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Welf let out a long huff as he finished his latest piece, gloved hand sliding along the still-warm blade. It looked good, but he'd have to test it to make certain, and he could take a moment's delay on that. He placed the sword gingerly down on the waiting hooks, and then stepped out. The sun was high, which meant it was about time for lunch - and his stomach decided that it was precisely the right time to remind him of such, grumbling loudly.

Then a certain petite, white-haired young girl halfway showed up. "Welf!" He smiled - she was pretty much his first customer. "Thanks for your armor, it was really helpful in the Dungeon."

"Well, it is my job," he said.

"Still, thanks a ton! Oh, I made lunch for both of us. I don't know if it's any good, but Setsuko helped," she explained, holding a picnic basket up. "Do you want to try it?"

"I was just thinking I should get something to eat," he said. "Ah, you don't mind the smell?" He added. He'd just spent his time in the forge - he knew he smelled like ash by this point, even if he couldn't make it out.

She sniffed. "Not any worse than the Dungeon," she said. "Come on, there's a nice spot I found for picnics." He followed after her as she made her way up a staircase to a rooftop just outside the Hephaistos forges. "This is actually an abandoned house," she said with a whisper. "Nobody's noticed yet, so we can just sit up here without getting bothered. It's nice, huh?"

"It is." Welf stretched, then plopped down on the ground next to her. "So, what're we having?"

"Grandpa didn't really know how to cook," Bella said, as she laid out a blanket in front of them, "so Setsuko recommended I start with something simple, especially if I wanted to share it. So it's just some sandwiches with fresh meat and produce. Being an adventurer pays pretty good, so I can afford stuff like this!" She placed the sandwiches down on the blanket and turned his way, her big red eyes blinking up at him. "You okay, Welf? You're flushed."

"A-ah, just, hot from the forge still. I'm fine," he said, hurriedly jerking his head to the blanket in front of them. He took hold of the sandwich, placing it in his mouth, biting down. Instantly, the dense, rich flavor of a well-crafted sandwich made with love hit his tongue, and he glanced over at Bella, who was just staring at him as he chewed and then swallowed. "What?"

"Oh! Is it good? I hope it's good. I was too scared to try it." She placed one hand on the back of her head, an embarrassed, open smile on her lips as she scratched there. "It's my first time cooking."

"It's great," he told her.

"Whew! I'd be so embarrassed if it was bad," she admitted, grabbing the sandwich and popping it into her mouth. "Mmm! Sho good!" She declared, clearly considering her cooking even better than Welf had.

Welf turned his attention back to his own sandwich, rather than staring. Bella was really cute and sweet, and also basically his only client... but did she even actually like him back?

* * *

Revis stepped into the open air, and the sun beat down on her hard, making her turn her gaze up to it. Old memories bubbled just beneath the surface, feeling as if they were inside, but she couldn't quite touch them - like the feeling of weight inside a flask full of water, contrasted to one full of marbles, or with a brick inside. The sun. She had lived under it, once, she knew that much intellectually, but the actual experience of its heat and light was a struggle.

Someone bumped into her. "Watch it," the individual called out, making Revis's gaze turn down to them. Some tiny human, coming up to waist height. "Stop staring at the sun, idiot. You'll go blind."

Revis swept forward in a heartbeat, her hand going to the child's throat and hefting him into the air. He immediately soiled himself. "I am not an idiot," she told him.

"Suh, sorry," he sputtered out, whimpering. "I- I didn't realize you were an adventurer, they, only the Bat and the Spectre come here."

"I live here," she said, and he just nodded, ready to accept anything. She let go of him, letting him drop back to the ground, and he scurried off. There was another familiar old sensation as she looked at her hand, flexing the fingers. No, not quite a familiar sensation, but a thought that should have finished, but didn't quite. It was on the tip of her tongue. You shouldn't... or you should... do something, with children like that. Alise would have known, but Revis couldn't place it.

She shook her head. It didn't matter.

* * *

Ryu smiled brightly the moment that Alise stepped into the Hostess, resisting the urge to just rush up and hug her old friend again. "Ah, Mama Mia, can I take a break?"

The dwarf woman looked at her and nodded. "Go ahead. Syr will pick up your shifts."

"Hey!" Syr said, then looked at Ryu, then stopped. "Oh, fine," Syr said.

"I can not do it, if it inconveniences you," Ryu said. Mia flashed a grin at Syr.

