Anticipation

[October 28th DxD/June 21st DBT]

Though it was somewhat embarrassing to admit, Vahn found himself looking forward to the get-together arranged by Sairaorg that evening, compelling him to spend much of the day at standard time. His average days were fourteen long, but that particular day, he was only on four by 5 PM, where he normally met up with Erza and, more recently, several other girls from Fairy Tail, including Lucy, Cana, Levy, Laki, Lisanna, two nearly identical Mirajane, Wendy, and the latter's anthropomorphic cat, Carla, all wearing bikinis or one-pieces as they hung out in a popular, pool-like cafe operated by several Mermaids.

"I can't believe that Erza is planning to have a kid...it's like finding out the sky has been purple this entire time..." remarked Cana, holding an ornate, silvery beer stein, gifted to her by Vahn and having the unique property of being able to produce 100L of high-quality spiced ale per day.

"Don't speak about me as if I'm an object..." responded Erza, furrowing her brows slightly before contending, "Besides, Vahn is a kind and dutiful man. He will make a superb father, and with the resources of the Dragon's Pavilion, our children will have the freedom and opportunity to choose any path they desire."

"I bet it helps that he's super hot and packing~" teased Cana, having seen and experienced Vahn naked several times. They had yet to have sex, but she had felt him up and playfully stroked him a few times when they shared drinks in the ninth-floor onsen. Were it not for his refusal to sleep with drunk or even tipsy women, they would have crossed the line weeks ago.

"Indeed," confirmed Erza, utterly without shame as she stated, "I didn't think such things mattered before, but I have since come around. Vahn is an—"

[Keep in mind our present company...] said Vahn telepathically, referring to Wendy, who might be more than 400 years old chronologically but had the physique and mental development of a twelve-year-old.

"Anyways, I am greatly looking forward to motherhood..." stated Erza, closing her eyes with slightly flushed cheeks as she was exceptionally weak to being corrected or chided.

"Haaa...if only Natsu didn't have a stone where his brain was supposed to be located..." sighed Lisanna, a petite but shapely girl with short white hair and watery blue eyes, leaning forward with her head resting on the palms of her hands, emphasizing her fairly prominent bust, thinly veiled in a pale purple bikini.

"You just need to be more direct, like Juvia," remarked the Mirajane from Earthland, an extraordinarily beautiful woman with long white hair, tied-up bangs, gentle blue eyes, and a very voluptuous figure on full display in a stylish blue bikini with a crisscrossing top that accentuated her large and shapely breasts.

"If you and Lucy join forces and combine your efforts, he would be like putty in your hands," appended the Mirajane from Edolas, nearly identical to her counterpart but wearing a comparably modest purple, pink-frilled one-piece with a sheer fabric on the stomach and back that exposed her belly button and the line of her spine.

"Wait—why has my name suddenly come out!?" exclaimed Lucy, her face flushing as she was well aware that Natsu seemed to have a crush on her, but since he didn't appear to realize it himself, she never acknowledged or spoke to him about it.

"It's not impossible...but I haven't given up on monopolizing him just yet..." remarked Lisanna, sporting a half-lidded expression that caused Lucy to sweat profusely with a cramped smile.

"Should we be talking about these kinds of things with Vahn present? I doubt he wants to hear us discussing boy troubles..." remarked Levy, a charming, lithe, and petite girl with shoulder-length blue hair, dark brown eyes, fringe bangs that framed her face, and brow-length bangs combed back and kept in place with a bright yellow, crisscross-pattern ribbon and a pink, five-petal flower hairpin. As for her swimsuit, she was modeling a rather daring white, flower-pattern bikini that contrasted her image as an outgoing but bookish girl.

"I don't mind in the slightest," responded Vahn, shaking his head before adopting a relaxed smile that caused Levy to flush nearly to her ears as he affirmed, "I consider myself extraordinarily fortunate just to be in the presence of so many cute and beautiful girls, yourself included."

"There he goes, casually flirting with just about anything with a pair of legs..." remarked the anthropomorphic cat, Carla, crossing her arms and exhaling disapprovingly from her nose in her blue-and-white-striped one-piece. She felt grateful toward Vahn for looking after Wendy, helping her grow stronger, and allowing her to make many new friends, but she didn't approve of his harem-forming ways or the fact he was all Wendy seemed to talk about...

"If yours were a little longer, I might flirt with you as well~" teased Vahn, punctuating his words with a wink that caused Carla to shudder from her feet to the tip of her tail before slapping the table and exclaiming, "Why, I would never...!" like a haughty noblewoman.

"There, there...he was just teasing you..." said Wendy, pulling Carla onto her lap and hugging her in her green, white-trimmed, white-and-green-frilled two-piece swimsuit, leaving her belly, shoulders, and lower back exposed. She used to wear one-pieces, but she eventually switched to two-pieces, believing it would make her appear more mature. However, as her bottoms were adorned with a multi-layered, green, tutu-like skirt, she looked considerably more cute than mature.

Bringing the conversation back to the original topic, Cana remarked, "On a marginally more sober note, Fairy Tail will be significantly weakened with Erza out of the picture with a bun in the oven. With everything going on these past few months, now might not be the most opportune time for her to be out of commission."

"I have considered that," affirmed Erza, offering a curt nod before adding, "Fortunately, Vahn has the power to compress and accelerate the flow of time as much as two thousand five hundred times. The plan is to wait for at least nine to ten months before setting aside a day to carry our child to term within an enclosed space."

