Alright. Chapter 6, this will be a longer chapter, as it'll focus on Jean and especially Aether.

I held Barbara in my arms, and looked at Jean. She looked healthier then I remembered looking at her several hours ago, with the dark circles under her eyes all but gone.

She looked at me, then Barbara, sleeping peacefully in my arms.

"So… I assume that my sister also shares… feelings for you."

I nodded, simply.

"She's pregnant with your child?"

I nodded once again.

"Hmm. I guess she really did love you." She mused, with her hand on her chin.

"Yeah… I'm wondering how she came to love me…" A sad laughter left my lips, thinking of what I had done in the past few days. Jean tapped my shoulder, with a stern expression on her face.

"She loves you because you always involve yourself in her life. You cared about her, beyond her idol activities. You saw her… as a normal girl." I saw her clutching her own chest at the end of that.

"Is that why you love me?"

She nodded, a small blush dusting her cheeks.

"Is that why you want to put up with me loving other women? Because-"

She raised her hand, interrupting me.

"My feelings for you are real. I don't love any other man other than you, Aether. Do not doubt that."

She seemed to express a little anger in the end there.

I sighed painfully. "I'm sorry… I didn't mean to diminish your feelings."

She brought her hand to my chest, softly feeling my heart beat against my chest, feeling it increase with her touch.

"Do you love me as well? Like you said on that note?"

I nodded. "I do… I love you, Jean."

She retracted her hand from my chest, and brought her own hands to hold Barbara on her own.

"I'll bring her to rest on her bed. If you meant what you wrote on that note, stay here."

I nodded, and watched Jean carry Barbara outside the church, to… wherever she'd go.

'I guess I did coordinate to meet her here on the note… I didn't know what to do from there.'

I looked up at the stained glass windows, showing different patterns, as the moonlight shined through the windows, creating many different colors under the light.

"I guess I've never truly looked inside here to notice how beautiful it was. I guess running around collecting commissions every day will do that for you…"

I facepalmed. "Why do I do those commissions anyways? They take so long to do, and they're so repetitive…"

I laid my chest down on my knees, sitting on the pews of the church.

"I've wasted so much of my time on those quests, and… they don't do anything for me."

I felt dread, thinking of the time wasted since I joined here.

"Those commissions in Inazuma, they got Amber hurt… and why did I do it? For no reason."

Tears started to escape my eyes, slowly by slowly, without me realizing it.

"Hell, I wouldn't have even thought to go to Mondstant if it weren't for that random bounty that I had to do here."

I felt my teeth grit against each other, in frustration of my own actions.

"I did… absolutely nothing." I kept crying more and more, until I saw someone's shadow overshadow me.

I turned around, only to see Jean in a simple green nightgown, with the moonlight through the stained glass windows revealing her figure, and her hair falling down her shoulders. It looked almost angelic.

"Aether? Are you alright?" She seemed a lot more concerned, which made me wipe my tears.

I tried nodding, to show that I was alright, but she didn't seem to care what my answer was going to be, because she came close, bringing my head to relax on her chest.

"If you'd like to cry, you can…" She soothingly patted my back, and I tried resisting that temptation, but eventually, I let that go.

"I've been doing nothing! I've not been able to do anything for you, Amber, Eula, Barbara… I can't do anything, and I was stuck doing the daily commissions for so long I didn't even think to check on you all! Amber was hurt, Eula was drinking herself to drunkenness every night, Barbara was having her own issues with her abandonment, and you… you looked so saddened by everything, and I knew… that was my fault! That your tears and sorrow were because of me!"

I screamed a bunch in the church, not even caring if someone was hearing how pathetic I sounded at that moment.

"I did nothing for the women I love! Lisa, I don't even know how she's feeling. Noelle, I've not talked to her in so long. Mona, I've got no idea what is happening with her, or how she's making enough money to live in the house she is…"

I could tell she was a little shocked by my confessions to many other women, but she didn't stop caring for me. She still rubbed my back, in a tight embrace, keeping me with her, at that moment.

She was the big sister, in that moment, despite how pained she probably felt hearing me cry out loud like that.

"I.. didn't manage to help any of you." I professed, at the end of my bottled up release.

She pulled me away from her chest, for her to simply look at me.

Her expression was stern, tough, but simultaneously more comforting and calming.

"You did. You have helped us throughout our journeys together, more than you could have possibly imagined."

She looked seriously at me, with not a hint of a lie in that voice of hers.

