Everyone's Growth: Colette / Patty

Colette's class, Lesser Hero, as I'd said again and again, was what's called a restricted class, and it cut every party member's stats by half.

But that turned into a nice little handicap, and made for great load-bearing training.

"Colette, next time you're pairing with me."

"Nya! I'll do my best again, nya!"

Because of that, Colette was actually wildly popular as a party member.

A LV90 Gigant Worm. A monster we'd subjugated countless times by now. There was no other way to describe it but as a giant centipede, and its sturdy defensive Skills were a pain, but in a normal fight it went down easy. However… toss Colette into the mix and it turned into a seriously tough opponent.

"Kanan, Colette, Adelia!"

Still, this was the duo I had the most experience with. They probably wouldn't fall behind by much.

"… Mm, here I go. Dragon Art Blast Storm!"

Kan! Kan! … The damage was minimal. The effect of every stat except HP being halved was massive.

"Adelia, Boost Power. Colette, Guard. Defend with everything you've got until Adelia builds up her power!"

"Yes!"

With Adelia, I stacked buff after buff, brushing off the halving as if it didn't matter.

Colette and Kanan locked down the defense tight, and then…

"Adelia! Demon Art - Beast-Blood Awakening! Flame Severing Claw!"

"Nyaaaah!"

Dogo, dogoo!

Magnificently piercing the enemy's defense, she'd crushed the Magical Beast.

"All right…!"

It had taken twice as many turns as usual. Which meant we'd burned through that many extra Skill uses, which meant…

"… Three more, huh…?"

Finishing them off without swapping members would be brutal.

… But unless we pushed ourselves that hard, it wouldn't count as training, so there was no helping it.

"… Haa, haa, haa…"

Even though everyone else had done the actual fighting, I was the tired one… I'd worked my brain too hard, and it had gone numb.

Colette, who'd been out the entire time, was leaning against her shield, completely worn out.

"… Haaah… I really did burn through it all…"

"Nyaa…"

Kanan and Adelia had thoroughly used up their Skills as well.

We'd been forced into a neck-and-neck fight against an opponent that normally wouldn't give us trouble at all, but they actually seemed to be enjoying it.

If we could push through grueling battles like this, we'd finally…

"For experience… oh, this is good. We got a full third in. Two more battles like this and we'll level up.

"Then she'll be LV45. We'll swap to Maika and Lyuka and have one more round."

I patted Colette on the head.

"… I'm sorry, it's because I'm weak that everyone has to bear so much…"

But Colette wasn't taking the fact that she was the handicap with anything resembling joy.

Well, of course not…

"Nonsense. Thanks to you, Colette, we're getting good practice in. You don't need to worry about it."

Kanan's words, depending on how you took them, were certainly unvarnished. They amounted to, it's fine for you to be the dead weight.

"Nyaa…"

Adelia understood that, so her reaction was a bit awkward.

She glanced at me with a look that said, Goshujin-sama…

Well, this part was on me to follow up.

"Colette, you might be weak right now.

"No, I think you're plenty strong, and you actually performed brilliantly in the Shiraki match.

"But I know you're not satisfied, Colette.

"… Even so, no one thinks you'll stay weak forever.

"I'm convinced that beyond this, it'll be you supporting us."

That was what I said. Colette did seem to perk up a little, her face softening, but…

I caught myself thinking that wasn't quite right either.

"To begin with, you know, we love our adorable Colette to pieces.

"That's why we can't get enough of looking after you.

"So for now, I'd be happy if you'd let yourself be spoiled to your heart's content."

Yeah, this felt right. We weren't expecting her to grow into something later. Colette was adorable, and we wanted to cheer her on.

"Exactly right. Adelia and I… and of course everyone else, we love you.

"So if we can fight for your sake, that makes us happy."

"Nya! Exactly so, nya! As expected, Goshujin-sama always says good things, nya!"

Kanan and Adelia voiced their agreement.

"… I feel the same way too… Ah, so… everyone is the same. I see.

"It would make me happy from the bottom of my heart to be useful to all of you. Right now I still don't have enough strength, so I can hardly do that, but…"

"Right, you have to let yourself be spoiled, plenty.

"From now on we're going to spoil you so much, Colette, you won't know what to do."

"… Yes, please spoil me lots… Big sister Kanan, big sister Adelia."

