Chapter Forty-Seven: Return to Volaria
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Ren woke up after a quick nap next to Scarlet, who was still asleep next to him.
He smiled, seeing her cute face tired out after what they had done. He tucked her deeper into the covers and decided to take a walk around the ship and stretch his legs a bit.
As he was walking, he also thought about everything. A few months ago, he was a single academy graduate stepping onto his first UNS ship. Now he was engaged to the princess of an entirely different planet that was also at war with his planet, as well as being in a polygamous relationship with two others, one being from an alien race on another planet and his childhood best friend.
"Things got complicated fast..." Ren thought to himself.
Ren continued his walk down the hall, but he noticed Eleonora running into her room with a box in hand and an excited expression on her face.
Ren walked up to her still-open door and peeked inside. He noticed Eleonora sitting at her desk, painting something with a small brush.
Once Ren moved his head to get a better view of what she was doing, he noticed her painting what seemed to be a figure.
"What are you up to, Eleonora?" Ren asked from the door.
"Ren?" Eleonora was surprised by his voice as she jumped up from her seat.
That's when Ren got a full view of what she was messing with. There were three unpainted mecha figures on her desk, each seemingly the same model, but she had different paints with her.
"Are those...the royal knights?" Ren asked.
Eleonora blushed in embarrassment; it was as if Ren had just discovered her biggest secret.
"You saw nothing, understood?" Eleonora said this with her head down, her long silver hair blocking out her eyes.
"Understood, ma'am, but just so you know...we have some similar hobbies." Ren said.
"What?" Eleonora said surprised by what Ren said.
"Well, instead of knights, I used to collect anime mecha figures and paint them, just like what you were doing." Ren said.
Ren, when he was on Earth, was into anime, and one of his favorite genres was mecha, which wound up with him buying the mecha figures you could buy and paint yourself.
Eleonora was taken aback by what he had said. "You also collect them?" she asked.
"Yeah, I have about a dozen figures at home. I had planned to buy more once we got back from our first deployment, but we both know how that went." Ren replied.
Eleonora ran up to Ren and smiled. "I never met anyone who also collects mecha figures." she said excited about the possibility of finding someone who was into the same things as her.
"What does your collection look like?" Ren asked.
"I don't have many of the anime mecha ones, but I have a lot of sentinels figures and even UNS ship models." Eleonora said.
"Really? That's kind of cool; I never got one of the UNS ship models, but I do have two sentinel figures." Ren said.
Ren looked at the figures on her table and asked "Who gave you these?"
Eleonora replied "Mae did; it turns out she collects models like us as well, and when I expressed my interest in the knights, she showed me her collection...which honestly puts both of ours to shame. She has so many models; she gave me these three for free. So I decided to paint them like yours, along with Lucilia's and Aurelia's.
Ren smiled "That's awesome..." Ren was excited to finally be able to talk about some of his hobbies with someone who would understand them.
The two closet nerds went into a full breakdown of their hobbies, with Ren sharing about some of his favorite mecha anime and Eleonora talking about some of her favorite mech designs. As they talked, each of them found out they had a lot of the same interests, which made Ren feel closer to Eleonora, who he had previously thought was the hard-ass captain type, but really she was very similar to him.
The ship communication system then began to play over the ship's speakers.
"Attention everyone, we will be landing on Volaria within the hour; after landing, everyone will meet in the hangar. Sir Ren, along with those from the UNS, Princess Lucilia and Princess Aurelia, wish to speak with you at the bridge."
Ren and Eleonora nodded and started to leave; however, Ren said he wanted to grab something from his room first and told Eleonora to go ahead of him, when in reality he wanted to make sure Scarlet was awake.
After making his way back to his room, he saw Scarlet getting dressed after seemingly taking a shower, and the two headed to the bridge where the princess' would be.
