2 Remniscing
While Testarossa was having her conflicting emotions regarding sleep, a couple of other women were finishing up having quite the fun night. In a lofty penthouse set upon a hill overlooking the city, two women were lying down on either side of a man, naked and sweat glistening their bodies.
One of the beauties had her vibrant pink hair sprawled all over, with some of it sticking to her shoulders and touching the base of her modest B cups. The milky white color of her skin only added to her beauty, along with her breasts with the ever-slight pink protrusions in the center rising up and down following the pace of her heavy breathing. She is quite petite, but that only accents the curves of her body. From a beautiful face with two ivory-colored horns proudly standing out from her forehead, bright coral eyes, pink hair that felt like silk, delicately full lips beautiful breasts that were slightly pointed shaped that a hand could hold without too much room to spare, a flat stomach where a slight bit of muscle can be seen along with a perfect navel, and a nice, full ass that was firm to the touch, yet still gave way when held. Further down are small, but firm thighs that gave a little thigh gap, wondrous calves, and elegant feet that would make someone question whether or not they've ever walked on them before, almost as if they were porcelain. All this brings together a woman who could only be called an immaculate beauty.
The other beauty, as if competing with the woman on the other side of the man, had one onyx colored horn from the center of her forehead, shining amethyst eyes, deep lavender hair that was currently all over the place, with some of it intertwined in the man's hair and some of it sticking to her beautiful figure. She was quite a bit taller with more muscle tone than the other woman, possessed alluring lips that would have men question if she was part succubus, amazingly full breasts that a hand would sink into, along with dark cocoa-colored nipples. Her stomach was a bit more tone than the other woman's with defined muscles that gave off an eleven shape, beautiful hips that accented her full ass which was soft to the touch, smooth, tone thighs and calves, along with feet that didn't seem to have a single callous on them. To top it off, her lightly bronzed skin gave off a radiant look to bring together a woman who was both amazing in battle and in bed.
The man had a face that honestly looked far more feminine than masculine, almost as if it belonged on a woman, but something that is still forever pleasant to look at. Silvery-blue hair, gleaming golden eyes, moderate lips that were wonderfully pink, and a figure that certainly wouldn't lose out to even the most beautiful of women, despite the clear but tame pectoral muscles in favor of breasts. If someone were to look at him clothed, it would be incredibly easy to mistake him for a woman.
After having a tame night, at least by their standards, Rimuru hugged them both to his side, admiring their bodies and periodically fondling their boobs and pinching their nipples. All of them were enjoying the cool breeze from the cooling unit as they were slowly coming down from their high. Something that Rimuru learned very quickly when he started having sex was that some of the more annoying functions of the body, such as sweat and soreness, were better to just let happen naturally as it added to the overall feeling of having sex. They could always simply remove them later, but it felt better to bask in it.
"I still can't believe you, Rimuru-sama. Enjoying two women when you have a date tomorrow." Shuna said coyly.
"Honestly" added Shion, "how did we ever fall for such a lascivious person?"
In response, Rimuru pinched both of their nipples, eliciting a squirm from each and a light yelp from Shion. "And who were the ones who were egging me on all afternoon? Besides, Shuna, weren't you the one who wanted me to take Testa?
"It's not my fault that woman can't be honest with her feelings. It's up to you to make those moves. Though I am glad she did finally muster up the courage to confess, you will need to take the initiative. At least so there isn't a repeat of our first time..."
Rimuru simply groaned at that memory. In fact, he could distinctly remember what led up to him finally accepting the feelings of those around him, and all the wondrous nights that followed, even if some of them were quite awkward. Giving a quick peck on Shuna's lips, then looking over to Shion, he reminisced about the events that resulted in him forming a harem.
