Mukuro's Wishes (A Brand New Day)
A/N:
It's been a long time, sorry to keep you'all waiting. I have been extremely busy these days, and it's a miracle that I finally finished this extra-long chapter! Once again, thank you, Lixiaofossil, for helping me with this draft!
Without further ado.
"I will take Rio's place and make this second wish with you!"
Rinne, the Ruler of the neighboring world, stood in front of her daughter, Rio, and held out her hand.
...
It was one year ago, where Shido shot himself with the power of Vav, the 6th bullet of Zafkiel, after witnessing Maria's death in Ren's hands, and in order to save Rinne and Rio, he traveled back to two days ago, where he was first summoned to this mysterious neighboring world by Rio's innocent wish.
As soon as he woke up and saw Rinne with Rio, he hugged them tightly and shot himself with the power of Yud, the 10th bullet of Zafkiel, which allowed them to experience everything that had happened to him. In other words, showing them the future.
After learning what would happen in the next two days, Rinne and Rio covered their mouths in utter shock.
"I'm sorry, Papa, Rio caused trouble again..." Rio burst into tears.
"No, it's alright, Rio. I will save you and your mother."
Seeing the little girl cry made Shido's heart ache, so he patted her on the head and stopped her crying.
"Shido-san...Thank you..."
Rinne, on the other hand, quickly hugged Shido again and caressed his cheeks.
"Leave it to me, I will talk to Ren and everything is gonna be fine."
...
"Fine, since you have the same source of powers as your daughter."
The other party responded. Looking closely, she had the makeup of a clown and was wearing bandages all over her body. Well, except for her right eye, which was set free from having the first wish fulfilled by Rio one day ago.
"Now tell me, what will your wish be?"
Ren, the mysterious Spirit who had the powers to grant wishes, smirked as she stood firmly in front of the pair of mother and daughter.
Taking a deep breath, Rinne slowly opened her mouth and spoke...
"My wish...is to..."
Back to the present.
"WHY ARE YOU IN MY WAY AGAIN!"
Howling hysterically, Ren shouted at the two Spirits that showed up out of nowhere, the chains around her wrist making a raspy noise.
"Shido, here."
Ignoring the fanatic villainess, Rinne approached Shido and picked up his dismembered wrist, taking the pistol of Zafkiel from its grip, and shot him with it.
"Dalet."
With a sound of the pellet, Shido's hands were restored to his body, recovering him from the grave injuries a minute ago.
"Thank you, you are...Rinne...right?"
Shido smiled gratefully at the gentle girl. Although he still couldn't remember this girl, he felt that he had been spending time with her warmly like this for quite a long time. It was just that his head wasn't in the clear, unable to regain his memories with her.
"It's okay, Shido. I will help you remember later."
Smiling lightly at the teen, Rinne turned and looked at Mukuro next.
"Nushi-sama is healed...thank you...thank you so much..."
Seeing Shido's hands recovered, Mukuro, who was tense from the dangers early, relaxed and smiled. But, in the next moment, she closed her eyes and collapsed!
"Muku!"
"Mukuro-chan!"
Shido, Rinne, and Mayuri shouted as they quickly leap forward to catch her petite body. It was probably because Mukuro relaxed after tensing up her muscles and nerves for too long. As a result, she lost consciousness as soon as she believed the situation was "safe."
"Hang in there, Muku! Dalet!"
Shido activated Zafkiel in his hand and shot Mukuro with it. Seeing his lover covered in blood stung his heart viciously like a scorpion's sting, so he used the most effective method to save her.
Soon, the wounds on her body disappeared, and her super-long hair of golden color was back too, even the wedding dress was as good as new. However, there was no sign of her waking up.
"How...isn't she recovered?"
Mayuri voiced her concern, only to be interrupted by a blazing laugh.
"Hahahaha, even the powerful Zafkiel has its limits when counted with my powers!" Ren snickered. "As I had explained earlier, after she made three wishes, her reiryoku, life, and soul would all be absorbed by me!"
"You will pay for hurting my Muku!" Shido gritted his teeth, and before he could utter another word, he saw a pink figure flying past him, and in the next second, it tackled Ren and pinned her on the ground!
"Nee-san, stop this madness at once!"
Surprisingly, after Rinne made this demand, Ren stopped resisting and let the girl hold her wrists down.
Shido was shocked by this turn of events, but one thing concerned him. "Nee-san?" His eyes widened when he heard this word. Mayuri, on the other hand, was not surprised, and she explained to him. "Actually, Ren is the oldest among us three, and Rinne is the second oldest."
"We are created from the additional reiryoku of our mother, the Spirit of Origin, and so, the three of us are sisters."
"!?"
It was indeed breaking news for Shido, but it wasn't in his interest at the moment. Rinne knew this as well, so she looked at Ren and demanded:
"Return Mukuro-chan's powers to her, and let go of all your hate."
"Tsssk..."
Ren gritted her teeth and bit her lips.
"You understand, right? I am still...your master!"
Hearing these words, Ren's body flinched. Soon, a pink collar formed around her neck.
"Huh?"
Shido was bewildered by this sudden turn of events.
"My wish...is to...become your master!"
"!?"
Rinne made a surprising wish to the clown girl, and Ren, the one being played as a clown, flinched as she covered her arms.
"Here's how the conditions work: First, you will do everything I say. Second, you will cancel the poisonous effects of your Angel. Third, if you disobey me, you will be sealed back in your box, only when you turn good will you be freed!"
"Wait, that's not fair! You are adding too many conditions in one wish..." Ren tried to protest, but to her dismay, a pink collar formed around her slender neck, marking her the property of Rinne!
"I forgot to tell you this, Nee-san, but I am still the [Ruler], and my angel somehow makes your angel cooperate with my demands~"
Smirking triumphantly, Rinne pointed her lithe finger on her pink lips. Then, she caressed Ren's cheeks, soothing the poor Spirit down.
"Now tell me, why do you hate Shido-san so much?"
"...It's because..."
Back to the present again.
Shido was flabbergasted when he heard the news. He was proud to say that Rinne's way of handling Ren's poisonous wishes was brilliant. He wanted to hear more of it, but the thing was...
Ren roared with a huge piercing sound, interrupting the flashback!
While Rinne covered her ears, she broke free from Rinne's grasp!
"Surprise, surprise~ Master, how do you do?"
Ren took a few steps back and bowed elegantly.
"How...? Did you twist the conditions?" Rinne stared at Ren in shock.
"You left a loophole in your wish..." Ren smirked as she grabbed the collar around her neck. "You said that I would be sealed if I disobeyed, and I wouldn't be freed until I turned good, correct?"
Rinne was silent, for she knew responding would achieve nothing.
"You never mentioned what it meant to 'turn good', so I could interpret it my own ways." Ren continued to explain, and in the meantime, cracks started forming up on the collar. "I simply had to believe I am good with something, so I could break free from your conditions! For example..."
"I am so good with 'manipulation'...that I don't need a master anymore!"
As she finished the last sentence, she tore the collar apart and threw the pieces on the ground!
"Don't be so surprised, it took me nearly a year to figure this out!" Touching her slender neck adoringly, Ren formed a smug on her face and summoned purple energy orbs around her.
"Took you long enough. It seems your IQ needs work." Rinne shook her head lightly as a form of mockery. Then, she turned her head to Shido, exhorting: "I will hold her off, so Mayuri, help Shido save Mukuro-chan right now."
Gritting her teeth, Rinne summoned pink energy orbs around her as well.
Now that the villainess was free of reins, it seemed the only option was to defeat her.
"—"
"—"
The two powerful Spirits clashed their energy cannons against one another. The explosions were resounding everywhere, but neither of them was able to hurt the other for the time being.
Meanwhile, Shido activated Zafkiel and used the 4th bullet, Dalet, on Mukuro — Losing her reiryoku earlier, she had no choice but to burn her remaining vitality to protect Shido, but no matter how strong her mental power was, her physical strength was still limited. She was severely injured and overexerted herself too much, like a shooting star fading to nothingness after a short flash.
Despite Shido's desperate effects, Mukuro, the Zodiac Spirit, whose astral light shone the brightest in the night sky, had stopped breathing and turned cold!
"Muku!"
Shido hugged Mukuro tightly, trying to wake her up. It was a shock that the time-reversing bullet failed, mostly because Mukuro was affected by Ren's deadly three wishes.
"Please Mukuro-chan, open your eyes!" Mayuri was unable to help either, only able to stand by his side.
"We just swore an eternal oath, and yet I still lost my favorite girl...The girl that I always love..." Shido's tears wouldn't stop streaming on his cheeks, causing Mayuri to shed tears uncontrollably as well. Although she had only met her for a short time, she understood the petite girl's feelings toward Shido; after all, both of them loved this very same man. Perhaps, they were on the opposite sides of the same coin.
Just when Shido's tears landed on Mukuro's cherubic face, a tiny trait of life force emerged. "Hold on, I feel something...Could it be...?"
As it turned out, when Shido said the word "my favorite girl", Ren's devilish contract with Mukuro was starting to break apart — Mukuro's first wish was to "become Nushi-sama's favorite girl". However, Mukuro was already Shido's favorite girl before she made the wish. Therefore...
"The first wish wasn't granted!"
Shido murmured to himself.
As if taking on cue, Mukuro's face was starting to grow more healthy colors, and she let out a light moan!
Shido and Mayuri were surprised by the sudden turn of events, and they squealed uncontrollably.
