Chapter 165 – Harem

#165.

“Then. I will go ahead and report to the Duke.”
“Uh. Thanks for your effort.”
“Lord Hughus. Please.”

At the top of the mountain overlooking the imperial capital at a glance, Hughes turned to go back first.

In a way, it was a natural choice, as he would only feel awkward and uncomfortable if he got in between. We also accepted it readily because it was better for lovers to live happily together without Hughus.

“Are you okay?”
“Of course. It will take hours to get there.”

Looking at the back of Hughus, who was becoming a dot in the distance, he briefly comforted Eris, who was worried, and headed straight to the capital.

After simply jumping over the wall, we got down in an alleyway and immediately contacted each other.

─Ung

-Main..! Lie. Are you here now?-

As soon as Sernia’s face appeared along with the hologram, a question flew in. At first, she tried to say that it was her master who stuttered, but seemed to stop when she saw the two women next to her.

‘Come to think of it, he said he would give me a present…’

I couldn’t prepare a proper gift because work was so urgent. I guess I’ll have to go right away. Something didn’t feel right.

“Yes. It’s a back alley now. Where will we meet in Sernia?”

-Yes, let’s meet at the tea house. I think it will be comfortable to stay there for the time being. How is it?

“Ah yes. Then we will go there. Can you send a guide?”

-Yes..? What… For?-

As Sernia, I should have guided her myself, but she expressed her doubt as if she didn’t know why.

“I have a place to stop by. We need someone to guide the other two.”

-Is that so? I’ll get it right away I’ll send an guide. Where exactly is that?-

In response to Sernia’s question, she put on her hood and left her back alley, then gave the name of a tailor.

– Oh, that’s it. All right. See you later.-

“Yes. See you later.”

I cut off contact, threw the communicator into the inventory, and turned around to see the two with pouty expressions. I’m frowning at what I don’t like so much.

“Lie. Where are you going?”
“I have something to look at. I want to buy some stuff.”

After answering Eris’ question roughly, he crossed her arms and began to seduce her. Of course, it wasn’t tempting, but it seemed to me.

If you don’t tell me honestly right away, I won’t let you touch this breast again! The threat echoed in my head, and I unconsciously opened my mouth, but I regained my senses thinking that it was just my delusion.

“I’ll be back soon. I’m really just going to buy stuff and go back. Huh?”
“Huh… I get it right now. I can’t help but say it that way. Instead, I will not forgive you if you come late.”
“Of course. Then, Hisha noona is also together.. Huh? What’s the matter?”

When Eris smiled and turned her head to Hisha, she saw that she was right next to her.

When I looked at her with her eyes asking why she was here, I looked up at her with trembling eyes while holding her collar carefully.

“Are you coming soon? You’re not going to break up again, are you?”

It seems that they are anxious that they will break up again due to unexpected circumstances.

I smiled, stroked her hair gently, and reassured her in a kind voice.

“Are you okay. Really, even if I die, I know where I am now, so what’s the problem? And aren’t you underestimating me too? You won’t die after a while, right?”
“What if I’m still worried!”

He was bloody when he was obsessed, lewd when he was having a relationship, and like a child when he was so anxious.

There is no age to get tired of various charms. At first, it was so hard that I wondered what to do, but now it was just cute.

“Don’t worry. I’m waiting for you with Eris. Got it?”
“Yeah.. Do you have to come soon?”
“Then let’s go.”

After gently stroking Hisha’s cheek for the last time as she let go of her collar, she looked at Eris asking for a favor, then walked out to the side of the road and headed towards the jewelry shop.

Everyone had heard of it, but if they met in person, it was certain that a clash would occur.

Sernia and Tina on the Imperial side. There is almost a 100% chance that a battle for supremacy will take place centering around Arisha and Eris from the kingdom side.

If Hisha was like before, there would have been a three-way battle with her, but I wonder if she will go in the direction of ignoring her now.

Hisha now warns me that it doesn’t matter if I have a woman or not, as long as she is loved.

A surprise gift is perfect for me to properly take the initiative in such a conflict.

And among them, there is nothing more powerful than giving a ring. Perhaps if everyone received the ring, no one would be moved and fight.

“Whoops.. Perfect!”

A smile came out of my mouth at the thought that I had nothing left to do but enjoy a happy harem life.

***

Meanwhile, Hisha and Eris, who were left in the alleyway, were awkwardly silent.

No, Eris was the only one who was awkward, but Hisha had no idea. She just wants to be reunited with Rai again soon.

