The next morning, Lawrend was the first to wake up. His eyelids trembled, and he opened his eyes before staring at the sky groggily.

"Heavy…" Lawrend murmured.

He looked in front of him and saw Amene sleeping on his chest fully naked.

"Oh, yeah… I got drunk and… this happened," Lawrend said to himself as he remembered what happened last night.

"Amene, Amene," Lawrend called out to her and shook her shoulder.

"Hnnn..? Nyaa?"

Amene lifted her head and stared at Lawrend.

"Nyaa!"

Amene jumped back in fright after realizing that it was Lawrend that was in front of her. She stood up and stared at him warily.

"Can I go to your home? I need to bathe myself," Lawrend said to her.

"W-Why am I naked?" Amene asked Lawrend with confusion on her face.

She covered her breasts and her groin with her hands.

"Huh? You don't remember?" Lawrend asked her in puzzlement.

"What?"

Amene furrowed her eyebrows at him.

"Don't tell me, you were too drunk to remember what happened last night?" Lawrend asked her in realization.

That could only be the reason that she couldn't remember it. After all, she drank so much wine last night.

"L-Let me change first," Amene said to him in a stutter.

"Okay," Lawrend nodded his head and turned around.

Rustle Rustle

Lawrend heard the sounds of her clothes rustling before it went silent.

"You can turn around now," Amene said to him.

Lawrend turned around and looked at her. He felt disappointed that he didn't manage to see her body fully naked under the light of the sun.

Last night, he couldn't see most of the features of her body.

"Follow me," Amene said to him solemnly.

"Wait. I'll fix my clothes first," Lawrend said to her before he quickly fixed his attire.

After seeing that he was done, Amene led the way and Lawrend followed behind her.

It was about a 10-minute walk before they arrived before a thatched house right under a towering cliff.

"Is this your home?" Lawrend asked her.

He remembered Grape's words that Amene Lana lived under a cliff.

"Mm. Follow me inside," Amene said to him.

She still had the solemn look on her face.

Amene opened the door and entered the house with Lawrend following behind her.

Once they were inside, Amene closed the door behind Lawrend.

"What happened last night?" Amene asked him with a frown on her face.

"You told me that you want to satisfy me as your gift for me saving Feli," Lawrend replied to her.

"Did I?" Amene asked with a sigh on her face.

"Do you regret it?" Lawrend asked her.

"No. From now on, you are my lifelong mate. Please take care of me," Amene bowed to Lawrend.

"Huh?" Lawrend blinked his eyes at her.

He felt like there were some misunderstanding here somewhere.

"Can you please leave me alone for a while? I want to be alone for a while," Amene said to him gloomily.

"Okay..?"

Lawrend left her house in confusion.

Once Lawrend was outside, Amene stared at the door blankly.

"I… never thought that I would give my virginity so easily. And my butt hurts too. J-Just what did we do last night?" Amene asked herself in embarrassment.

Just thinking about it made her feel shameful.

What she didn't realize was that she was misunderstanding this situation. She assumed that since she was fully naked that they already went that far.

Amene picked up a chair and placed it beside the window. She stared outside in a daze. For a demihuman cat like her, having a lifelong mate is a big deal. She wasn't ready to suddenly have one.

Meanwhile, Lawrend was sitting on a tree stump. He looked around him and observed the scenery.

There were other thatched houses scattered around this area. The scenery was green and very beautiful with a strong vitality of life.

The thing that caught his attention the most was the towering rocky mountain in the background. He could barely see the peak above the edge of the cliff.

Lawrend waited for a few minutes till he got bored, and he opened his palm to start practicing magic.

Bright arcs of purple lightning flowed on his hand. He found that ever since he realized that magic can be driven by imagination, it became much easier to manipulate it.

The purple lightning changed colors. It turned into blood-red lightning that emanated a fierce aura.

"Huh?"

Lawrend was taken aback seeing its new effect. He doesn't remember Aezel talking about this before.

He continued releasing it and the fierce aura never faded. Lawrend couldn't fully feel its effects, but he could faintly feel that something was special about this lightning.

Lawrend closed his eyes and felt the amount of lightning mana inside his body.

'I'm almost there. A little bit more, and I can become a High Mage,' Lawrend thought to himself in excitement.

"Lawrend," Amene called out to him.

Lawrend opened his eyes and looked towards the door. He saw Amene standing in front of the door while she gripped her shoulder with her right hand in embarrassment with a new set of clothes gripped on her left hand.

"Hm?" Lawrend responded.

"Do you want to t-take a bath? I will accompany you," Amene said to him in embarrassment.

"Really?"

Lawrend widened his eyes in disbelief.

"Yes… Since you're my lifelong mate, I'm gonna help you," Amene said to him.

"Wait. Didn't you say that only if I take your virginity would I become your lifelong mate? What are you saying?" Lawrend asked her in confusion.

"A-A-A-Ahhhh!"

Only then did Amene realize that she misunderstood it. Her ears and tail straightened in response.

"T-Then, why was I fully naked?" Amene asked him in a fluster.

"I never took your virginity last night," Lawrend said to her.

"...Really?" Amene asked him doubtfully.

"We only did it backdoor," Lawrend said to her.

"Backdoor? What do you mean?" Amene asked in confusion.

"The other hole…" Lawrend responded with a murmur.

Amene stared at him blankly as she tried to process the meaning of his words.

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"Nyaaa!!?" Amene screamed in shock.

It took a while to register in her mind, but once it did, she realized what they did.