The battle was finally over, Tomoe and Tarnyang are left shock, as well as the survivors on their side, shocked to walk across so many bodies of the fallen on both sides and search for any survivors that struggle to rise up off the ground. The surviving orcs fled the scene and return to home, while those that cannot walk would remain laying on the ground until someone puts them out of their miseries. Neither of the two would say anything on this, as they still mourn over so many losses, and Tomoe stops to pray for the shrine maidens that lost their lives in this attack.
Ivy found a half dead orc on the ground, but chose to extend her blade to pierce through his head and let him fall back to join the others. She turn her attention back towards Alaric and Kurama, noticed her using her healing abilities to help his serious headache he got from Thurak.
"You've got yourself quite the scars in this battle." Kurama says to him, while keeping her hands against his head and showing yellowish energy was coming from the palm of her hands.
Alaric sighs a few times over the effects of the healing effects to his head and finally responds "Yeah… Glad I got myself a healer…" He looks back at her with a slight smile on his face and made smile back at him. "Wish I had you in so many of my battles."
Kurama and Alaric would turn their attention back to the King's Blade that remains together on the floor, but still in two swords instead of a single sword. Kurama asks him "Has this ever happen before?"
"No." he picks up one of the blades and stares at it for a while "It happened when I cut that orc in two. I wonder if I could put it back together."
"I'm sure you'll find a way…" Kurama leans closer and presses her hand against his burnt arm, which made Alaric drop his sword and groan over the pain of the marks he got from Thurak. Worried look came to Kurama, she let go of him and moves away from him. She examines his right arm and replies "Those burns…"
"I know…"
"How could you stand so strong when fighting like this?"
"You could say I've got some good resistance to pain when I fight, but the pain will always be there and I have to stand strong to overcome it."
"Alaric…" Concerned look came from Kurama and lends her hand out to touch the side of his face to make him look back at her. "You don't have to stay strong all the time…"
"You don't have to worry. I've got you to heal me, right?"
"O-Of course. Sorry for delaying."
But then, just before she could heal her lover, a commotion happens from behind them and got the two to look back towards the nearby soldiers. Dumbfounded as they are, they stare up at the sky and talk to one another of what they are seeing, if it is even real or not, but it was real for everyone to see.
High above the sky, a pirate ship descends over the valley and cause a large shadow over this battlefield. Everyone raise their heads to witness this large ship, surprised to see this flying in the air, while some are frighten when they recognise that ship. It belongs to Captain Liliana.
Things quickly turn violent when Liliana orders her skeleton crew to open fire at the surviving soldiers and delivering more damage to the remaining army. They fire purple projectiles and create large purple flames across the valley. Tomoe and the others shout out for the soldiers to retreat, while trying to avoid incoming cannon fire from above, as well as moving through the gaps through the flames to escape. Kurama had to help Alaric back on his feet and help him get out of the range of her cannons, but one cannon was enough to hit them from behind and send them both collapsing onto the floor. Meanwhile, Ivy was the only one staring back at the pirate ship, as if she desires to get on board this flying fortress and face a fellow pirate that has long been in the mind the moment Tarnyang mentions about her. Alaric got up first and helps Kurama up off the floor, then look forward to see Ivy coming towards them to assist him.
"Kurama! Get me up there!" Ivy replies
"W-What?"
"You heard me."
"But…" She turns her head to the side to look back at Alaric and mutters to herself, while having her face a little red "I'll only have Alaric on me."
"It's fine…" Alaric pats Kurama's head "I'll be alright."
"Hmmmmm… Damn it…"
Back on board the ship, Liliana was at the front of the ship and looking down at the destruction her cannons have done on the field. She finally stops firing and waits for the smokes to clear, then witness Kurama in her fox form, flying straight towards them with Ivy riding her.
Liliana laughs at the sight of the two and replies "Ahoy there! Were about to get some entertainment."
The cannons fire off three shots towards them, but Kurama easily got out of the way on time and blocks the other one with one of her own magic projectiles. After the explosion, Kurama flew above them and got Ivy to descend down from above to land on board the ship and swing with her sword across the deck to knock many of the skeletons off the ship. Kurama would also jump down on the ship and land in her humanoid form on the helm and destroys the skeleton controlling the steering wheel.