Rimuru reincarnated from Earth, specifically from a place called Japan, after dying to a stab wound while saving his friend. Despite wanting to be far more assertive in getting women, it seemed fate had a funny way of toying with him, as he reincarnated as a slime. While, objectively speaking, this was probably one of the best species to reincarnate into as slimes were essentially a "supercell" being, meaning their cells operated as brain, muscle, and nerve cells depending on the situation, and sometimes simultaneously, there was one major problem. He had no sex drive. To top it off, he was suffering from loneliness as, without eyes to see and without the ability to sense his surroundings until he learned magic sense from Veldora, he was both afraid of going somewhere he couldn't even see and was incredibly lonely as he had no one to talk to.
The first several hours were spent adjusting to the fact that he wasn't dead, or at least he didn't think so, since he could still feel his own tangible body, which was that of a slime. The next few days, however, were spent just waiting for something to happen. In that time, he was primarily looking for stimulation, which he found by going through his old memories, which were somehow much clearer. Unfortunately, the realization kept slowly creeping upon him that he was alone. So very alone. And he didn't know when it would end. It got to the point where a miracle happened. Something that just shouldn't have ever happened, did.
His desire for just having someone, anyone, to talk to was so potent that it resulted in one of the skills he was blessed with to gain a rudimentary level of sentience and used that sentience to make its own decision to petition to the Voice of the World for the ability to speak, all so it could fulfill its master's wishes. Thus, after 90 agonizingly long days of being alone, to the point where he was sure he had gone insane, Rimuru heard what would become his eternal companion. When Great Sage first spoke, Rimuru was sure he went off the deep end. Fortunately, his beliefs were misguided, as the skill explained what it was there for.
With at least something to talk to, who would also guide him through where he was, he quickly felt far safer and less lonely, to the point where he began exploring. This led him to effectively meet his destiny, as he quickly met the Storm Dragon, Veldora. One of the only four True Dragons to ever exist, and the most powerful species in the world. After being named by said storm dragon, and sharing the family name Tempest, the newly named Rimuru Tempest set off to get out of the cave, which was Veldora's prison, with Veldora himself inside Rimuru's subspace.
Shortly afterward, he got out of the cave, met a group of goblins, and helped them fend off a pack of direwolves, who he then named and then, with their help, started up a village. After naming them all, allowing for them to evolve to a better species and by proxy, being stronger and having better survival chances, he recruited a group of Dwarves. However, there was no chance to rest after this quick turn of events as right after, he encountered a group of adventurers, one of them surprisingly being from his country, albeit 80 years prior, and gave them shelter.
Unfortunately, Rimuru's countryfolk, Shizue Izawa, was not long for this world as she succumbed to the spirit inside her which was an Ifrit, a form of fire spirit. After separating spirit from woman, Shizue's age caught up with her as she was no longer receiving help from a spirit to increase her lifespan. Her final wish was to rest inside Rimuru, thereby giving Rimuru a body that he could use through his ability to copy the look and recreate it using his own body, regardless of whether it was a living being or inorganic matter. Even if he did look quite feminine, he was happy with just being able to feel human again.
After meeting, subduing, and taking in the ogres that escaped the massacre of their home village, he gave each of them names, evolving them into Oni. The two women of the group, Shion and Shuna, had taken a particular fondness towards the slime, to the point where it was quite clear they had romantic intentions with him. Unfortunately, he lacked both the drive and the parts to properly satisfy them, or at least that's what he told himself, and kept putting off their advances.
Unfortunately, he was soon reminded that this was not Japan, and that the threat of death loomed quite close. Dealing with the present Orc threat, Rimuru named 150,000 orcs and established what is now known as the country of Tempest, the king of Dwargon, Gazel Dwargo, and the somewhat reluctant king of Tempest, Rimuru Tempest, formed the first-ever alliance of the budding nation.
