Everyone's Growth: Kanan / Adelia / Leone

"Hmm…"

I had Kanan stand stark naked with both hands raised, and looked her whole body over carefully.

The same beautiful, lewd, adorable Kanan as always… but she didn't seem any different than usual.

After finishing today's regular monster subjugation and returning home, I was spending the day alone with Kanan.

I wanted to confirm a certain hint I'd sensed from her.

Whenever a Skill change happened, the system never announced it; you'd just glance at the status screen later and go ah!

Today I had a vague premonition… but the status screen showed no change. Maybe it was just my imagination.

"Are you done with whatever was on your mind?"

"… Yeah… Well, I won't figure it out by brooding over it.

"But before that… let me hold you. I got worked up just from looking at your body, Kanan."

I pulled Kanan into my arms.

"Heehee, Naoto, you… I'm so happy. Hold me. As much as you want."

Kanan kissed me.

I'd been gazing at this body almost every day since arriving in this world, and ever since winning the B-Class Yamagata match, I'd been holding her almost every day too…

But seriously, she really was beautiful. Magnificent. Erotic.

Big breasts, white skin. Pink nipples… pink slit.

If she were a human from Earth, doing this much would gradually turn things a bit darker, you know?

But Garumon are kept in their best condition by mana at all times, so she remained the same pearl-pink as when she was a virgin.

Into that babylike, gorgeously pink slit…

I drove in my penis, rock-hard and standing straight up like it was about to burst, and… thrust inside.

"Aaah… Naoto, Naotoo…"

"Aaah… Kanan…!"

Even though it was a daily occurrence, why did it move me so much every time? Beloved, blissful, joyful, longed-for…

Such fierce, exhilarated emotions came pouring out in a rush.

And at the same time, calming, nostalgic, comforting, relaxing… those gentle, joyful emotions poured out too.

All sorts of feelings ran rampant deep in my chest, and every one was joyful, yet somehow bittersweet, almost painful.

Aah, geez… what was wrong with me. I was about to cry.

No matter who, no matter how many girls… sex with Kanan really was the best…

If I tried to have sex with Kanan until I got tired of it, even a 200-year lifespan wouldn't be close to enough.

Having sex with other girls and then coming back to enjoy this… it really was wonderful.

I couldn't think of anything more to say.

For now, I'd just enjoy Kanan's soft tightness, the feel of her breasts in my embrace, the feel of her lips against mine.

Zupu, zupu, zupu

She was so tight that even swinging my hips was a struggle, but the more I moved, the more I melted into a pleasure greater than that struggle.

Aaah…

"Kanan, Kanan, I love you, I love you…!"

"Naoto, me too, I love you, I love you so much…!"

Dokku, dokku, doku!

I poured a generous amount inside Kanan.

"Haa, haa, haa…"

"Aaah… I'm so happy…"

Kanan murmured that, then chuckled softly.

"Hm? What is it?"

"Nothing, I… I was just thinking, I really have changed. Before, I used to think only about myself, that as long as I was fine that was all that mattered.

"But now, being held by you, Naoto, I'm so happy… at the absolute peak.

"Spending such a wonderful, dreamlike time.

"And the moment I did, I thought right away: I want Adelia and Maika… and Sawako and Yumi, all of them, to taste this happiness too.

"I… it seems I'm happier when everyone's happy than when it's only me.

"Of course, I'm not saying I dislike spending time with just the two of us, so don't get the wrong idea."

"Heehee, I know. Kanan, you really are… my best partner.

"In sex, in battle, in everything… I'm counting on you."

"… Mm! Naoto! I love everyone, but… no matter how much I love them, I'm not handing over the position of your number-one partner!"

Saying that, Kanan threw herself into my arms and gave me a hot kiss.

While leisurely holding Kanan close…

I idly checked her status one more time.

"… Ah."

A Skill had changed. Wind's Blessing was gone, and…

Whoa, the description was super-helpful!

That startled me for a moment, but the effect was pretty incredible too.

Stackable all-stats +30%! That was amazing. And not just on herself, but on an ally!

"But the use count's gone down…"

"No, that's not a downside. You can copy the use count with Phantom Mist Clone, Kanan.

"The two of you can stack 60% per turn, every turn."

Evasion rate +30% was the same as Wind's Blessing… this was incredible. Pure combat-power gain.

"Congratulations, Kanan!"

"Heeheehee, with this I can play an even bigger role! As expected of me! From here on… I'll prove even more useful to you, Naoto!"

Kanan let her joy show like that.

 

*

 

"Nyaa!"

Cat Scratch, the new Skill she'd learned, more or less worked for everyday training. Adelia was a physical-attack type, so physical-attack Skills really were more effective on her than magic.

It also doubled as practice for Demon Art - Flame Severing Claw… Or so I told myself as a sour-grapes excuse.

"Nyau～…"

After working up a sweat, Adelia rested on my lap.

While I gently stroked her hair and cat ears…

I found myself thinking absently about Adelia.

