XVI
"AHHHHH… please have mercy…" Noriko screamed as Dante strung her upside-down by her right big toe. It would be fine if it's by the ankle, but noooo… her teacher had to do it by the toe. And to have your toe pulling the rest of your body with the use of a thin but strong rope, it would be something that the cousins wouldn't wish it upon even the evilest person in the world.
"That's just cruel and unusual…" Sachiko murmured standing by the freshly rebuilt doorway. "Believe me the worse has yet to come," Yumi added sitting on the grassy ground hugging her knees. It had taken them exactly two weeks to rebuild everything that was destroyed during the battle against Baldur, and the whole time Dante seemed to have forgotten about punishing Noriko until today. "Shouldn't we stop her?" Shimako asked worrying for the other girl's well-being. "And feel her wrath?" Yumi looked over at the maiden. "Not likely," she finished turning her attention back to her cousin hanging up at the tall and towering barren tree in the back yard.
"Now, your punishment will be base on what kind of answers I get from the others, which mean you're at their mercy. However," Dante paused giving the other three a glance over while Hannah prepared a table full of sharp instruments upon it. "If I detect anything untruth from their answers, the punishment you'll get will be all the more severe. Am I making myself clear?" she finished as a single gauntlet appeared on her right hand.
Yumi took noticed right away, for someone with a dominant left hand to use her right hand to extract punishment was unheard of. And Dante isn't one to show mercy, so there must be a reason why she's not using her dominant hand and that boggled Yumi's mind. She quickly scanned Hannah's facial expression to see if there's something she'd missed, but the dark skinned woman seemed to have that calming look on her face and her eyes deep with sorrow.
"Yumi, why did you allow your cousin to bring an outsider here?" Dante asked her voice changed from warm to icy cold. "Because she marked her and we're being chased by other demis," Yumi replied hoping that it's what her teacher wanted to hear. "How disappointing," Dante commented as she raised her right hand up and touched Noriko's head. Charged statics surged from the gauntlet over to Noriko's skull as she screamed in agony, the statics not only caused pain throughout her body but also let her experience extreme pain through the veil of illusion.
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"She's a cruel person," Sachiko commented after several rounds of questions and quite a few scream of agony echoed throughout the place. "Actually, she's being merciful because she's using her right hand instead of her dominant hand," Hannah said passing by Sachiko and Shimako in the back yard. "Yeah, and she didn't rip anyone to pieces and put them back together again," Yumi added.
"Is she a necromancer?" Shimako couldn't help but asked. "No, she isn't anything but another person with extraordinary powers and the vast knowledge of how to use it too." Hannah chuckled just as Dante come down the stairs after taking an unconscious Noriko up to her room. "You best get ready for the ceremony," Hannah added getting up and went into the kitchen with Dante.
"What ceremony?" Sachiko asked not understanding what's going on. "The wedding ceremony," Yumi replied. "After being marked by a demi, you must wed or be turn into a wolf and become the demi's eternal slave." Yumi explained. "And it has been about 5 or 6 days since she marked you, so you don't really have a lot of times before you'll become just a wolf." Yumi added the last bit of information.
And so, the ceremony was prepared with haste and Noriko recovered well considering the amount of torture she went through. Wearing fresh clothes in a deep blue color, while Shimako given a crimson red kimono with the divine cranes flying about pattern on it. They stood before Hannah, each pouring R2 into the cups until it become overflowing while Hannah recited some ritual words that none of the four women could understand.
"You may now share affection," Hannah promptly ended her ritual. The two blushing brides leaned in and kissed each other lightly on the lips, and then Hannah cleared her throat to catch their attention once more. "Shimako, you must mark Noriko so that the two of you could forever be bound by the threat of fate." Hannah said and everyone looked on expectantly. Shimako didn't know how to mark another person; after all she's not part animal and wasn't raised to mark her territory. Confused, she decided to take a nib at Noriko's neck causing the young woman to yelp.
The celebration went on all night long and into the next day, it lasted to the point where everyone literally passed out. Though Dante was the first one to stir afterward and took the liberty of moving the newlywed couple to a more private home away from her home near the misty waterfall deeper within Niflhiem. Once she returned and cleaned up the place, she woke her wife and the couple left a note for Yumi before leaving for the inn owned by Hannah though it was normally run by her younger siblings who Dante found to be annoying most of the times.
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"I feel drunk," Noriko commented after a long moment of silence as they watched the waterfall on a terrace. "But you haven't even touch your drink," Shimako said absentmindedly. "I'm not drunk because of the alcohol, but I'm drunk by the beauty before me," Noriko said looking over at her bride. "…" Shimako didn't know what to say to that but she could only pointed at herself and Noriko just nodded her head and a blush slowly spread across both of their faces.
They leaned in and kissed, a sweet and tender kiss that slowly become a passionate and fierce kiss until Shimako pushed herself on top of Noriko. Her desires and needs surface itself and she couldn't control herself anymore, and the wolf remained a passive partner and letting the miko took the lead. The inexperience miko clumsily explored the wolf's body, mapping and molding while the wolf could only eliciting the wonderful sounds that only encouraged the miko's action all the more. And there, they made love on the terrace, in front of the misty waterfall under a breezy sunny day (covered by fog though not so dense that they can't see the waterfall). They made love until after dusk; until both bodies felt limp from exhaustion and souls satisfied as the hungers were sedated did they headed back to their cozy home. And once in a while, they would wonder how the other two are and what they're doing? It was a mere question in the pondering state, but both wished they could asked for Dante or Hannah to give them a hint if there's a thread of fate between those two. But for now, they will be content within each other's embrace, for the night is young and their bodies are getting excited again.
A/N: Okay, so we finally got the wedding but there's no lovey-dovey moment for the other two and everything was really brief on this one too. Anyway, other things to come though I don't know what it is yet, time to use my brain on my homework assignments (ugh). Hope y'all enjoy it, ja~