*-Lotus-*
Ugh. My everything hurts... again.
Trying to move around hurts too much, so I summoned Fanta and sent him looking around the house for me.
With the position of the sun and help from my sun domain I could tell it was nearly time for dinner. Paul wasn't in or near the house so he was probably out patrolling still, Rudy and Roxy were doing magic lessons in the front yard, and Lilia and Mom were outside doing laundry in the back yard.
I could also see Death past our fence. She seemed to be in the process of creating something. Probably a house.
I was about to bring Fanta back when a certain comment from Lilia caught my ear.
"Madam... I have a question."
"Hm? Go ahead Lilia. And I told you. Just call me Zenith."
"You say that sir Lotus is your son. Do the memories of him being your son overlap with already existing memories? Like memories that were similar, but he wasn't there."
"Yes it's like that. Do you remember it Lilia?"
"Not well, but... there are memories there that I know shouldn't be possible. Memories of a younger Lotus born as the Young Master's twin brother."
"So you do remember!"
Lilia was quickly embraced by Zenith as Zenith started barraging her with questions. I called Fanta back and painfully stood up.
Only two healing mages in the village, and conveniently they're both in either the front or back yard.
I slowly made my way downstairs and went out the backdoor since it was closer.
I pumped some mana into my staff to call out to Zenith.
"Hey Momma? Think you could use a quick healing spell on me? I'm kind of hurting everywhere."
"Oh my poor boy! Come here and let Momma fix you right up!"
Zenith ran over to me and said the incantation for an intermediate level healing spell. I think it might be a little over kill, but I'm not gonna complain. I made a note of the incantation, and I could feel the pain quickly fading away as a green shining light poured from Zenith's hands.
"Thanks Momma. You're the best."
"Did you hear that Lilia?! He said I'm the best!"
Zenith quite literally jumped for joy as she had a small celebration.
"Good to see your feeling better sir Lotus. Or should I be calling you Young Master Lotus?"
"Whichever one your more comfortable with. Honestly though, I'd prefer if you just called me Lotus."
"Trust me. She won't. I've been trying to get her to just call me Zenith ever since she got here, but she hasn't budged at all."
"Ah well. She's just doing her job I suppose. I can respect it."
I gave Lilia a thumbs up. I walked past them both and hopped the fence as I made my way over to Death.
"You seem oddly talkative today."
"I make special exceptions for Momma and Lilia."
"Oh? I can understand Zenith with her being your mom, but why Lilia?"
"Well. She's pretty..."
"Oh you greedy little man! You aren't even done pursuing Roxy and you've already got your sights set on another lady. I didn't know I had married such a pervert~."
"Oh please. Besides Lilia's extremely... we'll say professional. It may not be possible."
"Well when one stubborn person and another stubborn person clash it all comes down to whose more stubborn. And you know what everyone calls you."
"A very stubborn bastard."
"Yep. If you do pursue her though don't force her into anything. Make sure she's okay with whatever happens. Maids like her usually go along with whatever their masters tell them, so you might need to do some mind reading to see what she is and isn't comfortable with."
"Well duh. I'm not gonna force her into anything. You'd have to be a real piece of shit to do something like that."
"True. I'm almost done with the house. Gimme another hour or so. After that I've gotta go back to the Afterlife and see how everything's going there."
"Huh?! You've barely been here a day!"
"I know, but with her limited knowledge Dae can only be my substitute for so long. Once the new kid has learnt enough I'll be able to come back to stay with you. I may constantly complain about your use of time magic, but it's only because of its use that I was able to sneak into this world."
"I suppose I should use it more then?"
I got popped on the back of the head.
"Hell no!"
"It was a joke!"
"I told you not to joke about that kind of stuff. Now why don't you go visit that blue haired beauty you've got your eye on?"
"Fine fine, I'll get out of your wings."
I swear being able to swap between angry and teasing that fast just isn't fair.
I walked back to this house and entered through the front gate.
"Hm? Oh Lotus your awake. Are you okay? Your face is a little red."
Roxy looked at me with concern. Rudy looked at me... Rudy looked at me like he didn't know how to look at me. He had a slightly annoyed look on his face. Probably because I interrupted his personal time with Roxy, but he also looked concerned.
"I'm fine. I usually feel pretty warm after taking a nap. I just need a minute."
"If you say so. So as I was saying..."
I sat to the side as Roxy continued her lecture on magic for Rudy.
I started circulating some cold air around me and tuned out Roxy's lecture. It was one she had already told me before we got to Buena. It was about the main difference between Beginner level spells and intermediate level spells, and whenever you should want to use one or the other.
Considering the fact that Rudeus's first attempt at an intermediate level spell was indoors I'd say it should've been told to him much sooner.
For now I took up one of Rudy's hobbies. Making a small block of clay and molding it into a figurine. Rudy uses this method to hone magic control and increase his mana reserves. The only real difference between what I was going to do and what Rudy does is that I'm going to use space magic when Rudy uses Earth magic.
Quite frankly I didn't use a bunch of my time to practice space magic when Millis was teaching me. Since he himself couldn't use space magic I had to read the books and practice on my own, and I'd be given allotted time to practice my space magic. However, a lot of that time was actually spent on me secretly learning void magic.
I was instinctively drawn to a book on it in Milli's library once, and ever since then I was hooked. If anyone found out about it though I'd be scolded and banned from the library, since a Void god was already being trained and I was supposed to stick to my own subjects.
The only one's who found me out were Kuroi and his teacher. Whenever they realized I wasn't trying to take Kuroi's position and was only learning void magic for entertainment they actually started giving me tips.
But since I didn't use my space training time to actually practice space magic I was lacking in the field, so I'd be using this to practice and further my control of space magic. Like I said before. I have all the knowledge of space magic, I just need to learn how to put it to use.
