The boundless dark-blue sea shining under the moonlight looked like a sea of mercury. Shimmering with a silvery light, it creates a wonderful picture that one wanted to preserve in their memory. Especially with the sight of numerous large stars glimmering reflected on its surface, the sight of which took one's breath away…
Momonga wanted to continue looking at the sea before him, enjoying the feeling of calm the sight seemed to endear to him. He tried to imagine that each of the stars before him were not a single tapestry, but the millions and millions of countless distant worlds that it actually is. There, far away, beyond the emptiness enveloping the vast and yet, at the same time, so small Earth…
To see oneself as an infinitely small grain of sand in the endless, empty ocean of stars…
"Master!" However, Shalltear's voice tore Momonga out of his contemplation of the iridescent carpet of stars and its reflection, making him turn his eyes to the two girls in front of him. Noting with a certain pleasure the fact that the picture before him was not particularly inferior to the picture that he had been examining just a few seconds ago.
Of course, in Shalltear's wardrobe there was a bikini, several even, he shouldn't have expected anything else from Peroroncino. To Momonga's relief, Shalltear eventually refused the most fetishistic options, it was better for Momonga not to check what kind of thoughts a school swimsuit or a micro-bikini, which was probably not removed for violating censorship only because devs did not notice, could awaken in him. Instead, Shalltear had eventually chosen a relatively modest bikini.
Relatively, being the keyword here. Because, no matter how you looked at Shalltear's appearance, it was still a bikini. At least it still hid the most important parts of Shalltear's body…
The same, which could not be said about Albedo, whom Momonga noticed a moment later and looked away, trying to think about something like the cold emptiness of space… And not the hot fullness of the female body, accentuated almost devilishly by the way the clothing pressed on it.
Because, while Shalltear was the 'ideal waifu' of Peroroncino, who loved to collect all possible types of costumes to dress Shalltear up, leaving Shalltear as a result with a collection of several hundred items of clothing, Tabula, the creator of Albedo, did not bother to provide her with a swimsuit. No, of course, he prepared several sets of clothes for Albedo, but they were all, in one way or another, ball gowns or combat armor, which definitely was not suited for swimming. And this, in turn, caused a certain problem, since Albedo still needed swimwear, which Albedo immediately intended to get from the wardrobe of Nazarick…
And of course, out of thousands of options, she had to choose the only one that was not made of magical fabric, and therefore did not adjust to the size of the owner! Given Albedo's extremely prominent… Proportions. Her bikini barely fit on her and with each movement of her body, causing her breasts to sway, it threatened to burst into pieces of scrap at any moment.
Momonga was ready to bet that Albedo herself was trying with every movement to tear her bra with all her might!
That is why Momonga continued to silently gaze at the beauty of the night sky, slowly inhaling and exhaling. Trying to instill the essence of cold, boundless emptiness into himself…
"Master!" Shalltear, who was next to Momonga, looked devotedly into his eyes, then moved her hand to the side, pointing to the sea flooded with silver light. "Please, let's go! What could be more romantic than swimming under the moonlight?!"
"Of course, Lord Momonga, even Shalltear has good ideas sometimes." Albedo began to speak at a distance of several meters from Momonga, but it still did not help him. The feeling that someone had licked his ear with a hot tongue still made Momonga realize that, contrary to the reasoning of his former guild mates, on earth there were objects significantly hotter than the distant stars.
Momonga had driven himself into this trap, to be completely honest. He invited two girls on a date, wanting to postpone the sex and dilute it with romantic dialogues so that his relationship doesn't just consist of carnality. Time to get to know Albedo and Shalltear as living beings, and not just as NPCs that his guild had once created.
But the ideal romantic setting he had chosen turned into a trap, because Momonga did not realize that during a date on the beach… He would have to swim. And swimming meant the two girls he was currently dating would be half naked, because there's no way they could swim with their clothes on. And them being already half naked, in turn, meant that Momonga's mind, from a purely pragmatic point of view, and not because he had turned into a pervert, would prefer to leave romantic conversations and proceed to sex. After all, why waste time on conversations when their outcome was already predetermined anyway?
Besides, Momonga couldn't admit that he… Couldn't swim.
What? Being undead and a mage, Momonga could travel along the seabed on foot, he did not need to keep himself afloat, and in case of extreme need, he could always use teleportation or flight for quick movement. Furthermore, swimming was a completely unnecessary skill for Momonga in his past life, in the real world.
After all, the only clean water, one that is suitable for swimming and would not burn the flesh clean off of the bone, existed exclusively in the private pools of the richest and most high-ranking corporate employees. Pools that Momonga could only see exclusively in the news or corporate bulletin as the Corporate execs celebrated some kind of achievement, or on Christmas and the Company Founding Day.
And sometimes, very rarely, when declaring wars and making peace. But in Neo-Japan, Momonga such a thing was rare indeed.
Yet now, finding himself on the beach, with two stunning girls literally radiating desire, Momonga could do nothing but continue to look at the stars rather than enjoying the very rare opportunity to enjoy the vast expanse of clean water. He could only hope and pray that one of the stars would suddenly flash across the sky and work like his Super-Tier magic and grant him the opportunity to avoid shame.