"… Wait, this kid is way too cute!"

"Nyaaaa… I can't take it, nya…"

The two of them melted at how adorable Colette was.

With that, for Colette's sake had become our rallying cry, and we'd thrown ourselves into it like our lives depended on it.

Colette, in turn, answered our feelings, everyone's feelings, and worked her hardest.

And at an ox's plodding pace, little by little… little by little, Colette grew.

Because of Colette's Lesser Hero restriction, our monster subjugations turned ferocious, forcing us into knife's-edge fights where one wrong move meant death, or fights so far past the limit that by any reasonable measure we should have died.

But that was exactly what made everyone grow.

That night.

Even though it was a load on the rest of us, the one working harder than anyone was Colette herself.

To reward that hard work, I'd started giving Colette a longer-than-usual massage every day, and…

That massage had naturally escalated, until now we were both stark naked, tangled fiercely on the bed, lips pressed against lips, sucking hard on each other's tongues.

Munyun…

I touched her breasts. They were still small breasts. But just a little… they were getting bigger.

Colette's growth hadn't stopped yet. Little by little, little by little, she was growing.

A few more years and they were sure to become big, full, magnificent breasts I wouldn't be able to fit in both palms.

Once they did, they'd be even more to my taste. But even now, this small state was very lovely.

That faintly soft texture felt incredibly good.

"Anyu, n'nyuu… Naoto-samaa… Naoto-sama, your massage feels so good…! Being made to feel this good by you, Naoto-sama…

"All of today's exhaustion is just blowing away…!"

Colette murmured that in a daze.

"Hehe… me too. When I knead Colette's breasts, I get so soothed that all of today's exhaustion just blows away."

That wasn't a lie at all. Even after putting our lives on the line in such razor-edge fights, my energy was already topped right back up. I was ready to go at it again tomorrow.

… But before that…

"… It's all right if I cum once, isn't it?"

"Aah… yes, of course!"

So saying, Colette spread her legs wide.

There: an untouched, perfectly closed innocent slit no one had ever passed through.

Plumply thick. I knew putting it in would feel incredible.

… But I was still holding back. Holding back until LV50.

Even so, I rubbed my penis against that plump pussy.

Nicha…

A soft, hot warmth coiled around my penis. Aaah… amazing, just rubbing it on her felt too good.

Naturally, Colette was already fully prepared, ready for insertion at any time.

But she was holding back together with me. Overcoming this kind of difficulty side by side felt like it strengthened the bond between us.

Nucho, nucho…

Even just intercrural, rubbing against a slit dripping with love juice was incredibly good.

"Aah, aaah… … Naoto-sama's… it's hot, and hard…! It feels good, it feels so good…! Naoto-samaa… I love you, I love you, I love you…!"

"Me too… I love you, Colette…!"

Doku doku doku!

I came hard. The semen I shot outside spurted out and rained down, dirtying Colette's adorable face and her still faintly small breasts.

"Aah… Naoto-sama's shower… how comforting it is… I'm happy. Colette is the happiest secretary in the world…"

Colette smiled, lost in bliss.

"And I… am the happiest Goshujin-sama in the world. I love you, Colette…"

I held the semen-soaked Colette tight in my arms, not minding the mess at all, embracing her with all my love.

Like this, layering hearts upon hearts, she would go on growing strong.

She'd learned a Skill like that. Among Ultimate Arts it didn't seem all that flashy, but it was surely just flat-out strong.

"That she can pop powerful Ultimate Arts like this, well, Lesser Hero really is an amazing class after all."

I'd have to drop either Shield Bash or Greatshield…

I'd drop Shield Bash. Colette was going to be run as a defender, so one offensive Skill was plenty.

Unfortunately, getting Colette to LV50 in time for the A-Class Tournament was going to come up just short.

If that was the case… doing Colette's leveling at the A-Class Tournament wasn't a bad idea either.

The A-Class Tournament was a contest where, if I lost, I'd become Ursula's slave; absolutely not one I could afford to lose.

Going into one like that with the Lesser Hero restriction tacked on for leveling probably wasn't sane…

But unless we overcame that level of fight, there was no way I could call Colette a Hero.

I was thinking of taking on the A-Class Tournament with Colette in the formation.

 

*

 

I was visiting Patty's mother, Pamela-san.

