"So you have decided, master? even if you know... that this implicates us as well?" Lisha asked again merely to confirm.
"Yes, I have decided... it is also for your sakes that I'm doing this... so, don't pretend to sleep, you have to become quite strong, that way I'll be able to remain awake for longer and leave this place, I'm counting on you, my little fiance~" Zaforia pretended to jump back into another heated session of kissing but Alastor separated from her with a headstart, making some distance between himself and the pair of beauties that were looking at him with slightly shocked gazes.
"H-Hey! isn't this too sudden?!"
'I still don't know if I want to stay here... I mean, not wholly... yes, they're sexy and friendly and I like them but... but... fiance.' when he thought about that word, Teacher Ana was the first person to come to his mind.
"You can't return..." She said coldly, deterministically... there was no second-guessing this. Once again she read his thoughts
"..." Her answer made him frown, it was a possessive affirmation.
"There is no way to return... the summoning rituals pick a random dimension and get the strongest existence in that dimension... once the portal is closed -unless the summoning is done inverse, from there towards here- it is impossible." She declared but the tonality she used, it was as if she was saying 'even if there was a way... you're not going back.
And that's precisely what she intended to portray with this conversation.
"Barbara and Ana... I'm sorry Alastor, but I can't take you back... and even if I could, even If I could send you back, I wouldn't... you're mine... you belong to my family now, us... I won't give you back to anybody and you're also not allowed to leave me." She stood up and crossed her arms beneath her chest, standing in front of him in a 'disciplining' manner... she wasn't going to negotiate this, he was her only hope, and he wasn't going away.
The man felt threatened but for different reasons, the way those breasts were pointing his way, they were like loaded guns, 'Do what I say or-', effective extortion.
"..." He could only nod, in any case... he had already made his plan, he wasn't going away... Barbara and Ana were coming here. He didn't know yet if the still married teacher with two children would forgive him, but he could only try and be selfish and then hope for the best.
Seeing his contemplating expression Lisha remained silent, not enjoying that they were in this type of staredown, Zaforia sighed and walked forward, pulling him in for another hug.
"Sorry, I didn't want to be forceful but... you're mine okay? it will be nice here, there are so many things to do~" Her tonality changed and she caressed his chest, she hated to be bad to her servants, but he was different...
"Please don't listen to my thoughts." He answered with a request that left both her and Lisha astonished.
"..."
"I don't like my thoughts being heard, sorry... I just don't like it." He didn't want to sound impolite or forceful, but having someone always know what you're even thinking before you said it... it was uncomfortable... he had nothing to conceal, he wouldn't ever hide anything from her, so there was no need for this degree of 'invasiveness'.
"Okay, I can do it..." She said straight away.
"Master?" Lisha was astounded that she actually acceded.
"There, I can't hear your thoughts anymore..."
Content that she acceded, Alastor hugged her back the pair remained like that, in silence with a Lisha who was still in disbelief. Just where did the Demon Empress of the Ghostly Lands go Well, in order to answer that question, she'd first need to answer where did the Bloody Hellfox go as well.
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The trio were once again in a comfortable position, Lisha had let go of her astonishment in order to accept the reality of the situation, her master now had a fiance.
In Alastor's case, his mind was still thinking deeply about his current condition, about the system... about what he'd do... the answer was simple for the moment, he needed to leave this castle and roam this broad new world to see what he could find.
"Don't you want to suck some more? you can bite anywhere you want~" Zaforia was insistent, she wanted to be bitten anywhere and get her blood sucked, or to be more precise, to get the abyss sucked. But... Alastor had already sucked a lot.
His body was overloaded with blood, the first thought he had was to have both of them devour a little bit of his flesh so that it went back to normal, but he realised that having this much blood for a while could be quite handy, it was like having an extra health bar... though when the time comes that he gets hungry, he wondered what would happen.
'I am an addicted dog I admit, but even an addict has limits... I am addicted to sex too but I can't go for more than ten rounds, any more than that and I'd feel dull.' He thought his master's blood was a delicatessen that had to be consumed with consideration.
"I can't have anymore, master... perhaps later... my head is still a little dizzy."
"Do you feel anything strange, particularly... dark thoughts or something?" She asked, those were the effects of the abyss on a common living being.
"Not really... this Poison Abyss, what is it exactly?" He wondered but when he mentioned that she and Lisha didn't give a clear answer.
"It is my power... accursed power."
"...?"
"I think it is time Lisha takes you out to look, I will remain here... I have to remain here... it is soon time to slumber. Moreover, the others haven't woken up either... I felt Limu shake a little just now but she didn't wake up." She said evasively.
"Master..." Alastor wanted to exist, he was a curious human by nature, but once again she evaded the topic.
"Alastor... go there and become strong. This is my order as your master, when we need you here in the Ghostly Lands for protection, I'll let you know, I'll always be by your side one way or another, alright?" She kissed her newest servant's forehead, giving clear instructions... those were the same instructions she gave each new servant that she summoned, get strong.
"..." Alastor nodded and surprised her by planting a deep kiss on her lips that she accepted joyfully.
"Once you're strong enough, you can claim your master for yourself, alright?~" She added, licking her lips with expectation, that day would be the day she would be freed from this curse.
"Yes!" How could he not be determined with such a promise?
"And who knows... perhaps by then you can claim Limu, Lisha, Meru and Elena for yourself too~"
"L-Let's go Alastor!" Lisha decided that they had talked enough and started to pull him away from this room!
The gigantic gates opened for them to depart and they closed again, leaving a Zaforia who was delightfully laying on her stomach with her big butt sticking up, waving her legs back and forth with a smirk.
"Hehe~ you're not honest at all, Lisha." The demoness smirked before sitting on the edge yet again. She placed her fingers in front of her eye and then introduced it, plucking her own eye out.
'Go with him, make sure nothing bad happens, but... don't interfere... you have to let him grow.'
Her eye began to fly on its own, transforming into an abyssal haze that disappeared from the room, leaving her with a single eye.
She moaned while her naked body slowly entered that lukewarm sea, the perfect temperature for her, Limu knew very well.
"I wonder what married life will be like... I wonder... how being loved and free feels like... don't disappoint our family, Alastor."
Saying those hopeful words, her remaining eye closed... and the Demon Empress once again entered slumber in her castle.