Ivy brought Alaric to her mansion in the capital. Her mansion was quite large and luxury style for a millionaire like her. He was left surprise to find out she is actually one of the richest people in Gainos. Ivy was always secretive about her past, so now is the time to finally get to know Ivy and convince her to join his party again.

Ivy had enough money to pay for the servants to continue looking after the mansion while she is off somewhere else. While she goes to the bedchambers, Alaric was force to change his appearance in order to blend into this environment. He did reject this at first, but the servant's forces him into the bath, bandage his injuries and put on a black formal clothes to make himself look like a noble. At first he was not happy about this outfit when looking at himself in the mirror, so he takes off the blazer and opens up a few buttons of his shirt. He rolls up the sleeves and follows one of the maids to find Ivy Valentine.

Alaric came into another luxury room where there is a door that would lead him to the bedchambers of Ivy. He sits down on the chair in front of a small rectangular table with some fruits for him in front of him and takes an apple for himself.

Ivy comes out of the bedchambers with still her purple dress still on. She closes the door behind her and looks to Alaric eating an apple "I see you're enjoying yourself."

Alaric swallows first and responds "Is it necessary to wear this?"

"Your clothes are dirty and I don't want that filth in this household." Ivy replies and comes over to sit down on the couch in front of the table and faces Alaric. Her eyes look down at his new appearance and smiles a little at this new look.

"How is it that a pirate became so successful and formal here?" Alaric asks her

"I was never a pirate to begin with. My family was always this rich." Ivy replies when leaning forward to grab the bottle of time on the table and pours herself a drink. She leans back against the couch with her glass in her right hand and explains "The Valentines are said to be the wealthiest families here in Gainos. I took up piracy to satisfy my thirst for battle."

Alaric takes a bite of the apple and replies while still having food in his mouth "Your parents probably didn't like that."

Ivy remain quiet when looking down at the glass in her hand and replies with a soft voice "They're both dead."

Alaric pauses for a moment and soon sighs over this. He swallows and replies "I'm sorry."

"Is your family alive?" Ivy asks and lifts her head up to face him

"I wouldn't call them my family anymore. They don't care about me."

"I see. My father was the first to go when he was driven insane for the pursuit of eternal youth. He wanted to live forever, but his effort had drained this family's fortunes and cause his death. Without him, my mother fell ill and passed away soon after his death. I am not left as the surviving member of the Valentine family and I intend to restore this family to glory again."

"Well, that must've been a hard journey to go through."

"Indeed it was. But in truth, I wasn't related to anyone of the family. They found me and brought me as their only child of the family. Despite this, I still see them as my only family."

"That was interesting story to tell me." Alaric replies and continues eating the apple

Ivy drinks from her glass and replies "I've never told anyone about any of this. Consider yourself special."

Alaric stops eating and looks to Ivy with a smirk "So I'm special to you."

"Hmmmm, after being gone from you for a while, it has been very strange lately like something in my life is missing. The things we fought together and the things we did together…" Ivy looks back at her glass and slowly moves her right finger around the top of the glass a few times "You've really placed your mark onto me that I cannot get rid of."

"Are you telling me it's my fault I made you this way?" Alaric asks "Just remember it was you who tried to kill me that day. I spared your life and let you join me."

Ivy stops and drinks more of her wine and replies to him "Do you intend to bring me back?"

Alaric places the almost eaten apple on the table and replies "I'm not going to force you this time. If you want out then I'll see myself out. If you want my company then I'll stay and drink with you. Surely you don't want to live here alone and drink this wine all by yourself?"

"Hmmmm." Ivy thinks for a while and answers when she finishes her glass of wine. She would put it down on the table, refills the wine again and pours more wine into the second empty glass on the table for Alaric.

Alaric smiles and stands up off the chair to come around the table to sit beside Ivy. He sits back against the couch, holding onto his glass of wine in his left hand and leaving his right hand on the top of the couch behind Ivy's neck. She allows it, and so she softly taps her glass against Alaric for a toast and the two drinks together.

After the two finish drinking the entire bottle of wine together, both would wish to continue by bringing another bottle to drink together. Before Alaric could even get up to get another bottle, Ivy leans closer to Alaric and presses the side of her body against him. He would keep his right arm around her and lowers his eyes down at her cleavage to get a great view. He slowly puts both empty drinks onto the table and touches Ivy's chin to lift her head up to look at him. She was looking tiresome with her eyes half open and slightly breathing a little heavy and have her face gone red.

"Ivy…"

"I can never return to my old life because of you. You better take responsibilities for this and submit."

Alaric smiles and replies "Okay. I will."

