Gem of Adaptability (Tg) Draft (Patreon)

“Hiiiiiyaaaa!” I cried out as I jumped out of the air, slashing my sword down on that hooded beastman and splitting his shield in half as he tried to block. Good, that was one annoying thing I didn’t have to worry about now.

“You little pest!” The wolfkin barked, flashing his teeth as he attempted to bite me, more out of instinct than strategy. A normal girl would probably be scared for her life facing down a huge and bulky guy like him as he is trying to bite down on her. But I had two distinct advantages.

I am not a normal girl, and I am not alone~

“Air Strike Shield!” Naofumi shouted and a huge ethereal shield appeared between me and the aggressor, making his jaw collide with what sounded like solid metal instead of my delicate body. Sorry man, but I am not yet ready to scar my beautiful body yet. Not that my Master, the Shield Hero, would let anything through anyway.

“Hiyaa!” I slashed yet again, launching his ax out of his hands and into a nearby tree, making the wolfkin stumble backwards as the gust of wind that followed my blad was rather strong. It even managed to pull back the hood he was wearing. So I pointed my sword at the throat of the sitting beastman and spoke. “You have lost. Give up. That’s what you get for attacking a hero out of the blue.”

“I won’t give up! I will never give up! I will claim the Shield Hero for us! You will see! Hehehe…” The beastman laughed, though it was a tired and exhausted laughter. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if the guy were to collapse any second now. Yet instead, he just muttered a bit more. “A wolfkin shield hero… Hehe… wouldn’t that be something… Hehehe…”

“Maaaaaster. Why is that guy acting so weird?” Filo asked in her usual childish voice as she and master Naofumi approached the defeated wolfkin.

“Heck, if I knew.” Master Naofumi replied, looking as stern as ever. “I thought the beast folk were supposed to be on my side, not suddenly attack me out of nowhere.”

“No! You will be on our side! You will see! The shield hero will belong to the beastkin!” Suddenly the aggressor swatted my blade away with his arm, cutting himself in the process before he stood up and dashed away. I was about to run after him, when Naofumi waved his hand and said. “Raphtalia, leave him. It’s not like we gain anything by chasing him now.”

“Understood, master.” And with that, my sword was sheathed again. Though I couldn’t help but look at the ground a little bit frustrated that this barbarian got away scoff free after that display of his. It really made me want to… “Oh? What's this?”

I leaned down to the place I had just held the wolf to reach for the sparkling thing I had just spotted. Looking closer, it looked like a gem shining softly from the grass, which really spoke to me for some reason. Maybe my maiden heart is just naturally drawn to beautiful jewelry, hehe~

“What is that?” Master Naofumi asked, having noticed me picking up the stone from the ground. Naturally I immediately showed him the stone I picked up from the ground just now. Though somehow, by the time I showed him, the color had already shifted from a deep gray to a brownish orange.

“I think it's a gem, but I could have sworn that it was gray just a second ago. What does your shield say about it?” I said as I handed my master the gemstone, and he immediately absorbed it into his shield. And after he waited for a short while and stared into nothingness, he replied. “It's called Gem of Adaptability, but other than that I didn’t get much. Guess it’s not a very valuable stone.”

“Do we know where it came from? I mean, it's likely that that wolfkin dropped it just… now…?” My voice drifted off as I looked a bit closer at master Naofumi in front of me. His shield was softly glowing in the same orange light the gem previously had and… was he shrinking? He must have been, since he was always taller than me by quite a bit…

Huh? Was he though? No, Naofumi had always been around my size, maybe a bit shorter. Why would I think he was that tall? Ugh… that light is really making me a bit dizzy.

“Raphtalia, you okay?” Master asked out of kindness, though my head was still occupied with the weirdness happening to Naofumi that I am now fairly certain I was just imagining. For example, I am just now seeing his handsome face morph right in front of my eyes, becoming cuter and sexier by the second. But, lets be real, if his face was really changing, surely I, as the one who knows the master best, would be able to point out the differences before and after.

