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Chapter 241 – Stealing A Crusaders Heart, One Kink At A Time

While waiting for his party members to show up, John was chatting with the town guard, an older man who was rather bored standing guard at the gate all day. He didn't have much to do here, as the town was open to travellers; He was just there to close the gate if monsters approached the city, or on the slim chance that the Devil Kings' armies showed up, raise the alarm. At any rate, he seemed happy to have someone to talk to, so John had obliged. When he saw Darkness approaching with another woman in tow, he ended his conversation and went over to them.

"Good Morning, John. I want you to meet my friend, Chris." Darkness said as she came up to the gate. "I told her that I found a new party and she wanted to join us. I... hope that I did not overstep my bounds. We do quest from time to time, but we were never formally in a party."

"Morning. The more the merrier. We are just waiting for one more." He said, looking over at the short woman beside Darkness. She was very petite, with shoulder-length silver hair, striking purple eyes, and fair skin. She had a large scar on the right side of her face, which marred her otherwise adorable looks. She was wearing... well, almost nothing. A very high cut, low-riding pair of blue shorts, an oddly designed black crop top that just barely covered her small breasts, and a green shawl over her shoulders. She also had a heavy pair of leather gloves and boots on, and a dagger sheathed over her ass. 

Those eyes remind me of someone, but who? God, I meet so many people, it's hard to keep track these days.

He offered her his hand. "Morning, Chris. My name is John. It's nice to meet you." 

She stared at him for a moment, and he realized she was actually glaring at him. She did take his hand, and he could feel a strength in her grip that didn't match her frame at all. "It is good to meet you, too. I'm so excited to meet the man who seems to have... captured... Darkness's attention. I hope you have honourable intentions with my friend." She said, the last part sounding more like an order than a question.

He activated Scouter, wondering just what in the hell she was thinking, but was rebuffed with a bright light.

Bright light? That happened with Aqua... wait a sec! Purple eyes!

"Of course." He said, then leaned in next to her and whispered. "Eris? What are you doing here?"

She stopped squeezing his hand, completely locking up for a moment, a shocked expression on her face. She recovered quickly, then whispered back. "We will talk later. Please, don't say anything."

"What are you two whispering about?" Darkness asked, cocking her head to the side with a curious expression on her face.

"I was... just offering to... try and umm... heal her scar." He replied, floundering to find an excuse for why they were whispering to each other.   

"I'll take you up on that... later though, when we are in private." Eris/Chris said, latching on to his hasty excuse.

I'll just call her Chris for now, else I'm liable to slip up and call her Eris by accident.

"If you say so." Darkness said, seemingly accepting their story. 

"So, Chris. What class are you?" He asked, trying to move away from the rude question he had just asked her. Rude, if he didn't already know she was a goddess with perfect skin anyway. 

"I'm a Thief!" She said, stepping back from him and pointing to herself, seemingly happy now. 

"A Thief?" He replied, very confused. "How does that work?"

Why in the world would one of this world's goddesses be a criminal of all things? And she looked so sweet and innocent in her nun outfit when we first met. 

"It's a very versatile class that depends on the user's luck for many of its abilities. I can bind enemies and disable their skills. I can also make and disable traps, detect enemies, and pick locks. Not to mention its core ability, Steal. I can steal things off my target without being beside them, even if they are holding it in their hands. It's great for disarming an opponent, though you don't always get their weapons when you use it. Do you want to learn it? It will only cost you a bottle of bubbly," She said, becoming oddly playful at the end.

"Maybe, but not right now. I'm still... considering my options for advanced classes and the skills they have. Still, that all sounds pretty amazing." He replied. He had a decent amount of luck, but he didn't want to rely on that for anything he chose to burn his points on. Though binding people and disabling their skills... that sounded extremely useful.

I wonder if it could disable a Quirk? It would damn well make me unstoppable in MHA if it could. I'm sure there are limits on it, but it would be worth considering. 

"Well, just let me know. I'd be happy to teach you a lesson or two." She replied, the smile on her face slipping, the intense stare returning.

Am I missing something here? What did I do to deserve her ire? Wait, what did Darkness tell her about last night? 

He cringed slightly at the thought. He hadn't found a private moment to discuss with Darkness about the fact that they didn't actually have sex and that she was indeed still a virgin. If she told her one friend, one that happened to be one of the actual goddesses of this world, about the incident in her own way, this might become an even more awkward conversation.

"Who are we waiting for? It's a three-day walk there, so we should get going soon." Darkness said, looking down the road, then back at him.

"I gave Aqua an hour to get herself sorted out at the guild with her adventurer's card and get over here. If she is late, we are leaving without her."

"Aqua? That is the blue-haired woman you sleep with, correct? Shouldn't you be there for her when she gets her card and becomes an adventurer? It's an important moment in her life and is usually celebrated. Hah, is, hah, this some sort of neglect play you are forcing on her? Treating her, hah, like some insignificant-" She said, starting to hyperventilate already. He interrupted her by grasping her shoulders.

