The Aftermath

“You’re sure that you won’t end up-”

“John, I told you a thousand times. You said it yourself that you can turn off your own virility through your powers, and my IUD will cover any gaps that aren’t somehow taken care of by Gaia granted powers,” Naoto said, slowly wiping herself down with the towels they found in a small closet in the room. “We are gonna be fine. Neither of us are going to be parents anytime soon.”

“R-right,” John said, wiping his own hair. “I just… I said and did a lot of things that-”

“John, you are allowed to have a breeding fetish. I have one and embrace it,” Naoto said with a smile. “If anything, it’s nice to finally have that itch scratched. It’s been far too long since I’ve had anyone to do anything like that with.”

“Sex in general, or the breeding fetish part?” John asked with a smile.

“Yes.” Naoto answered cheekily. “But wow… I was not expecting you to go for 5 rounds, let alone double that.”

“Yeah… I got an achievement or two during that whole… thing-”

“Sex, John. I know neither of us expected it, but just call it as it is.”

“I know, I know,” John said with a sigh. “It’s… it’s not the act or you. It’s just… I mean, I wouldn’t be this awkward if it was with my girlfriends.”

“Why’s that?” Naoto asked, sitting down next to John as she slowly buttoned up her shirt.

“Because I got to know them first and… I dunno. I guess when I first fucked Talia or Mavis, it was the fact that we were awkward but bonded over that awkwardness a bit. Plus it felt more connected than just… **** up fuck marathon.”

“Do you… not feel a connection with me?” Naoto asked, hiding her eyes behind her hair as she slowly brushed it.

John shook his head. “No, I do feel a connection with you. You’re beautiful and smart and sexy and… well-”

“A good fuck?” she asked with a smile.

John nodded. “But I wasn’t expecting for our first time to be like this. I just… feel awkward about it.”

Both John and Naoto remained silent for a moment or two before Naoto softly placed her hand on John’s. Her skin was soft, John already knew that from when they fucked, but he just now noticed how calloused her hands were. He could feel the rougher padding of her fingertips and palms as she softly rubbed the back of his hand. ‘Probably from all the gunplay and physical training of a cop,’ John thought to himself.

“Well… John. If it would help you feel a bit better, we can… we can treat a later fuck between us as our first time. And then you can treat this as rounds two through nine. Or in my case, rounds two through… eighteen? Nineteen? I kinda lost count after you fucked me on the couch and made me go cross eyed.”

John shuddered at the memory of Naoto’s ahegao face. He felt a slight twitch in his nethers, immediately followed by a deep soreness. Needless to say, eight orgasms in a row did not exactly leave him with much, and if it weren’t for the ****, he probably would have stopped around round five due to sheer pain. Granted, the sight of Naoto pumped full of cum was one of the most satisfying images he had ever seen and even just thinking about it was-

He grunted in pain as the soreness returned. ‘Focus, John. Business now, horny thoughts after my body… recuperates.’

“So,” John said, stretching his body out a bit. “What’s our next step?”

“In our relationship?” Naoto asked. “I assumed we would talk with Mavis and Talia-”

“Not that, although we will have to do that,” John said. “I meant what's the next step with finding Lifthrasir?”

“Oh!” Naoto reached into her jacket, which was still lying discarded on the bed. “Well, thankfully our fuck session was not wasted time. Remember when you were-”

“I am very sore and remembering anything from our session right now is gonna make me even sorer,” John said with a pained expression. “I need to avoid an erection as best as I can right now.”

“Understood,” Naoto said with a small giggle. “Well, when you were… getting stuff ready for a different style of fucking, I took a moment to look in the bedside table for some more toys to use. I did find some-”

“I wondered where you found that dildo,” John murmured.

“-And I managed to find this hidden away in the nightstand,” Naoto said, pulling out of her jacket another booklet. This one, unlike her leather-bound journal, was a small brown hardback novel. While the cover allotted it to look less worn than Naoto’s own journal, the various ear marks and worn status of the pages inside clearly indicated it was something that was well read by Lifthrasir.

“What is it?” John asked.

“It’s a copy of the Prose Edda, as well as a few other Nordic texts,” Naoto said, opening it up. “But as you can see…” She held the book up to John while grinning like a cheshire cat. “We might have just had our first big breakthrough.”

There, on the pages of the small booklet, John could see that a phrase or two in the book had been highlighted. John thumbed through a few more pages, noticing that such a pattern continued on random pages in the book’s various stories.

“You… found his favorite passages?” John asked dumbfounded.

Naoto shook her head. “No no no, I think we might have found a small code phrase book, or something similar anyway.” She pointed to one of the passages, which told about Utgard-Loki tricking Thor into wrestling old age. “You see, I had my suspicions that nonsensical gobboldy-gook of the coded phrases was a letter shifted cipher. I think, and this is just a theory, that what he might have used was a shifted Caesar cipher.”

