GxG 32
My day began much like any other.
With a rainbow menace divebombing my bed.
Too bad for said menace that I'm simply built different.
"Noooooo let me go." Hana squirmed in my grasp. You'd think getting caught every day would deter my girl, but nope. As soon as the sun comes up, like clockwork, she tries something new. I have no idea why it started, but it has been a thing for awhile.
I'm honestly proud of her work ethic, not that I'd say it out loud in this specific case. I'm all for positive reinforcement, but if Kunou found out I was the cause of her losing sleep, I would be deep in the doghouse.
The foxhouse? Nah, that sounds weird.
Anyways, I've seen Hana genuinely innovate with her tactics over time. I know for a fact she's used at least three different Senjutsu techniques that neither Kunou nor I taught her yet.
"It's too early." Kunou groaned out beside me. Since we were sleeping in the same bed, she was in the splash zone of the tiny chromatic menace.
"The sun is up, and we have stuff to do today anyways." I replied, taking the opportunity to wrap Hana in my blanket.
"Wait really?"
"Well… I have my second magic lesson later today. Wanna join?" I tentatively offered.
We have already been here for a handful of days, but we haven't really done anything yet. I had one mini magic lesson with Rose, and then she showed us around the neighborhood, so to speak.
Basically, she showed us the tourist traps near where we are staying, and then got dragged away to deal with her secretarial duties. Even just handing over the tasks she was handling is running the girl ragged, not to mention I heard rumors that Odin had to conscript at least three Valkyries to cover Rose's workload while she was assigned to us.
Poor girl.
Otherwise, we have been cooped up in our room while we decide what we want to do. I've kept Hana occupied with a mix of TV and Senjutsu training, but she is starting to go a little stir crazy at this point.
"No thanks. Senjutsu and Youjutsu are more than enough for me. I want to go shopping with Hana for some new clothes and souvenirs for our parents. I've heard the enchanted looms around here are to die for." Kunou mimed an aristocratic tone at the end.
"There's a commercial district near the hotel, you'll be in my sensing range in case anything happens." Not that anything will. Barely anybody knows we are even here yet since we haven't really been in public, and there should be no reason for anything to happen, but it's good to make sure.
"Yeah, that was the idea. I have a surprise for you later too." Kunou leaned over and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
"Blegh." Hana gave her insightful opinion of the act while trying to wiggle out of my arms. I let her go and she crawled off my bed and ran back to hers.
We spent the next half hour getting ready for the day. Changing out of pajamas, brushing teeth, the girls choosing their hair for the day, all that stuff.
Kunou chose a loose ponytail over her shoulder, and Hana picked a simple three strand braid. With her rainbow hair almost as long as she was, it looked really cool. The way the different colors of her hair were forced together in the braid made it look rather striking.
When I had first started doing her hair I was worried that the weight from having it so long would tug on her head too much, but she never has had any problems with it.
We were just finishing up when there was a knock on the door to our room.
"I got it." I waved Kunou back to her task, fighting her hair tie to get the perfect length.
Opening the door, I was entirely unsurprised to see (and sense, but I keep my Senjutsu senses tuned to danger sense over raw data accumulation) one of the Valkyries that replaced Rose, papers in hand.
I was more surprised to have her stride into my room wordlessly before dropping the file on the table before turning to me.
"Lord Odin has ordered me to deliver the transcripts of his meeting with Satan Serafall Leviathan as well as his notes on the subject. I am to act as a… translator for some of his more personal thoughts until you are satisfied with your understanding." Explained the Valkyrie.
"Oh? Ok, sounds good. Thank you for your time…?" I inflected my voice at the end to signify the question.
"My name is Eir, Lord Sage." I nodded at her before turning towards Kunou who was listening in.
"Kunou. My dearest, sweetest, prettiest girlfriend who I love very much. Would you-" I started asking before she cut me off.
"I'm not reviewing the documents for you."
"Please? You grew up around this stuff." I know that I could handwave away the entire issue just by slotting in a new mote, but I decided I don't want any social motes and I'm sticking to that.
