• Action
• Adventure
• Drama
• Fantasy
• Harem
• Martial Arts
• Mature
• Romance
• Seinen
• Supernatural

• Reincarnation
• Second Chance
• Time Travel to the Past
• Past Life Memories
• Time Loop / Regression
• Cultivation
• Power Progression
• Ruthless Protagonist (when necessary)
• Strong to Stronger
• Overpowered Protagonist
• Cheat-like Powers
• Hard-Working Protagonist
• Tragic Past
• Magic
• Martial Arts
• Alchemy
• Sect/Guild Building
• Nobles
• Political Intrigue
• War
• Large-Scale Battles
• Kingdom Building
• Ancient Secrets
• Secret Organizations
• Harem Seeking Protagonist
• Harem with Real Romantic Development
• Loyal Subordinates
• Loyal Love Interests
• Monster Girl Heroine
• Beastkin
• Childhood Friends
• Arranged Marriage
• Jealousy
• Love Interests Grow Stronger
• Slow-Burn Romance
• Strong Female Leads
• Tournaments
• Fights Against Stronger Opponents
• Arrogant Young Masters
• Face-Slapping
• Scheming Antagonists
• Assassination Attempts
• Epic Battles
• Revenge
• Demon Beasts
• Demon Lords
• Betrayal
• Bloodline Powers
• Body Tempering
• Forbidden Techniques
• Mystical Realms
• Cunning Protagonist
• Protective Protagonist
• Determined Protagonist
• Charismatic Protagonist
• Strategic Minded Protagonist
• Cares About His Subordinates
• Does Not Hide His Strength

The Northern Plains was just as I remembered it. Unlike the arid Endless Desert, with its unbearable heat, the Northern Plains possessed a much milder climate. Temperatures didn’t get very high anywhere within this region unless it was near one of the active volcanoes, but those were located either much further north or toward the archipelago on the opposite side of the continent.

We had just left the Endless Desert behind not ten days ago. It still felt strange not seeing nothing but sand dunes everywhere I looked, but that was to be expected. We had taken our time traversing the Endless Desert, checking out locales, discovering unexplored ruins buried beneath the sand’s depths. We must have spent close to two years in that desert. Now, however, I could no longer see any sign of it when I turned around. Most of what I saw behind me was either grassy plains or copses of trees.

I was sitting in the driver’s seat with Kari and Raul. My now two year old son was sitting on my lap and looking at everything in awe. He’d grown quite a bit bigger during our time in the Endless Desert and his hair had grown out more. His vibrant red hair had an unusual silvery tint to it, making it sparkle when it caught the sunlight.

“Wassat?”

“That’s a tree.”

“Wassat?”

“That’s grass.”

“Wassat?”

“… The sky.”

Raul’s new favorite word was “wassat,” which I guessed was because there were a lot of things that he wanted to know about. He would always point at objects and exclaim “wassat?” before waiting for either myself or one of his moms to answer him. That said, I had no idea where he’d learned this word since it wasn’t one we said often.

“Raul’s pretty inquisitive,” Kari said with a fond look in her eyes. Raul might not have been born from her, but he was just as much her son as he was Fay’s. “Kayli was like that, too, once she reached that age. I wonder if that means all your children will be like this, or if this is just how all children are in general.”

Kari tucked a stray strand of blonde hair behind her ear, smiling at me and Raul with those beautiful blue eyes of hers. She wasn’t wearing armor at the moment, nor did she have breast bindings keeping her chest in place. Her large breasts strained against the blue and white blouse. It looked like her clothing might rip at the seams, though the fabric thankfully held itself together admirably. We had spare clothes, but they were all the same size. Had her breasts grown this past year? No, I would have known if they had since I fondled them almost every day.

“I think most children are like this at two.” I shrugged at her words before changing the subject. “How does it feel being back in the Northern Plains?”

“Nostalgic,” was Kari’s immediate answer. “So much happened here that I can’t help but feel a little overwhelmed. We spent more than a quarter of our lives in this place. This is where we had our daughter, where we faced off against the Sekbeists, and where we learned many things about this world that most people have forgotten.”

The look in Kari’s eyes changed as she glanced up at the sky. It became glazed over as if she was remembering the past we had shared together.

