***Midhold, Royal Embassy***

***Angrod***

After another hour, the party slowly comes to an end and the guests start taking their leave. I am glad when it turns out that Celes and I aren't required to say goodbye to each and every one of them because that would have become quite tedious.

Having done our duty for today, we spend our time entertaining ourselves with idle chit-chat. Once the last of our friends are gone, Celes takes me by the hand and leads me to her room.

“Ahem, Celes? What do we need from your room?” I ask while she opens the door and pushes me inside, looking like she is up to no good. Now I realize that we essentially snuck off while the party was still officially ongoing. Our parents' friends are still at the party.

“Isn't running off like that a little unfriendly?” I ask as I enter the room.

Celes's private room is spacious with a big bed, a couch with a small table, and an office desk. Everything is held in tasteful colours, fitting to the stone-oak floor. I appreciate that it doesn't feel cramped and is actually quite cosy thanks to the tasteful décor. Celes decided to decorate the room with a mineral collection of various crystals which even I can appreciate.

She pulls me to the couch and pushes me to sit down on it. “Wait here, I will get the present!”

Quickly, she walks off to retrieve a box from her office desk.

Oh! Now I understand why she is so eager! The wedding night! I am sure she has such an item on her list. I remember that I saw it a few years ago, though the implementation seems to be slightly different. What was it? Wasn’t there supposed to be some kind of negligee to turn me on and twist my head?

She returns with the box which is filled with different kinds of chocolate and kneels down next to me.

Before I know it, she stuffs a piece into my mouth.

“Hmmm.” Delicious! It tastes so familiar. Exactly like the chocolate which I always got from... no. No! This memory! It has to be wrong! But it is the same taste!

I take another piece from her because I can’t hold back. “How did you manage to recreate the taste!?”

It's the same chocolate I got from her back then in that other life! It is handmade and it is simply the best! I snack on a third piece, barely taking the time to savour the taste.

Instead of answering, Celes just smiles and the angle inadvertently gives me a perfect peek down her cleavage. Suddenly, a shiver rushes down my spine and I feel something getting very stiff.

What's wrong with me? I take pride in having complete control over my instincts. I try to get control over my erection, but nothing works.

It’s always like this when I am with Celes.

Smiling, Celes raises her white dress and climbs on top of me, settling down in my lap. “Take your time. We have aaalll night.”

Pushing against me, she steals a deep kiss, forcing me to put the box down in order to hold her properly.

“You are just a naughty vixen, aren’t you?” I tease.

“Maybe?” She pouts while fumbling with my belt and trousers, freeing me quite skilfully.

I take another piece of chocolate into my mouth, deciding to let her do the work for once. “You know, if I hadn’t seen how troublesome that dress of yours is, I would actually help you taking it off.”

Celes smiles, giving me a testing stroke. “When have you seen my wedding dress? Don't you know that it's bad luck to see the dress before the wedding?”

I am quite certain that this superstition is supposed to be different.

I shrug, assured in the knowledge that I have all the time in the world to eat all the chocolate before my wife manages to get out of that complicated thing and the corset beneath it. “Rose showed it to me. She was quite proud of the thing, not that you need a corset with your figure.”

“Hah!” Looking smug, she lets go of me and fans out her skirt so that it isn't in the way. Then she shifts her hips forward and up, dropping her weight into my lap.

I almost spit out the chocolate when I feel that burning warmth within her engulf my length.

“Fuuuck!” I wipe at my lips, trying to clean up what little mess I made.

Celes bites her lower lip and smiles as she starts grinding her hips. “Who ever said that I would put on that accursed underwear.”

Feeling fireworks going off in my brain, I push the box out of the way and hold onto her hips to keep her still. “You actually attended the whole wedding without underwear?”

Leaning in, she whispers into my ear. “Even better. I had the tailor make some changes to the dress after Rose picked it up.” Taking my hand, she guides it to something beneath her armpit that feels suspiciously like a zipper.

Holding her still with one hand, I unzip her dress, only now realizing that the thing is essentially a tube which is easy to take off once the shoulder straps are released. The fact that it has no sleeves makes it only easier to get rid of.

Finally, the thing comes off and Celes tosses it carelessly into the room. She is just wearing red lingerie which matches her hair. It almost shows the really interesting parts of her body, but also hides them at the same time. And the panties are one of those naughty pieces which do not fulfil their actual purpose.

Which explains my current predicament.