So I made my block of clay and started molding it with space magic. It went... fine. Thanks to my space eyes it drained about the same amount of mana that using Earth magic would've. My lack of control however did make it significantly more difficult to get the details right. I'd bend an area to wide, or I'd remove too much of a section. These problems mainly stemmed from how I was using the magic.
With Earth magic it's like your slowly carving away at the clay, but with space magic it's closer to bending and molding the clay. The whole point of this practice was to gain a better control on space magic so that my bending and molding would look as if I had used a precision knife.
Dinner was pretty uneventful and when it came time to sleep I found myself in bed with Roxy. So understandably since Rudeus had no memories of us as brothers he felt uncomfortable sharing a room with one of his teachers. Speaking of I need to make lesson plans. Roxy is giving me a week because of the whole time magic situation.
But back to the point at hand. Roxy let me back in her room so long as I slept in my Migurdian body like before. So now Roxy and I were really close laying in a bed made for one person as we both struggled to go to sleep because of the constant moaning and knocking of the bed frame.
"Honestly I'm shocked that they held out for this long. Before you showed up they went at it every single night."
"R-really?"
"Yeah."
I could feel the temperature rising under the blanket as Roxy's legs started awkwardly rubbing together.
"Um... I'm gonna... Go use the bathroom."
"M'kay."
Roxy closed the door and I let out a relieved sigh. Now that she's gone I can deal with this.
I looked under the blanket to see a very obvious tent in my pants.
Roxy and I assumed this body was nine since Migurd's aging slows down when they hit puberty, but could this body have just gone through puberty early?
The only time I really grew was when Roxy and I were on our way to Buena. Could that have been my last growth spurt before puberty?
Hmmm? She should be back by now...
I summoned Fanta and peaked out the door. I was immediately greeted with the sight of Roxy peeking through Paul and Zenith's door.
Her hands were in her robes and her actions were obvious to anyone who saw her.
Her left hand was pinching her left nipple and her right hand was rubbing her panties. She was masturbating.
I mean if this doesn't go down on its own I guess I'll have to deal with it.
I slid out of my pajama pants and started stroking myself. I shifted Fanta a bit so could get a peak into Roxy's open robe. We both kept doing our own thing for a bit. I could tell Roxy was close as she started rubbing herself faster and she started breathing harder.
She suddenly stopped when she heard a creak and turned away. Moving Fanta I could see Rudy looking shocked as he ducked back into his room.
Roxy embarrassingly got up and rushed into our room. I quickly turned over as she slowly slid into bed. She didn't seem all to happy at being interrupted when she was so close to the finish line.
She wrapped her arms around me and pulled me close. Her breath was warm as it blew down my neck.
"So uh... if you want to finish what you were doing in the hallway... I won't stop you."
"H-huh?! What are you talking about?"
"You know..." I grabbed Roxy's right hand and started licking the juices off her fingers. "This."
"D-don't lick that! It's dirty!"
Roxy whispered complaints, but didn't say anything other than its dirty.
"If it's dirty then why does it taste so good?"
"Hm?! I... suppose it'd be nice to finish."
"If that's the case than could I finish as well?"
"Y-you we're doing it to?"
"Yeah. I'm not wearing pants right now."
"H-huh?" As if to check, Roxy reached down behind me and brushed a hand down one of my cheeks. "O-oh..."
"Careful. You'll give this old man ideas."
Roxy reached under her nightgown and started rubbing herself. I shifted onto my back and started doing the same. We went on for a bit until I was surprised by Roxy's hand reaching down and moving mine away as she started to stroke me.
I moved my hands to Roxy and rubbed her lower lips until I found what I was looking for. The clitoris.
"Ah~!"
Thankfully I put a ring of silence around us earlier. If I hadn't everyone upstairs would've heard Roxy moan.
"Unf! That! More of that!"
I started rubbing her clit harder as her grip on me tightened. I wouldn't last much longer like this.
"R-Roxy... I'm..."
"Same. Just keep going! Ah~!"
Roxy continued to moan out as I pinched her clit. Roxy shivered and grabbed onto me with her free hand. She pulled me closer and moaned as she pushed her lips onto mine and came.
Roxy pushed her tongue against mine as her climax shook the bed.
"Th... That was... amazing."
"Looked like it. Now I just have to finish this."
"Move on your side. I have an idea."
I got on my side so I was facing Roxy like I was told. She wrapped her arms around me and squished my penis between her thighs and her pussy.
"I know I don't have much, but I hope this helps- eep!"
I grabbed onto Roxy's hips and thrusted like a dog in heat. Her juices spread from her pussy down her thighs and acted as the perfect lubricant. It barely took a minute for me to cum.
"Huff... it seems... you made a bit of a mess."
I laid my head on Roxy's sweaty chest. I waved my hand and some silently cast space magic cleaned us up.
"I suppose that works."
Roxy and I held each other and we both fell asleep.
*-Roxy-*
I slowly opened my eyes as I felt something warm being held against me. I looked down and saw the familiar figure of Lotus clinging onto me. His arms and legs were wrapped around me and seemed to hold a pretty tight grip.
I laid there a bit longer and embraced him as I remembered what happened last night. I felt my body grow warm as I rested my head into his hair. As always he had a pleasant floral smell about him.
Seeing how bright the light was outside I realized I actually woke up a little earlier than usual. I even woke up before Lotus did, and he's usually the second one awake in this house. The only person who ever woke up before him was Lilia, but on very rare occasions Paul would wake up earlier to do some extra sword training.
Once I realized I wasn't gonna go back to sleep I slowly got out of Lotus's embrace and started getting dressed.
I blushed a little when I went to unbutton my gown and not only did I touch my bare skin instead of my gown, I also felt some moisture as I pulled my hand back.
I gave it a curious lick and realized it tasted exactly like Lotus did when I kissed him.
I quickly got dressed and grabbed my staff. I looked at Lotus as I reached out for the door, and I gave him a small forehead kiss as I left.
