Growth (4) (Kanan 3)

"… Now then, the last one."

A relatively recent branch, extending straight into the future.

… In terms of recent choices…

"… That, maybe."

Great Magical Beast Black Cyclops Type-Zero.

That match had been rough… Maybe this was after losing to it.

"… Uwaa… that's…"

Losing an Out-of-Battle Battle meant death.

After I died, the Kanan left behind…

"Scary again…"

What on earth was the situation?

But the line extending into the future also caught my eye.

A future Kanan coming?

… Simply in combat-power terms, wasn't she strong?

But if it was after I died, who on earth would have raised her?

"Well, no use thinking about it. I'm calling!"

"Yes. Phantom Different Summon!"

Third time.

The remaining 2 avatars — would they appear in the future, when the current line progressed?

The future was completely blank. The only thing thinly extending was a hair-thin line that branched from a bit before now and stretched far into the distance, with a light at the end.

Anyway, time to tap.

"Come, Sanka!"

Shuoooo…!

Wind whirled up, and…

Shuba…

Sanka was… Kanan in a very mourning-clothes-like black outfit.

In appearance… her hair had taken on a slightly stronger yellowish tint, close to gold.

Her breasts were… a bit bigger than now, maybe? A subtle size difference.

Based on the line-length she looked like she was from about a year ahead… a slightly-future Kanan?

The mourning clothes gave an unpleasant impression.

So, after all, the Kanan from the world-line where I died…?

"… Naoto."

Porori…

The moment Sanka saw my face, tears spilled out.

"… Sanka, what on earth…"

"Aah… if this is a dream, please don't wake me up…!"

She embraced me, and… kissed me.

"… Sanka, can you tell me what happened? … Ah, future spoilers, maybe…"

"No, this is likely already a separate possibility… a nonexistent future that the current Kanan-san could not possibly follow.

"Whatever you hear, that exact event isn't necessarily what will happen."

Lyuka said so. Let me ask what I could ask.

"… Just three months ago. Suddenly, a huge Great Magical Beast… a Calamity attacked human territory.

"… It was named Uranus… a tremendous monster said to be the first since Titan.

"… But several S-Class Masters were lost, and the repulsion succeeded.

"And one of those few lost was…"

Me… I suppose.

… Hm? Calamity Uranus? Not after losing to Black Cyclops Type-Zero?

No, I lost and Black Cyclops became Calamity… no, I fought the Calamity and died, right?

I don't quite understand…

No, think later.

"… Sanka."

For now I had to support Sanka, who'd gone pale and looked ready to collapse.

"… I thought about just dying right there. I wanted to die.

"… But Adelia and several of our companions were carrying Naoto's children…

"To protect and raise those children, I couldn't afford to die.

"I… thought I'd take over from Naoto, and protect the children Naoto loved.

"For that purpose…"

Su…

She lifted her black skirt for me.

There… astonishingly, was a very fine male organ.

"… Oh… I see, Sanka… so you drank the Yin-Yang Elixir."

"… Yes, probably… I think… so. Aah… somehow, gradually… the earlier, sad memories are disappearing…

"But… yes. I had Naoto's reproduced for me.

"… Fufufu, to think I could show this body to Naoto…"

Aside from breast size and hair color, nothing else looked changed, but Sanka seemed just slightly more grown-up.

A future Kanan, maybe, after all.

"Calamity Uranus…"

Sanka seemed to have calmed a little, so let me think it over.

She hadn't lost in the Black Cyclops fight, then. That had been a paper-thin match, and I'd thought losing wouldn't have been strange…

"But thou art the one who always thinks of the best move and grasps few victories… When actually fighting, thy win rate may be higher than thou thinkest."

Ursula said so.

"… In the diagram, the thin branch extends, but it also looks like it's been cut off. To repeat the speculation from Nika's time…"

Because the possibility was thin, it wasn't calculated.

Or perhaps… truly choosing death…? That…

But Sanka had thought of dying, yet held back because of the children.

So if I died now, with no children…

"… So thou must absolutely not die."

"… I'll engrave it on my heart."

But if so, what branch…

"It's probably the case of Naoto not going to the magic-ash cleanup."

Yuria guessed.

"I see…"

I asked Sanka if she knew about the magic-ash cleanup — "?" reaction. Not knowing meant…

"Hmm… if Naoto hadn't raised his hand at that time… eventually Melville would have had to handle it.

"And… how to put it. We managed to win, but as great as Uriela Aisha is, against that Black Cyclops, could she really have won?

"If she, ranked among the 24 strongest Garumon, lost and was absorbed by it…"

"… Calamity Uranus would be born…"

Well, just speculation.

Indeed, Titan too was a calamity born when the legendary Garumon Mille-Feuille Fauria was absorbed by a Great Magical Beast.

… So really, one wrong step and that was the crisis of Titan's return…

Wait, was that a pretty great achievement of mine?