However, whatever the limits of Momonga's incredible luck, it seemed that it was still not capable of causing magical meteor showers on command.
'How did it come to this? I could prepare ten battle plans with bosses, twenty ways to win in PvP, in an instant, but the moment a relationship issue comes into the picture, I am completely lost!' Momonga wanted to sigh in frustration, but he could definitely not do that, unless he made it appear that he would make it appear to the girls that he disliked something. And so, instead, smiling at Albedo and Shalltear, he accepted the fact that he would not be able to dodge the two girls for too long. He would need to join in on swimming. Hell, he hasn't even taken off his towel after changing!
With great reluctance, Momonga slowly pulled off the towel, inadvertently giving the girls a very tantalizing strip show.
"Ah, my Master!" Despite the fact that Shalltear, being a vampire, was deprived of blood circulation and therefore could not physically blush, in violation of all the laws of biology, from one glance at Momonga, Shalltear's snow-white skin turned an unexpectedly bright ruby color. However, Albedo, judging by how she suddenly inhaled air with a stuffy sob, as if suddenly struck by lightning, was not particularly lagging behind her harem sister…
'These are literally just swimming trunks…' Momonga did not even want to draw the attention of the girls to the fact that at the moment he was wearing the simplest boxer-style swimming trunks, Momonga felt too uncomfortable in others. It was made in full imitation of the standard male swimwear in this world.
If there was such a thing as 'anti-eroticism', then Momonga was sure that his swimming trunk definitely fell under it.
"Ah, Lord Momonga…" Albedo's voice, was shrouded in a veil of arousal, thickening with every second, made its way to Momonga's ears, prompting him to make a decision to quickly bade a hasty retreat into the water.
At least in the water, he could hide his reaction to Albedo's sultry voice was having on a particular part of his anatomy… Why did Tabula even make Albedo such a succubus?!
"Master, your beautiful body… Ah, why can't I become the wind, so that I could caress your body from all sides, licking it with a hundred tongues…" Momonga made a huge effort to control himself to not react to Shalltear's words. The sea, the endless sea would be his escape, he could not drown after all, and so waddled deeper in the surf.
Again, Momonga was not at all against the very act of sex. In general, despite some limitations of his body and sensations in that, Momonga had enjoyed his trysts with the two girls… However, it would still take him some time before he could fully begin to perceive the actions of Albedo and Shalltear as something completely normal.
Not to mention the fact that he had planned a date, so he wanted some romance! He really wanted to get to know the two girls who once existed as NPCs, and now suddenly turned to be living, intelligent, thinking individuals!
Trying not to pay too much attention to the admiring looks of the two girls surrounding him at the moment, Momonga quickly rushed into the sea. Now, with his lower half completely hidden under the water, he was able to breathe a little more calmly and turn his attention back to the two girls.
With the two moving into the waters themselves, at the moment were approaching him with alarming inevitability. Their movements force Momonga to recall the sharks that had long been extinct in his past world, but still existed in Yggdrasil, trying to get close to their prey.
"Ahem, Albedo!" Momonga tried to take control of himself again and refrain from trying to retreat from the approaching shark. "Ahem, what do you… Like to do in your free time?"
"Free time?" Albedo raised her head for a moment, her eyes losing the predatory tinge, surprised by Momonga's words, "Free from what, Lord Momonga?"
Shalltear, however, taking advantage of the fact that Momonga addressed not her, but Albedo, continued to swim towards him, getting even closer to her target, that is, Momonga's body.
"When you're free from… Your duties, I suppose?" Momonga was not sure if he could unambiguously describe the actions of the NPCs as their 'work', so he asked the question somewhat uncertainly, making Albedo frown for a moment.
"Please forgive me, Lord Momonga! With all possible thoroughness, I strive to serve you with absolute dedication so as not to allow even a fraction of my life to pass uselessly! If you have noticed that I have this 'free time', moments where I have not served you, please punish me with all possible severity!" Albedo instantly fell to one knee, because of which she half went underwater, forcing Momonga to abort asking further questions. He needed to fix this and fast, even as he was still shocked at how badly his prepared question was taken.
Before Momonga could say anything, Albedo suddenly raised her head, her hair causing a blade of water to appear, splashing water all around her, even some getting into her eyes, which the succubus ignored completely. Instead, her full attention was placed on Momonga, which he had to admit had pinned him in place with just how fervent her gaze looked.
"However, I suppose, Lord Momonga… If you would allow me to say this, then, I suppose… Perhaps there is an activity that I really could do in my 'free time'…"
"Hm!" Momonga cheered up for a moment, seeing that his question was finally going somewhere.
"And what would you do with that?"
"I remember the unforgettable sex with you and fantasize about its continuation!" Albedo's face instantly lit up like the most polished gold coin in the world, making Momonga step back from her excited declaration.
'On the one hand, it looks like I have no other choice.' Momonga sighed as he could feel Shalltear's small hands touching him, before instantly finding a rational reason for his actions,
'Although, on the other hand, perhaps, after I remove these thoughts from the minds of Albedo and Shalltear … I can try to talk to them about something romantic?'
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