"No, no! Go for it! I'm happy for you, Ryu!" Syr said, waving her off. She turned to Mia. "That's a dirty trick."

"For how you use that girl to shirk..." Mia started.

Ryu didn't pay attention to the rest of their argument, instead hurriedly stepping up to Alise. "Alise," she said. "I'm happy to see you well. It's been a few days since we last spoke. Is all well with you?"

Alise blinked a few times at her, then nodded. "Yes."

"I can serve you some food, but I have time off, so it will be fine if we leave at any time. The food here is quite good. I imagine you have not had the opportunity to enjoy much food lately."

"Thank you," Alise said, and Ryu offered her a smile.

Alise was much more terse than she once had been, but it was Alise that she was speaking to, that much was clear. She was glad that her friend was alive, even if her condition was quite unusual. "Which would you like?"

"...I guess food would be nice." Alise looked around the Hostess, and Ryu made a gesture for her to follow her, showing her to a small booth.

"We did not come here back then, but I think that I can select something from the menu that would fit with your tastes." Alise was quite the fan of cake, and certainly deserved a treat, after everything she'd gone through. "Let me order. Just sit there." Alise just nodded quietly, sitting down in the empty booth, while Ryu rushed into the back room to log the order quickly, putting her own money towards it. She came back just as fast, sitting across from Alise, taking in a deep breath and just smiling at her old friend. "I am truly glad that you are alive and well, Alise."

Alise just nodded.

Rather than let an awkward silence linger, Ryu spoke up. "I am curious how your life has been. If you do not wish to speak of it, that is fine. There have been things that have happened to me since we were last together - starting to work here, for one."

"I have just lived in the Dungeon and Knossos," Alise said.

"What is that like?" Ryu asked.

Alise paused at that, tilting her head to one side. "It is mostly boring. I have to kill and watch over monsters." Ryu nodded along, wanting to hear more - but Alise didn't have anything more to say, apparently.

"I see. Would you like me to speak about what has happened to me since we... since you... of late?" She didn't want to mention Alise's death - it appeared to be quite traumatic for Alise herself.

Revis stared at Ryu for a few seconds, then nodded, and Ryu started to talk.

* * *

Finn took a deep breath, rolling his shoulders as he stood outside of the Hostess of Fertility. He had heard that Revis/Alise was here, apparently talking with Ryu - if ever there was a good time to attempt to make peace with someone affiliated with Evilus, this seemed the best.

There, in one of the booths, Ryu sat across from Revis/Alise, speaking with a good degree of animation - at least, for the stoic elf in question.

"Excuse me," Finn said, interrupting their conversation. "May I speak to you, Alise?" He wasn't sure which name she'd prefer, but he'd heard Ryu say Alise a few times, so he decided it was likely the more polite name.

Revis/Alise turned his way, her expression cold as ice. "What are you doing, if not that?"

He let out a gentle, polite laugh at that. "I suppose that's true. I'd like to discuss with you matters relating to Knossos. I'm sorry to interrupt your time with your friend, Ryu, but I'm afraid I have no better way to contact Alise than this."

"Oh. If it is important, then go ahead," Ryu said, even scooting into the booth to allow him the space to sit.

"Thank you," Finn replied, giving her a brisk nod before hopping up across from her, sitting on his knees to avoid being at too great a height disadvantage relative to Revis/Alise. "We of the Loki familia would like to finish off the last of Evilus. Given your history, Alise, I was hopeful that you would be willing to offer your assistance in this matter."

"My history...?" Revis/Alise asked in confusion.

"You remember," Ryu said, and it was clear that Revis/Alise did not remember. "We used to fight against Evilus, Alise, when it was us and Kaguya and Lyra and the rest..."

"Ah," Revis/Alise said. "That."

"Yes," Finn said. He considered it increasingly likely that the woman sitting across from him was not going to be useful for cooperation, but he continued to speak regardless. "We sadly did not quite finish off all of Evilus, it seems. While Thanatos has since been sent to Heaven, and much of his former familia members captured, there's another individual working in Knossos."

"Enyo."

"Yes," Finn agreed, with a smile. "What is your opinion on them?" Enyo was not a god that other gods recognized by name, and thus was likely to be an assumed identity, if they even were a god.

Revis/Alise stared into the middle distance, like she had been asked a particularly difficult question. "Useless," she said, at last.

