“Anyway, we’ll be leaving now. Have a good day,” I continued like I hadn’t heard him.
I then ignored his existence and guided Lin toward the door. We stepped out, the crowd of people parting before us as we exited. Once we began walking down the street, I looked back at the library to see everyone leaving, which I concluded was because their main attraction—Lin—was no longer there. As I was about to turn back around, I caught sight of Lin’s still dazed expression and paused.
“Is something on your mind, Lin?” I asked.
Lin shook her head. “Not particularly. This princess is just very happy right now. Hee-hee.”
I couldn’t figure out why she was so happy, but it didn’t really matter. If she was happy, then so was I.
Still holding her hand, I laced our fingers together as we made our way home.
Chapter 6
A Meeting With the Empress
With the army of Sekbeists successfully beaten back, our group was given a chance to recuperate. It seemed the Dweorgs needed some time to set things in order as well. The four of us were asked to return to our rooms for the time being, which I personally had no problem complying with.
I preceded Kari into the room, who was lagging behind a bit. Given what happened to her, it was understandable, as she was probably in shock over the damage done to her hand. This was the first time she’d been that injured before. Having your hand so thoroughly mangled it was dangling from your wrist by a pair of thin tendons was a serious and debilitating injury. Her arm would have been crippled if not for my water element.
Knowing this, I turned around to face her.
“What should we do now, Ka—mmph!”
Her sudden attack surprised me. A pair of lips hampered my own, keeping me from saying anything more. Just as I was becoming aware of what was happening, Kari placed her hands on my chest and pushed me backward, causing me to walk in reverse until my legs hit the bed. I let out a shocked shout as I hit the bed with a thump.
“Kari, what are you—”
Before I could even finish forming that question, Kari attacked me with another voracious kiss, her tongue penetrating my mouth, her body rubbing against me. An electric sensation shot through my groin. The feeling of her crotch grinding into me, even muted through the fabric of our clothes, caused me to lose all sense of reason.
It wasn’t long before I was kissing back. Her tongue stirred up the saliva in my mouth as she continued to force her way inside, but I didn’t push it back. I accepted it and closed my mouth around her tongue. A groan escaped her lips as she swirled her small, wet appendage around in my mouth, playing with my own tongue like it was prey to be devoured.
Reaching out with my hands, I undid the catches in her leather armor. Kari sat up long enough to discard the armor, and then her shirt, revealing her breast bindings, which were covered in a layer of sweat and grime. We didn’t bother carefully removing those. I tore them apart, allowing her breasts to spring free with an enthusiastic bounce.
Once her upper half was naked, she went to work on mine, undoing the cuirass, pulling off my shirt, and throwing them aside. There was a desperation in her actions. I was lucky she had enough sense to realize I couldn’t take my clothes off lying down like that. However, the moment my torso was exposed, Kari was attacking me again.
She went for my neck this time. Her teeth grazed my flesh, causing me to shudder, and then she found one sensitive spot near my collarbone and bit down. I winced, but more than that, I released a loud groan as my hands landed on her back. The way her shoulder blades flexed and twitched underneath my touch made me shudder in pleasure.
“Ack! Kari, don’t bite so hard!” I suddenly shouted when Kari, having reached my chest, suddenly bit my nipple. It was a fair bit harder than normal.
Kari didn’t seem to be listening to me as she worked her way down my body. I twitched as she licked my chest, and then my stomach. My abs tightened as she pressed the flat end of her tongue against my skin and coated my abs in her saliva.
I had to wonder about her current actions. I mean, Kari could be passionate, and I would even go so far as to say she was normally really frisky under the sheets, but her current actions made her seem possessed. It was like something had come over her, compelling her to act this way.
Just as that thought passed through my mind, Kari had removed my boots and pants, and her hands had grabbed my shaft. It was already semi-hard from her previous actions, but her gentle stroking quickly brought it to full mast. Now that I was standing at attention like a soldier in an army, a smile worked its way onto Kari’s face as, coming to, she looked at me with mischievous blue eyes.
