72 Chapter 72: But the alimony always arrives

Lemons?

Xenovia was feeling all sorts of odd.

Not only was she a devil, but she was also (technically) an Exorcist of the Church- Mostly since the news of her being a Devil likely hadn't reached the church, or the notice of stripped titles hadn't come. Or perhaps the postal service from the Human World didn't operate in the Underworld.

But in addition to those contradicting titles, she was also a Paladin of the True God's order, or rather that was the title she assumed the Dominion Authority, an Angel of Momon, had given her. And also the Lover of True God. In a far more literal sense than how Church nuns loved God.

Moreover, she was sparring against a devil in a friendly match.

In truth, all the things happening around her were quite confusing, but as always, she soldiered on with faith and duty. In this case, faith in the True God, and duty, that was bearing the True God's children.

All in all, life was good. But odd.

"And- Stab!" Irina lunged with Excalibur Mimic, which lengthened to almost washing-pole katana length to suddenly stab Tsubaki in the shoulder.

"What- Ow!" Tsubaki dropped her spear-katana. "I concede!"

"A-ah! Please hold still!" Asia hurried to Tsubaki and healed her shoulder while Momo moved from the other side and added her healing power to the mix. "M-momo-sama, p-please focus on the surface wound and I'll heal the deep gash…"

"Got it, Asia-chan!" Momo looked determined as she put her hands on the wound's vicinity. "I may not have a healing [Sacred Gear], but I'll do what I can!"

"T-thanks…" Asia looked a bit ill from all the bloodshed that had happened that day alone, but it seemed that the undead encounter in the swamp had helped immunize the girl to the danger of being a Devil in Momon's Peerage. Or perhaps Asia just didn't show it on the outside.

Nonetheless Xenovia turned back to face Tsubasa whose blows she had been blocking while watching Irina's and Tsubaki's training. "Tsubasa-san? You'll need to do better than that."

"Ghaa… hoo. Thank you for the spar, Exorcist." Tsubasa paused to support herself by resting her hands on her thighs and panting. "It seems that the training Church had put you through has given you ample strength."

"That, and hunting Stray devils, etcetera." Xenovia nodded to a fellow blue-haired girl. Albeit Tsubasa didn't have a stylish green stand in her hair, like Xenovia. Although the strand was coloured that way and not naturally so. But Xenovia figured that Tsubasa didn't need to know that. "I approve of your hair. Having short hair is tactically advantageous- I had long hair at one point but a Stray grabbed it and held me in place with it, so I cut it short after Irina bailed me out."

"Ho? Sounds dangerous. I haven't been in many stray hunts, usually Rias-sama's Peerage handles that… Or would that responsibility fall to Momon-sama now?" Tsubasa wiped her mouth.

"I'm not sure. However, I believe that Momon-sama will send His angels to cleanse Kuoh of sin, if he so decrees." Xenovia crossed her hands. "Or perhaps He will forgive the sins of the Strays, and convert them to His light? He is a compassionate god-ow. Cease your assault, false god-ow."

Xenovia felt a tinge of anger at the unjust punishment the heaven's system leveled against her, as it's true nature had been revealed to her. It had taken the intervention of the True God, and words of multiple Devils to reveal it to her, and while the words of the devils were suspect… when it was combined with the words of the Dominion Authority, it was clear what was going on under the surface.

'For Heaven to cast Momon down, remove his memories, and place their own False Idol on the throne that justly belonged to Him… How despicable. It is only justice that the False Idol died in the war between the Three Factions.' Xenovia nodded to herself while Tsubasa returned to her place and took the combat-stance once more. "Alright, you need to work on attacking from multiple angles, Tsubasa-san. I can easily parry or dodge your advance with Excalibur Destruction if you come at me from the front, so try to distract me or attack from the side. You're a Rook, but strength is useless if the blow that lands is deflected or misses."

"Thank you, Xenovia-san. I'll take your advice to heart. Now, defend yourself!"

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"...Hmmm. Hm." Koneko protested. "I won't."

"Come on, Koneko-chaaan." Ruruko and Reya tried to coax the white-haired cat-girl down from a tree. "We got snacks! And we need to train, right?"

"...Don't wanna."

"Uwaaah…" Reya looked sad. "And here we went and got tuna sandwiches…"

"Ew!" Ruruko rejected the very notion instantly, and then a metaphorical lightbulb light above her head. "Oh, right. Yees, Koneko-chaaan sniff sniff!"

