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  “Oh, my little Eri, how are you?” my mother said, and I held in a grimace. She looks awful. It isn’t that I don’t uand why, I’m her daughter, it’s only natural she should worry, but I came back alive, that means I’m fi annoyed me a little that mother didn’t have faith in Akio. Though it was tinged with just a little sympathy.

  “I’m fine. Well, not fine…” I ceded, bringing a tired chuckle from Shaeu, who after doing another round of healing on the irainees, had returned. Some of the worst scarring on my body was now fading, a series of peeling scabs and dead flesh fking free. It was unpleasant, itchy and disgusting, but I wao return to the way I was before as quickly as possible, otherwise Akio would always be reminded of the time I got injured, and I hated that thought. “… but I will be.” I twitched the fingers of my reattached arm, and mao move it a little. “… see? It’ll take extra rehabilitation and more healing from Akio and Shaeu, but my own body also heal, so in time I’ll be good as here’s nothing to worry about.”

  “There’s hardly nothing.” Auntie Emily, my mother-in-w, said. She had also been horribly distressed by my dition, and also looked a fright, her face pale, and her expression quite unlike her usual boisterous good cheer. Uncle was with her, and I heard he had chewed Akio out pretty badly for takio danger. While a part of me insisted that Akio did nothing wrong, enough people had told me that as a leader, it was Akio’s fault that he let himself get pushed around. I suppose I do uand that. But I still think it’s unfair. How was he supposed to know we’d end up stuck there by some curse? If it wasn’t for that, we’d have been in and out, saving lives. It’s so frustrating!

  “I’m sain, Eri. Please five my son for…”

  “Shut up. Shut up. Shut up! I’m sick of this!” On hearing another wave of apologies which were clearly aimed at shaming Akio, this one from his own mother of all people, I exploded. I was feeling particurly votile, after what Aiko had told me earlier, so I wasn’t able to keep my calm. “I’m not a child. If I was from your birth try, mother-in-w, I’d be old enough to vote, drink and I could be deployed to a frontline bat zone in the army, right? Japan is a bit more stupid about what it siders an adult, but at my age I could still join the JSDF, right? Stop treating me like I’m an idiot that lets Akio make all my decisions for me!”

  “Eri is correct.” Shaeu piped up from where she was siting, sipping on a warm drink, her eyes tired and drooping. Hyath, who was standing quietly in the er, keeping out of the way as she thought a maid should, looked at me solingly. At least they uand. Yes, Akio should stick to his own decisions as leader, but other than that, bming him is unfair! “She has wielded her axe and taken the lives of our eo save her own-own and the lives of others. One who do that is most definitely not-not a helpless child. You khere would be danger, did you not-not?”

  “Of course I did. But I want to be able to stand beside Akio, and Shaeu, and the others. The mistake was that we were unaware the Night Parade could prevent us from esg. Bming Akio for not being able to predict su event isn’t fair. If it wasn’t for that, then we rescued people successfully, and would have escaped!”

  “That’s not the point. You nearly died!” mother shouted, and I ched the fist of the one arm I could move, though even that was getting difficult. Ugh, I know you saved my life, Ginneka, but even so, trolling my body now is nearly impossible…

  “Yes, I nearly died. I was scared, terrified, g and screaming. I know it well. And I guess I’m a little scared about fighting again. I’m not an idiot.” I pouted unhappily. “But I was doing something good, wasn’t I? Don’t you think the families of Keomi- and the others, who we brought back alive, would have wished us to save them? This isn’t a game. Akio isn’t doing it for fun!” I had thought about it a lot. If Akio just wao enjoy what he had been given, he could. A life with us, his fiancées, it would be so easy. He could make as much money as he wanted with little risk from a variety of means, and we could enjoy a celebrity lifestyle, always having fun and never suffering pain or fear. But that wouldn’t st. It’s obvious. I’m not stupid, everyone says I’m quite smart, so I worked it out without Akio needing to say much. The world will end soon. Well, maybe not the world, but humanity as the dominant force.

  F my anger down, I drew my lips into what I hoped was a smile. “You must see how hard Akio is w, to prepare. And when I see that, it reminds me over and ain why I love him, why I always have, from a child. When it es to proteg those he cares about, especially those without any power of their own, there isn’t ater. Mother, auntie, you both know this. You’ve been watg him too. If we made a mistake here, then we made a mistake. Have none of you failed, done badly?” I shook my head a little, neck muscles twitg. “Well, just be grateful we got through our mistake. I don’t care if I should have died, or it was a miracle I didn’t. I’m alive! And no matter how beaten I am now, Shaeu and Akio assured me I’ll be whole again. A few weeks, a few months, a few years. It doesn’t matter. I’ll be with Akio, and he’ll protect me. More to the point…” my gaze narrowed, my dark eyes hard. “Akio’s hurting more than me right now. You shouldn’t be fussing over me. My wounds will heal. But Akio’s heart is scarred. Auntie, Uncle, I hope you remember this. Your son risked everything to save others. To me he’s a hero. And ahat says otherwise I don’t need in my life.”

  “Indeed, master Akiooo saved me too, when he had nooo cause to. His kindness… I wooould not have it sacrificed oooar of caution. Akiooo must remain who he is!” Hyath spoke up stoutly, and I fully uood. An Akio that won’t put his body on the line for others isn’t an Akinise. I… I want to be like that too. I don’t think I could sacrifice myself for a stranger, or a casual acquaintance. I’m far from that nice or charitable. But if it was to protect Akio’s heart, or Shaeu, or Hyath, or the others… I want to be the sort of person that . Although for that, I’ll need… my thoughts turned enviously to Aiko again, as Shaeu also spoke up.

