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• Reincarnation
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• Time Travel to the Past
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• Time Loop / Regression
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• Ruthless Protagonist (when necessary)
• Strong to Stronger
• Overpowered Protagonist
• Cheat-like Powers
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• Cunning Protagonist
• Protective Protagonist
• Determined Protagonist
• Charismatic Protagonist
• Strategic Minded Protagonist
• Cares About His Subordinates
• Does Not Hide His Strength

Years seemed to pass by in a blur. One day faded into another. I honestly didn’t know how much time had passed.

I spent my days acquiring power and knowledge, using any and every means at my disposal to get it. I lied, cheated, and stole. I trampled on others. It didn’t matter to me if I had to step on a pile of corpses. If it meant gaining the power I needed to kill the Great Overlord of the Seventh Realm, then I would do it.

I traveled to the Misty Mountain Range and fought against the dragons, stealing and consuming their sacred treasure to increase my own power. I journeyed to the Forest of Dreams located far to the west of the Northern Plains and studied Spiritualism under the Ents.

Of course, the Ents did not approve of me, so I had to use forceful means to convince them that teaching me was a good idea.

It was probably good fortune that I never had to kill in cold blood for power. At this point, I was pretty sure I’d sacrifice innocent people if it meant getting the power I needed.

After traveling to the far reaches of the western side of the continent, I realized there was nothing more that I could learn in the Northern Plains. I decided to eventually go back to my home—not the one I had been living at in the Northern Plains, but the home that Kari and I had fled from all those years ago.

I was going back to Nevaria.

***

I woke up early in the morning surrounded on all sides by women.

Glancing to my right, I looked at Kari as she hugged my arm to her chest, her blonde hair spread across her body like an extra layer of silk. She had the largest breasts among the three, and their soft elasticity along with their weight was one of the greatest sensations in this world. I might have described them as marshmallows because they were so soft, but I honestly didn’t think that would do them justice. The delicate softness that was more comfortable than any pillow, and the gentle warmth that engulfed my arm… nothing could compare to this feeling.

Turning my head to the left, I found Fay lying close by. Unlike Kari, she was not hugging me like I was an overstuffed teddy bear, but she was holding my hand, which she had placed against her chest. My fingers twitched when I realized this. As they sank into the soft flesh of her tit, I found myself having to resist the urge to poke it into her inverted nipple. Her face was partially hidden by her fiery red hair, which looked like a curtain of crimson flames, but I could still make out her closed eyes and delicately parted lips.

I wanted to kiss her.

As I was staring at her, a gentle warmth engulfed my dick, making me suck in a breath. My cock twitched several times as something wet and warm swirled around it. I only realized after a second or two that what I felt was a very long tongue. It was wrapped around my dick from the tip all the way to the base.

Only one person had a tongue that long.

“L-Lin… what are you…”

I couldn’t get the words out because Lin pressed her head down until my cock was inside of her throat. She had no gag reflex, which meant she was the only one who could deep throat me like this. When combined with her incredible tongue, Lin was easily the best at giving blow jobs.

Trying to move despite being trapped between three women, I somehow managed to at least disentangle my hand from Fay. She frowned, but I ignored that for now and lifted the blanket to find, lo and behold, Lin with my dick in her mouth. Her black hair surrounded the dark skin of her face. When I lifted the covers, she looked up at me with her glimmering golden eyes. Her pupils were slitted instead of rounded. The sight of her like this, smiling mischievously around my cock, was far too much for me to handle.

My balls quickly tightened as I blew my load inside of her mouth.

Since my dick was in her throat, my cum went straight down to her stomach, leaving not a drop to spill out between her mouth. I saw her throat move as she swallowed everything. Seeing that just ensured that I remained rock hard.

Removing my dick from her mouth with a wet plop, Lin grinned at me as she slithered up my body like a predator stalking her prey. She used her long tongue to lick my abdominals and chest before finally reaching me. The moment we were face to face, she reached out with her hands and gently cupped my cheeks.

“Good morning, Darling.”

“Morning, Lin,” I responded automatically. “What are you doing?”

“What’s it look like this princess is doing?” asked Lin. “She’s getting you ready to have sex. It has been too long since we’ve had sex. This princess is beginning to feel neglected.”

“Ah. I’m sorry.”

All I could do was apologize. It was true that we had not been having sex since we moved into the Nevarian Braves headquarters. Part of that reason was because we were so busy that there simply wasn’t any time, but another reason was because we were sharing one bedroom. I didn’t feel comfortable having sex with one of the girls in front of the other two. I didn’t think it was appropriate.

“You don’t have to apologize.” Lin inched closer and closer, until our noses were touching. Her golden eyes were now right in my face. Their mesmerizing appearance made me feel like I was getting lost within them. “All you need to do is please this princess now.”

I could feel myself giving into the idea despite knowing that Kari and Fay were sleeping right next to us. Truth be told, not having sex was grating on me as well. I’ve caught myself thinking about it a lot more recently, like I would sometimes catch myself staring at Kari’s chest while we were working, looking at Fay’s ass when she bent over, and staring at Lin’s flat stomach and slender body whenever she stretched.

As I continued imagining all the times I had ogled these three, my dick began swelling even more. It grew until it was poking against Lin’s stomach.

Lin smiled as she flexed her stomach and brought her soft vaginal lips to my dick. She began grinding herself against me. The sensations caused by her warm and slightly wet netherlips as they rubbed my shaft and coated it in her sexual secretions was enough to make my cock begin erratically pulsating. Her soft scales were rubbing against me, and her warm lips were sandwiching my dick.

“D-Darling…” The way Lin softly moaned my name was enough to cast a haze over my mind. Her half-lidded eyes stared at me with a wanton lust that fueled my own desire. Her lips were parted, and I could see her fangs poking out of her mouth. “Darling… this princess wants you… ha… ahn… this princess wants you now. Right now please.”

I leaned up and pressed my lips to hers as I began slowly grinding my dick against her nether lips, which only caused Lin to buck her hips even more. I think I must have also worked out her clit. I felt my dick pressing into a soft nub. When I poked and rubbed it with my head, Lin’s moans grew louder, though she kept them muffled by pressing her mouth to mine.

Our nasally gasps echoed around the room, mixed in with the wet smacking of our lips as we kissed. I continued to rub my cockhead against her clit. I pushed, rubbed, and circled her clitoris to see what made her feel the best.