“This is a reward.”
“A reward for whaaaaAAAAT?!”
My question went unanswered when Kari kissed my head, and then slowly, centimeter by centimeter, drew me further into her mouth. The feeling was so intense that I could only throw my head back. I would have bucked my hips, but Kari grabbed them to keep that from happening. I could do nothing but ride out the pleasant sensations.
As the seconds ticked by, and Kari worked my cock into her mouth, she eventually stopped. Gagging, she moved back a little. I realized she’d reached the end of what she could fit into her mouth. Whenever Kari gave me a blowjob, she would usually fit what she could in her mouth, liberally coat the rest of my shaft in saliva, and then stroke the parts her mouth couldn’t fit with her hands. That was what I expected her to do here.
She didn’t do that.
“OH, FUCK!”
Kari moved down again, and something inside of her throat seemed to give way. I couldn’t rightly explain it, but it was like her throat had suddenly opened up, allowing her to keep moving down, down, down, until her mouth and nose were literally pressed against my crotch. I didn’t have any hair, so her nose was pressed right against my skin. I could feel myself twitching inside of her. It was erratic and fast. I gritted my teeth to stave off my impending orgasm, but really, all I wanted to do was blow my load down her throat.
My breathing had grown heavy as I looked down. Kari was looking up at me, a twinkle in her vibrant blue eyes. I wanted to say something witty in this situation, but then she hummed and started moving, and all I could do was ride out the sensations that washed over me. An electric feeling passed through my groin to my brain. I was pretty sure the world went white. Matters weren’t helped when Kari began fondling my balls.
“Kari!” I tried to warn her when my balls tightened. “I’m—”
Was about as far as I got.
Kari had just hummed around, causing me to grit my teeth as the vibrations traveled through my groin. I couldn’t even speak. The rest of my words were an incoherent yell as I released my cum into Kari’s mouth. I wasn’t sure if it was because my dick was actually down her throat, but she didn’t have any trouble swallowing everything. When she released me with a slurping pop, not a single speck of cum was on her mouth.
“Ha… ha… ha…”
As I was lying there, unable to do anything except stare at the ceiling, Kari crawled up my body until her dripping wet sex came into contact with my flaccid cock—not that it remained that way. She leaned down and kissed me as she slowly ground her smooth nether lips against me, returning it to full hardness. The feeling of her warm, wet lips rubbing against my shaft, coating them in her love juices, created a feeling that drove me mad.
I returned her kiss with a strength I didn’t know I had. It was as if her actions rejuvenated me. Raising my hands, I smacked them against her ass, causing a loud moan to echo in my mouth. Kari’s moan created a strange vibration in my mouth as we kissed so passionately some drool leaked from our lips. Then I massaged her butt cheeks with a mixture of soft and hard motions. The loud moan became a low, throaty sound, merging with a series of nasally gasps and heavy pants.
Kari’s scent filled my nose as we continued to kiss. We hadn’t bathed since before the battle, so her smell was particularly strong, just as I was certain mine was too. I foun
d it pleasant. The strong scent of Kari aroused me as surely as her actions and body did.
“In me,” Kari muttered as she sat back up. She placed her hands on my chest and raised her hips. Electricity shot through me as she rocked her hips and my cock became wedged between her lips. “I need this in me.”
“You’re being awfully needy right now.” Despite my words sounding like a complaint, I grabbed her hips and helped line her up. Her skirt, stockings, and boots were still on, but it looked like she wasn’t wearing any underwear. She wiggled a bit as the tip of my dick spread her apart. The moment that happened, her impatience showed again as she slammed her hips down, taking my cock in one go.
“Hrnnn!!”
Kari threw her head back and released a loud cry to the ceiling. However, I wasn’t about to just let her adjust. Since she was so impatient, I began thrusting my hips without any warning.
