With a heavy, lingering sluggishness, as though her consciousness were still fighting to remain tangled in the warm depths of a dream, Suzune slowly peeled her eyelids open.
At first, her vision was blurry and unfocused, and she was greeted by the sight of an extravagant, vaulted ceiling and the dazzling crystal prisms of a royal chandelier hanging directly overhead.
For a second, she simply stared blankly upward, her mind struggling to boot up after the deep, comatose slumber forced upon her by the backlash of her skill.
"Lucian…"
Involuntarily, the name of the person she loved more than anyone and anything in creation slipped past her dry lips.
That single whispered word acted like a bolt of lightning to her nervous system. With a violent jolt, her eyes snapped wide open. She bolted upright in the massive bed, her breathing instantly turning ragged as she whipped her head from side to side.
"Lucian?! Lucian?!"
She tore the pristine satin covers off her body and scrambled across the mattress, frantically scanning every corner of the lavish room.
Empty. The space beside her was completely unoccupied.
Cold, sharp, and suffocating panic clutched at her throat.
Right before she had collapsed into her deep sleep seven days ago, she was certain she had felt Lucian holding her!
He had woken up, hadn't he?! He had been breathing, speaking, and holding her in his arms! 'Please, God, don't tell me that was just a hallucination before I passed out! Please be awake, Lucian!' she prayed with every ounce of her soul.
Not bothering with shoes, Suzune got off the bed and sprinted barefoot across the plush carpet toward the heavy double doors. Grabbing the gilded handle, she yanked, only to find it locked from the outside.
Through her innate spiritual connection to him, because of the sacred bond connecting a Throne angel to her Heavenly Host, she could faintly sense his presence nearby, yet a physical door stood in her way.
Rational thought evaporated instantly from her mind. Stepping back half a pace, she raised her right hand; immediately, a terrifyingly dense sphere of crackling azure light materialized in her palm as she prepared to blast the reinforced doors, and likely half the hallway behind them, into subatomic dust using one of her strongest offensive skill.
Right as she drew her arm back to unleash the blast, warm fingers gently yet firmly wrapped around her raised forearm from behind.
The blue sphere of annihilation vanished into harmless sparks instantly. Suzune didn't even need to look over her shoulder to identify who had bypassed her sensory perimeter. Even though both of them were in completely different, inhuman bodies compared to their lives on Earth, she knew the exact temperature, pressure, and rhythm of that touch better than she knew her own heartbeat.
"Lucian…!"
Hot tears pricked violently at the corners of her eyes as she spun around on her heel. Standing right there was her favorite person in the entire world-no, in the entire galaxy, universe, multiverse, and omniverse!
Abandoning all composure, Suzune threw herself forward, crashing into his chest and wrapping her arms around his neck as she buried her face into his shoulder and began to sob openly.
Even though she had already cried her eyes out when he first woke up seven days ago, the sheer terror of waking up alone made the floodgates burst all over again.
"Shh, it's okay, Suzune. I'm right here," Lucian murmured softly. He didn't hold back at all, wrapping both arms securely around her trembling waist and pulling her flush against him. Resting his chin atop her head, he whispered the words she needed to hear most: "I'm not going anywhere. I'll always be right here with you, forever."
Without Suzune even consciously willing it, her racial traits reacted to her overwhelming surge of emotion.
With a brilliant burst of ethereal light, her magnificent angelic wings unfurled from her back, immediately sweeping forward to wrap tightly around Lucian, sealing the two of them inside a private, feathered cocoon.
Inside that warm enclosure, she clung to him desperately, chanting his name over and over like a frantic prayer while Lucian simply stood there patiently, rubbing slow, soothing circles into her back until her trembling finally began to subside.
Several minutes later, after she had cried out the worst of her panic, Lucian carried her back over to the edge of the bed and sat down.
Suzune remained perched squarely in his lap, straddling his thighs and refusing to loosen her death-grip around his neck by even a millimeter.
