Harem Reborn

Chapter 94: A Promise For The Furture

Suddenly a massive monster burst from the sand in front of us. It was an enormous centipede type monster about three meters tall loading from the sand. It struck at us, but I had my sword ready.

When Kyrina turned to dodge, I leaped from her back, continuing to the monster. It pushed to me with a wide-open gaping maw filled with teeth. I moved with blinding speed and landed on the other side, running to catch up with Kyrina.

Behind me, the monster's head had slid off, and it was spraying green ichor across the same in a fountain. I leaped to Kyrina's back and grabbed around her neck again. She took off also, but I was ready for it this time.

"What was that about?" Kyrina scolded me in her synthesized voice.

"We haven't had much practice like this, so I thought that I would take advantage of the situation. Don't you think it's a good idea? We don't have a lot of experience fighting like this, right?"

She never replied. Instead, she just kept running, but something must have bugged her about me doing that. Maybe it was to do with me stopping and wasting time? It's not like she was worried for my safety, she knew I could handle it, so it had to be the time thing. I knew that she wanted to get back, but I didn't think she would skip out on a chance to train like this, something must be bugging, her so I left her to be as she ran.

We saw a few more monsters on the way back, but I stayed holding tight to Kyrina. It didn't take us long to get around since the jog wasn't long. Once we were back in the camp, I got off Kyrina and let her change in our hut.

Surprisingly the other girls made it back before Kyrina finished changing, so I went to help unload the meat we had collected for the dungeon. I saw Maxine go over to my hut and disappear, maybe Kyrina's worry was due to something Maxine had said and that's why she rushed back. I thought about this as I carried the Catsect corpses over to cook at his grill, I was rewarded with a large smile and skewers on the house for the rest of our stay; now that was a real reward!

After I finished unloading, I went over to the hut since I had unzipped my suit and tired the arms around my waist. I had my bare chest that had filled out since I had been picked up. I knocked on the door to see what was taking so long, but Maxine yelled at me to go for a walk.

I turned to see Iona standing by the cart, looking lost in thought, so I walked over to see what she was doing. Iona didn't notice me and just a little when I put my hand on her arm. She looked up at me in surprise, and I smiled down at her.

"What do you want? And why are you seeking up on me like some creep?!"

"Oh, don't be like that! I wanted to see if you wanted to come for a walk, that's all.

"Hm? Why? Where's you, Darling?"

"Who? Tilly? I think she stayed ot get somehting to eat."

"No, you idiot! Kyrina!"

"Getting changed with Maxine."

"Ah, and she told you to scram, hey?"

"Do you want to go for a walk or not?"

"Hmmm? Well, I guess, since I have nothing better to do, hmph!"

Iona turned her head from me, so I grabbed her arm and pulled her along. I started to walk to the ponds I had walked with Kyrina. We walked in silence for a while until Iona spoke up.

"I'm happy for Kyrina."

"Oh? What makes you say that?"

"I have just been hanging around the girls a lot more lately, and they told me about the place you went to rescue them all. They also told me about Kyrina and Kyrin, I know the others had bad stuff happen to them, but Kyrina was forced to have another person inside of her."

"Yeah, I was hard for all of them, except Jill, who I had by my side from the start. Though, for her, she had to help me put some of the girls back together. We both worked doing different things, so none of it was easy for any of us."

"I know that now, but I didn't before, so I don't know. I just felt like I was pushed to the back before in the last gave, and I guess I feel the same way now."

I stopped and pulled Iona done, and we sat at the edge of a pond. Beetles were swimming in the water in some areas, and I watch one get swallowed as a weird insect-like fish stretched up and plucked it from the surface. I put my arm around Iona's shoulder and pulled her into my side.

"Don't worry, there are just many of you that want my time, but I don't feel like it's right to keep going from woman to woman, is it?"

"No, and I get that; I am happy you decided only to take off one pair of pants at a time now. I just wanted to let you know how I felt, in case you wanted to know."

Iona spoke with her face forward, looking out at the water with a distant look in her eyes. I would have to make it up to her in the next game and then know what happened from there. I turned to Iona and took her chin in my hand, turning her head to mine, and I looked deeply into her eyes. I wanted her to feel my words as I spoke them so I could let her mind rest.

"The next life we live, I will search you out and find you, I promise. Then we can spend that entire life side by side, okay?"

"Kay."