In our previous lives, before I had gone back in time, Kari and I traveled to the Northern Plains, where we experienced many hardships, joys, life, and death together. We met Erica, joined a guild, explored ancient ruins, fought against the Sekbeists, traveled to another realm, met the Dwoerg… so much happened here. The Northern Plains was a place that I could never forget.

It was also the place where Kari and Kayli died in my first life.

Being here now acutely reminded me of my failure to protect the woman I loved and my beloved daughter, and so I renewed my promise to make sure that didn’t happen this time. I would not let the Great Overlord of the Seventh Realm take anyone from me ever again.

“I also can’t wait to meet our friends,” Kari added.

“You mean Erica and Tungsten?” I asked.

Kari nodded. “Not just Erica and Tungsten, but all our friends in the Explorers Guild too.”

I frowned as a thought crossed my mind. “Do you think we should meet them?” I tried my best to explain as my wife tilted her head and looked at me like she didn’t understand. “What I mean is, we initially joined the Explorers Guild because of your desire to explore ruins. However, I’m not sure we’ll be joining the Explorers Guild this time since our goals are different. What’s more, we might know them, but they don’t know us. It would be strange if we decided to randomly drop by for a visit, wouldn’t it?”

Kari did not say anything for the longest time, but I could tell from the way her face scrunched up that she realized what I meant and wasn’t sure she liked what I was saying. Even now, Kari was a free spirit, someone who didn’t like to be constrained and wanted to explore the world, but she was also practical and wise. She knew that with our goals of stopping the Sekbeists and defeating the Great Overlord of the Seventh Realm, we would have neither the time nor the reason to meet with Felicia, Markus, Donivan, or Axel.

“I guess… it would be odd if a couple of random strangers came by to visit,” she finally admitted with a sigh.

I smiled and reached over to place my hand on her thigh. I would have grabbed her hand, but she was currently holding onto the reins, which were attached to the massive lizard pulling our wagon.

The Giga Monster was a Demon Beast our people had captured in the Demon Beast Mountain Range and subjugated with a modified version of the Sekbeists’ control collar. It was something that Kari had created by reverse engineering the Sekbeist’s language and converting it into runes. It moved forward on four massive legs two times the size of regular tree trunks, each step creating a low rumble that made the earth vibrate. Yellow and black scales covered every inch of its body. It had yellow reptilian eyes and a mouth full of sharp fangs hidden behind its muzzle.

“Well…” I continued, scratching my chin, “We might need to hire them for their expertise on ruins at some point, so maybe we will see them in the future.”

“I hope so.”

At that moment, a butterfly fluttered past Raul’s face, causing him to reach out in an attempt to grab it. He missed, but that didn’t stop him. He stretched out both his hands and body as he tried to grab the small creature before it disappeared. I ended up having to grab hold of him so he wouldn’t fall off.

“Butterfwy! Butterfwy!”

He called out to the butterfly as it vanished from his sight, then turned to me with teary eyes. He looked two seconds away from crying.

“Butterfwy gone!”

“It’s okay. There are a lot of butterflies out here.” I placed a hand on Raul’s head and began ruffling his hair. “Tell you what. Next time a butterfly comes by, I’ll catch it for you.”

My son was an intelligent child. He already knew around two hundred words and could string them together to form basic sentences. Since he was our only child, myself and all of his moms pampered him a lot. I once heard someone say that children learn language by imitating their parents, so we often spoke with Raul and read him stories every chance we had.

His favorite stories were the adventure stories Kari told him. I believed it was because she was the best orator of us all. She had a habit of overexageratting her voice to draw out the tension of her words and would even enact scenes while narrating. Raul would always pay rapt attention to her whenever she was telling a story.

“Weally?” Raul asked, his eyes glittering.

“Really,” I said with a nod.

That seemed to settle Raul down, which was something I felt grateful for. I loved my son dearly, but I could not deal with a crying toddler, no matter how many times it happened. Raul was a lot more rambunctious than his sister had been, too. While he was still a good child, he would cry and scream a lot more than Kayli had… and that could sometimes have very, uh, disastrous results.

He had quite a lot of Spiritual Power for a child.

I did still remember the first time he threw a tantrum, which resulted in our room almost burning down. He had wanted to stick a quill in his mouth. I took it from him because quills had ink on them and that wasn’t healthy to eat. He had whailed and threw a fit, and his Spiritual Power had created several fires.

Fortunately, he was not the type to throw tantrums. We only had to deal with a handful of those since he’d been born.

