The moment I returned to the bed, I lay on my back and stared at the ceiling.
I recalled everything that happened since now.
I have done many things in the past few days and thinking about it makes me exhausted.
Well, not really, the journey up to her is quite enjoyable. Many things happened like crossdressing and assassinating a scum.
Now, I'm up to the point where I don't know if I'll be able to survive.
Of course, I'm joking, I still have the rewind option, but I can't just make myself rely on it too much.
Still, I'll probably use it when we enter the soul world.
It's an unknown place where even Anaia said she might not come back alive.
I looked at Anaia and her beautiful eyes met mine.
"Ana—"
"Aither...."
Her words overcame mine and I went silent, waiting for her to continue her words.
"I think you three shouldn't follow me to the soul world. It's too dangerous, you guys are still just at the first Phase, the opponents you'll meet there are at least the second Phase.
Even if you manage to survive, killing the 'World Devourer' of that world will be just impossible for you guys at your current level."
She's right, but....
"Isn't that too late to say it now? We've already decided to follow you... no matter how dangerous it is.
Plus, we can't just leave you alone there, at least if you die, we'll die with you."
Also, I can just rewind time to correct our mistakes inside that world.
"Y.... You're right, we've already gone this far, so when the time comes let's just do our best to survive."
Survive.... Yeah, I'll do that, as long as I'm here even if you guys get killed, you won't die.
I need to ask about the soul world so that I'll have the general idea on what to do.
"Anaia, could you tell me about the soul world? Oh, perfect, Amelia since you're done changing come here and listen."
Just like me, Amelia is not familiar with the soul world.
"Okay, I'll explain it to you guys so listen carefully, basically..."
I'll just summarize what she said to me.
So basically, the soul gate is something that appears in civilized lands like a city and no one knows why they got there.
Once every year, a new world will appear in the soul gate and everyone there must defeat the 'world devourer' in that world.
If you managed to do that you will get something like a reward and it depends on the rank of the soul world.
The rank goes like this from the lowest to the highest.
First Phase Gate - Warrior/Elite Rank
Second Phase Gate - Rare/Unique Rank
Third Phase Gate - Epic/Legend Rank
Fourth Phase Gate - ???
There hasn't been a Fourth Phase Gate before and the highest grade one is the third Phase.
However, entering this gates have some restrictions and one of them is you can't enter the gate if you are on the same level as it is.
Basically, someone at the third Phase can't enter a Third Phase Gate. Yet, as long as your rank is lower than it you can freely enter.
There is also one thing to note, you can only enter the soul world once.
And if you want to exit the soul world, you can't. Unless you die or defeat the 'world devourer'.
In the case that the world devourer doesn't get defeated inside the World Gate will open and the monsters inside can now exit the soul gate.
So right now, Anaia is hoping to defeat the world devourer inside and get the reward.
In order to do so, she must be the one to kill the world devourer.
As for the others they will just be getting third Phase origin beads.
And that's where the fun starts, after all, no matter what world it is, there will always be greedy people.
"I think I have an idea on how it works now, thank you, Anaia."
"You're welcome, if you want to know more you can just ask me, you too Amelia."
The three of us then returned to what we were doing on our 'own' respective beds.
As for why I emphasize the word own, it is because Amelia is on top of my bed.
"Why are you here?"
I asked even though I already knew the answer.
"I want to sleep with you, it feels very comfortable.... Is that no good?"
Now when you say it like that while acting cute like a child pleasing for attention, of course I won't refuse.
Plus....
"I'll just ask this but when you sleep... Do you sleep together with your family?"
"..."
"Ah, I'm sorry for asking that, you can just forget I've ever asked that."
"N- No, it's fine, it's just that whenever I'm with you I feel safe and comfortable like how mother sleeps while bringing us to her embrace."
Do foxes sleep together? Is that a trait of theirs? Well, it's a nice trait, even if they're already big enough they're still a loving family huh.
It's just that she lost this loving family in the early teens of her life.
Now that I've saved her and she remembered how I embraced her at that time. She's longing for more.
I guess being with me reminds her of the comfortable feeling she had with them.
That makes me quite a bit happy. After all, it means that she feels safe and comfortable with me.
Still, I'm a man in puberty right now, if you sleep on my bed, I don't think that's a good idea.
Maybe no ill intentions will rise from me but something else will.
That's why...
"You should sleep on your own bed, Amelia."
I said that to her and her face saddened and her mouth formed into a pout.
"You know I'm still a man in puberty right? Even if you feel comfortable with me, I don't think it will be good if you want to sleep with me."
"But...."
"No buts.... And I'm not telling you off because I don't like it it's because...."
I wouldn't be able to sleep if you do, this adolescent body will have a neuron activation if that happens.
"Because....?" She tilted her head and asked, having a small smile on her beautiful face.
Oh.... She's teasing me? Maybe she finds it amusing that I keep making excuses.
"Are you teasing me? Did you come to my bed just to do that?"
"Not really, the main reason I came to your bed is to snuggle with you, I was just teasing you because you keep making excuses, Aither.
You're not dumb right? You should've already know why I'm doing this."
I sighed at her words and I'm not dense like she said.
I ignored her words and went silent and I hugged her without giving her time to react.
She was surprised but she didn't go away instead, she snuggled even deeper.
"You know Amelia.... It's not that I hate it, you could probably even say it's the opposite."
At my words, without me knowing she snuggled even deeper just to hide her flushed face.
Her hugged tightened and so did mine.
[SYSTEM NOTICE] X
- Notice. Amelia's affection meter for you is rapidly rising over maximum capacity. -
- Notice. Amelia is feeling very happy. -
- Notice. Anaia is feeling jealous at the moment.
So it could also tell me what the girls are feeling.
______________________________________________Author:
I don't even know what I'm writing right now, I'm just going with the flow.
Please tell me if you feel like it's forced.
I'll do my best to improve my writing.