Chapter 873: Durandal Wants to Be Alone! Seele's Scream! Morning Benefits
Inside Durandal's dormitory room, the door clicked shut.
"You're back!"
Kiana's face instantly lit up the moment she saw the blonde Valkyrie step through the threshold. She bounded over, ready to welcome her, but her bright smile faltered as she got a closer look.
Durandal's condition was visibly off. Her usually pristine posture was slightly slouched, her cheeks were flushed with an unnatural, feverish red, and her breathing came out in shallow, uneven hitches. She wouldn't even meet Kiana's eyes.
Scratching the back of her head, Kiana offered an awkward, comforting pat on her friend's shoulder. "Cough... well, Ren is just a massive pervert, you know? You shouldn't let him—"
"Don't say anymore!"
Durandal cut her off sharply, her voice trembling slightly as she stopped Kiana's attempt at comfort. She lowered her head further, her blonde bangs casting a heavy shadow over her eyes.
"Kiana," she murmured, her tone dropping into a strained, deep whisper. "Can you please leave for a bit? Just... let me be alone."
"Okay... okay..." Kiana blinked, her hands raised in surrender.
Since Durandal was asking so earnestly, Kiana really didn't know how else to comfort her. She backed out of the room, her protective instincts flaring up. It was entirely Ren's fault for hosting such an outrageously immodest party! He must have completely terrified poor Durandal with his shameless antics.
As Kiana marched down the hallway, she indignantly formulated a plan to have a very serious, very stern talk with Ren later.
'Hmph! I'm definitely going to interrogate him about why he didn't invite me to the party!'Kiana thought, puffing her cheeks out.'Especially since it was a party filled with beautiful girls!'
Back in the dorm, the silence settled heavily after Kiana's departure. Durandal still hadn't raised her head.
She stood frozen in the center of the room, her gaze slowly dropping toward the space between her legs. She pressed her thighs together, her lips pursing into a tight, thin line as a lingering, obvious heat radiated through her body.
Taking a deep, shaky breath, she forced her legs to move, walking stiffly toward the attached bathroom.
She desperately needed a cold shower to calm down.
Meanwhile, across the multiverse, Ren's unique brand of 'good medicine' had successfully cured all illnesses.
Every single Spirit would absolutely vouch for its miraculous efficacy.
Not just the Spirits in their normal states, but the special Spirits, and even every single Spirit in their Reversed forms. None of them had managed to escape Ren's incredibly thorough, deeply personal, and highly physical 'examination'.
Through his overwhelming power, he had personally reformed the very foundations of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Qliphoth. Because of this fundamental rewrite of their existence, the Spirits would no longer simply fall into comatose slumber, lose their minds to Reversion, or succumb to Beastification.
Instead, Reversion and Beastification had been entirely subjugated, becoming nothing more than alternate power sets for Tohka and the others to wield at will. Now, they could freely and safely shift between their forms.
Even better, their existential states had been altered to resemble Artoria and her various alternate aspects. Each of their distinct forms could now be independently separated into physical bodies.
The most direct example of this miracle was Tohka. Now, Tohka in her normal state, Tenka in her Reversed state, and Beast Tohka in her Beastified state could all exist in the same room simultaneously. Their core powers remained linked as one, but each possessed her own independent body and consciousness.
Because of this newly granted independence, Ren had happily spent a considerable amount of extra time deeply imprinting his 'mark' on these Reversed Spirits.
After looking over the peaceful, entirely wrecked bedroom space filled with sleeping beauties, he finally stepped away, a thoroughly satisfied smirk playing on his lips.
Sensing his departure through their deep connection, Kurumi and the others stirred slightly. However, they only managed to flutter their heavy eyelids for a fraction of a second before the sheer, bone-deep exhaustion dragged them right back into a deep, dreamless sleep.
Belobog, the City of Preservation.
Inside her private quarters, Bronya had stayed up the entire night glued to the Chat Group's live stream.
Her entire body felt feverishly hot. She sat on the edge of her bed, clutching her pillow to her chest, her mind completely consumed by a single, overwhelming thought: If I go to Ren's world... will I also be treated exactly like that?
A highly complex, swirling emotion of nervous fear and intense anticipation rose in her chest, making her heart hammer against her ribs.
A second later, she violently shook her head, her silver drill-tails bouncing as she desperately tried to dispel the vivid, scandalous images from her mind. She clenched her small fists, taking a deep breath to steady her racing pulse.
"No, I am just going over there to see Mother," Bronya muttered aloud, trying to convince herself. "And I am bringing other people with me, so he definitely won't act like that... right?"
She asked the empty room, her voice lacking any real certainty.
[Chat Group]
Ren had just returned to his own home and closed the live stream interface when a new notification pinged in his vision.
[Bronya: Ahem, about that, Ren... when can I go see my mother?]
[Tatsumaki: Is your mother not home? Why are you asking him?]