“Look at you acting like a dad,” Kari teased. “You know, I still remember a time when you thought you’d make a terrible father.”

Now that I had placated him, Raul settled down again, leaning against me as he pointed at different objects and asked “Wassat?”

“That’s a bird,” I said to Raul before addressing Kari. “That was all in the past. Given my background, it was reasonable to think I would never make a good father.”

Of course, I was referring to how I didn’t have parents. I was an orphan who had no knowledge of his background or the circumstances of his birth. All I knew was that I probably wasn’t human, or maybe I was only half-human. My ability to manipulate the elements without dances before reaching the Third State of Spiritualism was proof of that. The Sekbeists reaction to me was further proof. Beyond that, however, I knew nothing about who I was or where I came from.

“Whether or not you were raised by loving parents has nothing to do with whether you’d make a good father,” Kari said softly.

“I know that now, but I didn’t know that back then.”

Kari grew silent and contemplative, which gave me a chance to answer Raul when he pointed at something and asked “wassat?” in his adorable voice. He would mostly point at things I’d already told him about. I patiently answered him anyway. A nursemaid that Empress Hilda hired once told me that children learned best through repetition.

During that time, a shadow suddenly flew over our heads. I looked up to see a young-looking girl dressed in a simple sundress flying past us. The dragon wings on her back flapped several times to keep her aloft. She had a long tail protruding from the bottom of her dress, silvery green hair, and vibrant green eyes that glowed with a reptilian glimmer.

Out of all my wives, Siv was definitely the cutest. Her skin was so white it reminded me of freshly fallen snow. There were no blemishes to be found anywhere. Covering her skin in certain areas like her legs, feet, hands, and her longer than average ears, were silvery green scales that sparkled in the sunlight. A long tail at least two meters in length jutted from her tailbone, covered in silvery green scales, and a pair of horns twisted around her head like an elegant crown.

A lot of people would often stare at Siv, though it wasn’t because of her beauty so much as her exotic features.

“Siv! Siv!” Raul exclaimed when he saw her.

Whether it was because she heard Raul or another reason, Siv turned after flying over the wagon and drifted down. I shifted until I was sitting in the middle of the driver’s seat. Kari was also forced to adjust a little as our thighs and shoulders touched, the warmth of her skin reaching me through our clothes. Siv gently set her feet on the floor where I’d been, adjusted her tail, folded in her wings, and sat herself down on my left.

“We’re coming up on a city,” she said without preamble.

“Is it a big city?” asked Kari.

“Mmm.”

“How far out is it?” I asked.

Siv tilted her head as her eyes scrunched up. Her eyes were a bit wider and more innocent than Kari’s, Fay’s, or Lin’s. She had a cute nose that wiggled a little when she was thinking. Her soft, pink lips pursed. I resisted the urge to lean down and kiss them, but I still couldn’t stop myself from staring at them.

“About… one hundred kilometers,” she said at last.

Siv’s vision was the best among us. Perhaps it was because she was a Drakvarian—a race of humanoid dragon-like beings belonging to a higher realm—but she could see a couple hundred kilometers out and accurately judge the distance.

“How big would you say the city is?” asked Kari.

“Bigger than Nevaria.”

Even in the Northern Plains, there were not many cities bigger than Nevaria. In fact, there were only maybe five or six cities that size. Most of those cities were not in the path that went from the Endless Desert to Midgard, which could be considered the capital of the Northern Plains, meaning we could accurately determine which city we were close to.

“It’s definitely Vhan,” Kari said.

Vhan was the first large city that Kari and I visited after reaching the Northern Plains in our previous life. It was a stopping point for many people traveling across the Northern Plains. Several sects had made the city their base of operations. If I remembered right, Vhan’s population was a bit larger than Nevaria’s.

It was getting to be midday, so Kari directed the Giga Monster off the road and parked our wagon close to a copse of trees. A gentle wind stirred the leaves and grass as she went about feeding the demon beast large quantities of raw meat, which she summoned from one of the many storage rings in her possession.

After getting off the wagon, I set Raul on my shoulders and headed for the back, opening the door and peering inside.

My last two wives were inside of the wagon. Fay was standing over the table where I had set up our advanced alchemy set. Her long red hair had been tied into a ponytail that sat high on her head, allowing me a glimpse of her slender and elegant neck. Fay’s skin was a little tanner than Kari’s and Siv’s, but it was still very fair like most people from Nevaria. Unlike Kari, who was going without breast bindings, Fay had wrapped her chest, so it looked smaller than it really was.