If I'm going to be given supreme power via whatever my motes are, I at least want my relationships to belong solely to me. It's true that all my relationships are built upon the power that I possess, except for my parents, but I take comfort in the fact that people like me for me and not some sort of hyper optimized version of me that a mote would spit out.
It is probably a stupid and inefficient thing to worry about, but it is where I draw the line in the sand, and that's all that really matters at the end of the day.
"And you need to learn how to deal with it too now that you are going into the spotlight more and more." Kunou explained, before glancing at my pout. "But I will help you. Stop pouting."
"Thanks." I turned back to Eir who was calmly watching our little byplay. "So why did Odin send a translator? I know most languages."
Eir smoothly took a single paper out of the stack and handed it to me.
"Its not about understanding the words, its that Odin has certain idiosyncrasies that may hamper proper communication." She explained.
I took the paper and started skimming it.
"Reason for meeting: Controlled leak of healed stray to the devils to avoid panicked overreactions. Ok, that makes sense so far." I glanced at Eir, and she didn't miss a beat before responding.
"Keep reading. You will understand."
"Upon entering the room, Sera- Whoa, ok, I see what you mean." Upon reading that sentence I realized this was going to be a thing.
"Hana? Grab a plant and go do your practises over by the window. Your goal today is to make flowers with different numbers of petals, starting from one and going up." I directed my Little Flower who had been listening in after she had finished getting ready for the day.
"Aw man, really? That's so hard, the flowers want to grow as much as they can." Hana pouted (Kunou would say it was identical to my pout moments ago, but she is a liar) but got to work. She grabbed a soil filled pot that we had delivered specifically for her to use and a daisy seed for the flower. She struggles more the further a plant is from her Rainbow Lotus, so its good practice.
"Thank you Hana, when you go out with Kunou later you can have some ice cream." I offered as a bribe for her to focus on her task, to which she lit up and then hyperfocused on the pot.
I could feel her using Senjutsu, and she stuck her tongue out in concentration, so I threw up a quick sound muffling formation and turned back to the deadpan Eir and confused Kunou.
"Ahem. Sera breasted boobily into the meeting room." I read from the page of Odin's notes. "This has to a joke or something, right?"
"No. It's real." Groaned Kunou who was pressing her hand into her face. It seemed she knew what was going on.
"It is as Lady Kunou says. Serafall has a reputation as a master negotiator who is not afraid of using her devilish looks to sway the results. Lord Odin's note could be read as 'Serafall was putting her all into the meeting, even more than usual'" Eir explained with all of the emotion of someone who has to deal with this on a daily basis.
"Ah."
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"Ok, I get why he did it. Between seers, precogs, postcogs, diviners, and every other flavor of magical information gathering, secrets in the supernatural do not stay so for long. A controlled information leak hopefully prevents someone doing something stupid in a panic." I explained my thoughts as Kunou and Eir nodded along.
"In this case, 'something stupid' means some devil noble trying to assassinate me before I can take their toys away. That makes sense and I'm thankful for Odin's effort." I continued.
"Then what is your issue? You seem to grasp the main topic pretty well." Kunou replied.
"I don't get why the entire transcript reads as so…" All the languages I know, and it still took me a moment to find the right word, "Non-hostile."
Nailed it.
"You are asking why Lord Odin was not frothing at the mouth and declaring war? I believe I can explain that, at least partially." Eir offered, and continued when I waved her on.
"It comes down to a few factors all lining up. The first is that it would run counter to the purpose of the clandestine meeting in the first place. The entire point was to avoid a possible war due to any knee jerk reactions on the devil's part." Eir started listing off, raising a finger to count off her first point.
"Then there is the fact that outside of work, Lord Odin and Serafall could be considered friends. They have similar hobbies and can speak at length about them to each other." She raised a second finger.
"There is the contentious point that, technically, Hrist was returned to us. That fact weighs heavily on the negotiations." She raised a third finger.
