Mother's Intimate Loyal Faith: Chapter 3 - To Avoid Misunderstandings

"Aaaaassh~"

"What are you waiting for, Aaash~?"

"Come on, we're waitiiiiinnngg~"

Ash couldn't help but smile as he was tugged forward by both his arms. On one side, he was greeted by the kind smile of Lana, and on the other was Lillie with an expression that was just as excited. Looking forward, all he could see was a bed, and lying on top of it in such a sultry pose was the end to the trio, Mallow. She licked her lips as he was guided closer to the bed's edge, her arms up above her head as she turned onto her waist, delighting the man further as the weight of her breasts were left with no other option but to jiggle off to the side.

"Go get her, big guy!" Ash was taken by surprise as he was suddenly forced to fall onto the bed, his body landing on something much softer than the bedsheets. He slowly opened his eyes to see a familiar sight beneath him: wonderfully tanned legs leading up into her torso, which held in place two wonderful orbs of flesh, and further up was the kind smile of the girl he loved, her twin ponytails of green hair pushed to either side of her head.

"Mallow..." Ash felt as if he couldn't speak. He was mesmerized by her image. He was completely smitten by everything about her. She slowly brought her arms up around his neck, joining her hands together behind it as she gently pulled him closer. Ash felt his inner urge start to reveal itself as his eyes focused on her chest, but he managed to push it back as he noticed the girl's head tilt upward slightly, her lips pursing forward as she closed her eyes. He was more than happy to grant her wish as he touched his lips against hers, their usual sense of hunger and lust being entirely absent in the moment. Instead, all they did was kiss. Just gently kissing, not to satiate their urges, but to simply stay together. Neither one wanted to open their eyes so that they could focus all their senses on their melding body parts, the woman's thigh wrapping around his torso as one of his hands caressed down the middle of her back until it stopped on one of her backside's bubbly cheeks. Ash finally couldn't take it anymore, slowly opening his eyes and about to ask if she was ready. He first met her gentle jade eyes as they shone, her green hair still pushed out to the sides. Had it grown...? Whatever. The soft light on her cheeks, and how smooth it looked...though it also seemed more...mature? Whatever. His eyes glanced downward, forcing to look past her greatest achievements as they took in the sight of her smooth thighs. And how plump they appeared to be...He had never thought she gave him this much of a soft handful. Whatever. Then taking in every inch of her skin from her waist upward, he finally looked to reach the golden pinnacle. He ignored the pleasuring warmth at his waist from which he could only assume were the two girls who got tired of waiting, and only focused his attention on the glorious breasts between their bodies. And how round, how bountiful, how large and fully matur- ...Wait a second. Ash pulled his head back to give a careful look up and down of her entire figure. Oh god, this...isn't Mallow!

"It's okay, baby, mama Rosie's here for you~"


Ash's eyes snapped open. He couldn't even focus enough to move or adjust to reality as he was subconsciously haunted by that mental image. Rosa, naked as the day she was born, in his embrace. He lifted his arm from his side to rub his eyes, hoping to somehow rid himself of the fatigue causing said trouble, but he felt himself stopped by something. He opened his fist to press his hand against this unknown obstacle, learning that it was...soft. And smooth. And moving his hand along it, he found it to be...shapely...

"Ohn? Aahl ghou uhgahke?"

Then reality finally decided to set in. First glancing to the side where his hand was, he noticed something...fleshy. Familiarly fleshly. And to confirm his suspicions, he glanced to the other side of him: yep, same thing. So, seeing as how he could tell his head was still resting on his pillow...that only left one possibility. And with a single glance upward, his eyes no longer found the ceiling. Instead, they found a familiar gap. Oh, and did I mention there is a sopping heat on his dick? 'Cause there's that, too. "W-W-What the hell-?!"

"Ssh," the trainer's eyes widened as his face was suddenly plastered with heat. He tried to pull himself away from the unknown assailant's loins, but they quickly pushed onto him again. He felt the legs readjust on either side of his head so she simply sat on top of him, giving him no chance of escape: so many questions were going through his mind at this time. Who was this woman? Why was this happening, of course, to him? How could he possibly come to fully convince the three mothers today that he was fully devoted to staying with their daughters? But most importantly...Why the hell was this happening to him?! These thoughts were suddenly ripped apart from his mind as he felt a soft disconnect from his tip down below, hearing the quiet audible 'pop' in the room, before it was followed by something...new.

Ash felt a very disgruntled groan from his throat as he felt his member engulfed once more, but it wasn't just that act that caught him off-guard. It was also the fact that he felt the lips reach the skin around the base of his dick. In all of the past year, with several encounters with three different women (five, if you count the two accidents), he had never felt before a woman fit his entire length in a blowjob. Having sex was different: given how much continual practice the three girls were having with taking Ash inside, they had gradually adjusted and been able to fit Ash's length inside no problem. But sucking was a bit of a different scenario. They couldn't exactly expand their throats at will, like the muscles between their legs, so blowjobs always had a limit to where he could feel their tongues/lips reach. But this moment right now just shattered that barrier. He clenched his eyes shut as he felt a tongue run down along the entirety of his shaft, before it started to circle around the base of his shaft while clinging to his skin like a second layer. Ash was in shock as he felt a familiar pressure start to rise from the sack of skin below, his mind going into panic at the feeling. He couldn't deny that this felt amazing and he wanted to blow as soon as he could, but one thing forced him to hold back: Who is this woman?!

Then his control was torn from his grasp as the woman began to gag on him. Bobbing her head up and down his entire length, all he could hear in the room was the deep gagging sounds and gargling of her forcing him down his throat, the sloppy wet sensation of her tongue gliding along his shaft coated in saliva. Ash's eyes opened with a focus on one goal. And it was no longer holding back.

The room was suddenly welcomed by a surprised 'yelp' from the woman, though it was muffled by his length reaching down to her throat before it quickly turned to a deep moan. And this was all thanks to Ash's tongue plunging inside of the entrance that was currently covering his face, as well as one of his hands reaching up and over to grab a handful of the flesh above his forehead. The man could tell he caught the woman by surprise by how her thighs suddenly tightened around his head, as well as her lips tightening around him down below. But he knew one thing: this wasn't Mallow, Lana or Lillie. Because those three knew he wouldn't stop at just this.

He felt the woman's squeal reverberate on his shaft as his opposite hand reached around the front of the woman's waist, two fingers plunging inside just below his tongue. And clearly this was enough from him: Ash suddenly felt his head clamped onto like a vise, his face getting hotter as his tongue was drenched with fluids that ran down into his mouth. Thanks to repetition with the girls and considering how his head had no chance to move, he drank down these juices without a problem. A year ago he might have considered this to be kind of weird or gross, but at the same time, considering what the girls constantly do for him...This was the least he could do in return.

Well, that, as well as his powerful climax. The woman gagged as she felt his hips buck upward from beneath her, his dick plunging down into her throat as the tip exploded in a white sticky stream. Ash may not have been able to see her reaction to his sudden comeback, but given his practice in the past year, he could come to tell without having to look when a girl's eyes rolled to the back of her head as he ejaculates into her mouth. He could hear her occasionally cough, clearly taken aback by the volume of his release, feeling a small amount drip down the side of his member past her lips. As her lips popped off of his tip, he heard her gulp down what was blocking her airway before inhaling deeply. Ash smirked as it took her almost a minute before she could regain a normal pace of breathing, but he could still feel his dick give a twitch down below. No way was it ending here.

He heard the woman gasp as he suddenly reached his hands up and found her shoulders, holding them before flipping their bodies so that he landed on top of her. One knee planted firmly at her entrance, his hands now pinning her wrists down on the bedsheets, he came to take in the sight of his assailant. Glancing down, he first noticed that he had previously been beneath a blue skirt on her waist-

No...

He then noticed her top had started to ride up the moment they had flipped, the tip of his dick poking gently against the woman's stomach while the pale blue blouse began to reveal the underside of her navy blue bra-

Nooo...

Moving past that, Ash came to finally have a look at the face of the woman who had mounted his face in his sleep. And unfortunately for Ash - her lips parted slightly as she still had a slight pant to her breathing, as well as the very familiar shine in her eyes that Ash had come to enjoy - he recognized her in an instant.

Nooooooooooo!

"I must say, Ash...I never...expected...that vigor..." her quiet sultry tone only made Ash more uneasy. His heart began to beat against the inside of his chest. The throbbing in his member now became questionable. But most importantly...He had to get the hell out of here. The trainer lurched backward and crawled awkwardly in desperation, going right off the edge of the bed into a hard impact with the floor. "I will admit...I do believe now that Lana is getting more than enough satisfaction for her needs..."

"Oww...H-Hold on a sec...!" Ash's mind went into overdrive as he sat up holding his head, noticing the woman now on all fours near the edge of the bed with her head held close to his. Ash began to worry more as that shine was still in her eyes...

"Now, now, young man, what's your hurry?~" He pushed himself back along the floor, noticing her slip one foot off the side of the bed towards the floor.

"M-Marina, stop-!" Ash tensed up as he felt his back hit a wall. He quickly glanced over his shoulder to confirm that he had actually reached the limit of going in that particular direction, cursing himself as he scrambled to his feet. In his mind's desperate attempts to prevent this from continuing, he subconsciously turned his body away from the woman near the bed, his hands covering his clear excitement.