But I can not, because he clearly looks the same, so there should be no need to worry about it.

“I am fine. Just a little bit under the weather I guess. No need to worry about me.” As casually as I could I denied that anything was wrong, even though I could already tell that my eyes were already playing the next weird trick on me.

It was about his hips. They were expanding in front of my very eyes and I had front row seats to stare at his beautiful behind when he turned around to talk to Filo. I literally couldn’t concentrate on anything at that moment. It was like my eyes started to focus in on his ass, by the way it filled more and more of my vision. I could even see the outline of his juicy behind through his armor more clearly by the second.

Help! What is a maiden to do in this situatiooooooon?!?

“Raphtalia!”

“Y-Y-Yes?!?”

“We are going to take a short break around here. Don’t worry, I’ll play the wife today and cook something for us all.”

W-Wife?!? Why did she just…? Wait. No, that's normal… hmm… That's strange, I could have sworn that mistress Naofumi had been a boy until just a second ago, but she clearly isn’t. I mean, I have been calling her mistress since… since… What…? Why is my memory of that so fuzzy?

“Hey Raphtalia, could you do me a favor?” Naofumi spoke, which almost slipped past my awareness since I was so out of it. “If you space out, could you please make it a bit less obvious that you are staring at my boobs.”

Her b-boobs? Oh no, I really have been staring at her chest, now haven’t I. Thankfully there isn’t much there or otherwise I might… Oh no, it's happening again. They are expanding! I know it! This isn’t just in my mind! I can see her armor deforming, like it was making space for the two enormous mounds. There is no way she had like triple the cup size than my own before this… right? She couldn’t have been this big. RIGHT?

Damn it, I am getting jealous again. No, she surely had those enormous breasts ever since she grew up and she just dwarfed me in every way whenever we compared. I mean, her ass is ridiculously huge and her breasts are the stuff of legends. And I mean, I should know all about it…

“Darling~ Are you coming?” Mistress Naofumi called out, snapping me out of my stupor immediately and threw me right into the next. D-D-Darling?!? Why does she call me like that in the middle of broad daylight? I mean, we have been a couple ever since we were children back at home, but that didn’t mean…

“Aha! Time for an ambush! HUUUURYYYAAA!!!” The wolfkin from before jumped out from behind a tree and stormed towards me. He was fast and my mind was shaken up, I knew I couldn't draw my sword in time…

Clank

“Raphtalia! Darling! Are you alright?!? Get yourself together!” Mistress Naofumi commanded, intercepting the attack with her shield as I continued to stare in awe at her sheer magnificents.

I could have sworn I heard a ‘plop’ sound coming from her ears, though when I looked I once again saw nothing wrong with them. She had the same ears as always, the same ears as me…

Wait, there it was again! This time from her tail! No, even her tail is completely the same as before. Come on, Raphtalia! You got to pull yourself together! Just because your mistress and lover is the most beautiful, buxomous, voluptuous and sexy raccoon girl the world has ever seen, doesn’t mean you can slack off in the middle of battle!

“Your efforts are meaningless! I have the power of a jewel that can turn anyone into my perfect wife! So don’t get too attached to your raccoon hero! She shall become a wolf kin hero from this day forward!” The wolfkin shouted, though his words completely snapped me out of everything.

“Naofumi is MY wife and MY wife only! I will not let a filthy barbarian like you touch her!” I shouted and dashed at him, sword drawn, ready to fight. Naofumi is beautiful the way she is, so even if that wolf theoretically had this power he was claiming off, there was no way that I would ever let something like that happen.

After all, she was a treasure that was so incredibly worth fighting for~

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“I heard there was a magic crystal found recently and that the shield hero was after it again.”

“Really? What sort of powers does it hold?”

“I heard that whoever holds it is guaranteed to find his perfect wife in life.”

“Oh man… Of course that guy gets it first… I hope he chokes on it!”