Riches and Bitches: I have a gate to an isekai and leveling-up system! C.114: Revealing the system

"The thing with all the rewards I've got from those missions…" the very moment the topic moved on to the most important one, I hesitated.

Not for any of the reasons why my voice faltered before, though. This time, the issue was far more… simplistic?

"What is it?" Fay asked, her curiosity sparked by the mere mention of the system.

"I mean…" struggling to find the right words to put it, I glanced over at the mass of messages that still cluttered the corner of my vision ever since I completed those missions.

And it was all because I couldn't close even a single one of them, before making a choice described by just a single pop-up window. And up until this moment, I held back on doing so.

"Honestly, it's a mess," I finally found the right way to bite this topic. "Like, there's so much to talk about, I'm not exactly sure where to start."

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Fay's body, all tensed up in anticipation of what I was about to reveal… suddenly all relaxed, almost collapsing down on my lap as the curiosity in the girl's eyes only increased a the expense of her anxiety.

"Haaa…" she sighed out loud, momentarily at a loss for what to say. "Then, how about you just do it one by one?" Fay then suggested in a suddenly tired voice. "Starting from the very beginning, please."

I gave Fay's boobs one last squeeze before removing my hands from her chest and resting them on the edge of the massive bath.

'The water is starting to cool down,' I noticed, only to shake my head and focus my vision on the system windows. And the very moment an intent to do so appeared in my mind, my perception wavered, only to end up cluttered with the mess that I kept stowed away to the side up until now.

"Let's start with the current state of my system, then," I muttered, narrating the explanation to make understanding it easier. "Right now, I'm on a level five. I have maxed out my endurance with ten points in it, I have my aura at six points, my strength at around five, agility and intelligence at a bit above four points, and wisdom at just four points flat."

I took a deep breath… and revealed the biggest gripe I had with this damned system.

"What exactly those numbers translate to, I'm not really sure. But I can tell without a shred of doubt that whenever those attributes grew, my performance improved. And by quite a lot, too."

"Is this how you can keep going for so long while in bed?" Fay asked with a mischievous smile, only to squint her eyes as an intrusive thought invaded her mind. "Ugh, is this question even applicable with how we hardly did it while in bed in the first place?"

For a moment, I felt like giving Fay's side a nudge… But ultimately, I gave up on doing so.

We still had a lot to talk so it was better not to risk any excessive physical contact, given how it was already a challenge to keep my thoughts focused due to Fay grinding down with her but directly above my crotch!

"Beyond the attributes, I have beast and darkness affinity with one point. Then, there's your mother's blessing that mostly increased my attributes. And lastly, I have the "Eye of Time" and "Blood tribute" skills."

"And those are?"

Besides the usual curiosity, I didn't see Fay's body shift suspiciously or feel her aura change in any way. Most likely, she didn't have any idea what any of the things I brought up were or had any information that would help me figure them out.

"The first skill, for how fancy its name is, allows me to temporarily raise my intelligence. On the other hand, Blood tribute allows me to use up some of my blood to momentarily free myself from the shackles of time…" I explained in a slightly convoluted matter, allowing the poetic part of my soul to take over.

"Or, as I saw it, I can pretty much get wounded all over but put the time to a momentary stop and move far faster than I should be able to."

I breathed out.

"And that basically wraps up everything about my system… but from before I've finished my missions." My face suddenly tensed up as my eyes landed on the set of missions… that I was nowhere close to completing. "At least, some of them."

"Wait, is that why you were injured all over and lost so much blood back then?!" Fay suddenly jumped up and turned on the spot only to drop her hands down on my shoulders and stare right into my face, ignoring how the water and the leftover bubbles no longer hid her nakedness from my eye.

"Fay…" I raised my hands and grabbed Fay's, removing them from my shoulders and pulling her forward, forcing the girl to fall right into my embrace. "It was just a bit of blood and pain. But it allowed me to keep those bastards from putting a single scratch on you."

Freeing one of my hands, I reached out and caressed Fay's cheek… Only to see that the visible shock and anger in her eyes didn't vanish… but grew stronger instead. And along with them, tears started to well up in the corners of her eyes.

"Peter…" Fay's voice grew fainter and colder…

"Honey," I corrected the girl, quick to figure out the reason behind her anger.

If I was willing to go through hell and back to keep her from getting even a single scratch, then, given how much affection she showered me with…

'She must be feeling the same as I felt back then,' I realized, quickly lowering my head in apology.

"Fay, I'm sorry. I never intended to make you worry. I didn't exactly know what I was doing back then, with how desperate I was to stop them from doing you any harm." I raised my eyes and stared right into Fay's soul through her pristine, blue pupils. "And I promise not to use those abilities unless necessary, okay?"

Only with this the rage and pain in Fay's eyes started to go away, with the girl herself lowering herself back into the water only to straddle me and press herself into my chest. The warmth of her body instantly made my head spin, while the storm of her wet, white hair appeared to cover us like some sort of blanket.

"Well, I guess that was the easy part," I muttered, my attention once again drawn towards all the windows that continued to stubbornly refuse to disappear… And from the looks of things, the effects described on them wouldn't activate before I would properly dismiss those windows.

This was exactly the reason why I didn't do it so far, given the importance of the one window I had to deal with first.

"Now then, are you ready for the long, messy, complicated but also pretty promising part?" I asked, reaching out to move the wet hair out of Fay's forehead.

"Only if you are ready for the punishment I have in store for you," Fay grumpily replied, squeezing her feet behind my back and locking them, only to ride down on my lap and press her crotch as close to my long erect dick as she could.

"I've sinned, so it's a given," I replied, a small grin forming on my lips in response to just how fucking lovely she was. "But first…"