822 Early Mornings

As promised, Wolfe did not stop the process until he was certain that her body couldn't adapt any more for the evening, and she was getting perilously close to Rank Four. 

Reiko herself had long since lost consciousness, though she would wake up pleading and moaning every half hour or so until he finally finished in the early hours of the morning. That left him entirely too little time to sleep, but Reiko's fidgeting brought him back to the real-world bright and early.

"It can't be time to get up yet." He mumbled, then poured a bit of mana into the witch to make her stop moving.

"Oh, Goddess. Don't do that when I'm trying to get dressed, or I'll need another shower. It's fifteen minutes to breakfast, you need to get up and get clean so we can get the negotiations going." Reiko informed him in an unamused tone.

Wolfe sat up and patted her on the head, making Reiko shudder and blush, though he wasn't transferring any mana.