Hm. That implied that there was likely some purpose which Revis/Alise served - and it wasn't Enyo's. That could be good, or bad, depending on what purpose that was. Presumably Alise was not a descendant of Daedalus, but perhaps there were other such problems. "I see. So you wouldn't be opposed to us killing Enyo, for example?"

Revis/Alise looked at Finn. "No." She paused, looking at him closely. "The blonde girl..." Finn could only frown at that. There were a number of blondes in the Loki familia, after all, if she was even speaking of a familia member. "The sword girl."

"Are you referring to Ais?" Finn asked. "Do you have some personal relationship with her?" He glanced at Ryu, who appeared to have no idea to what Revis/Alise was referring.

"Ais." Revis/Alise licked her lips. "Ais... I need her." Finn stared quietly at her. Revis/Alise was clearly speaking of Ais in an unnatural manner. Was someone else speaking through her? She had been... reanimated, from what he understood. Perhaps someone had slipped something in, which drew his mind back to his early theories about the circumstances of Rei and Julia and Noriko: a monstrous parasite possessing a human host.

"Why do you need her, exactly?" Finn asked.

Revis/Alise paused in response to those words. "It's... for a friend."

"I see. Well, if you could introduce me to this friend, I would be happy to let him or her become acquainted with Ais." He gave her his most personable smile, and her reaction made it clear that there was very little chance of any such introductions taking place. He rose from his seat at that point, giving Ryu a small bow, the elf seeming delusionally oblivious to her friend's odd behavior. "Thank you for your time, Ryu, Alise. I will leave and allow the two of you to further become acquainted. You should try spending more time together, in my opinion - it's my understanding that old sights and smells can help with the recovery of lost memories."

"Ah. That is a good idea. Thank you, Finn," Ryu said.

"It is hardly any problem," he said, giving them both a brisk wave. He did hope that Revis/Alise would stay out of his hair, at least for long enough to handle the matter of Enyo - he doubted that battle would prove so easy as the one with Thanatos.

* * *

Loki's hands were laced together behind her head as she walked through the town, Drake walking alongside her. Occasionally she'd peek out at him, or at anybody looking, mostly on account of she was worried what people were thinking about her. It wasn't that she was embarrassed about him or anything: he was tall, muscular, good-sized dick, nice chest, a Record Breaker in his own right (more or less), shared some of his hot chicks with her, had insane sex skills that put him on par or past any sex goddess, he clearly actually found her antics cute rather than just putting up with her...

Gah! There it was again! That was the thing she was embarrassed about! The thing she couldn't let anybody find out about! That she actually loved the guy! Loki?! In love with a man? So head over heels she said she loved him and really meant it? If word got out, her reputation would be utterly destroyed! Who could respect her if she fell for a guy?! It would make her a traitor to all womankind! The lover of large boobs, seduced by a good dicking down... why, the gossip would be unbearable, and rightly so!

It was a terrible curse. On the one hand, she didn't want anybody to find out how much she liked Drake. On the other hand, he was super hot and she wanted to cling all over him whenever she felt the urge! That was why they were out together, but she had her hands behind her head, instead of on his chest, ass, or dick! She'd grope them later, maybe. Well, he would probably pretend to be scandalized by her touching if she asked him to be... but wasn't that even more ridiculously humiliating than admitting the truth to everybody?! Begging a guy to act like he didn't like her, when he did, just because she was too embarrassed?!

"Ah. Loki," came a male voice, jarring her out of those thoughts. She was thankful for it, on account of those thoughts were dumb teen girl thoughts who somehow this devastatingly sexy adventurer of hers had managed to shove in her normally steel trap mind. "I am happy to see you."

"Yeah?" Loki asked, looking at the speaker with one raised eyebrow. Dionysus, right? Guy from Hestia's neck of the woods up in Heaven. He was that bishonen type. Beautiful, blonde medium length hair, green eyes, good sense of style. Totally in contrast to the studly Drake. Gahhh! There was a time when she would have just appreciated a nice body without comparing it to Drake's! She kept that thought off her face, though. "Why's that?"

"It is a matter which I believe affects both our familias," Dionysus said, lacing his fingers together, his expression concerned. Next to him was Filvis Challia. Long dark hair, cold expression, brilliant red eyes. Pretty classic ice queen archetype. Elf, too. "My vice captain was recently killed."

"Her party was attacked in the Dungeon," Filvis said. "A masked figure did it. Only one member survived the attack."

