A/N: My OG readers will get what the chapter title references. *wink*
So yeah, been sitting on this for about a week editing off and on, and decided to publish today since today marks its 8 year anniversary. And quite an anniversary it's been. Partially because of COVID as well as a new motivation to write I was able to crank out 11 chapters for Veil within just a year, which is quite remarkable given my habits of procrastination.
Also I'm looking for a beta reader specifically to help me in correcting Tsukiumi's Shakespearean dialect. Some readers mentioned how awful I am with it and I agree with them. So if anyone's interested PM me and I'll add you on Discord to discuss matters.
Now on to the chapter.
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Tell Me ~ Again
Minato awoke to the sound of birds chirping after a fairly vanilla night of lovey-dovey passion with his first Sekirei. With a slight struggle, he rolled out of Musubi's extra-tight cuddle, flipped the covers off, and went to pull on his boxers.
Musubi crawled over to him as he went to peek through the blinds, junk still hanging. "Hey Minato," she yawned, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "How's it look outside?"
He glances down at her. "Beautiful."
She bounced from the bed and into his arms. His boxer short's strap snapped to his flesh.
"Whoa, hey there Musubi, what's up?"
"I love you, Ashikabi-sama!" She then snagged a brief kiss from his lips. Her wings emerge on cue and she pumps a fist into the air. "Let's go and greet the beautiful day!"
The walk home was uneventful for the most part. Just him and Musubi arm in arm in no hurry to get anywhere. Then he remembered something he had seemed to almost completely forgotten about thanks to the ungodly amount of pounding him and Musubi took part in last night.
"Oh no, Musubi! I can't believe I almost forgot!"
"What's wrong, Ashikabi-sama?"
"The crystal Matsu stole from MBI. Seo said to ask her about it asap."
"Oh yeah he did mention something about that at the wrestling show didn't he?" she said, tapping a finger to her chin.
"We should get back to the inn right now and ask her."
"Mhm, yeah." Musubi nodded in agreement and presented her butt to him for what had to be the twelfth time since last night. "Hop on!"
"Right!"
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Ten minutes later they were at the inn and heading straight up the steps to Matsu's bedroom.
Minato knocks and moments later the shut-in answers, hair all matted and eyes saggy. "A bit early, don't you think, Minato?"
"I'm sorry to bother you right now but it's important." He stammered. "It's about the crystal you have in your roo-"
Matsu clasped her hand over Minato's mouth mid-sentence and dragged him into her room. She then grabbed Musubi by the wrist and dragged her in as well before slamming the door shut.
"Are you crazy, Minato?!" Matsu panicked as she tried her hardest to keep her voice down. "Don't ever mention that where just anyone can be listening in!"
"I'm sorry, Matsu I had no idea! Is it really that important?!"
"You're damn right! MBI is hunting me because of that thing I stole! Just how the hell did you find out about it?!"
Minato leans back, hands up in an innocent plea. "Seo told us!"
"Seo? But wasn't yesterday supposed to be your date with Musubi? Why'd you meet up with him…" She strokes her jaw and a pervy grin appears. "unless..."
A plethora of lewd imagery featuring a mass orgy flooded into Matsu's mind and out of her nostrils in the form of a red geyser. She then fell on her ass.
Minato facepalmed. "Whatever you're thinking is wrong."
"Why couldn't I be invited?!"
[Fade out/Fade in]
"Ahem. Glad you could all join us." Matsu said, seated properly on her knees upon her futon before the rest of the inn's residents.
"What's the big idea waking us all up, brainiac?" Yukari whined.
"Oh come now, Yukari, it's 8:30." Miya giggled as her mask leered overall. "Most responsible adults are up even earlier and they don't complain. Just look at your brother."
"P-p-p-point taken, Miss Miya." Yukari said as she quivered in fear.
Minato rubbed the back of his head and giggled nervously at the sincerity of the landlady's compliment. "Haha, much appreciated, Miya. I try."
She smiled at him...and so did the mask surprisingly. It looked tame. "I know. Fufu." she looks at Matsu as the mask fades. "You invited us over to share something with us, Matsu?"
