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Growing Harem
Fenris watched as Naomi blocked the wolf's claws. She'd been training hard, apparently less desperate and more determined to stay with him than he initially thought. He had to respect that. And he also kind of liked it. It was different having a girl actually want to be with him. Not that she was the first, but it wasn't exactly common. Especially after they had seen what he was really like.
Naomi finally killed the wolf and walked over, beaming happily, hoping for a compliment. Fenris rolled his eyes, pushing off the tree he was leaning on.
"Don't look at me," he said. "I don't do compliments."
He walked away and she followed, contented smile remaining in place, seeming so genuine and so bright that it actually seemed to be lightening the forest around them. He mostly ignored it, keeping his hand on his short sword and eyes scanning the bushes in case something decided to surprise them. After a little while, Naomi's hand slipped into his free one and he sighed heavily.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I'm holding your hand," she smiled.
"And why are you holding my hand?" he asked.
"Because I want to," she smiled.
He rolled his eyes, not bothering to respond. He had already learned that she could be stubborn when it came to showing him her affection. They walked in silence for a while before stopping as they entered a clearing where a group of what looked like Melromarc soldiers were standing around a woman, judging by the screams, and were tearing bits of fabric away as several of them held her down.
"That's it, keep screaming!" one of the soldiers grinned wickedly. "Ain't no one around here to save you!"
Naomi looked up at Fenris as he watched the scene with one eyebrow quirked. He glanced at her as she put her hands on her hips, giving him a stern look. Finally, he sighed, drawing his shortsword and walking forward.
"Alright, that's enough," Fenris said, all of the soldiers spinning toward him, several grabbing their swords.
"Who the hell are you!?" one of them demanded.
"You know, I don't mind some public sex, it's actually kind of fun," Fenris said. "And some rough shit, maybe a little force, some domination, that shit's all perfectly fine. But I think I'll have to draw the line at outright rape."
"You'd better take your little whore and leave if you know what's good for you," one of the soldiers snarled.
"Excuse me!?" Naomi shrieked. "Whore!?"
"Shut up whore," Fenris said. "The name fits and you know it. Or do I need to remind you about the circumstances around you joining me?"
"I think I could stand to be reminded," Naomi smiled seductively.
"Jeez," Fenris grumbled. "Maybe whore is too nice a word. Anyway, as I said, I'm going to have to draw a line at outright rape, so you'll have to let whoever you've got there go."
"We warned you," the soldier said as he and three others drew their swords, drawing themselves up and starting forward with their thick breastplates and gauntlets.
Fenris rolled his eyes. "Soldiers. I don't know what it is. Every single one of you have this massive, heavy upper-body armor and act like it makes you invincible."
The three soldiers all charged and Fenris ducked out of the way of the first soldier's sword, driving his short sword up through the man's genitals and out through his ass, the man's high shriek of pure agony echoing as Fenris spun around him, ripping the sword out before deflecting a slash from the next soldier. As the soldier was off balance, Fenris stabbed between the man's thighs, the edges of his sword slicing into the man's femoral arteries. The soldier dropped with a shout of surprise and pain before the last one slashed at Fenris, his shield held in front of his legs.
"Now that's just stupid," Fenris said, spinning out of the way of the man's sword and lopping his head off. "Next?"
Behind Fenris, the man whose Femoral Arteries he had cut was just finishing bleeding out, and the man he had stabbed was still screaming in agony, too pained to wake up.
The rest of the soldiers charged and Fenris smirked, sheathing his short sword before drawing his broad sword and wading into them, sword splitting them open, breastplates and all. After barely a few seconds, he finished the last one, leaving only the one he had stabbed. He rested the point of his sword on the blood-soaked ground as he turned to the front, raising an eyebrow again as he took in the sight before him. The woman they had been assaulting was a blonde with a pair of huge tits, probably low D cups, a round, perfectly formed ass, her hair reaching the small of her back, and currently wearing the tattered remains of her left sleeve and some of the side of her shirt hanging from it, and nothing else, everything else having been ripped away. She covered her chest with her arms, using her legs to hide her shaved womanhood.
Fenris let out a long, low whistle before pulling out a rag and beginning to wipe the blood off of his sword. "I can see why they targeted you. You've got an amazing figure. You don't look too hurt. Maybe a few scrapes. Obviously shaken up a bit, but that's understandable." He sheathed his sword. "Alright. Let's go." He ripped one of the soldiers' bloody capes off and tossed it to her. "You can cover yourself with that, if you want."