"Really? That must've been hilarious to see!"
"It was quite entertaining."
I walked downstairs and saw Death sipping on an oddly fancy cup of tea and Lilia preparing breakfast in the cauldron.
"Oh good morning Roxy. How are you?"
"Oh I'm uh... I'm good."
I meekly sat down in the chair in front of her.
Right. I... did that with her husband... last night.
Death smiled and waved her hand. A floating ring of purple light appeared around us as she took a sip of her tea.
"So was it fun?"
"H-huh?"
"With Lotus. Was it fun?"
"Y-you know?"
She knows?!
"Like I said. I have to keep a close eye on him so that another time magic situation doesn't happen again. Of course I saw. Unfortunately he was using a silencing spell so I couldn't hear, but you looked like you were having fun."
"You're not... mad?"
"He's explained his multiple lives right?"
"Yeah."
Death lowered a hand that I just realized was glowing purple.
"Before he reincarnated I told him to love who he wanted to love and to go crazy with it if we wanted to take on multiple people at once. Of course I'm not angry."
"Oh. Phew."
"So come on gimme the details. I'd ask him but I'm gonna be leaving soon so I might not see him."
Death listened in as I very embarrassingly told her what happened last night.
"Hmm. Always so considerate. So Roxy. How would you feel about marrying Lotus? When he grows up a bit first."
"M-marriage? Well. To be honest it sounds to good to be true. I thought I'd be cursed to die a marriagless death because of this small body."
"Aren't there others that are the same race as you? Surely there's at least one that's your type."
"Not really. You see... all Migurds are born with the ability to communicate with Telepathy, but I wasn't. Even if I went searching it'd be impossible to find someone who'd want... well this. And besides, most who would are pedophilic creeps."
"I see. Well whenever your ready I'd be more than happy to welcome you into our family. What would that make us? We'd be fellow wives, yes, but on paper would that be labeled as something else? Sister-in-law? No that doesn't seem right. Maybe we'd just be considered wives to each other. I feel like that could work."
"R-right."
There was a sudden sparkle of light and a bracelet on Death's left wrist started shining purple.
"That's my queue. It was a pleasure meeting you Roxy, though I suppose you and Lotus's pleasure was greater, hm?"
A blush flew over my face as Death giggled and disappeared in a puff of smoke. The ring that was around us disappeared and Lilia sat a bowl of soup in front of me.
"Thank you."
"Of course. Is Young Master Lotus alright? He's usually up much earlier than this."
"Oh yeah he's fine. He's just a little more tired than usually."
"Very well then."
*-Rudeus-*
Ugh. I opened my eyes and sat up in my bed. I had the weirdest dream last night. It kinda felt like I was watching a movie, but the movie was something I was involved in. I was watching it through the eyes of myself. I could tell because anytime I was crawling around and found a pair of panties I'd stick them on my head and crawl as fast as I could to avoid getting them taken off of me. Just like I did when I was a baby. Even the house was the same.
If I didn't know better I'd say it was me remembering everything that led up to now, but there was one major difference. Something that was there that shouldn't be there. I had a brother.
A brother that oddly enough had the same name as my new teacher. He rarely talked, and when he did it was only to entertain Zenith or to hide the fact I was practicing magic. He was also always smiling. It was really creepy.
I woke up after the dream got to me using splash flow and blowing a hole through our wall.
I got out of bed and stretched a bit and then went downstairs for breakfast.
When I got to the bottom I was greeted with a blue haired Loli eating some soup. Her hair wasn't in its usual braids and was lazily falling down her back. Her usually sleepy eyes seemed a bit more awake than normal as well.
"Hm? Oh Rudy, good morning."
"Good morning Miss Roxy. Where's Lotus?"
I sat at the table and Lilia placed a bowl in front of me before quickly going back to the cauldron.
"Oh he's still asleep."
Right. My new teachers were also sleeping in the same bed. Something I used to think would be heaven to sneak into until it was revealed that Lotus was actually a dude!
I mean come on, really? He's so beautiful in a feminine way. Even Paul was fooled.
"Right."
I continued to eat my soup in silence until I heard a creak come from above the stairs. Walking down with a smile plastered on his face as per usual was Lotus. He was wearing a deep purple sweater with a gray robe and matching gray pants. Holding it with his hands behind his back he held a magic staff, but instead of having a crystal on it it had what looked like a speaker on the end.
Unknown to Rudeus there is a magic stone in the staff. It's just in the casing behind the speaker.
Lotus sat down beside Roxy and Lilia gave him a bowl of soup. I couldn't help but notice that not only did his soup have a little more meat than mine did, but that it also had a little more soup in the bowl than mine did.
But I kept my complaints to myself. I couldn't make myself look like a brat in front of Roxy after all.
"Mornin'."
Lotus greeted everyone with a single word as he started eating his soup with sleepy eyes.
"So uh... about the whole time magic situation. Were we really brothers."
Lotus held his staff up a little as he continued eating. After a second his voice came through the speaker.
"Yes and no. Technically we are half brothers if you only look at our blood. Anyone outside looking in would see the twin sons of Zenith and Paul. However, I don't have an ounce of Paul's blood in me. Well in my human body, but that's beside the point. My blood is an exact replica of Zenith's with the only difference being me being male. I tried cross examining my blood with Paul's but there is simply no matches. All the DNA in my body is from Zenith and any loose ends were patched with my own DNA. So yes, through Zenith we are brothers, but since we technically don't share a father we'd be classified as half brothers."
"Uh huh. But we were brothers?"
"Yep."
"So you're super smart right?"
"Depends on the subject."
"Say there was some sort of time magic mishap and you get some new family that your mom and teacher remember, but you, your dad, and the maid don't. Could it be possible to have dreams where you see memories of the time they remember?"
"I have memories of Young Master Lotus."
"You do?"
I looked at Lilia a little surprised.