  “I uand yrief. But sider this a hard-hard lesson, one we all sorely needed. I do not-not downpy the severity of the losses we have suffered. Indeed…” she looked a bit shamefaced, her tired skin flushing, and once more I found her very cute, marvelling that I could share Akio with her. “… when Eri was on the brink of death, I quite-quite lost myself a berserk. My own mother was quite-quite upset at the age. But we o learn. We had won too much, grown arrogant. Now we know. We are strong, yes, but power alone is not-not enough, unless it is overwhelming. Our hands were forced by the fool Yamato, but even so, battle is seldom at our venience.”

  “I think what Shaeu is trying to say is… what’s done is done. I don’t regret it. Thinking ba what could have happehe fate worse thah I was fag, yes, I’m trembling, I feel sick. But then I only have to think that fate is over, to know that soon I hold Akio in my arms again, to recover. I’m tough now.” I giggled, a little amused. “I hardly believe it myself. But I draw my strength from Akio, and Shaeu, and Hyath. Even from Hinata, Natsumi, Motoko and I dare say I’ll even draw strength from Shiro. Aiko too, I have to admit. I also…” I looked at our parents. “… draw strength from you. So don’t make me hate you, I don’t want that. What girl wants to hate her own family? So stop with the criticism and the guilt-tripping. Akio knows, all right? We know! Instead, help him get over this. He’s our Akio, isn’t he? And not just ours, noan’s and the world's. He’s out there doing his best, even though I know he just wants to lock himself away and cry. So the least you do is help soothe his pains. Adviot nation!” I fihe long spell of talking, which was unusual as I was usually more reserved, exhausting me. As I slumped ba the bed, surprisingly it was father-in-w who spoke, his grey eyes, simir to Akio’s, strangely gentle.

  “You have definitely grown up.” He sighed. “Yes, I am not sure where this uncharacteristic boldness of yours is ing from. Though perhaps you are your father’s daughter after all.” He looked at my father, who was still a little drunk, but I wasn’t going to criticise. If it helped him get over this, it would be fine. “Please uand though, you imagine what it feels like, to see you cut apart before our very eyes, helpless to interfere…?”

  “Yes. I also uand what it feels like, to be cut apart in person. I ’t say I reend it.” I sniffed. “Which is why I’ll recover, and train, and try not to let it happen again. But… we don’t know the future. Tomorrow we could have a zombie apocalypse, a demon invasion, nuclear war, who knows what else! Which is why we should try our best, but not waste recious time we have dwelling rets. I wasted enough time in Nishimorioka. If I fessed years ago, maybe I’d have spent longer, happier times with Akio. But again, that’s meaningless. I’m happy now. And I’m alive. The girls we saved too. So be grateful. And go and tell Akio you uand, and support him! We , and we will, but he needs support from the adults in his life too!”

  “I surrender.” He ceded. “You really are looking like his wife right now, daughter-in-w. Eri.” With a wry smile, he tinued. “It’s hard for me not to be stern. I’ve tried to raise my son and daughter right, but perhaps the way I wahem to be isn’t what they were meant to be.” He sighed them. “Speaking of Aiko, do you know what has happened? She’s so cheerful you wouldn’t think this disaster occurred. It’s rather… inappropriate?”

  “Yes, I do know. But we shouldn’t talk about it until after cve. It’s… a sensitive matter.” To me as well. No, I don’t . I still grow stronger without it. It’s better for Aiko, she ’t leverage everything I , like Lovers’ Link and more…

  “is that really all right?” Auntie Emily asked, and I ughed drily.

  “Of course. In fact, it’s what we’ve been talking about, and when you hear, you’ll uand why pining to Akio is pointless. He knows what he has to do from here. So now, do what you’re supposed to do. He’s carrying a lot. More than we should ask of anyone. So don’t add to it.”

  “My little Eri… so mature. I’m a little touched, as your mother.” My mother said, and after that the versation ged, the tension fading. Hyath started serving more tea, and I leaned ba my bed, rexing muscles that refused to obey me, relieved that the first problem was resolved. Now it’s our turn to try and relieve his burdens, cheer him up…

  ********

  “So why’s she here?” I asked, looking at the blonde fn girl who insisted she anese idol, Suzu-san. Beside her, Aiked.

  “Well, she was annoying those girls from Red and White, so Kana- told me to take her away. She really shouldn’t be here at cve, but it’s hard to let her go for a number of reasons, and well, she isirely uo this.”

  “That’s rude, Aiko-!” she said, annoyingly bubbly, her blonde drill-tails bobbing up and down as she moved her body. “I was just trying to get to know them as fellow idols, and…”

  “Enough. If yoing to be here, then sit quietly here in the er, and do not-not bother us.” Shaeu said, unusually stern. “We have an important call to make, I do not-not wish for you to interfere.”

  “Fine.” She sighed, taking out a lollipop and sug on it. “You’re a lot cuter when you are smiling, Shaeu.” She giggled softly. “To think, I’d be in a room with so many rivals of the Boss. I feel a bit sorry for her, though she’d eat me if I said that, probably.”