"A masked figure, eh?" Loki asked. That was some timing. She peered suspiciously at the pair.

"Yes," Filvis said. All her words were true, at least. Given the situation, she couldn't trust Dionysus's words too much, but a mortal couldn't lie to a god.

"Why are you bringing this to us?" Drake asked. Probing for more info. That was part of what she liked about him, that he wasn't just hot, but also had a good brain. She resisted the urge to get embarrassed about that thought.

"I believe your fight with Thanatos relates to this individual - am I wrong?" Dionysus asked, raising one eyebrow.

"Eh... nah, you ain't wrong," Loki said, at last. "Why's the guy picking a fight with you lot? No offense, but you're kinda a bunch of small fry compared to whatever he can bring to bear." Her best guess was that Enyo would be roughly as strong as her familia - and since they'd lost almost all their high rankers back in the Nightmare on the 27th Floor. Only Filvis had survived, and she oughtta be... three? Maybe four? Could be five, if she'd grinded real hard since then. She didn't remember hearing about her going up a Level since back then, though. So three or four.

"I do not know," Dionysus said. "I want to help you, though," he said, one hand trembling in a fist. "Whatever my familia can offer... you can have it. I know you're getting ready to go to war." When Loki gave him a good staring, he let out a good natured chuckle. "I understand you are trying to keep it quiet, but... this is a war. You can't hide it completely."

"Hm." Loki just stared at him, and at Filvis. The cool beauty stared right back. Those red eyes sure were pretty. She elbowed Drake, making him turn her way. "You think you could turn up the charm on her?" By the way Filvis's ears twitched, she heard.

"I am not some kind of seduction machine," Drake responded, with a labored sigh. Ah well. At least he was playing the gentleman. "Sorry about my goddess," he added, to Filvis. Yes! Drake with the excellent recovery. He was an all-natural at seducing women.

"Anyway! Ol' Loki might be able to use some of your people," she said. "Fill out the numbers. But there's some real strong ones on this guy's side. You'd mostly just be a drag." She peered at Filvis closely. "Quick question. What do you think happened to get your familia members killed?"

"I think that a powerful adventurer in the employ of Enyo slaughtered them."

"Yeah, but whycome?"

Filvis looked to her god for a moment, who nodded at her to speak. "I think they were acting on the orders of Enyo themselves."

"Yeah, but why'd Enyo give those orders?"

"Ah." Filvis nodded. "I imagine it serves their purposes to make an enemy of the Dionysus familia. I do not think that Enyo did it for any reason but to turn our familia against them."

"Interesting idea. What makes you think that?"

"Only one member of the party survived. The vice captain was present there - she's the highest ranked member of our familia who adventures with a party. In other words, if he wished to leave a witness to these deeds, Aura would make the best target. Myself, I adventure alone."

"Why's that?" Drake asked, interrupting.

"On accounta she's bad luck," Loki said, knowing that much. "Only survivor of the Nightmare on the 27th Floor. Big Evilus thing about six years back." Filvis nodded. "Plus, she ran away from her party."

"If I fought to the bitter end, they would be just as dead," Filvis said. True. So at least she believed it. She was probably right, even, given what the Nightmare was. 'Course, that wouldn't change how the rest of her familia looked at it.

"Luck isn't a real thing," Drake said.

Loki chuckled at that. "True! But hey. Could be something other than luck, so why take the chance?"

"What Level are you?" Drake asked her.

"...Three," Filvis said, after a long pause. "I have not Leveled since those events."

"Ah... well, if you'd like a party, I can at least offer my own hand in assistance," he said. Yes! He was totally seducing her on Loki's behalf!

"That won't be necessary," Filvis responded curtly.

"I'm sure it won't be necessary, but I'd like to extend the offer just the same."

"It is taken politely and rejected. My last four parties all met bitter ends, not just those with me on the 27th Floor."

"If your concern is for my life, I appreciate it, but even if I joined your party and it was slaughtered, I wouldn't die." Ah, true! Perfect in! Drake was damn good at seducing women, poor Filvis wouldn't even know what hit her.

"There is no way for you to know that," Filvis snapped, her eyes flaring with irritation.

Dionysus spoke up then. "Filvis," he said, raising one hand, Filvis looking to him a moment later. "Perhaps it would be best to work with... Drake, correct?" Drake nodded. "After all, we will need to work with the Loki familia."

