“That’s the spirit!” Alysia smiled at me, and for a moment, my heart beat a bit faster.

She really was a pretty woman, even if she was taller than me by quite a lot. I already was a short guy, only 5 foot 10, so a 7-foot-tall woman definitely towered over me. Yet, the way she was acting was very cute. However, if I kept looking, the other girls would definitely get jealous. I never knew just how Shao would react.

Sometimes, she was extremely tolerant of other women. Other times, she grew extremely jealous. I think it often depended on whether Lydia was nearby or not. She seemed to have a certain magic about her to make the usually jealous Shao suddenly pro-harem. Of course, when Lydia wasn’t around, Shao could be quite scary sometimes when she asked me about girls I had only met in passing. If I didn’t play my cards right, she brought out the knives.

At that point, I had to calm Shao down with heavy petting. Her one weakness was that she was extremely docile sexually, so once I equipped the Pervert job, her aggression disappeared and she purred like a kitten. If Lydia was a tigress that dominated the sexual field, then Shao was a playful cub who followed behind her lead.

As I was worrying about what the pair were thinking in this situation, it turned out they had been plotting all along. The boat suddenly shook aggressively. At first, I had been convinced that a monster from the depths was attacking the boat, but I could hear snickering from some of the Titan’s Fall women that instantly made me realize what was happening.

Knowing what was happening and stopping it were two very different things. Standing on the boat as I was, the sudden bump caused me to lose my footing. If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear a gust of Celeste’s wind struck my back, ensuring that my fall went forward instead of backward off the boat. The person in front of me was none other than Alysia. Unlike me, she had much better footing and barely shifted as the boat rocked. Instead, her attention had turned to her laughing teammates, who seemed to be in on a joke she had missed.

That was until my face ended up in her cleavage, and my arms wrapped around her body, ending up grabbing her buttocks to keep me from falling.

“Wh-wh-what are you doing?” Alysia cried out as she was suddenly assaulted.

The laughter from her teammates grew even more. As for Alysia, her body tightened up, especially her firm buttocks, as I was all too aware, but she didn’t actually shove me off her.

I pulled my head out of her chest. “I’m sorry! I really am, I tripped!”

“O-oh…” She suddenly looked shy again. “R-really?”

“Really! I should work on having better balance like you?”

“Ah!” She nodded. “Maybe I can show you sometime.”

The boat suddenly thumped again, but this time I didn’t move.

“We’re here!” Celeste announced excitedly.

They hadn’t stopped in the city, as that would cause a problem. Rather, they stopped at the shore on the border of Aberis. We’d need to walk an hour back to Nyphal.

“I guess… we have to go then.” I said.

She wore a slightly sad expression and nodded. “Perhaps, we’ll meet again.”

“Perhaps.”

“Um….”

“What is it?”

“Can you take your hands off my butt?”

“… yes…”