"How insolence." Liliana calls out and draws her sword. She comes towards Ivy and she looks back at her. "I don't know who you are or where you come from, but only the magnificent of fools would ever consider defying the great pirate captain Liliana."
"You're the fool for challenging us." Ivy responds "Your punishment will be quite severe."
"Hmmm, tell me who you are."
"I am Ivy Valentine. I am a pirate."
"You? A pirate?" Liliana smirks and place her left hand against her waist "I'm not impressed."
Ivy says nothing and decides to approach Liliana without attacking her. The two would stand close to each other, face to face and realising that one of them was much taller and better body than the other. Liliana had to lift her head up to look up at Ivy, since Ivy is 179 cm and Liliana is 161 cm. There was a sign on her face of jealousy when her eyes look down at her body and those large breasts that are much bigger than what she got.
"You shouldn't be playing pirates." Ivy replies "Go back home."
"You honestly think you can best Liliana and my pirate crew?!" She laughs and takes a few steps backwards to get her distance from Ivy "You are quite the entertainment, but this show must end!" Then proceeds to make the first attack by driving her sword forward in attempt of striking her belly.
Ivy catches the sword with her golden gauntlet, then counters by landing a hit against Liliana with her right foot to push her to the side. The moment she stops moving, she moves to the side to avoid the extension of Ivy's sword and ducks down when Ivy swings horizontally across the air with her sword. Liliana stands up straight to hit back against Ivy's sword, then moves straight towards her to attack yet again, but ends up hitting against her golden gauntlet yet again and force to quickly block the incoming attack from her sword.
After a short skirmish later with Ivy taking no hit and Liliana force to retreat, she backflips to avoid a fatal attack and gains a higher point to look down at Ivy. "I must admit, you do handle yourself well, and I so wish to know if that gauntlet of yours is actually made of gold."
"Why do you want it? I doubt it'll fit on your skinny arms."
"It's a pirate rule to claim all the treasures and sail across the world." Liliana turns her eyes towards Kurama, who is busy destroying most of her skeletons with her magic powers "While I accept your challenge, but she on the other hand is a stowaway that must be dealt with. Arise!"
"Gaon!"
Out came from behind Ivy, another beautiful warrior, who is actually an automaton, ascends out from the bottom neck and arrives on the top deck to face Kurama. Her name is Vante, an elf from the Little Elf Forest and is an automaton, created by the elves and serve whoever holds the remote control, which is in Liliana's possession and becomes a tool to whatever she desires.
"Meet my new crewmate. She's an automaton. The owner was so nice enough to lend me it, right after I defeated her anyway. I should've asked what her name is, but I guess it doesn't matter. Attack that woman!"
The command was made and Vante attacks with a high-pitched scream. Only Ivy and Kurama felt the effects and cover their ears, while Liliana remain standing without feeling any of the effects of the scream. Due to this, both Liliana and Vante attack them both at the same time, with Liliana coming in for another swing and Vante taking flight to get above Kurama and attack by ejecting her fists as projectiles. Kurama falls backwards to avoid the fist and Ivy blocks the attack with her sword.
Yante lands onto the helm of the ship and retracts her fist back to her body. Angered by that attack, Kurama rises back up, her eyes glow in light blue and creates an energy ball at the palm of both her hands and fires it straight at her. Vante never even both to avoid the attack, she took the hit and sent crashing through the mast, forced the top of it to fall forward on top of Kurama. She decide to jump off the ship to avoid the incoming fall, then transforms into her fox form and flies around the ship, but had to deal with the incoming fire from the cannons that still remain a problem.
Back between Ivy and Liliana. The scream from Vante was enough to give Liliana a chance to land a small cut across the top between Ivy's breasts, then land another stab against her gut when Vante came flying through and made a distraction to give Liliana another attack. Ivy did feel the pain from her stab and grabs onto the blade with her left hand to prevent it from pushing it any further. She was angry and serious towards Liliana, while forgetting about the automaton woman that lies nearby and comes back up with no damage done to her body, except the front of her outfit was a little torn up. Ivy looks back to Liliana, pulls the blade out of her and lifts up her right leg to land a good kick against her chin to knock her back. After the knock back, Ivy stabs the floor with her sword to extend it underneath and reveal the front of her weapon to appear underneath Liliana. She attempt of blocking, but she cries out over the strike against her chest and the exposure of her breasts.
