Second time is the charm… Hopefully.

On the plus side school is out?

~Spoilers~

I finally got around to writing the scene that I dreaded. I had a general idea of how I wanted it to play out. The difficult part was trying to figure out the dichotomy of a compulsion and what he was really thinking. Anyway I think it works. Also Arisa is a thing.

My Master plan for the animal children is now in the open if you have any changes that you think it will need let me know. The hard part will be time constraints but I think I can get an extra week due to future shenanigans.

~End Spoilers~

~Reviews~

EddyQ- Appearently?

OgamiRei-Kun- You bring up some amazing points. Part of the reason for my writing of this fic if look at the author notes brings up this up. While there are many series in the Isekai genre most follow the exact same pattern. The fact that seemingly over half of them have a copy paste of the main character design is the reason this was written in the first place.

On the point of skills you are correct Kirito would normally not put any skills into pretty much joke skills. This is an interesting point for him though. At this point he can max out more skills then he has and quite possible more then he can effectively use. Also remember this is the man who put points in the fishing skill. Saying he wouldn't do it just to see what would happen makes sense but on the other hand to many resources and curiosity can make you do strange things.

On the seed based game point. There are a few games that don't implement sword skills meaning they are in fact not a tell for a seed based game the original ALO and GGO do in fact not have sword skills. The only reason Underworld does is lazy programming. In fact the more indicative test for a seed based game would probably be swiping a finger down to see if a menu appears. Though it is shown that which hand can change between games it is fairly consistent.

Fighting style yes Kirito has a fairly set fighting style. Namely duel wielding he has shown in the past that while he is most proficient using two blades he can use other options such as a blade and a gun. In this I will probably try to keep him to that unless necessity demands a different choice. Such as a mob of goblins would probably be better dealt with a mini-gun then a guy with two swords. This world does not have sword skills though they have ways to reinforce their weaponry with magic. He will figure out how to do that as he progresses farther along the magic skills route.

I am trying to make it so when Kirito is dressed like the Hero he can go all out. When he is not he can move around and get more information quickly without people bothering him. In order to distinguish between these two his fighting style is going to have to change so people don't pick up that they are the same person.

If you have any more questions or things you think I should change let me know either be review or PM me and we can talk. I am always looking for ways to improve this.

Shadowdragondanny/ProtoSaber15/Alex Focker/Plattwe/Guest:- Done.

Supersonicfan1107- Yea he was not a happy person when he found that. On the plus side some of them survived? Agreed.

Nicolas- I love how the story goes and the path you chose. ~ I loved making decisions. But do not think there are too many women in a very short time and I guess in the next chapter will appear Mia. By the way do you know if a second season of the death march will perish?~ : Gracias. Después de buscarlo de nuevo, no creo que hayan anunciado que lo harán y, sinceramente, tengo dudas de que esto sea una segunda temporada. Sin embargo, en lo que se refiere al inglés, los libros están a la altura del libro 8, lamentablemente no sé cuál es el equivalente en español.

~Thank you. After looking it up again I don't think they have announced that they will and I honestly feel doubtful that this will get a second season. However as far as English is concerned the books are up to book 8 I sadly do not know for the Spanish equivalent. ~

Kyo- As for the first part it appears. The exact repercussions might be longer now that I think about it. As far as traveling goes. Yes he will leave the town he is in. Yes they will eventually leave the country. Remember though that this is no small country the first season of the anime doesn't have them leave the country just that town. They in fact travel through several towns before they even leave the country at the end of book 7. So yes they will leave the country it is just going to take a while and peoples opinions very a lot between towns.

~End Reviews~

~X~X~X~

I can honestly say the books are better. OgamiRei-Kun most likely agrees with me on that one.

~X~X~X~

While many a young man dreams of the night when some smoking hot babe crawls into their bed to do something to them.

I want to take this time to cation them.

They are totally trying to use you.

It may just be for the steamy night of passion, your money, or bragging rights, though I typically see that as something a guy would do. In the end it just isn't worth it.

Or if they are literally hot they are either sick or some sort of sex demon.

Either way don't touch that.

-Kazuto Kirigaya

~O~O~

The sun was about to raise by the time Liza and I eventually made it to a guardhouse to drop of the remaining people we had dealt with over the night. While discussing it with her, she informed me that unlike I was currently thinking the likely hood that they would end up in jail was actually quite small.

