Chapter 32: How to butcher.[R18] (bonus Chapter)
Then as they relaxed after killing all 5 wolves, applause sounded.
Lucien’s sword snapped up instantly as Aurelia stepped forward beside him and Evelisse’s domain flared active again while Seraphina already had a fresh potion ready.
Three figures approached from the treeline, hands raised.
"Easy," one called. "We’re Guild members."
Guild IDs flashed making Lucien lowered his sword a little, still wary of them.
"Dungeon’s been suppressed," the lead adventurer explained. "Vice Guild Master personally handled the mini-bosses and the one that escaped. Rest of us are mopping up strays."
He gestured toward the corpses scattered across the garden. "You guys did this?"
"We did," Lucien said.
"What rank are you?"
"D."
Silence settled over them.
"D?"
The three exchanged looks, with one of them laughing, low and disbelieving.
"You’ve got guts, fighting 4 high CRank and 1 Peak C-Rank as a D-Rank only." he said.
"N not only guts," another corrected, studying the clean kill marks on the wolves. "He’s got skill and a good teacher."
"Got lucky with the teacher." He said scratching his cheek.
Aurelia quietly folded her arms with the tiniest smile tugged at the corner of her lips.
’If only they knew my sword instructor is standing three steps behind me and also happens to be my wife,’ Lucien thought.
’I’d never hear the end of it.’
They lingered only a moment longer. "Don’t forget to harvest the corpses," the leader added, already turning to leave.
Lucien blinked. "...They don’t disappear?"
"Only dissolve inside actual dungeons," the man called back over his shoulder. "Out here, they’re just meat and parts. Good luck!"
They vanished back into the trees, still hunting stragglers.
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The tension finally drained out of the garden, replaced by something considerably more awkward.
Lucien stared down at the wolf corpses. Then at their claws, then their teeth.
Then at Aurelia.
"How do we harvest them?"
She sighed. "You’ve never harvested a monster before?"
"I’ve watched videos before, and only done it in games." Lucien said.
"?"
"Nothing, different topic." He cleared his throat quickly. "So, harvesting."
Aurelia pinched the bridge of her nose, then walked them through it with brisk efficiency where the valuable pelts came from, how to extract claws without damaging them, which internal organs actually held value.
Evelisse poked one wolf experimentally with her boot. "So, we skin it first?"
Seraphina had gone slightly pale. "I think I’d rather stick to identifying herbs."
"Adding ’monster harvesting’ to my list of things to actually learn properly," Lucien muttered, elbow-deep in the wolf he had definitely not budgeted time for today.
They buried what remained once the harvest was done, packing the useful parts away carefully.
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By the time they finished, Lucien was fully soaked and covered in blood.
Evelisse wrinkled her nose. "...You smell."
He sniffed his own shoulder. "...Fair, but you do too."
They headed inside towards the main bathroom, and Lucien’s eyes landed on the newly renovated master bathroom, a genuinely massive magical bathtub and shower, easily large enough for five or six people, steam already curling faintly from the enchanted heating array.
An idea bloomed, entirely too pleased with itself.
"You know, what if we all bath together?" he said, turning toward the girls with his most innocent expression, "we could all save time, plus save water, very responsible."
Aurelia’s mouth curved knowingly, she walked past him toward the bathroom without hesitation.
"Is that really your reason?" she asked.
"I am an environmentally conscious husband."
"Mm." She paused beside him, leaning close enough to murmur in his ear, "I don’t believe you, but I’m tired, so I’ll accept that for now."
"You know you could just ask for a night time battle instead, husband." She whispered a beat later tickling his ear.
Seraphina turned bright red. "I— I suppose it would save time," she said quickly, mind clearly wandering somewhere warmer.
Evelisse crossed her arms. "I’m only agreeing because I want to sleep sooner."
Then her gaze drifted, entirely against her will, toward the torn fabric of Lucien’s shirt, still hanging loose around his chest that had definitely not needed any more improving.
She froze.
Lucien caught it instantly. "...See something you like?"
"N-No!"
Seraphina pointed, unable to resist. "...Evelisse. You’re staring."
"I wasn’t!"
"You were drooling a little."
"I WAS NOT."
Lucien laughed, herding all three toward the bathroom, warmth spreading through his chest that had nothing to do with the steam.
"This," he said, "is going to be a very long and interesting marriage." All of them heading in.
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The bathroom door closed behind them as they entered the attached changing room, steam already thick in the air from the hot water.
Evelisse wrinkled her nose immediately. "I’m never fighting those smelly wolves again, literally we reek like actual dead wolf."
