Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 1006

Chapter 1006: Part of the Trade

He was a ruin.

The feed’s viewers catalogued it in horrified real time: the seared wound above his hip, the opened forearm, the blood dried down one side of his face from scalp to collar, armor plates missing in strips where the flensers had peeled them.

He came out of it all upright, unhurried, Alice’s head tucked against the plate over his heart.

The little sister had fallen asleep in his arms as soon as she ensured her brother was safe.

The gate’s last motes lifted off the rubble behind him and winked out. Where a dimensional tear had stood, there was nothing but evening air over a broken market.

Kaiden looked down at the small, exhausted face against his chest. Every step of that descent, she had been above his head, burning herself down to keep the dark off his back.

"You’re far too amazing, partner," he told her quietly. "Thank you for everything."

Alice slept on. The corner of her mouth curled anyway, as if the words had found her wherever she was.

Then his girls hit him.

"Kai!!"

Luna arrived first, because Luna always arrived first, a violet-white bolt that resolved into a gremlin wrapped around his neck and swearing at him through what were absolutely not tears of joy.

The rest of them landed on him together. Aria and Nyx took a side each, Calypso lifted the entire arrangement in two red arms, and Bastet pressed in with a rumbling purr she would deny to her grave.

The pile went down onto the flagstones in a tangle of armor, limbs, and at least three languages of endearments.

They had held that doorway from the moment he went through it, and every one of them had been braced for a body to come back out instead of a man.

Alexandra crawled closer until she joined the pile and, despite her own overwhelming exhaustion, attempted to render first aid on the sibling duo.

The reinforcements had started rushing over as soon as the pincer ambush happened. That was the scene they arrived to.

They came up the main road in force, a full Shogunate column at a run, blades out, formation tight, braced for a war that had ended without them.

Rank after rank spilled into the square, slowed, and stopped in perfect battle order. They watched Japan’s foreign guests of honor lie in a laughing, crying heap on the flagstones of a liberated town while the Twelfth Garrison cheered themselves hoarse from the barricade line.

At the head of the column, Yunohana took the whole square in with one long look: the dead horde, the shed armor of the thing on the road, the town standing, and the pile.

She crossed the open ground alone, and the strain on her face was visible from the middle of the pile: a fury with nowhere to put itself, held down under courtesy.

Her country had promised this man a backlog gate.

It had handed him a nightmarish mess instead, and she had watched him bleed for it in high definition with the rest of the planet.

She stopped and bowed, low and formal, to the man at the bottom of the heap.

"Lord Grey." Her voice was soft and did not entirely hold. "Your first undertaking under our banner should never have looked like this. The fault is ours."

Under the loving weight of his women, Kaiden considered how much of that guilt he wanted her to carry.

The system chose that moment to settle its own accounts.

[The undertaking is complete. The Kawanami dungeon has been destroyed.] 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

The kill column he had refused to read for the whole descent collapsed into one settlement.

[Cumulative award: +52,170,000 XP.]

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