Clearly fighting to hold back, she slowly grinds her hips in an arousing way. “I just made this chocolate for this special occasion,” she whispers into my ear. “But I thought that I would be the real present!”

My eyes wander over her body while I fight the urge to just ravish her. How is she doing this to me? It’s not like she is a genuine succubus. I met my fair share of those and she is nothing like them.

She must be a genuine witch after all! “Then why does it start to hurt down there?” I can barely control myself and my voice shivers a little as I feel her tightening around me.

She traces her finger over my chest which sends another shiver through my body. “Do you really think that I feel any different? Why don’t you just get on with the wedding night? I’ve been waiting for this for years!”

Digging my fingers into her perfect waist, I stop her movements. “You do know that this feels like I could get a heart attack at any moment, right?”

“I know of an easy way to solve the problem.” She uses her tail to snag a piece of chocolate and uses it as lipstick. Then she puts her hands around my head and starts to move in a way which almost drives me mad while kissing me.

Just before I go nuts, she lets off. “Weren't you the one who once said that the guys who live their lives as pure perverts are right? Isn't it better to take what you can get for free?” She whispers into my ear. Her tail touches me in a few places, while she licks over the chocolate on her lips and smiles provokingly at me.

“But if you are still not convinced, I could show you a great trick.” She flexes her belly muscles, and it suddenly feels like she is having a wild ride on top of me.

I groan. “Shit!”

I can't take this anymore! I grab her arms and lock them behind her back.

“Ouch!” She lets out a small complaint. “Hey, aren't you a little too eager?”

She is picking away at my self-control and now she complains? No more! I am done with talking. I growl and hug her hips and upper body, pressing her lean frame against me. Then I stand up and carry her to the bed. Somehow everything is spinning, but I manage to reach the soft mattress and let myself fall on top of her, biting her neck with the intention of showing her how wild I can be.

“Kyaaa!”

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“Ow!” I groan and cover my face with a pillow to protect myself against the morning sun.

My head hurts. My back hurts.

Worst of all, my balls hurt!

I don't want to wake up, but something is purring and nuzzling the back of my head. Damned familiar! Leave me be! How did Ghost get into Celes's room?

That's when I wake up for real, remembering last night.

And it's hard to breathe! What's this soft thing in my face? I grab it and push, but something wraps around me.

“Mmm!Mhmm!” Wrapping herself around me, my wife keeps sleeping.

After a little wrestling match, I am able to fight my face free, but the naked woman doesn't let go while she is entangled around me. Ghost is trying to get our attention in order to get out of the room, but every time he comes close Celes flicks her tail, hitting him on the nose. It is like an automatic fly-swatter.

“Body pillow... don't move...” she mumbles in her sleep.

What a horrible marriage! Just remembering it gives me the creeps. I hope they cleaned up the city.

Though, I have to admit that the night wasn't bad at all.

“Celes, let me go. We have to get up.” I twist her earlobe to wake her up.

“Mh... don't wanna. Let us sleep for the rest of the day...” she murmurs half asleep.

I take a look at the clock. Argh! It's already seven pm! Did we sleep a whole day? No, that can't be. For that matter, when did we stop rocking the bed and finally go to sleep?

I grumble, but then I have a great idea. “Teleport!”

We reappear in the air above a certain lake and I brace myself for the impact!

'SPLASH!'

“KYAAA!” Celes's outraged scream is accompanied by a gurgling sound.

Woohoo! Cold!

I start swimming as soon as my womanly shackles let go of me to swim to the surface. Chuckling inwardly, I follow.

“What was that for!?” Celes glares at me as soon as my head reaches the cool morning air.

“I desperately needed some air,” I explain.

“You want some more chocolate tonight?” She grins at me.

“I'll take the chocolate, but without the physical workout. I am sore all over.” And I hate it to lose control over myself.

She huffs. “Good luck with that. Both of us know that you can't leave your hands off my body.” She swims closer and grabs my hand with a triumphant smile. “And I fully intend for us to share a bedroom from now on.”

“...” That could indeed become a big problem for my self-control.

“And I am the only one who knows how to make that chocolate,” She announces triumphantly and pulls her body against mine.

Thankfully, the cool water allows me to keep my head.

I guess this world isn't a chocolate paradise. It's true that I never came across any decent chocolate until Celes started to give it to me. And apparently, everything was handmade... I wince at the thought of her wielding that kind of power over me.

I am a chocolate addict and she is the only supplier!

