I woke up in my bed. I can clearly remember what happened. I sighed to myself, my arms stretched out beside me. I start to think about what to do now. It is night time now. I can see the dark blue sky and the moon outside my window. At least I can get a week worth of peace and quiet around the mansion. My parents tend to go to the capital where the Emperor lives. My brothers and sisters visits the other noble’s mansions to form a deeper relationship and such. I tend to stay at the mansion and watch over the place. I should get serious in my training now. I need to get stronger so I can escape my father and finally become free.

I hate being a tool, especially when it comes to marriage and love. I tighten my grip on my bed… sheets? Huh, that is strange. My left hand can feel the cloth of my bed while the right one can feel something else? It has a different feeling to it. It is warm and soft. Very soft? I squeeze my right hand again several times wondering what I was squeezing. I turn my head to stare at Brynhild.

She was staring right at me.

She has a very wicked –or playful – smile across her face. She says to me, teasingly, “Wow, I did not think that you would be so daring Princess Aisha, do take care of me.”

This was a fact.

I screamed.

Well. Brynhild covered my mouth with one of my pillows quickly before I could.

I toss her aside and got on top of her, whispering, “What the hell are you doing in my bed!?”

Of course I was flustered and blushing like crazy. How would I know that this Demi-God was going to sneak into my room when I was unconscious and try to do this to me!? I mean, I did not know that I was groping her damn breasts! And they were big- I mean, the hell!? I glare at her with a killing intent, if that was possible to do towards a Demi-God. She chuckles lightly and gropes my breasts. She wears a tight white shirt, pants, and socks. She has taken off her armor for the night.

Her enchanting eyes gleam in the moonlight that dawns on both of us. Her hand slowly moves to me. She grasps both my breasts and squeezed. I let out a gasp, biting down on my lower lip. My face erupts a shade of red very quickly. I hope this is not going to go where I think it will lead to. My mind starts to panic. I have no clue what to do if we start fucking- WHOA!? Am I bringing up these naughty thoughts right now?! Hell, why am I falling in love with a girl!? I... I have no experience when it comes to loving another girl! Fuck, the very thought is making me feel shy.

“I will repay you with the same action as well you naughty Princess.” She sticks her tongue out playfully before pulling it back in. I am furious! My mind was cursing at this stupid Demi-God for doing this!

"I thought you did not want any nobles to flirt with you!?" I recall the incident with Prince Arnos.

"Oh. I said princes. I said nothing about me flirting with princesses now." She sticks her tongue out playfully, again, and gave me a wink.

Why is she doing this!? I mean, stalking me, testing me, touching me, and then sleeping with me?!

Who would normally do this? It is too weird! A woman of her caliber should not be doing this.

Without pressing this matter any further, I went to the far side of my bed and covered myself with my bed sheet. I said nothing, hiding my blushing face and my stupid expression. It was also strange to have my heart beating fast as well and recalling that sensation of my hand groping her breasts. I can still recall that strange sensation of her hand groping my breast- I should just go back to sleep.

Surely, this is a dream.

When I wake up, she would not even be on my bed. As I drift back to sleep, I only heard a voice whispering to my ears, “Wake up Princess Aisha.” My body shakes at the sudden sensation against my sides. I can feel ten fingers tickling against my clothed sides. I cover my mouth as I quickly turn around to look at Brynhild. She quickly pulls me into a bear hug and says to me, “Now I got you!”

“P-please! Stop playing around and just tell me why you are here already!” I said, “Y-you tickling me is uncomfortable!” The look on my face says otherwise as the girl teases my sides. She has her arms wrapped around me, her hands wiggling against me. My body trembles against her. My face displays an utterly silly expression as I hold them in. I close my eyes and shake against Brynhild. I was not paying attention to Brynhild’s expression. Her face smiles in delight at my reaction and movement. She licks her lips.

When I close my eyes for three seconds, I can hear her usher the words, “You are too cute when I do this to you.” I open my eyes to stare at her. She is giving a strange look? I question it myself. She has this alluring look. She was smiling and staring at me as if she happy about something. Confused at her expression, I quickly avert my gaze.

I was puzzled. What was this girl's objective? What was her goal?

What was so special about me?

I am just a princess that is being treated as a tool. She said to me, "I think I will tease you a bit more..." I can feel her hand exploring the rest of my body. She slides towards my most private areas. Her fingers dance around the spots. I squirmed so violently. I NEVER felt this way before! Hell, I can scream for help, but my mouth never cried out for help. My body is heating up once more. My face glowing bright red. My eyes quiver at these sensations and thoughts.

