The next day

I woke up with a slight jolt, feeling a rather cold breeze brushed against my skin. Blearily wiping my eyes, I groaned when I realized I can’t exactly move, and opened my eyes to the sight of a lavender hair beauty sleeping peacefully next to me. And she’s using my arm as a pillow. (That’s probably my fault, and I’m probably also the one pulling her so close as to snuggling to me like this. Yup, totally my fault.)

Also, “This is an unfamiliar ceiling.” Ah, there we go. That one basic cliché that almost all isekai MC used at least once.

Last night I had no idea which time of the year is it here, but with cool winds in the morning, not cold, I’m inclined to think we’re probably in either Spring or Autumn.

A glance outside the window let me know that it’s still very early in the morning, the sky all dark but nary a star in sight. Maybe around 4AM?

Turning my attention back to the petite girl in my embrace, I began recounting the situation last night. I’m pretty sure we just lied next to each other before I fell asleep. Still, if this is any indication, Noelle has opened up around me a lot.

And then came the awkward (or sexy, depends on your view) situation. I slept with just my boxer on, and my adorable maid sleeps with just her shirt and tights, while her package is hanging loose, erected and currently grinding against my growing morning wood.

My meat shtick stands proudly at near 20cm, while Noelle’s is still bit shorter, probably somewhere between 5 and 6. You know what, lemme check real quick.

Name: Noelle

Penis size (Length/girth)
Flaccid: 7cm/3.5cm
Erect: 15cm/6cm
Semen volume: 300 - 800ml

‘So [Observe] can be used like this as well eh?’

Also, she’s thicc. My own girth doesn’t change that much when I get hard, but Noelle seems to have doubled her girth once she reached full erection.

‘Hmm? Is she…’ I noticed drops of clear liquid appearing at her glans. So, she’s producing precum, but she doesn’t seem to get more aroused. Let me give you a hand then, my dear maid.

Using my free hand, I carefully pushed at the bed until I’m fully facing her. Her soft hair tickles my nose before I focus my attention downward, on the sleeping dragon between her legs.

With the same hand, I reached down, grasping firmly around the base of her cock. She squirmed under my touch, but otherwise remained deep asleep. Marveling at how soft she felt, I brought my palm up and gently pulled down the foreskin, revealing her pink glans twitching eagerly.

It pumps out even more precum, and I wasted no time using that as a lube to begin my ministration. My hand moved up and down along her length expertly as if I’m masturbating, and I can feel my handiwork’s effect, now that Noelle is lightly gasping between each breath as her cheeks flushed.

Applying pressure gently to her tips, I felt her jolt on my arm as erotic pleasure travelled up her spine, before she unconsciously pushed herself into me even more.

With how tight the space between us is at the moment, I had **** but to move my hips backward, nearly falling out of the bed in the process, before getting somewhat of a distance enough for me to continue. There were some semblances of rhythm to my motions, before I sped up my pumping and turned Noelle into a moaning mess in my arm.

Her eyes shot open, staring into mine despite her sleepiness, until she leaned in and gave me an unexpected kiss on the lips. There was no tongue involved, just a clumsy attempt at a kiss by a girl who has never experienced romance before, yet it felt hot and arousing to me. I returned her gesture, and continued our sloppy kiss until Noelle had to break away for air.

“Ah.. h-hyah~” The lavender cutie moaned as I gave her a quick stroke up her tool, then used my thumb to prod and stimulate her sensitive glans.

Noelle bit her lips trying to contain her moans, just as her hands came to work on my rock hard penis.

Her movements were slightly pleasuring at best, and a bit clumsy at worst, yet she didn’t let that stop her as she tried to mimic my actions, gradually getting better the longer it went on. I can feel a small pressure building up within my core, same with Noelle the way her penis seems to get even harder.

The next kiss was just as searing hot as the first, but this time I used that opportunity to push my tongue into her mouth. Noelle mewled into my mouth as her hips shuddered, while she didn’t verbalize I can tell she’s close to cumming. My tongue pushed against hers, and I invaded her cavity, exploring every nook and cranny while her appendage coiled around mine, and we engaged in wrestling the lewdest way possible.

