Okay... how did we get here? Strea "Is this a date?"

After that Yami and the girls easily got out of the forest thanks to the map. The last member of Laughing Coffin, the leader Jeffrey/PoH got away. But this was actually good for Yami since that would present him with the chance to exterminate the whole killer guild.

Already making plans, Yami gave Hanekawa the job of spying on Laughing Coffin and finding their base. He also sent a message to Vanilla to look after Silica.

The girls in the party all had to deal with what happened inside the forest and needed some time for that. Sinon was impacted the most, but Leafa didn't fare well either since she was just a normal girl with the conception that killing was wrong and now two people had been killed in front of her eyes by the one she was in love with and a "friend" of hers. And it wasn't easy to understand that other humans had tried to kill her.

Asuna on the other hand was outwardly not very perturbed, but inwardly her feelings were a mess as well. Probably because of her "kind side" which didn't like the thought of her killing another player either.

Alice on the other hand understood that she didn't understand enough about humans since she couldn't understand the players who tried to kill their fellow humans. Luckily Strea had finally arrived in the game and she could ask her about it. And she needed to ask Strea and Yui about the feelings she had towards Yami. Both of them should be able to tell her what these complex emotions inside her heart were.

- - -

4 Days later

(God… are you serious?)

Yami could still see the Probability around himself and the person whose lap he was lying on.

"No need to worry my cute hero, I will protect you. You are in the safest place."

(Well, I'm at least in the softest place… I should ask Tsunade or Raphtalia to do something like that when I return to Paradise…)

Yami was currently laying on a lap pillow, while being hugged inside of two soft and squishy breasts. This was truly a great experience!

"Can I ask what you are doing?"

"Protecting you of course. Don't worry about the monsters, I can multitask."

"Well then I'm just going to enjoy this. What's your name by the way?"

"Strea."

"Yami."

Although Yami was still paralized, he just smiled, although his face wasn't visible since he was pressed against Strea's body.

"Strea... Why are you stroking my chest?"

"This is where your heart is, it must be thumping fast, right? Oh how much I wish that I could listen to everyone's hearts and understand their emotions."

"I don't think so…"

Strea tilted her head to the side, making look cute.

"Understanding the emotions of a person is one of the hardest things there is. One can't even understand his own heart completely. And sometimes it is better not to know what others think inside of their hearts. Is it really that important what others think and feel? You yourself are the thing that is most important in your life, at least that's how it should be."

[The constellation "Bullshit no Jutsu" is nodding his head even though he doesn't know what you want to say with your words.]

The girl thought about Yami's words for a bit, but after a short time she seemed to treat it as if nothing happened and hugged him even tighter. She was similar to a child.

"You are really a interesting and funny guy. I'm really happy to have finally met you!"

Yami just let her do as she pleased. Actually, the paralisis effect he was under until now was already gone, but why should he try to get out of such a pleasant situation?

And how did he end up like that?

Well, long story short. 4 days after the Laughing Coffin incident he went hunting on the 36th Floor. He went alone since the girls were already planning an attack on the 36th Floor's boss and the other girls didn't come along either. Sinon and Leafa still needed some time for themselves because of the whole killing thing, but also because both of them had realized their feelings for Yami and wanted to talk the whole thing over before meeting Yami again. Well, they were girls in puberty after all. Alice was currently with another person, Yui. Actually, she had spent the last four days with Yui and Strea and talked with another. The main topic they had was Yami. She had come to realize that she loved Yami as well, thanks to the two AI's. But they had an agreement that she would first let Strea meet Yami before talking with him again. Strea had said that she first wanted to make sure that Yami was a good fit for Alice, although this wasn't really her motive in meeting him since she already liked Yami quite a bit herself. And Asuna? Actually she wanted to spend some time alone with the girls from Paradise and asked whether she could take part in the clearing of the 36th Floor.

And because of God's interference he was paralized by a monster just as Strea arrived at the scene. And thus Strea "took care" of the paralized Yami.

"Spending time with you is fun. We can already be considered close friends right?"

They were indeed "very close" with how much Strea was hugging Yami onto her body.

"How about we go to a city. I have been wondering about the thing called "date" and wanted to experience it. Ne, ne, do you want to go on a date with me since we are close friends?"

[The constellation "Is this a date?" is hinting that there are more great spirit-girls than just Kurumi.]

(Tokha, this is bread. Come to think of it, Strea is acting pretty childish just like her. Well, she is calling Yui her elder sister and she is currently not even older than a few months. And I should also be the first human she interacted with since she was inside the system the whole time. The reason for her being here should be to keep an eye on me. Well, I already managed to covet one of your AI's, so the other two won't be of use to you either, Kayaba.)

"Sure. I'd be happy to."

"Yeey!"

Yami tried to stand up from her lap, but the moment he moved, Strea hugged him again because of her happiness. It was like standing while a cat was lying on your lap, it was a very very hard decision!