It was Ivy who makes the first move by kissing Alaric first. He kisses her back and remains like this for some time, until Alaric starts going serious with his kisses to Ivy. He keeps his right arm around the back of her to keep her from where she is, while using his other hand to go through the top of her dress to get her sighing over the warm feel of his left hand groping one of her breasts. The feel of it made her stop kissing him, but Alaric leans closer to force her lips to press against his again.

As they continue like this, Alaric would eventually get off of her and takes her into the other room into the bedchambers to begin stripping. He would help Ivy take off her dress and steps back to get a great view of the dress falling onto the floor to see her whole naked body with just her black underwear on. She comes closer to press her body against his and desires more kisses from him. She then helps him by slowly unbuttoning his shirt to take it off and then pulls down his pants and pushes him into the bed. Alaric moves back to press the back of his head against the pillows, while watching Ivy crawl onto the bed to reach closer to Alaric and get in top of him. She continues to kiss him passionately and feeling dominate towards him by holding both his arms against the bed. But as they continue this way, Ivy would make her move by suddenly trapping Alaric. She had a pair of long handcuffs that connects to the top edges of her bed and cuffs both Alaric's wrists to keep him bound on the bed.

"W-What is this?!" Alaric replies when looking at both his wrists to see the handcuffs. He looks back to Ivy to see her moving away from him and staring at him with a sinister smile.

"I told you. I'll make you submit." Ivy replies and starts lowering herself down to grab a hold of his cock tightly and proceeds to use her tongue against it.

Alaric remain like this and watches as Ivy begins to tease him by using just her tongue and hands to pleasure his harden cock for some time. She makes him groan when she tightens her grip against it to make him feel a little pain over this. She then finally uses her mouth against the top of it, then slowly lowers her head down to bring half of his cock deeper into her mouth. After a short while of sucking his cock, Ivy stops and moves to the side to use her teeth to bite the side of his cock to get him groaning over it, then uses her right hand to start stroking it.

"You've… Been planning this?" Alaric replies and sighs deeply at this pleasure he was feeling

"You're definitely enjoying yourself. Just give in." Ivy replies. She changes her style by using her breasts to rub them together against his cock. It would take Ivy just a minute or so to make Alaric ejaculate over her mouth and chin and down her neck. She would stop for a moment to use her hands to help clean herself up by using her mouth and tongue to clean her hands. She also uses her mouth against the tip of his cock to clean it for a while and stops again to look at Alaric's reaction to all this.

Ivy changes things up by moving her body over him and sitting against his chest and leaving her legs underneath his arms. She falls forward to continue stroking his cock and using her mouth and tongue against it. Alaric would just stare at the amazing view of her ass in front of her, then lowers his eyes to find Ivy moving her hand underneath to touch herself between her legs when she was beginning to feel wet and twitchy. She would do this for a short time until she desires more of him, and so she moves her body forward and sits down to have his cock deep inside of her. She moans deeply at the feel of it harden her insides, but she leans forward with her hands pressing against his legs and starts lifting her waist up and down to give Alaric another amazing view of her ass bouncing against his body when driving his cock deep inside her.

After his next climax, Ivy changes position by pressing her sweaty body against his body and rides him again to make him ejaculate. Of course, the two would continue until Ivy was satisfy enough to take a break and remain laying on top of him. Alaric was still handcuff to the bed and just sighs in annoyance that Ivy left him like this. Ivy falls asleep with her head pressing against his chest, and Alaric would eventually fall asleep.

Meanwhile, as the two are busy enjoying themselves, Alaric's party decides to celebrate together at a tavern inside the city as a toast for completing the heist without much of a problem. Everyone sits together and starts drinking, then asks for more when they run out of ale.

Risty sighs deeply after finish drinking her third ale. "That's the best stuff!"

"Bet you can't beat me." Samara replies and has already finish her third drink

"By the time this day ends, they'll be spending all of the money we stole…" Shizuka replies and sighs of annoyance

"Well then, you be sure to take care of it for me." Echidna replies when getting up off her seat and pinches Shizuka's back to make her gasp

"H-Hey! Wait, where are you going?" Shizuka asks and watches Echidna leave the room

Echidna stops and looks to Shizuka "I've got someone to see. Alaric isn't the only one who's going single." She then leaves the tavern and goes off somewhere else in the city

Shizuka faces forward and asks herself "I wonder what I have here? What's my purpose here? I only wanted to be here because of…" She stops when thinking of the time she had a pleasurable moment with Alaric and the others, which made her blush and tries to forget about it by finish drinking her cup of ale.

