You know, I'm reading over what Levy wrote, and it's all very interesting. But I can't help but to notice there's something she failed to mention. The new fruit's name! I immediately christened it an oranut, because it's an orange coconut. Levy seemed to like that even less than blapple, which she conspicuously never named either, but she was outvoted by the others.
The plan for today was to get everyone started on their projects and make some progress on improving our home. To that end, after being woken up by another blowjob from Matsu, I refrained from having sex all morning again. As much as I would like to spend all day having sex, we had work to do.
All eight of us, Pokemon included, gathered around for a breakfast of veggies and berries. The Pokemon berries were full of flavors and their inclusion really helped spice things up. I saw a lot of experimentation in our future. Now if only we could get someone who could cook. The temptation to buy someone is strong, but I know it would be a waste in the long term.
"So I've got big plans for the day," I announced as we ate breakfast from a variety of cookware. I looked at Kusano. "Do you think that, with a Norito, you could do something similar on this part of the Skyblock as you did with the garden, and turn the blapple tree into an entire house? Use the roots for a floor, the branches for a roof, and both for walls?"
Kusano's brow furrowed as she thought about it. "Maybe?" she concluded after a moment. "I can't grow a tree forever, I could feel it getting harder for the one in the garden as I neared the end, and the walls and ceiling would have to be really dense…"
"What if you had more trees to work with?" Levy suggested. "We have plenty of seeds, and can harvest some more."
"Hmm. That should work!" Kusano said cheerfully. "I'm not sure what kind of house to make, but I could definitely do it!"
"We'll figure out a floor plan ahead of time, then you'll just have to follow that plan," I said. "Kusano, Uzume, and I will be working on that. Levy and Tinks, I have a special long term project for you." Both of them looked at me, Levy with curiosity and Tinks with surprise. "I want you to get started on metalworking. We need all kinds of things. Plates, bowls, cutlery, pipes, and I don't know, just a ton of metal things in general. I want the two of you to set up a forge area next to the kiln. I'll give you my phone Levy so you can do research on the best practices, what kind of metal, what kind of forging process. But between the two of you I'm pretty sure you can figure out something."
Tinks let out a nervous warble and nodded hesitantly. "We'll figure it out," Levy accepted.
"Matsu, you keep working on the Jinki," I instructed as I turned to my perverted Sekirei. We had used some Noritos last night to see if it would help, but it didn't. Noritos boosted power, but from what Matsu described the Jinki required more skill and knowledge. She likened trying to figure it out to trying to do a puzzle lock in the dark while wearing thick gloves, and using a Norito hadn't changed that.
"Matsu will work hard!" she said with a salute.
I smiled at her before turning to the final two. "Chiho you need to keep resting of course. VV, you keep her company, make sure she doesn't get lonely. Not that we'll be far away."
VV barked, already on Chiho's lap. Anytime we were sitting down, VV was in someone's lap, he craved attention like that. Chiho smiled and ran a hand along the fur on his back. "I'll keep thinking about what I want to do," Chiho promised.
I nodded. "No rush, there's always something that will need more hands. Anyone have any questions?"
No one did, so once we finished our breakfast we split into groups. My plan for the house quickly became ambitious as we figured out the rooms we wanted. Even keeping things simple, I wanted it to be large since the construction method was so quick and easy, that way we wouldn't have to just make a new one later.
The final product took up nearly half of the island, stretching along the entire west and south half of the original core of the Skyblock, forming an L shape. It wrapped around the portal, keeping some distance between the walls and it, and we also kept a few feet of space between the edges of the skyblock and the walls.
We used some of the leftover stones, bricks, and wood scrap that never got used for one reason or another to make outlines of the walls for Kusano to follow. The three of us working on it spent a good hour or two just moving those scraps around, coming up with a good arrangement of rooms that could be expanded in the future and made the best use of the space.
When we finally settled on a layout we took down the tents, which were in the way, planted two more blapple seeds into the ground at predetermined points, and I gave Kusano a deep kiss, causing wings of green light to sprout from her back.
"Life of my Pledge, Shine on my Ashikabi," she chanted, eyes focused. We were standing roughly where the portal appears, the closest we could be to a central point without actually being inside the house, and Kusano had her hands stretched out in front of her.
