Chapter 20: Date Night P6
~20.6~
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Holy crap, last night was amazing.
Kye rolled over and saw both her pink-haired and red-haired partners. At some point in the night during their love-making, Michelle went to the Void Palace and sensed their mana. Curious why they were back early, she went up to see if there was a problem. She walked in at the wrong time. Alethea had all but become a beast, and Michelle got wrapped up in it.
I bet she's as sore as me, but it felt sooo good. I don't know where Alethea learned how to do all of that. It's like she was a different person. We did have wine with our dinner last night... the few times we've drank in the past couple years she always was gone first. Hehe, she's a lightweight.
After Kye, Michelle slowly roused. "Ugh..."
"Hey, Mi-chan."
Michelle sat up and held the sheet to keep her modesty. "Hey, I kinda like that nickname."
"Hehe," Kye giggled. "How are you feeling, love?"
"Oh, man. I'm so sore." She leaned over and kissed the blonde. "But it was worth it. Holy shit, I never expected that kind of action from our favorite pinky. Not gonna lie, it was the best I've ever had."
"Ha, don't let Adele hear that." Kye chuckled. "She'll get jealous."
"Right?"
As they were chatting, Alethea slowly stirred. "Mmhmmff."
Kye and Michelle giggled. Michelle hopped up and slid over to Alethea's left side, leaving Kye on the right.
""Good morning, love."" Each kissed one of Alethea's cheeks.
The pink girl smiled and giggled. "That's a nice way to wake up. I love you guys."
"Oh, we know. You loved the hell out of us last night," Michelle said with a smirk.
Alethea's cheeks reddened, and she pulled the sheet up to hide her face. "Oh my goddess, I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me. I'm so embarrassed."
"It's okay, love," Kye said. "You were amazing. You said you'd take good care of me and it was sooo good. I could get addicted to that."
"Same," Michelle added with a seductive grin. "I'd do just about anything to get you to do that again."
From under the sheet, Alethea said, "I hate this thing, though. I don't know how I can handle it when I'm drunk. I get drunk so easily, too. This body can't handle alcohol. I barely had a glass of wine! I love you guys so much, but I hate that I can't enjoy my end of it unless I'm drunk. God, this... thing bothers me so much. I want what you guys have. I wanna get f-"
Kye held a finger to Alethea's mouth over the sheet. "Hey, love, it's okay. Just take a deep breath. You're going to spike your anxiety really high."
Alethea pulled the sheet down enough to show her face and took a deep breath.
"Let it out slowly," Michelle said.
She slowly exhaled, then took another deep breath and exhaled again. She sat quietly for about ten seconds, then suddenly shouted, "I ain't working! I miss the sensations of having girl parts!" She rolled around on the bed. "It's not fair! I want what you guys have! I miss it! It's not fair! Reeeeeeeee!!!"
Kye and Michelle were both surprised and struggled to hold back laughter. Alethea was being completely serious, but it bothered her too much, so she coped by acting silly about it. Her partners knew that and didn't want to laugh, but found it incredibly hard to hold back. Kye and Michelle dressed themselves with their aethersilk bands to keep their modesty once Alethea yanked the sheet away during all the rolling around.
She stopped and laid on her back, the sheet firmly wrapped around her. "Was it really that good for you both?"
"Mhm, you were amazing," Kye said with a warm smile.
"Incredible even," Michelle added with a seductive smile.
"I mean... I guess it's because I was always born a girl... I do kinda know what feels good for one..."
"Yeah, probably," Kye said. She grinned at her pink partner and kissed her on the cheek again. "It could also just be that our love is strong!"
Alethea beamed back at her. "Mhm!"
Michelle hesitated for a split second, fast enough that Alethea didn't notice since she had her eyes closed, but too slow to hide it from Kye's sharp eyes. "What's up?"
"Hmm?"
"I saw that. You grimaced just now."
"Oh, uh..." She averted her eyes. "It's nothing. I don't want to drag the mood down."
"No, tell us. If you're feeling bad about something, I want to hear it. We can't fix it if we don't talk about it."