After months of relative peace, with Demon Lord Milim coming to visit, both showing that she was a potential love interest and dealing with the Charybdis threat, Rimuru ventured off to deal with Shizue's last regret, the children in Ingracia. They were slated to die thanks to a rampant amount of magicules that usually take in the form of skills, like in Rimuru's case, or dealt with by a spirit, like in Shizue's case. The reason being is that they were irresponsibly summoned into the world to become a hero, but failed thanks to the people summoning them deciding to cut corners. What resulted were four children, most under ten, and a fifth summoned by a shady individual to fulfill a deal, who were going to die in most likely a few short years.
Thankfully, Rimuru was able to prevent this by summoning spirits to inhabit their bodies, and in Chloe's case, the fifth individual, what was summoned was a far more powerful spirit version of her. An alter ego if you will. After pacifying Ramiris with a demon golem to replace her guardian, Rimuru left to go back to Tempest.
This was when the real tragedy struck, as over a hundred of his citizens died thanks to a sneak attack by a neighboring country that was angry about having Tempest slowly siphoning away their business by simply offering better commodities and being better placed. In the death toll, one of them was Shion. Rimuru was enraged. Because of being stalled by the holy knight Hinata Sakaguchi, also a fellow countryfolk, he wasn't there to deal with the cowardly way the humans sneak attacked them, nor the attack from inside by one of Clayman's spies, who also had it out for him.
But what he was most angry with was himself. One of the rules he set was to not attack humans, partly because he was one, and partly because he didn't want any trouble with them. It was his dream to end discrimination between monsters and humans, and it was an incredibly naïve dream that failed to consider how ugly humans can be.
While mulling over this for three days, words from the adventurer group he saved when they were traveling with Shizue told him of how he could save his subordinates, whom he deeply cared about, and Shion, whom he dearly loved and who loved him back. Once he heard how to bring them back, which was by turning into a Demon Lord and resurrecting them, he formed the resolve to do so. Another secret resolve formed in him to begin accepting the feelings of those around him, starting with Shuna and Shion. Of course, this would have to wait quite a bit, but the resolve did form.
After the battle, which honestly would be better seen as a massacre, the neighboring army of Falmouth was destroyed. As Rimuru was descending into a sleep state, he summoned a demon, later named Diablo, to bring both the King of Falmouth and the person who survived as prisoners of war. When Rimuru was evolving, everyone who was named by him also evolved, with many gaining more power and youth, resulting in a country that wasn't even two years old to have a truly ridiculous war potential.
However, another impossible thing happened. The skill that was slowly gaining sentience, the one that should never have in the first place, petitioned to evolve. A skill having sentience was already ridiculous enough, but the fact that it was struggling to evolve of its own accord was something completely unheard of. After trying and failing over a million times, never stopping until it succeeded, Great Sage finally evolved into an Ultimate Skill, an incredibly rare occurrence.
The newly evolved Raphael, Lord of Wisdom then took control over Rimuru's body to then evolve yet another ultimate skill from Gluttony into Gluttonous Lord Belzebuth. After it accomplished this, it promptly used all of Rimuru's remaining magicules, including the ones offered to it by the two other demons summoned as subordinates of Diablo, and fully resurrected everyone. While everyone was properly elated at this, Rimuru included, he was just happy that everyone was back again. Shortly afterward, the seal on Veldora that both Rimuru and Veldora had been working on finally was cracked, and a certain otaku dragon joined in with Tempest.
Following this, Rimuru began being slightly more proactive in receiving his subordinates' affection. While he still didn't have a sex drive to speak of, he would be more active, primarily through things like being more physically affectionate. While he still didn't kiss the girls, he was now comfortable sleeping beside them, both in his slime form and occasionally in his human form, which was now bigger and more beautiful.
While this was happening, a certain skill was having trouble processing things that skills normally don't ever experience. Raphael was beginning to show the burgeoning signs of affection and had absolutely no idea how to handle these things. Rimuru certainly showed it enough care and attention, despite the banter between the two, and so it wasn't sure whether Rimuru showed love towards the skill or if it was just being treated like a skill, a close companion. Raphael simply decided to shelve this matter until a later date, but that didn't even last a year.