"The final two points are the big ones though. The first is that it simply was not the time or place to be mad. Odin is mad that a devil managed to steal away one of his subjects. He is furious that one of his own sold her. The meeting reads as 'nice' because it is simply a Band-Aid over the bullet hole that is our relationship with the Biblical Factions." Eir lifted her fourth finger, leaving only her thumb down.
"Ok, that makes sense so far. I'm starting to get the picture." I nodded while Kunou just listened.
"The final and saddest point is that, simply, one Valkyrie is not worth going to war over." Eir stated with the most emotion I've seen on her yet. It was the look of someone who understood exactly what the shit was that they were supposed to swallow.
"That… really sucks to say out loud, huh?" What else am I supposed to say to that?
"Lord Odin has to balance the needs of the many, as is his duty as our Chief God. There is no world where he risks starting a war and losing everything over a single subject. At most, it would be used as a line item during the actual negotiations later to get a more favourable trade deal, or maybe close communications entirely if the slight was severe enough." Said Eir.
"Everyone thinks of Odin as 'that old perv' nowadays, but anyone with any intelligence knows that he has both Wisdom and War domains, among others, but also that he has Ragnarok hanging over his head. Odin knows exactly how bad a war could be for him, as even a light skirmish with the devils could be enough to tip the scales out of his favour." Kunou chipped in from the side, and Eir nodded in agreement.
"It is exactly as the young lady says. Lord Odin has many considerations for his every action."
"Thank everything that I'm not a faction leader. That sounds exhausting." I jokingly wiped my forehead, but the sentiment is real. I'm happy with my small family, ruling over others sounds boring as hell.
I was interrupted from my musings by a tug to my sleeve. I turned to see Kunou looking at me with misty eyes.
"I thought we were going to get married and then rule the yokai together?"
Wha-
"Kidding! You should have seen your face. I wish I took a picture of that." Kunou cackled as she walked away.
That scared the shit out of me. Its not like I'm opposed to marrying her, that is the theoretical end goal of dating after all, but jeez she sideswiped me good there.
I took a second to straighten myself out before turning back to Eir. "Thanks for your time today, I understand the whole meeting thing now."
"It was no issue. It was my assigned task for the morning. Rossweisse also would like to confirm you are meeting her in the training room instead of the conference room today." Eir said while she was packing up.
"Yeah, sounds like a plan."
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That single booklet Rose gave me was more helpful than all the books I got from the Yokai library. It covered some actually castable magic of every basic element and configuration, as well as the basics of the spellcrafting theory that went into making them.
Nothing super detailed, but the framework of the 'why' was laid out in much easier terms than what I had before.
Looking back, the sum total of the books that made all my Magic motes was one book written by a guy who can't even cast magic, and a few primers about how to access magic without blowing your head off by sneezing wrong.
Once again goes to show how strong my motes are in general, with them being able to chug along with such subpar info.
I do not suffer from GIGO, which is very nice.
Anyways, the booklet's information was absorbed by Merlinian Magic, and had enough proper theory that Math was finally able to sink its teeth into the subject. None of my Science motes had anything to add to the subject beyond matching the magical concepts to their non-magical counterparts.
Basically, they went 'yup, that's definitely fire' and that's it. I need to get deeper into spellcraft before my detailed knowledge starts to help. My current list of cantrips all fit the rough mold of [element],[shape], and [vector].
A spell to make a lighter on your finger? [fire][sphere][null].
The spell to shoot some small electric sparks? [lightning][cluster][forwards].
Of course, the actual spell circle to cast the spell is much more complicated than the simplified way I just described them, but it's an interesting way to think about the magics.
Also, the shorthand method falls apart for any spell more complicated for a multitude of reasons, a big one being that higher level spells take full advantage of the fact that a circle is a two dimensional object, requiring the spellcraft calculations to take that into account.
Now that I'm thinking about it, are three dimensional spell circles a thing? Spell spheres?
…I'm totally going to use my motes to bullshit a spell hypersphere and mess with people.