Am I in love with girls now?

“Come and get dress,” she says, “I will teach you my way of leveling up.” She leaves the room without giving me a chance to ask her why she was trying to seduce me. She grabbed her armor, leaving the room. I was able to calm my body down before I sat up on the bed. I touched myself a bit, adjusting to what just happened.

I know, for certain, she was trying to capture my heart or something. I push this off to the side as I open up one of my chests and put on my own miniature black knight armor.

Nero and his men created my own set of armor. The armor was not large like theirs, but it was customized to fit my body and show off my physic still. If I was to stand next to my knights, I would look like their leader. I have a black cape flowing behind my though and I have no helmet. I grab my two swords in their sheaths and exit my room. The weight of the armor and swords should make any man or woman fall to their knees. With my strength and stamina, I can easily handle these weapons and armor. I left my own room, closing the door behind me. The Demi-God waits for me. Brynhild eyes at me. She whistles very softly. “Wow.”

"What do you want to show me?" I asked.

"Let's go outside. I will show you it there." The two of us left the mansion, avoiding the midnight guards patrolling the place.

The two of us exit the mansion and head to my secret sparring area in the forest. She finally says, “Wow, I never thought that you would look good in armor. Black really suits you.” I let out a little chuckle. My expression turns serious though.

I asked her, “Why are you helping me and why are you flirting with me?”

My directness caught her off guard.

She closes her eyes and sighs. She did not expect me to ask that maybe. The flirting part of it, not the first part.

She folds her arms and stares into the sky. “I am helping you because I can tell that you want out of your miserable life. I mean, I was curious to why you left your own banquet. I also saw your true personality when you were in that banquet. I also saw your will to become stronger. I mean, you were knocked out on the stairs after the little incident from my Pressure Realm. I can tell from your guards that they truly care about you, and they want to make sure you can escape this stupid life of a princess. Most princesses have this usually set up anyways. They are forced to marry someone to continue their royal bloodline and help their family gain massive amounts of wealth just to live. Money is not everything. It cannot buy happiness unless they are truly greedy. I use to be a princess myself, but I escape that life and venture off to explore this large world. I have trained and experience freedom compared to the holed up princess. I will help you escape this nightmare by tonight.”

She takes a pause and stares at me. “To answer your question to why I am flirting with you… Well, that is a secret." I frown at that response.

“Why can’t you tell me?” I ask, my heart beating a bit faster. I am utterly confused to why she was toying with me?

What was so special about me if she knew that I am a trapped princess?

Helping me is one thing, but to love me... Why would a girl of her caliber be interested in me?

There are better candidates for her to love. Hell, loving another Demi-God would be quite beneficial for her then me.

She stares at me. She already spotted my troubled expression. I have too many thoughts stirring in my head. She lets out another sigh and places her hand on her head, “You are beautiful and cute. You are also strong and courageous. Happy?”

I blush at those words slightly, although my ears want to hear more.

“Is that it? Are you even trying to explain yourself to me!?” Brynhild did not continue on though, shaking her head. “Why are you flirting and toying with me?! I mean, what you did earlier in the bed...”

“It is simple…” she turns her head to the right and bluntly answers, “I have no clue to why I am doing all of this as well. Honestly, I find myself slipping up and being random to try and get closer to you. I seriously have some confusion to why I love you. And it is kind of silly to love you when I sort of know you. Although, lets be frank, I barely know you and you barely know me. This is new to me. I know I can flirt with guys easily, but girls, I have no experience in them. I have helped girls gain insight and trained them to become warriors or mages, but I never exactly flirted with them till now.”

She was hiding her face. She has turns her body halfway through her sentence as I gaze at her back. I could not help but blush at those words. She was trying to flirt with me? I can recall all the times the male nobles tried this. They all fail to appease me and entertain me. I know that they were weak, and they were greedy. They did not inform me about anything interesting like my childhood friend. They not shed any insights about something new that I would be interested in. Brynhild has showed me the new ranks that I could aim for. The fact that this girl has been trying her best to flirt with me without any experience with so ever was admirable. Despite her inexperience, she was treating me as an equal. She might be treating me with favoritism. This feeling of treated for who I really am made my heart beat faster.

I grasp my chest, the warm feeling overwhelming me.