"Amber, she's always been happy-go-lucky, but whenever she talks about you, her eyes… they sparkle. It's like her smile and eyes widen to get just that much brighter. Eula speaks similarly of you too, her eyes… it's like her cold personality, it melts away, so to speak. She was cut off from most of us for a long time, and I remember many days of her showing up with her eyes sullen from drinking too much the night before. But when you came, and talked to her, it's like she had another support beam, besides just Amber and a few of the people of Mondstant. You gave her that. Something… I'm a bit jealous you did."

She looked over to the side for a second, before looking back at me, confused.

"Barbara, she'd always be talking to me, but she rarely called me sister. It felt like there was a distance between us. But, on our way to her bed, she actually said she wanted to ask if I could be called sister by her…" I saw a few tears leaving her eyes, but those were joyful tears.

"And… then there's me. I remember when you were a bartender, you made coffee for me, and… I remember how Lisa constantly tells me off to relax, but I never felt like listening to that. Till you tell me."

She fished out of her pocket a note, the same note I gave her.

'I do love you, Jean. Like you told me before you slept, I share those feelings for you. Once you're rested, come to the church, I want to talk to you. Make sure you're fully rested. I won't talk to you till you are.' The note said.

"I can't imagine how hard it was for Lisa to get me to even think about relaxing, but with you, it feels like I don't have to be that hard worker. I can relax… and I can do it without letting Mondstant down."

She shook me, which kept me focused on her eyes.

"Look at me. You have done that to me. You've made me want to rest, for myself. It's because I love you, that's why. And I'm sure many other women love you as well, and I accept that."

She closed the distance, and kissed me on the lips, this time her being the dominant person to deliver that kiss to me, before releasing.

"My feelings will stay the same for you, no matter who you love. And if you love me, I'd want to stay as yours, not anyone else's. Even if you've got hundreds of women who love you, I will still love only you."

I leaned over to kiss her this time, and this time, she let me kiss her without any restraint, and I pushed her slowly against the floor of the church. I kissed her to the point where both of us ran out of breath, and I had to separate from her to catch my breath.

I looked down at Jean, her gown still on her, and her hair spread along the dirty floors of the church.

"Hey, let's go somewhere else." I whispered as seductively as I could in her ear.

She stood up, with my help, and we held hands as we walked outside the church.

I felt like I had new strength filling my soul, as she held my hand, and I gave her my strength back, keeping her slender fingers from leaving my own.

"Are we going to your room?"

She shook her head.

"I wanted to get somewhere more personal."

We eventually went back to the hotel amber and I rented out, and then Jean walked in, leading me, this time, to a room.

"So…" I looked at what was around the room.

It looked normal, which made me confused by her heavier blush.

"Uh… remember when I said to you about punishing me?"

I nodded, almost certainly knowing where this was going. She faced her body towards me, with her eyes looking away, with a heavy blush on her face.

"I want you… to punish me, to make sure I relax and take care of myself."

I almost facepalmed, which made Jean retract.

'She wants me to do it?'

"I mean, if you don't want to-"

'Well, fuck it, I'll do it.'

"Jean. You've not been a good girl this week, have you? You've been a very bad girl, haven't you?"

Her eyes widened, with my change in tone that sounded degrading to her.

"You look like you've barely eaten anything, in the past few days. Your body looks like it's on the brink of collapsing. Is that how an acting grandmaster should be?"

"N- No, Aether…" she blushed as she realized how embarrassing it was for her to do it, but she didn't object.

I tightly squeezed her butt, making her yelp with surprise, as I closed the distance between us. Despite me looking up towards her, she shrunk back, so it felt like she was actually shorter.

"Call me master. Not Aether, I'm your master, for tonight."

She nodded.

"Master, I'm sorry." She still avoided eye contact, inches away from her.

Despite her being taller than me, I still managed to command her, either through her willingness, or through my voice.

"It seems like I'll have to punish you accordingly." I whispered in her ear, which made her hairs against her skin rise up, almost in a pleasuring fear she felt.

"M-Master? What will you do to punish me tonight?"

"Lie on your forearms, and stick your ass up like a slut to me, understand?"

She immediately took that position, with her ass wiggling in the air, almost waiting to be punished.

I spanked her ass once, as hard as I could.

Instead of making her yell in pain, a groaning moan left her lips, before she tried to shut it with her hands.

"Your punishment is to be spanked till you cannot stay in this position. You'll not be able to sit for days without feeling in pain."

I looked over at her, and the expression on her face was that of excitement, as she looked over at me, towering now over her body.

