<~> Chapter 68The m I woke up yian who was sandwiched between me and Bel. As much as I am, well, a Succubus, I thought it was important to take things a little bit more slowly with her. She had been happy when I suggested she sleep in the bed with the two of us but I didn't think she was ready for me to move further with her quite yet.

  The m was the most veime to ge csses so I decided to switch it to [Novice Prostitute] to gain the Enduranbsp;stat and maybe get something if I did end up havier.

  I read over the description of [Novice Prostitute] again,

  [Novice Prostitute]Unlock dition: Have sex with two people within one hour of each other. Doubles effective endurance during intercourse, the impabsp;of Charisma is doubled when used for sedu. While this css is equipped gain 1 Endurance per css level. Improves sex skills and abilities. Gain skills reted to sedu and sex easier.

  I read the entry for Enduranbsp;as well,

  [Endurandurancreases the ability to do hard work and bor for a longer amount of time with less fatigue and stress on the body. As Endurancreases more magic reinforces the body to be more resilient and hardy. High Endurance allows people to work far past the point of exhaustion and keep moving when others would have been forced to stop. Endurance does not reduce the need for sleep a.

  It was kind of amusing to unlobsp;Enduranbsp;through a css like this rather than a normal bor job. If I remember correctly Bel had moved a lot of her points from this stat to other ones when she was able to redistribute them after her transformation into a lesser succubus. I would also be lying if I said I wasn't curious what kind of sex skills I could learn from wearing this css for a little while. Tomorrow I would ge my css to [Novice Magian] once we were ready to go adventuring again. [Novice Prostitute] was a css I got when Mark... ugh, I decided to put the thought out of my mind.

  I slid out of bed, stretched, and peeked over at the other bed where Mimi was cuddling with Torien from behind. Since Ma in our bed tonight there wasn't room for her so she slipped in with Torien, much to the catgirl's appreciation. I smiled, happy that everyone is warming up to each other. Not too long ago Torien was worried Mimi would kill her in her sleep and now they were looking so cute cuddled up to each other.

  I was the first one up today. I went into the bathroom and prepared myself a bath. There wasn't any way for the water to heat up automatically in this inn but with some clever use of my new [Light Scribing] magic I was able to heat it up myself pretty quickly. I thought it was a bit funny the first practical use of my new spell was to heat up bathwater but sidering what I had amouo a baby's first spellbook, it wasn't that surprising. I slid into the warm water ahe heat seep into my body.

  The twins' new adventuring gear probably wouldn't be ready until tomorrow so we wouldn't be able to really adve. It would be a good idea to have some time aloh Bel soon, it was important to make sure she didn't feel left out and I essentially took the other two out on dates the st couple days. Bel and I haven't really gone on a proper date yet either, other than her practically draggio the bath house. Sihe time we first got together we have had a lot on our pte and I didn't really have a ce to really rex with her.

  I thought back to the night Mark had forced me down and shuddered. Between needing money and just keeping myself occupied enough to keep that horrible event out of my mind, I haven't let myself rex. My mood soured when the events of that night pyed ba my head. It made me siy stomach but truthfully it affected me less than I thought it should. Maybe it was because Bel had saved me, even if some damage had already been done, or maybe being a Succubus made me not as worried about being forced like that.

  Never before now had I felt like such a freak.

  I jumped when I heard a kno the bathroom door. "Lilith? I e in?" Bel called through the door.

  "S-sure." My voice cracked when I replied and after toug my face, I realized I had been g. I quickly wet my face with the bathwater to hide it as Bel ehe small bathroom.

  She came over to me and kneeled o the wooden tub, she had a frown on her face.

  "W-what's wrong?" I asked her.

  She sighed. "Lilith..." she ran her fihrough the damp fur on the side of my head. "I could sense your emotions before we got [Soultouched e], you don't o talk about it if you don't want to. But please don't fet that I'm here to help you if you . You don't o suffer alone."