At the moment, it looked like she was grinding some ingredients with a mortar and pestle. Several of the flasks and beakers also had bubbling liquid inside.

Because Fay was wearing a sleeveless shirt and shorts that only covered a little of her thighs, I could see how her toned muscles from years of intense training flexed. I would never in a million years say my wife looked masculine. Her muscles contained the perfect combination of hardness and softness. She looked like a warrior princess, feminine and powerful. You could even say that Fay was the best of both worlds. And while her chest was not as large as Kari’s, it was still bigger Lin’s and Siv’s.

While Fay worked on her alchemy, Lin was reclining on the bed. The end of her six meter long snake tail moved back and forth across the ground. She wasn’t asleep, which surprised me. There was a book in her hand, and she was slowly turning the pages as her golden eyes scanned whatever had been written inside. I glanced at the title. It was an adventure book about a young man who sets off on a journey to save his home. That must have been something she had stored in her storage ring.

While Kari, Fay, and Siv all had fair skin, Lin had dark skin that made her look exotic. She was not as busty as Kari or Fay, but there was something elegant about her more modest chest--and I wasn’t saying that because she was always half-naked. Her hips were the widest of my wives due to her lower half being that of a snake. Her sinuous curves were incredibly deadly, something I could only reaffirm as I trailed the lines of her body with my eyes, from her beautiful neck and slender shoulders, to her taut stomach, wide hips, and snake tail. She had black hair that descended to the middle of her back, long and straight, with bangs that stopped just above her golden eyes.

Her clothing was a bra with shiny rhinestones and sequins. The beaded tassels hanging down the bra hid only a small portion of her flat stomach, which I had spent many days and nights licking and kissing. A belt with the same rhinestones and sequins glittered as it wrapped around her waist, holding up the long white skirt that covered her genitals.

“Hey, you two,” I called in. “We’ve stopped for lunch. Come out whenever you’re ready.”

“Mom. Food is ready,” Raul added.

At the sound of mine and Raul’s voice, Fay and Lin looked up from their respective tasks to gaze at me and my son.

Lin was the first to react. I had said the magic words, after all. She used a bookmark to mark the page she had been reading, closed the book, and set it to the side before slithering off the bed.

“This princess is coming right now, Darling. She would not miss lunch for anything.”

“I’ll be out in just a minute,” Fay added, though she did not travel over to me like Lin did. “I just need to finish refining these alchemy pills.”

I nodded and didn’t argue with Fay as she continued her work. Refining alchemy pills was a task that required all of a person’s concentration, especially once you began refining original pills like Fay was. It was also not something you could stop midway and start up again. Stopping meant you had to dispose of whatever you’d been refining and start over from scratch.

Since it looked like Fay was busy, only Lin joined us outside. I stepped back as she used her long tail to leap down from the wagon. She leaned in and gave me a soft kiss before grabbing my free hand and dragging me over to where Kari and Siv were.

Human and drakvarian were in the process of setting everything up. Siv had brought a long table and several chairs out of a storage ring, along with some silverware and plates. She was currently in the process of arranging everything. Meanwhile, Kari had summoned a large grill. It was made of black steel. Beneath the grill was a hole that Kari had apparently dug out and filled with charcoal, which was already burning.

Kari had already summoned several slabs of marbled meat and a variety of vegetables, which she was in the process of rubbing spices into. It looked like we were having venison for lunch.

“Big Sister, this princess will help you cook! Let this princess help!”

“Sure. Help me rub these spices into the meat, Lin.”

“Leave it all to this princess!”

Since it looked like Kari and Lin had the cooking aspect well in hand, I traveled over to Siv and helped her set the table. We placed a sheet over the table, set up the chairs, and placed the plates and silverware on top. While we were doing this, I made sure to keep an eye on Raul, who mimicked the hopping actions of a frog he was following.

Raul had been walking for about a year now, but he still had trouble keeping his balance. That said, he was pretty strong. I didn’t know any toddlers who could hop like that. Not that I knew many toddlers to begin with. Thinking about it, I didn’t actually know anyone with babies around Raul’s age.

