Chapter 63: Decisions and Discussion

From the palace, Hajime observed the fire show and sighed [That guy can't do things without causing a stir.]

"H-hajime dono that explosion… what happened," King Lanzwi became pale seeing the large explosion happen right above his Dukedom. He wondered if some kingdom had started a war on them.

Hajime sees the panicked expression on King Lanzwi and informs him. 

"Don't worry, no one had attacked. It's just that there was a monster hiding inside the reservoir, which they had just dealt with causing the explosion. The water should be clean now." Hajime somehow calmed the panicking King. 

"I see," King Lanzwi calmly nodded. Still, he was worried, he would send some of his men to check up on the reservoir.

After the king left Hajime heard Yue calling, "Hajime." 

He turned his head and saw Yue, Kaori and Tio approaching him and looking toward the explosion.

"What was that explosion just now," Kaori asked worried whether or not more people got hurt. She just came after healing some of the severe patients in the infirmary. Although they were stable for the moment, without the Stillstone they would inevitably relapse again.

"Don't worry. That explosion has already been dealt with, and no one got hurt. You can relax." Listening to Hajime, Kaori sighed in relief.

"Thank goodness…"

"Master, what will we do now," Tio asked seeing that the sun was about to go down.

"Hmm… we will rest up for today and tomorrow at dawn we will head to 'Grand Gruen Volcano'.

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After the slime was taken care of, and completely cleansing the reservoir. We returned to the palace. There I explain what actually happened and about the explosion.

Bize, who had observed the whole thing, confirmed the authenticity of the claims. King Lanzwi confirmed the details with his men, and his son thanked us profusely. Seeing it was getting late, he invited us to stay in the palace for the day.

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"Ah… this feels great," Rihito said soaking in the luxurious bath in the palace.

"I feel refreshed now, what do you think?" Rihito asked Hajime who was also joined him in the bath.

"Yeah, it does…" Hajime says that and then both of them fall into silence relaxing.

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After about 5 minutes. Hajime spoke up, "Rihito…"

"Hmm…" Rihito responded with a hum indicating he was listening.

"Tell me, what do you really think about having a harem…"

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Rihito who was relaxing opened his eyes wide and looked at Hajime. "You know, I never thought you would ever ask something like this…" Rihito tried to joke, but he saw Hajime was looking at him seriously. So, he changes his tone.

"Harem huh? Well, I know as much as you do and we both know where that knowledge comes from. So, I won't go on about why harem is good or bad, and I also don't think you want to hear about that either."

"I am assuming you are thinking about your current relationship with Kaori and Tio, who practically are in love with you, am I correct?" Rihito asked.

Hajime heard that and sighed, "Yeah, about that, as you already know my heart already belongs to Yue. That's a fact no matter what that will never change. I had made a point to show it off to everyone to make sure anyone unscrupulous would stay away from Yue. But I don't understand why Kaori even after getting rejected and knowing I was in love with someone else still decided to follow after me. And then."

Hajime feeling a headache rubbed his forehead and continued, "There is that perverted dragon. Half of the time I don't understand what goes around that perverted brain of hers, on the other half she acts like a pervert. Honestly, I don't know how to feel about them. Why do they even like me."

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Rihito sees Hajime go into full complaining mode, and start listening to his friends complain. After more than 10 minutes of complaining about 'Why do other girls like me' he calmed down.

"After listening to all your complaints. All I understood is that you are suffering from success." Rihito said that with a deadpan look.

Hajime's lips twitch hearing Rihito's words, "you..."

"Ah, Ah…" I stopped Hajime with a hand gesture.

"Before you start cursing at me let me explain. First, you are complaining about more than one girl liking you," I said with amusement.

"You know if someone who didn't know the context of what you said. Any other guy will curse you to death and that's guaranteed. To them, it seems like you are bragging in front of them."

"Second, I don't really understand what the problem is here. From what I have seen Yue might argue with Kaori, but that is more of a banter between friends. As for Tio, she might be a pervert but she knows when to behave, she even sometimes deliberately acts pervertedly just to shift the serious mood. You are not telling me you didn't notice it."

Hajime fell silent, he didn't know what to say now. He is not stupid; he has already seen through that act. He might not be able to completely read her, but he had his guesses.

Rihito observed Hajime as he pondered and spoke up, "Hajime, what are you really worried about? Are you concerned about the laws in our previous world? If you are, then don't be. The way we are now, we could barely be called human. Or are you worried about what some nobody will say? Since when did you start to care about that?" 

