Chapter 24

"Mn..." Soft... Hm? I wake up my face pressed against Takae's chest, our legs intertwined, on a rustic sleeping bag. It looks ancient from the outside, but it's tech-edge from the inside. It's all about appearances baby.

Crawling above Takae, I watch her sleep. Beautiful, hmm....! I can't resist her! I dive down at her and start kissing her face everywhere, pressing my lips all around her face, and neck.

"Ah... Hahaha! Stop it!" Takae laughs and pushes me, half-sleepy.

"Never. Mine!" I answer as I pounce on her, and start groping her body as I kiss her body lower and lower.

"Ahn, not here..." She slowly pushes me and looks me in the eyes as she sits up to kiss me passionately in the mouth. "Not now." She whispers at me.

"Oi bitches, if you are done with your perversions!? I'd like to talk with the smaller bitch." Broks voice guffaws from outside like he's choking on his own jokes.

"Uuuuh" Takae hides her blushing face. "This is on you...!" She pouts, ah, how cute!

"Oi dwarf shut the fuck up!" I look at him. "We were having a moment here you crass fuck!" I shout at him.

"-sigh- Enough. Atreus wake up, we're going to eat, and then we'll continue our travel." Kratos mutters as he comes walking from between the trees, his skin slightly moist. Hm, did he go to wash up? What a curious man.

"Yes, father." Atreus voices between the pelts he was sleeping on yesterday. Included Kratos' own skin, hoh... Did he sleep at all?

"So, whatcha want blue?" I squint at him with a cig in my mouth.

"Hm..." He looks inquisitively at my cigar as the sparkly smoke forms a little dwarf being smacked by a hammer. "The sword, here." He says as he throws Galatine at me. "I learned a lot from it. And I have improved a little bit the design of the boots you gave me yesterday. However, I lack the materials." He grumbles as he shows me the planes of the design.

"Hm..." Yesterday I took Takae's perfect measurements and together with Brok designed the knee-high bladed boot. It has three long blades that travel from behind the knee to the tip of the foot. It's designed in a way that with certain enchantments the blades will rotate thus producing a chainsaw element to it, unbreakable, and can cut friction so it'll increase her speed. The blades can also move according to her will so it'll be like having six, metal whips that come from her feet. To be honest, it looks weird as hell. But, well, with her martial arts it's perfect for her.

"Looks good, alright, here." I wave my hand and mithril and orichalchum ores appear on his table. "First, make the blades with that, don't worry about the enchantments, I'll do them. Also, don't finish the job, just make the pieces separately."

I wave my hand again and dragonhide leather appears in front of me, a smoky sparkly white hand grabs it in the air. "Can you work with this for the boot design?" I ask him as he looks at the material in front of him.

"Hm... I can. But my brother would do better work with that hide." He grunts pissed about admitting that fact.

"Alright then, I'll have your brother do the leatherwork then," I smirk at him. "Oh yeah, here, payment." I wave and a sword appears in my hand, which I promptly throw at him.

"That one is called Chen Ying." I look at the Chinese Jiang in Brok's hand. "It was the sword of a king, poor bastard died impaled in his own sword. It was considered one of the seven treasures of the kingdom thought. However all its power came from the faith of the people, having impaled its owner, it fell and it became cursed. With time, people forgot about it and now it's just a lackluster metal scrap. You can do what you want with it." I smirk at him as I go back to the campfire. Atreus and Takae are eating, she looks at me with a smile and points towards a bowl with my food.

"Yay! Thanks love!" I skip towards my breakfast. "So, how are you feeling brat?" I ask as I start munching on my food.

"Well, I haven't slept so good since..." He chokes a little bit. "A time." he ends up muttering looking to the side.

"Hmm..." Since his mother died? Stupid brat incapable of finishing his phrases. "So, why were you crying yesterday?" I smirk at his affronted look.

"I didn't cry! I never cry! I am a man!" He shouts.

"Brat I am sure even older men cry." I visibly roll my eyes. "Besides, your sleeve had dried tears and you looked down when I asked." I grin at him. Takae looks at me with a pondering expression.

"Fine, it's... I killed someone yesterday." He grunts sadly.

"Oh, poor boy." Takae gets up and hugs him. I roll my eyes again.

"Why are you sad about it? People die every day. I killed people yesterday too, a band of bandits ambushed us yesterday." I munch on my food as I consider how to word it for a child.

Takae is eating again. "Really?" Atreus looks at me.

"Well, yeah. Brat what do you want to know?" I ask him.

"Well... It was scary." He mutters.

