Alright, so chapter 5, here's going to involve some action with Barbara, but it's not going to be a foursome, just to be clear. That would be a bit too much for me to do. Anyways, here's chapter 5.

I entered the church, thinking, if Barbara could be found anywhere, it would be in that church.

And fortunately, I was right. She was close to the cathedral, standing in the center of the circle, with the sun shining onto her, as she sat on her knees, praying.

"Barbara?"

I spoke out to her, but either because she was so in focus in her prayer or she couldn't hear me from the distance I spoke at, she didn't seem to react to me calling her name.

"Please…"

I heard her choking on her tears, and as I ran towards her, I noticed how rough she looked. Her previously prim and proper clothes she wore, with a mixture of white and blue, looked, albeit still clean, wrinkled and wet from the tears falling from her eyes.

'How long has she been sitting here?' As I approached her, the details of her became more apparent to me, including the amount of dust that settled on her, and the fact that her hat she usually wore was at her side.

Then, I started to notice her shaking hands, as I sat in front of her, and her teary eyes that she had closed, facing towards the floor.

"Please, Lord Barbatos, forgive me, for I have sinned. I think of committing adultery with a man who is already taken by a friend of mine… and I have indecent thoughts coming to me from time to time about this man. Please forgive me, Lord Barbatos."

"Please forgive me, Traveler, for having indecent thoughts while Amber is bearing your child…"

"Hey, it's alright…"

I touched her face, which got her to open her eyes.

"Traveler?"

Then, seeing the situation she was in, she almost jumped back, but then fell back down, with her legs not given enough time to stretch.

"Ouch…"

Then, she spoke, as she looked back at me.

"How much did you hear?!" Her face was a heavy shade of pink, and she looked incredibly embarrassed.

"... enough." I simply said, which didn't seem to quell her embarrassment.

"Ugh! Why did you have to hear me say that?!" She clutched her head, and almost seemed like she was going crazy.

"Hey, hey, Barbara… it's alright. It's okay that you have these feelings about me…"

She looked at me, confused, as I held her cheek. "Huh? But… you've got a child."

"Two of them, actually." Amber, having been in the cathedral for a bit, spoke up.

"Huh?!" Barbara, her senses coming to her, noticed both Eula and Amber revealing their stomachs, with Eula removing her shirt for her knight uniform and Amber doing the same to show the tattoos on their stomachs.

"You… are both carrying his child?"

They both nodded, as they wore their shirts again.

"But… why? Wouldn't Big Sis-" She cleared her throat, as well as her blush. "Didn't Acting Grandmaster Jean speak out against it?"

"Yes, initially, but she seems to be fine with it now." I told a half truth.

"Really?"

"She… also confessed her love to me…"

Barbara merely sighed, when she heard that.

"If there's anything Jean is known for, it's not being forthright with how she feels until it's too late."

At that moment, I wasn't sure whether she or Jean was the older sister.

Then, she chuckled.

"To be fair, I'm no different, in that regard." She sadly spoke.

"Barbara… I do like you."

That seemed to jolt her out of her sadness, but it didn't make her any less confused.

"You're always so positive, and always willing to put in your all… even for people who don't deserve you."

'Like your stalkers…'

"And despite your happy go lucky attitude being a bit… over the top, you're still a kind hearted girl who doesn't like to see people sad. You care a lot for people…"

She looked awe inspired, for a single second, before asking a question.

"But… how? How can I be with you? While you currently have two beautiful wives right behind you?"

"Amber… Did you mean what you said to Jean? That you'd accept any girl that I loved, as long as it was mutual?"

"Of course I did!" She excitedly spoke.

"I wouldn't mind having another woman be with you. As long as you…" Eula blushed, a lot more honest with her feelings on the outside.

"As long as you take care of all of us."

"So… all it just comes to is you, Barbara. Do you want to be with me?"

She, like Eula, looked like there were two parts of her still fighting in her head.

"Hey, it's alright."

I cupped her cheek, and gave her a small kiss on her lips.

"If you love me, it's alright. You can be with me, still, and… I know I am asking a lot from you, to be with me, with two other girls, and who knows how many-"

She interrupted me with a kiss of her own. It felt… comforting, like a kiss while the sun was setting, and the sky finally fell.

It was… a comforting kiss that Barbara reciprocated, one that made me feel at peace.

"Hey, let's go from here! They'll be people who'll see us."

Barbara and I broke the kiss, and she and I got up together and walked with Amber and Eula, to finally exit the church.

"So, Barbara, what do you want to do, now that you're in a relationship with us?"

"Um…" She started fidgeting with her hands, nervousness kicking in for her.

"Can… I spend a day with the traveler, alone?"

"You guys alright with that?" I asked.

"Of course. Just know vengeance will be mine, and you'll have to repay us for it."

"Pipe down, Eula." Amber almost jokingly bonked her. "Don't worry, it's alright to want to spend time with him alone. Just make sure you have a date with us someday too!"

"Of course. I will make sure of that."

Then, Eula and Amber, presumably, ran off, to meet with someone or do something.

"So, Barbara, what would you like to do with me today?"

