21

Rias wasn't in bed with Lavinia and I in the morning. I felt for her in the Bond and was happy to see that she was only embarrassed and aroused by what she witnessed last night. Turning my attention to Lavinia, I stopped to admire the Ice Princess. She looked so gorgeous sleeping on my chest like this. Biting the bullet, I kissed her to wake her up. Her lips sleepily moved against mine as she returned to awareness.

"Up and at 'em, Lav," I said.

"Mmmm," she groaned, "do we have to?"

"Unfortunately, yes. I have plans to acquire another peerage member today, and we can't do that from here."

I ended up having to carry Lavinia into the tub. The warm water did its job, and slowly woke her up fully. She left the bathroom full of energy, and I followed the future mother of my child out to face the day.

It was a good thing that today was a weekend, because we would have to travel to reach my next target. I had convinced Rias that a peerage training trip was still a good idea, seeing as it would help Issei become competent quickly, and gave me an excuse for everyone's inevitable rise in power after the watered down essences from the Binding settled in. Even if she wasn't fighting a Rating Game against Riser, there was no reason they should slack off in their training.

I left Aika in Rias' care, as she was only slightly more trained than Issei, and my next target's location would be dangerous for her. Lavinia and I teleported about halfway around the world to get to our destination, Romania. Yup, that's right, I was doing the stereotypical self-insert trope of rescuing Valerie. It was a no brainer really. Valerie was a highly desired waifu in the multiverse, so porn of her would probably please my benefactors. As a bonus, removing Valerie from the Tepes Faction's clutches fucked over her asshole of a brother, Marius and that genocidal dick, Rizevim.

When we appeared in Romania, the first thing I became aware of was a mass of pulls like the one I felt with Loona. They were all coming from the same direction, so it seemed like a group of crossover characters were all in the same place. Convenient for me. Almost too convenient. Shaking away my paranoia, I tried divining Valerie's location.

Finding Valerie wasn't very difficult. The unique mixture of energy she emitted was easy enough to lock on to. It ended up being as simple as finding the largest concentration of undead and holy energies. Her signature was coming from the same direction as the pulls I was feeling. Hmm, I smelled a certain amount of ROB fuckery going on.

The Tepes Faction's castle was exactly what I expected from a clan of vampires. Dark stone and gothic architecture made the whole castle seem like it was brooding. Valerie looked to be locked in a room at the top of the castle's tallest tower.

"Oh, Taytay! This is so romantic. Rescuing a princess from the big, scary, evil castle. You're the knight that will take her away from her miserable life. It's like a storybook." Lavinia said, swooning over how noble, and handsome, I was being by stealing away Valerie. I snorted. This whole situation really was cliche, wasn't it? A 'king' rescuing a princess from a dark castle with the aid of a good witch. The only way the Tepes castle could be more stereotypical was if they had a dragon guarding Valerie. And hopefully I didn't just jinx myself with that thought.

Strangely enough, the pulls that I felt were also coming from the tower, and, now that I was this close, I could feel that it was three separate strings of fate connecting me to the crossover characters. Using the Warp to ignore the castle's wards, I stepped into what looked to be Valerie's room. There were two people in the room, and they hadn't noticed our arrival yet. One of them (a short, petite, goth girl with short, black hair cut in a bob style) was trying to convince the other (a blonde with long hair that fell to her waist and a sensual, supple body that was barely concealed by a silken teddy nightgown) to run away with her.

I could feel a pull coming from the short, goth girl, and another two that led out of the room. One of the other pulls was leading me right outside the door, and the other seemed to originate from down the hall.

"Ahem," I cleared my throat to get the girls' attention, "I hate to interrupt, but ignoring your guests, even uninvited ones, is a bit rude."

The two girls jumped, "Who are you!?" the black haired one demanded.

"I'm sorry for sneaking up on you like that. Now I'm the one being rude," I said, sheepishly. "No matter. I am Taylor Sune Valefor, and my lovely companion is Lavinia Reni-"

"We're here to rescue you!" Lavinia's shout cut me off.

I sighed, "Yes, what she said. May I ask for your names?"

The blonde sat up a little straighter, "My name is Valerie Tepes, and my lovely friend is Mavis Dracula. Now, what's this about a rescue?"

"Well, you see, I am a devil. And I'd like to offer you two a spot in my peerage. I guarantee I'll still take you away from here, even if you refuse, and my offer is open to whoever else you desire to bring along on our escape."

Valerie glanced at Mavis, obviously considering my offer but not wanting to make a decision without her friend. Mavis' head was already bobbing up and down in a furious nod. On our side of the room, Lavinia was mimicking Mavis' action with the same level of enthusiasm.

Valerie sighed, "Very well. It seems your offer is agreeable to my friend, and I can't allow her to go off adventuring with a devil alone. My only condition is that you offer the same terms to my guard and tutor. They deserve to get out of this place as much as we do."

I nodded, "That can certainly be arranged. Why don't you go ahead and call them while I reincarnate Mavis here."

Mavis was easily reincarnated with a knight piece. Her Dracula bloodline held greater potential than I expected, because even three pawns wasn't enough to reincarnate her. The guard at the door turned out to be a character I was familiar with. She had blonde hair tied up in buns, an unhinged grin, and a Japanese schoolgirl uniform for some reason. Toga Himiko, blood fetishist and perfect example of a yandere, had her eyes locked on me the instant she came through the door. Her grin grew wider, showing off her fangs, and I could practically see the hearts forming in her eyes.

I mentally sighed, and used one of my pawns to reincarnate her. I was a firm believer that everyone needed a bit of yandere in their lives, but Toga's blood fetish might lead to some problems and misunderstandings. I turned to face the last person in Valerie's retinue, and ran face first into the largest pair of breasts this world had ever seen. Issei was going to be so jealous, I absently thought while trying to shake off the daze the massive pillowy mammaries had caused.

The exceptionally large breasts were connected to an equally large woman. Standing at eight feet tall, with an hourglass body that wouldn't quit, Alcina Dimitrescu cut a regal figure. The sway of her hips when she walked was matched by the bounce of her tits in a hypnotic way that was hard to take your eyes off of. Legs that came up to my belly button were displayed by a slit down the side of her dress. And, to top it all off, she wore a demure smile that looked oh so loving and motherly.

"Ah." I said, struck dumb by this statuesque woman. Lavinia didn't share any of my hesitation. She wasted no time at all hugging Alcina and burying her face in the tall woman's breasts. Alcina's sultry chuckle sent tingles of arousal straight to my cock, and she started petting Lavinia's head gently.

"Hello, child. Aren't you just the most gorgeous thing?" I couldn't tell if she was addressing me or Lavinia, but my boner didn't care. I was eventually able to convince Lavinia to take her head out from between Alcina's mommy milkers and let the woman go so I could reincarnate her with my rook piece. Valerie was the last one to be reincarnated. I had to use my mutated bishop because of how powerful her dhampir heritage and the Grail made her.

I applied my mark to all four of the new girls. Nowadays, everyone I applied the Bind to got watered down copies of my Mage, Blank, and Breeder essences. In this universe, you could never have enough magic, and the others were just quality of life improvements on a massive scale.