It has been years since I recalled this feeling. My parents abandoned such love and care for me, yet this simple stranger just made me remember this sensation. I closed my eyes and cherish it. It does soothe out all my worries from this world. I had to snap out of it for now. Brynhild brought me out here for a reason.

My heartbeat went back to normal as I continue to breathe normally as well. I open my eyes to see a new look on Brynhild’s face. It had pain written all over it. I wanted to voice out my concerns. This face was too much for me to stare at. Her eyes showed no life and her face was pale. I slowly walk towards her, but my body stops itself. I doubt I can help her face whatever problem is going on with her even at my level.

I even had my hand stretched out, but I slowly put it down. I know that she has been hiding her own problems as well.

“I question why you act so differently. Like the time you were in that banquet of mine. You had a look of a Goddess for sure. You were so graceful and alluring that if I was a guy, I would ask your hand in marriage.” Brynhild snaps out of her thoughts and laughs lightly.

“How so? I mean, people cannot really tell what my true emotions are. I guess me being random is not my thing unless I am trying to do something new. I am no Goddess, surely you jest. You were a Goddess though; your appearance would have made my heart freeze the moment I gaze upon you.”

I laugh at her compliment, saying, “Nonsense, I am not as beautiful as you.”

"I just told you that I have never flirted with a girl until you showed up." Brynhild declared, "You have many depths that exemplifies your beauty than just looks alone. You are what, twenty-one years old? You have become a rank nine warrior and mage. You can use martial arts and you have rank thirteen bodyguards, yet you are stuck in this far away mansion where no one knows about you. I am damned to find something so strong in a rare place like this."

I blush madly at her well-thought complimented. I just turn around, shaking my head.

"I am glad I impressed you, but surely, you have not revealed a lot about yourself. To me, I may be amazing in all these skills, but you should be able to slash me down in mere seconds. You have not shown your true powers yet." Brynhild lets out a scoff.

"Yeah, I will surely slash your clothes off. I wouldn't mind having you as my first to fuck with." That blunt statement forced an image in my head. Me and her doing it?! Oh god! Shit, shit, shit! I grasp my head at the image of us on the battlefield. I watch her beat me so easily. Activating that Pressure Realm then showing a destructive power I had no chance to win against. A bright light would engulf my vision of this fight. I lie on the ground, defeated, as Brynhild stands above me. She would pry off my armor somehow. Using her sword or just ripping it off, then she would start to...

"Hey, you really are picturing it in your head aren't you?" Brynhild asks.

"I-I AM NOT!" I stuttered, snapping upright from my lowered position. I cannot believe I conjured up such an image! Brynhild laughs at my response.

"And you question why I would not hit on you? Everything you do is priceless."

"You like toying with me, don't you?"

"Yep."

I motion my hand up and down, but I quickly focus back on to the main subject at hand, “So this method of training… What is it?” She was waiting for me to ask this. She motion for something, tossing it into the air.

Brynhild tosses me a strange round pill to me. I catch it, eyeing at the object. It has a black color to it. Most pills can have some flaming aura surrounding it that can enhance certain element ranks or skills for a warrior, but this one did not give off anything. It was just a regular black pill.

Brynhild says, “This pill allows you to gain skills, laws, and insights on various things if you defeat them. For example, if you were to defeat a rank nine mage that specializes in wind, you will be able to inherit and comprehend what they know. You are not taking away what they have learned though, but you are copying it. If you were to defeat someone in some way, then you will be able to learn stuff that they know. The things that they know can vary from fighting to crafting skills to blacksmithing. Now, this can be done by killing people, but sometimes it can also be done through duels or other ways. This will help you progress faster to the higher ranks and give you so many traits and talents that one could be jealous about.”

I find this method to be alright, yet I know there has to be some downfall to this. Even if I can gain a vast amount of skills to use, leveling up sounds a bit harder though. “Even if I was able to gain so many skills and perks, I will assume that it will not rank me up that quickly though.”

Brynhild shakes her head up and down, confirming my inquiry. “Even if you defeat a lot of beings, you will not level up quickly because you are picking up all of these things. Even though it is beneficial, you will not level up in rank unless you kill people that have the necessary laws or skills that you need to level in. For example, if you want to level up as a wind mage, you have to kill numerous wind mages that have trained themselves in their laws to gain the chance to rank up. If you kill fire mages and water mages, you will only give yourself insights and laws of those two elements, but ranking up in wind will not happen till you kill said wind mages.” I take note of this. “However, gaining a lot of abilities and perks will help you be stronger then what you really are.”