I expected her to do it one part at a time, but apparently I underestimate her. We all watched in awe as Kusano once more showed her true power as the blapple tree that had been the center pillar of our existence on this Skyblock so far doubled in size. Two more blapple trees sprung out from the ground some distance away from each other, quickly matching the first one in size.
As they did, their branches and roots grew outwards at a rapid pace. Thick and heavy branches twisted in the air at right angles, running along the lines we drew out for the walls. Wide but thin branches grew off of those, shooting across to interweave with each other, making a roof.
Below those thick branches, thousands more grew in thick groups, reaching for the ground like wooden icicles. They were met by identical roots that pushed up from beneath the ground. The roots and branches met in the middle. They tightly intertwined with each other to prevent any kind of gaps, save for where the branches and roots left a wide open area to act as windows and doors.
I only saw flashes, but similar to the paths she made in the garden I spotted more roots poking out of the ground to create a woodwork floor, these ones wide and flat like the roof branches were.
As the final touch, leaves sprouted all over the house, the greenery further filling the gaps and protecting it from the elements and giving it a more natural appearance.
Within just a couple moments, the house was complete. What would have been weeks of work even with the materials completed in just minutes.
Kusano's arms fell and teetered, looking ready to fall over. As she started tilting backward I stepped up behind her and caught her in my arms.
"Are you okay?" I asked her immediately, excitement about the house pushed aside by my concern for her.
"Yeah," she said. "It was just… tiring." She yawned. "I'm… I'm gonna take a little nap now."
I smiled down at her. "Okay, you do that. We'll take care of the rest. You did a great job, Kuu-chan."
"Hehe," she giggled happily, whether at the praise or the nickname or both I don't know. But soon she was sleeping, still half standing in my arms. I shook my head and picked her up, moving her to the outside wall of the house. We had packed and put away all the sleeping bags so there wasn't anywhere to let her sleep other than the ground.
"Is she okay?" I heard Levy ask from nearby. She, and everyone else on the Skyblock, had also stopped to watch Kusano work. One of the walls of the house had sprung into existence just a few feet from where she and Tinks had been working after all.
"Just tuckered out," I called back. Levy nodded, satisfied, and after I made sure Kusano was as comfortable as she could be, I made my way back to Uzume to start working on moving everything into the house.
The layout was pretty simple. The north part of the house was divided by a hallway that ran down the middle of it. On the west side of that hallway were two bedrooms, a large master bedroom and a guest bedroom. I figured that even if Uzume and Chiho were destined to join my harem sooner or later, having a designated extra sleeping area was worth it for those that were brought to the Skyblock before their Stamp finished. A transitionary bedroom where they'd have some semblance of privacy. Worst case scenario it could be repurposed into something else later.
The right side of that hallway had a large open space where I planned to put some workshops for our crafting that could be done indoors, a storage room that connected both to the hallway and the workshop room, and a small food storage area that connected to the south part of the house.
The south part of the house was the 'public' area. Most of it was one large 'room'. The west side was dominated by a massive table built from roots that pushed out of the ground and formed a flat surface at waist height before dipping back into the ground. It was surrounded by long benches made in a similar manner.
The east side was empty but where we planned on putting seating and other furniture. It was to be turned into a common area, where we could gather and rest and relax. And on the far east side of the southern section of the house were two rooms. The most southeastern room was a small one that surrounded the hole in the ground that was our bathroom, replacing the roughshod outhouse Levy and I had built. To the north of it, across a short hallway, was a much larger bath area, though right now it lacked any bathing facilities.
The bath was the first thing we moved. Uzume and I carefully lifted it up, being careful not to let the bricks or clay connecting them crack or bend we lifted it up just enough for Uzume to telekinetically slip one of her few remaining rolls of cloth under it. The bath had never been built into the ground, thankfully, so once it had the cloth under it Uzume could just lift it with that and safely move it into the house.
There wasn't much to move after that. The cooler was moved to the pantry and pretty much everything else was moved to the storage area. We lacked any beds, so I set the tent back up in the master bedroom, despite it being 'indoors' now, because the only other source of padding we had to protect us from the now hard ground were the two sleeping bags that Uzume and Chiho were using, which Uzume set up in a similar fashion in the guest bedroom.
I have some ideas about how to get a proper bed, or something soft at least, but I will have to wait for tomorrow, once Kusano has recovered, to get started on it.
The only thing left was to figure out doors. To be precise, we needed six of them. One for each bedroom, one for the toilet, one for the bath, and one for each of the two entrances into the house.