“Can you teleport us back into my bathroom. I wouldn't like to get my bed wet.” She smiles, which makes me gladder than ever that this water is cold like hell.

I embrace her and teleport us back.

When we reappear, it turns out that I missed the bathtub by a foot. I guess a little water on the floor isn't a problem since the whole room is tiled.

Celes walks a bit awkwardly to the basin and takes her ring out of a small box. “Heal!” She immediately casts healing onto herself.

“Ahhh... That feels much better!” Then she throws an accusing look at me. “I thought I wouldn't live through the night. Couldn't you have been a little gentler?”

“I wouldn't complain if I were you. You kept testing my limits. With everything you did, you should have expected to turn the coldest guy into a wild beast.” I raise an eyebrow and Celes puffs up her cheeks.

I leave Celes to herself and dry myself off, then get dressed. A few minutes later I am sitting in the kitchen where I plunder the leftovers from the buffet.

Rose gives me a dirty smile while pretending to be busy with the dishes.

I choose to ignore it, but a few minutes later Celes joins us and Rose can't hold back her curiosity. “How was the night?”

“Nuts!” I reply quickly and my wife responds with, “Pain!”

Rose is taken aback but not defeated. “Oh, I heard that the first time can be rough in some cases. I am sure it will get better if you keep the ball up in the air! After all, we need an heir!” She nods and smiles, while she gives another plate of leftovers to Celes.

After a few minutes of silent eating, she snatches the fork which Celes had put down.

A small stick-like magic-device appears in her hand and she presses it against the fork. “Kukuku...” Then she storms outside while yelling. “The family just got bigger!”

I almost choke on a small fruit when I hear that. Looking at my wife, I notice that Celes has a predatory grin on her face.

“Pregnancy test?” I ask and Celes nods.

The door opens and the whole family storms inside to congratulate us.

Somehow I am a little confused. Why is everyone on cloud nine because of this? This isn't a miracle? That's what happens when you bed a girl without protection and I was doing so for several months now.

My expression falls.

Now that I think about it... irresponsibly fucking the ever loving hell out of her wasn't my smartest move. The thought of protection never entered my mind! How stupid am I?

It's the fault of my previous life! Having an army of sexy succubi taking care of all my desires messed with my sense of danger. Of course, a normal woman would get pregnant. Celes probably even thinks that I wanted to make a child with her!

My mother starts blurting out that it's a miracle, which returns my attention to the matter at hand.

“I don't get why it sh-”

Celes covers my mouth just in time to stop me from blurting out that we were already 'working on the case' for months. “I guess we got lucky that the wedding night fell right into that time of the month. Hahaha.”

She looks at me meaningfully and I nod, which prompts her to take her hand away.

“Still! Do you know how hard I tried to get pregnant with you?” Katrine asks.

That only draws confused expressions from Celes and me, but after a little explanation regarding this world's crazy biology, I finally get their happiness. Apparently, the royal bloodline isn't blessed with many children. I guess there has to be some kind of drawback for having the benefits of superhuman strength and a greater mana pool.

My own mother and father had tried to get children for at least two years until my now dead siblings were born. When my siblings died, mother had almost given up on ever getting another child. In all of recorded history, it never happened that a queen of our bloodline would have children twice.

So my mother treated me like a present from heaven when she got me.

I guess she wasn't too far off...

But Celes seems to be a bit down upon hearing the news. Apparently, she hadn't heard about this particular blood-trait of ours until now.

“Don't worry!” I try to cheer her up. “I love you anyway, even if we can't have many brats.” Now that I think about it, this is a godsend from heaven! Celes planned for several children and now her plans are foiled! She might even turn out to be the perfect woman for me, now that I won't have a whole kindergarten to look after!

“B- but I wanted to have at least three childreeen...” She starts crying and hugs me.

O.M.G.! What to do?

Surprised by her emotional reaction, I pat her head and try to console her while Ireth and Katrine look at her with sympathetic expressions.

“Don't worry. It worked for you on the first try. So either you just won the lottery or your stupid chocolate had a strange side effect.”

She goes stiff and suddenly starts laughing.

Then she stands up. “That’s right! I am so stupid! This world has such amazing healers that I fell to the conclusion that they are much better than me. But if I think about it, each of their achievements is accomplished through magic. They have no idea how the body actually works! In school, there wasn't even a basic class about biology!”

Now… that actually worries me a little.

“I guess it's pretty useless to research the biology of every bloodline on this world. There are hundreds of different ones. Not to mention the mixed breeds,” I talk to myself. Everyone who started to work in that direction would be long dead before he could accomplish anything of value.