I tilt my head to the side. “What do you mean by that?”

“What I mean is that even if you were a rank one warrior or mage, you can be at the level of a rank five or six.” Brynhild said, her face revealing a smirk, “One can do this by beating a higher opponent that is super strong. For example, if someone was given the chance to kill a high rank vampire even if they are rank one, they can gain all of the high power abilities that the defeated vampire has. It will greatly hide the rank one power and give them abilities that they can use against other high rank enemies. This ability is ‘Defeat Inherit.' The ability to copy the one you have defeated. Go ahead and eat it. It is my last one.”

I stare at the pill in some amazement. I did not believe that this pill can give off that many benefits. Despite its flaw, if I was to mask my true power and gain true power… that would be great. My entire body trembles at the power I would be able to absorb. Was I losing myself to my lust for power? Maybe. I have been treated like a tool for so long. I cannot wait to finally be free of this damn cage.

I swallowed the entire pill, waiting for something to happen. A minute flies by.

Defeat Inheritor

“It does nothing.” Brynhild just laughs at me. “Silly girl! It does not do anything awesome. It is not like some transformation or anything. What did you expect, a sudden burst of energy to surround your body and shock the entire atmosphere.”

I did not reply to that statement, giving my back to her.

“Sorry for killing your hopes.” She was still laughing, “You are so gullible! Then again, you do not know much about this world.”

Wait. I remember Nero explaining one thing about created abilities. They are extremely rare. Whoever makes an ability will be called a genius because abilities are not easy to create. One will have to dive into a lot of knowledge and experiment with so many things just to make it work. The reason why I brought this up is because Brynhild had this pill.

Most created abilities are stored into pills. Is Brynhild...

Before we continue our chat, explosions could be heard off in the distance. I look towards the mansion.

Fire!?

Brynhild was beside me and said, “I bet it is the stupid prince. If I am right, Emperor Titus is also nearby. This turned ugly in just a few hours.” My face turned pale.

The Emperor was here?!

Brynhild closes her eyes to do something. I wondered what she was doing. Her face reveals a fierce gaze that she gave off when Arnos had annoyed her.

“This is a bit too much. Several Demi-God rank opponents and two Gods along with hundred and thousands of rank thirteen warriors. Is this Arnos that spoiled?!”

My face turned white.

Why is the entire Imperial Army here for this one incident?! Has the Emperor gone mad?!

Brynhild lets out a sigh and says, sincerely with a bit of sadness in her voice, “Well, this might be good bye for now. You will need to escape. The many enemies around here will try to kill everyone at your place. I will hold off the Emperor while you run away with your loved ones. Please, do not die on me.” I felt a painful feeling stab me in the heart by hearing that.

Were we going to depart ways now? I was starting to like her. I peer into her eyes. She was looking into mine as well.

Will be able to see her again? No, I will see her again.

She kisses me on the cheek. I stood there for a second to enjoy that simple kiss. My body was not satisfied with that simple kiss though. I hesitated for a moment when Brynhild had her back to me. I wanted to give her something more. She has done a lot for me. I could not- I am not able to give anything back to her right now though except...

I grasp her wrist and spin her around. She was startled at my move. Her mouth tries to voice out her concerns, but I moved close to her face. I shut my eyes. I planted my lips against her. I had my arms hug the Demi-God in my embrace, feeling our body pressing against one another. I shove my tongue into her mouth, giving my best first kiss ever. I am embarrassed. I have no clue if I was doing this kiss properly. I felt her tongue play with mine, the two of us standing there for a minute with our lips against each other. I can feel her warmth and she can feel mine. She embraces me as well. I wanted to move forward...

She pulls us apart, Brynhild in utter shock. She was blushing heavily, her hands on her lips.

"Shit," she cursed, "If I knew you could do that... I would have done that to you earlier. I feel like I missed a huge chance for me to be your first." I shy away from her comment, "I-I just did something random just now. D-Don't expect too much from me."

"Hell, I don't want to go now." She lets out a loud groan, frustrated at what I just did, "Damn it! If I ever meet you again, I am going to fuck you." I just let out a bitter laugh. "You better live then."

"You better not die on me." she retorted, "Good luck." She disappears after those words. I stand in the field all alone now.

My mind and heart cherish this moment. I shook my head side to side to snap out of this trance.

I have no need to hide my powers now. I steeled myself. I have no time to hesitate and no time to relax.

I dash to the mansion. I need to reunite with my allies.