But to their dismay, Mukuro still hadn't opened her eyes. It seemed that she needed more than that to wake up.
"If the first wish wasn't granted, shouldn't Muku be..."
Suddenly, Shido's train of thought was interrupted as he heard a grunt from above. He raised his head and saw that Rinne was sent backwards with a huge wave. It seemed that she suffered a hit from Ren's attacks.
Ren smirked and gathered more energy around her body, emitting more menacing aura. Clearly, she didn't use her full powers earlier.
"Hey you!"
Shido suddenly shouted toward Ren, catching the villainess' attention.
"You did not actually fulfill Muku's first wish, did you?"
"Tsk..."
Ren bit her lips slightly as she cursed, for she shifted her gaze toward Mukuro's direction and noticed the change in her state.
"Even so, she still had her other two wishes fulfilled! The only thing you did was bring back her life, but her reiryoku and soul are still mine!"
As if proving her point, Ren summoned a huge cohesion of purple energy, emitting a dangerous menace. Mukuro's reiryoku really enhanced her powers to a cosmic scale.
Realizing what he must do, Shido turned to Mayuri with a serious expression.
"Mayuri, I need your help."
"Anything for you, Shido."
Mayuri returned with a firm gaze as she stood up.
"I need you to help Rinne and keep Ren occupied. I will bring Muku back!"
Nodding with a smile, Mayuri got up and flew to Rinne's side, summoning her powerful Angel, Kerubiel, and accumulated golden energy lights ready. To support her sister, Rinne summoned a pink energy ball as well.
It was an epic scene where the two younger sisters faced off an older sister, but Shido wasn't in the mood to admire that. There was only one thing on his mind right now:
"Ren, you did not fulfill Muku's second wish or third wish either!"
Twitching her body in an annoyed manner, Ren felt her powers a bit unstable.
"Even if that's true, how are you gonna prove it?" She snapped back defiantly.
A smug formed on Shido's face, and in the next second, he summoned Zafkiel, Kurumi's signature Angel, and a flintlock appeared in his hand.
He activated the 10th bullet, Yud, and loaded the bullet in the muzzle.
"DAMN YOUUUU!"
Ren aimed the energy ball toward Shido with a garish howl.
However, Rinne and Mayuri weren't just floating around. They quickly fired their attacks at the villainess, forcing her to retaliate without a choice.
KABOOM!
A huge explosion took place in midair as a result of three powerful energies colliding with one another!
Ignoring the loud noise, Shido leaned down and pressed his forehead against Mukuro's, kissing her lips in the process, and pulling the trigger.
Suddenly, a flow of memories entered his brain.
"Welcome, young girl. This orphanage is your home now."
An old lady with a kind expression said.
In front of her was a little girl with long blonde hair that reached her waist. She looked to be 10 years old, for her pretty cheeks still exuded a childish aura, but her petite figure seemed lonely just by standing there, and even with the old lady taking her hand in hers did not cease her miserable state.
How did this happen?
Mukuro was born from a rather wealthy household, and her parents were both extremely handsome and beautiful, resulting in her being a gorgeous baby girl.
Beauty and wealth, she was blessed even before being conceived and was supposed to live like a princess. But she wasn't, and she even didn't have a last name, for her biological parents didn't settle with one. The two adults didn't marry each other for love, only for the sake of their families' mutual interest in businesses. They never planned to have children, but one night, they had an 'accident'.
And that accident was Mukuro.
When she was first taken out of her mother's womb, her parents didn't cradle her or anything, for neither of them wanted anything to do with her. They simply left everything to the housekeeper.
Mukuro grew up under the care of the housekeeper, who diligently performed her duties and raised her well to be like any ordinary little girl. She read books to her, took her outside to play, and most of all, she taught her to do chores.
"Aunty, why can't mama and papa see Muku?"
The young Mukuro would ask her housekeeper this question with an innocent and a slightly sad face.
"Sorry, Mukuro-ojou-sama, but they are busy with their work. They will see you when they are free, okay?"
The housekeeper would always respond with this line.
Her biological parents put her in a separate mansion, right across from theirs. She was not allowed to go there, for they strictly enforced such rules. Even the housekeeper could simply report to them in mails.
One day, when the gates of the other mansion opened, she sneaked in without a trace, hoping to steal a glance of her parents. To her delight, she saw her mother sitting under a tree, reading a book in full concentration, as if unaware of the surroundings.
"Mama is so pretty..." Mukuro exclaimed in awe.
She was not wrong: Her mother had long blond hair tied in a ponytail, hazel eyes that remembered wisdom, and a curvaceous figure that could make men lose their breaths. She qualified every trait to be described as a beauty.
Mukuro hid behind the cover, slowly approaching her mother in a tip-toed manner.
Her mother was unaware of her daughter's presence, as she was mesmerized by the book she was reading.
"MAMA!"
Suddenly, Mukuro hugged her mother from the side, burying her cute little head into her mother's bosom.
But in the next second, she was pushed to the ground!
Her mother stood up with a distorted expression, contrasting to the angelic features earlier. Then, she turned around and walked off quickly.
"If only...I had the guts to abort..."
The young Mukuro didn't know what that meant, she simply stared at her biological mother's back dumbfoundedly, tears flowing down her cheeks.
...
Despite her parents hating her, Mukuro still tried her best to be a model student at school.
She was always a kind and helpful girl, giving a hand to her classmates and teachers whenever they needed it. Although her grades were not the top of the class, it didn't stop everyone from admiring her; after all, she was very cute and elegant.
In fact, she was given the nickname "Angel".
Mukuro believed that her parents might have a change of heart and start paying attention to her once she gained the affection of her classmates and teachers, however, she was too naive.
Her parents never came for public lessons, or sports festivals. They never visited her even for once!
It was always the housekeeper who kept her company.
"Aunty is kind to Muku, Muku won't ask for more..."
One day, Mukuro was running on the playground during P.E. She was already 10 years old, and she had gotten used to her daily life. Her parents' negligence no longer bothered her.
She did make a few friends, though they were still somehow distant to her. They probably felt that the angel was too good for them to befriend. If Mukuro knew about this, she would immediately tell them that she really wanted their company. However, she didn't know how to initiate the approach.
Suddenly, she heard a teacher calling her name, so she stopped and went off the tracks.
The teacher's expression was gloomy, something ominous must be happening.
"Sensei?"
Mukuro asked worryingly.
"Mukuro-chan..."
The teacher bit her lips as her voice trembled.
As it turned out, Mukuro's parents got into a car accident, and that wasn't all: Her housekeeper was in the car too!
It was like lightning on a clear day for Mukuro!
...
"Please, don't leave Muku alone..."
Mukuro sat in the hospital, tears streaming down her cheeks as she mumbled helplessly.
She was told to wait outside of the emergency room, and there were other adults waiting with her; they seemed to be the family members of her parents.
"Who is this little girl?"
"She sure looks cute though."
"What should we do if her parents died?"
"I will take her, since I'm from the mother's side!"
It seemed that those people wanted to take her in, but their remarks only made Mukuro tremble in sadness; still, there was nothing she could do.
Suddenly, the emergency room opened.
"I'm sorry, we did our best, but they passed away."
As if to crush Mukuro's heart, those words cut deeper than any daggers on earth.
She had not only lost her biological parents, but also her caretaker that gave her the love she needed!
When she was about to bawl, she heard the adult members around her saying:
"Damn, that means our families' marital relationship ends."
"Now then, I need this girl in my home."
"Not as much as I do!"
Instead of mourning, those adults simply voiced out their current desires, resulting in the two families getting into a heated debate, and almost escalating into a fight.
...
So hungry.
Mukuro was running alone in the dark.
She realized that no one could ever love her, and those family members only wanted her for the sake of using her beauty for their own gains. Therefore, she ran away when they were too busy to notice her.
So tired.
Hours passed by, and Mukuro's petite figure finally collapsed in front of an orphanage.
"My Lord, what is that sound?"
"Look, I think someone just fell."
Rustling footsteps approached, and two old ladies opened the gate, only to see the vulnerable body of a little girl.
"Quick, take her in!"
The two ladies picked up the unconscious girl and carried her inside the orphanage.
...
In this orphanage, the children had a chance to get adopted every month, where childless couples and old people would visit the place.
Children who behaved well would get a higher chance of being chosen, especially if they were young. As a result, those who exceeded the age of 10 had relatively slim chances compared to toddlers.
Mukuro, however, was different.
Due to her radiant angelic features, she was the first to be chosen on the monthly visit from potential parents.
As it turned out, the ones who chose her were the Hoshimiya Family, which consisted of a mother, a father, and a daughter.
"So you are Mukuro-chan, right? Will you join our family?"
The daughter had an appealing facial feature, and she smiled at Mukuro as she extended her hand.
Mukuro was immediately drawn in by her, and she gladly said yes.
Waving goodbye to the kind folks who took care of her, she followed the Hoshimiyas and joined their family, becoming their second daughter.
"Your name is now...Mukuro Hoshimiya!"
Mukuro felt her heart tingling as she heard her new family declaring her new name for her. She had always wanted a last name, and now it was finally given!
"Muku...will treasure this forever..."
A brand new happy life was just beginning.
...
Seeing Mukuro's flashback of her childhood, Shido knelt as he lost in thoughts blankly. He believed that he knew everything about her, but now he realized that he couldn't be more wrong: He never understood her past!