Ivy quickly turns her attention towards Vante the moment her sword retracts back to her. She was ready to support Liliana and surprises Ivy when she aims her left hand to show she has a hand-rifle at the ready to fire. Ivy had to get out of the way to avoid the incoming fire, standing behind one of the ships spar to avoid incoming bullets.
Ivy slightly takes a peak to the side to see Liliana holding a round mechanical device in her hand. "I wonder if that's…" But she quickly looks back to Vante, who comes with a punch and force Ivy out of hiding.
Meanwhile, Kurama was busy handling the cannons and avoiding the purple projectiles that are firing towards her. She flies higher to get out of their range and fires a barrage of her energy balls from the ends of her nine tails and fires them all towards each cannon hole of the ship. She manage to destroy only seven of the cannons and destroy six of the skeletons that were operating the cannons. The explosions of her attack cause the ship to shake, which got Liliana to run towards the side of the ship and stare down at the damage Kurama has done to it. She flew through the hole of the ship and attack the skeletons below deck to do more damage.
"Damn her! She's going to crash the ship." Liliana looks back to Vante and orders her "You! Stop her!"
Vante replies with a short screech, then let's go of Ivy's weapon and flies back below deck to chase after Kurama. With Ivy's weapon now loose, Ivy retracts her sword together and comes out of hiding to confront Liliana again.
"Let's settle this!" Ivy replies and extends her weapon out horizontally to Liliana. She manage to avoid it yet again by performing a side flip and then charges straight in, but she retracts her sword to normal and easily blocks her incoming attack.
"You've become such a nuisance, same as your sword." Liliana replies "I look forward into learning to use it when I toss you off my ship."
Ivy scoffs and replies "You'll never understand its power, but let me demonstrate what it can do for you." Then attacks by knocking Liliana's sword back, then does a spin to lift her left leg to hit Liliana in the face. She did avoid the incoming kick and ducks down, but Ivy quickly swings her sword forward the moment she misses her kick and extends her sword to strike against her chest.
Ivy finishes her off with a special attack of her own. The palm of her left hand glows blow, then aims her sword in the sky to expand the blade and break them off in the sky. Just as she contacts Liliana's body with her blue energy, some of the shards of her sword returns down to wrap themselves around her wrists and legs and lifts her up in the sky to have the front of her body facing down at the floor. As for the rest of the shards of her sword, Ivy swings the handle upwards towards her and all the shards of her sword went flying straight at Liliana and begin tearing her through across her body. The attack lifts Liliana a little higher and made her face upwards in the sky, then witness all the shards to come together and make one final attack to blast her in the chest and send her crashing hard through the floor.
Ivy sighs in relief to have it over and walks over to the hole she made for Liliana to crash through. She looks back at her sword, moved the sword closer to her face and touches the blade with her other hand "For better or worse… This sword is my fate." Then turns her eyes to the side to look at the mechanical device that was nearby on the floor. She then realise Kurama could still be in trouble if she does not take a hold of the situation with Vante.
Speaking of the two, Kurama got below deck and found herself with pirates surrounding her. In her fox form, she glows bright in gold and then expands outwards towards all the skeleton pirates. The moment the skeletons made contact with the glowing light, all of them collapse to the floor with no sign of their life controlling the bodies anymore. After it was over, Vante lands in front of Kurama and quickly attacks with both arms. She jumps back to avoid the punches, then charges in and tackles her to the ground and bites her metallic arm with her sharp teeth. Vante counters by waving her arm to the side, while still having Kurama's teeth still against her and punches her across the side of her face with her other hand to send her to the floor. After the punch, Vante fires her hand-rifle and force her to run along the side to avoid the incoming bullets. However, she was not that fast to avoid all of them, as one was enough to pierce the back of her leg and stops her from running around. She shot her again in the belly to bring more pain, but before anything else could happen, Liliana came smashing through the ceiling from behind them and cause the fight to end here.
Ivy came down through the hole she made and use her sword to help lower herself down. She held onto the device and shouts out to Vante "You'll do as I say and stop this at once!" And Vante stops her engagement with Kurama, obeyed the command to whoever holds the control device to control her and remain standing where she is.