It was always the person who was the first to speak. Eris quietly approached her, wondering if there was something bothering her, and she started talking.

“Hey. I have something to tell you.”
“What.”

Hearing her voice, Hisha didn’t even look in the direction she came from, she asked calmly. Eris pouted at her appearance without the slightest agitation or inspiration.

“The look I saw earlier when I saved Kud Vice… What was it?”
“…I have no obligation to tell you.”

The changes that took place when Karut took over Hisha’s body were obvious to anyone. In fact, it’s even weirder that you haven’t asked until now.

Hisha flinched for a moment, but she coldly drew her line. Eris, who was staring at her with her eyes narrowed at the sight of her refusing to take even the slightest chance, turned the topic elsewhere.

“I know if you don’t want to talk. Let’s talk about something else. You’ll be dating other girls soon, so how about collaborating? There is a possibility of being territorial on that side. It is said that she also included the imperial princess, so we should stop fighting among ourselves..”
“It’s pitiful. After pretending to be so confident with me, are you holding out her hand because you’re regretting it in the end? What’s more respectful than that? At first, I was talking half-heartedly.”
“What, what?”
“Why don’t she keep pretending like she did before Rai? Is it true that she is also stupid when her breasts are big?”

Her last words were muffled as if talking to herself, but they reached Eris’s ears so clearly and clearly.

Eris was about to shout at the emotions rising in an instant, but she held it back and fired back at Hisha.

“Huh.. If her breasts are big, you say she’s stupid? So, are you so narrow-minded because you have small breasts? That’s why I don’t have any friends.”

Saying that she had no friends was just Eris’ groundless idea, but it hit her right in the face. To Hisha, who was persecuted in the village, those words were a kind of wrath.

Her words brought back memories of her then, and Hisha sent a savage glance at her Eris. She was, of course, Eris who didn’t budge on him.

“What you looking at? Stabbed? She said that Lai and she have been together since they were children, right? She must have suffered a lot. She must have been annoying, but Rai is too nice to ride.”
“You… Be careful what you say.”

Although Hisha has regained much of her confidence now, her anxiety that she might make her mistakes and be abandoned is still deep in her subconscious.

Hisha glared with hostility toward Eris, who continued to stir up negative emotions while recalling her past memories.

“She does what she does. Can’t she do what others do? You are selfish.”
“Ha… It’s okay. Say whatever you want.”

Hisha cut off the conversation first, and if Eris talked further, she thought it would only hurt each other’s feelings, so she remained silent.

While the uncomfortable atmosphere continued, footsteps echoed at the entrance of the alley.

Again – again –

The sound of a rescue echoes through the alley. The sound of three footsteps echoed and seemed to get closer, and soon the owner of the sound appeared.

“Is it you? Nice to meet you. My name is Sernia Harpe.”

Sernia, the princess of this empire and Rai’s slave and lover…

“This is Christina Camelot. Please take good care of me.”

Cristina, who had been a professor at the academy and now became Sernia’s assistant.

Eris is as expected. No, I gnashed my teeth at the appearance of two people who were much more beautiful than expected.

After all, she should be called Rye, but all off-white, like women who fell in love with her own lover, were truly amazing.

In particular, a woman named Sernia Harpe even had the status of a princess. Eris, for the first time in her life, even felt inferior.

Hisha, who rejected her offer of alliance, also had agitation in her eyes when she saw Sernia. Compared to herself, who was a fugitive, she was indeed a holder of great status.

Her dignified posture as a member of the royal family and her gaze looking down as if giving a strange sense of pressure. Even so, she felt intimidated by the atmosphere, which did not seem arrogant at all.

Rai didn’t know it, but as a person living in this world, she couldn’t help but be influenced by her status as a princess.

“Eris Frencia and Hisha Lunatic. Right? Princess Arisha says she can’t come right away because she’s currently having an interview. Let’s go ahead and talk. Please follow me.”

Before Eris and Hisha could say anything, Sernia turned around and walked behind her. The two of them kissed their lips as they perfectly took control of the current situation.

It was only then that Hisha, as if realizing the problem a little bit, slightly turned her eyes, and then she met Eris’s eyes, who were looking at her.

Without opening their mouths or sending a telegram, the two exchanged opinions with only their eyes. After nodding their heads once, they followed.

Meanwhile, Sernia was repeating her doubts about whether she was doing well or not.

Once she forms a relationship with her lover on the outside, she goes out confidently, but she is definitely her slave. In fact, it was said that he was behind in the first rank.

She didn’t know how Rai would come out, but in the worst case, she might have to serve her as her master’s companion, so Sernia was struggling to suppress her beating heart.

