Their fight waged on for nearly ten minutes, filling the room with thick sword marks and the dark red blood from Zell's body.
"Haa... What a superb woman... Hah...!"
"Oh my, I am happy for such a wonderful compliment from such a superior male! You are amazing yourself! How are you not dead?"
His body was filled with blade wounds, neither too big nor small.
This woman was vicious yet seemed innocent and kind; all her attacks were intent on killing him.
However, he still smiled as the demonic black from his eyes faded, replaced with his pure crimson eyes that stared at this woman in awe and attraction.
He didn't understand why he felt this strange feeling, but maybe it could be linked to losing his mother, and this mature woman just managed to slot into an open place that sought another "mother" to take the position.
It's just this mother he found attractive sexually.
"Shall we call it here, my little son-in-law? I am a little busy and need to take this ungrateful girl and train her further. It seems she entered the game, thanks to you?"
Alizée slowly walked towards her daughter before picking her up with one arm as she hung like a new rug, still sleeping with an inelegant snore.
"Well, I didn't want her to die or get hurt..."
Before he finished, Alizée gave him a knowing smile and moved closer to him with her perfect gait and swaying hips, almost like the heavy Tessa was just air.
Smack!
Her red lipstick formed the shape of her lips, smeared over his top lip and right cheek. She winked at him, twirled around, and headed for the exit.
Although he wanted to stop her, his body was at its limit, and he didn't wish to drop down embarrassingly in front of this woman.
He wished to earn her respect and compliments!
A soft voice with only a portion of the former rough tone sounded.
"You don't have to be stubborn, fall; you fought well. Even lasting more than a minute was impressive, ignoring your strange armour. To have made a flesh wound on the worlds reigning swordsmanship champion, you have a good base."
Alizée walked out of the door, nodding to the cute badger girl who seemed frozen in place, as a single cut formed across her neck, it was only shallow, but a slight drip of blood began to seep down as she smirked to herself, leaving for the main house.
'He's a good catch, my baby girl, but what should we do...'
'Mother can feel her old heart racing; I want to train him into my ideal man... Something no other could achieve to this day, not without dying a hundred times anyway!'
'Ah, cutting through his flesh felt so good... I cannot wait to carve demons with my sword!'
Alizée knew all about the truth of this world and what would soon come.
At first, she wished to take back her daughter and train her until she saw them training together today. The sloppy daughter who hated to train the sword after what happened to her weak father suddenly brought a handsome man to fight.
Of course, her mother was interested, thinking he would be a weak man, only choosing for his looks or sexual desire. Still, through their fight, she saw many qualities that attracted her, from his stubborn will, powerful defence, and attempts to guide his daughter onto a better path.
He was the perfect material to mould into her desired ideal man.
Luckily, the same binding forces and rules didn't apply to Nora as the goddess who gave her a chance was lax and helpful.
Thus rather than selecting to help Zell himself, she found a person that died due to not entering the game, yet still managed to kill a demon whelp alone using her swordsmanship and the human body.
'I never imagined she would become such a fearful race... Master, I hope you are ready to be courted by a female demoness... She has already locked you in her sights; please don't die!'
Nora shuffled into the room with her cute tail swaying with great power, forming gusts of wind, blowing the messy debris and broken floor back into place; this girl's influence was more aligned with crafting and repair as the ruined dojo began to repair itself.
"H-hello!" She shouted with a stutter.
Nervous, filled with tension, she shuddered, only steps from his body that slumped to the floor, now sat with his legs spread and the bloody but muscular muscles filled with sweat and all tense, causing Nora to swallow her saliva as she enjoyed the view.
The sudden noise startled Zell, who fell into a strange daze after seeing Alizée leave with Tessa, and then this impulsive girl appeared.
[A thick Raccoon girl appeared! Zell... Throw master balls at her face!]
[Sister... Why are you so lewd but stupid? That girl is a Badger... She is pretty thick though... those thighs and tits... Can they cover his entire length, not allowing the tip to penetrate?]