I was sure this would have continued and eventually escalated, but just as Lin had grabbed my dick and was about to guide it into her waiting entrance, a voice spoke up.

“Are you two really having sex while we’re sleeping right next to you?”

Lin and I froze. It was like someone had dumped a bucket of cold water all over us. Slowly, oh so slowly, we turned our heads to look at Kari, who was wide awake, lying on her side, and resting her head on her left hand. Kari wasn’t the only one who was awake either. Fay was also up. She was staring at Lin and me with a blush so heavy, I was worried her head might catch fire.

“Kari… Fay… um… good morning,” I said for lack of anything better to say.

Kari’s smile was mixed with exasperation. “Good morning. You didn’t answer my question.”

I tried not to squirm. If I did that, it was going to send pleasure rocketing through my body. My dick was, after all, still rubbing against Lin’s pussy lips.

“I’m not sure how to answer that,” I admitted.

“This princess doesn’t care if Big Sister and Fay watches,” Lin shamelessly admitted. “She wants to have sex. She hasn’t had sex since we started living here, and she’s tired of it.”

Kari sighed in resignation. “I suppose… I understand where you are coming from. Let’s get dressed and adjourn to the living room. We can discuss this during breakfast.” She paused long enough to give the two of us a look. “But you two need to wash off. You’re both dirty.”

***

As I sat there on the couch with a repentant Lin, I wondered if this was what a student felt like when they were being lectured by a teacher. I had never been to school before. However, back when I worked at the Nadine Library, there had been plenty of students who would talk about their school life.

Lin and I were fresh from the bath. Our hair was still wet, but we were dressed in our usual clothes. Of course, since Lin’s usual clothing was just two strips of fabric wrapped around her chest and back in the shape of an X and a short wraparound skirt, she was still showing a lot of skin. However, my outfit was actually a remake of the original clothing that Fay had bought for me when I was going to meet Stelys Valstine for the first time.

Kari and Fay were also dressed in what could be considered their usual outfits. Fay’s looked remarkably similar to my own. Meanwhile, Kari was dressed in a white blouse with long sleeves that featured ruffles at the end, a blue vest thrown over the top, and black stockings with brown boots that went up to her knees.

All of our clothing was made from the Basilisk’s hide, meaning it was highly resistant to Spiritual Techniques, cutting attacks, and tearing.

We weren’t wearing our armor at the moment since it wasn’t needed.

“I understand how you two feel,” Kari said at last. “It isn’t like I don’t understand where you are coming from. I miss not having sex with Eryk like you do, Lin. Like you, I haven’t been able to have sex with him since we began living here. In fact, I think the only person who has is Fay.”

At the mention of how Fay had had sex with me after we moved in, Lin looked over at the redhead, who was sitting on the chair near the head of the coffee table instead of with us on the couch. Her ears were burning and a streak of red traveled from one cheek, across the bridge of her nose, and ended near the other cheek. She had her hands in her lap and wasn’t looking at anyone.

“When did you have sex with Darling?” asked Lin with a frown.

Fay didn’t respond.

“In the bathtub about one month ago,” Kari answered for her.

“K-Kari!” Fay finally looked up, an appalled expression on her face. “That’s not something you should tell people! And how did you even know that?!”

“Simple. I saw you two when I was going to take a bath.” Kari shrugged. “And this isn’t something to get embarrassed about. The only people here is us. We already share a bed, a man, and we’re going to be sisters once we marry Eryk. There’s no need to have secrets between us.”

“Well… I guess you do bring up a good point, but it’s still embarrassing.” Fay looked away from Kari.

“I suppose it would be for someone as pure as you,” Kari said, but she didn’t take her words back and instead looked at me again. “In either event, I believe we’ve been neglecting our own desires for too long. The fact that you and Lin almost had sex while me and Fay were sleeping right beside you is merely proof of this. That’s why I think we should sleep with Eryk in rotational shifts. For example, today we’ll let Lin sleep with Eryk since it looks like she’s going to explode if she doesn’t have sex with him soon. I’ll sleep with him tomorrow, Fay will sleep with him the day after tomorrow, and we’ll all sleep with him the day after that.”

There was something surreal about listening to my future wife talk about how I was going to sleep with her, Lin, and Fay in shifts. I felt a strange sense of detachment as my women discussed this without input from me.

“This princess likes this idea,” Lin said with a decisive nod. “She doesn’t think she can take another day without having sex.”

Kari nodded. “Of course, we could also share him in bed. I have been considering the idea of the four of us having sex together.”

“Oh! That sounds fun!” Lin clapped several times as if congratulating Kari on her great idea.

I had to admit, the thought of having sex with Kari, Lin, and Fay at the same time was highly arousing. Just thinking about it forced me to adjust my pants to avoid exposing my erection. The images my head invoked of Kari riding me to completion as Fay sat on my face and let me eat her out while Lin used my hand to pleasure herself as she waited for her turn was going to plague me for a long time.

“I really wish you two would stop talking about having sex so blatantly.” Fay covered her cheeks with her hands as though attempting to hide her blush—not that it worked. “But I also understand where you are coming from… a little. I’ll admit I… um… rather like being intimate with Eryk too.”

“Then it’s settled.” Kari clapped her hands together and gave a brilliant smile. “We’ll convert the office into another bedroom for us to sleep in on the days we don’t sleep with Eryk. Meanwhile, we’ll bring the desk and office furniture in here. The living room is plenty big enough to serve as both an office space and a living room.”

I could have said something to stop Kari from going through with this plan, but I honestly thought her idea had merit. The girls weren’t alone in missing sex. Lin might have instigated this morning’s incident, but it wasn’t like she was the only one who had gotten worked up. I had been so lost in my lust this morning that I would have gladly had sex if Kari hadn’t stopped us. In fact, the idea of her watching me have sex with Lin was turning me on more than I cared to admit.

With this decided, the four of us went down to the mess hall for breakfast.

There weren’t that many people present when we entered. Ingrid and Bjark were there, but I didn’t see Geirolf anywhere, meaning he must have still been sleeping. The two Spiritualists who occupied one of the long tables noticed us and stood up to offer a bow, but I waved my hand and gestured for them to sit back down. I really didn’t want anyone standing on ceremony with me, especially when all I wanted was some grub.

We walked passed several long tables toward the backroom, where our chef was cooking something. He was standing by an iron stove. A large pot sat on top, and the man was stirring a ladle around inside of it. I couldn’t see the contents, of course, but judging from the scent wafting through the air, I was betting on the food being porridge with honey, almonds, and berries.

