I made Neith into my Card and did Healing Lovers with her. Thanks to that, I managed to recover enough mana to take out Tenka Fubu. I freed Swordia from the mana-draining shackles and then gave Tenka Fubu to her. Then she promptly freed me, Neith and Seigi, and also cut the bars to the cell we were currently being held in.
"Here, Yuuto."
"Don't you want to keep it? At least while we don't get your swords back."
"No, well… how do I put it? It feels disgusting to hold this."
O-oh. I guess Swordia doesn't want to keep holding Tenka Fubu because I held it before… This hurts more than I expected. Maybe Swordia thinks less of me after seeing Healing Lovers.
"A-ah, no, I didn't mean that because of Yuuto. It's just, I feel like, if this sword had hands, it'd be groping me all over."
Ah, yeah, considering how perverted Tenka Fubu is, I can 100% imagine that to be the case. I felt better since it seems the problem isn't with me, so I took Tenka Fubu back from Swordia.
Oh, and now that Swordia mentioned being "groped all over" I should also mention that our clothes were all taken along with our equipment. That means that me, Swordia, Neith, Seigi and Poran in the cell ahead of us are all naked.
What exactly do I do about this? Do I avoid looking at them? But that's going to be hard. Maybe I should just pretend everything's fine. That way things will probably be less awkward.
Swordia's cheeks seemed a bit red, she's probably too overly conscious of our current situation, so acting like everything's fine might help her. I exited our cell and then prepared myself to cut the bars of Poran's cell.
Tenka Fubu might look like a wooden sword, but it cuts just like a real one. It was pretty easy to cut the bars and then Poran's shackles.
"Are you okay, Poran?"
"Y-yeah woof."
Poran tried getting up, but it seems her legs were a bit weak. I have an idea why, but I'll keep it to myself. For now, I'll just help Poran get up.
"A-a woof."
Huh, strange. I just lent my shoulder to Poran but she let out a strange voice. Maybe it's not what I was thinking and she's actually hurt somewhere. In that case, I'll try to be careful with her.
"You really are a pervert, huh. You took this chance to grope this girl's ass. As expected of Lovers, I guess. Or maybe…"
What's Seigi talking about? Could it be…?
M-my hand really is on Poran's ass, and I'm clearly groping her. But it's not me, it's Tenka Fubu!
{Hehe, finally! So many cute girls, I'm going to have a lot of fun!}
Damn it, an enemy appeared from where I didn't expect it. I have to put Tenka Fubu away quickly, but I can't control myself anymore.
But then, Seigi suddenly grabbed Tenka Fubu. She's trying to take it away from me.
"I didn't expect the sword I made to cause so much trouble. For now, I'll just retrieve it to avoid more problems."
{N-no way! How do you know it's me?!}
"Oh, I may or may not have made a few backdoors, in case there was ever a need to fight Yuuto. Didn't really expect to use it though."
I'm not sure how to feel about that. And wait, Seigi can also hear Tenka Fubu?
But never mind that for now, I guess. I'll just be grateful for Seigi's help.
{Kuuh! In that case, I'll make sure to enjoy this before I'm killed!}
Woah, Tenka Fubu, taking control of my body, just tackled both Poran and Seigi to the floor. Putting them on top of each other, the wooden sword started rubbing itself against them.
"Waaa! Don't do that to Poran right now woof."
"S-sorry, I swear it's not me."
"Damn it, if only I had some mana. Oi, Swordia, come help."
"I-I'll try. Kyaaa!"
Swordia tried to come and help wrestle Tenka Fubu out of my hand, but Tenka Fubu made me grab her breasts. I've been trying to avoid looking at them, but now that I've grabbed them, I'd guess she's a C cup. Swordia's scream was also a lot cuter than I expected.
Because of the "surprise attack" on her, Swordia didn't react in time when Tenka Fubu also threw her to the floor. I'm a guy, and I still have some mana left, while these 3 girls have no mana at the moment. So Tenka Fubu didn't have any difficulty keeping the 3 pinned to the ground.
{Hehehe! Time to have fun~}
"Waaa woof!"