Matsu clears her throat. "Yes," she crawls over to a safe on the floor and begins to dial in the combination. "Now what I'm about to show you all cannot be brought up outside of this room here unless I specify otherwise." The tumblers click, indicating it's now open. "Is that understood, everyone?"
Not counting Miya, everyone nodded yes and said "Hai!"
"Very well. I present to you Jinki #8"
The pressure in the safe escaped in a viper-like hiss, then sitting front and center was the crystal glowing brightly and standing erect from its point on a display before them all.
"So this is why you're on the run from MBI?" Minato inquired in the midst of 'oohs and aahs'.
Matsu closed her eyes for a moment and bowed her head. "Yes, the crystal here is something I stole from MBI and they really, really, kinda-sorta want it back because it's vital to the Sekirei Plan."
"How so?"
"When all eight Jinki are gathered, whoever has them has total power over the fate of the world. The lives of both Ashikabi and Sekirei are connected to them and can be terminated if the gatherer so desires."
"So you took one to ensure they all don't fall into the wrong hands?"
"Exactly. Imagine if that slimeball Higa got them all? We'd be screwed."
"What role are they going to play in the Sekirei plan though?"
"Minaka plans to give them out as trophies at some point."
"What?! That's insane!"
"Yeah, but remember this is Minaka we're dealing with here. That's all I really know detail-wise, so I'm just gonna have to keep on top of things with the bugs I planted in MBI."
"Bugs? How'd you get close enough to do that?"
"You actually."
"Me? How?"
"I snuck some in your backpack before you went to bump uglies with Chiho and Uzume a few days ago."
"You did what?! And just how do you know we went to bump uglies!"
"Yes, Matsu. How?..." the landlady's mask leered close. "And you had better tell the truth."
"Well, Musubi and I kinda spied on Minato while he was getting it on with Uzume and Chiho in their bath and we kinda got freaky watching the three go at it on my big screen…"
The landlady's eyes glow an evil red and-
BONKBANGBOOM!
"Ow Miya, that hurt!" Matsu cried as she rubbed the red lump on her head.
"Matsu, you're sick and corrupting Musubi!" Miya yelled demeaningly, ladle held out in front of her. "No breakfast or lunch for you, and that goes for you too, Musubi!"
"Aww come on Miya, I didn't know what I was doing!" Musubi cried.
"Be thankful you're not getting a lump!" Miya barked.
"You mean to say you watched all of that?..." The thought of being watched while fucking made him collapse with a red geyser of his own.
Everyone cried out in concern. "Minato!"
[Fade out/Fade in]
[BGM - Caged Heart - Katawa Shoujo]
Teito Tower
A groan of tedium escaped Benitsubasa's lips as she gazed out the window of her suite high in MBI tower. Traffic was light but still loud.
She went to turn back to the tv and heard a knock at the door.
"It's open."
She peeked over her shoulder and saw it was Natsuo. What could he have wanted?
"May I have a word with you?"
She lowered the volume to zero. "Of course, Natsuo! I always have time for you!" she scoots over on her bed and he sits down next to her. "What's up?"
"I wanted to come and say I'm sorry."
"Sorry? For what?"
"Not being a better Ashikabi. It's strange, I have no desire for romance with the opposite sex, but ever since I lost my connection with you I haven't felt right. There's something to this Ashikabi and Sekirei connection that's been messing with me. I've never been the same since my lover died, but after losing you I've been physically ill more so than usual and I feel I'm only going to get worse if something isn't done."
"Natsuo, I-"
He puts his arms around her and pulls her in close. "Please come back to me. I'm hurting a lot."
"I'm sorry but that's not how this works." She puts her hands on his chest and gently pushes him away. "I've been hurting a lot too. I wanted so bad for you to love me back. I wanted us to have our happy ending. But you never let me in, and now we're here."
"What are you saying?" he gasped, taken by complete surprise.
"I'm saying that none of this would have happened if you would have just shown you cared about me. Then I wouldn't have reacted to...her."
"You don't know that for certain!"
"Oh? Then why was she able to remark the hammer chick?"
"So you're going to compare me to a common thug? As distant as I was I never once put my hands on you."
"Well maybe you should have!" she squeals, teary-eyed and choking up.
Ouch. That one stung him. He took a moment before speaking again. "Can you forgive me?"