With Vante no longer a problem, Kurama reverts back to her human form and stays down one, while the other leg that took a bullet stays straight and keeps both her hands against the two bullet holes that went through her leg and chest. Ivy runs up to her and crouches down in front of her to check her injuries.
"You don't look good."
"I noticed…" Kurama grinds her teeth at the pain over the injuries, but was about to get worse for her when she finally uses magic to pull the bullet out of her gut first and then try to heal when the bullet is in her hand.
During this time, the pirate skeletons that were away from the blast that Kurama did to the others would finally step into the scene and approaches the two while they are down. Ivy stands back up to see a lot more coming towards them, and was ready to fight them off by herself. However, her eyes look back to Vante, who remains looking back at them and awaiting for the command to do something. Ivy decides to see if this control device actually does its job and orders Vante to defend the two and attack the pirates. All it took was a few words from Ivy to awaken Vante and send her off to fight the skeletons on one side and have Ivy fight the other.
The next thing that surprises her next was the return of Liliana, who comes out among the pirates, unscathed, but was almost naked with only pink underwear and wears a red star-shaped pasties over her nipples. The only weapon she now carries is a small crossbow on her left hand.
"How is it that you're still alive?"
Liliana giggles and responds "The Swamp Witch is always watching over her servants. As much as I enjoy the fight, I must say my farewell. But first things first." She aims the crossbow towards Ivy, but then aims it towards Vante and fires it past Ivy to hit Vante across the right side of her waist. The arrow ignites through the air with a purple flames and an image of a screaming skeleton at the front of it. The blast damages Vante and burns much more of her body, and the damage was enough for two skeleton pirates to come in with their scimitars to strike her in the chest.
"You cursed soul! Leave this world!" Ivy shouts out and swings with her sword to destroy only three of the skeletons that stood in front of Liliana.
Liliana turns around and replies "Fare thee well, Ivy Valentine." She then departs from this scene and returns to the top deck. An a miraculous escape, Liliana releases a rope and sent her flying high above the top of one of the mast and then jumps high enough to suddenly vanish through the clouds. Without Liliana, the ship was about to make its last voyage down into the bottom of the valley below them.
The trembles of the ship was begging to cause the fight to end on both sides, as even the pirates wish to abandon the ship and try to take much of the gold with them. Ivy turns her attention back to Kurama and helps her up off the floor to help her reach to the hole on the side of the ship to escape. Before they leave, Kurama stops and looks back towards Vante, who remains damage and unknown what to do next.
"You're joking… Right?" Ivy asks her "She nearly killed you."
"She's no longer servant of that pirate wench. She shouldn't be destroyed like this…"
Ivy sighs and looks back to Vante "Guess Alaric is going to enjoy this… You. Follow me out of here."
The ship descends down onto the valley and crashes hard on the ground. Destroyed and torn apart, the ship lost the entire bottom of the ship and it even broke in two when it hit the ground. In the aftermath of the crash, Kurama flew away with Ivy and Vante on her back, but she was descending down pretty fast, due to the serious weight she is carrying and the injuries that still has not recover completely. It was even bad because Kurama was flying down onto the burning flames that continues to spread across the battlefield. Kurama would use her magic to change the weather of this land and bring a heavy rain down upon them to put out the purple fire. She kept it raining for over a minute, and when she finally lands onto the ground, she drops Ivy and Vante next to her and finally stops the rain. However, after using such power in her weaken condition, she collapses to the ground, exhausted over the use of her magic and the injuries she still feels.
On the ground, Alaric sprints through the muddy and burnt bodies of this field just to reach them. Tarnyang was beside her, but Tomoe was nowhere to be seen, as well as the entire army. As he approaches them, he focus his attention on Kurama and crouches down to place his hand over her head to see if she is okay. She licks his arm and finally reverse back to her humanoid form and remain laying down on the floor.
"Kurama…"
"She took some hits, but she'll be alright." Ivy replies
Kurama presses her hands down to help pull her upper body up to look up at Alaric. She smiles a little and replies "And the serious weight of two women was difficult too."