… Now then, beyond that, Sanka didn't know anything about the future.

"Sanka, what year and month did you come from?"

"Date… now is April year 300, right. Um… no good, I can't even remember the original time.

"Uranus… even that's fading away…"

"… Then, in the Uranus fight, how exactly I died…

"and before that, the supposed S-Class Tournament… the Eclair fight…"

"S-Class Tournament… I don't know. Whether it even happened, I no longer remember.

"… Aah, it all disappeared. Sorry for being no help."

Sanka apologized.

"Ah, no, it's not that I really want to hear future things.

"If I got told future spoilers, the fun would be gone."

Though she came from the future, she was originally an avatar of the current Kanan.

It would be strange for her to have future knowledge. So this was fine, I thought.

… Well, I couldn't deny I was afraid to know the future, either.

"… Good… Now I am… your Kanan's avatar, Sanka. That's fine.

"The future I came from — it's as if it never happened, isn't it. Then there's nothing happier than that.

"… So that future of despair never becomes reality, not even one in a hundred million times…

"I'll protect Naoto with all my strength."

Sanka said.

"Uu…! Sanka…! From a world of despair without Naoto… you did your best, you did your best…!

"Now here, lots and lots, have Naoto hold you! Be happy…!"

Kanan sympathized deeply with Sanka, embracing her tightly and crying.

… Aah, if I died, Kanan would… how much would she grieve.

Just imagining it gave you this scene.

… This made me think I really couldn't die carelessly.

"… Sanka, who came from such a serious world — is it really okay to innocently rejoice 'yay, futanari Kanan' and have sex with her…"

I was a bit troubled, but,

"What are you saying! If she's suffered so far, isn't it Naoto's job to make her even happier!

"Just devote yourself thoroughly, make up for the three months without Naoto, and have all the sex with Sanka you can!"

I got scolded by Kanan.

"… Although, even saying that, the original world… I don't even know if it still exists, but I remember nothing of it.

"The me now is just… able to be with my beloved Naoto, and I'm happy."

Sanka smiled gently. She seemed a step gentler than Kanan.

"Sanka… be absolutely, absolutely happy!"

Kanan's affection for Sanka was high. A vast difference from her attitude toward Nika…

Now then, Sanka's naked body was…

Kanan's beautiful nakedness. As I'd thought, her breasts felt just a touch bigger than Kanan's now.

Her hair had taken on a slightly golden tint. What on earth did that mean?

And in her crotch, a manly penis.

In body-balance terms it looked a bit too large — a robust male organ stood erect.

"… Um, this is…"

Lining it up with my erect penis…

"… Aren't they too similar? Or rather… almost… no, completely the same…"

Way too similar. If there were a mole or some clear feature, it'd be even more obvious…

But even the wrinkle pattern and the vein pattern — by all appearances, I could only call them practically twins.

"I-is that so… so similar to Naoto's, I'm happy…"

Sanka was innocently delighted.

But still…

… Don't tell me, surgically cut from my corpse and transplanted…?

But there were no stitches or anything, and it looked like it had grown there from birth.

But it still might have been transplanted from me via some magical formula, grafted on…

Thinking that gave me even more pause. No, stop worrying.

This cock was the cock of Sanka, the avatar of my beloved Kanan! So it's fine.

As I love Sanka, I'll love this cock too.

I embraced Sanka. The feel was naturally the same as Kanan. As expected, the breasts were even larger and softer… ever more splendid.

But… the sensation of the cocks in our crotches rubbing together. It should have been the same with any other futanari girl, but…

Somehow, after all, it felt similar… too similar, as if the sensation were even connected.

No, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry…

I auto-suggested and gazed at Sanka's face. Aah, as expected… the same as Kanan, a truly beautiful face.

The same as my beloved Kanan…

Chu, kuchu, rero… I kissed Sanka, and… thrust into her vagina.

While groping her ample breasts, zupu zupu, I savored the pleasure of her vagina.

… Aah, supposedly the same as Kanan. Even if it was the same, that it was the absolute best pleasure didn't change.

But somehow it still felt a bit different…

No, physically, since she was a futanari with a cock attached, the internal muscles might be affected too.

So the feel of the tightness was, strictly speaking, a bit different. Plus, the part that had grown over about a year…

In other words, I could enjoy an intense, unprecedented pleasure.

"Aah, Sanka, Sanka…!"

"Naoto, Naotoo…! I love you, Naoto… never leave me again as long as you live… don't go anywhere…!"

"Yeah, of course, Sanka, we'll always be together…!"

And then…

Doku doku dokun!

Doku doku dokun!

The moment I ejaculated inside, Sanka ejaculated at the exact same time.

"Aaaaa…!"

