CHAPTER 293: CHEATING!?

"I wonder if I could tame another Mythical Grimoire... would I face the same thing?" Grey thought to himself, his pupils settling on the purple-haired woman with a questioning gaze.

At that moment, she was embracing him fully, eyes closed in quiet enjoyment.

He jerked his arms slightly, and she was startled awake.

"Yes, dear?" she asked, tilting her head.

"If I tame another Mythical Grimoire, will I have to face the same trial again?"

"Yes." She paused, her eyes flickering with sudden excitement. "Are you planning to tame other Mythical Grimoires as well?"

"Yeah." Grey replied simply, though a bit confused. Why was she getting so excited about that?

"It’s because my sisters are there; we can share you together." The purple-haired woman nudged his shoulder with almost a love sign in her eyes.

Grey was stunned in silence. If it was back on Earth, women would kill their lover if they cheated on them.

There were many women who also had weird cheating kinks, who would target a boyfriend or husband to destroy their relationship.

He had even seen some people wear fake wedding rings just to sleep with other women.

But here, the woman seemed to be open-minded? Or...

"Hehe." She rubbed her head on his shoulder with a smirk playing on her face. "I wouldn’t want to share you with anyone if you were just a normal person, but you are something far greater, and I probably can’t handle you alone."

Her pupils went toward Kurogane:

"So, if I have my sisters as allies, then it would be far better for us."

"What kind of logic is that?" Grey, who heard all of this, looked at the purple-haired woman with the gaze of someone looking at the most idiotic person he had ever seen.

There was absolutely no freaking way that a normal person could have such a thought process.

"Sigh."

When Grey thought that the woman before him was just a fragment of the World, it only felt natural that it would be weird. If it was normal, he wouldn’t dare believe it at all.

"So, do you want other sisters as well?" she bobbed her head in excitement.

"...Not for the purpose that you are thinking of, but yes," Grey replied to her.

"Great, I can sense them and help you quickly locate them," she smiled. "By the way, my name is Eve."

"Eve, huh." Grey nodded his head and looked at the other woman who was also practically sticking to him. He jerked his arms ever so slightly, startling her awake.

"Eh, dear?" Kurogane woke up and asked with a confused expression on her face.

"We are going out soon, so we are leaving this place," Grey spoke gently.

"I..." Kurogane bit her lips, clear tears glistening in her eyes.

She felt reluctant to part with him even physically for a moment. Although it wasn’t like he was leaving, they would still travel but without being in his embrace, it felt like she was suffering through hell itself, every second of the way.

Grey walked up to her, gently wiped her tears away, and embraced her in a tight hug:

"Hey, I’m not going anywhere. Don’t be so down in your mood. I will come back from time to time to spend time together, okay?"

"Mhm." Kurogane nodded, but still clear tears glistened on her cheeks.

"Sigh," Grey, seeing that talking was not effective, paused for a moment before he hugged her deeper, and his lips went for hers.

Kurogane’s eyes widened before a gentle smile tugged at the corner of her lips, and she opened her mouth.

The two tongues met and mingled together, fighting for dominance. They were French kissing each other.

After some time, the two separated, leaving a thin trail of saliva, their pupils locked on each other. Her body squirmed in satisfaction under Grey’s embrace.

Grey raised his hand and smoothly glided it over her cheeks, adjusting the messy strands of hair as he whispered in her ear, "Are you feeling better now?"

"Yeah." Kurogane blushed.

"Alright, I am going now," Grey said.

"Y-yeah." Her voice felt a little hoarse, but everything must part. Grey and Eve’s figures gradually vanished, leaving her behind.

Kurogane sat on her bed again, taking deep breaths and lost in her own thoughts. After some time, some bitter words left her lips:

"I miss him already..."

***

Grey appeared in the real world and looked at Eve. "So you can materialize even in the physical world?" He raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, of course I can." Eve patted her big chest with a proud expression, causing a ’boink’ sound.

Grey’s pupils slightly flicked to that tantalizing scene, and he hurriedly shook his head, muttering in his mind, ’This vixen is too powerful.’ Either way, he needed her right now to locate another Mythical Grimoire, so having her physically would always be helpful.

"Should we go immediately now?" Eve asked, tilting her head.

"Actually..." Grey rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish expression. He had just remembered something that made him quite flustered.

He was so hell-bent on saving Lucy that he had completely forgotten about someone else, the mature woman.

She had wanted to ask him for help before, but since there were so many things, he had almost completely forgotten about her.

"Hmm, what is it?" Eve asked with a pout. "Is it another woman?"

"Well, not really, but yeah."

"Is it yesn’t!?" Eve puffed her cheeks.

"Cough, let’s go." Grey turned around and walked out of his modest room.

Immediately, what greeted his eyes were rows of customers quietly scanning through the books in the Library, some borrowing them and some buying them.

He couldn’t help but sigh. They had come a long way.

Lucy was at the counter, silent, but that smile couldn’t be hidden.

Grey looked through the door to see the mature woman quietly guarding the place. She was quite dedicated to her work, but he realized that he didn’t even know her name until now...