Growth

It's been a few days since Haruto and the others arrived at the capital. On the second day in their stay, Selianna's gang had caught up with them. Since she realized Haruto had not recovered yet from his "period" she offered to stay at her personal villa at the capital, as her thanks for his help from before too.

Fia and Elsie tried to refuse politely but the listless Haruto seemed to react on her offer to stay at a large place so they accepted.

Counting from the days after the battle inside the dungeon it was a little more than a week, and yet Haruto had not recovered at all. Even Fia too started to get worried since 'it' shouldn't be this long. But thankfully today a change finally happened.

"Fufufu... How amazing..."

A black haired young boy was currently facing a mirror inside a room and cackled madly looking at his figure reflected by the mirror.

"To think it would feel this great.... This might be addicting, it's not so bad after all."

He could feel power emanating from his body. All of his abilities whether it was strength, speed, endurance, or capacity of Ki, they were all raised dramatically.

That's right he just went through a Growth.

He forgot that when an individual finally reach a breakthrough from the accumulation of their battles and about to experience a Growth, their bodies would fall into a period of recuperation, a preparation to welcome their Growth. That's why they would struck by immense physical fatigue and their minds would be distorted at the same time because of that.

And after resting and recovering for some time, a change will happened and their power would increase. This was what known as Growth.

People's increase in power varied among each individual. Sometimes they would only gotten a some strength and sometimes they would gain a large increase in their strength. Their Growth could also inclined towards specific attributes like speed, strength, mana, ki, endurance or even towards their abilities and skills. It was all depended on the individuals to what kind of Growth they would have.

But for Haruto it looked like he gain improvement on everything and his overall powers increased dramatically. By now even using his base form he was confident he could defeat the transformed black minotaur variants, albeit with some struggles. This was a very shocking progress since he achieved that with only a single Growth.

"Well then, shall we inform 'the other kittens' of my new magnificent self? I'm sure they would be surprised, in a lot of ways hehehe~"

Haruto smirked maliciously and went out of his room.

He did not aware at this time that the individual's mentality will received a very strong stimulation the moment they entered a post-Growth state. In fact, the other girls who should have known of this fact also forget about this.

Because of that they're going to lament in regret not long after this....

....

Elsie was currently cooking a breakfast inside Selianna's villa. Her house did not employ any maids or butlers. When they asked Selianna would say "I don't stay inside the capital a lot and it's not like it's such a large house that I couldn't take care of it myself so employing maids would be a pain. Though I asked some friends to look after the house time to time."

And this certain knight who just said that happened to have some business at the castle and went out of the house.

As 'freeloaders', Fia and Elsie asked to take care of the house chores and Selianna happily agreed. They could save a lot of money that way and enjoyed a much more comfortable living place than an inn, unless it was a very extravagant inn so just doing house chores was not such a significant thing.

Not to mention Elsie's true capablities (and hobbies) were exactly doing chores. She was extremely proficient with cooking and cleaning, especially cleaning since she had her magic broom.

While humming a certain anime song (who knows where she learn it from), Elsie stirred the inside of the pot. The stove was powered by fire stones, obtainable from dungeons and they were very convenient compared to gases.

'Right, I wonder how Kami-sama's doing? He's already been like that for a week and Fia-san had grown worry too.' She thought while her face saddened. Shaking her head she focused back on her cooking. In any case she could just make a delicious and nutritious meals for him.

Fia was sitting on the table waiting for the breakfast to get ready. She performed a maintanance on her knives. After using them for quite a long time already they were quite tattered so she needed to get new ones as a replacement.

And just as she sighed while thinking about that,

"Fuuh..."

"Hyaaan!?"

Someone blew on her fox ears. It was so sudden and that particular part of her body happened to be extremely sensitive. Her body jolted and she shrieked loudly.

"Fufufu, you're cute..."

"H-Haruto-nii!? What are.. ahh~ noo..stop!"

She was very shocked to find Haruto standing behind her and played with her ears. His fingers rubbed against the fur and he blew softly inside the ear. Fia let out moans from his actions.

"Ahnn noo~ please..staahpp~ mmhn~!"

Haruto continued to tease her ears. Fia's cheeks turned red and her eyes were teary. Her breathing was ragged and she let out hot breath from her mouth. Haruto smirked seeing that and as a finishing blow, he gripped her tail strongly.

"IYAAAANNN!"

Fia moaned loudly and after that her body lost strength and turned limp while she was panting heavily.

"K-Kami-sama!? What are you doing to Fia-san?!"

Elsie was astonished hearing Fia's cry of pleasure. She saw her Kami-sama standing proudly with face full of sense of accomplishment with Fia sitting motionless with dazed eyes. And then her body jumped when she saw him turned his face towards her with a devilish smile.

"Oh if it isn't my most precious imouto. Did you miss your beloved divine brother? Hehehe."

"Wha!?"

"But fear not. For I have recovered and reborn as a new marvelous and most awesome man in the world."

He declared that with a sharp glint and doing a weird pose by circling his body around and covered one of his eye with his hand.

Elsie didn't know what to say to his sudden strange behavior. Yesterday night he still remained motionless so why did he became so energetic today!?

While she was deep in her mind Haruto already went near her body. And then without much thought he pushed his lip against her lip.

"Mmph!?"

Just like that, Haruto kissed Elsie on her lips. Not stopping at a simple touch of lips, he took advantage of her surprise to enter his tongue inside her mouth.

*Kuchu* *Kuchu*

Elsie opened her eyes wide in shock. She tried to push his body but he hold her waist strongly by his hand, preventing her from escaping. Their tongue entangled with each other and exchanged salivas.

"Ah..nn.. nmu...nmu..mm~"

Before long Elsie's eyes turned misty and her face blushed red.

"*Puah*...Fufu It's up to here for today, thank you for the treat."

He released her mouth and let Elsie's body fell to the ground on her knees, releasing hot gasps.

"Hehehe now let's have some fun outside."

Haruto licked his lips and made his way outside the house, leaving behind the two girls still breathing heavily and in stupor not understanding what just happened.