I received a slow clap that would never catch on in an empty room, and it soon died off, but Healia's smile didn't.
"K, look at you go! Just stepping into the shoes and running full speed ahead! And what is this little razzberry lemon tart you just brought me?" Healia said walking over to me and the girls.
I pushed both of them behind me and glared at Healia, but I was more concerned about how she knew the flavor of her blood.
"Why can you smell her blood?"
"Blood? Is that what the lemon is?" Healia asked, trying to get around me, and sniffing at Lesha. "What does she taste like, hm?"
I pushed her back and glared at her again.
"Mei is going to be joining the guild, so I need to know how to do that."
"Oh? Just put you want the tattoo and confirm in your mind that you want them to join your guild, other things will happen, but you can find that on your own when it happens."
I nodded and then went to turn to Mei, but Healia stopped me, shaking her head no.
"First, I need to seal her Mana and then yours, or the Mana will slowly burn through your reservoir and reduce your Mana to nothing. Since neither of you has ever used your Mana, it has not changed, but with my blessing to seal your Mana reservoir, you will be able to summon forth fantastical things that this world has never even dreamed possible! What you saw Corbit do was one of many different types of magic, and in order for you to do the crest yourself, you will have to use Mana. I did the others, and I would have continued for you, but you have Mana of your own now."
"Fine, where is Corbit?"
"In bed."
"Why? It's already past breakfast? I didn't pick him to laze around!"
"He has been in bed since I sealed his magic, but he is a weak and frail human, not like you girls. You will be fine, here, just watch."
Healia streaked around me faster than I could turn and by the time I was turned, Healia had Mei's little face in her hand and she leaned in and kissed Mei. Blue light encased Mei, and she started to moan loudly as Healia pulled away, but I was blind to everything. Healia had crossed the line. I pulled in the strawberry lemon nectar, and time slowed.
[Red Blood Service] Activated!
[Eosinophil Service] Activated!
A redness appeared on Healia's bare skin just below her ribs on her right side.
'Eosinophil, Target Weakness, teach that cow a lesson for touching one of your girls.' -Drania.
My fist impacted the targeted spot and I sent Healia to fly at the wall, but she never hit it, the wall hit her. A massive tree trunk grew out of the wall with incredible speed, smashing Healia back to me, but Lesha was already flying past me. The right hook smashed Healia right in the same place, making her grunt before getting flung across the room into another massive tree trunk that spawned from the wall, but then the atmosphere changed.
Healia stopped mid-air and righted herself almost instantly, stretching her hand out at the oncoming tree trunk.
"Holy Barrier!{Reirrab Yloh!}"
The tree just stopped and then fell apart, and disappeared in a puff of blue smoke. Healia's red mark was gone, and that meant she had no weakness right now, and she actually looked pissed off. There was a red mark where Lesha and I had hit her under her ribs, but she showed no signs of injury as she walked over, her presence making it harder to breathe or even stand.
When she finally reached me, I was just barely able to stand up, but I couldn't take or draw a breath, and my head was starting to get fuzzy. Healia placed one finger on my forehead, and I felt something surrounding me and I could breathe again. She turned and walked away, and then walked off into a back room behind the bar and slammed the door.
I turned quickly to find both girls unconscious, but I wasn't surprised. The two began to stir, and I helped them up. Both looked rough, almost like there had been thrown in a stone tumbler, with the stones.
"Are you two alright?"
"Did she kiss you?" Lesha asked, with anger in her eyes.
"No, I suspect that was her being a pervert, but now she hopefully learned a lesson to stop messing with you two."
"What was I doing?" Mei asked, shaking. "I feel really good all over my body, but...I think I peed myself a little...I'm sorry."
I walked over to her and hugged her into my breasts. The poor girl must have felt what I did because I smelled no pee, and I remember how wet Lesha got. Now she had no idea what was happening to her body, but then she started to rub her face into my breasts and make little moaning noises into my shirt.
I pulled her away, to find her hands between her legs and her tongue sticking out with a dreamy look. What the hell was she doing? I went to pull one of her hands out, but then she started rubbing herself harder with her other hands and when I went to grab her other hand, she yelled at me.
"Wait! I want another one! Like last night! Your boobs feel just as soft as I imaaaaaaagined, ah!" Mei said as her eyes crossed and knees closed, moaning out the last words. "I think I peed again."
"What do you mean last night?" I said in a growling voice.
"I, uh, might have snuck down to hide outside your room last night and, um, peeked a bit. I'm really sorry! I couldn't help myself after hearing you two, and I couldn't sleep...so I came and peeked a bit and copied you! It took me a while, but Miss Lesha is a good teacher!"
I was about to tear into her, but Lesha took my hand, making me stop.
"Come with me, let's go get you clean up. You see there is a sink over there? I will meat you over there after I talk to K, okay?" Lesha asked in a gentle voice.
"Sure!" Mei said smiling and turning to go over to behind the bar.
Lesha turned to me.