  Yes, she’s such a strange idiot, you wouldn’t think she was actually a didate like Akio. And Aiko now too, I guess. Damn, I’m still so jealous, even though I don’t o be… Well, I guess we’ll be seeing a lot more of her anyway, sidering she’s one of hers…

  Hyath was setting up a ptop, though she let Aiko help her with the majority of the work eg the phones, seeing as she was still very unfamiliar with teology. “Wow, this stuff is high security. I’m still not sure why using some sort of messenger call isn’t good enough, but if they are giving out equipment for free, I’ll take it!” Aiko enthused.

  “It’s because they are noble girls. You remember when they came to Nishimorioka and we had that sleepover, they are very sheltered from the outside world. Their phones are special and ’t even access most of the i. So I guess this is just an offshoot of that.” I said, and Aiked again.

  “Well, makes sense. But I think the girls are experieng hings all the time now, aren’t they? There’s no way their parents’ll be able to isote them from the realities of the world, not when they have to share with girls like you.” Aiko said, which was rather rude.

  “Girls like me? I’ll have you know I’m normal!” I pined.

  “Sure you are. Because normal girls totally e close to death and then are desperate to get right bato the fight. Well, not that I don’t get it.” Aiko rolled her eyes, ign giggles from Suzu-san. “Well, anyway, the calls are eg, so I’ll step back with Suzu-san here. It’s not really my pce to tribute to this.”

  Moments ter the s showed the faces of Hyath, Shaeu and I. I wi the state I was in, lying near-immobile in bed, pale and stiff. Maybe I should have used some make-up? No, I suppose it doesn’t matter.

  The face to appear was the elegant Motoko, quickly followed by Natsumi. On seeing us, they looked relieved.

  “I am pleased to see you all well. Grandfather has been frantic ever si night. He did tell me you were all safe, but seeing it for ourselves…” she paused, her image on s looking suddenly wary. “Eri, are you… well? You seem awfully stiff, your muscles seem to be strange.” Beside her on s, Natsumi agreed, pointing out the odd way my legs were pced uhe bedsheets.

  A good eye. I forced a smile. “Well, I should have expected a pair of practised martial artists like you two to notice. I got hurt pretty badly, actually. Shaeu and Akio had to glue my legs and an arm ba.”

  “Is that something to smile about?” Motoko said, horrified, and I was gratified at her , and I had a slightly unworthy feeling of smughat I was the one who stood at Akio’s side during the fierce battle. Though I immediately felt guilty about that. The young dies haven’t felt what it is to be a true lover with Akio. I uand it, they’re younger, and they have family s. Without a strong Lovers’ Link, they’d be dead in a heartbeat fag what we fought… I should be gd they weren’t there for that reason, not for jealous ones. I had to ugh. Despite talking a lot more than normal today, arguing with my parents and Akio’s, I was the same at heart. Somehow that was reassuring, if embarrassing.

  “Well, I’m smiling because I’m still alive, here listening to you. Thanks, Motoko, Natsumi.” I said, ign sniggers from Shaeu. As I spoke, the mischievous and eic face of Hinata also appeared on s. She went to give greetings, but as we were already talking she showed good manners and waited. “It retty bad, but we might as well wait until the st of us is on.”

  “Greetings, Hinata. How fares things in our absence?” Shaeu asked, and she answered happily.

  “Well, other than you all w us, it’s going well. I’ve got the first ts for our Healing business lined up, and they are all wealthy and well-ected. But just what’s been happening down there? Father and grandfather have been w about the news reports ing from Kyoto. I know you had to be involved…”

  “Poor Boss, she’s got it really tough, all these rivals.” Suzu-san was muttering. “They could all be models or idols too. I wonder, maybe they have some i in the business?”

  “No. They are young dies from good households. There’s no way they do anything like that, so just shut it, okay?” Aiko sighed.

  “Sorry I’m te.” The st person dialled into the ference call, and I let out a gasp at her face, before g my mouth shut hastily with my one good hand, flushing in embarrassment.

  “Well, that’s rather rude.” The woman, Shiro, who I had often heard tell of, yet not met, looked at me with her single eye. Her shining silver hair was draped long over her other, but even behind that I could see the edges of some dreadful scars creeping out from the cover, and as she shifted unfortably, through the hair I could see a closed, malformed socket. Her bance was off too, the way she sat showing she was fav one side. “A couple of weeks ago, I’d take it as a pliment to my beauty, but now… well, not so much.” She narrowed her eye, a gleam in it shining red. “Although you don’t seem in much better shape than I do, Eri. It is Eri, right? I’ve seen pictures. Aki was showing you off, so proud. Damn clueless idiot. Made me want to punch him. Though I guess I wasn’t much better. I should have searched my feelings years ago.”

  “That sounds like something you said earlier, Eri.” Shaeu grinned. “Well, Princess in White. At st we meet, though not-not in person.” Shaeu’s smile was a little scary. Perhaps it’s a prihing, she sees her as a rival? “You truly are quite-quite stunning, barring your wounds.” Shaeu tinued. “Well, we have news on that front. Though whether anything will e from it, I would not-not like to say.”

  “Hey Boss!” Suzu-san interrupted the versation with what I was beginning to discover was her usual ck of de. “Whoa, every time I see those scars, I get all shuddery inside. Anyway, just thought I’d say hi!”

