Chapter 303 – Re: Bel

Day 42 (Cont)

"Explain yourself!" Aqua growled in a tone he had never heard from her before. She was standing between him and Pande inside one of the vine tiki huts that Riana had crafted, along with Mi, Ee, Sato, Ruby, and Returner. He and the dragonlady were seated across from each other, with everyone else screening him to the point he could barely see Pande. Lina leaned against the wall beside the doorway, observing the meeting for the benefit of everyone outside.

"I am perdita...err, I am stuck. Lost. I cannot find a stream where I return, always evading amongst the Universus Parabellum until my flow has dwindled to naught. I need his aid to protect me from Duck Lips and Smokey Man."

"You're a bloody dragon! A powerful one at that? Why would you need Rou's help with anything?" Aqua continued, causing the others around her to gasp a little, not knowing Pande's race. Well, everyone but Returner; the Carbuncle was perched on his shoulder, already eyeing the powerful woman carefully.

When Pande had asked him out on the docks about protecting his concubina, he had just looked down at her silently for a few moments, still trying to figure out how and why she was inside the belly of this giant fish. In that time, chaos broke out as Aqua barreled in between them, pushing them apart with an odd pulse of energy. Mi, Ee, Sato, and Ruby joined her a few moments later; somehow, all of them were armed with various weapons and brandishing them at Pande.

Where in the heck were they hiding those?

Before he could tell them to stop, they started to quarrel, with Pande bouncing around as she had in the courthouse, making a fool of the five women as her doppelgangers mocked them, spraying a sticky substance over the combatants, then blasting silver glitter everywhere when they were finally struck.

Her real body materialized beside him, holding a box of Girl Scout cookies out for him to snack on as they watched the show. He pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration; She had shown back up for all of thirty seconds, and he could already feel a headache starting.

Though he did take a thin mint... it had been a long time since he had one. He had her offer Kichi, Aya, and Kia some as well. 

Surprisingly, it was Angel who ended the skirmish before he could, his mother pushing out a blast of her non-elemental magic, dissolving the remaining Pande's as they continued to dodge five of the six women who shared his bed. Riana was beside her, along with Returner; the two most powerful spell users in the village were watching the real Pande carefully from a distance.

"Enough!" She shouted over the chaos, her voice amplified by Returner's magic enough to startle everyone and end the chaphoney immediately. She looked at him, then pointed to one of the huts. "Inside. Now. Talk. No Fighting."  

Which led them to this point, where the mostly pacifist Aqua seemed about to lead another charge against a dragon.

"Sui, everyone, sit down." He said, snagging the back of her bunny suit and pulling her into his lap. He had no idea what had gotten into her, but he wasn't about to pick a fight with one of the most powerful beings he had ever met outside of DEN. 

"But Rou! She-"

"She hugged me and asked for help."

"And said she was your concubine... why do you have yet another one?" She replied, tears forming at corners of her eyes. 

"She isn't even from the village!" Mi added, grasping his arm with her new metal one and squeezing. The appendage had some serious strength, causing him some pain even with all his stats.

"Hrmmmph!!!" Ee said, grasping his other arm in a grip nearly as strong as the magical hand, her days of mining really increasing her strength exponentially.

"Will you-" He started to say, but then Ruby and Sato pinched his cheeks.

"I... I'm okay sharing, but shouldn't we have our turns first?" Ruby said. She was blushing deeply; her own cheeks were puffed out in exasperation.

"A chief should use his harem before adding more to it. Unless you just want to collect us as trophies you can put on display and use as bedwarmers at night." Sato added with a slight growl.

He had enough. Grabbing Aqua's and Mi's thighs to make sure he had a solid skin-on-skin connection, he rapidly chanted a spell, funnelling all of his rage from his sword into the incantation. "MIDDLE HEAL!"

"AHHHH!!!!" They all screamed at once, an incredibly powerful orgasm rocking their bodies as a around a 500% boosted spell slammed into them. Even Returner got inadvertently caught in the blast, falling off his shoulder at the unexpected wave of pleasure.

He pushed Aqua off his lap and let her drop to the floor as he stood up. He didn't mind being a bit passive with those he cared for, but he was not going to stand for being walked all over without them letting him get a word out. 

"Enough of this! She is not my concubine, mistress, or whatever. And even if she was, why would it matter!?!" He shouted, his rage unleashing like a dam bursting.

"Sato! Yes, I spared you, and you have been a great help in keeping the rest of the goblin part of the village in line. I allowed you into my bed to offer you comfort at the loss of your loved one, but I just don't have the same feelings for you that you seem to have for me." He liked her well enough, but despite his body in this world, he was not a damn goblin. He didn't want to take advantage of her in her weakness and have her regret it later.  

"Ruby. Yes, I saved you, and your contributions to the village farm have been wonderful, but we still barely know each other. I allowed you into my bed because you seemed lonely, but that was for companionship, not for being my wife, concubine, or whatever else you want to call it! Get to know me more before you decide if you really want to have a relationship with someone like me!" He said. He knew it was hypocritical, Riana, Lina, and the other women he had sex with proving that he wasn't completely against having more casual sex with others, but she was still a young woman, never really experiencing life before being tossed into this village half full of monsters. Taking her like this just seemed... cheap for some reason, and it bothered him even more than the fact that he was horny as hell all the time.

