79 Removing the curse

After finishing her business at Amagi Brilliant Park, Eleonora returned with her lovers to sightseeing again and have fun until the day turned to night. They had so much fun, especially those from another world, and witnessed any modern technology, cultures, foods—everything that the modern world offers them, and they have already enjoyed it. Some of them are also interested in certain things.

For example, Remia in clothing designing told Eleonora that she even said to her that she may want to open her own clothing business with Tio. The black dragon princess also stated her desire about it to Eleonora, and thankfully the young chairman gave them approval as long as they didn't do anything excessive.

Another is Yue, who wants to dedicate herself to being a full-time housewife of Eleonora, while Shea wishes to be a high school student in Japan. In contrast, Liliana wants to Shoujo Mangaka and later Pop Idol since she's interested in that. Hearing that from her daughter, Luluaria has no choice but to scold her so as not to overwork herself. Strangely Eleonora feels bad for the blonde-haired princess; she can see herself being berated like that instead of Liliana.

So the result is this: Remia and Tio want to be clothing designer and open their own business, Yue wish to be a full-time housewife even though she has a slight interest in being a teacher too, Shea want to experience the feeling of being high school student in Japan, Liliana wants to be Shoujo Mangaka and Pop Idol in the future, while Liliana and Shizuku were still unsure about what they would do; although Liliana sometimes being an assistant to Eleonora, so maybe she would choose to be her assistant later.

"Sorry about that, Eleonora. I… honestly, also want to attend school again, but my case is odd since technically, I was still a student in my world back then. But if I had to choose my career for the future, I want to open a café or restaurant."

Shizuku said her dream while apologizing to her lover about her unclear goal since her adventure in Tortus practically had already ended. The ones who did that are none other than Eleonora Pendragon. The latter single-handedly defeat Ehit and his retainer alone without anyone's help. Since she's pretty confident in her skills.

"Don't feel that sad, Shizuku-san. I am also still unclear about my goal. I am indeed the queen of Heiligh, but that's my occupation in Tortus while in here is still unclear. We can take our time slowly together to think about what we want to do in here."

Shizuku, who hear that thinking about it again. She nodded and smiled at Luluaria then Eleonora; there's no hint of hesitation or doubt again within her, she already knew what she wanted, and the young bluenette who are her lovers is the key to that.

The beautiful black-haired swordswoman has her red eyes staring at Eleonora's blue eyes as if they were talking; the young bluenette then nodded understandingly at the intent that Yaegashi Shizuku wants to say.

Trying to gather their attention, Eleonora clasped her hands, and they turned their heads and looked at Eleonora, who was standing up from her couch and seat as she was about to say something to them. Something that related to Shizuku about what she wants right now.

"Alright, everyone, thanks for the attention. I just want to say something."

"What is it, Leo-chan? Is this important?"

"Very important, Sonoka-nee, and that's why if possible, I want you all to listen carefully to the thing I want to say."

They nod their heads after staring at each other. Seeing that, Eleonora then continued what she was saying to them.

"You knew, since I have promised Shizuku to return her to her world, I'm thinking that I should not postpone it anymore. Sure that I did that to the four guests of my house, but that because we are basically stranger, and it's vastly different with Shizuku since she is one of the people I cared and love."

Shizuku's cheeks went in red when she heard that from Eleonora. The girls who saw that just smiled and felt happy because their lovers genuinely care about those she deemed as precious. Although it's unfair for the Pendragon's family guests, they understand its meaning from Eleonora.

She still treated them as guests and acquaintances rather than friends or more. Unless the young bluenette cares more about them, she will definitely do the same and immediately return to their respective world;. However, the ones who want to go back are only Lieselotte and Gin because Emilia stated she wanted to live here. At the same time, La Folia is still unsure about her decision later.

"That's why, maybe after New Year, I will go to her world and return her to have a reunion with her family and friends. But don't worry about the possibility that we won't be able to see each other again, Shizuku; we will. You can trust me about that."

Shizuku went quiet and nodded with a smile hearing that. After confirming that, she felt relieved because Shizuku didn't want to part away from Eleonora and promised to live together after finishing her business in her world.

"Also, Sakura-nee, I may not be able to join Nadeshiko-chan's New Year's camp; please tell her about it. I will make it up to her and maybe buys some things that she will like."

Sakura just lets out a heavy sigh and shakes her head, hearing that her lovers were trying to spoil her little sister again, but she cannot stop it since Eleonora won't stop doing that even if she was warned or scolded by her.

