After the thunderbolts falling from the sky finally stopped—specifically, at Eiji's command—Kinto-Un shrank in an instant and transformed into a cloud several meters wide.
The creature descended from the sky, floating above the ground like Aladdin's magic carpet.
Akame and the other women were startled. Eiji hadn't summoned the thunderbolts earlier—it was this cloud that had done so!
Still, how could something like that even exist?
Some of the abilities Eiji had demonstrated so far left everyone—except Esdeath—speechless.
"We've defeated the targets. Cornelia, take Gilberda. Poney, take Cassandra. We'll bring them back with us."
The crown on Eiji's head had vanished, and his blue eyes had returned to normal. Without hesitation, he ordered Cornelia and Poney to capture the two women he was referring to.
The women were stunned for a moment. But neither of them refused. After all, their main objective was indeed to capture the beautiful women in the Oarburgh organization.
"...." Merraid.
The two most beautiful women in her organization were captured, but the rest were killed. She had a hunch about what Eiji might want from them. Especially when she saw that everyone in his group, including Esdeath, was a beautiful woman.
"Um... Eiji, do you want us to go up to those clouds, too?" Akame asked with a strange expression.
Why not?
Right now, Eiji was standing on top of Kinto-Un.
"Yes. Everyone, get on. This cloud or creature can also serve as transportation." Eiji said as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Before long, the cloud actually carried them all away!
Poney and the others exclaimed. From a distance, they could even see the castle where they had fought earlier, and the Revolutionary Army's tea factory.
Speaking of that last building. Eiji didn't forget to order Kinto-Un to blow it up with his thunder. He had only one goal: to draw the attention of a certain woman in the Revolutionary Army to himself.
[After capturing three women today, are you still thinking of ways to capture another woman, host?]
'Miss System, I'm trying to be fair. All the beautiful, suffering, and kind women in the original work must stay under my wing. That's so they'll be safe and get a happy ending.'
Her host's words sounded a bit like those of a protagonist. But Miss System knew he was saying that with lust in his heart!
[Hehehe. He truly deserves to be our King! As the Harem King, your passion really must be boundless!]
For once, Eiji wanted to refute what Leme had said. After all, he did it to save those women, too, right?
Take Merraid, for example—she died at Akame's hands in the original story. Gilberda was killed by Gozuki, and Cassandra was overwhelmed by two of the Four Rakshasa Demons sent by the Empire.
The author of the original work really created a dark fantasy. Hardly any of the beautiful women survive until the end; he kills them in all sorts of brutal ways.
Eiji won't let any of that happen. He's going to shatter the 'death flags' of all the beautiful women in the original work!
Time passed.
At a hidden location.
In a conference room within the Revolutionary Army's headquarters. Right now, the atmosphere in the room is heavy and tense.
On a large wooden table, emergency reports brought by their fastest messenger birds lay scattered. The bird had been sent by a spy they'd planted in the city of Sweun.
In one of the chairs, a beautiful woman with long, braided silver hair frowned. She was wearing a black suit that revealed her cleavage, an eye patch over her right eye, and a green and black mechanical right arm.
She had lost those two limbs during a battle with Esdeath in the past.
His name is...
Najenda, the former Imperial general who now leads the Revolutionary Army.
"This is bad news for us."
She walked over to the two former Imperial generals who had defected alongside her, and they sat on either side of her.
Hemi and Nakaido.
They are men. I don't know what they look like.
Just like Najenda, both of them had read the emergency reports on the table and had grim expressions.
"This doesn't make any sense…" Hemi pounded the table with his fist, his voice trembling with a mix of anger and a hint of fear. "The two factories that produce our main commodities—salt and tea—have been completely destroyed. The reports state that the sites were destroyed by giant bolts of lightning that kept striking down and by ice, killing every worker and soldier inside."
"Ice... It must be Esdeath—specifically, her Teigu's power." Najenda said in a somber voice. But there was also confusion on her beautiful face. "Even so, who in the Empire is capable of unleashing a lightning strike described as being that powerful?"
"The spies we've placed in the city of Sweun aren't exaggerating the contents of the report, are they?" Hemi asked with a look of disbelief regarding the thunderbolts that had destroyed their tea factory.
Nakaido rubbed his forehead. "It says here that the lightning bolts fell from the sky with terrifying intensity, bringing down concrete buildings as if a god were in a rage. According to our intelligence, this is most likely the work of a secret Imperial unit."
"It must be them. But who has the ability to unleash lightning that powerful? He might be just as dangerous as Esdeath."
Hemi was absolutely certain that the Empire's secret unit was responsible.
Najenda sighed. She began tapping the table with her mechanical fingers. Both men's attention immediately turned to her.