"Come now, Ash...I'm sure that neither my Lana or you are satisfied enough with just that~" the trainer's whole body froze as he suddenly felt another body press up against his back, a pair of arms gliding along his forearms before finding his hands covering his shame.

"M-Marina!" Ash's protests were pointless as the woman brought one hand back between their bodies, sliding down between their waists. Ash could only make one assumption at what she was doing as she began to breath heavier against his back, a sharp gasp mixed in every so often, as her opposite hand tried to sneak past the fight against his own hands to reach the source of this predicament. "Marina, stop this! What are you doing?!"

"...Don't get me wrong, Ash...I am sorry for this..." Ash's tenseness began to slacken. Where was this sudden gentle tone coming from...? "...I know this is wrong...A mother should never do something like this with someone so young...much less someone with my own daughter...But...I just...I just want to protect her...and make sure she's...that she has a happy future with someone...she loves..."

"...Marina...You don't have to-" Ash's voice cut off as he lost the battle before he even realized. In the moment he had let his guard down, the woman's hand found a firm grasp on his member. And it was restless.

"...But when I heard that my Lana was already intimate with you...and not only that, but you're intimate with two other girls...I became suspicious..." Ash bit his lip as he felt her palm stroke up and down his length, adding a playful squeeze every so often. "And I admit, as a mother, my first thought was that you were lying to them...Just saying that they want, only to get their bodies...and eventually run away..."

"N...No...I would never..." Ash grunted, the woman suddenly tightening her grip on him.

"...I know," her whisper in his ears only confused him further. "...I do believe in you, Ash, you're a good boy. At least, I want to believe in you. But at the same time...Staying together with three different girls, and all three of them being okay with it...A part of me couldn't let go of the feeling that there was something. Something that made the girls okay with it...Something that kept them with you...Something that made them crumble in your hands..." Ash could feel her breath getting closer to his ear as she spoke, her waist suddenly bucking against his butt with her hand still between them. He tried to squirm his body away from hers, but she pressed herself against his as soon as she could, her chin resting on his shoulder as she panted from her own finger's work. "...And now...I think it's safe to say...I found it~"

"M-Mari-Hah!" Ash's voice cut into a sharp gasp as he felt her other hand find its place on his skin sack. The woman smiled as she noticed in the side of her eye his face contort in a mixture of pleasure and shame, feeling her mind start to go blank as one hand stroked his length and the other fondled his precious twins below. It had been a few years since Marina had been devastated with the news of her late husband, and she had never had the courage nor the desire to move on from the man she loved. They had children together, so she felt it would only be uncomfortable to have her kids meet and get along with a new man, much less find one who is okay with a woman who's already a mother. So she raised her children alone: years of being a single mother striving for no other goals than to raise her children right and make sure they're happy, she couldn't help but start to feel lonely. And of course, that played into her sex drive.

Her husband was the only man she had ever been with. So ever since his death, she had been in a sort of...sexual drought. And without the desire to meet another man, or the privacy to herself from her children running around the house, she barely ever had the time to be satisfying her own needs. Which is why right now, recalling reflex memories of her time with her husband, she couldn't focus on anything else other than Ash's body.

His dick was warm. His balls were warm. His entire body - her skin against his - everything about it was warm. And she had never realized before yesterday, in those years without her husband...she had missed it so much. She missed him. She missed his love. But against her will...to the desires of her body...she missed the sex.

So now, her body refused to let go. She wanted this. She needed this. What about Lana, you might ask? She hated it more than anyone...but her body refused to listen to reason. And not only that, it was eager. And that was not only because she was finally getting the sexual release she's needed for so long: it's because Ash was much larger than her husband.

"M-Marina...Please..." the woman felt a heatwave in her loins at his low tone, forcing herself to bite her lip as her legs began shifting uncomfortably. "...I...I can't...Any further...and..."

"...You'll lose control?" Ash clenched his eyes shut, giving a slow nod as he tried to focus on anything other than her handiwork on his genitals. She glanced curiously towards his eyes, staring at him intently as she wondered why he wanted to back out of this. Did he really not want to do this? Was that possible for a healthy young man to not want sex? Or was it...he not only wanted sex...because he truly cared for Lana?

Lana. The moment her daughter came to her mind, the woman's hands stopped. Ash sighed a breath of relief, not even caring that her hands remained in contact with him. As long as the stroking stopped, he could manage to hold back. But Marina was stuck in thought of her daughter. Whenever she had talked to her daughter in the past year, she was happier than she had ever seen. No doubt because of the sexual prowess of the young man in her grasp that she had gotten a sample of minutes earlier. But...maybe that wasn't all there was to it. Could she...love Ash? She certainly had her suspicions when they attended pokemon school, considering how often Lana was teased by her younger twin siblings about Ash being her boyfriend, but she never thought Lana would take an interest in boys. But now that she knew they were having sex...Was loving a boy really out of her daughter's capability?

"...Marina...?" Ash was almost hesitant to say anything in this situation. He was almost afraid that breaking her from her thoughts would make her go right back to her handiwork on his dick, which he would not be able to last against. He could feel it. But he only felt the woman rest her forehead against the back of his shoulder, breathing quietly.

"...Do you love my daughter...?"

"...W-What?"

"I asked if you love Lana."

"...Of course I do."

"But you also love Lillie? And Mallow?"

"A-Ah...Y-Yeah. I'm sorry, but...I do love all three of them."

"...And you truly do promise...to make them all happy...?"

"Of course I will, they're...they're everything to me."

"..."

"..."

"...Please keep that promise..."

"I know you have your doubts about me because of this situation, Marina, but I do swear...I promise to keep them- Nngh!"

"The futures of her children are everything to a mother, Ash...I'm entrusting you with Lana's happiness..."

"M-Marina...What are you doinggg...?!"

"And I would never want my daughter to hate me...so I can't help but feel like a terrible mother for this..."

"Marina...S-Stop...Any more and I-I'll-!"

"Do it..." Ash heard his own heartbeat get faster, but it felt more like it slowed down like time around him. He clenched his teeth together as the woman's hands started stroking faster in their movements along his shaft, urging on another climax. "I know a mother shouldn't do this with her daughter's lover...You should never have seen this side of me...But I..."

"M-Marina...!" Ash grunted as she hastened her stroking even more, Ash struggling against the soft friction of both of her palms. He felt her shallow breathing on the edge of his ear, her lower lip grazing against his earlobe.

"I can't...help myself...Ever since the sight of you and Rosie...And now the feeling of this..." he felt a squeeze on his member, which only prompted a twitch in response. Damn his hormones! "My brain knows this is wrong...but my body won't listen...My body needs this, Ash...!"

"Marina, please-!" he felt a pair of lips on his cheek. Followed by the slow graze of her tongue.

"Cum for me..." the trainer's mind stopped at the combination of those words and the sensation of her tongue finding the corner of his mouth. He felt the end of his upper lip sucked between her teeth, her tongue snaking its way to the opening of his mouth. "I'll trust you to keep Lana happy...but for right now...It's been too long since a man has cum for me, Ash...Don't hold it back...! Please cum for me, Ash!"

The trainer stood no chance against her begging sexual deprivation. The woman glanced down as she felt his dick twitching in her hands, feeling a burning sensation in her loins as she watched spurt after spurt of the white liquid splash onto the wall. She felt her eyesight begin to glaze over from her sexual repression begin to bubble over, clearly starting to take over her body. The main evidence there being that she had just jacked off her daughter's boyfriend until climax.

And that thought is what brought her back to reality. Her mind suddenly registered the sight of Ash's jizz all over the wall, as well as on her hands. The trainer felt her slowly release her grip from her and pull herself away from him, Ash almost being too nervous to move because of what just happened. Unable to resist a curious glance over his shoulder, he saw the woman staring down at her hands, his sperm still coating her fingers as it began to drip onto the floor. And the woman only stared.

"...Marina...?" no response. Having realized the gravity of everything she had just done, the woman was in no mental condition to respond to anything. All she could do was think about the fact that she - as if in no control of her own body - had just engaged in her first sexual acts in years...with her daughter's boyfriend. How...How could she do this?!

But contrary to what was going through her mind, Ash was witnessing an entirely different response to the situation. With no knowledge of the self-disappointment and shame going through her head, the trainer was watching the sight of something he was slightly familiar with, but had never considered with this specific person. Lana's mother was eagerly sucking his jizz off of her hands. Sure, he had seen Lana and even the other girls do this plenty of times, but...the sight of Lana's mother doing this...This was bad.

"Ash...I-" the woman gasped as she felt her body suddenly collapse onto the bed, her wrists being held down on either side of her head. Then she noticed the look in Ash's eyes. One she hadn't seen on him before...but she recognized from her late husband. "A-Ash, what are you-?!" the woman shrieked as she felt his lips clash onto hers. Her eyes went wide as she felt something wet brush against her lips, poking between them to create a gap. She looked questioningly into Ash's eyes, but she couldn't bring herself to hate him for what he was doing. Instead, at the sight of that serious look in his eyes...She found herself feeling hotter.

Marina's eyes instantly rolled back as she subconsciously parted her lips, the man's tongue not hesitating to invade her mouth. Her wrists instantly relaxed in his grasp, feeling his knee push itself between her thighs and brush against her entrance. The woman hated herself for moaning at this. But she also knew there was no way she was able to stop it. Because no matter how hard she denied it...deep down, she wanted it.