"Alright, alright, I will tell her about it. Honestly…"

Eleonora just scratched the back of her head with a nervous smile. Some of her lovers giggle and chuckle, seeing their interaction. It's amusing for their eyes, which lets them know that even someone like Eleonora also has some flaws as she cannot be called perfect in everything.

Clearing her throat, Eleonora then continue.

"Also, I think that we have to start training ourselves to become strong enough to not rely on others. Sorry to say, but as much as I want to protect all of you, I also cannot determine what kind of danger will happen when I am not around."

The silence filled the room the moment Eleonora said that. They pondered about it and gave that a thought, especially those from Earth or Eleonora's world, since they were basically ordinary humans without superpowers or special abilities like Eleonora.

"I knew what you were thinking, and I won't do any that hard and nonsense hell training like in anime. The training won't be that hard; I'll also speed it up by manipulating the time flows so everyone can become stronger fast without any hardship. Although I can give you some of the good abilities."

But she was rejected by her lovers, who shook their heads simultaneously. Chiyuki then became the one who spoke before anyone could.

"Leo-chan, if we receive any abilities from you like that, I am afraid that we will surely bother you even more, and we don't want that. We are fine to receive any form of training from you, and with that, if we somehow discover our own abilities, we can surely use that to help you. We want to be useful and not useless all the time."

She said that with a serious face, but someone could see a slight hint of kindness from it. Keine, Sonoka, Sakura, and even Hotaru agreed with that statement. This, of course, makes Eleonora sighing and has no choice but to agree with what she says.

"Chiyuki-san is right, Leo-chan. Although I knew violence is wrong and bad, we have to adapt ourselves or be left behind. As much as we want to be protected by you, we also agree that we have to start training ourselves so we can do some self-defense."

"I agree with what Sonoka-san said, Leo."

"Chiyu-nee, Sonoka-nee, Hotarun… alright. We will do the training after we are done with Shizuku's business. Is that okay, Shizuku?"

Eleonora turned around to Shizuku, which was given approval by her nod.

"I am okay with it, Eleonora. After all, the business I want to do in my home is related to our love life."

Shizuku was saying that and sending a wink to Eleonora. The young bluenette just laughed softly and understood what she meant by that. She also wants to meet with Kaori and her female classmates, although she is not ready to reunite with Hajime because the young man harbors hate feelings towards Eleonora.

"Good, then how about we finish our day for now? It's almost late, and everyone must be tired after having fun outside."

Hearing that, they then went to the room that had already been prepared. Still, of course, some of the girls were not comfortable sleeping alone, so they went to Eleonora's room and crowded her bed with girls who also wanted to sleep together with Eleonora.

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"Well, I don't think that even those from Amagi Brilliant Park would appear in her world. Seems like some of the fictional characters of any franchise began to appear randomly, and it seems I have to tell her about it too."

He scratched the back of his head when saying that and mumbled something in a low voice. His hands then reach one device that looks like remote control and hold onto it before turning on the switch button, which lets one of the big screens be arranged in a designated position turn on.

"Hmm… so her next destination of another world is this one, huh. Medieval Age world again, but she can get any [Divine's Fragment] again to complete her godhood transformation or deification in that world. Also, she will get another harem candidate again in that world. That's kind of inevitable, after all. She is destined to have massive lovers or harem in the future."

He laughed awkwardly, knowing what kind of future would happen to his favorite person right now. She may reach godhood in a short time and have a lot of women to be in her side forever; he also foresees that all of them will be achieving true immortality.

On the screen, there's a huge and tall building. The height of that building is estimated to be 2.484 m according to the database this being seen before. The name is Babel, which has 50 floors on the huge and tallest building in that city.

"At least she can get rid of any annoying gods or those gods who are 'evil.' Might be conquered the whole dungeon in one swoop, I'll give her a month or week to clearing all of the floors and achieving godhood at the same time during that."

Indeed. If his favorite person is genuinely going to that world full of gods, then it's possible for her to achieve godhood quickly and not have to wait for several years. Someone might call it to speedrun for the better term as she will do in the future.

Stretching out both hands, he then yawned as he felt a bit bored just oversees any of those and not able to descend to any of that worlds since the rule stated that gods who ascended to heaven cannot fall to mortal worlds. They cannot interfere directly, but it's an exception if they were using a vessel that is only capable of containing 1% of their full powers.

"I'll solve that problem later since I'm quite bored, and it looks like Yakuza's new games are about to be released in January 2020. Better for me to wait for that and get someone the copy. Just because I'm god doesn't mean that I can just create the game. I can't create something out of nothing like her since I don't have that kind of ability."