  “Suzu, you idiot.” Shiro sighed. “Running off to a cert wheuation is so dire… I don’t have much to do in this military hospital, though they did bring me books and games, so I suppose I ’t pin too much. But when I heard that there was a disaster in Kyoto… well, you had best not be involved, or I’ll send Arisu to fetch you. She was very angry, you know! We are down three people on our team after the whole mess with the Raven Knight and Daizen. So for you to go running off, with me injured…”

  I was amused to see the annoying girl go pale. She already had white skin, being a westerner, but you could mistake her for Haru-san in her Onryo form now. “Well, I… oh no, she’s really frightening. Arisu-san has a real temper! Seriously, Boss, ’t you put in a good word for me? You’re the only one she listens to! Uh, something to put you in a good mood… oh yeah, I met the guy! Akio-kun, the one you are totally into! He seems strong! Yeah… so, gratutions?”

  “You think I’ll fall for that?” Shiro snorted. “For now, just shut up and stay out of the way. I’ll deal with you ter. Perhaps I’ll ask my fellow … fiancées…” her own pale skin darkened in embarrassment at saying it out loud, and I could see her gaze go to a strange-looking silver ring on her finger. “… to send you back. But for now, we o talk. About Aki.”

  “I believe we o discuss Eri too.” Motoko said. “You seem out of danger, but your injuries, they seem grave. It must be reted to the matter grandfather was trying to resolve.”

  “Yes, that’s right.” I agreed. I exged gnces with Shaeu and Hyath. Both agreed, so I started to speak, detailing what happeo us ht…

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  “That’s horrible.” Hinata gasped. “That many died? People we knew…” she looked pale and sied.

  “I am more ed about you, Eri.” Motoko procimed, troubled. “You say you are crippled, evee this stra Yokai rest you?”

  “I think it makes sense.” Natsumi was thinking her way through it. “If your body is now unfamiliar to you, then you would have to relearn how to trol it from the beginning agaiudied it in biology css, didn’t we?” at that, Motoko nodded.

  “I see, yes. That does make sense. I would expeo less from you, Natsumi, you have a keen i in the human body.”

  At that she flushed, smiling shyly. Shiro rolled her good eye, and said what we were all thinking. “Yeah, that’s sad. Poor kids. I didn’t know them, so for me it’s just another bad story, but Aki… he must be a wreck, right? He’s got a serious hero plex. It’s bad enough you got hurt, oh childhood friend. He’ll be bming himself and blubbering, I see it now.”

  “He’s not that bad.” Aiko spoke up, and Shiro eyed her, amused.

  “So, the famous sister, too? This really is a treat. It’s like I’m getting a crash course in Aki. But you surprise me. He’s holding up?”

  “Call me Aiko. After all, you’re my sister nht? Damn, I get why bro is so eager to heal you, you’re beautiful.”

  “I know.” Shiro said. “I always have beehen, Aiko… fill us in. What’s going on with Aki?”

  Aiko, Shaeu and I talked a bit about how he was throwing himself into his work, trying to uhe shrines and temples. We also talked about the prophecies that Shaeu and I had heard from the Lady Diviner, as well as what Akio had said regarding what Nurarihyon had told him. At that, a strahing happened. Shiro ged demeanour almost entirely, her eye burning red, her hair likewise, fmes flickering ominously. Literally. Literal fire!

  “Fasating!” Shiro… no, is that even Shiro? … said, her eye glowing brilliantly. “To think such powers of prophecy exist, and predict so clearly. Such timescales seem rather strahough.” Shiro mused, her tone different. “It should take far longer for the Boundary to craough for such dao be attracted to the virgin world beh. I do not believe it is my doing…” she tio speak, more to herself than us, I thought. All eyes were on Suzu-san, who giggled, toying with one braid idly.

  “Oh, so I’m allowed to speak now?” She smirked. “Well, that’s just the Boss whes really serious. She’s as scary as Arisu-san then, so you don’t want to get on her bad side!”

  “… see I o speak to your Akio again, Shiro.” Shiro said, fusing me. Her eye went back to its normal dark bck, and the voice was back to before. “Well, you’ll get your ce soon enough, Tan. He’s baorrht? cve ends today?”

  “Just… are you like a split personality or something?” Aiko asked, fused.

  “ly. Tan here is… well, a freeloader. But she did save my life, I suppose. Don’t worry, she’s got a deal with Aki, she won’t cause trouble. But anyway, Aki’s baorrow?”

  “Yes. He’ll be moving you to his house for rehabilitation and healing, right?” I said, and she nodded.

  “Well, it makes sense. Having Akio and Shaeu there, they should be able to fix you eventually. Well, I’ll be in your care too.” I said, and she looked at me knowingly. “After all, I ’t go back to Nishimorioka like this. I’m looking forward to a good, long talk with you.”

  “I’m sure you are. Well, accepting Aki meant accepting you girls too. I retty pissed that he’d have the audacity to propose to me when he was already cheating on you all, but… well, I know why he did it, and I know he loves me. He’s only human after all.” She snorted. “But enough of that. So we know what happened, so the question is, what do we do for Aki to cheer him up?”

  “Well, we are females, are we not-not? No male resist their female when they are fort through their own bodies.” Shaeu grinned.

  “Hyath wishes tooo fort Akio. He is hurting. I dooo not mind whatever Akio does to me. I am sturdy, I take it!”

  “You mean sex, right?” Shiro spelt it out. The noble girls looked shy, knowing little about it, except for Natsumi, oddly enough, who looked a little excited, her skin flushed, breath ing fast.

  “Well, that’s down to you three then. We’re stu Tokyht?”