Ash parted his lips from hers and quickly found her neck, taking a small roll of flesh between his teeth and pulling it away, his lips sucking on anything around it. Marina gasped as her head arched back, similar to her back so her stomach now pushed against the tip of Ash's still-throbbing member. Each time she took in a breath that she so desperately needed, the man's actions quickly exhausted her of that oxygen. She felt herself begin to get wet down below, and Ash could sense it too. And that wetness only got worse as Ash plunged two fingers inside of her.

Marina nearly screamed, quickly clasping one of her hands over her mouth to prevent the sound from escaping or alerting anyone outside the room. She felt a gush of liquid rush to her slit as the man's fingers thrusted deep inside and then back out repeatedly in a surprisingly aggressive manner, one that she did not expect from Ash. He had been trying this whole time to stop this from going any further, but now, the way his fingers rushed in and out of her, easily draining her of her internal fluids, she felt as if his mind had changed on the matter. She hadn't even realized that his free hand had found its way to her chest and pulled down her bra, his lips quickly clasping around her areola as he sucked in hard.

Marina screamed into her palm as his combined actions made the pressure in her abdomen drop, a flood of liquids squirting from her entrance. Her eyes rolled back into her skull as she felt her body convulse uncontrollably, parts of her body actually going numb from the intense pleasure that she had nearly forgotten in the past few years. God, how could she have almost forgotten this sensation?

Ash grinned to himself as he released her nipple from his teeth, licking up the breastmilk that had leaked out as he glanced up to the woman's face that was frozen in a lustful expression. Her body trembling in his hands, he looked down to admire the results of his efforts and for the first time, laid eyes on her bare breasts. He had surprisingly never come to wonder about it like he had with Rosa, whose attire of clothing clearly brought any man's attention to it, but Marina's breasts were not as fully-grown as the other mothers. If he had to be fully honest, she was the least-developed of the adults he encountered here at Aether Paradise, even Mallow having her beat and maybe almost Lillie. Mallow's case was probably thanks to genetics from her mother, but it was a pretty close call between her and Lillie in size comparison.

Ash rolled off onto the bedsheets beside the woman, looking over at the twitching of the woman's muscles from the waist down start to slowly settle down, her stomach rising and collapsing in rhythm. He took a deep breath as he rested his head on the sheets, feeling the blood start to dissipate from his crotch.

"...Ash...?" the man noticed the woman sit up on the bed in the side of his eye, her arms crossed in front of her chest as her head faced away from him. "...May I use your shower?"

"...uh...Sure, go right ahead," Ash watched curiously as the woman stood from the bedside, fixed her skirt which had hiked up much more than a mother should ever show, and then walked across the floor without a word to the bathroom door. Ash gave a quiet sigh to himself as he rubbed the bridge of his nose between his eyes, his mind quickly replaying everything that had just happened since he woke up. How in the hell was he going to face Mallow and Lana after what had happened with their mothers?

"Ash?" he looked back to the woman, noticing that she had stopped on the edge of the room, one hand on the doorframe as the other still covered her revealed breast. He noticed her start to turn to look back at him, but stop halfway as her eyes only made it to the wood of the doorway. "...All of...this...You wouldn't mind keeping this a secret, would you?" Ash blinked in surprise.

"...Not at all. I was gonna suggest that too, actually. After all...Even if she can be a little open-minded, I doubt Lana would be too happy with this, and I don't want to cause her that worrying," Marina glanced back to the young man in surprise, noticing he had no sense of fear in his expression, but only wore a silly grin while scratching the back of his head. And she couldn't help but break into a smile.

"...Then I suppose I'll have to trust you from this point on, young man," and with that, she disappeared into the bathroom and closed the door behind her, leaving Ash in silence. He sat motionless for a few minutes in that silence before it was broken by the distant sound of running water from behind the door, before it brought him back to the reality of his situation.

He had just gotten Marina's blessing. By bringing her to orgasm. Twice. What the hell was going on with these developments in his life?! But then again...This was actually good, right? Since being confronted by the three mothers, Ash found himself tasked with somehow convincing each of them - with no hints as to how - that he did honestly care for their daughters and wanted to be with each of them to help them be happy. And now, by nearly having sex with her, he had just convinced Marina.

This was a blessing. That was one mother convinced. And if he counted Rosa - who he wasn't entirely sure if she was okay with him, or if she was just really nice and open-minded - then that would make two. So, following that logic...That only left Lusamine.

Which posed the real challenge. Lusamine was no pushover: she was a business woman, not to mention the CEO of her company, so she was well-versed in a world of liars, bad poker faces and promises not being kept. So he couldn't afford to let any words slip out that he couldn't follow up on, so how exactly was he going to approach her with this? Rosa had been fairly simple: sex and she was fine. Marina he had known would be a little more difficult, based on her carefully judgmental attitude towards him: but surprisingly, sex was all she needed to get past that. Which immediately gave Ash one solution to his problem which he did not like.

But then again, what was helping out one more mother in bed? I mean, he already has to go back and face Mallow and Lana after having very personal encounters with each of their mothers, so maybe having to lie to Lillie as well wouldn't be much harder-

Ash then jumped as he heard a few knocks on wood. He shook his head quickly of his thoughts, sliding himself to the edge of the bed as he stared at the door questioningly, rising to his feet and starting towards it. Then thanks to what was visible in the bottom of his eye, he quickly made a U-turn back towards the bed and grabbed his shorts and shirt, throwing them on before turning back towards the door. And in his better judgement - which he didn't currently realize he would regret - reached for the handle and opened the door.

"Ah, Ash! Sorry, hope I didn't wake you," the trainer instantly felt calmed as he was greeted with the concerned look of Mallow's mother, noticing her in her usual sundress with her arms behind her back.

"It's alright, Rosa. Is there something I can help you with...?" against his own will, his question came out slowly and cautiously, which was easily caught by the grown woman.

"It's okay, I'm keeping my hands to myself while I'm here. I'm sorry for coming by so late, but I was just hoping we could talk for a bit about something important," he noticed the woman's eyes quickly shift past him into the room behind him, then look back at him.

"Sure, come on in," and once again, in his better judgement - not realizing the fall he was setting himself up for - stepped to the side and gestured for her to come in. He closed the door behind her as she walked towards the bed, humming to herself a little tune as she turned back towards him, sitting on the edge of the bed. "So, what did you want to talk about?"

"It's...kind of about what happened earlier..." as Ash watched her bring one leg up and over the other, he caught a quick glance of her bare skin beneath the dress which triggered flashbacks to their previous encounter when he helped her back to her room, the man trying to shake those thoughts out of his head to no success.

"Ah...Okay...First of all, I'm sorry-" Ash stopped as the woman easily saw where he was going with this, hearing her giggle to herself.

"Oh, Ash dear, it's okay, I'm not mad or anything. If anything, I should actually be thanking you," the woman held a palm against her cheek as it grew warm, her lips spreading into a smile as she looked down at the bedsheets beside her. "It's been a few years since Mallow's father and I had split...and in that time, I had never moved on to find another man who I could be comfortable with...intimately..." Ash felt his cheeks grow warmer at her words, both of their minds flashing back to their time together.

"...Even so...Even if you are just being nice or...actually being honest...I still can't help but feel kind of awkward about doing that with...you, y'know? I mean, you're Mallow's mom..." Ash rubbed his arm awkwardly as he tried to make eye contact with her, but his memories reminded him of what his body had felt with her and that made it much more difficult to maintain a normal conversation.

"I understand that, Ash, but I really do mean it. Like I said, it had been quite some time since I had been able to get a...release, like that, but thanks to you I feel as if I won't be able to forget the feeling now. So really, dear, thank you for the fun time," Ash felt himself blush more as she smiled at him, which really struck his heart like an arrow from cupid. Dammit, is this what it would be like with Mallow in the future? How in the hell could it get harder to say no to her?

"...W-Well...You're welcome, I guess..." he said bashfully, the woman uncrossing her legs and crossing them again in the opposite fashion. She brought her arms across her stomach and rested her elbows in her palms, lifting them slightly beneath her breasts to lift them.

"And now that we've passed that...This brings us to the matter of Mallow," Ash suddenly tensed up. "I know you've already said that you love my daughter, but you also love Marie's and Lusie's girls too, isn't that right?"

"...uh...Yeah..." Ash began to feel uneasy.

"Hmm..." the woman brought her arms closed up beneath her chest, forcing the trainer to look away from the tentative sight in front of him. She closed her eyes, lowering her head slightly as she fell into thought. "...I know I may have seemed supportive of you earlier, Ash, and I truly do want to believe in you...But Rosie and Lusie were right: as the girls' mothers, we have to take it seriously in choosing whether or not to trust you with our daughters' futures..."

"I can imagine that..." Ash was hesitant to say anything at all. After all the progress he's made today, he could not afford to mess anything up.

"And with how far things progressed earlier, I should be very cautious in trusting you with being faithful to my daughter..." Rosa trailed off, Ash's mind kicking into overdrive.

"I-I'm really sorry, I really am!" Rosa was surprised to open her eyes to see the trainer bowing at the waist in front of her. "I'm definitely not using it as an excuse that you were kinda the one who started it, but it's my fault for letting it happen! Apart from Lana and Lillie, over this past year I had continuously told myself that I would never want to betray Mallow ever again! I feel terrible about what happened and I really hope-"

"Ash, Ash!" the trainer cringed as he felt the woman's hands on his shoulders, noticing her face had suddenly gotten closer as she smiled at him. "I said I should be cautious. But I didn't say I still am."

"...uh...What?" Ash blinked, making the woman laugh.

