My Eldritch Horror Wife Followed Me To Another World
Chapter 126: Priorities In Order

Chapter 126: Priorities In Order

Yooa became the bearer of bad news as he returned to his tribe. Their past sins were haunting them even now. Their sins weren’t that far in the past, though, so it wasn’t strange.

Nick looked at the slumped shoulders of the young man as Yooa left. He pitied the young man who probably had no power over his tribe’s actions but still had to suffer for them. But Nick wasn’t going to unnecessarily meddle in a conflict he didn’t understand.

He turned to Eo, who had joined him on the porch now that Yooa had left.

"Now that you’re in human form, can you leave the house?" He asked, setting Yooa’s troubles aside and focusing on the important matters.

Eo leaned against the doorframe with crossed arms. She nodded once.

"I can, technically. But the reason I couldn’t do so before wasn’t because I couldn’t reach. It’s because I had to make the house a part of me to take it along and to make it work with power crystals."

"What...?" Nick tilted his head, confused.

Eo glanced at him before joining him on the stairs.

"Think of it like a prosthetic leg or an exoskeleton or something. But it’s rooted in the ground."

Nick’s eyes narrowed as he scanned Eo up and down. It didn’t look like it was connected.

Eo could tell what Nick was thinking.

"This body..." She said, pointing at the length of herself. "Is not all of me. It’s me, but it’s not all there is to me. You can think of it as...my incarnation, maybe?" She said hesitantly, unsure of how to explain it clearly. It was the first time she had done it herself, after all.

"It’s a way for me to more seamlessly interact with this world without accidentally triggering any Rules. But as you can see..." She said, stepping down from the porch and onto the lawn. "...I can act independently of the house. As time passes and I absorb more of the power in the power crystals, the connection between me and the house will strengthen, which will allow me greater range."

"I see."

"Well, if need be, I can also uproot the house, but that would be inconvenient." Eo didn’t go into all the details of how troublesome it was and would be for them. But Nick got the gist even without that.

Right now, most of the convenience of their current lifestyle was thanks to the house. It wasn’t like they had a reason to move or get away from the center of the forest. It was cozy. They would also have to leave behind Nick’s garden if they left.

He had saved seeds, but he had made good progress the past couple of weeks while the Vorad Kingdom sieged the forest through the Uaya tribe’s territory.

A few weeks usually wouldn’t be enough for his garden to start producing plants, but the power of the center of the forest made it possible.

He had made a home.

Naturally, he wanted to protect that home.

Nick had rejected Yooa’s request, but only because he didn’t want to help the Uaya tribe.

If there was a world where people left his home alone, he wanted this to be it. He was going to ask Mijko about all the options, and if they let him, he would share his opinions.

He wasn’t sure what weight he held, even if he was friends with people like Monkey, but he wanted to do something for Tiabe.

But that was a matter for when Mijko arrived. He had other things to do right now.

"Do you feel it when I do this?" Nick asked while tapping the porch with his knuckles.

"What about this?" He asked, grabbing a strand of grass and tickling the bottom step.

"..." Eo looked at him. She didn’t need to feel it. She could see him doing what he was doing.

Eo sighed and snapped her fingers, turning on the porch light.

"Does that answer your question?" She asked.

Nick’s eyes widened in amazement. It did.

"Not quite," he answered with a grin as he grabbed more grass and moved it up the stairs, brushing it against the railing and then the floor.

"Do you need to do this?" Eo asked, her face tense.

Nick nodded and continued. After all, she hadn’t said whether she felt it or not. She had only shown that she could turn on the light without flicking the switch.

However, that was the only thing she had shown intentionally. Unintentionally, she had revealed a weakness.

Her feet had twitched when Nick first whisked and drew circles with the blade of grass.

She was ticklish.

Nick’s smile deepened as he saw the dawning realization on Eo’s face when he got closer.

The current ambiguity of their relationship aside, Nick knew that Eo was experiencing human and dimensional sensation for the first time in her life.

Both delicious and nasty food made her face lit up in fascination, though different kinds. Seeing movies with her eyes or reading books and magazines without the tentacle-sight also made her emotional.

Rubbing and massaging her shoulders made her putty in Nick’s hands.

However, as anyone ticklish who has ever been tickled knows, being tickled is the most intense, non-harmful and non-painful sensory experience a human can feel, especially if it’s against one’s will.

Eo didn’t know that.

She knew what tickling was, and she knew that she could vaguely feel the grass brushing against the house. But the house, while an extension of her, wasn’t her body. It was more that she knew what was happening to it rather than actually feeling it.

So when Nick grabbed her ankle, she let him, blissfully unaware of the horror that awaited her.

It took her less than a second to regret it and kick free from Nick’s grasp. Even with the body of a human, she still maintained her outerdimensional strength.

Nick’s hand couldn’t keep her.

Nick wondered if he would have to give up.

But then Eo willingly offered him her feet while hiding a bashful face with her hands.

The discomfort aside, it was a new and exciting experience.

She wanted more.