  The pained look on her face forced me to look away. It made me feel terrible that my problems were spilling out onto her.

  She took my in her hand and forced me to look back at her. "Lilith. This isn't something you o face alone. I helped you that night and I'll help you again, as many times as you need. You aren't a burden on me, you saved me that day too."

  Bel leaned forward and kissed my forehead like I had doo her too many times to t. Her kiss made me feel warm and protected in a way that I had never experienced before. I broke down and sobbed. She pulled me close, leaning my head on her chest. I'm not sure how long I cried or what exactly I was g about but eventually the tears stopped and I gently pulled away.

  Bel was soaked through her pajamas and I felt a tinge of guilt fre through my heart again but I just crushed it down.

  "Why don't you get ed up too... I reheat the bath for you."

  Bel smiled and stripped as I got out of the tub. I used my magic to heat the water back up for her and she quickly washed up while I dried off. She was already getting out by the time I felt like I was dry enough so I waited for her to dry herself off too before we left the room together.

  "Lilith, Mimi's ag weird," Torien said.

  As soon as I turhe er into the main room Mimi rushed over. "Lilith! Are you okay? What happened?" Mimi looked anxious and distraught. Her newly expressive eyes sed over my body, looking for some kind of wound.

  "I..." The words caught in my throat. I didn't know what to say.

  Bel id her hand on Mimi's shoulder. "It's okay now Mimi, I took care of it. I'll tell you about it ter."

  Mimi looked from me to Bel and back before she nervously nodded.

  The twins looked at each of us fused but thankfully didn't ask. Perhaps they could tell I wasn't really in the mood to talk about any of it right now. When I sat on the bed Mimi sat o me, as if glued to my side. I took a deep breath to settle myself.

  Before the silence could linger Man spoke up. "So, what's the pn for today?"

  I was really thankful for her in that moment. She ged the subject so I didn't have to. I cleared my throat aled myself. "I um, well we were talking about getting crates or something for ourselves. Why don't we take care of that today, we go back to the carpenter we went to for Torien's bow."

  "The mouse girl?" Man asked.

  I nodded. "Yeah, I didn't take the time to really look at it closely but the furniture iore seemed well crafted. I liked those two so that might be a good pce to pick up something like that."

  Torien smiled. "The bow she made was really high quality. I haven't gotten a ce to try it in a fight yet but it felt really good on the practice range."

  The five of us packed up our things and Mimi was once again sitting in her sword sheath on my waist. It had been a little odd yesterday without her fortable weight on my belt. Mimi stored my cymore so I didn't o carry it around today. We weren't pnning to leave town today anyway, nor were we even prepared to.

  I hadn't thought about this until now but we would o purchase aent for the girls. I wonder how feasible it would be to learn some kind of terra magic for shelter. Mana version for ritual magic was kind of bad though so I suspected it probably wouldn't be an option. It sounded like Mimi was close to her limit too s to take a whole house or something crazy like that was out of the question.

  Before I k we stood in front of the mousekins' shop we were at the other day. It was a lot quieter this time and it retty obvious that the fe wasn't running today. I wonder if business was as bad as it looked. I tried the door and was happy to see that it wasn't actually locked as I had feared it might have been.

  The four of us came in and saw Twill, the male mousefolk, at the desk this time. He looked like he had just woken up but rubbed his fad stood up when he realized we were actually ers.

  "Wele! O-oh it's you fain. Was everything alright with the bow?" he asked nervously.

  I ughed trying to diffuse the awkwardness. "We actually haven't even tried it out yet. We actually came to buy something else."

  He visibly perked up. "Sure! What are you looking for?"

  "We're looking for some, mmm, crates? or boxes? Something sturdy but light that we keep our things in while we travel."

  "Sure! Let me go get Meena, she would have a better idea about that sort of thing than I would." Without another word he scampered off to the back.