"Something's off here. I know every type of Teigu recorded in Imperial history, including Esdeath's Demon's Extract. But not a single one of those weapons is capable of unleashing lightning bolts of such destructive power over and over again. This exceeds the capacity of any Teigu we know of."
Hemi and Nakaido fell silent.
Their fear of the Empire grew slightly in their hearts.
When they were still Generals in the Empire, they had never known that the Emperor or the Prime Minister possessed such power.
"Come to think of it… Yesterday, the sky above and around our headquarters was shrouded in dark clouds. Vaguely, we also heard many claps of thunder in the distance. That wasn't the same lightning that the unknown person used, was it?"
"If it's still related to the same person... The range of the attack is too vast and doesn't make sense."
Nakaido suddenly thought of something he didn't want to believe. Still, he voiced it to the two people in the room.
Najenda was speechless.
Hemi swallowed hard, "You've got to be kidding me. How far is our hidden base from the city of Sweun? It's about 1,000 kilometers! Yesterday was just a coincidence—it must have been a coincidence that the weather here was bad."
He couldn't imagine a human capable of manipulating the weather on such a massive scale.
"But a dark cloud that vast suddenly vanished, and didn't drop a single drop of rain. That's strange." Nakaido objected.
The implication of his words was clear: something was definitely wrong with the clouds that had covered the headquarters and the surrounding area yesterday.
Hemi's hands trembled.
He couldn't help but shudder at the thought that someone's abilities could extend that far. If the other side knew their location, wouldn't they be in danger of being killed at any moment?
"Nakaido, there's no harm in speculating about how powerful an enemy we don't know might be. But don't let that cause us or our soldiers to be afraid because of it."
Najenda admonished the man who was actually older than her.
Nakaido scratched his cheek. "My bad. But it's best for us to prepare for the worst-case scenario."
Hearing this, Najenda felt helpless. She hoped the worst-case scenario Nakaido had described wasn't true.
It's impossible for any human or Teigu to possess that much power. However, her understanding of just how much power a person could derive from a Teigu was clearly still limited.
In the original work, Esdeath was able to freeze an entire continent. Najenda in this timeline would surely have a different perspective if she saw that.
"By the way, the assassin organization we hired has reportedly been wiped out by a unit sent by the Empire."
She changed the subject.
However, that news was still bad for all of them and further increased the Revolutionary Army's losses.
"That's not all that surprising. After all, those people were up against Esdeath." As a former Imperial general, Nakaido knew just how powerful Esdeath was.
It's not without good reason that she's called the Empire's strongest fighter.
"Or maybe they were killed by that person with lightning abilities? The power of the people in the Empire's secret unit also shouldn't be underestimated." Hemi groaned.
The stronger the Empire becomes, the harder it is for the Revolutionary Army to destroy them.
"Actually, not all of them were killed. Our spies haven't found the bodies of Oarburgh's leader, Merraid, and her three subordinates—Cassandra, Gilberda, and Daniel."
Najenda focused on the things she found unusual. Of course, she had a hunch that the special unit sent by the Empire had captured those three.
However, according to other information written in the report, Some of them saw Esdeath walking with a group of women led by a man.
In other words, Esdeath was under that man's command. That's what's most unusual—how could a woman as arrogant as Esdeath so easily follow and accept orders from a man, unless he were the Prime Minister?
"So, what should we do next, Najenda?" Nakaido asked.
They were of equal status, but he and Hemi actually obeyed the silver-haired woman.
The idea to rebel against the Empire had even come from her.
Najenda had made up her mind.
"We must eliminate the Empire's secret unit to weaken the Empire. At the same time, we'll continue to build up our strength to match the Empire's. Remember, before leaving the Empire, we also took many Teigu from the storage vaults in the Palace. We must train people who are suited to use them."
Her words made the two former generals feel a little more optimistic about the future.
That's right!
They had many Teigu that they had stolen from the Empire's storage facility!
Najenda even had one for herself.
...
Meanwhile.
Inside one of the luxurious bedrooms of the Astral Express, the warm morning sunlight slowly filtered through the gaps in the thick silk curtains, illuminating the plush, king-size bed.
Last night, Eiji didn't sleep at all. He was busy 'treating' the three beautiful women on the bed. Just like him, they were also naked.
Not only did he heal their wounds, but he also corrected their deviant sexual orientations.
How did he do it?
With love, of course!
[To be precise, a bit of subtle brainwashing using—]
'Miss System, shut up. This is love, okay? It's not brainwashing at all.'
