Chapter 125: Ardent Confession

[Sophia's POV]

In a simulation lab adjacent to the main lab of Arachne's cave, three people are staring at a small forest. No, the forest is not just small in square kilometers but seems to defy the laws of scaling itself. You see, the trees of the said "forest" are just about one foot tall, and the height of the grasses is not even graspable when one is not like me, Bakunawa, or Arachne. Bakunawa specifically was amazed.

"To think that Earth Magic is capable of customizing the size of the trees without affecting their age... it's quite the fascinating application of an element that is best known for defense..."

I smirked a little at such a remark, though before I could even say anything, Arachne, who was in her human form, chortled.

"Indeed, though if I were to say, I am more impressed with Lady Eleanor's earth Magic application, after all, she created a loud sonic boom that destroyed a glaring tactical disadvantage of our side at the time of the war for the ownership of the forest."

I nodded at that statement, indeed, even though Eleanor needed a quite complicated magic circle, it cannot be denied that just the requirement of the angle and smoothness of the land is an amazing feat, all I can say is that, no one can be above me in this nation, except Eleanor. But hey, we are getting sidetracked here, and realizing this, I immediately coughed a little bit and then said.

"Anyway, Arachne, this forest will be the temporary house of the spiders for natural selection, I requested the help of Urduja to simulate the sun so that it can sustain the plants in a week. What will you do is release the box of genetic failure spiders and then after 12 hours you will be releasing carnivorous spiders who have bad eyesight and cannot distinguish colors properly, this will make it so that the adaptation of the spiders will be focused in the pigmentation of their webs, don't worry about them adapting a camouflage ability, we dealt with that already after all."

Arachne nodded slowly whilst squinting her eyes, she scanned me from top to bottom and then finally muttered.

"My Lady, you seem to be in quite the hurry."

I flinched at that remark, dang so I was so affected by "the decision" that my restlessness was evident even when I tried my best to hide it.

"Well, let's just say, that I am, in fact, in a hurry."

After replying with the best casualness I can drag out of my tense body, I looked at Bakunawa and then said.

"Bakunawa, let's go to my office, we have some things to talk about."

Bakunawa looked at me for a moment before her eyes evidently lit up, she nodded with vigor, something that I rarely saw when she became my slave.

This time, it's Arachne's turn to flinch, sensing this, I did what every sensible human should do in situations where a person wants to say something to you, yet is too shy/prideful to do so. I opened the 4th dimension and then said to Bakunawa: "Well, let's go." Bakunawa once again nodded with vigor and ignored the fleeting eyes of Arachne, and as expected, just as I was about to make my first step Arachne ran towards me and hugged me from behind.

_I know she's rather fond of hugging other people, but I feel like this work is slowly turning into a stupid harem novel._

Though I am sure that, it is in fact, turning into one.

Seeing this gesture, Bakunawa's eyes widened whilst the temperature in the whole room which was already not warm to begin with plummeted further as she stared at the two perky naked mountains pressing against my back and me who was guiltily enjoying it.

"Hm? What is it?"

I smiled whilst turning my head towards Arachne, seeing me like that, Arachne knew that she was played and blushed quite hard, I stared at her eyes quite intensely, this made her blush a little and let go of her hug, well, I would love to have a feel on those knockers more, but the teasing must go on.

"Well?"

I continued whilst ignoring the feeling of Bakunawa's stare, I wondered if I'd be alright when I explained to her the things we would do later on.

"I... well, I think you know it already, but I am just one step near to resurrecting or attempting the resurrection of the pink bat queen, as you know, it will be a great addition to our forces if she once again lives her life, though she will not be able to talk because she used the [Ninth Symphony] she is still a master illusionist that maybe can teach Kabuto and the tikbalangs a thing or two... so it would be nice if you help me..."

She made such a logical argument with a blush on her face, it is obvious that she just made up a very reasonable excuse, though I will help her because of what she just said, also because I want to test a future invention of mine.

"Well, I intend to help you and I am planning on inventing something cool that can replace a heart, and an energy facilitator in general, so you have to wait for it, let's say 1 week after my wedding."

The eyes of Arachne visibly sparkled and I could even hear a faint "woah...!" sound coming out of her mouth, Arachne then said to me, excitement and gratitude evident in her voice.

"Alright, I will wait for such a day!"

After nodding, me and Bakunawa finally entered the 4th dimension with Bakunawa obviously perked up. I can only sigh in my mind, as you might have already guessed, I already decided to "discover myself", with the thing my father was doing as well as the 2nd Elven Undead War that is looming around the corner, the literal corner of my Queendom, such fatal negligence that happened with my fight against Hebi will be the end of me if I did not clear my mind of all the things inside it.

Well, being a Christian, an orphan, and being embroiled in political schemes at an early age did a number on quite a lot of my Freudian faculties, so except for the fact that I am straight, I didn't know that I have a much larger and overflowing "love".

_If it is just as simple as having a second wife, I'm gonna get really angry._

I can just placate the horrible feeling welling up my chest as such while I and Bakunawa finally entered my office, I sighed quite audibly to pump myself up, even though I knew that Bakunawa would agree to what I was about to request, part of myself was still not agreeing on my decision, I just hope that over time, this will not feel so wrong anymore.

Turning around towards Bakunawa who had pulled out a bracelet of some sort out of nowhere.

Without even sitting on my seat, I cleared my throat with a cough and started speaking.

"Bakunawa, you see, even though I have my mild sadistic tendencie-!?"