My point is that my Science motes can't really apply their knowledge until I get into more detailed and complex spell circles, as it doesn't matter if I know the exact ratio of air to add to a fireball to get the most efficient explosion if the spell circle only has one variable to declare fire and none for air.
That is not to say it was totally useless though, as I still have that spark cantrip I made that adjusts the color of the sparks. Barely a change from the base, but its still a change.
My Mana has progressed to an acceptable level? I think? Much better than the pitiful amount I started with. Mana has been chewing on the fact that Mana grows from use, so it has been simulating the growth gained from emptying my pool of Mana since I unlocked the mote all those months ago.
Mana Control and Mana Sense have also been running off of basic exercises this entire time. The exercises meant to allow an aspiring magician to gain the most elementary understanding of their mana. Those exercises.
Its only thanks to the nature of motes that I haven't been hit with diminishing returns from such basic exercises, and unlike with my Ki I didn't get lucky and ape into a wildly powerful growth technique by accident. It's not wrong to say that the Ki purity and Ki density exercise I invented allowed Ki to carry me through all my Senjutsu and Sage stuff.
Speaking of Ki, I really need to check out what going past the physical limit of Ki quality has actually done. Kunou has been giving me weird looks after our dual cultivation sessions (I feel like such a nerd even thinking that) ever since I crossed that barrier, but hasn't said anything yet.
"I hope I'm not too late?" Rose's voice knocked me out of my thoughts. I had been thinking so hard during my walk to the training room that I barely noticed I arrived, much less that Rose was late.
"It's not an issue, I was just lost in my head." I shook my head in dismissal while she walked over.
As opposed to her outfit during our last lesson which could be described as 'secretary chic', this time Rose was in what appeared to be full Valkyrie armour.
"Do I need to be prepared for combat?" I raised an eyebrow as I scanned her getup, which caused her to pause, look at what she was wearing, and proceed to glow with a light blush.
"Would you believe me if I said that I put on my combat uniform from school by accident?" She bulldozed through the embarrassment she was feeling. I guess my comment made her feel a little overdressed for a basic magic lesson.
"Didn't you already graduate a few years ago? You're older than me, right?" I questioned Rose. Honestly, whoever designed those combat uniforms was a real man of culture. I wonder how Kunou would look in one?
"I slept in after staying up late to file some paperwork and then when I was rushing I thought 'going to the training field today, need my combat uniform' out of total habit. And of course I'm older, that's why I'm teaching you. I have more experience." Rose shyly explained her slipup before boasting about her seniority.
"I shall endeavour to listen to my elders, then." I gave a perfect bow, powered by my Body Control and the lessons on etiquette I had gotten.
"Something about your tone is off, but I'm going to ignore that and start our lesson." Rose squinted before perking up, clearly excited about working with magic. I've only met her a handful of times and I already understand why Odin loves to bully this girl.
"How far did you get through the booklet I gave you?" Rose started off her lesson with a question.
"I read it all. It fixed most of the holes in my foundation perfectly, thank you very much." I was genuinely thankful. The booklet was clearly handwritten, most likely by Rose herself.
I don't think this girl is physically capable of not doing something at 100%.
"That's great! Show me." She ordered, and I complied.
Fold the Mana to prime it, make the spell circle, and cast.
I went through the handful of cantrips that she had in her booklet one at a time. Rose silently watched me through the entire process, neither showing positive or negative emotions.
Thankfully my Mana reserves barely felt the drain, but cantrips are cantrips for a reason. They barely take any mana to begin with, and I know for a fact I'm wasting at least half of each cast to incorrect technique.
"I've seen what I need to. Good enough for self-taught, but you would get laughed out of the room if you tried to show off that level of spellcasting in public." Rose delivered her verdict. Not as bad as I thought honestly, since Magic is clearly a subclass for me compared to all my Sage stuff.
"Your first mistake was…" Rose launched into teaching mode with a fervor that is increasingly clearly very on brand for her, and time flowed by.