"Um…" She fidgeted with her hands yet again.

"You want me to choose?"

Barbara shyly nodded.

"How about we take a tour down mondstant? Don't worry, I won't let you be hoarded by-"

"Hey, Barbara!"

"Barbara, our idol! Finally escaping the church after so long!"

"Speak of Satan's spawn…" I muttered under my breath.

"Oh, hello-" I saw Barbara wave at her cheering fans, who gathered right on the steps of the cathedral.

'God damn it. Not again…'

Immediately, I knew what I had to do.

"Huh?!" Barbara was confused, as I picked her body up like a princess, and proceeded to just… jump over the entire crowd.

"What?" I said, as I processed what I had just done, all the audience behind me.

But, I didn't give myself more time to process it, since I took off and ran with Barbara in my hands.

"You're not going to be overwhelmed like last time we had this happen. Alright?"

"O.. okay." I heard Barbara speak, with the fans of hers chasing me.

Eventually, we settled outside of Mondstant, where fewer would bother us.

"Hey, sorry I had to chase them out." I carefully lowered Barbara's feet onto the floor, letting her stand on her own.

"No, it's alright."

Then, she backed away, a healthy blush coating her cheeks.

"Hey, let's hold hands, so we can stick together."

Barbara, with a blush on her face ever present, accepted the gesture, as we walked through the grasslands, and looked through the nature of mondstant.

"Hey, um… I know you feel indebted to all of your fans, to keep them happy, but…" I looked towards her, and she looked back in my eyes.

"You need to keep some boundaries between you and your fans. If you don't, you'll be burnt out."

I stopped walking, and faced her.

"No one will be around to be you. Only you can be you. So make sure you're able to rest and keep boundaries with you and your fans."

She looked thoughtful with what I said.

"I understand, but… I owe a lot of my popularity to those fans. I've got to serve them."

"You can. But you're also a person."

I leaned down, cleaning off the dust and dirt off her dress.

"You need to take care of yourself, Barbara."

She had an uncertain look on her face, but she merely nodded, and we both walked around Mondstant. It was peaceful. Not a monster in sight. Just me and Barbara, shoulder to shoulder, walking throughout the land.

Eventually, though, when we reached the forest, both of our stomachs had grumbled at the same time.

'Now that I think about it, I've not eaten anything today…' I looked at Barbara, and that seemed to be the case for her as well.

"Let's get food. Wait here, I'll get it."

Barbara refused to let go of my hand.

"Hey, I can come with you." She gripped my hand, and while I could easily overwhelm her strength wise… I didn't want to.

"... Okay."

I merely had her stay behind me, and looked around for the nearest boar while she held my left hand.

"Hey, I've found it." I whispered, as I saw the boar, and crouched behind a tree.

"Barbara, can I-"

"No…" she continued, while shaking, holding my hand.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

She started tearing up, and I had no idea why.

"I'm not leaving you, Barbara. I'm still here. I promise you. I'm not going anywhere, just getting that boar."

Over a bit, Barbara eventually released her grip on my hands, but her expression was like she was a child who couldn't find her parents, and was lost.

"Just give me a bit. I'll get the boar, and I'll be back."

I conjured the anemo around my fingertips, almost preparing to kill the boar ahead of time.

I quietly snuck up, and cut the boar down, leaving just the body behind.

I lifted the boar behind my back, and saw Barbara still under that tree, with that same lost expression in her eyes.

"Hey, I'm here, Barbara."

She reached out to my left hand again, and her expression brightened.

I wasn't sure what was going on with Barbara then, but I vowed to understand what was happening.

Eventually, we got to a cooking pot, and I cut open the carcass of the boar, with the various body parts to consume.

"Hey, Barbara, which would you like to have? The spleen, the liver, or the thighs?"

"Uh…" She looked confused, considering whether her answer would offend me or not.

I waved it off.

"Just kidding. I'll give you the thighs. We'll make skewers. You'd like that?"

Her eyes lit up. "Yes! Sounds great!"

I snickered, much to her annoyance, but I cooked regardless.

"Though… I'm sorry for earlier."

"What happened, Barbara?"

"It's just…" She brought her legs close to her body, almost like she was terrified.

"I've got issues…" Barbara spoke really quietly, and felt like she was genuinely unable to speak louder.

"Hey, if you want to talk about it, I'm all ears."

"I've… generally been looking up to jean all my life." She said, sadly. "I've wanted to do anything to exceed her, and get recognition." I saw her look away from the skewers, looking off in the distance.

"Now… I understand you're just looking out for me, but… I've been, for so long, trying to fight to be recognized by Mondstant. To be known more than Jean's little sister. To be known as myself."

I was about to speak, but Barbara held her hand out, as if she wanted to continue.

"Now… During hunting that boar, I felt like I couldn't do anything, and with my fans not knowing where I was… I felt alone."

"Oh…"

"I remember feeling like I was tired, hungry, and about to collapse, when you let my hand go. I just… felt awful."

My lips narrowed, so I moved next to her.

"You're burnt out a bit from being an idol, aren't you?"