Adelia… the first girl I'd met in this world, and the one I'd ended up loving from the bottom of my heart, just like that.

She'd always adored me, adored Kanan…

How much of a positive influence it had had on us, that this bright, innocent, adorable girl had constantly held us up and followed at our side.

If she hadn't been the first one I met when I came to this world, surely everything would be different.

I might never have come to love Kanan as deeply as I did. I might have lost her long ago.

I might never have met Leone or Lyuka either… and then Yuria too. Whether I'd have been reunited with Haru was another question.

I felt I'd been blessed with great fortune, but the very first stroke of it was, without a doubt, meeting Adelia.

To me, Adelia was my greatest benefactor; no matter how much love I poured on her, it would never be enough.

"… That's right, I want to thank Adelia for everything she does day-to-day.

"Is there anything you want me to do? I'll do anything."

When I made the offer…

"Funya…! Funyaa…"

Adelia was startled, then turned bright red. Mm, adorable.

"Goshujin-samaa… Adelia… wants you to hold me, nya. I want to do lots and lots of erotic things, nyaa～"

Adelia spoiled herself on me sweetly like that.

Way too cute.

Mm, that was the exact same thing I myself wanted to do from the bottom of my heart, so I kind of wondered whether it counted as a reward, but…

… Aah, Adelia really was, on second look, adorable. Those big, faintly slanted, round eyes really did call to mind a clingy housecat.

The red hair and the cat ears, all of it was endearing.

And her body, with those big breasts and the line from her supple waist down to her butt, was so erotic…

Aah, my equipment was already insanely rock-hard, and nothing would satisfy me but putting it inside Adelia right that moment.

I spread Adelia's legs wide open, and into that adorable, beautiful pink slit…

Zu, zupupu

I screwed in my big tool.

Zuchu… zupu

Hot… Adelia's insides were burning hot. That heat felt unbearably, unbelievably good…

And contrary to her gentleness, she was tight enough to tear me clean off.

Zuryu…

When I worked my penis around inside Adelia's pussy, a pleasure that seared my brain ran straight through me.

Aaah… it felt good, felt good, felt good…!

I was getting confused about whether I was having sex because I loved Adelia so much, or because it felt so good.

Well, both, really…

I wanted to grope her breasts, but watching them bounce purun, purun when I drove my hips into her was fun too, so I'd deliberately let go for a while to enjoy the swaying, then couldn't stand it any longer and started fondling them again…

While I went back and forth like that, I climbed hopelessly higher and couldn't hold off ejaculation any longer.

"Nyau, nya, nya, Goshujin-sama, it's good, nya, it feels good, nya, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna cum, gonna cum, nyaaaaa…!"

And on top of that, Adelia's adorable voice numbed my brain, and I just…

With all five senses filled to bursting with Adelia,

"Nya, nya, anyaaa… Goshujin-samaa, Adelia, Adelia's so happy, nyaa! I love you, nya!"

"You're so adorable, Adelia! Me too, I love you too, Adelia, Adelia… aaaaah!"

Dokkun…!

An explosive ejaculation.

Doku, doku…

A volume that didn't seem like a single ejaculation's worth poured all the way into Adelia's womb.

"Haaaa…!"

From the bottom of my heart… satisfaction.

… Of course, this was purely because Adelia was beloved and adorable, and I'd held her because I wanted to hold her.

Just, well, a little, I wondered: maybe Adelia would get a Skill growth out of this?

That kind of expectation had crossed my mind.

With that in mind, while holding Adelia to my chest, I gave the status menu a quick check.

No change in her Skill column.

Cat Scratch was still hanging in there as before.

But…

"Hm?"

A Trait slot looked like it had increased by one… that was hard to tell! I almost missed it for a second.

… Whoa! Now there's something.

A potent… no, hadn't this Skill basically become a future essential?

Once an opponent started using a perfect defense that piercing didn't work on, like Ultimate Barrier or Colette's Conqueror's Shield, you couldn't take them down until the Skill ran out.

Of course, the real showpiece of one's craft was how to slip past that and still beat the enemy.

… But with this Trait, you could chip away at 1/10 damage a hit and brute-force your way through to take down a defending enemy.

This alone felt like a balance-breaker.

Since it was a tradeoff with Fire-attribute UP, raw firepower would drop, but its utility seemed considerably higher.

… Well, it might not see action unless we ended up in S-Class fights, where they spammed perfect defenses.

But it was magnificent. She'd gotten a little closer to being able to stand up to the kind of formidable foe we normally couldn't lay a hand on.

The defensive ace was Kanan, but the offensive ace was Adelia. That was growth I could declare with confidence.

"Nya! Goshujin-sama, Adelia's gonna keep working hard from here too, nya! Adelia'll beat down all of Goshujin-sama's enemies, nya!"

Adelia rejoiced from the bottom of her heart at being able to grow, and stoked her resolve back up like that.

"Aah… I'll keep counting on you. Adelia."

I hugged her tight.

 

*

 

Bite, despite the name, didn't actually involve biting, as I'd explained before.