Every few seconds, she would press her lips franticly against his jaw, his neck, or the side of his throat. It was not out of lust, right now, but simply to feel the steady, rhythmic thrum of his pulse beneath her lips.
Back when Lucian had fallen unconscious upon their arrival, his heartbeat had stopped completely; feeling that warm, living pulse beating against her mouth was the only thing keeping her sanity anchored at this moment.
"You won't ever fall into a sleep like that again, right?" Suzune whispered against his skin, her voice small and needy.
Lucian kept running his fingers gently through her hair. "I won't."
"You won't ever leave me feeling that cold and alone again, right?"
"I won't."
"Promise me you'll never yell at me or push me away again?"
"I promise. I won't."
"And you won't ever, ever do anything to hurt yourself again, right?"
"I won't, Suzune."
Patiently, tenderly, Lucian affirmed every single one of her insecurities as she peppered his skin with desperate kisses and tiny, needy bites. Because Lucian had dressed down into a simple, loosely unbuttoned white dress shirt before stepping into her room, she had easy access to his upper body.
She didn't hesitate to push the fabric aside, pressing open-mouthed kisses and leaving faint teeth marks across his sculpted chest and abs, before working her way back up to nibble along his collarbone while muttering endless confessions of her love between questions.
To an outsider, her behavior might have looked wildly erratic, even unhinged. However, Lucian knew her inside and out.
Out of all the people in his life, Suzune was someone who required constant, tangible affirmation from him just to function. Her emotional and psychological dependence on him was absolute, and to a degree that any modern psychiatrist on Earth would have labeled dangerously unhealthy.
Back in their old World earth, if Lucian skipped dinner because he was busy playing YGGDRASIL, Suzune would literally starve herself rather than eat a single bite without him at the table.
Her entire existence revolved around his validation. Lucian knew for a stone-cold fact that if he had ever died on Earth, Suzune wouldn't have survived the week before taking her own life to follow him. Granted, Mei Mei would have done the exact same thing without blinking, and while Mizuki was the most level-headed and least outwardly obsessive of his three lovers, he doubted she would have fared much better.
"Feeling a bit calmer now?" Lucian asked softly, gently easing her back just enough so he could look at her face properly.
Sitting back slightly on his thighs, Suzune raised both hands to cup his cheeks, her thumbs tracing the contours of his new divinely sculpted face as she truly looked at him in the light for the first time since waking up.
"You've changed, Lucian," she whispered, her gaze so intensely focused as it drank in every detail of his features that it bordered on madness. "You were always handsome, obviously, but now… you look impossibly beautiful. Like a painting come to life. And…"
Her fingers brushed just beneath his lower eyelashes. "Your eyes look so much more vivid and alive now. Just sleeping for a week makes me feel like I missed out on an entire lifetime of you changing."
Smiling warmly, Lucian covered her hands with his own, leaning his cheek into her palm. "Maybe the outside upgraded a bit, sure, but aren't I still the exact same guy who loves you? Besides, we have literal eternity ahead of us now. You've got all the time in the world to sit front-row and watch me grow and become an even better man for you."
For a second, Suzune stared at him. Then, her tear-stained face cracked into a bright, genuine smile.
"Pfft… Bruh, that line was so cheesy I think I got cavities," she teased, her usual modern Earth slang slipping right back into her voice. Yet the very next second, her eyes softened with overwhelming affection. "Still… it makes me so happy. So, so, so, so ridiculously happy that I just wanna drown you with my whole love!"
With a burst of energetic warmth, she tackled him backward against the pillows, aggressively peppering his cheeks, nose, forehead, and lips with rapid-fire kisses.
There she is, Lucian thought fondly, chuckling beneath her assault. This bright, slightly bratty, fiercely affectionate girl was his Suzune, not that heartbroken girl sobbing at the door.
"Alright, alright, take it easy, don't drown me just yet," Lucian laughed, catching her shoulders gently. "We still haven't talked about our current situation or this New World we landed in, have we?"