“Ah, a-ah… ooh… Mast- James~…!” her voice cracked “Ah- ohh~!”

Her back arched, toes curled – and with a jerk she climaxed. Cum gushed out of her urethra like a water hose, straight into my palm. ‘Wouldn’t want to get our only clothes dirty this early.’

“M-Mhmm~…” her back arched more and her hands stopped working on my dick – before with a loud moan she plopped down on her back, penis lay flat on her stomach, breathing heavily. “Hyah~”

I slowly withdrew my hand, still coated with copious amounts of semen, before depositing them into my Inventory. ‘I’ll make sure to take it out later’

Now there’s one problem left, I’m still horny. Noelle’s handjob brought me close to orgasm but not quite there yet. As she’s spent, lying and heaving next to me, I’m contemplating between rubbing it out at the lake or just outside the house.

I sat up, preparing to finish the work before a hand caught my wrist. Gazing down, I met Noelle’s eyes before she ducked, her cheeks flushed so much I’m not surprised if it’s on fire now.

She stuttered a little at first, but eventually her word got out. “C-Could you let me pay you back?”

That’s so sweet, but you’re blushing so hard even your ears are red now. Oh they’re steaming already?

“Are you sure? I don’t want to **** you if you feel uncomfortable.” I asked gently to make sure. Of course, while I’m super happy to get a handjob from her, it’d do me no good if she felt **** to do it. I wanted her to be my maid forever, so I want to make her as happy as possible.

Noelle seemed unsure of herself at first, before she shook her head slightly, and looked at me determinedly. God that sounds so wrong in this situation. “Please let me do it, I’m your maid after all, am I not?”

Shrugging slightly, I sat back down on the bed and turned towards her. She closed the distance between us until there’s none, and her hands slowly wrapped around my hard cock.

“It’s… hot.” She murmured, before beginning with her work. Slow and a bit awkward at first, but with a little correction from my part, it began sending tingling waves of pleasure up my spine. Maybe it’s because I was focused on our kiss earlier that I didn’t notice, but Noelle’s hand was delicate and soft.

She even began picking up bits and pieces of what I did with hers earlier, and before long, I felt my balls clench and groaned in pleasure.

“N-Noelle… I’m cumming” Throbbing heat climbed up my dick before it erupted, blanking my mind.

Noelle’s eyes widened as she panicked, before lowering and wrapping her wet lips around my swollen head, taking my load into her mouth. Thick streaks of cum splutter out, her cheeks bloated as she tried to keep it all in. Muted, wet gulps reached my ears as I realized Noelle was swallowing my cum, and somehow that thought made me come even more.

She wasn’t able to swallow all because of how much it was, something I knew because I can feel my own cum dribble down my length. Noelle pulled away with a gasp, taking in large breaths as her cheeks flushed from exhaustion.

“I-I tried to swallow it all. Was it good, master?” She opened her mouth to gesture, before I pulled her in for a quick kiss, not caring that I just came in her mouth.

“Of course, it was amazing. Thank you, Noelle.” I patted her head as she leaned into me, and we spent a while sitting, basking in the afterglow.

[Affection +10 with Noelle for a ‘good morning’]

A while later, both of us can be seen showering in the lake next to each other, and I took up Noelle’s offer to wash my back. And of course, I washed her back as a return, before we cleaned up.

Putting on our garments, we walked back to the house, this time to find anything that could tell us where we are. We certainly didn’t have to search long, as there is a barely hidden wooden door leading to a basement right outside the back of the house.

[Observe] didn’t pick this up last night probably because both the doors and the basement don’t connect to the house. Using [Magic Sense], I picked up several signals down below, but they are very faint, so I doubt that there is anything alive there.

Giving the wooden door a few tugs, I frowned as it didn’t even so much as budge. [Observe] just tell me that it’s a normal wooden door, so there are probably reinforcements below the door, or some kind of lock.

And since there’s no visible keyhole that I can make out, I decided to go with the classic, hit it ‘till it dies. Or in this case, ‘till it opens. A few full power stomps of mine did nothing aside blowing dust all around us. Noelle seems ready to intervene, but I don’t want to rely on her just yet. Besides, this seems like a perfect opportunity for me to test out something new.

