Rough Japanese terms, in case anyone needs them.

Aniki- bro- casual, big brother, term of endearment.

Onii-chan- Big brother-informal

Onee-chan- big sister- informal

Onii-sama- honoured elder brother- formal

Onee-sama- honoured elder sister- formal

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“Mmmn.”

She gave me a kiss on the cheek.

“Okay I think I can walk now, put me down.”

We had walked down a few streets while she gave me directions, apparently aniki was drinking at an inn nearby. We walked by a merchant guild affiliate, so I walked in the store and paid off my debt, Kaya still in my arms of course.

She was in a bridal carry so it was simple matter of lowering her legs to the ground. Getting on the ground she let out a slight moan.

“Want me to kiss it better?”

“Is that even a question?”

Bending down a bit I kissed her navel, then looked her in the eyes.

“Better?”

“Let me see.”

She took a few steps forward, with a few moans, then bent down to touch her toes. Mmn, showing those lovely childbearing hips, that luscious rump could feed a village.

“Inviting me for another round?”

“Haha, not on your life.”

She replied looking at me from between her legs.

“Well I wouldn’t mind not being able to walk, since it’s a game, but I really do have a plane to catch.”

“So your job is taking you out of the country?”

She tapped her toes a couple more time then stood up. Arching her back, she took her hands above her head, lacing them she did a stretch.

“Hmmmmnn, yeah. I won’t be able to play, it’s gonna be a busy week, sorry I won’t be able to help you on your quest. ”

“Nah it’s fine, I have a disguise, and I wouldn’t want you to provoke any grudges, I'd have done it alone anyways.”

She lifted her left leg and pointed it to the side, in one fluid kick she brought it above her head catching it with both her arms. In her standing split she stretched a few more times, mmm those lovely long legs, I love her flexibility too, she can put both of them behind her head and cross them.

“So you learned how to drink your own nectar in the time I was gone?”

“Yup, mmn, I have needs and your lovely assistant can, ah, only do so much. How was it, did you like it? When I get back I can give you a good show.”

“Grrr, I’d love to watch. Speaking of my lovely assistant, how’s everything on the homefront?”

“Yeah it’s okay, everyone’s fine, she’s rooming with Darien, he also moved out of his parent’s house. His place doesn’t accept dogs, so sadly she couldn’t take your dog with her, so I told your mum I’d look after him.”

Ah my beloved dog Comet, He’s half Husky, half Labrador retriever, intelligent as hell, loyal, cute as a lab, with a golden underside, strength and the black colour of the husky, Dogs are just the best. Finishing her stretches, she turned around to face me.

“Ahh, much better, I’ll walk off the rest.”

“Is Comet alright with Momo?”

He was a friendly dog, but Momo was Kaguya’s pet cat. A Maine Coon black as the night sky, with piercing yellow eyes like a demon. Around the time I got Comet back 4 years ago, we were talking about pets and she mentioned she had always wanted a cat. After talking with her parents about it, I knew Darien’s aunt had a litter so I bought it for her Birthmas. Of course she thanked me profusely.

She walked up to me, wrapping her arms behind my neck.

“You know they say pets take after their owners.”

She came in for the kiss, and we continued to talk while making out. Unlike the rest of the girls, Kaguya was only a couple of centimetres shorter than me, she was basically my height.

“Yes Kaya?”

“Well your naughty dog, he seduced my little cat.”

A Maine Coon is huge but okay.

“You’re kidding right?”

“Nope, every night they fall asleep in each other’s embrace. He just has to bark and she comes running.”

“Whenever your dog is napping, Momo’ll go up to him and lick his face, then he’ll grab her and they’ll nap together.”

A hint of sadness could be seen in her eye, she’s not just talking about them is she?

“Kaya I-“

“Don’t, I’m a big girl, I know how to make concessions, but you have to keep the books balanced.”

“Alright, I’ll make it up to you.”

“It’s a shame nothing’s gonna come of them mating all the time, their babies would be so cute.”

She looked into my eyes coquettishly, batting her eyelashes.

“When we’re older okay? I want children with you, but I need to finish my education, then I’ll get a Job and a place to raise them.”

She began to smile brightly, it warmed my heart a bit.

“Haahh, alright, alright.”

She broke apart from our hug and stuck out her hands.

“Clothes please mister.”

I gave her the armour and skirt I was holding onto. The second she equipped them her appearance instantly changed, her armour became far more covering, and even had red cloth covering her arms. Her plate skirt lengthened to her knees and the breast plate was full piece. Now with full coverage of her skin only her toes and fingers could be seen. Her helmet changed into a full kabuto helmet, she even had a faceplate, the feathers had become a moustache on it, if she didn’t have a sizable chest I might mistake her for a man.