"Excuse me!" Ivy got angry at the mention of Kurama calling her fat "I'm not the one who wanted to bring back a walking machine!"
"Walking machine?" Alaric keeps his right hand against the top of Kurama's head and looks to the left towards Vante that stands next to Ivy. "Who is… That?"
"She's an automaton." Ivy replies and looks back to Kurama "She's the one that shot her."
"Seriously?"
"This automaton serves whoever is in possession of the device. Ivy controls it."
"Yes…" Her eyes look down at the device, then looks to Alaric and tosses it to him "But I don't want it."
"W-What?"
"You do whatever you want with it. Try not to do any weird stuff to it." She taps onto his arm with her sword when walking past him and walks away from the group.
"Wait, so did you defeat the pirate?" Tarnyang looks back to Ivy
She got cross over that and looks back to her to reply "Of course I defeated her… I wouldn't be here if I didn't." She then walks away and travels to the forest. "I need a hot bath…"
"Let's get you out of here." Alaric helps Kurama up off the ground and carries her in his arms. She remain leaning against him with her arms around his neck, her single tail wags back and forth and remain smiling to Alaric. He also leaves the device on her chest and allow Kurama to take control of Vante.
"Where are the others?" Kurama asks him
Tarnyang explains "Tomoe took over and help get as many of them far away from here. She plan to bring them through the forest, but with all the fire going around…" She turns her eyes and head at the smoking ruin of this valley, then turn her eyes towards the broken ship in the distance.
"Let's get out of here then."
"Actually… You guys can go on ahead." Tarnyang replies and looks back towards the broken ship "I have something to check out."
And so for half an hour later, the army was taking a break and made a large camp in the forest when they hear the fire problem was dealt with by Kurama. Kurama was put down to rest and leave Tomoe to join her shrine maiden sisters on bandaging the soldiers. Kurama would try to use her healing magic in those that really need it right now, but it was making things a little difficult for her to recover later.
Tomoe returns to Kurama to find her healing one last soldier before she had to lay back to recover. Tomoe comes closer to her, offers her a cup of water and she drinks it whole. "You should rest. It's okay to rest now."
"Not yet… I have to help them."
"They'll be alright. We're taking care of the ones in need. I'm here to take care of you."
Kurama sighs and lies back down "Such nice people you women are."
"I thought Alaric would be here to take care of you."
"He decided to go for a hunt. Probably wants to return to me with good food." Kurama faces up at the sky and smiles "What a man…"
Tomoe sits down on her knees and asks "What's he like? I've never seen you ever behave like this before."
"The happiness I have with him… He's the man I've been waiting for."
"He has… Quite the group of women that follows him."
"It must be a gift he wields. If you stay any closer to him, you'll find yourself joining his collection of women."
"W-What? He would never –"
"That man has already claimed me, and so do the others that are with him." Kurama smirks at Tomoe when saying this "He might actually try claiming you for his own pleasure. You've seen the way he satisfy them. He'll satisfy you if you ask him to."
". . . . ."
After that, Tomoe leaves her sight and returns to the other maidens. As she talks with them, her mind was fixating towards Alaric, and the thought of Echidna introducing him to her in bed was the thing she got nervous about. In the end, she chooses not to hide from this and decides to confront her worries directly towards Alaric himself.
He was still busy searching for an animal to kill, but found a boar and easily cuts it down with a good swing of his sword. After killing it, he looks back to his blades, worried that this new trick the King's Blade has done could lead to his defeat and the end of his journey. He only sighs over it, sheathed the two swords back into the sheath on his back and picks up the dead boar to carry it over his shoulders. Just as he walks back to camp, he stops and finds Tomoe approaching him with a straight face.
"It's you…" He mutters "Tomoe."
"Alaric… I haven't thanked you for what you've done here and what you've done for Hinomoto." Tomoe places her hands against her thighs and proceeds to bow. She remain looking down at the ground and continues "Without your strength and power, we wouldn't have won this battle by ourselves."
Alaric comes up to her, drops the boar on the ground next to him and places his left hand against the back of her head. She lifts her head up to see him looking down at her. "I should be thanking you, because without you offering to invite us into the shrine, then I'd probably wouldn't have met Kurama and the other women."