"Huh? Oh, the isekai stuff?" Suzune shrugged dismissively, grinning down at him with that special, radiant expression she reserved exclusively for his eyes. "Honestly, I couldn't give a single fuck about any of that. Whether we're stuck inside YGGDRASIL, back in Japan, or dropped into some random fantasy world, as long as I get to stay glued to your side forever, I'm the happiest girl in creation."
"Of course you are, my dear," Lucian chuckled, reaching out to stroke the silky, radiant feathers of her wings, which were still stubbornly wrapped around the two of them like a tent. "Still, don't you at least want the basic rundown of what's going on outside?"
At his gentle prompting, Suzune finally willed her wings to retract. They dissolved into motes of golden light and vanished back into her shoulder blades, instantly making the grand bedroom look twice as spacious as it had a moment ago.
"I mean, sure, I wanna hear about it eventually," Suzune said, her voice suddenly dropping into a softer, sweeter register as she peered down at him through her lashes, her beautiful eyes upturned and gleaming with unmistakable heat. "Just… before we do a boring info-dump, don't you think there's something way more important we should take care of first?"
Lucian didn't need a telepathy skill to read that look. Without a word of hesitation, he flipped their positions in a blur of motion, pinning her down onto the center of the soft mattress.
"Kyaah!" Suzune let out a delighted little shriek as her back hit the sheets, landing with her arms and legs sprawled open invitingly beneath him.
Gazing up at him hovering over her, a fierce, crimson blush bloomed across her face. Nobody else in existence, neither on Earth nor in Great Luxuria, had ever seen the proud, Angelic Throne, Suzune wear an expression so thoroughly vulnerable and wanton. Only Lucian knew this side of her, and only he ever would.
"Lucian…" she breathed, reaching up to grab the back of his shirt and yanking him down until his face was buried straight between the soft, perfect swell of her breasts.
"I love you…" she whispered against his hair, her voice trembling with a dark, bottomless obsession that sounded almost demonic, which was a hilarious irony, considering her racial class literally was literally a high-tier Angel of the Throne. "I love you so, so, so, so much it drives me crazy…"
Wrapping her legs around his waist, she arched her back against him. "Take me, please! Love me, Lucian! Carve yourself into me all over again until every single cell in this new body remembers who it belongs to! Make me yours in every way!"
Suzune knew her man better than anyone; she knew the exact words, tone, and desperate submission that would instantly set Lucian's blood on fire.
He didn't waste a single second on foreplay. Growling softly in the back of his throat, Lucian sank his teeth right into the swell of her breast through the thin fabric of her nightgown before moving up to claim her mouth in a deep, devouring kiss.
Suzune practically melted into the mattress beneath him, a high-pitched whimper vibrating in her throat as that single kiss alone sent her rocketing toward the peak of euphoria. She loved him so hopelessly much that even the simplest touch from him felt like a potent drug; honestly, the fact that she had managed to hold herself back for so many minutes without jumping his bones the second he appeared was a miracle in itself.
"I'm going to eat you right up, my Suzune," Lucian murmured darkly against her swollen lips, before diving headfirst into his feast, claiming his beloved angel, his personal Throne, body and soul.
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Six hours later, the heavy bedroom doors clicked open, and Mei Mei stepped silently inside.
Naturally, being the personal maid of lucian , she was well aware of what had been transpiring behind those closed doors.
Earlier that day, she had been lurking inside Lucian's shadow as his covert escort right up until the moment he teleported into Suzune's locked room. Out of respect for one of her only true friends and, above all else, out of deference to her beloved Master's private reunion, Mei Mei had politely vacated his shadow and waited outside.
After all, Suzune had been asleep for a week; she deserved her private reunion with Lucian.
What Mei Mei had not anticipated, however, was for that cunning little angel to immediately drag her Master into bed for a six-hour marathon!
