We were in the Dungeon for this conversation, since the Twilight Manor was full of adventurers with pinpoint accurate hearing. Mary's husband wasn't available until night, as it turned out, so we'd be meeting up with him at the Hostess of Fertility for dinner - apparently, Julia's suggestion - meaning we had time to actually talk about what had happened.

Erza and Cass had done most of the work clearing out the monsters from the local area, the walls having been pretty thoroughly smashed up by Julia (with a grenade launcher). "It was explained to me like this: imagine a tapestry, such that its surfaces on either side are perfectly flat, and colored such that if you flip it around, it just mirrors the image: everything is the same all the way through. Now, if you lived inside the tapestry, you would think that the space you lived in was two dimensional, because your 'eyes' would just be stretched out in three dimensions, but everything they saw would also be, to the exact same extent. With me so far?"

"No..." Cass said, quietly. It took me a good three minutes before she had a clear idea of what I was saying. Her vocabulary just wasn't as good as the rest of my wives, but I didn't hold it against her at all.

"Alright, so imagine you neatly bisect the tapestry along its thinnest direction," I said, hoping that Cass understood that, making hand motions to reinforce it. By her expression, she did. "Both halves would be identical, and to the people living in the tapestry, nothing would have happened - they're not even capable of being aware. Both halves would have just as much claim to being 'the original,' right?" Everyone nodded. "Now, imagine that when you cut the tapestry in half, each half instantly becomes exactly as thick as the original tapestry - there's a law of physics that say tapestries can't actually be that thin, so if there's a tapestry that is that thin, it instantly and perfectly expands to fill the gap. Again, both tapestries are the original. Now, all of us - you all and me both - are cuts out of that tapestry. The 'half' of us that was in our original worlds instantly filled out the missing space. The other half instantly became the proper thickness and was inserted into this world."

"I see," Erza said, with a firm nod. "I do not understand how this relates to The Prettiest Princess's father and mother, however."

"Well, we were cut out of our original worlds, so we're exactly the same as the ones who continued on in them." Erza nodded along. "But, if Mary and..." I glanced over at Julia. I actually didn't know her father's name.

"Ken. Kenneth, technically. I don't know if that's still his name - Mom pronounced hers differently. Mine too."

"Right. If Mary and Ken remember things from this world, don't remember Bitch's world, have backstories that fit this world, and so on, then they're not like us. If they were, well, Julia would be Xulia Xacobi, and I don't even know about the rest of you. I think..." I hesitated a moment, because it was a bit absurd to say. "When I was selecting everything to bring before coming to this world - I bought something to give you all a 'paper trail' here. I didn't want to risk it being really obvious that you were outsiders for whatever reason. So I think that's what did it, it gave everyone an appropriate backstory here."

"If I have an appropriate backstory here, does that not logically mean that my mother and father are also present here?" Noriko asked. Erza and Cass didn't ask that question for their own reasons.

"Or equivalents of them," I agreed. Noriko quieted at that, her gaze getting a bit distant. Her father had been abusive. A big shithead who thought he owned his wife and daughter and could smack the crap out of them if they didn't do exactly what he liked. "You're way stronger than your father now, don't forget, Noriko," I reassured her.

"Oh. That is correct. If he attempted to punch me, I could instead punch him, inflicting grievous physical harm." She smiled lightly, not a trace of irony or joking in her voice.

"I could do it too, if you'd rather, joousama," Julia said, with a certain brightness in her blue eyes that suggested she really wanted to. She'd picked up the basics of Noriko's backstory at some point, and she absolutely loved inflicting violence on people who deserved it.

"Thank you. I will consider this."

I ran my fingers through my hair. On the one hand, this made it virtually impossible for anybody local to realize that Julia, Noriko, Cass, and Erza weren't from around here. On the other hand, none of us actually remembered any specific details about our Orario-equivalents' lives. Cass and Erza's parents were presumably still not going to be around, hopefully for different reasons than canon. But at any time, Noriko's dad - Goro, I think? - could show up and try to cause trouble. Given that Ken was still alive/around in this version... "Bitch, Ken isn't an adventurer here, is he?"

"No, goshujinsama. He's a normal human. I asked."

I let out a sigh of relief. Knowing who Cass and Erza's families were - a couple of assassins and a villainous dragon wizard, respectively - and the possibility that there were localized versions of them...

I should have just bought Love Spot.

* * *

I had never been to the Hostess of Fertility. Erza and Cass had, and had mixed feelings on the staff. Erza loved them; Cass was suspicious of one in particular. Given that Erza could be comically oblivious or obscenely gullible in the right situations, whereas Cass had superhuman people-reading powers, I was more leaning towards suspicion. The five of us wound up arranged around a circular table, two empty seats available for when Mari and Ken showed up.

