blenderwars Chapter 136 A Reunion Across a Year
Chapter 136 A Reunion Across a Year
Outside the window, the cold, white moonlight surged into the carved wooden window like a tide, illuminating this bedroom deep within the royal city of Camelot.
Arthur stood before the bed, his modern clothes still bearing the faint traces of stardust.
He let out a long breath, feeling the dragon energy within his body gradually subside after its high-frequency circulation. His emerald eyes gazed at the familiar furnishings, and he murmured softly:
"So it's still early morning here in Camelot...?"
In his last memory, the sunlight of Fuyuki City had just pierced through the clouds, and Sakura and Rin's tears seemed to still be floating before his eyes.
But what fell into Britain after crossing the dimensional rift was a deathly silent and cold night.
"Prince-sama?!"
A sound, a mixture of surprise, astonishment, and joy, suddenly shattered the silence of the bedroom.
Arthur turned around, and on the large, soft couch, Ayaka Sajou was wearing a white gauze dress as light and thin as mist.
She was half-asleep, propping herself up with her right hand.
Her long, light golden hair was spread out on the bed, and her eyes, which seemed to see through everything yet were only captivated by him, were shining with an astonishing brightness.
"Aiko? What are you doing in my room...?"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Arthur felt that his brain was making a bit stupid because he had just crossed the sea of stars.
For Ai Ge, this was perfectly normal. He chuckled helplessly and changed his words, saying, "Sorry, I woke you up."
Ai Ge didn't speak, but the tears in her eyes almost overflowed.
She shook her head, then gracefully knelt on the bed, opening her arms wide without reservation—a posture of utter submissiveness, awaiting an embrace.
Without hesitation, Arthur approached the bedside, bent down, and tightly embraced the girl who loved him wholeheartedly.
The two embraced, their shirts rubbing against the warm, light fabric, and the temperature soared wildly in their tightly sealed embrace.
"I'm back," Arthur whispered in her ear.
"Your Highness, I miss you so much... I really miss you so much." Aika buried her face in Arthur's neck, greedily inhaling his hot breath.
Arthur held her close, stroking her soft back with a touch of nostalgia, and asked softly, "How long have I been gone?"
"Nine days, a full nine days," Aika muttered, sounding a little aggrieved.
Nine days.
Arthur's eyes glazed over for a moment. He had spent a whole year in that world, but for Camelot, it was only nine days and nights.
But this solid year has made his longing at this moment far heavier than he shows.
After a brief moment of tenderness, Aigo suddenly straightened up from his embrace.
She tilted her delicate, pretty face up, winked playfully, and spoke with a hint of foxy hope in her voice:
"Your Highness, I have kept my promise to you very seriously."
"In the few days you were gone, I interacted with those women... very amicably and very restrainedly, so... what about the reward you promised me?"
Upon hearing the word "reward," Arthur's body suddenly stiffened.
Gift.
He had actually prepared the souvenirs for that world, whether they were for Aika, for Merry, or for someone else, all within that week.
But when he said goodbye at the Zen City home, the sisters' tears and the sadness of parting filled his mind, so much so that he forgot all the carefully selected items in that world's room.
"Um... I'm sorry..." Arthur's tone unusually carried a hint of guilt.
Aika tilted her head slightly, a look of confusion in her eyes: "Why does Your Highness need to apologize?"
"I had prepared gifts for you, but when it came time to say goodbye..."
"Oh, Your Highness is the best gift I could receive!"
Before Aigo could even finish listening to his explanation, she smiled sweetly, her slender hands moving up Arthur's chest until they hooked around his neck.
Her body pressed completely against his, the thin gauze dress offering no respite from the amazing elasticity and warmth.
"Besides, didn't I tell you... when you come back, you must give me a reward that surpasses my former self, surpasses Meryl's... something even more profound..."
Ai Ge tilted her head slightly, and her moist tongue lightly and ambiguously licked Arthur's earlobe.
That slightly sticky, tingling sensation instantly transformed into an electric current that struck Arthur's tailbone.
"I've waited for nine whole days, Your Highness..."