"So what exactly you going to do with all that gold anyway?" Samara asks Risty and was left with hiccups when drinking too much of the ale

"There's still people that needs my help back home…" Risty replies and almost loses balance on the chair. She continues "I plan to give them a better life than the life they have now…"

"But first you have to deal with Alaric…"

Risty looks down at her mug with half of ale inside. Her face went red when thinking about something naughty and asks Samara "What was your first time with him?"

"My first time?" Samara laughs and finishes her drink first before continuing "He was an animal!"

". . . ."

"And I intend on making him my husband. No matter what."

"Uhhh, right. So where is he anyway?"

The next day, Alaric woke up in the morning to find he was no longer handcuff against the bed and was finally free. He saw no sign of Ivy in the room and was somewhere else in the mansion. She was enjoying herself in a bath tub in another room away from Alaric, so by the time he finds her, she is already out of the tub and already got her clothes on. She went to wear her today version of her outfit, but covers herself in robes to warm herself, then notices the King's Blade was nearby against the wall. She left it be for now and returns to her bedroom to find Alaric already putting his pants on.

"I see I've made it on time." Ivy replies

Alaric looks to her and lowers his eyes down to see her outfit under the robe "I see you're going off in an adventure. Where you going?"

"I'm going wherever you go."

"So you're actually going to take on my offer and return to the group?"

"Hmmmm." Ivy walks past him and replies "You know… Before I met you, my life was meaningless and empty." Ivy opens up a drawer to find her snake sword and takes it out of the drawer. She looks to Alaric and continues "My life now has a new purpose. And I vow to serve you, Alaric, until the day comes where you die and I shall find another purpose in life."

Alaric smiles and comes closer to her and she walks closer to him. He moves his arms around her waist and pulls her closer to him "It's good to have you back." He then moves to the side and keeps his right arm around her waist "I've got some people I want to introduce."

"Hmmmm, more women…" Ivy replies and looks a little annoyed

"Hey, don't be like that." Alaric walks out of the room with Ivy, but his hand was slowly moving down to grip against her butt.

Ivy stops at the feel of his warm hand touching her and replies "You're getting too frisky." Then presses her golden gauntlet against his chest and presses the fingers deep to make him feel pain enough to let go of her.

"I was just being playful…" Alaric replies and laughs a little, while Ivy faces forward and walks out of the room.

And so after a while of searching for the others, Alaric found them and brought them back to Ivy's mansion. Despite not wanting them to be here, Ivy sighs of annoyance and allows Alaric to have his way by using her mansion as a place to rest and recover. But if anyone was to break something then she will kick them out of the house. This was also a perfect time for Risty to line up all the gold she stole from the vault and see just how much she actually stole from them.

At this time, Shizuka was in deep thought and decide to finally confront Alaric to wish to speak to him alone in another room away from the others. He knew something was wrong when seeing Shizuka looking unhappy and decide to follow her to another room.

"What's on your mind?" Alaric asks her, while she sits down on the couch and looks down at the floor.

"I've… Been thinking about this for a while now. With everything that's been going on lately, and with you with the other women… I feel like I'm not really part of this party of yours."

"What? What do you mean?"

Shizuka looks to Alaric and continues "I don't belong with this group. My purpose here was… Ridiculous, and all of you have a reason being here with you. I don't fill in the same role as the others."

"Look, you don't have to fall for me or satisfy me just to be part of this party." Alaric replies "Ivy didn't want to be part of that too, but she changed her mind and realise she was better off beside me and not far away from me."

"I know… But this here is as far as I'll go with you. I thought about this a lot and I wish to see Tomoe and the others again at Hinomoto."

"Are you sure?" Alaric asks her "Is this your decision? You sure you don't want to change your mind?"

"Hmmmm, yes. I'm sure." Shizuka stands up to face Alaric and bows "Thank you, Alaric."

"Hey, you don't have to thank me." Alaric replies, then lends his hand out to pat her head "But perhaps you'll feel much better when you return home with Tomoe and the others."

"I will…" Shizuka stands up straight and replies "I'll be sure to tell Kurama about your adventures."

Alaric laughs a little and scratches the back of his head "Well… Shouldn't tell her about everything or else she'll get jealous and angry at me."

"I'll think about that."

And so Shizuka says her farewell to the others and begins her journey back into the east and return to Hinomoto. Shizuka has officially left Alaric's party.

"That's another one gone… Just like Tarnyang…" Alaric sighs and decides to stay by himself and find a view at a large window to get the view of the night sky from where he was. He was enjoying this quiet time like this and thinking back at how many people he met across his time when he came into this part of the continent. He help change so many people, and his main goal was so close in front of him that he wish to turn his full attention towards it now.