21-25

Hello there, it's now slightly past the morning of day three, we're continuing our journey in the car again, and I just had a very awkward time with my driver - Justia.

I was pretty sure she sensed something yesterday after my girlfriends evicted her out of the car right after dinner. But now I'm beyond convinced that she knew what was going on.

Because this morning I woke up with hickeys plus bite marks all over my body, even on my neck. My jaw is slightly stiff, and my muscles are sore again, but it's better than the first time. You know, the standard stuff.

And then I realized that it was almost 9 A.M, a whole 30 minutes later than the time we were supposed to wake up, my two girlfriends were still sleeping. I hastily threw my clothes on and went outside to greet Justia, who was sitting against the tree, eating her breakfast.

When I spoke up to her, she looked at my neck for 3 seconds, then she blushed and tried to divert her gaze by looking down, only to catch the sight of some unknown liquid running down my thighs under the skirt.

I tried to act like nothing was wrong, that I just overslept, but that just made the interaction more awkward.

In the end, I just asked her for some more time to tidy up the car and to dress up my partners. Thankfully Justia and the crew on the other car were very considerate and didn't pester me or anything.

Back to the present, I am now looking out of the window, watching the scenery quietly, my partners still sleeping.

We are now passing through a town of the Empire, the geography of the Empire is pretty awkward, they have a lot of empty lands with all kinds of biome, each town and city is separated by these empty lands, so it's like there's just a lot of city and town patches in a big map. The capital is located near the heart of the country, by the way.

The town we're now driving through is named, well, I don't know, I don't really care either. But the buildings here have the same aesthetic as those in old Europe, like, 1700s or 1800s something.

''Um, Your Highness.'' Justia suddenly speaks up, breaking my line of thought, her eyes still facing forward.

''What's wrong?'' I try to reply calmly.

''U-Um, I'll make sure to park the car in a remote location, and I'll try to go farther to sleep tonight, so...'' She trails off at the end. I can see her ears reddens.

''cough cough... I-I see, thank you for your consideration.'' I nearly choked there.

I'm glad that we can do it more freely now, although she doesn't really need to go farther to sleep cause there will be no sound heard outside anyway. The first night I was very embarrassed about doing it in the car because of the sounds so I refused my girlfriends on their request, that's why on the second day I used the Internet for some research and was able to come up with a sound barrier of sort, using magic.

The effect was great, I think this will be useful to mask the sound of the .50 cal BMG when I do shoot it eventually in the city, I prefer this solution rather than using a silencer, fight me.

But I do need to restrain my girlfriends a bit though, I don't want to face the imperial family with hickeys on my neck... I wonder when will these ones fade out...

It's the evening of the fourth day. After passing through a few more towns, I can finally see the destination of our journey, the capital - Xeno.

The first thing that I'm able to see is the spiky top of a castle, it's red, very red. Gradually, more of the needlessly huge and extravagant castle, or palace, as people here call it, is revealed. That one is probably twice as big as ours.

Then what greets me next is an enormous wall surrounding the city itself. It's almost like Attack on Titan, minus the Titans.

After a bit more driving on the asphalt road, we arrived at the main gate. There are some guards there and a station of sorts built inside the wall.

At the front of the gate, we are stopped by 2 guards with red uniforms, holding muskets in their hands. Heh, inferior guns.

Justia opens the window, and one of the guards walks closer.

''May I ask, are you and the ladies here the delegation team of the Everwood kingdom?'' The guard asks with a polite tone in English after being stunned for a second, most likely because of our appearance.

''That's right, can we pass through?'' Justia replies with her normal, a little bit stiff tone.

''Of course, we were informed beforehand about your visit, and if I'm correct, the people in the car behind your car are also a part of the team, yes?''

''Yes, they are.''

''Understood. Please wait for a second.''

The guard runs back to the station, and after a bit, he gestures for us to pass.

Riding on the road inside the capital, I can see that the buildings are pretty much of the same style as the ones in the previous towns, just fancier. There's a lot of light on the street and in the buildings, people in this world use mana lamps as replacements for lightbulbs, so I guess there's no pollution, that's good.

Also, there are a lot more people here, and they seem to be much more well-off, I can even see a number of cars parked on the side of the road as well. Maybe that's why no one really pays attention to us.

We are now heading towards the residential area of our official embassy here in Xeno, we just built one 15 years ago, as an effort to establish a friendly relationship with the empire, on the outside. But in actuality, it is basically the base for our rescue and assassination operations.

The residence is where we will stay throughout our time here, I don't think staying in the imperial palace or the academy's dorm will be a good idea.

According to our schedule, we will be resting there for a full day, then we'll get dressed up and go to the palace to have an audience with the Emperor and his family, I don't know if they will also invite nobles or not.

But anyway, relax first, I'm kinda tired from the trip. Although I'm only sitting in the car and getting fucked the whole time. Not sure why.

