Goals?

Putting divine messages aside, something that was weird on too many different levels, Leo went back to check on the Book of Eros and its Gifts. So far, he had:

-The Gift of Recovery, which let him actually feel pleasure. He knew it, but it was good to remember that he wasn’t free of the curse. It was the power of the Book of Eros that was giving him back his sensations. If he didn’t remove the curse within a year, the Book would stop working and the Gifts of everyone affected would go away while their inability to feel sexual pleasure would remain.

-The Gift of Giving, which basically let him have sex with women of the clan. They couldn’t feel pleasure by themselves, so they were all in an awkward spot where he was their only option to feel pleasure. Not a comfortable thought, but it was what it was.

-The Gift of Touch in the bluntly named ‘Caresses’ and ‘Penetration’ categories. It heightened the sensitivity of his partners, making touch and penetrative sex feel better. He’d only just gotten the one for ‘caresses’, so it wasn’t tested.

-The Gift of Control, which was magical, secure and, most importantly, free contraceptive.

-The Gift of Wisdom gave him better insight into people’s emotions and intentions. Perhaps the most useful in this situation where he had to deal with so many people.

The Gift of Polyamory was forever gone, which was a damn shame. It should’ve been flattering that women were sort of fighting over him, but it wasn’t and he didn’t think it was going in a wholesome direction. He’d need to fix things by himself.

The Gifts that were explicitly recorded on the Book but he didn’t yet have, were:

-The Gift of Indulgence, which enhanced his own sensitivity to sexual pleasure. It was tempting to get, but not a priority. Sex already felt amazing, and Leo felt he should be focusing on things that made it better for his partners. The condition to get it was for him to orgasm five times within an hour, which was becoming more difficult to do now that he had grown more accustomed to sex and had the stamina to put a bull to shame, if he allowed himself a bit of gloating.

-The Gift of Touch had one last category: Kissing. For some reason, kisses and caresses weren’t in the same category, which seemed stupid, but he wasn’t about to criticize the magic work his past clan-mates probably lost sleep over. He needed to kiss three different people within a day to get it. It also had a second level just like the other two categories, and was triggered by kissing three other people.

-The Gift of Sharing, and this one was… strange. After having group sex with at least three other partners and making them orgasm within an hour, he would be able to have them share sensations, or so it said. So… If he had sex with one, another would feel it too? It had two levels as well. He really wasn’t sure how that would work.

-The Gift of Comfort. The description said that it would turn sexual energy into a sort of ethereal lubricant that would make penetration easier. So… free magical lube? He was starting to believe some of these Gifts were a result of the sexual frustrations and fantasies of the creators of the Book. The condition was to have oral, vaginal and anal sex with two different people.

Lastly, there were the hidden Gifts that Aizen-Myo had mentioned. The Gift of Wisdom was one of those, and he got it from making Lucia orgasm twice within ten minutes. If he followed that logic, then… could he get a weaker version of the others’ gifts in the same manner? Perhaps the conditions were different, or perhaps the hidden Gifts weren’t anything like that. But if he assumed he could get the others’ powers, then… should he? Angela’s strength and fighting instincts, Valerie’s deftness, Kaede’s intelligence, Seina’s charm, and all that on top of Lucia and Mrs. Wisler’s insight and his own monster endurance, gathered in a single person. It sounded too crazy, and he wasn’t sure he was okay with it. It was-

“Hey,” Angela said, suddenly hugging him from behind and pressing her naked chest against his still clothed back. “You’re been staring at that thing for a while.”

“S-Sorry,” he said. “I wanted to give you a moment to rest but ended up getting lost in this…”

“It’s fine,” Angela sighed contently and kissed Leo’s neck. “You made me come really hard with just your fingers. And… yeah, sorry for being so pushy. But I’ve gotta say,” she grinned, “that assertive side of you really turns me on.”

Boy was he glad to hear that. “Angela, listen,” he started. “I don’t want you to start fights with the other girls. I don’t want you to start provoking them. I know that you feel like what you’re doing is natural, but they might see it as you lording me over them.”

“But then they’re just going to take you for themselves!” she argued. “It’s what gets me mad, and Reiko’s not even here to show she’s in this as well.”

“I’m not letting that happen, either,” he said with a reassuring smile and turned to her. He pecked her lips and continued. “It really is time I step up my game as well. I’m not a piece of meat, and neither are all of you. I was hoping things would just work out, but I have a bad feeling with how things are going. I’m gonna have to put my foot down in all manner of ways, and get a lot more aggressive in others, because I just want to be able to live in peace without worrying if the people under my same roof are aiming at each other’s throats because of something as stupid as sex.”

“…” Angela blinked, pulled slightly away and straightened her back. “…Okay,” she nodded. She then bit her lip and eyed him with a hot gaze. “I don’t want to undermine all you just said, but you’re kind of even hotter now.”

Leo shook his head. “I need to go make dinner.”

“Don’t you want me to blow you again?”

“Another rule. From now on, I say when we do it. No more dragging me around.”

“Whaaaat? But I thought you liked it!”

“I did, but it reinforces the idea that it’s okay for the others to do it, and then we’ll have real problems.”

“Ugh…!”

“Now go take a shower. I love how you look being all sweaty, but I don’t think you’ll want to stay like that.”

That made her giggle and lifted her spirits. Leo cleaned himself up before Angela took her shower and went to get dinner ready.