Filvis's expression was cold and bitter for a moment, but then she nodded. "As you say, Lord Dionysus, so it shall be." She turned her gaze to Drake. "I hope our partnership can be productive."

Drake looked over at Loki. "Can I tell her about...?" Oh! The multiple bodies!

"Not in public." He rolled his eyes. "But yeah... I mean, I don't see any reason why not," Loki said, scratching her cheek. It wasn't much of a secret by this point, anyway. Six bodies was just too many to keep under wraps, especially when you were a big old softie like Drake who wouldn't let Setsuko sleep alone, and participated in multiple different parties. "Don't worry, Filvi-chan," Loki said, making Filvis's ears twitch. She threw one arm around Drake, a big grin on her face. "This is the guy to heal your wounded heart! He's got all kinda tricks up his sleeve to escape death."

"My heart does not need healing," Filvis snapped in irritation. Woof! Maybe not the cool beauty, but the classic tsundere, then!

"Aha," Dionysus laughed gently, drawing eyes too him. "Children can be so problematic, can't they?" He smiled warmly. "I will speak to Filvis about how best to present herself," he explained, making Filvis's expression sour. "As to yourself, Drake, I too hope that you can have a productive partnership with our Filvis. If there are any members of your familia who would also be willing to partner with her, then they can join her too. In times like this, we must all hang together."

"As you say," Drake said, smiling.

Once they'd parted ways with Dionysus, Loki practically clambered up on Drake's back, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist as he walked off. "You're doing great, Drake! That's how you get the tsundere! Be nice and ignore her tsun-tsun act! Break through to her wounded heart!"

"I-" Drake cut himself off. He rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I wasn't trying to seduce her." True.

"Gah! But I told you to, huh? What, too good to obey your goddess?"

"I thought you were just being Loki, for one." True.

"Gahhh!" She mimed falling off, but didn't actually release her grip. "How can you say something as mean as that to me? Have you no pity?"

"For you? No."

"Too mean, too mean," Loki said, with a huff. She planted her chin on his shoulder. "Ah... so then why were you all nice to her and offering to join her party?"

"Because the Dungeon is dangerous and I didn't want her to die?"

"Well, sure, but..." Loki paused, some back-end part of her brain click-clacking ahead a few ticks, like a clock running fast. The slave liberation. Haruhime. Ryu. Various other things. "Aha! The other secret!" She declared, having deduced it all.

"The other secret?"

"Right! To your harem mastery," she said, leaning in with a conspiratorial grin. "First half, is crazy chicks are easy," she declared, "second half, is be really really nice to everybody!"

"It's... not an intentional strategy." True.

"The all-natural harem master. Teach me your ways!" She demanded.

"Well, if you really want to learn, you can stop groping women at random-"

"Nevermind!" She interrupted.

Some things just weren't worth a harem.

* * *

Once I'd dropped Loki off, that same body went to one of my family's bedrooms - with ten of my wives living here (plus Jahanara), and me having six bodies, we now spilled into two full bedrooms, and would probably wind up with a third in due time. I'd been planning to take one of my naps in there, but when I opened the door, I saw Ais Wallenstein.

Sitting on the bed on her knees.

Wearing a pale white bra and panty combo.

And a doggy ear band.

And a dog collar, complete with leash, and the name AIS WALLENSTEIN engraved on a tag.

And some type of faux-tail coming out the back, too.

With her hands brought up in a miming of a dog begging.

"Arf arf," she declared, in her same normal deadpan voice. "Please sleep with me, Drake. I'm your eager fuckpuppy for tonight."

I, obviously, instantly had a hard-on from a beautiful young woman asking me to have sex with her. (Yes, her ridiculous outfit definitely helped too.) However, also obviously, somebody put Ais up to this, and that somebody was Rei. I decided to just close the door and actually talk to Ais about this. "Do you know what you're doing?"

"I am pretending to be a very kinky chienthrope in order to seduce you."

"Well, yes," I agreed. "Why are you seducing me?"

"Because you are very good at sex. If you have very good sex with me, I will be more likely to fall in love with you, and therefore become stronger."

"Have you ever had sex before?" She smacked me for that, and given she had a Level on me, it was surprisingly hard. "Ow! What the heck?"

She was pouting, now. "You shouldn't ask a girl that."

"Sorry. What I mean is - sex is a physical expression of affection. At least for me."