“Good mornin’, Commander!” Hodor greeted me. “Today’s breakfast is porridge with chopped almonds, honey, and raisins. Hope that’s all right.”

“It sounds delicious, thank you,” I said.

“Ha ha! You’re welcome, Commander!”

Hodor was a beefy man with arms thicker than my legs and a bushy beard that made it look like his face was covered in thick moss. He had a lot of hair on his arms and legs. Fortunately, he wore long-sleeved clothes, so no one actually saw his bear-like body.

He used his ladle to pour some of the porridge into three bowls. Lin didn’t have a bowl, but that was because Hodor had made her something different: Poached eggs with sausage, bacon, and sliced ham.

Since we were eating in the mess hall this morning, we sat by Bjark and Ingrid to converse with them. We always did our best to seem sociable. As leaders, it was important for those working under us to feel like they could come to us with their problems.

“We’ve got another mission coming up today,” Ingrid informed us when we asked about it. “It’s for the Alchemist Association. They want us to find Lion Hawk eggs.”

“A Lion Hawk is a B-rank Demon Beast that lives north of Nevaria, isn’t it?” asked Kari with an interested expression on her face.

Ingrid nodded. “Yes. They make their nests on top of the mountains north of here. We’ll have to curve around the Demon Beast Mountain Range and search for a mountain where they might be nesting. Unfortunately, we only have a general idea of their location, so we aren’t sure how long this quest will take.”

“What time do you plan to leave?” asked Fay.

“Once Geirolf is up, we plan to meet with Catalyna and Marko to hit some of the shops and gather supplies for the journey,” Bjark said with a grunt. “We’ll leave tomorrow.”

Considering how harrowing this particular quest sounded, it was definitely a good thing they planned on traveling in a group of five. Lion Hawks were fiercely protective of their nests and incredibly powerful B-rank Demon Beasts. It would take at least a four man squad of C-rank Spiritualists to defeat just one. While they were all B-rank Spiritualists now, they would still have to be careful.

“I’m glad to see Geirolf is fitting in with everyone,” Kari said as she tucked a strand of hair behind her ears and smiled.

“He has been acquitting himself very well,” Ingrid said. “Of course, I think it’s because he wants to impress Catalyna.”

“Oh? Do tell.” Kari leaned forward with an interested gleam in her eyes.

As we spoke with Bjark and Ingrid, Geirolf eventually arrived in the mess hall. He noticed us immediately, respectfully nodded his head, then went to the kitchen to grab his breakfast. Once he came back out, he sat down beside Bjark and Ingrid, greeting the four of us with another respectful nod. He even greet Kari with respect, which showed just how far he’d come from that spoiled boy who acted like a self-entitled and arrogant brat.

“Morning, Sis.”

“Good morning, Brother. What’s this I hear about you trying to impress Catalyna?”

Geirolf scowled and turned bright red at Kari’s words, but his attention was not on his sister. It was on the two Spiritualists with us.

“Just what did you tell them?” he asked.

“Nothing that isn’t true,” Ingrid said with a smile as Bjark chortled into his spoon.

Geirolf’s scowl and blush deepened as he took a large bite of his porridge.

After finishing breakfast, me, Kari, Lin, and Fay went back up to our room and began converting the living space into a combination of living room and office. We moved the desk into the living room. Then we moved the bookshelves into the living room as well. Those we lined up behind the desk so they wouldn’t get in the way of our other decorations.

“Fay, Lin,” Kari began, “why don’t you two travel to the Merchant’s District and buy a bed for us? We’ll probably want another custom made bed since your tail is so big, Lin.”

Fay accepted the request with a nod. “We’ll come back once we’ve finished.”

“This princess will help Fay find the perfect bed.” Lin thumped her chest. “Count on it.”

The two women left, meaning it was just me and Kari. However, just because we were alone didn’t mean we’d be getting intimate. There was a lot of work that needed to be done.

We continued moving everything from the office to the living room. Kari had plenty of ideas and a better sense of design than I did, so she made all the decisions on where everything should go. We ended up having to get rid of the dinner table, which took up too much space. I suppose we could have removed the couches and coffee table. When I suggested it, however, Kari vetoed my proposal.

“Those couches are great for cuddling together. The table serves no purpose other than eating. We can also eat on the couches.”

That had been her explanation, and thus we ended up removing the table.

Dagny soon arrived carrying a large stack of parchment. She paused upon noticing the change in our living room, but she didn’t let her surprise at seeing the newly placed desk last for long. Greeting us with a polite smile, she went over to the desk and set the large stacks down.

“These are all of the new requests we’ve received in the last two days,” she informed us. “On top of this list is a report of all the quests that have been logged into the ledger since last month. I’ve marked the completed ones and circled the ones that are still being undertaken by our Spiritualists.”

“Thank you,” Kari said as I sat behind the desk and grabbed the first sheet of parchment. “We appreciate you delivering these to us everyday.”

“Not at all.” Dagny smiled at Kari with a soft blush on her cheeks. “I’m glad I could be of service.”

After Dagny bowed to us and left the room, Kari walked over to my desk as I read the first report. thirty-six quests had been completed last month and six quests were still ongoing, meaning the Spiritualists who took them haden’t returned yet. I looked at the dates the incomplete quests were taken. None of them were longer than four days. To me, that meant whoever had taken them was probably still alive.

It could take days to traverse the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

“We have two times the number of completed quests this month than we had last month.” I set the parchment on the table, grabbed a quill and a bottle of ink from the drawer on my left, and scribbled my name on the parchment to show I had read it.

“That’s because we’ve increased the number of Spiritualists working for us,” Kari said with a shrug. She was sitting next to me as she grabbed the first new quest from the stack. “It’s only natural that the number of quests we completed is higher. That said, I do wonder if the new recruits are really good enough to begin taking quests. Didn’t you say you’d only let Spiritualists that were at least B-rank take quests? Oh! This quest is from the Eieran Family. It looks like there’s a Demon Beast that somehow made its way into the farmlands and is attacking one of their plantations.”

I tried to contain my grimace as I followed suit, grabbing a sheet parchment from the stack and reading through it. This new quest was to gather ten kilograms of blue mountain flower, a standard alchemy ingredient used in two of the new alchemy pills I introduced to Feinrea recently. They only grew on mountains of a certain elevation. Feinrea’s signature was on this quest, so I quickly signed my approval and placed the quest on top of the one Kari had just signed.