Thus they stayed in the lap pillow position for another 15 minutes, Strea was very proactive and seemed to try to squish Yami into herself. But as a "gentleman of culture" he couldn't do anything to her at the moment since he knew that she was actually totally pure and just liked physical contact and that was her way of showing her high affection. With emphasis on "at the moment".

She was a fighter that used a two-handed sword with which she just totally smashed any monsters they came across. Thus it wasn't hard for them to get out of the so-called "love-caves" that they had previously been in. Was the name of the place that Strea wanted to meet Yami in a coincidence? I think not.

There was also a city with a fitting name near as well; "Love-bird city". These places probably didn't exist in the original but God seemed to have had some fun.

It was a great "coincidence" as well that this city was filled with all kinds of shops and cafes good for a date.

"Is this a date?"

Yami had to hold in a chuckle while seeing Strea pressing her face against the window of a bakery.

"No, that's bread."

Of course he bought her some and she happily ate it.

(Luckily she isn't a glutton on the level of Tohka or Alice, but she still seems to be one. Or maybe she just likes food and she always does whatever she likes? Really, like a child. I think besides Yui I could also take her as a daughter.)

Yami personally didn't really like shopping, or rather, he didn't like just looking around. He would buy something if he needed it. Another thing that he didn't like, for some reason, were accessories. He himself didn't understand why, but if a girl/woman was wearing accessories, especially big ones, he would see them as less attractive instead of more attractive.

So both of them were strictly walking past any jewelry shops, but since they chatted with another none of them really wanted to look into the shops.

"Is this a date?"

"No, that's cake."

Yami was still slightly smiling, especially because it looked as if Strea had stars in her eyes as she ate a chocolate cake, but he was a bit irritated by the fact that there was a bit of probability around her at the moment she asked the question. But since she was happy, Yami just let it slide and both of them walked around the city while Strea was eating.

(Come to think of it, Alice and Artoria would probably get along very well, those gluttony knights… Wait, am I a better cook than Shirou? I mustn't be worse than him in anything! He was a incompetent master and a annoying MC with his whole "hero" thing. Archer is cooler! Okay, I will prepare a feast for the girls tonight. Practice createst masters! Thinking of the girls, Hanekawa will probably get along with Kuroka very well as well. Those black belly nya~ cats.)

"Is this a date?"

(NO! THAT'S A CAKE!!!)

Yami wasn't pissed at Strea, but God who used Probability again to make her say the thing again! Particularly since it was even a cake again!

[The constellation "God is a girl" is chuckling.]

He needed to take a deep breath. Thankfully the cute face with which Strea looked at him soothened his heart.

He bought her yet another cake, this time one with different fruits, and they started walking again, until she poked him.

"I want to go there!"

Yami followed where she pointed with her other figer and was speechless that something like that existed in SAO, but gave God an internal thumbs up as well.

Both of them entered the cosplay shop. And only moments later…

"Tada pyon~! What do you think pyon~"

Strea had changed into a bunny girl outwit making Yami think of Mai-san. She even "hopped" towards him.

"You are looking really cute with that."

He said while stroking her head. Seeing animal ears just triggered an instinct to start petting her.

"Thank you very much, your praise makes me really happy pyon~"

Seeing that Yami really liked her dressing up, Strea went back to the changing cabin and changed once again.

This time she came out in a white maid-dress. Looking a bit like a waitress. Yami complimented her a lot since he had a soft spot for maids. This made Strea fired up even more and she started to take many other and more and more revealing cosplays to the cabin.

The next thing was a cat-Strea. She had small violet-pink ears and a cat tail which went really well with her hair color, eyes and normal dress. Yami once again couldn't hold himself back from stroking her head and her ears. But the real ears of the demi-humans felt way way better than these ones.

After that she started to wear more and more special and revealing cosplays.

She started with a kimono that exposed quite a bit of her big cleavage and however her flawless legs. Its flower patterns and the colors went from a light blue over to violet from left to right. It looked really good, just like everything else if it was put on Strea's great body.

Next came a cheerleader outfit which exposed her legs, cleavage and belly area. Strea wasn't at all shy about her body. Quite on the contrary, she was very confident in her body and actually liked showing it off to Yami since it made both of them happy.

After that she came out in something that even Yami didn't expect; a white wedding dress. She had white gloves and even blew him a kiss before turning around and changing to another piece of clothing.

Following after were others such as; teacher, student uniform, gambler and even ninja until it came to the grand conclusion; a violet swimsuit! It showed a lot of her glorious skin and the swimsuit had a hard time keeping the quite big breasts contained within and one could get a very good look at them. Not much was covered, as it should be!

With that glorious sight their date ended. However, Yami wouldn't just let her go after that. There were currently 5 people in the party and he wanted her to be the 6th member.

They both went on top of a tower from which one could oversee the city to watch the sunset. It was quite the scenery.

