Chapter 59 - Incinerated Alleyways

"You shouldn't have been so imprudent, Vera..." As the demoness saw the beauty's eyes open once again after an entire day of rest, those were the first words she uttered.

Even after an entire day, she still had most of her body burned, and she was naked too, obviously, all of her clothes perished at that moment.

"Don't act like my mother now, Sasha... she disappointed me in the end." Vera rolled her eyes, struggling to get up but unable to, she felt as if she had become a statue.

"I'm serious..." Sasha's visage turned stern.

"..." Vera evaded her gaze, she's not willing to apologise or regret this, she felt like a new person, as if her previous self that had been a mere slut used for others' convenience had perished amidst the flames, shedding her skin and turning her into a new individual.

An exotic woman that has desires and wants to go through with them, she hadn't realised but indeed, she's not a common woman.

If she had seen her crystal inside her tight... she would have realised that she's no longer a bronze, she's now a bonafide silver soul, just like Fayette.

...

"There must be a better way to do it... you lost three bottles and we only have a little more than twenty... you're naked too..." Sasha took something from the backpack that she had been holding.

"..." Vera regarded her body that was restored at a faster rate than usual, but even then after an entire day she hasn't been completely healed, she knows by the fact that it would usually take the three of them a little more than three days to heal... Valentine does slightly faster, presumably due to his golden soul, but then why can she heal in a single day? the only answer that courses through her mind is the Rose Eagle Thorn.

Just how much is this knife changing her? She wonders.

"Here, take these clothes... they should protect you a little more against fire, try to not burn them... I don't have another set." Sasha pulled a set of clothes that was nothing more than pants, a shirt and a few plates, she had no shoes and Vera didn't need them either.

"How did you get them?" Vera struggled to stand up with her 'fixed' body and touched the clothes' fibre, thinking that they're good quality, how did Sasha get these clothes?

"I bought them with the money you gave me." The purple-skinned seductress spoke half-heartedly with her purple eyes shining slightly.

"Wasn't it enough to get you all this?" Vera furrowed her brows and started to dress up on those clothes, she had given her 450.000, theoretically, that should have been enough for the clothes if she hadn't also bought weapons... weapons that turned out to be of great quality as well.

Spending so much time with Valentine that gave considerable thought to every single detail, this gimmick moved onto his 'disciple as well, even if she's not as detailed as him.

"... Yes, I came upon a place that was giving offers to sexy demonesses" Sasha smirked and shamelessly ogled Vera's wiggly ass.

"What are you hiding from me, Sasha?" The auburn-haired beauty shot a bullet out of the sudden that left Sasha slightly bewildered.

"... what are you talking about? you sound like a jealous girlfriend~" The demoness brushed off the words as a joke. 

"I'm your girl-friend... right? tell me... I don't want to get disappointed later after having given you my trust." Vera took Sasha's arm now with a more concerned look as she could feel that the demoness is indeed hiding something for a while now, she doesn't want to sin for naivety... Valentine and Fayette's teaching kept constantly ringing in her head.

And the two of them would absolutely never trust someone with Sasha's background much less if she's hiding something, what she's doing is mostly due to her instincts and forsaking their teachings for once.

She doesn't want to be betrayed, especially now that she's technically trusting Sasha with her life.

"No, you're a piece of ass I want to fuck, and I'm a piece of ass that you need help from... there are no 'friends' in here... I reject the friendzone." Seeing that the woman intended to keep going, Sasha pulled their bodies together, maybe because of how Vera would react, but the Russian beauty exceeded her expectations Vera's gaze never left its sternness and she didn't push her away, she wants answers.

"Don't evade the subject, answer me."

"I'm not hiding anything from you that you must know, Vera... leave it at that and get dressed, will you? or I'm going to assault you right here, I'm holding back from fondling those breasts of yours" It was her who pushed Vera away with care as the latter is still injured, and turned around, intending to sit down against the wall until she's healed.

"Could it be that you're a man in disguise?" Vera shivered slightly, prepared to dig her knife in her neck were that to be the case.

Not because she's a male, but because she concealed it this long clearly with ill intentions!

!!!

"Oh no! how can you think of that! those disgusting things!" Sasha's face seemed to become more purple than it already was, as if she's about to puke, much to Vera's amusement.

"Hmph! You always speak like a perverted grandpa so I had to ask... also, you don't have the balls to push me down~" Vera perked up her butt to further taunt the demoness who only growled at her as a response.

"You're right, I don't... now, stop moving that butt up and fro... don't have me grow them just for your sake, okay?" Sasha rolled her eyes and hugged her knees, leaving the subject but also content that Vera stopped her detective facade.

"Hmph, if you do anything to me, my future boyfriend will slaughter you..." Vera sat beside her and waited for her body to be completely healed, not knowing that she just gave Sasha the best topic to cling onto!

