[26] Dates and Gods

[26] Dates and Gods

Chapter 26: Dates and Gods

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I had a day off and the day after, too, as it was Sunday. The day after that, I didn't have school because I had a shooting in the early morning.

Mem-Cho and Black Hanekawa healed me well, but I still had to stabilize my body; so I decided to do exactly that before the shoot.

Mem-Cho stayed almost the entire day in our house, but I wasn't there to see her. I left my house and leaped into the sky. I began to cultivate within some storm clouds. I could finally do this now that I could fly.

– Crack! Rumble.

My Qi was causing the clouds around me to roar in rage. It helped my speed a bit. Unfortunately, no matter how much I try in the normal way, it will take a long time for me to advance. It would have taken at least two months before I could advance again, to begin with. But after this ordeal, that could take a year or more. That's a year of wait I was too impatient to go through.

"What should I do..."

With my eyes closed and sitting in a lotus position, I murmured. I really needed to find a way to speed up my progress. Being in the middle ladder of a world was not fun, and sadly that was the part of power I was right now.

"Well, it's not like there is no way."

Yes, there sure was. I wouldn't usually choose this way, it's not my current style, but things have come this far, but I have already kind of done it halfway through. So why not go all the way?

Problem is... "How do I approach this?"

While pondering over this, the night came. I stabilized my body off everything I went through yesterday. This didn't return the cultivation I had lost, obviously, but my foundation was safe.

I opened my eyes.

The stabilization left me with a clear mind that let me decide the next course of actions. I admit, I couldn't go at this slow speed. The Mana in the air was not thin but it wasn't very thick either. Time was important, so I needed to be fast.

Alright. Fine.

"...I did lead Tsubasa by her nose and made her feelings for me concrete. It would be a waste to not use this chance, to not use her to grow stronger faster."

To be more precise, with the help of Black Hanekawa, my cultivation speed will grow. There was a slight issue though, I couldn't do things with Hanekawa without Tsubasa's cooperation since they're sharing a body and all. So before I could do this, I first had to win over Tsubasa completely. I had to take her to the bed by her own will.

The Bouchujutsu; the Bedroom Method. In this world, that technique was only used to heal people, as what happened to me. But in many of the other worlds I know, it can do a lot more. Indeed, I am talking about the infamous Dual Cultivation method.

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Mem-Cho left, the day ended. When the next day came, my entire family decided to go on a tour as it was Sunday. Well, it was just the three adults, Ruby, I, and Tsubasa who were left behind.

Ruby was diligently training in this free time of hers, while Tsubasa was in her home. She was home alone, which was just perfect for me.

So, I left my house and went to the house just beside ours. I greeted the guard at the gate and entered, waking into a peculiar scene.

"A-aqua?!"

I stood in front of Tsubasa who just walked out of the shower, wrapped in a white towel with her wet hair falling down to her waist.

She jumped back a few meters, hitting the wall. From her shock, it seemed she was intending for a few steps only, but her new strength was too unfamiliar to her to know.

"W-what are you doing here, Aqua?!" She yelled as she held her hands over her chest, which was always covered with a towel.

Alright. It's Sunday, and our family was out, Ruby was in her room. I happened to have something to talk to with Tsubasa, and she just happened to walk out of the shower. Purely a coincidence.

"Hey uh," I waved a hand at her. "I came here to check up on you. I wasn't here the entire day yesterday, so I didn't get a proper chance to ask how you're doing."

"Too bad, looks like you'll have to dunk school tomorrow."

She looked up at me, her eyes pleading. It looked like she didn't want to do it, as she opened her mouth to protest. "I can't do that, and you know it. I am the Class Rep, you know? I can't miss a day for such a..."

"Silly reason?"

"I didn't say that."

"I'd have been hurt if you did."

"...."

She looked away for a moment and then looked up at me again. She didn't say anything though, so I had to ask again. She really likes the other person to take the lead, huh?

"So, will you make time?"

"...I will." She nodded slowly.

I smiled, and almost per qué said, "Good. Good girl."

The good girl part wasn't entirely intended, but I felt her body shiver a little when I said that. So it was as I suspected. Well, she's an orphan, the orphanage held control over her life, and even after being adopted she was kept on high watch thanks to the kind of family she was living with. With that context, perhaps some masochism is normal. Then, while she at least knew her mom's name and had her photos, she had nothing on her father. So maybe some daddy issues too. It was a nice package, I liked it.

When I began to loosen my arms around her, implying that I'll go now, she looked up at me expectantly and regretfully. I didn't allow her regret to register, leaning over to give her what she expected.

My mouth neared hers and her lips parted. She closed her eyes and accepted me, as I entangled myself in a passionate kiss with her, that I had to end all too early. Tsubasa was delicious.

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[Third Person Point of View]

"Xihuitl was killed, my lord. We thought it may have been Jaguar Warrior who did that, but he too was killed. Their bodies are unfound; the culprit is unknown."

Quetzalcoatl sat on her throne, dressed in an elaborate Aztec dress and headdress. Just like how her outfit was serious unlike last time, her expression was too. She wore a dark frown as she heard the report recited by a servant kneeling in front of the throne.

"Was it the devils? Or angels? Do we know that much at least?" After a short silence, she asked.

"It's neither of them," the kneeling servant said. "There were signs of Ki and normal Mana in the vicinity, so it may have been a Yokai and a Human Mage. It was a group."

Did they group up on him and Xihuitl? It made sense to her now. There was no way for the Jaguar Warrior to lose to a no-name. Quetzalcoatl would have bet on Jaguar Man even if he was against Rias Gremory, who had the Power of Destruction at her fingertips. So no way he lost to a single individual whom they haven't heard of before.

"Strange." she leaned against her fist, her eyes looking into the distance. "A pity that he had to go this way, I was planning to use him a bit more. Let Tezcatlipoca know that Jaguar Warrior is dead, and tell her to prepare a funeral for him who was once her strongest Avatar. Prepare a funeral for Xihuitl in our place, too."

The servant lowered his head further, it was a nod. Quetzalcoatl had a feeling that this culprit was the same one who held the Treasure of Xolotl currently, it was a simple divine intuition. So she added one last line,

"And make sure to find whoever did this. I am curious if the Yokai Faction is daring to bare their fangs against the real beasts."

Were the Yokais holding onto the box? The heaven shivered process as her beautiful lips stretched, revealing rows of sharp teeth under. Her green eyes held a bright glint in them, like the brilliant light of Venus before the sun's rise.

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