"You re amazingly dear" Said Aki before hugging his wife like a koala and giving her a peck on the cheek.
"You could ve done better." She rebutted with a but of shame.
"Nah, I could've done it faster, but I would've simply ran, you looked like a goddess hunting! He beamed while looking at her eyes with a mild blush in his face after releasing the koala hug.
"Is... Is that so?" Said the definetively more embarrassed woman.
As the bloodlust in the room coming from all the single men and women rose, two more contestants tried the course and died. One thought the ice would sustain him and tried something similar to Tsu and the other was turned into a carcass by the eagles and the very pissed alpha.
While waiting Tsu started reading a book and Aki just kept taking more and more cake out of his storage.
While the space around is technically part of him and can be manipulated in a easier way, there's plenty enough ways to get an inventory, so even just bringing shit out of thin air without using a storage artifact isn't that strange.
Though Aki is still studying and can't actually use such spells.
In other news, yesterday he has finally been able to train gravity magic, considered a sub category of space magic, to the point where he can make a small singularity.
No, seriously, he practically made it a game of sorts to kill the ruffians he attacked in different ways, until he found out that the skill "Assassination technique" could be raised in level by doing exactly that, them he started experimenting and found out how to do the singularity thingy.
It's small, sure, but one of those in the middle of a battle or right in front of someone's face equals a kill buffet for someone like him, never mind the fact he has the "Living multiverse" and the "Eldest formica sapien" as examples on how to use this kind of shit.
At least he isn't about to start on about concentrated energy shots and go blonde or get tattoos while his hair gets black and past the small of his back. His voice is quite feminine too, so...
Anyways, that was it for the day in the colosseum.
..... No, I'm serious, don't look at me like that, it's not like I'm the one that superseeded Aki and Tsu. Aki is in the octaves and Tsu in the quarters, so they can skip the first day entirely. It mostly consisted on a battle royale and magical presentation, there's even gonna be a presentation tomorrow done by the seeded participants.
"Wait, I'm a seeded participant?" Asked Aki to the taller staff member that informed him when he tried to enter the battle royale.
"Yes, it seems it was a last minute decision since a new position was opened and the number of seeded participants must be even. As the highest level non-seeded contestant you have been chosen." Explained the same guard captain from before, now using a helmet and cringing hard inside of it.
"I'm the highest level of this bunch, really? Even that suspicious fuck of a beggar, the mummy and the aracnne?" He asked while pointing out the other three contestants hiding their status sheet.
While you can put any number on the level bracket when editing a fake sheet, Aki appeared as a level 92 pure blooded vampire if you passed the joke first page, most people normally turned their level down instead of up, both because it's dangerous in battle and because it's hard as fuck to do so. The human beggar was level 97, the guy full of bandages 95 and the aracnne level 93.
What he just did is to show them that their status was not that well concealed and it wasn't only the drown queen who could read it. He also said that in a way that made him look like someone simply being dragged around. Mostly for fun really.
**... Still more things in the tournament besides the diner, really?
OK, so, as the couple was leaving for a date through the city, they were actually accosted by three drow, strangely enough one of them was male and dressed as a holy knight.
Holy as in under the spider queen, goddess of the underdark, so as a male Knight he is dressed in reinforced leather armor/ bondage equipment that shows a lot of skin and has a theme of dark and purple representing skulls and spiders all over. His colleagues wore similarly stiled clothing, but one wore full plate and the other wore sluty mage robes that covered mostly her back and left her dominatrix outfit mostly showing.
That really confused Aki for a second, since the processed materials for something like that shouldn't exist here, but them he remembered that it could be a divine garment, made with some good leather and lots of divine mana, or that there could be some specie of beasts that had skin that could be more simply molded into something like that I'd not outright already similar to the BDSM products he knew from earth.
"Fufu, did you two not expect to see a bishop of the goddess so soon perhaps?" Asked the woman in the middle in a gentle tone. Which, yes, is super strange.
"That too, but I must ask if your holiness needs anything from the two of us, since as you can see we had intended on an outing." Aki respectfully answered, but inside 'I can't allow myself to pop a murder bonner here just because they are between level 130 and 150, Tsu would be hurt before I could teleport her away no matter what.'
"Ara, how polite. It's nothing much though, I just want to have a brief talk and won't take much of your time."
"Of course, I had a strict and good mother. One must always show respect for their elders, to women and to those of prestigious positions, never mind someone that is all three. If it is just a talk than I see no problem."
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"Should we really have said that much? I knows she's someone influential, but... " Asked Tsu as they left the company of the drowns.
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
"She would have figured it out very fast either way, never mind if my suspicions on her having the queen's backing is right or wrong. It's best to get whatever good we can out of the situation. Now sush you big idiot, let's go home." He said while hugging her arm.
