Another couple of days spend training. Gathering enough powers for the next spell is hard, harder than he thought it would be. It's been disappointing at the very least. Other than that he just did the average gardening stuff.
On this day, he would be spending time with Aya. He heads out in the afternoon, waving goodbye to Sanae and the rest to meet her.
There she stands outside the shrine, frantically waving at me. Aya has a very tomboyish look to her, a white blouse with a brown newsboys hat and short brown woolen trousers. "Good to see you again!" No sign of sadness is on her face anymore.
"Me too it's really refreshing. What are we going to do?" I ask, her having told me about some sort of plans.
Aya reaches inside her bag, pulling out a bunch of newspapers. "This is what we'll do! I'll show you around some areas and we'll be distributing the Bunbunmaru!" She tells me in a cheery tone.
Hooray unpaid labour! Well Aya is nice to be around. "Let's do it then." I say in a not so enthusiastic tone.
She looks at me intensely for a couple of seconds. "You can't fly, or walk really fast yet right?" Weird question to ask, and I shake my head of course. "Alright just hug me then." Aya suggests, holding her arms open for me.
Alright calm down big man. This isn't anything special just me hugging a friend. The lack of female contact in my past life is catching up to me right now. At least I wasn't an incel. A deep breath in, and I approach the Tengu.
My arms wrap around her neck, as her's make their way around my waist. Just friend, just friends, just friends. Those words are repeated inside my head a hundred times. Mostly this is to prevent a boner. Aya presses me closer into her, and I feel something I'm extremely weak to... Aya's soft and big boobs are on my chest, and I'm sure to have to jerk off later in my room.
"Don't let go! I'm starting now." She instructs one last time, before heaving into the air. It wasn't anything too scary for me at first, but maybe any worries I would have had are swept away since I'm busy not getting hard in her embrace.
Once we're high up, she speeds up. I'm shaken to my core by the landscape passing by as if I was inside a jet. I expected the wind to cut me in half, but apart from a slight chill I'm fine. Aya takes me deep inside a forest, maybe the same one I woke up in. It already felt like months have passed since then.
I'm being let down once we're on ground again. All my lust has been left in the air. My legs can't hold me p and I fall to the ground. Heavy breathing is emitted from me. "Take your time to get up again." Aya giggles, not expecting such a strong reaction from me.
After a good minute, I'm finally able to get up from the grass. "I'm fine now I think." A bit of shifting around helps, my first flight. I wonder how I learn it, it isn't in my spellbook after all. Another thing to ask the cute mage in the manor.
"Good! It's time to deliver the newspapers around." She hands me a large stack of paper, although it isn't as much as Aya has to carry. Feels somewhat degrading to do less work than a woman... I nod however, my task is clear. "You'll know where to bring them on the top right, the address is printed on there. Good luck! We'll meet each other in the village centre~" Aya waves, as she takes the opposite route from me.
Great. All by myself now. The air is fresh at least, and the lake isn't far from here. Trees stand tall left, and right. The streets sure aren't that nice, but the Kappa are cute.
No big conversations were held between me and them. I laid the newspaper down in front of their clay huts, and moved on. The little Kappa people seemed an ingenious bunch. I already saw a lot of them at the frog.
I wish I had the time to talk to them, but I want to impress Aya more. So I start going from household to household. No one seemed annoyed or hostile throughout the day. A couple of the older Kappa's, well they all look small and youthful some just seemed more mature, were really nice and thanked me a lot as well. It's quite the confidence boost...
Aya already stands at our meeting spot, waving me to come over. It's nice to not have a stack of newspapers under my arms anymore. "Good to see you again~ Are we done for today?" She asks, quite silly since she could answer this question herself.
"Yes!" I respond, actually feeling like hanging out with Aya for a little. "Hows the business going?" With the new confidence I gained, I walk down the street to lead her around.
She smiles softly. "The work is paying off. We're- well, I am going steady at the moment. Things stabilized." She sighs with relief. "Are you having fun gardening?" Aya asks in return.
"It's alright... Oh look!" I point to a tiny Izakaya. From what I know, those are the best. "Lets go for drinks actually!" A look back at the bird confirms that she's fine with that. More than fine, she seems excited even.
We enter, Aya is in her natural habitat. Her fat ass sits on the chair right in front of the bar. "Two bottles of Sake please!" Aya says, putting a bunch of coins on the table to pay while she can.
Despite us being friends, I was utterly out of conversations topics. In a desperate attempt to skip the time before our alcohol is served, I blurt out the first thought coming to my mind. "So Aya... You are really good at drinking alcohol right?" That's at least what I remember.
"All I can advise you is to take things slower than me." The bird chuckles, although I didn't intend to do so either way. "Getting drunk is the best thing ever! Well but you should be more careful. Especially with your human liver." This time she has a more serious expression, making sure I understand her.
The bar gives us the bottle, and Aya instantly pays for it. Kind of unfortunate that we couldn't split it at the very least... Before I could even finish to think about money, the Tengu has already poured the Sake into our glasses. I take a sip of it. Not that bad, it kind of tastes like wine mixed with apple. Out of greed I take another sip. One fourth is already inside of me, when I look over at my friend, she almost emptied her glass of sake.
Time passed and Aya gulped one glass after another. She may have overdid herself, as the third bottle would soon arrive. I myself stopped at the third one, already feeling tipsy and not wanting to consume more than I really should.
"I'm fugging plastered..." She admits, before straight drinking from the bottle. "Yur sweet ya kno... I wanna tell you something! I'm hornyy~" I'm not responding. Not that I want to, but I don't know what to say. My cheeks are already getting red, why would she say that to me?
"Yur shoo sillyy." Aya laughs as she stares at my face. "Can I dell yu some thingies?"
"Go ahead." I confirm, not sure what she could hit me with.
"That dog... She's so hot..." Aya's voice is getting less slurry, despite her deep drunken state. "I really just want to break her tough act, get her to hump my leg while looking like a stupid mutt. Fuck this woman, she makes me feel things I shouldn't feel."
What a reveal... "So you're a lesbian?" I ask cautiously, still preparing what I could possibly tell Aya.
"Thinksho. This homostuffs isn't seen alot. Peeps say its a wasde of time sinse we can procreade asegguslly." The Tengu hicked up after the end of her sentence.
"You got a lot of weird rules over there..."
"I wanna fugg Momiji!" Aya then shouts, the bartender giving us a disapproving glance.
In order to calm her down, I find myself lying. "I got tons of experience with women!" Aya looks at me with her eyes wide, this is embarrassing. "If you need help with her, I'll provide it! So don't be sad, we'll be working on you dating her."
She then jumps on me, hugging me way too tight. Her rather large chest is pressing on me. "Thanyu somuchhh."
"It's alright Aya. Please I want to drink." The Tengu lets go of me with a bright smile on her face. I feel better myself.
The rest of the night goes by less horny. There's a new objective for me however. Interesting that Aya would be so into another woman, not that I judge! Would be fun to watch them do it... Though this is my gooner brain going crazy.
Coming home was absolutely awful, especially with how drunk Aya is. Great effort is needed to keep her awake, but we end up getting me home. To the shrine. Aya sleeping in the living room for tonight. Sanae poked fun at me on top of that, with her usual fake jealousy.