  “Well, I could get you there by helicopter quickly enough.” Hinata mused, still lobster-red. “I think we could make it work, but…”

  “I… don’t want to have my first time like this.” Shiro admitted. “I know Aki, he’d say he wouldn’t care and I’m still beautiful, and he’d probably even mean it. but… I care. When I accepted his proposal, I decided. I was going to have the love I hought I’d get. I want my first time to be perfeot like this…”

  “Until marriage, it would bring shame to my family. Grandfather would be angry.” Motoko said. “If there was no other way to cheer him, I would gdly take on the shame, but…”

  “… but Akio isn’t going to want that.” Hinata finished. “He’s too kind. Hurting our reputations isn’t something he’d want. Though I do know he finds us desirable.” Her face was red still, and eyes distant, as though remembering some past event with Akio. I wonder what that was…

  “Well, I would be prepared to…” Natsumi began, surprising me, and Motoko too, it seemed.

  “Natsumi, you ’t! Hori house is minor, but even so, the shame to your father and mother…”

  “Well, I think… father would accept it.” she said, shog us. “He’s been asking me questions about Lovers’ Link, I think he spoke to Akio about it when he visited our home. So, I could…”

  “No. I had my heart set on our first time serving being together, Natsumi.” Motoko said, and Suzu-san was ughing at that, making surprisingly ribald jokes in the background.

  “I see.” Natsumi looked down. “Well, in that case, I withdraw my suggestion. My apologies, Motoko. I’ve been thoughtless…”

  “Hardly.” Shiro snorted. “You just want to get intimate with the man you love. It’s normal. What isn’t is wanting to have a threesome with your best friend and him. Well, who am I tue, I guess I’m as abnormal as all of you. So… guess it’s you three then.” She snorted sourly. “So, isn’t there anything we do?”

  “I have an idea.” Shaeu grinned, and as she expi, the flushed skin and looks of arousal and shame on the faces of those on the monitor amused me. In the end, I was first. It doesn’t matter, it shouldn’t matter, but even so… I like the thrill it gives me, knowing I’ve had ohing from Akio they ever take… so I be the good senpai, ahem have their share…

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  “Akio, wele back!” I said, my face hot. I was lying in bed, only wearing a see-through negligee, and everything was visible, from my already stiff nipples, to my dripping slit, a thin mound of pubic hair shadowing it. This is embarrassing. Hyath had to dress me since I ’t do it myself now. But it makes me feel all hot inside. Wait a minute… despite my embarrassment, I couldn’t fail to notiething was off about Akio.

  I wasn’t the only o seemed. Hyath and Shaeu were also wearing thin clothing, and were sitting beside me on the bed. Shaeu’s was even more risqué than mine, due ture, the cloth hanging down, exposing her chest, and Hyath was just wearing a miniskirt and loose tube of frilly fabric across her rge chest, every movement allowing her breasts te free for a moment. But both of them shot to their feet as they saw Akio, exposing themselves to him.

  “Akio, what has happened?” Shaeu asked the question first. “Your Charm… it has…” she shuddered, hair swaying around her like a veil. “No, there is simply-simply no time for this.” She rushed over and grabbed his arm, pulling him to the bed.

  “Just what is…” he began, only for Shaeu to seal his mouth with hers, breathing hot aheir toangled sciviously, as though they were trying to devour each other, and I watched as his hao her small chest, toying with it firmly. I’m jealous. I wish he was toug me… my ows tingled, as if I could feel what Shaeu did, and my crotch was hot, leaking sour fluids. I felt my skiing up, and I couldn’t help but feel both shamed and happy. It’s fio be lewd. I’m with Akio. We’re going to be married, it’d be worse not to want him, I think…

  “Hyath toooooo!” she decred, sandwig his free arm between her breasts, while her own hand was down his pants. Akio groaned, even while beiangled with Shaeu, and I realised what a burden not being able to move reventing me from joining in.

  “You’re being aggressive tonight…” Akio said as Shaeu finally pulled free, saliva dripping everywhere as she licked her lips, satisfied. “… uh, Hyath, wait…” she had freed his penis from his pants, and I watched, uo look away, as she sank down, her mouth engulfing it, a look of satisfa and pleasure on her face as she slid her head up and down, giggling as wet, slurping noises filled the room.

  I’m gd Aiko and Suzu-san are gone. Well, if Aiko wao stay, it’s not like I mind, but it would be rather weird. That Suzu-san though, she has no pce here. As Shiro told her very firmly. Good. Having talked to Shiro a little, I was happy she wasn’t the type like Shaeu. In fact, she was more like me. I could tell she wasirely happy to share, which was a much more normal respohaher girls I would call fellow wives, but like me… it’s the only way for our future happio st. So we’ll do it…

  “Well, you should not-not look so dashing.” Shaeu grinned. “I would dearly like you to take me now-now, ravish me, but I believe we have other business first.” She led him to the bed, Hyath showing great agility bag up while felting his dick, and soon she was o me on the bed, still sl and sug, her face melting with pleasure. Though I don’t really o see her bare ass and pussy under her skirt. I’m not bisexual…

  “Here. We know you have worked hard today.” I said, as Shaeu o me encingly. I snaked out my w arm to the ptop and flipped it around. “Not just today, but all the time. And no matter what everyone says, we’re grateful. And we always will be. Not just us, too.” I flushed as I could see his gaze darting to my breasts and pussy, trying to be subtle but failing. I love it. He wants me. I’m so happy…

  “Well, sihe others… well, they have their circumstances, but they are just as worried about you as we are. So they recorded some messages for you.” I tur on, and first up was Shiro. He looked at us in wonder, as we grinned back, happy the surprise worked.