Getting out of the car, I can see the residence before my eyes, 3 stories tall, green from top to bottom. Yup, this is the one. It does look very nice, actually.

We go in to receive our rooms, we, or rather Emy and Liana instantly ask for a large room for three people, and when the person in charge gives out the key, Emy snatches it with lightning speed and proceeds to walk straight to the room. We follow her to the third floor.

Opening the door, I can make out the sight of a large room with mainly green decorations, it's pretty well made, not too extravagant, but not bad at all, there's two big beds, one of them Liana throws out of the room shortly after.

It's fairly late, and we just had dinner, so we go to bath (?) together, then go to sleep (?) together.

Next morning, we just got dressed for an outing, we decided to explore the city today. I saw a lot of stores and entertainment facilities yesterday, so I'm curious to see what the Empire here has to offer.

We decided to look around the city today.

This time around we're not friends anymore, but lovers, so it is a date. I'm feeling happy just thinking about that.

But before we can get out of the room, Emy stops us.

''We need to do something about our ears, people will look at us, it's annoying.''

That's true, elves are by nature a secluded race, they only live with their own people, and only a small part of them travel outside. So naturally there's not a whole lot of elves in the capital, we'll get a lot of unwanted attention if we go like this.

''Well, I can't use illusion magic, so.'' Liana shrugs.

''I can try it.'' I reply.

I've skimmed through a lot of magic before, I'm pretty sure I can make some small illusions.

Controlling the mana in the air, I manipulated the light surrounding our ears, making them look like normal human ears.

''Welp, it's done.'' I nod after seeing our ears. Even the earrings on my ears have disappeared, too.

Mana users with a certain level of mastery might see through this, but most normal people can't, that's good enough.

Now we have the appearances of young and beautiful noble ladies, human ladies, of course. Let's do a final attire check.

Emy is rarely wearing a black skirt today, with knee-length black socks and a long-sleeved white shirt. Liana has a simple long green shirt dress on, and I'm wearing white shorts with white thigh-length socks, together with an oversized light blue T-shirt. Also a white scarf, to hide the hickeys on my neck. It's very fortunate that the weather is chilly enough for this.

Aight, good to go.

Walking on the street with my lovers on both sides holding my hands, I'm looking around to find a shop that sells food. We decided to eat outside today. I nagged Justia and old Julius for some money earlier, it was easy. Jealous? Just reborn as a princess, then.

Fortunately, they do use paper money like our country as well, so I don't need to carry loads of coins, that's a waste of my strength. The currency is called K, stands for Kira. The old first Emperor was a narcissist all along. Or he just didn't have any say in this, because he died fighting the demon king. LOL.

We got 1000 K, which I was told that it was a lot. Normal people need around 50 K to live in the capital for a month. And we just got 20 times that for an allowance. Glad I didn't choose to be a lobotomized eldritch creature living in a monster land of anything.

Oh, there's a pretty clean-looking bakery there, I could eat some bread.

''How about some breads for breakfast?'' I speak up, pointing to the bakery across the street.

''Sure.'' Liana replies while Emy just nods.

So we walk into the bakery, and there's a lot of bread of all kinds sitting behind glass displays, this is great.

We're now taking our time choosing the bread. In the end, we decided to take one of each type to try out all of them.

Walking out of the store, each of us is carrying a pretty sizeable paper bag.

''Let's get some drinks and go somewhere quiet to eat.'' Liana suggests.

So we head to another shop nearby, this one is a cafe, I'm surprised by how close to a modern cafe it looks.

And they somehow have cola and a bunch of different Earth drinks, what the hell. Needless to say, they also have plastic cups and straws.

I guess there's that one Saint in the past who really loved drinks and they made all of these, huh.

I and Liana get colas, and Emy gets a lemonade, and then we exit the cafe with the drinks.

Now outside, we just need to find a place to sit down and eat, I can just lift all of us up really high in the sky and stay there for a while, but that's a horror show, not a breakfast anymore.

After walking a bit more, Liana spots a park in the corner, so we decide to go there immediately, mainly because I don't want to heat up the bread again if we leave them for too long.

The park surrounds a small lake, there's not much here, except a lot of trees.

''Hah...''

Ah~ This is refreshing.

We find square tables near the lake, so we sit down next to each other on one of them, placing the food and drinks on the table. I then make some ice cubes out of magic, open the lid, and throw them in.

''Want some?''

''Give me three cubes.''

''Me two.''

''Okay.''

I make some ice for them, and then I start to take out a piece of bread to eat, I'm starving. Hmm...

There are practically no people here, I swear even ghosts hate this place, wonder why.

But now that's not important, what's important is this French toast is insanely good, I think they call it something else, but it's French toast, I googled it.

''Mhmm~ Try this one.'' I hold it out for Emy and Liana using one hand. My other hand holding the cola that I'm drinking right now. 

