Dungeons and Devils (Chapter 22) (Patreon)

I look to the two women sat across from me, Ravel's mother has a content and slightly pleased smile on her face while Ravel is a blushing mess.

My eyes slide over to Rosaline, lingering on her chest for a moment before looking up to meet her eyes. "So. What's your game here?"

She seems to preen at the fact that I am not so subtly ogling them both. "Game? I do not understand what you mean by that?"

"Why'd you force your daughter to get naked and hop in the tub with me?" I ask while gesturing at the girl in question with my thumb.

"She... didn't force me." The short blonde protests weakly, trying to drag her eyes away from me.

"So... you wanted to get naked with me?" I ask with a small teasing grin.

The girl pauses. "W-Well when you put it l-like that, I-I sound like a bit of a pervert, don't I?"

"Eh." I shrug. "You are highly attractive, so I don't mind if you perv on me too much. If fact, if you ever want to do this again, I'd be all for it."

"R-Really?" She asks.

"Of course." I smile. "We are going to be getting married eventually, right? We'd be doing this sort of stuff all the time, right? But who says we need to wait until then to start?"

"I-I guess you are right."

I glance over to Ravel's mother to see her slightly closer to me than she was before.

She has been doing this for most of the time she has been in here. Inching closer and closer, hoping I won't notice.

That's not very pressing at the moment, what is, is the fact that Ravel's eyes keep getting drawn to the water, or rather, what's beneath the water.

"See something you like?" I ask with a knowing smirk.

Ravel's vision snaps to the wall as her smile falters. "I-I suppose."

"I know I am." Ravel's mother intones with a sultry smile. "You are pretty... large."

"Of course, I am." I huff as I cross my arms. "I'm sitting within arm's reach of two extremely attractive, very naked women. It's a natural reaction."

"I've heard that it's not good for you to leave it like that, so perhaps I could... relieve you?" Ravel's absolutely thirsty mother begins.

"M-Mother?!" Ravel exclaims.

"As fun as that sounds, I regret to inform you that I cannot lose my virginity unless I just to happen to be taking hers." I state with a blank frown as I gesture to Ravel, the girl flinches back briefly at how close my hand brushes to her chest without touching.

As I turn back to Ravel's mother, I notice the younger girl shimmy quite a bit closer to me, almost protectively.

"Firstly, that part of the contract was dissolved by the devil council for being a poorly hidden attempt of bloodline suppression which, was only in the contract due to numerous bribes, secondly... there are quite a few ways I can relieve you without going all the way, and thirdly, we are yours, I am your concubine, and Ravel is married to you in all but ceremony, why shouldn't you use us as you want?"

Ravel pouts, now right next to me, her mother on my other side. "M-Mother, I think you might just be a bit too forwards."

"Oh? You are being quite protective, my dear, perhaps you want to help him with his problem?"

"W-Well." The girl begins with a frown.

"Stop forcing your daughter to do things she doesn't want to." I deadpan with an amused huff.

"She isn't forcing me!" My fiancée cutely denies with a pout.

"Is that right?" I ask with a slightly coy smile.

I wrap my arms around the both of them suddenly and pull them close while groping their breasts, causing Ravel to let out a cute 'Eep' and for her mother's smile to grow. "So, how exactly are you going to relieve me?"

"U-Uh" The girl blinks.

"Don't worry, Ravel, I'll teach you." Said girl's mother hums.

She reaches over and grabs the drill-haired girl's wrist, slowly guiding her hand to my crotch.

"You just need to gently grab it." Rosaline continues. "Then you need to-"

"Master."

Virgo's voice echoes throughout the room just as Ravel's fingers wrap around my member.

"Serafall Leviathan is here to see you."

"Ffffffffffffffuuuuhhhh." I quietly seethe, turning my swiftly approaching 'FUCK' into a mere sound of displeasure.

I let out a long sigh and hold up a hand to the ceiling then channel some demonic power.

A glyph shaped vaguely like a speaker with several sound waves lights up. "Tell her I'll be down shortly."

The glyph fades as I stop channeling demonic power into it.

"As you wish."

I look to the two women still pressing up against my body as Ravel releases me with a crimson blush that steadily creeps down her neck. "Well, this is not the result I wanted. Ah well."

I get up slowly after giving their chests a final squeeze and step out of the tub. "Another time, perhaps."

My body is dried with a simple casting of prestidigitation, then clothing appears on my body in the next moment.

I look back and nod my head. "I'll see both of you later, then."

I leave the bathroom while growling under my breath. "Fucking universe. Gotta pull out all the fucking stops to cock block me?"

I enter my bedroom, then leave through the door and enter the hallway. I calmly make my way to the foyer and pause atop the balcony.