She covered many topics I could improve on, ranging from how quickly I folded my Mana (I was going too slow, I needed to fold it faster while still doing it correctly), the order I constructed the spell circle in (Apparently if you do it certain orders, it helps the circle stay together and cast easier, not even to say flash constructing the whole circle at once which was still beyond me at this time), to even my mindset while casting (While Mana is not even a fraction as intent based as Ki, Mana is still the energy of the mind and affected by it).
"I have a question." I raised my hand during one of her explanations, not wanting to interrupt her.
"Yes?"
"Where do the actual symbols we use in the circles come from? I am well versed in formations, but that is an anything-goes free-for-all only limited by the user. This is clearly a set of codified symbols, but where do they come from?" I asked and Rose absolutely lit up.
"That's a fascinating and hotly debated topic, but there are two main answers."
"Two?" I tilted my head
"Yes. There are the 'absolute symbols' and the 'sympathetic symbols'." She casted a minor illusion above each of her hands, one floating with Norse runes and the other with… Sanskrit letters?
"And the difference is? I can sort of guess by the name, but you are the expert here." I waved her on to continue her explanation.
"As you said, the names are pretty on the nose. Absolute symbols refer to things like the Norse runes, also called Primordial Runes, things that were discovered in nature. Sympathetic symbols refer to things that have held a meaning for so long that using that symbol invokes the concept."
"Is there a difference between them?"
"Like I said, it is a hotly debated topic. People still argue about which are absolute and which are sympathetic, but in the end they are simply different alphabets for you to build spells with. One of the genius parts of Merlinian Magic is how adaptable it is." She flashed a spell circle above her hand, but held back from casting it.
"Do keep in mind this is specifically about Merlinian Magic. Using a Norse rune in a spell circle and a Norse rune standalone are two entirely different beasts." She quickly amended.
"This is the spark cantrip using the Ansuz (ᚨ) rune to invoke the element." She pointed to the Norse rune in the spell circle and then casted to cantrip, causing a shower of sparks.
"And this is the same cantrip using the Sanskrit word Capalā (चपला) to cast the spell instead." She continued her demonstration, summoning another spell circle with the change she described, and then casted it.
"Can you tell me what was different?" She turned and asked.
"The Sanskrit one was weaker." I answered. Both were the same spell, only different by one character
"True, but there is more to it than that. The Sanskrit one was much cheaper to cast as well. Ultimately, it comes down to finding the most exact tool for the job. Even if both options have the ability to invoke lightning for the cantrip, they are ultimately calling on different concepts, and the cost and effect reflects that." Rose explained.
It made sense too. With all my Language motes I have a very strong grasp on how languages can differ. Two words can translate the same literally but have different meanings and connotations. This seems to be an extension of that, causing different symbol systems to have different effects even if the direct translation is the same.
So if I wanted to explore that, the cantrip would work if I tried something different too.
I immediately started constructing the spell circle, but instead of using the examples given I reached into Ancient Greek. I think I've seen that used for magic, so its worth a try.
During the spell creation I used ἀστραπή to get an elemental effect, and then cast the spell.
Good news!
The spell worked.
Bad news!
I didn't account for how using a different magic word would affect the spell and it went sideways.
Good news!
Rose's armor wasn't even scratched.
Bad news!
She was casting the proper version of my spell right at me.
Rose was clearly going slow for the intimidation factor, but that gave me the needed second to throw up a small water barrier.
Normally just a proof of concept cantrip, not even able to stop a thrown rock, it was still enough to hopefully stop a similarly cantrip level spell.
The spark was intercepted by the water, and instead of being annoyed Rose suddenly looked interested.
"Oh? So that's how its going to be?" Rose smiled. It was a big smile. It was a mean smile.
A new spell circle appeared, this one for… pebble toss?
Ohhhhh it would go right through my water barrier. I see your game, Rose.
I tried to hotswap the water barrier for an earth barrier, but I messed up the calculation and it was too thin to stop the rock that Rose shot. It went clean through and hit me right in the chest.