A tiny, invisible vein throbbed lightly on Mei Mei's porcelain forehead. If they were going to go at it for half a day, she had wanted to be there! After all, whenever Lucian took Suzune or Mizuki, what harm would it do if Mei Mei simply observed quietly from inside his shadow?
Regardless, the moment she stepped inside and saw the two of them lounging stark naked beneath the tangled sheets, Mei Mei swiftly clicked the door shut and locked it behind her.
Even though the entirety of the inner palace of the Castle of Valhalla, was strictly staffed exclusively by female servants, allowing anyone an accidental glimpse of Lucian's divinely sculpted, bare physique would undoubtedly trigger a full-scale riot of nosebleeds and faintings among the Valkyries.
"My, my, what do we think we are doing lazing around at this hour, Master?" Mei Mei asked, folding her hands neatly over her apron as she walked toward the bed.
Both Lucian and Suzune had sensed her arrival before she even touched the doorknob, of course. Rather than looking sheepish, however, Suzune immediately propped her chin up on Lucian's bare shoulder and shot her friend a smug, victorious grin, instantly reigniting their rivalry. Watching the two of them interact like this always put a huge smile on Lucian's face.
"Haha, relax, Mei Mei," Lucian chuckled, resting an arm behind his head. "I already cast a cleaning spell to wipe down the room and get rid of the mess we made. Well, most of it, anyway, Suzune pretty much swallowed the rest before the spell could even touch it."
Far from being embarrassed by the lewd disclosure, Suzune puffed out her bare chest proudly. Running the tip of her tongue slowly across her lower lip, she rubbed a hand affectionately over her flat, toned stomach.
"Obviously! Why would I let a single drop go to waste?" Suzune purred smugly. "It was a five-star meal."
'This insufferable little wing-flapper…' Mei Mei's left eyelid twitched ever so slightly behind her polite smile.
Suzune really knew how to push her buttons. Oh, how badly Mei Mei wished she had taken a photographic crystal recording of her own thoroughly debauched, blissed-out state after Lucian had spent fourteen straight hours filling her up yesterday, just to rub the eight-hour difference in this smug angel's face!
"I assure you, your juvenile provocations will not make me jealous, Suzune," Mei Mei replied coolly.
In the next instant, her form melted seamlessly into the shadows cast by the bedframe. Before Lucian could even blink, darkness washed over his skin across the mattress; when it receded half a second later, he was sitting upright, immaculately dressed from head to toe in a regal, kingly ensemble of black and crimson vestment.
"All dressed and presentable, my Master," Mei Mei said, reappearing right on the edge of the mattress.
Then, without a shred of warning, she dropped to her knees on the bed, grabbed Lucian's lapels, and pulled him into a deep, scorching kiss. Her tongue pushed past his lips with practiced assertion, immediately seeking out his intoxicating taste, and clearly staking her territorial claim right in front of her rival.
Never one to turn down affection from his girls, Lucian chuckled into her mouth and happily kissed her back.
One minute passed. Then two.
"Okay, hey, hey, time out! That's plenty!" Suzune finally snapped, her patience running dry as she scrambled across the mattress and wedged her hands right between their chests to pry them apart.
Mei Mei licked her glistening lips, shooting the angel a sidelong glance. "Always right on cue to ruin our romantic moments, aren't you, Suzune?"
"Excuse me?! Didn't you literally just barge in here and ruin our afterglow five seconds ago?!" Suzune barked right back, glaring daggers at the maid.
"Alright, ladies, let's call it a draw for today," Lucian cut in smoothly, laughing as he patted both of their heads.
He genuinely loved watching their lively back-and-forth; for all their sharp tongues and competitive streak over his attention, there wasn't a drop of actual malice between them. The three of them had happily shared him for years back on Earth, and neither woman would ever cross a line that might genuinely upset him.
"Yes, Master," Mei Mei relented gracefully, stepping off the bed and moving toward the wardrobe to select a fresh outfit for her friend.
"Fine, fine, only because Lucian said so," Suzune huffed, rolling out from under the sheets to let Mei Mei help her get dressed.