"Hello. My name is Ryu, and I will be your server for this evening," an elven woman with blonde hair that seemed to border on green said, with a small curtsy. She was wearing what looked like a green-colored maid uniform. They all did.

"Is Syr well?" Erza asked, suddenly sounding concerned. "She is ordinarily the one to serve us."

"She is feeling under the weather," Ryu agreed. "If you had come an hour earlier, she might have been fine; she took ill just as you came in." Julia's expression shifted to a slight degree; I wouldn't have noticed without my improved senses, and Cass's own glance Julia's way to act as a signal that I hadn't been imagining it. "Is something the matter?" She asked Julia, apparently picking up on something.

Julia just smiled that completely deranged smile of hers as she stared Ryu dead in the eyes. Ryu simply frowned slightly. "No. I'm feeling ecstatic. I get to meet you, Ryu. Of all the people in this world, you're the one I look up to the most."

"...I do not believe we have met before."

"No, but, you know, I know what you did," Julia said, making a finger waving motion in the air, which eventually terminated in feigning the cutting of a throat. "I want to one day be as amazing a woman as you. Well, more amazing, but to get there, I have to reach where you stand first."

Ryu apparently had a hardcore case of Noriko-style kuudere because she just stared quietly at Julia without her expression changing in the slightest. "If you do follow my path, I think you will look very nice in a maid uniform." I was trying to pick out the subtext, something I'd gotten much better at since I'd become a Sidereal. It wasn't as if I'd been bad before, but now I was really, really good. I think her meaning was that the path she'd followed had brought her here; but, I also noticed, there was nothing about it not being a great job, or her having regrets, or anything like that, even as the pair maintained subtlety in the matter.

Julia smiled at that, showing off her pearly whites. I think a shark would have been threatened by them, but Ryu just continued to stare forward. "I don't think Syr would want me hanging around here all day."

"I cannot see why she would be opposed."

"I'm on my best behavior with you," she explained, her tongue flicking out past her lips.

"Why not be on your best behavior with Syr?"

"Oh, lots of reasons," Julia said, grinning.

"I would like to order my food," Noriko interrupted. "After I finish ordering my food, and Ryu tells the kitchen about it, it is fine if you wish to continue your conversation. Also, if possible, Drake, I would like to sit in your lap."

I smiled and let out a small sigh at that. "I don't think it's a good idea. We want to make a good impression on Bitch's parents."

Ryu spoke up then. "I believe that calling her that name will make it difficult to make a good impression."

"Why?" Julia asked, fluttering her eyelashes playfully in Ryu's direction. "Syr means a female pig, why can't I be named after a female dog?"

"I am unaware of this meaning of Syr," Ryu said.

Noriko interrupted their conversation. "I would like the noodles. I would also like the alcohol, as I am the oldest of all the girls here, and therefore it is appropriate for me to get drunk. I do not know what the others want."

"Noriko. We should wait until Bitch's mom and dad are here to order," I pointed out.

"It's typical to bring out drinks first," Ryu said. "What kind of alcohol would you like?" She asked Noriko.

"I do not know. What kind of alcohol is best?" Noriko asked, tilting her head to one side.

"I am afraid I don't drink," Ryu said. "Syr would recommend a lemon cocktail, I believe."

"I will have juice," Erza said.

"Just water for me," I offered.

"I'll have... water... too."

"Ah..." Julia seemed to consider it for a long few seconds. I became increasingly worried she was going to say something insane. "Do you have fruit juice?"

"Orange, apple, lemon, and grape," Ryu recited.

"Mm... lemon, I guess," Julia decided. I kept waiting for her to say something like, That way goshujinsama's salty cum will taste even better! but she genuinely seemed to be on her best behavior. "Oh! I heard that you train alone," Julia said, before Ryu could go back to the kitchen. "Can I train with you?"

Several of the maids twisted their heads over our way. Nothing thus far had earned their attention like that. "I am told I am not a good training partner," Ryu said.

"That's okay, I'm a terrible conversationalist," Julia said, with a brilliant smile.

"I have been told that I go too rough on my partners," Ryu corrected.

"I love it rough," Julia said, tongue slithering out past her lips.

"I... very well. I will go get your drinks, then."

"I am spending much of my time in the Dungeon training," Erza said, "but practice with you would likely be worth it. I didn't realize you still trained."

"I'd be interested..." Cass added as well.

"Great! Three of goshujinsama's wives, and the incredible elf," Julia said, smiling all the while. "Let's work very hard to make her feel welcome. Don't complain too much when she beats you."

"Pain is simply weakness leaving the body!" Erza declared.

"I'm used to it..." Cass said.