"It's okay. Despite everything that happened between us - in fact, it may partly be thanks to what happened - I know now that I can completely trust Mallow's happiness and future in your hands. So as her mother, Ash...I thank you, and ask that you please continue keeping Mallow happy," the woman put her hands on her lap and bowed her head, the trainer suddenly getting bashful.

"...uh...Thank you...And of course, Mallow's happiness will always be my main concern," Ash smiled to himself in an embarrassed manner, scratching the back of his head. Then everything just sank in all at once. "...Wait. You...You're okay with us? Me and Mallow, and also Lana and-"

"Of course," Ash's expression turned to pure confusion. "Listen, Ash, I'm not as quick to judge as Marie or Lusie are. The three of us were your age too, and I know you might not want to hear about it, but I was much more sexually adventurous than the other two," Ash's face flushed red as his mind was flooded with images of her in her younger years, which he could only imagine bore a striking resemblance to Mallow. And unfortunately, he couldn't help but enjoy it. "So I'm not one to judge a man for being with three women. There was this one time where I had actually come across three young men and they agreed to help me-"

"I think I get it, I get it!" Ash quickly covered his ears, thinking this story would escalate real quick and give him something to think about he could never forget. The woman smiled.

"Anyways...The point is, I'm not one to be opposed to you keeping my daughter happy. Even if you are doing the same with two other girls, as long as your feelings are completely honest and true, then I support the four of you together one hundred percent," Ash couldn't believe his ears as he stared at the smiling woman. Rosa was now giving him her blessing. That confirmed it! He got two mothers on his side! No freakin' way!

"I...I can't...Thank you, Rosa, so much. I can't even describe how happy I am to hear you say that," Ash couldn't help but break into a smile, the green-haired woman rising to her feet and pulling the trainer into a hug.

"You're welcome...as long as I never hear Mallow come home crying about her heart being broken, are we clear?" Ash nodded his head against the face of her breasts, the woman giggling to herself as she pulled him closer. "Besides...As rowdy as you and my little Mallow might get, now I know personally that you have no troubles keeping up with her. So I have no reason to worry about you getting bored and going after any other girls," Ash smiled into the warmth of the older woman's bosom as he relaxed, knowing that her words were true. He was finally in a good place during this visit: two mothers convinced, and only one to go. And he knew to control himself from saying anything wrong that could completely ruin everything. Ash could finally have peace of mind and relax...Or so he thought.

"Say, Ash, do you not have a hair-"

Every muscle in Ash's body froze as the voice stopped. And he felt Rosa's hands holding him against her twitch. He pulled his head back from her chest, eyes wide as he leaned to the side to look past Rosa. And despite his hopes in being wrong, it only confirmed his fears: a few feet from the bathroom doorway stood Marina, her wet hair dripping water onto the carpet, her fair skin only covered by a tightly-wrapped white towel that covered from her chest down to her thighs. She wore a similar expression of shock as Ash as her eyes were set on the other woman in the room, who was also looking at her in surprise.

"...-dryer...?" Ash and Rosa were too stunned to come up with anything in response, give for different reasons. On Rosa's side, it was due to shock that this young man she had just accepted as her daughter's lover now had a grown woman coming out of his bathroom dressed only in a towel. On Ash's side, it was hatred in himself that he had actually somehow forgotten that Marina was in there and could have possibly come out at anytime that he hadn't planned for, and also pure panic as he realized that this was about to bring all of his positive progress with these two women crumbling down to nothing.

"...Marie? What are you...doing here?" Rosa asked, the blunette suddenly growing uneasy.

"...I-I...M-My shower was broken, and I asked Ash if I could borrow his," the blunette responded, Ash blinking in surprise at her quick recovery. Rosa narrowed her eyes as she watched the blunette bring a hand up to pinch a few strands of her hair between her fingers, twisting them together as her other arm crossed across her stomach, pulling up below her chest and accentuating herself. Which was certainly not like her...

"In the middle of the night?" Rosa asked curiously, the blunette giving a quick nod.

"R-Regardless of that, why are you here this late?" she asked.

"I was simply discussing with Ash about trusting him with my daughter's future," she responded calmly, glancing over to the trainer beside her who now looked fairly more nervous than before. Ash noticed Marina's eyes look to him in curiosity.

"Y-Yeah, that's it..." he said cautiously.

"Is that so? Well, as long as you're just as dedicated to keeping my Lana happy," Marina told him as she turned away slightly, smiling to herself. Rosa narrowed her eyes on her again.

"...Marie...You're okay with this now?"

"Hm?"

"Ash being with each of our girls...I thought you were against it?"

"...Well...With the time that I've had to think about it carefully...I decided that maybe Ash is the one person we could trust to keep both of our girls happy. As well as Lusamine's."

"...Really...Time to think about it, huh?" Marina noticed her friend give her an intense stare.

"Y...Yeah," the green-haired woman took a few steps towards her.

"So you just came around on this idea...in just under a day?" Rosa stopped only inches from her friend.

"...Yes," the blunette responded calmly, trying to maintain her cool. She couldn't afford to show hesitation or Rosa would know something was wrong.

"And your shower was broken, so you came to use Ash's...in the middle of the night?" she asked carefully. Ash began to grow more nervous again.

"Yes," Marina said more confidently, even though she knew the logic was flawed there. But any hesitation and Rosa would know-

"And noooothing else helped convince you to trust him, hmmm?" the blunette could almost feel the intensity of her friend's narrowed eyes staring into her own.

"N...No, nothing-" Marina then felt the woman's fingers grasp her chin. Before she could question her, she felt her lips parted and watched her friend move her nose in closer to her face. Ash's eyes widened at this, wondering what the hell was happening right in front of him, before watching Rosa pull back and Marina stare questioningly at her. Then as Rosa turned her head to look back at Ash...he noticed that devious grin. Just like Mallow's.

"So I wasn't enough, huh?"

"W-What?!" Ash stammered as he nearly choked on his breath at her words. No way...Did she actually somehow know?!

"W-What are you talking about, Rosie?" Marina added, Ash mentally thanking the woman for trying to help him. Unfortunately, Marina could never be as convincing as Rosa.

"And you couldn't hold back after hearing how well he's satisfying your little girl? Or was it because you saw him in action?" Ash knew they had lost the moment the blunette's face flushed red. Yeah, she definitely had them beat.

"I...I-I have no idea what you're referring to, honestly, Rosie..." the green-haired woman giggled to herself as her friend crumbled into a nervous mess, desperately trying to hide the clear truth to no success.

"Oh come now, Marie, I know the smell of jizz when I catch it. And it certainly helps with how much this young man gives, doesn't it?" Rosa grinned as she poked her elbow into Marina's towel-clad gut and flashed a wink to Ash, making each of their faces turn a deeper shade of red.

"W-W-W-What are you talking-?" Marina gasped as she felt her nipples be exposed to the open air, feelings two palms sink into the fat of her breasts as Rosa pulled her friend's back against her front.

"And I bet you couldn't resist when he started to milk these babies, could you?" Ash stared in awe as the two once-mature adults that struck fear into him the day prior suddenly reverted to their teenage years: Rosa squeezing her friend's chest from behind while Marina desperately tried to shake her off, milk now starting to leak from her nipples. "Aha! See? Just like me, all you needed was Ash to-"

"Shut up, Rosa!" the green-haired woman suddenly felt a swift punch to the top of her head, dropping to her knees as her feet collapsed outward to her sides. As the woman began to rub her head and pout, the blunette pulled her towel back up and readjusted it. "Honestly, you still can't keep your hands to yourself even after all these years? I suppose that must be the reason why you sided with Ash so quickly..."

"H-Huh?!" Ash blinked as the two women's eyes focused on him. "W-Whoa, wait a second, I never planned this or anything like that! Honestly, I never even wanted-!"

"Ash, calm down," the trainer instantly shut up at Marina's words, hearing her sigh to herself afterwards. "Honestly, you really do worry too much..."

"...uh...No offense, but I think this is definitely something I should be worrying about," Ash replied, noticing a curious look from both women. "Well, for starters, I'm having sex with each of your daughters, as well as Lusamine's...And now I kinda had sex with you two-"

"Now, Ash, don't get confused. We did not have sex, that was only...foreplay, nothing more," Marina explained, turning her head to the side as her cheeks went pink.

"Same with me. Although if we weren't interrupted by Marie, I was certainly willing to let you-" Rosa gasped as her mouth was suddenly covered by her friend's hand.

"The point is...We are not going to think anything of these encounters. And we suggest you do the same, for our daughters' sake," Ash noticed the blunette give him an expectant look, knowing exactly what she meant. They would flip a table if they found out he had sex with their moms, or anyone other than them for that matter. They could not find out about any of this.

"Yeah...Definitely not telling them," Ash flashed up his thumb, the two women sharing a smile.

"Although...There is one thing we should probably settle before we wrap this up..." Ash was confused to watch Rosa beckon him with her finger to come closer, suddenly getting an odd feeling as he cautiously moved towards the pair. And as he reached them, he found himself in yet another promiscuous situation.

As he watched Rosa wrap an arm around Marie and pull her closer to her side, Ash caught one beautiful glimpse of their bosoms push against each other before his face was suddenly buried in their warmth. He felt Rosa's arm hold his back in place as he managed to squirm his nose up and over the top of their combined cleavage, his eyes looking up questioningly at the two women.

"Between the three of us...Who was better~?"