"H-hey, stop it! At least pretend you're trying to resist!"
"Y-Yuuto, mmm!"
Tenka Fubu took full advantage of their helpless state. I swear I did my best to take control back, but nothing worked. So, for a full minute or so, Tenka Fubu could basically do as she pleased. And she most definitely had her fun.
I'm not going to comment on what Tenka Fubu did, but let's just say there was a lot of kissing, licking and groping. If they were my Cards, we'd be swimming in mana right now. What finally stopped Tenka Fubu was Neith showing up.
"Get off Yuuto-kun's body."
With a single slap, she knocked Tenka Fubu out of my hands, and it flew so fast it lodged itself into the wall. Neith's so strong! My hand even hurts a little.
"Yuuto-kun, I'm your new Card now. So all these perverted things… you can do them to me~"
"A-ah, yes. But that right there wasn't me, it was-"
"I know. Yuuto-kun wouldn't force girls like that… just remember me if Yuuto-kun wants to do something perverted."
Somehow, I can almost see hearts in Neith's eyes. I guess she didn't dislike the Healing Lovers procedure.
"… That lady with the feel good magic was amazing woof. But Yuuto was also amazing without any magic… and this can make Poran stronger woof?"
"My first kiss… and that was the first time a man made me feel like that…"
Poran and Swordia seem… dazed? I think I should give them a moment to recover. Meanwhile, Seigi's mana seems to have recovered a bit, since she opened her Storage and put Tenka Fubu in it.
{Nooo! Master, please save me! I promise I'll obey.}
… Sorry, but I think I'm going to ask for a refund.
{Traitor!}
And so Tenka Fubu was sealed away, at least until we can do something about her taking over my body.
"Listen here Yuuto, after I recover from this, I'm going to do something about this sword. And you better forget everything that happened, you hear me?"
"Y-yes ma'am."
I'll erase any records of Seigi mellowing over after some kisses, and how she begged for more once Tenka Fubu made me finger her weak spot. Trust me, all those memories will be deleted… one day.
With the sudden problem taken care of, we now had to actually escape and rescue Lizel-senpai. But, just as we were about to do that, Iratsume showed up.
"Miss Yotaka was right, you really managed to somehow escape. But, even if you escaped your cell, you'll never escape this place."
A magic circle showed up under Iratsume. Then, the whole basement started shifting. It was as if everything was being moved right in front of our eyes.
"So the whole basement is a trap. There's probably spatial magic applied here, so how can we escape…?"
"For now, I'll just use Top Runner to get us all moving…"
Neith used her Characteristic Magic, Top Runner. If I remember right, it was a chariot with shining armor and 2 sphinxes pulling it. But it looks… different now.
Rather than having shining armor around it, it looked like the chariot was made of gold, and it was all armored up. And, rather than 2 sphinxes, there were now 4. And it's also bigger now, so much so that it's breaking the walls.
"… What happened to my Top Runner…?"
"Rather than that, why can it break the walls? Isn't this basement made with spatial magic?!"
Now that Seigi mentions it, isn't she right? If this basement really is made with spatial magic, then we shouldn't be able to break through the walls, since that would mean breaking through space. But this new Top Runner clearly broke through.
Then is the basement not really made with spatial magic? That seems unlikely given how we saw it literally rearrange itself. Then I guess Neith really is just that strong, though she also seems surprised by it.
For now, we just decided to board Top Runner and try to escape this place. If it is spatial magic, there's a good chance there's no exit, but if it isn't then there should be a way out. So Neith took the reins and we started moving.
"Go."
I felt a really strong force push against my body, but it was gone before I could even really process it. What even was that?
"We made a loop, somehow… It seems we're really locked by spatial magic…"
"How can you tell?"
"It was really fast, but I was able to see it... We looped all the way around… even though I only moved forward… Look at the wall."
1 more point for Neith in terms of being amazing. I literally didn't see us move, but I guess she saw the whole trip. And, just as Neith said, I can see where Top Runner broke the wall when it was summoned. So we really made a lap around the place.