Ai Ge's breath was warm and rapid, her breath landing heavily on Arthur's neck.
Those arms held Arthur even tighter, as if trying to merge themselves into Arthur's very being.
Arthur's breathing became heavy in an instant.
The longing that had been building up for a year was completely ignited at this moment by this youthful and passionate body.
The Dragon's Furnace within his body roared like a war drum once more, and the frequency of his heartbeat was even more intense than when he fought Gilgamesh in Fuyuki City.
"Ai-ka..."
He whispered a sound, then lowered his head and kissed those chattering lips.
The passionate, possessive intertwining of their tongues caused the temperature in the bedroom to soar in a very short time.
Their clothes silently disappeared, and the two slowly lay down on the large bed.
The moonlight was completely obscured by the billowing curtains, leaving only a room filled with an intense, unyielding spring atmosphere.
"Hmm... Your Highness, I... I've been training my body very diligently using the magic that connects to the Root!"
"This time... I absolutely will not lose!"
With tears welling in her eyes, Ai Ge, while enduring the onslaught of the Red Dragon's storm, still tried intermittently to prove her growth.
……
"Um...why...?"
A few hours later, the moon began to set in the west.
Aige lay curled up on one side of the bed like a lump of mud.
Her flawless face was flushed, and glistening tears clung to the corners of her eyes, her expression filled with frustration.
He had confidently boasted that his body had become very strong.
She herself took the initiative to ask the prince to give her a "more profound" reward.
Although this reward was indeed unprecedentedly profound, so profound that her consciousness almost left her body.
But she still lost. She still couldn't use her own strength to completely extinguish the love that had lasted for a year in her prince.
Aige bit her lip, looking around with a hint of frustration.
At this moment, on the soft couch, accompanied by a subtle magical fluctuation belonging to the gaps in a dream, countless pink phantom petals drifted down between the bed.
That girl with dreamy long silver hair and playful flower petals on her head... a half-human, half-dream demon named Meli.
"Ugh... Arthur... please let me go, I'm going to die..."
At this moment, where was the elegant demeanor that Meryl usually displayed?
Those beautiful eyes were filled with emptiness and pleading.
"Shut up, Mary."
Looking at Meryl's expression, which looked like she was about to die, Aika's previously frustrated mood inexplicably improved.
She propped herself up, her body aching slightly, and glared hatefully at the shameless nightmare:
"Didn't you previously mock my training results these past few days, calling them a joke? How dare you say such things now?"
After being retorted by Ai Ge, Mei Li rolled her eyes weakly, too exhausted to even argue back.
She could only obediently rest her head on Arthur's chest, breathing heavily in small gasps.
She originally intended to sneak into the dream to take over and, incidentally, mock Aigo.
However, they severely underestimated just how terrifying Arthur was, who had endured more than a year in a parallel world.
Seeing Mei Li's miserable state, Aika's frustration instantly dissipated, and she even laughed out loud with a hint of smugness.
After a long while, all the repression and exhaustion that Arthur had accumulated over the past year finally dissipated completely in this exhilarating and absurd performance.
He stretched out his arms and embraced Aege and Meili at the same time.
His voice carried a gentleness that transcended time and space as he began to slowly recount everything that had happened to him in a place called Fuyuki City.
In the bedroom late at night, the cool moonlight illuminated most of the space.
Aige and Meili listened silently, their eyes half-closed and their bodies limp.
Despite being extremely exhausted, none of them felt sleepy. They were immersed in Arthur's voice, as if they were experiencing together the tragedy and redemption of that distant world.
When Arthur spoke in a calm tone about Artoria Pendragon, the golden knight who bore a similar face to him but was burdened with the curse of Britain's destruction.
Aige, who was resting with her eyes closed, and Merry, who was resting her head on Arthur's chest.
Both of their bodies stiffened slightly at the same time.
In the darkness, a strange light flashed simultaneously in those eyes that seemed to see through everything and in the pupils belonging to the nightmare demon.
However, Arthur, lost in his memories, did not see this strange light.
He simply tightened his arms around the two of them and continued to recount the Holy Grail War, a war filled with black mud and sin.