Also, her childhood trauma explained her over-possessive personality. She had lost her family before, so she wanted to hold on to the new one that she could treasure. It was simply a child's nature, not wanting precious things to go. A tiny part of him used to be disgruntled about what she had done to him after their first date, but now he just wanted to slap himself for even having that thought in the past!
Nevertheless, it wasn't the time to lament yet.
He still needed to find out what happened to Mukuro in the past three days.
Therefore, he activated Zafkiel again, and loaded the 1st bullet, Aleph, to speed up the process.
...
With the improved speed of memory flow, he was able to skim past most events of Mukuro's life before she was teleported to this place.
From her memories, he saw that she had a wonderful life with the Hoshimiya family for four years, and that was the best part of her memories so far. But one day, she got depressed when her big sister, whom she adored the most, told her to cut her long and beautiful hair. It was all because her classmate suggested it, and she hated the culprit.
That night, Mio showed up and bestowed the young girl a Sephira crystal, granting her the power of Michael, a powerful angel that allowed her to seal memories and powers.
To ensure her family's love, she tried it out on her parents and big sister, erasing every one of their friends' memories. She naively thought that it would get their affection back, but it only backfired.
And the rest was history.
...
Shido felt saddened when he heard about this story again. He knew Mukuro did the wrong thing, but it was all because the Spirit of Origin allowed it to happen. Perhaps he was being illogical, he couldn't help it since it was his Muku that was involved.
...
The next part was her first date with Shido, where she experienced the time of her life. She was totally head over heels for him, and she wanted to monopolize him. Therefore, she did what she thought that she had to do.
It backfired again, and she hated herself for it. When she accidentally tore off Shido's arm, she felt so guilty that she was on the verge of going Inverse.
Only when Shido forgave her and taught her the right way to love did she finally relax, opening her heart and soul completely.
After that, she lived happily with her Nushi-sama and other Spirits, starting her life in a new family. She had learned to share the love, and she wouldn't let go of this hard-earned bond.
Of course, there were threats from the DEMs, but she wasn't scared at all. She did everything to help her Nushi-sama and the others in order to maintain this family, and to her delight, they came out victoriously.
...
Shido smiled contentedly as he experienced this part of his life, but in the next frame, he frowned deeply.
...
"Nushi-sama is so depressed...How can Muku help?"
After losing Tohka in his arms, Shido was not able to smile wholeheartedly again. He would force a big smile, but his sadness was still shown.
All the girls had tried to console him, but the deep wound of the heart was not easily healed.
Mukuro tried to help him as well, but the result was poor. She had tried cooking delicacies for him, doing chores for him, and even washing his back in the shower, but he never recovered.
She tried doing well in school as well, studying her ass off in order to become the top of the class. However, her studying skills weren't the best among her classmates. So, she got extra lessons from Origami's tutoring, practiced exam problems constantly, and finally, she scored first place in one subject!
Nevertheless, her Nushi-sama only smiled slightly and praised her a bit, then he went back to his room.
...
Shido regretted treating Mukuro like this, for he didn't realize that girl's genuine heart to console him. He could feel her trying very hard to earn his affection, yet he just couldn't walk out of his shadow.
...
After the Beast Incident and Tohka's resurrection, everything was finally back to normal: Daily breakfast, school, and fun times together!
Also, Shido decided that he wouldn't just love Tohka. Everyone else was so important to him as well, and they had been through so much together. It wouldn't make sense to drive them away for only one. In addition, every Spirit couldn't imagine marrying anyone else but Shido!
To solve the biggest problem as the protagonist of a harem, he decided to marry them all!
Mukuro had no objections to this, for she liked the other Spirits too. As long as her Nushi-sama would spend time with her from time to time, it would be enough for her.
Suddenly, Shido was summoned to another world!
...
Shido grunted as he witnessed this part of the story again. He never asked to be here, and yet he was stuck in this place!
...
Recently, Mukuro entered high school along with Yoshino, Kotori, Natsumi, and Mana.
It was one of Mukuro's proudest moments, as she had reached the prime period of her youth.
As it turned out, the five loli Spirits became the center of attention the moment they stepped into the classroom.
Yoshino's innocent nature triggered everyone's urge to protect her; Kotori's cheerful behaviors incurred everyone's tendency to spoil her; Natsumi's shy personality prompted everyone's patience to tolerate her; Mana's strong physical powers caused everyone to admire her.
But when Mukuro entered the scene, most of them changed their minds immediately:
The male students were fascinated by her voluptuous figure, while the female students were mesmerized by her unparalleled beauty. In other words, she stole almost everyone's heart.
Mukuro, however, did not enjoy all of this. She simply wanted her Nushi-sama back, and she had no interest in any other guys.
Despite this, it did not stop the bold ones from approaching her.
...
Seeing this part of Mukuro's memory, Shido gave a wry smile helplessly. It was impossible for a rare gem like Muku not to shine in public; and as much as he disliked this, he could not blame those guys for wanting to woo her... unless they crossed the line.
...
One day, Mukuro slapped a male student for badmouthing her beloved Nushi-sama, and she was in huge trouble.
Fortunately, thanks to everyone's hard work to help, Mukuro made up for her mistake.
However, when she saw a wedding the next day, she felt like she wasn't worthy of Nushi-sama for her childish behaviors!
...
Shido felt his heart sink when he saw this, and he silently vowed that he would never make her feel insecure again! Now, the moment of truth!
...
On the first day that Mukuro was here, she was summoned to Ren's imaginary world, which was her pocket dimension, and was offered three wishes.
Mukuro made the wish to be Nushi-sama's favorite girl.
That was the first wish, and he had already found its loophole. He was urging to see the second one.
He noticed that he was brainwashed slightly that day, where he used Miku's powers on everyone he ran across, forcing them to perform unreasonable duties. He felt guilty about that, but hey, it wasn't his fault!
It was only thanks to Mukuro did he break free from this bizarre state.
At night, he had passionate sex with Mukuro, and they had been going at it from 10pm to past midnight.
Wait!
Shido caught on to the details, and he realized what was wrong...
Past Midnight!?
Ren kept Mukuro here herself, so Mukuro's second wish wasn't granted either!
...
Shido was ecstatic when he discovered this breaking news, but it was still too soon to celebrate.
...
Mukuro's second day was just like how Shido remembered, where he had an early morning "activity" with her, and the two of them went to an astrological building for a date.
It was in the sky that he proposed to her, and to which she accepted exultantly.
That night, she made the wish to have a perfect wedding.
That's it!
Shido thought to himself as he clapped his hands, deducting the clue to the solution of his dilemma.
Who said that their wedding was perfect? And more importantly, who had the right to say the wedding was perfect?
...
Finally, Shido was finished with reading Mukuro's past memories and experiences, breaking free from her flashback.
It may have taken a while, but it was all worth it. He found the way to save Mukuro!
However...
"Ahh..."
"Enn..."
Two figures crashed down to the ground beside him, their painful groans escaping from their lips. It was clear that they were both badly injured!
Rinne's Astral Dress was torn apart in the middle, revealing her smooth stomach in the air. However, there were several bruises around her overall body, blood dripping down and dyeing her slender figure red.
Mayuri's condition was slightly better than her sister's, but her Astral Dress was completely destroyed, revealing her plump bosom. Her scantily clad state was tainted by blood, however, as there were quite a few bruises on her body.
Despite their wounded states, they still struggled to their feet.
"You two just don't know when to quit, do you?"
Ren spat and raised a hand to summon an enormous number of spiky venomous vines, energy spheres and other objects for offense. No matter how the heroines fought with dignity, the villainess still held both the tactical and strategic advantages, vastly.
"We perfectly do. After beating some sense into you." Rinne shot back.
"Or kicking some sense into you, according to my preference." Mayuri followed.
"Tough talk, for two sorry excuses of Spirits." Ren laughed: "Even our mom wasn't able to educate me, who gave you such confidence to succeed in what she failed?"
"Mayuri! Rinne!"
Shido shouted to the girls, interrupting their little chat.
"Shido...don't worry..."
"We can still fight..."
The two strong-willed girls smiled at their lover forcibly, their arms shaking as they supported their bodies. It was clear that they couldn't take much more of the attacks.
After making sure his girls' conditions weren't life-threatening, Shido raised his head and looked up, shouting to the sky:
"Ren, come down and face me!"
Hearing the challenge from below, Ren flew down and landed 30 meters away from him.
Looking clearly, Ren was almost unscathed from the intense battle earlier, as her Astral Dress was still attached to her body properly, and there were barely any scratches on her porcelain skin. It seemed that she was way more powerful than Rinne and Mayuri combined!
"Do you...have any last words?"
She asked triumphantly.
Indeed, she had an advantage over him in every aspect, and no wonder why she was so confident.
Shido didn't say a word, he simply picked up Mukuro and held her in his arms.
In the next moment, he spoke:
"You didn't fulfill Muku's second wish either, for you kept her here with your own powers, not the ones from your Angel!"
As if proving his statement, Mukuro's eyelids twitched slightly, and to everyone's surprise, she opened her eyes in a sleepy manner!
"Muku!"
"Mukuro-chan!"
Shido and the two girls were ecstatic when they saw the young girl awake, hugging her tightly.
"...So you got her soul back as well..." Ren gritted her teeth as she stared at the awake girl. "But what about the third wish? I really granted you two a perfect wedding, so you still won't get her reiryoku back!"
