[You have killed a Primal (Tier 4) Spirit Beast: Voidlash Stalker]
[You have gained Voidlash Tendril]
Kassie looked at . Her expression was straight and gave away nothing, but she narrowed her eyes slightly.
"Why... are you smiling? Did you like it that much?"
I frowned imdiately. "Smiling? I smiled?" I pointed at myself in disbelief. I knew I said I was going to pay back the bastard for being such a tough nut, and I was going to enjoy burning it.
But those were lines, weren’t they? Just talk?
’...’
To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure. And I didn’t want to find out.
Instead, I flashed Kassie a big, wide smile.
"Are you sohow falling in love with my smile and want to stop?"
She winced slightly, her face twisting like sothing foul had crawled across her skin.
For a mont, I looked down at myself. I was covered in blood and rags, my clothes hanging in tatters where the Stalker’s tentacles had torn through. But I was better than sothing foul! At least I hoped so.
I frowned the next minute and shot her a glare.
"Hey, hey, Kassie... what was that look for?"
She simply walked forward.
"Let’s move on."
She moved past without another word, her stride unhurried despite the darkness pressing in around us.
I watched her pass.
’Huh?’
It might have been and my hopes, but...
’Did she just smile?’
She damned well did. I couldn’t be daydreaming in broad darkness. The corners of her mouth had definitely twitched upward. A real, actual smile — small as it was.
I didn’t know why, but that suddenly felt so satisfying. I quieted down my concerns about being looked at like cave fungus, grinning internally instead.
’I’m going to let it slide this once.’
If Kassie smiled, then that ant she was impressed with . And this might not an much unless one thought about it with the gravity it deserved.
Kassandra. The Tyrant Empress. The woman who destroyed an entire Empire, who most likely caused damage to the church so catastrophic that they were still reeling from it millennia later. A spirit who had grown with an ego now the size of ten worlds stacked on top of each other.
She was impressed. With .
My thoughts transitioned naturally to the mory of having fucked her once. It was under circumstances I wasn’t proud of — my thods to get what I needed at that point were questionable at best. Manipulative at worst. But they were how we got here, alright? No point in pretty lies about the past.
But still. I fucked the Tyrant Empress. A strong, beautiful, motherfucking psycho who could probably level cities if she felt like it.
Thinking about it was overwhelming in the best possible way.
’And one day, I’m going to do it again... and again and again. And I want her to want .’
I grinned wickedly and leered at her rippling ass as the cave swallowed us deeper into its throat. The way she moved — confident, predatory — it was like watching a blade glide through air. Even casual walking looked dangerous on her.
For a while, we didn’t encounter any more Spirit Beasts, but walking was getting increasingly difficult. The pain was traveling across my body like a network of fire, spreading from every wound the Stalker had inflicted. It only got worse with ti, each step sending fresh jolts through my ribs where sothing had definitely cracked.
At so point, I staggered and almost fell. My vision swam.
Kassie turned sharply. Her hand caught my arm before I hit the ground, grip firm but surprisingly gentle, and she looked at with a small frown creasing her brow.
"How bad is it?"
I gave her a smile despite my pale face. Probably looked more like a grimace, but I was committed.
"Not that bad, really... but I could faint if I don’t rest soon."
Now that I thought about it, it was this situation with Kassie all over again. Alone. Wounded. In a dark cave. Except the last ti, it was unbearably cold.
’So things change... so things don’t.’
Maybe this was my ticket to hitting again today. Should I tell another great lie? Strike lucky and get another villainess?
’She’s not a fool.’
Moreover, another villainess would only co when I managed to break the next threshold. The first threshold was two thousand spirit essences.
If I was lucky enough, the second would be four thousand. But there was no manual that said that was exactly how it was going to work — it was all just my common sense making educated guesses.
Either way, it’d take more than one ti with Kassie to increase my limit. That first ti had earned about a thousand in limit increase. If the law of diminishing returns didn’t apply to my villainesses the way it applied to other people, then we could hope it’d be the sa thing... or even better.
I was just sure it was going to take more than once.
Kassie helped settle to the ground, my back leaning against the cavern wall. The stone was cold and uneven, digging into my spine through what remained of my shirt. She sat beside , settling into a lotus position with her gaze unreadable as ever.
"We should rest here for a while. Then we will continue."
I sighed and looked at her. Then sighed again and looked away.
She noticed. Let out an exasperated breath of her own.
"What?"
"Am I stressing you out? Why are you breathing like I’m stressing you out?" I gave her a dark look.
She closed her eyes as if manifesting patience from so deep reserve. Then she opened them and gave a straight answer with a straight face.
"No, summoner. You are not... stressing out."
I flashed a grin imdiately.
’That’s more like it.’
"Then let use your breasts as pillows."
Her gaze darkened like the threat of a thunderstorm rolling in. But I was already getting past all those veils of hers. Learning to read the weather patterns, so to speak.
Even for a woman who existed eight thousand years ago, I was discovering through her patterns that once I knew my way around her, then all was well that ended well. As long as she didn’t hate , anyway.
’Do not try this at ho, you gooner.’
"Use my breasts? How?" She asked, her breath heavy with restraint.
I was injured and battered, all thanks to her training thods. She had a sense of responsibility sowhere in there, which had to be why she wasn’t flaring out at my shaless request.
"Well, the walls are too stony..." I brushed my palm against the edges of the cavern wall, feeling the rough stone scrape my skin. "It’s poking into my back and it’s hard to even rest. So... if I could, you know... sit between your thighs and use you as my wall?"
Kassie returned a blank look for a couple of seconds. She didn’t look irritated, but she didn’t look approachable either.
Her face made it extrely difficult to predict what her response was going to be. Ancient empress poker face. Completely unreadable.
She finally blinked. Then looked at .
"Alright."
A win. A win. A win. Another freaking win! Twice in a row!
I just might hit very soon.
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