"Ee, Mi. I'm sorry. I love you both dearly, but... not in the way you want. You're both more like daughters to me than wives. I've tried... but I just cannot get around that simple fact." He had realized it when he was fishing with Kichi. While this body was the same age as them, he considered most of the goblins from his generation more like his children or grandchildren than his peers. He tried, and almost had sex with Ee that one time, tried to have dates with the both of them, to see if he could force something more to develop, but he couldn't see them as more than children. Maybe not his own children, but children that he had adopted, to love and nurture, to see them grow. 

Finally, he looked down at Aqua. She was crying, and he could see the fear in her eyes, worried about what he was going to say or do to her. The rage waivered as knelt beside her and tried to brush a tear off her cheek, only to have her flinch at his touch, so he moved his hand away. "You have done so much for me and I consider you part of my family. We will be together for the foreseeable future, maybe for the rest of our lives, but I can't have you becoming jealous every time someone touches me. I love you, but I will not have you, or anyone else, try to control me. I've lost enough control of my life with DEN; I refuse to lose any more of it."

There it was in a nutshell. He was sick of being nothing but entertainment for these gods. Sick of having been broken for so long, struggling to survive for their entertainment. To having even his most intimate moments on display for these... heathens who wanted to watch him have sex with women, to change these stories, to make everything either a battlefield full of blood and misery or some sexual voyeur fetish. To have the rules continue to change as this game of theirs evolved, to send him traversing across different worlds, dangling carrots in front of him to keep him going. 

His rage swelled again, and he looked over at Pande, ignoring the hurt looks on the women around him. She was stuffing more thin mints in her mouth, watching his explosion on the girls like it was some sort of entertainment.

These powerful beings are all blasted voyeurs!

"You want me to protect you? Just how do you suggest I protect you from anything? Aren't you some kind of a time dragon?" He said after a few moments, trying to get his brain in a state to deal with this woman. 

Today was supposed to be a good, relaxing day, and I just ruined it. I don't need the chaos this woman brings on top of everything else right now!

"Chrono Dragon, yes. But you said you could help me get home, and Duck Lips and Smokey want to cage me and have guys with tall hats waggle fingers at me. That timestream never goes well, and all paths lead to nowhere for me. I just want to go back to my comet and provide my father more grey hair."

"And just how am I going to protect you from them? She is a powerful superhero on top of whatever else has been jammed into her body, and the other guy is some wizard capable of following you through the damn omniverse. Besides, I'm sure you have more magic in your finger than I do in my whole body. Why don't you just teleport away again? Or toss a mountain in their general direction." He asked her. 

Not that he wanted her to kill his sister, but it didn't make any sense why she hadn't ended this already. Now that he had a closer inspection of her, he could feel the energy oozing from her body, and it was scary. If he compared her to the mana well's energy, it was like a AAA Battery compared to his old truck's 850-amp battery. She outclassed it in every way that mattered.  

She is like a goddess herself in terms of raw power. Not that I have much experience judging that.

She actually looked embarrassed, breaking eye contact and looking down at her feet. "I... can't- don't want to hurt them. Or anyone. I just want to go home."

He stepped in front of her and lifted her chin up with a finger so she could look at her face. There were tears trickling from the corners of her pearlescent green eyes.

Yet another crying woman. Though Card doesn't seem to work on this one... I wonder why that is.

"You don't want to hurt them?"

She nodded.

"And you're done running?"

She nodded again.

"You're a pacifist, ain't cha darlin'?"   

She nodded and sniffed a little bit. "I don't like violence; anytime I do stop to fight them, my stream comes to an end too soon. Running has been my only option to keep going until I found you. I've never seen you in my flow lines before, but now I see you and the ends disappear from my vision, leaving me blind."  

He sighed. She wasn't making much sense, and it really wasn't his problem. He had more than enough of those glaring at him from the sides of the room. "I'm not making any promises. The one you call Duck Lips is my sister, so I might be able to get her to back down, but the other guy is some sort of time cop or detective and is after you because of some paintings you stole, which changed some timeline. I honestly have no idea and really couldn't care less right now."

"Will you try? It's all I can come up with." She pleaded.

"If it comes up, I will. I suggest you keep yourself hidden until then. Now, excuse me. I have things to do." He replied, stepping towards the door. He needed to cool off.

"Lina, you're in charge of the village. I'll be back... eventually." He said to yet another woman he barely knew who was carrying another of his children. He didn't wait for her reply as he exited, cycling wind magic and ki to increase his pace beyond what most of them could ever dream of keeping up with. 

He didn't like running from his problems, but he was too pissed off and horny to do anything constructive right now. The only thing he would accomplish would be either making things worse, or adding to their growing population because Little John was trying to take control. 

Stop it, you horny bastard. You're not Jesus; stop trying to take the damn wheel!