Tomoe smiles a little and tries to clear her throat before responding "Kurama wanted me to tell you that she'll be recovering well soon and can't wait to meet you again."
"That's a relief…" He moves his hand away to have Tomoe stand up straight and looks away from her "I can't wait to see her soon. And the rest of them too."
"You've developed quite a deep affection towards them all. I know they feel the same way towards you."
"They belong to me, and I'll protect them no matter what. I'll even stop them from clawing each other just to get close to me."
"But how do you do it?" Tomoe asks him before he could pick up the boar again. He stops to look back at her
"What do you mean?"
"I've met Echidna during my time in the Queen's Blade, and she's never once thought of ever get close to any man and only with a woman. And somehow she's with you."
"It's simple. I beat her at her own games. Now she belongs to me."
"T-That's…"
"Come on." Alaric brings the boar over his shoulder with only his left hand holding onto it and places his right hand around Tomoe's waist to get her to turn around "We got people to feed."
Tomoe remain quiet and little surprise at him grabbing her waist and remain keeping it around her until they make it to camp. She did not complain or spoke up on any of it, simply just walks beside him and continues looking forward and looking back down at his muscular arm keeping a good grip around her waist.
With them going to camp, Tarnyang would arrive first to see Ivy staring at Vante, who remains standing there and looking back towards her. Her stare with no sign of blinking was quite the annoyance and wishes that she does not stare all the time.
"Where's the instructions for this thing?" Ivy asks herself, then turn her attention towards Tarnyang "You've returned."
Tarnyang sits down in front of the campfire and facing towards Ivy. She drops the bag that is fill with gold and the lost prize she so desperately try to find.
"What did you find on that ship?" Ivy asks her
"That's none of your business."
Ivy scoffs "It is my business, considering that I help bring down that ship in the first place. Was the riches on that ship so important to you?"
"Thing lost relic is far important that just riches… And yeah, I stole some gold trinkets too."
Ivy sighs and turns her head away "Unbelievable." She then spots Alaric in the distance with Tomoe walking beside him and still carrying the boar over his back. She thought to herself "Don't tell me that she's going to be his next… Well, at least he didn't meet that pirate wench."
Tomoe goes to take her seat beside Tarnyang and looks at Vante that remains standing. She asks Alaric "Who is she?"
"She's an automaton from what I heard." His eyes look to Ivy for a second and then back to the dead boar he drops in front of him.
"You sure know how to hunt." Tarnyang replies with shock look on her face and eager to have this for tonight.
"I lived in a tribe, so I know a thing or two about hunting." He draws one of his swords to begin cutting up the boar
"Is it broken?" Ivy asks when looking back towards him.
"It's not broken…" He looks at her, then back to the dead boar and starts cutting the fur off its body "I just didn't know this could happen."
"Don't you know anything about the sword?" Tarnyang asks him
"I only know its destructive power and how it was made… I found no instructions of the sword breaking in two. Either way, I'll get used to it."
"You ever dual wielded before?"
"Of course. My father sai –" He suddenly stop what he was doing and remain frozen for a couple of seconds at the mention of his father. He stays like this for five seconds, then finally replies "It's better to handle all kinds of weapons."
Ivy was the first to catch up on that pause moment and the mention of his father. She asks him "Not sociable with your father, I take it."
Alaric looks to Ivy and replies "You have no idea…"
"I know that feeling."
"What's wrong with you and your father?" Tarnyang asks
Alaric leans back and looks to Tarnyang "Many of my scars came from battle, but I know some that came from my father."
"Why would your father do such a thing to you?" Tomoe asks
"There was a time I rebelled against his wishes, and look where it got me…" He sighs and shakes his head "But he did more than just this."
"I'm sure with that sword, you should pay him a visit and end it." Ivy replies
He looks back to his sword for a moment and then looks to Ivy "I've already done that. But I didn't kill him. I take it you killed your father?"
Ivy nods "Yes." Then gets a slight surprise from Alaric, as he was just kidding about the last part. "He deserved to die, and died by my sword."
As the boar was finally ready to eat, Alaric stands up and lifts his head up to find Kurama in her fox form, coming down and surprising them all when she comes to tackle Alaric onto the floor. She remain on top of him, placed her paws against his shoulders and remain wagging her single tail.