"Undecided." she crossed her arms and turned her nose to the window.
Natsuo frowned. "Are you happy with who you're with now?"
"I'm not sure. It all happened so fast. She's been nice, too nice I think."
"I see."
She layed back on the bed, eyes looking skyward towards the ceiling. "You know although she won't admit it, Haihane's been reacting to Chiho too."
"I figured that was the case. Haihane's been hanging around with her a lot as of late."
"Then maybe you should go to her and start treating her right unless you want to lose her like you lost me."
Natsuo got the point and bowed his head. "Yeah, losing one Sekirei was bad enough on my heart. Losing another might literally kill me. Ugh-!"
Natsuo grasped at his chest and doubled over onto the floor in a heap.
"Oh my God, Natsuo! What's wrong?!" Benitsubasa shrieked and panicked as she tried shaking his shoulders to wake him. "Get up, Natsuo! Come on, get up!" she looked towards the doorway. "Someone help!"
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Meanwhile in Chiho's apartment, Haihane melted into Chiho's lips as Uzume slept on the couch drunk from the other night...
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[BGM - Sekirei OST - Track 4]
It was a great day for Tsukiumi. Thanks to Musubi being forbidden from breakfast time she got to sit next to her husband for the second day in a row! This delighted her as nothing else could. Until she remembered that today was to be her special day with Minato!
And she had the most clever setting for it in her mind: A waterpark!
The place was packed with people, with rides and fountains as far as the eyes can see. And with people came lots and lots of girls in swimsuits. But Tsukiumi had no fear of being outclassed by any of them. Not only because she was a Sekirei but because she herself was a bombshell. Male eyes from already established couples oogled her and fired looks of disdain at Minato for having such a babe at his side. This of course made a lot of girlfriends upset and forced them to slap the taste out of their boyfriend's mouths so they could get their attention back.
"So, what would you like to do first, Tsukiumi?" Minato asked as he emerged from the changing room wearing his swimming trunks.
Swimming trunks. They looked really good on him in her eyes. Especially shirtless.
She blushed and turned her head away, biting her nail. "Shall we go down the spiral slide?"
"Sure, how would you like to go down?"
"Pardon?"
Minato realized his poor choice of words too late. "That came out wrong. What I meant was would you like me to hold you or you hold me?"
"Oh, um...I guess thou may hold me." Yes, twould be very nice for you to hold me...
[Fade out/Fade in]
"How's this?" Minato said as he circled his arms around Tsukiumi's navel. The two of them were seated together on the slide more than sixty feet in the air. He swallowed, realizing they would soon go spiraling downward into the massive pool below on a moment's notice.
"I'm fine. Just situating my bottom properly is all."
He managed to catch a glimpse short of her smooth cheeks wiggling to and fro as she managed to get comfortable. He became beet red and immediately looked away to avoid being looked at by all as a lecherous pervert.
"All set, you two?" Said the smiling park attendant as he gripped the top of the tube above the two, getting ready to push the two of them through.
"I am if thou art, Minato." she said with confidence.
He paused for a second, looking through the clear slide walls and down to the people so far below. He blinked and-
"I'm ready too."
Tsukiumi looked back at him. He was smiling bravely along with her.
The attendant instructed them both to lay flat. He then placed his gloved hands on Minato's shoulders and gave him a good push. They were soon rocketing through the tunnel at incredible speed. Tsukiumi and Minato laughed and screamed as they met splashy bend after curve.
A short while later they were ejected from the slide with immense velocity. A skidding splash erupted in their wake until they were both completely submerged.
Moments later the two were swimming up to the surface and spitting out chlorine like one of those fish sculpture fountains you see at places.
Another laugh is shared, and Tsukiumi slyly swats some water at Minato. He returns the favor with a swipe of his own.
"Is that a challenge, Minato?" she asks boastfully holding up a swirling globe of water she funneled up from the pool itself.
"Hey, it's no fair if you use your powers! And not only that, what are you thinking using them in a public place like this?! The Sekirei plan is supposed to be a secret, remember?"
"Didst thou forget, Minato? This particular water park was considered a neutral ground for Ashikabi and Sekirei."
"Oh, is it now? Okay then." he sighed in relief.