The tiger sash was still wrapped several times around her waist above the now lengthened breast plate. So naturally I stuck a hand into her plate skirt, through the individual plates, to check up on things.

“Ah, still sore please.”

“No I’m just checking, no underwear still, and how did your armour change its appearance?”

“When you get your class you unlock the armour options, there’s a base form, and an alternate form. As a novice you automatically equip the alt form. You can get the alt form customized at the relevant artisan, so blacksmiths for heavy armour.”

“As for my underwear, it’s in the base form, it’s a loincloth, but as long as you put it on your body and have the slot open, you’ll gain the effects. So it’s wrapped around my waist for the minute, the alternate form was just a thong so that’s boring, but I left it as is. I just undid the loin cloth form and wrapped it around my waist.”

“So if you had two pairs of underwear, and you put one on your head and one on properly what would happen?”

“The one equipped first takes effect, unless you use the system to equip the second item, which un-equips the first.”

“Alright, we’ve talked.” She rubbed the side of my arm lovingly. “and more, long enough, we’re keeping onii-chan waiting.”

She took my hand out of her skirt and proceeded to drag me by it.

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Turning the corner we walked into an inn, on the ground floor which was a wooden restaurant type area, I saw aniki in a corner. Aniki, was sitting there sipping on a mug, he looked like a demon. His skin was pure blue cerulean, it contrasted with his long black hair and the light blue kimono he was wearing. He had two thin deep blue horns coming out of his forehead, his irises were yellow but the rest of his eye was black.

In real life he looked something like Sephir*th. The siblings, since they were half-caste, had facial structures that you wouldn’t typically see in Asians and their skin was pretty pale, but the shape of their eyes gave their ancestry away.

Kaguya, was beautiful, I was somewhat handsome and Aniki was handsome yet beautiful at the same time. Whenever we went out in reality we’d get a bit of a crowd. Aniki was casually sipping a wooden mug of most likely beer, while he had an interesting hair accessory on.

She was biting down on Aniki’s head. It was a cute little 7 year old or so girl, while biting his head, she was hammering her tiny fists on him. Naturally Kaguya’s brother Kenshiro was the strongest guy I knew, and most likely the world, such a thing wouldn’t phase him. Small tears wear welling up in her eyes, but she saw us and stopped her little tantrum. Jumping off of aniki and flipping mid-air, she ran towards us.

Aniki’s crystal clear gaze turned towards us as well, and his lips slightly curved. Aniki had a sharp look in his eyes, whenever he stared smiling it looked like he was gonna tear up the place. The first time my pal Darien met aniki, it was at a party at my place, aniki was walking up to us when he smiled at me. Darien froze up, flinching backwards he fell off a balcony, lucky for him I caught him. Though it was fine since in that split second aniki had closed the distance and also grabbed Darien’s other leg.

Myself, well I had that sort of wild look, and I can read people, so only a cold sweat ran down my back. In reality he only smiled that way around family, in which I was considered to be his little brother even before I started dating Kaguya. Of course when we started dating aniki was more than happy, he was over the moon.

The small girl had jumped into Kaguya’s arms.

“Kaguya-onee-sama, please don’t leave this one alone with that, that, sword idiot!”

“There, there, I won’t leave you with that sword idiot, you can come with me and Zeke.”

The little girl looked in my direction, then hugged Kaguya tighter and lightly whispered into her ears, but my owl-like hearing caught it.

“Uwah, that’s onii-sama? He’s far more amazing than how you described him.”

Kaguya looked in my direction while whispering in the little girl’s ear, she knew I could hear everything.

“Of course, he’s my hero you know, I wouldn’t accept anything less. He makes great food too, and his massages, well they can turn your bones into jelly. If you want, when you grow up you can become his concubine.”

“Onee-sama! This one is the empress of this one’s race! This one cannot possibly become a lowly concubine!”

Is what she shouted, but a blush reached her cheeks and she started to rub them.

“But since onee-sama is an empress it might be okay, then this one could partake in the emperor too.”

She continued to rub her cheeks, she closed her eyes and she blushed deeper, oi oi, what’s she fantasizing about?

A crystal clear yet husky voice rang out, but this one was deeper and more masculine, it was aniki’s.

“Come have a seat, Kaguya, you’ve been gone for too long, won’t you give your Onii-chan a hug.”

“Haah, baka, if you want, you can hug the edge of my blade.”

