"Is it really necessary?" Although he did see her point, Unohana had a good level of patience. If she had come here something must've become a problem, and he was correct.
"I don't think I will ever be able to absorb it all at this rate." She had fallen into a perilous state.
"I understand then." Adam respected her seriousness and the contract came about.
According to the terms he had to help her by any means necessary. In return, she would have to make the usual payment, this time for ten days. Grayfia watched from the side, for the first time she had seen a normal contract with an actual good reason.
"Then let's start." Adam opened the door to the training room, and Unohana walked in without a word.
"We'll be inside for a short time. So, you are free to do what you want Grayfia." Adam planned to increase the speed of time inside the training room, so it would only be a short wait for Grayfia.
"As you wish, Master." She had already waited alone for a while, and this was a serious contract so she didn't want to get in the way.
With that thought, Adam entered the room. This place had changed a lot in the time he wasn't here. There were some scorched craters and pillars of ice, wide gashes in the ground, and a flower field to the side too. Grayfia was the only one who could enter this room, and the lingering mana in the room also suggested the same.
'Looks like she has found the Magic Tomes and the blessing of the contract. If she steadily grows like this, I won't have to worry about her safety for long.'
Adam would've liked to stay in the happy mood for longer, but Unohana had her eyes glued to him. There was this unusual glint in them compared to before. The bloodlust was still there, from her eyes, one could tell she wanted to cut him up. However, there was another inexplicable feeling there. Regardless, Adam decided to ignore it for now and get onto the problem.
"So, why did your absorption stop like this?" He wanted to know what aspects she needed more focus on because she did not like to be spoon-fed. Adam understood at least that much about her.
"My focus. Since going back, I have been plagued with distractions." She said.
"What type of distractions?" Adam wondered if something went wrong with the spell, he used it to protect her mind from the influx of too many memories of dying, but it seemed to be working properly. Even though he was very careful about it, maybe something unexpected happened, and that was true.
"I keep having thoughts about intercourse." Unohana's dry voice made him stop in his tracks.
"…What?"
"Thoughts about intercourse keep disturbing my focus." She looked him in the eye, the seriousness and the flat face made it much harder to believe. "I have talked with an acquaintance and it seems normal, they call it being pent up or something."
"…I see." Adam knew all about being pent up.
But unlike his horny motivations, Unohana was a battlehead. She only thought about fighting and improving, he could feel that from her during the training and her willingness to take the rougher path. So, for her to come out and say this felt much more shocking. Adam even thought that she may be mistaken.
"Alright, how about this? I'll create optimal conditions for you to focus and free your mind of any extra thoughts." Digesting his words, she nodded in agreement.
With a snap of his finger, the surroundings changed. Wooden pillars rose from the ground, and the soft soil beneath her feet turned into clean wooden floorboards that pushed her up. Walls connected the four pillars as the slanted ceiling was formed before her eyes. It happened in an instant. The dojo was created reminiscent of her own in Seireitei, she hadn't been there for a while, so this brought back the calm along with the incense burning in the corner.
"Now try and focus." Adam said.
Unohana sat on the floor in a seiza, katana in hand she closed her eyes and started to recall things. To prevent a sudden influx of information that could put a strain on her consciousness, Adam had collected it all in a small vault in her head. If she focused and tapped into this non-metaphorical memory box, Unohana could take small doses of digestible information by replaying the battle they had here.
However, when she tapped into that memory box and saw his face, other memories started to slip through, the ones that weren't locked up.
'She is thinking of the last time.' Adam coughed to himself.
It seemed that Unohana wasn't lying about being pent up. Soon her mind was filled with just the memories of sex, if he didn't intervene that is. It felt weird seeing himself from a different perspective, and he never wanted to see that again so he stopped monitoring these thoughts.
So, for the next ten hours, he shut down that flow of memory and helped Unohana progress much faster as a result.
'It would take a year to get this much on my own.' She felt impressed at how easy it had become now, but the main reason behind this was Adam's help.
Unohana looked at her blade. To help with focus she had tried many ways to override the memories of sex. Pain was one of them. As an accomplished Kaido user, she knew how to make a person twist in pain so that they could only think about that. It worked for a while, but she already had a high tolerance for pain to begin with. It only lasted for a few years, somewhere along the line the pain only served to increase the longing for pleasure she had that day.
It was then that Unohana discovered about being pent up. Before her encounter with Adam, she hadn't bothered with anything aside from the thrill of battle. Pain, happiness, fear, pleasure, sustenance, everything she needed to live came with fighting.
But, having a different form of pleasure did screw with her body and mind. It started to ask for it more often, and as years passed it only got worse, like the body already thought it was only normal and she agreed as it was the usual phenomenon that she could ignore before. Though she persisted through it this time, Unohana knew that it would take her ages before she could have a rematch with the pace things were going. So, to smoothen the process over, the card was finally used.
'I didn't want to do this from the beginning. To ask such a favor… was it really the reason I came here?' She asked herself, even while knowing the answer.
"Want to eat something to clear your mind?" Adam wanted to give her mind some time to rest and get used to the increase in power too.
"Spicy fried chicken." She said in a heartbeat, although she had made it on her own it never turned out like the ones she had here.
Adam took the request and got her a table full of spicy food, not just chicken. He already knew she liked spice. So, he went all out, and she still finished it all in good sport. It was fascinating.
Unohana didn't show much emotion, but when she ate, he could feel she enjoyed the meal. Even when her face remained deathly still. Most of it had to do with his checking up on her mind activity and the other came from her fast-moving fingers.
After their two-hour beak ended, Unohana wasted no time in getting back to the meditation. This time too, her pent-up body didn't get in the way. Her mind stayed calm and sharp like before. It felt relaxing, but she knew that this wasn't the best way to deal with this.
So, when their third break came around, she made her move.
"Adam, let's have intercourse."
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400 stones till the bonus chapter.