She waved the basket containing the sandwiches towards the tree, and a head with two cat-ears popped to view.

"...I-I won't be seduced with something like that…"

"We got a cardboard box too!"

"...I'm not a cat. Or Gasper-kun."

"Damn, don't tell me…" Ruruko looked like she was grasping for straws. "We need to bring out the Final Weapon."

"I'm sorry, Koneko-chan… Don't think too badly of us." Reya reached into the basket to grab a packet and opened it.

The catnip's smell wafted out of the bag, and a girl fell from the tree like a doll with its strings cut.

"Purr… Purr…" Koneko cuddled against Reya who had unfortunately been in the white-haired girl's landing area and now served as both her cushion and pillow. "Purrrr…"

"A-ahem, are you feeling alright, Koneko-chan?" Reya asked from under the girl. Koneko responded by crawling around a bit and curling to a ball on top of Sona's Bishop. "U-um, so does this count as us winning against Koneko-chan?"

"I… think?" Ruruko sweatdropped. "Well, we exploited her weak spot, so that counts as tactics, right?"

"Purr…"

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Yubelluna was letting 'Oho-hohoho?' sounds as she gossipped with Tomoe who gossipped back. "So Issei-kun did all that? I'm a bit sad I didn't get to see that, albeit back then he wouldn't have been Momon-kun..."

"Yea, and then he peeped on a kendo club and they went and bashed his face in… but the idiot came out with a face full of bruising and with both thumbs up, saying 'worth it'." Tomoe gossipped about Kuoh's happenings. "And then Yuuto-sama went and asked if the kendo club girls were alright and like half of them confessed to him…"

"Booooooriiiiing…." Xuelan didn't seem to be one to gossip around and was lying on her stomach on the grass. "I wanna fiiiighhtt…"

"Sure, let's go!" Tomoe seemed to be up for the challenge. "Yubelluna, wanna come too?"

"I'm good for now. Momon-kun had me worked to the bone bombarding you guys, so I'll take it easy for a while." Yubelluna created a beach-chair with [Power of Imagination], alongside a hand-fan.

"That's why I'm saying Yubelluna-chan is going to get faaaatttt…" Xuelan poked at the woman's waistline. And then slapped her backside.. "All that fat can't go to your boooobbbbss… And butt."

A vein pulse in the woman's temple. "Oho?"

A bead of sweat ran down Tomoe's temple.

"Uh, I should go. We should go. Let's go. I'm Xuelan and this is a go-" Xuelan managed twenty feet before the first explosive landed on her feet. Tomoe, only ten.

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"Umu… Well…" Momonga sweated a bit. 'Well, I suppose this is training Gasper's ability to control his power… I just think that this is somehow wrong… umu…'

"Pruuude. Pruuude. Prude skeleton is prude." Ddraig was patrolling around Momonga's head with a protesting sign.

'Quiet.' Momonga thanked the dragon unconsciously for taking his mind off the task at hand, but then was forced to return his attention to it.

Indeed, Momonga was sitting on the grass with his back against a tree, while now-female Gasper was on his lap and he was trying to break 'his' concentration. Or rather, Momonga was groping and fondling her.

"M-Momon-s-senpai… T-that feels… I-incredibly d-distracting… Eeek!" Gasper gasped as Momonga rubbed the girl's inner thigh. However, the fact 'he' maintained the new feminine shape throughout the whole ordeal was a testament to 'his' growing control over the power 'he' had absorbed.

Momonga soldiered on and kept groping Gasper, running his hands up the 'woman's sides and feeling her soft flesh, and nibbling on her elf-like ears. "K-kyaah!"

The black sludge on his lap let an eldritch gurgle.

"It's all good. Let's try it again." Momonga told the tentacle-covered eyeball that had floated up from the puddle of maddening ink.

"I-I'm sorry…" Gasper whispered cutely as 'she' assumed 'her' normal petite boy-form. Then he noticed Momonga's expression, and shapeshifted back into a girl. "U-uwaah… Momon-senpai likes my Rias-like form more…"

"There, there. I'm straight, you see." Momonga pat the now-female boy's head. It seemed that Gasper was a bit upset, however, so he looked at the situation from the boy's point of view. 'Hm, then again… It's like if Gasper was aware of my true Overlord form, and said that he liked me more when I was 'Momon'... Hm, while that's understandable I'd be a bit upset too… And the reason would likely actually be the same, since I'm fairly sure Gasper's not into bones, much like how I'm not into young boys...'

