Charles Patricius

A great deal of indulgence was in the future of this quartet. For half, this was just the sign of things to come. For the conscious half however, it was but a reminder of how far they had all come. Akashi's vessel recalled the first time he'd been inside Iino Miko, and it was... drastically different. as he recalled, he could barely function for what felt like hours on end... and even that didn't stop her assault, nor his desire to find the silver lining that would grant him an edge. Perhaps this was truly an act of vengeance from Ningguang and himself for those first days, just as those same days may have been vengeance delivered by Miko and Kazu. Speaking of Kazu, he was also being dressed without discussion. By the time he gained anything resembling consciousness, he was sporting a full ensemble that seemed like it belonged on Alaya. There was even mention of a cape and him looking cool. If he had the ability to, Kazu would have lifted an arm to flash Ningguang a quick thumbs-up. Alas, he had no such strength... even though he felt more powerful than ever. How strange. "Fuck... yeah. Capes... cool..." he murmured through sheer exhaustion.

Neither of them were ready for what they were trying. Being the compulsive line-stepper that she was, Suzaku showcased the full reckless abandon of Iino Miko. Bell was what she meant to say. "... Bell?" Akashi questioned. He knew what that meant. Those words had been heard before. Obviously, she didn't understand her own position. Even Suzaku, an Avatar of his own production, could be immolated with ease. He should... show her. Fangs flashed full sharpness as Akashi grimaced, and those scales spread further while glowing deep crimson. His mana welled-up to such extremes, the storms of Jupiter became storms of fire. Surely Suzaku was feeling the intense burn of that mark upon her body as well. Akashi's scorching tail snatched Suzaku out of that corridor, jerking her toward himself. He quickly had her against his own fore, both legs lifted and penetration imminent. Just then... there was nothing. Absolute silence, pure calmness spread across the planet the moment Akashi's eyes were shut for unclear purposes. Change came in a flicker. Eyes opened again to reveal white sclerae and red, ringed irises. He sported medium black hair with a long, segmented ponytail stretching down to his ankles. There were purple marks around his eyes, which faded toward the inner portion of his eyelids. "Haaah! That one burned. Haven't felt that in a while~" he said with a sigh, speaking in a much calmer, more lackadaisical fashion. "Seriously though, bad idea. Too many of those, and I'll be fighting off Dragon Outrage until you're strong enough to... well, not die. Don't do a dumb~"

Ningguang told the lad she was inspecting that capes were cool and he... responded. A thumbs up should have been visible, Ningguang thought hat would have been how he responded but instead there were words, still more than expected. Perhaps they should put a rush on getting the pair off this planet lest they wake a bit too early. If Ningguang remembered correctly, her own first experience with this lad had been well beyond what she could comprehend. She'd bent to his will in a way she normally reserved. To fall apart in such a way, she was made happy to return the favor, but now wasn't the time to allow progress that might actually ruin something. The future was bright but moments like these pairs meeting in such an odd order, probably had a lot to do with how they developed. A set of people who could instigate the growth in each other through acts of vengeance didn't sound too horrible in this context. But there was something that did sound horrible "Fuck." that little swear slipped from Ningguang's lips as she heard Suzaku's words, felt the increase in temperature and looked up to see the reddening of the sky.

Apparently Akashi took exception to being given a single word response. He'd established his boundary and Suzaku, the current face of Iino Miko couldn't help but see that line in the sand and stick her foot over it. Ah, but her actions did have consequences. She was snatched up, her lower half wrapped around a body growing in scales. She was hot, physically and knew that penetration was incoming. "Atah- ha-ha-ha♫~" she chirped feeling heat from her for as well as the burning sting of that mark on her backside. The cataclysm descending on this world however, would be ending no sooner than it started. As a different more familiar voice caressed her ears. By the time, that one was speaking a calmness had descended and another voice sounded quite a bit less mature but still a bit lighter than the norm, "Eeh? Nice save! I thought I was going to have to throw myself in front of that and come back for them later~" she mused seemingly fine. She was dressed in a bralet and matching black thong underwear. A deep gold choker with a large red gem on it, was around her neck. Her eyes were a glowing shade of red bright and seemingly moving like liquid beneath. Beyond that she was hovering just off the ground her feet bare but adorned by long leggings with her toes out. Her hair a raven shade of black with two minor twin tails separated by a crown. Suzaku wanted to shift, wanted to bury her face in this man's chest and look up into his face. Too bad her body wouldn't cooperate and her eyes wouldn't clear. All she had was that voice, and once again her face was wavering lips quivering in surprise. How as she missing this! 'I wanna see!' Miko demanded.