Mukuro's eyes were filled with fear as she heard this statement. Indeed, that was the best wedding ever, much better than the one she had imagined in the past. But when she looked at Shido, her fear was all gone...
All she saw was a confident smile her lover made!
"Sorry to break it to you, but our wedding wasn't perfect!" Shido shook his head with a laugh. "We were told to change our formal clothes, failed to win the activity as champions, and not to mention the heavy camera lights!"
Suddenly, Ren's body twitched violently, and in a short while, a flow of golden energy emitted from her hands and flew to Mukuro!
"NOOOO!" Ren screamed hysterically. She had worked so hard to get this huge amount of powers, yet it was taken back just like that!
[Samael], the unique angel that would grant wishes, had its own rules to follow. If it did not grant a wish and had its loophole exposed, it would lose its effect and return the due taken.
Realizing what she must do, she summoned countless energy balls and poisonous vines, shooting them toward Mukuro! She needed to kill her before she recovered her powers!
"Zadkiel!"
Shido quickly summoned a huge ice barrier with Yoshino's powers, hoping to protect his lover.
But in just a few seconds, the wall was shattered into pieces!
"Even without that girl's powers, I am still stronger than any of you!"
Ren growled as she advanced her attacks.
Rinne and Mayuri wanted to block it, but their energies were drained, not to mention their injuries were too much for them.
Shido continued forming ice walls, hoping to stop his enemy's attack as long as possible. He could see Mukuro's body reacting to the golden reiryoku already. He just needed a little bit of more time!
Ren summoned another wave of attack and directed it toward him, who had no ice walls left!
"Camael!"
Shido shouted as a ring of scarlet flames surrounded his body, making his body on fire.
But in the next second, Ren's attacks landed on his body, resulting in a huge smokescreen!
"Shido!"
"Nushi-sama!"
After the smoke cleared off, Rinne, Mayuri, and Mukuro couldn't believe their eyes.
Half of Shido's cheeks was torn off, both of his hands fell off as blood dripped from the amputated parts, and most of all, a poisonous vine pierced his chest in the middle!
"...Argh..."
"HAHAHAHA! How are you gonna survive my poison?"
Ren laughed triumphantly after witnessing Shido's gravely wounded state. With her poison in his heart, there was no way he could recover, not while he had no hands.
"...Don't worry...Muku..." Shido, despite his fatal wound in the chest, forced a smile at Mukuro as pink flames emerged around his body. "Go ahead...and kick her ass!"
"[Camael] may have granted you regenerative abilities," Ren smirked at Shido's forced calmness, "but you aren't immune to poisons."
...She's right. Shido thought silently, knowing that his body could not stop the advance of Ren's deadly poison. Even so, he must not let Mukuro get distracted, for she was the only one who could fight against Ren.
Just then, he felt a pair of warm hands caressing his cheeks, and when he turned his head, he saw Rinne's tender smile.
Before he could react, she claimed his lips in a flash!
"How amusing, giving him one last kiss goodbye?" Ren looked at the couple amusingly. "Let the other two have their turns as well, why don't you?"
Rinne ignored the smug remarks from her older evil sister, simply kept kissing the man she loved.
To his surprise, he felt his body getting warm and the pain of the poison in his heart ceasing.
This was the ability of Rinne's Angel, Eden, which granted him the necessary life source! As long as she opened her heart to someone and kissed him, she would be able to heal this person's wounds.
To Ren's dismay, Shido's poison was banished from his body, and the bleeding was stopped as well! It would be only a matter of time before he regenerated his hands.
"I'm actually a very greedy girl~" Rinne licked her lips after the kiss. "I want to kiss Shido a thousand of, if not a million of, times more~" Then, she kissed Shido again.
Mukuro was slightly upset by this sudden display of affection, but Mayuri soothed her and explained that it was a necessary method to save Shido's life. She nodded understandingly, then shifted her gaze toward Ren.
"...Tsk..." Ren, on the other hand, cursed silently as she witnessed another failure of her plan. Before she could say anything else, she saw a giant key emerging from her left side!
Shifting her body quickly, Ren got out of the way just in time. When she flew a few feet backwards, she realized that it was Mukuro who opened a portal from her side, thrusting her weapon in the shape of a key. The thrill made her feel a chill down her spine.
"[Michael]" Mukuro, her expression distorted in anger, raised her hand and activated her angel with her body bleaming in red. "Shifuru!"
In the nick of time, her pure white wedding dress vanished, soon replaced by a cheongsam that was adorned with constellation patterns at the ends of the skirt. Her new Astral Dress was fully in the color of red, giving her a more savage appearance, along with tassels added onto her hair buns.
"Shifuru", one of Mukuro's angelic powers, allowed her to unleash the true potential of [Michael] by transforming it from a key-shaped khakkhara to a Chinese halberd. When in this form, [Michael] could be used to awaken the hidden power of other Spirits as well.
As if to prove this power, she aimed her angel at Mayuri.
"Stop!" Ren gritted her teeth and fired another energy beam toward Mukuro. However, to her confusion, her attack vanished out of thin air!
Before she could react, she felt an explosion on her back!
"Argh!" Ren staggered slightly, but was able to maintain her balance. She suddenly realized that Mukuro opened a portal and transferred the attack back to herself! This ability proved to be very troublesome, especially when she was outnumbered.
Because of this interception, Mayuri was able to receive the full blessing of Mukuro's unlocking ability.
In a short while, Mayuri's Astral Dress was restored back to its original state, covering her slender body properly. And then, her dress evolved!
Mayuri's Astral Dress became a leather outfit that resembled an all-black Gothic style, along with a star-shaped gap at the chest of her clothing. At her slender waist grew two belts and two sleeves that attached to her upper arm, giving her a cute but mysterious presence. Around her thighs were a pair of leggings that reached her upper knees, adding a seductive look to her figure.
Most of all, her powers had evolved to another level, far surpassing her previous state!
"Poof!"
To everyone's surprise, a smokescreen was created in the place where Ren stood.
With both the blonde Spirits being combat-worthy again, she realized how difficult her situation had become. Therefore, she devised a plan to escape.
However...
"Kaboom!"
Something was blinking above the theater, a star of some sort, then without a warning, dozens of meteor/comet-like energy projectiles fell from above in hypersonic velocity, bombarding everything Ren had summoned into oblivion.
When the explosions died down, a purple figure was seen with an energy shield.
"Hu...hu...hu..." The figure was Ren, and she was maintaining her defense in a rather strenuous manner.
Earlier, she tried to escape with a smokescreen, but Mukuro opened dozens of portals, sealing all her possible escape routes; and Mayuri fired indiscriminate attacks at her, bombing the villainess in all possible directions!
"Your Angel is amazing!" Mayuri commended Mukuro on her side.
"No, yours is the powerful one here." Mukuro smiled modestly. It seemed the two blonde Spirits got along really well.
Ren felt her reiryoku draining like a whirlwind under the constant bombardment of attacks, knowing that she had to be creative, otherwise, she would inevitably be defeated.
Desperate for a solution, she looked up and saw Mukuro summoning a portal around her, a wicked smile formed around her lips.
One hand maintaining the shield, her other hand formed an energy orb with purple spikes. In the next second, she unexpectedly fired it behind her back.
In midair, Mukuro was about to activate her ability, "Segva", hoping to seal the troublesome villainess. But what she did not know was that her target saw through her plan! And to her horror, she suddenly realized none of her portals had IFF, so enemies can also use them as shortcuts to channel their attacks, if they had the wits.
Ren's dreadful attack approached her thanks to the portal she opened behind the bandage-covered Spirit! It was too close for her to react in time. If that attack landed, it would severely injure Mukuro and make her immobilized.
At this moment —
"Argh!"
A clear grunt was heard, and to Mukuro's surprise, it was Mayuri blocking the attack! As a result of taking it directly, she coughed blood and lost most of her Astral Dress, revealing her slim body in red.
"NOO!" Mukuro shouted, catching Mayuri in her arms.
"...Don't...worry about me..." The angel smiled weakly, not wanting the petite Spirit to lose her will to fight. "Help Shido...first..."
Mukuro nodded affirmatively, and teleported her friend to Shido and Rinne's position. When she turned her gaze back to Ren, she saw her already started flying toward in an obvious murderous manner.
"Jerez". Converting all her sorrow into anger, Mukuro activated her strongest move. This ability would allow her to decompose reiryoku and the bonds holding molecules together.
Ren fired enormous amounts of energy beams toward Mukuro, but the Zodiac Spirit remained unfazed, fending off the vigorous attacks with her Chinese halberd.
"Impressive, you are able to negate my attacks." Ren laughed as she kept on firing more beams, adding poisonous vines in between. "But you can't use your portals, unless you wanna die faster, huhuhu!"
She's right. Mukuro contemplated, realizing the danger of portal attacks backfiring on her, and she had no time to correct such a fatal flaw. She was saved from it thanks to Mayuri earlier, but what about the second time?
The two powerful Spirits were literally in a stalemate, but Mukuro was at a disadvantage in the long run. Her ability consumed more reiryoku than Ren's did, and given enough time, she would be the first to be worn off.