"Yes. He was always a quiet one. Always pointed out when you had an 'accident.' However, I suppose that was him trying to hide the fact that you were using magic in the house."
"To answer your question, quite frankly I have no idea. All books that focused on time magic were burnt and destroyed so all my knowledge is based on what little of it was mentioned in the books on space magic."
"Will you be teaching me about that?"
"Yeah, I'm still technically one of your teacher's. We'll pick up on our lessens next week."
"M'kay."
Even if he is quiet and a guy, at least he's good to look at.
*-Lotus-*
No matter how I think about it I can't figure out how they all remember the past. Roxy and Rosie make sense because of the pockets, but you could barely make an excuse for Zenith with her "mother's intuition." But now both Lilia and Rudy remember me? How?!
I at least maybe got an answer for one of them. I went upstairs to check on the waypoint and found that it was still there, but someone had moved it. Not anything major like moving it across the room, but someone did move it a little out of its normal spot. And I knew it couldn't have slipped because the design for the waypoint's holding stand wouldn't let it slip or shift on its own.
Depending on when that person touched it they may have still been linked to the previous timeline's coordinates long enough to keep their memories during the merge. Due to the illusion around it no one should've seen it, but due to the spell's low level I wouldn't be shocked that Lilia found it while sweeping or something.
Or maybe she just found it anyway. I swear it's impossible to hide anything from her.
But if that was Lilia then what about Rudeus?
What if he was a reincarnate? It's not impossible. It would explain why he's so smart at his age. He taught himself how to read and when I first got here with Roxy he had been teaching himself magic; even if it was only two spells.
That could be the case, and it's the only reasonable answer I can think of. Then again nothing about this situation is reasonable in the first place. Well whatever. Guess I'll get back to working on that figurine.
I summoned my figurine from the void to continue working on it. It was an easy way to burn through my mana that's for sure. If I didn't have my space eyes to lighten the load I'd run out of mana in seconds.
I sat in the background and got better at my control. The blob slowly morphed until it vaguely resembled a pose of someone holding out their left hand while grasping a staff in their right.
The oversized triangle shaped object on the figurine's head made it obvious who I was sculpting. Maybe I'd give it to Roxy as a gift later.
The rest of the day continued on as normal. We had lunch When Paul got back from patrol he practiced stances with Rudy until dinner. Then at night whenever Paul and Zenith started to bang, Roxy and I helped each other like we did the night before.
And so the days flew by until eventually it was my turn to teach Rudeus again. He's remembered everything from before by now, so instead of it being a teacher and student type of class it felt more like one brother telling another brother how to do something.
I lazily held my staff as I laid back in my seat. I expanded a field around us that let us see each others mana veins.
"You remember how to use your mana veins?"
"I do. You just do this, and feel that and... got it!"
Rudy held his hand up to show me and was shocked when a black liquid followed his hand.
"Gah! What is this? What's happening?!"
"Calm down. You're casting the most basic void spell there is. You've emptied your mana veins leaving only Nothing in them. That Nothing creates void as you can see in front of your hand. This spell is the basis for all void magic, and is also what is commonly used by void mages instead of ink."
"So it's like an ink substitute?"
"Basically speaking, yes."
"Okay... now what?"
I held my hand towards him.
"Imagine it's like the Water Ball spell. Shoot it at me."
"What?! Won't that hurt you?"
"Rudeus I half been cut in half, decapitated, dismembered, frozen, melted, crushed, eaten alive, and a menagerie of other horrid ways to either die or be tortured. The first void spell a child has ever cast is the least of my worries."
"Is that... true?"
"Uh huh. Now shoot me and maybe I'll tell you one of those stories."
"Mmmmm. Fine."
Rudeus held his hand out and the void coalesced into a ball and fired at me. The orb slammed into my palm with a shocking amount of force. It didn't affect me however, and the orb was absorbed into my hand.
"Woah. How'd you do that?!"
"In due time Rudy. Now I want you to try again."
"Um... I don't know if I can. My mana pool is already feeling pretty low."
"I suppose that's fair. I can only cast void magic easily because my magic eyes take away the strain and reduce the amount of mana I use. Whenever I try to cast other spells I know that I can't cover with my eyes it's pretty draining. I'm honestly kind of shocked you could cast a void spell that strong at your age. How much mana do you have?"
"A lot."
I swung my staff and my chair disappeared as a new chair appeared under Rudy.
"Wah! Give a guy a warning!"
"Sorry. (Read: not sorry.) Let's do a lecture then."
The lecture I gave Rudeus lasted until lunch. It covered the fundamentals of Void magic. How you need Nothing in your mana veins to use it properly, how small doses can be used as a substitute for ink, and how Void magic can mimic other magics so long as you're creative enough.
The first two points were a recap of what we went over today, but the third was something new. I demonstrated it by using Void magic to make black flame. I also made a black liquid and a black crystal. Wind spells were possible but incredibly dangerous if they were mimicked with Void magic.
The other forms of Void Mimicry only harmed someone if you wanted it to. For instance, holding onto the Void Crystal wouldn't hurt you, but hitting someone with it would hurt.
On the contrary mimicked wind magic could be fatal. Void magic mimicked wing magic by turning Void into a gas, and blowing it at an opponent. If anyone breathed it in it would take a Void mage at least one level above the Void mage who cast the spell to over power the poisonous effects and heal the wounded.
For that reason I didn't demonstrate mimicked wind magic, but that did give me the idea to check out whether or not I could create poisons or not. I'd have to check that out later. That North King I ate had a bunch of knowledge on poisons.
After we ate lunch I decided to do some experiments. Not with poisons, I'd save that for when I'm alone and away from everyone. For now I sat on the living room and started to make another miniature leviathan. So far the only miniature I have is Fanta, so why not give him a sister.
Forming the general shape with water magic I then used a combination of void, space, life, and summoning magic. Viola. A miniature sea empress was now happily swimming around my head as it made noises similar to that of a deep drum.