It turns out that in a world with magical contracts it was in fact more effective to just turn them into slaves or just kill them. While I personally didn't like the system I could see its advantages, the fact that they could use a magic stone to figure out if someone had actually committed a crime made it so wrongful convictions were nearly non-existent.

This is what lead me to standing outside a guard house with a bunch of tied up people and a bag partially full of heads. (Apparently you only needed a head to cash in a bounty. Still disturbing but better then carrying around a whole body.) I would only get a small amount for each head and if it turned out they were actually innocent (they weren't) I could actually end up going to jail myself. This gave the incentive to actually catching the people alive. Which aside from the not going to jail thing I would receive half of their slave price as the bounty.

The fact I had three potential rape victims with me that I was turning in due to their crimes weighed heavily upon me. The likely hood that they would be executed was slim However the fact that this town had an active red light distract and Nidoren made no attempt to deny that he was basically selling sex slaves. I had no illusion as to what they would be used for if bought, the fact that I would have saved them just to throw them away disturbed me.

Thankfully I knew the guy that was currently posted there.

"Sir Thorne I know that they are criminals, but is there some we could not make them slaves?"

"I am sorry sir, their crimes are enough that a fine wouldn't work, not that they could pay it right now, and we don't just cage people and leave it like that." Taking a breath he looked back at the lot of them. "Your just concerned about the three girls in the back right."

A quick nod of my head let him know my thoughts on the matter, while they might all have been responsible for their own actions. I didn't want to make them suffer more then they needed to.

"Between the bounties and the others you brought in we can make those three your personal slaves. That's about the best I can do. They will follow their punishment and you can make sure nothing bad happens to them. All I need is your name."

Well this was awkward. Due to me wanting to keep my abilities secret, Liza and I were still in costume. So if I gave him my name he would know who I was…

Damn it, he was staring at me now. It was time to bluff, Sean Connery accent don't fail me now. "I would gladly take them with me, but as a traveling hero. It would be too risky to take them with me."

"Well then mister traveling hero we are going to have to sell them as slaves."

"I, however know of someone who seems trustworthy enough."

"And what is this person's name?"

"I believe he is a merchant by the name of Kirito."

"Ahh… the merchant who never does anything."

While I might not have liked the epithet I really couldn't deny it. I really need to actually try doing the job I picked. "That seems like an apt description. I must now bid thee farewell. Come Spearmen Red we must depart to continue our never ending quest against evil."

"Yes master. Don't forget we needed to pick up medicine."

This was so embarrassing. "Onward!"

~O~O~

Several things had come up last night.

I needed to pick up medicine for Lulu.

The thorough trashing of a bunch of criminals.

My continued hatred of anything related to pretty boy fairy kings.

The fact that you can summon shadow monsters.

And last but not least I had at some point saved an elven princes. While I have saved many a strong and independent women, this was my first time saving someone as a form of stress relief. Thankfully her ratmen guard Mize was there to watch over her as me and Liza took our recently acquired bandits to the proper authorities. While we were doing this Mize requested that we grab the elf in town named Yuya in hopes that he could help him get the princess back home faster.

Considering the fact that Mize was currently a wanted individual it made sense that we would need to get Yuya to him. Thankfully Yuya happened to be the owner of the general store that Nadi worked at. Which was why I was standing in their lobby debating if I should have waited for them to open.

While I was debating the legality of my decision, I thankfully had Liza to bring me back to reality. "Master."

The sounds that I could now hear indicated that the people upstairs had finally realized someone was here.

"Yuya, I'm not sure I am ready."

Or at least one of them. This world is going to be the death of me.

It was shortly after that they finally made their way downstairs Nadi towering above the store owner as she carried a candle. Yuya stood in front this was the first time I had really seen him, his light green hair was hanging down his back in a collapsing braid giving him a carefree look that matched his tunic and pants. Overall he seemed more curios why I was here then annoyed.

"Mize the ratman has sent me here to inform you that he requires assistance in helping Misanalia Bolenen."

"Why."

"I didn't look into it further and she appeared to be asleep when I saw her."

"Take me."

Nodding quickly, I addressed Liza, "Spearmen Red go check on the others and go to bed. I don't believe I will need your assistance for the rest of this." Then back to the elf, "If you are ready, please follow me."

