I was in front of Sarah's door, preparing myself to go talk to her. I sighed deeply, trying to relax. I was almost knocking on her door when suddenly it opened, and right there was her.
"Oh, Rick. Great, I was going to talk to you. Come on in." She said while dragging me inside her room and then shutting the door behind my back.
Now we were alone. She stayed still, with her arms crossed in front of me.
"So, is there something that you want to tell me?" she asked without waiting a second.
"Oh, it's true. Sarah, how are your wounds?" I asked her, worried about her condition. But she just gave me a cheerful smile.
"Don't worry, I don't feel any pain. Your potion is really incredible! I feel like I'm ready for another fight." She said happily. "Thanks a lot for saving me."
She's so cute that I couldn't help but admire her beauty.
"What do you want to know about it? You were going to look for me, am I right?" I asked.
"Oh, that's true. You almost made me forget, but your kindness won't cloud my thoughts, so tell me about this blessing of yours?" She said with an irritated tone.
"I didn't ask you to misdirect you. Anyway, what do you want to know?" I asked her to get to the point.
"Everything, of course. You acted strange and didn't explain your 'cultivation' power. It's not every day that someone receives a rare power from a Lost Temple, so do you really think that I wouldn't want to know?" She asked with a bored face.
"It's because I didn't want him to know. If it was another kind of power I wouldn't mind, but…" I told her, still hesitating.
Thinking calmly, it's not easy to say that the rare power you gained from a Lost Temple is a harem maker. It was especially harder to tell her, the girl that had interest in me. I was thinking of the best way to tell her that, but she was being insistent, disrupting my clear thoughts with her smooth voice.
"Why, is it just a power to cultivate, right? It's like a power to make yourself strong." She asked, clueless of the sexual nature of my power.
"Well, not just me, but I can make other people stronger too." I said, going slow with the explanation so as not to shock her.
"Really?! This is a really big deal!" She was excited about the possibilities of it.
"Yeah, right!" I agreed.
"Yeah, this can make our party really powerful. Me and Leo could make good use of it." She said, jumping to the wrong idea.
"No!" I responded right off the bat.
"Eh? Why not? I thought that you would use your power to help us." She asked with a sad face. "Am I wrong?"
I was stupid. Instead of saying "women," I said "people," that's why she thought that anyone could be cultivated.
"Just half of it. Leo would never be part of that. Not in a million years." I said bluntly.
"What do you mean? Is there a condition to cultivate? I can benefit from my power, but Leo can't. Why?" She asked, confused.
"Because he is a man." I said directly, hoping that she would get it.
"But you're a man too, so you won't benefit from this new power…"
"We are not going anywhere!" I sighed deeply. "There is no easy way to say that, so I'll just go straight to the point. My power only cultivates female Awakened, but only women that I have sex with."
Sarah's eyes went wide open with the revelation. I was trying to shock Sarah, but our conversation was getting stupider by the second. A lot of effort for nothing.
"Oh, so that's what you meant. Haha…" She let out an embarrassed laugh. I don't think she flushed because of what she heard, but because of her inability to connect the dots beforehand.
I let her take some time to let that fact sink in. I was ready to continue the conversation, but she finally broke out of her shame.
"Oh right, oh right. I'll believe you. I don't think you have any reason to lie." She said, getting closer to me. "We will talk more about this later."
"Really? You believe me."
"Yeah, it's difficult to believe, but this power of yours seems to be a perfect fit for a pervert like you. Mister 'I want to marry more than one.'" She smiled playfully.
Her smile was so vivid, her attitude full of energy. When I noticed that the annoying and kind tsundere was back, a smile opened on my face.
I thought of the woman lying in my arms, almost dying. It didn't seem to be the same person, but it was, and I was happy to get another chance to have this kind of crazy talk with her once again.
"Yeah, I'm a pervert, but it doesn't make you any better than me. There's nothing more perverted than falling in love with a pervert." I played back at her, and her cheeks got redder than before.
"Maybe you're right. I love you." She said in a way as natural as her breathing.
"Sarah, can you repeat that, please? I thought that I heard things." I said, still incredulous.
"I won't repeat myself. You have to pay more attention to what people say, so it serves you right." She said this cruel thing with an evil smile on her face. "So we just need to have sex and I will become the strongest Swordsman in the entire world?" She said, changing the subject in a shameless way.
"Not exactly. You would transform into a different class, a rare one, and you'll lose your skills and go back to square one, but in a stronger class. You will become one of my underlings, also known as a Valkyrie, but if you betray me, you would go back to your former self." I poorly explained the situation.
"You know that it looks pretty bad when you explain it like that." She said, but I just shrugged.
"You tell me. I lost all my skills too. But that's the truth. I couldn't lie about something serious like this to you." I said, kind of annoyed with the situation.
"So that means…" She said in a surprised tone.
"Yep, I can't make a good potion like before with my skill. That goddess doesn't care about anything, she just took it from me without saying a word." I said angrily about Freya.
"W-Wait, you met a goddess?" Sarah asked, amazed.
"Yeah, but this is not important right now. My point is that if you want to be by my side, that's what will wait for you. And things can get more dangerous afterward."
The truth was that Sarah would be put in grave danger from now on, and I didn't want her to regret this decision later.
"It doesn't look good at the start, but we aren't that far from the starting line to begin with. Anyway, I would do it with you, even if I wouldn't become stronger. If I'll be with you, for me it's all good. Oh! And that reminds me…" she said with a smile opening on her face. "I still need to reward you, right?"
Right after she said that, a subtle ring notification popped inside my head.
[ Sarah looks like she wants to breed. Hug her, drawing her near to you. ]
'So that's how that mission thing works, huh?' I decided to test it.
"E-Eh? Rick, wait…" She was startled when I gave her a hug.
"I want to be with you too, Sarah." I said it.
"I know that, but…" Sarah's expression showed unexpected traces of annoyance.
"But?" I asked, wanting to know why her face changed.
"You're all dirty." She went straight to the point.
"W-What?" I looked at my own body, and she was right.
I didn't notice it before, but my clothes were still dirty from my last fight. I was covered in a mix of dust and burned wool.
"If you go to my bed like this, you will mess up all my sheets." She said, getting some distance from my embrace.
"Y-You're right." I said that, thinking that the System, which should help me, actually got in the way between me and her. 'That System fucking sucks!'
As I cursed the System, Sarah looked like she had an idea.
"It can't be helped. You wait here." She said while going toward the door.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"It's gross to sleep without washing yourself. You'll make the bed dirty. I'll ask for water."
"Water?"
She smiled at me, saying:
"Let's take a bath. I didn't wash myself, so…" She got embarrassed in the middle of her words. "We're going to do that together."
When Sarah spoke those words, the same ring rang.
[ New mission!
Washing with love: Now you're going to take a bath with Sarah. The girl also wants a reward to save you, so you must rock her world. Use that opportunity to arouse her to improve your performance in bed. Clean her up so you can dirty her over again ;)
Objective: Make her cum three times.
Reward: 2x Random Valkyrie Skills
]
'I take it back. Best System ever!' I thought about regretting my earlier curse, but this little wink… 'This writing looks like something Freya just wrote. She may be the goddess of love, but she has no shame at all.'