After Rimuru's ascension, and dealing with Clayman at the Walpurgis, effectively taking a seat and establishing himself as one of the most powerful beings on the planet, the work simply kept piling up, and the headway that was being made between the Oni girls and Rimuru didn't really progress a whole lot, as Rimuru had been battling multiple things. First, it was finishing up Falmouth and establishing a new king there, dealing with the Western Nations, dealing with Mariabell who was also trying to bring down his nation, and finally Yuuki and Granbell causing trouble in the nation of Rubierus by awakening the true hero, who was actually Chloe, Rimuru couldn't get a break. (A/n: Chloe being awakened would deadass take up an entire chapter as the lore is pretty damn confusing. All you need to know is that Chloe was stuck in a time-loop and while the eight-year-old version is her, the adult hero version is also her. The adult version takes precedent, so when the adult version is awakened, the eight-year-old version will effectively be absorbed.)
Of course, as fate would have it, as soon as things west of Tempest started settling down, things east of Tempest started moving. The Eastern Empire finally started to bear its fangs towards Tempest, and Rimuru had to prepare for that as well. Fortunately, with the addition of over 700 more demons, three of which were of Diablo's caliber, the fight was fairly one-sided. It was what happened afterwards that forced Rimuru to, once again, realize the weight of being a ruler, and that death was ever-present.
The Empire's true goal wasn't necessarily to win the war, but to have some survivors come back and hopefully evolve by facing the trauma of the war to grow stronger. This is what happened when they foolishly believed they could beat Veldora, and it was what Emperor Rudra was betting on. Unfortunately, such an outcome didn't happen, as, while most of the attackers technically survived, almost half of the 700,000 strong had sworn allegiance to Tempest. What resulted was another sortie, this time with the Empire's strongest, including Veldora's sister, Velgrynd.
During this, Velgrynd baited out Veldora from within Ramiris's labyrinth and the two started to battle. When it looked like Veldora was gaining the upper hand, one of Velgrynd's allies was set on, not killing him, but dominating him through mind control. To top it off, Rimuru and his allies walked into a trap set by Rudra, so he couldn't go help his sworn friend. After experiencing unbelievable pain because of Veldora breaking their soul corridor so Rimuru wouldn't get affected, he broke out of the isolated space to battle and reclaim his sworn friend.
After getting extremely lucky clutching victory from what should have been Tempest's demise, Rimuru made two important discoveries. First was the fact that Rudra had passed away, and a completely different entity was possessing him. It was a manas named Michael, who served Veldanava, the True Dragon who passed away, and was single-minded in both its desire and ways to resurrect its master, not caring about the means as long as its goal is achieved. The second discovery was that, if a skill possessed sentience, it could be named.
While this had been done before in the form of Michael, this was a kept secret until the end. What Rimuru found was that in the heat of battle, when he should have been focusing on reabsorbing Veldora, he took the time to comfort Raphael after it had made an error, and gave it the name Ciel, allowing it, or rather since she identified as female, her, to evolve into a manas, performing far better.
This came with the added side-effect of her sentience being full-blown and running rampant with emotions. While she was still able to perform her job far better than her incarnation as Raphael, she still didn't know how to properly handle emotions. Fortunately, Rimuru, now evolved as a True Dragon after reabsorbing Veldora, encouraged her to cultivate them and ask him for help understanding them.
What resulted was a mix of love and possessiveness towards Rimuru, and while he was certainly shocked by this, as the last thing he wanted was a yandere who knew him better than anyone, he had promised to make the resolve to properly answer his subordinates' feelings. If his manas wanted to get involved, he would welcome her so long as she could play nice with others.
After the battle with Michael and the Empire's elites resulting in a bitter defeat for the Empire, a new threat was looming over the horizon. Every 500 years, something called the Tenma War would happen, where the world would be engulfed in war for seven days straight. While this normally wouldn't be a problem, the fact that Michael was heading the war and that it would be upon them in just a month was a big problem that they needed to face. Fortunately, Tempest, and all its allies, were fully prepared.
