C57-Culture shock ♡

〔 Aizel Kadashi 〕Level: 47Age: 19TitlePlatinum-rank Hunter (SU)Health Power429/547Soul Energy0KinCrimson Were-Dragon

「 Night, of his 41st day on Geas. 」

The team got back to the hill they were going to use for the night; thankfully, Lisa didn't drop the female… by accident.

Thump! "ugh…"

"Gee, woman. I've seen you treat goblins with more care."

"Just restore her, love." Lisa shrugged.

Aizel got closer to their prisoner and checked for injuries; he was careful to not grope her in an inappropriate manner, even if the savages would not think twice about it.

The image of them seeing the woman as no different from a monster that needed to be put down made his stomach turn since he saw their glares, and it was not easing at all.

He poked and squeezed her arms and legs. Then he patted her with the back of his hands on some areas, just like he had been searched at an airport; his knowledge in this was amateur at best. She did not complain in a manner that would suggest she had a broken bone or injury.

'That was a hell of a fall; she was lucky, or must have a high HP.'

"Probably," Valerie said.

The woman was not speaking or doing much of anything; the girls were just staring at him and glaring at the captive. "Legion, come here." He ordered, and the girls complied, even Neine.

Normally that would send his brain into a lust-filled frenzy, thinking about the were-cheetah with wings and a part of his crew, but the sight of the shivering woman was a little much for him to fantasize at that moment.

"Release her, Lis. I got her." The Iridescent army of hands from (Swarming Grasp) was replaced with the red constructs of (Doppelgänger).

Aizel took a deep breath and prepared himself for the worst. "Look at me, woman," he said. But she was still looking at the floor and did not even react.

"Just… get it done already…" She said with a quivering tone.

"Get what done?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Torture me… and kill me…"

"…"

It was not that hard a conclusion to have, in her eyes at least; why else would he take her away? She must have thought.

He huffed and addressed the woman. "I won't torture you, nor kill you. I just want to confirm some things. I'm kind of new to this land, you see, and you are the first of your kind that I've met."

"What about the dog?" Lisa asked, referring to the Wolf-Born they delivered to the guild in exchange for relative crumbs of silver.

"I… I forgot…" He lowered his head in shame.

"…"

"Anyway. Let's try this again without prying eyes. Have you ever murdered a human?"

"…"

"(SPEAK!)" Aizel used (Command), the girls did not move or react much externally. Even so, Vanessa and Lisa felt a shiver of the sexual kind when he did that judging by how their nervous system reacted. Neine just shook a little; Valerie had not been told the way he used that skill, or seen it in action, but she did not react. At all.

"No, I haven't." She complied, her words coming out of her mouth before she moved it, and there was even a weird echo repeating her words after, the two dissociated echoes came from all around them and was a little creepy, as if they had heard the words she uttered three times, maybe they were, and it was an echo in the world's aura.

"Lie," Lisa said. She and the rest of the party reacted completely opposite to how Aizel thought they would. They were even excited by the display.

"Have you ever raped?"

"…No."

"True."

"Who was the leader of the ones who attacked back there?"

"…"

"I can make you talk again. For as long as I want." Aizel bluffed; that little stunt with (Command) used a lot of HP after the Nerd's rebalancing. "I will only stop once you tell me everything I want. Not to mention we can tell if you lie, in more ways than one." He glanced at Valerie, and she understood what he needed of her.

Valerie squatted beside her, just like he did before, and was about to get closer before Aizel stopped her. Her eyes turned onyx just like they were before their bind once again. She was glancing around as if she was dreaming or using (Focus). It was only a test. However, to his surprise, she managed to use her trait on command.

"She was the leader of the attackers," Valerie said. Aizel smiled at her, and she returned it, looking quite cute even if what she just did was beyond creepy. That being said, in that moment he found the creepy Shinigami extremely erotic in a twisted way. 'I have issues.'

Aizel turned towards the prisoner again and continued his interrogation with Lisa and Valerie by his sides. "Who hired you?"

"…"

"A fat man, noble-looking," Valerie said. He wanted to ask her a lot of things about her trait. However, his ever-curious mind needed to step back; they had a self-imposed job to do.

"Do you work for him directly, or were you just hired for his job?"

