Despite all of these masterfully crafted weapons being on display for me, I could just feel how light my coin purse was already - despite it being in my inventory for safekeeping - and knew that I couldn't do more than just window shop.
It at least got me thinking about the future though, so as I made my way over to the gigantic Cathedral I was enjoying the lengthy walk from one side of the city to the other while thinking about the combat that I was going to have to participate in eventually.
The idea of being up close and personal against these monsters that existed in this world - and also going head to head against some of these terrifying people that were far worse than monsters - was absolutely horrifying to me, so melee was a bit...
But being useless in close combat would be a death sentence no matter what, so I was going to need to pick up some lessons with some sort of blade... probably a dagger paired with magic of some kind to keep things quick and manageable?
Might go for a short sword or a rapier to keep it light and effective, though the call of a katana was right there as well... but really I wanted to keep away from the fighting as best I could, which meant I had two options.
Physical damage would need to come through via a bow of some kind, which shouldn't be terribly difficult to learn to a mediocre level, while the more obvious and appealing option was to learn all kinds of magic and just blast people and monsters into dust!
I definitely was going to prioritize my magic as much as I possibly could, but having options and being able to slot into multiple teams for any Dungeon exploration would be immensely helpful for the future.
But if I did start training with blades and with the bow I would need to do conditioning and strength training, which definitely was not something I was overly fond of... though considering Kha'Miero was going to be giving me private lessons...
Though that too brought me around to another decision I had to make, which was related to what happened earlier... and the longer I found myself removed from the post nut 'clarity' that had hit me like a truck I was definitely more keen on accepting that I wasn't going to become a reformed gooner.
This was a world of an Eroge that had never once mentioned anything 'bad' about sex besides who you were doing it with, and on top of that the Goddess that decided to just pluck me from one world and throw me into another surely wouldn't want such a bland story, right..?
One where I was addled by diseases simply because I was actually living my life inside of an Eroge... that would be a terrible story... though the chance of her lying to me was also there, wasn't it..?
And yet the idea of how steamy those private lessons between Kha'Miero and I might end up getting was too tantalizing to just forgo, while the pleasure I had felt earlier was definitely just the tip of the iceberg that came from having a penis.
Yeah... now that I was coming up from that low point I had just fallen to, I definitely think I was going to try my best to get out there and meet as many people as I could and 'get to know them' as well... though I don't want to just throw myself at them like I had done with my first character.
Drugs were going to be a no go - most of them, anyways, because there were those 'safe' drugs that were just relaxants - and I wasn't going to just lay with everyone and anyone who wanted to lay with me.
I also found myself blushing a little because I knew who was guarding the item inside of the Sepulcher of Sin, and if I actually encountered her there was no way I wasn't going to fold immediately since... well, I suppose we shall see soon enough.
And I mean, on top of knowing that this was a world built around the idea of having sex with other people - more so then just a means to reproduce since it had become a core part of how this society worked - there was also the fact that the characters I had spent so long playing with were definitely going to be far sexier in person.
All those teachers I had thirsted over - those steamy 'extracurricular' lessons or punishments, the pleading for a higher grade - were real, all of the students in my classes who flirted or just grew closer over time were real...
Everyone I had been pleasuring myself to in my dark, dingy dorm were now real, and a lot of them were 'easy' when compared to how difficult finding partners had been in my world so... the chances I get to be with some of them intimately was rather high since everyone was seeking pleasure.
Some of those teachers were definitely pretty easy to get with since they either abused their power or were so aroused by the line being crossed that they tended to be rather available for fun; there were days in the game where I had just gone from one classroom to another just to watch the scenes play out back to back to back...
Those were good times... and now I was hard again, though thankfully that earlier help from the merchant left me feeling a little drained as I acclimated to having this new appendage attached to me.
Getting it to go down was easier than it had been in the hallways of the Academy, but I definitely still needed to learn how to 'control' myself going forwards lest I embarrass myself... in this crowded street however I was pretty 'hidden', and the journey up to the Cathedral was a 'quiet' one as I kept to myself and just walked towards my next goal.