"That’s what the aftermath of most fights are like Evelisse." Aurelia told her as she removed her blood stained clothes revealing her defined abs, thick thighs that pressed together and her breasts with a faint scar above her left tit.
As she took of all her clothes her marriage tattoo came in to view on heft inner thigh, a pair of vampire fangs framed by crossed war axes and a curling sword on either side, crimson flame licking along the edges, exactly like his but smaller.
"I have to agree with Evelisse on this one, we smell terrible, also cool tattoo Aurelia, check mine out." Serephina said backing Evelisse while removing her sweat soaked clothes that clung to her curves from the steam and showing her tattoo to everyone.
As they came off they revealed her large breasts and a rounded yet big ass, and on her right thigh was the marriage tattoo, a pair of delicate succubus wings, rose vines twisting around a heart shaped from droplets of blood, a small tail curling beneath it all, exactly like Lucie s but smaller in size.
"See, Serephina gets me, but why is mine the only one in this place?" Evelisse said to Aurelia, with her clothes sliding off, revealing her naked body underneath as she pointed to where her tattoo was located.
With her clothes gone her own tattoo was revealed just below her navel and above her pussy, a pair of black feathered fallen angel wings spread wide, a dark halo hovering above vampire fangs, faint golden stars scattered through the ink like a night sky, matching Lucien’s but smaller in size.
"The smells no problem, I’m pretty sure the enchanted water can take care of it plus it will come of with some scrubbing." Lucien said with his clothes already gone, gesturing at the massive tub.
The girls stared at his tattoos spanning his entire back, one for each of them, as he looked at each of their tattoos signifying that they were partners for life.
All four of them headed to the massive shower first, washing and rinsing off the excess blood and dirt.
Lucien took in the view of his beautiful wives as he helped them wash their bodies, mainly their backs.
While helping Serephina wash, he teased her by brushing past her sensitive nipples making them go hard, causing her to moan a little.
Then he moved to Evelisse and helped her wash her back, before moving to help Aurelia.
His little brother started rising ready to work as helped Aurelia wash her back, while staring at her thick thighs, his cock pressed hard against her ass catching her attention.
Feeling the hard thing poking her back, she pressed and rubbed it some more using her ass, then let it go between her thighs as she cleaned it by rubbing it between them, while smiling at him making him get even harder.
He exited the showers to cool off and slowly sunk into the steaming hot tub, the water lapping at his tired muscles while his little brother still stood at attention beneath the surface completely out of his control refusing to go down.
"The tub has self-heating and self-cleaning runes etched into it, it even drains and refills itself, made sure to include all that when renovating this place." He said to girls who were still in the shower.
"This bathtub is absurdly large," Seraphina said exiting the shower, and hovering near the edge of the tub.
"Yep, I made sure to pick a large one, but even then this wasn’t the biggest tub they had." Lucien said.
Aurelia lowered herself into the tub while raising an eyebrow. "This is larger than some bedrooms and they had even bigger ones?"
"What would they even do with ones bigger than this, host a party in their bathroom?" Evelisse asked while joking her eyes roaming over Lucien’s defined abs and muscles before catching what was beneath the water.
"It’s perfect a fit," Lucien said, "because it fits all four of us."
They all settled in eventually, the enchanted bubbling water immediately soothing tired muscles and rinsing away the last traces of blood and dirt from the fight, warm without being scalding.
Aurelia leaned back against the tub’s edge, eyes closing, scarlet hair wet and sticking to her neck.
The tension she usually carried in her shoulders the constant, low-grade readiness for a fight finally seemed to ease.
"I haven’t had a bath this relaxing in years," she admitted quietly.
Lucien understood exactly why.
’Years of pain and stress, first from the injury, then from surviving her own clan.’ He thought recalling her story.
’Wait a minute, didn’t I get that massage manual as a reward, can’t believe I actually forgot about it.’ He thought while taking in her curves.
Lucien’s gaze drifted, his blood-red eyes tracing the curve of Aurelia’s athletic body beneath the shimmering water.
He didn’t even try to hide it, his eyes lingering on her thick thighs and the peak of her breasts as his little brother rose even more as if trying to break put the water and showcase itself.
Aurelia opened one eye, catching his stare and arched a brow completely unbothered, entirely comfortable in her own skin in a way that made looking away feel almost rude.
She drifted closer without particular urgency, settling against his side, her presence warm and solid as a predatory smile played on her lips.
She pressed her chest firmly against his arm, rubbing her erect hard nipples against his skin.
"Like what you see, husband?" she whispered, her voice a low challenge as she held her breasts to his face and stared beneath the water at his erect shaft.
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