  “Hey Aki. I’m a little pissed off that you’ll be flirting and screwing three girls now. It’s not how I saw my future retionship going. But… well, that’s just how things are. We never know where life will take us. After all, who would have thought an otaku herbivore like you would end up bagging the geous me? And speaking of… sorry Aki. I ’t bear to let my first time be when I look so hideous. So… you best get to work. Ohese scars are gohis princess is going to let you breach her defences and use and abuse her like you’re a horny ord I just know you’ve got some of that porn stashed away. For now though… feel better. I know what happened and… just like with me, you did your best. And that is good enough for us.”

  As the message ended with Shiro, embarrassed, blowing a kiss as her s, I looked over to see Akio looking moved. Seeing that, Hyath sped up, her head bobbing, a out a cute groan, his expression loose. So cute! Is there anyone in the world more handsome than Akio? Well, I don’t know everyone in the world, but who cares? For me, it’s Akio…

  “The White Princess is right.” Shaeu guided Akio’s two hands downwards. Oo her own crotch, and oo mine. I shivered as his fingers started gently caressing me. As Shaeu spoke, he started moving them more, one slipping inside me, while another scooped up my spilled liquids and started polishing the little red ruby that was my clitoris. I gasped, heating up, my arousal s. Shaeu was feeling it too, her eyes leaking tears.

  “We know. You tried. And the e, while not-not perfect, was far more than anyone could have reason to expect. So please… do not-not berate yourself over it.”

  “Akio, I too ot offer you my chastity right now.” Motoko was saying, her face dyed in shame. “I have a duty to the Tsumura house, I must remain pure until we wed.”

  “I too.” Natsumi agreed. “Hori house is not so hat it would destroy our reputation, but it would be too hasty to mate our retionship now. The teachers at Hanafubuki would be horrified, and use us as examples of shameless behaviour.”

  “So tent yourself with the three who show you love.” Motoko tinued. “And wait. Because the night we wed…”

  The two spoke together. “The three of us, together, you shall make us both yours at the same time. And we shall create a child. Your child.” They echoed, faces scarlet. “Because we believe in you. No matter the hardships, the failures, we believe you’ll get back up. Our spears, swords, bows and our bodies, no, our lives, we’ll dedicate them to you!”

  “That’s… what did you force them to…” his words were cut off as Hyath started fondling his balls as well, and he gasped, pleasure rising.

  “We didn’t force them to say anything. They genuinely wish for your love. To noble girls like them, sex is for children, not pleasure, right?” I said, feeling a strange feeling of euphoria as he trembled cutely, mouth gaping open a little foolishly. “And they… they want yours and no one else’s. A threesome with two girls like that… lucky!” I ughed.

  “I… no, cumming!” he gasped, uo hold back. Hyath gririumphantly as he unloaded into her mouth. Her throat worked, gulping frantically, but there was simply too much, and it sprayed over her exposed chest, f a puddle in her cleavage, and also rained down on me, soaking my negligee, my ski and sticky.

  You know, I’m fairly sure I read in biology that males don’t actually produce that much semehey ejacute. Akio didn’t wheook my virginity, either. It makes me wonder… how much he’s ged. How much we’ve all ged. I couldn’t believe I was lying here, thinking about such dry, academic things when Akio was there, his penis still hard and hot, pointed down at me.

  “So tasty. Hyath loooves Akio’s fvour. Here.” She brought her head over to me and held it above mine. She opened her mouth and some remaining cum trickled down. With a smirk I gulped at it.

  “Yes, tastes just like you.” I told him, enjoying the mixture of lust and disfort on his face. Here in the bedroom, Akio isn’t a Chosen of the Gods, or a powerful superhero. He’s just a man. Our man. And we… we have ons that easily bring him down. I giggled, opening the st message, even as his hands were bringing me closer and closer to an asm. Shaeu had already e, and was lyio me, a dreamy expression on her face, thighs soaked with sour-smelling liquid. Though like the taste of Akio, I find the smell soothing and arousing. I guess I now associate Hyath and Shaeu’s sts with lewd things. Well, we do often py with Akio together…

  “Akio. It’s me, your Hinata!” the cheery voice echoed from the speakers. “I’ve never done anything like this before, obviously. I always wao be a good noble, so even though I was a bit more worldly wise… hah, I’m just putting on airs, how boastful of me. When I met your sister and the girls from your school, I realised even though I thought I was knowledgeable, I was still sheltered and g wisdom. No, what I wao say was…”

  “Go on.” Shaeu whispered to Akio, biting his ear pyfully, rubbing her body against his. Yes, there’s definitely something that’s ged. He’s the same, but… not. Is his hair bcker? It looks more like Aiko’s now, I think. And his eyes, the shade… it’s more… luminous? I could hardly think as I rose closer and closer to ecstasy with his hands. “Eri… she o feel that you love her still. Take her, show-show her you will never abandon her, even if she is injured, even-even if she is wounded.”

  “… remember that time when you were covered in that mess and we washed each other?” she was squirming on the monitor, and I knew how she felt. She’s aroused. But wait, how e I’ve not heard about this? Hinata and Akio bathing together? His hand stopped, and I bit my lip, sadde the ck of sensation. My worries were short-lived, however, as soon his gns oking at my entrance, and I started leaking hot sighs, eager for him to ravish me.

  “Well, I was thinking, nobody will know I’m not pure if you don’t tell.” She winked. “So, if you want to get dirty again, so that I have to wash you off… well, sider it a reward. Thanks Akio. For saving some of the students. I know you did your best. I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you. But I’ll be there for future hardships, so… smile for us, please? You have a lot to look forward to, and we have our future with you too! So for now, I’ll let you practise with Eri and the girls. Our time will e.” Her voice dropped. “Soohan you think.”