Concentrating on the mana within my body, I took hold and directed it into my left arm, flooding my veins and muscle with ethereal energy. Glowing circuitry patterns appeared on my arm, each one dense and shining brightly turquoise. I can feel my arm flowing with power ready to be released, and I can’t help but smile in glee knowing that I have (definitely didn’t) achieved [Reinforcement].

But just as I thought I had succeeded, I momentarily lost control of the flow, and the result was not pretty to say the least. My arm exploded in a violent show of… not gore? I definitely saw my left arm bursting into a million pieces from the shoulder, yet there was no blood to say the least. And not even a second later, my just-disappeared-arm has reformed itself, not even a single scratch on it.

Yet the experience was not without pain. Searing hot pain registered and rocked my mind blank, as the concept of amputation was momentarily acknowledged.

“MASTER?! Are you okay?” Noelle’s shout, filled with concern and worry, reached my ear and broke me out of my stupor. I look back to her and met her eyes, tears forming on the corner, an indescribable sense of sadness and loss glazed over her green orbs.

“A-Agh… I'm fine! I'm fine… I think.” Turning to her, I showed my arm, completely void of any trauma to her, to assure her. “Se-see, my arm is still here, and… um… I’m sorry for making you worried, Noelle.” I apologized, sincerely. Lowering my head down, I waited for any scolding that may come, but was pulled into a warm embrace instead.

“It’s okay, master. I was worried that you may have injured yourself severely, but thank the archons you were okay. Please, I beg you, never do that to yourself again.” Her sweet voice, a little cracked from the experience she just received, was a harsh reminder for me to not ever make her sad again. It also fills me with warmth to have such a caring maid as her by my side.

Sitting up straight, I wrapped my hands around her back as well, and looked straight into her eyes. Her cheeks dusted light pink from the close contact, yet she does not pull away.

“I promise you, Noelle, that I would never put myself deliberately into serious harm. Thank you, so much, for caring about me. Honestly I can’t imagine how I’d live without you now.” I gave her a lopsided smile as she brightened at my words, before drawing a giggle at my last sentence. I should make her do that more often, it’s so soothing to hear her like that.

And now that the heart-warming part is over, I can’t help but smirk at my next word. “By the way, Noelle, didn’t I tell you yesterday to not call me ‘Master’? If you can’t follow my orders, then I guess I’ll have to give you a punishment~” Finishing with a near sing-song voice, both demon-me and angel-me laughed at her serious expression, as if she’s going to war.

“As your maid, I cannot call you anything else but with the greatest honor. So please forgive me, Master, for I cannot follow your order. I’m prepared to take whatever punishment you have in mind.” Noelle finished with a knight salute, just before I burst out in a giggling fit at her serious expression, causing Noelle’s cheeks to puff up as she pouted at me.

I just gave her a quick peck on the lips and watched her face reach an ‘overheated’ state before whispering in her ears. “Just kidding~”

“Anyway, that accident earlier was just a small mistake on my part, next time it won’t happen again, I promise!” Standing up first, I pulled her up next to me as I turned back to face the door yet again.

While I was occupied with my cute and affectionate maid, I didn’t notice that I got the skill [Reinforcement]. Now that I noticed, it took me around 5 punches, with each one stronger than the last, to break through the wooden door.

Peering through the hole I just made, I saw a series of planks digging into the walls on either side down, and the door handles were roped tightly onto the planks, that’s why I couldn’t pull it open prior.

Now that I can see clearly what’s blocking it, it was just a simple matter of gathering mana into a sphere shape on my palm, compressing it into a bullet and shooting it down, tearing through the planks as if they’re papers.

Taking out the lighter, we began our trek down into the not-that-secret-basement of whoever owned it. [Observe] warned me of a few simple traps like trip wires, poisoned darts, but each one was nullified just by asking Noelle to activate her [Breastplate] and standing near her.

Finally, we made it down to the lowest platform. Using [Reinforcement] on my eyes, I was able to make out a few details, and just to be extra careful, I used [Observe] on everything in my field of view.

