Aleph did not go too far. Hua was the oh the least tolerance when it came to things like this. The farthest he did was to initiate a deep kiss.
He ed his arms around her body. Her head barely reached his face. Aleph had to lower his head to do so. This gave Hua a strange feeling.
'He is so tall…'
She did not have much of an impression of the so-called idols in her school, but if there was one, Aleph would be it.
Gradually, she lost herself in it. The embarrassment she felt popped like bubbles. She pced herself pletely in his hands.
her of the two could extricate themselves from this peaceful and addictive state. It sted until something touched her stomach. Her heart skipped a beat as she woke up.
Aleph felt her body freeze before he realized what caused it.
"Um… I'm sorry for…"
"No. There's o…"
An awkward atmosphere crept up as they separated. Fortunately, Aleph was skilled enough in dismantling such a situation.
"Right. Did you talk with Miss Eden?"
"Eden? The singer?"
Unlike most people, Hua treated the superstar simply as a talented sihat was how isoted she was from the others until her best friend introduew things to her.
"I did. She was easy to talk to." She paused for a while as she remembered something. "She asked me how to tact you."
"Hm?"
Aleph knew Eden from his foreknowledge. She was someone who chose to stay with this era rather than to ehe cryogenic pods. After bei by so many, she chose to live in the Previous Era—that the future no longer beloo her.
'She's one of the few mental-types, not to mention how she got along with most of the Fmechasers…'
"Did she give any number?"
"Yes."
Hua took out a folded piece of paper and gave it to him. She silently waited for his response.
"It should be reted to official business. You know, she has always been Fire MOTH's biggest donor…"
*****
Most of the battlefields have been stabilized. Without the overwhelming numbers of Emperor-css honkai beasts, the rest of Fire MOTH's bat power could deal with them, although they have to work extra overtime.
Arange phenomenon followed.
'The number of honkai beasts… and those Judgement-bsp;honkai beasts…'
Aleph po kill the Judgement-css honkai beasts before. However, before he could do so, he couldn't find them any longer.
'They're probably taken by that girl. I won't be surprised if they turhe Moon into their base.'
In a sense, he was the 'Satojo' of this world. His mere presence was enough to deter any sorcerers from creating a mess. They know it will be over ohey face Aleph.
The best they could do was to either have someone parable to him or use their smarts to figure out a pn. That was how Satot trapped ihe Prison Realm—not that it would have any effe Aleph.
'Where will I find that st fragment..?'
He thought of the missing final fragment of his Sephira Crystal. He had a hunch that he would be able to fully exert Albion's full power o was pleted.
Unfortunately, he wasn't able to get it up until now. He thought of many angel-reted achievements, but to no avail.
Tap.
Tap.
Tap.
Aleph snapped out of it as he arrived in front of a door. The moment he ope, he saw a room clouded with smoke. The built-in vacuum ihe vents are w overtime, yet the smoke's thiess remained like this for a while.
Snap.
The feed by Aleph's finger snap created a hole out of the thick smoke. They were dispersed into the vents' dires. Some of the apparatuses shook. Several things were scattered on the ground. Papers flew into the air.
Amidst all of that, he saw Vill-V whose face was filled with several lines of wounds. Her entire right arm was dripping with blood with her clothes tattered.
"Oh… You came at a bad time."
"What happeo the safety protocols?"
He asked as he raised his pointy finger on her head. An imperceptible white light entered her body, healing all of her wounds in an instant.
"Heh. There's no need for that."
"..."
"Really! This kind of act won't kill me."
Aleph's elemental sight sed her wasted workshop. A crimse gemstone y quietly among the pile of scraps.
"Did the limiter you pced malfuned?"
"You got it." Vill-V nodded. "It's already fihis error is all I o plete it before."
Vill-V bent over and picked up the Herrscher Core with her bare hands. Lines of purple appeared on her hands, only to disappear the moment.
"So, why did you e here? This Divine Key is about to be finished."
"I dropped by to che you. It looks like you haven't slept for a week."
"Hm? It's all thanks to the body you gave me. I finally match Mobius' schedule for once."
Her jokes were respoo by a sigh.
"Alright, alright. I'll help you with the Sed Core. You… just sleep for a while."
"Oh?! I'll gdly take that!"
*****
Aleph's promise to Vill-V prompted him to stay in a hotel within the Sed Institute's viity.
Click.
The momeered their designated room, he heard a clig sound behind him.
"Kurumi?"
"Mn? It's nothing, Ain."
He was greeted by her calm smile. Her back was fag him. Her dress exposed most of it due to her dress' design.
'It's definitely something…'
tless thoughts ran inside his head.
"Do you want to take a bath first?"
"No, I'm good. You go first."
The twaheir luggage ihe room. The hotel has all the amehey need. Aleph found out that they didn't o actually prepare anything, except for a ge of clothes.
"Oh."
Kurumi was about to head to the bathroom wheook a look at him.
"You peek if you'd like."
"..."
Click.
The bathroom door was closed… but he did not hear the sound of the lock. With his elemental sight, he could actually do such things. Using it as an X-ray was but one of its simplest funs. Some etric people might use it to do inappropriate things—not him.
'Three months…'
Aleph thought of their st three months. Ever sihey were tinuously interrupted, he enjoyed having intimate tacts more, such as cuddling and handholding.
As for the final base, he hadn't thought of that. It didn't help that they were all busy dealing with the honkai. When they were supposed to rest, there were times when official matters interrupted them.
Having a rare moment of peace such as this was rare.
'She wants to do it.'
Aleph came to a surprisi unsurprising clusion. His thoughts remained afloat until Kurumi came out of the bathroom. Her hair was tied by a pair of red ribbons. She was currently wearing a set of bck pajamas.
Dum.
Dum.
Dum.
His heart started to beat faster.
"Ain?"
It was unknown when she arrived in front of him. Her st caused even more fluctuations in his heart.
Kurumi teasingly poked his hen, their eyes met.
Her golden and crimson irises widened. She kneh realized what she was about to do.
She went directly to the point. Kurumi pushed him down to the bed before crawling atop him. She did not even wait until he took a bath.
"Do you… prefer it with lights on?"
With a devilish smile—ireme trast to an angel's—she came close and sealed his lips.
*****
A/N: Lemons ining. I thought it was missing some things, so I wrote it in trox. 2.5k words each, 5k words total). No worries though, there might be a bonus chapter tomorrow.
After this big character development and a chapter or two of closure for the seveion arc, we're heading to another arc. Every hint I set up until now should be revealed in that arcluding what will happen to Aleph and the rest. The 'aftermath' of the seveion took quite a long time to write since I still had to deal with the timeskips (at least a gist on what happeo others).
This won't be necessary in the imeskip.
As for the lemons... I'll leave the judgement to everyoomorrow.
Happy Reading~!