“Hyk! Hrk! Ha! Ah! It’s… Ahn! So hard! So good! Ah! Haaa! Haaaa! Hyk! Eryk! You’re going so deep! Your cock! It’s. Hitting. My. Womb!”
Sweat broke out on Kari’s skin as I continued thrusting my hips up, keeping up a fast, hard pace that caused her skirt to flap and her tits to bounce up and down. The sound of my cock sliding lewdly in and out of her was completely overwhelmed by the loud cries Kari released and the sound of our hips smacking together.
She finally recovered from my surprise attack. Having placed her hands on my chest again, squishing her breasts together, she lifted and lowered herself onto me, riding me. A bright glow appeared on her chest. Symbols that I felt like I should know flickered brightly, but I couldn’t focus on that. Her juices were dripping down my shaft and staining the sheets; the feeling of sliding in and out of her vice-like pussy took all my concentration, and the way her hair flared around her like streamers in the wind was oddly captivating. We were completely lost within each other.
“AHN! OH! HRK! HYK!”
The volume of Kari’s passionate cries increased. I was sure I wasn’t much better. I wondered how thick these walls were. Did they block out sound adequately? Part of me wondered if our neighbors could hear us. Of course, our neighbors were Tungsten and Erica. If they could hear us, I wondered what their reactions would be when they saw us tomorrow.
Those thoughts and more left me when my balls suddenly became unbelievably tight. It felt like a tourniquet had wrapped around me. I belatedly realized it was actually Kari. Her vagina had tightened around me and was convulsing. When I looked up, I saw her body quivering and shaking. The glow of the runes on her chest had increased to a vibrant shine. Her thighs clenched around my hips as if squeezing the life out of me. More than that, the look on her face was enough to send me over the edge. Her tongue was lolling out, drool leaking from her mouth, and her eyes were glazed over and half-lidded. It was like she felt so good her mind had become lost in a haze and she no longer cared about what expressions she made.
Giving one last thrust, I groaned in ecstasy as I released my second load of the day, shooting several spurts instead of a thick flood. Even though I didn’t have as much as before thanks to Kari’s blowjob, there was still enough to leak from her, dripping down my hips and staining the bed.
As if she were a puppet and her strings had been cut, Kari fell forward onto my chest. She nuzzled her face against me like a cat demanding affection. I began stroking her hair and sweaty back, relishing in the simple contact as I came down from my emotional high.
“Hey, Kari. Is everything all right?” I asked.
“I don’t mind.” And I really didn’t. Who would complain about such a passionate round of sex with the woman they loved? No one. “I’m just wondering what brought this on?”
Kari hummed softly to herself as though thinking, but it sounded a little more like purring to me. I wondered if she’d stop purring if I ceased stroking her hair and back. The thought barely lasted for a second before I discarded it.
I enjoyed stroking her hair after sex too much to stop.
“I guess… I just realized my own mortality,” Kari responded after a while. “All this time, we’ve been fighting and fighting, but I haven’t been hurt that badly in actual combat before. Seeing what happened to my hand made me realize that you or I could die at any time.”
“And if that was the case, you didn’t want to die with regrets?” I asked for clarification.
“Something like that.” Kari lifted her head to set her chin on my chest. I looked into her green eyes, haloed by locks of hair that appeared to have been spun from threads of gold. She was smiling. It was a small, half-smile that complimented her currently half-lidded eyes. “But I will also admit that I’ve just been feeling a little frisky. We haven’t had sex since Erica came to the Explorers Guild and requested our help.”
“Hmmm. You bring up a very good point.” I smiled, and then, before Kari could even release a sound, I flipped us around so that she was on bottom and I was on top. Bringing my face close to hers, I gave her a scintillating smile. “So… since it’s been such a long time, how about we make up for all that time we lost?”
With a smile of her own, Kari wrapped her arms around my neck, her legs around my waist, and pulled me down until her lips were brushing against mine.
“That sounds like a grand idea to me,” she whispered before stealing another kiss.