Meanwhile Shido and Rinne, who were temporarily out of the game, were busy healing Mayuri, as well as watching the continued confrontation worriedly. Even they outnumbered Ren to the ratio of 4:1, but they never had the initiative, despite all of them being strong combatants and they fought without sparing any strengths. Speaking of being strong, Shido suddenly had a click in his mind, which was, despite classified as the Spirit with the highest rating in combat prowess, there was something always hindering Mukuro from completely bringing out her full potential, he noticed that early on, perhaps when witnessing her first fighting against other Spirits. Now the situation was critical, if Mukuro was down, they would lose this battle entirely.
Unless...
"Rinne, I know I don't have the right to ask more from you, but please allow me to make one more request." He turned to the pink-haired girl.
"Got it." Rinne smiled and nodded.
The duel between good and evil kept raging on, and the side representing good was gradually being overwhelmed. "I'll not only kill you, I'll outright kill you in the most horrible way! After that, I will cut your beautiful blond hair and use it as my carpet! As a fine example to those who dare to oppose me!" Ren laughed and dished out more attacks to Mukuro, who barely managed to evade and block them.
Suddenly Rinne attacked from a different angle, catching her off-guard and threw her off-balance.
"But before that, I don't mind finishing you off as an appetizer!" Ren shifted her attention to Rinne. This girl had interfered with her scheme for too many times and she was going to make sure this would be the last time!
"Be careful not to choke on your aspirations, Nee-san." On Rinne's face there was a strange and slight smirk. And the two were locked in an exchange of firepower.
At the same time Shido appeared by Mukuro's side. "Sorry, Nushi-sama! Muku tried to correct her wrongs, but Muku is not strong enough..." Mukuro cried in sorrow, for being unable to turn the tide to defeat the common enemy of theirs.
"No, Muku, you're strong enough. You have the bravery to face your past, you do have the strength to overcome it." Shido held her hands tightly and looked intently into her golden eyes: "I sensed the greatness inside you ever since I first met you, a power capable of surpassing even the fiercest opponent, you just need to bring it out."
"Nushi...sama?"
"Muku, you have a very beautiful name, and it bears a wish like all other names. Hoshimiya, 'Palace of Stars', there are billions of stars shining in the night sky, but only one particular star can turn the night into daylight: The Sun. The Sun is the real brightest star, it expels the darkness and it energizes all lives. So there is my wish to you, Muku, don't be a distant flicker of starlight, but be like the Sun, radiating infinite light and heat, illuminating everyone, also illuminating yourself."
"Nushi-sama..." Tears flowed down Mukuro's cheeks, but her expression is not sad, instead being steadfast, upon seeing her lover's expectant and smiling face. No words were needed anymore, for there was a mutual understanding between the couple. Slowly, they closed their eyes and kissed, and as their lips touched, tiny, twinkling stars appeared around them and enveloped them, then suddenly expanded into countless mini-suns, the blinding light engulfing everything...
The light also drew both Ren and Rinne's attention, as the former pinned the latter down for the slaughter. While Ren was distracted by the blinding light from above, the barely-recovered Mayuri quickly dashed into Ren and kicked her 50 meters away. Knowing their mission was completed, Mayuri grinned widely as she carried the gravely wounded Rinne away. Ren attempted to pursue, only to be bombarded by more than one hundred hypersonic energy projectiles, similar to those utilized by Mayuri, instead being vastly more powerful.
When she looked at the source of attack, she was flabbergasted —
A dash of golden light, accompanied by a dash of blue light, was charging forward from afar. They were none other than Mukuro and Shido. The real origin of reiryoku was never some crystallized artifacts, but one's heart of genuine love, friendship, courage, sense of duty and justice. Having overcame the obstacles in her heart, the Spirit of Cosmos unlocked the true power inside her, evidenced by her brand new cheongsam Astral Dress: Crimson like burning flame, extended, feather-resembling ribbons flew alongside her super-long golden hair, as if a phoenix rose from ash and fire. Coincidently, this splendid attire wasn't constellation-patterned, but was decorated with suns and phoenixes.
Beside the scarlet firebird, Shido, whose reiryoku resonated with Mukuro's, was also in a different combat gear: Dark blue, metallic luster, as if some advanced exoskeleton suit. To summarize, this couple were not only completely recovered, but also thoroughly upgraded. This may be called "Seraph Form".
【Background Music: Live and Learn】
【Extracted from Video Game "Sonic Adventure 2"】
"You have a problem with death?" Ren was about to summons her offensive capabilities again, but Mukuro shot first, by initiating the second wave of her previous attack —creating more than one hundred portals to warp enormous quantities of fusion plasma from the Solar core to the proximity, compressing them with super-strong electromagnetic fields to be meteor/comet-like, then launching them to Ren in a volley and guiding them missile-like with her mental power. Upon hitting the target, each of these hypersonic ordnance exploded into a fireball of fusion plasma and lasted for dozens of seconds, with shockwave and EMP effect. In short, they hurt a lot.
Ren was forced into a defensive stance. She recalibrated reiryoku to bring up more than a dozen layers of hardened energy shields, even strong enough to deflect a nuclear strike, but insufficient to withstand Mukuro's next ranged attack: She assembles a super-long, super-powerful gauss coil by linearly arranging hundreds of portals, accelerating a golden-colored, flechette-shaped, super-condensed and superheated bolt of plasma teleported from the inside of the Sun to 50 Mach. This gigantic plasma lance pulverized every single layer of Ren's shield with ease, then inflict a great deal of damage to her, corporally.
Immediately after that, before she could put herself together, Shido charged to the point-blank in front of Ren and began to bash her torso mercilessly with both fists, in mere seconds he had achieved a combo of more than one thousand hits, even the legendary Tomoyo Sakagami was insignificant next to him.
Meanwhile, Rinne and Mayuri, who had stepped down as spectators, were watching this one-sided domestic violence in awe. Too bad there weren't chairs, nor a table of tea and biscuits.
What they saw was a blood-vomiting Ren, and she vomited blood profusely.
"...Impossible...IMPOSSIBLE! You're cheating!"
Shido answered Ren's protest by landing an upward kick to her chin. Well, guess this bad girl must receive plastic surgery, maybe multiple plastic surgeries, after being released from ICU.
"Muku, go for the kill-shot." Having adequately expressed his opinion about Ren's behaviors, Shido retreated to Mukuro's side. The golden combat angel created a specialized portal in front of her, transporting a huge chuck of fusion plasma from the Sun's core to form a golden orb bright enough to permanently damage one's retinas, and fired it to the target. That was the true BFG 9000.
"This is not fair! NOT FAIR!" Screaming in utmost agony and inadmissibility, Ren is consumed by the explosion of the miniature nova.
【Background Music Stops】
The group of four were in a stranded desert, cold wind blowing violently against them.
Shido looked around, and Ren was nowhere to be seen. It seemed that the villainess escaped somehow. "She surely will think twice before trying to cross us again." He announced victoriously, despite internally wishing to terminate Ren once and for all, or at least capture her alive. No time to pursue the fugitive, for there was an even more important issue to worry about at the moment.
"Dalet!"
Shido activated Kurumi's angel, shooting Mayuri and Rinne for the sake of helping them recover. In a mere seconds, both girls' bodies were turned back to normal, allowing them to stand freely.
"Thank you, Mayuri, Rinne." Shido bowed his head in gratitude. "If it weren't for you, who knows what would happen to us."
"Muku is grateful to you two as well." Mukuro lowered her head and followed suit. "Muku's sorry for causing so much trouble."
"No no no, you two. Raise your heads already." Rinne waved her hand with a wry smile.
Mayuri didn't say a word. Instead, she stepped forward and grabbed Mukuro's shoulders. Before the dumbfounded girl could react, she pulled her close to her chest and hugged her tightly!
"I'm the one who's sorry, Mukuro-chan." Mayuri said tenderly, stroking Mukuro's hair. "I should have spoken up for you at that time, yet I dug my head in the sand."
Mukuro looked up at Mayuri with a smile, telling her that it didn't matter anymore. Then, she buried her face in Mayuri's bosom, rubbing against them affectionately. Not only opposite sides of the same coin, they were like two intimate sisters now.
Shido and Rinne both smiled at the heartwarming scene, and they hugged each other passionately as well.
After a few minutes, the two pairs finally let go.
When Shido was about to ask Rinne something, he was stopped by her action —
Rinne summoned a pink portal that was teeming with energy, which emitted a soothing aura.
"Now it is almost midnight, and with Ren's influence over you dissipated, you will be sent back to your world shortly, Mukuro-chan."
She declared softly, before she explained more.
"However, in this portal, the flow of time is greatly decelerated. You and Shido should enter and spend some quality time together, after all, you both have been through so much."
Shido and Mukuro were naturally shocked to hear this, but the blue-haired teen wasn't going to take up on the offer just yet.
"That's too kind of you, but you and Mayuri should join too." He suggested.
"Sorry, I cannot enter the portal myself. Also, Mayuri knows better than to be the third wheel." Rinne giggled, which caused the blonde Spirit to pout. "We will discuss things later, Shido."
Without giving her lover time to speak, she activated the portal and engulfed him with Mukuro altogether.
...
Lemon Begins!
"Nushi-sama! Nushi-sama! Nushi-sama..." As soon as being alone with Shido, Mukuro threw herself into his arms, almost knocking him down on the floor, and kept calling out. Before, she was obviously a beautiful and valiant combatant, but when she was with her other half in private, she showed her true colors, changing from a battle angel to a clinging kitten in an instant — of course he couldn't blame her, since they almost died on the first day of their wedding, overreaction was naturally expected.