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Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the swimming pool, a spoiled rich brat and his entourage of 'collectibles' enter the scene. Among the Sekirei were Mutsu and Akitsu. They were just about to enter the pool when Mutsu's keen sense of sight caught a glimpse of the Sekirei crest on the nape of Tsukiumi's neck.
"What is it, Mutsu?" Mikogami asked.
"That woman over there, the blonde. She's a Sekirei."
"Is she now? Unwinged you think?"
"No, she's playing volleyball with whom I believe is her Ashikabi. She's not with anyone else."
"I see. Think we should get acquainted?"
"No, or at least not in such a public place."
"You're never any fun, Mutsu!" The brat whined.
Mutsu looked closer at the couple and blinked when he noticed the ball they were playing with was a ball made of water.
"It's the water Sekirei." Mutsu muttered.
"What difference does it make what type she is?! I want to meet them and you to kick their asses!"
"She's a single number just like I am, and her Ashikabi is the Ashikabi of the North."
"All the more reason to crush them while they're vulnerable! Let's do it, Mutsu! What are we waiting for?"
Mutsu huffed. "Angering the Hannya of the North would be unwise. Especially considering what happened to the Ashikabi of the East. I'm sorry Hayato but I refuse to put you in that kind of danger."
"Just who is this Hannya of the North anyway?"
"Someone I know very well from my past. She is not to be trifled with. We won't win."
"I have an idea." Akitsu spoke up.
The two look down at her doing something rather uncharacteristic of one of her element. Lounging on a chaise and working on a tan with one of those reflector mirror things. Oh, and she also had sunglasses on.
"Well," Mikogami began, "spit it out, Akitsu!"
"How about instead of antagonizing them we join forces? Having the Hannya of the North's favor as well as the Ashikabi of the North's power would surely benefit us far more than if were enemies."
"He's likely going to say no." Mutsu argued. "As much as I hate to admit it ever since the Green Girl incident other Ashikabi and Sekirei pairs haven't looked fondly on us."
"You never know until you try."
"You've been rather different as of late, Akitsu. What's going on?"
"Dreams. Very vivid dreams."
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Tsukiumi launched herself in the air just in time to catch the ball and swatted it down with a spike over Minato's head, soaking him good.
"That's game I guess, haha." Minato chortled.
"I will not allow thee to give up so easily, Minato. On your feet for another round I say!"
"You got it!"
"Hey there, you two."
Minato and Tsukiumi turn in the direction of the kid's voice. It was Mikogami and his Sekirei Mutsu.
Minato spoke up. He got an eerie feeling from these two. "Hey don't I recognize you both from somewhere?"
"We couldn't help but recognize you were also an Ashikabi and Sekirei. We were wondering if we could join in your game?"
"Thou would like to join us?"
"Yeah, we're all about making friends here at the water park." Mikogami bullshitted. "It's supposed to be a place for fun with others, right?!"
"I guess so, yeah." he then winked at Tsukiumi. "Tsukiumi, serve 'em up good."
She struck a confident pose while holding up a new globe of water. "Gladly!"
She pumped her fist on it's bottom and sent it soaring over the net in a gracious arc to them.
Mutsu served it back over towards Minato's side and he returned the favor with aim for Mikogami .
The game went on for several minutes but the outcome was inevitable.
And it was because Mikogami sucked at this game. He cowered like a bitch every time the ball came his direction. Only reason his team was able to keep up with Minato's was because of Mutsu, and even then they were three points behind still.
"Oh god help me!" Mikogami flinched as the ball was spiked right beside him.
"And it looks like that's game, master Mikogami." Mutsu said in a serious tone.
Minato overheard that name. "Hey I remember that name. You're the Ashikabi of that Sekirei you sent to kidnap Kusano, aren't you?"
"Oh that, um...well, you see uh," he jabs Mutsu's kidney with an elbow. "Help me out here big guy!"
"You're the one who insisted. They're your problem."
"Dammit, Mutsu!" Mikogami growled. "Fine, I admit I intended to add the Green Girl to my collection of little birds, but I never wanted to hurt her!"
"She didn't want you as her Ashikabi, plus she's like eight you creep!" Minato yells.
"Says the one who winged her!" Mikogami shouted.