"Easy, girl. Deep breaths." He said, looking into those beautiful azure blue eyes. He activated his somewhat neglected Sage Quirk, forcing her attention completely onto him. "In and out. Slowly... that's right. Focus on what I am saying. First, we only sleep in the same hayloft; don't make it seem like it is anything more than that. And I am terrified to even know what neglect play is.

I'm treating her this way because of how she treated me the first day we were in the city. The only reason I invited her to even come along was that she begged me. As for getting her card, it's not that important, is it? I just walked in and got it with little fanfare. It's just a job." He remembered back to The Great Cleric. People joined the guild all the time; it wasn't really celebrated at all.  

Apparently, what he said struck a nerve with Darkness, breaking her out of the slight trance his Quirk made. She grabbed his shoulders and pulled him down to her level, the pair of them now looking like they were grappling. Or about to kiss. "It's not just a job! It's powers, a boon given to us by the divine edicts of the Goddess Eris and Aqua, to aid us in our battle against the Devil King, his minions, and the monsters tainted by his filth. To consider such a boon to be just a job is heresy, and I won't have one of my party members speak so casually about the gift from our goddesses!"

John just blinked at her, the intensity in her gaze now of a completely different sort than when she was being masochistic. Even Chris, one of the goddesses in question, looked surprised at how intense Darkness became there.

"Darkness, I didn't say the powers weren't important. In fact, if I could ask the goddesses a question, I would like to know how they even set up these powers for the people. It is a rather fascinating thing when you think about it. People without powers are being given the means to gain magics, skills, and the ability to level up. I just didn't know you put such meaning into receiving your cards. Now, as cute as you are, can you back off just a bit? I don't want to give Chris the wrong idea here."

She looked at him, their faces practically touching, her cheeks flushing immediately at being called cute. "I... I did it again. I'm sorry. Being an adventurer means a lot to me, and we receive these abilities from the guild through the Church's of Eris and Axis and our goddesses. The Church is how I even met Chris, and I am thankful every day for that. Do you believe in the goddesses, John?"

"Yeah... I do, though I can't say I worship them as others do. I have a... slightly different connection to the divine."

"You should join me at church sometime. It is only right, since you took my first time this morning. Oh, or if you don't want to, hah, I would have to say that I've been taken by a heathen, hah, hah, that would be even more embarrassing than just being with a two-timing philanderer! HAH!" She said, leaning on him even more.

"Darkness! Relax. Deep breaths. You were doing so well." He said, trying to reassert control over her racing mind. "And stop saying that I-"

"I MADE IT! Hah! Wait... what are you doing to that woman in the middle of the street, John! Did you use your perverted healing magic on her as you did to me? Because it certainly looks like you did!" Aqua shouted as she arrived at the gate in a rush, seeing him holding a panting Darkness in his arms. 

"No. She is-" He tried to say, but was interrupted. 

"You used that magic on her, too? HAH, so you are sleeping with her! You're a philanderer, a two-timer and a liar? Hah, hah, hah, hah, I can't. It feels too good. Ahhhh!" Darkness said, collapsing into his arms. 

"What? Aqua, Darkness, it's not like that!"

"Then what is it like, John. Because from where I'm standing, you're just walking around and doing perverted things to young women." Aqua said, grabbing onto his arm and tried to shake him.

"ENOUGH! You're making a public display of this misunderstanding. Is that what you both want? We have quite the audience watching us. So stop it with these accusations, or by the gods I swear I'll hit you both with the magic right now, so we can have some truth to this spectacle you're both making!" He roared, trying to extract himself from the limbs of the flailing limbs of the hyperventilating Crusader while defending himself from Aqua's assault. He could hear murmurs from the crowd calling him a dirtbag and other things for what he supposedly did.

Is this what I get from trying to follow some of this story's canon? Just what in the hell is this crazy world?

"Is that why you offered to heal my scar, too? So you could do perverted magic on my body?" Chris said with a mischievous grin on her face. 

John had had enough. He activated his armour and cycled his mana and Ki and lifted Darkness and Aqua over his shoulders. "Argh! I swear, I'm going to spank both of your asses if you keep this up. Now, Chris, grab those bags and follow me, or else I'll add your ass to the list that needs spanking. Try and keep up." He switched to wind magic and darted out of the gate at high velocity. 

"Put me down, you brute! I'm a goddess, not a sack of potatoes!"

"Hah! It's happening! Hah, I'm finally being kidnapped by, hah, a heathen who is going to, hah, hah, to take advantage of me! AHHH!!!

Chris was trying very hard not to fall over and start laughing. The Goddess of Fortune was going to chastise John for 'taking advantage' of Darkness, but this was entirely too amusing to stop from happening. She grabbed the sacks that were on the ground and made her way after the trio, who were well on their way to the horizon, their screams still heard in the distance.

"He isn't actually going to spank them, is he? Do I need to send guards after them?" The gate guard asked her before she passed beyond the gate. 

"No. And even if he does, I have a feeling they will both like it... in their own way. He is actually a really nice guy. Make sure you pass that around to the locals. I'd hate for this misunderstanding to spread too far." She replied, leaving before he could say anything else.

The guard just scratched his head at her retreating form, wondering what in the world just happened. "Heh, women."