Chapter 45
After eating the food Bella had cooked herself and resting my body, I immediately headed to the indoor training hall.
The indoor training hall was one of the facilities on the first floor of Eight-Colored Clam Castle. Its floor was made of smooth wood, and it was an empty dojo where not a single piece of furniture or wall decoration could be found.
It felt bare, but it seemed ideal for moving one’s body.
Isti, who had walked ahead, turned to look at me and began explaining.
“This time, we’re going to train on creating a point of departure.”
“A point of departure?”
When I asked back, Isti nodded.
“Spatial Leap is activated by creating a point of departure and a landing point. That’s why you need to know the exact location of the spirit core.”
I think I understand.
If you don’t pinpoint it precisely, you might go too far, or fail to move as far as necessary. There would be plenty of problems.
Then, all at once, a chilling thought occurred to me.
“Isti. You said this skill can ignore walls.
What happens if you set the landing point incorrectly and end up inside the middle of a wall?”
Would my body be disassembled?
A terrifying image came to mind.
“Ugh.”
Karen must have imagined something similar, because she shuddered.
“If you collide with an obstacle, you’re bounced back. Sometimes the spirit destroys the obstacle to secure enough space for your body to exist.”
“Then can it be used offensively as well?”
“It’s something that occurs as a reaction to an unexpected situation, so that would be difficult.
Usually, when a situation like that is about to occur, the casting of Spatial Leap is canceled altogether.”
Then it seemed difficult to deliberately use Spatial Leap’s destructive effect.
It wouldn’t even activate in the first place.
You either get bounced back, or it fails to activate altogether. Suffering either of those in the middle of a fight would be fatal.
“That’s why you have to look at the spirit’s position and use it precisely.
Perform one accurate Spatial Leap indoors. That’s my passing mark.”
“That seems reasonable.”
“Let’s start right away, big brother!”
“But how do I create those point things?”
“Let’s start by summoning the wind.”
Following Isti’s suggestion, I first tried to stir up wind indoors.
A pleasant breeze did blow, but it definitely felt weaker than when I had done it outside.
Maybe it was just my imagination, but the spirit core also seemed unhealthy and listless.
It was hard to describe exactly, but when I was outside, feeling the sea breeze, its movements had been lively and excited.
Now that I could see it directly, I felt as though I were raising a pet.
If it was my spirit, there was something I had to do first.
I ordered the spirit to shake Karen’s breasts.
“Eek! Big brother….”
Karen, sexually harassed from a distance, sent a gust of wind at me as well.
Was she trying to knock me over? All it did was lightly brush against my cheek.
“Nngh!”
“Why are you tensing up when you’re the one ordering the spirit around?”
There was always someone like this when playing games, too.
The type whose body moved along with the controller.
“We trained the same way, but big brother’s spirit seems much stronger.”
“I’ve fought alongside my spirit, after all. Our experience is different.”
“Can spirits level up, too?”
“Experience is an important factor in a spirit’s growth.”
Isti answered Karen’s question in my place.
That was right. We had shared all those days fighting against orcs and thin wolves.
So it meant that even indoors, it was capable of shaking Karen’s breasts.
…I had no idea how impressive that was, exactly.
Should I try her butt, too?
“Darling.”
Ugh, Isti was looking at me.
“You’re not the sort of person who uses an innocent spirit to harass a woman’s body… are you?”
“I thought it was a little fun.”
“Treating a spirit that way is highly taboo. If another elf had seen you, they would have challenged you to a duel.”
She had a point. If there were even a hundred people who handled spirits like I did, the reputation of spirit arts would hit rock bottom within a month.
“I think making the wind blow is enough. Does the wind need to be stronger?”
“Hmm… I think you can create a point of departure now, darling. Compress the wind around the spirit core, and try making a landing point and a point of departure.”
“All right.”
I concentrated the wind around the spirit core.
Isti had done it in an instant, but it took me quite a while.
Judging by the movement of the spirit core, the spirit seemed to be struggling a little, too.
Next was the landing point.
Should I set a short distance? I would try one meter for now.
“I’m done. What do I do now?”
“Pass your body through it.”
“Pass my body through….”
Now that I was actually going to do it, I felt a little scared.
I clenched my fists tightly and stepped forward.