"Strea, today was really great wasn't it?"

"Yeah it was and I think that i now understand what a date is. It's just having a fun time with the partner right?"

"Indeed. Talking about partners, I wanted to ask you something."

Strea looked at him and both of them stared right into each other's eyes with the sunset in the background.

"Strea -"

"Yes! I want to be your girlfriend and be with you forever!"

[The constellation "Surprised Pikachu" is surprised.]

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

Both of them looked at each other for a few seconds. Yami really didn't expect her to say something like that after only a few hours of being on a date with him.

{Your charm is just too strong my husband. Sasuga Yami-sama!}

Yami couldn't help but chuckle at Eve's words, breaking the uncomfortable silence.

"Sorry, I just wanted to invite you to my party, since the confession would still need a bit of time but we can also speedrun this as well."

He went closer to her and…

Gave her a peck on the cheek while starting to rub her hair again.

"Although I accept your feelings you will have to grow up a bit more before I will accept you as a whole."

Seriously, one of the rules was "no lewding the lolis!", although she was everything but a loli, she was not even four months old yet! And she probably hadn't really grasped the concept of "be with you forever". It was highly likely that she didn't even feel "love" for him but just a great amount of affection since she couldn't differentiate between those yet.

(But seriously, doesn't her affection rise way too fast? If they were numbers, I'm sure that they would rise by the second with how easily she takes a liking to people.)

{I don't really think so. Although she is very good at making friends with people with her happy personality, I think the reason for her fast rise in affection is you and not her. And of course the fact that the girls are influenced by God speeding everything up.}

For the first time yet, Yami hugged Strea and not the other way around. The girl however seemed to not even be perturbed in the slightest by his words, instead happy that he was stroking her head and gave her a peck on her cheeks. This confirmed Yami's conspicions about her not completely understanding what she had said previously.

Yami sent her a friend request and a party request which she accepted. It seemed that she had gotten the "player rights" just like Alice.

(Does that mean that I will have to feed this glutton as well? My poor hard earned money.)

If he wanted to, his followers would get money for him faster than he could even spend it, but in actuality, Yami had more than enough money already. It was just that nobody would like to see their money just disappearing into the stomach of someone else. Of course Yami actually didn't mind at all since the girls were Alice and Strea.

Both of them spent a bit more time on the tower watching until the last bit of the sun vanished and night came.

"We will meet up tomorrow on the 37th Floor at 9 a.m. There you will meet the other girls as well."

"I can't wait to talk to them!"

And with that the 6th party member joined Yami's group.

Strea was happy. Yami was happy. And the demi humans who got to eat his cooking later were happy as well and they even got a mofu mofu session as well since Yami was in the mood for it after already "taking care" of Strea.

And it seemed that Asuna had gotten along with everyone as well. Esdeath had also talked a bit to her after the boss fight. But what Yami didn't expect was that Esdeath had told her about Paradise and Asuna wanted to visit it.

It appeared that the both of them had already been in contact for a while now and Esdeath had judged that she was trustworthy enough to hear about their master's great own world.

Yami didn't really mind since he knew that he would have told her and the other girls about it at some point and there weren't any problems with Asuna knowing about it except for one; once she stepped into Paradise it was highly probable that she was going to instantly start undergoing evolution since she most likely was already at the 100 affection point, although Yami had no way of verifying that since he couldn't see her affection within SAO, but once she entered Paradise Yami should be able to see it.

He was interested in what is going to happen to the SAO girls if they undergo evolution. Particularly if they would get the leveling system just like the other girls.

"Oh right, Esdeath,you have a leveling system as well, right?"

"Yes, Yami-sama. I have noticed it after the other girls underwent evolution but it seemed that it had already leveled with it even without knowing of its existence. Eve-sama told me that I got it after my own evolution but I didn't notice it since i didn't level up until I killed the monsters in SAO and just presumed that it was the leveling system of the game."

Yami nodded at that explanation.

"And how is Sachi doing?"

"Reporting to master, she has overcome her trauma and become a fellow believer in Yami-sama's greatness. She is currently practicing with the spear within the training grounds that the girls built. But she is very shy when it comes to you and I think she might need a few more days before her training is complete."

{If you touch her, her affection status will be added in the system.}

(Thanks for the info.)

"Yami-sama."

Raphtalia had walked over to them while they were talking and was currently kneeling on one knee.

"What is it Raphtalia?"

"My sisters have all worked hard the past few days and I and Esdeath-sama would hope that you could give the promised "reward" to some of the hardest working girls."

Yami nodded. He wanted to do that soon anyways.

"The girls would be; Eris, Hanekawa, Chocola-chan and Vanilla-chan, and Darkness. Senko-chan is doing a lot inside of Paradise, but she wanted the other girls to be able to experience your magnanimousness before herself."

Yami nodded once again.

"Very well, summon those five to my bedroom in half an hour, they will receive my final blessing."