Ryu's expression actually did seem to shift somewhat at Julia's suggestion, and the positive responses of Erza and Cass, a very light smile tugging at her lips before she banished it back to her ordinary poker face. I couldn't imagine that the three would actually be dissuaded, no matter how rough a sparring partner Ryu was. As a child, Cass had literally been shot as part of her training; Erza was almost always the one comically beating the other people training; and Julia was such an insane masochist that at one point in her original work, she suggested blowing a hole in her head and having her lover fuck the hole. "I will fetch your drinks," Ryu said, with a tiny bow.

We had barely been nursing our drinks for a minute when I spotted Mari and Ken entering the building; Mary seemed a tad concerned as she noticed the rough and tumble mass of adventurers inside.

Ken had dark skin, closer to his daughter's cool coffee shade than the richer brown of his wife. He held one arm wrapped around Mari's waist, and as if in response to her concern, he idly groped her ass, earning a faint wriggle and shy smile from his wife. He approached our table without any apparent concern, sliding Mari's chair out with a slip of his foot as he plopped down in his own and scooched forward. "So. This the guy my daughter eloped with, huh?" He looked me up and down. "Doesn't look like anything special to me."

"Goshujinsama is an incredible lover, it's as if he knows everything I could possibly want and does it without needing to be asked," Julila said. Her voice started off as defensive and sharp, but quickly turned into genuine effusive praise. It made me feel a tad uncomfortable - I just happened to know all the things that made her tick, really. It wasn't like I'd learned it once we'd entered into our relationship.

"He is truly a kind and generous lover," Erza said, "although frequently, with your daughter-"

"It's nice to meet you, Ken," I said, interrupting Erza before she could explain that Julia was an insane masochistic nymphomaniac in the bedroom. "I'm Drake Holt. Your daughter hasn't told me much about you." Nor was there much about him in the original work. He'd disappeared well before it started.

"Why should she? Apparently doesn't respect me," he said, leaning back in his chair. Julia just gave him a bored look, as if his opinion of her didn't matter at all. "Oy, I'm your dad, you brat."

Julia simply shrugged. "How much have you lost gambling lately?"

His expression got even more irate at that. "I can handle it, with money from my job," he said. "Can't a man enjoy a single damn thing without you getting a bug up your ass? You bought all those weird 'manga' from the Far East."

"Is he in debt?" Julia asked Cass, not even bothering looking at her father as he did so. Cass gave a small nod, nursing her water.

His body language shifted, from the casual way he was leaning back to a sharp forward bend, his blue eyes glaring at his daughter. "Don't talk about me like I'm not here," he snapped out.

"Dear," Mari said, gently placing one hand on her husband's shoulders. "Please, calm down."

He let out an annoyed sigh, shifting in his seat to scoot closer to Mari, then dragging her into him. It was an affectionate and possessive movement, his hand sliding down under the table to a land I could only guess at by the little giggle that Mari let out. "So. You decide to elope with this guy, join a familia so you don't have to come home, and just... never tell your mother and I about where you went?"

"Yep," Julia said, popping the 'p' for emphasis.

"And you?" He glared at me. "Xulia never mentioned you before."

"We fell in love at first sight," I said. Technically I loved her before first sight, as I loved her when she was just a fictional character to me (well, as much as you can love a fictional character - anyway), but there was no reason to go around saying that.

"Then goshujinsama decided to marry me, and also Noriko, and Erza, and Cass," Julia explained, pointing to each girl in turn. "So now we're his wives. I've never been happier, the sex is incredible," she said, starting to grow breathless with obviously exaggerated arousal, "just incredible, every hole except my pussy. I'm still a virgin, Dad," she said, clearly trying her best to piss him off, and succeeding with flying colors.

Her father was surprisingly self controlled. I didn't think that Julia had always been like this. In fact, I got the impression that she'd only started acting out like this, post near-death experience, on the general conclusion that she found it fun and didn't generally care if people didn't like her because of it. So he was reacting to novel behavior from his daughter. Thus, it was pretty restrained when he spoke. "Are you seriously saying this kind of shit to me?"

"I'm." There was a moment we waited for the rest of the sentence, before processing that there wasn't a rest of the sentence.

"I did not raise you to just spit out this kind of shit."

"Oh, yes, sometimes goshujinsama makes me clean his dick off with his mouth after he gets done fucking my ass. I always swallow it."

To be clear, I have only done that when she specifically does some topping-from-the-bottom line like Are you going to use my mouth to clean your dick off? "Julia has a very... colorful personality," I interrupted, hoping to patch up this particular sinking ship. Even if her dad was just some guy, and she didn't have a good relationship with him, I didn't want to piss him off because Julia decided to just go whole hog on being Julia. One of the downsides to being married to her. "I think since her, ah, near death experience, she's been rather... prone to creating conflict, saying the crudest things she can think of."

He turned my way, his expression serious, almost vicious. "Yeah? What near death experience was this?"

