[Make sure to treat Hannah's trauma. She won't be ready to step into the next stage until then... who knows? Maybe that little slug will be able to help her. As for you and that Dragoness, you should start working on your synchronisation... she has lived so long in your soul you're both technically one person, think of that until next time we meet~].
Aether and her lewd promises disappeared afterwards. We returned to the normal world that seemed to be frozen.
Haku and Hannah had been the only ones in the room with us; Yasaka and Amaterasu had already left, and Tsunade and Azrael were in the kitchen. It felt as if we had spent a long time with Aether. When I turned around, Elysir was gone.
'We will talk later, Ray... now that we have our plans, I need to act in consequence'.
'You're not going to hide anything else from me, are you?'.
'Not ever again~'.
'You better. And I want you to come sleep with me this evening'.
'Uhm? What for...?'
'What else is it going to be for? We have to practice for the time I have to impregnate Elysir~' I sent back huskily.
I felt her skip a beat, 'W-We have a long time to practice that–'
'But I want to start now, make sure to wake up my mom so that she will be ready, because I will be practising with her too'.
'Okay~'.
...
Ophis stared at me deeply; her complex gaze was almost unexplainable. I wondered what her complex thoughts were, maybe going back and forth about our conversations and what we went through.
"Can I go back to sleep?"
'Oh, so that's what she was thinking...'
I kissed her forehead, "You can, but we have to talk later. How long do you think it will take for you to lay your egg?"
"... A month, fifteen days, three hours and thirty-two minutes".
'That's very exact...' I thought, and that level of exactitude brought me a lot of thrill. It meant Ophis was going to have my firstborn. Or, well, it also depends on how long our baby is going to take to hatch.
I caressed her belly and whispered in her ears lustily, "Later, we can do some husband-wife mating to increase our sync, okay?"
Her belly is now quite prominent in her human form. I wonder how delicious it is going to be to make love to her like this.
She seemed to like the idea, kissed my chin and then disappeared back into my soul to carry on her slumber, if anything Ophis hate is to be woken up mid slumber, so we're lucky she's not that upset. I have no idea if that's what we have to do to increase our 'sync' as Aether said. But we might as well try. I haven't made love to Ophis in a long time because she seems to have gone into this hibernation mode once she realised she was pregnant/gravid and spends the majority of her time sleeping rather than seducing me.
Her hormones worked the opposite way from the others, I guess.
"Kitsunes get even more in heat when they confirm their pregnancy, while dragons get in heat once again after they have laid their eggs. So you should be ready to receive a barrage of lust from her in a month".
I heard Haku mumble next to me, so close... she even made me yelp a bit. She was creeping ominously by my side with a smile.
"Something just happened, right, master?~ Ophis wasn't here a second ago".
"About that, something did happen... but it's okay, I can tell you later".
I pulled her wrist, making her fall on the bed with a yelp. I took her massive butt with my claw, bringing her closer to me, smelling her scent and resting my head on these huge boobs. Haku was left out of words. I lifted her leg and nestled my cock right between her thighs without actually putting it in.
"M-Master? Hannah is in the room..."
My proactiveness brought the shyness out of her, it is true, but I wasn't planning to do anything more. I just wanted to feel her, her belly, and our three babies growing inside it. I could feel her crest palpitate and do its work, converting the energy and sending it to her uterus for the babies to take.
"Shouldn't we start thinking about names?" I said, planting kisses along the underside of her breasts all the way down.
"Popop~ It tickles~" She mumbled, then pulled me up to head level and stole my lips. I enjoyed her kiss for a long time.
"I don't know about names, I will leave that to you, master... whatever names you want, that's what it will be. I am happy enough just giving birth~".
"Aren't you afraid? Giving birth hurts..."
"Can't you see how big my body is? My vagina is quite wide too. You don't have to worry, it will be a breeze for me. Do you want to check?~" She mumbled, sounding very confident.
"But what if our babies are big like you?"
"..."
The loss of her gaze and eventual pale skin told me she didn't think that far.
A droplet of sweat left her forehead, it's like she imagined three massive baby girls or baby boys coming out of her at the same time. I laughed... that was until I imagined those same three boys and girls playing around and bullying their much smaller siblings.
That's when I paled. Clearly, I didn't think that far either.
"S-Should we grab some tea for now? It makes no sense thinking about that so soon, master," She tried to play it cool, but I could tell she was panicking.
We covered Hannah in her bedsheets to let her sleep and dressed in yukata to go and have our tea. There was a lot on our minds.