With their help I could now freely use telepathy without any mental strain or mana cost. The mana cost would've been next to nothing anyway, but now I won't get tired from talking. It also won't blur the person's vision when I try to talk to them. Didn't Roxy say she couldn't use telepathy even though that's what Migurdians are known for? I think I just thought of another present for her.
Some more days past and Roxy and I have been swapping back and forth to teach Rudeus. On her days I'd sit beside her while working on a bracelet. It was brown on the outside, but if you looked under it on the inside you'd see a light blue glow. It was almost done and I'd probably have it done before we went to bed.
"Ah! Who-"
Roxy, Rudy, and I all looked at the house. Roxy and I ran inside and found a demon holding onto Lilia. I didn't mean demon as in a Migurd like Roxy and I either. I meant orange skin, horns, wings, and a tail tipped in the shape of a heart.
"H-hey! Let go of her!"
The incubus turned around and looked Roxy up and down.
"Sorry sweetheart but you ain't my- Ah~"
I wrapped its tail around my hand and pulled hard. The incubus moaned out and immediately fell on the floor.
"Mind telling me what your up to? I believe Asmodeus and I are on a "I won't fuck with you if you don't fuck with me" basis. Is he trying to go back on our deal?"
"There seems to be a m-misunderstanding sir. You see I was just trying to h-help this lady relieve her sexual tension that's all."
I looked over at Lilia who had moved behind Roxy and taken a defensive stance. Rudeus was looking cautiously through the door.
"Ever heard of consent? You have a crystal on you?"
"What's it to- Ah~ you know a demon's tail is really sensitive~. You outta be careful. Do that more and I'll just enjoy the pleasure."
"Uh huh." Chomp.
I pulled up the tail and bit down on the heart shaped tip.
"Oh son of a FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"
"So you got that crystal or no?"
I threateningly barred my teeth as I lifted his tail again.
"Right pocket! It's in my right pocket for the love of Satan please don't bite it again!"
I reached into his pocket and grabbed a purple crystal with a golden ring around it.
"Great. Let's go talk to your boss."
I pushed some mana into the crystal and a portal opened into what looked like an office desk in the middle of a strip club.
"I'm gonna deal with this real quick. Be back later."
I dragged the incubus through the portal by his tail as he continued to throw swears at me.
Sitting at the desk surrounded by paperwork I knew to be fake was a tall purple skinned demon. He had two large horns protruding from his forehead and all he wore was an undone robe.
"Hm? Oh~ if it isn't my favorite little bundle of depression. I'd recognize that soul anywhere. What brings you here?"
Asmodius eyed me curiously. Some of the blank sheets of paper were blocking his view, so I kindly moved them.
By that I mean picked the incubus up by his tail and threw him onto the desk.
"We both know that none of these papers are real. You've got this setup going to satisfy your little office kink so dismiss whatever demon you've got down there and let's get to the point."
"Fine fine. You're no fun."
Asmodius shoved his hand under the table and shivered. Seconds later a red skinned succubus got up from under the desk and walked away while licking her lips. Asmodius clapped his hands and we were teleported to his actual office. Papers were on his desk, but they weren't even close to the amount of fake papers he had on his other desk.
"So what did this one do to earn your ire?"
"Oh you know. He just appeared in my house and tried to rape my maid."
"Sigh. Thomas I gave you one job. How did you fail this badly?"
"I-I'm sorry sir."
"So you sent him to what? Spy on me?"
"Hm? Technically no. I've been getting some weird signals from a marking I put on one Thorn Hanabira. I sent Thomas to go check on him, but it seems he went to the wrong timeline. That's my bad."
"Uh huh. Just make sure this doesn't happen again. If it does I'm taking your sin."
"Of course. Say how are the other Godkin doing?"
"... We both know the answer to that question."
"Do we though? How close did you get to that little fear girl?"
"Asmodius."
"You saved her from those slave traders pretty quick. She must've been really great full."
"I'm leaving. And I'm taking this crystal with me."
I turned around and opened a portal back to the house. I put one foot through and paused once I heard Asmodius speak again.
"And I went through all that trouble to capture her just for you to save her in four months. I didn't even get to play with her."
I felt my smile fall away.
"What did you just say?"
I turned around and stepped back through the portal.
"Oh uh. You heard that?"
Asmodius's previously smug look disappeared, and was replaced with fear. With my despair domain I cranked his fear level to the max.
"Gasp! What? W-what is happening to m-me?"
Asmodius was lifted into the air and slammed against the wall. The previously well lit room was now flashing between very dim and no light at all.
"You wanna repeat that? Out all the things that's been in that mouth of yours I think this might be the one that fucks you most."
"P-please! I... I wasn't serious! She's fine right?! Well was but ahaha- Gah!!!"
Asmodius tried to nervously joke his way out. Not happening. I stabbed a spike of void through one of his feet. Then the other. Then his hand, and then the other hand.
The spikes all started moving away from eachother stretching Asmodius.
"New record. I don't think any of your holes have every stretched this much before."
"Please! I beg- Gah! I beg you! Make it stop!"
"As you wish."
I held my palm towards Asmodius. It felt like a magnet started pulling my palm towards him but I didn't move.
Asmodius started screaming out as a deep purple symbol appeared on his chest and slowly turned into a sort of gas as it flowed into my palm. The screams stopped as blood started spilling from Asmodius's body as he started to tear apart.
"Perhaps I should learn some exorcisms. It'd be cleaner that's for sure."
I felt a scorching pain on top of where my heart should be. I simply lifted my shirt and sitting on my chest was a deep purple marking sitting on top of my heart. It was a purple orb with three lines coming off it in a wavy pattern. The lines were positioned to go slightly away from my chest and toward my armpit. The lines weren't very thick and were 6 inches long each.