So after a quick break for a blapple lunch, picked straight from the ceiling of the common area since blapples now grew in great numbers from the ceiling all over the house, I bugged Levy for some "WOOD" and used our new tools, nails, and hinges to great effect to make much nicer doors.
One thing I did forget to buy was a tape measure, but a wood plank with some notches carved into it was enough to make cuts of the same length at least, and the handsaw was much more accurate than hacking at it with an ax. The doors weren't air tight as the root and branch 'frames' weren't perfectly straight, nor was my handiwork perfect, but it was good enough for my standards, and for Uzume's as well.
Working alongside Uzume was a nice experience, actually. I got to see more of her relaxed side, where she joked and chatted casually with me instead of remaining so tense. The hours passed as we made the doors and then over a dozen window shutters. We went through half our hinges making all that, but I couldn't consider it a waste, especially since Levy and Tinks were starting on the foundation for our crafting.
After finishing the doors and windows and declaring the house officially ready for living in, Uzume took a break to spend some time with Chiho and I brought Kusano's napping form into the house she worked so hard to make so she could rest inside instead of on the ground.
I remember noting how surprisingly light she was, and not just because of the effects of Body Tune-Up. At least, I don't think that was the only reason why, but I haven't exactly carried Levy or Chiho to compare to a human. She was cute when she was sleeping though.
I brought her to our room and carefully laid her down in the open tent, bending over while on my knees to gently lower her onto the padded surface. But when I started getting up I found a pair of arms wrapped around my neck and Kusano staring up at me with open eyes.
"Onii-chan," she murmured sleepily. "Stay, don't go."
Once again I felt a spark of excitement as she called me 'Onii-chan' and no I don't care if that makes me a pervert. Blame anime. That plus my sore muscles, the soft padding, and the oh so soft and beautiful girl asking me to stay by her side, almost completely naked?
"Okay, I'll stay," I said as I laid down next to her. She gave me a smile that was so pure and happy that it was almost blinding. She snuggled up against me, her warm and soft skin pressing against my own bare skin.
Even as much as I had gotten used to seeing and feeling the naked bodies of women, it didn't take long for such intimate contact with a beautiful young girl to elicit a specific biological reaction in me. And it didn't take long for Kusano to notice that fact either, judging from the way she suddenly started blushing. But she didn't pull away, or seem uncomfortable. In fact, she squirmed for a little bit in a way that just pressed my erection more against her, she looked up at me.
"Onee-chan says it feels better when you touch her," Kusano said in a quiet voice.
"I can't speak for what Levy feels, but it's true that someone else touching you, especially when it's someone you love, can feel much better than you can make yourself feel."
"Can… Can you touch me?" Kusano asked, blushing furiously. "I want to know."
I gave her what I hoped was a reassuring smile. "Gladly." I reached down, running my hand along her soft skin from her back to her butt. "Let's get you out of these panties first, so you don't get them messy."
She nodded and shifted as I pulled her underwear down her legs, helping me take them off. I tossed them aside once they slipped past her feet. I put my hand on her shoulder and lowered her so she was laying flat on my back. She looked up at me with nervousness and excitement, but didn't say anything else.
I paused for a moment to look her over. She was shorter than Levy but a little curvier, with slightly larger boobs and wider hips. Her stomach was toned and her nipples hard. Just as Levy noted with Matsu, and as I noted myself, Kusano didn't seem to have any pubic hair, or body hair at all.
I started by kissing her, gently pressing my lips against hers. I felt her relax as I did so, presumably because kissing was something she knew and was comfortable with. It made it a good entry point for slowly escalating things.
I deepened my kiss, adding my tongue. She hesitated at first, but after just a moment she parted her lips, letting me push my tongue into her mouth. I'm not sure how much Kusano knew about french kissing beforehand, but she picked up on it fast enough, and soon our kissing was hot and heavy.
I escalated further by finally putting my hands on her, my free hand coming up to cup her breast. She tensed at the touch, not out of surprise, but pleasure. I gently squeezed the boob in my hand, enjoying the feel of it. As I then shifted my grip slightly to lightly pinch her nipple, she let out the smallest of gasps, one that I felt more than heard.