“Of course, I don’t want any Spiritualist weaker than B-rank taking quests, but I also understand how unrealistic that is.” Grabbing another quest, I read through the quest details and sender before signing off on it. “Ever since we attended the Eieran Family’s ball, we’ve been swamped with requests. Even though we turn down some of them because they’re outside our jurisdiction or simply against the law, we still have about one hundred quests coming in every month. I suspect that number will grow with time.”

“That does make sense.” Kari smiled wanly as she placed the sheet of parchment in her hands into the rejection pile. “We can’t really afford to be picky when we have this many quests.”

All quests needed to be signed off by either me, Kari, Fay, or Lin before we would allow people to take them. This was because some people tried to slip in quests that were either outside the scope of our operations or illegal. A good example was when a noble family tried to hire us as soldiers. Our sect did do protection detail and guard duty, but those were temporary requests with a specific time frame. There had also been a few assassination requests. Not only were those outside of our jurisdiction, assassination was punishable by life in prison or execution depending on who was killed.

“Aaaaaahhhh!!!”

Sometime into our work, Kari suddenly threw her head back and released an annoyed scream. I looked up from the quest I was reading. We were about halfway through our stack, but it looked like we might have to take a break.

“I really don’t like this at all!” Kari complained. “I don’t want to sit behind a desk signing papers all day! I want to go exploring too! I want to travel into the Demon Beast Mountain Range again! I want to explore ruins and go on adventures!”

Hearing her words made me smile.

In our previous life, Kari and I used to go adventuring all the time when we were members of the Explorer’s Guild. We spent over a decade adventuring. However, after returning from Niðavellir, we formed our own sect and began working hard to expand our influence so we could take quests and fight the Sekbeists.

Kari never complained back then, but it wasn’t because she didn’t want to go exploring. She’d matured greatly and was able to put her own desires aside for the sake of the greater good. By contrast, this Kari was not nearly as mature.

I honestly liked that. I liked that this Kari could remain so carefree. I liked that she could display her immaturity and honest desire for adventure without reserve. In my mind, seeing her act like this meant I had accomplished one of my greatest goals.

Allowing Kari to retain her innocence and sense of adventure.

“We’ll go exploring soon,” I promised. “I’ll see about hiring several people who can do basic tasks like signing off on quests and creating our budget for us. I actually want to gather ingredients to make the Elemental Enlightenment Pills for you, Fay, and Lin some time within the next few days. We’ll go out then.”

“You mean it?” Kari asked.

“I do.”

“Promise?”

“Pinky promise.”

I lifted my left hand and held it out. Kari looked at it, then at me, before she smiled and hooked her pinky with mine.

“I’m holding you to this,” she warned me.

“Don’t worry. I’ll begin holding interviews tomorrow and hire no less than three people who can do our workload. They’ll have to leave the more important stuff for us, but so long as they can do the rest, we can go exploring,” I said.

“Yes!” Kari pumped her fist into the air. I just shook my head and smiled.

Lin and Fay returned about an hour after Kari and I finished signing off on all the new requests people sent us. There had been two assassination requests—requester unknown—and one quest to hire our Spiritualists as soldiers. We burned the assassination quests and declined the one to make us into soldiers.

“We talked to Nadine’s husband,” Fay informed us. “He’s going to build us another custom bed that can fit Lin’s tail.”

“That’s great.” I smiled in relief. “I’m glad to know we can count on Vance to help us out.”

“He does good work,” Lin added as she crossed her arms. “This princess approves. His children are brats, though.”

I snorted at Lin’s addendum. She didn’t like Vance’s children. Of course, this was a completely one sided dislike. Casius and Kaleb loved Lin and kept hitting on her, which I was fairly certain was the cause for her aversion to them.

Having two people hit on one of my fiances normally would have upset me, but the two were still quite young. They were thirteen and fourteen years-old respectively. If they had been adults or at least around sixteen or seventeen, I’d have beaten them to within an inch of their lives, but I didn’t feel the need to get upset at children with a crush.

That said, if they kept hitting on Lin after they grew up, I was going to whack them upside the head good.

Since Kari and I were finished filing requests, we decided to take a break and have some lunch. My stomach was rumbling anyway.

However, just as we were about to head down to the mess hall, someone knocked at the door. It was Eira, the other receptionist who worked at the front counter and was charged with accepting and logging quests. She wore a somewhat aggrieved expression as she entered. I couldn’t recall ever seeing her look this annoyed and angry before.

“What’s wrong, Eira?” I asked as she came up to us, a single sheet of parchment in her hand.

“We’ve just received a request from the Eiran Family that’s a bit… odd,” she admitted. “I thought I’d bring it to your attention.”

I shared a look with Kari, Fay, and Lin. After seeing the confusion on their faces, I felt a little better. It was good to know I wasn’t the only one who felt this way.

Dagny was normally the one who brought us requests, and she always did so at the beginning of every morning about one hour after we ate breakfast. This break in routine caused mild alarm bells to ring through my head.

“What’s the request?” asked Kari with furrowed brows.

“It’s a request that was made specifically for you four. They want you to travel to one of the Eiran Family’s hot springs,” Eira said, which only increased my confusion. Our request was to journey to a hot spring? Did the Eieran Family want us to take a vacation? My confusion was cleared up a second later when Eira continued. “Apparently, a peeper has been spotted spying on the women while they bathe. This person has proven incredibly illusive and somehow managed to avoid being caught, which is why they want to hire you four to take on this request.”

Well, now I knew why Eira was so upset. Peeping wasn’t considered a serious offense, but no one wanted to be spied on while they were bathing.

It was rare for anyone to specifically request the four of us. While there had been a few people who requested us to complete a task for them, most people understood and respected that we didn’t normally accept requests. As the leaders of the Nevarian Braves, our job was managing the sect, not romping around for the sake of others.

That did not mean we couldn’t take requests from others, however, and if anyone could request something from us specifically, it would be the Eieran Family. This was for multiple reasons. Not only was the Eieran Family one of the Three Heavenly Families who helped rule Nevaria, but they had also been helping us advertise and expand our business. We would not be where we were today without their help.

And they knew that.

They were likely trying to cash in on this fact.

I glanced at Kari, Fay, and Lin to see what they thought. While Lin didn’t seem to care one way or the other, Fay and Kari were standing up and had righteous indignation blazing in their eyes.

“Who dares peep on women in the hot spring?!” demanded Kari. “I’ll stab them in the balls!”