"Come on, you're a Sage. I'm limiting myself so badly here and you got hit by my second spell?" She taunted.
And thus the worlds stupidest arms race began.
By 10 spells I had started to figure out how to modify the cantrips. Copying Rose's spells, the feedback I got from mine, and most importantly Merlinian Magic let my spellcasting shoot up.
By 25 spells I was starting to shoot her back, only to get mercilessly blocked by a perfect elemental counter every time.
By 100 spells I was starting to dig hard into Math and Sciences to have a hope of landing a clean hit.
By 200 spells Rose was enthralled by the game. While my magical foundation was infinitely weaker than hers, the combination of my mote empowered understanding of the world combined with her limiting herself to only the most basic spells meant that she was starting to work.
By 300 spells I was tapped. I only had a few cantrips left in the tank. Individually they were nearly free, but I was wasting oodles of Mana on half-baked spells made on the fly.
This was basically my last chance before I was totally out of usable mana. I had maneuvered Rose into a lull by faking a pattern of using a fire based cantrip every 5th cast.
Of course, this was a ruse. A long con. A scam if you will.
She was getting cocky. I know she could feel I was almost out of magic. I knew that she knew. She knew that I knew that she knew.
She wanted to gloat by pre-casting her water shield where she thought a fire cantrip was coming, but I fired a pebble instead. The same pebble spell she fired at me at the start.
I watched her eyes widen in shock as the pebble sailed right through the flimsy water shield.
Just as the rock was about to land, her expression changed from shock to mockery. Her off hand came up and instacasted a small breeze cantrip, which was more than enough to knock the pebble off course, missing her entirely.
"Ha! You thought!" Rose jeered, but it was impossible to miss the joy on her face.
"I tried. I really did." I replied with a warm smile.
"You improved at a monstrous pace, you know?" She complimented.
"And I still was nowhere even close to landing a hit." I complemented back.
"Bah, that's just because you are new to Magic. If this had been a real fight, and especially if you had used you Sage skillset, I would have been a smear within seconds."
"But that wasn't the point of this, was it? I learned a lot and you certainly were having fun." I countered.
"It is getting late, I think you have to get back to your room soon, no?" She made some light conversation while packing up to leave.
"Hana and Kunou are just getting back to the hotel as we speak. They were shopping while we were doing this."
"Hn." Rose hummed in response, clearly thinking about something, so I just let her do her own thing as she left the training hall.
What a fantastically productive day.
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"I'm coming in." Kunou called through the door. After Hana and Kunou got back it was late, so Hana got tucked in and it was time for some us time.
Kunou had mentioned a surprise earlier, and it turned out that she had rented one of the private saunas for the night for us. The big box of condoms on the wall and the sign that says 'don't worry about cleaning' was a big hint to the kind of 'private' this was.
I was sitting and enjoying the heat, wearing nothing but a thin towel over my lap. It was a beautiful sauna, with gorgeous wood paneling and a very ornate manual steamer. There was a pool of water and a ladle beside the heating element for us to pour on more water if we wanted it steamier.
Kunou walked into the sauna and once she closed the door behind her, she wasted no time throwing her towel to the side.
Instead of being totally nude like I thought she would be, it turned out she was wearing an ultrathin white micro bikini. It was one of those ones that are basically a shoelace with the tiniest patch of fabric to cover her nipples and crotch, but since the fabric was so thin and rapidly taking on moisture from the steam, it was essentially totally see though.
This did not detract from the allure at all. If anything, it boosted it, as the rising towel on my lap showed.
Kunou of course was basking in my gaze. She slowly raised her arms, putting her hands behind her head and shook her shoulders.
"See something you like?" She teased as my eyes followed her tits back and forth. Its not like the micro bikini was providing any support, so there was a lot of motion.
In fact, it was holding on for dear life to cover her most sacred bits.
"Yuh." Impressed by the sheer linguistics of my response, she made her way over and plopped her butt on my lap, facing the same direction as me.
