Rise of the Eromancer

Chapter 144 Vanilla

"I have a great idea. Why don't the 3 of us just share the blanket the suit had earlier?"

"I am afraid I do not let anyone just use my things, Former Commander Ayesha."

"Ssh! Can you guys shut up? I'm trying to hear what's happening!"

Ayesha, Lina, and Maria were now outside the lair. And fortunately for them, there was not really a surplus of insects or mosquitoes in the Underworld; if not, they would have definitely found themselves filled with insect bites as they were still completely naked.

Ayesha had already tried covering herself with the leaves falling from the large trees around them, but she ended up removing it when she started getting itchy all over the place.

Maria was also slightly uncomfortable — there was no point being naked if Rhys wasn't here, after all. Perhaps the only one that didn't care was Lina, who was inching closer and closer to the lair; her ears, almost looking like they were visibly getting bigger as she wanted to hear what was going inside.

Sadly for her, she was picked up by Ayesha each time she managed to even get a whisper of a word.

"Are you guys not interested in whatever it is they are talking about!?"

"Look, barbie. Do you really want to hear the Doc gobbling on Rhys's balls?"

"I knew you were also kinky, Lady Linette. But I did not know you like to be cuckold."

"...What?" Lina could not help but raise an eyebrow as she looked at the two naked women, "The two of you can't possibly be seeing the threat here!?"

"That we are out in the woods completely naked? And if a group of humanoid beasts were to see us, they would probably want their way with us?"

"Zeus, Suit — you need a therapist," Ayesha slightly backed away from Maria.

"I was kidding," Maria said extremely monotonously, "My body is only for Rhys Wilder now. I do not think I could ever be touched by anyone else other than him."

"Hold on!" Lina moved between the two and pushed them apart; their breasts, slightly jiggling as she did so, "You guys don't see the threat!? What if Katarina takes Rhys for herself!?"

"Hold your balls, Lina. You're the one who said it already — Rhys is too much to be handled by a single woman," Ayesha started twirling her fingers, "Hence the harem."

"No, no..." Lina shook her head violently, "You don't understand — if this was an eroge, Katarina is the vanilla route."

"...What in the 3 Hells is an eroge?"

"It doesn't matter!" Lina suddenly grabbed Ayesha by her arms; their breasts, somewhat squishing against each other, with Ayesha's nipples slightly poking out since she was taller, "All you need to know is that out of all of us...

...Katarina has been with Rhys the longest. He practically grew up with her as his only paternal figure."

"Yes, she is his guardian," Maria nodded.

"...Okay," Rhys closed his eyes before breathing out and opening them again as he looked at Katarina. He looked her in the eyes first, but her figure which seemed like it was sculpted by the most perverted gods lured his eyes down.

"I don't know when it started..." Katarina's voice trembled along with the rest of her body, "...Maybe it was when I started noticing that you've become a man. But you have to believe me, Rhys... you have to believe me when I say that I did look at you as family, you were also the family I never had."

"Kat..."

"And I'm sorry..." Katarina's eyes started to turn red; her breaths, became completely uncontrollable to the point that the threads wrapping around her started to tighten and make her bleed slightly. Blood was not the first to trail from her, however, it was the tears she had been trying to hold back,

"...I'm sorry that along the way that disappeared. I know it's wrong. It's immoral, it's disgusting. I've been disgusted with myself for having... for having these feelings."

Katarina's lips trembled as her red eyes once again looked into Rhys's eyes, and his eyes only. There was nothing else with them, just her and Rhys.

"I know you look at me as your family," Katarina gasped several times as she started shaking her head, letting her tears leap away from her face. But alas, they remained there completely unshaken, much like her feelings, "And I know that I've betrayed your trust. I'm so, so afraid that I would lose you but you—you don't need to do anything, you don't need to..."

Katarina's words started to jumble as her eyes started panicking. Soon, however, they started to calm down as she sucked in a very long and very deep breath.

"The truth is, Rhys..." Her gaze once again grasped onto Riley's eyes as an ugly smile crawled on her face.

"...I am very, madly, obsessively in love with you."

"Katarina..."

"Everytime you whisper my name or just even utter it," Katarina giggled, "My entire body trembles. I imagine your breaths embracing the deepest parts of me, and... Oh my god, I'm...

...I'm such a mess right now."

"No," Rhys very gently placed the back of his hand on Katarina's left cheek. She tried looking away, but Rhys softly turned her back to him; her snot and tears, completely messing up her face,

"I am looking at you, and you have always been as beautiful as you were before. Always."

"Hukh..." Katarina's face did not really know what to do as Rhys moved closer to her.

"And I know my mind is very messed up and I am confused about many things..." A smile also crawled on Rhys's face as a small tear also trailed from his left eye, "But if there is one thing that I know is true is that...

...I am also very madly, and obsessively in love with you, Dr. Lopez."

And with those words, Rhys very slowly leaned his head closer to Katarina's. But inches away from his lips touching hers, however, he lightly leaned away.

"Do..." Rhys gulped, "Is it okay if I kiss—"

And without even letting Rhys finish his words, Katarina placed her lips upon his.