And so, the crisis was averted. With Akashi put to rest for now, Suzaku was left in the arms of a variant that possessed only one erect member in gentle contact with the surface of her loins ─ this one being of a more normal shape and texture despite the superior quality of mana it exuded. Ah, but she still lacked the ability to converse; his warning didn't seem to goad any reaction out of her. No matter. This one could fix that situation easily, but he first took note of Ningguang's transformation ─ or rather the specific line shared by her replacement. "What, you were gonna throw yourself out there and take a double-dicking to save someone else? I should have let him keep the body a little longer in that case~" he said. Was he joking? Well... no, not entirely.

There was something he needed to do now. Suzaku couldn't just be left in a state of pseudo-consciousness. "Can't manage, huh? It'd probably be best if you shifted back too," the black-haired male mused. The solution was one he thought might be more dangerous still, given current positioning, but all would be well. He knew Iino Miko's mana. As such, he leaned inward and pressed his lips to Suzaku's. A tongue slipping into her mouth delivered a small trace of his mana, which boasted unreal density. It was aimed not at Suzaku, but at Miko herself, both to restore the functionality of her selves and bring her to surface with a light push.

Suzaku still couldn't pull herself together, but the direct heat she'd felt had been lost. She probably shouldn't have pushed forward so recklessly but she didn't like being antagonized, so she'd done it back. Whatever the case, this more normal looking form of Ashikaga Kimiko seemed to be floating around and it was mentioned that she'd surfaced the way she had with the intention of handling Akashi in her own way. A double-dicking as the less angry version of the lad put it, was indeed what she thought she'd end up signing up for. "Eh? Well, yeah. I figured I'd go with the flow since Akashi's brain was set on smash already!~" she mentioned with a huge grin on her face. "Ah, well, I guess it's bound to happen some other time, it isn't as if we don't know what that one is like~" she said cheekily. "Still, I guess its time to wake him up too... Wakey wakey!~" that barely dressed girl said as she leaned into the recently redressed Kazuhiko and aimed to slip her tongue into his mouth instead pulling him towards consciousness instead of allowing him to drown in exhaustion.

Of course, Suzaku was still out of it. She was a bit too full and hadn't gotten around to processing properly. The words of the man in front of her barely registered to her, though within Iino Miko had heard all that was said. There was also a certain draw, something that had her coming up out of the depths as Suzaku fell back into the well. As she did, red and white hair gave way to brown hair and when her eyes opened they were once again a shining brown color. She wiggled her now naked hips as there was an exposed cock directly beneath her. She would kiss him until it came to a rather natural end. "Uh, thanks for that. And hi... also I heard you. I didn't mean to antagonize him, but it felt like he started it..." she said with a sheepish pout on her face.

To say Akashi's brain was set on 'smash' was frankly an understatement. He would have overloaded Suzaku on a whim, just to prove he could do so. When that was done, he would have found a way to bring her right back and repeat the process until she caved. That wasn't the case, luckily enough, so Miko herself could instead be woken. Kazu could wake as well, and in a similar manner as the former Ningguang's tongue slid between his lips. This mana was quite difficult to swallow, but much like a tablet, it seemed to dissolve from the outside in once it entered his body. Consciousness found him without anything jarring, and those half-lidded eyes opened wide as he began wrestling the tongue of one Ashikaga Kimiko. This... was somehow an even better day now.

Meanwhile, Miko was also brought to life in a manner of speaking. Hers was not immediate reckless action, but instead a defense of her own behavior... in addition to a bit of recklessness. The man who was once Akashi expected her current movements at minimum, and he definitely didn't expect the sharing of mana to become anything less than a full kiss. She was right; Akashi did start that whole ordeal. Dragons of an older variety were quite finnicky, though. With their lips still brushing against each other, this new form of the male agreed with the lightest of laughs. "He... does that. He was the first one to assert himself on my end, so... trust me when I say, he always does that. That doesn't make you innocent though, does it? You're trying to start something right now, and... you're not that dumb. You know I'm the stronger one for putting Akashi away. You know that's not a smart idea," he preached, bringing attention to Miko's mobile hips. "And there's the whole 'getting you guys home to your own dimension' thing going on~"

Ningguang's replacement, gave Kazuhiko enough energy to come back online. It was probably a bit hard to swallow, but that was simply the nature of being the kind of existence she was. She knew he'd reached proper wakefulness when his eyes opened and the kiss became more an an automatic response. She was still just floating in front of him. She knew this sort of thing was bound to happen and even so, she allowed that kiss to continue for a bit before breaking. "Good, you're finally awake, ehehe~" she giggled at the joke she made but stayed close enough to continue examining his face. Whatever she was doing looking at him from so close, she still was keeping an ear open for the conversation happening between Miko and this not Akashi form of her partner.