"I like your boy-form too, just… not that way. However, I like you all the same, Gasper-chan." Momonga told the now-female formed boy who blushed up to her eyebrows.

"T-thank you, Momon-s-senpai… I- I- I f-feel t-the s-sa-same… Ie Heia Rhalfaghen-ghie-abui Ien Ia." The girl blushed out and the black slug finished the speech.

"Don't worry, don't worry…" Momonga sighed for the tenth time while patting the huge slug that was on his lap. "Again."

Gasper re-materialized her female form on Momonga's lap, except this time she was facing towards him. "Momon-sen- senpai…"

The two's faces were mere inches away, causing Momonga to wonder for a while. 'Technically, I'm not adding Gasper to my harem or anything, this is just training, so I don't have to tell Rias that I'm adding a new lover to my harem as per our premise, right? So it should be okay? This is just ero-training in ero-world…'

He ignored Ddraig who seemed to have materialized cheerleader puffs on his claws and was doing dragon-equivalent of cheerleading in his head, for some reason.

"Right, here I go then." Momonga told Gasper while reaching to kiss her cheek. And then noticed that he was kissing a huge octopus on its beak. "You know, you'll have to focus harder."

"I'm sorry…" Gasper returned back to her female form. "I- I'll do my best... Y-you're good at distracting me, Momon-senpai…"

"Haa… Again." Momonga reached to run his hands down Gasper's sides and then ran them all the way to her butt and gave it a squeeze. Gasper shivered against his chest, rubbing her shapeshifted boobs against him, but managed to maintain the shapeshifting.

Momonga then ran his hands up and lifted Gasper's face towards him, and placed a gentle kiss on her lips.

Gasper froze up completely, but through herculean effort managed to retain her form. Until Momonga added his tongue to the mix and the girl's eyes rolled to the back of her head and she started to let out all sorts of obscene sounds… and then an eldrich wail that could probably be heard through the forest.

"It's alright, again." Momonga told the hole-covered octopus who was bleeding worms on his laps. His [Regeneration] burned the worms away before they could enter his host-body and make it their host as well, so he shrugged the whole thing to the side.

Gasper made a hasty apology, a girl once more, but Momonga cut her off by kissing her passionately, causing the now-female formed boy to let moans and weak protests. She began slapping his shoulders in panic to get away instinctively, but soon relaxed and melted into the kiss.

"You're getting better, Gasper-kun. Sorry, Gasper-chan." Momonga noted as he pulled away.

"Fuwaah?" Gasper seemed to be in a daze and batted her eyelashes at Momon. "Tasty… I wanna kiss more… Feels so good…"

"Alright. Remember to focus or I'll end up kissing a slug or something. Not that it'd matter since both would be you, but that's not the point of this training" Momonga told 'her' and she giggled a bit into the kiss. He then ran his hands down Gasper's sides and to the front, rubbing her inner thighs and after that didn't provoke a transformation, rubbed between her legs as well.

That provoked a reaction, and Momonga noted that he was chest-deep in a black puddle that had eaten the tree behind him entirely. "Gasper-kun…"

"Sorry! Sorry! I was just… surprised…" Gasper blushed madly as she crawled out of the hole she had made in the ground. "I-it didn't feel bad, though…"

"Right, right… Again." Momonga moved to sit against another tree and now-female Gasper came to sit on his lap, bow-legged while facing away from him. "Hm… How about this?"

Gasper only barely managed to maintain her form as Momonga reached to pull down his pants, and the hardwood popped up between Gasper's legs so the shaft rubbed against her now-lady parts. "U-w-w-w-what- Momon-senpai?! B-but… R-Rias-buchou!"

"Well, this is just for training, right?" Momonga wasn't sure if he was doing the right thing, but since he had jumped into the pond then he might as well swim.

"R-right, j-just for t-training…" Gasper blushed and moaned as Momonga reached for her elfish ear and started to nibble on them while running his hand down her stomach until it landed between her legs, the gothic dress Momonga had made for her disintegrating as he undid the [Create Greater Item] and left Gasper naked. "I-ish alright… f-for training… o-only… fuaah… F-feels so good… More..."

"Good, good… Just focus." Momonga licked Gasper's ear, causing the half-vampire to moan and lean her back against his chest while he rubbed between her legs and she rubbed the meat sword with her butt.