"...Sorry...Muku's so sorry! It's all Muku's fault! Nushi-sama has suffered so much for Muku, Muku will never forgive herself..." Mukuro rubbed her head against Shido's chest while crying.
Shido also hugged the petite girl back tightly and comforted her: "It's okay, it's okay, Muku, it's all over." At the same time, he said in his heart: "I am the one who can never forgive myself, you didn't hesitate to break yourself to save me, and you sacrificed your life to shield me. I thought that I lost you, and I will never forget it for the rest of my life." Of course, he could only say it in his heart. If he expressed it verbally, Mukuro would definitely start a new round of self-blame, and then the two would enter an endless loop of mutual apologies.
Now that he took a look around, he saw that this place was only 30 feet in length and width, but was rather soothing. It was perfectly peaceful and quiet, its surrounding giving off a pink color of softness. There was a huge pink bed in the middle of this small space, heavily implying what the couple could be doing together. It even came with a dresser and a bathroom as a complement.
"Is it alright now, Nushi-sama? Is there any discomfort? Is there any pain?" Mukuro looked at Shido with poppy eyes, running both hands across his torso. Although he wanted to feel more of the delicate hands of the little beauty in his arms, Shido still said, "It's okay, I'm completely fine, I can run a marathon plus a triathlon without any problems." This was an objective fact because, like the Spirits, he possessed regenerative abilities that even those vampires and the Wolverine from X-Men would be ashamed of.
"Is Nushi-sama really all right?"
"I'm really fine."
"Is Nushi-sama really, really all right?"
"I'm really, really fine."
"Is Nushi-sama really, really, really all right?"
"I'm really, really, really fine." Shido wanted to ask if Mukuro felt any discomfort physically, but he suddenly had an evil thought, saying: "But if Muku thinks that I 'must' have pain somewhere on my body, then I have a proposal..."
"Huh?" Mukuro was puzzled.
"The previous battle made my whole body sore, and it hurts to the bone! How happy I would be if I had a beautiful nurse to massage me." Shido smiled softly, and blinked mischievously: "I hope this beautiful nurse has blond hair that is almost as long as her height, slightly curly, and tied in two buns; her eyes are like golden ambers, her skin is as white as the first snow, her legs are slender and curvaceous, and she has a petite but voluptuous body. May I ask Muku to recommend a suitable person?"
"...Muku knows a candidate who is perfectly qualified, please wait a moment." Mukuro lowered her head shyly. "Could Nushi-sama borrow Muku a pair of nurse outfits?" Shido naturally had no objections, so he made one out of thin air with Natsumi's ability.
Shido turned around, put on a hospital gown, and sat on the bed waiting for Mukuro to dress up — although he once told her that "using her body as compensation will only be a burden", it was only dialectical. Since his significant other firmly believed that using her body to satisfy him as compensation could eliminate her sense of guilt, not to mention bringing both physical and psychological pleasure to both parties at the same time, he might as well accept it.
"Intern nurse, Mukuro Hoshimiya, at Nushi-sama's service." The golden Spirit cosplaying as a nurse came to the bedside and bowed in greeting. At the same moment, Shido felt his heart skip a bit: "This is obviously worsening my condition."
Why? Because the attire of the "nurse" in front of him was a white cheongsam-style one-piece nurse uniform with short sleeves, the skirt only covered the upper half of the thighs, that was to say, most of her slender and curvaceous legs wrapped in translucent white pantyhose would be exposed.
This very attire was intended to highlight the sanctity of the angel in white, but instead it gave people the urge to defile such sanctity — especially when it was worn on Mukuro — her panel attributes had breached the ceiling of measurement by default (not surprising, since Mukuro occupied the position representing "beauty" on the Kabbalah Tree of Life), plus cheongsam was the most figure-testing clothing — Shido was sure that if she dressed like this when he first met her, he would definitely be directly KO'd because of high blood pressure + arrhythmia + excessive blood loss (nosebleeds). You may call this "First Encounter Killer".
The "nurse" seemed to have sensed something from the way her "patient" looked at her. She smiled sweetly and pushed forward with her delicate hands, and the other party immediately fell limply on the bed — no matter how tough a man was, he would never be able to withstand the enchantment of a beauty.
Then came the major problem: Mukuro didn't know about massaging!
It was a kind of hands-on ability, which had to be tested by practice.
So Mukuro went directly to the bed and laid prone on Shido's body. Of course the gentle teen would not protest, he took all of his lover's weight in his arms, and at the same time lovingly stroking a strand of the beautiful girl's hair. Most Spirits had long and smooth hair, however Mukuro's golden hair was the one that attracted his heart the most — longer than her height, and even after being cut short, it could still reach her ankles, not to mention despite being moderately curly, its silkiness was second to none "putting a comb on top and it will slide straight down on its own". Someone once said that Mukuro's hair gave out the déjà vu of Princess Rapunzel, but Shido insisted that it looked like Kaguya-hime, because "shining in the dark night like the sun, no matter how troubled and depressed you are in your heart, just touch it and it will immediately calm you down".
So whenever the two of them were alone, Shido would involuntarily brush Mukuro's hair, and if the position was right, he would bring his face close to its refreshing fragrance. Mukuro also only allowed her Nushi-sama to touch her hair like this — naturally combing and hair-styling could only be done by him, which had become an important component of the intimacy between the couple. When it came to hairstyles, Shido suddenly realized that no matter how Mukuro's super-long blond hair was done — ponytail or three-stranded braids, the two iconic buns were always kept, as if on purpose — "If I untie them, will I see a completely different Muku?" Shido thought so while moving his hand to one of the buns to caress carefully, and put forward what he was thinking.
The moment the buns were untied, he was stunned completely.
When the term "Spirit" was mentioned, most people would subconsciously think of "cute" and any words with similar meanings, and this was indeed the case. Among these beautiful Spirit girls, Mukuro was no exception — the two buns, functioned as a trademark of hers, surely bestowed her the vibes of a little girl's childishness and sprightliness. But when her hair was completely dispersed and flowed down waterfall-like, this childish innocence disappeared, replaced by the completely released aura of a mature woman. For a moment, she just looked like the mirroring of Mio Takamiya.
As if breaking the seal, the Spirit became a goddess.
"Nushi-sama?" Mukuro called back Shido from his daze. "I'm suddenly filled with guilt — I mean what I want to say is that I suddenly doubt if I'm worthy of Muku — although it was too late to raise the concern now, because I had already taken Muku's virginity." He said.
The golden Spirit...no, the golden goddess, who supported her upper body above her lover by bolstering both arms on bed and looked down to him, was taken aback for a few seconds, then smiled: "Does Nushi-sama still remember the story of the robin and the hyacinth?"
Shido: "Of course I do." (Note: This story is about a robin going to visit a hyacinth. Some people wonder why the former bothers to visit the latter, for a hyacinth can neither satisfy its hunger like wheat ears nor quench its thirst like a stream of water. The robin replies it's because hyacinth is its lover. People ask why it falls in love with this one particular hyacinth, when there are countless hyacinths in the world, and the robin says it's because this hyacinth is special — the special thing is being the one it loves.)
"Love is never rational, it doesn't need a reason, and it doesn't need to stick to right or wrong." Mukuro smiled. "The only importance is that Nushi-sama and Muku love each other, vow to keep each other, and under the guidance of love we came into the sacred union of marriage, these are already enough. Since Nushi-sama wishes Muku to radiate light and heat like the sun, Muku also hopes Nushi-sama not to reject her light and warmth."
"...every word is true. I'm surprised that Muku has such a side."
"Nushi-sama is also surprisingly innocent. No matter the aggressive Nushi-sama or the meek Nushi-sama, you are the same person — the Nushi-sama Muku loves." The goddess showed a smile as bright as the sun.
"This is too excessively charming." Shido raised the white flag.
"It seems that today's Nushi-sama is not suitable for taking the initiative, so let Muku guide Nushi-sama this time." Mukuro lightly tapped the tip of Shido's nose with her exquisite index finger.
"Even more charming. I have a premonition that I'll be devoured by the last bits of bone fragments." Shido prepared to die heroically: "But I'm willing to go down this way."
"Hmm..." Mukuro leaned forward, her warm and slightly sweet-tasted lips claiming Shido's.
After a few seconds, their lips parted, and they looked into the depths of each other's pupils, then kissed for the second time, the third time...and it lasted longer and longer.
"Nushi-sama's lips feel so comfortable, no matter how many times Muku kisses them, it won't be enough." The goddess had a flirtatious and provocative expression.
"Muku's lips are the same, I want to keep kissing like this... And the fragrance of Muku's body is different today, definitely not a false impression."
"What does Nushi-sama think Muku usually smells like, and what's the difference now?"
"Muku always emanates a fresh and elegant redolence, like a cup of famous tea. But today you're like strong wine, or sweet and rich like a flower's nectar."
"Then Nushi-sama is the bee attracted by the nectar."
"Well, at least it's 'bee', not 'vermin'." The two looked at each other and smiled. Then Mukuro continued to gently kiss Shido's cheek and neck, and licked him like a cat, also rubbing her legs against his through the trousers of the hospital gown. On the other hand, Shido breathed in the fragrances of Mukuro's body and hair, felt her burning panting, fiery body temperature, smooth and delicate skin, moist and soft lips and tiny, slightly rough pink tongue, as well as the slender legs wrapped in pantyhose and the tightly pressing breasts of hers...everything was like both a blissful dream and a nightmare.