As soon as Aizel finished speaking, he felt the aura from the world resonate with the woman; his (Focus) and Vanessa's activated immediately, his coming just a fraction of a second before hers. Nevertheless, when their perception of time was heightened, even that brief delay could be deadly.

Aizel could see how the aura from the woman aligned as if metal toothpicks or shavings were being affected by a magnetic field; it was creating a path towards him, just like he did when he used (Lightning bolt).

He pushed his hand down; it was not needed, but it helped him visualize. (Anchor), (Telekinesis) and (Doppelgänger) pushed the girls back from the two of them. Magikas Finalis would be a better option, but he wanted to see her in action; it was not every day he got to fight a human that was trying to kill him.

"She will cast!" Vanessa yelled as she and the others were pushed back, probably looking at her blood flow.

Just as he predicted, the woman let out a small bolt of lightning that hit him square on the chest. He used (Discharge) to bend the path around his body, and it dissipated on the dirt floor; she only managed to make him feel static electricity.

The angels pulled out their lances and were already aiming at her. Neine even grabbed a dagger from her belt and looked as if she was going to shred the prisoner at any moment.

"Calm down, Girls! Let me deal with her; step back and protect yourselves!"

The four girls nodded and stepped further back.

"Listen, lady. I only want information! Tell me everything I need to know, and I will tell the Temple! No one will—"

His speech was cut short as the girl cast silently again; this time she managed to produce one (Mana Bullet) at the side of her face as she stood up while in his restraints. He could have stopped her, but it was better to let her exhaust her mana.

Thump!

The projectile detonated as soon as it made contact with his (Barrier).

She looked around and found no way to run; her back was towards a cliff on the hillside, and the only way down was through it. Her eyes filled with tears; she was about to do something stupid. Aizel thought she would jump off the cliff, but the girl had something else in mind.

Her aura resonated with the world once again. However, this time the path formed much faster, and it went all around her. "Tormente!" The woman screamed. Her body was swallowed by a (Discharge) that went through her heart.

A single pulse of (Finalize) put an end to it; all she managed to do was burn herself a little and exhaust all her mana. She looked exhausted, and her aura reminded him of Pops when he went crazy after learning to fly.

Aizel let go of the breath he was holding and walked closer to her. "~Restoradis…" He whispered while waving his hand and picturing her injuries healing; she was healed from what little damage she did to herself in an instant.

The woman looked to her sides, and then at herself; she opened and closed her hands a couple of times before raising her head and meeting his gaze. "W~Who are you?" She said in a shaken tone.

"Probably the only one in this world who will not kill you on sight, or capture and torture you for information. I have the means to make you talk without it." He said with a shrug before continuing. "So you can speak to me, and maybe the information you provide is worth your life for the Hunters' Guild and the Temples."

He huffed. "Or… you can keep being an idiot… and get tortured by them for the same information. I'm a platinum rank with an extremely high monster kill count. I doubt they will want to cross me. But I can't help you with just the things you have said to me."

"True."

She looked to the floor and was fighting tears while grinding her teeth. After clutching her eyes, she looked back at him and glared with rage. Even so, she spoke up. "I've only met them once. After that first meeting, he began sending jobs and payment via hawk, in a ring of holding. I don't know his name." The woman said.

"True."

"Where are they from?"

"I don't know."

"True."

"She has a pretty good Idea, love. But she doesn't know for certain." Valerie said. Aizel wanted to ask her how the fuck she knew that. But he remembered that she had given a description of the man before, and just called him 'noble-looking fatso,' or something like that, so her mind voyeurism probably saw glimpses of something related to the woman's employer residence.

"The Baron of Sednira." The woman said.

"Of course a small fly will take the first chance they get to step in shit."

They kept questioning the woman for a little while; her group was part of a much larger organization that was led by an extremely powerful sub-human. He probably had the strength of a high Mithril.

But the 'Tiger,' as she called him, was not an ex-hunter. She did not know where he was from, or even the type of Tiger-kin he was, like: were-, -man, or -born. From what Valerie had seen, it was some kind of Tiger-Born, but the woman had not seen him much, so his image was coming all 'blurry and weird.'

She told them the location of their old hideout. However, she said that the group she was with would be given instructions to relocate after the mission was completed. Aizel wanted to send a fake message. The woman said it would be a wasted effort. He would normally call bullshit on that, but Valerie and Lisa confirmed her words.