“And I’ll crush their balls!” Fay added.

Seeing the two getting so fired up, I decided to place top priority on finding people who could handle the paperwork involved with running a sect. It looked like we were going to take a trip to the hot springs.Years seemed to pass by in a blur. One day faded into another. I honestly didn’t know how much time had passed.

I spent my days acquiring power and knowledge, using any and every means at my disposal to get it. I lied, cheated, and stole. I trampled on others. It didn’t matter to me if I had to step on a pile of corpses. If it meant gaining the power I needed to kill the Great Overlord of the Seventh Realm, then I would do it.

I traveled to the Misty Mountain Range and fought against the dragons, stealing and consuming their sacred treasure to increase my own power. I journeyed to the Forest of Dreams located far to the west of the Northern Plains and studied Spiritualism under the Ents.

Of course, the Ents did not approve of me, so I had to use forceful means to convince them that teaching me was a good idea.

It was probably good fortune that I never had to kill in cold blood for power. At this point, I was pretty sure I’d sacrifice innocent people if it meant getting the power I needed.

After traveling to the far reaches of the western side of the continent, I realized there was nothing more that I could learn in the Northern Plains. I decided to eventually go back to my home—not the one I had been living at in the Northern Plains, but the home that Kari and I had fled from all those years ago.

I was going back to Nevaria.

***

I woke up early in the morning surrounded on all sides by women.

Glancing to my right, I looked at Kari as she hugged my arm to her chest, her blonde hair spread across her body like an extra layer of silk. She had the largest breasts among the three, and their soft elasticity along with their weight was one of the greatest sensations in this world. I might have described them as marshmallows because they were so soft, but I honestly didn’t think that would do them justice. The delicate softness that was more comfortable than any pillow, and the gentle warmth that engulfed my arm… nothing could compare to this feeling.

Turning my head to the left, I found Fay lying close by. Unlike Kari, she was not hugging me like I was an overstuffed teddy bear, but she was holding my hand, which she had placed against her chest. My fingers twitched when I realized this. As they sank into the soft flesh of her tit, I found myself having to resist the urge to poke it into her inverted nipple. Her face was partially hidden by her fiery red hair, which looked like a curtain of crimson flames, but I could still make out her closed eyes and delicately parted lips.

I wanted to kiss her.

As I was staring at her, a gentle warmth engulfed my dick, making me suck in a breath. My cock twitched several times as something wet and warm swirled around it. I only realized after a second or two that what I felt was a very long tongue. It was wrapped around my dick from the tip all the way to the base.

Only one person had a tongue that long.

“L-Lin… what are you…”

I couldn’t get the words out because Lin pressed her head down until my cock was inside of her throat. She had no gag reflex, which meant she was the only one who could deep throat me like this. When combined with her incredible tongue, Lin was easily the best at giving blow jobs.

Trying to move despite being trapped between three women, I somehow managed to at least disentangle my hand from Fay. She frowned, but I ignored that for now and lifted the blanket to find, lo and behold, Lin with my dick in her mouth. Her black hair surrounded the dark skin of her face. When I lifted the covers, she looked up at me with her glimmering golden eyes. Her pupils were slitted instead of rounded. The sight of her like this, smiling mischievously around my cock, was far too much for me to handle.

My balls quickly tightened as I blew my load inside of her mouth.

Since my dick was in her throat, my cum went straight down to her stomach, leaving not a drop to spill out between her mouth. I saw her throat move as she swallowed everything. Seeing that just ensured that I remained rock hard.

Removing my dick from her mouth with a wet plop, Lin grinned at me as she slithered up my body like a predator stalking her prey. She used her long tongue to lick my abdominals and chest before finally reaching me. The moment we were face to face, she reached out with her hands and gently cupped my cheeks.

“Good morning, Darling.”

“Morning, Lin,” I responded automatically. “What are you doing?”

“What’s it look like this princess is doing?” asked Lin. “She’s getting you ready to have sex. It has been too long since we’ve had sex. This princess is beginning to feel neglected.”

“Ah. I’m sorry.”

All I could do was apologize. It was true that we had not been having sex since we moved into the Nevarian Braves headquarters. Part of that reason was because we were so busy that there simply wasn’t any time, but another reason was because we were sharing one bedroom. I didn’t feel comfortable having sex with one of the girls in front of the other two. I didn’t think it was appropriate.

“You don’t have to apologize.” Lin inched closer and closer, until our noses were touching. Her golden eyes were now right in my face. Their mesmerizing appearance made me feel like I was getting lost within them. “All you need to do is please this princess now.”

I could feel myself giving into the idea despite knowing that Kari and Fay were sleeping right next to us. Truth be told, not having sex was grating on me as well. I’ve caught myself thinking about it a lot more recently, like I would sometimes catch myself staring at Kari’s chest while we were working, looking at Fay’s ass when she bent over, and staring at Lin’s flat stomach and slender body whenever she stretched.

As I continued imagining all the times I had ogled these three, my dick began swelling even more. It grew until it was poking against Lin’s stomach.

Lin smiled as she flexed her stomach and brought her soft vaginal lips to my dick. She began grinding herself against me. The sensations caused by her warm and slightly wet netherlips as they rubbed my shaft and coated it in her sexual secretions was enough to make my cock begin erratically pulsating. Her soft scales were rubbing against me, and her warm lips were sandwiching my dick.

“D-Darling…” The way Lin softly moaned my name was enough to cast a haze over my mind. Her half-lidded eyes stared at me with a wanton lust that fueled my own desire. Her lips were parted, and I could see her fangs poking out of her mouth. “Darling… this princess wants you… ha… ahn… this princess wants you now. Right now please.”

I leaned up and pressed my lips to hers as I began slowly grinding my dick against her nether lips, which only caused Lin to buck her hips even more. I think I must have also worked out her clit. I felt my dick pressing into a soft nub. When I poked and rubbed it with my head, Lin’s moans grew louder, though she kept them muffled by pressing her mouth to mine.

Our nasally gasps echoed around the room, mixed in with the wet smacking of our lips as we kissed. I continued to rub my cockhead against her clit. I pushed, rubbed, and circled her clitoris to see what made her feel the best.

I was sure this would have continued and eventually escalated, but just as Lin had grabbed my dick and was about to guide it into her waiting entrance, a voice spoke up.

“Are you two really having sex while we’re sleeping right next to you?”