Suddenly a book appeared in front of me. The title was Lust for Dummies. It was essentially a guide book how to use the sin of lust, what powers it gave you, and what you needed to do to feed the sin. Every sin has something that you had to do or else you would die and a new owner would be chosen for the sin. In my case I had to have certain amounts of sexual experiences. It acted like a charged battery and thanks to Asmodius it was currently fully charged. I'd know when to charge it and how much to charge it based on how the purple marks spread across my body.
I stepped through and closed the portal. Roxy and Rudy were both talking to Lilia, but they both turned when they heard the portal close.
"Young Master Lotus?! Are you okay?!"
Lilia sounded worried. She looked worried too.
"Lotus what happened?! Why are you covered in blood?!"
"Huh?"
I looked down and sure enough I was absolutely covered in blood. I guess I was in the splash zone when Asmodius was torn apart.
"I'm fine. It's not mine."
"That... doesn't help."
I gave them a brief explanation on what the demon was and where I went. I told them about Asmodius and that I killed him, but I did leave out the part where I stole his sin.
"So he sent an incubus to spy on you? Why?"
"Beats me. Something about timelines, symbols, and signals. Either way it's none of my concern."
"If you say so. You're really okay?"
"I'm fine Roxy. What about you Lilia? How are you?"
"A bit shocked, but I experienced worse in the royal capitol. I will be fine."
"Worse than what happened in the capitol?"
"It's nothing to worry about Young Master. I'm fine."
We left the discussion there and we all split. Roxy went to do some odd jobs in the village, Lilia continued to clean up, Rudy went outside to start his exercises, and I went upstairs because I was becoming unusually tired.
I flopped into the bed and grumbled. Why am I feeling so sluggish? It feels like all those nights I spent up making the waypoint are catching up to me.
Suddenly a small floating book appeared above my face. It was barely the size of my hand and fit right in my palm. Writing started appearing on its blank pages, but before I could read it the book fell on my face.
I sat up and made a small sun orb to see it better. It was still midday and the curtains didn't block that much light, but for some reason everything was a bit dark and blurry.
I flipped the book open and read.
[For questions related to your sin that you cannot find in Lust for Dummies please refer to this book. The reason that you feel tired is because your sin is trying to fuse into your body and soul. To do this it is consuming the mana in your body, it would then attach itself to the mana, and then it would redistribute the new mana. However, your body is made of Void magic so it's trying to eat you.]
That sucks. How can I fix that?
[Simple. Create and inhabit a body made of flesh and blood. The sin would be able to fully integrate itself with no problem then.]
And if I don't wanna?
[You'll forever be as tired as you are now as the sin tries to eat you alive.]
Gods damn it. Fine. But I'm taking a nap as soon as I do this.
I spent the next hour or so reconfiguring my body back to flesh and blood. It'd take longer to swap between my Migurd body and Greyrat body, but I could still access them. It'd just take a minute for me to swap between the two now.
I didn't feel as tired as before so I skimmed through Lust for Dummies and stopped on a page labeled Integration.
Essentially once the sin integrates in me I'll manifest some attributes of previous sin wielders. Hooray, I guess.
I wanted more information, but some of the pages wouldn't open. The book would close and a message would appear on the back telling me to wait for the integration to be complete.
I was too bothered to think about it so I sent the book to the void and laid my head down. I slowly drifted to sleep.
After a couple good hours of napping I got up and stretched. I ended up sleeping on my arm in a bad position and it was a bit sore. Having a flesh body wasn't something I missed.
After a bit of stretching is when I realized something was off. I could feel an extra appendage. I looked behind me and it looked like an extension of my spine that formed a tail, but it was made of void and there was nothing connecting the bones. The segments floated in an orderly manner as if there was something holding them together.
Worryingly I tapped my head and felt to smooth cat ears on my head. I conjured a mirror and saw that these too were made of void and looked skeletal in appearance. If I looked close enough I could see that they weren't actually connected to my head, but were barely floating above it. My hair hid the bottoms and gave the illusion that they were connected.
I tried to dismiss them but they didn't even try to disappear. After a bit of experimentation I learnt that I had full control over the tail and could even extend it pretty far. The ears weren't for show either. I was able to hear better than before, and if I focused hard enough I could hear conversations happening downstairs. By putting mana into my ears I was able to weaken the effects. I was worried I'd have to hear Mom and Paul's activities in even more detail.
I sighed and grabbed my staff. I went downstairs and saw Rudy, Roxy, Lilia, and Mom all in the kitchen. Roxy, Rudy, and Mom were sitting at the table talking and Lilia was almost done cooking what I assumed to be dinner. I could hear water falling on the ground in the washroom, so I figured Paul was probably washing himself off. Not that it'd do much. I need to make better soap. I need to make a better bath actually... I need to make a lot of things better.
"Hm? Lotus? What's with the ears?"
Rudy looked at me. His grin was almost teasing, but was shifted to a more curios look. I yawned and sat beside Roxy.
"It's a small price I had to pay for some new powers. Don't worry about it."
"You had to become a cat boy for power? How does that work?"
"... That's a good question actually."
I sat up and pulled out Lust for Dummies from the void. I skimmed through the pages and found that one of the areas I couldn't reach before was open. It was labeled Past Users. It was pretty self explanatory. It showed pictures of previous wielders of the Lust sin. It showed the timeline of when they got their sin and how long they had it. Shockingly Lust had only been exchanged 7 times. Anytime Wrath came to do business with Death it looked to be a new wielder every 4-5 years. Except for the most recent wielder. Last I checked he's held it for 25 years. He's the third longest yielder so far.
My attention was drawn to a highlighted name.
Lumen Crestfallen.
She was average height and had a small frame. She wore an oversized hoodie that went down to her knees. She didn't seem to be wearing anything else. Her most notable features were her cat ears and matching tail. A footnote at the bottom of the page read that I got my chosen characteristics from her. Another interesting note in her description was that she was one of two beings to ever hold more than one sin. She also wielded the sin of Sloth. Another footnote listed that she was a singularity.