"You know, fearing death is meaningless." I interrupt him. And he looks at me angrily. "Now, now. Death cannot touch us because while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. Since death cannot touch us, it's not something bad. But natural." I smile at him as I let my magic wash the bowls.

"You know, the dead are more blessed and happier than the living. At least the ones who died naturally and were good people. They don't have to worry more about life, life is filled with preoccupations, with morals, with things to do, work to live, live to work. Hunt, protect, defeat,... Life is a hardship. You and your dad are journeying, defeating perils, fighting every day. That's life. The dead have the luxury of not worrying about it anymore. Those bandits of yesterday? Well, they probably went to the underworld to suffer. But once their souls are clean they will go to a better afterlife or purely reincarnate. People get what they deserve when they die. But no more preocupation."

Atreus just looked at me, huffed, grabbed his bow, and walked towards Kratos who was looking at us with a neutral look.

"Let's go, dad." He stopped for a second and looked at us. "See you later!" Still polite despite being angry. What a cute, stupid child.

"They both are so weird," Brok grunted beside me which made Takae laugh.

"Hahaha, look who's talking!" She smiled at him.

"Bah, I am not weird, girl. I am the magnificent Brok, a little bit of wonder is needed for one such as great as I" He posed. "Anyway lass and girl, I am leaving too. We'll see each other again."

"Alright, what do you wanna do today?" I ask, smiling at Takae.

"I was speaking with Brok yesterday... Apparently, there's an amazing hot spring somewhere on the next level of the mountain, maybe... We can go there and enjoy ourselves." She looked at me suggestively, the spark of lust in her silver eyes, her tongue suddenly licking her upper lip as her head got near mine, her chest going up and down with her deep breaths.

"Oh, yes. Let's look for the spring." I grin at her as I slap her ass and turn around towards the mountain.

"Kya! Hmpf" She grunted as she crossed her arms with an amused look. "You're gonna regret that~" Takae sing-songs.

"Oh no, kya," I say as fake as I can as I skip away faster.

She rolls her eyes and suddenly appears in front of me, lightning dancing around her. She smirks and grabs my ass. "You're not getting away~"

"Bitches, stop flirting in front of my fucking shop!" Brok shouts.

"Ah!" Takae shouts become lightning and disappear.

"Pfft. Hahahaha." I guffaw at that. "Well, see ya Brok." I wave at him as he grumbles away.

With a flash I appear beside Takae who stopped running, huh, she went quite fast. Where are we?

"So, where are we? I teleported to you but..." I look around, the trees are different from the trees I saw before. I believe we're not even in the mountain anymore.

"I... Uh. Dunno." She scratches her cheek embarrassed. "I just ran away. I think I ran on water." She mumbles the last part.

"What? Did you run on water? Cool! Let me see it." I smile at her as I take her hand and start walking towards the smell of the ocean. "Oh, look at that!" I point towards a mountain in the distance. Waaaaaaay distant. "We were there! It's a week's worth of travel for Kratos and Atreus." I snort as Takae blushes harder.

"I take that the hot spring is lost on us, right?" I smirk at her.

"Argh! Shut up!" Ah, her face and ears are so red, so cute!

"Hahahaha, ah, don't worry. Let's just go to a high place and I'll just make a hot spring for us." I wink at her.

"Fine." She pouts looking to the sides.

A few hours later I wipe the non-existent sweat from my forehead and put my hands on my waist.

"Well, that's the best I can do, I guess." I grin at Takae's face.

Apparently, Takae ran towards an empty island, that had an empty plateau on it, and on the center of the plateau, another smaller plateau stood. So, I emptied it and made a hole in the ground, changed the property of the dirt and stones around us to be azurite-like, and filled the hole with hot water. Used a few flowers and soaps and weird thingies to make the water pleasant. And tada, hot-springs!

"That water is not normal, is it? It's shiny." Takae mutters as I slowly undress her.

"Indeed. It's holy water. Holy hot water." I smirk at her baffled face. She still doesn't complain as I run my hand through her body.

"Blessed from whom?" She asks.

"Ah, right, you Japanese are quite ignorant of the occidental practices. Hmm... Well, blessed by the pope." I laugh at the sacrilege that we were going to commit to that water.

"Oh." She looks at me. And suddenly smiles as she pushes me.

Takae is half-naked right now, she has her sports bra, that doesn't hide how big her breasts are, and her tight leather pants, with the buttons, almost showing her privates, but no. A design made to tease.

She slowly turns around, her hips following her movements with an even grander rotation, she's giving me a show.

