Chapter 88: New Confidence
The sun had nearly set by the time Grace finished with her sixth—or was it seventh?—village woman of the day. She’d lost count somewhere between the tavern keeper’s daughter with those adorable freckles and the widowed weaver who could do things with her hips that made Grace’s head spin.
Grace fixed her hair as she walked away from a small cottage at the edge of the village. Her System had pinged with two more techniques over the course of the afternoon:
「Technique Acquired: Tongue Twister - Ability to bring pleasure through precise oral manipulation」
「Technique Acquired: Sweet Spot Seeker - Ability to intuitively locate a partner’s most sensitive areas」
Not bad for a day’s work. Especially considering she’d spent most of her life as a virgin turnip farmer.
As she walked through the village, Grace noticed women giving her these little looks. Some smiled shyly. Others blushed. One baker even handed her a free sweet roll with a whispered "thank you" that made it very clear what she was thankful for.
[Is this what being an actual Love Sister feels like? I could get used to this.]
Then reality hit her like a cold splash of water—there were only three days left until the new moon. Three days until The Tide would turn another massive batch of townspeople into fish people. Three days for Grace to figure out how to stop it.
[Maybe I should look into that artifact Meridian mentioned.]
The Tide’s Tear. A perfect blue pearl that could supposedly calm the waters. It sounded fake as hell, but Grace figured there was no harm in trying.
Grace spread her wings and took to the sky, heading back to their camp in the forest. The flight gave her time to think—about The Tide, about her rapidly increasing Love attribute, about whether she was actually ready to seduce a primordial entity.