It wasn’t long before the delicious scent of meat wafted through the air. The smoke from our fire drifted into the sky and carried the scent on the wind. I would have normally been worried about demon beasts attacking us (and ruining our meal), but there were no demon beasts in this part of the Northern Plains. Even if there were, our wagon had several Demon Beast Repellent Pellets stashed inside of pouches that dangled from the eaves.

Fay finally emerged from the wagon just as the food finished grilling, and our group sat around the table to eat dinner.

Perhaps because he hadn’t seen his mom since this morning, or maybe because Fay was still his favorite no matter how hard I tried, Raul chose to sit on her lap. At two years old, he was at the age where he could now eat solid foods, so she fed him small slices of meat and vegetables.

He liked the meat.

The vegetables… not so much.

“Blegh! Taste gross.”

“Don’t say that. Vegetables are important. How can you grow to be as big as your daddy if you don’t eat them? Come on now. Open up.”

“Mmm mmm.”

On that note, Fay’s breasts were no longer producing milk. Her nipples, which had come out of hiding while her body was producing milk, had gone back to being inverted. I thought it was a nice change. Fay’s inverted nipples were like treasure troves waiting to be dug up. Before Raul was born, I used to have a lot of fun coaxing them out.

We took our time eating. While we did have several important missions to accomplish, we were not in a rush. The Great Overlord of the Seventh Realm wouldn’t be released for at least a decade and everything else was, while important, not of such immediate importance that we couldn’t enjoy life.

“This slice could use a bit more salt. Siv, pass this princess the salt.”

“Here.”

“Make sure you chew before swallowing, Raul. You don’t want to choke again, do you?” said Fay.

“Raul won’t choke. Raul safe.”

Kari watched Raul and Fay with a smile. “I hope the meat isn’t too spicy. I remember the last time we cooked, the spices were too much for Raul’s sensitive palate.”

“It seems fine,” Fay said as she watched Raul take a thin sliver of meat into his mouth and chew. “He doesn’t seem to have any problems eating this time. I suspect it was the chilly powder that he couldn’t handle.”

Meals were always lively in this family, perhaps because we had so many members. I didn’t talk as much as the others, preferring to listen as I ate, though I did speak whenever one of my wives or son spoke to me. After we all had our fill, I felt like it was time for a serious discussion.

“We’ll be coming up on Vhan soon,” I began. “Siv did some reconnaissance and said it’s about one hundred kilometers away. If we maintain our current speed, we should reach Vhan by tomorrow.”

“Vhan is the second largest city in the Northern Plains, right?” asked Fay.

“That is correct,” I said.

“Didn’t the Sekbeist invade Vhan in your previous life?” Fay questioned me further.

“They did.” Kari was the one who answered. She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear as I tugged on my bangs, recalling what happened in our past life. “However, the invasion didn’t happen until Eric and I were in our thirties or forties, so we won’t have to worry about that happening for awhile. Actually, when we arrived in the Northern Plains in our past life, we were a lot older than we are now.”

In our previous life, the Demon Beast Invasion did not happen until I was 20 years old, we spent another several years training in the forests surrounding Nevaria, and then another several years gathering people together. When the demon beasts attacked our safe haven and we were forced to flee into the Endless Desert, I believe Kari and I were at least in our late twenties if not our early thirties, though it was hard to know since we stopped counting our age after the Demon Beast Invasion. It didn’t help that Kari and I aged far more slowly than normal people thanks to our Spiritualism. At twenty-six, Kari had barely looked old enough to be twenty, and at thirty, she had only physically aged by about one year.

At the moment, I was twenty-two years old. We had arrived in the Northern Plains more than a decade before the Sekbeist Invasion was supposed to happen. It was enough leeway that we could treat this journey as a family vacation while still accomplishing our goals.

Of course, I knew that my past could not be used as an accurate means to determine the present, but assuming all of the changes that happened in Nevaria were directly related to me, I felt it was logical to assume nothing in the Northern Plains had been affected by my going back in time. That being the case, I could at least use my knowledge of the past until I began affecting changes myself. My only concern was whether the changes I made impacted this world for the better… or the worst.

“So what should we do then?” asked Fay.

“We came early because we wanted to establish ourselves before the Sekbeist Invasion began,” I started to explain. “If we can build a strong reputation now, we can create a powerful fighting force and shift supplies and troops between Nevaria and the Northern Plains, so that when the Sekbeists finally show themselves, we will be able to mount a proper defense.”