I pulled my lips from hers, causing her to whine in distress as I stopped kissing her. But that quickly turned into pleasure as I lowered my mouth to her other breast, and the nipple there, and latched onto it with my mouth. She moaned then, letting out a quiet cry as I started sucking on her nipple.
Her moans didn't continue, but her excited panting was enough for me to know she was enjoying it, and the way she squirmed under me and clutched at my head, pressing it tighter against her.
Eventually I stopped playing with her boobs as well, pulling back. She didn't protest this time, instead she just watched me with curious eyes, no doubt wondering what I was going to do next.
Deciding she was ready, I ran my hand down her stomach from her breasts to her groin, where I put it between her legs. She spread them slightly, giving me access to her, and waited with bated breath for me to do as she asked.
I couldn't see what I was doing, but that wasn't an issue. I first focused on her clit, finding the small nub and gently pressing against it. She sucked in a gasp of air as soon as I touched it, tensing once more at the sudden sensation.
I took it slow, letting her get used to each level of intensity before increasing my efforts to make her feel good. I lost track of time as I slowly ramped up her pleasure, enjoying just watching the way she reacted to my touch.
I changed the position of my hand, moving my thumb to her clit as my pointer and middle finger spread her lower lips. I hadn't checked or seen them before, but by that time they were rather wet with arousal. Carefully, making sure not to hurt her, I started pressing my pointer finger into her entrance.
She was very tight, both naturally and due to how tense she was. "It's okay," I whispered to her in a calm voice. "Just relax. I'll make sure it feels good and that it doesn't hurt, okay?"
She nodded and relaxed slightly, enough for me to get the very tip of my finger inside of her. She was still pretty tense though, so I leaned down and kissed her again, this time without tongue. It had the desired effect of calming her down more and loosening her enough that I could push my finger deeper inside of her without risking hurting her.
I continued to kiss her and gently play with her clit as I fingered her, getting her used to the feeling of something inside of her like that. Compared to Levy or Matsu, she was very quiet, barely letting out any moans. But her expression and the way she moved underneath me assured me it wasn't because she wasn't feeling it as strongly and it was just a personal quirk. Or maybe she was too embarrassed to make any sounds.
She certainly had moved past her embarrassment over the situation, considering it was my turn to be surprised when I suddenly felt her hand on my crotch. I was rock hard, the thin fabric of my underwear doing little to hide my erection, and apparently Kusano decided she wanted to touch me as well.
I pulled back from kissing her, though my finger remained inside of her, still slowly pumping. "You can touch it directly, if you want," I told her. "It would feel really good for me."
She nodded and pulled the hem of my underwear down, releasing my erection and exposing it to the air. It brushed against her hip, sending a small tingle of pleasure through me. She looked up at me again and I just nodded encouragingly.
She wrapped her fingers around my shaft almost hesitantly, exploring the different parts of it, working her way down from the tip. I shivered in pleasure as she gently caressed my sensitive skin. I made sure not to slack on my own efforts though, slowly working my finger further into her so I could loosen her further before adding a second finger.
Once she satisfied her curiosity, she started stroking me, no doubt emulating something she saw one of the others doing. We had had a fair amount of sex in front of her after all. Her grip gliding up and down my shaft felt good, and I rewarded her by pushing my middle finger into her as well, now ready to push her towards orgasm.
She reached it far before I did. Her jaw tightened and her body shuddered as I felt her insides clamp around my fingers. She moaned as she climaxed, the sound of it muffled by her own stubbornly shut mouth.
After her orgasm ended I pulled my fingers out of her and looked at her with a smile. "How was that? Better than when you touch yourself?" She nodded, slightly dazed. "Do you want to keep going? I can make you feel even better." She nodded again, this time more enthusiastically, causing me to smile.
I shifted position dramatically, turning myself 180 degrees so our feet pointed in opposite directions and putting my face at the same level as her crotch. Of course, this also put my dick in the vicinity of her face, but that was more of a bonus than anything else.
I grabbed her hips and pulled her onto her side again before lifting her upper leg and sticking my head between them so I could get a close look at her pussy. It was slightly red and glistening, drenched in her girlcum. I didn't hesitate at all to shift even closer and stick out my tongue, licking her.
I've gone down on Levy a couple times before. I don't like doing it after fucking her, even if Sexual Calibration ensures it's clean. It's just a mental hangup of mine, and why I haven't gone down on Matsu yet, because the couple times we've had sex it's escalated too quickly for that. But I do enjoy pleasuring my girls like this. I enjoy the taste and the way they react.
