Michael downs the last of the bitter ale he'd been served and pours some Vodka into his empty mug, afterwards using some magic to quickly cool it. "What will you say to Tiff?"
Saeko shakes her head. "Things that you shouldn't be aware of, even if everything goes my way." he states and he furrows his brows. "Do you mind pouring me some too? I haven't had 'Spirits' since I came to this world."
Michael pours her some Vodka and stores it back in his inventory, still thinking about how bad the situation could turn. He'd honestly brought this on himself by bringing her in the first place, Saya had been nothing but amazing, but Saeko was a menace... A damn sexy menace...
"Fine, but you must accept Tiff's answer no matter what. You can't pressure or threaten her in any way, and if I feel that she's against whatever you agree to I'll put my foot down. You are the outsider in this instance, I'll put Tiff's wellbeing over yours, do you understand?" he says with finality.
Saeko nods after grimacing at the Vodka, "All I want is a chance to make my case. I might not be a good person, but I'm not evil enough to harm Tiffania."
"Alright, fine. Grab your shit and we'll head to Winterhold. There's nothing left for me to do in Whiterun anyway." he says, clapping the table and getting to his feet.
"Ah, wait. I need to ask if Raiden wishes to come... He seemed quite smitten with those two girls but, it's courtesy to ask." she says as she goes and knocks on the Redguard's door. It was the afternoon, and her fellow swordsman had gone to enjoy his 'friends' company some more.
Walking in on the man and his two 'close friends', she learned that he wished to stay with the Companions to see if their influence was the catalyst to her unlocking her Shehai... It was probably wrong, but she imagined the two women beside him and convinced him regardless.
With that, Michael and Saeko leave Whiterun and arrive at the base of the Eye of the World... All without noticing a certain Dragonborn who'd observed them departing, jealousy striking the man since he'd intended to ask Saeko out for a stroll or perhaps dinner...
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Saeko and Tiffania locked eyes as soon as they met one another in the Spire's hallway, the two girls freezing for a few moments as metaphorical lighting clashes between them.
"Why doesn't Saeko meet everyone else first bef-" Michael starts but is interrupted when Tiffania looks at him...
"Michael, could you prepare food for everyone today? I'll show Miss Busujima around..." the elf says with a forced smile.
...
"You su-"
"Go."
...
"Alright, don't hope for anything 'Food-Wars' quality." he says before leaving, letting the women hash this out. Clearly, he needed to be as far away as possible or he'd get caught in the crossfire.
"Hello, Tiffania." Saeko neutrally greets.
"It's good to see you again Saeko. Have you finished humping camels and riding Redguards? Oh!" Tiffania hold a hand over her mouth in a mock gasp, "I meant that the other way around..."
Saeko's eyes squint in response, "I've been fighting the Thalmor in Hammerfell of course, not like you, sitting around and hoping Michael will solve your problems for you." she retorts.
"Speaking of Michael, did you know he snores? Not always though, only after sweating for a bit." Tiffania says with a smile.
"OOOooohh!" Megumin quietly cheers, fisting pumping the air as she and Saya watch from the staircase. "Did you hear that?" the chuuni girl asks her accomplice.
"Yes, but I think Saeko is going to be the winner in this... She's a lot scarier than Tiffania..." Saya replies.
"No way! Tiffania has the home ground advantage!"
"You two need to mind your own business!" Michael says before silencing them and carrying them away by the collars of their clothes. "You're going to help me make food and you're going to like it." he growls as Megumin flails in a vain yet useless attempt to escape.
In the meanwhile, Tiffania and Saeko took their 'conversation' to an empty room in the Spire, continuing to trade barbs back and forth, neither giving an inch.
Finally, Saeko decides to cut to the point, while she enjoyed the conflict, she wasn't there to 'beat' Tiffania, but to find some common ground. After all, they'd be seeing each other a whole lot depending on the outcome of this...
"Tiffania, I would like to court Michael." the swordswoman states while crosser her legs.
Tifania sniffs humorously in response, "Is that all? I refuse."
Saeko smiles in response, "What do you think Michael said when I asked?"
"No, but he would be conflicted about it." the elf easily replies.
"That's basically how it went... Aren't you upset that he considered it?"
Tiffania shakes her head, "I'd be worried if he hadn't. He's a man, you're a beautiful woman. I wouldn't be surprised if he had already slept with you." she admits.
Saeko tilts her head in thought at that, "And you're still happy with him, even when you think he could have done that?"
Tiffania nods with a subdued smile, "Michael is my everything, he saved my life, gave me hope, taught me to defend myself. Without him I would be dead, so I owe everything to him." she lets out a cold breath, "If he wants to take another woman then, that's how it will be..."
"Isn't that... Don't you have any self-respect? Even if he saved you, you don't deserve to be hurt..." Saeko says despite the fact she was technically arguing against herself. "Would you say the same if he was abusive and cruel?"
...
"No. But it's because he is everything I could ask for that I can sacrifice for him. Why are you asking anyway? Aren't you happy that I'm giving you permission to pursue him?" Tiffania asks, confused.
...
Saeko shakes her head, "I won't." she decides, unwilling to take advantage of this girl's complete disregard for her own wants and needs. If she didn't know Michael so well, she'd have thought that he'd brainwashed Tiffania to think this way... "At least, I won't pursue Michael until you want it... Let's get to know each other, be friends."
