A couple of hours later…
"We should probably add a few dressers." I thought hard, scratching my brain for anything I could think of.
"Good call, maybe we can find a better bed with dressers included." Rias nodded, gently writing as such down on a small pad of paper.
We had woken up when the system had done its drop-by of what was probably breakfast for the day. Accordingly, there were two now, and along with that I also had the option of turning the daily meals off. I guess with LP you could buy tastier options. For this meal though, which consisted of pancakes, we decided to just eat it and decide what to do for our next meal later. What was more of an issue, was having to eat on the bed. Which very quickly set us down on the task of writing down all the essentials we'd need. That is why I bought a pen and pad of paper and we went to work brainstorming. I sat leaning on the headboard, my head facing the sky as I searched for literally anything else. She on the other hand lay her naked form down atop the sheets, kicking her feet, and writing the given ideas down. With how her ass was exposed and pointing to the ceiling, it was impressive that I could think at all. But, I guess I was building some much-needed resistance after fooling around with her.
"I'm coming up blank," I admitted. All I could think of was stuff we already had. "Manga?" I suggested, trying to remember if it had come up yet.
"I'll have you know that was the fifth thing I wrote down." She huffed with her otaku bravado. "I'm ashamed you'd take so long to think of it."
"How could I." I rolled my eyes sarcastically. I sat up, stretching a little and looking around the room. "I think we have a good list, we can add more later on."
"That we can." She concurred and handed me the pad of notes. Surely some of this stuff could wait until after I had tried out the actual body-enhancing aspect of the system. Especially since it was all coming down to one income.
At least I thought…
"Oh, would you look at that," Rias said, surprised as she rolled over and sat up against the headboard. She looked at something in front of her and smiled. "It seems the system has decided to have mercy on your pockets." She noted. "There is a new button at the bottom right, it says 'LP transfer'."
"That's useful." I nodded, checking my interface to see the same thing. I thought it over though and then shrugged, "You don't have to though. There are things you'd probably rather spend your money on." In some ways I still felt bad, she had something she needed to return to and I would inevitably delay that, in that aspect I realized my offer wasn't much of one.
She rolled her eyes. "I'd think your time here wouldn't be much fun if I were that type of woman." She poked at my cheeks. "We both need to get there Akito, and so we'll do everything together, and fairly."
"I guess so." I scratched the back of my head. "But, let's at least only worry about the absolutely necessary stuff, and save a little to try out the other functions."
"That works for me." She hummed sweetly, and then with a press of a button sent me all her points, which totaled 8,100. We had completed several quests earlier before we fell asleep. Added onto my own LP, it left us with a grand total of 14,695 LP considering the 6,595 LP I had from the quest as well.
"We have enough to upgrade the room itself," I noted and she pondered. "Let's see, it adds wooden flooring, a built-in closet, a full bathroom, 100 more square feet, and actual outlets." I suppose that last part made it clear we didn't have a choice.
"For how much?" She sighed, inching closer to me despite not being able to see what I was.
I raised a brow. "10,000 LP, and then 1,500 a month, plus the cost for utilities." Were we really going to have to pay rent?
I looked up at her, and she was giving me a similar glance. "I guess we might have to start budgeting." She appended and took the notepad from me once more, flipping around and crossing out certain things that would be given to us with this upgrade.
I sighed and pressed the buy button. Instantly everything just changed. There wasn't even any build-up, it just changed in the blink of an eye. Rias paused, looking over the side of the bed at the brown wooden floor tiles, and further to where two doors now were at opposite sides of the room. "Nifty." She commented and hopped off the bed. I made sure to stay behind her, enjoying how her naked ass bounced with every step as we explored what was behind the doors. The closet was on the left, it was around 25 square feet, I'd estimate, and had a simple rack and horizontal pole to hang clothes. The bathroom was a bit bigger, about three times the size, and had a full stand-up shower, toilet, and sink. It was only then that I realized I hadn't had the urge to use the bathroom since I got here. Promptly after that, I got a hologram, saying something like waste controls deactivated, I didn't remember, because the next second I felt like my bladder was about to explode.
I didn't even have time to kick Rias out before I was standing over the toilet and nearly making a hole from how fast it was shooting out. Less embarrassing was that it was perfectly clear, likely on account of me only drinking water recently. Rias was calmer despite facing the same situation, likely on account of the fact that she only had been here for a few hours. She also didn't kick me out, instead, I think she preferred watching me awkwardly hand her toilet paper before I went on to stack a few things atop the sink like toothbrushes, toothpaste, and hand soap.