"... A bit." She held her hand out, with her index finger and her thumb having a centimeter of distance between each other.

"It's just… while I do love helping my fans, and being happier, it feels like there's not a ton of people I can lean on, when I'm down."

"Except…" she continued. "For you."

I sighed. "Barbara, thank you. I'll try to be that person you can lean on."

She smiled, even if just a bit.

"But, and this is a big one."

She looked, open eyed at me.

"If you feel burnt out, or tired, be honest. Your fans will understand."

She chuckled cynically. "If I'm not the happy go lucky person, who brings hope to Mondstant, who am I?"

"Barbara."

She looked at me, completely stone faced. She looked like that was something she believed in whole heartedly.

"You are more than your kindness. Yes, you're a kind person. But you're also genuinely funny, you have people's interests at heart. You're not a bad person."

Her expression seemed to falter a bit.

"I… fell in love with you because you're so kind, yeah, I do admit that. But I also loved you because you are someone beyond that happy go lucky girl. You've got goals, you've got admirations, weaknesses, and everything in between. You're not just a happy go lucky girl. You're… a young woman who's got many things to love about you. Your healing, your kindness, your flaws of wanting to be recognized, your self sacrificing nature, and a lot more."

I wrapped my arm around her back, and moved it to her waist.

"You're allowed to be selfish, if you want." I felt her breaths on my face, our faces inches away.

"You can be selfish with me."

That seemed to push her over, to the point where she pushed me over to the ground.

Her kiss was far from her comfortable kiss earlier. It was lustful. She wanted a French kiss, her proding my mouth and exchanging our saliva in full.

Then, she pulled away, then started to unzip her dress, and remove it slowly by slowly.

"Um… please don't judge…" she said, before finally removing her dress.

She wore a simple white bra, and pure white panties that looked slightly wet.

"You look beautiful…" I moved my ear to her heartbeat, and her hand to mind. "Do you feel that?"

I heard her heart rate go quickly, almost 2 a second.

"Yeah… I do."

She smiled, happily laying her dress off in the forest.

Somehow, she and I both wanted the same thing in that moment: to be selfish with each other.

I undressed my own clothes, and kept her from removing her own panties and bra.

"I'll remove it for you, Barbara. You remove my underwear."

She nodded to that, and let me remove the bra and panties from her skin, and carefully leave it off to the side.

She removed my underwear, coming to see my hardness under it, and while she wasn't looking seductive, she did speak, while looking at it.

"Can I be selfish? Can I bear a child with you?"

"Yes. You can be selfish. And I'll make you pregnant."

She smiled, and positioned herself to the tree, waving her butt and pussy in front of me.

She looked over. "You can be selfish with me too. Make me your woman, Aether. Yours, and no one else's…"

I brashly pushed my dick into her, but instead of groaning in pain, she moaned loudly.

"Ah… that feels so good!" she said, her hands grasping the tree for dear life.

"Barbara. Face me."

She turned around, and I held her body by her thighs, keeping her back against the tree while pounding into her pussy.

"You're… really big inside me. I can feel you inside my womb…" She whispered into my ear, while I continued to thrust inside Barbara.

"You're mine." I whispered back, hungrily pushing inside her, with her body readily accepting me and me alone inside her pussy.

"Yes, I'm yours only, Aether! I belong to only you!"

I kept moving inside her quickly, and Barbara even tried bouncing on my dick to get me and her to cum faster.

Eventually, she and I came to a release.

"I'm… going to get you pregnant. You'll be mine forever, understand Barbara?"

"Yes. And I'll be yours to be with forever. I'll be with you, as long as you love me and I love you…" She had a aroused face, with her body being violated by me and me alone, and she wanted nothing more.

"Alright, I'm going to cum inside you, Barbara!"

I pushed her against the tree one last time, before cumming inside her pussy, her eyes meeting mine.

"I love you, I love you, I love you so much, Aether! Please, make me yours!" She screamed, as her own orgasm left its high.

"I will, Barbara!" I screamed, as I kept releasing my cum inside her womb.

Eventually, her stomach was filled with my cum, and it almost looked like she was a few months pregnant.

The hydro tattoo was forming over her womb, and I could hear Barbara heavily breathing with my dick leaving her womb, and her losing the cum from her lower lips.

"Hey… I want to keep going with you…" She tiredly said.

"Let's rest up." I noticed, by the time she and I were finished, sunset was already happening.

"Though…" Barbara, putting her bra and underwear on, before getting her dress back on, looked at the sunset. "That looks beautiful."

I smiled at her, and kissed her forehead.

"Yeah, it does."

Eventually, I carried her back, in my arms, and she fell asleep in my arms. I relaxed when I heard her snoring slightly.

I went inside the church, to look where she'd sleep, and quietly looked for her.

'Now I've got to find her room…'

"Traveler."

I looked over and saw Jean in front of me.

She had less dark circles under her eyes, and a slight tinge of red on her cheeks.

"Did you mean what you said in your note?"

And here's where I'm going to end it. Sorry that this was on a cliffhanger, but this already was really long, so I wanted to end it here.