We walked to the kitchen, and it was funny how Haku seemed to become more conscious of her height, hitting every doorframe since she was almost reaching the ceiling already just by standing up. And it was a far ceiling.
"Haku... have you been getting bigger?" I had to ask.
"Master, I swear I am still just eight feet tall! But I don't know why I feel taller," She cried with small tears.
She tried to shrink, but I shook my head, "Stay like that, I love you like that".
Hasshaku-sama pouted as I led her to the kitchen. Tsunade and Azrael were making not only tea, but they were also cooking dinner. There was a surprising amount of eel in there.
"Hannah?" She asked me when she saw both of us come.
"She's sleeping peacefully... I massaged her temples. She should be okay for now, but that's only a temporary measure" I mumbled, retracted Haku's seat like a gentleman, then took mine. The girls finished cooking a few minutes later and served dinner for us. Tsunade and Azrael sat in front.
They cooked ramen, a seafood hotpot, apparently a very common dish here.
"This is a homemade version, but we have a very famous restaurant in the village where I want to take you. It's also my nephew's favourite", Tsunade presented a spoon with cooked eel to me, and I ate it; it was delicious. I didn't even know she could cook.
"I didn't know you could cook, Tsuna".
I said her name shortened, she yelped a bit in embarrassment, but didn't tell me against it. She's going to be the mother of my child. I think we're beyond this, and gladly, she thinks so too.
"I don't know how to cook. But I described what I wanted to Azrael, and she could make it"
The Angel's wings fluttered, awaiting my compliment. I leaned forward on the table and pecked her lips.
"It's delicious, mommy~".
Her blush nearly exploded.
"It is my honour, my lord... please dig in and tell me if you want more", She said and had an idea, she presented her spoon too, trying to feed me as Tsunade had just done. Of course, I also ate hers.
The vibe at the table was very peaceful and happy, but we had an important topic to touch.
"Where is your nephew, by the way? Shouldn't he be coming?" I asked her since I understand she had her nephew move into this manor, and we have been going at it all day without even considering that.
"He's on a mission out of the village with his teacher; he should be coming tomorrow, I mean... later today" She had a mouthful of soup, "Hmn~ you don't have to worry... we have the house for ourselves until tomorrow morning at least, then I have to go work, Shizune will come pick me up, probably".
"Okay then", I said, ignoring the heat looks I got from them.
Allow me to translate: 'We can have more sex until tomorrow morning, no one will come disturb us'. Clearly, none of us is in the mood to sleep.
"What are your plans? You already had the girls checked up, that's what you came here for..." Tsunade asked.
"I came here to spend some time with you too, Tsun-tsun~"
I took it even farther. She blushed madly, gritting her teeth, but didn't lash out.
"Then are you going to stay longer?"
"Yes, I sent Albedo to do some investigations for me. About Akatsuki and about some deity called 'Jashin', in the meantime, we can wait for the Raikage here in Konoha. You're going to hold that Kage meeting, correct? Hopefully, Albedo will be back by then, and we can share a lot of information".
"Thank you".
"It's my job~".
"It's your job to capture Akatsuki?" She tilted her brows.
"It is my job as your husband to help you".
"You're just saying anything now", She said with a smile, but I felt her feet start rubbing me under the table.
I took some of the prawns and fed them to Haku, who took them with joy. I felt another set of feet rubbing me under the table, then a sidelong lusty glare from Azrael.
"My lord, don't you feel sleepy?" She asked me.
'Woman, do you want me to fall asleep just so you can fuck me...? You're into that kink too much'.
"Not really, we should play a bit more once the food settles" I knew once the food's finished, we're going to go right back at it, so I decided to ask Tsunade now.
"Is there anything you can tell me about Hannah?".
"I am not a psychologist. But given what I know about her... and what she went through. Something must have triggered her trauma, and when she saw you were not around to comfort her... she..."
"Used her powers..." I finished for her.
"What are those powers, master? I think it is about time you explain to us. Yasaka said they were dangerous" Haku inquired with interest; she hadn't personally seen the terror of it.
I looked at them solemnly before answering: "Her power is to over-write reality".
"Pardon...?" They all said in unison.
"What you heard. She can overwrite reality... among other things. For what I understand, if there is something happening that she doesn't like, she can redo it... Time would go back to right before that specific moment, and she won't stop doing it until she gets the result she wants, a very specific result. The problem is: I don't think she knows she has this power... and I don't think she's even conscious she's using it".