Still carrying the daydreaming child she walked onwards and took a seat on aniki’s left, so I took the seat opposite her to his right.

Instead of the discussion continuing, aniki begin to grin while looking at Kaguya.

“B-b-baka! It’s not like I sat next you because I like you or anything, this seat was just empty.”

Kaguya’s weakness, she loved her brother, not in the same way as me of course, just far more than the usual sibling relationship. She always used to brag about him, it was fine until we were 13 someone pointed it out to her, and at that point she became really embarrassed around him. Aniki always teasing her didn’t help, sometimes I did wonder which of us she loved more.

“You idiot, of course I love you more.”

Her voice rang out to comfort me, mmm she was the only person who could read me like a book, but of course aniki wouldn’t let it go without teasing her.

“Oohh, as expected of my little Kaguya, you can even tell what I’m thinking, I love you too. Little Kaguya and mama are the only women who I love, but its fine to love your boyfriend more than me, it’s part of growing up.”

Kaguya…

Instead of a retort, she had completely locked up, her ears were bright red, I’m sure I could see steam coming off her head. The little girl in her lap was no better, she was still just sitting there rubbing her ruby cheeks.

“So little brother, it’s been a while.”

I nodded.

“Too long aniki.”

His face returned to its normal calm stare.

“Indeed, indeed, though in this game I’ll be able to keep an eye on you.”

“What exactly is the deal with that aniki?”

“Well I’m sure you’ve heard that upon being granted the opportunity for the sword saint class I had to last 10 seconds against the old god of swords. Of course this was insulting to a man of my calibre so I killed him.”

“Yeah Kaguya, mentioned this but she was shy so she glossed over some parts because she didn’t want to reveal how interested she is in your accomplishments.”

“Ah, she really is too cute, I’m glad you two are together, I know that no matter how many women you have you’ll always take care of her.”

He smiled at me, but a bit of cold sweat ran down my back.

“So where were we? Ah yes, god of swords. Well the god system is in place to stop any player who would break game balance.”

“Baka, I was talking to Zeke…”

A soft whisper escaped Kaguya’s lips, but she still wasn’t with us, it was cute seeing her like this, not that she wasn’t cute around me, she was just more honest with her feelings towards me.

“It’s so nice that you love each other so much, I don’t think I’ll find a true love*sigh*. So the god system gives me something to do. I get to design quests, can travel the land with infinite money and can create swords for rewards to hard quests. I can also see the progress of any special sword related quest and the nature of any bladed weapon.”

“So you know what happens at the end of my quest?”

“If you succeed yes, sorry but, no spoilers. Though I can give you a small bit of help, firstly don’t fuse the demon’s heart with the Blacksmith’s Folly.”

“*sigh* so my sword won’t be indestructible if I do it?”

“Yes, it’s as you’ve suspected, the fact it returns to its soul’s form, means that it will have its growth frozen, the soul used for the start of the ritual empowers and fuses with the sword’s soul. This soul is inert so it won’t grow properly, it can only be forged, but only a grandmaster blacksmith or the god of blacksmithing could forge a sword’s soul.”

“However an even better sword is available, the little girl there, Seiryuu, she’s a sword empress dragon. That is to say she’s another type of growing sword, she gets stronger based on her materials, constantly evolving her strength and fusing the best parts of suitable masteries. Since I’m the sword god I know it’s actually possible to use her in the ritual, get her consent of course, but from the looks of her that won’t be any trouble.”

“Thanks for your advice aniki, I might have cried if I had ruined the sword.”

“Don’t worry, I’m sure that sword will be useful in the future, an indestructible side arm will be useful, and you’ll can always duel wield two-handed swords in a pinch. With the sword, the reason we use two hands is for control, your power and speed will be the same, if you dual wield swords it’ll be a bit wilder, but it’s not that much harder to attack with.”

“It’s just easier to predict, thereby easier to dodge and guard against, but as long as you’re strong and fast enough in relativity to your opponent, there’s no problem. I’m sure it will be useful when fighting against multiple people. You could also use a shield if you wanted to, but I would say just stop whatever it is you’re trying to block with your sword.”

“I see, I see, thanks aniki your guidance is always appreciated.”

Kenshiro has requested to become your friend.

You have accepted Kenshiro’s friend request.

“Mmn, it’s been 9 years since I met you little brother.”

He sipped his beer with a hint of nostalgia in his eyes

“You’ve been keeping up with your ki breathing right?”

“Yes Aniki, one more year right?”