Ash swallowed his breath as the woman's lips curled into a devious grin. He shuddered: no wonder Mallow was so mischievous. He noticed Marina's eyes glance away as her cheeks began to turn pink.

"There's no point in answering that...I-It's not as if I care..."

"Oh, come on, you little tsundere!" Ash felt his manhood start to wake up again as he felt Rosa try to hug her friend with Ash between them while Marina tried to escape from her grasp, causing a dangerous amount of skin rubbing along Ash's face. "So, Ash? Who would you pick between us?"

"...That's not something I can decide," Rosa was disappointed - and much against her will, so was Marina - as the pair felt Ash somehow squirm his way away from them and take a few steps back, taking a few breaths before scratching the back of his head sheepishly. "...I...I just don't think that choice would be fair to either of you," the two women giggled together.

"Typical man response..."

"I thought you didn't care, Maaaariiiee?"

"...Shut up..."

Ash couldn't help but smile as the two women began their bickering once more like children, realizing that he had come to adore that image. Because in his mind...All he saw was Mallow and Lana fighting as they usually do. He brought his hand over his mouth as he suddenly yawned, a sense of fatigue suddenly washing over him like a tidal wave. I guess with how much stress and stress-release he had just gone through, his body wasn't able to properly tell him that he should be asleep right now. And that certainly was true: it was 1 in the morning.

"Hm? Oh, dear, you're finally getting tired?" Marina's motherly instinct suddenly kicked in as she watched Ash fight against another yawn, subconsciously putting a hand on Ash's head and rubbing it gently just as she would with her children when they were younger. Rosa smirked.

"Finally? Just how much did you put the poor boy through, Marie?" the blunette cast a glare to her friend as she guided the trainer to his bed, setting him down on the edge as he stifled another yawn. "Ooh, ooh! I can help undress him!"

"Rosie! This is not the time to be getting handsy!" Ash's eyes suddenly began to get heavier as he felt a pair of hands pull his shirt up and over his head, while two other hands unzipped his shorts. His body felt heavy as his head hit the pillow, blinking slowly as he felt his shorts yanked off of him, the two women sitting on either side of him now starting to blur over. "Go ahead and get some sleep, Ash. Sweet dreams."

"Don't let the bedbugs bite. Or us~" Ash gave one last weak chuckle as he heard Marina's fist collide with her friend's head once more, before his eyelids fell closed for the last time this night. After a much longer night than he had expected, he was finally asleep. The two women smiled as they exchanged a glance. "I know you're thinking the same thing, Marie, don't deny it."

"...Yeah, I know...Our daughters really are lucky..." the pair watched as Ash silently slept, his stomach rising and falling in rhythm. Marina was surprised to watch her own hand brush the younger man's forehead gently, but felt no need to stop it.

"Yeah...Sweet, caring, protecting...But most of aaall~" the blunette suppressed the urge to sigh as she felt her friend's elbow poke against her arm. "Come ooon, you know you wanna say it too~"

"No, I don't."

"Yes you do, come on, Marie. Just once, he's asleep and it's only me here."

"No."

"Alriiight, maybe in the morning I'll tell him the funny story of that night you almost got-"

"Okay, okay, he's really cute!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...Fine, he's hot. Happy?"

"There ya go, Mariiieee~"

"Ugh, get off me..." the blunette felt herself break into a smile as she struggled to push off her friend from hugging her, a devilish smile plastered across her face. Rosa fell forward onto the bed as Marina stood up, straightening the edge along the bottom of the towel. "Come on, we should get some sleep tonight too. Let's get back to our rooms," Marina heard no response as she started to move around the bed towards the bathroom for her clothes, and by the time she reached the doorway she became concerned at the silence. With a single glance back to her friend, she got a worried feeling as she saw her with her chin propped up in her palm, a smile on her lips as her eyes watched the sleeping trainer.

"...But do we have to?"


Sunday morning. According to the deadline that Lusamine had specified for him, that left Ash with one day left to win her over on dating her daughter. As well as Marina's and Rosa's. Jeez, the more he thought about that the more he thought he was the luckiest guy in the world that he was even still alive right now...

And oh, how he didn't even realize the irony in thinking that the moment he woke up. He first realized that he couldn't move for some reason, leading him to pray that he wasn't tied up in his sleep like a year earlier. But thankfully, he felt he could do circles with his wrists and ankles without feeling any rope rub against his skin. Which led to finding the real cause of why he couldn't-

Oh, okay. It was just the two naked women in his bed.

"...Eh?" Ash blinked repeatedly. The image never changed or disappeared. There really were two naked women in his bed...So...What the hell?

"Mmmmnnn..." Ash tensed up as he felt the woman to his left shift in her slumber, a bare leg draping across his abdomen as she tilted her head up, a smile of pure bliss plastered across her face as strands of her green hair fell down her cheek. Ash couldn't help but feel his heartbeat get faster as he watched her, instantly thinking of Mallow and how she moves around in her sleep in a similar fashion.

At the sound of another sleepy moan, he had hoped it had come from his opposite side but instead, it came from almost straight down. His eyes drifted in the direction of his feet which he could not see, because he noticed a woman's hips to his right while her own figure extended across him. Feeling the warm pressure of her chest - bra-covered, of course - on the edge of his waist, he noticed her arms were crossed beneath her head on the side of the other woman's hips, her blue hair tickling her friend in her sleep which must've been the cause of her blissful smile. With a quick glance, he came to realize that each of them were in bras and panties, which made sense. Even after last night, sleeping naked together would be dangerous.

Last night. Huh...So that actually did happen and wasn't a dream, huh? Ash smiled to himself as he stared up at the ceiling, trying to ignore Rosa pulling his arm closer along her front while burying it within her cleavage, also feeling his opposite arm held in place by Marina's thighs. From the various sensations of their body parts in contact with his own, and also considering it was morning, it was hard to keep his natural male problem from happening today. But morning wood cannot be avoided so easily: and so he felt his bulge push against the soft skin of Marina's belly.

"Nnnn...Again...? Honey, we just finished...~" the trainer gave a puzzled look as the blunette's lips curled into a drunken smile as she turned her head over and began nuzzling her cheek against her friend's butt. This in turn caused Rosa to start giggling like a drunk in her slumber, feeling her push her crotch closer against his waist.

"Aaah...Sweetiiieeee...~" the green-haired woman moaned, prompting Ash to sigh as he closed his eyes. Well, guess he wasn't doing anything anytime soon-

"Ash? Are you awake?"

Ash's eyes shot open again as the voice was followed by a knock at the door. Oh God, that voice...! Not now! "I-I-uuuh...Y-Yeah! But don't come in! I-I'm getting changed but I don't have my pants on!"

"O-Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, I can wait!" Ash breathed a sigh of relief, but unfortunately that didn't solve his dilemma. There were still the two nearly-naked women sleeping on top of him.

"Hey...Hey! Rosa, Marina!" his whispers didn't do anything. Neither one budged. "Oh, come on...Rosa, you have to wake up! Marina, do you want Wicke to find us like this?"

"Mmnnnn...Not yeeet..." Ash felt hopeful as he saw her torso begin to slide off and back towards her lower half, but his hopes were suddenly dashed as her upper half fell to the side and collapsed on top of him again. Only this position was much worse.

"M-Marina...!" Ash bit his lip as he fought to maintain his composure. Instead of resting on her friend's butt, Marina's head was now resting on the bedsheets to the side of his left thigh, her bare stomach now flat against his. But the problem was the fact that he now felt the bridge of her bra against the base of his dick, with two very warm and soft sensations on either side of his dick...Dammit, why the hell would they put their own underwear on but not his?!

"Is...Is it alright now? I only need a few moments-"

"N-Not yet! Sorry! I just...I can't seem to find my shorts, ha haa! W-Weird...!" he slammed his head back against the pillow as he felt Marina's chest begin to slide slowly against his morning glory. Don't think about it, just don't think about it, it's not happening, this is not the time to-!

"Having fun~?"

Ash's eyes widened as they shot to his side, meeting the curious glint of jade eyes as Rosa smiled up at him. The woman glanced down, noticing his current situation with Marina, her smile growing wider.

"I was gonna offer a little help, but I guess she beat me to it-"

"Rosa, please wake her up and get her off me! Then you gotta hide, both of you!" Rosa's brow furrowed. "Wicke's at the door and she can't see this! Do you have any idea what would happen?!"

"...Hmm...From what I heard, she's pretty adventurous-"

"She would tell Lusamine and I would be dead!" the woman giggled at Ash's quietly panicked outburst, her eyes quickly looking to the door before releasing her grip on his arm. She yawned as she pushed herself to sit up, turning her head to the side and leaning slightly so she could see between Marina's chest and Ash's pelvis.

"...Are you sure you don't wanna finish first~?"

"Please!"

"...Okay..." Rosa lowered her head towards Marina's, bringing her lips close to her ears. "Maaaariiee...Lana's here~"

"W-Wha-?!" Ash couldn't help but be impressed as he watched the woman's torso jerk straight upwards as her eyes opened, looking around the room frantically. Now he felt almost disappointed in himself: if the girls were as afraid as he was about their parents finding out about what he had done with them, why did he never realize the mothers would react the same way about their daughters finding out?

"Come on, into the bathroom we go," the blunette yawned as she felt herself heaved to her feet, guided to her feet and across the room.

"Why...?" she asked in a tired tone, her friend rolling her eyes.