Eiji refuted the words of one of the women living inside his head (not literally). On the surface, he wore an expression of pleasure because at that moment, the leader of the Oarburgh organization—
"Eiji, your penis is incredible. It's still just as hard as it was yesterday." Merraid said in a seductive voice as she licked the head of his penis. Her sexy body, and the many love marks on her pale skin, were clearly visible before Eiji's eyes.
Her expression was also gentle, like a woman gazing at the man she loved. Her past self would never have done that to a man.
After all, she only liked women. But ever since Eiji secretly used All Fiction to erase the author's settings regarding her sexual orientation—as well as those of Cassandra and Gilberda…
Not only that, but Eiji also invited them outright to become his women. Otherwise, he didn't say what would happen.
However, Merraid was the first to agree. She also persuaded Cassandra and Gilberda to agree to serve Eiji together. She did this to save their lives as well.
Ever since witnessing the power Eiji displayed yesterday, Merraid has felt both fear and admiration for him.
As an assassin, especially after her sexual orientation returned to normal. Her mortality rate was extremely low, and Eiji's striking good looks tempted her.
If it were him, she wouldn't mind serving him in bed!
Cassandra and Gilberda were naturally surprised at first; they hadn't expected Merraid to accept Eiji's invitation so readily. They had no choice but to accept because, just like her, they, too, were captivated by Eiji's good looks.
Jie jie jie, thought Eiji.
[Hahahaha!]
Leme laughed along with her king.
Miss System sighed.
Her host had truly become the protagonist of a hentai story.
"Beautiful women like you serve me. How could my penis not be excited?" Eiji said without a trace of shame on his face.
He had no shame.
That's only natural.
"Fufu. We're glad you like us. That's why we're going to give you plenty of pleasure until you're satisfied."
If Daniel were still alive and heard what his leader said, he'd surely be shocked and jealous of Eiji!
Since he's a man, Merraid certainly had never done anything like that with him before.
But right now, she took his penis back into her mouth and moved her head up and down. Her gentle eyes were fixed only on Eiji's handsome face.
Eiji groaned; he could clearly feel how Merraid's tongue, the inside of her mouth, and her throat were giving his penis pleasure.
His penis was so pleased he was about to cum for the umpteenth time. By the way, as Merraid licked his penis in that position, the mirror behind her reflected her two lower holes, from which white fluid was dripping. Especially her pink asshole—it was gaping wide, and Eiji had cum inside it more than ten times since last night.
"Slurp... Slurp... Merraid-sama, you're being too greedy. I want to lick Eiji-sama's penis and put it in my mouth, too." Gilberda complained with a lewd expression on her beautiful face.
The blonde woman who had seemed so aggressive in yesterday's battle now looked like a woman from a brothel.
She licked Eiji's balls, and even his back door. She also put his balls in her mouth and groped his abdominal muscles with her hands.
Many men would go crazy from the pleasure she and Merraid were giving him. But Eiji still looked relaxed. After all, this isn't the first time he's been served by three beautiful women at once.
"Eiji-sama! Play with my anus as much as you want! Ohh! Ohh!"
Right now, Cassandra was even using all four of her hands to hold her legs up in the air and stroke his cock. She straddled Eiji, exposing both of her lower holes to him.
Eiji's hands weren't idle; he used his dildo to pound Cassandra's anus and squeeze her buttocks.
Cassandra moaned repeatedly, making a very lewd expression right in front of Merraid's eyes.
She was extremely aroused and had her 17th orgasm.
Shortly afterward.
*Plop! Plop! Plop!*
That morning, Eiji fucked Merraid, Cassandra, and Gilberda again, one after another. He cummed over and over inside their vaginas and anuses.
"AAAAAGHHH! Eiji! I love you! I love you!"
"Eiji-sama! Ahhh! Harder! Please pound my ass harder!"
"Eiji-sama, if you want... You can also pee inside me! I don't mind being your personal toilet!"
The three women went wild.
Their pupils also changed shape into hearts. As their positive levels continued to rise past 100, the color of the Master-Servant tattoos on their necks grew deeper.
That was proof that, in this life, Eiji had succeeded in saving them. Rather than dying as in the original work, they'd rather be his women and couldn't live without him.
They were addicted to his penis and his semen. And they realize that a man like him is truly extraordinary.
Three hours later.
Eiji finally left his bedroom. The door slid open with a mechanical sound, and he walked toward the main carriage.
Merraid, Cassandra, and Gilberda were still lying in bed, resting after serving their husband.
"It's time for me to visit my women in another world. But before that, I still need to tell Akame and the others. Maybe… I could take them to that world, too."
In the world he was referring to...
He thought it would be a good idea to have another organization besides Shadow Garden. Akame, Esdeath, and the others could become members.
They would help him conquer other beautiful women—ahem! I mean, they could help him eradicate every source of trouble in the Seven Nations.