All of that large thumping in my heart and the self-encouragement raging in my mind suddenly stopped alongside the words I was about to say!

Bakunawa suddenly pushed the bracelet she had in her hand into mine, strangely causing all my strength to seep out of my body, or more accurately, it was sealed and became inaccessible, I froze for a moment, a moment that gave Bakunawa a change to yank my left arm in which the bracelet was in close to her, my chest pressed to hers as she used my trick, floating with air magic to make herself taller than me when standing, and not only that, she wrapped her hand around my slender waist and held it tightly, not allowing any attempt of escaping.

"Yes, yes, I know, you have been holding back on your desires to the point that it affected your fight against Hebi, right? Don't worry, I will help you."

Bakunawa paused whilst a grin appeared on her face as she eyed my lips and leaned in for a kiss.

Even with all of my brain processing speed, I could not help but be shocked as I felt her warm tongue invading my mouth and dancing with mine.

_This is not how I imagined it!_

[3rd Person POV]

All her life, she never thought of such a thing, after all, she was once just a small river snake who was touched by a golden finger, she used all the power she received from her Lord and all the abilities she gained through her hard work to serve the savior she calls father, she killed, fought, and killed and fought even more, the only person who have caught her interest is the hero prospect who invaded the protected land of gods, the five-pronged forest, her home and challenged her, the one who calls herself Urduja Tawalisi.

At that time, Urduja and Bakunawa, with Urduja's women as watchers fought for several days and nights, yet they could not find a victor and called it a draw, after all, no one of the two fighters wanted to see the whole third layer be destroyed by ice and fire. That was the only time that her eyes caught someone that fascinated her, however, such fascination is due to the fact that she cannot defeat the intruder even with all her might, yes, she pushed the intruder to use her full power too, but for the Ice Serpent, a draw against a human, or anyone in general is not an acceptable result.

With this incident, she once again trained, she challenged the whole forest again and again, she faced several defeats and victories that made her experienced, experienced to the point that her once vulnerable self became the most feared existence in the five-pronged forest, at that time, she thought she was the strongest, she thought she will never be defeated once again, but the reality was proved cruel, a woman, or a baby technically with extraordinary charisma, unyielding confidence and overwhelming might defeated her in the most embarrassing way possible and she became a slave.

At first, she thought that she will never be used to the life of a slave, a word with a very bad connotation, but contrary to her expectations of being tortured for the pleasure of the new owner of the forest, she just received a couple or three severe electrocutions before being appointed captain of the defense army of the capital.

Once again, her interest was stirred, and this time, she had a chance to observe her Lady Sophia more closely, so she did, she saw how Sophia dealt with matters with incredible finesse and sophistication, and she saw how passionate she was in giving the undeads and living beings under her a good life, a life where they will be looked above by others and not belittled. Slowly, a simple interest turned to fascination, and before she knew it, the once frozen heart of the Ice Serpent, melted and once again pumped blood for the person who once defeated her, for the person she now loves.

But like every maiden in love, Bakunawa came up with a question, will she confess her love? If yes, how will she do so? If not, then how will she accept it?

Such questions bugged her mind and the once confident slave of the fallen hero faltered, and on the verge of making her first love unrequited, and if not for a certain mission that befell her.

[Notice: The First Part of the Hero's Test has been bestowed to the Hero Prospect Bakunawa by her god the [God of Streams].

Mission: Help the Fallen Hero of the Undeads, the Future Queen of the Undeads lift the shackles she has put on herself and let all her pent-up desire burst out of her body and mind.

This mission is not broadcasted and is only known by the Hero prospect, Good luck, and may your almighty god bless you.]

At first, Bakunawa was baffled by such a seemingly nonsensical mission, well, of course, she would not dare disrespect her father, but it doesn't make sense to meddle with other people's business, besides, Eleanor can just do that every so often, so Bakunawa did not see much point to this mission, well, if Sophia is to see this mission board, she will surely confirm what she has "noticed" with her conversation with Sinag, unfortunately, she did not and not until she saw how Sophia got sucker punched by Loki did she realized the severity of the matter.

Not only was such an occurrence very unusual to someone of Sophia's caliber, but Bakunawa, though not the sharpest knife in a cabinet knew that the arrival of the mission and the occurrence was just so coincidental, and indeed, when her father spoke to her, she became certain.

"Bakunawa, how have you been? Well, I can't really talk to you for long because I'm quite far away from you, it is a good thing that you talked about this mission with Urduja and have decided to tell your feelings towards Sophia and ask for her advice, and even though her rather aggressive advice is not something that can normally work, I want you to go with it and let yourself be the extractor of all of Sophia's pent up desire."

Bakunawa was speechless and was thinking of this mission, she had never thought that a simple love confession would lead to her helping Sophia overcome her self-restraint, but knowing that, she immediately talked with Eleanor who weirdly accepted her explanations quiet enthusiastically and even gave her a bracelet from their "couple's cabinet" that is being used by Sophia to Eleanor to erase the power of Eleanor to resist.

And on this day she finally had the permission of her beloved to make a move, and of course, she will not let it go.

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Bakunawa's long, slimy tongue that is inherent to serpents alongside her lips separated from Sophia's, causing the latter's tongue to poke out whilst a trail of saliva was traced in between Bakunawa and Sophia's mouth, Bakunawa retracted her tongue and then licked her lips, and in them, a word she longed to say for so long finally escaped.

"I love you, Sophia."