In their mental connection what they actually said was:
'You sure she believed that bunch of lies? She doesn't seem much like the other drowns.' asked Tsu.
'Around 80 or 90% of it. Probably will triple check it now. She doesn't seem like the others, but that means she is even worse. She is either even more Sadic then me, or completely indoctrinated. Both are dangerous options. What you want for dinner?' Nonchalantly answered Aki.
'You really have no sense of urgency, do you? That woman could have wiped me all over the street with one hit, I could feel it.' She rebuted.
'And I'd reconstruct your beautiful head from zero if I had to. Then I'd murder her so throughfully that even her stupid goddess wouldn't recognize her. By the way, I'm kinda...'
'Battle hungry and having a hard time?' she rolled her eyes 'Was that woman really that good that you would prefer to think of her rather then your wife?' She asked with a hint of jealousy.
Aki smiled and pulled her ear closer and locked her arm in her chest.
"How could I pay attention to such a boring women when I have you by my side? I've been kind of jealous since I heard so many people flirted with you this morning, then you were so beautiful during the obstacle course that I got another kind of problem. If you keep acting cute I think I might start leaving a trail behind" She was exaggerating a little there, but Aki did just create a female reproduction system. And she's plenty wet, yes, thank you for asking sir.
Uh? You... You're not shitting me, ri... Of course you were, no way I'd be allowed to put them having... But I can do it the next time? Don't do this. Don't give me hope!
*****
After a long, 12 hours really, session in lesbian love making, Aki found out that while that was one of the best fucks they ever had, boning was actually better.
By the way, boning is an euphemism to astral sex, when you use your souls to do it. It's mostly an undead technique, so most people don't know of it, but really, it's one of the reasons the undead mostly don't give a flying fuck about gender, homosexuality and such. They can all get pregnant, though it's harder if the pair is not male female, but they don't actually get physically pregnant, their soul does. Yes, it probably does hurt even more than normal pregnancy, but I'm completely happy with never experiencing that.
"But we're not, in any way, going to go for another week at it." Was her answer to the revelation he just had.
Yes, a week. They spent one week doing it. Everyone was told that if they didn't make it back from the core room within a week they should shove a dagger in Aki's core and get a piece out of it..
Seeing her mother laid over a soft mattress without moving in the slightest, not even to breath, and sweating dark liquid from her forehead, Malit didn't exitate to follow the orders given to her.
Some dealing with some brain damage later, Aki was prohibited from boning till further notice.
"I need to look imposing but beautiful, so pants it is, I don't have anything to with purple or red, so you think I should go with black, gray or white?" Asked the "vampire" in black lingerie, it being made of silk and even more comfortable than his earthen underwear being half the reason he uses it.
"You said earlier you wanted to go with a ponytail stiled hair, so why not get that "formal" black shirt and get the full "Gangster" look with a hat." Asked the distracted other half of the reason for panties.
Aki is also projecting the prototypes of some yucatas and trying pseudo elastics made out of mostly magic. Yes, mostly for sexy outfits, but it's not like he ever intended in ignoring the side benefits.
Like, even just learning to solidify mana and infuse materials is getting him plenty of skill levels and good materials, so the pervert has the perfect excuse.
"That sounds... Oh, I just le, kiiaaa~" As Aki was about to agree he got a notification, so while he was distracted Tsu lifted him in an arm and grabbed his ass cheek with with the other.
"Stop pretending you're not trying to seduce me and get dressed." Said the ogress with a serious expression after the system alarm sounded in her head.
It wasn't that something dangerous happened, just a timer she'd set. Not like many people even know the system has that kind of function though, Aki just found it while playing around, though Gobu already knew of it.
Giving his wife a quick peck on the lips Aki now magically doned a formal black suit with vertical gray lines, a black hat and leather shoes, all in the 20's fashion.
"Ok, I'm done. Unless you think I should use some lipstick." *shake shake* "No? Then no more kisses for today." *nod nod* "See, I knew you'd come to agree." He said with a smile and dropped from her arms to pick the impromptu make up kit he made. "Also, you're going to need some more jewelry dear. We need to look at least a bit pompous after all." He said and put on silver rings on his middle, indicative and thumb on both his hands.
They all sort of had a design and matched, but the left thumb had a simple silver band and the right one had a loose inner ring like those someone would keep spinning when they are anxious. One wouldn't know unless they cut up the ring out of Aki's finger, since he mostly always uses it, but it had a production number on the inner side that read 925.
"Shaw we actually go to the crime boss reunion then my dear?" Said the smiling "Vampire" with blood red lips.