"I was tortured to death and had my fingernails removed," Julia said, waggling her very clearly still present fingernails. "It was horrible, but it was also wonderful, because I knew I could die satisfied."

Ryu was just showing up at the table as Julia finished saying that, and she'd spoken loud enough that the whole bar could hear. Definitely more than one person looked our way. Mari seemed sympathetic. Ken seemed skeptical. Ryu was the one who spoke. "That must have been very painful. But don't you mean near death?"

"Nope!" Julia replied, popping the noise.

Ryu stared for a quiet second, then simply swiveled her head to Mari and Ken. "What would the two of you like to drink?"

"Ale," Ken said.

"Just water, thank you," Mari said, and Ryu nodded and turned to go. "Xulia, why didn't you mention that to me?" Julia just stared blankly at Ryu's departing body, as if she hadn't even heard her mother speak. "Oh, sorry. Why didn't you mention that to me, sweetie?"

"What's this?" Ken asked, clear irritation in his voice.

"Xulia has some kind of curse on her that keeps her from responding to her name, dear," Mari said.

"This kind of rebellious, ridiculous, shit..." Ken said, glaring at Julia. "If you weren't part of the Loki familia now." His fist visibly tightened into a fist.

"What? You'd sell me into sexual slavery?" She smiled brightly. "Ah, don't worry, you can still do that if you want."

"Uh. No he can't, bi- beautiful," I quickly course corrected. "You're my woman."

"Don't worry about it, goshujinsama," Julia said playfully. "I'll always be your woman, even after being used by hundreds, thousands of men, who all rape me in sequence, practically drowning me in their seed."

"Yes, but also, you won't do that."

Julia pouted at that. Her father grit his teeth. The dinner went on about like that; Julia tweaking her father, him getting angrier and angrier, her mother and I trying to play peacekeeper on our respective sides. Noriko happily ate her noodles without appearing to care. One curious trait about her is that, since she's a female Hentalian, she actually ate almost as much as Erza and Cass, the training machines with lots of muscle. Cass, similarly, didn't quite know how to navigate the conversation, so she just remained quiet as her dad got more and more pissed.

"Ah, then goshujinsama made me eat out joousama," she said, to her trembling father, as her mother quietly tried to convince her to stop, and I gently gripped her shoulder to also signal her to stop.

"Bitch," I hissed warningly, but she was actually far enough into 'piss off my dad' mode that she wasn't responding to my verbal commands. I think the only time insubordinate like this in the original work was when somebody was doing something actually evil.

"It was completely disgusting, I'm totally straight, but she does taste nice at least, so if I have to eat out a woman's pussy I'm glad it's joousama's."

"Yes. My pussy is indeed the most pleasant-tasting one. Thank you for noticing, Bitch," Noriko said, before belching and returning to eating.

"You're welcome, joousama! So after I got done eating out joousama - oh, he makes me call her joousama. Did I ever tell you what it means? Oh, did I ever tell you what goshujinsama means? Joousama means Mistress, and Goshujinsama means Master," she explained, big blue eyes brilliant and wild and that was finally what pushed her father over the edge.

"I am fucking sick of hearing this shit from you," he shouted, standing up and slamming his fists down on the table forcefully - and pretty much immediately, Ryu grabbed him.

"Speak quietly and do not disturb the other patrons," she said, as she tugged his arm behind his back and pushed him forward over the table. "If you fail to do this, I will be forced to eject you from the bar. Trust me, this is far kinder than the other employees would give you."

"Have you heard the shit my daughter is saying?" He yelled it out, actually squirming in her grasp, which did not seem like a good idea to me.

"She is speaking at a reasonable volume. You are not," she said, pinwheeling him around to face the door. She simply perp walked him to the door and pushed him out, sending him tumbling to the ground roughly.

"Ken!" Mari shouted, running out the door in a rush.

Julia just smiled. "This is why I wanted to eat at the Hostess of Fertility!" She said, with a bright smile. Ryu returned it with a dour look. "Are we still on for training? I was looking forward to training with such a distinguished adventurer..." She actually did a pretty decent puppy dog look, when she bothered to try.

After a moment quietly considering, Ryu simply responded with, "We are." Then she went back to making her rounds around the restaurant.

* * *

In a relationship, it isn't your role to 'punish' the other person for the things they do wrong. That's basically the fundamental psychology of abuse, the idea that you have the license and duty to punish your partner, like they were your child. Given I had a pretty good idea of Julia's character, the way she acted with her father wasn't something she'd done just because; she had to really, really dislike him. As I said, the only time she canonically was insubordinate to her lover was when he appeared to want to do something she viewed as morally wrong: spare the wicked, hurt the innocent. So I wasn't even sure that what she did really was wrong, and not just motivated by factors I didn't understand.

