Chapter 88: Flora’s Bliss

Flora had a very blissful month.

Were there a million things that wanted to impede said time?

The short answer was yes.

But she could not care less, even the thought of having them found out and her life turning super hectic did not bother her at all.

If she had been under the same stress a month ago she would have been very very annoyed but as it stood, it was just a drop in the bucket that was her life.

The reason.

She had a Tamer.

While her instincts always knew, her frontal cortex had no idea of the magnitude of a Tamer to a monster girl's existence.

Right now she was dealing with multiple separate problems, any of which could end very badly for her if she messed up.

First, there was the fact that the mysterious voice was still in contact with her. Her power felt limitless and the longer the arrangement went on, the more she realized the massive gulf between them.

Second, she was currently acting under the nose of Planar University, one of the most powerful organizations on the planet of Phunine. If not for the mysterious voice her secret would already be out in the open. Even now, the amount of tip-toeing she had to do was extreme.

Third, her powers were in constant flux as she was in 'bloom'. She threatened to overgrow and shatter the greenhouse. Her powers were getting weaker stronger, powers lost, gained, and everything in between. None of this would have happened if she allowed it to grow naturally but that was not possible because of her second problem.

But none of the above bothered the current her. The worse that could happen was her master got into a lot of trouble. And her job was to keep her master happy. As long as he was happy and alive, everything was fine.

Actually... There was one thing she hated. And that was directly related to her third problem.

One of the greatest joys of being a dryad was the ability to grow your tree inside your Tamer. It had only positive effects for the Tamer outside of the small continuous essence drain to keep the tree healthy. But that was beside the point.

Her instinct roared at her to plant the seed and it was extremely hard to go against it. Especially because of the defensive properties it could grant keeping him safe from harm.

This was an extra piece of permanent gear for Simon that she could not give, the living wooden armor he had on was only a poor imitation designed to keep her desires at bay.

This was the reason she counted the days before she could officially come out as one of Simon's bound monster girls. And she was still around 329 days 19 hours and 22 minutes off.

Maybe that was why a part of her wanted Simon to get caught. So that her deepest wishes come to fruition. But she knew that was only the legendary half of her speaking. The being that had desires beyond their bond.

Clamping down on that part was not as hard anymore given how well-fed and happy she was.

This was the biggest difference between monster girls and humans. Humans tended to always want more and achievements tended to be transient.

Monster girls for the most part could stay perpetually happy as long as they had a tamer.

There were exceptions on both ends but for the most part, it held true.

And that was why she had been blitzing through Simon's education on dungeon delving. She was a senior tutor at the University and as such she had some liberties despite being a monster girl. One of which was private tutoring for quick course completions in exchange for the student's essence.

The exams for this route were more scrutinized but Simon was right when he had said that he had a brilliant mind. He devoured information at an alarming rate and at his pace he would finish the entire course much faster than initially estimated which was good.

Humans always need new stimuli to be happy and healthy. Simon had a severe lack of that. That was partly why he pushed the boy onto the succubus despite the grumblings of the mysterious voice. There was no danger of him bonding with the monster girl and it was not because he apparently could no longer create miracle bonds on demand.

No, the succubi were all leashed using a special gem, one which prevented any essence from reaching the first level bond, effectively making them unable to be bonded. She even pointed this out to Simon but the boy was so smitten that he believed the miracle bond would happen once more and she did not dissuade him of that notion.

"Flora! How do solve this equation?"

"Hmm?"

She was brought out of her reverie as Simon threw her a question.

She blinked back to the present and the pile of mathematical books that lay strewn across the table between him and her.

She looked at the rather absurd mathematical equation Simon was trying to solve. He was five years too early to be attempting to solve anything close of that caliber. But the boy did things like this for fun and as one of his monster girls, she would of course humor him.

"Oh! You almost solved it yourself! You just need to do this for this and take the two from that..."

She settled back into the role of her tutor happy to have any moment with her Tamer. Life was blissful indeed.