Then I felt as though the background of the dojo had suddenly rushed toward me.
The leap was a success.
(You have acquired the skill 《Spatial Leap》.)
An announcement message I had not seen in a long time.
It was a message informing me that I had acquired a new skill.
“Huh?”
But this wasn’t the landing point I had designated.
I had designated a distance of one meter, but I had moved far farther than I had intended.
If I had to put it in units, perhaps around eight meters.
Could the margin of error really be this large?
“Why did I come this far?”
“It was shaken by an unstable deviation at the last moment. Repeated training is necessary to make it stable.”
“All right. One more time….”
Huh?
This time, the wind did not blow at all.
“Isti. The wind isn’t blowing. What happened?”
“Spatial Leap is a skill that consumes the spirit’s MP to activate, so it tires the spirit out.”
“Oh, no.”
It wouldn’t need water, would it?
If it were a skill that consumed my MP, a sip from the Goddess’s Water Bottle would solve the problem.
Looking at the exhausted spirit core, I realized how easily I had been leveling up my skills.
“It would help if we went outside for a while, right?”
“Yes. It’ll recover quickly once it gets some fresh air.”
I left the two of them in the dojo and went outside.
The night wind seeped coldly into my skin. It was so chilly that I regretted coming out, but when I saw the spirit core regain its vitality, I decided I had to endure it.
“Let’s rest for ten minutes and then go back in, all right?”
There was no way it could understand me, but I found myself talking to it anyway.
I rested outside for the ten minutes I had promised the spirit.
Then I returned to the dojo and used Spatial Leap.
That was when I realized just how important Belleira’s blessing was.
The precision of my Spatial Leap increased by leaps and bounds every time I went outside and came back in.
“It seems like the margin of error is almost gone now.”
“I think a little more will do it.”
“No, I can’t do any more today.”
I hugged myself and shivered violently.
“Going in and out nonstop has nearly frozen me to death.”
“…Come here.”
Isti approached and nestled herself snugly into my arms.
“Yes… you’ve gotten very cold. Let’s rest for today, darling.”
“What are you going to do, Karen?”
“I’m going to practice a little longer before I sleep! I’m not going to bed until I can make the wind blow!”
“Then….”
I met Isti’s eyes.
“Shall we go to bed early tonight?”
“Not yet for me. You go ahead, darling.”
I had not expected Isti to refuse, so I stood there, flustered.
Isti continued speaking with a shy expression.
“I’ll wear the costume Leira gave me.”
“……”
In other words, she was asking me to give her time to get ready.
All right. If that was what it was, I couldn’t very well object.
“I’ll wait in the bedroom.”
I kissed Isti on the forehead and left the dojo.
I went into the large bathhouse alone to wash first.
The bathhouse was so enormous that I thought it would feel empty entering alone without the women, but surprisingly, I felt at ease.
We had been spending a little too much time together lately.
Someone once said that men needed time alone.
For the first time in a while, I soaked leisurely in the hot water by myself before coming out.
A fatigue perfect for falling asleep rose like a heat haze.
But I couldn’t sleep yet.
There was still the main event of the day.
I was curious what kind of costume Bella had been so confident about.
Even if it failed to live up to my expectations, I was sure I would enjoy it, since Isti was wearing it to make me happy.
I used my spirit to stir up wind and dry my hair, then sprawled out across the bed.
“……”
“Darling.”
Isti called to me in a gentle voice.
I opened my eyes with a start.
“Oh, damn. I must have dozed off….”
What? Why was the room dark?
I sat up to turn on the light and called up the menu.
At that moment, Isti gently stopped my hand.
“Isti?”
“Don’t turn on the light… just look at me.”
How revealing was it for her to be this embarrassed?
With my eyes accustomed to the darkness, I examined Isti’s costume.
“H-How is it…?”
Isti stood demurely, waiting for my reaction.
Bella’s secret weapon of a costume. Bella had not been exaggerating when she promised me a passionate night.
“I hope Leira wasn’t lying. In an outfit with no exposure like this, I wonder if I can… get you excited, darling….”
Isti was wearing a school uniform.
A school uniform tailored perfectly to flatter Isti’s figure and proportions.
An exquisite combination of navy blue and white.