My first instinct was something emotional and annoyed; once I'd had the time to calm down (the rest of the meal with Noriko in my lap since Ken wasn't coming back, the long walk back to Twilight Manor), though, I just wanted to talk to her. "So. Why did you do what you did with your father?"

"I hate him, goshujinsama," Julia said, in a sing-songy, completely unrepentant voice. "He ran away and abandoned my mother with his gambling debts, and she got forced into prostitution as a consequence. I'm lucky they didn't go after me."

"That didn't happen in this world, Bitch," I said, my voice soft despite my reversion to calling her by her preferred nickname.

"It's going to. Ahh. Or maybe he'll get tricked into betting me? I'm outrageously beautiful and incredibly exotic, surely you've noticed, goshujinsama? Everybody always looks at me when I enter a room." I was less sure than her that that was due to her skin tone, though yes, she and her family were literally the only people that dark that I had seen in my entire time in Orario so far. "But I'm part of the Loki familia now..."

"What are you thinking about, Bitch?" Julia had read the Danmachi LNs in their original Japanese up until the last one published when she transitioned - which was, to quote her, Sword Oratorio V10, and mainline Danmachi V13. I was pretty sure she was trying to metagame something, even though she'd said, Oh, it's a good ways after where we are in the timeline, and it mostly affects just the protagonist.

"Ahh, goshujinsama is so good at reading me!" Julia said, clapping her hands. And not answering me at all.

"Aren't we husband and wife?" I prompted her, stepping closer to her, and she smiled at the comment.

"You can't get jealous, goshujinsama," she said, breathless and horny. "Ah, but don't you want to keep it a secret? Two men can keep a secret if one of them is dead. We have all these gods around, constantly running their stupid lie detectors." I remembered that there was an Abyssal Charm that caused anybody who lied to you to start bleeding from their nose, eyes, ears, fingertips...

"I'm actually better than lying at you," I said, and she tilted her head curiously. "Trust me."

"Then you can trust me on this!" Julia said.

"Bitch, please."

She let out a sigh. "Okay, goshujinsama," she said. "There's a whole plot arc where there's a guy in the casino who's raping girls using their parents' debts to collect them as his sex slaves. I was thinking that if my dad did get in debt to him, and they came to kidnap me, I could go along, and then, when he's about to rape me, I blow his brains out!" She made an exaggerated explosion effect with her hands and mouth, like she was mimicking a firework.

When you love someone, you accept them, and don't punish them for being who they are. "Alright. Don't let him actually rape you, though," I told her. "Your pussy belongs to me."

"Ah... when is goshujinsama going to claim it?" She breathed out.

Now, despite all that stuff I said about not wanting to punish Julia... she was also a pretty hardcore submissive, that's why she called me goshujinsama and herself a bitch onahole. This was almost certainly the kind of situation where she would want me to punish her. "Not tonight. You acted like a huge brat at the Hostess of Fertility, and made problems for Ryu, and it seems like it was just out of personal animus for your father rather than any higher reason. I expected better out of you, really. I'm going to fuck Cass, Noriko, and Erza, but not you tonight."

She let out a hot breath that said I wasn't overstepping my boundaries at all.

* * *

Cass faintly blushed as she saw Drake finally extricate himself from Noriko. He had been fucking her for quite some time, and she'd come more times than Cass had finger bones, to the two times that Drake had come himself. Noriko's cheeks were flush, her chest rising and falling, her skin slick with sweat. Drake turned to her and Erza; Erza stood, hands clasped in front of her, trembling with anticipation, with the build up work of holding back, enjoying restraining her desire for Drake.

Drake looked just about ready to bring Cass over to make love, but she could tell he actually wanted to fuck Erza right then - he just thought that Erza would rather wait. He was being nice... but Erza would be fine, either way... and he deserved to be selfish sometimes. "How about... Erza, you go next?" Cass suggested, and Erza actually jerked in momentary surprise at the suggestion, she was that used to going third.

"Are you certain you don't wish to go first?" Erza asked her, sincerely concerned for her well-being. Cass just smiled and shook her head. Erza didn't need more than that - she Requipped into the nude and hopped onto the bed, soon straddling Drake, his hard cock brushing against her sex for a moment before she drove herself down it with a roughness and speed that spoke to how long she'd been holding out. She panted softly, and Cass saw as Drake's eyes were drawn to Erza's breasts in that position, watching the other girl fuck herself on his cock, her whole powerful body sliding up and down his length.

The girl without a name had her hands tied behind her back at the moment, and was standing up a bit aways from the bed, staring at the scene unfolding before her with undisguised lust. Cass didn't stop her from doing that, or feel bad that Drake had done that to her, because she wanted those things done to her. Instead, she quietly got onto the bed, positioning her body behind Erza's, and grabbed Erza by the hips.