And Kusano didn't disappoint. Her lovely thighs clamped down on my head as her hips bucked. She was likely still sensitive from her orgasm, so even just a small lick resulted in a powerful sensation. Her hands grabbed onto my waist, more as support than anything else, and I continued my efforts.
Once Kusano was more used to the feeling of my tongue on her clit, she apparently decided to take a more active role, because I felt something hot and wet on the tip of my penis. I couldn't look, not without stopping, but I quickly identified the sensation as Kusano's mouth, as she apparently decided to turn this into a sixty-nine.
I redoubled my efforts, enthusiastically eating her out, fingers sinking into her soft ass as I grabbed firmly onto her hips to keep myself as close to her as possible. And in return, I felt more and more warmth cover my dick as Kusano took more of me into her mouth.
Already worked up as I was from her handiwork(pun intended) earlier, it didn't take long for me to cum. My balls churned as I shot my load directly into Kusano's mouth. It was hard to hear or see, but I vaguely felt her flinch at the sudden intrusion into her mouth. But she didn't pull back, and if anything I felt her push even further down onto my cock, making sure she swallowed everything before pulling herself off of my cock. Again, probably something she saw Matsu or Levy do.
Still, I had to reward such behavior. I shifted slightly so I could push my finger into her wet folds once again. I started pumping it rapidly as my tongue worked the outermost parts of her pussy. In just a few minutes of intense oral action, I brought her to her second orgasm.
Her thighs squeezed so tightly around my head that I was almost worried, though I was distracted by how nice it felt to be between a girl's legs like that. The rest of her body tensed as well, and a soft cry echoed through the tent.
When she was done I forced her legs open so I could escape from in between them, pushing myself up to my knees next to her, rolling her onto her back again as I did so. If Kusano had looked dazed after her first orgasm, she looked positively blissful after her second one. She looked up at me with a dopey smile of pure contentment.
"Did you like that?" I asked her, amused and more than a little turned on.
She nodded and then looked down at my dick, still hard and standing tall. "Can we… do more?" she asked quietly.
"Of course we can," I assured her before immediately shifting position once again. I didn't hesitate to get between her legs, which she spread for me as I moved. I didn't hesitate or waste time, just as eager for this next step as she was. Instead I just lined myself up with her soaked entrance and slowly pushed my girth inside of her.
She sucked in a gasp of air as I penetrated her, stretching her insides considerably more than my fingers had. But it was followed by a low and drawn out moan as she relaxed. She was tight, tighter than Levy or Matsu, but not unbearably so.
Just as I had when I fingered her, I took it very slowly, waiting for her to get used to the feeling before moving further into her. She panted in pleasure as I did so, her eyes locked onto my face and perpetually smiling as I made love to her.
I pushed all the way into her and stayed there for a moment before I even considered pulling out enough to start thrusting into her properly. And when I did, I did so slowly, easing her into things.
My first time with Levy had been frantic and passionate, our pent up desires bursting forth. With Matsu it had been impromptu and almost rushed, barely taking the time for foreplay before I was balls deep in her.
Kusano was the opposite of those. I was methodical and slow, taking my time to make sure we savored the moment and sensations, slowly pulling pleasure out from where we came into contact. I leaned down to kiss her tenderly, my movements slow and loving.
She responded in kind, wrapping her legs around me and slowly gyrating her hips as she got into the rhythm I was setting. It was perhaps the most loving and gentle sex I've ever had.
I lost track of time within Kusano's embrace, but even a gentle incline reaches the peak eventually. This time we came at the same time, her cunt squeezing me as I pumped my seed deep into her womb.
Our lips separated as our orgasms died out, but I didn't move any further, remaining inside of her. She looked up at me with the same look of bliss as earlier. "My Ashikabi…" she murmured.
"I love you, Kusano," I told her, filled with a desire to make sure she knew.
She beamed at me. "I love you more," she claimed. Then she paused, a shy look coming over her. "Umm… can we go again?"
I smiled, amused. "We can go as many times as you want," I told her. She giggled, happy, and I started moving my hips again.
Despite my words though, we only went for one more round before noticing that the sky outside the window was starting to become orange as the sun approached what passed for a horizon in this world. Knowing we could continue tonight, we stopped there, deciding to rejoin the others for some dinner.