"She pecked me on the lips unexpectedly!"
"Yeah, uhuh."
There was a long pause and tension rose.
Mikogami was then hit smack dab in the face by a water celebration.
"What the hell was that for?!" he shrieked.
"Thou knows full well what for, you slithery gremlin!"
Mikogami took a breath. "Look all I want is to be on good terms with each other. That's it!"
"And why should we believe you after what you've done?" Minato asks.
"Because we're well aware of what the Ashikabi of the East tried to do and how it ended up." Mutsu spoke. "We want to ally ourselves with you, if possible."
"Sorry buddy, the answer's no. Not after what happened with Kuu."
Mutsu bowed his head. "Understood." he put his hand upon his Ashikabi's shoulder. "Let's go Hayato."
"But she hit me!" he shouted as Mutsu dragged him away.
"Well, that's over." Minato sighed, letting his shoulders rest.
"What an odd pairing, don't you think?"
"Yeah, think we'll see them again?"
"Indeed. All Sekirei destinies are intertwined. Truthfully I would love to test my mettle against Mutsu."
"Was that the Sekirei's name?"
"Yes, and he's very strong from what I hear. A fellow single number just like me."
"Is that so?" Minato muttered.
"But we need not worry now. It is our time this day, Minato, so let us make the best of it."
Minato gave her a beaming smile. "Let's!"
[Fade out/Fade in]
And as the day turned into dusk, Minato rented a room at a local inn for the two to spend the night together, and as luck would have it, a revealing swimsuit wasn't the only thing Tsukiumi had brought with her.
After giving Minato a quick tease in the bathroom's doorway with a set of gothic lingerie, she was now on his lap feeling up his jaw as if it were a million times more masculine than it was. But it mattered not. Tsukiumi thought it was hot.
Her aquatic wings materialized from a swirling galaxy of water droplets siphoned from the air.
Their lips part and come together again with hungrier force and friction before she pounces him on to their queen-sized mattress. Tsukiumi pinned him with her things and waist, then guided his hands to her breasts to fondle herself with.
"Squeeze them! Massage them, Minato!"
"H-Hai!" And boy did he dig into those beauties.
Counterclockwise on the left, clockwise on the right, then as that goes on, in and out, and all over.
That was the key to handling Sekirei titty from what he'd been learning as of late.
Tsukiumi moaned as her longing for this man poured out from her panties. She rolled her hips across Minato's bulging erection, grinding her soaking wet pussy all over it. Her embarrassingly turgid clit brushed over his length and it sent an electric bolt directly up through her spine. She bites her nail, hard. Enough for a crack to form.
"Tell me that you want me, Minato! Say it!"
"I want you."
"Tell me I'm the strongest!" she growled in the heat of her growing lust.
"You're the strongest!"
"Tell me again!" she demanded, huffing and puffing as she got herself all worked up while straddling him. "Tell me likest thou means it!"
"I mean it! I mean it and I want you!" He shouts, propelling himself up as if from a nightmare, and headlong into her chest. After a brief motorboating, he undoes her bra and throws it over his shoulder. "I want you in my mouth." He tucks his head, mouth going straight to her right nipple.
She lets out an unladylike squeal, neck swinging her head back as she pulled him in nice and close so he could suckle her deeper. He alternated between both breasts with his mouth, using his fingers to tease and pinch whichever nipple happened to be free at the time. More squealing peeps ushered from her moist lips which begged him to continue.
He felt up her stocking-covered thigh and said to her, "Surely you can't be satisfied with simple foreplay, Tsukiumi."
She looks away. "Don't tease me like this, Minato! I'll go crazy!"
He returns her gaze to him with the light grasp of his fingertips. "Then tell me what you want me to do."
She dips away. "I can't. Tis too embarrassing!"
"Come on, Tsukiumi," he whispered softly right into her ear. "If I don't know what to do, you'll go unsatisfied." he blows into her ear. "And we don't want that, do we?"
She shivered at his warm breath. "Please no more teasing, Minato."
"Tell me everything you want me to do. I promise to keep it between us."
"You mean it?"
"Of course, Tsukiumi."
"Well, if that's the case…" she glances over her shoulder at her bag of what Minato thought was swimwear. "Look in my bag over there. I brought some things for our occasion this evening."