Before she got her... falna, that was the word, she wouldn't have been able to easily pump Erza up and down Drake's cock like this. She probably could have, but it would have been tough. With her enhanced strength, but Erza's lack of enhanced weight, however, it was easy, and she carefully monitored Erza's body language as she upped the pace, faster and faster, sending the woman's breasts flying pendulously, intensifying her pleasure with each rough thump of her body down into Drake's groin, her sex drooling all over his cock.

Drake groaned as Erza bounced faster and faster on his cock, Cass finding that no matter how high the pace accelerated, Erza just enjoyed it more and more, her cheeks glowing with heat. She came, and she could see as Drake spasmed just how he was enjoying her cunt, and slowed her pace down, timing it carefully so that each clamp of Erza's sex around his dick gripped the very tip, just below the cockhead, the tightest, most of his length left out of her body by so doing. Drake groaned and jerked, his whole body shivering, and Cass felt her cheeks heating up as she enjoyed the sight of him like that, his intense responses so nice to see... even nicer than Erza's, which were also nice too.

When her orgasm finished, and he was given a break - she hadn't managed to make him come just yet, sadly - his hands reached up for Erza's breasts, roughly groping and squeezing them, making Erza let out a lewd noise of pleasure, her enjoyment of this situation so obvious it was as if her body was screaming at Cass how much she loved this. She shifted her grip on Erza's hips and started to really pump her on Drake's cock again, her gaze careful and studious as she watched Drake's every reaction. Every quiver of his lips. Every soft breath he let out. Every little twitch. His whole body trembled, and she enjoyed seeing it, wiggling faintly in place as his hips bucked and jerked, as he throbbed and pulsed.

She wanted to make him come again, to see his o-face. It was always really exciting. Really nice. She loved seeing it so much, more than she liked seeing it on Noriko, or Erza, or Julia, though she liked seeing it on them too. He hadn't given her that view when Erza had first orgasmed, unfortunately. She shifted her grip yet again, tightening her grip on Erza's left hip, while letting her right hand reach down for Drake's bare thighs, sliding along them. They were nice and muscular, and her fingers eventually found their way to his balls, gently cupping and playing with them. She'd learned just the way he liked it, since they'd become husband and wife, and she stared down at him with intensity, as she juggled his testicles.

Erza came soon, always loving intense stimulation like this - and when she did, Cass took advantage of her perfect timing once more, angling it so her pussy squeezed on his cockhead each time her body tightened, and he just let out a low groan, finally letting go inside of Erza. Cass smiled brightly at that, watching every shift of his expression as he came, his fingers now roughly digging into Erza's breasts. He really did like Erza's breasts... there was a thing he liked doing with Erza's breasts, maybe he'd want to do it now?

When he finished coming, Cass hefted Erza up off his pelvis entirely, gently directing the still-hot Erza down onto his pelvis, making her breasts come to squeeze around his cock. With how big they were, they almost swallowed his cock up, only the top inch or so emerging from within the full, voluminous things. Erza, finally recovered from the intensity of her most recent orgasm, spoke up. "That was very intense, Cass. Thank you for putting your incredible lovemaking talents to such good use." She wore a warm smile as she said it.

"Yeah, it was great, Cass, and you too, Erza," Drake said. He wasn't the type to naturally thank people in a polite way, she thought. Or to be thanked.

"I... liked it too... don't worry," she said, quietly shifting around on the bed, leaning forward to gently lick at the tip of his cock where it popped out from between Erza's breasts. His length twitched, and she could see the way his whole body tensed and shifted in response to her movements, her tongue beginning to gently flick and slither in a rotary motion around his cock. She loved seeing those reactions from him, and her eyes remained totally focused on his, staring up at him as she worked.

"This is a wonderful position," Erza declared. "You can pleasure his cockhead, while I can pleasure his length," she added, as her hands began to squish and press her breasts around him, to slide up and down an inch or so, not in tandem but in opposition, one side going up when the other went down. Cass just quietly licked and suckled at the tip of Drake's cock, staring up at him all the while.

She could also see as Noriko rose from the bed, stumbling over to the nameless and twisting her around. She forced the other girl to face away from the bed, then pushed her face into her sex. "You must eat out your joousama's pussy. You are lucky, as it contains your goshujinsama's cum," she declared with absolute confidence and not the trace of a joke in her voice. Her hands gripped the back of the nameless girl's head. "Darling, when you impregnate me, will my breasts be as large as Erza's?" She asked.

Cass reduced her technique, since Drake wanted to reply to Noriko's questions, starting to just gently circle his tip with her tongue as she watched his features slowly contort in pleasure. "They, will," he reassured her, seeming completely certain. Noriko gently smiled at that, her hips bucking at the nameless girl's face, her hands still bound behind her back.

"I will have breasts even larger than Erza, who currently has the largest breasts. This will make my bust size therefore superior to you, Bitch," she said, earning a lewd noise from the nameless girl as she had to eat out Noriko.