'Looks like I'll have to be a tiny bit sadistic for this masochist.'

I spanked her once again, with her ass reddening with the second slap, and her body shaking as she stood up, still fully clothed.

"You will not leave my sight until I deem it to be that you can, understand, my slave?"

At first, when I said that, I thought I was going too far, and I was almost ready to apologize, but then, Jean spoke.

"Yes, master. I'm your slave, for you to use as you please! Punish me to your heart's content!"

That gave me a bit of relief, and as well as being a turn on for me, to slap her ass even more.

No matter how hard I slapped her butt, she kept moaning loudly, and kept asking for more, with her shaking her butt after every spank, and her still looking like she was brought to heaven with every slap.

Eventually, though, her arms gave out, and so did her legs, leaving her to just collapse on the ground.

"Good, slave. Your first part of your punishment is complete."

"First part? Master?" She turned her head around, only to see me unclothing myself, and her seeing my fully erect penis on display for her to see.

"Your ass is still begging for more punishment, and I'll deliver that request from it." That wording from me was weird, in hindsight, but Jean didn't seem to mind too much, as I positioned myself behind her after showing my dick to her.

"Now, here it's coming!" In a single trust, I went as far as I could go into her ass, and I felt her internal organs, as she yelled.

"Oh Barbados! My ass feels like it's going to burst! Ahh!"

I spanked her again.

"No Barbados here."

'I doubt even the bard would want to hear or see this…'

"I am the only god and master you serve."

I spanked her again in her ass, which now started to develop bruises from me hitting it so hard, but she cried out.

"Master! I'm sorry! You can punish me however you like-"

"I will. You will obey only me."

I thrusted inside Jean's ass, in and out like a sword, and cut through the screams Jean made.

"Ah! My ass, it's yours! I serve only you, Master Aether! No one else I serve!"

"Then take this!"

I felt my body close to releasing, and thrust it deeply inside her to release it.

"Don't let a single drop escape your body." I sternly spoke, to which jean, painfully, tried to hold onto my dick, and my fluids it was releasing into her butt.

As soon as I pulled out, however, her body seemingly lost all strength, and her ass released a lot of the semen I filled it with. She turned around, and looked at me, as her ass let out my semen on the floor of the hotel.

"Master, I'm sorry, I couldn't-"

"No, that's alright." I put my dick in front of her, covered in my semen, and her taste from her ass.

"Clean up my dick, and take it all inside your stomach. Then I'll take that as an appropriate punishment for you not keeping that semen inside your body.*

She jumped on it, licking every part of my dick till not a single bit of my or her body taste was on my dick.

"Now that you're done cleaning, let me fill your body with that reward that you enjoy."

I thrusted inside her mouth like I did for her ass, and her eyes visibly rolled to the back of her head, as her breath lost it.

There were many times I felt like she was close to passing out, but she didn't look like she minded too much with it.

'I guess she's a closeted masochist…'

Eventually, I released into her mouth, to which she collapsed to the floor once more, almost shaking.

"Master…"

I froze up hearing that, and seeing Jean, fully in that position.

I swallowed, remembering Amber in the same position, with her body covered by my semen. Or the hillichurls semen.

I closed my eyes, thinking about it… and it hurt my chest, thinking about it.

Eventually, Jean sat up, and looked at me, quietly tearing up. Despite her body covered with my semen, she still looked at me seriously.

"Hey, what happened?"

I had an uncontrollable breakdown, then and there, where Jean, despite being bruised along her body, was the one comforting me.

"Haha, I'm sorry…" I tried to chuckle to let go of the tears. "It just… reminded me of bad memories."

"What memories? Did I push you too far?"

"No, no, that was good, it's just…" I tried to be strong in my expression, but I continued to fail.

"I just remembered Amber."

"Huh? Amber?"

I nodded, her distance within a few inches of my face.

"I… when I was coming back from Inazuma, from a festival, I came back for a commission, and, I vaguely saw a bunch of hilichurls congregating around… Amber."

I swallowed, looking away from Jean.

"I ran towards them, and sliced them all to pieces, only to see… Amber, filled and raped with the hillichurls. Her entire body had been violated by them."

I grit my teeth, that self anger still not leaving me.

"She was hypnotized, at the time, and saying all kinds of weird things about her being only useful for her master to use, the hillichurls."

I breathed heavily through it, through my tears falling down my eyes.