The light from the water, reflects on the azurites, creating a blue light, her silhouette shows her sensual curves, as she slowly bends over, both hands removing her leather pants.

Her deep breath rises her chest up and down as she slowly lifts her right hand to grasp the bottom of her top, removing it, and pressing against her skin, her chest constraining against her hand, and suddenly they bounce back, revealing her beautiful boobs, bouncing slightly as they are free from their confinement.

Takae looks at me with lust in her eyes, as she kicks, and with that movement, her pants leave the premises, she slowly bends over and looks at me as she grabs the left side of her red thong.

Slowly....slowly.... she bends backward in an arch, sliding headfirst towards the spring. Crotch facing me. Grabbing one of the stones that surround the spring, her body, suddenly stretches as she kicks, fast as lightning removing her thong and diving into the water.

A second later she waves from the spring with her wet hair, creating a half-moon of holy droplets. Her hand explores her body as she looks at me, fingers drawing the contour of her face, traveling down the side of her neck, and slowly brushing her nipples.

"Are you coming?" She taunts me with a finger.

With a flash of light, my clothes disappear, And I find myself melting beside Taake. Moving my hand inside her thigs, I slowly kiss her neck, biting and steadily scratching the inside of her thigs.

She mewls and moans on the spring, her legs spreading eagle as she feels the head of my magnificent blue dick slowly caressing the outside of her lower lips.

Slowly she lowers, and I fill her, as her walls close on my phallus. I grab her taut ass and with a grunt, I bury deep inside her. As she moans and traps my body with her legs and arms.

Her body moves to the rhythmic beat of my pulsing dick, our movements create an echo in the water. Slowly and sensually I start kissing her, as my rough movements keep plunging into her depths. I draw her close, a hug so tight it may be painful. But she's still moaning with wanting lust.

I release my essence inside her, my dick contracts and expands, scrapping every single corner of her insides, sending her to shivers as she cums with me. Lifting her I turn her around, pressing myself against her back, she arches herself as her hands grab my neck, and once again I plunge into her from behind.

This time I grab her from her boobs, perfectly cupping her breasts, as I play with her nipples, twisting and pulling as I bite the side of her neck.

She moans and grabs my nape, her arched body, allowing my dick to slide in and out easily as we both moan, the pleasure eliminating any thought we had, I hear the bell of Atreus, but a command of my mind hurriedly mutes it.

I grab her legs, and bring my hands to her back, completely locking her body to be pleasured.

I fuck her, hard and long, she cums, once, twice, and again. I lower myself to the edge of the spring, as she turns around and straddles me.

Kissing me roughly as she bites my lips hard enough to make me moan in pain and pleasure.

She rides me, her body jumping on my lap, in and out and I suddenly hug her, as I cum one last time.

We stay in each other arms as we slowly dip into the water, the water is clean, our fluids start disappearing the moment it touches the water, and it cleans us as well.

"Mh... This was amazing." She whispers as she kisses me slowly.

"Yeah... I'll teach you to make a dick when you get better at magic, I wanna be filled too~" I sing-song at her. And feel her shoulders shaking with a laugh.

"Alright. I am not opposed to it. I have always wondered how men feel." She wonders as she rests her head on my chest.

"Hm... It's weird, it does feel amazing but it's different. Like, our pleasure is different, men's pleasure is... Like scratching a super sensitive zone and then enveloping it in something warm and tight? It's weird."

"Hmm... I'll discover it soon enough." She whispers as she closes her eyes, her mouth still kissing me from time to time.

I close my eyes as my hand slowly caresses her body, oh... Fuck. "Atreus," I mutter

.

"Hm?" She asks and looks at me.

"He called, wanna go?" I ask her.

"Ah... Ugh. Fine. Let's beat whoever made him call." She grins.

"That's my girl!" She grins and we exit the spring, with a wave of my hand we are both wearing our clothes, I grab her hand and focus on the echo of the bell.

"There," I whisper as a vortex transports us towards the bell.

We reappear in a maze of wood filled with fog. Looking around, neither Atreus nor Kratos is near. Yet the bell is on the floor.

Taking with pursed lips I ponder. "Did he drop it? Or did he call and dropped escaping from something? Ugh. What do you say Takae?" I ask my other half.

"Well... We better look for them, right? We made a promise." She smiles at me. Hm, she makes me a better person than I am.

"Fine, give me a second." I wave my hand a pouch of stardust appears on it, dipping my fingers on it, I gently blow on my hand.

"Lumina," I whisper as I blow.