"F-fueeeehh… I'm… I'm about to… I'll… Eeeek!" Gasped didn't last long as she started to twitch and groan from the three-pronged attack, followed by a shriek as something liquid covered Momonga's hand and meat-blade.

"Alright, we're making progress." Momonga told the black sludge that covered his body. "Again."

"I'm… sowwy…" Gasper looked depressed, so Momonga reached to kiss her and hug her close. However, it seemed that the act nudged the 'girl's switch. "Mwah… Momon-senpai tastes so good… I wanna… taste… mh… can I have a taste, i wanna have a taste… so tasty…"

Momonga realized what the half-vampire meant too late as Gasper bit his lips and licked the blood.

"Owww! Huwts! Buwns!" Gasper complained as the phoenix blood burnt her tongue. "Spicyyy!"

"Sorry, sorry… Listen, how about this?" Momonga toppled himself over Gasper so the two were lying as close to each other as they could, and then unleashed [Negative Energy Touch] on the not-boy.

"Uuwwaaaah!" Gasper's eyes rolled to the back of her head and then the tentacles of the squid below Momonga tied themselves around his body, and he was drawn into the inky depths of whatever void the not-boy manifested.

'Well then.' Momonga wondered as he was surrounded by black, ink-like void that seemed to extend to eternity. He was fairly sure that there was something foul lurking within, but his immunity to external mental ailments was working overtime to keep his sanity intact.

Gasper floated by and Momonga grabbed the now-feminine body. "Hey."

"Ie Ghu-bhura ieh Hei-kki!"

"It's alright, don't worry. I'm not mad." Momonga got an idea. "Hm, this would be the crowd-control 'pool' that the Awakened Deepkin draws its victims into, right? Hm, it seems you've unlocked that ability as well. Listen, since the ero seems to improve your control…"

"Shog-Ie! Ikiki-Ighira!" The once-again boy gurgled something vaguely ominous as he floated in front of Momonga, and then turned back to a roughly Rias-shaped girl.

"Good… now…" Momonga kissed her and rubbed the shaft against her stomach, and then placed the tip between the 'girl's lower lips and started to slowly slide it in. "Keep control, concentrate…"

"Hieeee! Kieeee IeI!" A screech echoed in the inky depths as Gasper tied her legs around his waist while the two floated in darkness.

Gasped panted heavily as Momonga kissed her and started to move, drawing moans, groans and occasional ominous gurgles from her.

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Something twitched in the darkness.

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Gasper panted hard as Momonga nibbled on her long elf-like ear once again, figuring that it was her weak spot. "Hie- Ghur! Kshi!"

"I'm glad that you feel good… but concentrate! This is training, after all!" Momonga told her while pushing the rest of himself into her, and Gasper adjusted her body to better fit him, displaying 'her' growing control over the power in the darkness.

He rubbed the bulge in her stomach with one hand and stroked her thigh with the other.

"Ie Aihiki- Kieh! Shub-ssubh…"

"You want to taste it… sure." Momonga pulled himself out of Gasper and turned her around as the two floated weightlessly in the ink. Gasper kissed the tip of the shaft hungrily and the rest of it pushed between lips and then to her throat. While that was happening Momonga figured that he could use that as an opportunity to learn more about pleasing girls. 'When in the pond, you swim, when on the streets, you walk… So I might as well get better at both if I'm going to be doing this all the time…'

Gasper's thighs tied themselves around his head as he reached to lick and penetrate her now-lady parts with his tongue, noting that the liquid within was nowhere as sweet as Sona's was. 'I suppose that's the boosters at work… '

He shrugged and kept licking and twirling his tongue in the pleasantly cool flesh while Gasper's throat modelled itself to better fit and squeeze his host's flesh-sword. 'Hm, the part of me that is Suzuki Satoru would find this quite pleasant… if it wasn't for the ink's constant attempt to apply [Insanity] debuff to me. I wonder if Gasper has undead immunity to mental ailments, or if it's because of [Forbidden Balor View] that is mostly sealed thanks to [Ultimate Disturb], or if it's because he ate the Awakened Deepkin? No matter what, it looks like he's still sane, which is good…'

His body discharged itself into Gasper's stomach, causing the now-female half-vampire to let out obscene gurgling noises. Momonga turned the girl around and kissed her after she opened her mouth and showed that it was empty, not even giving Gasper time to recover...

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A tentacle turned as foreign noises and emotions echoed in the cold, deep darkness that was like the deepest ocean and blackest void...

