An Unholy Alliance

-The next day-

-Both Kasumi and Akio are still asleep until they hear noises near their door. They jump up and look towards the door. Sounds of feet shuffling, and thudding against the walls made them think a half-giant is trying to make their way in.-

“Kasumi, get your clothes and hide.” He turns to face her and sees she is still in her succubus form, “and don’t forget to change your form. As much as I’m liking seeing you like this, we need it to be a secret.”

-Kasumi reverts back to her human form, still naked and blushing that she finally had sex with her friend, even though he recently found out that she is a succubus. The two of them put on their clothing and Kasumi peeks out the door to see what is making that sound. Her parents came home and were the ones making the noises, they are still drunk, stumbling on each other and talking gibberish/drunk tongue before they got in their rooms and collapsed on the floor asleep.-

“Didn’t know they partied hard.”

“Neither did I. I’ll make us breakfast and then we can decide what to do from there.”

Akio shakes his head, “You will take care of yourself first, you were with those bandits in that armor, then we had sex. As a matter of fact, I have to shower too.”

“Then come join me,” Kasumi said playfully.

“I’d love to, but they gave the town separate bathhouses for a reason.”

“I know, I know. Actually, you head to the bathhouse without me. I need to make sure these two are in bed when they wake up.” Kasumi points to the feet of her parents still on the floor asleep.

-Akio nods and heads to the male bathhouse. Kasumi walks over to her parents and struggles to get them in bed. Her father was heavier than her mother, so she left him for last. It took her 2 minutes to get her mother in the bed and 3 minutes to get her father tucked in with the mother. She heads out to the female bathhouse, enters the building, strips her clothes off and grabs a towel to dry and cover herself with if needed. When she enters the water, she looks around a bit and doesn’t see anyone.

People are either wasted from last night or it’s too early.

-She looks up at the skylight and sees that it is far from too early as the sun is beaming through the skylight and windows. -

“Yeah, they are still wasted. Wonder if the inn will have people? Could use some more people if we are going in this tomb.”

-Kasumi stays in the water with only her head above for a few minutes to relax after a long few days. In the male bathhouse, Akio sees that there are a couple of guys chilling in there. He goes into a separate pool to wash off and relax. As he is relaxing, he gets images of Kasumi from last night. He tries to ignore them, but it got to the point where he now has a raging hard-on and needs to find a way to get rid of it. Covering it did nothing but he wasn’t going to jerk-off in front of other guys so he decides to wait until they were either leaving. When he turns around, he sees two of the guys are looking very closely at a wall. He tries to move quietly over to them to see what they were looking at. He sees a hole in the wall and immediately knows they are spying on Kasumi or any woman that happens to be in the other room.-

“You three have no shame, do you?”

-The men turn to Akio to see him with his arms crossed against his chest and a disgusted look on his face.-

“Hey!” said the guy still in the pool, “They just want to see the girl. Leave them be.”

“How about no?”

“What are you, her boyfriend?” One of the immature men jokingly asked.

“As a matter of fact, I am. Secondly, I don’t appreciate you spying on my girl. You boys have ten seconds to leave before I paint the walls red and pink.”

-The one in the pool made the right choice to leave and tried to convince the other peepers to do the same. The others were too annoyed that someone ruined their show-time and wouldn’t mind a fight to make up for it. Kasumi is getting ready to leave the bathhouse when she hears sounds of struggles from the male bathhouse. She runs to the other building, not having herself covered and peeks through the door. She sees Akio tossing a guy into a wall with a loud thud that shook the doorframe. She continues to watch Akio handle himself with ease and whistled. Akio turns to the sound and heads to the door, Kasumi could only back away from the door as there wasn’t a suitable place for her to hide. Akio sees Kasumi standing there, with nothing covering her and his cock immediately gets hard again.-

“Oh, Kasumi. Didn’t expect you there. Wait why are you here and with nothing covering you?”

“I heard sounds of struggling and well I had to investigate. When I saw you handling those guys, I did have some questions but at the same time, it made me horny.”

“Well I’m horny too, but we need to hold off for now. Get dressed, we’re heading to Seriwen.”

“Good, I was supposed to drop some papers off before the bandits stopped us.”

-The two exits the bathhouse covered yet horny and head to Kasumi’s house to get dressed and move to Seriwen. It took them 15 minutes to get ready because even though they are in separate rooms, they would spend a few minutes to spy on each other getting good views of their specific parts of their bodies. It was almost noon when they found a carriage to take them Seriwen. Unfortunately, it wasn’t Irsu driving. Kasumi wanted to ask where he was but figured he needed to time off to clear his mind from the events that took place.-

-3 Hours Later-

-They finally made it to Seriwen and disembarked from the carriage. Where they were dropped off at, there was an inn in front of them, the governor’s office just a few houses to the right of the inn, a huge market place in the center of town, a barrack for the guards near one of the towers at the walls, lots of houses to the far left of the inn and a bounty board in front of the governor’s office. Kasumi didn’t have the papers she was supposed to place on the bounty board from her father. She turned her attention to the inn, got close to the door and moved to the side just in time as 4 men ran out the door in full sprint from the innkeeper.

“Next time you do that shit again; you won’t be shown mercy!” the Innkeeper shouted at them. She put away her sword as Kasumi and Akio walked in and observed the place. From what they could tell so far, the inn’s staff were barmaids. Four of them were dressed in an apron and clothes, two had an apron and nothing else and the innkeeper didn’t have an apron but had clothing.

“Welcome you two. Need a bite, a drink or maybe a rest from your travels?” The innkeeper asked politely.

“Actually, just in case we do have to come back here, Kasumi, we should rent a room.”