We cleaned up, something that was made much easier with Sexual Calibration making sure things only got as messy as we wanted, and got dressed again before leaving our room and heading out the back entrance, through the workshop.
While Kusano went to the farm to start getting dinner ingredients, at least enough for a small dinner since most of us had a blapple for lunch, I decided to check up on Levy and Tinks to see how they were doing.
The first thing I noticed was that the sand on the ground had grown, and next to the kiln was a new, smaller, brick structure. It was about two feet tall and one foot wide with a small hole in one side. It was inert though, just sitting there on the ground while smoke billowed from the kiln next to it.
Tinks noticed me approaching first, turning to me with a smile and a happy warble as she looked away from what she was working on while sitting on the ground. I couldn't identify the metal patchwork rods similar to her hammer, but her hammer was on the ground next to her, untouched.
Levy then looked up at Tinks' greeting and gave me a smile as well. "Come to check up on us?"
"Yes, I am," I said, squatting next to Tinks and putting a hand on her head. She let out a tinkling noise that sounded happy and lifted up the metal in her hand, showing it to me. "What's that?" I asked her.
She showed it off to me, operating it so I could see that it wasn't just a couple of random metal rods, but two long rods on a connecting hinge. On one end both rods looped back on themselves, forming a handle, though it was proportioned for Tinks' hands. The other end was bent strangely, the rods bending away from each other before bending back in, creating a circular hole when they were fully closed, and the very tips bent upward.
It took me a second to recognize it because the metal was thicker than what I was used to seeing, but it clicked after a moment. "Tongs?" I asked.
"Yep! For this!" Levy confirmed as she lifted up, with some difficulty, a large clay cup that was covered in soot, obviously fresh out of the kiln. "There are two main ways we can start making things out of metal. We'll do both, but the one we started on is casting! That means melting down raw metal, of which I can produce plenty, and pouring it into molds, which we can make out of clay and other materials that are also easy for my magic to produce."
She hefted the clay cup in the direction of the small brick structure. "We just fill this forge with charcoal, light it on fire, put the crucible in, and then make sure it has lots of air. The metal will melt and Tinks can use her new tongs to lift up the crucible using these handles here," she indicated some ridges on the side of the clay cup- the crucible, "and then pour it into whatever mold. The only problem so far is figuring out a good way to get the air flowing. Making that much wind with my magic would drain me pretty fast."
"Oh, that's what I bought the bike pump for," I told her.
Her brows furrowed as she looked at me. "The what?"
I pointed at the bike pump sitting on the ground a few feet away. When I had been moving things into the house I had left it there for her, but I had totally forgotten to ever explain what it was far.
I showed her how to use it and how it produced air. It wasn't a steady flow, but it would be enough for our simple forge. She immediately got to work making new clay parts that would act as a tunnel from the bike pump to the forge. There was a size difference in the holes she had to compensate for, but more importantly the bike pump was made of cheap plastic, so having it too close to the forge would likely result in it melting, ruining it.
There was almost certainly a better way to do it, but I had bought the pump on whim while having only a vague idea what you needed to work with metal based on some light skimming and blurry memories of shows I watched and books I read. We can upgrade to something better once we figure out what we need and end up in a world where we can buy it.
As Levy worked on making the piece she glanced up at me with a smile. "Kusano seemed pretty happy when she walked by earlier," Levy commented. "The two of you were inside for a while too."
"Well, she wanted a reward for her hard work, and I fully agreed that she had earned one," I hinted, looking past Levy to where Kusano was bent over and picking some vegetables. Clad in just her panties, it was an erotic sight.
"Oh good, she can join us tonight then," Levy commented, correctly guessing what I had implied by a reward. "Unless someone tired themselves out already?"
I snorted. "Somehow I think I'll find the energy." Sexual Calibration really was one of the most valuable purchases from the Catalog. "So, we're gonna have iron plates and cups?"
"Probably not iron," Levy said. "Maybe some sort of copper alloy. Or tin. Or aluminum." She shook her head. "Something light with a low melting point that won't chemically react with food but is still easy for me to make."
I nodded in understanding. We could just buy plates, but the idea of us having our own means of making things like that, of being just a little less dependent on raiding other worlds, was appealing. That was what I wanted, eventually, total self sustainability. This was a step within our reach and would serve as the foundation for more complicated metalwork down the line.