While the two women busied themselves with clothes and preparing a fresh pot of tea, Lucian leaned back comfortably against the plush headboard and pulled another paperback manga volume out of his [Item Box].
Now that he was an immortal ruler with practically infinite free time on his hands, sneaking in a few chapters of manga or light novels between duties had become his favorite pastime.
Normally, a Player's inventory was stuffed solely with priceless potions, spare gear, and high-tier scrolls. Lucian's endless supply of Earth entertainment, however, came because of a very special Divine-Class utility item he had won years ago during an official YGGDRASIL community contest for lore and literature creation.
The item possessed a unique daily active skill: it could materialize a set number of physical books per day, capable of recreating any text or grimoire up to Relic-Class, or any mundane book recorded in the user's memory or even if it doesn't exist.
By feeding his memories of Earth's E-bookstores into the item, he had a virtually inexhaustible printing press for manga and novels. Outside of spending quality time with his beloved women and interacting with the quirky denizens of Great Luxuria, reading was easily the best boredom-killer in the New World.
"Now that I think about it," Lucian mused aloud, flipping a page as Mei Mei stepped over to pour him a steaming cup of fragrant black tea, "I should probably swing by Carne Village again sometime soon. Especially since we'll be making a trip to their country's capital before long, the capital of the Re-Estize Kingdom."
"Perhaps you should dispatch one of the Valkyries to the village before we depart for the Re-Estize Royal Capital," Mei Mei murmured.
Fastening the last clasp of her outfit, Suzune paused and tilted her head. "Carne Village? Re-Estize? What are those?"
Since she had spent her first ten minutes awake crying and the next six hours occupied with far more physical activities, she was still completely in the dark regarding external events.
Setting his manga aside and taking the teacup from Mei Mei with a nod of thanks, Lucian spent the next twenty minutes giving Suzune a complete rundown of everything they had discovered, from their arrival in the New World and the attack on Carne Village, to the existence of native magic casters and Dragon Lords.
"Wait, hold on, so that skeleton guild leader, Momonga, actually got dragged into this world with his entire guild base too?" Suzune asked, her eyes widening in genuine surprise as she sat down on the edge of the bed.
Then, a sudden spark of hope lit up her face. "Wait… if other Players got pulled here, does that mean Mizuki might be out there somewhere on this continent too?!"
Before Lucian could answer, Mei Mei quietly shook her head, her gaze shifting toward their Master.
"She isn't in this world, Suzune," Lucian said gently, setting his empty teacup down on the nightstand. Before Suzune's expression could fall, however, he flashed a grin brimming with absolute, unshakable confidence. "Don't worry—I know for a fact that she's alive and well. She just happens to be somewhere else right now. And frankly, I don't care what dimension or universe she's hiding in; she can't escape me and my love for long."
The sheer charisma and blinding warmth of that smile hit both women like a physical shockwave. Even after years together, a look like that from him still made their hearts skip a beat and their knees go momentarily weak, though both of them fought to maintain their composed fronts.
Lucian looked from Mei Mei to Suzune, his crimson eyes softening with deep, unyielding affection. "And the exact same goes for the two of you. You're stuck with me. I'm never, ever letting either of you leave my side."
Instantly, matching crimson blushes bloomed across both Suzune's and Mei Mei's faces, warming their cheeks from ear to ear.
Locking eyes with the man who held their hearts, minds, and souls in the palm of his hand, both women smiled radiantly and answered in perfect, resounding unison—their voices ringing with unconditional love, fanatical devotion, and their eternal adoration for thei beloved;
""Never!""
Having made her stance unmistakably clear, Suzune wasted no time reclaiming her territory. She practically vaulted back onto the mattress, claiming the spot directly to Lucian's left and looping both arms around his bicep like a koala refusing to let go of its favorite tree.