Floating in her own world, Tatsumaki stared at the screen in disbelief. She hadn't expected that immediately following such an outrageously explicit and exciting live stream, someone would completely ignore the scandalous broadcast and instead ask such a bizarrely mundane question.
Even Tatsumaki herself hadn't been able to resist the urge to entertain herself while watching that particular stream.
[Bronya: This... it's because my mother is currently living in Ren's world, and we had agreed on this visit beforehand, so...]
[Ren: I'm available anytime. You can come over directly right now.]
[Bronya: Ugh, actually, I have other people here with me.]
[Ren: Who?]
[Bronya: There's also Seele, Natasha, Hook, Silver Wolf, Pela, and Lynx. They also want to see the scenery of the Otherworld. If it's too much trouble, then forget it.]
[Silver Wolf: Oh? How come I remember they're all girls? Will Ren really find a group of girls troublesome?]
[Aqua: He finds women troublesome? I don't believe it for a second!]
[Shiroyasha: Tsk tsk, Ren must be secretly grinning from ear to ear right now, huh?]
[Ren: Tsk, you know the truth but you don't have to say it out loud. Don't you guys have any manners?]
[Aqua: Bah, pervert!]
[Ren: Bronya, I'm coming over to your place right now.]
In the blink of an eye.
"Gah!!!"
Bronya had barely finished reading the final message on her holographic screen when she was startled out of her wits by Ren's sudden, silent materialization directly in front of her.
She stumbled backward in fright, her heel catching on the edge of the rug. Before she could fall, Ren stepped forward, his arm shooting out to catch her slender waist in a firm, supportive grip, preventing her from crashing into the bedside table.
They stared at each other at point-blank range. Bronya could feel the heat radiating from his chest, and her pretty face rapidly flushed a brilliant shade of crimson.
She averted her eyes, whispering softly, "Ugh, I-I'm fine now."
"Mm-hmm." Ren smiled slightly, his eyes gleaming with quiet amusement as he smoothly released his hold on her waist.
After taking a moment to quickly tidy her slightly rumpled pajamas and smooth down her hair, Bronya composed her expression, forcing herself back into her usual dignified demeanor.
"Ren, welcome back to Belobog," she greeted formally.
"Bronya, let's skip the pleasantries," Ren chuckled, waving a hand dismissively. "What kind of relationship do we have, anyway? Where are the others?"
He glanced around. This was clearly Bronya's private bedroom. She was still dressed in her nightwear, and there was absolutely no sign of Seele, Natasha, or anyone else she had mentioned in the chat.
Bronya shifted her weight, suddenly looking incredibly awkward. She offered a wry, apologetic smile.
"Sorry, I didn't expect you, Ren... to not need any rest at all. I was too eager."
She had, once again, severely underestimated Ren's terrifying stamina. He had just finished a grueling 'battle' against dozens of people, taking them on in turns, and had casually left only after thoroughly subduing every single one of them. She had naturally assumed he would need at least a few hours to sleep and recover, so she had only sent the message to ask in advance.
She hadn't expected him to instantly cross dimensions the moment she hit send, completely messing up her preparations.
"I see. It's alright," Ren said, completely unbothered.
He raised his right hand and casually snapped his fingers. A ripple of spatial energy instantly washed over the room.
Immediately after, figures began materializing out of thin air, dropping into the bedroom one by one.
"Mmm mmm, lollipop, yummy..." Hook mumbled, still half-asleep, sucking her thumb while curled up in a floating bubble of spatial energy.
"Where is this?" Lynx blinked, fully dressed in her heavy snow adventure gear, her oversized backpack already strapped on and ready for an expedition.
"Huh? What was I just doing?" Silver Wolf muttered, looking entirely confused as she scratched her head, her fingers still twitching as if holding a phantom game controller.
"Mr. Ren!" Natasha exclaimed, maintaining her relatively calm composure, though her eyes widened in slight surprise upon seeing him standing there.
Pela, however, froze completely solid. She had been in the middle of getting dressed and was currently balancing on one bent leg, her hands caught dead in the act of pulling her skirt up over her black stockings. Her face instantly ignited into a blazing tomato red.
But even more outrageous than Pela was Seele.
A piercing scream shattered the quiet atmosphere of the bedroom.
Because Seele had just been in the middle of taking a bath.
At this exact moment, she was dripping wet, completely bare, and frantically looking around, having absolutely no idea what to cover first with her hands.
After a solid minute of absolute, screaming chaos, scrambling, and hastily summoned towels.
Seele and Pela stood in the corner, their heads lowered so far their chins touched their chests, absolutely not daring to look in Ren's direction. The rest of the girls wore rather strange, highly complicated expressions as they processed the situation.
"Cough."
Ren cleared his throat loudly.
He had already flawlessly recorded the beautiful, uncensored morning benefits he had just witnessed into his private system storage. Completely ignoring the suffocating awkwardness filling the room, he smoothly brought up the main topic.
"I heard Bronya say earlier that you all wanted to visit my world."
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