Chapter 139 – Tails and Mei’s Vow

Chapter 139 – Tails and Mei’s Vow

Aiko breathed in and breathed out. She was concentrating on her tails, but no matter what she tried she could not clearly imagine them in her mind.

She tried to caress her tails, but her own fluff was blocking her investigation.

'Should I shave my tails?' Aiko thought. That would solve her issues about not being able to imagine her tails.

She went to Mei to ask about this.

"Are you crazy?!" Mei suddenly yelped.

Aiko flinched. "Well, I can't imagine my tails, so I need to know how they look." Aiko defended herself against that piercing gaze.

"Rejected!" Mei slammed her fist on a nearby table.

"But-" Aiko wanted more tails.

"No! You have Divine Sense or we will shave someone else's, but not your tails!" Mei stated clearly.

"Divine Sense?" Aiko asked, she couldn't move her Divine Sense so she couldn't use it.

"Divine Sense is not just for moving things, you can also investigate, or rather the investigation is the main thing for Divine Sense, while the manipulation is secondary." Mei shook her head.

"Oh..." Aiko did not know that, she thought that Divine Sense was just for moving things.

Seeing Aiko's expression Mei massaged her temples. "It's time for you to learn all the common sense!" It was now decided that Aiko would go into a cram school, with a ruthless teacher called Mei.

...

15 weeks later. Aiko finished her course with a painful expression.

"I have only taught you the basics, why are you making that expression." Mei stared at Aiko oddly.

'You wouldn't understand...' Aiko shook her head and looked at the translucent panel.

[Happy Birthday!]

[You are now 8 years old!]

[Please choose a gift:]

[1. Meat - 800]

[2. - ]

[3. Stat and Skill Points - 800]

[4. Surprise - Surprise]

'Why is the second option nothing?' Aiko couldn't understand.

Aiko tapped her fingers on her leg, she was deeply bothered by this, but she didn't know how to ask or express herself since the system wasn't always listening.

'Should I go for the Surprise option?' Aiko narrowed her eyes, but at the last second, she picked the first option.

[Meat x985->1,785]

'I still don't know what was the previous Surprise from the system.' Aiko frowned.

She sighed, it was time for more tails since she had finished this hellish course...

'Maybe later, I don't want to do anything...' Aiko staggered into the bed called Mei's Tails and slept peacefully.

Mei's lips twitched. She did not expect this to happen, but she thought that Aiko would at least give her a chance to move from her current place.

She was so wrong and now she had to sit next to the table since Aiko had a very bad habit...

'She would always bite me when I tried to move my tails.' Mei sighed. She almost messed up her Pill Concoction because of this.

'Seriously this little rascal...' Mei shook her head.

...

Aiko yawned and looked through the shop. Since she could use Divine Sense to spot things and she needed it for Alchemy too, she might as well find something in the shop to help her.

[Improved Divine Sense] - 1,000,000,000 Skill Points

[Strengthened Divine Sense] - 1,000,000 Skill Points

'...' Aiko stared at it blankly. She still had one [Ability Coupon], but she didn't want to use it on this. She knew that she could improve her Divine Sense over time, so she didn't want to waste those precious items.

She was deeply bothered and unsettled. It was time to create some Inscriptions.

'I should finish that Massage Chair for us...' Aiko thought. 'I have not tried it yet...' Aiko cried out in her mind. She vowed to absolutely try the Massage Chair once it's built!

...

66 weeks passed. Aiko was pretty much in a trance working on the Chair so that she couldn't think about the Cultivation Shop and the stinky System.

Now she just required a few weeks before she finished this and 9 weeks later it was fully assembled.

Aiko was startled, but curious.

More and more eyes appeared.

Aiko felt a shiver down her spine, she cancelled her Divine Sense.

But it was a moment too late.

A large eye opened, compared to the other eyes, this one was 100x bigger.

The eye was cold and merciless.

Aiko flinched, she felt intense pain in her mind and she closed all her senses.

She was unaware that the largest eye widened even more and a barely noticeable tear slid down its corners.

...

Mei noticed that abnormality a moment too late. She didn't expect that anything could happen to Aiko in a what should have been a safe environment.

She moved closer to Aiko to lay her down, but Aiko's whole body was convulsing...?!

Mei gulped nervously and used her powerful Divine Sense to wrap around Aiko.

Aiko's still half-feral Divine Sense was rampaging. It was clearly terrified of something, yet Mei didn't understand what it was, since there was only Aiko's and Mei's Divine Sense in here.

She wrapped her Divine Sense around Aiko's.

Mei panicked greatly, there was a deep hole in Aiko's Divine Sense. She probed it and found a completely destroyed Soul Palace.

Inside the Soul Palace Aiko was rolled into a ball, shivering and crying.

'It hurts, it hurts.' Aiko cried out continuously.

Mei strengthened her Divine Sense to subdue the animalistic Divine Sense.

She felt the backlash, a trickle of blood escaped her lips, but she pushed forward until Aiko's Divine Sense calmed down, so that it would no longer hurt her.

Aiko settled down, still sobbing, but no longer crying out.

Mei moved close to Aiko, now that Aiko's Divine Sense was pacified.

'It's alright.' Mei grasped Aiko close to her.

Aiko was still shivering, exposed to the outside world.

Mei soothed her mind gently, until Aiko's mind fell asleep on Mei's bosom with peaceful expression.

Mei sighed. Wiping the trickle of blood. She was upset at Aiko ogling her body, but at the same time happy that it was able to put her to sleep.

Mei's mind was complicated.

Not just because of Aiko, but about many things. She wondered if she had changed her ways before, would she have ended up with him like this? Hand to hand, sharing fortune and misfortune?

But it was useless to think about those things... her faction was destroyed...

That was the message from that shitty Fox.

At first, Mei didn't believe it, but over time it became more and more obvious that was the case.

'They would've picked me up already if my faction was still standing...' Mei sighed. She had to face reality...

Mei looked down at Aiko. She was sleeping peacefully, nuzzled into her bosom and drooling on her.

Mei blushed lightly, it was not bad when someone was affectionate towards her. Aiko was both affectionate and obedient, which made Mei happy, very happy.

Aiko was easy to read, she knew when Aiko was upset or happy. This was much better than her previous boy-toy who hid his feelings and she had to do her best to please him so that he would stay with her.

She didn't need to do that any more. She could just read Aiko's expression.

Mei... liked this life. Any regret from losing her people was washed away by the affection Aiko was giving her.

'Even if it's one-sided affection where I play with her... It's alright as long as she doesn't push me away.' Mei smiled melancholically. She wouldn't allow Aiko to leave her side. She would protect her and pamper her, but without hurting her progression.

It was decided by Aiko that she would be her Karmic Companion. So they should act as one...

But not yet, there are still more things to do...