"Speaking of food, it looks like Kusano has all the ingredients for tonight's dinner," I said as I spotted the young Sekirei headed towards us with a pot filled with food.
"Good, and I just finished this," Levy said, placing the clay she had been working with on one of our clay 'shelves', just a flat piece of fired clay that acted as a clean and flat spot to put things on when working with wet clay.
"You've been busy and haven't been in the house yet, right?" I asked. She nodded, confirming my guess. "Oh I can't wait to show it to you, Kusano really did a good job. We even have a really cool table to eat at now. I'll give everyone the tour after dinner." I looked around. "Speaking of which, I lost track of everyone. Where are they?"
"They're all inside," Levy said as she stood up. "I got back from filling the bath for Uzume and Chiho just a few minutes before you and Kusano came out, so I saw that already. Matsu was sitting at the table staring at the Jinki, and last I saw VV had joined her."
I reached down and picked up Tinks, who was looking up at me and lifting her arms. "So you've seen most of the house already," I said, losing some enthusiasm.
"Uzume showed us all around the south part when you guys finished and disappeared into the bedroom," Levy confirmed. "We were excited too after all."
"I suppose that's fair," I said as Kusano reached us. I turned to her with a smile. "Thanks for getting that even though you're so tired," I told her.
She blushed and shook her head. "No, it's my job, and I'm not tired anymore. Not after resting. And kissing. And the other stuff."
Levy chuckled. "Oh we're going to have lots of fun tonight," she commented. Kusano blushed further, but she also looked pleased and excited.
We brought the food into the dining room, a sentence I'm so glad I can write after two full weeks of meals taking place outside on the ground, and Levy fetched Uzume and Chiho, letting them know dinner was ready. Once we were all gathered we enjoyed our normal fresh veggies and pokeberry salads.
We really do need to get a cook soon. And possibly some animals. Chickens at least would be nice for their eggs and a valuable source of protein.
After dinner I started writing this journal immediately. Tonight's Matsu's turn to bathe with me, and I'm writing this as Levy and Kusano take theirs while just sitting at the table, the only seating available. At least it's large enough to seat more than double our number. Still, we'll have to get something for the common area that is currently completely empty of furniture, but I want more comfortable seats for those.
Now that it's more than just Levy and me using it, sex in the bathtub has been prohibited. That might change once they're sharing my bed, but until then I had agreed to keep it clean. Not that I'm sure that'll stop Matsu.
Still, lately I've been writing these journals too late at night, and with three girls in my bed to satisfy I can't eat into my night time hours like that, so I'll probably start writing these journals after dinner, unless I'm busy with something more pressing.
Tomorrow's going to be a big day. I haven't mentioned my plans to buy Bisky to anyone but Levy yet, but the more I think about it, the more it feels like the right play. Nen has always fascinated me, and Bisky is pretty cute. It's an easy power up without having to get a Template Stack, and not just for me, but for my entire retinue, present and future. So sure, it does mean I won't get to spend as much one on one time with my new Sekirei, or Uzume and Chiho who will officially become mine tomorrow, but we're all so busy with different projects anyway, and what's one more?
Besides, even with the Stamp activating tomorrow, I'm pretty sure Uzume and Chiho will take a few days at least to give in. The Stamp isn't that potent after all.
I'll tell everyone in the morning, when I'm handing out tasks. Tomorrow should be just as busy as today, though outside of Bisky I don't think it'll be as interesting.
Either way, Levy and Kusano just got out of the bath, which means it's time for me and Matsu. That's all I have for tonight. Until next t
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AN: No, the chapter doesn't cut off. At least, that's not a mistake. Matsu was a little too impatient is all and didn't give Roland time to finish.
If you're on QQ, you can see the latest map of the Skyblock with the floorplan of their new house in the Extra threadmarks. Or you can find it pinned in the story channel on my Discord. I had fun designing it.
Not a lot of events in this chapter, just getting some work done. Considering the size and the density of the past two chapters, this was a nice little break. And it feels so nice for them to be living in a proper house now. I had this idea weeks ago when they first picked up Kusano, but I have more ideas for improvements and growth still to come. Kusano is the second most important person to the infrastructure of the Skyblock, only below Levy in terms of usefulness.
Also, Kusano finally got some love as well. A reward for doing such a good job. Matsu will get some scenes in the near future as well, from Roland's PoV this time.