"Do you not like me?" Given her stupid outfit, she was pretty much literally giving me puppy dog eyes at that point.

"I... think you're a sweet, cute young woman."

"Then you can physically express that, by having sex with me."

I paused for a moment, and I heard Rei hiss from the far side of the door: "Say the line!"

She was clearly trying to be very quiet, but I had a Level Four's ears, so she wasn't quiet enough. "The line?" I asked Rei, looking at the door.

"Fuck!" Rei grunted.

"Ah." Ais apparently remembered what 'the line' was and spoke up. "I am asking you to have sex with me. I understand what sex is, and the consequences of sex. Therefore, if you are not having sex with me to protect me, you are treating me as a child. However, you are married to girls who are younger than me, such as Lena and Haruhime. Therefore you should not treat me like a child." She looked at the door. "Is that correct, Rei?"

"Guh!" Rei grunted. "Yes, but also, the- the thing about personality!"

"Oh. I have a personality that is different from those two, but it does not make me less mature. I am able to make my own decisions, and I am choosing to have sex with you." She paused, looking at the door. "Is that right?"

Rei didn't respond that time, so I figured that was it; after a couple seconds, Ais reached the same conclusions and stared at me. "You're only choosing to have sex with me because you want to Level quicker."

"Yes."

"Lena and Haruhime both want to have sex with me for its own sake."

"Sex with you will be very good, and I will enjoy it." I looked her in the eyes. "Arf arf," she said, raising her hands up again in faux-doggy begging.

I considered it for a second - it was a serious thing, as far as I was concerned. On the one hand, Ais clearly had no real romantic interest in me, and even her sexual interest was pretty clearly instrumental. On the other hand, her goal was to fall in love with me, by getting fucked really good. I'd have said that was a ridiculous idea of how sex and romance work, but... it wasn't exactly a strange idea, for someone to be head over heels purely because they got fucked really good. "Alright," I said, at last. Like she said - she was an adult. "I'm not going to get you pregnant."

"Okay," she said, like she wasn't even sure why I said that. Then she shifted on the bed, getting on her hands and knees, presenting her butt to me. "Arf arf. I am a fuckpuppy who was born to get fucked by you." I was sure she was just saying what Rei had told her to say, but goddamn if it wasn't working. Rei knew me too well, for sure.

I reached up under her, finding that same familiar thread of fate between her breasts, twining my finger around it and pulling. "It's going to be very good," I told her, and she nodded in response. I pulled down her panties at that point, the dog tail coming down along with them, revealing her pink sex to the open air. She wasn't particularly wet, so I leaned down towards her, kissing at it, reaching two fingers inside before finding her clit with my lips. I kissed at it, lips wrapping around the sensitive nub in short order, tongue flicking out to lick at it repeatedly. Meanwhile, my fingers worked their way inside of her, trying to locate her most sensitive spots.

By that point, I was incredibly sexually experienced, with a wide variety of women, learning all their different sensitivities. I knew that every woman was different, and I took my time locating Ais's more sensitive spots, rubbing my fingers around the inner walls of her sex until I eventually settled on one spot in particular, sliding my fingertips back and forth in a repetitive, gentle movement. She let out some quiet pants in response to the movements, enjoying herself, but otherwise she was pretty much completely still in place, like she had no idea what she was supposed to do.

Given that she was a virgin, I couldn't blame her too much. After passing the two minute mark of licking her clit and fingering her, I felt like I'd gotten her appropriately wet, even if she hadn't quite come, and pulled my lips away, pulling my hand out to start stripping. "You're stopping?" She asked, her voice soft and confused as she turned to look at me.

"If we're going to have sex, I'm sure you'd rather have sex than just get fingered," I told her, grabbing the base of my shirt and pulling it up and off, revealing my bare chest. She stared at my chest for a few seconds. "You like?"

"Bete's chest looks the same," she said, simply. I didn't know whether to take that as an insult or a compliment, so I just wiggled my way out of my pants, my hard cock popping free. She stared at it quietly for a few seconds. "So that goes in me?"

"Yes," I told her, pointing my cock at her pussy, and simply grabbing her hip, driving myself inside her in a long, slow movement. She was pleasantly tight as I slid inside, and I just relaxed for a moment once I was buried to the base, letting us both get accustomed to one another.

"Arf arf," she said, wiggling her butt, looking up at me, having that same innocent, cute expression as always, except for a slight heat to her cheeks as she wiggled on my cock. "Do it more than that," she said, and I started to saw along the inside of her pussy, using what I'd learned to find the right angle. "More than that," she repeated.