"Something is wrong, K I don't think she had parents or any kind of mentors. She acts like it's normal, and you and I both know it's not, but we have to be gentle. I think this poor girl has been through enough, so save your temper for the ones that earn it, okay?" Lesha said quietly, before giving me a quick kiss, and turning to go help, Mei.
I was left standing there, nothing to do, but she was right. I should have already seen it, but I was two focus on her being something that was weird, but she wasn't, she just needed some guidance. I took a deep breath and went over to help Lesha.
After helping Mei get cleaned up, I talked to Gram about funds to get some new armor and weapons.
"Hmm, funds? Oh, yes there are a few gold coins in the vault, come, and I will show you."
Gram led the three of us down to the basement that was nothing more than stairs leading down to a set of three doors, one in front and one on each side. I could almost stretch my arms out to touch the two doors opposite of each other. Mei tried one of the side doors, but when she pulled it open, there was a red brick wall completely covering the doorway.
"Why is there a wall behind this door?" I asked, looking at Gram.
In response, Gram opened the door opposite to the one Mei had opened, and there was the same brick wall there as well. This was strange, there wasn't any other brick in the building, maybe save the oven in the kitchen, but it had brown bricks and not red. These bricks were also perfectly made and placed by a master, no one else could create such fine work, but why?
"I have no idea why they are just walls, The whole place is like that you know? The thing is, some rooms have opened up upstairs, maybe go check it out before you leave to the dungeon, but first, come in here and grab what you need. Don't be shy, this is all yours now, I have been collecting items with the gold so there might be something in there that you girls could use, but I think you might need to get some breastplate hammered out!" Gram said as he opened the door to what I assumed would be the vault.
It was, and to my surprise, there was a good bit of coin and different types of armor and weapon, but there was something that caught my eye and pulled at me. It was a glass triangle-shaped object, and it was sitting at the end of a long shelf at the end of the room. Gram must have noticed me staring at the thing, and spoke up.
"I found that on my first run through a dungeon! I have no idea what it is, but when I brought it down here, I had to put it in that spot on the shelf. It was like I had no choice in the matter, but I don't know what it does. Take what you need, but try not to rob yourself blind, this place does cost money to run!"
With that last comment, Gram turned and left back up the stairs, leaving the three of us alone. Mei turned to me with a screwed-up expression on her face.
"What was that?"
"Hm? What was what? Did I miss something?" I asked looking around, unsure what Mei was talking about.
"The hairy thing that was just talking to us! Was that a real person?! He looks like a hairball a cat coughed up!"
"You're not wrong, but that was the Guild's previous leader."
"No way! And that furball went into a dungeon? What do you think that glass thing is? Hey! Look there is a robe over there, Lesha! Come we go see it?!"
"Yes, we will go see it while K gets the other things we need, right?" Lesha asked me, giving me her patient easy-going smile.
"Yeah, I got the stuff ready, you two find something for us to use."
Mei was a real mystery, where did she come from? She couldn't have been living alone all this time, could she have? Looking at her, it was easy to see, but she knew how to talk well, maybe the word choices were a little rough, but, she must have had parents and lost them or they were taken as slaves.
The wars had created many orphans and too many people were conscripted to go into a meat grinder of constant battle and death. The dungeons may claim lives, but we humans had killed more of our own kind than any dungeon ever would. Sad, but then, I wasn't here doing this because the world was a friendly place to live in where everyone got along and sang songs together.
I first walked over to the triangle, and looked around it; it had four sides all going up to what looked to be an extremely sharp point. So, what did I do? I reached forward without control, but I wasn't trying to stop my body; something told me that I needed to do this. As my finger poked the point, and it easily broke the skin.
{Guild Leader} Rank Ruby
{Guild Level} 1
{Total Guild Experience} 2%
{Total Guild Funds} 8433 Gold Coins
{Total Guild Expenses} 3450g/month
{Total Guild Members} 6/100
This time the sign in my eyes was blue instead of red and when I was finished reading them over, I closed it up. The first quarter of the distance down of the triangle was now filled with an electric blue with red blood swirling around inside with it. So, this must be like a record or a note of the guild, but I wasn't a Ruby rank!
Then there was the matter of the Guild expenses, which were crazy! I was pretty sure Dad and I paid something like fifty gold a month between the two of us! Heck, I was lucky to make two gold per day! How were we supposed to make that much money?! Ugh, just another thing to add to the list.
Still, it only said six members, which reminded me of Mei, and that I still needed to mark her.
"K! K! Look at me!" Mei called.
I rolled my eyes while still looking away, but then turned to look at the two of them. Mei actually looked cute in her new robe, and this Purple one fit her a lot better. I could also see that it was made out of a special kind of fabric that was made in the far north called Kieve Cloth. It was known for being very smooth and nice on the skin.
"Well, you look really good Mei, it suits you. I bet it feels better on your skin, as well?"
"Mhmm, they don't hurt my points no more!" Mei said with a big smile.
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