Lighting up the candles in the corners, everything in the room was revealed. A single, large map around 2m wide, 1m tall was hung on the wall directly in front of us. There were a few marking pins on it, and unreadable scribbles as well. Beneath the map was a long wooden table, on it lay a few old leather books, with a quill on standby and a long since dried ink bottle.

[Observe] told me they’re Magic Grimoires, carrying the knowledge and secrets of whatever magic the writer chose to write in it, and in this case, they were [Life Magic], specifically the biological altering branch, and [Enchantment].

Because I can’t read whatever language this world is using, I simply stored them both into [Inventory] and moved on. Next to the tables were a few cloaks hung upon a rack, each one has a minor [Recognition Inhibition] enchantment on it. They are black in color, with golden patterns woven into them at the seams and in the middle as well. Taking one for me and one for Noelle, I stow the rest of them into [Inventory] as well.

In the shelves to the right of the tables were books, many books. Most of them are either theoretical books on the two mentioned above magics, or simple books about gardening and stories of myths. I don’t need to say anything, do I? Of course all of them go into the [Inventory] as well. What? You think I’m above a small burgle? I’m a hoarder at heart bitches, I find it, I keep it.

Noelle seems to have a little reservation at taking everything like this, but a glance at my ‘crazed hoarding’ eyes and she wisely decided to stay quiet. After cleaning everything out, I began checking the map in great detail. I found out about our locations as well.

Given that one of the pins was on a small island surrounded by a lake within a large forest, I concur that it’s highly possible that it’s our location at the moment. The forest was riddled with markings of beasts or animals of sort, as well as some kind of danger warning, a.k.a a fuck ton of Xs near the south, so I’m starting to think this place is not as safe as it seems.

Going to the west, there is a picture of a ‘holy mother fucking all that is good, that is some huge ass tree.’ And then a drawing of a castle surrounded by the trees, which I’m going to assume is the elf’s. To the north we have mountains. Just mountains. And to the east we have 13 countries. Ranging from sizes of a spoon to a damn 4 quarts pot, they span all over the eastern side of the map, which is nearly 60% of it.

Did I mention that the forest is near the western most part of the map? No? Well now you know. To the east most of the countries is another mountain range, that is a lot, and I mean a LOT bigger than the ones at the north. They are as big as 3/4 of the countries on the map combined.

Well, now that we know where we are, we just have to decide where we’re going next. The elves are out, if my knowledge of most isekai is correct, they are normally incredibly isolating, baring entrance to all races, especially humans. And seeing that I look pretty much like a human, not to mention Noelle, that’d probably be a waste of time trying to figure out if my theory is right or wrong.

The mountains at the north are out as well. From the drawings, I believe they are just like the Alps back on earth, just a lot larger and therefore, a lot colder. There’s no indication of any civilization on it, so I don’t think going there will do any good for us.

The south is undoubtedly removed from any consideration also, seeing how many markings there are that screams danger on the map there.

So all that is left is going eastward. And that means swimming across the lake, back to where I was dropped off. And that bear would probably be there as well. But I have Noelle, so I probably don’t have to be afraid of that thing.

After a short conversation with Noelle, I relayed my thoughts and opinions on the matter, then asked for her ideas. She told me she would trust me to lead us and she’d follow no matter where, so eastward, here we come. ‘And no, I definitely did not squeal when she told me that. It was just my brain fart.’

After looking at every corner of the basement, we found some potatoes, edible of course, and promptly cooked them for breakfast. With some herbs I found around the small island thanks to [Observe], we were able to cook up a decent bowl of potato soup. While it is certainly far from the delicacies I tasted before, Noelle's skills are more than able to provide a good meal for the both of us. Besides, the companionship she provides is something I rarely had the chance to enjoy during my previous life.

Leaving the basement behind, we soon reached the lake separating us from the rest of the forest. After confirming that the lake is safe to swim in with [Observe], I realized how reckless I was yesterday. I removed all my clothes and stashed them into [Inventory]. Of course, I had Noelle done the same, and I shamelessly ogled her as she stripped. Her face was slightly red when she finished, but she didn’t turn away and bared herself to me.