A quick shift of his head was all I got as a response. Turning on my heel I once again entered into what little was left of the night. Only half of the magic lanterns hanging were lite showing that we were in the third bell or last four hours of the night. The only other people we saw on the streets were a hand full of men trying to make it home, the whores either making there keep or having given up for the night.

We ended up making good time as the hints of dark purple began reaching into the sky as I lifted the cellar door for Yuya. Mize was where we had left him standing guard near Misanalia, the tension in his body seemed to release when he saw us.

"You made it back."

"I brought the elf like you asked." So said elf was moving towards the brown bundle behind the ratman only a child's head with long green hair resting on a pillow differentiating it from the large bundle of rags.

"What's wrong?"

"She won't wake up, I was trying to get her home but we kept getting attacked. You were closer."

"Out of mana." The elf paused for a moment. "Help her, then home."

Catching the drift of what was going on I made my own suggestion. "Do we want to move her to your shop or keep her here? They already found this place once, but I would think your place would be where they would look first."

"Keep her here. If attacked again move to the shop."

"I need to go and do somethings Mize if you can watch her until noon I can come and trade you off."

"That will be fine Sir Kirito."

"Then I shall make my leave."

~O~O~

Sir Thorne walked into the Gatefront in at a little after first light with the orange beginning to win its fight with the still predominately purple sky. I was still at the bar working my way through a piece of toast and a fruit salad, when I had arrived they were just barely starting up the ovens so there wasn't much of a choice. The stout I had next to me was strange but good.

"Kirito, you would not believe what happened to me last night."

"I have this feeling you're going to tell me."

"I had just started my shift when these two people showed up with the most notaries outlaw guild in town tied up or killed with them."

"That has to be good for you."

"And get this they were wanting to try and save these three, from being turned into slaves." He motioned behind himself, and like was expected were the three girls that I had rescued. Though they weren't wearing any clothes, unless you counted ropes and leather collars. Thankfully it looked like nothing else had been done to them.

"The law states that for their many counts of theft they must be turned into slaves. So this guy uses all of his rewards and buys them then, gets this, gives them to you." His look shifted into something a bit harder as his voice dropped, "So what were you doing last night?"

I shot him a look that clearly told him how much I wanted to go to bed at this point. "Avoiding sleeping with five girls at once."

"That has to be the stupidest story I have heard yet."

"I can't handle the number of girls I am currently dealing with. What makes you think I would or could take on an entire guild just to add more girls to what I am dealing with?"

Reaching into a pouch he had on his side he slide some papers in front of me. They had an intricate magic seal on the front and over where I was supposed to sign. "You have a point but this doesn't get you off the hook. Just be glad everything that guy did was on the up and up. Sign these and I can get out of your hair."

A quick read through let me know that they were just there to make sure that I became the rightful owner and any future misdeeds they did while I owned them would be counted against me. Nothing to out of the ordinary. Signing them created a brief glow letting us know that the contract magic had worked correctly. Leaving me the proud owner of three more slaves. O joy.

Sir Thorne made sure to leave while I quickly finished of my breakfast leaving the plates along with a tip on the bar before Martha's mom or someone else caught me downstairs with three naked girls.

I had made it to the stair well before I realized they weren't behind me. "Follow me." I would have thought they would have figured to follow me, so they were either scared or doing their best to be defiant. Either way I really couldn't blame them.

Luckily our trip upstairs was not interrupted. I quickly knocked and gave a brief warning that I was coming in. Not hearing a negative response I gingerly opened the door to find both mattresses on the floor with blankets laying on top of the conglomerate of slave girls that were there. I am not sure if Cathy or the animal girls could have fit if they wanted to. Moving over towards to, hopefully, the more responsible one there.

I nudged the peaceful looking Mariel, before whispering into her ear. "Mariel are you awake."

"If I say yes will you make my dreams come true?" The hopeful tune of her voice was a bit disconcerting.

"Doubtful."

She gave her answer while wrapping herself tighter against the back of one of the girls I ended up buying last night "No."

"I am going to need you to introduce some new people to everyone else when they wake up."

"Why don't you do it" she more of mumbled into the other girls back.

"Because I need to go find some place to sleep."

"Why don't you sleep with us?"

"Because I don't trust myself and I don't trust some of you."

"You need to relax more."

