Chapter 372: The Doctor
"Get the hell out if your done and don’t come here again. You can go use the other shower room from now on," Celes was still glaring at Laz while breathing fire.
"Yeah yeah, my bad. I didn’t know there was another one. Honestly I don’t understand why you don’t have your own showers but whatever," Laz said, turning off the water he was using. He understood that there was definitely another place the men showered after seeing the situation here. While he wasn’t exactly keen on seeing just how clean that place was, at least it wouldn’t cause any more misunderstandings.
While Celes was still fuming, Laz notice that Nora was staring at his member with a rather perverted smile on her face.
"Like what you see?" Laz asked as he was drying his hair and walking up to her.
"Oh. yes. Yes I do. Rock solid body with impressive equipment? How could I not be interested. I’ve been surrounded by these little girls for so long that even some of those test subjects started to look good..." Nora responded, laughing again.
"Test subjects?"
"Well... I can’t just do blood research on the girls can I? And besides, these bastards who’ve accepted money for hunting us don’t deserve rights. Sure, most of them are normal humans, but the fact that some are like us just pisses me off. But then again, if it weren’t for those shitty few, I wouldn’t have been able to make nearly as much progress as I have been."
"Ah. I guess it makes sense since I did see a few of them with collars."
"Exactly. Those are my precious samples, especially since they have no place to complain. But it’s not like I don’t have any morals. I haven’t taken any limbs or anything... yet..." Nora trailed off while she started to think about her next project.
"You said yet?"
"No I didn’t."
"CAN’T YOU COVER UP ALREADY?" Celes screamed from the side, clearly having been drawn to Laz’s body after hearing Nora’s words.
"What? It’s just the male reproductive organ, as impressive as it might be. This is a part of nature so you should really just get used to it," Nora said, turning her head to look at Celes. While she understood why the girl might have been a little uncomfortable, she really needed to get used to these types of things. If a dick was enough to make her lose her cool every time, how was she expected to deal with males in the future?
Turning back, Nora noticed Laz was focused intently on her body.
’How odd... is this what I think it is?’ Laz thought as he looked at her. Since he had been in the shower with a bunch of naked females, he obviously wouldn’t use his spiritual sense or golden eyes to see things more clearly, much less using his Heaven’s Gaze skill, but even without that, He noticed that the tattoos on Nora’s body were much more than just some impressive uses of ink.
"Yes. I do... May I?" Laz asked, looking back up at Nora.
"Your sight... is much better than other’s, isn’t it?" Nora said crossing her arms over her chest, obviously figuring out that Laz wasn’t just being playful.
"You could say that. Do you mind?"
"An exchange then."
"Yeah?"
"I want some of your blood."
"Done."
"Then be my guest." Nora lower her arms to the side.
Laz’s eyes turned gold as he used Heaven’s Gaze. When trying to observe a human body, spiritual sense was the best bet. Why trying to observe the secrets behind something like the markings on Nora’s body, his Asura’s golden eyes along with his only ocular skill was his best bet.
"Amazing..." Laz said, tracing his fingers along the lines. Her ’tattoos’ were a strange mixture of markings, symbols, characters, runes and even glyphs. As his eyes saw the way they seemed to form into one giant diagram, his couldn’t help but trace the lines with his own flesh in an effort to feel how the energy was flowing as opposed to just seeing it.
Of course, despite her normally relaxed attitude, even Nora became a little embarrassed when Laz was actually touching her. It had been a long time since she had felt a man’s hands on her even if it wasn’t in a sexual way. And because he was being unusually gentle, it made the experience more intense for her.
"It’s a seal, isn’t it?" Laz finally said, releasing his skill and letting his eyes go back to normal.
"You can even see that?" Nora asked, clearly surprised.
"A seal?" Celes said, her awkwardness had seemed to vanish since there was something having to do with runes right in front of her. On top of that, she hadn’t even noticed it before, despite this not being the first time she had seen Nora naked. To her, Nora was like a big sister that helped to take care of her and babysit her when she was younger before she had left for college. By the time Nora had ended up back in her life though, the tattoos had already been there and while it wasn’t something Celes was interested in doing to herself, she had thought that it was really cool that Nora had gone through with it.
Laz took a step back and circulated his energy, empowering his blood. As his eyes again turned gold, his hair a blood tainted shade of white, the now normally invisible tribal like black marks appeared like a type of armor with the black, leafless tree and blood red moon as a center on his chest.