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"Eiulii!" Gasper's incomprehensible whine echoed in the darkness as Momonga thrust into her repeatedly and the now-girl succumbed into lust entirely as 'he' seemed to finally master the shapeshifting, and rewarded herself by throwing herself into Momonga's embrace and rubbing her new body against his in a desperate fervor.

'...Although considering how the ink works… Perhaps Gasper did get affected by [Insanity], but it just affects her differently. He was shy and easily scared… but now he's, er, she's practically licking my tonsils…' Momonga noted while the passionate exchange took place.

Gasper finally locked her legs around his waist as she seemed to be incredibly close to coming, and a twist of one of her elf-like ears and lick of another seemed to push her over the edge and the two came in unison.

The howl of pleasure Gasper let out caused hairs to stand in the back of Momonga's host body's neck due to how eldritch and ominous it sounded in the deep dark the two were in…

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Something twitched one last time, and a gigantic eyelid opened just the tiniest bit from the constant, repeated, annoying commotion and HE started to wake...

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Gasper twitched one last time as she and Momonga plopped out of a small lake of ink back into the Underworld.

Momonga emptied his lungs of the ink into the grass as the lake seemed to shrink and disappear, and Gasper did the same while the two were still joined by the hip. Gasper seemed to be struggling, twitching and squirming in the after-shocks of her powerful orgasm, so Momonga held her against his chest and let the not-boy run down the high of lust while her eyes were hazy and her mouth was desperately seeking his lips...

"...We came over because we heard a shriek earlier, but…" A resigned voice came from somewhere nearby. "...You know, I didn't expect anything less."

"Ah, greetings, dear." Momonga greeted Rias and Akeno who had returned to the clearing Momonga and Gasper had used for training. "I was just training Gasper."

"Oh, you were training her alright…" Rias had a vein throbbing on her temple.

Momonga glanced at Akeno for help while Gasper seemed to finally calm down and flopped against Momonga like a dead fish.

"Fueehh… I won't lose to Rias-buchou…" Gasper didn't help the situation by hugging herself against Momonga's chest while she lied on top of Momonga on the ground. "I- I like you, Momon-senpai…"

"I like you too, Gasper-chan, but can you get off me for now?" Momonga pat the girl's head, and Gasper blushed hard.

The not-boy squeezed him one last time before slowly standing up, allowing the schlong to exit her insides and allowing a steady stream of Momon's training liquids to drip down alongside her inner thighs.

And then the not-boy became boy once more.

Momonga hurriedly re-cast [Create Greater Item] on Gasper once more, trying not to think about how the boy seemed to have more than a little bloated belly on account of different sizes between his male and female form, and considering the filling that had been inside 'her'. And then noticed that the black ink had corroded his clothes as well, and he re-created his earlier reddish dress-suit outfit with the same spell while getting up from the ground.

"Ugh… Momon! When I told you to impregnate Gasper I was joking! No, I was using reverse psychology!" Rias groaned. "I didn't expect you to actually do that! Or attempt to do that!"

"Ufufufufu…" Akeno chuckled. "Gasper-kun might become a mommy!"

"U-uwaahh…" Gasper blushed to his eyebrows as the petite boy cradled his stomach. And then the belly returned to normal as he seemed to absorb the 'stuffings'. The boy's eyes turned hazy, however. "S-so much… Whee..."

'Hm, come to think of it… Gasper is a half-vampire, so can he also gain 'levels' by doing 'that'? Or is he absorbing power through, umu, s-seed?' Momonga sweated rivers as he stared at Gasper who was wobbling on the spot. Both of the theories made sense to him, but… it also painted a picture as to what kind of training Gasper would need. '...Ero-world. Of course. But, considering that and [Forbidden Balor View], Gasper shows the highest growth potential out of anyone in my Peerage… The kind of power that I need if my true nature comes to light the wrong way and I am thrown into battle against the Maous and the Underworld...'

Momonga reached to pat Gasper. "You did good. I think we can call this training a success. After all, you seem to be in control of your transformations, and you're a bit more confident too… Ah, and Rias- Don't worry. Gasper just requires some, umu, specialized training due to the nature of his power."