"Um, okay."
Tsukiumi over onto the mattress to let him get...whatever it was she had brought with her. It didn't take long for him to find what she was talking about. It was as he feared.
Bondage gear.
Among her swimsuit were a black and blue leather flogging whip, a dog-collar with a chain attached, a ball gag, and a pair of fuzzy handcuffs.
He pulls them out to his astonishment and Tsukiumi's embarrassment.
"Tsukiumi… I had no idea you were into such things!"
"Indeed thou aren't the only one. I used to abhor the thought of filthy monkeys having their way with me in such a demeaning fashion. But ever since my marriage to thee, the thought has been rather stimulating to the mind." She pledges a hand to her heart and looks at him genuinely. "The only person I would allow to dominate me is my Ashikabi. My husband. So please bringest my fantasies alive this evening!"
Minato took a deep breath of relief and exhaled. He was thanking kami she wasn't requesting to be in the dominant role. He could only imagine the horrors Blood Countess Tsukiumi would have in store for him if she did. "If that's what you want, you got it. I'll do my best."
[Fade out/Fade in]
[BGM - Prison Sex - Tool]
"Res Rinato, hrarder! Rhippest re hrarder!" Tsukiumi pleaded desperately through her ballgag as Minato yanked back on her collar's chain and gave her a solid flogging across the rear and back.
She had her hands bound and her head down and her eyes closed. In spite of taking a deep doggy-style pounding from behind, she was so wet that losing her virginity didn't even hurt. He knew she wanted more punishment but at the same time held back in fear of making her too noticeably red. He remembered she often took showers and baths along with the other girls at the inn, and the marks that she was looking to get out of him would be more than noticeable. If this was to remain their dirty little secret she would obviously need to sneak in to shower off the radar while healing up.
"You look so precious now, Tsukiumi. Being so obedient after being such a bad girl."He tugged on the chain until their faces touched. "Should I reward you?"
"Res, prease Rinato!" He halts his thrusting and undoes her gag, and after a few deep breaths, she says, "What's wrong? Why did you stop?"
"Sorry Tsukiumi, what was that? The gag makes you harder to understand than usual." he joked.
"What dost thou mean 'than usual'?!" she squealed longingly. "Thou art such a tease!"
Minato laughed and continued thrusting. He loved being able to mess with her like this.
Tsukiumi gnawed at the sheets with her teeth as her orgasm approached. Minato's wasn't all that far off either. His hips jackhammered into hers, making her flesh loudly slap against him.
"Minato, I'm- I'M!" Tsukiumi moans.
"I'm close as well! I'm nearing my limit!"
"I can't hold on anymore! Release yourself inside, Minato! Don't leave me until I'm full!"
He whips her one last time with the flog for good measure to heighten her orgasm. He wasn't however, expecting her to tighten up as much as she had when he did so.
"Ugh-!" He groans, seed spilling deep into her womb. She convulsed each time his cock pulsed inside of her. Finally, they both collapse from exhaustion.
After regaining her composure, Tsukiumi requested, "Canst thou release me from my handcuffs?"
Minato nodded as he pulled out. "Sure."
He grabs the key from the table and clicks open the cuffs setting his little bird free.
For the longest moment they just layed there next to each other, chests heaving in and out as their breaths tried their best to keep up with the sudden rush of dopamine to their brains.
Then Minato spoke, sweating, "So, how was it, Tsukiumi?"
"Divine, Minato. Simply divine." she replied, also perspiring.
"Want to go for another round, Tsukiumi?" he asks.
She wiped away some spit from the corner of her mouth, "But of course of course!"
He grabs her and spins her around into a kiss. The wings of moisture take form...only to awkwardly fall onto the mattress and soak both them and the sheets.
Minato looked unamused. "You're sleeping in the wet spot tonight."
"Curse thee."
"That's not how you say, 'Yes, Master!'" he said in jest as he swatted the whip on his hand and pulled its handle.
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A/N: Here's hoping for a productive 2021. And again, if anyone wants to lend a hand at helping me with Tsukiumi's speech, lemme know.
If all goes according to plan the next chapter should result in the two stories I have running parallel at the moment merging now that all the dates are done with.