125 I.T. 28 A Girls Job is Never Done (1/2)

Several hours later Sierra, Leisha, and Hunter emerged from their room. I could see the sly smile on his face as I looked at them, and he gave me a huge grin. I rolled my eyes. At least he was enjoying himself. The girls were in a rather good mood themselves. Leisha ran over to me, her eyes scanning my body before wrapping her arms around me in a hug.

”Are you ok? Do you know how worried I was?”

I smiled and returned the hug. ”I am sorry to worry you. I am fine. I apologize for earlier. If I hadn't acted on my own maybe you wouldn't have had to take such a beating.”

She backed up and looked at me strangely for a moment. ”So, it's ok for you to be beaten almost to death, but you're worried when someone else does it?”

I met her eyes under her criticism. ”You don't have any form of damage reduction. Every hit would have inflicted extreme amounts or pain on you. I can only imagine how had that was.”

Her eyes softened and she gave me a smile as she heard that, she reached out and ruffled my hair. ”We are a team; we all have to suffer sometimes.”

I smiled back and I asked the question that had really been on my mind. ”So, what skill did you get?”

She gave me a huge grin. ”I got [Bestial Instinct] it gives me a warning of incoming threats. It comes as a vague feeling from whatever part of my body is about to be struck. With this skill you shouldn't have to worry about me taking such a beating again.”

I let out a sigh of relief. I hated to see my teammates suffer and would much rather I be the only one who is put into the situation. I smiled and patted her shoulder. ”Good, it would be much better if I took the beatings anyways.”

She gave me another weird look, and behind me I could hear Hylia and Bailey snickering. It was Lucifer who responded though. His sudden speech causing Leisha to jump.

”It's because of her new skill [Masochism]. Basically, you could beat her up and she would enjoy it.”

Sierra spoke next. ”You can talk???”

Lucifer looked at her for a moment. ”Yes, the skill I obtained was called [Ability Swap] It had an incredibly long cool down, as in several years, but I used it to switch out Yuri's innate ability [Gift of Tongues] in return she gained a couple of her old abilities that were attached to her core. Of course, they have been changed to fit her current lack of spell casting ability.”

Sierra was quiet for a moment, staring at Lucifer. ”You sound so mature, but you are only a baby???”

Lucifer glared at her for several moments. ”I am far older than you can imagine half elf. It is only because my power backfired that I am stuck in this state.” Lucifer then jumped into my arms and closed his eyes. ”However, this situation is much preferable to any of my situations in the past. ”

I tried not to laugh. It was true that Lucifer was thousands of years old, or rather he had once been. But they did not know that he was all bark. His mind and power had been reduced by a lot. The truth was he was a child, it is just that even a baby dragon was much more intelligent than a human adult.

”What ability did you get?” I asked her to change the subject.

She did not make eye contact with me and mumbled something. I looked at her for a moment and she blushed. But spoke louder, she still would not meet my eye.

”[Advanced Healing] The healing effects of my fire are strengthened. They do not just heal hp as before, but can also heal injuries much faster, such as broken bones, or the mess you made of your legs.”

”So, your healing ability has gotten much stronger. That's awesome!”