"So I ended up with the three girls behind me somehow, so introduce them. Lulu is supposed to take a spoonful of this before each meal. Make sure everyone has the clothes they need if not get some more here is ten gold that should hopefully cover the expenses, breakfast is payed for downstairs. I will probably be sleeping with Liza in the stable if you need me."

"Hmm k."

"Everything is on a note on the dresser."

"Can I get a good bye kiss before you go?"

I blew her a quick kiss from the door as I walked out wrapping my cloak around one of the three new girls while motioning for them to try and get in the dog pile.

A stray thought crossed my mind when I finally made it down to the stable with Liza and Cathy, Pochi and Tama having gotten up early and started helping with the inn.

'This is getting ridicules.'

~O~O~

When I eventually woke up it was to Liza's sleeping face. Pushing myself up and out of the blanket I made my way over to the back of the Inn to take a quick bath to get all of the dust and sweat off that had accumulated between looking at dusty houses and the numerous skirmishes I had gotten into.

When I had gotten back into the Inn, I was dragged up to my room by Mariel and Arisa where they had apparently decided what I was going to wear for the day. They had come to the decision that while it was appropriate for me to decide what they should wear (or not) due to me owning them, it was their duty as my slaves to make sure I always looked my best.

What they had not taken into account was I really only had shades of black. Making me the winner. I also had to make sure to kick them out of the room. While I might have only been slightly bothered being dragged around in a towel, I was not going to give them a show.

By the time I had made it to the mansion I had picked up the deed from Nadi along with the horses and cart.

When I had made the decision to buy the cart it was more of 'something that I would need for my cover.' I had completely forgotten the fact that I didn't actually know how to drive one. As luck would have it Lulu did. While she had only used a single horse cart before this and was nervous she performed admirably. I made note to make sure to pick up the skill before I needed to leave.

While I had left most of my party upstairs to figure out what we needed to set the place up as a proper house, there were a couple of exceptions. Cathy along with the five new girls I had picked up since yesterday afternoon were out getting clothes. Whereas Liza was following me into the cellar to go and check on Misanalia.

Mize like every other time I had walked into a room with him had his hatchet in hand ready to pounce before he recognized us. Seeing that it was me he let the tension flow out of his body, while I started a routine check of the room to make sure everything was in proper order. Misanalia was in the back room with the mattress. We had made sure to flip it over to hide the blood and other things.

"It is good to see you again Sir Kirito." While Mize had a hard time speaking… common? I had told him that I had picked up the ratman language in my travels (really I maxed it out after he first spoke to me in it), so at least when talking to me he spoke in his native lounge. But due to me speaking common more easily we typically spoke in our preferred language knowing the other understood it.

"Likewise Mize" Making my way towards him I grabbed a chair that was in decent condition. "You should probably get some sleep, I can cover this for now."

With a quick nod he went into the room Misanalia was in a grabbing a couple of blankets placed them on the floor and fell asleep.

Thus leaving me the hard part of guard duty. Waiting.

There were a couple of problems that I needed to work through, while I might be able to brute force my way through a good portion of them it that would at best be a short term solution. The first one was the fact there were a large number of abandoned animal people children. While rounding them up would be easy physically taking care of them would be difficult. With the mansion I most likely had the room to house them even if I kept them all hidden in the cellar in bunks. The difficult part would be making sure they were self-sufficient.

I had the land and could probably make them all farmers of some sort. But that would be a waste of their natural abilities to just limit them to that. I needed a way to teach them a fairly broad number of skills. How to fix a large number of things, deal with numbers, reading, and how to defend themselves.

In short I needed to start a business that can run itself with minimum interaction from me due to me traveling as a merchant, while also being able to be run by the most discriminated group in town.

So the customer needs to either be desperate, greedy, or uncaring. Alternatively if I can get someone to run the front of the company that I could trust it would work just as well.

The only business I could think of at the moment was a bathhouse. It would take work but I had the resources to fund it and I could get the minimum personal to run it. I could probably talk Martha into running it as training for taking over the Gatefront Inn while the two new slaves I had gotten from Nidoren had some accounting skills at least to help her start. The abandoned animal children could clean it up at night and run some of the land in the back with a couple easy to start learning crops. When they had time we could work in them getting lessons.