He sighed heavily when knowing that bitter truth.

"It's SSR rate skill anyway. Not all people can have it; for example, it is me. I don't have that OP skill. I'm really jealous of her, but all I can do is just give her some abilities which are originally are hers under the pretext of 'gift.'"

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Morning came by, and a new day completely changed the old one.

Right now, we can see Eleonora Pendragon, the sole heir of the current generation of the Pendragon family and the true descendant that has the right to inherit all of the treasures that were kept by King Arthur behind. She is currently sipping a coffee prepared by one of the maids in her family.

She also has two private maids who serve her: Curacoa and Noint. While Curacoa has already served her since she was born, Noint just recently became one of her maids; but both of them are the lovers of Eleonora too.

Not only did she drink a morning coffee and sometimes take a bite of her favorite handmade snack that was prepared, but she also watched some of the news on the TV with her father. Trying to do it stealthily, Eleonora used her [Observe] on her father and found out something horrible had happened to his body.

Name: Theodore Pendragon

Title: The Fool of Pendragon, Britain's Number One Troublemaker

HP: 5.000.000/50.000.000.000 (Merlin-Pendragon's curse)

MP: 5.000.000/15.000.000.000 (Merlin-Pendragon's curse)

Age: 35 years old

Race: Human

Gender: Male

What he thought about you: He loved you so much also you're his pride and joy

She is shocked by that sudden realization since she never uses her [Observe] to her parents, and after finding this out, she has no choice but to ask her father about his condition and find out how to remove or lift off the curse.

"Dad… can you explain to me why your health and magic are constantly dropping like that?"

Eleonora asked that with horror on her face, making Theodore go in shock and let out a heavy sigh from his mouth.

'Looks like I can't hide it anymore from Elly? But oh well, after discussing that with Merlin and Yuuka, I already determined to tell her about it.'

He put down the newspaper he had and coffee. Theodore then spoke something out of his mouth to his beloved daughter, his pride and joy in the world.

"Elly, this is the curse that our family has, which only affects the male of Pendragon's family. The curse has existed because that dick-wizard magic didn't aware of its mutation since he temporarily made Artoria Pendragon be pseudo-male to let the king have a descendant."

Eleonora tried to listen carefully and didn't know something like that also existed.

"Then… how much time do you have left, dad…?"

"Until you turn fifteen at your birthday."

The silence was filled the whole conservation they had. Eleonora looked down on the floor and pondered what her father had said about his current condition; also, judging from the way he said, it seems like there's no cure or way to altogether remove the curse.

But Eleonora knew that becoming panic or anything would mess up things, so she let out a heavy sigh and calmed herself as she asked her father again about a possible solution to eliminate the curse he always has had since he was born.

"Alright, dad… how about this? I will try to use one of my skills to cure or remove your curse."

"Are you for real, Elly?"

"Of course, why…? You want to abandon mom and me?"

She asked that with an unbelievable expression as she thought that Theodore chose to die rather than live together again with his wife and daughter, but of course, Theodore denies it quickly by shaking his head to her.

"No, no, no. I'm not that stupid and heartless. I also want to live a little longer and spend my days with you and mom. I also still want to see your child and my granddaughters. There's still a lot of things that I want to do."

Eleonora was satisfied with the answer.

"I have a way to remove your curse. Although I don't have any purification technique, I still have another way to do it."

"If that's true, then it's kinda awkward to just completely get rid of that. How about, you know… some dramatic scene like "No, I quite satisfied with my life, and I don't want to let myself bother you.", or kind of like "I leave this family to you, so don't worry about me," or maybe like…."

"Stop it, dad. It's only happened in anime and the likes. The purpose was to have something like that to spice up the drama, so people felt sympathy. Just to boost up the drama while the story itself probably don't have it in its genre."

Theodore only laughed awkwardly and scratched the back of his head when he heard his daughter saying that with tick marks on her forehead as she was pretty upset that her father was about to say something like that while she may have the solution to solve that problem.

Clearing his throat after seeing the kind of face his daughter makes, which is quite scary even for someone like him as he sweatdropped a bit, he then spoke again to her as he stood up from his seat and faced her in front of his daughter.

"Alright, alright. If you have the solution, then I'll obey your command, my princess."

Theodore bowed politely at his daughter, which made her laugh at how ridiculous her father was doing that politely. The spiky-haired man just grinned, seeing his daughter seems pleased.