He turned, beginning to walk back toward Naomi, who was facing back the way they had come from, looking back at him and smiling.
"W...Wait!" the blonde shouted. "W...Where are...you taking me?"
"The nearest place we can buy you some new clothes," Fenris said. "Unless you enjoy being naked. Either way, we'll get you a room at the next village and some clothes and drop you off there."
"Wha...that's it?" the blonde asked. "You don't...you're not going to...ask for repayment? For saving me?"
"I mean, I wasn't going to ask, but you're offering I won't refuse," Fenris said, looking back at her.
"I wasn't offering you asshole!" she snapped before calming down. "What I mean is...why? Why are you...helping me for free?"
"Fuck if I know," Fenris shrugged. "Truthfully, I'm usually more inclined to never do anything without payment. Fuck that's how I met this slut." He jabbed a thumb at Naomi, who smiled happily. "But I'm just not feeling it this time. So, I'm just going to make sure you get to the next town safely."
Just then, the still-alive soldier they had all been ignoring the screaming of so far rolled, grabbing Fenris by the ankle, only for Naomi's sword to impale his face, narrowly missing Fenris's leg on the way.
"Hands off my man," Naomi snarled.
Fenris rolled his eyes, setting his head on the man's head and levering the sword forward and back for a moment before finally working it free. "You comin or not?"
The blonde stood slowly, watching them for another moment before walking over as Naomi cleaned and sheathed her sword, then wrapped her arms around one of Fenris's. Then, they all headed into the capital together in silence.
Fenris threw the clothes at the blonde, who shouted in surprise before catching them. "Try those on. They should fit, more or less."
"Thank you," she said as Fenris turned back to the door. "Who are you?"
Fenris paused, hand on the door handle. "I'm just a heartless bastard who will do just about anything for money, and whose lack of morals would probably make a tyrant and a his ten personal prostitutes all run to church."
Then, he walked out of the room, closing the door behind himself, only to find Naomi waiting for him.
"Care to remind me why I came with you?" Naomi asked seductively.
"Nope," Fenris said, turning and walking away, Naomi following with a pout.
Fenris headed to the bar in the ground floor of the inn and got a bottle of liquor, taking a large swig. Beside him, Naomi got a pint of ale and they drank in silence for a few minutes before the blonde sat on Fenris's other side. Her cheeks were still pink, as they had been since they had found her, but she seemed calmer now. She was wearing a tight white blouse that was too small so it was open most of the way down her cleavage, and a pair of pants made of the same stretchy material as Naomi's, both of which hugged their legs like a second skin. Fenris had also had Naomi buy her some panties and a pair of shoes.
"Thank you," she said. "I didn't say it before, and I acted ungrateful, so...thank you."
"Don't mention it," Fenris said, taking another swig. "Hey Naomi, you feel like doing a bounty or a clean-up job next?"
"Hm," Naomi hummed thoughtfully, taking a drink. "Clean-up. Usually a little less leering with those."
"Oh right, because you're obviously so shy about your body," Fenris snorted.
"Hey, just because I offer it to you doesn't mean that it's available for anyone to enjoy," Naomi said.
"Right," Fenris said. "Only whoever I tell you to fuck."
"I told you I was joking about that!" Naomi snapped.
"Mhm, sure you were you little whore," Fenris said.
"Aren't you even going to ask my name?" the blonde asked.
"Are you going to be traveling with us?" Fenris asked.
"No," the blonde said.
"Then there's no point," Fenris said. "Bye."
"So I was thinking that maybe tonight we could go out to dinner," Naomi said, smiling. "Maybe make it special. Then when we get back-"
"No," Fenris said. "I've told you, don't make this into something it's not. I only let you tag along because you're a halfway decent fuck."
"Halfway?" Naomi asked, raising an eyebrow. "I'm getting better."
Fenris snorted, taking another drink. "Yeah, maybe in another ten years I'll actually enjoy myself for the first time."
"You're a fucking pig!" the blonde spat. "What the hell's wrong with you? How can you treat her like...like a toy!?"
"Oh, are you still here?" Fenris asked. "I could have sworn I told you to get lost."
"Maybe she wants to fuck you too," Naomi said.
Fenris snorted. "She should only be so lucky."