Unfortunately, Yuuki also decided to ally himself with the Angels, which made the war slightly more troublesome. Thankfully, there were few casualties on their side, and they were able to fully beat the Angels back, as well as cornering both Yuuki and Michael. After a little incident sending Rimuru effectively outside of the time axis, he was able to come back and successfully kill both Yuuki and Michael, finally putting an end to the war.
The final thing that happened was quite the unexpected one. When Shizue was put to rest by Rimuru, instead of her soul entering the cycle of reincarnation, it simply stayed inside Rimuru. This turned out to be quite the blessing as when Elen proposed the idea for Rimuru to turn into a True Demon Lord, Great Sage started analyzing the fragmented portions of Shizue's soul that were still lingering inside of Rimuru. When Rimuru evolved, and by proxy Great Sage evolved into Raphael, Raphael was able to use that information in conjunction with the other souls that were around to perform a splendid resurrection ceremony. Afterwards, thanks to Raphael's newfound sentience, it took the time to analyze Shizue's soul far more in-depth and was intent on rebuilding it, should its Master need to resurrect someone ever again.
When Shizue's soul was completely rebuilt shortly after Raphael evolved into Ciel, once the Tenma War had ended, she informed Rimuru about her side-project. Rimuru was, as expected, completely shocked, but jumped at this opportunity to speak to Shizue and, if possible, bring her back into the world. Unfortunately, Shizue's complicated circumstances prevented her from taking Rimuru's proposal. To begin with, her childhood was taken from her in the form of the Tokyo Bombing, and through a miraculous stroke of luck, Demon Lord Leon Cromwell summoned her from Earth, effectively saving her.
However, while Leon taught her how to survive in this new world, he was horrible when it came to showing affection, something that Shizue deeply needed. If it wasn't for her meeting with Chloe, she would most likely walk a completely different path. With her life going from an achieved adventurer to a teacher, all of this culminated into her being an amazing person to rely on, but woefully inept at putting herself and her desires ahead of others. In her words, she didn't want to cause trouble or become a burden to Rimuru and the others after seeing how vibrant of a life they were living.
Of course, Rimuru could hardly accept such a reason for not wanting to live, so after a very emotional heart-to-heart resulting in Shizue finally accepting that she did want to see her students at least one more time, she rejoined the land of the living. This time, instead of being alone, she had Rimuru, and all of his friends allies to find comfort in.
Naturally, Shizue appearing out of nowhere after she had been pronounced dead caused quite the shock for the people who knew her, but with a convenient tale forged by Ciel as to why she had been gone for almost three years, everyone was quite happy to see her alive again, with only a close few knowing of the true circumstances.
Finally finished with everything, Rimuru got to work rebuilding the major cities that were destroyed by the Angel attacks and improving anything that they could. This time, however, he wouldn't let being busy interfere in his love life. The first major problem to solve this was to see if he could regain his sex drive. To his surprise (and great annoyance,) this was possible all along. When he asked Ciel why she never returned his sex drive when he assumed a human form, Ciel went with the silent treatment before eventually muttering out that she's first.
While Rimuru could only sigh at the selfish reason, he graduated from virginity not even a month after the war ended. Like most first times, it was quite short and awkward afterward, but nonetheless, he enjoyed it and looks back at it as a fond memory. Ciel insisted that they "practice" a bit more before he goes and, in her words, "knocks up the other consorts," but Rimuru felt she had been selfish enough. After his first time with Ciel, he then went to go reciprocate Shuna's feelings, and they slept two nights after he had his first time. However, things went quite different this time around.
