New Empire, Taira Clan MansionA man with silky blonde hair and a robust physique covered up by loose robes sat on a lap, being fanned by women all in night gowns. There were easily over ten women surrounding him, attending to him in some way. Some fed him the grapes he loved more than anything, some were giving him massages all around, others played harps in perfect harmony, some danced around for his pleasure and one of them just kept on whispering into his ears. However there was one woman who sat at the far end, looking at the man with a bored expression.The woman… teenager wore a very soft linen cloth, and was covered in all sorts of jewelries around her neck and with a tiny tiara on her head."Don't you ever get bored of this, father?"The silver haired girl asked with a bored glare."Bored of what?"He asked right before taking a grape from one of the women."Making me sit here and watching you play around with your concubines?""Eh? T-this is father-daughter bonding time.""M
"Sotomura Clan! You have been invited for the Eld-""Shut it, would ya?""Eek!" "Tch. Why are we being asked this!? It's not like we have a choice. Is she not attending this event?""Maybe it's their way of showing mercy?""Hmmm, this emperor of ours… so useless.""So, we are attending then?""Yes, yes. Now tell them to shut up and never come here again. I'm about to revolutionize this world with my ancestors knowledge and my godly foresight!""Ye-yes Grand Sage."***The little black dragon shot off a ball of fire at a dummy, burning the strawman."How was that, Mr. Sotomura?"Shiro asked after picking up Karma. She carried the creature by hugging it from the back, considering it had grown bigger than it was a month ago. So much so that she couldn't even put it on her shoulders anymore.The big scientist walked over, checking Karma out."Karma is growing at a splendid rate."Sotomura said while jotting down some notes."Hmm, I gue
I ran away from the room and ended up teleporting into the bee hive. When I got there, I got a nasty reminder why I didn't like that place. Stupid spiders threw their mana threads at me. They got blocked by the fire shields I constantly had up, then I stepped in some random acid. It was a horrible experience I didn't want to go through again. But I had caused enough disturbance in the bee hive to grab the spider's attention."Oi! Chicken! Some of us are very busy most of the time, you know?"I heard Yokino scream from behind me. I turned around to see her in a different Yukata other than the one she made earlier on. And her hair had started to turn blue, her skin was a bit paler than before. She had tied her hair into one bun and chocked it with… an ant leg? Her spider legs looked smaller, but were slumped and she all round looked drained.'I see you are still as grumpy as ever.’“Grumpy? Me? Never."I looked at her and she seemed tuckered out. She even had eye bags under all eight ey
(Ulva's Perspective)"Hey Ulva-chan! Aren't you tired of doing that?"A bored Kawaii asked as she melted an icicle in her hands."What? No way!"Ulva responded."Um, but this is getting boring.""Really? Sorry, but I wanted to see how much better I could get with my magic. Just look at this. [Ice Magic: Ice Bunny]."She opened her hands and a tiny crystalline bunny was formed. It jumped off her hand and hopped close to the chair in the room. Once it nibbled on the chair a bit, it exploded, encasing the foot of the chair in ice."See? I want to make something cute, but every time I try this they always explode.""Ne ne, Ulva-chan, don't you think it's better to weaponise these guys instead?""Weaponise them?""Yeah, you know? Like to make it an attack spell or something. Like imagine. [Ice Magic: Ice Bunny]! Then you let out a huge bunny that freezes a bunch of your enemies! Imagine Hinotori-sama in dire straits and you sweep down and do that for her. What do you think would happen? Hi
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, dear lord. Funniest shit ever. When the sudden realization that given a month or two this little bastard will be strong enough to raze a village with ease and be your master in a Soul Bond hits you, it’ll definitely be priceless. I bet I’m laughing my ass off in my current life, you retard.”I was really not liking this guy. If I met him, we’d have a little chat about pranking people.“Anyway, I managed to acquire this egg to protect Larm in case Goliath failed to do so. So, you, the one who has acquired it, quite literally hold the strongest war potential in the history of this world. A beast that would definitely cause nations to stay in check. You should have seen the images now. Visions of its mother and what she did to this world just when the residents were beginning to grow. I believe she may have set civilization back by over a millennium or so, but I lack any evidence of this yet. Anyway, I hope you treat it well and whatever you do, just make sure you do
That evening, dinner was weird.“Umm, big sis.”Ulva tapped me as I ate my meat. I awkwardly looked at her from the corner of my eye.‘What is it?’“What was that thing you did with the other big sisters last night that you said I couldn’t watch?”“PFFTT! Cough, cough… N-nothing.”I looked at the others. Kara was being bashful in her seat, avoiding any sort of eye contact with me. Minerva and Kawaii on the other hand were eating their food like nothing had happened.Sometimes I wished I had their ignorance for such situations. There was no use beating myself over this. I just needed to man up and hear what happened. It was my first night after all.‘Umm… Ulva, what did you see?’She came into my ears then began whispering of my… deeds at night.“Oh my…”I looked to Kara and eventually mouthed the words“I-I’m sorry.”She just looked away. Ulva whispered to me about Kara and Minerva. I was horrified to find out it was more like they were raping me. I glared at both of them and they wav
Day 36‘Sylvie, you ready?’"Of course! Let's go!"‘Road trip! Road trip!’The bratty Amethyst shouted in my head. I just looked at her and sighed."Ahem!""Eh?"I turned back and I saw a tall rat that was skinny with shadowy fur and demon-like red eyes.‘Rat dude?’"Lady Hinotori. I am glad that you could tell what I looked like, but I am also angry that you didn't look for me all this while."'Oi! That's a very questionable attitude right there. Don't act like you're my girlfriend! Do you wanna come with us?’"Sadly, I can't. We are still digging tunnels in the forest in an attempt to have access to all parts in the forest. We should have a smooth way to the south. Would you want to use that?"‘Naa, I want to explore instead. Although the sun sort of hurts now.'I thought to myself as I rested on the Shiroi’s back. For some weird reason, ever since my time in the dungeon the sunlight actually made me weaker. It was quite a pain in the ass having 50% of my stats nullified during the
RORI SVENAs soon as the boss left I let out a sigh then wiped my face with my cloak. The morning sun burnt like hell and I wouldn't be able to go around delivering the information like she told me to. So I went into the mansion, where I met the human boy. I remembered his name being Erwin Dolus. He was a new recruit who Dog brought into the industry. I didn't understand why though. There was nothing physically amusing about the kid.As I looked at his shaking figure, I let out a tired sigh then reached out my hand to help him. He was still shaking timidly which infuriated me."I don't have all day, you know? Hurry it.""Oh-um-sorry."He grabbed my arm. His hands and face were sweaty, as if he just woke up from a bad dream. Having no interest in what happened to him, I just helped him up then walked past him towards one of the rooms where I had last seen Nukeme. The treasury. In the span of only two days I had found out so much about these monsters. They were quite unorganized led by