Each of them takes a bite at the same time.

After chewing a bit, they both give me a thumbs up and a nod. I have to make our chef cook this for me next time.

''Mhn??'' Liana takes a sip of her cola, then her body shakes a bit, her face confused, I guess this is the first time she has tried a carbonated drink.

Emy is looking at Liana curiously, so I give her my cup, after a sip, her eyes widen a bit, and then she takes another sip. She likes this, huh.

''Let's all share the drinks, then.'' I suggest. 

So the peaceful time continues for a while with us trying out the breads until we finish all of them. Thankfully there's a trash bin nearby, so I don't have to carry all of the trash.

Walking out of the park, I'm thinking of going somewhere fun, now that I'm not hungry anymore.

''Where do we go next?'' I ask.

''No idea, just walk for a bit, then we should find something. This is the capital after all, no?'' Liana shrugs.

''Makes sense.'' I reply.

After 10 minutes of just walking, we finally see something interesting, it's an aquarium. I've never been to one even in my past life.

''That?'' I point to the building.

''Sure.'' Liana also seems interested.

''Mhmm.''

The ticket for each person costs 5 K, which is pretty hardcore, for normal people that is, we're rich baby.

A guide leads us to a pretty big underground space, where various marine species can be seen through the glass walls.

Now all three of us are going around aimlessly, looking at everything.

Not sure if it's because this is another world, but the animals here look pretty weird in my eyes, like, there's one shark-looking motherfucker over there with 2 pairs of eyes who has been staring at me for a while now.

So currently I'm having a staring contest with this guy, try get me, idiot.

Emy takes this chance to give me a back hug, her head resting on my shoulder. Liana is just scanning everywhere.

After an intense fight, the stupid fish lost, and it ran away, weakling.

Outside of the aquarium, we're now finding something else to play. I mean, it was pretty good for some time, but we can't be there forever.

''How about a theatre? I heard they do plays here.'' Liana suggests.

''I like that.'' I turn around to look at Emy, and she nods as well.

We found one after a bit of searching and asking. The play is just about to happen as well. How lucky.

We bought the best tickets, which allow us to sit on the second floor of the theatre, in a private room. 

I'm sitting on the couch with Emy and Liana leaning on me. The view is pretty good here, I can see all the other customers as well.

Oh, they're starting.

The play is a romance tragedy, it's not over yet, but I can already see all the flags there, I bet one of the leads will die at the end. You'll understand what I'm talking about.

The female lead with an incurable deadly disease got into an arranged marriage with a handsome, rich but cold Duke, and the story is full of misunderstandings. What the hell is this? Otome Isekai? Is that the famous Duke of the North? Does he have a condition where he's losing his sanity over time? Did he accidentally murder his parents? Is that why he's a douchebag now?

Oh, they're finally making out, after 3 whole years into the marriage, I don't really understand why they're being this difficult with each other.

I mean, I'm not a romance master or anything, but I got two girlfriends, that's one more than either of them, so they can all go to hell.

Talking about my girlfriends, this is not the place for fucking, guys, so stop groping me...

The se- the play was good, turns out the female lead didn't die at the end, they got a happy ending.

It was lunch, so I asked one of the attendants of the theatre for restaurants. And we're now in a supposedly top restaurant with the best food in the capital, it's hella expensive, but that's why we got this much money, am I right?

The interior looks very clean and luxurious as well, there's even soft music playing somewhere.

And the attendant was right, the food here could even rival our chef's dishes, the texture of the steak is divine, is this wagyu?

I have to try all the desserts as well.

We had a good time at the restaurant, maybe I should go there more often.

After chilling in another cafe for a while, it was time to go home, we needed to sleep early today to prepare for tomorrow, so I decided to go back, in the hope that if I sold my body to these two beasts here earlier, I could sleep the full night.

The residential area that we're currently staying in is not at all far from the palace, it's only around 300 meters from here, and I could easily walk there in a few minutes, or seconds if I decided to fly. We'll go by car though.

So we don't really have to worry about the time of our appointment, really.

That is, if these goofballs of an imperial family didn't decide to meet us at 8 in the morning. The hell were they thinking, waking up early when your eyes just refuse to open is the worst thing ever. 

Fortunately, my tactic yesterday did succeed, I offered my body to my girlfriends right after dinner so I didn't get ravaged all night, which helped us to get a pretty nice sleep.

There's about 2 hours left before the time, so now we're all getting dressed up by the attendants here. They're assassins, but also maids at the same time, how scary.

We spent quite a long time on skincare stuff, though the makeup itself didn't last very long, as our bare faces are already beautiful enough to surpass every noble lady out there, just a few touches would suffice.

Despite yesterday, I forbade any attempt on sucking or biting my neck, the marks left when we were doing it in the car are still there, so I was embarrassed when the maids had to use makeup to hide them.