When everyone had arrived, Aurelia spoke first "Listen up. Due to the situation regarding Ren and the emperor, all of you will be staying with Lucilia and Ivy at her mansion. I will also be staying there as we await his invitation to the Imperial Palace. Once he invites us, things can go bad quickly. Ren, you know the warning I gave you, and no doubt Lucilia has also warned you. There's no point in trying to sway him to like you; he simply won't, so be prepared for the most negative reaction possible."
Ren looked over to Lucilia, who, while still pouting over the fact that Ren and Scarlet had sex in their bed, nodded, agreeing with her sister.
Soon the entire group went off of their ship to the celebration parade similar to what Ren had seen on his first day on Volaria. He looked over to everyone else who saw this planet for the first time, and they had similar reactions to when he first saw the beauty of this planet.
"You guys think this is a great view...wait until we arrive at her mansion. No place like it." Ren said.
The group walked over to a long flying car similar to that of a limousine, and the group took off, with everyone from Earth and Versaerth being mesmerized just by how the planet looks.
"This is nothing like Earth..." Tyler said.
"This place...is beautiful." Sakura said, sitting next to Tyler.
After a while, the group had arrived at Lucilia's mansion, where once again everyone was shocked by the absolute beauty of it all.
"It's gorgeous!" Scarlet said.
The car landed, and they were greeted by groups of maids and servants all bowing in respect to Lucilia and Aurelia; however, in a surprise to almost everyone, they also bowed in respect to Ren.
"Welcome home, Master Ren." The maids said in unison.
"Master?" Ren said out loud. The maids had treated him with respect when he was last here, but this was an entirely different level. Their respect for him was no different than that of Lucilia or Aurelia.
He was treated like royalty.
Once they had arrived inside the mansion, the group was shown to their rooms, and Ren and Lucilia went to the room that they were in before when they stayed at the mansion.
The two needed to talk.
"So...Scarlet." Lucilia spoke with her red eyes shining.
"Are you upset?" Ren asked, genuinely curious.
"Yes...however I will deal with my...anger and consider how you feel about this. Besides, I knew an outcome like this was possible. She's not the only one I've considered who would make a move on you." Lucilia said, biting her nail on her thumb.
"Who else have you considered?" Ren asked.
"Quite a few people...and seemingly more get added by the week... WHY ARE ATTRACTIVE WOMEN MAGNETIZED TO YOU?" Lucilia said, nearly pulling her hair.
"I should've locked you inside my room, and it would just be the two of us for eternity..." Lucilia said under her breath.
"What was that?" Ren said, hearing a little of what she had just said.
"Don't worry about that. Anyway, we need to talk about what's to come when you meet my father." Lucilia said.
"What about?" Ren asked.
"As you know, I had multiple suitors, each handpicked by my father to marry me. When I introduce you as my husband, I have no doubt my father will use the right of marriage...which would be very bad for you, Ren." Lucilia explained.
"What's so bad about it?" Ren asked.
"One Volaria strength is everything; if you want something, you must fight for it. My hand in marriage included. My father will put you into the coliseum to fight against the bravest of my potential suitors in a fight to the death; the winner marries me, so you have to win!" Lucilia said, describing what would happen.
"A fight to the death?" Ren replied.
"Ren...I'm a princess with a chance to one day become the first empress. My father won't accept anyone but those he thinks deserve me. I refused this and all of my suitors, and I fell for you, so you have to win, no matter what." Lucilia said.
"So I have to kill who knows how many men for you...despite us already basically being married?" Ren asked, confused.
"You have taken all of my firsts—a fact that my father may or may not know about; we'll find that out when you meet." Lucilia was worried; she didn't want Ren to die because of her father's schemes and manipulations. However, if he invoked the right, there was nothing she could say or do.
"Just please, Ren...don't die; I can't..." Lucilia said.
Ren stopped what Lucilia was saying and hugged her tightly before attempting to comfort her and get rid of some of her anxieties.
"I don't plan on it, but there's more that I need to know about this; the more I know, the more I think I can win, even though all I need is your love, and that's all the confidence I need to win."
Lucilia smiled upon hearing that from Ren as she buried her head into his chest.
"I love you, Ren..."
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