Then his gaze involuntarily fell on the stalwart of Mukuro's plump bosom, a perfect smirk formed around the corner of his lips. Having found her breasts had become much bigger earlier, but only now he just figured out how big they were. Could it be because of the increase in the total amount of her reiryoku? Although not confirmed, the power/combat prowess of a Spirit seemed to be positively related to her bust-size. Was it because the reiryoku was actually concentrated in...such a possibility could not be ruled out. Of course it was impossible for Mukuro not to be aware of where her Nushi-sama's attention was, so she raised her upper body and moved a little to enable her boobs tightly wrapped by the nurse's uniform to hang right in front of him, cooing: "Does Nushi-sama recall the tactility at that time?"
"Burned into the part of my cerebral cortex where the memory is the best."
"Muku is also eager to be caressed by Nushi-sama again, and is already so horny." Mukuro unbuttoned her cheongsam-style nurse uniform, partially liberating her oversized tits from the constraint — still confined by a white half-cup brassiere of strapless design, and the peony-like pattern on the cup made it both elegant and sexy. This piece of lingerie is too small in comparison with the entities it attempted to cover, for the cups' edges sank into the snowy flesh of the breasts, not to mention the two bulges formed by nipples, further emphasizing the plumpness of this pair of watermelons.
"My rationality is on the verge of crumbling..." Shido tried his best not to succumb to the sensory stimulation — a battle with no chance of winning. And he'd better conserve adjectives and metaphors, because the more exciting things were still to come — such as the wet spots gradually emerging on the two bulges and the pale redness behind the wet spots.
"Muku... Could it be you..."
"A girl's breasts are very sensitive, especially to the love from her lover. Muku's breasts have become so big because of Nushi-sama's love, and they're now full of milk thanks to Nushi-sama' love too."
"I'm more inclined to think it's because too much reiryoku concentrated in the breasts makes them bigger, and part of the power is released in the form of milk — however from a certain point of view, your explanation works too, Muku." Shido thought with a wry smile, saying: "Since the reason is me, then I must take responsibility, no excuses." Before finishing speaking, he buried his face deeply between the pair of watermelons, kissing and licking, greedily breathed the fragrance of her milk, and slowly took off her nurse uniform with both hands, exposing the goddess' flawless skin to a larger percentage.
"Nushi-sama..." Mukuro sighed sweetly because she felt her significant other was trying to invade her cleavage forcefully. At the same time she also unbuttoned his hospital gown, exposing his thick chest muscles. If a woman's large and plump breasts were the tender land that men dreamt of, then a man's broad and strong chest was what women yearned for. Therefore every time when sharing the same bed with Shido, Mukuro would get into his manly arms and cling to his firm chest, listening to his heartbeat, just for the sense of security that she was being protected by the one she loved.
Then he bit the bow-shaped ribbon located between the bra-cups, the key to hold the bra in its place, by his teeth, and pulled it loose — in an instant her huge jugs, completely out of proportion to her slim waist, were completely exposed in front of his eyes, and seemed being even more sizable. These heavenly entities were like twin-mountains formed by coagulated creams, the only non-snowy part was the areolae colored in light-red, which were slightly bulged on the peaks, with cylinder-like, thumb-thick nipples in centers, which were also reflecting a light-red brilliancy, and were dripping milk from tips.
"These... these are simply the masterpieces of the Creator..." The male protagonist was totally mesmerized, and immediately stretched out his hands to try to grab them — try — for busty-wise, not only Miku, even Mio paled in comparison. If the former was here, she would definitely drool like crazy, and feel depressed for being defeated on certain "assets''.
"Will I be suffocated to death by them or crushed to death? Both are appealing!" Shido moved his fingers and palms simultaneously, and every time he exerted his strength, a strong elasticity could be felt from the inside of the mammary fleshes of both softness and solidness, as if resisting the pressure added externally, hence he couldn't help wanting to grope more. Like kneading clay, his fingers sank into the swollen breasts, and were pushed outward by the reaction force at once.
"Nushi-sama, don't be hasty, Muku's breasts are yours forever, so please enjoy them leisurely..." Mukuro groaned, feeling that her boobs were submissively and rebelliously changing in shape under her lover's touch — and that was what was happening in reality. Her nipples were also getting stiffer, being almost two third inches in length, with more milk flowing out to form several white streams on the back of his hands and wrists.
While continuing to knead her lactating breasts, Shido also pinched the base of the nipples with his fingers. Mukuro reacted by letting out an exclamation, and her body trembled violently, almost bouncing up. Her nipples also sprayed milk more than ten centimeters away! It was said breasts' sensitivities were inversely related to their sizes, which was clearly not the case, at least in Mukuro's case it was the exact opposite.
Shido kept clamping Mukuro's nipples, randomly switching among stretching, squeezing, and poking. Her nipples also squirted milk correspondingly to his actions, and became more and more rigid, milky fragrance filled the air. At the same time, her panties and pantyhose had already shown the signs of being soaked with love-juice, indicating how wet her lower lips were. Of course he noticed the changes of her lower body, but for now he solely focused on her upper body, because the main course was about to be served...
And the main course was none other than suckling her cherry-like nipples!
His mouth was instantly filled with her warm, sweet and slightly sticky milk, he swallowed it immediately to take the next mouthful.
"Nushi-sama...is obsessed with Muku's breasts so much...Muku is so happy."
"Muku really likes having breasts being played with! Of course I do too." Shido sucked Mukuro's left and right nipples in turn, gulping down the syrup secreted from her mammary glands.
"Because Muku loves Nushi-sama and Nushi-sama has a strong liking for Muku's breasts, therefore Muku also feels deeply delighted."
"Well, that's an infinite loop of positive feedback." Shido continued to play with Mukuro's gigantic tits, sucking milk from one of them while groping the other one to force milk to spurt. This golden goddess really had an amazingly vigorous lactation, as well as an astonishingly vast reiryoku reserve, for her milk was not only thick and sweet, plus rich in nutrition and large in quantity, but also contained a ridiculously high level of reiryoku. Shido clearly sensed the power in his body was rocketing sky-high, definitely way more efficient and enjoyable than kissing. Maybe he should promote it among other Spirits, Miku, Tohka and Kurumi...would love this.
(Ren, are you watching? This is the correct way to get Mukuro's reiryoku! Unfortunately it's only available to Shido, because he's Shido.)
"Nushi-sama...this is...a bit too exciting..." Although in an erotic breastfeeding, the receiving end was always being compared to an infant, it would be too monotonous if quietly suckling baby-like all the time. Therefore Shido began to stretch the breast he was suckling like a rubber ball, and the breasts being stretched also unleashed more milk in response, so much that it streamed out from the corner of his mouth. On the other hand, Mukuro's breasts were indeed amazingly elastic, despite being stretched to twice their length, there was still room for them to continue. Moreover, they would immediately bounce and return to their original shape upon release.
"Nushi-sama...Nushi-sama keeps going like this, Muku...Muku is going to..." Feeling adventurous, Shido launched a new way of playing with boobs — putting both nipples together to suck simultaneously, added with stretching and grouping both breasts, and Mukuro's body suddenly bent backwards into a reverse C shape, with a substantial surge of milk, followed by losing strength and falling forward, burying his head into her bosom — he was indeed going to be suffocated and crushed to death.
"...Muku...just spouted a lot...did Nushi-sama feel it..."
"Yeah, definitely, because I drank it all..." Of course this was not true, since Shido couldn't swallow all Mukuro's milk earlier, then he wouldn't be able to do so when she sexually climaxed. However none of them would mind this.
"…tasty?"
"Absolutely. It's thick and sweet, with Muku's warmth and aroma. I hope our kids can feed on it in the future."
"Then let Muku be pregnant with Nushi-sama children." Mukuro stripped her pantyhose and panties, then stripped Shido's trousers and pants too: "Nushi-sama's...has become so big, so predatory..." Commenting on his exposed penis, she straightened her upper body and stroked her lower abdomen: "Muku's...also...wants to be filled with Nushi-sama's semen..." And her love-juice flowed ceaselessly as she spoke. Seeing her erotic state, Shido couldn't help but aim his tip at his lover's entrance, who currently was more like a succubus than a goddess.
"I will fully cooperate with whatever Muku wants to do." Shido's inner lust had already peaked unprecedentedly, even if he got squeezed dry, he wouldn't regret it.
The moment his fully erected penis entered her vagina, both parties screamed as if their private parts were burnt. Although Mukuro had done it many times with her Nushi-sama, her inner walls were still as tight as when her hymen got penetrated, and because of her petite physique, the shaft was pushed to the deepest part at once, such extreme stimulation almost made them orgasm immediately.
"It's amazing...Nushi-sama's...it's so great..." Before Shido could make a move, Mukuro started to move first, and the soft flesh that was already tightly strangling the hot and hard shaft tightened even more, gripping and rubbing it from all sides, as if announcing that there was no escape and no way back, resulting the boy's sensation of ejaculation surged to highest level in a very short order.
"Muku... I'm going to cum..." Before Shido could finish his words, searing magma erupted from his glans, and he ejaculated profusely like a machine gun! Not only because his load was huge, but also because the sudden tightening of Mukuro's vagina was too much.
"Nushi-sama's...still so big and so hard~ Muku is far from satisfied." The "succubus" goddess moved her slender waist again. Earlier, she said that she would guide Shido this time, and she wasn't kidding, for Shido was literally like a fish on the cutting board or a lamb to the slaughter now. She could squeeze out the last drop of his semen if she wanted.