"Ah, Serafall, it's good to see you again." I smile as enter the room, I see the woman down below, it's quite a way down, so I take a step atop the banister and slide down, hopping off at the last moment and landing just before the Satan.

I notice that she is pouting with narrowed eyes.

"Ah, right, Sera-Tan." I correct, causing the extremely powerful woman's pout to disappear. "So, what brings you here, Sera-Tan?"

"Can I not visit my adorable little Gai-Tan?" She asks rhetorically.

"Well, I mean, you can, but like, haven't you been really busy recently?" I ask.

The girl pouts, probably annoyed at me reminding her of her work. "It's not my fault that the church gets really annoying around Christmas! Plus, there was the Phenex Debacle"

Ah yes. Christmas. A time when devils of all ages come together... to cower in hell because of Christmas carolers, constant god-based songs on the radio, and dozens of children shows showing how baby Jesus was born... its legitimately just a targeted attack on devils.

"Christmas was... four months ago?" I blink.

"I've only recently managed to clean that mess up." The magical girl frowns.

"oooo-kay?" I blink, noting that if it took Serafall months to clean it up, it must have been an incident of massive proportions, but she was sort of distracted by me quite a bit, so I sort of understand perhaps the church was even worse this year because of Diodora. "So, you are just here to hang out?"

She bashfully scratches the back of her head and gives me a slightly impish smile. "Er... not exactly."

"My adorable So-Tan's birthday is coming up soon."

I give her a deadpan stare. "In four months."

"And well," Serafall continues as if I hadn't said anything. "I want the best for her! I want to give her the best cake, the best presents, and the best everything! I have the presents covered, but I don't have delectable food that will knock her socks off! Or her clothes... preferably clothes... *Ahem* then I thought of you, Gai-Tan! You and your garden! Do you have amazing deserts that will match the majesty of So-Tan"

I let out a low click and sigh. "Alright, I guess we are doing this now, then."

I snap my fingers, causing a magic circle to light up beneath us. "Let's go have a look, then."

Speaking of birthdays... Rais' is in like six days. This coming Sunday in fact. I still haven't decided what I want to give her. Hn. Perhaps a few white apples? Oh, and I'll even give her a single fertile white apple seed. That's probably a bit more reasonable.

We reappear in my distant basement with a dull flash.

I glance around with a small frown.

I got cockblocked for something happening in four months. What joy.

Valerie is laying in the magic circle like always, a Gameboy in her hands.

The girl blinks slowly and looks over.

"Hi Valerie." I wave.

She gives a light wave back. "Hi Gaius."

"Who's this?" Serafall mutters as she looks over to the girl.

"My Queen, Valerie Tepes."

"Tepes?" Serafall asks with a frown. "Are you sure it was a wise idea to revive her? The vampire clans are always talking about blood purity. You might have angered them by turning a noble vampire of the Tepes clan into a devil."

"There's a couple things wrong with that statement... firstly, she is a Dhampir. Secondly she is a woman." I answer. "For the Tepes faction, either one of those make you second class citizens. But for both?"

I allow my voice to die out slowly.

"He's right." Valerie nods. "I was lucky they didn't kill me. The only reason I'm still alive is the fact that they were probably thinking about stealing my sacred gear."

"Ah, also her sacred gear. It scares me. So, I'd rather have it on hand than let someone else have it or force her to use it. Enough so that I'd risk angering the Vampire faction to revive her." I continue. "So, when I saw her half dead and surrounded by vampires, I took the opportunity to kidnap her."

"…" Serafall blinks at me owlishly.

"Er... Free her." I explain. "It's practically kidnapping, but she wanted it."

"I did want it." Valerie adds in with another nod.

"Her sacred gear... scares you?" Serafall blinks. "I've seen you stare down multiple high class previous exorcists actively trying to murder you without even blinking."

My smile grows slightly. "Don't worry about it. That's all in the past, no? I can't exactly un-turn her into a devil, can I? The vampire faction probably even assumes she's dead."

"I'd rather they did." Valerie agrees. "Living in the basement like this... admittedly... isn't that much different than my previous life, but here I have far more freedom. I can speak with one of my old friends freely, I can think without any haze clouding my mind, and if I ever want something sweet, I can enter Gaius' garden and eat to my heart's content! Plus Gaius actually lets me outside when I ask for it."

Serafall lets out a quiet sigh. "On one hand, Gaius, as the head of foreign affairs, I should reprimand you for prodding the vampire factions, as they are extremely annoying to deal with, and would more than likely ask for some form of ridiculous compensation if they knew what you did, as a devil, I'm pleased you managed to turn something like this to your sole advantage, and as Sera-tan I'm happy my little Gai-tan got an adorable queen with a Longinus and that you're both happy with your circumstances!"