“We’re not rich, Akio and we aren’t here to rest or eat. Remember the plan?”

“Well yeah but look around. Who here is even capable to help us with a few rocks, let alone themselves?”

One of the barmaids nearby heard the conversation and interjected, “we have some competent adventurers that come by. In fact, we think they made this little town their new home.”

“Oh! Well then, do you know when they will be back?”

-She points to the table on her right which has nothing but a bunch of drunken old men.-

“Those are the adventurers? They look like they just retired adventuring.”

“Don’t judge them just yet. They are hard-workers, they just love to get drunk and have sex with those two over there.”

-Kasumi walks over to the men and asks them if they could help her and Akio with a retrieval job. One of the men grabs Kasumi’s ass cheek which makes Akio want to punch him but realizes that they are armed and won’t hesitate to kill them both in their current state.-

“Appreciate the gesture, but this job is more important to me than your craving for lust. Will any of you help us or not?”

“What’s the pay? We don’t work for free, girlie.”

“That is true, no one does,” Kasumi said to the man in the second seat while moving the other drunken man’s hand from her ass. “The pay will be…” She thinks about how much she has in her coin pouch and tries to come up with a price suitable for the job, “5 silver coins.”

“Each?”

“No, the pay is 5 silver coins. That’s it,” Akio interjected.

“What are is the object?”

Akio and Kasumi look at each other for a few seconds and Kasumi says, “It’s a… relic. It is important for some individual.”

“Where is this relic?”

“In a temple…”

“Assuming the temple has traps and magical beings, you will pay us 5 silver. Not each. Just 5 silver.”

“…Yes…” Kasumi lowers her head knowing the answer before they could say it and walks out of the inn. She didn’t have enough money for all of them because not only were her parents strict with the coins, but the king placed heavy taxes on the land. Kasumi sighs and walks around town in another attempt to find someone who will help.

-Akio looks at the barmaid that directed them to the drunken men and shakes his head in disbelief. He heads outside to comfort Kasumi but doesn’t find her in front of him. He assumes that she went home to cool off and decides to head to the governor’s office to try his luck. On his way to the governor’s office, Akio hears a woman calling to him. He looks at her and sees that she looks like a priest from another town. She asks him if he is looking for repentance, assuming that he hangs out in the tavern, to which he responds, “I’m actually looking for people who are capable enough to help my friend and me with something. Normally, I’d be glad to say ‘the gods have given me someone for the quest’ but with what happened to her, I’m veering away from them” and starts to walk away.-

“I do apologize for your friend, I do beg that you bring her with you to the church before you head out. I want to pass on the blessings of the gods to protect you from the darkness.”

“Look,” Akio says as he turns to her sharply, interrupting her speech, “if you have someone who can help us, point me in the direction of where they are and stop preaching. I told you, I’m losing faith in them.”

“I can help you both, I do not require any payments. Just that you two don’t leave the graces of the gods.”

“You will have to speak to my friend when I find her.” Akio turns to the priest as he says that and continues walking away.

“I do believe I saw her. Was she wearing what looked… very… suggestive?”

“She’s a blacksmith. If you know that line of work, you have to wear something comfortable seeing as you will be near hot surfaces all day,” Akio snapped at her, defending not only Kasumi but other blacksmiths that choose to wear whatever or nothing at all while they work.

“I apologize if I offended you and your friend.”

“That’s two strikes before you are invited. If it wasn’t for her, you wouldn’t hear another word from me. Come with me if you choose to join us but, keep that talk about the gods down. She is still upset about the event.”

“Oh, my name is Valeria.”

“Hmm. If I told you my name, it might not be worth it if my friend doesn’t want you.”

-Valeria and Akio head to the market district when Valeria last saw Kasumi. It takes them a few minutes but they find her in a blacksmith making armor.-

“You’re putting it on hold?”

Kasumi turns around, sees Akio and smiles. “Actually no, I was making armor for us in case we can’t find anyone to come with.”

“Well, I bumped into this priest here. I already have low expectations of her from when she talked. Go ahead and introduce yourself, not that it would matter.”

“My name is Valeria and I serve the god of life and the goddess of redemption.”

Kasumi turns back to what she was doing and works while interrogating the priest, “why do you want to be in our group?”

“I was aware of a situation that happened to you. I can assure you that the gods have not forgotten you. It must be fate that I am here willing to help you with your quest.”

“What if the quest was to **** a high cleric? Would you still be on board?”

Valeria thinks about the question for a bit before she answered, “if the high cleric’s crime was justifiable, then yes, I would gladly kill a high cleric.”

-Kasumi turns her eyes toward Akio who is looking at the naïve priest then notices Kasumi’s gaze and shakes his head in disapproval.-

“I’m not even sure if you would be worth the trouble,” Kasumi says as she moves from the furnace to the anvil creating armor.

“P-Please. I don’t require payments; I have my own rations. I’ve longed for an adventure instead of being trapped in the church. I-I can mend wounds faster than a druid.”

-Kasumi sensed the desperation in her voice and was almost disgusted by it. Before she could say another word, the resident blacksmith told the two that Valeria is a trusted individual in town and that they have nothing to worry about. However, trust wasn’t the only issue on their minds. They reluctantly accept her in the group. The priest is so excited that she ran off to her rental home to grab her belongings.-

Kasumi grabs Akio’s arm and whispers, “keep an eye on her. When we find the artifact, I have a feeling she’ll try to destroy it.”

“I won’t let that happen,” Akio whispered back.

-When Valeria returns, the three of them go around town asking for able-bodied adventurers, to no avail, however. After an hour going around asking for help, they decided to make do with what they have and head towards the underground tomb using the map that Kasumi acquired from the former bandits-.