"Oh, so you have decided to break the status quo?" The gossiping Grandma seemed to suddenly grow strongly in Sasha who didn't hesitate to flush their bodies together, intending to know more!

"I wouldn't go through this torture to save them just to stay the same way it was before... I want more... with the two of them." Vera, trusting Sasha, also didn't conceal anything as this thought has indeed been in her mind.

Her feelings for Valentine? they're more than assured, she's infatuated, but what about Fayette? she has come to realise that she misses her too, and perhaps as much as she does Valentine.

"Oh! A 'Bi'... I like you more now, and you still refuse my advances!? you vixen!~" Her hand started to crawl slowly towards the latter's breasts!

*SLAP!*

"Auch! Meanie!" Sasha caressed her slapped hand with a pout, this woman is truly not delicate at all.

"I'm not any 'Bi'! it's just... I only now came to realise that I like Faye just as much... even if a part of me wants to kill her." She uttered those words with complete normalcy.

"W-What?" And indeed, her words made Sasha stop and gape, perhaps courting Vera now doesn't sound like a good idea.

"Yes... I'm sure it's the Rose Eagle Thorn, but... sometimes I see images... images of me killing Faye, strangling her, stabbing her... I think it's jealousy... but it's strange because I'm sure that I like her quite a bit." Vera sighed in confusion, she knows Fayette is very important for her.

But each time she sees her and Valentine be intimate with one another, she can't help but grow a little... restless.

Perhaps she just wants to be let into that, she knows Valentine's reason to reject is because of his consideration towards Fayette's feelings, therefore, in her mind... the only reason they're not sharing such a fulfilling relationship is because of Fayette.

Hence why she has those... nightmares often. 

Those aren't the only nightmares she has though, she also has dreams... dreams where she's taken by Valentine in special places, they make love for a long time and then he leaves... those delightful dreams.

Then some other nightmares where she's killing people... killing and killing and devouring nonstop.

She can only associate those with the Rose Thorn.

"..."

'The Rose Eagle Thorn is causing that? I haven't heard of such a thing happening to Zamira at that time... perhaps they weren't in the same circumstances and therefore, she didn't have those images?' Sasha theorized but it was inconclusive.

"So, you love her?" she asked the important question.

"I don't think I so... but I like her... I want to be together with the two of them and not be left behind, that's what I'm sure of, so stop changing the subject." Vera giggled, yes, the ultimate conclusion is that she wants to travel through this hell together with the two of them, not anyone else... not even Sasha, just the three of them.

"What about me then?" Sasha approached lustily, expecting a good answer.

"You're just a piece of ass I need help from~" But she was disappointed.

"You're so cold... since that's the case, does that mean I get to fuck you at least once?~" The demoness licked her lips and continued her taunt, just once is enough.

"No... well, who knows...?" Vera blushed and evaded her gaze, still not believing she's considering doing those things with a woman, it might sound odd given her background, but she has never done it... and right now, she imagined herself, Valentine and Fayette... in a comfy bed.

'There are a lot of things I want to do after saving you, guys...' Yes, she's going to experiment a lot.

"OH! You changed your answer!"

"If you go along with what you mentioned before... perhaps, there is a 1% per cent chance, I will allow you to lick my legs~"

"That doesn't sound like a good deal... I don't have that filthy fetish... I can kiss your cunny instead and we have a deal?" As a proper demon, Sasha bargained.

"Dream on... I'm not into women."

'Yet...'

"Say that after you have kissed that blondie..." Sasha giggled, already convinced that Vera is destined to curse through the abyss of lust, she has such as stud and a blonde bombshell as her companions... can a spark of flame light up in a dry forest without burning it?

She doesn't believe so.

"Are you ready? what should we do now...?" Having been embarrassed enough, Vera decided to stand up and fuck off out of here before her face burns more than the tree itself.

"Deviating the subject huh? don't worry... we will get there."

"Get serious..."

"What? we're just going to look for the most efficient way to burn those branches, now that we know it works, we only need to make it last... we have... 19 bottles and seven bombs... it's not very hopeful. we won't be able to go through many corridors with this much." 

"If we run out of them, we can just escape the alleyways and then come back with more... yes, but that's not an option... remember that a day outside is an indefinite amount of time in here... that's why I told you, this is a nigh-impossible job, Vera... if we leave one day, who knows how many more corridors will be formed, it's in the millions or perhaps more already..."

"I have faith, Sasha... we will do it, believe me."

"Are you asking a demon to have faith?" Sasha seemed to take deep offence on that, but Vera didn't care.

"Yes! I have faith! I'll definitely find them and kiss them soon! so long as I can burn that tree!"

"...."