Ero Skill Tree

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Seven: Interruption

We quickly decided the order of watch for the night and then set about making dinner. It was only a quick affair and after we had eaten, we didn't stay up long before we went to bed. After a little talk around the campsite, the three of us went to bed leaving Rosa at campfire to take her watch. I climbed into the small tent alone, while Altria and Serin both went for the other. I lay in bed for a while listening to the sound of the fire crackling and the wind blowing through the nearby trees until I eventually fell asleep.

Sometime later I was woken by the sound of voices outside of the tent. At first, I thought it was the change of shift, but then I realised that it was Serin's voice talking away to Rosa by the fire. After a minute or two the pair fell silent, and I heard footsteps approaching my tent. A moment later and Serin's head popped inside my tent.

"Oh, you're awake too." She said seeing that I was already sat up in bed.

"Yeah... Is everything okay?" I asked.

"Everything is fine. I was just struggling to fall asleep, and I thought I'd check on things outside. Do you mind if I stay in here for a while?"

"Sure, I couldn't sleep either anyway. You might as well stay here now, rather than wake up Altria again." I said lifting up the side of my blanket for Serin to join me.

"I suppose so." Serin said as she started to undo the buttons to her clothes.

She undressed quickly and stripped all the way down to her underwear while I watched on, until she joined me. Once she was done, she climbed in the bed alongside me and pulled over the cover. She lay on her side putting her arm over me, letting out a sigh as she did so.

"Are you sure everything is okay?" I asked.

"It is..." She answered before pausing to thing for a moment. "Theo, do you trust me?" She asked looking into my eyes.

"Yes, I do. Absolutely." I answered.

It was the truth. I trusted all the girls, to an extent. I had been betrayed by Lillia, but Serin I trusted the most. I had always felt that she was trustworthy right from the beginning when we had first met.

"Then why didn't you tell me about the succubus?"

"I think I should have, but I don't know if I could have told you without telling the others as well. There's so much about this world that I don't know and when I first arrived, I made the mistake of telling Lillia something Liz told me. It cost me her trust and if I hadn't done so, we might all be a better situation now. I didn't want to make the same mistake again. But it has nothing to do with how much trust I have for you."

"I see... You know when the succubus girl, Celine said that to you earlier, it took me by surprise how she could be so certain and forthcoming with her emotions..."

"You know she is under the effect of one of my abilities?"

"I know, but it is how she feels."

"I suppose."

"I wish I could say something like that to you, I know I feel strongly about you, but I'm not sure I even know what love is. This is the closest to any sort of romantic relationship I've ever had, and well my feelings are confusing."

"I don't think it gets any easier."

"You find these things confusing too?"

"Yes."

"What if I asked you how you feel about me?"

"I'd say that I really care for you, and I feel like I would want to do anything for you I could... I don't know if I could say if that constitutes love. I think so much has happened in such a short space of time, that it would be hard to be any more certain than that."