"Because you don't want to be seen like this with your daughter's boyfriend by anyone else, riiight?" Ash noticed Marina's expression turn to confusion before the door closed between them, leaving him alone in the room. He breathed a sigh of relief as he slid out of bed to find his shorts and shirt on the ground beside it, slipping them on and heading towards the door.

"Oh! I'm sorry for coming so early, but miss president thought I might forget if I left it for later," Wicke flashed the trainer a smile, who gave a nervous smile in response.

"A-Ah, no worries. Just...actually got out of bed just now," he said, the purple-haired woman crossing her arms beneath her chest.

"Well, I just wanted to inform you that miss president would like to have a talk with you in her office at some point today."

"Huh? Did she...say what about?"

"No, I'm afraid she never specified. But...If you're worried about what happened in the lab area yesterday...I'm sure you have nothing to worry about," the young man shuddered as he recalled his previous encounter with the two women in the lower levels. "It's okay, you didn't say anything wrong. It might actually be the opposite, in fact."

"Huh?" Ash blinked as he stared at her curiously. The woman adjusted her glasses along the bridge of her nose.

"When I first went to miss president's office this morning to ask if she needed anything, she was...well, she was rather distracted," Ash's head tilted slightly to the side. "She couldn't seem to focus on me at all, no matter how many times I asked or got her attention. Something was clearly on her mind...And I think it was because of what you told her."

"W-What I said?" the woman smiled with a nod.

"Everything you said came straight from your heart, Ash, and any woman can tell that. So after all those things you said to her, you really put a damper in her head," Ash scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

"I...I mean, I didn't mean to..." the woman giggled to herself, turning her body away from him.

"I'm sure you'll be just fine, Ash. Just hold your head high and stay true to your heart, just as you were yesterday and I'm sure you'll win her over," Ash felt himself blush as the assistant winked at him, then started down the hallway. Slowly closing the door in front of him, he stared blankly as he thought. It was true that he had told the truth yesterday in everything he said to Lusamine about loving Lillie and wanting to be with her...But why would she be distracted? Couldn't that be a good or bad thing?

"Well, sounds like we missed something yesterday," Ash nearly jumped at the voice behind him, turning around to see the two women standing in front of the bathroom, Rosa's arms crossed beneath her breasts and Marina's hands on her hips, each giving him an expectant look. The fact that they were still in their underwear also didn't help him.

"...It was just a talk I had with Lusamine, that's all," Ash told them, Rosa's eyes giving a shine of curiosity.

"Oh? And what would you two have to talk about- Ow!" Ash smiled as he heard the blunette sigh to herself, the green-haired woman starting to pout as she rubbed her head.

"Was it about Lillie?" Ash gave a nod. " So I'm guessing you told her the same thing you told us, huh? About loving our daughters and truly wanting to build a happy future with them?"

"...Basically..." Ash rubbed his arm bashfully, the two women smiling as they watched him grow nervous.

"...Have more confidence in yourself," Ash felt his cheeks flush as he watched Marina turn back towards the bathroom doorway, his eyes unable to resist watching her hips sway as she walked towards it. With a hand on the door, she started to close it before stopping halfway, looking back over her shoulder with a smile. "If you do love Lillie, then you'll have to convince her. Just like you did with me."

"Yeah! And we're always here to help you with Lusie, if you want!" Rosa flashed him a smile, Ash unable to resist from smiling himself.

"...Thanks...But this is something I gotta do on my own," Marina smiled as she closed the bathroom door, feeling a warmth start to grow in her chest as she began getting dressed. Rosa felt a similar warmth in her bosom as she watched the trainer open the door to the hallway, stepping out and closing it behind him. She uncrossed her arms from beneath her breasts and tapped a finger against her lips, smiling.

"...Little Mallow, you certainly are lucky..."


"...ident...excuse...resident...?"

"..."

"...Miss president!"

"Hm?" the woman blinked, bringing herself back to reality.

"I was just asking...about that shipment that's meant for tomorrow, they just informed us that they'll have to wait another week..." the Aether employee said hesitantly, tapping his clipboard as he subconsciously leaned away from her expecting an angry outburst declaring incompetency or something similar. But to his shock, her expression remained neutral.

"...I see. Inform the staff to be ready next week instead, then," the employee stood frozen in shock as he watched the blonde continue walking down the path through the conservation area, as calm as she was before he had approached her. Over a business delay like that, she would have usually stomped away in frustration but just now...She barely reacted at all.

Inside Lusamine's head, it was just a mess. A part of her mind was still trying to deduce a final judgement on Ash's character as a fit for being with her only daughter, and she could also hear a faint whisper in the back of her mind to think about what that employee had just told her, but her brain was being riddled with other questions and feelings that acted as a cloud to prevent her from being able to focus on anything.

And at the front of it all was Ash. There were so many reasons he was in her mind at the moment, and none were any less confusing than the last. The fact that he was intimate with her daughter without her knowing. The fact that he proclaimed to love two girls as well as his daughter and desired to be together with each of them. The sincerity and determination he expressed in what he told her yesterday. The way he saved her without caring about his own safety. The almost abnormally immense size of his-

"Miss president!" Lusamine blinked herself from her trance, her eyes readjusting and seeing that she was currently holding one foot over the edge of the boardwalk and about to fall down into a small creek below. She quickly stepped back, glancing over to the employee who had called out to her and giving a dismissive wave, before turning in the direction the path continued and began walking again. And as she fell back into her cloud of thoughts, she felt her cheeks flush.

What was she about to think just now? That thought must have come from having walked in on Wicke during her 'research', as she called it, and what she was forced to see in that moment. But it's not like she was curious or anything, I mean...she had seen one before! She had a child, so of course the sight was nothing new to her! And Ash was just another man, like any other, so of course he had a...y'know. And of course he got excited if a woman tempted him like Wicke had done...so it's only natural that it would stand so...tall...so very tall...

The woman felt her palm smack against her cheek, almost surprised as it actually stung. She didn't even mean to do that...But if her body was acting on its own...why? It's not as if she was hiding or denying anything, she really did have no interest in Ash in that way. None at all, I mean, she was Lillie's mother, how could she face her daughter if she thought of her first boyfriend in that way? Lillie would never forgive her if that were the case!

In any case, she thought nothing of Ash. That was final and there was no doubt about it. And worrying about any of this would get her nowhere, so all she could do was resume her work today like usual. No matter how concerned she was for her daughter's future. No matter how thankful she was for him saving her. No matter how bad she felt for him getting hurt while saving her. No matter how much she wanted to be able to trust that boy who was such a kind friend to her daughter. No matter how determined he was, or kind, or considering...or grown-

"Miss president?" she was once again snapped out of her thoughts as she stopped in her tracks, turning her head towards the source of the voice. "I thought...you said you wouldn't be able to do any work today...?"

"Oh, Wicke...I know I did say that...but I felt that I needed to go for a little walk to help clear my mind," the blonde responded, her assistant giving a concerned look.

"...Does this relate to the issues with Ash on your mind?" Lusamine's eyes instinctively turned away from the purple-haired woman. "...I realize it's not my business, miss president...but if it's causing you this much stress on deciding whether to trust him or not...Why not talk to your daughter about this?"

"...She would never agree to that," Wicke watched as the woman took the few slow steps towards the handrail close by, resting her palms on it as she stared down at the small creek that ran through a small tunnel passing through the ground beneath her. "...If Lillie's never come to me about the truth between them before, then she has no intentions of letting me become involved. And maybe it would've been better that way..."

"Or maybe it's simply because of what Ash mentioned yesterday," the blonde interest was piqued, but she couldn't bring herself to look back and ask about it. "...He mentioned that he had kept the truth for you for a while, which would mean that your daughter willingly chose to keep it a secret as well. But if Ash loves her...and she does love him back...then Lillie never told you because if she did, and you had turned Ash away...you would be rejecting your own daughter's heart."

"...Huh...?" Lillie's mother noticed her employee rest her elbows on the handrail beside her, arms crossed as she leaned against it.

"If it's true that Lillie does love Ash as much as he claims to love her...then she would have been just as afraid of him as telling you, if not more, because you're her mother. She was terrified that she would be put in a position where she would have to choose between the man she loves and her own mother...do you think you would be able to handle that kind of pressure?" Lusamine's eyes softened. "...And you must give considerable credit to Ash. From the first moment I had met Ash after he arrived here, he was as nervous as I had ever seen him, and I had no idea why. But now, I can only deduce that he must've thought you called him here for something relating to your daughter as if you had found out about them."

"...He did mention that..."

"So don't you think he deserves respect for still being here? He came here prepared to face that light, and not only that, but he was surprised to not only find you but also Mallow and Lana's mothers. But he still stayed. Any other boy would have turned heels and ran at the sight of his girlfriend's angry mother, but Ash stuck through it with three of you and still stayed to prove that he was telling the truth!" Wicke smiled down at the water, watching a poliwag wade into through the small tunnel beneath them. "...I know I'm not Lillie's mother...but Ash is a remarkable young man, truly one of a kind. And if both of them have been happy together in secret...don't you think they deserve a chance with their parents' blessing?"

No response. Everything Wicke had said was right. A part of Lusamine hated herself for agreeing so quickly, but there was no way she could deny anything her assistant had said. Even if some of it didn't need to be mentioned to be on her mind.