Right hand miming the upper jaw, left hand the lower, you lunged in and at the same time, gan!, snapped them together top and bottom.

A Xingyiquan form that mimicked a wolf's jaws.

Treating this too as practice for Demon Art - Gale Thunderclap might not be all that off the mark either.

… Well, sour-grapes excuse.

Still, in terms of practice, being able to drill repeatedly against the attacks of Leone, our fastest, was a big help.

If we sped her up to 8x, that became a 120-attack barrage.

"Colette, Haru, Kanan. Try to receive Leone's attacks and halve them.

"Leone, naturally, attack the three of them aggressively at random so they can't halve you."

"Yes, understood."

Gan gan gan gan gan gan…!

Truly lightning-quick movement.

I had some confidence in my dynamic vision, but even so it was too fast to follow properly.

If it looked like that from a distance, up close I'd have made out even less.

… That said, complaining after the fact, I could manage.

I could vaguely make out the afterimages, so taking them head-on would have been hopeless, but for praising or scolding after the fact, "that one was good," "this one was bad," I had no problem.

"Leone, when you think you're about to be blocked, it might be worth focusing that strike on knocking the shield away, then landing a critical on the next blow.

"Sure, getting all crits would be best, but when you can't, you can't.

"Zero damage and a 2x crit alternating amounts to the same as undefended even-multiplier damage."

"Right, understood."

"That feint earlier, the way you threw it out, saw it wasn't being bitten on, and immediately switched into a real attack was incredible.

"But the damage was only about 80%, so a little more practice would be good.

"There should be techniques like Inch-Power, where even close-range strikes deliver heavy damage.

"Maybe sometime soon I'll go ask otherworldly Garumon who know that kind of martial art, or NPCs who've drilled in it…"

"Right. Let's study up.

"… Heehee, ever since becoming your Garumon, Naoto-san, it's been so much fun.

"I really feel myself growing stronger. My cooking is enjoyed by everyone, and at night too…

"I really am, truly, very happy."

Leone said that to me again.

"Leone… I'm the one who's truly happy. I love you, Leone…"

I held Leone tight and kissed her.

I led Leone into the bedroom and pushed her down.

I almost wanted to just have sex with her right there, but precisely because I had a sex-anytime environment, distinctions mattered.

If we had sex, it was in the bedroom.

If we did it outside, who knew who might peek; it was a natural consideration, after all.

When I stripped down the alluring Leone, those overwhelming, huge breasts!

Aah, geez, my brain was melting.

That meltingly-soft sensation when I touched those abundant breasts… aah, geez… I was too happy.

I latched onto Leone's breasts in a daze.

"Heeheehee…"

Su… Leone gently held me close. Aah… I was too happy…

The meltingly-soft breasts gave off an unbearably sweet fragrance when I licked and sucked on them…

Just from that, I felt like I was about to cum.

But of course, I wasn't a virgin anymore, so I wasn't going to cum just from sucking on her breasts.

I had to put my iron-hard, blood-engorged penis into Leone…

Kuchu, nuchu…

While sucking on her breasts, I rubbed my crotch against her, between Leone's plump buttocks.

Zu, nuchu, zupupu…

It went in.

"Ah, aaah…"

I'd wanted to keep sucking on her breasts, but the pleasure was so intense I couldn't hold back the moans.

Zupu zupu zupu…

When I thrust my penis in and out, rubbing our bodies together, a pleasure so intense it felt like my whole soul might slip out enveloped my entire body.

Aah, geez… it was like the inside of my body was being completely wrapped up.

It felt too good…

But it seemed it felt too good for Leone too, since she kept going bikku, bikku into convulsions while accepting my motions with her whole body.

We both climbed violently, until we couldn't think of anything but each other, and then…

Dokkun!

I let it all out, generously.

Aah… Leone… my first. How happy I was.

"… I love you, Leone…"

"I love you too… Naoto-san…"

It was so, so happy, so dreamlike.

… Just, after a deep, deep ejaculation, Skills often awoke, so…

It might have been tactless, but with a little hope I checked the status menu.

And then…

"Thunder Aura's evolved!"

I shouted before I could stop myself.

The "not stackable" tag that had been on Thunder Aura was gone, which meant it had probably become stackable.

Unlike Kanan's Realm's Blessing, this was self-only… but it included HP, which made it more powerful in that respect.

What's more… +1 Skill use. Wasn't that incredible?

The single-use Demon Art - Beast-Blood Awakening could be charged up to six times.

Demon Art - Beast-Blood Awakening was discretionary, meaning… if she timed it right and unleashed them all at once, she could take 7 actions in one turn.

It would be a "save up for 5 turns and explode on turn 6" kind of plan, but this might change tactics on a fundamental level.

"… That's amazing, Leone!"

I gleefully hugged Leone again.

"Ahn, heeheehee… if I've grown stronger, I'm happy.

"You being happy, Naoto-san, is what makes me happiest… I love you."

Leone laughed like that.