“Uh….”
I had no idea what to say.
I had never even imagined a situation where Isti would appear before me wearing a school-uniform costume.
It was stiff as a board.
“Not really…?”
Isti nervously placed a hand over her chest and fidgeted restlessly.
“No, it suits you so well….”
“Really?”
“I was so shocked—in a good way—that I couldn’t move.”
“……!”
Isti, dressed in a school uniform, threw herself into my arms.
A gasp escaped me aloud.
Isti whispered into my ear.
“Teacher.”
“I-Isti?”
“I want to get pregnant with your baby, Teacher. Is that not allowed?”
Isti sat on my lap, acting the part of a brazen student.
I tried to hold it back, but a pleased smile broke across my face before I knew it.
“Hahaha. Who taught you to say that? Bella put you up to it, didn’t she?”
“Nngh!”
Perhaps out of embarrassment, Isti squeezed her eyes shut.
“Leyla said Darling would be very happy if I did this.”
“Sounds like you practiced, too.”
I firmly clasped Isti’s hands as she tried to pull away in embarrassment, preventing her from escaping, and looked her straight in the eyes.
“I tried saying it to Leyla about ten times.”
Honestly, she had caught me completely off guard.
Isti, sitting demurely on my lap in her school uniform, was incredibly beautiful.
Bella preferred clothes with less fabric so she could show off her figure, so I hadn’t expected this.
Who would have thought she had used her specialty, dimensional magic, to bring clothes from another world?
“I brought it up so vulgarly… Did you despise me?”
Afraid that I might hate her, Isti could not bear the anxiety and pleaded with moist eyes.
“What do you think?”
“Of all the lines Leyla and I came up with, that was the most wholesome….”
…Now that she’d said that, I couldn’t help wondering what the most vulgar line had been.
I pulled Isti toward me. She neatly drew her legs together and sat sideways, moving closer until her lower abdomen pressed against me.
My penis was already fully erect, making its presence known as though it might pierce through Isti’s school-uniform skirt.
“….”
Isti felt my penis against her buttocks and flinched in surprise at first, but the very next moment, a subtle smile appeared on her face.
The anxious look in her eyes had already changed into one filled with anticipation for what we were going to do together.
“Teacher… You’re the kind of person who gets more excited the naughtier the deed is….”
As if she could see straight through to my true nature.
Isti lovingly whispered into my ear.
“Do you want to have impregnation sex with your cute disciple?”
“Who knows?”
Isti smoothly shifted her center of gravity, pressing her buttocks firmly against my penis again and again.
“You want to, though♥”
My breathing grew ragged before I knew it.
There was a limit to how long I could pretend to remain composed. I felt rebellious because things seemed to be going exactly as Bella had said, but I had no choice but to admit it.
I embraced Isti in her school uniform. Covering her beautiful face first, I kissed her with the vulgar, animalistic passion of a beast, our tongues entangling shamelessly.
“Slurp♥ lick♥ smooch♥”
Isti opened her mouth as if she had been waiting for it, and far from disliking it, she eagerly responded to my filthy play with our tongues.
Rather, she met my eyes with an affectionate gaze, as though urging me on.
I wrapped a hand around the back of Isti’s neck and mingled my tongue with hers for a long while.
“Mmm, nnngh♥ haaah♥ chuup.”
Slowly lowering my hand, I wrapped it around her shoulder, then moved it down her back until I reached her buttocks.
I roughly kneaded Isti’s soft buttocks over her school-uniform skirt while continuing our filthy kiss.
“Chuup♥ smooch♥ chuup♥”
When I stuck my tongue out as far as it would go, Isti hesitated for a moment, then pursed her lips around it and sucked on my tongue.
Looking at me, she moved her head back and forth, sucking thoroughly.
“Smooch♥ chuup♥ mmm♥”
I received her ministrations while gazing into Isti’s blue eyes.
Even then, I continued fondling Isti’s buttocks as I pleased.
Even while we were only kissing like this, I could keenly feel how desperately Isti wanted my favor.
She was delighted no matter where I touched her, showing me through the smallest gestures and glances how she could please me even more.
The day when I would test the final stage was not far off.
Isti would not disappoint me.
I pulled Isti’s body toward me and laid her down on the bed.