Manipulating time is very difficult. Kurumi, for example, is the greatest time-bender that I have seen. Her powers are ridiculous. But even she is unable to do what Hannah does. Kurumi can travel in frozen time; she can travel back in time HERSELF, and a variety of powers that surround time. But what she absolutely can't do is take time back.
But Hannah can... the physical implications of that power are just ridiculous. Much more so ridiculous for it to be done unconsciously. Today we realised that it wasn't even the limit of it.
"Now there is even another arista to her powers. It seems overwriting reality is not limited only to time control but also to space control. She could even come to me, travel to another universe... You all know how difficult that is".
They finally understood the seriousness of the situation.
Only Haku and I can use a transdimensional gate, with a humongous cost. In fact, only I can do it... just through therapy, I was able to give this power to her. The rest of the girls use pre-made spatial abilities that allow them to travel to the moonlight mist, and then from the moonlight mist, they can come to the worlds connected to it.
Hannah? Hannah doesn't give a fuck... she can travel between universes like she's jumping from one stone to the other on a shallow lake.
This level of control over time and space made it so that Hannah had already surpassed the level of a God before she even began to control them. It is like, rather than control the laws, she became one with them, and all of this is possible because of the Septem Diebus / Star Crafter.
"She needs training–" Tsunade concluded, but I broke up her naive thought.
"We don't have those powers, I don't have them, Elysir doesn't either... so at least the two of us can't" I said with a low sigh.
"Then she needs a guide. Someone to be there with her at all times and guide her into learning what her powers are and how to handle them responsibly," She continued, always looking for a solution.
"That's right, so I thought to have Katsuyu be with her, that's what I plan for now... but this matter needs to be addressed because Hannah could end up becoming a liability to herself and others".
"What was the explosion, my lord?" Azrael inquired, "Is there a destructive aspect to her powers?".
"To travel from one universe to the other, a lot of energy is required... She was capable of doing it, but not capable of doing it efficiently... hence the explosion, which is just the loss of energy she was unable to manage" I theorised, "But I'd say... in the worst case scenario, she should be able to deny someone's existence".
Let my words sink in the silence. Denying someone's existence may be something more destructive than just killing them. Whenever Hannah does her 'redo', it is only very strong individuals like Yasaka and me who manage to realise that something even happened.
If she became stronger and she denied the existence of Rias, to say example... we may just lose all our memories of Rias, like she never existed.
I didn't bother to tell them about Hannah being the spirit of the Septem Diebus, because those are concepts too complex for them that they don't need to know. But I did tell them my objective.
"There is something I have to tell you girls. It is something about Elysir and I, and where we are headed".
I didn't skip details and revealed the truth about Elysir, about me... about that other Elysir far into the many layers of the multiverse who is waiting for me and who plans to devour me.
They were confused at first, but then understood. When I told them the details of the plan, however.
*BANG!*
Tsunade straight out banged my foot under the table.
"You're a hopeless pervert. Impregnating her? Was that the best you could come up with!?" (Tsunade)
"As expected of master~" (Haku)
"My lord is wise, I can't see the margin of error" (Azrael)
'I mean... Aether approved of it...' I wanted to cry; she labelled my perfectly thought-out strategy as a pervert's ramblings.
"But you're not going to tell me it is a bad strategy, right?"
"I hate to say it, but it is not..." Tsunade sighed in exasperation. She's the strategist here; if she says that's a good plan, then we're certainly on a good course.
"Told ya~".
"And when is all this going to happen? How strong is she exactly?".
"No idea, but you can assume right now, as we are, all of us together won't be able to face her".
"... that's hard to imagine. As jealous as I may be, I have to admit your women are all very strong".
"Thanks".
"That's not a compliment".
"You don't need to think too far for now. I only wanted to tell you just so you're aware where I am heading and what my plans are. I just want to become stronger, that's all".
"Then will you promise me... once we have her with us, you will stop rushing into danger?" Tsunade held my hand.
I nodded with a smile, "I promise... my family is growing and I love you all. She's the only danger worth taking".
"Good", Tsunade stood up, exhaling a breath of relief, "All this conversation made me very tense... we only have a few hours left".
She pulled me up amidst the giggles of Haku and Azrael, who each took one of my arms.
"Eh? Wait, we're not setting up the mood or anything?" It was a bit lustful a second ago, but I feel that we kinda lost momentum.
Tsunade frowned. She spread her yukata open to show me her naked body underneath, enough to get me going. Then she took either side of my yukata, pulling it down and tearing it apart in the process.
!!!
"What mood? We're fucking... we don't need any mood. Besides, you have to nourish our bodies constantly, so hurry up and make your cock hard already".
"Yes, ma'am~".