For our hair, we decided to not do anything special, for my hair I just let them flow down to my butt, Emy's a bobbed cut anyway, and Liana's just long twin-tails.

Now onto the dresses, despite the fact that I'm very tempted to let my intrusive thoughts win and just wear shorts and a T-shirt to meet the imperials, we still need proper dresses.

Apparently, our dressmakers back in the kingdom sent quite a lot of dresses here, there's like, a lot of them. Enough to fit a whole room. We each need to choose two, one for the audience in the morning, and one for the ball in the evening.

For the first dresses, we decided to choose something matching, so we all went for an academy-uniform-looking style, all white with a few black touches. With white stockings as well. Can't go wrong with black and white.

For the ball, I decided to go with a dark blue, short ball gown with a lot of white and silver stars on it, really beautiful, maybe with white stockings, that should be good.

Again, we wanted to match, so we got the same design, but Emy's color is black, and the stars are yellow. Liana's one is green, with yellow stars as well. I'm glad they made the dresses to match our eye colors and such.

Wearing our matching academy dresses, we're now ready for the audience.

Of course, we're not going alone, there's dude Julius, Justia, Adam, and three people from the S.D squad as well. Except for Julius, the rest will be our bodyguards.

The sight is pretty bizarre, all of them are wearing black suits, looking very professional. And then there's us, goofy-looking high school girls. Well, can't do anything about that.

So we get into our cars and head to the palace. What was the name again? Crimson, yes, Crimson Palace.

A whole 2 minutes later, we're at the gate, there are two guards with muskets blocking us, again.

After checking our appearances a bit, they let us in.

Getting out of the car with my companions, I can now see that the palace is insanely big, as expected from the world's biggest country. It is mainly white and red, with quite a lot of large buildings connected with each other, each around 4 stories tall, and then there's a super tall one in the middle with a pointy roof as well.

''Welcome, esteemed guests, we have been expecting you.'' An old dude greets us at the main entrance to the very tall building. ''Please go this way.''

We follow him inside, with me, my girlfriends, and Julius at the front, the others trailing behind us.

The interior is also luxurious, I can literally see money oozing out of this place. I wonder what would the food here be like. At this point, I'm just curious about the food.

The old dude leads us into a spacious room on the 5th floor, with shelves of teas, books, wines, and such, and a big table at the center, surrounded by 3 long couches, positioned like a U letter. I'm assuming this is the guest room.

Oh, hey, there's a balcony too, the view here should be good.

''Please sit at the table and wait for a moment, His Majesty and the Imperial Highnesses will be here shortly.'' The old man bows and exits the room.

Nah bro I'm good, Imma head out to the balcony.

''You guys sit first, I'm going to the balcony for some fresh air.''

''I'll go too.'' Emy says.

''Well, go ahead, I'll call you later when they come.'' Liana replies, sitting down on one of the couches.

''Thanks.'' I nod and walk out to the balcony.

The balcony itself is pretty spacious, with, of course, railings to prevent falling, wait, are these all real gold? 

Whatever, it is a little bit windy out here, which is actually very nice, the scenery, as I thought, is very spectacular, I've always dreamed of going to one of the countries in Europe before just for the cityscape scenery, this one right here is close enough, I suppose. I think I'm smiling right now.

As I'm lost in thought, looking at the city, I can feel a gaze on me.

Turning to my left, Emy is staring at my face.

"'What's wrong?''

''...I want to kiss you.''

''Puh- heheh, sure, honest as ever, my love.'' I lean in and kiss her on the lips.

***** 

In another room of the Crimson palace, a man is sitting on the throne. He has bright long red hair, presumably in his thirties, with a pair of sharp burning orange eyes.

The 12th Emperor of Aragon - James Alistaire Aragon.

Beside his throne are three more smaller thrones, made specifically for his children. The Emperor has three children in total, two sons and one daughter.

Jeremy, the crown prince is sitting next to his father on the left, and William, the second prince is on the left of his older brother. The daughter Christina is on her father's right side. All of them have the same features: Red hair and orange eyes.

They are now hearing a report of one of the ministers, while at the same time waiting for the envoy from Everwood.

On the two sides of the minister are Imperial guards, a special team of 10 people whose only purpose is to protect the Imperial Family. They are talented, strong, and loyal, even the weakest member is at 2-star Advance level.

''So, the yield this year-''

clack

The report is interrupted by an old man in a butler suit, opening the large door.

''Pardon my intrusion, the envoy from the Everwood kingdom has just arrived, they are now waiting in the guest room.'' The man kneels down to the Emperor.

''I see. Let's continue the report later, it's time to meet them.'' The Emperor says with a dignified voice, standing up and walking towards the door. His children, the Imperial guards, and the old man follow him.

Shortly after, they arrived at the guest room, where the old man steps up to open the door.