'Well, she figured out Valerie had a Longinus really quickly. I didn't exactly make it that hard to figure out, I suppose, plus she probably sensed Valerie's aura. Wait... don't I have an aura? Why hasn't anyone commented on that?'

'Temporary Partner, you haven't had the boosted gear long enough to have that sort of aura yet. Most wielders have it since the day they are born, and it takes years to mature. Don't you think that cradle snatching would be far more common if you could determine sacred gears on birth? You actually do have an aura, though, but it's more or less hidden by the feelings your clan traits give off. I'd suspect that it'd take a few more years for our bond to strengthen enough for you to emit that sort of aura. And even then, they'd probably assume it's something like a twice critical.'

"Now." I continue. "Didn't you want to see my garden for some things for Sona's birthday party?"

"Oh right!" The magical girl cheers as she skips towards the biotope.

I wave to Valerie, who waves back, then swiftly follow the satan.

She hurls open the adamantine alloy doors and skips inside.

"Let's see! Let's see!" She cheers. "uh, I'll be wanting some black grass for the salad bar... hmmmm."

"Hmmmm." She seems to be thinking extremely hard about this.

"Serafall, just tell me what you want, and I'll see if we have anything like that." I sigh.

"I want to get her the BEST cake! And I want drinks! And I want chips! And I want salad! And I want the best Appetizers!"

"Okay... let's start with the main thing... a cake. Please follow me."

The satan follows after me as we take the twisting pathways across the large underground base, eventually the temperature drops, we steadily make our way up to a large tree and pause just before it as the path curves up the underground mountain.

I gesture to the large tree, and by large, I mean redwood size. Its bark is a soft light brown color, and the leaves far up above are a deep vibrant green with snow atop them "I present to you the Sweet Dew tree."

I float by casting the pathfinder fly spell and fly up to the tree with a butter knife, I stab it into the bark easily, then cut out a cube. I pull the cube out and watch at the squishy insides of the tree quickly knit back together and fill out the spot I just cut out.

I float back to Serafall as I plate the spongey wood with a silver plate I had in my spatial storage

I give her a fork. "Here you go, this tree should be what you're looking for. The inside of a Sweet Dew tree is like a fluffy sponge cake, and the bark is like fondant"

Serafall takes a bite and gasps, eyes wide. "WOOOOAH GAI-TAN! This is great!"

She swiftly finishes the rest of the small piece. "That was amazing!"

She cups her chin and tilts her head. "One of the best cakes I have ever eaten... and so simple to grab... but it's not at that 'blow So-Tan's clothes off' level, yet."

"You do realize that boys will be at this party, right?" I ask slowly with a look of confusion on my face. "Do you seriously want your precious Sona's naked body to be burnt into the memories of every single boy her age?"

She gasps in horror. "My gosh! Gai-Tan! You're right! I won't invite any other boys! Only you, Gai-Tan! Only you and I shall have the pleasure of burning the image of her sexy naked body into our minds!"

I rub my forehead at her eccentric personality. "It might be better if we had icing."

*GASP*

"Please follow me." I sigh.

We descend down the small snow-covered mountain, the temperature instantly spiking upwards after we leave the threshold of a small picketed fence.

We pass through fields of numerous plants.

I gesture to the side. "While we are on the way I can point out some appetizers if you want. I've got Nugget Poppies, Clover Cheeseburgers, a few string cheese plants."

"Hn... no thank you. They smell nice, but... those don't really fit a birthday, do they?"

"That's true." I shrug. "In that case."

I gesture to the other side where there's several large trees with dozens upon dozens of fruits hanging from them. "White Apple trees. You can make tarts, cider, pies."

With a wave of my hand, a ghostly hand appears and picks an apple off the tree and brings it towards us, these apples are quite a bit larger than normal.

Serafall takes a bite of it and blinks, letting out a low hum. "Mhh! I'll take some of these as well!"

"Alright." I slowly nod.

She pauses abruptly and smells the air. "Vanilla?"

"That in fact is the item I was walking us to. A fruit which could be made into possibly the greatest vanilla icing, and hell, maybe even garnish the cake."

I gesture to a singular solid hot pink tree in the distance, on it is three heart shaped fruits. "The Vanilove tree."

The fruit is snagged from the tree as she drops the apple, I silently remove the apple and utterly destroy it as the ghostly hand floats the large heart shaped fruit closer and closer.

Hoo boy, it's a little pungent, actually.

The smell of vanilla will probably linger on both of us for at least a couple of days.

She carefully takes the fruit with wide eyes.

She looks back slowly and takes a bite.

Serafall stands there with wide eyes, her energy briefly runs out of control.