‘Is it okay?’

Of course, her own dear master was so amiable that she could not be offended by this.

While thinking so, Sernia rolled her eyes and glanced at the two following her, but she flinched.

The two were glaring at each other with very cold eyes. Even just before, I was trembling at the silent, presumptuous gaze, but my walking speed increased for no reason.

It was fortunate that she was good at not revealing her feelings thanks to her years of living as a member of the royal family.

The four women moved quickly, arrived at the teahouse, ordered tea and refreshments, and then entered the room and sat down at a table.

It was Sernia who opened the door to the conversation. Eris and Hisha, as well as Tina, weren’t the type to talk too much.

All of this can also be said to be Lai’s karma. Originally, she was not very sociable, but after the death of her beloved lover, she became even more closed.

“Princess Arisha is still there, but let’s introduce ourselves first. I am Sernia Harpe. This is the 7th princess of the Harpe Empire. Of course, now I’m independent and put myself in her mage tower.”

Saying that, Sernia looked around her and smiled.

She was thinking of somehow alleviating the current atmosphere and making progress between them. Of course, Hisha and Eris only accepted it as a disdain that came from their confidence.

“My name is Eris Prencia. Ryan’s kingdom. She is the daughter of the French family. Please take good care of me. Degrading the princess.”
“Hisha Lunatic. It’s Rai’s older sister… Yo.”

Hisha unknowingly, subconsciously added an obscure honorific at the end of hers, and she winced.

Sernia’s high-handed atmosphere was influenced by her subconsciousness, which she had spent as a child in the village as a follower of her peers.

But Sernia didn’t care at all and gave a friendly smile. While the two of them were nervous at that smile, Christina stepped out.

“I am Christina Camelot. He’s the illegitimate son of the Countess of Camelot, but now he’s out of the family and can be called a commoner. I look forward to.”
“Commons?”
“You’re a commoner..”

Eris and Hisha’s faces lit up at Christina’s introduction. I thought he would be the heir of a great family because of his splendid appearance, but surprisingly, he was weak in terms of status.

Eris, of course, and Hisha, who could be said to be a commoner, smiled brightly.

Sernia, who saw that, came up with the idea that she also hates herself, and her conversation revolved around Tina.

Eris and Hisha talked to someone they were comfortable with, but Sernia mistakenly thought that she was being bullied.

After a while, the old man who runs the teahouse served refreshments, and a full-fledged conversation began.

“So how did it go?”
“Lai said so. She will definitely take you. She said to wait five years.”
“Is that so? Even if she loses her memory, Rai is Rai..”

Eris smiled happily at Tina’s words and drank her tea. Hisha didn’t say a word, but she still chewed on the cookie as if she was the one she knew.

And next to her, Sernia quietly sipped her tea, feeling a little left out.

Of course, Hisha and Eris, who saw that, got the feeling that they didn’t want to hang out with them because they were also members of the royal family.

No matter what Sernia did, she had come to the point of distorting her high status as a princess and arrogant appearance with preconceived notions.

While continuing misunderstandings that are not so misunderstood.

─Smart

A knock rang.

“Come on in.”

At the same time Sernia’s low voice echoed, the door opened and Princess Arisha appeared.

As soon as Arisha entered, she saw Eris and came over smiling.

“Eris. I’m glad you’re safe. I’m sorry everyone else is late.”
“No! No. I’m glad you’re here.”

At the appearance of a reliable ally, Eris welcomed it with a bright smile. Hisha just pouted at the sight. She felt that her usefulness had been exhausted.

Arisha, sitting on Eris’s chair, looked around her and asked Sernia.

“But where is Young master? Have you been away for a while?”
“No. Rai has business to do for a while, so she said she heard from somewhere. Do not worry.”
“Okay. Sernia. Then how did you get along?”
“Um… Yes. We talked a lot. I think I just need to come slowly.”

When expectations are met, they are betrayed. When Arisha, whom he trusted in his words, showed a close friendship with Sernia, Eris hardened as if she had eaten her shock.

Of course, she didn’t want to form a hostile relationship with Sernia, but it was because she felt something strange about her.

“How did you, the princess, meet Rai?”

Eris, who thought that if she was pushed out of here, would fall behind in rank, she listened to Arisha and Sernia’s conversation for a while before sneaking in.

And Sernia, who was happy with the question, continued her conversation by diligently rolling her head and adapting it appropriately.

Coincidentally, Sernia, who was practically nothing more than a slave, was leading the whole atmosphere around her.