Lin and I froze. It was like someone had dumped a bucket of cold water all over us. Slowly, oh so slowly, we turned our heads to look at Kari, who was wide awake, lying on her side, and resting her head on her left hand. Kari wasn’t the only one who was awake either. Fay was also up. She was staring at Lin and me with a blush so heavy, I was worried her head might catch fire.

“Kari… Fay… um… good morning,” I said for lack of anything better to say.

Kari’s smile was mixed with exasperation. “Good morning. You didn’t answer my question.”

I tried not to squirm. If I did that, it was going to send pleasure rocketing through my body. My dick was, after all, still rubbing against Lin’s pussy lips.

“I’m not sure how to answer that,” I admitted.

“This princess doesn’t care if Big Sister and Fay watches,” Lin shamelessly admitted. “She wants to have sex. She hasn’t had sex since we started living here, and she’s tired of it.”

Kari sighed in resignation. “I suppose… I understand where you are coming from. Let’s get dressed and adjourn to the living room. We can discuss this during breakfast.” She paused long enough to give the two of us a look. “But you two need to wash off. You’re both dirty.”

***

As I sat there on the couch with a repentant Lin, I wondered if this was what a student felt like when they were being lectured by a teacher. I had never been to school before. However, back when I worked at the Nadine Library, there had been plenty of students who would talk about their school life.

Lin and I were fresh from the bath. Our hair was still wet, but we were dressed in our usual clothes. Of course, since Lin’s usual clothing was just two strips of fabric wrapped around her chest and back in the shape of an X and a short wraparound skirt, she was still showing a lot of skin. However, my outfit was actually a remake of the original clothing that Fay had bought for me when I was going to meet Stelys Valstine for the first time.

Kari and Fay were also dressed in what could be considered their usual outfits. Fay’s looked remarkably similar to my own. Meanwhile, Kari was dressed in a white blouse with long sleeves that featured ruffles at the end, a blue vest thrown over the top, and black stockings with brown boots that went up to her knees.

All of our clothing was made from the Basilisk’s hide, meaning it was highly resistant to Spiritual Techniques, cutting attacks, and tearing.

We weren’t wearing our armor at the moment since it wasn’t needed.

“I understand how you two feel,” Kari said at last. “It isn’t like I don’t understand where you are coming from. I miss not having sex with Eryk like you do, Lin. Like you, I haven’t been able to have sex with him since we began living here. In fact, I think the only person who has is Fay.”

At the mention of how Fay had had sex with me after we moved in, Lin looked over at the redhead, who was sitting on the chair near the head of the coffee table instead of with us on the couch. Her ears were burning and a streak of red traveled from one cheek, across the bridge of her nose, and ended near the other cheek. She had her hands in her lap and wasn’t looking at anyone.

“When did you have sex with Darling?” asked Lin with a frown.

Fay didn’t respond.

“In the bathtub about one month ago,” Kari answered for her.

“K-Kari!” Fay finally looked up, an appalled expression on her face. “That’s not something you should tell people! And how did you even know that?!”

“Simple. I saw you two when I was going to take a bath.” Kari shrugged. “And this isn’t something to get embarrassed about. The only people here is us. We already share a bed, a man, and we’re going to be sisters once we marry Eryk. There’s no need to have secrets between us.”

“Well… I guess you do bring up a good point, but it’s still embarrassing.” Fay looked away from Kari.

“I suppose it would be for someone as pure as you,” Kari said, but she didn’t take her words back and instead looked at me again. “In either event, I believe we’ve been neglecting our own desires for too long. The fact that you and Lin almost had sex while me and Fay were sleeping right beside you is merely proof of this. That’s why I think we should sleep with Eryk in rotational shifts. For example, today we’ll let Lin sleep with Eryk since it looks like she’s going to explode if she doesn’t have sex with him soon. I’ll sleep with him tomorrow, Fay will sleep with him the day after tomorrow, and we’ll all sleep with him the day after that.”

There was something surreal about listening to my future wife talk about how I was going to sleep with her, Lin, and Fay in shifts. I felt a strange sense of detachment as my women discussed this without input from me.

“This princess likes this idea,” Lin said with a decisive nod. “She doesn’t think she can take another day without having sex.”

Kari nodded. “Of course, we could also share him in bed. I have been considering the idea of the four of us having sex together.”

“Oh! That sounds fun!” Lin clapped several times as if congratulating Kari on her great idea.

I had to admit, the thought of having sex with Kari, Lin, and Fay at the same time was highly arousing. Just thinking about it forced me to adjust my pants to avoid exposing my erection. The images my head invoked of Kari riding me to completion as Fay sat on my face and let me eat her out while Lin used my hand to pleasure herself as she waited for her turn was going to plague me for a long time.

“I really wish you two would stop talking about having sex so blatantly.” Fay covered her cheeks with her hands as though attempting to hide her blush—not that it worked. “But I also understand where you are coming from… a little. I’ll admit I… um… rather like being intimate with Eryk too.”

“Then it’s settled.” Kari clapped her hands together and gave a brilliant smile. “We’ll convert the office into another bedroom for us to sleep in on the days we don’t sleep with Eryk. Meanwhile, we’ll bring the desk and office furniture in here. The living room is plenty big enough to serve as both an office space and a living room.”

I could have said something to stop Kari from going through with this plan, but I honestly thought her idea had merit. The girls weren’t alone in missing sex. Lin might have instigated this morning’s incident, but it wasn’t like she was the only one who had gotten worked up. I had been so lost in my lust this morning that I would have gladly had sex if Kari hadn’t stopped us. In fact, the idea of her watching me have sex with Lin was turning me on more than I cared to admit.

With this decided, the four of us went down to the mess hall for breakfast.

There weren’t that many people present when we entered. Ingrid and Bjark were there, but I didn’t see Geirolf anywhere, meaning he must have still been sleeping. The two Spiritualists who occupied one of the long tables noticed us and stood up to offer a bow, but I waved my hand and gestured for them to sit back down. I really didn’t want anyone standing on ceremony with me, especially when all I wanted was some grub.

We walked passed several long tables toward the backroom, where our chef was cooking something. He was standing by an iron stove. A large pot sat on top, and the man was stirring a ladle around inside of it. I couldn’t see the contents, of course, but judging from the scent wafting through the air, I was betting on the food being porridge with honey, almonds, and berries.

“Good mornin’, Commander!” Hodor greeted me. “Today’s breakfast is porridge with chopped almonds, honey, and raisins. Hope that’s all right.”