Meanwhile, Miko got to enjoy this voice from close proximity and had a thorough look at this boy's face in the same moment. She figured he couldn't have looked too much different and pouted gently as she took in his visage. His was the kind of face that definitely could have haunted her mind in the same way as one of her other obsessions. He could have been someone to add to her artistry instead of having an entire portfolio full of images of a single individual and looking like a stalker. Whatever the case, according to this man, Akashi did start that incident and he was simply like that. Her lack of innocence in this current situation was something else, "Well, I just woke up and it feels great. Like you could definitely just slip it in if you found me sleeping to wake me up and I wouldn't argue with you about it♪~ Why wouldn't I try♪?" she seemed to think about it more. "Besides that I didn't say I was innocent in that moment, just that I felt justified. And while I am aware you are probably stronger, that seems to be no less reason to try. I am not the one who will say no to me if I don't have to. And if I am being honest, not all smart ideas are good ideas. And this is from my perspective a great idea!" she claimed emphatically. "Oh, and what wasn't a great or a smart idea, was anyone making you cover your face. I could have seemed so much less weird with another remarkable face in my head!" she said pouting. All the while her hips were still moving. She stayed steady with the motions of them as if she intended to tease, but everyone knew she'd likely do something drastic if not discouraged.

After being enabled in that extended kiss, Kazu was greeted in a way no one in their generation could escape. He needed an extra moment to process the reality of this moment. They were well beyond the understanding that he was recently inside Ashikaga Kimiko. That face he couldn't stop staring at now was as unmistakable as the joke she'd made. "Uh... tell me that's not part of some elaborate trap, and now I have to pay some heavy karma for this epic win... 'cause if someone else calls archers to shoot me in the back, I might just give up adventuring," he said. He'd been shot in the back by cavalrymen more times than he'd like to admit, whatever that meant in actual numbers.

In the meantime, there was more explanation from Miko. She was always going to try ridiculous things, as she was likely to do quite soon. Oh well. He couldn't argue against the notion, apart from his own knowledge of potential outcomes. In truth, Miko would be in danger of fucking her way into nonexistence if things went a certain distance. She also, at least in her future, had a definite habit of... not stopping before things went too far. Based on what he'd seen already, the red-eyed male could easily assume that trait always existed. Despite there being plenty of reason for her not to try anything more, he didn't dissuade her from continued movement. Instead, he only commented on her direct observations of his face and past self. "Eh? But I liked the masks! Well... eventually. Back then, it was a matter of safety ─ at least that's what was said. Regardless of the real intentions, it worked back then. Oh, and... timelines. If you knew me without the mask, we'd both be dealing with very different relationship statuses. I've seen it. It was alright, but there weren't a lot of opportunities for magical development."

Upon waking, Kazuhiko was still in a state of disbelief. But he at least got the reference that was made which of course only made the red eyed girl smile wider. His claims of having to give up adventuring for having to pay a karmic debt and be killed for his epic win. "Ehehe~ No, it's nothing like that. I just happen to think that one is pretty funny~" she mentioned. "As for karmic debts sometimes you win for times you've already lost~" she said somewhat cryptically. Well, that wasn't exactly cryptic, very few people fully understood how karma worked in this universe, she just happened to have a better idea than most. "Besides, right just now, if there was anyone around to interfere they'd already be dead," she mentioned pointing upwards and a ways up in the sky a large bow seemed to be sitting in the air. It was blue and gold and seemed very sleek. She hovered a bit straighter and tossed raven locks over her left shoulder running her hands though the ends, seeming to stretch. "See, a safe victory. Well relatively anyways, oh, I should probably put you down huh?~" she claimed while lowering the lad back to the ground so he could stand on his own.

At the same time, Miko was teasing her own entrance with someone who was far out of her magical compatibility range. Even so, he was so appealing to her senses she couldn't have told herself it was a bad idea to have a little taste. After all, that kiss had to count as something, but now that she had a little taste, why shouldn't she take a little more? Such was her own thought pattern. Since she'd regained control of her own body for the most part, her fingers lightly danced across his exposed skin and up to the sides of his face as he spoke of enjoying masks as a kid and the reasons they were important. "Well, even if it worked, this is a great face~" she said holding his cheeks between her hands. As for their relationship status if she'd known this face she could see that from a logical perspective. "I am known to obsess, but having thrown away all aspects of normalcy I'm going to clear every storyline and go for the secret ending, all the secret powers and anything else I can get my hands on... so I'm fine with only finding it now~" she claimed with some certainty. "Speaking of magical developments are you a secret boss I'm under level for? I have a slight problem respecting such boundaries. Should I really stop♪?~" she questioned earnestly, a little pout on her face.