  His smile was radiant now, and as he forced open my soaking pussy, smming all the way into my womb with a wet smag sound, the stimution was too much, and I asmed, my body betraying me. Liquid scattered, and I realised I had leaked again. Damn, I thought I was gettier at avoiding that. I moved my free hand to cover my fa shame, but Akio grabbed my wrist, though his other hand was now being used by Hyath as a vibrator, she was aggressively shoving his fingers intasping with pleasure, her bck, purple and green hair stig to her now naked, voluptuous body.

  “Don’t mind it. it’s so very you, Eri. So seemingly shy, prim and proper, but I know you’re actually aggressive, lustful and demanding. And…” he kissed me then. First our lips toug, a sweet sensation that made my heart ache, and then his tongue pushed in. I responded, and greedily twined miogether, heating up. For a few moments I was supremely blissful, thefully he parted from me, but with the twinkle in his eyes, I knew he was happy. With me. With us.

  “… that goes for all of you.” he looked at Hyath, who was gasping furiously now as Akio took over fondling duties, his fingers scooping her out, finding her sensitive areas, and Shaeu, atg and waiting, so beautiful and charming, knowing that Akio desired her, posed as she waited regally for his penis, fingers or tongue. “And… I’m sorry. For making you worry. But… I uand now. What we did wrong. All of you are right. We did our best. Aime…” he started moving inside me, his dick sliding in and out of my sopping pussy. I could barely hold in my les as he probed my most sensitive areas, my body responding. “… we’ll do better. Because I don’t want you to get hurt again. not your body, not your mind, not your heart.”

  “How very you, Akio.” Shaeu giggled. Her hand snaked out and gripped mine, and I squeezed her small fiightly as Akio pounded me, my breath ing faster and faster, my immobile, useless body arg by itself.

  “Akiooo, Hyath is cumming, Hyath go crazy?” she giggled, and he nodded, speeding his fingers, thumb grinding her clitoris as he had toyed with mine earlier. Just watg made me shiver, no, his dick sliding through my insides, rubbing at all my sensitive spots, that made me shiver, no, him trig aether into me, rich with his essence, his very soul, was what was shaking me. I’m turning foolish. But there’s too… too much pleasure.

  “Oho!” Shaeu said, her eyes glowing amber, as with every thrust liquid spshed from me, the soddes already a mess, my negligee bunched up and sticky. Hyath howled in pleasure as she asmed, and I shared in her joy, feeling very close to her. This is abnormal, I know it is. Strange. But then, st night I was getting hacked apart by some bitch of a Kijo. Nothing is normal anymore. Nothing but being with Akio. That’s the only normal I need…

  “Eri. I’m sorry.” He apologised again, and I tightened up, irritated. As my pussy squeezed him, I giggled at the look on his face, hot and aroused, so I beed him for another kiss. When we were done, I berated him gently. “I don’t want to hear I’m sorry, you know what I want to hear.”

  “I love you.” he said then, and my whole body shook, back arg. The release was ferocious, my whole body shuddering, and not just my body. My fragile, squirming chakra work was being flooded by Akio, and the fvours I could taste… Huh, different…

  My eyes went wide as I felt a flood of hot liquid pour into me. It was the moment I adored, even more than the pleasure asm, because it was then I knew I was a woman, Akio’s woman, just like I’d always wanted. And if some Kitsuhinks he take me, well… Akio had killed his rival, and as a woman, that made me happy, secure, knowing that if aried to take me, Akio would never let it stand.

  A strange feelihough my body, as though I was somehow sneezing with my whole being, and then Akio was looking down, astonished. “What?” I asked, weakly, only to suddenly shiver as he reached out and stroked my hair. No, wait, that isn’t my hair, that’s my… ears?

  My tail twitched, and I ughed as it knocked against Akio’s tail, a mess of semen, my love ar and urine was caught in the fur. The feeling of having ears that I didn’t normally possess stroked was surprisingly sensual, and as he reached for my tail, I found myself drooling a little, Shaeu and Hyath both ughing at what must have beeupid look on my face.

  “Mreow!” I let out a oise in surprise as he pulled at my tail, and I realised it didn’t matter how I looked. Not here. Not with my family. Because that’s what we are. I mao roll my body, which was a little more responsive, if still rgely immobile, onto Akio, sharing his warmth.

  “Well, are you not-not the bold ooday, Eri?” Shaeu gri my gy nature. Being shy gets you nothing. I long learhat lesson. But that isn’t important.

  “Shaeu, something is strah Akio today. When we made love the Fae way while we were… uh… having sex… it seemed a lot different to normal. Do you think that’s why this happened?” my ears twitched while he toyed with my tail, causing my pussy to rex, leaking again, even though I had just e, a mixture of cloudy white liquid and my ow dripping down my legs.

  “No, I think you just wao bewitch Akio.” She chuckled. “But you are right. Something has definitely ged. Akio, do not-not hide it from us. What have you done?”

  With a guilty smile, he started to expin. We listened, rapt, to his expnation, though Hyath grew impatient, and soon she was boung up and down on his cock, her body twisting and turning, stimuting them both, making Akio moan iween his words. That’s very eic. I o try that. I’m sure I do it as well as her…

  ********

  “Yes, ahn, I feel the difference. Mmm, ahn, it is … most-most delightful.” Shaeu shuddered as they shared their lunar chakras, her small body shaking and jumping as Akio pouheir bodies together again and again. Hyath was lying oher side of the bed, once more showing me her bare ass and slit, though this time it was smeared with semen, and she was giggling softly and dreamily, her eyes vat from too much pleasure.