They extracted a lot of information. Unfortunately, it wouldn't lead anywhere because of how her group operated within the criminal organization. At least it would give him leverage to keep his word and try to soften the Guild.

'Am I a fool for going so far as to make sure she's not hurt?'

Valerie came to his side and gave him a tight hug. He cleared his mind before she could see all the things the prisoner could go through if the Guild or the Temple were rotten and betrayed him.

'That's for later… Val, can you hear me?' She didn't reply, and her eyes were normal. 'She probably disconnected or whatever when my mind began to spin.'

"What now, love? Are we taking her back to the caravan, with the other captives?" Lisa asked after she finished tying up the woman with normal ropes so he could stop wasting his HP.

He thought for a moment; thankfully, Valerie was still not peeking into his mind as Aizel began to imagine what could happen to the woman. "No, tomorrow I will turn her directly to the temple."

"~Why?" Neine asked.

He took a deep breath before answering. "She's a confirmed sub-human, Nei. Tell me, Lis. What are the chances someone kills her in the middle of the night?"

"It's almost guaranteed. They won't receive a large reward for delivering her because there are a lot of them, or be punished for killing her. They see her as less than a monster; as a quick way to gain soul energy. Unlike her, monsters act out of instinct… At least, that's how most people think. I can see that is not the case for you, though."

He huffed. "Yeah, that's not happening on my watch. They clearly haven't met an Orc shaman; fuckers are smarter than some hunters I've seen. I'm not giving her to them."

"Aiz…" Valerie murmured, but didn't elaborate.

"What about what you said before, Aizel?" Lisa asked.

"What?" He asked. Not knowing what she was going on about.

"When you received 'scraps of silver' for the dog, you said that the next time a sub-human attacked us. You would bind them instead of turning them in."

He had said that. However, at that moment he was thinking about using whoever was stupid enough to engage them as a training tool. Not about a pretty girl.

The fact that this was a pretty girl was probably the only reason Lisa was suggesting that in the first place. Unfortunately, Aizel's mind was not in the right place at the moment. He needed to release some steam to think clearly.

"Yo, Woman." Aizel growled. They hadn't even bothered to ask her name. It was supposed to be Lisa's job, but she had been fooling around earlier. His tone sent a shiver down everyone's spine. The prisoner was scared by it. But the girls were excited, Neine included.

"Yes… Sir."

"The last two horses… You said they could only have ridden northwest. Right?"

"Yes, but they must be—" She was cut off as he materialized his wings to their full length in a flash of purple and red flames. It was violent; he managed to release them in half the time by calling in the world mana. 'This shit would have been useful against my spar with Pops.'

"Legion. Begin flying back and forth over the forest while heading northwest. Do not engage if you find them. Use our signal and summon me. They are mine. This searching technique is called scouring."

"Sir!" The girls nodded and jumped into the air without questioning him.

"Am…" Neine looked at him cutely, reminding him of a kitten asking for something, managing to calm him down a little.

"I will take you with me. Don't worry about it." Neine nodded happily after he said that.

"You. I can track you magically, so feel free to run away while we are gone. I won't even tie you up to the tree. If you do, and I have to go look for your murderer ass. I will throw you to the guild and not say shit. Your gods only know what kind of sordid things they will do."

The woman nodded and sat leaning by a tree.

— —

〔 Duklas Voltanson the XIII 〕Level: 167Age: 37TitleConvicted - Theft (12)Health Power175/200Mind Power (520+87)41/607Soul Energy16KinVulture-Man〔 7 Skills 〕+

Duklas Leapt off his horse and assumed his Vulture form the moment he was well into the forest; that might have been the best decision of his life. Even with the leaker helping them out, the sabotage failed halfway through. A party of were-kin descended before they began. Then, simple night roguery turned into a nightmare.

He saw everything. Wraith eyes with Vulture traits gifted him escape the instant one of the unknown were-people mopped Valentine's party. They took her, fresh information ready to be probed out.

Duklas flew high; by chance alone, he came to find the camp of flying people where Misty lay tied. He waited. The expected torture never came; the large man did nothing but talk.