Apparently, Kazuhiko was safe for the time being. What Kimiko said in jest was just that: a moment of jest. He didn't have to worry about random arrows to the back, but... it seemed any intruders would. Now that he thought about it, this pair did speak as if they were expecting some other entities when arriving. If such creatures needed that giant bow to be used against them, Jupiter may prove to be an ultimate-tier adventure location somewhere in Kazu's future. "Huh. That looks... way beyond excessive. Question: am I able to fight whatever takes something like that?" he wondered. Whatever the case, it was time for Kazu to be let down. Once his feet made contact with the ground, he was finally able to inspect this new ensemble directly. It certainly felt incredible, and from what he could see... it was right up his alley. "Woah, sweet threads! This is the kind of thing I tried wearing for that whole Supreme King getup. They didn't use it, but they definitely would have if I had this!" he said excitedly with several flourishes and roundabouts. "But how's the vibe? Is anybody gonna want to rip this off me? 'Cause that's kinda what I'm aiming for at this point in fashion life."

Why Miko was so preoccupied with his face, the black-haired male had no idea. He'd seen and heard similar reactions before, but his demeanor used to do him the exact opposite of a favor. Well, that was in the past. For now, he was more concerned with the fact that Miko was indeed leaning in the direction he expected. Much to the brunette's credit, however, her mind was still in the right place. First came the question of his identity ─ of whether he existed as a secret boss she was under-leveled for. That notion accompanied the assertion that she'd clear all stories, reach the secret ending, and gain all things along the way. Upon hearing that, he quirked a brow. "Oh! Are you already on the otome path? That's awesome, and makes this way easier. In terms of a game, I'm probably always going to be the secret final boss... but not the kind that players can beat. To answer your question, I'll ask you another. Can you be trusted to actually stop? Because if I jizz inside you once... well, let's just say all your game data will be corrupted. Disk broken. System bricked. You know the deal. I've got no problem pulling out at this point, but from what I remember of you, you're a bit of a Spider Monkey toward the end."

The black haired lass was relaxing as she kept them safe even without having to think about it too much. The first thing Kazuhiko had to say was that this was excessive and the second was wondering if he could take whatever she felt the need to use that bow on. "Well, I am kind of excessive, as I am sure we are all aware~" she mused only to give a bit of thought to his more legitimate question. "Can you take them? Yes, a few wouldn't be a problem for you, but the numbers game always requires a bit of grit to work out," she explained in a roundabout way. She couldn't tell him exactly the issue with this planet's natural inhabitants, but she was sure he'd realize it eventually and even know what to do about them if need be. Soon enough he was complimenting his outfit, claiming it was a look he thought he might want given his status as an Aeons model and a bit of a cheeky smirk came to the black haired girl's face. Well, like many of the people who originated in this world on the path of creation. "I'm glad you like it. I do like the look on you myself... and you should never underestimate what a man in a nice suit can do to women~" that girl confirmed without much thought.

Hearing that line of questioning, Miko glanced over for a second, and swallowed. Her body's reaction was a further push towards arousal. Pupil's dilated, folds dripping even more than they already were and a tiny bit of drool appearing in the left corner of her mouth. "Would definitely rip it off you. I'd do it in a heartbeat... no questions no hesitation. That's a Supreme King, Sire♪~" she sang happily. Well she would always talk up her favorites, even in front of her other favorites. Everyone was great, for different reasons. Speaking of, the face of this lad was definitely something worth looking at, for Iino Miko. Even though she didn't know about his demeanor before underneath his mask, she was sure even if he carried himself differently she wouldn't have found him unappealing. She thought people were hot, even when she found them scary. Mugen was proof of that kind of mental separation. Well, then what was there to say about the current moment. It seemed that this man could easily relate himself to something Miko could understand. Well, she'd been using those references lately because they helped her rationalize all that was happening in her life currently. She'd not said that exact word but it was how she thought about it. "Hai, as an otome game is how I understand it best~" she claimed. And then he went on to give an explanation. He was the kind of boss that was always a secret and unbeatable. He couldn't jizz inside her without laying down a curse on her which amounted to the end of her existence as a player in this otome game she was playing. "I do have a habit of clinging at the important part. I like the way it feels but... given the seriousness of the circumstances..." she gave it true consideration. "I can't go ending our playthrough or anything, especially not when Annie is owed her happy ending, I have left several paths un explored, and I still haven't figured out the last bit..." she said. Most of that being the way this unbeatable boss was conquered. Otome games were notorious for making secret bosses that were a loss in regular combat but could be tamed, captured or turned into conquerable paths all their own. "I promise, I'll behave. I've done such before and I can do it again. As Abe no Seimei's Miko, you have my word."