I was a bit shocked at that. Singularities are horrifically rare. You could comb over the entirety of the infinite multiverse ten times and the chances of finding one were near zero. I myself was a singularity, as well as Death, and one of the people working for her. Cross was his name I think?
"Who's that?"
Roxy looked in the book curiously. I held my staff in my arm and channeled mana through it.
"She's a previous user of this sin." I lifted my shirt and showed her the purple mark on my heart. Rudy and mom looked at it curiously.
"When I got it it gave me characteristics from one of the past users, and it just so happened to be her."
"What's a sin. Is that bad? Are you gonna be okay?!"
Mom was getting real anxious. I mentally cursed myself for letting that slip out.
"Don't worry I'm fine. From what I understand there are 7 deadly sins: Wrath, Pride, Sloth, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, and Greed. Any sin in some way shape or form can be traced back to one of these. They were compiled into these markings to hold back the temptations of people. For instance, Rape is bad. We all agree on that?"
Everyone nodded. I could see a small grimace on Lilia's face.
"It's bad, but people still do it. Not everyone does, but it still happens. If the sin of Lust were to be released into the wild with no host to hold it then rape and many other sexual acts would be the same as breathing for every living being. By confining a sin to this mark it gives living beings the ability to choose whether or not to it. Unfortunately there are still people who'd do it, but you can't take away free will."
"So it'd be considered normal? By everyone? Just like that?"
"Mhmm. People wouldn't even consider it to be a bad thing. Even victims would consider it normal. The only time I know of something like this happening is when the sin of Wrath got let loose. People started killing each other left and right without reason or guilt. When Death and I found the victims and culprits in the afterlife their response was 'That's just nature.' Only after the sin of Wrath was trapped again did they realize what happened."
"That's terrible."
"It was. Death said it took ages to get everything back in order."
"That's crazy."
"Yep. This book acts an encyclopedia for the sin. That way I can know what to expect when dealing with it."
Rudy looked at me curiously.
"So which one did you get?"
From his position he couldn't see the book well.
"Lust."
Rudy, Mom, and Roxy all deadpanned at me. If they were gonna give me some quiet time guess I'll read.
I flipped through the book and started reading up on some of my abilities. Certain sections were blacked out. 'Integration not complete' was written on top of it.
Really? I thought I already got my characteristics?
The small book appeared in front of me again.
[Partly. You obtained characteristics from Lumen, but you still need to abstain characteristics from Lust itself.]
Oh great. Like what?
[I'm unable to answer this question, however you do not need to worry. This will not affect your physical appearance to much.]
To much as in?
[You don't need to worry about growing more appendages.]
Fine. I suppose there's nothing I can do.
I skimmed through the powers as Rudy, Roxy, and Mom all awkwardly went back to their conversation.
Huh? Body manipulation? Like what making myself taller and shorter?
[Negative. Body manipulation allows the user to change the shape of one's body and soul through physical contact. To use this skill you must have consent from the target. This skill can allow you to expel illnesses, heal wounds, and even change the form of one's appendage. All you must do is imagine to shape you wish the appendage to take.]
Sounds busted.
I held my left hand away from the table and imagined its form. My arm split apart into a bunch of small tentacles tipped with swords. Each one moved just how I wanted it to.
"L-lotus?!"
Roxy looked a bit scared as my arm slowly formed back together. Then it stabbed through a longsword replaced my arm from my elbow towards my hand.
"Neat."
I fixed my arm and looked towards the others.
Lilia was glancing back worryingly and the others were looking at me with confused and worried looks.
"What? Never seen a guy turn his arm into a sword before?"
After a while Paul came downstairs and asked about my ears and tail. I gave him a quick rundown on the whole sin thing.
"Lust? Hah! You really are my kid aren't cha?"
I rolled my eyes as Lilia put a plate down in front of me. We all ate and turned in for the night.
It didn't take long for Zenith and Paul to get started with their activities. I could hear everything. The constant moaning, the way the bed frame would creak and hit the wall, and even the way that it would slightly shift against the floor. I got hard in seconds and quickly moved mana to my shadow ears to cut out the extra sound.
Roxy was already fiddling with the buttons on her nightgown. She glanced up and met my eyes. I reached up and moved her eyes as I started unbuttoning her myself. I couldn't help but notice Roxy sneaking glances to my ears.
"If you want to touch them you can."
Roxy blushed slightly and reached up. The way she felt my ears felt different. It wasn't like when I did it before. It felt pleasurable.
"Mmm. That's nice."
I opened Roxy's gown and pecked one of her nipples.
"Ah~!"
Roxy held my head to her chest with one hand, and kept rubbing ear with the other. I bought one of my hands up to play with her other nipple and used my tail to move her panties to the side. I used my other hand to rub her folds.
"Mmmm. Lotus~."
I picked my mouth up and kissed her on her lips as I pushed in a finger.
"Mmmm?!"
I wrapped my tail around her waist, and then started using it to play with her now free nipple.
Roxy was now furiously rubbing my member. I felt Roxy shake as juices dripped down her legs. I took my mouth away and she started breathing heavily.
"I... didn't know you could put a finger in."
"Really? That's usually how people with a vagina masturbate."
"Oh. I thought it... was just a... penis entrance."
"You can do a lot more with it, you know."
I slowly crawled backwards on the bed and got in between her thighs.
"L-lotus! Don't look at it like that. It's embarrassing."
"But I haven't even started yet."
I let out a mischievous giggle.
I put my lips around her entrance and started licking her folds and sucking on her clitoris.
"Hah! Don't... Don't do that there! It's dirt- ah!"
Roxy couldn't stop moaning as I shoved my tongue in and used my sin to make it bigger. After a while Roxy was twitching like crazy with every move I made. She came at least 4 times within 10 minutes.