Zell wasn't conscious enough to hear them because the girl before him felt the same as Rika.
He could feel his mind screaming to him, telling him this girl was essential, but the language it spoke was foreign to him; his eyes closed as he took a deep breath and forced himself to stand.
"Mmm?" Nora tilted her head, wondering what he was doing, her body still immobile as she repaired the damaged dojo.
'Master, why are you struggling up? Stay down, then Nora can nurse you with her thick...??'
Suddenly, a thick masculine scent filled Nora's nose. Two powerful arms wrapped around her back and held her tightly, so tight her repairing stopped, and her little brown eyes just darted around before looking up towards the handsome man holding her tightly.
She was about to speak when his words stopped her.
"I am sorry, although my mind tells me you are someone essential and special to me, I cannot quite recall the details and reacted on instinct..."
"But your scent and soft fur, it's very nostalgic."
'Ah, Master! Are you picking up Nora now? Is this your new flirting tactic to seduce cute, innocent little beast girls!?'
"Mmmn."
Nora didn't respond with a comprehensible word, only copying him as her little button nose pushed into his chest, feeling the warm, damp body, not caring about the blood staining her white shirt and black dress suit.
'Master... finally, after so many years, watching you sacrifice your body for us... We can finally help you from the start... Did Nora do good? Taking her mother and making her strong, this time the girl you admired won't die... I promise!'
She wrapped her delicate arms around his back, too short to fully reach as her little tail brushed along the tatami; because of her ecstatic mood, the dojo began to restore as she enjoyed his embrace slowly.
'So much more manly and powerful... This weak little badger might fall into heat!'
Zell, on the other hand, fell into deep memory,
It was in his previous life, and the world just began to crumble, all the people he had met in the past few days turned on each other over a piece of bread or the food dropped in the game, which now became edible in reality.
"Hey shrimp, let us cook that fat little badger for meat!" A mighty warrior said, his eyes staring at the cute pets beside Zell.
'What? Why is he asking that... I can't return them to the spirit world safe from harm anymore... What do I do?'
"Ah, I-I'm sorry, but these girls are my battle pets, and I will die without them..."
"Heh, what battle pets? Only the damn rabbit can fight. This useless badger and ferret are just support types... Come on; we are dying here, man. Are you going to choose those animals over your kind?
The man began to grasp his iron sword, seeming to threaten Zell; his two party members also joined in while they tried to spur on the non-combatants to force him to give up his pets.
He remembered that this was the day that changed the world for him forever.
It was the day he killed his first human being.
Images of a man with his head split open, bleeding from a large rock that smashed his brain into mush, his blood-stained body filled with wounds as even the old man tried to beat his pets to death for meat.
A soft, shivering badger lay under his chest, the fattest of his animals because she liked to eat the meat from the wolves or monsters Rika helped kill.
Her gentle brown eyes looked into his as if to say, "it's okay if the master doesn't get hurt anymore... I can do it!"
Filled with those conflicting emotions of disappointment in his fellow human and the joy of how much his pets fought to protect him as they were severely wounded or injured, he would never forget killing that man and every one of the survivors.
'Ah, that's right. My pets are more important than any human! I must never forget those girls that stuck by me even when I was pathetic and weak...'
His vision began to return to the real world, and the memories and images that seemed so real crumbled as his height was no longer that short, his arms that weak. He could now protect them and felt a long-forgotten task fill his mind.
"N-Nora... It's you, right?"
Zell's rough fingers lifted the chin of the pretty girl, her glistening brown eyes staring at him filled with shock, wonder and happiness as her long eyelashes fluttered.
Her lips parted, but only a squeak came out as she was too nervous, which caused his smile to deepen as he gently covered her lips and held her tightly.
He found his little badger of luck.
[Main Quest added]
[Find your cute pets! Wherever they may be, no matter how long it takes!]
[Reward: ???]
[Issuer: Yanfra - Goddess of Divinity and Fate, Yinfra - Goddess of Beasts and Consequence]
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