"Haa… Considering how Gasper's turned out… I can see that." Rias conceded with a deep sigh. "Gasper-kun… I'm sorry I didn't think of that, back when you were stuck in the classroom for years in Kuoh after I found you and added you to my Peerage. I... I'm sorry for not being proactive with your condition…"

"D-don't worry about it, Rias-buchou…" Gasper shook his head while hiding behind Momonga. "I-it wasn't a problem at all. I-it's just that Momon-senpai has, um, a different way of approaching p-problems like m-me…"

"You're not a problem, Gasper-kun." Momonga reached to tussle the blonde boy's hair, eliciting a small giggle and blush from him while the boy wobbled on the spot a bit as the high of the training seemed to come down and make room for tiredness to set in. "Rias, dear, don't blame yourself. Besides, Gasper told me that you saved him in the first place, so you shouldn't feel bad."

"Right… I guess that's correct." Rias seemed to cheer up. And then she sighed at Momonga. "Well, it's not like this is the first time… Just, make sure you do that to consenting people, alright?"

"Don't worry about that. I'm not a monster." Momonga felt a bit offended by Rias's words. "Have faith, Rias."

"Ha, to say that to a devil… Ah well." Rias shook her head. "Anyway, we came to check up since we heard screaming… We should return to our training and you two can continue, I suppose…"

"I think we're done for the day, at least with Gasper." Momonga kept patting and scratching Gasper's head while the boy seemed to become sleepy. "I think you'll need a nap, right, Gasper-kun?"

"Uwahh… fueh… Yesh…" Gasper wobbled on the spot and Momonga sweeped him up to a princess carry, and the petite boy fell asleep almost instantly.

"Ara, ara… So gallant and gentle~" Akeno seemed amused by Momonga's actions. "My, Rias-chan, careful now or Momon will have a fourth fiancee~"

"Akenooo…" Rias groaned. "Don't give Momon ideas… He doesn't play with those things…"

"Umu, I'll just be going…" Momonga sweated a bit. "I'll go see Koneko-san since she has an ability that I think she should start using…"

"Please don't train her the same way as Gasper." Rias clasped her hands together. "Promise me. Don't use that same training on Koneko-chan… She's-"

"Don't worry, I'm not into underage girls." Momonga sighed deeply and Rias beamed. "I'm honestly a bit offended…"

"Sorry, but, well… It's not like you've given me much evidence to the contrary…" Rias apologized. "And with Gasper and all… You see where I'm coming from, yes?"

"Right, apology accepted. Don't worry." Momonga sighed and went on his way, leaving Akeno to tease Rias. 'Haa… Well, it's not like my image was that of a pure, noble and gallant knight anyway…'

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Rossweisse woke up to a ringing in her head while she had been dreaming of getting swept up by a gallant, brown-haired and brown-eyed knight in pure white armor.

"Oww… Shaddaapp… I'm having a hangoverrrr…" Rossweisse groaned to the incoming magical 'ping' that opened a high-power runic communication between her and, presumably, Odin.

"...It's good that you're letting your hair down for a change, but I need to remind you that you have a mission." Odin's voice had a tinge of amusement but it was clearly reprimanding. "You had a mission. How is it going?"

"Ah- M-my apologies for this unprofessional display, Lord Odin." Rossweisse blushed. "I… It's going… alright. I assume."

"When are you going to get into touch with Momon, or have you introduced yourself to Momon already?"

"...I'm pregnant with his child…" Rossweisse blurted out as the hangover was making her concentration wane.

"..." Odin was speechless, and Rossweisse could tell that the Norse God was gobsmacked and had his mouth hanging open.

A vaguely familiar neighing laugh came from the background of the communication rune, telling Rossweisse that Lord Loki was likely present as well, and if those two were in the room, then Lord Thor would be likely there as well.

"...Ahem. A-anyway. Well then. I'll, um, I'll just… I'll inform the Valkyries of this for you." Odin seemed to reboot his brains and moved on. "Congratulations, Rossweisse. Anyway, have you considered a marriage?"

"I-It's a bit soon, but… Yeah, I'd like to marry Momon-sama…" Rossweisse blushed to her eyebrows.

"Alright, I'll send the idea forwards to the Underworld." Odin told her without breaking a stride. "How goes your observations?"

"I… I don't think Momon-sama is a scary person…" Rossweisse told Odin. "He's kind, caring, compassionate… W-what happened last night was a bit surprising, but I don't blame him… I kind of forced myself on him… B-but it all turned out great in the end, and he told me he'd take responsibility for his, um, my actions…"

"Splendid. I'll expect your written report soon."

"Yes, my lord." Rossweisse's opinion of Odin went up a bit from the congratulation. And then crashed down.

