Abaddon spent the next few hours pampering Koneko with his affection until she was out like a light, unable to move even a single muscle.
By the time morning rolled around, they got back to their routine and continued Koneko's training while Abaddon continued working on his spells and magical abilities.
As the days passed, Koneko's strength kept increasing while Abaddon kept increasing the intensity of the training, both by strengthing the restraints and by increasing the intensity of the true torture that Koneko was experiencing.
On the morning of the last day of their training, Koneko got up as usual and woke Abaddon up before they got back to training.
"When we finish up today, I'll give you a special message to commemorate your successful training." Abaddon said, "We're going to be done today, after all."
"O-oh…" Koneko's happy momentum seemed to disappear as her ears drooped sadly, "I-I understand."
"Hey now…" Abaddon put his hand on her head and fondled her ear, rubbing the sensitive inner skin with his thumb while caressing the soft outer fur with his fingers, "We can't spend all our time here. We have to go out too, right? Don't you miss Rias and Akeno? And the others?"
"Mhm…" Koneko nodded, "I can't sleep with senpai anymore…" She mumbled.
"Who said that?" Abaddon made her look at him, "My bed has plenty of space for everyone. You can continue to sleep with me every day."
"Not the same…" She seemed pouty.
"I know," Abaddon continued petting her and fondling her ear, "But as fun as it is with just you and me here, you miss your Buchou, don't you?" He asked, "And your Akeno-senpai?"
Koneko went silent for a few seconds, "Mhm…" She nodded in agreement, "I do."
"I'm happy that you're being honest," Abaddon continued petting her head for a few seconds as they got back to the training ground, "Are you ready?"
"Mm…" She nodded, her previously sullen expression regaining its determination.
"Koneko," Abaddon called and she turned to see him looking into her gold irises, "Persevere, okay? Since we're pretty much done with everything, I'll run the formation at full power for the next hour. It's going to be very difficult, but that's going to be it for today. We can laze around for the rest of the day."
His words brought a little smile to her face as she nodded, "Mm."
"That's my good girl," Koneko gave her forehead a kiss before disappearing to his seat. He kept his gaze on Koneko, deciding to skip training for today. He'd been going hard for most of the month and decided to take a full break before delving into the magical aspect of his training with Akeno, though that took a bit of a lower priority. All that came to his mind when he thought of Akeno was how many ways he would ravage her to calm the raging flame of arousal that he'd been suppressing for the past month.
'And she thinks I don't have self-control…' Abaddon thought smugly to himself as he saw Koneko hyping herself up and releasing her Touki to its fullest extent. She'd grown stronger by a factor of eleven from her initial prowess, blazing past Abaddon's goal for her. This was also why he was only making her train for an hour. She'd gotten as much as she could out of this training, at least for now.
'Now she needs to work on her innate abilities… I'll need to look for a Senjutsu specialist for her,' Abaddon thought as Koneko dodged the approaching vines and branches with practiced movements full of precision.
Koneko kept moving through the obstacles with fluid movements that perfectly showcased her flexibility. She made maneuvers that would be otherwise impossible for a normal person as she kept moving through everything with an almost instinctive precision. As the seconds passed, Koneko found herself colliding with Abaddon's chest, surprising both herself and Abaddon.
She heard a cough and looked up at Abaddon with a raised brow, "Ahem, I forgot to tweak the spell..." He smiled sheepishly before snapping his fingers, "Done. You can try again now."
Koneko stifled a laugh as two branches grabbed her arms and threw her out of bounds.
Giving Abaddon an amused look, she couldn't help but laugh, though that turned into a light choke when she heard his following words, "I'll make you laugh, Koneko. I'll make sure that you laugh to tears…"
"I'm sorry, Senpai!" Koneko instantly whimpered and pulled out her most powerful card, big watery kitty eyes. She didn't want to be tortured beyond what she'd already been going through every day.
"Yeah yeah, get to work. We're only training for the hour, I would like for it to be a little fruitful." He said, shrugging her cute look off as if it didn't have any effect on him.
Koneko nodded and it almost took her an entire minute to just hype herself up once again to be able to release her Touki. It worked purely based on the mentality of the user and if they were in a comfortable state or a non-tense state, Touki would be much more difficult to harness. This was what happened with Koneko.
When she finally got herself together, she took quick steps into the maze and started approaching Abadodn as quickly as she could, though as she'd expected to happen, the vines and branches were overwhelmingly large in number, not to mention extremely fast. Koneko eventually slipped up and found her wrist grasped by one of the branches that hardened after pulling her above ground. Instantly, three more branches appeared and restrained her other limbs before hanging her upside down with her limbs all spread apart.
Moments later, she was in tears and unable to stop laughing. She had multiple vines working on almost all of her ticklish spots. She kept trying to free herself even amidst the torture. Usually, it would take her no more than a couple of minutes to free herself but instead of feeling the branches getting weaker, she found more of them approaching her. One of them wrapped around her waist, one around her neck, and even more around her arms and legs.
She found herself even more immobilized than usual, all the while being assaulted by the brushes that were relentlessly targeting her sensitive and ticklish spots. Hung upside down, as the minutes trickled by, her face had already turned red as she continued her fruitless struggles. Soon enough, Abaddon heard a plea for mercy escape from Koneko's lips and the branches and vines instantly broke apart as Koneko fell into Abaddon's arms.
"Shh…" Abaddon comforted her as she recovered while shivering in his arms, "We're done now. I just wanted to boost you as far as I could in one final go." He said, "We're done…" He repeated as she calmed down.
"You're bad senpai…" She complained, "I felt like I was going to die…"
Abaddon chuckled lightly, "You were gonna be fine…" He caressed her head gently, "I'll give you a massage to ease your soreness." He said as he started walking toward the bedroom that led to the artificial hot spring.
Abaddon got rid of both her and his clothes before moving into the center of the hot spring. He conjured up a soft massage table that was barely on the surface of the water. The positioning allowed the warm water to barely cover the top of the table such that whoever lay on it would be able to enjoy the warm water without being completely submerged.
"Do you want me to do your front first, or your back?" Abaddon asked Koneko.
"Back…" She mumbled weakly, "My tail feels cramped."
"As you say," Abaddon gently put Koneko on the massage table, letting her lie on her stomach as she hummed comfortably while feeling the warm water gracing her skin. It also hit the sides of her face, but she didn't panic, having already grown used to water after so many swimming lessons with Abaddon. She turned her head to the side and rested it on the slightly elevated pillow on the table so that the water wouldn't enter her nose.
Abaddon grabbed some oil from the other room and poured some of it on his palm. He used a spell to warm it up before gently pressing his palm on Koneko's back. She squirmed with a mewl as he started rubbing it along her spine.
"My tail…" Her voice was like a plea that Abaddon couldn't refuse. He took more warmed oil in his palm and lightly stroked her tail with it. As he used his thumbs to gently press on her tail, her squirms got more pronounced, but the pleasurable mewls that she let out kept getting louder.
After a while, he conjured a curved hairbrush that had the perfect size as her tail and started stroking it along the length of her tail to comb her silky fur. He used one hand to massage her tail and the other to brush her fur.
Abaddon was enjoying her increasingly cute reactions to him massaging her tail, but after a couple of minutes of focusing on the same spot, he decided to move along. He got rid of the brush and let go of her tail before grabbing more oil and focusing on the area around the base of her tail. He massaged her lower back as his hands slowly made their way to her butt.
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