“Actually I’ve found out that in regards to ki ability, you can refine yourself here, it’s like a sharpened form of meditation, even I only get a ratio of 1:3 from meditation in the real world. Considering I’m without a doubt the greatest martial arts prodigy in known history, it offers an interesting proposition.”

“You mean I’ll gain the ability to use ki sooner?”

“Indeed, and not only you, theoretically, it should be possible for a good deal of people to learn to use ki in this game. Just practice your purge breathing every 24 hours in game, we’ll talk more about training ki after you’ve broken through.”

“We haven’t talked about ki itself that much, since it’s sometimes detrimental to cultivation, if you had to drink a cup of seawater every day to become stronger, knowing there’s a whole ocean of it might distract you. Also the secrets are handed down to me from my ancestors due to me being the head of my school. I can only share true secrets with direct family. Naturally, you know I fully support your relationship with Kaguya, whatever it may be, so long as she is happy, but I must ask of your intentions once more.”

“Kaguya…”

I looked towards my overheated lover, she was still out of it, but an unexpected muttering was heard.

“Zeke-onii-sama, this one thanks you for your big sausage, this one offers her meat buns in return. This one’s meat buns are not as big as onee-sama’s, this one believes you will still enjoy them.”

This child…

“I love her, the second she came back into my arms, I have considered her my wife.”

“Good, good, like I told you before, nothing wrong with polygamy as long as you love them all equally. Still you’re lucky as always.”

A shining cloud of mist appeared from nowhere, turning into a tornado in condensed into his hands. What had appeared was a tanto, pure white sheathe and handle, it had a light-pinkish white long sash and though simple, it had a beauty to it as plum flowers on a branch were drawn onto it.

“That dagger you’ve managed to pick up, it’s a companion dagger to this one, I’ll give it to you, with my sister’s hand in marriage, since it’s a couple’s item. Of course you know I have to test your strength.”

“If you can survive against one strike from me, I’ll consider you ready, if not I’ll stop Kaguya from playing this game with you until you’re strong enough, naturally I will also stop her from seeing you in person.”

Aniki gave me a wild grin. Ugh, naturally there was no way I could survive a scratch from aniki, that guy killed a tiger before the age of 5. But I had to try.

“I accept aniki.”

“Wonderful.”

A white light flashed out, when I regained my eyesight, we were in the Dojo that aniki and Kaguya lived at. No doubt some kind of illusion or a private realm for a god. Kaguya was standing to the side, still in a daze, with that child still daydreaming in her arms.

“This is a part of being god of the sword?”

“Yes, it’s a private realm I can customize, I can create anything in here too, wine, food, anything.”

A similar mist tornado shot forth from his hand, condensing into an excessively long katana, just the blade was taller than me.

“Ready yourself.”

Without wasting any time I drew my blade, into water stance, my left arm bracing the bottom of my blade.

It felt like an eternity before aniki made his move, in a flash he was in front of me. His blade seemed so slow, no it was disgustingly fast, it was this moment that was lasting forever. With time flowing so slowly for me, I had time to get my sword in the perfect position to receive.

The gleam of his sword slowly came towards me diagonally from the bottom left line, the arc would go straight through my heart. Perfectly aimed, due to me feeling like I had more time, my sword would be able to parry his. Even if I couldn’t stop all the damage, I’d just get knocked back and hopefully I could survive, I was more optimistic than when the duel started.

Slowly as time flowed in this wonderland of my own creation, I began to wonder why this was happening. The only thing I could think of was hearing something about brain power increasing when you’re about to die. Aniki’s blade began to fly upwards to take my life, I had shifted my weight to my back foot jumping backwards with the front foot, I actually had begun to slide backwards, is this the legendary backdash? Perfectly in this slowed time the tip of my sword crept underneath his blade, while sliding backwards, with all my strength I attacked his sword to knock it upwards.

It worked, his blade skimming over my head, I somehow managed to survive one strike, for the first time ever I saw a third face to aniki, he was shocked, and I don’t think he had ever been shocked in his life. Time had still not unravelled, but almost instantly his face had turned into a grin, the same battle lust I had seen in Kaguya’s eyes now reflected in his. Jumping forward with several times the speed of before, like a flowing dragon he had turned his blade for a horizontal strike.

His sword hit the flat of mine, a perfect parry, or so I would have thought if his sword didn’t cut through it like butter.

Your sword has reached 0 durability and has broken.

-65535 HP

Due to taking more than 60% of your health in one strike, your body has entered Shock, stunned for 10 seconds and every attack against you will crit.

Your health has fallen to 0, you have died.

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