While skills and racial traits are great to use and are often beneficial, they often come with technicalities. Things like "Pain Nullification" and "Thermal-Ice Resistance" were quite beneficial when it came to things like fighting battles or trekking across extreme weather conditions, the trade-off is that the release of discomfort is never felt, as there really is no physical discomfort to begin with.
When Rimuru and Shuna finally had sex, instead of the euphoric feeling that should have come around, they both felt nothing. When Rimuru was wondering why he felt nothing despite clearly feeling something his first time with Ciel, he saw Ciel's smug face in his mind, accompanied by a triumphant "Heh." Ciel then told Rimuru about how pain would naturally be felt when inserting a penis, especially one of Rimuru's size, into a virgin like Shuna, and since Pain Nullification blocked that stimulus, the brain simply didn't process the pain, and by effect, the resulting pleasure. As the inside of a woman's vagina was much hotter than the air around them, nothing was felt when Rimuru entered her since he forgot to turn off his resistance. While Shuna did remember to turn off her Thermal-Ice Resistance, she completely forgot about Pain Nullification.
As such, even when either of them reached orgasm, they simply wouldn't feel it since muscle spasms in the most sensitive regions would result in both pain and pleasure, and the brain would simply block the two as they came together. What resulted was a trickle of blood from Shuna's vagina and Rimuru, feeling both embarrassed, sheepish, and irritated, pulling out of her. Fortunately, Ciel wasn't heartless. She quickly repaired Shuna's hymen and made the proper adjustments so that both of them could enjoy sex. The cost of this, at least to Shuna, was that Ciel would be head wife. While Shuna did want the position, what was most important to her was Rimuru's happiness.
With the last vestiges of her consciousness that didn't get taken over by lust, she agreed. While she certainly wouldn't stop fighting for the position, the fact of the matter was that, ever since Ciel introduced herself to Shuna just days after the Tenma War ended, she quickly realized that, even though she was a skill that gained sentience, she did know Rimuru best, and would be ever devoted to him. After accepting, Rimuru took Shuna's first time, and made sure to apply the things he learned from Ciel on Shuna, pleasing her greatly if her orgasm was anything to go by.
As to be expected, it was quickly found out that Shuna slept with Rimuru. What wasn't expected was just how quick it happened, and from an unlikely source. While Shion suspected something, it wasn't until Benimaru, Shuna's brother, realized what happened that the dominos toppled over. Benimaru realized the subtle changes that occurred with Shuna, recognized those changes as the same things that happened to his wives after he took their firsts, and "tried" to give a subtle thumbs up in passing at the newly built government plaza. With Rimuru being absent because of him pretty much outside or in his office from dawn till late at night, he wasn't there to admonish Benimaru. Shion saw the look and gesture Benimaru gave and confronted about whether or not he knew if Shuna slept with Rimuru.
While she could simply ask her directly, threa- asking Benimaru was more fun. Thus, under pressure from the... recommendation of Shion's cooking should he refuse to answer her question, he quickly caved. Strangely enough, it was in times like these where Shion's intelligence really shined, as, taking advantage of a poorly worded law that Rimuru made where widows could marry the same man, effectively making polygamy legal, she suggested, or rather coerced, one of her subordinates to marry her.
Unfortunately for Rimuru, marriage in Tempest is public record, and an executive being married is usually a pretty big deal. No matter how much Shion tried to put in under wraps, it was found out in less than two weeks. As for the poor guy she married in question, the day after the marriage, she brought him to the labyrinth, put a resurrection bracelet on him, and promptly killed him. Of course, he didn't really die, but since death in the labyrinth can legally count as an actual death, Shion met the widow condition and could be married to Rimuru.
Shortly after Shion's marriage and subsequent widow status was brought to the public eye, all those who were interested in Rimuru and who had a convenient man they could marry and then either kill or send to die in the labyrinth did so in the span of three days. Once Rimuru figured out what they were doing, it was already too late. While he could change the law regarding widows, it wouldn't change the core problem that there were plenty of women who wanted to marry him, and there might be a public outcry if that were changed. So, he opted to change the death in the labyrinth law, which somehow made it past Carrera who he'd have to question about this later and made it so that the only deaths in the labyrinth that legally counted as deaths were those people who did not have a proper labyrinth sanctioned bracelet.