I pulled back and could feel Roxy's heavy breath as I pulled her close. Her sleepy eyes were staring up at me as they tried to not fall asleep.
"You... you didn't finish."
"I'll live."
"Mm mm."
Roxy slowly moved down and took out my member from my shorts.
She rubbed it with one hand and kissed the head. She licked it a bunch and then slowly started putting bits of it in her mouth. I hadn't actually focused on it, but isn't this thing way too big?
The small answer book appeared in front of me.
[Gathering data of this timeline. Note: the Migurd males have large penises to make up for their low fertility rates. If a male Migurd were to fully insert himself into a female Migurd then his urethra would be placed directly in front of her womb. This would allow direct injection of large amounts of semen into the womb. The large size of a male Migurds penis keeps any excess semen from escaping.]
Oh. So I'm not very fertile?
[Confirmed. So long as you stay in your Migurdian body then you will have low fertility rates. However, with the sin of Lust you are able to increase or decrease fertility rates if you wish. You could make yourself infertile, or you could make it a guarantee that your lover gets pregnant.]
Thanks. I dismissed the book and focused back on Roxy. In all honesty. Not bad. She wasn't biting or scraping me with her teeth, and she was making avid use of her tongue. Wasn't the best, but it was alright.
After a few minutes Roxy pulled away and started rubbing her jaw.
"You okay?"
"My jaw hurts a bit. Sorry, I thought I could do you like you did for me."
"It's fine." My tail wrapped around Roxy and dragged her back up to me. "You still can."
I pushed between her soft and very wet thighs. I entertained myself with her nipples as I thrust between her legs. Each time I could feel my member go through her thighs and rub against her butt. It was almost heaven. Almost.
"Mm. Lotus. I want more."
"Aren't you tired?"
"Please. Use magic or something... but I... I want more."
I put my hand over Roxy and used some life magic. Her breathing wasn't as rapid and she quickly pushed me into my back.
She laid my member on my stomach and started rubbing herself against it.
"Oh~ that's nice."
"Mmm."
Roxy kept doing that as liquids coated my penis.
"It is... but uh... this isn't what I had in mind."
The previous confidence Roxy had all went down the window as she blushed. It went all the way down her stomach. I'd have to remember that.
"Oh? Well lead the way."
Roxy nodded. She sat up and lifted my penis. She rubbed it as it pressed against her stomach.
"I... I'm scared it won't fit. It looks as if it'll tear me apart."
"I won't let that happen. Your in good hands love."
"Hm!"
Did she just...
"Does my Roxy like being sweet talked? Oh my~."
Roxy shook her head and refocused herself. She slowly lifted herself and pushed my penis against her entrance.
Suddenly the small book again reappeared in front of me.
You really like ruining the moment huh?
[Sorry, but I thought now would be a good time to inform you that by using your sin you can make your lover feel pleasure instead of pain. If you had read more in the other book you would've found this ability.]
That's... actually really useful. Thanks.
I again dismissed the book and gave Roxy my full attention.
"Sorry about that. Something interesting just came up."
I put my hand towards Roxy and there was a pink glow.
"Ready when you are."
Roxy just nodded and started lowering herself.
"Ooooh. That's. A lot."
It was halfway in until we felt a slight pressure that made Roxy stop. Before she could go lower I sat up and laid her down carefully.
"Once we do this there's no going back."
"Hehe. There already is no going back Lotus. Now say it again. Say I'm yours."
"My Roxy. All mine and no one else's."
I pushed the rest of the way into Roxy as her hymen broke.
"Aaaaah!!!"
Roxy moaned out the loudest she ever has yet as she orgasmed hard. Thank the gods for the room of silence spell. That would've woken up half the village.
"Haha. Look there Roxy." I traced my fingers over the noticeable stomach bulge making Roxy shiver. "That's me. Making you mine."
I could feel Roxy tighten up a lot at that. She really likes that huh?
Roxy reached up and kissed me again. I slowly shifted my hips and Roxy moaned into my mouth with each thrust. I was actively using my sin to not cum. Without it I would've exploded as soon as I thrust in the first time.
I thrusted like a machine. Roxy moaned and kissed and hugged me each time. She came and came every couple of minutes. Migurds bodies was made for other Migurds. Because of my size I was actively rubbing against her g-spot and every other sensitive area inside of her.
Eventually Roxy was reduced to a moaning mess. Even with the help of my sin I was at my limit. I pushed myself all the way in and felt Roxy jolt as my sperm flowed directly into her womb. Her nails dug into my back as she had another very hard orgasm.
I slowly pulled out and could see an alarming amount of sperm pouring overflowing out of Roxy's very red private area.I laid down and Roxy let me pull her into my arms.
"I... I'm a bit... worried. What if... I get... pregnant?"
"I can control my fertility rates with my sin. You won't get pregnant."
"Oh... ok."
"I'll just get you pregnant once we settle down."
Roxy shivered slightly as she snuggled into me.
"Mhmm."
Roxy dosed off to sleep. I used space magic to clean us up. We desperately needed it. Though I did leave Roxy a little surprise. I cleaned out most of the sperm, but left as much in her womb as I could. I then plugged her womb's entrance which got me a small moan from her.
I laid my head over hers and covered us with a blanket. Today was filled with ups and downs, but I can say with confidence that I will fondly look back on it.
Chapter 4! Woohoo! So this marks a turning point away from my original view of the story. Originally the only love interests Lotus was gonna have was the ones listed in the Archive of our Own tags, but I decided to change things up. Lotus is gonna have a harem. It's not gonna be filled with random women he just wants to bang though. He'll treat them as if they were all his wives. Which they will be. I hope this doesn't ruin the story for some of you. See you next time!
For those curious about what Desth and Lilia were talking about before the former left. Death convinced Lilia to tell her a story about Lotus, and Lilia told her about Lotus's little outburst when Paul tried to force him to learn swordsmanship training.