"Ah right." I realized, turning to her as she flushed the toilet. "Should I buy uh… period products as well?" I searched for the unfamiliar term and chose what sounded correct.
She smiled at me again, like I was some adorable animal. "You really are quite thoughtful." There went the head pats again, "Devils have minor differences in anatomy than humans, us not having a menstrual cycle is one."
"Got it." Lucky them, I guessed. To escape her gaze I turned to the inside of the shower. "Any products you want in particular? I'm sure the shop has them." As it turned out, I couldn't escape the pampering, and as she listed off soaps and whatnot for me to buy, she sat on the sink and used the height boost to continue petting me like a dog as I stocked up the bathroom. If she wasn't so hot and sexy as she sat there I wouldn't have stood for it, but because she was I let her do as she pleased. I vowed to pay her back for this though. We left the bathroom after a few more purchases, a mat for when we left the shower, cleaning supplies that I stored under the sink, and wash clothes and towels that I'd put in the closet. We agreed that we needed a mirror, but decided to wait because we likely would have to find a way to mount it ourselves. I checked over how much LP I had spent on just the bathroom and it totaled only around 200. The good thing was smaller purchases like that barely cost anything.
A short while later...
"I never thought I'd be house planning until I was in my twenties," I admitted as I stood side by side with Rias.
"Life works in mysterious ways." She said offhandedly, her attention more focused on how we would further divide the room. She was back in my shirt, it didn't feel quite fitting to set about this task being completely in the nude, which is why I too was wearing my jeans at least. It was decided we'd put the fridge and a mini dining room area towards the back wall, opposite where our bed was, and put a couch and coffee table in the small section left over in the middle. We had very limited space and no dividing walls, but we made the best of what we had. That ate through our remaining LP pretty fast, leaving us broke but with a room that looked less like an empty jail cell, and more like home.
"It being more expensive has to account for something right?" I voiced, unsure as I looked over the 200 LP purchase. At current, we sat on our small couch in the 'living room' and deliberated heavily over a very important issue. Entertainment
"Perhaps, the series itself has over 70 volumes, right? I think that says a lot more than the price." Rias added.
I nodded, and pressed the buy button, dwindling our LP count further. At the same time, a bundle of rectangular objects drops from thin air straight into my hands. I looked at Rias, holding up the cover art for the first manga volume in the bundle. "Naruto". She happily took the bundle from me and began undoing the plastic wrap. Her interest in that side of Japanese culture was quickly made apparent when we had broached the topic of entertainment to begin with. Hence why we were searching for foreign manga we had never heard of to read together. The only problem was there weren't any synopsis' or anything of the like available, so we had to find other factors to base our purchases on.
She flipped through briefly and if she was anything like me she probably took note of the art style. "Hmm, I approve." She hummed, closing the book and holding it out to me. "I'll surrender control of the page-turning, I tend to speed through a bit too quickly."
"If you say so." I happily took the volume from her. I was about to sit up, but soon found a weight descending on me that glued me to my spot. I stiffened a bit, not expecting how she had placed herself between my legs and leaned into me with her back to my torso. Her crimson tresses tickled my chest and the scent of her shampoo wafted from her. Her utter lack of tension was a direct contrast to mine. My heart beat wildly for reasons unrelated to my libido.
She looked back, her cyan eyes finding me. They looked down towards my chest and then returned to hold my gaze. Her smile upturned a bit further. "I can feel your heart thumping, you weren't even like this sleeping with me." Yeah, because I was too taken by lust then. Now, I was more focused on the warmth she spread directly to me. The weight of her body felt a bit different, it was less carnal and more...blissful perhaps? I wasn't exactly familiar with the feeling.
Without even really meaning to a question slipped out. "Are you comfortable like this?"
"I am, your chest is surprisingly a good pillow." She hummed. 'Thanks, yours too', I was tempted to say but held my tongue. Somehow, I felt my question hadn't been answered, but for the life of me, I couldn't think of why. Instead, I sought to put a stop to that train of thought.
I dropped my arms over her shoulders with the manga in both hands. "Look, you even have good arm support, that way you won't get tired." She pointed out light-heartedly. Looking down, I watched as my arms sunk into her large chest, it was soft and yes I'd never tire of resting any part of my body here. The weight of her body and the soft feeling of her naked flesh against my own settled into my mind once more. This time, having the opposite effect. With a soft sigh, I let my body semi-mold around the material of the couch and the curves of the woman leaning on me. Better than any bed, the comfort took root in both my mind and body as I opened the first page.