The large male's aura roared dusk; a large pair of demon-looking wings grew from his back. The others were Angels with unlike colors that rose in the night, flying in the direction where Hamiko was fleeing while searching the forest.

In no time they found the last member of Valentine's party. A blue (Spark) shot in the sky after his friend was found. The winged man rose and flew faster than anyone Duklas had ever seen.

After consuming many boosters and potions, he was tiring - fast. Duklas needed to land before human form was forced back into him, leaving him bedridden for moons. 'Mine rather be in bed than fighting demon.'

He headed southeast. He planned to report to the nearest hideout, then fly back to his tribe and leave the Moon Outcasts for good. 'Kramar go lick his own arse. Mugged brain Tiger-Man, taking royal coin from royal paw. Trap laid bare, we all fell. Changing mine title not worth dying.'

The last thing Duklas saw while fleeing was Angels land around his friend, loud echo followed them, the landing of the Demon-Kin roared in dusk flames and thunder.

'Hamiko. The Furax family will not miss you. Yet I will. May our Mother keep your soul; we shall share a meal again under Father's embrace, in the next realm.'

— — —

〔 Aizel Kadashi 〕Level: 47Age: 19TitlePlatinum-rank Hunter (SU)Health Power334/547Soul Energy0KinCrimson Were-Dragon

Aizel expected more; the woman had told them that the two who fled were among the strongest in her party besides herself. The girls didn't manage to find the last rider, finding only their horse chilling by a stream, and just called him once they found the last suspect.

He wanted to release some steam. However, it turned out to be a headache not to kill the man by accident. Even without using his skills, and with this man being a brute, it was more of a morbid party for the girls as they watched him spar with the snail. Lisa even had placed some lights around with (Spark) and (Swarming Grasp) for Neine to see.

Wing Chun was something he used only for throwing off his opponents and practice. Practice is the best he could call what was going on right now.

His opponent was not a sub-human; the woman had told them as much, and Lisa confirmed it just as they landed, so he would not let the girls fight him in case they got excited and turned him into a pincushion by 'accident.'

They were justified in case they killed him, and he would be the one getting the criminal title anyway because of their (Bind), but he did not want them to grow accustomed to killing human-kin.

The man was tall. Aizel ducked and weaved his attacks while throwing some palm punches at the same time he blocked, even taking hold of his opponent's wrists as he tried to defend and giving it a pull while throwing a knee to the body.

Neine was fascinated by the fight, but he was really getting bored, so he just did one last flashy move that he would not dare to try in a normal fight, not because it was not effective, but because it was hard to measure the distance, and he did not have enough practice with it.

Aizel threw a shin low kick with his leg enveloped in a visible (Barrier) construct. The man stepped back, just as he wanted.

He used the momentum to take a step forward while spinning on his back, throwing a backwards heel kick while placing his hands on the ground. A classic capoeira volta gancho, or a spinning hook for the uninitiated.

It landed a little too well because the idiot stepped into the kick, getting knocked out, probably with a side dish of brain damage.

"~Yea!" "Damn!" "Fu~uck!" Neine and Valerie celebrated while Vanessa grimaced.

"I think you killed him, love," Lisa said, a little too happy for his liking, or that is what he told himself, as his dick begged to differ.

Aizel knelt beside the man; he had a pulse, so he used a little (Restore) on him and tied him up to deliver him to the caravan. They ended up letting the last one go, since it was probably a futile effort to search for him at this point.

— — —

"If she got you so worried, why don't we just throw her to the caravan, Love. I hate to see you like this. I don't even need to sense your blood; it's written all over your face."

Vanessa sat beside Aizel, who was back to moping after delivering the last non-sub-human male prisoner to the caravan. They had asked him to bring back the woman he took away; some even offered him some silver to do so, with hate in their eyes and daggers in their hands.

'I can't just ask them to change their beliefs. I could tell them to place themselves in her shoes, but I would not want…' Valerie was looking at him, and already sharing his innermost thoughts.

"He wants us to put ourselves—"

"Val." He cut her off.

"Sorry."

"It's fine. Please don't share that thought." She nodded, and he continued. "Can you close your mind off from mine, just for a little bit, love. I don't want you to see the images going through my head right now. It's poison."

She nodded again and climbed onto his lap. The thought of delivering the woman to her death without judgment made his stomach churn as if he had swallowed a snake. But Valerie's warmth was out of two realms.

