A Wizards Misadventures

~~Level Nine~~

"Do you want to?" I didn't mind either way, though Ophis' body looked a bit immature. I knew it might cause problems later but in my current state I dismissed it as a 'later' problem. Things got complicated when a god looked like a cute twelve year old. Maybe she'd change it later. I knew she would if I asked, but I wanted it to be her decision for some reason.

"I don't know," she said simply. "I've never loved anything but the void before."

"Hmm…" I thought. It made more sense to me now why she loved me, if she really did. She had no reason to lie, of course, but love was a weird and difficult subject. "Do you want to have kids with me?"

"Yes," Kuroka said immediately with a smile. We both ignored her.

"That sounds… nice," Ophis said, tilting her head a little, her eyes staring into space. She looked down into her cereal. "Can we have kids?"

"… Yeah," I said quietly. I had just about come to terms with the fact that I was a very lonely person. I needed more people in my life to anchor me. It was a selfish reason to have kids but a good one, I thought.

"And sex makes kids?" she asked, her eyes not ashamed at all. Not that Kuroka or myself were ashamed either. The mood didn't really allow it.

"Physically it does. If it's you and me, our souls make a kid. You don't truly have a body, do you?"

"I have a physical presence. My soul is too… big to not have one," she said. I shrugged.

"That's probably good enough. We can try out sex and see if that works. If it doesn't we'll find another way. I'm still going to travel, though. I'm just going to always come home at the end of the day. There's still so much for me to do." Ophis smiled in a small, pleasant way and changed seats to sit beside me rather than across from me to rest her head on me. I leaned down and lightly kissed her. She reciprocated amateurishly but was smiling a little brighter at the end of it.

It felt right again, seeing her smile. Off to the side Kuroka watched us fondly. I had no clue what was going on in her head but I had a good feeling in my chest that things would work out.

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"So… do you want kids… now?" Kuroka asked a little hopefully. She was laying down on perhaps the greatest couch in the world while I had Ophis on my lap, one of my hands resting on her head, and was reading some of my old research notes. I paused and then nodded.

"Just a few to start. At this point it would feel like procrastination to say no. And I repeat, I'm not going to stay in this dimension. I'll be doing pretty much what I'm doing now but I'll be home often to take care of any kids we have." She smiled kindly.

"Yeah… and you're up for the harem?"

"I prefer the term polyamorous relationship but essentially yes," I said. I scratched Ophis' head a little. She sighed in bliss and reclined on me. "I don't know what I'm going to do about Esdeath. I guess I'll just tell her the truth and see how things go."

"What about Claire?" she asked.

"I… I think I was using the zombie world to avoid something. It didn't really solve my boredom. It just distracted me. I don't think I want to go back there. Time doesn't pass in that dimension anyways. I might revisit it eventually, but it only has bad memories for me now."