The Acolyte of Spirits and Curses

Orpheus shifted upward in the water and wrapped her arms fully around Klein, pulling herself against his body without any space left between them.

Her wet skin pressed to his skin as she hugged him tightly.

She nuzzled into him as the tip of her nose brushed along the side of his neck before she rested her cheek against him for a moment, simply holding on.

After a few seconds she lifted her head and began pressing soft, sweet kisses against his lips.

Between those kisses, Klein spoke quietly "...Has Elfaria come to visit you?"

Orpheus shook her head slightly and sucked on his lower lip "No,"

She tilted her head and kissed the corner of his eye, then the eyelid itself when he half-closed it.

She smiled faintly against his skin before moving higher and pressing a kiss to his forehead.

"You’re being thorough," Klein murmured.

Orpheus answered by kissing the spot just beneath his eye, "I haven’t seen my husband all day," she replied softly. "Let me have this."

She hugged him even tighter for a moment, pressing her breasts firmly against his chest.

Klein closed his eyes and held her as the earlier tension of the day began to fade under the simple warmth of his wife’s embrace.

After a while his gaze drifted downward.

From this close, with her chest pressed against him and then slightly separated as she shifted, he could clearly see the shape of her breasts.

Looking at her inverted nipples, a smile appeared on his lips "...Still hidden,"

Orpheus made a questioning sound against his cheek, confused by his words.

"Irakiel?"

Klein’s hand slid up from her waist beneath the water, moving slowly until his palm cupped the soft weight of one breast.

His thumb brushed deliberately across the inverted nipple, circling the sensitive areola "They’re still tucked away."

"Hngh~"

He adjusted his hold, squeezing her breast gently while his thumb pressed more firmly against the inverted tip, rubbing in small motions, trying to coax it outward.

The soft flesh of her breast molded under his hand, and with each pass of his thumb the sensitive center twitched and began to respond.

Orpheus’s fingers tightened against his shoulders and a faint flush spread across her cheeks as she realized what he was doing.

"...You’re doing that on purpose."

"Of course."

Little by little, they began to respond.

The soft recesses tightened, then slowly started to push outward under his persistent teasing.

Orpheus bit lightly at her lower lip as her nipples gradually stiffened and emerged from their inverted state beneath his thumbs.

"There we go..." Klein gave both newly risen nipples a slow roll between his thumbs and forefingers, pulling them gently outward now that they had finally come free.

"That’s better."

Orpheus let out a soft breath and rested her forehead against his shoulder "Husband..."

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Klein was sitting cross-legged on the bed, and a soft current of energy moved through the room as he cultivated, drawing in the dense mana of the Spirit Realm and refining it through his core.

Orpheus sat beside him on the edge of the mattress, one leg folded beneath her, watching him in silence.

’...He went straight to cultivating.’

’Did he... take it seriously?’

Her fingers curled lightly into the sheet.

She only said it out of embarrassment earlier... ’if you keep making fun of me, no sex for you today’

Yet after they left the lake, he simply dried off, sat down on the bed, and began cultivating as if nothing else needed to be done.

Orpheus’s gaze drifted over his face and the more she thought about it, the more her thoughts began to spiral.

’Did he think I was truly angry?’

’He was laughing and kissing me one moment, and now he’s completely focused on cultivation...’

She shifted slightly on the bed, and her worry deepened.

’Is he mad...?’

She pressed her lips together ’Maybe he decided it was better to train than deal with me after I threatened him.’

’Maybe he thought I was being unreasonable and I ruined the mood completely...’

’...He didn’t even try again.’

’Was I too harsh?’

She bit lightly on her lower lip, and her eyes lowered for a brief moment as doubt crept in ’Maybe I should have said it differently...’

She glanced at his hands, resting loosely on his knees as mana continued to flow around him.

Orpheus began to pick at the edge of the sheet without realizing it, and the longer he cultivated it without acknowledging her, the more certain her overthinking became that he was now keeping distance because of her harsh words.

She opened her mouth once, then closed it again, unsure whether speaking would make things better or worse.

After a long while, the flow of mana around Klein gradually settled.

His breathing slowed, and a moment later his eyes opened.

The first thing he saw was Orpheus.

She was still sitting beside him on the bed with a thoughtful look on her face.

Klein turned slightly toward her. He raised his hand and brushed his fingers along her cheek in a slow, gentle caress.

"...What happened?"

Orpheus blinked, pulled out of her thoughts. She looked at him for a brief second and immediately shook her head.

"Nothing."

Klein frowned slightly, looking at her sudden reply ’What happened? Her reaction is strange... Did I do something that upset her?’

He leaned in and pressed a soft kiss against her lips, "I expected you to cling to me while I was cultivating. You usually do. But this time you just sat there and didn’t do anything."

"Is something bothering you?"

For a moment Orpheus thought of just saying no and moving away from the subject.

But then her expression softened with quiet defeat ’No... He is my... Husband. Even if it’s embarrassing... it feels weird to hide things from him.’

She shifted closer on the bed and wrapped her arms around him, pressing herself against his chest.

"...I was overthinking," she muttered into his shoulder.

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