"For me, they are always there, but it’s only in this form that they can be seen. They act as a channel and a seal, helping to focus my energy and not allow it to explode out. I honestly don’t know what will happen when I get stronger and they no longer have room to grow..." This was a conclusion Laz had come to. While his markings were black, in the visions he had seen from Rak’sha it seemed like the stronger his bloodline go, the more the markings would change into an eventual golden color. Not that Laz had any idea what that meant. After all, even in his visions, the most an adult Asura had of these markings were just covering his upper body and Laz’s had already started spreading down past his waist.
"Interesting," Nora said coming over to observe closely. Laz notice a purple gleam in her eyes as she did so and he was a bit shocked. Celes was the first person who seemed to have an ability related to her eyes that Laz had seen besides himself, but now it seemed like Nora did too.
Just like what Laz had done, Nora started tracing the lines on his body as though she could see through them, making Laz even more curious. He had checked them out himself, but even he couldn’t understand them other than the guesses he was able to make thanks to visions he had seen and his own intuition. But now it seemed like Nora had figured something out. Therefore, he just let her do as she wished and hoped she would share her findings with him later.
At least, that was the plan until she started tracing the black lines below his waist and ended up grabbing his meat stick.
"Uh.. what?" Laz asked.
"Oh. I was just curious if it was as big as it looked. Holy fuck man... I can’t even touch my thumb and middle finger together. I’d seriously have to use two hands here..." Nora said with quite a bit of surprise in her voice.
"You’re just fucking with me right now, aren’t you?" Laz asked.
"Yes. Yes I am. Who said you could go and touch me as you wished, even if you were just studying the seal?" Nora shot back while looking Laz in the face.
"Not going to remove you hand then?" Laz questioned, now slightly amused by this rather forward woman.
"Nope. Just a friendly handshake between new friends. isn’t it nice... FUCK ME BACKWARDS ITS GETTING BIGGER..." Nora released her hand as Laz had started hardening up.
"Cute choice of words..." Laz commented with a laugh, not feeling embarrassed at all.
"Thanks. Anyway, you have to come to my lab tomorrow and let me examine your blood. Plus I would love to talk to you more about seals if you’re free?" Nora could tell that even if Laz was an amateur when it came to science, the fact that he knew about her seal could only mean his rune ability must be amazing as even the ever intelligent Celes didn’t see it before.
’Maybe he can help me?’ Nora thought to herself.
"A deals a deal. You should come to one of the training groups too. Your body is obviously in great shape, but if something does happen, you should learn to fight as well," Laz suggested.
"Fighting.. right. Yeah. I guess a little exercise wouldn’t hurt, Ok. I might show up if I’m free. Well, time to get showered before the next group wants in. See you tomorrow," Nora said incredibly quickly before walking away.
"Did I say something wrong?" Laz asked Celes who had been meekly following the conversation from the side.
"Nora... She’s... I’m not totally sure what happened, but I do know that she doesn’t like fighting or bloodshed, which is weird considering her field of expertise. But something happened to her after she awoke and she has never spoken of it," Celes responded while watching her walk away.
"Trauma isn’t something to take lightly. It can make the most outgoing person into the most introverted, twist a good person into a bad one or even make the happiest person want to kill themselves. For her to still be who she is despite whatever it was she went through, well, it’s not a bad way to deal with it short term. But long term... she will need to face those demons eventually. Or when the time comes, it might mean the death of her. And the way the world is now... if you can’t protect yourself, than you are as good as dead." Laz reflected.
"That’s like what my grandmother said. But even then, in the past two years, she’s never said anything no much how much I ask and even my grandmother has had no luck. We used to be so close too, even if she was the big sister."
"Heh. That just means she doesn’t want to impose on you. You should be flattered, but I’m sure it doesn’t feel that way."
"No. It doesn’t not at all." With this, Celes turned to look at the still butt ass naked Laz who was still watching Nora even as she started cleaning herself in the distance.
"WHY THE FUCK AM I TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THIS? GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE... AND PUT SOME CLOTHES ON YOU FUCKING PERVERT!!" Celes screamed before chasing after Nora and leaving him alone.
"Hmm... I wonder just what is hidden beneath those seals and more importantly, how they got there in the first place..."
As Laz continued to look on in interest, a bottle of shampoo finally flew at his head from a raging Celes who still hadn’t removed her towel. He had to move slightly to the side to avoid it.
"What?" Laz asked.
"CAN YOU GET OUT ALREADY?"
