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The girl that saved Dante from imminent death wanted him to keep her company, so that's exactly what he did.
Turns out, it was also the best thing that he could've done, because after he seemed to completely recover from his injury almost overnight, Asirpa eventually agreed to teach him a few things that would allow him to survive on his own in the wild. Dante just assumed that he had somehow acquired a passive healing factor from obtaining the Goddess Clan race change, and didn't think much of it after that.
Now, both Asirpa and Dante were standing behind the girl's house, busying themselves with archery and it's basic fundamentals.
"Okay, watch this." She instructed, grabbing her bow for a simple demonstration. The dark-haired girl proceeded to show him a few different things, like the proper way to aim and how to pull back on the string without hurting himself. It didn't take very long for Asirpa to realize that all of it appeared to be fairly easy for him to learn on a dime. It almost seemed unnatural.
…And that's because it was.
When she handed him the bow, he couldn't help but glance at a popup screen off to the side with a near-imperceptible smile etched into his face.
Quest Completed!
[Fuck You, Nature!]
Objective: Survive a danger beast attack.
Reward(s):
[10,000 LP] - [Free Spin]
A quest that he unknowingly completed shortly after Asirpa saved him from being mauled to death by a danger beast. When he noticed that it had supplied him with another free spin, the boy hadn't put much thought into his decision when he immediately put the thing to use.
He initially straightened up at the rewards, even though he was a bit confused on what those points were supposed to represent exactly, but nevertheless, Dante went through with the free spin. This time around, however, Dante hadn't skipped the animation and instead watched the wheel go round and round until it inevitably came to a complete stop.
Congratulations! You have acquired...
[Flawless Coordination]
Yeah, honestly, it was a pretty good ability to have. He hadn't been expecting anything on the level of his first free spin, anyway, so the boy wasn't miffed about it whatsoever, especially when he could now...
Straightening his stance, Dante raised the bow as he kept his eyes locked onto a target not too far away from where they were standing, as he nocked an arrow and waited a moment to get his breathing under control. A few seconds later, it soared through the air and, shockingly enough from the perspective of Asirpa, beautifully stuck the landing.
+5 Affection with Asirpa!
Affection: 5 | Obedience: 0
"...W-What?" Asirpa blurted out under her breath, before she whirled around towards him with a face full of confusion. "I thought you said that you had no experience with archery!"
Calmly offering the bow back to her, Dante's lips curved upwards. "I told you the truth. Whether you believe me or not, though, is entirely up to you." He said, a near-visible sense of smugness rolling off of him in waves.
Asirpa's eyes bore into him for a while, as she tried to discern whether he was actually playing tricks on her or not with his words, but didn't end up picking up on anything. Unbeknownst to her, it wasn't his words that were the trick, or even his body language for that matter, but the incomprehensible phenomenon that was the system only he could see or interact with.
Rejecting the offer to take back her bow, she instead gestured to the target once more.
"Again."
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When Dante tried going to sleep that night, he was rather unsuccessful for the most part.
Glancing off to the side, his eyes landed on Asirpa, who appeared to have long-since fallen asleep, the thick and heavy winter clothing she usually wore discarded for some more comfortable nightwear. The girl looked serene while her chest rose up and down in a rhythmic manner, and not to mention cute. That last part just seemed to come naturally to her, though, which was most likely due to her height, and ever her demeanor at times.
…It was just a bit offset by the fact that she could easily kill you if she wanted.
Now that he thought about it, however, Dante realized his mind had been so distracted with traveling to a completely foreign universe that he hadn't really been thinking about the opposite gender in the way he usually did. Ever since he was about nine years old, he had always sort of been filled with lust, it's just that either he was playing basketball or involved in the streets, which deterred his thoughts for the most part from veering off back into that state of mind for the sake of keeping his head on a swivel so that he wouldn't lose focus and die out there.
That was the reason, after he had killed Devin Weston and taken his parents out the hood, that he started messing with girls more and more again, or at least whenever he wasn't in a shootout or something with Franklin and Lamar.
Dante glanced at Asirpa a second time, and he watched her turn over in her sleep, which inadvertently cast the blanket covering her body off to the side. He couldn't help it, but the first thing his eyes landed on was her legs. They looked firm and rather defined, as well as smooth to the touch, and as his gaze slowly moved across her petite form, it eventually zoned in on her small butt. It wasn't exactly an understatement to say that she looked rather underdeveloped in many places, and it probably would've made him feel weird about feeling an inkling of lustful desire whenever his eyes landed on her, but he knew she was around his age so it didn't really bother him.
Slowly, the boy rose out of his makeshift bed and crawled towards her. He froze at one point, but just for a moment when he realized that she had only been fidgeting in her sleep, which elicited a quiet sigh of relief from his lips. Initially, he reached out for the blanket in order to place it over her body, but couldn't help but pause once again as he glanced back at her, after having gotten close enough to get a better look. The nightwear she wore, or to be more specific, the nightgown, was fairly short.
To put it simply, it had only rose up a bit due to her involuntary actions, but now it was clear to see that her butt was out in the open, as if the universe itself was inviting him in. After a moment of pulling himself back and resisting the idea, Dante grabbed the blanket and exhaled through his nose out of sexual frustration, before he gently placed it back over her body. With that, the boy exited the room as quietly as he could with his clothes and made his way towards the kitchen.
It was there that he approached a window, briefly adjusting a certain area of his pants, and simply admired the tranquil and snowy environment in an attempt to take his mind off of the lustful thoughts that were beginning to re-conquer his brain. Dante knew it to be a futile endeavor, though, as he eventually just palmed his face.
"...What the hell is wrong with me?" He couldn't help but mutter under his breath, knowing that his rampant libido was just as much a part of him as the aspect of his personality that had always made the boy fiercely loyal to those that stood beside him through thick and thin no matter what. Also, while he knew that to be a strange comparison, all things considered, it still made sense to him.
Just then, Dante was suddenly pulled out of his own thoughts when the system abruptly decided to fuck with his life for the hundredth time, and if he was being honest, what he saw pop into existence didn't really surprise him all that much in the end.
Quest Received!
[The More, The Merrier]
Objective: This is a judge-free zone, you know. If you want to bust a few nuts, who cares? I mean, while you're at it, why not just go ahead and obtain a harem for yourself for the sake of shits and giggles. The only thing that's stopping you from doing what you desire on an instinctual level, which is to indulge in your insatiable lust, is yourself.
Dante let out an exasperated sigh, rolling his eyes.
"Great, now the system is even giving me a pep talk." He murmured, before quietly returning to his makeshift bed. This time around, while it still took him a few minutes, he eventually fell asleep.
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This question is totally unrelated to the story, but which do you guys prefer more:
Incursio or Grand Chariot?
Personally, while I really like how much more advanced Grand Chariot seems to be compared to Incursio, I can't help but feel myself being drawn a bit more towards the latter because of it's adaptive nature. Either way, though, I think both of them are badass.