The major problem with it as it currently stood was how to heat the water. A boiler of some sort was a decent option but it would require wood or some other source to be brought in to heat the water. Another concern would be getting the water with a stream available it wasn't too much of a concern we would just need to make sure the water ran through some sort of filter before it left.

Magic items were a thing but I would need to figure out how to build them and it would take time. The time I had left before when I told Jin Belton I would be leaving was still a week off so I might have a bit of lee way but I would be cutting it close.

With thoughts on that squared away I was left to contemplate the other growing issue. My apparent inability to not gather female slaves. Considering that I was at 14 and hadn't been in this world for even a month I might need to watch myself.

Soon I would need to be moving around and actually trying to do my stated profession. While it was beneficial to have several people with me for this I was currently bordering on the realms of way to many.

While I was planning on leaving some of them here to look after my upcoming business venture as it stood there were some of them that would not benefit it and adding unneeded people would only slow the business down. At most as it stood I was planning on leaving four people. The two from Nidoren along with two of the ones I had just gotten from turning them into the authorities.

That still left me with ten people besides me and I still haven't taken into account Tana. While the cart might be a bit wide it would need to carry a few people throughout the day but, there also needed to be room for what we were transporting to. As it stood it was going to be cramped. There was no way around that unless we got another cart and I couldn't justify that with how much I had already dropped into this without people thinking I was made of money.

There was also the bag of worms I was getting messed up in with Misanalia.

Defeating the first demon could have been the end of things, having to save an elven princess was also something you have to look out for in games or books. While I would hate to think this world is just a game with how everything is playing out it would be safe to assume more 'issues' would be sprouting up soon.

I guess I should also be thankful that even though this world seems to like to point that way it isn't an eroge. Honestly it seems like half the girls are nothing more than jail bait.

"Liza, can you grab Mariel for me I have a couple things for her to buy. Then if you want we can spar for a bit."

Well if worse comes to worse I need to be ready.

~O~O~

It was only a short time after Mariel had left to go and purchase the things that I had requested along with Lulu and Denice that Misanalia woke up.

At the time I was sparing with Liza while Pochi and Tama were trying to show Carol how to swing a sword. We were doing our best to keep quite having wrapped the sticks that were using in some of the other blankets.

While it wasn't loud the sound of her yawning was picked up by both me and Pochi. Leading to me having to dodge backwards and Pochi getting hit on the head.

Opening the door slowly I peered in to see the green haired girls silver eyes doing the same thing with her blanket that I was doing with my door.

"Pretty…"

Her voice was soft with idle wonder. Opening the door fully I motioned for the girls behind me to stay where they were. "Hello Misanalia my name is Kirito. Are you doing alright?"

"Mia."

"Are you feeling well Mia?"

A slow nod with an affirmative sound was all I got for my troubles before she broke the silence again. "Mize?"

"He is sleeping over there, it is my turn to guard you." She looked slightly scared and from the looks of it was using me as some sort of lifeline. It was probably best to just talk to her for now. "Liza please continue training Tama and Pochi. This might take a while."

With that the door was slowly closed behind me as a small smile crossed my lips.

~O~O~

I ended up talking to Mia for about an hour and a half before she fell asleep again, the topics of our "conversation" wandered varying between elves, magic, and spirits with me being the driving force as she seemed to want me to just be with her. Through the entirety of this event I managed to pick up the skills elvish and decryption, most likely from the fact that here answers rarely breached some invisible two word limit.

Seeing as they were probably useful I quickly put levels into them.

When she did fall asleep I had to slowly pull her fingers from the sleeve of the cloak I was wearing.

It was soon after that Yuya had shown up having finished what he was planning on doing for the day. Apparently there were potions that helped restore mana, while this was currently not a problem for me I could see why others would need them. The problem was that they were extremely expensive. Yuya was able to cut a deal with one of the local apothecaries that if he went and grabbed enough of some specific rare ingredients then they would make him one.

We opted to wait for Mia to wake up again before giving it to her.

Among other things that came up during the discussion was what we were going to do for guard rotations. While Mize was going to be around her full time he would need to sleep at some point. The solution that was decided on was with me taking the first part of the night watch and Yuya taking the second half leaving Mize guarding her for the entirety of the daylight hours.