"H-Hey!" He laughs and moves his hands across her head to scratch her chin and pat her head "Take it easy…"
"My lady! This is not what how you behave." Tomoe stands up and left surprise at her "And you shouldn't be wondering around like this."
She ignores her and the others that protest against this, and just enjoys the soft touch of his hands rubbing against her fur and rewards him by licking his arms. As she did that, his arm twitches and moves away from her, due to the sudden pain over the burns that he still got from his fight from Thurak. The burns across his chest and both arms still remain as a problem to him, but she continues licking his arms and chest, then suddenly making the pain go away. He sighs deeply over this and thought to himself "This… Actually feels good…" And thinks of an image in his mind of an illusion of witnessing Kurama in her humanoid form, wrapping her arms around his arm and continues licking his arm, as well as a horny expression on her face. It even got better when Kurama lowers her head down to lick his chest to really give him such a good turn on, which got him moaning and feel himself getting harden over this fun sensation she was giving him.
After finally satisfying herself by marking her mate, Kurama finally got off of him and finally reverts back to her humanoid form. She fixes her hair and her clothes, then sits down where Alaric would sit and watches him prepare the meat for everyone to eat together. Only Vante remain out of this, and remains as a sentinel to watch the others.
"Hmmm, this is not that bad." Ivy replies
Tomoe nods "Yes. Shame the others aren't here to eat this."
"So, you cooked this?" Kurama asks "You brought the boar and deliver food for all of us. You are definitely the right man to marry."
Alaric scoffs when trying to eat a piece and looks to Kurama smiling back at her. Kurama looks towards Vante and asks Alaric "You going to name her?"
Alaric looks to Kurama, then to Vante and asks "Do you even have a name?"
Vante responds with "Gaon!" And Alaric responds "So, Vante it is then."
"What? Where did you get Vante?" Ivy asks him
"She said it."
"You understand her?"
"You didn't hear her say Vante?"
"No."
"Hmmm…" Confused, Alaric looks back at Vante and she just remains quiet
Kurama intervenes and asks "So… What were you all talking about before I got here?"
"About family problems."
"Really?"
"Yes. I settled my score with my father long ago and used the King's Blade to defeat him. You see, I had two people on my mind I wanted to defeat with this sword. I defeated my father with this, and now…" He pause for a moment and looks at the fire, then pictures a certain female character in his mind and replies "I have to defeat her."
"Her?"
"That woman…" Kurama asks "You mentioned her when you were with me. What is she to you?"
Alaric looks to her and moves his right hand behind her to pat her head. "Let's just say that she's the one who got away from me."
"What a lucky girl." Ivy replies "And who is she?"
"You may have known her…" He looks towards Ivy and says "She won the Queen's Blade."
"It's her?!" Tomoe raise her voice with surprise and asks him "You're going to fight her?"
"Yes. We did promise to settle things once and for all, so the next time I challenge her… It'll end."
"Who is she?" Tarnyang asks him "I've known little about the Queen's Blade and don't know who rules the throne."
Alaric explains "Where I come from, we have these matches between different tribes where we test our greatest warriors against each other. She suddenly showed up, carrying the banner of a tribe that died out ages ago, and yet she survives with the thirst for battle and victory. She defeated all of us…. And I included, but I still wanted to face her again. I fought her three times, but she promise the next time I challenge her again, it'll be a battle to the death."
"Hmmm, maybe she used that as an excuse to get you off her back." Ivy replies
"Perhaps. I saw her face and she really meant what she said to me that day." His eyes glare down at the fire in front of him, remembering that day he last fought her in a private battle and only she was left standing.
The battle ends with Alaric losing his single sword, his most favourite blade he forge in the blacksmith when he was old enough to make his own weapon. His sword took one more hit and shatters into pieces, but things did not end there, as the woman comes in with a spin and a hard kick against his chin to send Alaric flying high and crashing hard onto the floor and struggle to get back up. His opponent, the now known ruler of the Queen's Blade, showing little damage done to her, despite wearing an outfit that was quite revealing and still made Alaric struggle to land a decisive blow against her. She came up to him with calm expression on her face, looks down at him with her single sword. Her name is Tier Harribel. [From Bleach. That's right, it's her.]
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To be continued.