“That being…”

“Oh, right, you aren’t… um, well a Caesar cipher generally has the alphabet shifted over by a specific amount. For example, if you used the Caesar cipher with the known number for the shift being 3, you would shift your coded alphabet 3 letters in a specific direction to find what each letter represents. So in this case A would be D, B would be E, and so on.”

“But these are phrases, not numbers,” John said. “Do you think it’s shifted by the amount of letters in these passages?”

“Not quite, although good idea,” Naoto said grinning. “What I think is, instead, he has one of these phrases acting as the shift in the cipher. Now how THAT works is that you write out the phrase, omit repeat letters, then finish off the alphabet after whatever is left and translate THAT into your coded alphabet.”

John gave her a dumbfounded look, and Naoto quickly began to clarify. “Here. Let’s say…” She pulled out her notebook, going to a blank page before writing out a short phrase. “Let’s say that your code phrase was ‘Suck my dick, Naoto.’”

“An apt phrase,” John said with a chuckle.

“True,” she said with a small laugh. “Well, we would go through and omit the repeated letters, and would be left with SUCKMYDINAOT. Then, after that, we would add the rest of the alphabet, leaving us with... “ She took a few moments to write out her coded alphabet, leaving behind in blue ink the letters of SUCKMYDINAOTBEFGHJLPQRVWXZ.

“And that is our new alphabet?” John asked.

Naoto nodded. “We just write the normal alphabet under that, and run our message through the code. So in our code, A would be S, B would be U, C would stay C, and so on. So if we wanted to write… I dunno, “Cum in my mouth, John”, it would be…” She took a few minutes to run through the code, before reading out “CQB NE BX BFQPI AFIE.”

“And that’s how the code here works?” John asked, surprised she could figure it out so quickly.

“Partially. I also noticed that in the coded words you translated there are some instances of repeated letters. And not something like a double o or e, but rather letters that repeat 3 times or repeat twice to no understandable reason. So I think he went one step further and had a passphrase used as well.”

“A passphrase? How does that change things?”

“A lot. Basically, in order to translate a code with both a shifted alphabet and a passphrase you have to make a chart. Like this.” She then flipped to a page in her journal, revealing a huge list of letters that almost made John’s vision spin. “Basically, you have the altered alphabet repeat itself on the vertical while shifting it over one letter each time. So in our earlier alphabet, the first line would be the normal altered alphabet, but the second line would have the ‘S’ moved from the front of the alphabet to the back of it. You do that over and over till you almost end up with where you started. With me so far?”

“Yes,” John lied.

“Okay, so after that, you end up plugging the passphrase in over and over. See, after making the chart, you write the normal altered alphabet again along the top and side of the chart. Then whenever you want to replace a letter, you find the letter you are looking to replace on the top, the letter you are currently at in the passphrase on the side, and find where the two letters meet.”

“Naoto, I am confused as all hell.”

Naoto gave him a sympathetic smile. “Yeah, it… it’s a bit hard to explain. Basically, I think for this code it is going to need one of these phrases from the Prose Edda to alter the alphabet we are using and a specific phrase to plug into the alphabet and find the meaning of these messages.”

John held up his hand and scooted away. “I will leave the code cracking to you, then. You’ll need a passphrase?”

Naoto nodded. “I think this book is just full of phrases to alter the alphabet. When we get back I’m going to create a bunch of mock charts with the different phrases, and if we can find a code phrase, then I can-”

John put a hand over her mouth. “Naoto, I claim to be a really smart guy at times. But I don’t think I am going to understand if you keep explaining. Just… I trust you to figure it out, let me just help you find that phrase.”

Naoto smiled beneath his hand and nodded, signaling for John to move his hand. He then stood up and offered her aid up, aid that she accepted while kissing him on the cheek. “Don’t worry, John. I’ll figure this out and crack this code. Then before we know it, we will have Lifthrasir in custody and smiles on our faces.”

“All we need is that passphrase,” John replied.

‘I think we can help with that,’ Mavis said in John’s head, making John’s smile fade completely.

‘Oh shit. We-’

‘Share thoughts. Yeeeeep. And yes, I saw ALL of that session,’ Mavis said smugly. ‘Never knew you had a breeding fetish.’

‘Please don’t tell the others that is what we were doing…’

‘I wouldn’t have,’ Mavis said dryly. ‘An hour and a half ago.’

‘We were fucking-’

‘For two hours. Yeah. The rest of us are in the next room, by the by. We heard the moans and decided to wait till you two were done.’ Mavis then laughed in their shared thoughts. ‘Moira was as red as a tomato for most of it, and Talia and I had to sneak into another room we were so turned on by the show.’