Chapter 3
This time we are roused by the woman, who upon our waking directs us to wash in the stream and says she’ll hand us some breakfast once we are clean. Alice helps me undress and remove all the dirt from my back and wings before I wash her back in return.
While bathing I am reminded I am no longer a boy and for the first time, I’m made aware what this means for my sex life as well as all the implications I would have to face if I wanted to have children of my own.
As I think about this, I use the bit of privacy I now have and start touching myself between the thighs and massage one of my breasts. In the beginning, I’m rough and impatient causing me to shudder in pain, but towards the end, my breath shortens and the wave of pleasure going through my body causes me to collapse. I fall a short distance, then notice my head is resting on soft flesh, so looking up, I see Alice blocking my view as she leans down and kisses me.
“You sounded quite pleased. Being a girl is quite nice as well isn’t it? Though I don’t mind helping you learn how to pleasure a woman, you know.”
Before I’m able to ‘practice’ on Alice, the maid shows up, replaces our clothes, and hurries us along to dress and eat breakfast, then she heads back to the cave.
Still having some trouble moving my wings, though I had practised a little during our language lesson yesterday, I am helped into my clothing by Alice and together we make our way back to camp. The meal consists of a loaf of bread with some cheese. While we are eating the girl has a huge grin on her face letting us know that the river wasn’t as private an area as I thought it was.
When we finished, the woman gives us some paper and a pencil each and starts teaching us how to read and write Elian. It uses an Alphabet with 28 characters, which we write down, repeating a single letter until an entire sheet is full before we are shown the next. After we copied all letters to satisfaction, two letters we had to practice again because they weren’t legible enough, the woman started writing down the words we learned yesterday, showing us how to read them, and telling us to copy a line with the word, then moving onto the next.
One thing I noticed was that they counted in a base 25 system, using 25 symbols for the numbers 1 to 25, then increasing the digits, so the first double-digit number ᚠᚠ is 26 and not 25 as I’m used to because the symbol for 0 is only used by itself and never as a digit.
By the time we finished our lesson, the maid had returned and prepared a lunch out of some berries and a hare she found. During the meal, I check the notifications I received.
Charm has reached Level 3
Masturbation - Level 1
Especially for Succubi a useful Skill, increasing the enjoyment one feels while pleasuring themselves.
Elian Language has reached Level 3
Elian Language has reached Level 4
Elian Language has reached Level 5
“Have you been able to learn enough for us to talk yet?”
Amazed at the speed with which we gained a new language I quickly nod my head and answer “Yes, thank you, please allow me to introduce ourselves. I’m Freia and this is my wife Alice.”
“It is nice meeting you, my name is Ayla Reynold, and this is my slave Lily. If you could, please tell me how you two found yourselves naked in this forest without even speaking a word of Elian.”
“Two days ago, while we were taking a shower, our vision was suddenly blocked by text and we found ourselves transported to this world in a clearing not too far from here, though I doubt we’d be able to find our way back. Afterwards, we fought some goblins and decided to search for civilisation, we walked through the forest for some hours and met you, but the rest you know.”
“Ok, … wait do you mean to say you are from a different world?”
“Yes, we are. As I was brought here there was some problem resulting in my current appearance. I technically am Alice’s big brother, a tall handsome man about 20 years old, not some girl with an overweight chest.”
“You’re a boy?! But you’re so cute and beautiful…
Now tell me, what was your world like?”
“Well for one there were only humans, and no System like Jester existed either, apart from that I can’t tell you how our old world and this one differ, because we have hardly seen anything of this world.”
“Only humans? I can’t imagine how dull it must be, without the other races. Let’s continue then, what kind of magic did you have?”
“Magic?! There is magic in this world?”
“Of course, there is. Or did your world not have any Mana?”
“No, it didn’t, though we found many ways to improve our lives with technology, proper magic was not possible. Could you tell us more about how magic works?”
“Very well, magic is the art of changing the world, by using Mana as fuel for you to force your will into existence.
You must have many questions if you don’t even know that. I will answer them before we start your training.”
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I am so overwhelmed by finally being able to ask all my questions that they start eluding me, so I ask the only question I can think of.
“You’re not human, are you?”
“No, I’m an elf and Lily is a half-Kitsune half-Dwarf.”
“How many different species are there?”
“I don’t know, it depends on whether you count the different kinds of Beastkin as separate races, and there are regions where no one has set foot in a long time where there might be more races we don’t know of. If I had to guess it would be somewhere around one and a half dozen races.”
“What do you know about Succubi?”
“Succubi are beautiful women with a tail and wings, they can retract, made out of solidified magic. They require sexual stimuli to survive and have an easier time increasing Skills pertaining to this. You’re a Succubus, aren’t you?”
“Yes. Can you tell us about this forest? Where exactly are we? How big is this forest? Is it a part of some country?”
“Ok, so the Haven Forest, which is its name, lies at the southern edge of the world and is part of the Reynold Kingdom. It stretches around 300 kilometres east to west but is only around 30 to 40 km deep.”
“How long is a kilometre?”
“A kilometre is a thousand metres and a metre is about this long.”
I’m bewildered that the length she marks seems to be the same as a metre back on Earth.
“Why are you two out here? Are you part of that village we saw when we first met?” Alice asked.
“The village is called World’s End, and no we were only travelling through, why though is my own business.”
“And you?”
“I go wherever Mistress goes.”
This jolts my memory and I remember how Lily was introduced. I can’t help but pity someone who is a slave and that at her young age.
“Why do you look at me with pity in your eyes? Is it because I’m a Slave? Or because you confuse me with a child?”
“What do you mean to confuse you with a child? And why wouldn’t I pity someone who has no freedom?”
“I’m an adult and I chose to sell my freedom.”