"What skill was that, Val? He relaxed almost immediately." Vanessa said.

"It's called Thickness," Aizel replied with a smile. "Is not her that I have an issue with, Nessa. It's the things that everyone in that caravan, and even all of you, find normal. It's completely at odds with my beliefs."

Vanessa did not reply and just hugged his arm tightly. The smell of her and Valerie was helping clear his mind.

"She's secure," Lisa said and took a seat to his other side.

He nodded and was about to speak when Valerie turned around, began kissing him, and ground herself against him. The captured woman was given Neine's old tent, where she was tied up for the night.

Valerie broke her kiss before speaking. "I think… The world is lucky."

Aizel turned his head to the side. "Why?"

"Just the thought of someone as strong as you becoming evil…"

He shrugged, not knowing what to say at that moment. She was right. Someone stronger than Pops would be needed to defeat someone as strong as him. Besides, Aizel was pretty sure he hadn't even scratched the surface of what was possible in this realm.

Valerie climbed off him and sat on top of the table while facing him. Lisa helped her take off her pants, and Vanessa was almost falling asleep at his side. He was about to suggest changing locations so the Kizukami could rest when Valerie spread her legs, exposing herself to him.

Neine glowed warm in his senses and bolted inside her tent. Aizel felt the aura shift around it; he assumed it was her muffler. Neine ran back out and stole the bestiary and another book that was lying around and went to hide again in a blur.

"…She fast."

Lisa and Valerie turned towards him with disbelief and narrow eyes.

"What?"

"Do you want some dessert, my love?" Valerie said while spreading her legs in front of him.

"Have I told you that I love you today?" He said from the depths of his soul, his mind, and gut calming down at the sight of his raven-haired wife offering herself to him.

"Show me," Valerie said.

He smiled and took hold of her calves, pulling her closer to the edge of the table, eliciting a little yelp that woke Vanessa up.

"Hm? He finally remembered he's married?" Vanessa cleared her eyes and yawned while stretching her arms. She began tying up her hair in a ponytail, making Lisa jump into action as she began to untie the leather straps and belts from his pants.

Aizel ignored the white and red angels, got his face in between Valerie's thighs, and reached out with his tongue. He hugged the legs that threatened to choke him as he spread Valerie's labia, savoring her wetness while searching for her clit. It was already swollen and ready to play with. He added a small (Doppelgänger) to help her out while he squeezed her thighs with his arms.

Valerie twitched while a silent moan escaped her. The small involuntary contraction added more saltiness to his dessert. She pinned him down and pulled him further into her with her legs alone. Lying back on her elbows to savor the sensation.

He really needed to find a skill or artifact that allowed him to not need his mouth or nose to breathe. Right now he understood why Vanessa waited until her body forced her to pause her blowjob when she was bout to drown. Aizel was doing just the same with Valerie.

'Val, I need Air.' Aizel thought, and the little raven eased her skull-crushing. He only took a deep breath and went back to devour her, burying his face in between her massive thighs.

Lisa finally managed to release his erection, and Vanessa was already under the table, going all the way to the base of his dick in a single gulp. Lisa got on the table and took a seat behind Valerie with her legs spread behind her, hugging her and kissing her lovingly on the neck, slowly undressing her.

Aizel was glad for his Lightning sense. Allowing him to know what everyone was doing without having to leave his meal.

'Huh. When did I even stop calling it electroreception?—' His inner thoughts were interrupted when Valerie tightly squeezed his head.

He rewarded that gift with one of his own. A pulse of (Discharge) took her the rest of the way. He made the path of his lightning touch her nipples and clit with a small zap that made her back arch in an instant.

The warmth of her thighs burning his cheeks felt amazing, and her smell was Divine. Valerie's cunt tried to clenched around his tongue just as he began to fill Vanessa's throat with his seed. His breath became strong and ragged.

Exhaling directly on Valerie's labia were something new to her; every time he breathed out, a shiver ran down her body. She could even feel goosebumps on the outside of her legs slowly growing after each new way of lightning sent through her body, in perfect sync with his huffing blows.

Thankfully, Vanessa had learned not to test the limits of her jaw against his knot; she retreated just enough to allow it to form while swallowing everything he unleashed.