With the towel and her bikini bottom, non-existent as it was, between us, all she could do was lightly grind.
"Its cozy in here." Kunou hummed, not acknowledging what her hips were doing.
Two can play at that game.
My hands came up around her torso and started playing with her breasts.
And I do mean playing.
Squish squish. Up down. Left right.
The worlds best stress balls ever made.
"You have fun today?" she asked, not mentioning my hands at all. I have to admit the casual sexuality thing that Kunou and Yasaka have really does it for me. There is something so loving about being able to get a casual squeeze or a quickie whenever either of us asks.
It's not about the sex itself, though that is great, but more about the acceptance from another person to allow such options in the first place.
"Yeah! I learned a lot about magic during this lesson." I perked up and explained what I had done during the day with Rose.
"Sounds like you had fun." Kunou said casually, "You have my permission to bed her."
"I'm not?" I half questioned, as her statement came out of nowhere.
"Why not? She's cute and talented." Kunou replied as if that answered any question I could have.
"I mean yeah, she is cute and I had fun playing with magic with her today, but that doesn't mean… Kunou?" I had a sudden thought, and she must have heard it in my tone as she stiffened.
"Yes?" She squeaked out.
"Are you trying to get me to grow my hypothetical harem, or are you just bi and horny again?" I remember how enthusiastic and active she was when I was with Yasaka.
"Uhhh… I haven't given you your surprise yet!" She jumped out of my lap and turned to face me.
Totally not a topic change.
"It wasn't the sauna?" I asked, because that's totally what I thought the surprise was.
"Nope." She grinned. "I had to fill out some paperwork in secret for this, but it was worth it."
She then reached into the towel she had thrown on the ground, taking extra care to bend over slowly, and took out a shikigami paper.
"It's not only those stupid onmyoji who can do cool things." She beamed as I felt her channel her youki into the paper.
Once the paper was saturated it started to glow and expand, until it was a figure the same height as Kunou with just as many tails, with two large differences.
"Hello Nathan, miss me?" Came the sound of Yasaka's voice, standing beside Kunou in an identical micro bikini.
"How? I thought you couldn't leave Kyoto?" I questioned, but I had an idea what was going on. Yasaka felt like an echo. Real, but not whole. Much, much weaker too.
"This is a real time avatar technique I… borrowed from the principal clans many years ago." Yasaka replied while she was testing how her body felt.
"So how is this surprise?" Kunou smirked, but she knew this was a hit.
"Very good." I answered before turning back to Yasaka. "I miss you."
"How can you miss me? I send you such wonderful photos all the time." Yasaka countered, and she was right.
I paused for a moment before agreeing. "Your pussy does look great on camera, I will give you that."
I have to emphasize that Yasaka sends a lot of nudes.
"At least you will give me something. Months of teasing only to fuck me once and then leave? Do you have any idea how pent up I am? Well, I'm here and I'm horny. What do you want to do about that?" Yasaka purred at me, but was still standing beside Kunou.
I must mention again that they were both standing there in matching see through micro bikinis. This was a critical fact.
"What I want you to do." I began as I leaned forwards in concentration, staring straight in Yasaka's eyes, "Is for you to do some jumping jacks."
There was a moment of silence before the two women gave very different reactions.
Kunou looked shocked, looked at her own chest, looked at me disdainfully, turned to look at Yasaka, paused, and then looked back at me with enlightenment.
Yasaka meanwhile had a sultry smile slowly grow.
"Ok, if that's what you want. Who am I to deny my Sage?"
Then she did exactly one jumping jack before her bikini top exploded and fell to the floor.
Just as planned.
What a sight it was. Yasaka was a very… gifted woman, and she was putting those gifts to work right now. Kunou couldn't even be jealous as she was too busy watching them bounce with me.
But like all good things must end, Yasaka decided that it was time to move on. She walked over with a smile like she was judging my request before sitting to my side.
The mature kitsune wasted no words before grabbing my head and pushing her face against mine, initiating a very sloppy make out session. I in turn wasted no time wrapping one arm around her, getting a divine handful of her tit.