“It sounds delicious, thank you,” I said.

“Ha ha! You’re welcome, Commander!”

Hodor was a beefy man with arms thicker than my legs and a bushy beard that made it look like his face was covered in thick moss. He had a lot of hair on his arms and legs. Fortunately, he wore long-sleeved clothes, so no one actually saw his bear-like body.

He used his ladle to pour some of the porridge into three bowls. Lin didn’t have a bowl, but that was because Hodor had made her something different: Poached eggs with sausage, bacon, and sliced ham.

Since we were eating in the mess hall this morning, we sat by Bjark and Ingrid to converse with them. We always did our best to seem sociable. As leaders, it was important for those working under us to feel like they could come to us with their problems.

“We’ve got another mission coming up today,” Ingrid informed us when we asked about it. “It’s for the Alchemist Association. They want us to find Lion Hawk eggs.”

“A Lion Hawk is a B-rank Demon Beast that lives north of Nevaria, isn’t it?” asked Kari with an interested expression on her face.

Ingrid nodded. “Yes. They make their nests on top of the mountains north of here. We’ll have to curve around the Demon Beast Mountain Range and search for a mountain where they might be nesting. Unfortunately, we only have a general idea of their location, so we aren’t sure how long this quest will take.”

“What time do you plan to leave?” asked Fay.

“Once Geirolf is up, we plan to meet with Catalyna and Marko to hit some of the shops and gather supplies for the journey,” Bjark said with a grunt. “We’ll leave tomorrow.”

Considering how harrowing this particular quest sounded, it was definitely a good thing they planned on traveling in a group of five. Lion Hawks were fiercely protective of their nests and incredibly powerful B-rank Demon Beasts. It would take at least a four man squad of C-rank Spiritualists to defeat just one. While they were all B-rank Spiritualists now, they would still have to be careful.

“I’m glad to see Geirolf is fitting in with everyone,” Kari said as she tucked a strand of hair behind her ears and smiled.

“He has been acquitting himself very well,” Ingrid said. “Of course, I think it’s because he wants to impress Catalyna.”

“Oh? Do tell.” Kari leaned forward with an interested gleam in her eyes.

As we spoke with Bjark and Ingrid, Geirolf eventually arrived in the mess hall. He noticed us immediately, respectfully nodded his head, then went to the kitchen to grab his breakfast. Once he came back out, he sat down beside Bjark and Ingrid, greeting the four of us with another respectful nod. He even greet Kari with respect, which showed just how far he’d come from that spoiled boy who acted like a self-entitled and arrogant brat.

“Morning, Sis.”

“Good morning, Brother. What’s this I hear about you trying to impress Catalyna?”

Geirolf scowled and turned bright red at Kari’s words, but his attention was not on his sister. It was on the two Spiritualists with us.

“Just what did you tell them?” he asked.

“Nothing that isn’t true,” Ingrid said with a smile as Bjark chortled into his spoon.

Geirolf’s scowl and blush deepened as he took a large bite of his porridge.

After finishing breakfast, me, Kari, Lin, and Fay went back up to our room and began converting the living space into a combination of living room and office. We moved the desk into the living room. Then we moved the bookshelves into the living room as well. Those we lined up behind the desk so they wouldn’t get in the way of our other decorations.

“Fay, Lin,” Kari began, “why don’t you two travel to the Merchant’s District and buy a bed for us? We’ll probably want another custom made bed since your tail is so big, Lin.”

Fay accepted the request with a nod. “We’ll come back once we’ve finished.”

“This princess will help Fay find the perfect bed.” Lin thumped her chest. “Count on it.”

The two women left, meaning it was just me and Kari. However, just because we were alone didn’t mean we’d be getting intimate. There was a lot of work that needed to be done.

We continued moving everything from the office to the living room. Kari had plenty of ideas and a better sense of design than I did, so she made all the decisions on where everything should go. We ended up having to get rid of the dinner table, which took up too much space. I suppose we could have removed the couches and coffee table. When I suggested it, however, Kari vetoed my proposal.

“Those couches are great for cuddling together. The table serves no purpose other than eating. We can also eat on the couches.”

That had been her explanation, and thus we ended up removing the table.

Dagny soon arrived carrying a large stack of parchment. She paused upon noticing the change in our living room, but she didn’t let her surprise at seeing the newly placed desk last for long. Greeting us with a polite smile, she went over to the desk and set the large stacks down.

“These are all of the new requests we’ve received in the last two days,” she informed us. “On top of this list is a report of all the quests that have been logged into the ledger since last month. I’ve marked the completed ones and circled the ones that are still being undertaken by our Spiritualists.”

“Thank you,” Kari said as I sat behind the desk and grabbed the first sheet of parchment. “We appreciate you delivering these to us everyday.”

“Not at all.” Dagny smiled at Kari with a soft blush on her cheeks. “I’m glad I could be of service.”

After Dagny bowed to us and left the room, Kari walked over to my desk as I read the first report. thirty-six quests had been completed last month and six quests were still ongoing, meaning the Spiritualists who took them haden’t returned yet. I looked at the dates the incomplete quests were taken. None of them were longer than four days. To me, that meant whoever had taken them was probably still alive.

It could take days to traverse the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

“We have two times the number of completed quests this month than we had last month.” I set the parchment on the table, grabbed a quill and a bottle of ink from the drawer on my left, and scribbled my name on the parchment to show I had read it.

“That’s because we’ve increased the number of Spiritualists working for us,” Kari said with a shrug. She was sitting next to me as she grabbed the first new quest from the stack. “It’s only natural that the number of quests we completed is higher. That said, I do wonder if the new recruits are really good enough to begin taking quests. Didn’t you say you’d only let Spiritualists that were at least B-rank take quests? Oh! This quest is from the Eieran Family. It looks like there’s a Demon Beast that somehow made its way into the farmlands and is attacking one of their plantations.”

I tried to contain my grimace as I followed suit, grabbing a sheet parchment from the stack and reading through it. This new quest was to gather ten kilograms of blue mountain flower, a standard alchemy ingredient used in two of the new alchemy pills I introduced to Feinrea recently. They only grew on mountains of a certain elevation. Feinrea’s signature was on this quest, so I quickly signed my approval and placed the quest on top of the one Kari had just signed.

“Of course, I don’t want any Spiritualist weaker than B-rank taking quests, but I also understand how unrealistic that is.” Grabbing another quest, I read through the quest details and sender before signing off on it. “Ever since we attended the Eieran Family’s ball, we’ve been swamped with requests. Even though we turn down some of them because they’re outside our jurisdiction or simply against the law, we still have about one hundred quests coming in every month. I suspect that number will grow with time.”