Hearing that stuns me into silence, but Alice seems set on righting this wrong. “Why would you condone having a child as a Slave? Release her at once!”
“I’m sorry but I have no intention of doing so. Besides even if I wanted to, I can’t simply void the Geass.”
“Oh, you poor child. Tell me who was responsible for selling into slavery.”
“I chose my profession. Say, what right do you have to invalidate that choice?!”
“What are you saying? A child such as you shouldn’t make such a choice. What if your master ended up being a pervert, raping you day in, day out?”
“Oh, if it were so. Instead, I have yet to lose my virginity, being stuck as the slave of a princess. Besides I’m an adult I can make my own decisions, I don’t need a stranger to make them for me!”
“Adult? But you are clearly still a child!”
“Just because I’m short and don’t have big breasts doesn’t mean I’m a dumb and helpless little girl. Look at your wife she isn’t much taller than me and you don’t seem to treat her like this.”
As the argument between Alice and Lily carries on, I walk over to Ayla and ask her about something I noticed Lily said.
“Ayla, please correct me if I’m wrong but did Lily state she wanted to be raped?”
“Sigh. Yes, ever since she started working as a slave, she got it in her head that she ought to serve her master in every way possible, especially if there is some reason that normal servants would not do so.
Because she is trying to fulfil her job, as best she can, she has been holding off on taking a Class until one that will give her bonuses to these tasks becomes available to her. As far as I know, she has various Skills already and thinks she will fulfil the requirements to gain such a Class if only she managed to gain some Skill for being raped.”
Before I can ponder on Ayla’s answer, I have to intervene to ensure Lily doesn’t just bash Alice’s head in.
“Sister dear, calm down. We don’t know enough about this and shouldn’t just jump to conclusions.”
“But she is a Slave. How could I leave her be?”
“Don’t worry. First of all, Lily please tell us, how old are you?”
“I’m 21 years old.”
“Ahm, sorry but how long is a year?”
“A year consists of 360 days with 25 hours a day. One hour is 60 minutes or 3600 seconds. One second is about this interval: One second, two seconds, three seconds.”
“Thank you, Ayla. Luckily, it seems both our old world and this one use a remarkably similar system to measure things.”
Doing some calculations, I realise that Lily would be about 21 years old on Earth.
“Even by Earth standards, she would be considered an adult in every country.
Ayla, earlier you said something about a Geass, could you elaborate?”
“A Geass is a stronger form of a Jester enforced Contract. Whereas you can break the terms of a Contract with a Geass you’ll be prevented from doing so and instead forced to fulfil it. If you somehow manage to break the terms of a Geass, yours or otherwise, Jester instantly manifests an S- or SS- ranked Dungeon around you.
S- and SS- Dungeons have as far as I know only spawned whenever someone broke a Geass. Some of these Dungeons are filled with so many traps and powerful monsters that no one has been able to conquer them even though they are thousands of years old.
Lily doesn’t just have a Slave Contract, but signed a Geass, meaning unless she and I agree to void it, it would be very difficult and extremely foolish to try to set her free.”
“Alice, if she wants to stay enslaved there is nothing to be done and I think we should respect her wishes. So, then Lily, do you want freedom?”
“No, I am happy the way things are. Please don’t try to ‘rescue’ me again it is unwanted and unneeded.”
“So now that that has been settled let’s begin your training.”
“What training?”
“I noticed you don’t have the faintest idea of how to handle a weapon, so we’ll remedy that. First, you two will fight Lily without weapons, until I’m sure you won’t cut yourself when armed.
Lily, make sure you give them the opportunity to learn instead of just knocking them out, ok?
Oh, and before I forget, Freia when you start feeling an urge to ‘feed’, just tell me and you can use Lily if you want to.”
For a moment I’m confused what Ayla meant when talking about me feeding, then the realisation hits me, and I blush. Immediately after Lily fist hits me as well and I’m thrown through the sky landing almost two meters where I previously stood.
As I stand back up, I’m still reeling from the previous punch, when the next comes flying in my direction. I try to dodge but only manage to change the impact area to my shoulder, which almost sends me back to the ground.
Lily doesn’t relent on her attack and within moments my hands, arms shoulders, knees, and legs are hurting, either from my mostly unsuccessful attempts at parrying her strikes or from taking the hits from her punches and kicks.
At some point, Alice shows up and from then on Lily only throws the occasional punch or kick my way, preventing me from interfering in their fight.
Five minutes after the training began it is already over with Alice and me lying next to each other unable to move from all the pain.
“I didn’t expect you two to last that long. Don’t you two worry I’m well versed in healing magic so you’ll be good to continue in no time at all.”
“Could we not do the training?”
“You already met with some of the monsters that prowl this forest, right? Those are all low in Level. All the monsters further north are more dangerous, so unless you want to end up being a troll’s next meal or be forced into a Slave Geass of your own by some Brigand, you’ll have to learn how to defend yourselves.
Now stop lazing around and start fighting.”
I’m barely back on my feet when I already need to dodge a sweeping kick from the small Kitsune. I step back and Alice uses the opportunity to launch a kick, but that is quickly proven to be a mistake as she misses, and her precarious balance is toppled over by a punch to the thigh.
After that, the fight goes similarly to the first one, and so do the other six fight before we’re finally allowed to rest. Over all the fights we didn’t manage to hit Lily at all, and worse she doesn’t even look tired in the least.
I check my notification hoping to see that all these bouts brought at least some improvement.
Unarmed Fighting has reached Level 2
Unarmed Fighting has reached Level 3
Unarmed Fighting has reached Level 4
Unarmed Fighting has reached Level 5
It seems like getting beat up has helped though we haven’t been able to prolong the fight to more than six minutes.
“I’ll have to regenerate my Mana before I can heal you again. While we wait for that let me teach you some magic.”