I heard Kunou squawk before she sat on my knee opposite the side from Yasaka, and proceeded to start biting my shoulder. It was not a hard decision to bring my free hand up to get a handful of Kunou too.
This went on for a while, until Yasaka decided that breathing was more important than tasting each other.
"I missed you too." She whispered in my ear.
"Lap pillow." I responded.
"What?"
"I want a lap pillow. Right now." I clarified, much to Yasaka's bemusement.
"Somebody is just full of demands today."
Kunou was still biting my shoulder, so I had to push her off while Yasaka shifted to a seiza on the sauna bench.
Once I laid my head on Yasaka's thighs, I knew everything was right in the world.
Yasaka had leaned forwards slightly, causing both her beautiful breasts to rest on my head. It was not much work to bring a nipple to my mouth, to which Yasaka laughed.
Kunou decided that she wasn't getting enough attention and sought to rectify that post haste.
Her solution was to get between my legs and start sucking me off. Kunou has never been one for aggressive oral, so no deepthroating, but she was very good at her brand of slow worship.
Full length licks, kissing the tip, circling her tongue around the top, it was no surprise that I felt my first load coming fast.
Since I still had a mouthful of titty, I tapped her head to let her know, and she sped up while making sure to keep a vacuum seal.
I released in her mouth, and I heard her get up and walk over to Yasaka before sharing some pretty sloppy sounding kisses.
"See, I can share." Kunou teased Yasaka, whom she had just shared my load with.
"Yes, you are very good at making out with your mother." Yasaka teased back, to which Kunou blew a raspberry back.
Yasaka started standing up, so I followed suit.
Yasaka walked over to a wall, bent over, and turned her head to look at me.
"The foreplay was fun, but if you don't fuck me right now, Iamgoingtolosemymind."
"Don't have to tell me twice." I walked behind her, slid her bikini bottom to the side, and plunged into her.
Even if her body was fake, her pussy still felt real.
"Ohhhhh! That's the stuff…" Yasaka moaned as I started moving.
"You like that?" I teased as I did a slow stroke.
"Its fun sending you those pictures but I get so keyed up afterwards that toys don't help." She gasped out between strokes.
"You like sending me nudes?" I questioned.
"They make me feel pretty." Yasaka admitted.
"But you are already so pretty, Mama!" Kunou chimed in from the side.
"Yes, but the pictures prove it. Really gets my motor going y'know? When you were in Kyoto I could just join you in the bath and show you my pussy and watch your eyes pop out of your skull, this is just more of the that." Yasaka whimpered out as Kunou had gone under where she was leaning on the wall, teasing her nipples as they hung.
"Well since you are being so honest, you deserve a reward." I grinned as Yasaka looked over her shoulder questioningly.
I answered by speeding up before slamming into her and holding as I pumped her full of pure life force. I ran Dual Cultivation as usual, and Yasaka clenched hard before going totally limp.
I gently placed her on the floor before turning to Kunou.
"Mercy?" She pleaded.
"No." I replied.
I picked her up, ripping off her bikini bottom, before spinning her around into a full nelson and plunging her down.
"Gah! So deep!" Kunou moaned out.
I kept her in that position for a while, as she was clearly loving it.
I think.
She wasn't really getting any words out to tell for sure.
Eventually Yasaka regained control of herself enough to crawl over to us and start licking the area where I was joined with Kunou, causing her to moan even more.
With Yasaka's added help, it didn't take long for me to slam Kunou down before emptying myself inside of her. Another round of Dual Cultivation, Yin and Yang Ki mixing together inside of Kunou's womb.
We all just stood there for a moment breathing before I lifted Kunou off of my cock, causing my load to spill onto Yasaka's glorious titties.
She very slowly took one finger, scooped some, and brought it to her mouth, all the while making eye contact with me while I still held her daughter.
"I hope you know I'm not satisfied with just this?" Yasaka questioned with a sly smile.
"Good." I replied with a beaming smile of my own.