"Two thousand five hundred times...?" parroted Lucy, eyes wide as she asked, "Wouldn't that be like...seven years if you spent a full day inside the space you're referring to?"

"Such is the power of the Dragon God of Intertwining Fates," affirmed Erza, glancing at Vahn with a slightly narrow-eyed smile as she said, "I have great expectations for mine and Vahn's children..."

"Mmn...in terms of pure genetics and the capacity to provide financial support, I doubt you can find a better contributor..." noted Cana, briefly narrowing her dark-purple eyes before bringing her silvery stein glass to her lips and taking several large gulps.

"When you put it that way...maybe I should give up on Natsu and hop on the Vahndwagon with Erza...?" proposed Lisanna, mostly joking but partly serious as she appended, "Natsu is fun to be around, but he would likely view our kids more like younger siblings, and I'm not sure how reliable he would be as a provider. Not to mention that well-paying missions can take weeks or months to complete..."

Though he shook his head slightly, suggesting the words coming out of his mouth weren't completely genuine, Vahn calmly asserted, "There are few things more important to fight for than love. You should do what you can to reach Natsu. And don't forget. Even if he leaves on a mission, you can meet here whenever you please. Your children will also be welcome here, so while I would consider myself lucky to have such a beautiful girl at my side, I would likewise be satisfied with seeing you and Natsu obtain the happiness you and everyone deserve."

"He really does have a way with words, doesn't he~?" asked Earthland Mirajane, directing the question and a smile to her counterpart, Mirajane Edolas. In appreciation for his reuniting and enabling them both to spend time with Lisanna, they had previously had a threesome with him, but only on one occasion. Since then, however, they had floated the idea of having many more between them, courtesy of Vahn's S-Rank Bedroom Arts...

"Indeed, he does..." affirmed Mirajane Edolas, briefly narrowing her eyes and meeting Vahn's gaze with a faint smile. At the same time, Lisanna, the target of Vahn's words, couldn't help comparing Natsu to him, causing her to close her eyes and exhale a faint, exasperated sigh as the only thing the latter had going for him was that his simplemindedness allowed her to boss him around and, to an extent, control him when they were growing up together. Now, he was like a wild animal, and she wasn't sure she had the patience to retrain him...

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After enjoying his time with the girls of Fairy Tail, including a brief tryst where he got to experience Erza's incredibly skilled and Levy's earnest but inexperienced blowjob, Vahn made his way to the venue reserved by Sairaorg a little more than half an hour early. There, he found well over a dozen nearly indistinguishable girls with medium-length, chestnut-brown hair, matching eyes, and relatively conservative, knee-length Maid outfits hard at work getting things set up.

"Ah, our Perverted Master and Benefactor has arrived observed Misaka, her heart quivering within her chest as she prepared her head for her Master's lascivious caress," said one of the girls, prompting many others to gravitate toward Vahn, each speaking in third-person and verbalizing their observations.

"How has everyone been? No one has been harassing you, have they...?" asked Vahn, using both hands to very briefly caress each of the Misaka's heads, prompting them to narrow their eyes contentedly during his caress before briefly puffing out their cheeks when it ended. It was admittedly a little uncanny, as each had a nearly identical reaction, but that was to be expected as most of their minds were linked through what was referred to as the Misaka Network.

"Outside of invasive questions and lascivious looks, everyone has treated us kindly and with consideration answered Misaka, hoping that her quick and timely response would afford her a lengthier caress," responded one of the closer Misaka, specifically Misaka 10,092, prompting Vahn to smile wryly before complying with her request. In total, more than ten thousand of the nearly identical girls had come into the Dragon's Pavilion's care as a result of Misaka Prime's request, and since they insisted on assisting their big sister with repaying her debt, they made up a considerable majority of the first through sixth floor's staff and personnel. More worryingly, nearly every member of the networked group had developed a shared crush and prayed to him—for lack of a better expression—religiously...

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After extricating himself from the group of nearly identical girls, known as Sisters, misbegotten, routinely abused, and experimented upon clones of the original Misaka Mikoto, Vahn sat in his designated seat and waited for the rest of the banquet's attendees to appear. Fortunately, he didn't have to wait long and was pleasantly surprised to see Issei appear, sporting an ingratiating smile and rubbing his hands together as he was accompanied by a pint-sized, imp-like man with spiky black hair, sharp red eyes, slightly pointed ears, prominent blush marks on his cheeks, trap-jaw teeth, and a whip-like tail tipped with a silvery, trident-like blade. His attire consisted of a black, white-fur-lined cloak, and the aura emanating from him, even while suppressed, was immense.

Recognizing the pint-sized man as Gid Lucione Deviluke, the Emperor of the Milky Way Galaxy in the verse of To Luv Ru, Vahn couldn't help feeling a sense of foreboding, causing his pleasantly surprised expression to turn into a frown as his suspicions were promptly confirmed.

"Oh!? What's this!? As expected of my son-in-law! You've prepared your father a feast, not just for the belly, but the eyes and soul...!" exclaimed Gid, beaming excitedly as he moved around like a blur, flipping the skirts of every Sister present to expose their notably different panties. Issei's eyes initially flashed at this, followed by him nearly giving his father-in-law a thumbs up, but when he noticed Vahn observing them with a very unamused expression, he promptly became statuesque, followed by his body breaking out in cold sweat...

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