Finding out how the speed-type muscles of the people with the elf-trait work wouldn't be of much interest to anyone else.

“Angrod, you can build me the equipment to start biology research?” Celes’s eyes sparkle at me.

“Uhm, I guess? If you tell me what you need for biology research? I am a techno-freak, I have almost no clue about medicine and biology besides magical applications.”

“First, I need a really good microscope! Then incubation ovens, temperature baths, centrifuges, spectrophotometres, PCR instrumentation, high-resolution imaging devices, electrophoresis systems, micropulser electroporators and something for chromatography would be a good start!” Celes counts on her fingers while listing a whole lot of complicated devices.

My eyes become rounder and rounder as the list grows. “Could... Could it be you were some kind of doctor in a previous life?” Preparing all that stuff might actually take some time, even with the extensive technology base which I already built.

Celes takes a proud stance. “Hear me, oh, unworthy! Before you stands someone with hundreds of degrees in biology, medicine, and molecular science.”

“HA!?”

Could I be that my wife is actually really smart!? I mean, I knew that she ‘is’ smart, but she is smarter than I thought? Why did she never tell me? Oh, I think she might have mentioned something about her interests in alchemy. I stopped following her efforts once I got my base.

She grabs me by the hand. “To your laboratory! Now! I have to explain the devices which I need from you. I am sure you wouldn't be able to fulfil my needs otherwise.”

“Uh!? Sure?” I excuse us and teleport.

At my laboratory, I listen to Celes's explanation, not remembering having ever seen her that lively. I am sure that my automatic factory can produce everything she wants to have.

But I am still a little bothered.

Listening to her and using my 3D-printers and a little help from my employees, we start building her a real lab for biological research. To me, it feels more like she is going to start a cloning farm than a research lab.

By the end of the day, her personal lab looks like a high-danger bio-hazard zone out of a movie!

I hope I didn't destroy the world by giving her those toys.

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The next day, I am lying in my bed while thinking about the current situation of my life. If I am honest to myself... it could be worse?

I am actually a little mad that there is still that affair with Tjenemit looming over us like the sword of Damocles, but otherwise, I am almost satisfied with the state of affairs… if only Celes’s plans for multiple children won’t work out.

Suddenly the door flies open and Celes storms inside.

She slams the door shut and locks it with a ‘Click!’

I have given up on locking my room long ago. She would take down the whole embassy while kicking in the door.

“Why are you here? I thought I told you that we are sharing a bed from now on.” She hops onto the bed. In her hand is a piece of chocolate. “Eat that!”

Errr...yeah. No way that I am going to sleep in her bed while she is working overnight in her new lab.

“No? I won't eat suspicious food.” She shouldn’t think that I cannot connect the dots. She gets a new lab and pulls an all-nighter, and the very next day she offers me a single, suspicious treat.

“It took me the whole night to analyse my body and I found no problem. So the problem must lie at the male side of our bloodline!” She grabs my jaw and forces it open. I try to fight it, but in terms of strength, she is still above me.

Then she shoves the chocolate into my mouth.

“Mmm!”

She force feeds me the stuff, covering my mouth and my nose.

“What was that?” I cough and ask as soon as she lets go.

A needle appears in her hand and she slams it unceremoniously into my thigh.

‘Stab!’

“Ow! Are you trying to murder me!?”

“That was just a little stimulant to get your body to produce some needed pheromones. I took some blood samples from Arthur and Nicosar. Based on their blood tests, I think that if I get your body to produce the right pheromones everything should be okay.” She takes a blood sample.

“I am not some lab-rat!” I complain, but then her words sink in. “Are you trying to say that I am sterile!?” The children-problem comes from the male side of the bloodline?

“You are the one who gave me the idea!” She nods at me.

How did I do that? I am not particularly interested in children, but the fact that my body isn’t working as it should bothers me.

She senses something in my expression. “Don’t worry.” Waving her hand, she tries to calm me down. “I will find the problem and we will have a whole bunch of kids!”

I take everything back. How can I increase my fertility problems!?

“Is that so?” I grab her hand and take the needle and the syringe with blood. “I think it's not so bad if we have to do a little bed-work for our children. If we put too much effort into it, we will have to take care of a whole football team.” I wink at her.

She frowns. “Yeah, no. I am not against bed-sport, but think that I prefer the scientific approach in this case.”

Damn!