''His Majesty is here.'' The man announces.

Entering the room, the four Aragons see one middle-aged elf in a suit, and one beautiful elf with a rather unfortunate chest genetic sitting on the couches.

The two stand up and begin their introduction.

''It's an honor to meet you, I am Raeliana Seymour of House Seymour.'' Raeliana bows lightly, putting her right hand on her flat chest, the other hand raising her dress a bit.

''It is delightful to see you again, Your Majesty, ah, for your Highnesses, I am Julius Nixon, Everwood kingdom's Minister of foreign affairs.'' Julius calmly bows and says.

''I see, nice to meet you too, lady Seymour, and good to see you again, Count Nixon.'' The emperor nods. ''Though, I heard the Crown Princess is coming too, where is she?''

''Ah, about that, she is now outside on the balcony, please excuse me, I'm going to call her in.'' Raeliana replies and walks towards the balcony.

*****

As I and Emy are on the verge of making out on the balcony, a voice interrupts us.

''Hey, what are you guys doing?'' Liana's here.

We break out of our hug, and I nervously reply back:

''Ah, hey Liana, did the Emperor arrive?''

Liana lets out a sigh, fortunately, she's not mad because we were doing it without her or anything.

''Yes, he's inside right now, so stop making out and get in.''

''Alright.''

Going inside the room, I see four redheads all looking at me with their eyes open wide. What, what's wrong? Why are you guys like this?

Whatever, let's just greet them and sit down, my legs are tired.

''It's an honor to meet you, I am the crown princess of Everwood - Sylvia Everwood.'' I bow very lightly with one hand on my chest, another lifting my skirt.

Emy does the same. ''Emilia Campbell of house Campbell.''

...They're still looking, what the heck, actually, are they looking at my chest? What, never seen a busty elf before? I mean, the girl over there has pretty big ones too, not as big as me though, is it that unexpected?

Fine, whatever, just sit. 

''Now, should we sit down first?'' I give them a capitalist smile.

''Ah, sure, let's do that. Edward, can you prepare us some tea and refreshments?'' The Emperor snaps out.

''Understood, Your Majesty.''

''Ah, wait.'' I stop him. ''Edward, right? Can you help me with some simple dishes as well? We haven't had the chance to eat anything today, so we might be a little bit hungry.''

''...Understood, I will have them prepared.'' The old man then leaves.

Call me shameless all you want, because I am. It's their fault for having a meeting this early, I'm not starving in here, never.

So we all sit down on the couches. On one side are me, Emy, Liana, and Julius. On the other side are the four redheads. Both our bodyguards are standing behind us.

It's negotiation time, baby. I'm not doing any of that, though, when will the food arrive?

''First, allow me to introduce my children. Here is Jeremy, currently the Crown Prince.'' James begins, looking at the man in his early twenties, despite having short blazing red hair and orange eyes, he has an amicable impression, maybe because of his relaxed and friendly face. 

''Nice to meet you, I'm Jeremy Alistaire Aragon.'' Jeremy smiles and nods his head.

''Next is William, the second prince.'' James moves his gaze to the somewhat fierce and arrogant-looking dude, he has the same features as his brother, but he also has an annoying grin on his face. Something tells me that I would not get along well with this dude.

''I'm Willaim Alistaire Aragon, it's a blessing to be able to meet such beautiful ladies here.'' And he's cheesy as well, crap.

''Lastly, this is the first princess, Christina Alistaire Aragon.'' He sets his gaze on a young woman with a confident expression, again, pretty much the same eye and hair colors as the others. She has a pair of earrings made from red gemstones, probably rubies, and another big one on her chest as well.

''My name is Christina Alistaire Aragon, I hope we can get along.'' Christina says, smiling brightly. This one seems good. Her eyes looking at me are kinda weird though.

Overall, they're all pretty-looking people, but I'm surprised by how they can give such different impressions when they all have the same features. Also, I don't like the Second Prince.

''Well, Christina is just here to observe and gain experience, so she won't participate in our negotiation this time.'' James adds.

Fair enough.

''My, we're the same here, Christina. We're here to learn as well, so don't mind us.'' I reply, smiling lightly.

Mom said that when you don't know how to deal with nobles, just make random bullshit comments and laugh everything off. Well, she didn't say the bullshit part, but that's the idea.

''Oh, then, do I have the honor to be your guide for a palace tour after this?'' Christina smiles even wider.

''I'll leave it to you then.'' I smile back. A tour is not a bad idea.

''I'm glad you guys are getting along well. Now, onto our main objective today.'' James turns to Julius.

''Right, what would you like to begin with, Your Majesty?'' Says Julius.

Well, they have been talking about trades for a while now, the gist of it is that we're importing things like grains, sugar, fabrics, leathers, etc.

And they want to buy fruits, tree saplings, wood, and of course, steel and/or weapons from us.