Due to the how the day had went while it was technically my shift Mize was taking over for the first part of it while ended up helping move the things Mariel had been able to buy into the mansion. While quite a few of the merchants brought their own wares to the house to be unloaded the sheer number of mattress ordered necessitated that Lulu had to take ours out and pick some of them up. I ended up with the master bedroom even though I was more than satisfied with the ones in the servant's quarters.

The fact that if I ever got married my wife would have us move to it was a good enough reason for me.

After that I ended up going through the place more in-depth to figure out what I needed to fix. Due to the mansion only recently being abandoned and the fact that the bandits used the upper floors for meetings kept it in reasonably good condition. Making note of the fact that I probably needed to clean out the chimneys among other things. I started looking out trying to figure out the layout for the public baths I was planning on building.

What I needed was concrete which I really didn't know that much about. As it was I was probably going to need to use pieces of slate and bind that together with mortar. That would be extremely time consuming but it beat having to build the actual bath portions out of wood which would need to be replaced frequently. Using wood for the dividers would be fine the walkways would need to be something sturdier in the end but for the preliminary build wood would also be fine.

My thoughts continued in the same vain during my watch as Mize made up for the fact that he had been up for about two days straight. When Yuya finally made it down to trade me off I was glad, while I could have probably kept going I needed to get my sleeping schedule back under control. The trip to my room was uneventful as was my climbing into bed and falling asleep.

Sadly the rest of the night wasn't of the same vein.

It was still fairly hot that night so I had forgone a shirt and when I did finally fall asleep there was a light sheet on top of me, more out of force of habit then an actual need. Feeling a tug around my waist I slowly opened my eyes in confusion as while Asuna had haunted my dreams for a while after our breakup I hadn't had a dream with her in a while.

The sight of lilac locks looking up at me with pleading purple eyes took my breath away. She was beautiful.

"Master."

Reaching down I felt Arisa's soft skin caress mine as my hand slowly brushed the hair off of her shoulder. The feel of her hands as she climbed up my body doing nothing to hold back my anticipation as her lips slowly moved towards mine. My eyes closed in pleasure as our lips locked allowing me to see my status.

Seeing that I was under a compulsion. I stumbled through the menu as both pleasure and horror began to fill my mind. Stumbling across a seduction magic resistance skill I quickly started dumping points into it. Feeling my mind begin to slowly clear I continued the act, as she pulled away from the kiss only to sit down on my thankfully still clothed erection.

She moaned as she shifted the cloth back and forth trying to grind into me. "Master… you're such a pervert." The clash of the way she said the words and her age helped me fight the feelings that were trying to overcome me.

If it was a one shot spell it my change in resistance might have broken it, she had to be sustaining it. Meaning she probably had to be concentrating on it.

While making her 'see stars' would undoubtedly break her concentration she was eleven. Not going to go into that. Hurting her would probably have the same effect, but I was never one to hurt a girl on a guess.

Flipping us over leaving me with only my hands and knees keeping our bodies our bodies apart as she reached around my neck to pull herself up into another kiss as one of my hands left the bed tracing itself up the outside of her leg. A moan of contentment reached my ear as she closed her eyes while my hand reached the base of her growing femininity.

A felt a smile touch my lips as my hand moved quickly from her chest and into her side as my once sensual touches danced across her skin tickling her.

Sounds of laughter started to fill the room as I shifted my weight on to my knees making sure she didn't kick me in the groin as I brought my other hand to bear on her sides.

After a minute and checking to see that the status effects had left my status bar I stopped. Letting her come down I rolled off of being on top of her so I could lean against my head board. "Arisa what was that about?"

"I love you master."

"Ok… can you please clarify."

"You don't have any obscene muscles and such a pretty face, you are exactly my type."

"What?"

"I couldn't stop myself. I wanted to have sex with you master."

Well this was awkward. If she was trying to manipulate me, someone had put her up to it, or even if she hadn't known why she was here to begin with that would be one thing. However hearing an eleven year old girl tell me that she wanted to have sex with me was quite jarring. Had she even started puberty yet?

"Arisa, you should wait to have sex with someone that you love."

"But I do love you master. Besides I know your secret."

"What you described was more lust then love Arisa, and what secret are you talking about."

"But I do love master. You are from Japan just like me. Which only proves that we should be together."

"So you got brought over here to then?"

"Yep I was reincarnated as a princess."

"Well that explains your title then. Were there any benefits from you reincarnating?"

