Hmm…”

I slid the black pants up my hips. The many pockets ruffled as I cinched it up with a belt that was lying on the floor, and then I threw the vest over my head, slid my arms through the vambraces, and put on my boots. After making sure everything was put on right, I grabbed the bag containing my metal cylinders and the one with the Three Way Spiritual Widening Pills.

“All right. I’m heading off,” I said.

“Very well,” Lin replied.

I turned around as the girl slithered off the bed and followed me as I walked toward the door. I paused just as I was about to open the door and turned toward the girl. She was staring at me with her bright, golden eyes. Even though I tried not to, I ended up looking down, gazing at both her breasts and the hairless mound surrounded by scales.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

Lin frowned. “This princess is obviously going with you to watch you train. She has been doing this for a long time now. Why are you so surprised?”

“Not to put a damper on your parade, but you can’t come with me looking like that,” I said.

The frown on her face grew. “Looking like what?”

I sighed and rubbed my forehead. “In case you haven’t noticed, the lower half of your body is a snake. If people saw a girl with the upper half of a woman and the lower half of a snake, it would cause widespread panic. It may even result in the Nevarian Spiritualists or the Imperial Royal Guard coming to attack you. If you want to come with me, you’ll need to change back into your snake form.”

A long silence spread out as Lin stared at me with a slight frown, her lips pursing as she thought about my words. It looked like she wanted to argue. However, after a moment, she ended up sighing.

“This princess understands where you are coming from, but she cannot transform back into her snake form.” She tapped a finger against her chin. “That form you saw was the result of this princess being weakened in both body and spirit. Thanks to your medicinal baths, this princess has been able to regain her former strength, but it is because she has regained her strength that she can no longer turn into a snake.”

“Oh! That makes a lot of sense!”

My eyes widened. Now I understood why she kept drinking my bath water. I thought she was just being weird, but it was because of the medicinal strength of my alchemy pills. The Body Forging Pill had likely repaired the damage done to her body and made her even stronger, which allowed her to regain her original form. However, that also meant she could not transform into a snake now.

“If you can’t transform into a snake, I will have to ask that you remain here for now,” I said.

“This princess refuses.” Lin narrowed her eyes. “It is dreadfully boring when you are not around. All this princess does is lounge in bed all day and taste your scent from your pillow.”

“Okaaaay,” I said slowly. “I didn’t need to know that last part. However, if you cannot change back into a snake, you cannot come with me.”

Lin’s narrowed eyes turned into slits. “You might be this princess’ lord, savior, husband, and darling, but do not think that she will just kowtow and listen to you without question. She is going outside with you and that is final.”

“No… she isn’t.”

“She is.”

“She’s not.”

“This princess won’t accept no for an answer!”

As I argued with the Lamia girl who had decided that I was going to be her husband, I realized something: this girl was going to give me an even bigger headache than Grant Leucht.