Lin was very affectionate during breakfast the next morning, which was kind of my fault since I had kissed her in public yesterday. That said, I didn’t complain.
She was sitting on my lap, her long tail wrapped around my right leg and gently thumping against the floor. I should have just been glad she had already eaten. Given her prevalence for scarfing down food like it would disappear if she didn’t polish it off in a tenth of a second, I was sure I’d be covered in meat juice if she’d eaten on my lap. Of course, this did make eating my own breakfast rather hard.
“Lin?”
“Yes, Darling?”
“Could you please get off while I’m eating?”
“She can… but only if you give her a kiss first.”
Was this what happened when I tried showing affection? I didn’t really mind, but I also still felt awkward and unsure of how to handle this situation. Could I love her like I loved Kari? This question kept repeating itself in my head, making me wonder if it was really all right for me to monopolize these three girls.
At the same time, I also realized that if I did nothing, nothing would ever change.
Since Lin was sitting on me, it was easy to cup her face in my hand. Before the now-startled girl could respond, I tilted her head up, brought my lips down, and placed them over her own. The Lamia girl released a very startled moan. I slid my hand down her neck, over her shoulder, trailed across the nakedness of her torso, and stopped at her waist. Going no further than this, I let my lips linger over hers. Perhaps it was the result of her being cold-blooded, but her lips were a tad chilly, though they quickly warmed up.
“D-Darling…” Lin stared at me with wide eyes, but I just smiled.
“Do you mind if I ask you to sit in your own chair?” I asked. “I still need to eat.”
“M-mm. This princess will move now.”
Lin got off me, though I sensed reluctance in her movements, and sat down in the chair next to mine. I grabbed my spoon and began eating my now cold porridge. Lamenting the fact that my food was no longer warm, I tried to look at the silver lining. I kissed Lin. I thought that was a good thing. I enjoyed it at least, though I did feel a little guilty. Hmm. Thinking about it like that, I should talk to Kari about this when I had the chance. I was sure she could set me straight.
Just when I came to this decision, someone knocked on the door. Wondering who it could be, I quickly finished off my food, set the spoon in my empty bowl, and wandered to the front door with Lin slithering beside me.
“Eryk Veiger, it looks like you’re in good health,” the person on the other side said. She was a solidly built woman with a masculine face, broad shoulders, and powerful arms and legs. Ho
nestly, if it wasn’t for her long hair tied into a knot at the back of her head and the fact that I knew she was a woman, I might have mistaken her for a man.
In other words, her problem was the opposite of mine.
“Hellen Brynhild,” I greeted with a nod. The ever-curious Lin placed her head on my shoulder as she pressed her chest into my back. “I’m assuming you were asked to get me?”
“You catch on quick,” Hellen said, hitching a thumb at something behind her. It was a carriage. “I’ve been ordered to take you to the Imperial Royal Palace. Empress Hilda wants to speak with you.”
Since Empress Hilda requested me, I said goodbye to Lin a little early. She told me she would be at the library as usual. I was a little worried about Marko Kriger showing up again, but I also knew that Lin could take care of herself, so after giving her another kiss goodbye, I hopped into the carriage with Hellen Brynhild.
The carriage wasn’t the same one I’d been on when I rode with Empress Hilda and her family, but it was still comfortable, with soft, leather-bound seats and purple upholstery. It contained a kind of restrained luxury. This was not the standard type of carriage used by Nevarian Spiritualists, so maybe it was something used by the captains.
Now if only I could do something about that stare…
Hellen, dressed in the steel armor of a Nevarian Spiritualist Captain, stared at me like I was a puzzle she couldn’t solve. Her look was somewhere between bemused and exasperated.
“Is something on your mind?” I asked, unable to bear the silent treatment.
“Not really.” She shook her head. “I was just wondering how many girls you are in a relationship with.”
“I’m afraid to disappoint you, but it’s just the three.”
“So, Kari, Fay, and that Lamia girl?”
“Her name is Lin.”
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