Fortunately, the public opinion surrounding Rimuru Tempest was astronomically high. It was basically seen as natural that a man like that would be surrounded by plenty of women, especially since polygamy was generally seen as normal. As such, a scandal didn't occur, but of the women who were all of a sudden newly widowed, the ones that stood out above the rest were: Ciel, Shuna, Shion, Kumara, Chloe, Milim, Hinata, the Demon Trio consisting of Testarossa, Ultima, and Carrera.
Ciel forged her documents through the system since she expected another player to join. Hinata joining was the most vexing one since she mainly switched between showing a romantic interest in him and showing him the blade of her sword, usually in a fast-paced manner around him as if she is trying to stab him. The latter three were seen as surprising since the demon trio showed no romantic interest at all towards Rimuru. While they certainly did show love, it was more a love born from a desire to serve the one they considered the ultimate being. In reality, it was simply to keep their options open if Rimuru wants to marry them. If Rimuru desired marriage from them, they would be able to fulfill his wish.
In the end, the women that ultimately ended up joining his harem were Ciel, Shuna, Shion, Kumara, Milim, Chloe, Hinata after a couple of years, and Shizue shortly following Hinata, with Ciel being the head wife. Shizue was the only one out of the bunch who was not legally a widow. Unfortunately, Ramiris was too cooped up in the labyrinth with manga to care about the outside politics, which once she heard the news, would constantly go and complain to Rimuru about.
In any case, Rimuru's harem was set, and while it was certainly possible for the trio to join in, outside of Shuna, who was decently close with Testarossa, no one really expected it. That was why Testarossa's confession was so jarring for Rimuru. After hearing her confession and Shuna's subsequent retort, he wondered if the other two were also holding back feelings for him. While it was possible they were, he ultimately decided to wait and see if they started showing signs, as well as actually looking for any signs they were romantically interested in him.
Outside of the trio, the only one he was actually slightly worried about was Luminous Valentine, one of the oldest and most powerful vampires and a fellow True Demon Lord. Rimuru would be lying if he said he wasn't interested in her, and while he was quite certain she was interested in him, he was also pretty sure it was for the wrong reasons. While Luminous has certainly enjoyed both men and women before, if Chloe's and Hinata's stories about her were anything to go by, she much preferred the fairer sex. Additionally, since Rimuru can change genders at will, he was somewhat afraid that she would be coming after him as payment for "stealing" both Hinata and Chloe from her. The worst part is, a part of him was strangely looking forward to such an outcome.
Dispelling those current thoughts from his mind, Rimuru decided that he would cross that bridge when he came to it. As of right now, he had two beauties in his arms that required his attention, and he was certainly going to give it. Looking into Shion's eyes, he simply felt content before sealing her lips with a deep kiss. Once he parted, a string of saliva made a bridge between the two before falling on his shoulder.
"Hmph"
Looking over his other shoulder, he saw Shuna giving an adorable little pout. He'd normally tease her a bit before doing the same, but after reminiscing about the past, he decided to just show his affection by giving her a longer kiss than before, and then returning to look at the ceiling.
"I seriously love both of you"
"I'm glad" came the faint reply. "I love you too."
"Me three!" Shion excitedly stated, before burying her face in the nook between Rimuru's neck and shoulder.
"I suppose we should be getting to sleep now huh?"
Shuna simply pulled the covers up over the three of them in response. They could of course go all night long but knowing that Rimuru has a big day ahead of him, they all elected to just rest. With Shion's breath tickling his neck, her heartbeat harmonizing with his, and Shuna laying across his chest, feeling her heart through her breasts near his abdomen, Rimuru drifted off to sleep.