"Give it a second," I told her, as I softly pumped back and forth. I realized, to my chagrin, I hadn't actually kissed her yet, so I leaned over her, finding her chin and kissing her on the lips softly. For a moment, our lips touched; then my tongue got involved, flicking at her own lips; and then she opened her mouth to lick back, allowing my tongue inside her mouth. As I brushed against her gums for the first time, Celestial Bliss Trick kicked in, and she moaned into my mouth, her eyes widening in surprise at the pleasure. She immediately twisted beneath me, using the strength of a Level Five to hold herself up in the awkward position, both hands going to my cheeks to hold my mouth against hers, her tongue flashing against mine.

Meanwhile, I kept pumping my hips at her sex, enjoying the way it gripped and squeezed at my cock with sudden, intense excitement. She gasped into my mouth, panting heavily for air as we went at it, her tongue going ever more wild in her mouth. She came in short order, letting out a long, quiet groan into my mouth as her pussy just clamped down around my dick, arresting my movement, turning my fucking into a staccato movement.

For a while, we just rutted like that, me atop her, kissing her, her coming and moaning and panting, kissing me with the passion of a woman who thought that tongue kissing was the way to experience the joys of Celestial Bliss Trick. Even with a Level Four's Endurance, though, I eventually felt the need to break off the kiss and just pant, our breaths rolling against one another as she stared at me for just a moment before speaking anew: "Arf arf," she said, though her voice warbled with the pleasure coursing through her body, her flush by this point leading all the way from her cheeks down to the tops of her breasts. "I'm your fuckpuppy. Keep going."

I realized I'd started to slow down to recover, and started to pump away again, just ramming at her pussy all the harder. The position was great for leverage, once I leaned back, grasping her by the hips and just pounding away, balls slapping at her clit. She let out all sorts of lewd noises from her throat, her whole body trembling on my cock as she got fucked like that. I slid my hands up to her breasts, pulling off her bra to start playing with her tits, and she just moaned even louder in response, eyes closing as she got pounded, her own hips slamming back to meet mine. The headband with her ears on it went askew, and just a few thrusts later, fell off altogether, leading her wearing nothing except the collar, the noisy jingling of the name tag dangling from it seeming to echo in the room, my cock throbbing inside her from the sheer delight of the sex.

"Want to try a different position?" I asked, slowing down for a moment.

"Arf arf," she said, making me chuckle - but she nodded alongside it, so I used my grip on her hips to corkscrew her around, placing her head on the pillow while the new position let me see all of her naked body. Her skin was covered in goosebumps, pink running from her cheeks down to her tits, her nipples hard, her clit hard, her whole body looking ready for more. "More," she said. "Arf," she added, when it took me a fraction of a second to get started.

I gave her exactly what she wanted, beginning to thrust away at her, my cock throbbing in her cunt as I enjoyed the feeling of her beneath me. She shivered in response to the thrusts, her breasts bouncing cutely, her collar jingling as the tag bounced around in place from each pump. She brought her hands up in that same lewd parody of a dog, and my cock furiously throbbed in her pussy in reply. I leaned down over her, finding her lips again, and she promptly started sucking face extra hard, her cheeks hollowing as she slurped eagerly on my tongue.

I sort of lost track of time fucking her like that, pausing occasionally to catch my breath. Whenever I did, Ais would respond by either letting out her (frankly, ridiculous, but also cute) "Arf arf"s, or straight up pleading for more, or just moaning and jerking on my cock as a Celestial Bliss Trick-inflicted orgasms ran through her whole body.

When I finally finished inside her, panting over her as I caught my breath and releasing the thin strand of Fate, she just took a few seconds to catch her breath, staring up at me quietly, then spoke. "I love you."

I let out a small bark of laughter at that. "Still didn't count."

She pouted for a moment, a familiar expression she made pretty much every time I told her that it didn't count. She blinked a few times, and nodded. "Okay. Then we must have more sex."

"Alright, that's fine, we can do it every day if you want."

"No. Now." Her legs wrapped around my waist, dragging me back inside her. I reached for that strand of Fate in between her breasts, and got back to work.

As it turned out, I wound up having to cycle through three bodies before Ais was satisfied. Her attempted love confession still didn't count, but by that point, rather than pouting, she just passed out.

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