133 Vol. 3 pt. 3 Patch 1.0: The Latest Addition (1/2)

Ryouta, with Cassandra's hand in his own, opens the door to his apartment and is bewildered at the sight in front of him.

”A-ah, your rope tying skills are rather impressive, but the knots are loose and you seem afraid of applying enough pressure,” Alice says, her body on the floor with her limbs tied behind her back with some fancy looking knots and Aiko kneeling next to her with an intense expression.

”I see, I see. Hmm. I should have practiced more… I always imagined myself being the one getting tied up, but if other girls are involved, it would be good to get better at tying you all up,” Aiko mumbles to herself.

”You should! I cannot be the only one who knows proper binding techniques! It greatly bothered me when I used to be a man's slave in the game we play together – he and his men tied the most barbaric of knots that lacked all form and grace. Proper rope play requires practice and technique!”

”I see, I see! Alright! I'll do my best to master all the techniques!”

”Uhhhhhh,” Ryouta interrupts their binding-and-bonding session. He has no idea where that rope even came from until he sees one of Alice's suitcases opened nearby.

Aiko looks elated from Ryouta's return but Alice's face turns bright red as she looks him directly in the eyes, her legs and arms tied up in the air behind her back.

”Husband! I really like this mistress of yours. We've got tons of similar tastes! I found out that she's a total rope bunny and—” Aiko gets interrupted with Alice wiggles across the floor to headbutt Aiko's knee.

”You – you don't need to tell him all of that! There is a time and place for such things… though, it is true. Ah, to be embarrassed in front of my hero so… I'm just imagining being tied and gagged, left behind for the hero to find after being used and abused by a gang of men, my limbs unable to be felt from how long they have been bound and my mind broken and addicted to their co—”

”You already can't feel half your limbs,” Cassandra interrupts.

Alice pouts and wiggles her hands until they slip out from the amateur bind from Aiko. She then unties her ankles and legs, and once freed from their rope, her legs flop straight down onto the floor.

Ryouta ignores this situation and looks for Serra instead. ”Where's Serra?” he asks.

”Serra had to go to the bathroom, but it has been a while,” Alice answers.

Now that Ryouta thinks about it, checking on her if she's in the bathroom would be a difficult thing to do given that she's deaf. She would not be able to hear him if he's calling on her to check up on her, and unless she tries to just make some really loud and probably unintelligible noises, he wouldn't know that anything is wrong.

”I'll check on her,” Cassandra says. ”Ryouta, you… do something about these two deviants. So help me if I wake up all tied up someday.” She stops to think about what she just said.

Both Alice and Aiko recognize that look growing in Cassandra's eyes.

Cassandra shakes her head, her cheeks now red, and stomps into Ryouta's bedroom to get to the bathroom.

It is only a few seconds later that Cassandra screams at the top of her lungs.

Ryouta rushes into the bedroom.

Cassandra and Serra are holding each other on his bed and pointing up above him on the wall.

Looking up, a spider larger than his hand is resting just a couple of feet above him on the wall. It is massive enough and close enough that he sees all of its tiny, black eyes staring directly at him.

”Kill it!” Cassandra shouts.

Ryouta takes a step back out of the doorframe and back into the living room.

He looks at his two scared girlfriends and bows. ”I am sorry. Good luck,” he says.

”Kill it, you dog bastard!” Cassandra tries shouting again.

”I accept you killing me next time we are in-game. Cassandra, Serra, I love you both, but I am sorry,” he says, his voice calm and serious despite his heart racing and mind telling him to burn down the entire apartment building.

”Hmm? What's wrong?” Aiko asks, walking into the bedroom.

Then she sees it.

Then she hops up to grab the spider by its massive abdomen and hold it in her hand.

”I almost forgot! You were always scared of bugs, Ryouta,” Aiko says, holding the spider out toward him but getting confused when he's no longer where he just was. Instead, he's standing in the back corner of his kitchen as physically far away from her and the spider as possible.