Cass just turned her attention back to Drake, softly licking and flicking her tongue along the tip of his cock. Erza panted with exertion and pleasure, from the sheer forcefulness with which she was working, her breaths brushing along Cass's hair. "This is wondrous, Drake, Cass. I'm glad that we can all enjoy our shared pleasure together!" She tightened and squeezed her breasts around Drake's cock, and he bucked his hips upwards, pushing his cock past Cass's lips. The sudden movement wasn't a surprise to Cass, but his response was - he really enjoyed seeing her like that, Erza's breasts pushed against her face, his cockhead fully absorbed into her mouth.

If he liked it, then she could certainly do it on purpose. She pushed forward down his cock, until her nose was poking deep into the soft flesh of Erza's breasts, and he grunted at that as she suckled and licked, always watching out of the corner of her eye, always trying to find just the right way to flick her tongue - he came in short order, ejaculating into her mouth, and she smiled as she swallowed down every last droplet, knowing that he liked seeing her like that. When he was spent, she finally popped up off his cock, then moved to snuggle up to him - except he didn't want to snuggle? He grabbed her by the shoulder, and she was confused for a moment before he pushed her down onto her back on the bed, getting up atop her, teasing his cockhead at her sex for a moment, then just slamming inside.

He wanted to fuck her, too. She smiled up at him as he started to pound away, sliding her legs up along his body, seeing Erza watching the whole thing with desire in her features. Cass's body bounced with each thrust, and Drake leaned down to kiss her, hungrily inspecting the inside of her mouth with his tongue, while her own hands came up to slide along his naked body, feeling up his pecs, brushing along bare skin, gathering sweat - then she realized that Erza wanted to join in. She broke off the kiss, then. "Tell... Erza..." He liked pleasing Erza. "To let you... finger her..." she suggested.

He needed only to make a come-hither movement, and Erza was well positioned, one of his hands sliding up into her sex, the other simply groping Cass's butt. He returned to hungrily kissing her.

Cass knew that Erza was doing much of the work of pleasuring herself on Drake's hand, but that was fine. As long as everyone else was happy, she was happy, and Erza and Drake and Noriko and the nameless girl were all very happy. When Drake finally came inside her, only a few minutes of her frantic work on his cock later, overpowering his defenses that otherwise might have prevented his orgasm, she was completely satisfied.

Drake wasn't, though, so he just kept going, his hand sliding around from her ass to her clit, brushing his thumb against it, trying to make her come. She twisted her hips up against him, simultaneously intensifying both their pleasures, and he wound up managing to make her come inside a few minutes. The moment her pussy started clamping down on his cock, she dragged him over the line right alongside her.

Erza and Cass wound up sleeping on either side of him that night, because Noriko spent quite some time continuing to quietly bully the nameless girl; when she was finished, she flopped onto Drake's stomach without a care in the world, and the nameless girl quietly crawled around his feet like a kitten. Everyone was happy, and so, Cass was too. She drifted off to sleep with a smile on her lips.

* * *

Ryu was glad to see that Erza, Cassandra, and... the girl whose name she didn't know, had in fact arrived to train. She hoped they would come a second time. She would try to be gentle with them. When she had trained with her coworkers, who were far stronger than these three first level adventurers would be, she had not held herself back enough. They had refused to come a second time. She had to be gentle with them, or they would not come a second time. She knew that merely training by herself was stifling her progress, and even if they were Level Ones -

The unnamed girl began firing something at her immediately, and she drew up her sword to block it, snapping it threw the air. Pinpricks and wet noises emerged from the location of contact, and she found her wooden blade coated in pinks, blues, purples, greens, and other colors. "Amazing, Ryu! You blocked all of them!"

"The Prettiest Princess," Erza said, placing one hand upon... the girl whose name Ryu didn't know's shoulder. "In a spar, it is appropriate to warn the opponent that you are prepared to attack them."

"Since we're all Level Ones, and she's Level Four, it's best if we act with surprise, right, Ryu? You do want to get stronger, don't you?"

Ryu nodded. "Anything you can do to overcome me will be helpful to me."

"See?" The girl whose name Ryu didn't know lazily tossed something cylindrical Ryu's way, and she snapped out with her sword to block it. Rather than being tossed aside, it instead immediately burst in a spray of wet color, completely drenching Ryu. Ryu blinked at it. "That's an inertia-armed grenade, when it hits something or stops, it explodes! If it had been a real one, well, I don't actually know how tough Level Fours are to grenades..."

Ryu wiped what had come above her brow and nodded. "An interesting weapon. Are the rest of you prepared to fight, or do you require a warmup first?" Just because the girl whose name Ryu didn't know was ready, didn't mean that Erza and Cass were.