"Okay, enough joking, and I'll do it right away. So that's why, please stay still, dad. Don't do any weird move."

Eleonora throws a joking glare at her father, causing Theodore to obey his daughter in a joking manner. Following Eleonora's order, he stays still and does not move his body as the young girl touches his body as she says something from her mouth.

"[Erasure]…"

As she did that, both could hear the sound of some chain breaking from Theodore. Eleonora nodded and continued to do something to her father.

"Okay, seems that's enough. I will also heal you. [High Heal]."

Bright light covers Theodore's body as she says that, and Theodore's looks seem to get better from what she can see. He also appears to have become a few years younger than he was supposed to look, which surprised him.

To confirm what she did, Eleonora then asked her father about his current condition.

"Done. How about that, dad? How are you feeling?"

Trying to move his hands, and it worked so well as it doesn't have the same feeling as before, Theodore grinned and nodded to his sole daughter to confirm what she asked.

"All good, and I also feel to be a few years younger. Seems like your magic really does its magic, and dad really proud of you, Elly. Thanks a lot, my daughter."

He stroked his daughter's head with a gentle manner and warm smile that made the young chairman smile happily and satisfied that her father's condition returned normal and his curse completely eradicated like that easily.

A curse that even someone like Merlin couldn't be removed completely.

But in Eleonora's hands, it became something trivial. She doesn't suffer any difficulties when doing that. That's basically her entire life; she always has easy mode when she is born in the world and destined to be the winner of her whole life.

Maybe that sounds unfair for some people, but you cannot help that life has always been like that. There are always winners and losers, Eleonora is the winner, and she can get anything she wants. People may call her perfect, but the young chairman still has some flaws despite not being seen like that.

Theodore just snorted while smiling at his daughter, who seemed happy. Her smile was really precious to him and his wife. He also owed his daughter a huge debt since she could remove the curse that had already passed for many generations.

Stopping what he did, Theodore then said something to her.

"Alright, Elly, it seems you want to say something important to me. I bet you have some big secret hidden. Isn't that right?"

Eleonora averted her gaze away from her father and just laughed nervously when he spotted that right. Theodore just flashed out his smug smile since he is right about that seeing the reaction given by his daughter. It's evident for him, but he is always waiting for his daughter to say it herself.

But this time, it seemed a different case.

"Then, I'll wait until you call mom and maybe tell your lovers about it. I don't want to be the first person who heard it. If anything, I want mom to hear it too so you won't bother yourself explaining it again. How's that?"

"That will do, and I appreciate it, dad."

"Don't mention it. What you have done just now is definitely grand feats. It's a form of a curse that existed for many generations. That was like over a thousand years ago, you know, and you… just solve it easily. There's not even some bullshit like "I have to wait for a few years to master the skills, and after that, the curse will be able to be removed permanently." or "This is… this curse cannot be removed by any means." something like that."

Eleonora sighed and shook her head to her father's imagination.

"Dad, you watch too much anime. You have to stop it for a while."

"Hey, anime is good, and there's nothing better than that, Elly. Anime has a lot of varieties too, not only limited to some specific genre or anything and probably one of the greatest things that Japan ever made in existence."

He said that with pride while rubbing his chin and smiling proudly, making his daughter strangely look at him and causing her to rub her forehead.

'Good grief… anime has really invaded his mind. Although I admit some are good, I have to tell mom to ensure dad won't go too far in anime. That would be bad if it happened, especially if he reached the stage where he adored female characters and claimed them as his wife or something.'

She doesn't want that really happen. The best way is to restrict him but not too far or extreme. Besides, Eleonora also has liked anime, albeit not that much because it's helped Eleonora develop her skills using the knowledge within that. She can be very creative and create her own skills based on reference.

"Alright, dad, just… don't go too far with enjoying the anime. I don't want you to end up like those disgusting otaku that will do anything for anime and don't care about the reality or even their own families."

"Of course I won't. That would be stupid if I carelessly turned into someone like them. I only watch anime when I'm bored and not collecting the collectibles. But Kamen Rider also seems good despite some people saying it's has a mediocre story."

"Well, as long as you don't cross the line, I think that's okay, dad. Anyway, I want to go outside, dad. Tell mom that Emilia-san and I were hanging out together. I want to be in a good relationship with her and, if possible, be her friend too."

Hearing that, Theodore flashed his cheeky smile.

"Won't you make her your new lover too?"

"Don't jinx it, dad. Seriously, it's not like I am a harem-seeker."