*Riiiip*

Her magical girl outfit detonates, her now bare breasts jiggling slightly.

She doesn't even seem to care as she takes another bite, then another and another.

She eats the fruit in under a minute which is a little astounding as it is larger than her head.

I take the time to look over every single part of her body with a small smile.

She turns around and looks at me, tears falling from her eyes as she lets out a quiet sniffle. "G-Gaaaai-taaaaaan"

She lunges forwards and wraps her arms around me, pushing my face into her breasts as I am tackled to the ground.

She begins absolutely bawling as she straddles me. "I-It- t-that! That's just what I needed! That was the greatest thing I-I've ever tasted! This'll blow off So-Tan's clothes for sure! T-This means so much to me Gai-Tan!"

"Y-You're welcome." I answer as I pull my head back slightly, freeing it from her cleavage which was slowly suffocating me.

She leans back, getting into a sitting position as she straddles my waist, she wipes her tears of joy and lets out a sniffle. "I-It just really means a lot to me... and that was so good it brought me to tears!"

The bulge in my pants prods her slit causing her to flinch and peer down at me.

She seems to realize just how suggestive this is and rapidly wipes her eyes.

"My My, Gai-Tan, do you wish to do lewd things with me or something?" She asks with a slightly sly smile as she leans forwards, swaying her breasts inches from my face.

"Oh. Absolutely." I nod. "I totally have a crush on you, Sera-Tan."

"Eh?" The girl blinks owlishly.

"I mean, how could I not, you helped me when no one else would, you're pretty, you're fun to be around, and I enjoy spending time with you!"

The woman suddenly frowns as stands up, clothing appearing on her body with a flash as she crosses her arms across her bust, looking a little conflicted. "Er... Gai-Tan... I know you are probably thinking about asking me to marry you or something, but... I don't think I can. As the Leviathan, I have a lot of responsibilities, I have an image to uphold."

I raise an eyebrow as I sit up.

"Er- rather, the image of power, at least. Not... many families know about you, despite your actions as they have been mostly downplayed due to your request, and I think marrying me would just cause you more trouble than it's worth. People would see you as my weakness.  they'd target you, and, well, I don't know if I could handle my close people being hurt."

"But isn't Sona at risk of this at all times?" I ask as I slowly stand, brushing myself off.

"Family... is a little different. You can't choose that. People know I care for my family, but the main difference is, that if I married you, people would see me as choosing you. As favoring you. You would be held to ridiculous standards, devils of all ages, old and young, would wondering how this seemingly unknown devil won my heart, why he is better than them, and... that would cause you suffering Gai-Tan! I don't want you to suffer. You are incredibly powerful, Gai-Tan, but I don't know if you could survive the onslaught of hundreds of jealous clan heirs, lords, and experienced devils. There's a difference between sister of the Leviathan, and husband of the Leviathan."

I give her a slow blink. "So, what you are saying... is that if I can prove I am strong enough to stand beside you... you'll marry me?"

She seems to think about it for a moment. "Mmnnnn maybe."

She shakes her head and pouts, her suddenly serious tone evaporating. "Gai-Taaaan I thought I told you that I was saving my body for So-Tan."

"Aww." I return the pout. "Sera-Tan is so heartless, she shows up and cockblocks me, then strips her clothes off and straddles me... Then she teases me when I get aroused and denies my heartfelt confession!"

I give a small false sniffle as I turn away. "Why are you so mean."

"I'm sorry for being so mean!" She sobs as she practically clambers onto my back in the way she hugs me from behind, definitely bantering at this point. "Sera-Tan's so sorry- wait... cockblocked?"

She peers around my shoulder. "What do you mean by that? Is someone threatening my Gai-Tan's Chastity?"

"Oh yeah. It was, you know, my soon to be wife. It was getting a little steamy in the bathroom with Ravel and her mom, but you called me out before we could do anything fun. That's why I was a little annoyed at you. But seeing you naked and having you grind on me made me forgive you."

"Never change, Gai-Tan." The Satan smiles as she pats the top of my head... despite the fact that I am taller than her.

She looks away and mutters quietly, almost too quietly for me to hear. "I never would have thought little Ravel had it in her. Hn."

"So are we going to continue looking for snack food for Sona's party? Hn... I feel that after tasting the vanilove fruit your taste buds may be a little comprimised for a while, though."

She smacks her lips and tilts her head. "Hn, yeah, all I taste is vanilla."

"I've got some palate cleansing ginger around here if you want it. It should erase the taste of food." I shrug.

"Mnnn no I like this taste! Do you think if we kissed, you'd taste it too?" She asks.

"Okay, now you are actively taunting me." I deadpan.

"Hehe."