I'm just sitting here enjoying the tea that a maid bought earlier. Obviously.

''...Like we said before, to consolidate our position as a neutral country, we will not sell any steel or weapons to any party outside our own country during this period, I hope you can understand this, Your Majesty.'' Julius declares firmly.

''...I don't understand, as you already know, we don't plan to show any hostility towards your kingdom, in fact, we have never shown any.'' James frowns lightly.

This one is true, almost no country has openly declared war on our kingdom before. Mostly because we have a very high percentage of mana users, and we just have more experienced fighters. Our territory is not that big either, combined with other things, it's just not worth the effort if they are trying to invade us.

''In regards to that, I have a message from our king, Louis Everwood. He said that he has understood your ambition to unite all human countries into one, but in this situation where the demon forces are getting increasingly more formidable, he wants all of us to focus on fighting the demons first.''

''There's a high chance of a demon king appearing soon, Your Majesty. As you know, it is almost time.'' Julius states.

Well, the Empire just completed the invasion on Kaspia a year before, and now they want to unite all human countries, that's like, six more countries in total, and they think they can actually do all of that before the demon king claps our asses? What a joke.

''...''

The emperor leans back, holds his head, and closes his eyes, frowning.

'''' ... '''' 

knock knock

''Come in.'' 

''Excuse me, we had prepared some food for the ladies, please enjoy.'' The old man Edward brings in a tray, puts three plates on the table before us, and leaves.

Finally, food. Let's fucking go.

And it's a classic English breakfast as well, I can absolutely demolish this one.

Ignoring the uncomfortable and awkward silence, I pour some more tea into my cup with telekinesis, create some ice cubes, and throw them into the cup as well. I love cold drinks, they're addicting.

It's time to dig in.

Mhmm~ The eggs and bacon are nicely done, with good seasoning, how about the sausages...? Oh, delicious as well. This is good.

'''' ... ''''

The silence continues for a while before the three of us finish the breakfast.

Wiping my lips with my handkerchief, I set down the plate, acting like nothing happened. Actually, all three of us do that.

''...Well, I don't think we can press you more on this matter.'' The emperor sighs. ''I'll give up the steel and weapons part, but let's keep all the other trades, do you agree?''

''Absolutely, Your Majesty, it is a pleasure doing business with you.'' Julius smiles back.

''Alright then, would you like to follow me for us to discuss more details and finish the contracts?''

''It would be my honor.''

''Jeremy, you follow me, William and Christina can stay to entertain our guests.''

''Yes, father.'' Jeremy replies, standing up to leave the room with his father.

''Please have a fun time here, Your Highness and my ladies. I don't think there's anything more to watch.'' Julius also stands up and speaks to us.

''Alright, have Adam go with you.'' I say to him and Adam behind us.

Some of the guards on the other side leave the room with the Emperor and the Crown Prince as well.

So now in this room, there's me, my girlfriends, our guards, Christina, the annoying dude William, and their guards.

''Well, I think it's fate that we met here, how about an outing with me in the capital, lady Sylvia?'' The greasy goober speaks first.

Wait, is he hitting on me? Oh, fuck off.

''I'm sorry, but we promised to have Christina here guiding us through the palace already.'' I refuse him firmly.

''Let's go, Christina?'' I stand up, walk to Christina on the other side, and grab her hand, at the same time signal with my eyes to my girlfriends to get out as well.

So now we're outside the room, walking. The dude is left alone inside.

''...Is he always like that?'' Liana asks.

''Hah... Yes, he is very flirtatious all the time. You guys can ignore him.'' Christina replies.

Turns out she also dislikes that dude.

''More than that, let's do a walk through our palace. It should be enough time before lunch.'' 

''Sure.'' I smile.

Let's go explore.

But why is she still holding my hand and not letting go... Can't you see my girlfriends frowning already, hey.

''Um, Christina?''

''Hm?''

I look at our hands intertwined together.

''Ah, sorry, I forgot.'' Christina releases my hand.

You usually don't forget that though...

Taking the opportunity, my girlfriends instantly grab both of my hands. Seeing that, Christina narrows her eyes a bit before she turns away and begins walking again.

What is this, is she interested in me?

''Let's go to the garden first.''

So we got a pretty thorough tour of the palace, because it was so big, I decided halfway to just fly all of us through the journey, Christina was surprised by this, and also she likes to fly, apparently.

There's a total of six big mansions besides the very tall one at the center. Three of them are for the royal children, one for the attendants, and two for guests, the Emperor lives in the main building, which is just the tall one.

There's no Empress, by the way, she died a decade ago for some reason. I'm not very interested.

The ball tonight will be hosted in the main building, I can already see a lot of cars going in from all directions already. Probably nobles.

But now, it's lunchtime. Christina invited us to eat at her mansion, we could not see any reason to refuse, so here we are.

