Chapter 90: 90: Honing and supper
I headed to finish my supper with the others. Garnet laughed, of course, at my stained robes. Lana just shook her head and helped me out of the stained clothes. There had to be a way to reach through to Halia.
She would prove useful.
I stirred my spoon around in my bowl. Thinking. How could I get her on my side? I would have to show her my intentions. Prove to her that I wasn't a threat. There was one way I could do that. One way I could show her the truth of my actions.
"We should go to Astovin tomorrow," I said. "We're running low on food again."
"Ooh, road trip!" Garnet said, her wings fluttering. "I need a new outfit. I'm thinking leather straps that cross my torso and just hide my nipples. And a thong. I need a thong to wear. Then I can go sauntering around looking all sexy but not showing off all the goods, big bro." My succubus grinned at me. "Doesn't that sound hot?"
"Straps?" Lana asked, arching her eyebrow. "That sounds like the most impractical garb in the world."
"It would be so hot!" Garnet leaned back, her crimson eyes flashing bright. "Kweh, heh, heh, I would look like a sexy villainess in an anime. Ooh, yes, yes, just wearing next to nothing and then threatening everyone."
"We're not villains," I growled.
Garnet flinched. Her wings drooped. "I was just having fun," she muttered. "I didn't mean I would be a villainess."
I sighed. I took my succubus's hand. "Sorry. I'm just annoyed. I don't want these adventurers attacking my dungeon. But the word's gotten out. They'll be more coming all the time. It won't ever stop, will it? Not unless I can show Astovin and the adventurers that I'm not a threat to them."
"Any ideas?" my little sister asked.
"Yeah, a few," I said. "All dangerous."
Halia looked more than a little skeptical when we returned her armor to her the next day.
"What is this?" she demanded. "Are you going to take me to some arena and make me fight for your amusement?"
"Why would I do that?" I asked, staring at her in shock. "Do you think I'm into blood sports or something?"
"Then why are you arming me?"
"Because I'm setting you free," I said. "We're taking you to Astovin and releasing you."
Her brow furrowed. "Just like that, you're letting me go? After you went through the effort of capturing me? Your plan was to hold me for a few days and then..." She stared at me suspiciously. "What are you up to?"
"Keeping you locked up is never going to prove that I don't want to hurt you or others. So I need to prove it. I need to demonstrate that I can be trusted. What better way to do that than to let you go? So, get dressed, we're leaving soon."
I was wearing different clothes from my obvious wizard robes. Just a pair of wool pants and a hemp shirt. The same sort of garb I saw the local farmers wearing. No armor. No weapons. Lana and Garnet were both wrapped up in dresses and cloaks to try and hide them.
Garnet was easier. We undid her pigtails and her horns were hardly noticeable peeking out of her red hair. Her wings were folded up beneath her clothing.
She hadn't been happy. "It's too much clothing, big bro," she had said. "How are they supposed to fall in love with my beauty and then become insanely jealous when they realize only you get to touch me?"
Halia donned her armor. When she was ready, I opened the door for her. I wore her blessed sword on my waist. She stared at that, eyeing it with hunger. I shook my head. If she tried to grab it, Lana and Garnet would make short work of her.
"Usiku, you have command," I told her. "Keep my monster girls safe."
"And the Void Crystal?" she asked, amusement on her lips.
"That is a tad important, isn't it?" I asked, smiling.
"Just a tiny bit." She smiled at me and then kissed me with passion on the lips.
I groaned into it, wanting to just do things with her. My cock was aching, but I broke it and forced myself to do the responsible stuff. I had to win Halia to my cause.
If I could get her at least focusing her attention, and those of other adventurers, on attacking the bad dungeon builders, then at least I could buy myself some breathing room to figure things out.
So I didn't have to be the cause of any more deaths than I had to be.
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