60 Vol 1. pt. 60 Patch 10.0: The King, the Rod and the Harem (2/2)
Fenrir hesitantly nods his head.
Cassiel places a comforting hand on his shoulder.
At least they understand.
Fenrir dries off with a cloth while telling the girls everything that he learned about the rod. Cassiel has heard of the gems before and greedily stares at the rod when he explains that the rod has one of them in it, and then she shouts at him telling him all about how almost all of the most important players in the game have weapons with these gems in them. If it wasn't cemented in his mind before just how important and valuable the gems are, it is now.
When he's finally finished drying himself off and talking about how annoying mysteries are, making sure that they both know just how desperately he wants to get to the bottom of the mystery just for the sake of knowing what the history of the rod is, Serra and Cassiel look at one another and nod.
”We want to take you somewhere,” Serra says.
The burning blush on Cassiel's face immediately takes Fenrir's mind to perverse places given the context.
”Where?” he asks.
”Love hotel,” Serra answers.
”Oh.”
Oh.
”You need a counter in case something happens,” Serra says. ”If you die then we don't know where you'll be. We don't want to get separated from you, so let us do this for you,” Serra explains.
”You – you don't have to do it just so I have a spare counter,” Fenrir says.
”We also want to have sex.”
…
Oh.
Yeah, Serra's power level is way too high for the total virgins that Fenrir and Cassiel are. ”How… are you able to say that so confidently?”
”I can only talk here. There are lots of things I want to say, but I hate having to use text or my hands. So… I want to be honest and say exactly what I want here. Like, I love you.”
Fenrir's heart skips a beat. ”Are you sure? I mean, we've only been—”
”I love you, Ryouta.”
Fenrir's ears and tail both stand straight up.
Serra's cheeks finally give in to show the red that she's been trying to hold back. ”I love you,” she repeats.
”I—”
Cassiel cuts off Fenrir, ”I l-love you too, you ba-bastard.”
Fenrir looks at Cassiel. She isn't looking away like she usually would be when this flustered. Instead, she's looking directly at him – waiting for a response to her feelings.
Both of them are waiting.
It may have only been one month in reality since he's met them – two months if going by in-game time, but he has spent almost every day with them as much as he could. They have fought together, played together, trained together, fished together, and they have even met in real life and spent a day together there.
This all feels so sudden to him. Serra was just some naked girl in a bush and Cassiel was originally an enemy who stabbed him in the back and tried killing him. Yet, here they are, confessing their love to him far sooner than he thought they would.
”I love you too, both of you. I love you, Serra,” he says, looking Serra in the eyes, ”and I love you, Cassandra,” he says, looking into her eyes now. He takes a heavy breath after saying that. His hands are shaking, his heart is racing, and he feels like he's going to be sick but in a confusingly good way.
He doesn't know if this is true love or not. For all he knows, he only cares about them as much as he does because they're the most perfect, reciprocative girls that he has ever known. Maybe this is just infatuation or the strongest crush that he has ever felt.
Regardless of what it is, he romantically cares more about these two girls than he's ever felt towards any other girls before, so he will place his faith in this being love.
Serra tugs on Cassiel's hand, drawing her attention. ”I love you, too,” Serra says to the taller woman.
”Y-you, too,” Cassiel replies. It may not be a proper confession, but Serra knows not to expect much more from Cassiel seeing as how she looks redder than most tomatoes.
”Hotel. Let's do it before the king gets here,” Serra says, pulling them along.
Fenrir never imagined that Serra would be leading not only him, but Cassiel as well, to a love hotel. He didn't even think love hotels would be a thing in a pirate city, but given that the game is played by a bunch of perverts, he knows he shouldn't be surprised.
Nothing else is said on the way there, and Serra has to hold each of their hands to make sure that neither of them tries escaping.
In the end, despite him being the first one to confess feelings for the girls and asking them out, it ended up being Serra to really confess the full extent of her feelings first while leading the charge to take their relationship to the next level.
Fenrir doesn't know if this is his harem or hers at this point.