Beside him, the blonde's face flushed with fury and indignation.
"Oh right, because you're some great prize specimen!" the blonde scoffed.
"Oh, he is," Naomi said. "When we fucked the first time, it lasted for hours."
The blonde's jaw actually dropped and her eyes bugged out of her head.
"Hm, you may be right," Fenris smirked, going to take a drink, only for the blonde's hand to hit the bottle from below, making him drop it and spilling it all over himself. "Well that's a waste. Any reason you just made me spill my drink?"
"You're a disgusting piece of filth!" the blonde spat, drawing a lot of attention, though she didn't notice. "I'm shocked anyone would want to touch you! Much less sleep with you! I sure as hell don't! I'd rather that group you saved me from every day than you once! You're repulsive! You deserve to be castrated and tortured until you die of old age!"
"Probably," Fenris nodded, completely unfazed by her outburst.
"How can you just agree to that!?" she shrieked. "If you know you're a horrible person, why the hell don't you do something about it!"
"I do," Fenris said. "I do Naomi."
"Not very often," Naomi complained.
The blonde just stared at the pair of them incredulously.
"Listen tits, be-"
"DID YOU JUST CALL ME TITS! ? !" the blonde shrieked indignantly.
"Yes I did," Fenris said calmly. "As I was saying-"
"HOW DARE YOU! ? !"
"Very easily," Fenris said. "Can I answer your first question now?"
"YOU A FUCKI-" she was cut off by Fenris covering her mouth.
"You're going to blow my eardrums, and you're going to get us all kicked out," Fenris said, the blonde's cheeks instantly turning scarlet as she suddenly realized everyone was staring. "As I was saying, yes, I'm a horrible, wicked, immoral piece of shit. And I fucking love it. I don't do anything about it because being a horrible person is fun. If you just don't care what anyone says about you, everything is so much easier. You don't have to worry about impressing women or not. You don't have to worry about following some knight's code-"
"You'd never be accepted as a knight!" the blonde scoffed.
"No shit," Fenris said. "But you're missing the point. I answer to no one but myself, and I love it. it's freeing. It's fun. I go where I want, when I want, and I don't care what anyone has to say about me."
The blonde remained silent for a long while. "You're despicable."
"And you're sexy as fuck," Fenris said, the blonde's face flushing scarlet. "Now that we've got the obvious shit out of the way, you coming with us or what?"
The blonde remained silent and immobile as Fenris and Naomi walked out of the room, Fenris holding up three fingers and counting down. As his last finger dropped, the blonde stepped out of the bar.
"Wait for me!" she huffed, storming over and walking beside him, arms crossed. "You're unbearable."
"And yet here you are," Fenris said. "So, you going to tell me your name, or should I keep calling you Tits?"
The blonde swung at him and he ducked under it before continuing to walk. "My name's Eileen, you...pig!"
"Flatterer," Fenris said.
Eileen crossed her arms, huffing and looking to the side. After a few minutes, they reached Erhard's shop and he looked up, eyes widening as he saw Eileen.
"Let me guess," Erhard said. "You kidnapped and raped her and now she wants to follow you so you'll rape her again."
"Nah," Fenris said. "I actually saved this one from being raped."
"Really?" Erhard asked, eyebrows rising. "I didn't realize you could be such a gentlemen."
"The last thing he should ever be called is a gentlemen!" Eileen snapped.
"Well at least this one has a normal person's reaction to your personality," Erhard said. "So, what kind of weapon do you want?"
"Something I can stab his eyes out with," Eileen said.
Erhard laughed. "I like her."
"Yeah, she's alright," Fenris shrugged.
"Hey!" Naomi said. "Why does she get to be alright but you never say anything nice about me?"
"Because you're a whore who's following me around just because she wants my dick," Fenris said.
"That's true," Naomi smiled, Erhard shaking his head.
"Just get me a bow," Eileen sighed heavily, face resting in her right hand as her left crossed her abdomen and supported her right elbow.
Erhard walked to the back of the store and brought out a silver bow with a black grip with a small metal spike extending from the top and bottom of the grip toward the front. Eileen tested the pull-strength before nodding and accepting a silver hip-mounted quiver of arrows. Fenris payed, as well as getting his own arrows restocked, then left, both girls following.
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A.N.: Recommendations for other girls in his inevitable harem. Also, does anyone know the name of the chick with the spear hero who has the braid?