  I looked around. Despite the ck of foot traffic, the shop ristihere wasn't any dust and everything looked polished aaken care of. A few moments ter Meena came back with her brother and had a big smile on her face.

  "Hey! Wele back. Twill told me you were looking for crates?"

  I nodded. "Something of the sort. We're going to be traveling soon so we need somewhere to keep everything. Preferably something light and sturdy.

  She led us over to a er of the shop. There were a variety of boxes and crates as well as trunks and chests. The idea of putting a treasure chest inside of Mimi amused me to no end but with a slight tug on one handle I got the impression that it would be quite a bit too heavy.

  "For your uses I would reend something like this." She showed us a small trunk, it was quite a bit smaller than I was thinking. On the plus side the ers were reinforced with steel and it had leather ed carrying hahat would make it less proo getting damaged and easier to transport.

  I opehe trunk. It was insuted with something that smelled pretty good. It had a bit of a waxy feeling when I ran my finger across it but it didn't seem like it was going to e off all that easily when I scratched at it a little.

  I looked up. "Is this trunk water proof?"

  "Yes! I make a special cquer that seals it up and i. I find the smell quite pleasant as well." I nodded looking back down at it. I rubbed my and looked over at another crate that was closer to the right size. The rger crate was big enough but while it was light, it felt flimsy like it would break if we weren't careful with it.

  -- "Mimi, do you think four of these but rger would be okay for you to carry?" --

  -- "That would probably be fine, depending on what you fill the boxes with. Heavier and dehings like metals take up more space. I'll probably o upgrade my ste space soon..." --

  -- "Holy, with as useful as your pocket dimension is, it would be worth it to buy you more monster cores to eat if it helped us carry more stuff," -- I said.

  -- "At this point my restri has more to do with my level than anything else. I o eat stronger moo grow it any further." --

  -- "That makes sense I guess. Does that mean you need a on?" --

  -- "I'm... not sure. I haven't directly fought very often before. It was easier to avoid the other mimid I never really wao fight over territory. I don't know how to fight." --

  -- "We should talk to the girls about this ter, they might have a better idea about that than I do." --

  I brought my attention baeena. "Do you do orders?"

  She hesitated, "I bsp;but that's a bit more expensive and it depends if I have the materials on hand."

  "I'd like four boxes like this," I said pointing at the trunks, "but a simir size to this." I said pointing at the rger crate."

  "F-four... Um. I could probably do that. I'd will's help though, he'd o cast new parts for it. Let me go talk to him really quick."

  She rushed off and spoke quietly with her brother.

  Man ran her fingers over the trunk and looked up at me. "Are you sure this is a good idea? This 't be cheap. Is Mimi okay with it?"

  "I asked her and she said it would be fine. We'd o be careful not to fill them up too full with heavy or dehings though."

  She nodded in response just as Meena was ing back.

  She looked nervous again. It was holy kind of cute how much she wore her heart on her sleeve. "We could do four of those trunks as rge as those crates for one gold each, for a total of fold. We would need half up front and we could get them to you by the end of the week no problem."

  I thought about it. The twins' gear would be ready tomorrow so I would really rather have this as soon as possible. I felt like I was being really impatient by getting everything as a rush order but I also didn't want to leave so much of our stuff in the inn sidering we had ged inns three times already."

  "Would you be able to get it done for me by tomorrow m? I pay extra."

  She was caught off guard but recovered quickly. "E-eight gold. We have it done by tomorrow m."

  "How about six but I pay it all up front?"

  She looked back at her brother before looking back at me nervously.

  I smiled at her. "If you o talk about it, I don't mind."

  She quickly ran back over to her brother where they animatedly discussed it, I couldn't tell from watg what they thought about it but they reached a sensus in only a few moments.

  She came over with a big smile. "Deal!"

  Saine

  Hello! I love those two mouse characters, they're so cute. Not much else to say about this one. chapter will be a spie so stay tuned! How could I not make chapter 69 THAT kind of chapter?

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