"If she got pregnant with their child, there's no place who'd welcome her. She'd be labeled as the woman who reared a monster's child… so I made sure I'd be the father of her child, so no one would hate her. I hypnotized her, making her see me as her master, for her to have a child with… And she got pregnant with my child thanks to that."

Jean's eyes widened, as if pieces were falling into place in her head, and as she remembered my confession to her earlier that day.

"It only happened a few days ago, with everything happening. I'm so sorry… I couldn't protect-"

She put her hand on my lips, shushing me, and preventing me from speaking any longer. She sighed and got up from her sitting down position.

"I'm sorry I tried to force you into doing this, I didn't mean for you to go through that again-"

"No, no, no, don't blame yourself. I still… enjoyed it." I blushed before speaking that.

"But… maybe we can do the slave master thing another time? And we can just continue-"

"No, I want to continue with it now, if you're fine with it." I sat up, swallowing my pain down.

She looked confused, and yelped as I carried her by her knees and back.

"I won't break down like that, I'm sorry." I reaffirmed it to Jean, as I carried her finally onto the bed, this time, gently.

"I'll start out with being gentler, though. Is that okay?" I looked at Jean, who merely nodded, as she spread her legs, revealing her pussy to me.

I positioned myself up to her, my dick now in between her thighs, just outside her vulva, and I steadied my heart once more.

"Jean, your final part of your punishment is here, and that's to bear my child, as my slave."

"Yes, master. I'll make sure to take care of them, I promise, I won't disturb your matters with the world." Even in roleplay, that stung a bit.

I closed my eyes, blinking out any tears. "No, tonight, you'll be my slave." I opened them up, to speak again, and see the beauty of Jean's naked body through the moonlight. "Tomorrow, you'll be my wife. You'll take care of yourself…"

I looked at her in the eyes, she had her mouth slightly agape.

"Because you'll be carrying our child. And I will be with you and everyone else to raise my children."

Finally, I pushed myself into entering her body, and felt immediately that I was hitting her womb.

"Ah, master!"

I kept thrusting into her, and kissing her. The pain from Amber still haunted me while doing it, but I wanted to make sure that Jean was feeling my love thrusting inside her.

I thrusted all inside her, in and out, feeling Jean moan even louder with every thrust inside her.

"I love you, I love you, I love you!"

That made me smile sadistically, as I pushed forward inside her womb for once.

"AH! I feel you inside my womb, master! I… I'm not ovulating, however, so you may want to chain me here for several days before I can bear your children." Her expression was that of lust, but she didn't seem to be lying.

"Well, you'll be pregnant with my child tonight, as soon as I release!" Before I could explain it, I felt a sensation of me close to release.

"I'm cumming inside you, Jean! I'll make you into my wife!" I screamed out loud, as I finally came inside her, and heard her cum with me.

Immediately, the tattoo showed up on her stomach, and it glowed as I touched it with my hand. I smiled, feeling her now pregnant stomach under my hand.

"Jean, you're pregnant with my child…" I looked at her, happy.

Jean broke out of her slave roleplay, to look at me, almost confused. But, she spoke again.

"Well, master, we don't know if I'm truly pregnant, so you'll have to chain me in here until I start showing a baby bump! Could be weeks till that happens, however…" Her blush couldn't have been more apparent.

"If you wanted to act more as my slave, you could have just asked, you closeted masochist."

"Hey, I'm not- Ah..." I snuggled next to her, this time, tasting her nipples, still erect after everything, and she moaned as I licked her breasts.

'Wonder what it would taste like, her milk.'

Almost immediately, I found my mouth filled with a white fluid, tasting sweet and milky, coming from her breasts.

As soon as I drank it, I moved back, off the bed, confused by what just happened.

"Wait… did you just lactate?"

Jean looked down, her breasts in fact, lactating milk out of them.

'Okay, let's stop that…' I thought, in my head, trying to think of ways to stop it.

"Uh… Aether, it stopped. My breasts stopped lactating."

She carried her breasts, no longer lactating milk, but still looking wet, confirming I wasn't just imagining it.

"Wait a minute…"

I touched her breasts, much to her embarrassment, and said,

"I want your breasts to be an E cup."

Surely enough, it grew to an E cup, much to her and my surprise.

"What? What is happening?" Jean looked at her breasts, then at me, and I looked at her with equal confusion.

"... we may be overdo on that visit to Albedo."

Man, this was a long chapter. I'll have to look back to edit it, and everything, but this is a pretty long chapter. And I got it in under a month, dang. Though, it'll take me longer to write the next few chapters, so if I don't update till mid to late May, sorry.