You know when I came on this adventure, I had many thoughts on how this was going to go down. I had hoped the meeting with Beisht was going to go alright and we could go on our merry way with myself returning Shenhe to Liyue while Lumine and Eula went on that trip to Mondstadt so Eula could reconnect with her friends Amber, Diluc, and the others.
I had most certainly not seen today ending up with Shenhe, another Cryo waifu, and helping her rip the flesh and skin off a divine serpent goddess... The scenario beyond the scene of us ripping the stuff off Beisht was, comical and literally perverted in how we were doing the damned task as we tried to peel the snake goddess like we were deskinning any other snake or eel by pulling the flesh from the bottom to top.
We were almost doing a game of tug-a-rope but instead, it was us pulling the flesh, and it was fucking too much for me to handle. Shenhe in her 'infinite' wisdom decided that four hands molded into two by us holding hands was the better option with our bodies being all but pressed together as Shenhe stood in front of me with her plush backside being against my waist... And constantly pushing back into my waist with each harsh pull we made to deskin the snake.
Actually just the thought of deskinning a 'snake' made me feel ill to my stomach when Shenhe was ignorantly all but playing fucking patty cake with her ass on my crotch as each jerk we made, inch foot of material we acquired was paid by her ass smacking into my groin... I was not a fucking masochist!
But eventually, the task was done. I survived the experience of Shenhe unknowingly trying to break my damned hips without even letting me cop a feel! Shenhe gleefully took the large pile of serpent skin and scales putting it into her spatial bag while I held onto Beisht's lesser dragon core in my hands feeling something odd from it flowing into me.
"So does that mean we are done here now?" I asked as I looked around seeing the surrounding ocean was still frozen by Shenhe's powerful cryo energy and would likely be frozen for the next few days maybe even weeks which just showed the dangers of powerful people fighting. As we had most assuredly destroyed the ecosystem in the area for miles around.
At my question, Shenhe, tilted her head to the side as though in thought before shrugging as she softly responded in her typical polite tone. "That is up to you. I have acquired the materials in which I desired. As you have also been compensated for your time and efforts. I suggest we return to Jueyan Karst so that I may inform my Master of the events here." She said before pausing and speaking somewhat sheepishly. "Though if you are open to a diversion, I would not mind it as I am well aware this mission has gone poorly with how we unwittingly allowed ourselves to be poisoned by a goddess tainted by Celestia's Erosion." Shenhe finished making me blink.
And it all kinda fitted together. With the massive mood swings and the rampant aggression even in the face of certain death, Beisht was literally driven insane by the world's supernatural Erosion aimed at deities and ageless beings.
But disregarding that news I paused and pondered over her question as to a diversion before shrugging. "I mean I have a couple of days before I need to return to Inazuma to receive my own tutelage from my Master," I spoke unsurely as I made up a timetable in my head as to how things needed to go for me to get back to Inazuma a day early for me to actually start my training.
Shenhe understanding of how I was unsure as to what we could do in that scope of time, decided to be helpful and offer me oh-so-fun options of things we could in fact do. "Hmm... We could pluck medicinal herbs atop the mountains of Liyue?" Seeing my look of disbelief she continued on with her voice turning a bit more excited as she spoke. "Ah I see, you wish for an adventure with more action to it! Liyue's many valleys have monsters and bandits that take on the name of heroes to fight for their ideals and vanity that we could slay and acquire their misbegotten goods?" She offered.
I slowly placed a hand upon my face and took a breath as I tried to silence the screaming part of my mind that was yelling about how Shenhe should have been isekaied to a cultivation world so she could break it over her knee. As she was literally in the wrong damn universe!
"Alright, bandit hunting I can do," I said exhaling with an amused sigh that made the slight tension leave Shenhe, with her face taking on her small soft smile at her successfully coming up with something we could do in order to waste some time so she didn't have to get chewed out by her master.
So with Beisht's remains were thoroughly looted with Shenhe promising to show me how to make snake bone soup. Surprisingly snake bones are so flexible and prone to movement allowing the bones to render down into a wonderful stock apparently, along with the bones being from a divine serpent the soup would be in Shenhe's words. "An elixir worthy of the god's desire."
"I suggest we return to the mainland before we make camp, as this island will become cursed by the death of a divine within the next twenty-four hours, and staying here could infect us with that karma," Shenhe advised and I recalled how Xiao was literally tortured by the karma of all the monsters and other things she had killed over the last several millennia and that thought made me shudder with the Anemo hypostasis forming next to me with a large Anemo platform forming above the diamond-shaped being.
"Then let's get going... I am interested in trying your cooking at least." I said trying to change the subject and like before when she squished my face into her breasts as she 'forced' me into this quest. Shenhe nodded and jumped onto the Anemo platform and as I jumped onto the platform Shenhe shifted so I was between her legs with her large breasts using into the back of my neck as she pulled me into a sort of hug with her voice coming into my ears.
"Make the barrier and platform smaller so we can fly quicker... I am quite enthused at the feeling of cooking for you for some reason." She whispered with an odd lit to her tone.