"… That reminds me, Naoto-san. About Patty, you still haven't laid a hand on her… why is that?

"Don't tell me you don't find our Patty appealing…"

Pamela-san was a little angry.

"Of all things! Not at all! Patty is supremely cute and erotic and just irresistibly appealing! She's the best!

"… Not laying a hand on her is just my own personal hangup.

"I've made up my mind to wait until LV50 so we can deepen our love properly.

"For people who start at LV50 or above I think about it differently."

I explained.

"… I see. Well, every Master has their own hangups… it's not really my place to force my opinion. Patty seems satisfied, so I have no particular complaints.

"That said… please don't forget she's longing to be loved by you soon, Naoto-san."

"Yes… of course. I want to hold Patty soon too, I can hardly stand it.

"But this time spent agonizing, wanting it so badly I can't take it, there's a kind of fun in that too.

"Sure, doing it would make us so much happier than we are now, but this agonized mood is something I can only taste right now… it makes me a little wistful to let it go."

"… Fufufu, well, all right. If that's how you think about it."

Pamela-san let my principle slide.

"Well then, today too, drink plenty of milk and… get your energy back."

"Aah… I'll gladly partake."

Chu, chuba, chu…

Pamela-san was treating me to her milk on roughly a once-every-two-or-three-week basis.

When her Goshujin-sama came to visit she didn't, and on days when they couldn't meet she served me her milk; that was the arrangement, apparently.

I had to be grateful to Pamela-san's apparently very busy Goshujin-sama.

Though I still hadn't heard what kind of person he was.

… The Goshujin-sama who led both Almaria-san and Pamela-san, just who could he be? Maybe one day I'd meet him.

Someone would explain at some point.

"… Speaking of which, Pamela-san, what's your class name? Could I ask?"

"My class name? It was Ogre Goddess for the longest time, but after I had my child I got promoted to Kishimojin.

"It's a class with high physical attack and a specialty in shield destruction.

"… I think Patty has every qualification to become one too. Raise her well."

"Yes! Of course!"

I said that emphatically, but… while drinking chuu chuu, gulp gulp on Pamela-san's overflowing breasts as they were held to me, it must have come off as pathetic and unconvincing.

Aah, but… Pamela-san's milk was just too delicious…

What was more, my whole body was filling up with vigorous vitality, and my penis was straining stiff to bursting.

… No good, at this rate I'm going to cum just from drinking her milk…

"Naoto-san, at this rate you'll explode… Patty, today I'll drink from over here～"

Chuba, chu, chupu…

Patty, instead of latching onto Pamela-san's other breast, latched onto my penis.

"Oh my… fufufu, well then, this breast is open, so help yourselves, everyone."

At Pamela-san's invitation, my comrades lined up in turn to drink a little of Pamela-san's milk.

Its rich, sweet flavor melted everyone into bliss.

Me too…

"Nn, ah, aah… Patty…!"

Doku doku doku!

"Nnh, haaah… it's deliciou～us… Right now I'm having Patty treated to lots of milk, but…

"Eventually, Patty's going to treat you to lots of mi～lk…"

Patty drained down my semen, lost in bliss.

"Now then, did everyone get their fill?"

"Yes!"

Pamela-san tucked her overflowing breasts away.

A shame, but I'd been thoroughly treated.

"… Now then, Patty. Your manuscript should be just about done, right? It's already deadline."

"… Mama… a little longer, just a little longer～…"

"Then today, you'll pull an all-nighter and finish it."

"Hiii… save me～…"

… Sorry, that part I couldn't help with.

Out of gratitude for Pamela-san's hospitality, all we could do was abandon Patty to her fate.

Hang in there, Patty.

Now then, Patty's LV was still 48. She was working hard, but she'd fallen a bit behind Luna and the gap wasn't closing easily.

By the A-Class match, though, I calculated she'd just barely make it.

And then, finally, with Patty too…

I couldn't wait for that time.

The Skill Patty had learned was,

That kind of thing. The drawback was she'd collapse after seven turns, but when you needed an explosion of power it was an extremely useful Skill.

Goodbye, Frenzied Beatdown. The 3-attack count was attractive, but I figured she could cover it with the number of strikes. And as long as she had Barrier Crush, that was enough for shield destruction.

Patty was growing nicely too.

I couldn't wait for her LV50, coming up soon.