Not to be outdone for a single second, Mei Mei gracefully set the silver tea tray down upon a nearby tea table, stepped up to the right side of the bed, and seated herself right beside him, resting her head delicately against his other shoulder.
Sandwiched between an obsessed angel and an equally fanatical maid, Lucian couldn't help but let out an amused breath. "You two realize it's going to be pretty hard for me to walk out that door with one of you attached to each arm, right?"
"Then don't walk," Suzune replied instantly, nuzzling her cheek against the divine-class fabric of his sleeve. "Seriously, Lucian, you can fly, you can teleport, and honestly, if you want, I'll just carry you bridal-style all the way to the throne room myself. I rested for seven whole days! My stamina bar is completely full!"
"What a horribly undignified suggestion," Mei Mei chided softly, shooting the angel a condescending look across Lucian's chest. "For the Supreme Ruler of Great Luxuria to be carried around like a damsel in front of the staff… Have you lost whatever remaining common sense didn't evaporate during your week-long nap, Suzune?"
"Oh, shut it, Mei Mei! Like you wouldn't jump at the chance if he asked you to!" Suzune barked back, narrowing her eyes before a sudden, suspicious realization made her pause.
She leaned forward, squinting closely at the maid's face. "Wait a minute… Hold on. Why is your skin glowing like that? And why have you been smiling like the cat that ate the canary ever since you walked in here?"
Mei Mei didn't even blink. In fact, her smile only curved a fraction wider, radiating a quiet, infuriating superiority as she raised a hand to lightly touch her own cheek.
"Whatever could you mean, Suzune?" Mei Mei purred innocently. "I am simply in peak condition from serving Master dutifully while you were busy playing Sleeping Beauty."
Suzune's eyes narrowed into razor-thin slits. Her instincts which was honed by years of competing for Lucian's attention back on Earth now screamed that something fishy had gone down while she was out cold. She whipped her head back toward Lucian.
"Lucian! Spill it! What did you two do before i woke up?!"
Lucian rubbed the back of his neck with his free hand, offering a completely unapologetic, sheepish grin. "Well, I mean… you were dead to the world for a whole week, Suzune, and Mei Mei was awake with me the entire time. One thing kind of led to another few days ago"
"Indeed," Mei Mei chimed in smoothly, seizing the opening with ruthless precision. Leaning in slightly, she let her eyelids droop in faux modesty. "I must apologize if my stamina was lacking earlier, Master. After being thoroughly loved by you for fourteen consecutive hours without a single break, my legs were still a bit wobbly this morning."
Silence dropped over the bedroom like a lead weight.
Suzune froze. Her mouth fell slightly open as the math registered in her head. Fourteen hours. Six subtracted from fourteen left an eight-hour deficit!
"F-Fourteen?!" Suzune sputtered, her face turning bright red for an entirely different reason as she pointed an accusing finger at the smug maid. "You sneaky, opportunistic little shadow-lurker! Taking advantage of a girl while she's in a coma?! That's foul play! Unfair! Cheating!"
"All is fair when it comes to serving Master," Mei Mei replied serenely, smoothing down her crisp white apron. "Besides, it is hardly my fault that you overloaded your own skills and knocked yourself unconscious the moment we arrived in this world. Consider those extra eight hours my reward for managing the castle defenses in your absence."
"Grrr…!" Suzune let out a low, frustrated growl in the back of her throat before turning her wide, pleading eyes back up to Lucian, tugging insistently on his sleeve. "Lucian! Did you hear her?! She's bullying me! You owe me at least eight, no, ten more hours tonight to balance the scales! Otherwise, my mental health is going to plummet and I'll wither away right in front of you!"
"Ten hours tonight?" Lucian laughed out loud, flicking her forehead lightly with his finger. "If we spend another ten hours in bed right now, the rest of the servants are going to think Great Luxuria doesn't actually have a guild master anymore. Give me a break, we actually have work to do today."
