It didn’t take long for me to miss Mariet and Claire.

Within just a few hours, I left all of my girlfriends exhausted and panting while Valkyria babysat Luca for me.

And all I did was grope them.

“When… when did your power level get so high?” Vala asked, only her head sticking out from under the covers of our bed in the house’s bedroom. “You… you must have been power leveling…”

“I barely did anything,” I said.

Window was there in her human form as well, but she was face down in her pillow after all of the noises that I got out of her just from touching her. She still made sure to gently kick me under the sheets, though.

Meanwhile, Clawdia couldn’t talk nor move at all. All she could do was make incoherent mumbling noises as a strand of drool ran from her lips while her eyes spun around.

Chloe was included, too. “I—I can’t believe that you started dating me… disappeared… and then came back and did this to me…”

“But you’re not saying that you’re going to cry,” I said.

“It still feels too good to cry…”

Of course, also included were the dog sisters.

Delphi definitely came out on top when it came to the groping of breasts. She just had so much more to grope than everybody else in the bedroom, and the softness was unparalleled. Even her thighs offered a similar groping experience.

Lavi might not have had the largest bust, but the best part of groping her was her variety of reactions and expressions that completely betrayed her cool behavior.

As for Cami, she was the smallest out of everybody and almost completely flat, but her chest was also the most sensitive of them all. She ended up so overwhelmed by me focusing on it that she actually passed out and was currently sleeping using Delphi’s breasts as pillows.

Then, in regard to Honey, she was so hyped up after watching such things happen in her games all the time that the excitement caused by her anticipation made her even more sensitive than she should have been. She was also the firmest and perkiest of the group while coming in at mid-tier for size. While it was probably just because every woman’s body is different, I assumed that the difference was caused by the fact that she was supposed to be like a honey badger which meant having tougher skin, or something like that.

Really, all of them won in their own ways. Delphi obviously had the largest and softest pair whenever Claire wasn’t around, but each one of them had their own unique aspect that made them shine among the others.

As for me, I felt like a whole, satisfied man.

There I was, standing at the foot of the bed as I looked down at the results of my work.

I got to grope all of my girlfriends and thoroughly pleasured them through that alone, which I wasn’t even expecting to happen.

Maybe I actually did do the equivalent of power leveling while I was gone?

With how often Claire and Mariet wanted to do lewd things together, including spending one day where it was basically all we did, I built up a lot of experience during that time.

If I were to compare it to a game… it would be like I was grinding, in more than one meaning of the word, powerful monsters in order to boost my experience and gain a bunch of levels while all of my girlfriends back here just lazed around and didn’t bother leveling up at all themselves. So, I returned to them with a level fifty groping skill while they only had level five defenses. My power level is at least ten times higher than their own now.

It was like getting to a high level in an MMO, returning to the starting zone, and then one-shotting everything with minimal amounts of effort.

The girls were all so tired that they couldn’t even return the favor in any way, not that I expected nor even wanted them to. All I wanted was to grope them, and I got what I wanted. It just so turned out that all of them got a lot more out of it than any of us were expecting, too.

Admittedly, it did wonders for my ego. It probably inflated my ego far more than it needed to be.

But back to the point, I missed Mariet and Claire. They trained my endurance, and now I needed them to really get all of my desires out of my system. The rest of my girlfriends would eventually be trained to have enough stamina, of course, but that would take at least a few days of nonstop lewding all of them. Mariet and Claire, however, were already there and able to keep up.

Also, I didn’t expect to feel so lonely without any random part of Mariet with me at all times. There was no detached hand, fingers, head, nor any other part of her in constant contact with me no matter where I was. And then with Claire’s absence, there was nobody to not only sate all my sexual desires, but nobody to do so and then make me anything that I want to eat, do all the chores, and help me in the garden.

“Wow,” I said out loud to myself. “I’ve become extremely spoiled.”

Claire did the work of a hundred girlfriends put into one, and I didn’t know how to live without that after spending some time with her.

I didn’t know whether that was a good thing or a bad thing. Probably a bad thing. It’s never good to become too dependent on somebody, right? But at the same time, it was so nice, and everybody consented to my dependence and enjoyed it, so what was the problem?

Wait.

What if it was all a trap?

What if they were corrupting me?

What if it was their plan all along to get me addicted to them?

What if I was playing into their trap all along? They trained me and got me addicted to them so that I would come back here, conquer my girlfriends into submission, and then want to return.

It all made sense.

They only wanted to use me! The leader of our enemies tried to use brainwashing techniques against me in order to corrupt me so that I don’t return to the battles, probably blow up their castle like we did to Clawdia’s, and recruit them as our girlfriends!

I knew what needed to be done.

I needed to grope my girlfriends even more.

I needed to get even stronger.

Not only did I need to get stronger, but I needed to build up the tolerance and stamina of my girlfriends if they were ever going to stand a chance against Claire and Mariet. I saw what those two women could do to each other. Vala and everybody else were no match for them. They became masters of all things lewd while waiting for us to get over there, and we’ve been taking our sweet time doing that, so their power levels far exceeded our own.

I had to grind my power level up even higher, and I needed to bring the power levels of everybody else up, too.

“I know you’re all tired,” I said, “but this needs to be done.” I lifted my hands and squeezed the air in front of me to get the point across. “Until your bodies have been trained to withstand this pleasure, we have to keep doing it even if it takes weeks or months of groping without rest. Even years. It’s all for the greater good so that we can put that vampire and zombie in their place.”