“When the Sekbeists invaded last time, half the reason we ended up in such a miserable position was because we were caught unprepared,” Kari added. “Everyone thought the Sekbeists were cultists who worshipped the Great Overlords. We didn’t even realize they were not human until they forcibly opened a Warp Gate and began invading our realm. By then it was too late and we had no choice but to fight defensively as our forces were pushed back by their overwhelming numbers.”

“So we need to establish a reputation here as powerful Spiritualists and authority figures is what you two are saying?” When Kari and I both nodded, Fay crossed her arms and leaned back. “I get what you two want and are hoping to achieve, but how should we establish ourselves?”

“There are two ways to build your reputation in the Northern Plains.” Kari held up a hand and extended one finger. “The first is to join a sect and take on quests. Back then, Eric and I joined the Explorers Guild and took on many quests that involved exploring ruins. Unfortunately, we didn’t gain much of a reputation because the Explorers Guild wasn’t involved in quests like demon beast subjigations.”

The quickest way to earn a strong reputation was to slay demon beasts, which often caused problems for the citizens of the Northern Plains. Subjigations quests earned you the gratitude of those who were affected by the demon beasts in question and further increased your reputation within your sect.

“Since we’re already part of a sect, I don’t think we can do that,” Fay said.

“Right, which means we have to register our current sect and establish ourselves by completing quests to increase our sect’s reputation. That is the second option, and the one we’ll be doing here.” Kari raised her second finger.

“How do we register our sect?” Fay continued questioning us.

“We need to travel to Midgard,” I answered. “Midgard is the center of the Northern Plains, and it’s where all the sects go to register themselves. Once we’re registered, we can build a branch office with a Warp Gate inside the city. The Warp Gate will allow us to travel to our main base in Nevaria. Of course, getting registered takes time. There’s a long process involved, so we could be waiting for months.”

When Kari and I first established Brave Vesparia, the process had been expedited thanks to Erica and Tungsten, but we couldn’t rely on them this time since neither of them knew we even existed.

Thinking about it, I wasn’t even sure if they were in a position to help this time. Erica had been the sect leader of the Battling Valkyries when Kari and I first arrived here, but we had been much older back then. She was just a few years younger than us, so she wouldn’t be older than nineteen or twenty years at present. I didn’t think she would have a very high position within her sect right now.

“That’s why you wanted to come here a few years before the Sekbeists invaded!” Fay suddenly realized.

Her loud exclamation startled Siv and Lin, who were still in the process of scarfing down their food. Both of my non-human wives had eaten nearly four times more than the rest of us combined. Raul was also startled. He looked up at Fay with concerned eyes.

“Mom, what’s wrong?”

“Nothing is wrong.” Fay smiled and rubbed her son’s head.

“That’s right.” Nodding several times, Kari pushed her plate away and placed her hands on the table. “The process of building a sect and getting a Warp Gate to connect Midgard to Nevaria could take several years, so we wanted to travel here now, more than a decade before the Sekbeists will invade. That way, we can establish ourselves early and prepare for the coming invasion. If we can get a Warp Gate to Nevaria before the invasion happens, we can begin transferring people here to build our forces.”

While no one in the Northern Plains was even aware of our existence, the Nevarian Braves sect was easily the most powerful sect currently in existence. All of our members were at least at the Second State of Spiritualism, and a few like Catalyna, Geirolf, and Earland were even close to reaching the Third State of Spiritualism. I could have included Sigrid Drage, who had already reached the Third State of Spiritualism, but I didn’t trust her.

And, of course, there was us. Everyone except Kari had reached the Fourth State of Spiritualism, something no one else in this world had.

“I understand,” Fay said at last.

“It’s a good plan. This princess approves,” Lin added.

Siv said nothing, but I expected as much from the quietest among my wives.

After lunch, we cleaned off our utensils, plates, and the grill before storing everything back into our storage rings. Then our group set off again.

Since Kari had been driving all morning, Fay took over the task. She sat in the driver’s seat and confidently steered the Giga Monster back onto the road. Raul and I sat with her and listened to her talk about the new alchemy pill she was working on, which would cleanse the body of impurities. She called it the Body Cleansing Pill. It was not even in the experimental phase yet. Her latest pill, the one she had been refining when I informed her that lunch was ready, had not been successful.

Everything seemed so peaceful. So normal. None of us knew we would eventually become embroiled in a series of gruesome murders during a tournament. We simply had no way of knowing what was in store for us.

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