"I didn't know Neith's Characteristic Magic was this amazing."
"But it never was like this before… but I feel… like Yuuto's warmth is inside me…"
That is very suggestive, so much so that the girls other than Neith are looking at me. I know you all saw what we did, so you should know we didn't go that far.
But, getting our minds out of the gutter for a second, could Healing Lovers really have something to do with this new Top Runner?
[Analysis. It seems that other Candidates' Characteristic Magics can be powered-up by Healing Lovers.]
How come you only tell me this now, Sein?
[This has never happened before.]
Huh, I guess even Sein didn't know it, then. As the saying goes, you learn something new every day.
"I think my Healing Lovers also powers-up other Characteristic Magic, that's why Neith's Top Runner is like this."
"I see… so it really is Yuuto-kun…"
"Yuuto's amazing woof!"
"I do feel a difference in her mana…"
"What?! Then, because of what you did before, will my Sixers also be stronger?"
"I don't think so. Healing Lovers only works between me and a Card of mine, and since Seigi isn't my Card it shouldn't have worked."
"So you really made Neith Carnac, Candidate of Chariot, into a Card?!"
"Y-yeah?"
"It is real… I'm Yuuto-kun's Card!"
Neith suddenly moved Top Runner. We were now facing one of the walls.
"Break through!"
The chariot's armor started moving, closing around us. We were now inside it. We couldn't see outside for a second, but then it became transparent. That's when I noticed that the sphinxes had broken the wall and now we were…
"Yuuto, where are we? Why can't I feel anything outside the chariot?"
"There isn't anything to feel. It might be crazy, but I think we just broke through space itself."
Swordia may be blind, but with her magic sense she can "see" more than anyone else. But, like I said, we just broke through space, as such there's nothing for her to feel.
She must have gotten instinctively scared when she suddenly lost basically all feedback from her main sense. She got really close to me, so I put my arm around her, trying to make her feel a little better. She seemed a bit more at ease, so I think it worked.
"Hey, I'd appreciate it if you didn't try to steal my Card."
"That's right woof. Poran was here first and Poran also wants to get stronger woof."
I think my good intentions got misinterpreted. But, before I could defend myself, Neith gave us a warning.
"We're breaking through again."
Right after Neith said that, we went back to the normal world, but now we were in the mansion proper, not the basement. Because of our sudden emergence, a bunch of maids screamed out.
A few seconds after, Iratsume showed up and tried using her whip on one of the sphinxes, but it didn't work.
"I expected this magic item that enslaves animals to not work, but I had to try, since it's my last resort. Since when can your Characteristic Magic break through space itself?"
Oh, so that whip was some special item. Even though Iratsume said it was her last resort, it didn't seem like she intended to just give up.
"Neith, I think I can feel Lizel's mana. I think she's fighting Yotaka on the roof."
"Got it."
Swordia told Neith, who then made the sphinxes attack Iratsume. She dodged, but Neith wasn't really intending to hurt her.
With Iratsume out of the way, Neith made Top Runner rush through the mansion. She did her best to avoid hurting the maids, since they're not really the culprits behind all this, but did a good amount of damage to the house itself.
Once outside, we took off to the sky. It wasn't hard to spot Yotaka and Lizel-senpai's fight. Lizel-senpai had a beautiful white bow on her hands. But for some reason both Lizel-senpai and Yotaka were naked. Between them and us, did we make our way to a nudist convention or something?
While I was joking to myself, I heard something that made me immediately forget all other thoughts. It was such a shock that I almost shouted out my confusion.
"Yes, that's it! Show me how, even without magic circuits, Lizel Himekami is still superior to everyone else, and my great rival!"
Yotaka shouted out. What does she mean without magic circuits? Everyone, devil or human, has magic circuits. There's no way Lizel-senpai doesn't have them.
But, thinking about it… I only ever saw Lizel-senpai use magic once, when Geld attacked me right after I went to Ginsei Academy for the first time. And even then, she had a nosebleed right after…
But let's leave that for later. For now, what matters is that we help Lizel-senpai defeat Yotaka.