Truth was, Lusamine did respect Ash. A great deal. And not only for having saved her from being attacked a day earlier, but for almost everything he has done since the time she had first heard Lillie mention him from pokemon school. All the times that he showed concern for pokemon that weren't his responsibility, for the love and care he showed his own pokemon, for the fun that he had with his friends each day, every part of him from that young age brought her to respect him. And that's not even touching on the bravery he showed in wanting to help in hunting dangerous ultra beasts, or facing against the legendary ultra beast Necrozma when it was running rampant and even took control of Solgaleo and Lunala. He never showed fear in almost anything he faced.

"I told Ash that you would want to meet with him in your office sometime today," the blonde noticed her assistant disappear from the side of her eye, turning her head slightly to notice that she stopped behind her. "If you don't want to disappoint the poor boy, I would suggest you take that chance and be completely upfront with him. And I doubt he'll wait around forever."

"...Wicke..." as she uttered her assistant's name under her breath and watched her walk away, Lusamine couldn't help but wonder about her assistant. Even if she was Wicke's boss, why would she lie to Ash for her sake? She had never certainly asked anything like that of her before, but now she had done it willingly without even asking.

Although this wasn't the time to worry about that. Right now, she had something important to take care of before going back to her office.


Ash could feel the worried feeling in his stomach grow worse by the minute. He finally began pacing around the room, unable to bear sitting in the chair any longer, as his eyes wandered around the office room. Maybe he shouldn't have even come into her office at all? Arriving to find that she wasn't here made him wonder if he should go looking for her, but he decided in the end to stay and wait it out. Maybe she was only out for the restroom or something, and would be back in a few minutes. Or maybe she had so much work that she completely forgot that she had called him here and he would lose his entire last day to sway her objection of being with Lillie. Pray to God it was the first one...

The trainer's hand moved to hold his stomach as it violently grumbled, breaking the painful silence in the room. He was stupid for coming straight here thinking she would be putting her work on hold for him, but he was even more stupid for skipping breakfast before going. He knew how being hungry messed with his head, especially when having not eaten anything at all, so he prayed this would be over and done sooner rather than later. The more time he chose to wait, the more his mind could be imaginative and overcomplicate the situation beyond reason. And that was certainly doing him no good right now.

"...'Something I have to do on my own', huh...?" he muttered to himself, stopping by the side of the desk as he thought back to those words he had spoken to Rosa. It was certainly true that he intended to do this on his own, despite their offer to help. That's what he had intended from the start with all three of them, and technically so far, he was two for two in doing that. And now that all he had left to do was face Lusamine - the end of this whole situation within sight - he should have felt better about this than when he started. But something had caused another concern in his mind after persuading Rosa and Marina: something he had hoped wouldn't become a problem...

The trainer sighed as he leaned back against the edge of the desk, putting his palms on the desktop to hold himself up. He certainly didn't have to...right? I mean, it's not as if the three women made him agree on changing their minds using the same method. So after his 'encounter' with Rosa...and then last night's 'activities' with Marina...

Ash shook his head profusely. No, he was not going to fool around with Lusamine! The first two times were mistakes! Or rather, three times, if he included Wicke's own personal 'greeting'. But he could not let anything like that happen during this talk. He needed to have a calm and serious discussion with the woman, Lillie's boyfriend to Lillie's mother, with no distractions. He would not let anything go wrong and mess this up-

He was then startled as his palm lost its grip on the surface of the desk, slipping across towards the back of the desk. He flinched as his hand brushed a small stack of papers off the edge, straightening himself to his feet as he heard the papers flutter to the ground. He gave a sigh to himself as he inched around the corner of the desk, peeking around to see the papers scattered about on the floor by the foot of the executive chair. At least it was a small mess: he could clean this up easily before Lusamine came back. No one would even know what happened, so better get started. As he crouched over and started gathering the sheets into a pile, he caught a glance of a single paper's contents. And it immediately caught his interest.

It was an order form detailing a delivery that was made a few weeks earlier. Not a manuscript addressed to the company, but simply an online order made from a third-party site. But it wasn't that it was addressed to Lusamine that caught his attention, nor was it the cost or the fact that it was dated to arrive today. It was the contents description.

"I wonder what that was about..."

Ash jumped at the sound of the voice, nearly dropping the stack of papers on the floor again. Lusamine was just outside the door! The trainer scrambled his way around the side of the desk, sliding the order sheet on top of the stack and dropping the papers back where he thought they had been before, throwing his butt into the closer of the two chairs as he heard the click of the doorknob turning.

"Marina wasn't even in her room, and Rosa is already awake and in the halls...She's never been up this early before..." Ash tensed up as he heard the door close, followed by the sound of the woman's heels touching the floor with each step across the room. Then it stopped, leading Ash to come to the only realization he could at the moment. Slowing turning his head in the chair, he offered a nervous smile and wave as he saw the woman staring at him with a surprised expression.

"...uh...Hi?" Ash said hesitantly, watching the woman's facial expression begin to soften as she crossed her arms.

"...Hi. I...I didn't expect you to be waiting here this early," she replied, making her way around her desk before setting herself into her executive chair.

"Yeah...Well, Wicke said you wanted to talk to me, and I didn't exactly have anything else planned today, so...I figured I'd better be safe rather than make you mad for waiting," flashing an embarrassed smile as he scratched the back of his head, he noticed the woman turn her chair to the side so as not to face him, her eyes instead looking blankly through the gaps in the blinds over the window. A minute went by in silence as neither one said a word. During this minute Ash's thoughts couldn't help but wander back to what he had read on the order slip, trying to supress the heat in his cheeks. He had never imaged Lusamine to order anything like that...She certainly didn't seem the type...Although, what's that saying about it being the ones you least expect?

Then another minute passed. Which was two minutes more than the time it would take for Ash to begin to worry. However, not even noticing the change in his demeanor, the Aether president took a deep breath before opening her mouth.

"Ash, look, I'll get straight to the poi-"

"I'm sorry!" Lusamine's voice cut off with a single blink. With a slow turn of her chair, the woman looked to Ash noticing that he was now leaning forward in the chair, his head bent over as if bowing to her. "...I...Lusamine, I know that I've seemed kind of spineless about this whole situation, facing you, and Marina and Rosa about staying with all three of your daughters. And I know that no amount of words or actions could possibly be enough-"

"Ash, hold on, you don't-"

"I truly do love Lillie, much more than you could imagine. And I know I say the same about Mallow and Lana, but that's sincerely how I feel, and there will be no changing that, but it doesn't make it any less true!" Ash continued on, not even noticing the woman's mouth open trying to speak.

"Ash, really, I'm trying to-"

"And I know I said all of this yesterday, but even if you never give us your blessing, I will never give up on keeping your daughter happy because that's how I want my future to be! I want to be with her, and the other girls, and making sure that they have smiles on their faces every day of their-" one of Lusamine's cheeks puffed out, a slight irritation seen in the look of her eyes.

"Ash, I'm trying to tell you I'm okay with it!"

"And I would never consider letting them get hurt-" Ash froze. His voice refused to come out as his mind registered those words. "...I...Y-You...You what?"

"Like I said...I wanted to talk to you to tell you...I'm okay with you and Lillie, as well as the other girls," Ash's eyes widened in shock and utter confusion as he watched the woman lean back into her chair, an elbow on the armrest with her fist against her cheek as her eyes looked to the side of the room with no particular point of interest.

"...I...uh...But I-...You...uh..." Ash couldn't even form a sentence at this point. His mind was like silly putty: soft and mouldable, with no support in a definitive physical structure. "...You...You're okay with it?"

"To a degree...yes," the woman closed her eyes, turning herself back towards the trainer. "I'm not saying I'm completely accepting of everything about this situation...but...my daughter has been happy over this past year, despite never telling me that you two had started becoming more familiar with each other..."

"...Aaah..." he immediately felt stupid for not even being able to come up with a word in response, but that sound simply slipped out of him. And to his surprise, he noticed the corner of the woman's lips curl upward, one eye peeking open to meet his.

"And I'll admit, there are still plenty of concerns I have about letting this continue..." Ash gulped, noticing the woman straighten up in her chair. "And so, as Lillie's mother, I expect you two to now keep me very informed of any further developments. That goes for any of you."

"R-Right! Yes, ma'a- miss!" Ash felt a drop of sweat run down the back of his neck. Thank God he caught himself before he said ma'am, or he would be dead. But instead of getting angry for what he was clearly about to say, the woman instead smiled with a raised eyebrow.

"I thought we were past that awkward 'miss' business?" she asked, the trainer only growing more uneasy as he laughed nervously.

"A-Ah...Sorry. I just...This doesn't exactly feel real to me, or...more like it's a trap or something..." he was then surprised as Lusamine started laughing. Not evil or anything, just...a gentle laugh.

"Oh, Ash...You really have become afraid of me because of all of this, haven't you?" she asked between chuckles, the younger man giving an embarrassed smile.

"Well...Kinda, I mean...You're Lillie's mom, and I thought you weren't gonna be supportive of us, considering how...complicated it is..." he answered with hesitation, the woman leaning forward and putting her elbows on the desk with her fingers meeting just below her nose.

"Well, this isn't a trap or anything like that. I am sincerely giving you my blessing for staying with my daughter, if she remains happy," Ash frantically nodded, making the woman laugh once more. "...You really are one of a kind, Ash. I suppose I was wrong to doubt Wicke all this time..."

"Wicke?" the trainer was intrigued. Sure, she had defended him in their earlier conversation in one of the examination rooms, but she hadn't said that much at that time. Did they talk more at a different time about him? "...What, ah...What exactly did she say...?"