Rihito then gasped, "Don't tell me you are worried about them betraying you and leaving. If you think along those lines, Kaori, Tio and even Yue might be disappointed in you."

Hajime feeling uncomfortable asked, "What about you? How are you dealing with all this…"

Thinking for a moment I answered, "I think it's fine, no, in fact, it's great. Shea and Shizuku have talked it out and decided to share me and have made an agreement of some kind, which I don't know about."

"What about Tohru," Hajime asked.

"Well, for her, I can already see, she wants our current relationship to be more than what it currently is. But she probably didn't know how to articulate her feelings. By this, if worst came to worst, I am expecting she would probably challenge me to fight her and ask me to be her mate or something."

"..."

Hajime blinked in astonishment, "And you are ok with it."

"Of course, I am, I am confident I can take care of their needs, be it emotional or physical. As for money and other mundane things." Rihito then used <Mana Materialization> and created a chunk of gold and tossed it to Hajime, which he caught.

He then used his Ore appraisal and saw it was 100% pure gold. He then looked at Rihito.

"Do you think with an ability like that someone has to worry about mundane things," Rihito said wiggling his brow.

"Sigh, I am not talking about that. I saying isn't it considered cheating? I can't help but feel loving someone other than Yue is cheating." Hajime looked at me with questioning eyes.

"Hmm… it would be considered cheating if you hid it, but from the looks of things I didn't see any animosity in Yue's eyes. It is more like an annoyance. I am pretty sure if she really rejects the idea of you having a harem she will show it." Hajime after listening to me started to ponder.

"Hajime, I am not telling you 'Go have a harem'. I am saying those two are trying their best to make you look at them. Before you make up your mind think about it. After that make your choice whether you accept or reject, it will be up to you."

With that, their conversation came to an end leaving Hajime a lot to think about.

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On the other side of the wall lies the women's bath where the girls relax and wash off their sweat.

"Myu don't swim in the bath it is bad manners," scolded Shizuku seeing Myu swim around the bath.

"Eh? But it is so nice and warm, I want to swim, can I please…" Myu used her cute puppy eyes, which was super effective on Shizuku who likes cute things.

Other girls watching the show noticed the cuteness emanating from Myu and felt sympathy for Shizuku, who was being bombarded by the cuteness.

"Ugh…" Unable to take any more barrage of cuteness, Shizuku relented. 

"Fine, but don't move too much, Okay."

Myu getting Shizuku's permission leapt at her, hugging her and nuzzling her face on Shizuku's breasts.

"Thank You, Big sister, Shizu," Myu then went back to swimming.

Shizuku sighed to herself and submerged her body in hot water relaxing.

"Got smitten by her cuteness, did you," Tio jabbed, seeing the exhausted girl.

Shizuku too exhausted to retort looked away hiding her blush.

While relaxing they hear an interesting conversation between Yue and Kaori, which garner everyone's attention.

"Tell me do you want to know? You want to know badly, don't you? The secret Hajime and I share. It's a secret but you still want to know anyway, don't you? It also relates to how I first met Hajime," Kaori says with eagerness to share as if Yue wants to know.

Yue notices Kaori, who seems eager to be asked something, as if her eyes are almost shouting, 'Ask me, Ask me now!' Although Yue is tempted to learn more about Hajime, she doesn't feel the need to ask Kaori. She figures she can just ask Hajime about it later.

Yue ignoring Kaori said, "No one cares how you and Hajime met, Kaori." she said in a disinterested tone.

But to Yue's annoyance and everyone else amusement Kaori started to talk about it anyway.

Then Kaori Talked about how Hajime saved an old lady and her grandson, which also attracted Tio's attention.

"..."

While Kaori, Yue and Tio started talking about their experience of meeting Hajime.

Shea, Shizuku and Tohru were not so interested in listening to their story.

Just then Shea got an idea and looked at Shizuku, "Hey Shizuku, from us you were first to meet Rihito, right? Tell me how you met Rihito," Shea asked with curiosity.

Tohru who was uninterested till this point looked at Shizuku with curiosity.

Shizuku captures both of their attention as she reminisces about the moment, she first met him, causing her to blush.

"Do I really have to say," Shizuku said with timidness.

Shea with eagerness said, "Yes you have to," Shea paused for a moment and said, "How about this you tell me about yours and I will then tell you about how I met him. What do you say?"

Shizuku thought for a moment and agreed. "Alright…"

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"Chapter end"

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