...
"If that's what you want..." TIffania agrees, even if she wanted to make Michael happy with Saeko, she couldn't push herself to argue against the swordswoman's decision.
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To Michael's surprise, Saeko joins the group and begins living in the Spire, seemingly dropping the subject of getting together with him completely... Or at least, that's how she was presenting herself.
Without the sudden bout of fighting between her and Tiffania, the two began doing many things together. Saeko even beginning to teach Tiffania about things from her homeland, cooking, traditions, even basic etiquette. Sure, they verbally sparred occasionally, but those times were complete outliers...
Saeko also got on well with the Eredar in Winterhold, her sense of honour matching with theirs without much issue. Not to mention her many stories of Hammerfell that the alien-folk liked to listen to, trading their own after each one.
Michael actually got the opportunity to spar with her relatively often, the duo comparing their combat styles against one another... He was victorious most of the time of course, as even with her rather broken abilities with the sword he was simply too versatile.
The only times he truly lost were when he limited himself to swordsmanship, for sure, she was above the basic swordsmanship master tier. Additionally, she had never used her Shehai against him, or indeed, used it at all after facing the dragon.
She said it was more a matter of will to summon it than anything else, but Michael was pretty sure she was just saying that to save her from the embarrassment.
A couple weeks had passed since the revelation of the Dragonborn, and news about him had spread all over Skyrim. Every available Hold had sent letters to invite him to their service, offering huge payments to have him protect their lands from the dragon threat that'd destroyed Dawnstar not that long ago.
From what Michael could tell, the Dragonborn had ignored most of these, instead electing to journey to the Greybeards to learn how to utilise his talents. A smart idea considering the fact that Saeko had to do most of the damage to the last dragon he'd faced.
He probably wouldn't meet Paarthurnax or Illococoo anytime soon, but it was definitely something to think about. Whether or not the Dragonborn would be against Paarthurnax, or would feel the need to kill Illococoo because of her race.
The dragons themselves hadn't been idle, a few working in concert had massacred some Imperial reinforcements that'd tried coming over the border, drastically reducing the amount of men the Legion could muster... The dragons might have accidentally pushed Ulfric into a position to win, which, when take into account the Dragonborn's Stormcloak affiliation, makes everything seem like a giant clusterfuck.
Michael himself had continued to work on figuring out the Skeleton Key with Shadow Shaman's help... Not that he'd made much progress on that front, while the connection to Nocturnal was heavily reduced, she was still linked to her artifact to some degree, making any attempts to actually use it practically suicide... There was also the risk of her unlocking a pathway into Tamriel with it, which could technically bypass Akatosh's Veil completely.
With that avenue of research not leading anywhere any time soon, he'd instead starting searching for Clavicus Vile's artifacts... Unfortunately, he'd found little to nothing in the way of information. The only thing of note was some gambling house in Cyrodil that had a golden statue of Clavicus Vile prominently standing in the centre of it.
This wouldn't be all that strange since many places had similar shrines, if it weren't for the fact that this gambling house in particular had all chance lean in favour of the house... Or, those who possessed jewellery dedicated to Clavicus.
He'd need more information on it of course, but he was seventy percent sure that he'd found one of the artifacts he was looking for, but he'd leave it for now... Going venturing in Cyrodil while dragons are tearing shit up would be a dumb idea...
*Crreeaaa*
Michael looks towards the door from the bean bag is was laying in, spotting a blood-covered Saeko making her way to the bathroom... "Er, what?" he asks, wondering what this girl had done now?
Saeko shrugs, "A group of Imperials and Dunmer decided they didn't like our home. I decided I didn't like them." she casually remarks.
...
"Again? How many desperate fucking Conjurers are there!?" Michael grouses while rubbing his forehead. This was the third attack since the Spire had been built, and he was still expecting many more to come.
Saeko goes to clean herself off, leaving Michael to laze about playing the single-player games he'd acquired. Boredom quickly making itself a nuisance.
"Michael, are you even trying?" Megumin asks after she kills his afk character in the fighting game.
...
"Fuck it! Let's go kill some dragons, I'm bored enough as it is!" he exclaims, grabbing the explosion girl, the freshly cleaned Saeko, and Tiffania before heading out towards the nearest mountain range that may or may not have a dragon atop it.
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"This is what, the fifth mountain we've checked?... Can we go home yet?" Megumin asks under her layers of fur clothing.
Michael shakes his head, "No, not until we've killed some dragons..."
...
"But-"
"No buts!"
...
Three hours and two more mountains later, the group finally stumbles across something... Or somethings to be precise. Over in they could see two dragons sitting by one another, seemingly having an ordinary everyday discussion... Which was made unordinary since they were both big flying lizards.
"Finally!... Alright, you guys know the drill. Megumin, Tiff, start casting your spells. Me and Saeko will head in after."
The group nods, and not long after two explosions echo out around the region, one much larger than the other.
Michael and Saeko run in next, quickly noting that one dragon had already been obliterated, having been struck by both Megumi and Tiffania's spells simultaneously. The other dragon was still alive, albeit blacked with soot.
"HOW YOU DARE, INSECTS!" the dragon roars in a rage but isn't able to continue its rant as Michael and Saeko dart to each of its sides before beginning their attack...
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