Cass simply shook her head quietly, and Erza grinned as she changed her weapon and armor before lunging forward. She was fast, far faster than any Level One had any right to be. Ryu brought up her own wooden sword against Erza's, but she knew that with the amount of force they were both bringing to bear, the weapon would crack and shatter in a proper block. Instead, she slid lightly to one side, directing the blade away from her with her own, and began to Chant. "In the sky of a now distant forest," she intoned, her concentration perfect enough to manage to duck below the strike that Cass threw at her stomach while she was distracted, the martial artist managing to bring around a spin-kick out of it that would have sent her tumbling if she hadn't had the strength to stamp her foot back down a heartbeat after Cass struck her.

The girl whose name she didn't know immediately started peppering her with more of those little bolts of color. She didn't know what sort of damage they would do if they were real, but chose to treat them as if they were serious attacks, dancing back, positioning herself so that Erza and Cass's body blocked much of the girl whose name she didn't know's line of sight.

That didn't seem to stop the continuous pepper pew-pew-pew strikes of the girl whose name she didn't know. If she couldn't see that neither Cass nor Erza were struck, she would have assumed that she simply didn't care about hitting her own allies - instead, she was startlingly accurate, the bolts constantly hitting near her.

"Infinite stars scattered in the endless night sky," she continued, dodging back from an overhand slash from Erza that turned into a thrust, Cass sliding forward along the ground, hands lunging for her own feet. She leapt up, found the wall behind her with her feet, and kicked off it, slamming a powerful kick down against the back of Erza's head to keep her in the air, going for the girl whose attacks were preventing her full mobility. "Respond to my foolish voice-" the girl drew another grenade, pulling something out of it and simply holding it aloft, a silent threat. If she were to assume the weapon were real, she would respond by "-give me now divine protection of starfire-" cutting the hand off and kicking off the girl to get away from the grenade. Her blade struck true at the girl whose name she didn't know's wrist, and she lost her grip on the grenade; a heartbeat later, her feet collided with her chest and she was propelled back towards Erza and Cass at a lightning pace even as she heard the girl whose name she didn't know collide with something distantly behind her.

She aimed for Cass, finding that the girl's moves always seemed excellently timed and positioned to put her off balance, and that she was much less fast than Erza. She was reminded of Erza's speed when another powerful strike was made at her torso, forcing her to twist backwards to avoid it, the weapon sweeping overhead. Her leg kicked out at Cass, but the girl twisted her head just a few millimeters further than the blow, and then grabbed Ryu by it. "Give the mercy of light to the one that-" her other leg kicked up, hitting Cass in the chin as she fell backwards, one hand snapping back to push off against the floor as her sword lashed out to block Erza's own, "-abandoned you. Come, wandering wind-" She was interrupted by a thorough peppering of paint that hid her cheeks and face and eyes and smeared across her features effectively enough to actually blind her. She sputtered, and the magic went off.

Wind and light engulfed all of them, simply erupting out of Ryu. She realized, belatedly, that the spell was far too powerful for sparring with Level Ones. She had overdone it. Ryu herself slammed roughly against the ground below her from the backlash of the broken spell, the force hard enough to seriously hurt; Erza interposed herself between the blast and Cass, before being blown back. She could only hope that the girl whose name she didn't know was far enough back to be uninjured...

"I win!"

Apparently she was.

For the moment, Ryu simply lay there, not quite daring to look up, in fear that Erza or Cass had died in the blast. The girl whose name she didn't know came over her, peering down at her as if curious if she was still alive. "I didn't use a rocket launcher, but you used magic," she said, waving her finger disapprovingly down at Ryu. Ryu simply swallowed and nodded, nervously glancing in the direction that Cass and Erza would have been. "Oh, they're fine. Erza is incredibly tough," the girl whose name she didn't know said.

"I see. You did beat me - if that was a real fight, I would have lost, if you were able to get off an attack like that with one hand," she admitted.

"I actually only used one hand!" The girl reassured her. Ryu let out a faint laugh at that. "Numbers are good, huh?"

"Not normally this good."

"Oh, we're all also incredibly talented," the girl said, smiling brightly.

"Clearly," Ryu said, finally starting to lean up, her back aching from the blow she'd dealt herself.

"That was a spar to remember!" Erza shouted, rising to her feet with a swiftness that was far greater than Ryu's own. She simply blinked at the other woman, while Cass gingerly rose up behind her, wavering somewhat.

"I'm sorry. I went too far," Ryu said. They would surely not be willing to engage in a second sparring match with her, not after she had gone so hard against opponents of their levels.

"Hmm? It was perfectly normal?" Erza asked, seeming genuinely confused.

"My dad... hurt me worse... when we sparred," Cass said.

Ryu just blinked. She glanced over at the girl whose name she didn't know. "And you?"

"I love pain!"

A trace of a smile rose on Ryu's lips.