Michelle was somewhat surprised at Kye's response. Over the past few years, since the four of them agreed on the polyamorous relationship and the following polygamous marriage, Michelle was constantly worried that one of them would regret it. She had loads of self-confidence in every other facet of her life, but was paranoid about the polyamory.
Even in her days in the distant past, as Adara, she felt an unusual attachment to Adele. They were one of the few cases of transmigrators meeting up in a world and fell in love all over again the same way that Elysia and Maya did in their previous life together. Adele and Adara were born as Doran and Michelle in Atlantis, first cousins of the Maya Royal Family, but fortunately, it was socially acceptable for them to have a relationship. Even though some people gave them a hard time about it, they began dating as soon as they figured out each other's identity.
In their first year of the academy, Adele and Kye began eyeing each other. Alethea and Michelle were very caring for their respective partners and were both accepting of polyamory. The four soon discovered each others' identities, thanks in part to Kye's and Michelle's ability to peer into souls. They were all married as Elysia, Maya, Adele, and Adara and quickly prepared for the same again.
Elysia was the first immortal to transmigrate, and when everyone else failed to talk her out of it, Maya, Adel, and Adara came the closest to succeeding. They couldn't talk her out of it entirely, but they at least were able to postpone it for a time. But Elysia inevitably sealed her memories and took her first jump anyway, leaving her true body behind in the nexus and reincarnating as a mortal baby over and over again.
Adara didn't meet Elysia again for a long time after that, though they did meet occasionally throughout their many mortal lives. Adara never entered a world without her memories... not once. She could identify a fellow immortal at a glance. Her ability to measure the mana in the soul was matched only by Elysia, but even Elysia couldn't actually identify another immortal as easily as she could.
Kye and Alethea both urged her to talk about it, and Michelle reluctantly laid out her misgivings. "I have a lot of regret over my part in failing to talk you out of transmigrating. I still feel like you shouldered far too much on your own, even if you don't remember what you shouldered. You..." A tear rolled down her cheek. "You voluntarily took on so much sin. You vowed to take on the pain of the mortals whom you could not help. Before, there were so many cases where you wanted to dive in and stop their wars, or save them from monsters, or whatever else, but we weren't allowed to. We still can't save for transmigrating."
"Michelle..." Kye reached for her face to wipe the tear away, but Michelle swatted her hand back.
"Every single one of us gradually began transmigrating after you. Maya started sometime after a few hundred of your lives. She couldn't bear to watch any longer and wanted to ease your load. Over time, the rest of us did the same. And... and..." She fought back hard against her tears. "I have all this regret about that, and yet here I am... married to you. I couldn't stop you. I couldn't save you. None of us could do anything about it. I didn't understand. But now, after all these lives, it hurts so much."
She started crying, and Kye pulled her in, saying nothing. Alethea reached over and rubbed Michelle's back.
"I didn't dare imagine that day in the food court that we would leave reunited. Even considering how close we were before, I didn't think I was capable of truly loving anyone other than Adele. Even now, I'm afraid that these feelings aren't real, and that you only have me around because of her. It's like a lingering demon in my head that's keeping me from believing what I want to believe. I want to believe that these feelings are real, and that I'm not just some tag-a-long baggage. I successfully pushed these thoughts out of my mind for a while, but after last night... how... intimate it was... it's like walls are being shattered. It feels like I really belong with you, not just because of Adele. It feels like that demon is cornered, and is trying ever so harder to maintain its grip. I don't know what to do or think!"
As she began crying too much to get any more words out, Kye and Alethea exchanged glances and nodded. Kye's body started glowing with silvery white mana and Alethea's with pink. Kye raised Michelle's face and kissed her cheek, Alethea kissing her other cheek. Michelle's eyes glazed over for a few moments as Kye's and Alethea's manas mixed inside her. They were channeling their soul mana into her, something that could only be done if the recipient truly accepted it. After several minutes, she fell asleep with tears covering both her face and Kye's chest.
Smiling at each other, Kye and Alethea laid down with her and kept her company while she slept.
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Revision: 2024-7-27