“That does make sense.” Kari smiled wanly as she placed the sheet of parchment in her hands into the rejection pile. “We can’t really afford to be picky when we have this many quests.”

All quests needed to be signed off by either me, Kari, Fay, or Lin before we would allow people to take them. This was because some people tried to slip in quests that were either outside the scope of our operations or illegal. A good example was when a noble family tried to hire us as soldiers. Our sect did do protection detail and guard duty, but those were temporary requests with a specific time frame. There had also been a few assassination requests. Not only were those outside of our jurisdiction, assassination was punishable by life in prison or execution depending on who was killed.

“Aaaaaahhhh!!!”

Sometime into our work, Kari suddenly threw her head back and released an annoyed scream. I looked up from the quest I was reading. We were about halfway through our stack, but it looked like we might have to take a break.

“I really don’t like this at all!” Kari complained. “I don’t want to sit behind a desk signing papers all day! I want to go exploring too! I want to travel into the Demon Beast Mountain Range again! I want to explore ruins and go on adventures!”

Hearing her words made me smile.

In our previous life, Kari and I used to go adventuring all the time when we were members of the Explorer’s Guild. We spent over a decade adventuring. However, after returning from Niðavellir, we formed our own sect and began working hard to expand our influence so we could take quests and fight the Sekbeists.

Kari never complained back then, but it wasn’t because she didn’t want to go exploring. She’d matured greatly and was able to put her own desires aside for the sake of the greater good. By contrast, this Kari was not nearly as mature.

I honestly liked that. I liked that this Kari could remain so carefree. I liked that she could display her immaturity and honest desire for adventure without reserve. In my mind, seeing her act like this meant I had accomplished one of my greatest goals.

Allowing Kari to retain her innocence and sense of adventure.

“We’ll go exploring soon,” I promised. “I’ll see about hiring several people who can do basic tasks like signing off on quests and creating our budget for us. I actually want to gather ingredients to make the Elemental Enlightenment Pills for you, Fay, and Lin some time within the next few days. We’ll go out then.”

“You mean it?” Kari asked.

“I do.”

“Promise?”

“Pinky promise.”

I lifted my left hand and held it out. Kari looked at it, then at me, before she smiled and hooked her pinky with mine.

“I’m holding you to this,” she warned me.

“Don’t worry. I’ll begin holding interviews tomorrow and hire no less than three people who can do our workload. They’ll have to leave the more important stuff for us, but so long as they can do the rest, we can go exploring,” I said.

“Yes!” Kari pumped her fist into the air. I just shook my head and smiled.

Lin and Fay returned about an hour after Kari and I finished signing off on all the new requests people sent us. There had been two assassination requests—requester unknown—and one quest to hire our Spiritualists as soldiers. We burned the assassination quests and declined the one to make us into soldiers.

“We talked to Nadine’s husband,” Fay informed us. “He’s going to build us another custom bed that can fit Lin’s tail.”

“That’s great.” I smiled in relief. “I’m glad to know we can count on Vance to help us out.”

“He does good work,” Lin added as she crossed her arms. “This princess approves. His children are brats, though.”

I snorted at Lin’s addendum. She didn’t like Vance’s children. Of course, this was a completely one sided dislike. Casius and Kaleb loved Lin and kept hitting on her, which I was fairly certain was the cause for her aversion to them.

Having two people hit on one of my fiances normally would have upset me, but the two were still quite young. They were thirteen and fourteen years-old respectively. If they had been adults or at least around sixteen or seventeen, I’d have beaten them to within an inch of their lives, but I didn’t feel the need to get upset at children with a crush.

That said, if they kept hitting on Lin after they grew up, I was going to whack them upside the head good.

Since Kari and I were finished filing requests, we decided to take a break and have some lunch. My stomach was rumbling anyway.

However, just as we were about to head down to the mess hall, someone knocked at the door. It was Eira, the other receptionist who worked at the front counter and was charged with accepting and logging quests. She wore a somewhat aggrieved expression as she entered. I couldn’t recall ever seeing her look this annoyed and angry before.

“What’s wrong, Eira?” I asked as she came up to us, a single sheet of parchment in her hand.

“We’ve just received a request from the Eiran Family that’s a bit… odd,” she admitted. “I thought I’d bring it to your attention.”

I shared a look with Kari, Fay, and Lin. After seeing the confusion on their faces, I felt a little better. It was good to know I wasn’t the only one who felt this way.

Dagny was normally the one who brought us requests, and she always did so at the beginning of every morning about one hour after we ate breakfast. This break in routine caused mild alarm bells to ring through my head.

“What’s the request?” asked Kari with furrowed brows.

“It’s a request that was made specifically for you four. They want you to travel to one of the Eiran Family’s hot springs,” Eira said, which only increased my confusion. Our request was to journey to a hot spring? Did the Eieran Family want us to take a vacation? My confusion was cleared up a second later when Eira continued. “Apparently, a peeper has been spotted spying on the women while they bathe. This person has proven incredibly illusive and somehow managed to avoid being caught, which is why they want to hire you four to take on this request.”

Well, now I knew why Eira was so upset. Peeping wasn’t considered a serious offense, but no one wanted to be spied on while they were bathing.

It was rare for anyone to specifically request the four of us. While there had been a few people who requested us to complete a task for them, most people understood and respected that we didn’t normally accept requests. As the leaders of the Nevarian Braves, our job was managing the sect, not romping around for the sake of others.

That did not mean we couldn’t take requests from others, however, and if anyone could request something from us specifically, it would be the Eieran Family. This was for multiple reasons. Not only was the Eieran Family one of the Three Heavenly Families who helped rule Nevaria, but they had also been helping us advertise and expand our business. We would not be where we were today without their help.

And they knew that.

They were likely trying to cash in on this fact.

I glanced at Kari, Fay, and Lin to see what they thought. While Lin didn’t seem to care one way or the other, Fay and Kari were standing up and had righteous indignation blazing in their eyes.

“Who dares peep on women in the hot spring?!” demanded Kari. “I’ll stab them in the balls!”

“And I’ll crush their balls!” Fay added.

Seeing the two getting so fired up, I decided to place top priority on finding people who could handle the paperwork involved with running a sect. It looked like we were going to take a trip to the hot springs.

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