"Slow down a little... Muku...slow down..." As if to prove this point, Shido, who always toyed a Spirit (or Spirits) to surrender when having a sexual intercourse with his powerful tool, begged for mercy, and soon ushered in the second orgasm.
"Nushi-sama...come again...Muku...wants more...more..." Before the other party could recover, Mukuro launched a third wave of offense. Not showing any signs of exhaustion, her movements, on the contrary, became even more ferocious! Her gigantic breasts bounced in a circular manner, spraying milk in synchronization with the piston movement and spraying it as far as almost half a meter away, landing all over Shido's torso. As for Shido, he had given up resistance long ago — in fact, he had already in semi-coma for being excessively fucked, only could passively letting his essence of life being vacuumed out. From his point of view the girl who radiated infinite light and heat like a sun suddenly turned into a black hole that swallowed everything, dragging his remaining consciousness into an endless void...
(Ren, are you watching? This is the correct way to take Shido's life! Unfortunately it's only available to Mukuro, because she's Mukuro.)
Of course Mukuro wouldn't take her beloved Nushi-sama's life. She leaned forward at a certain moment, allowing Shido to suck her milk to regain energy, but also because of this, she could extract more semen from him, not to mention being stimulated both on breasts and in vagina, even the elapsed time for reaching an orgasm was shortened.
...
They were mating like rabbits who were hypnotized, and if they came every 10 minutes, then there should be at least 20 orgasms in total. Finally, after the last, strongest orgasm, Mukuro slowly got up, Shido's penis, eventually squeezed empty and fell limp, slid out from her pussy, along with semen and love-juice gurgling non-stop.
"Nushi-sama...shot so much inside...Muku...will really get pregnant..."
"I also want to... let Muku have my babies..."
"Thank you... Nushi-sama..." Mukuro leaned over and kissed Shido. The young couple collapsed after this record-breaking protracted battle, and the last thing they felt before losing consciousness was the touch and temperature of each other's lips and bodies...
...
After an unknown amount of time, Shido opened his eyes — more precisely, half-opened, because he was not fully conscious.
He looked at the ceiling and murmured in a voice only audible to himself: "I... had... a very long, very sweet dream..." However, the extremely beautiful, jade-statue-like figure nestled against him clearly told him that it was not a dream, but reality.
Shido turned his head as lightly as possible, and carefully looked at the naked goddess who was lying on his left side, snuggling sideways, and was still sleeping. She had a childish but gorgeous face as if made by a master craftsman; beautiful eyelashes covered her closed eyes; slightly opened cherry mouth made people want to kiss; moderately curly super-long hair dazzled in bright-gold, although was a little messy due to the earlier "activities", still could be seen that it was unparalleled in suppleness.
A pair of curvaceous legs wrapped around his legs, slightly rubbing against his groin area from time to time, almost causing him to arouse again.
Next, the male protagonist's gaze inevitably rested on his lover's breasts. The two watermelon-sized milk-tanks squeezed against his torso and heaved slightly with breathing, emphasizing their extraordinary softness and firmness, swollenness and elasticity; not to mention as she breathed, the tightness between her boobs and his chest also changed accordingly, resulting the light-red cherries sitting on the peaks, in the centers of areolae of same color, to exude white fluid from tips from time to time. The flawless skin of her mammary mounds were covered in milk, however the evaporation of moisture dried the nectar, forming a layer of semi-dry, translucent shell resembling white frost, or "milk shell" to be more picturesquely, as if icing wrapped around fully-ripen fruits, and was emanating an intoxicating scent of sweetness. Shido couldn't help feeling the urge to lean over and lick off that layer of "milk shell" with his tongue...
...and so he did.
Tentatively tasting the aroma, he licked the tip of one cherry-like bud, causing it to bounce slightly. Amazed by the lusciousness, he sucked on it gently and felt the sweet taste of her milk again. After a mouthful or two, he felt completely refreshed and following that, he laid Mukuro's body flat, then cupped both her over-sized twin-mountains in his hands, and started licking every nook and cranny. It was as heavenly as immersing himself in the milk bath, and he couldn't let go of it at all.
"Ammm..."
Suddenly, a cute moan was heard, and it turned out that the sleeping beauty was awake.
"...Muku..." Shido smiled awkwardly, "...good morning."
"Nushi-sama..." Sitting up with her half-closed lids, Muku rubbed her golden eyes, as if unclear about what was going on. Then, she suddenly understood...
"Nushi-sama is such a bad boy~" Mukuro smirked, then rested Shido's head on her lap, before crushing her watermelons on his face. "A bad boy needs to be punished."
With a smug smile on her cute face, she grabbed Shido's morning wood, causing the teen to groan in pleasure at the softness of her hand.
"Drink up, Muku-mama will spoil Nushi-baby rotten."
Without giving Shido a chance to speak, she pressed her nipple into his mouth and started stroking his erected shaft!
What have I gotten myself into... Shido dimly thought to himself as he fed on Mukuro's milk. Savoring the addictive amrita in his mouth, he closed his eyes and accepted his fate.
"Splash!"
In just a few minutes, he ejaculated all over their bodies, but thankfully, Mukuro licked all ejecta clean immediately.
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LEMON ENDS
Finally, it was time to get up. Shido could feel the pinkness of this room fading, indicating the inevitable collapse of this perfect dimension of privacy.
After washing themselves clean, Mukuro helped Shido to get dressed as always, and Shido also combed her super-long hair of golden color like the countless times he had done before, even tied the buns again. Then they opened the door.
The newlyweds walked hand in hand, cherishing this time because when they reached the farther end, Mukuro would return to the original world. She had changed back to the purple cheongsam Astral Dress with constellation patterns, but there was an additional accessory — a platinum necklace around her neck, made by Shido with his newly acquired reiryoku, and it came with pendants of a five-pointed star and a star resembling a snowflake. Each pendant had a photo inside, one was the couple dancing together in outer space, and the other was they kissing each other after he proposed to her.
"Nushi-sama, Muku has rethought a lot. Muku won't do foolish things anymore, because Muku has learned love is not to monopoly, but to be tolerant, to understand, to support, and to progress..." Mukuro said solemnly: "So Muku will work hard to be more mature and modest, and to become a wife Nushi-sama is proud of."
"I also have conducted a deep reflection from what we experienced during the past days, and learned a lot myself — pleasant or not, as long as we can learn something from it, then it's worthy." Shido replied in the same manner. "Besides that, there's one thing I must correct: Muku is always my beloved wife, my pride, always."
The two looked at each other affectionately, and after reaching the end of the dimension, the Zodiac Spirit turned into glowing golden particles and disappeared, while Shido was transported back to the outside of Itsuka Residence.
"Au revoir, my angel, my beloved wife, my Kaguya-hime." In Shido's hand was a pair of rings — the rings he and Mukuro exchanged with each other in their wedding ceremony. He clenched his fist and put it on his lips and kissed it lightly, then turned and walked towards home.
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【ED: The Evening Star】
【Extracted from Video Game "Raiders Sphere 4th"】
Spirits Apartment.
"Mukuro/Mukuro-san/Mukurochin is back!"
The Spirits rushed to Mukuro and surrounded her.
Mukuro: "Everyone... Muku is sorry, and...thank you." She hugged all the Spirits one by one, smiling happily.
At this time, everyone noticed Mukuro's necklace and asked about its origin.
Mukuro explained everything, including the three wishes with Ren and almost dying with her Nushi-sama.
Everyone was shocked when they heard about this, and was even more shocked when they heard about Mayuri and Rinne to the rescue, then, of course, couldn't feel envious about Mukuro and Shido sealing the bond between them via taking the oath of marriage.
"No wonder why Mayuri never returned!" Kotori nodded in understanding.
"Thank Goodness, you are all saved." Yoshino smiled tenderly.
"Sorry that you have to go through all that..." Natsumi was teary eyed.
"..."
The Spirits commented one after another, drowning each other's voice, but one of them was particularly quiet, and surprisingly, that was Nia.
...
In a mysteriously dark sphere, a pair of purple eyes devoid of emotions emerged.
"It used to be just Rinne, and now Mayuri...They both got in my way!"
Cursing viciously, the purple-eyed girl rose from the shadows, revealing her purple hair with her battered face.
But slowly, the wounds on her face disappeared, returning her features of a femme fatale.
"However, now I am healed...thanks to the reiryoku of the Tree of Life."
In the front of her feet, there was a huge bundle of dark orb that emitted energies. It wasn't supposed to be dark-colored at first, but thanks to Ren's manipulation of its power, it became dark and more suitable for her to use.
"Yet...the feeling of being beaten by Shido Itsuka and his consort...really made me rejoice! Haha...Hahahaha... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...! (Coughing)"
Laughing hysterically and subsequently getting choked on her aspirations, or her saliva, Ren's face became distorted with emotions of joy, anger, and...an indescribable...love.
Finally calming herself down, Ren wiped the transparent liquids on her face and opened her hand. Suddenly, an exquisite book emerged...
"When we cross paths again, I shall teach you a lesson...and I shall enjoy watching you die!"
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A/N:
This turned out to be the longest chapter I have ever written, but it sure feels refreshing. Mukuro's Arc is concluded, but it doesn't mean the story between this golden fairy and her Nushi-sama comes to an end. Anyway, please leave reviews and tell me what you think. Thank you, and have a great day!