  It's always strag Shaeu get screwed. It’s hot though. She’s so small and cute, it somehow seems very immoral. But then, I think it’s the guilt that you are doing something naughty that makes it fun. I think Hinata would drown in pleasure, if she broke the rules of nobility and had sex before marriage. She’s still a bit young for Akio’s taste though, I think. Well, she’s old enough to get married, so I guess it’s up to her charms to win him over. I was shuddering myself, as he was stroking my tail, up and down, as though it was us stroking his dick. Every time it sent pleasure through me, I leaked a small mewling noise, like a little kitten.

  “To think… your essence would ge… ahn, ah, mmm, no, I feel it there, do not-not go so intensely, I feel I might break!”

  “Then break!” Akio said, slightly sadistic, as he sometimes was in bed. Just seeing that made my chest ache. Tenderness, ferocity. It’s the diy betweehat makes it so sexy…

  “No, ah, please five my teasing, if you…” he pulled Shaeu over, so her ass was fag him, and he tio drive in, deeper, showing me everything, shooting me a sidelong gnce, a very knowing one, and I flushed, uanding he had worked out it was arousing me.

  “If I what?” he said with a grin, tinuing his onsught, wet sounds eg as his dick slid in and out of her tight pussy.

  “I shall go crazy. The feel-feel, ahn, mm, of you inside me, coupled with… ahn, ahn, no, it is too-too much, ahn, mmm, the sweet feel of moonlight… ahn, your moonlight, being, ahn, one-oh meeeeeeeeeeeee I am …. Ugh!” Shaeu squealed, her body trembling, eyes losing their focus, drool dripping freely from her open mouth, just as her lower hole gushed a spray of semen, Akio overflowing her, despite having already made love to me and Hyath. I watched with i as Shaeu slumped down, rolling onto her back, panting, her small chest heaving, nipples hard and stiff, flesh pink.

  “That was fantastic.” Akio pulled up her damp amber hair, sniffing it, before leaning down to kiss the exhausted but ecstatic girl, and they taheir tongues once more. When they were done, Akio ughed at my pout, kissing me in turn, before sharing the same with the dazed Hyath. He them pulled us all together, me lying ostretched arm, Hyath and Shaeu sharing his other.

  “Did it help you feel better? We all wanted you to go back to how you were before.” I said, and he nodded. “You three, and the others, I ’t fet them. Yes, you did help. Although I think I made the breakthrough before this. Still, the st session of the cve was very annoying, even if the results were det.”

  “Well, you tell us about that ter.” I said, dismissing it. “For now I want to hear about the Diviner, Matsumuro-san. I know you are eager to save her, but… this seems a little… much.”

  “I agree.” Shaeu snuggled in close to him, her hair draped over his chest. “She simply gave you her Divine Favour? Such a precious treasure? I se has had a great-great impa you. Your Charm seems to have increased yet again-again.” she smirked at me. “I fear we will have to be quite-quite alert if we wish to fend off females seeking the best male.”

  “I’m more worried about Matsumuro-san. Just what did you promise her? You didn’t do something like ask her to be yirlfriend, did you?”

  “No, I safely swear that I did not ask her to be my girlfriend.” Akio said, and the way he said it aroused my suspis.

  “is that so? Well…” I looked to Shaeu, who smirked.

  “We tease the details out from him ter. Tease.” Her hand trailed lower towards his groin, tig him. “I am sure-sure we make you talk. But for now… yht element, it has ged. It is calming, like the moo is also quite-quite geable. Why?”

  “Well, the blessing, apparently I was extremely patible with it. I was out of adhereer Aiko, but Tsukiko-san had enough to make it work. It’s from Tsukuyomi, God of the moon. And the moon, it has the full and the new, right? You always do that, saying I’m the full moon to your new, right?” he grinned, and Shaeu shifted in embarrassment.

  Tsukiko-san, hmm?

  “I do indeed, yet it is quite-quite embarrassing to have my words thrown back at me, true as they are!” she pouted, her hand softly stroking ialiation. That’s fu me join in. I think I’m getting the hang of it now, at least a little… I giggled as Akio jumped, my tail stroking his dick, alongside Shaeu’s small hand.

  “Well, I’m not sure whether it’s because the spirit water we have tains moonlight, but my light and darkness elements have both mutated. The light is now based on the full moon, while the darkness has taken on the aspect of the new moon. I don’t really know what they… hey, stop that, I’m trying to be serious..”

  “As are we!” I giggled. Suddenly Hyath was joining in too, her long hair twisting like vines and groping him. “So, what did she demand in exge for this blessing? After all the seven of us have done for you, I don’t think tonight is a good time to tell me you went for bride number eight, is it?”

  As we toyed with him, the reverse of earlier, the guilty look he fshed us made me more sadistic. Oh, it’s like that is it? You promised, Shiro would be the st, and I see you making a move on another woman? I get that you want to save her, and I think that’s a good thing, but even so, you don’t have to pick up every girl you save… I’m rather pissed off. So… Akio gasped and moaned, while Shaeu started lig him, her tongue making him shiver, his gns smeared with her saliva. Seeing that I went for his nipples, while Hyath leant over and stole his lips. Other women? The Diviner? Bah, we’ll bewitch you so thhly you won’t even spare her a thought… you’re ours!

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