"I was able to get a couple unique skills. Do you want to know them?"

"Not really, I was just curios." At this she gave me an odd look. Unique skills weren't a new concept to me, I had one myself back in SAO, and I knew the power that something that was called unique could have. However I also knew about how having an ace up my sleeve could help me, with the position Arisa is in… Having a little extra security never hurt.

"Do you want to at least know my normal skills?"

"If you want to tell me that's fine, but don't feel like you have to."

"I am doing this because I want to. My first skill is Psychic Magic. It allowed me to cast the spell on you."

"So it is more for mental manipulation as opposed to a telekinetic type of skill."

"Yep. It wasn't working that well on you so I had to boost its power with my unique skills to get it to work. I also have Hide Skill, which makes it so not even a Yamato Stone can read my skills."

That is probably what made her skills appear as none when I did my original scan. "Useful. Though at higher levels it could cause problems if you still don't have any that skills appear."

Her head tilted causing her hair to shift, "I hadn't thought of that. Anyway aside from my unique skills I have only one more skill, Item Box. It allows me to store 100 copies of 100 different items. Let me demonstrate." With that she brought her hands out chanting "Item Box." A large blue and white patterned vase appeared in her hands which she tipped back trying to drink out of it.

Trying mainly in the fact she seemed to be spilling a good portion of it onto herself and subsequently my bed. "Arisa can you please stop getting water all over my bed?"

Almost dropping the jug as she set it down, she looked at my incredulously… well as close as a sopping wet naked 11 year old girl could. "That didn't turn you on at all?"

"I am older then I look, I will admit this is really awkward for me."

"That's another thing we have in common, I am older then I look to so its fine."

I was forced to dodge the naked wet preteen girl as she dismissed the jug and lunged at me for another hug. Placing my hand on her forehead I was able to keep her at arm's length as she continued to try and get to me. "Lulu is your sister, so were you both reincarnated or something?"

"No. Her mother was one of my dad's concubines. She may look Japanese but she is actually the granddaughter of a hero. It's a shame really she would be one of the best looking girls in our old world but, everyone here thinks she is ugly."

"They don't seem to mind me."

"To them your just foreign, master. You remind them of heroes. For Lulu it's like everything is just off enough. I try to help her by she doesn't have confidence because everyone has always called her ugly."

"Well we will have to see what we can do about that. Every girl needs to have confidence in their looks."

"So you think I am pretty then."

The sound of her moving around let me know to close my eyes. "Arisa your eleven."

We stayed like that in silence what had to have been minutes. While it may not have seemed like she had given me a lot information it took me a while to go through it. Nodding to myself more out of habit then anything I brought up my final question for the night.

"So how did you end up becoming a slave anyway?" Finally opening my eyes as I asked the question. Not expecting Arisa to have propped her back up on some pillows so she could stare at me as she split her legs with one of her hands between them and biting the other. "Arisa your eleven!"

~O~O~

She had tried helping her kingdom… That is how she had become a slave.

It wasn't anything big. She had tried doing crop reforms.

While I personally didn't know much about that kind of thing, what I did know that even if what she had tried didn't work it shouldn't have failed that badly.

The timing of the attack by a foreign nation while the country was trying to recover from their agricultural disaster seemed too planned. It would make sense if they had sabotaged the crops.

The fact that the enemy nation immediately started sacrificing the royal family to 'jump start' a labyrinth pointed to some major issues. Thankfully the demon they summoned took care of most of them for me.

As horrible as it may sound we should go there if for no other reason than to loot the castle. It was recent enough that most of the stuff that wasn't broke may still be recoverable. Heartless I know but, I could at least give Lulu and Arisa some sense of closer.

My arms tightened slightly around the girl clutching to me, my shirt dwarfing, as she shifted in her sleep. She liked to put up a strong front but, you can't hold something like that up for ever and part way through her story she started to break down. She may be an 'old' soul in a child's body but it was good to see her act her physical age for once.

As I slowly drifted into slumber my mind went back to peaceful times, to those nights spent in our cabin. Not those nights of passion shared between two inexperienced lovers or those nights which we spent the nights showing our love to each other. No… Asuna was far from my mind.

No the nights when I held a tiny girl when all she wanted was her father to comfort her. Of the nights when a little girl just wanted an over sized large pillow.

"Yui."