"Ugh, work…" Suzune groaned dramatically, slumping sideways against his ribcage despite rubbing the spot on her forehead where he had flicked her as if it were a treasured blessing. "Speaking of work and that info-dump you just gave me… Tell me more about this village girl you mentioned earlier. What was her name again? Enri?"
At the mention of the name, both Suzune's and Mei Mei's playful bickering paused, their gazes shifting back to Lucian with synchronized interest.
"Yeah, Enri Emmot," Lucian said, leaning back comfortably against the pillows again. "Just an ordinary human girl from Carne Village. Tough kid, though, she tried to use her own back as a meat shield to protect her little sister from an armored knight before I stepped in."
"And in return for her bravery, Master gifted her an magical gown and a high-tier resurrection feather," Mei Mei supplied helpfully for Suzune's benefit, her tone remarkably casual. "He even lifted her chin and patted her head before we departed."
Suzune blinked twice, processing that information. Slowly, a wicked, teasing grin spread across her face as she poked Lucian's chest through his shirt.
"Wait, seriously? The classic chin-tilt and a head-pat? You basically speedran conquering a medieval peasant girl's heart in five minutes flat," Suzune snickered. Instead of looking jealous, she looked thoroughly entertained. "So, what's the verdict? Did she catch your eye? Are we adding a cute blondie to the roster?"
Lucian sighed, rolling his eyes toward the chandelier. "Why are both of you immediately jumping to the conclusion that I'm trying to start a collection here? First Mei Mei, then Shiraori, then Euphemia, and now you."
"Because we know you, Master," Mei Mei said softly, resting her palm warmly over his knee. "You are cold and indifferent toward most of the people in this world so when you go out of your way to show gentle indulgence to someone outside our circle, it is only natural that your eyes have piqued some interest on them."
"Exactly!" Suzune nodded vigorously in agreement, one of the rare moments where the two rivals were completely on the same wavelength. "Look, Lucian, I don't care if you bring home one village girl or a hundred princesses from this Re-Estize place. Seriously, bring 'em on! As long as you love me the most, well, me, Mei Mei, and Mizuki, you can do whatever makes you happy. Heck, if you want that Enri girl wrapped up in a ribbon and delivered to your room, just say the word and I'll fly over to Carne Village and abduct-er, escort her here myself!"
"Please do not go kidnapping traumatized teenagers like some cartoon villain," Lucian deadpanned, though a warm, fond smile tugged at the corners of his lips anyway.
It really was ridiculous how much these two spoiled him. Any normal guy on Earth would have been walking through a minefield trying to navigate a conversation like this, yet Suzune and Mei Mei's devotion was so absolute that their only real concern was making sure his slightest whims were satisfied.
"For now, I'm just letting her live her life in peace," Lucian continued, gently patting both of their hands where they rested on him. "Carne Village is right next to Momonga's base of operations anyway, and having a friendly foothold there will make things convenient when we move on the Re-Estize capital. No need to rush anything."
"Understood, Master. Your will is absolute," Mei Mei bowed her head smilingly.
"Fine, fine, no kidnapping the village girl, or now," Suzune relented with a playful wink, before stretching her arms high above her head and hopping off the mattress with a light bounce. Smoothing down her newly donned attire, she spun around on her heel to face him, her eyes shining with vibrant energy. "Alright! If we're gonna go play world-conquerors and show off in front of the NPCs, let's get this show on the road! I haven't stretched my wings outside in a whole week!"
Mei Mei rose smoothly to her feet on the opposite side of the bed, extending a gloved hand toward Lucian in a gesture of utmost reverence. "Shall we proceed to the throne room, my Master? The Guardians have been eagerly awaiting your summons."
Looking between Suzune's bright, infectious grin and Mei Mei's poised, devoted gaze, Lucian felt a surge of quiet satisfaction settle deep in his chest.
Snapping his manga shut and tossing it back into his [Item Box], he pushed himself up from the bed and stood tall between his two lovers.
"Yeah," Lucian grinned, his crimson eyes flashing with anticipation. "Let's go..."
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