''Mhmm...''

As expected of imperial chefs, they have very good skills, and they actually have Eastern food here as well, we got egg fried rice with chicken for lunch.

As I just finished the meal, Christina speaks up: ''We have ice cream here, do you guys want it for dessert?'' She says, smiling.

''Sure~ Thanks a lot.'' What a nice girl.

A little while later, a maid brings in a plastic box with eight cylinder popsicles and ice inside. So they have these kinds of ice creams as well, huh.

Let's see, I'll go for this vanilla-looking one first.

slurp slurp

I'm a fan of sucking rather than biting, biting doesn't get you much flavor.

As I'm giving the popsicle a blowjob, almost getting a drop on my boobs, I suddenly see Christina looking at me contently, her eyes curving up, her cheeks a bit rosy.

...No way that was her plan, right?

Awkward, this is awkward.

It's been some minutes since I finished my popsicle, and now all four of us are sitting at the table in silence.

So most likely my girlfriends saw Christina's less than decent gaze towards me sucking the popsicle earlier, now their stare towards her is colder than even outer space.

Christina, the culprit herself is still grinning and staring at me.

So, what I need to do now is decided. Get the hell out of here.

''Well, that was a good experience, Christina. Thank you so much for the hospitality.'' I force a smile and say.

''You're welcome, Sylvia, I needed to do this much if it's you.'' Christina nods lightly.

''But now we need to go back to our place to prepare for tonight's ball, unfortunately.'' I slowly stand up.

''Oh, is that so, I wanted to accompany you for a little longer... But I understand, let me see you off.''

''No need for that, Christina, we can just fly from your balcony.'' 

''Ah, that's right, get back safely. We will meet again tonight, Sylvia.''

''Um.''

So we leave the mansion through the balcony and fly back to the residence. The Princess here will inform Julius if he ever asks anyway.

Back in our room, Liana turns to me with her eyes narrowed. ''That girl, she was aiming for you.''

''Well, I thought so too.'' I reply.

''I don't like it.'' Emy interjects, hugging me from the back.

''She wasn't being very obvious though, so I can't do anything yet, I'll tell her that I have girlfriends next time.'' I let out a sigh.

''That's that, but now what do we do? There's seven hours before the ball starts.'' Liana sits down on the bed.

''Yeah... I don't want to go outside either.'' I stroke Emy's hand gently.

''...We can do this.'' Emy reaches her right hand to my crotch.

''Aha.'' Liana grins.

Ehhh...

After a three-hour session of intense babymaking, it's now time to get ready for the ball tonight.

I might have accidentally obliterated my foot with a shotgun by choosing a dress that exposes almost 40% of my upper chest today. I need to cover it, not even the thickest powder can save me from these bite marks.

So I'm thinking like, maybe wear an additional cape over the dress, would that work?

''I think a coat should be fine, but do we have a good design for it?'' Says Liana, turning to one of the maids.

Don't say it nonchalantly like it's not your business, you were the one who bit me the most, traitor.

''I think we might have one with the same design as the dress, my lady.'' The maid replies and starts to rummage through the mountain of dresses.

''Oh, that looks quite nice.'' I say, looking at the cape which has a slightly lighter blue color than the dress, and of course stars. Not too long, not too short, and can hide the marks perfectly as well. 

We'll still apply makeup on the marks just to be sure though, ah, it stings...

It's almost 8 P.M, which is the time for the ball to start. I'm not exactly sure about that part though, we were just told to enter when it's 8, but either way, we're now fully dressed up, nice and pretty, and ready to go.

Frankly, I didn't know what the hell to do at the ball, so I decided with my two partners to just go around together and try the food there. Basically a buffet. That sounds way better than a ball.

Of course, Julius will attend as well, I heard this is the first time in a long period that elves actually attend a party like this. So I need to navigate this well, for the food.

Dad said that we should dig more information out of the nobles, but I don't think we can do that here, the preferred targets should be children and teenagers, but at this ball, they usually go with their parents as well, so it'll be suspicious.

Conclusion? Just chill and do nothing. Well, eat, but.

Anyway, looking at the gate of the palace right now from our room, people are still flocking in, creating a long line of cars, going by car myself seems tedious.

''Let's fly there.'' I tell my partners and several maids still in the room. ''Tell Julius to get here, I'll fly all of us together, going through the gate doesn't seem like a good idea.''

'"' ...Understood, Your Highness. ''" The maids excuse themselves.

''Hah, that would be a flashy entrance. I like it.'' Liana grins.

I simply shrug.

After a bit, Julius and our guards come in, and we all fly to the palace. The scenery looking down from here is pretty amazing.

Landing near the front door of the main building, we successfully startle the two attendants standing near the door.

After a bit of persuading to make sure they don't consider us terrorists, it is time for the buffet.

Opening the door, all the noises that I've just heard before all disappear in an instant.