The stardust slowly transform into Atreus, as he fell, his knife and the bell falling to the ground. Kratos picked up the knife but did not see the bell, it fell right on the trunk.

"Follow the dust," I say as we walk behind Atreus and Kratos, another person appears, but not enough dust to highlight her. Just the symbol of a female instead of her. Hmm.

"What were they doing?" Takae asks.

"Well, probably chasing that boar." I shrug. "A weird boar though. He feels cursed."

"Eh? Where did they go?" Takae asks as both Atreus and Kratos walk right through a big tree.

"Ah. I see." I snap my fingers and a gout of flame slaps the tree.

A roar resonates and the tree rises, behind it everything with it. It's part of a shell, a turtle shell.

Under the big turtle, a house appears. "They went right there. Careful now." I whisper as I whip out a cane-whip.

"Hello? Brat? Kratos?" I shout.

"Ainz!" A voice answers me, but its echo is filled with mana, it's a magical attack.

"Shatter," I answer as I wave my whip, shattering the spell.

"How dare you, attack my home." A woman exits the house, her hands cracking energy, ready to attack us.

Before I could answer, Takae stops me, grabbing my shoulder.

"We didn't mean it. We saw the echoes of two of our friends, and we are worried about them. We are sorry about attacking you, can you forgive us?" She asks. Hmpf. I wouldn't ask.

"-sigh- Yes, I am sorry as well, I may have exaggerated." She looks at me consideringly. Very well, come inside, she walks inside once again, as she stands over a sleepy boar.

"Hmm... That won't fully heal the boar." I say as I observe the magical circle healing the boar.

"I know, but I just don't have the materials to fully heal him, but he'll live. That's enough." She mutters sadly.

"Hm... Here." I wave a hand and a red potion appears. "Just have him drink this, he'll heal." I look at her. Yes, this is my way of saying sorry.

"Thank you." She smiles as she takes the vial and places it on her shelf. "I'll use it once he wakes up." She explains.

"So, what can this old witch do for you?" She asks as she looks at us. I know she's scanning us with her magic, but she can't do anything to the shield I put on Takae and me.

I smirk at her, clearly annoying her as her right eye twitches.

"Atreus and Kratos, you have to know who they are. They passed through here. We're friends, and we found an object of Atreus on the floor in the middle of the fog. So, we're worried. Where did they go? I know they disappeared here." I look at her.

"Hm..." She looks at me and Takae. "I don't trust you, why should I reveal where did they go?" She asks menacingly.

I look at Takae as she shrugs. Oh well, we did our best to be polite. I whip out my revolver and point toward a window.

"Look at that tree," I say. And press the trigger. A mini sun leaves the barrel of my revolver and destroys the tree, and it keeps going and going, making a hole in everything it passed through, including the mountain in a flash.

And now I level it towards the boar. I look the witch in the eye. "Try me." I challenge the witch.

Takae suddenly bursts into lightning, as she gets in a runner position. We look at her and she shrugs. "What?"

"-sigh- Very well." She waves a hand behind her. "Hemilei!" Her voice echoes again, and suddenly the Turtle lowers itself, and presses the house to the ground, slowly sending us to an underground cave.

"Follow this path down, then head towards the daylight. Kratos and Atreus followed that path, from there I do not know where they went. But that's hardly my problem. Now leave, I do not want to see you again." She says harshly as she closes the door behind us.

"Too much?" I ask Takae as we start walking down a wood bridge.

"Nah. I somehow feel that she's a bitch. Like, she doesn't really care about the boar but she must heal it for something else. It's weird, but it's my gut feeling." Takae answers with a shrug. "As long as we don't kill her or anything it was fine. You don't have to change for me."

"Well, you'd be right about that. The boar is cursed, with her blood. So she has some kind of seal using that boar, or something like that, couldn't observe it."

We keep traveling through the cave, a few monsters appearing but once they smelled us they exploded. Heh, holy springs are useful.

"So... Where now?" Takae asks with amusement as we stand beside a big expanse of water.

"Well... There are many ways to look for them, but, well, wanna do it the best way or enjoy our time?" I ask.

"Let's enjoy our time together then." Takae answers immediately. Good, me above others, I like that.

With a wave of my hand a comfy boat appears, it moves by itself.

It has a big bed and a retractable roof. It's a comfy boat.

"Well, after you, my lady," I say with a flourish.

She giggles as she curtsies back and enters the boat.

"Now... Go on, look for a boat that moves or something." I say lazily as I lower myself on the bed, bringing Takae with me.