"Anyway, I got Brynhildr to assign me a new Valkyrie bodyguard so you don't have to worry about me. Plus, she's got a huge rack and she seems super easy going… And I found out that the bodyguard-valkyrie's salary isn't actually enough to feed both her and me because we spent the weekly salary in like half a day, so I upped the pay by eight hundred percent, which seemed to resolve that issue…" Odin prattled on, which Rossweisse hoped was his attempt to tell her that she shouldn't worry about the old fart's state. Oh, how she hoped that was the case as she cut off the communication rune to massage her aching head and flop back on the bed.

Then the contents of the conversation hit her. 'H-he'll engage me to Lord Momon?! Lord Momon said he'd take care of me… but… for me to become one of his fiancee's?! Kyaaaah!'

Of course, she couldn't let that sort of emotion show on her face as it'd be quite inappropriate for a woman of her status to squeal like a teenage girl, so instead she hurriedly got out of the bed and started to clean herself as well as the room she occupied, which looked like a guest room of some sort.

She finished cleaning herself, made sure she had panties on this time, created an outfit with her runes and dressed herself in an official, professional navy-blue dress suit and pants in an attempt to appear professional in Momon's eyes after the last fiascos, and left the room.

Rossweisse looked around the bedroom to which the guest room exited, and then glanced behind her to see a plaque on the door she had come through that said 'concubine's side room'.

She only barely managed to resist the urge to pass out from shock once more as Momon indirectly told her what was her new role in his entourage.

And then Rossweisse thought about the way the two had met and interacted… and realized that the 'assignment' made complete sense in that light.

Rossweisse resisted the urge to cry as her image had turned from a dedicated, professional and perhaps sometimes a bit prude valkyrie into that of a shameless, despicable harlot due to a few unfortunate stumbles, some more literal than not. And even so, Momon had accepted her and offered to take care of her and her soon-to-be child that had resulted from her stumbling and accidentally sexually assaulting him during his engagement night...

A thought hit her from the side. '...Should I take a pregnancy test, just in case?'

A moment later she emerged from the bathroom stall of the luxurious quarters to which she had been left in, with a test-stick in her trembling hand and with a face both sickly pale and dripping with sweat while she leaned against the bathroom sink-table and looked at herself in the mirror.

'I'm not pregnant… I'm not pregnant… but in that case I lied to Lord Momon, and he offered me sanctuary because of that… B-but if I now go to him and tell him that I'm not actually pregnant, after he told me he'd take responsibility…' Rossweisse thought furiously… and then came to the logical conclusion. 'L-lord Momon might become annoyed with me, perhaps… E-even tell Lord Phenix that he doesn't want me anymore, and since Odin would wash his hands off of me the moment he heard of my deception, I'd have nothing to guard me against Lord Phenix who would no doubt be angry with a shameless harlot like me deceiving his son... Even though Lord Momon is such a kind, compassionate young lord, his patience can't be endless, and I'm just some random Valkyrie who barged into his life and now I've embarrassed him, raped him, and also lied to him… I'm the worst…'

She shook to her very core. 'No, I can't let this lie come to light, or I'll ruin all my chances with him, not to mention Lord Odin told me he'd send a word forward to arrange a engagement for me, because I'm pregnant with Lord Momon's child… but I'm not, so would that make Lord Odin a liar too?! Not to mention the dressing down I'd receive from Brynhildr, plus there's no doubt she'd demote me or even kick me out of Valkyries for offense like this...'

'I can't let that happen… If that happened then my reputation, my career, my credibility, my image, my future… my everything would crash and burn...'Rossweisse moved to the side and leaned against a mahogany door that would lead into the bedroom as she thought about the situation and came to her final conclusion. 'I- I must try to seduce Lord Momon, and try again to become pregnant… I'll be ruined otherwise...'

She walked in front of the bathroom mirror again, triple-checked her makeup and that her navy blue dress suit was immaculate. And then blushed furiously and took off her panties, just in case. 'I- I can do this, Rossweisse, I can do this… I must do this… My career, my image, and my chance to get a rich, compassionate, kind, and intelligent husband is on the line! I am a Valkyrie, a weapon for Valhalla, and my body is a sword to slay enemies- er, or in this case, my body is a sword to lay my… c-crush…'

Rossweisse saw a steam cloud rising from the top of her head from the thought as she stared at her own blushing face in the bathroom's mirror.

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