Rather than appear in front of me all of a sudden as an informational status window, Window shouted at me, “Stop coming up with absurd theories just to grope us more! Just admit that you’ve devolved into being a boob addict and now you can’t stop touching us! Don’t make this all sound like some huge, evil scheme when all you want to do is touch boobs!”

“Thank you, Window, for volunteering your chest first.”

“H-hold on a second there. I—I’m still recovering! I’ll turn into my true form and then you won’t be able to grope me!”

“You’re wrong, Window.”

“Ho-how am I wrong?”

“Because we both know that you want to be groped more which is why you won’t turn back. It’s precisely because I can’t grope you if you do that you won’t do it.”

“That… that just makes me want to turn back even more!”

“Then do it. Go ahead, Window. I’m waiting. Stop me from groping you. Turn back into an informational status window.”

Window puffed out her cheeks and grumbled at me before flopping onto her back and covering up her face with her pillow. “Fine!” she shouted from underneath it, her voice muffled by the pillow’s fluff. “Go ahead! Do whatever you want! It’s—it’s for the greater good anyways, so I don’t care!”

“Woah,” Vala said. “You made her go into super tsundere mode. Is this the power of groping?”

“You’re next,” I said to Vala. “Wait. No. I need to get even stronger. I won’t be able to surpass my current limits if I restrict myself to only one woman’s chest at a time. If I truly want to ascend and become somebody who can dominate both Claire and Mariet, then I need to transcend this level and become somebody even greater.”

“So cool!” Lavi said. Apparently, my inspired talk was enough to break her out of her embarrassed panting. “Master, I’ll walk with you on this path and do whatever—!”

I grabbed Lavi’s chest with my right hand.

I grabbed Vala’s with my left.

And then I planted my face into Window’s.

A weaker man would go along the natural progression of feeling one woman’s chest at a time to feeling two women’s chests at a time.

But I was not a weaker man.

I was a man with a mission to transcend and become the greatest groper of all time.

I would learn how to grope and handle a woman’s chest with every single inch of my body.

All for the hedonistic pleasure derived from groping breasts.

I mean.

All for the greater good of getting revenge against Mariet and Claire for trying to corrupt me.

I kept on going until I couldn’t anymore. My hands were tired, my jaw was sore, and the rest of my body felt like I had pulled muscles everywhere.

It was very intense groping.

It was also morning of the next day, apparently, but everybody save for myself was only just falling asleep. Well, it was more like they would sleep whenever I was done with their chest until I woke them up to use it for training some more. So, they only got about ten minutes of sleep at a time at most.

Now that I no longer had it in me to continue, I stood up from the bed and looked down at the results again.

All of them were knocked out. Window in particular made an amusing sight since she was hanging upside down off the bed. All of the girls made faces that I never expected them to make, though. Vala called them “hentai faces,” and I think one of them was something along the lines of an a-hay-go? It was a word from some other language that I didn’t understand and didn’t care about figuring out since I still had enough energy in me at the time to continue groping.

That aside, I was tempted to join them, but the morning sun shining in through the window kept me awake and inspired me to go outside and to get some gardening done.

The first thing I noticed when I stepped outside was that somebody taped a letter to our door.

The letter read:

IT WOULD BE TOO AWKWARD TO INTERRUPT YOU WHILE YOU’RE STILL DOING IT, BUT PLEASE BE MORE CONSIDERATE IN THE FUTURE. I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO ALL SORTS OF NOISES COMING FROM YOUR HOUSE FOR THE LAST TWENTY HOURS. I COULDN’T SLEEP. IT. JUST. WOULD. NOT. STOP. WHAT WERE YOU EVEN DOING? IS EVERYBODY EVEN ALIVE IN THERE? I HAVE SURVIVED LEGITIMATE WAR WHERE PEOPLE CUT ONE ANOTHER DOWN WITH SWORDS AND SPEARS AND EVEN THAT WASN’T AS DISTURBING AS LISTENING TO WHATEVER WAS HAPPENING INSIDE THIS HOUSE.

PLEASE NEVER DO IT AGAIN OR AT LEAST PUT A MAGICAL BARRIER AROUND MY HOUSE SO THAT I DON’T HAVE TO HEAR ANY OF IT.

- LAKE

Then I noticed something else.

There was another letter underneath that one. Though, I couldn’t understand the angry scribbling scrawled across it. I did, however, recognize the paw print of a beaver.

“I hope Luca didn’t hear anything,” I said.

“I didn’t!” Luca answered, suddenly appearing in front of me in her human form. “Valkyria told me to deafen myself, so I snapped my fingers and made myself deaf until she let me know it was alright to hear again.”

I was going to have to thank Valkyria later. And grope her a ton whenever she’d eventually get given a human form.

For the moment, though, it was time to garden. I didn’t get many one-one-one moments with Luca without all the others being around to distract her, so it was time for some father-daughter gardening time for both bonding and educational purposes.

Then, once we got in our fill of doing that, we could go have ourselves another battle. Powering myself up through my girlfriends didn’t mean anything if I wasn’t able to actually reach Mariet and Claire at the final stage of the zone.

I was going to conquer the remaining stages, train my hands and groping abilities each day, and conquer Mariet’s castle.

And then I was going to show them both the true, ascendant power of my hands.