To supreme pleasure, Sanka gasped in rapture. She looked happy, which was the best part, but…

Hmm, after all, that thing of hers was mine, and what I couldn't do — mounting everyone and leaving my children behind on my behalf — was the result, wasn't it…

I felt a deep, deep love, but as the party concerned, this was honestly a bit heavy.

No, accepting that love was exactly the point!

"… I love you, Sanka… I'll make you happy."

… Right, since she was standing in for my role, she couldn't bear my children.

… But in this world, I myself could impregnate Sanka.

Like that, lots, let's make her happy. I held Sanka tightly.

Now, about Sanka's class and stats…

"O-ohh…?"

This made me want to talk about a lot. To start with, what did this mean? Why wasn't she Strange Demon-God?

Well, that aside for the moment… first, about stats.

First, LV57… Hmm, this felt just like the edge of what I might be able to reach after a full year of training. So she really was a year from now.

And the class, Strange Wind Dragon.

… Indeed, she'd suddenly learned Dragon Arts, so it wasn't like she had no Dragon-attribute aptitude.

If she'd kept training Dragon Art Blast Storm hard, she might have evolved this way.

But I think it's an Ultimate Job equivalent to Strange Demon-God. Which means I don't think she evolved further from Strange Demon-God.

I mean, if I were told I could go from Strange Demon-God to Strange Wind Dragon, I wouldn't change.

I'd want to stay Strange Demon-God and see further what skills I'd learn.

… What did this mean?

I'd thought it'd be the future branch where we became S-Class but didn't perform the Caleris-territory magic-ash cleanup… but the split might have occurred much earlier.

A future after becoming Strange Wind Dragon at some branch…

Hmm, well, even the central thick trunk of this diagram, looked at closely, was formed of many branches intertwined.

That is, within multiple internalized possibilities, a further-extended branch was the future Sanka followed, or something like that.

Well, let's stop thinking anything more complicated. Probably no conclusion would come even if I thought about it.

… Well, when the other two, Yotsuha and Goka, were born, let me think again.

Now, going back to Sanka's skill composition… strong!

Dragon Art Tempest was the Wind-attribute Dragon Art version of Suzanne's Tempest, I take it. Just normally insanely strong. 4-hit + first-strike + stun… wasn't that overloading?

Dragon Art - Abyss Gate — blowing skills or the enemy itself away to another world. So the Otherworld Wind power remained in this form. Usable for various defenses. Could it erase even guaranteed-hit attacks?

Or just erasing the enemy ended combat right there — wasn't that too strong?

Dragon Art - Whirlwind, usable for 4 attacks or defenses or evasions, with stat-up each time.

One skill use meant 200% attack, speed UP. Plus at-will activation. Too convenient — it's broken.

Dragon Art - Wind Dragon's Battle Aura. At first glance you'd wonder where a conveniently Wind+Dragon ally was, but with the trait's Dragon-advantage attribute grant. In other words, as long as you could manage Wind-attribute somehow, it was effectively similar to Luna's Divine Art Messiah. Looked like it was for Cellas, but if she wore Kanan's Spirit Garb, anyone could use it.

Compared to Messiah, it didn't have skill x2 or defense x2, and further didn't have debuff/status-ailment-invalid defense. This one only cleared them.

So I think Messiah is still more powerful, but…

… the most important stats are attack and speed, so… in usability it's nearly equivalent.

… Stacking Messiah and Wind Dragon's Battle Aura was also possible, and if so attack and speed were 4x at once…

… This really felt like the result of training thoroughly over a year, brought back early.

Wasn't this a bit too cheat?

Ichika, Sanka, and Kanan… the figures who'd blossomed possibilities into each of the three strongest attributes — God, Dragon, and Demon — could be summoned and used.

Amazing.

… Nika was more of "look forward to the future" though.

I'd thought Kanan was a Garumon special to me, but in this world too she might be a special Garumon.

… Speaking of which, her value had gone up 100.

After confirming everyone's growth like this, we left the bedroom.

4 had entered the bedroom and 10 left, surprising everyone.

The Kanan Avatars could be freely sent out and recalled outside combat, so sex with the 3 avatars was freely possible.

Once combat began, only one could remain; the other 2 had to be recalled. However, if they were just kept off the battlefield, leaving them out was fine. In an Out-of-Battle Battle, they'd vanish.

Without quick operation, by activation order, the first-summoned one would remain and the other 2 would vanish.

Even if 3 were deployed separately, when any one started combat, the other 2 vanished.

And so, an extraordinarily handy, powerful-beyond-powerful skill had awoken.

Sawako and Yumi were dependable too, but Kanan was even more amazing.

By the way, the 3 each had their LV go up by 1.

Up to LV50, when LV went up all stats +1, with luck +2 — that kind of growth. After LV50, half of all stats +1 — the growth rate slowed down like that, apparently.

That said, with growth it became a large gap. So raising LV more and more was never a loss.

Not just LV57 — 60, even 70, I resolved to raise them as far as I could.