Resting

"Where am I?"

"Thank goodness!"

In their room, Rica woke up first and after a few seconds, Anna woke up too.

Both of them asked the same line but seeing the surrounding, they realize that they are in Alex's house.

Alex hug them, very relief that they are now regain their conscoiusness.

Although he knows they are in good condition, there is a difference between seeing them unconscious and having consciousness.

Rica and Anna realize their extreme weakness as they recall their utter defeat.

Rica has no fighting experience other than fighting three men in an alleyway while Alex and her were on a date.

Anna has some experience, but she is not in the front and only heals and buffs her allies while debuffing her enemies.

This teaches them that they need to improve their skills after this night.

Alex is looking after them, but they claim they do not need it anymore because—showing off that they can move their bodies to demonstrate that they do not need to be looked after—they suddenly fall down and Alex catches them.

They are completely exhausted right now.

He tells them that they do not need to act tough in front of him, and that they should just let him pamper them this time.

Seeing his determination, they succumb to the temptation.

He had been incredibly lonely since his transmigration to this world, but after meeting them, his life completely changed and he was unable to live without them.

Although he did not let anyone see it, Alex is desperate for the love of a family because he was an orphan in his previous life.

When he was younger, he was always envious of happy families laughing together and holding hands, and he covered it up with his mischievousness.

However, Erica, Rica, and Anna show him love, allowing him to feel as if he is no longer alone.

Although he constantly complains to Erica about being a lazy woman, he never becomes angry with her.

He even considered that if she was not his aunt, he could confess to her and marry her despite their age difference.

That is why Rica and Anna are so important to him, as he can marry both of them if they agree.

He desired a harem ending in life, but achieving it in real life is difficult unless you are in a religion or place that accepts harem.

What a bizarre coincidence!

This is another world in which the concept is widely accepted.

So it should be simple, right?

Yes, it is easy... Tell that to many people, including royals who married only once but desired a harem.

Permission.

As long as the first woman reject that idea of harem, they wouldn't let you marry other than her.

This is why Alex is fortunate to Rica since she's the one who will find a harem for him but he doesn't know this so he still thinking this problem every now and then.

After all, he doesn't want them to hate him.

Since they are getting better, he said to them that they need some rest so the two woman are sleeping right now.

He can use his refresh skill to immediate their condition but it will be unfair if he couldn't do that to them at the same time since it is only a one target skill.

Leaving them, he saw the food in the table has been prepared but dust has been poured to them.

Seeing his favorite food, he sigh in disappointment.

Fortunately, they didn't secret everything and some of the food is still in the pot.

Since he couldn't eat the food in the table, he put them together in one bowl and go out to call some stray animals and feed it to them.

After feeding them, he go back and start feeding himself.

…

Being alone he suddenly remember the talk he had with Beatrice.

He is still confused on why she wanted to let him kill her.

Alex is not that wise enough to know if there's something behind someones words without any special circumstances but he can feel that she really wanted to say something but she give it up in the middle of the way and decided to make her word be the direct meaning.

It's just hypothesis but it is not far from the truth.

Beatrice wanted to say the requirement of her system status but the system status stops her so she decided to give him a hint but in the middle of the her talk, she decided to give up since it's better for her to give her life for him.

However, having no idea about her thoughts, Alex couldn't decide what to do.

At the end of their talk, although he tell that there's a hope in life as long as your alive but she's still wanted to let him kill her and he has no idea how to stop her ridiculous idea.

Anyway, this made him angry to himself so he stop thinking it for now and his thoughts reminds him what happened while going back to his home.

The outside has almost no lights in their houses and it looks like this place is like a ghost town because of how silent it is became.

He doesn't know the reason why the people earlier are running for life like their life is at stakes but it seems that no matter what happens earlier has been calm down by the city guards.

He stood up to turn off the lights, hoping that nothing worse would happen tonight.

"I believe opening the lights will be appropriate for a guest like myself."

Unfortunately, his luck is not very good.

The moment the lights go out, a voice appears behind him.

He looked back and saw a man standing menacingly in the dark.

Despite the darkness, Alex has a shocked expression on his face because he can not feel the presence of the person before him.

Opening the lights, a fearful expression appeared on his face.

His memory flashbacks when he visits the Zura Forest.

A blue bear was blocking his path, and he noticed a cabin.

He opened it and discovered a man, who appeared to be living there.

They fight and he dies, but that was just a hallucination, right?"

So how is it possible that the same person is standing in front of him?

He has no response, but he braces himself for battle by drawing the rusted twin dagger he retrieved from the trial chamber.