"Lis!" Her call came muffled under the table as soon as he was done.

Lisa left Valerie without a second thought and went under the table. Aizel's mind went blank with pleasure when he understood the purpose of the sudden summoning of the seraph.

Vanessa began to lick his knot while Lisa swapped positions with her and began to swallow him; each time she became a little better, and one of these days she would be able to do it without any help or instruction.

The combined sensations allowed him to cum again in less than a minute. This time he released even more, and it was leaking out from Lisa's mouth, running down her cleavage, soaking her clothes while puddling on the ground beneath her.

Valerie had enough and stopped trying to asphyxiate him. Her breaths became strangled as she lay on the table. Her body convulsed one last time before she relaxed.

Aizel moved the table with his skills, revealing the two indecent angels still going crazy on his dick.

"Yo. Sluts. Who's next?" As if they were in college, they both raised their hands at the same time. They did not stop sucking him off and just held one hand in the air. Lisa became impatient and waved at him. He chuckled, and Vanessa copied her, doing the same while fixated on his still swollen knot.

He shrugged and pulled out a coin from his ring. "Heads, and Lis gets the dick while Nessa gets the tail… Huh. Now that I think about it, even the fucking coins were influenced by— Ouch! Fuck!!" Vanessa pinched his calve with a lot of force, burrowing her nails on him.

Aizel stood up while pushing away the bench in fake rage while manifesting his draconian traits without the claws. They knew him so well that there was no need for them to even give him a second look to realize that he was playing, and they began cheering at his display.

"You are a couple of weirdos… So?"

"Dick!" They both said.

"Well, coin it is…" He threw it in the air, and it landed on…

"Bitch, no cheating!" Vanessa yelled when she noticed Lisa's (Swarming Grasp) trying to get a hold of the coin midair.

"Hey, you owe me one!" Lisa defended with a frowning pout.

"Wh— What!?"

"Our first night together. You got the dick most of the time, and I was tail fucked. It's actually pretty overwhelming with all the textures and dexterity he has. I don't think you remember just how insane that felt because he barely used it on you. And now he's careful about it. You might even love it…"

"Val! Is she lying?"

"She's already asleep, Nessa," Lisa said.

"Fine!" Vanessa said with a glare.

Aizel immediately slithered his tail around her, constricting her as if a kinky anaconda had taken hold of her. He began to give her the scaly twister and hoped that what he felt before was indeed Neine turning on her muffling thingy, because Lisa was not lying. Vanessa loved it and filled the forest with her moans of pleasure.

Lisa jumped on him and hugged his neck; he caught her mid-jump by grabbing her ass, lowering the dripping seraphim into his dick. She tried to move her hips around but stopped once she found out her help was not needed in that position; he just squeezed her while thrusting up every time gravity helped him impale her.

"Re~ed!" Vanessa said while violently convulsing on the dirt. He knew she was not hurt and was just overwhelmed; earlier he added (Discharge) and (Doppelgänger) to the tail fucking. So he just let her be and dedicated his whole attention to Lisa.

He wanted to say that he had finally found Vanessa's limit. But the feeling of Lisa's body bouncing against his overrode that thought.

Aizel leaned back and widened his stance while increasing his speed. Pounding the seraphim without rest until she had enough.

"~I'm ready." She managed to whisper amid wet thumps.

This time he needed a little more to catch up to her; the pose allowed her to feel him more than normal. "I'm not. May I?"

"I'm yours, silly. Let me rest for a bit. And then we can do it together."

He smiled and paused his thrusting. Without removing her from his dick, Aizel carried her in a lustful embrace towards their tent. He grabbed Valerie and Vanessa's exhausted forms with his skills, floating them while using a low (Purify) and (Restore) to clean them and relieve their exhaustion. He placed them side by side on their mattress.

"You okay, Nessa?" He asked.

"Ye," Vanessa replied with a beautiful smile, materializing her wings and hugging Valerie in a feathered cocoon.

Aizel slowly made love to Lisa while on missionary. Exploring her tongue with his. This time they managed to sync up and reach climax together.

He turned them around and placed her in his chest as his knot formed. She materialized her wings and hugged him tightly while twitching. Valerie and Vanessa saw them and went to Aizel's sides. Completing the nest and falling asleep in no time.