"Hmmm, worried about what I think of you, mister?" Ash smiled bashfully at the sight of the woman's knowing smile.

"W-Well...maybe a little...?" he chuckled, the woman looking down at the desk.

"...She opened my eyes to the truth. Everything about you that made you an amazing person to be with Lillie," Ash was surprised by these words.

"W-What? I, uh...Amazing is a strong word, Lusamine, I wouldn't go that far-"

"But I would," she leaned back into her chair again. "You've done very remarkable things in your life, Ash, much of which was done at an even younger age than what you are now. You have proven yourself time and time again as being capable of protecting someone, as well as caring for them and providing them with any support that they may need. And the more I focused on that, the less stubborn I became and realized that you are a very dependable man."

"T-That's...not..." Ash felt his cheeks start to grow warmer.

"...I'm very sorry for the way I've acted, Ash. I was...stubborn, and my judgement was clouded by my desire to keep my daughter safe...I do hope you'll forgive me," Ash held his hands up, waving them back and forth as the woman lowered her head in apology.

"Y-You don't have to apologize, not at all!" he noticed her eyes glance upward at him. "...I...I know that you were only trying to keep her safe. You're her mother, I get that, and you want what's best for her...besides, any mother who finds out about a secret boyfriend with two other girlfriends has every right to scream like you did," Ash chuckled, memories flashing back to the lectures he received from the woman. The same memory came across Lusamine's mind as well, but was much more embarrassing considering their stance now, the woman's cheeks turning pink. "So really, you don't owe me any apology. You were only acting in defense as a mother."

"...Perhaps..." the woman rested her cheek in the palm of her hand, leaning on the armrest as she looked over towards the window. "...Or maybe it's because...I was also jealous of her."

"Jealous? Of Lillie?" he asked, the woman giving a simple nod.

"...It's been so many years now, but I had a much rougher time at her age. Men followed me everywhere I went, always wanting to help me with every little thing and offering themselves like slaves as if I would reward them..." as Ash watched the woman sigh quietly to herself, something dawned on him. Lillie is very attractive, no doubt: so Lusamine must have been just as attractive at the same age. "...For the first few days it started, it was flattering. But it quickly became degrading, being watched like a prize...I remember it wasn't long at all before I started to hate it. All the attention, all of the men at my feet, and following in my shadow everywhere I went, I just...I despised all of it. Lillie doesn't get quite as much attention as I did back then, but...I suppose I was jealous that she was so quickly able to find a guy like you...always nice and caring...among other things..."

"...If you don't mind...my asking...Lillie's father wasn't one of them...was he?" Ash looked away awkwardly, the woman giving a smile.

"...No. He was the first man I encountered who wasn't like the rest. He was...a gentleman, in every sense of the word. He might be the only reason that I ever came back around on tolerating men at all," she explained, joining her fingers down on the surface of the desk. "...And then the day...that happened...Lillie was so young, she wouldn't remember it...but the memory is still so vivid in my mind...happening right in front of me, unable to do anything to stop it..." Ash felt concerned as he noticed the woman's expression soften. Much more than earlier. "...Not a day goes by that I don't miss him...And I would never want to go back to the way things were before. I never want any other man leering at me like they did..."

"T-That's not all bad!" the blonde was surprised to feel something grab her hands. As she looked at her own hands, she noticed another hand on top of them, following its arm back to where she saw Ash with a serious expression. "...I know men can come across as creepy, believe me...Those guys are why men have such bad reps in general...but not all men are like that. I mean, look at your husband, he changed your mind, right?"

"...And I suppose you're saying that you're different from that, too?" the woman asked, confused to notice the trainer's cheeks blush.

"...Well...I do admit that at some times, it's worse than others...B-But not around Lillie! I swear, I'm not a creep or anything with her! I-I will always respect her-!" Lusamine began laughing again as the trainer reduced to a verbal mess, desperately trying to correct himself but only making it worse.

"It's okay, I wasn't trying to talk about that. Besides, you already admitted to being intimate with her, isn't that right?" Ash's cheeks burned a brighter red. "Then there's no need to get worked up, I know that even good men are not always a gentleman in the bedroom."

"...uh...Thanks...I think...?" the woman giggled at the man's nervous reaction, glancing down curiously.

"So...How long are you planning on holding my hand for?" Ash's eyes widened as he looked down, finally taking notice that his hand was still on hers. He snatched it back as if she were on fire, only embarrassing himself further as the woman was clearly amused by this. "My, Ash, afraid that this old woman has cooties?"

"W-Wha- No!" her smile only grew wider as he clearly became more embarrassed, turning away trying to hide his face. "...And also, you shouldn't be saying that."

"Hm?" this piqued her interest.

"Calling yourself an old woman. You're the last woman I know who should be saying that already..." Ash heard nothing in response. Curiously, he cast a quick glance over his shoulder, feeling put on the spot as he noticed the woman's eyes focused intently on him with a shining curiosity. "T-That is...I mean that you don't look close to being old, is all! I mean, I'm sure anytime you go out somewhere with Lillie, you must still get mistaken for sisters...or even twins..." more silence. That wasn't boding well: did he just screw it up? Oh God, he said it wrong, didn't he? He always remembered that was supposed to be flattering to a woman, but maybe he was remembering it backwards and accidentally-

He was broken from his thoughts at the sound of laughter. A laughter that made him feel as if Lillie were with him right now, able to spread a warmth in his chest and put a smile on his face. He turned to watch as the woman seemed to try to hide her face behind her palm to no avail, her cheeks pink as she laughed so much that it seemed to hurt her side. To Ash, this was kind of refreshing, considering the sense of stress between them the past few days, so seeing her enjoying herself so openly like this...He felt as though she were finally being honest with herself.

"...A...Ash...How can you...with a straight face...?" the trainer could decipher the broken fragments of her question between her laughs, understanding what she meant.

"What do you mean? It's because that's the truth, obviously, I mean...look at you, you're beau-" Ash bit his tongue to prevent himself from saying any further, not even realizing what he was saying before it came out. But he gulped as Lusamine's laughter stopped.

"...I'm...what?" beads of sweat ran down the back of the trainer's neck as he felt the woman's eyes prying into him with sincere curiosity, much like he was used to experiencing with Lillie. Although no matter how much he prayed right now, he knew for a fact there was no being able to escape this. He screwed up too late.

"...I mean, look at you, Lusamine...No man - or even woman - in their right mind would say that you aren't...well...attractive..." the woman stared in awe at the trainer. He thought she was...attractive? A mother and always-busy business worker was...beautiful? "I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make it weir-"

"You're just being nice...right?" Ash felt even more guilty at the woman's tone. God, she even sounded as cute as Lillie! This was so unfair right now!

"...Of course not...I really do think you're...beautiful..." his eyes refused to meet hers as he felt his face grow warmer from embarrassment. And since he wasn't looking, he had no idea he was casting the same effect on Lusamine.

"Excuse me?" the pair jumped, their eyes shooting back to the door where they now saw a man's head peeking in through a small gap from the hallway. "...Is this a bad time?"

"N-No, not at all, sir! Please, come in!" Ash stammered immediately, mentally cursing himself for being so awkward. At the same time, unbeknownst to him, Lusamine puffed her cheeks slightly as she cast a disappointed look to him.

"What is it?" she asked calmly, the man stepping into the room.

"There was a package delivered for you a few minutes ago," Ash's eyes focused on the package in the employee's hands as he walked towards the desk.

"Oh, yes, on the corner of the desk here is fine. Thank you," she said politely, the man giving a brief bow before leaving the room again. Ash cast a curious glance to the package on the desk, his mind starting to wander as to what could be inside. "I had almost forgotten about this package, actually. But I suppose it was supposed to come today."

"Well, it's like a nice surprise for yourse-" Ash's voice became caught in his throat as he recalled something.

"Hm? What's wrong?" the woman asked, the man suddenly growing nervous.

"N-Nothing! Nothing at all, really!" Ash struggled to keep his composure as he realized that there was no need to wonder about the contents of that package...because he already knew. Thanks to that order sheet on top of Lusamine's desk. He noticed the woman give him an odd look, her hand drifting towards something in particular- Oh God...the stack of papers.

"You're sure there's no reason you're suddenly acting odd?" the man nodded, only making the woman more suspicious as she slipped a single sheet of paper off the top of the pile. "I suppose...Sorry, but I prefer to check a package as soon as I get it, to make sure I actually get what I ordered. This should only take a minute-"

"I-I can wait outside, then!" as Lusamine closed the drawer behind her desk, an office utility knife in-hand, she looked confused as she noticed Ash suddenly spring to his feet and start backwards towards the door, but he tripped on the chair's leg and fell back onto the ground.

"There's no need to leave, this'll be quick. Then you can elaborate on what you were say-" the woman stopped her sentence short, her cheeks turning pink as she thought about what she was going to say.

"N-No, really, I-I don't need to be-"

"Really, what's with you all of a sudden? Although, I suppose I will need to test it to make sure it works too..."

"W-What?!" Ash's eyes shot open as his cheeks burned red. And his shock was only amplified by the innocent look on the woman's face as she slid the knife across the top of the package, pulling the flaps upward. "N-No, wait-!" there was no way she was going to open something like that right in front of him, right?! She had to be joking...!

"Huh, bigger than I thought it would be..."

Sometimes, it is impossible to speak in such a way that cannot be misunderstood.

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