I keep a poker face as I'm walking in the hall, enduring the stares from all the people here.

Hmm, where is it... Oh, there we go, my buffet.

But it would be weird to go straight to eating, let's get some drinks first.

In complete silence, I wave one of the maids standing still near me: ''Excuse me, can we get some drinks?''

***** 

''Excuse me, can we get some drinks?''

The crystal clear and soft voice breaks everyone out of their trance, although as nobles, they have seen lots of good-looking people before, one example would be the members of the Imperial Family, who are known for their beauty.

But never before have they seen a person this beautiful, it is as though the goddess herself has descended into this world. No, looking at that magnificent pair of softness, she IS the goddess. Now that they are looking, even the two ladies beside the goddess at the front are on the same level of beauty. Simply stunning.

They have heard of them before—elves.

But this is the first time they have seen one, they're indeed like the rumors. But aren't elves known for their modest chest...? What happened to that one?

The hall breaks into murmuring, everyone is whispering while looking at the new people.

A few are readying themselves to approach the ladies, but before they can move, someone has stolen their place.

***** 

While I'm drinking idly with my girlfriends, someone approaches me.

''We met again, Sylvia.'' It's Christina.

''Yes, and... The dress suits you, Christina." I say, that ín't a lie, the red A-line dress really suits her, she's actively showing off her big breasts as well, but that size is still inferior to me, heh.

''My, thank you, you're gorgeous, as always, Sylvia.'' Says Christina, smiling brightly.

''Mhmm.''

Stop it, my girlfriends are starting to get mad.

''How about we go get some food? It's a while before the dance starts anyway.''

''Alright.'' What? There's dance? I don't know how to though, do I just breakdancing here?

Anyway, we follow Christina to grab some food. I saw a lot of delicious-looking ones earlier...

I use my fork to stab a piece of French fries, dipping it into the ketchup, and absolutely devouring it.

Having Christina sticking with us the whole time proved to be very beneficial, she doesn't do anything over the line anyway, and there were only three brave souls bold enough to approach two princesses and two high noble elves, but of course, we shoo-ed them away, don't interrupt my eating.

Besides those three, people just looking at us from afar, whispering stuff. I can use magic to enhance my hearing, in fact, that's what I'm doing right now. They're mostly talking about how beautiful we are, but occasionally some bastards are looking at us with eyes full of lust as well, annoying.

But anyway, I'm pretty satisfied with the food here, do we bail out now?

''HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR HAS ARRIVED!!''

Jesus that's loud.

The door opens, and the Emperor and his two sons walk in together. Everyone bows their head 45 degrees, but we're not them, so fuck this dude, I just throw another piece of French fries into my mouth, not like he can do anything to me anyway.

Yeah, no, I don't like this guy, he's making my work way more difficult by invading other countries.

The emperor walks up to a podium of sort, and starts to talk.

''Thank you for coming today,...''

Bla bla bla, long ass speech, you're not the principal. Basically, he thanks all of us for coming here, and there are special guests tonight, which are us.

''Then, let the dance begin.'' He finishes the 10-year-long speech and disappears somewhere.

''Well, it's time to run.'' I speak up, placing down my plate and my glass.

'''' Eh? ''''

I grab both of my lovers and drag them outside to the balcony.

Now outside, I look at both of them. ''I don't like dancing, so.''

''Me neither.''

''I don't as well.''

I knew it, they didn't like dancing before.

''But... Why are you here, Christina?'' I turn to the redhead.

''Please don't leave me out like that, Sylvia, I'm not comfortable dancing either.'' She replies with a bitter smile.

''Well, we can spend some time here, then.'' I let out a sign and make four chairs facing each other with mana. I need to rest my legs.

''!!'' Christina widens her eyes. ''Incredible, not everyone can do this, you know?''

I just shrug and sit down on one of the chairs. My lovers are on each side.

Christina sits opposite me. Then she opens her mouth.

''But, it seems like you guys are getting along exceptionally well, no?''

''Ah, they're my girlfriends.'' I tell her bluntly.

''That's right, so you might want to stop whatever you're trying to cook up here, Your Highness.'' Liana adds with a devilish grin, Emy nods as well.

'''' ... ''''

Christina bows her head for a bit. After a few seconds of silence, she abruptly raises her head to look straight at me, her smile crooked, her cheeks red, eyes have hints of madness in them.

''If you think I was going to give up just because of that, then you're very wrong.'' She declares confidently. ''I don't mind sharing you with other people, as long as you are fine with it, but...I will make sure I have you, Sylvia.''

My whole body is shivering, I'm not sure if it's because of fear or what. I've never seen this type of possessiveness before.

Emy and Liana narrow their eyes.

''But for now, I'm contented being your friend, Sylvia, let's get along?'' Christina says, returning to her usual expression.

...This is insane.