Currency of Kisses
Dimaria Yesta walked into the room of girlfriend/Spriggan 12 teammate Brandish, who appeared to be in the middle of a pedicure. Dimaria looked down and noticed that the diminutive form of Brandish's servant, Marin Hollow, was painting her nails. Yeah, Dimaria knew that Marin was a soldier of Brandish's army, but whenever she saw him, he was doing something that Brandish simply didn't want to do, making him appear to be a servant.
"Tell me something, Randi," Dimaria said as she looked over at Brandish, who, on the surface, had her usually bored expression on her face. But Dimaria saw the light blush of pink underneath Brandish's eyes and those same eyes sparking, showing how happy Brandish really was that Dimaria had come to her house.
"Yeah, Mary?" Brandish said, her bored tone trying to hide how genuinely excited she was to see Dimaria for the first time that day.
"I heard you let some troublemakers escape. Surely that isn't true."
"No I did not let them 'escape', I just wasn't in the mood to deal with them," Brandish countered as before Dimaria could respond to her, the now near-microscopic Marin came running up to her, no doubt to try and suck up to her.
"Trust me, I tried to tell her it was a bad idea, but she wouldn't listen. Oh my…you're looking like an A+ today Dimaria," Marin complemented, as Dimaria just looked at him with an expression that held nothing but annoyance and disinterest. Dimaria completely disregarded Marin before turning her attention to Brandish.
"Can you change him back to normal? He's like a disgusting cockroach that can talk."
"Say what!?"
"Eh…I'll pass," Brandish said, yawning as Marin started complaining and crying that he hated being tiny.
"Brandish, just change him back to normal. You know that Emperor Spriggan is going to get mad if Marin gets killed because he's too small to do anything," Dimaria explained. Brandish sat up and stared at Dimaria with a finger on her chin.
"OK…but only if you kiss me."
"…are you serious?"
"Yep. One kiss and I'll turn Marin back to normal," Brandish reiterated. Dimaria over-dramatically sighed and chuckled before leaning closer to Brandish, who puckered her lips, expecting a kiss on the lips. However, Brandish was left slightly disappointed as Dimaria kissed Brandish on the cheek rather than the lips, before sitting next to her and pointing to Marin, who was looking in the hopes of seeing some more action between the two
"Change him back to normal," Dimaria commanded. Brandish pouted at Dimaria before snapping her fingers, causing Marin to grow back to normal. Marin smiled before Dimaria nodded at him, answering the 'thank you' that was clearly about to escape his mouth.
"OK, now that that's taken care of, let's head to the Emperor's palace, he called the Spriggan 12 for a meeting," Dimaria said, but Brandish held Dimaria's arm back by wrapping her own arms around Dimaria's.
"Nah. It sounds like a real hassle."
"Are you pulling my leg? The Emperor told us to come, and you're thinking of disobeying him because it's too much of a hassle?"
"…well…I think I could do it if I can get 5 kisses."
"Seriously!?"
"And they have to be kisses on the lips. No kissing on the cheeks or forehead."
"God, Brandish I love you, but you are such a spoiled child sometimes," Dimaria said before leaning in and kissing Brandish on the lips. Brandish excitedly returned the kiss, running her hands through Dimaria's dark blonde hair and on Dimaria's back, but the kiss stopped as Dimaria notice Marin staring at them, once again waiting for things to get spicier.
"Marin, why don't you wait outside until the both of us are ready, so we can all head to the Emperor's palace together," Brandish suggested as Marin looked hesitant, as, in his mind, he would miss the clothes coming off and the scissoring.
"GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Dimaria screamed at him, causing Marin to jump up in fright and run out of the room. Dimaria took a few deep breaths, trying to calm herself down as Brandish started rubbing her knuckles into the small of Dimaria's back.
"Calm down Dimaria, he's not gonna do anything to us. Now, if I'm not mistaken, you still owe me four kisses," Brandish said with a smirk on her face, before Dimaria chuckled at Brandish's complete disregard of her servant's creepy behavior and gave her the second kiss she owed her. Brandish and Dimaria continued to kiss, with Dimaria considering speeding up the kisses as they had an important meeting to get to. However, Dimaria was melting in the kiss as Brandish had introduced her tongue into the equation, and could barely think of the potential consequences of being late for Emperor Spriggan's meeting. And judging by how Brandish was going all-in on this makeout session, it was clear that the meeting was the last thing on her mind.
Surely a few more minutes couldn't hurt…the meeting was probably nothing important anyway…