“Mom!”.
“Okay I get it”.
Four different voices could be suddenly heard, the first three were Yvonne, Liliana and Leslie whose faces were a bit pale, especially Yvonne whose eyes had a yellow glint flashing on them.
As for the fourth one, it was Daimon of course, as soon as he injected mana on his eyes, he could see the state in which some of the circuits of the Risha mothers were, the mana circuits on their shoulders were being damaged with each second that passed.
Although it wasn’t to the point of being a life threat, it would for sure cause problems once it got past a certain level, Daimon actually turned to see Yvonne, Leslie and Liliana but didn’t find anything wrong with them.
The Risha mothers dispelled their wings and then Veronica threw a bottle with a multicolored liquid, which they gulped down in a single go.
Daimon’s pupils contracted in surprise, their mana circuits healed in a matter of seconds, which shouldn’t be possible, there were potions to heal wounded mana circuits of course, but the fastest one took at least a couple of days.
Now Daimon was in a bit of a predicament now, because he saw something that not even Half Emperor could see, on the other hand judging by the smiles in Irina, Anya and Veronica’s faces, that was the idea, as they could have told him and he would have believed them.
“I never bothered to hide I could see through others while being with them, so why go to such length just for an explanation?”, asked Daimon as he looked at Yvonne.
Since the first day they met, he publicly “unveiled” Boris’s disguise saying he was an Arch ranked, then when told him about his mana flow, he somewhat admitted his eyes were special too.
“It was a “leap of faith”, because our next petition might be a bit selfish”, mumbled Irina.
“I will assume you somehow could see what happens to our mana circuits when we use the legacy spells, the manifestations of our wings are corrupted too, so I guess it’s not hard to notice as well”.
“We three couldn’t find our “center”, but needed the power in order to survive, so we cheated a bit, the requirements are full thrust, admiration and… for the one who takes that role in our lives to be of the opposite gender”.
“So, we three ended up taking each other as the replacement of our centers, and managed to somewhat use the legacy spells but the recoil stopped being only emotional and also affected us in other ways, in other words we are imitations”.
“We die a bit when we use our wings”, said Anya with her unintentionally cold voice, dropping such a serious sentence without explaining more about it.
Seeing the grim reaction of the others, Irina bitterly smiled as she elaborated.
“Ahem, Anya is wrong, we do get harmed by using our wings, but it’s only temporal thanks to Veronica finding a cure for it, it does hurt like hell though because our wings not only harm the enemy but us in the process, they are essentially a double-edged sword”.
Veronica then took over, her eyes sparkled with curiosity as she looked at Daimon.
“If your eyes are as special as Iri thought, then you know that our daughters aren’t the same, they were capable of manifesting their wings without harming themselves, the emotional side effects are normal and can be learned to be controlled”.
“Thanks to you”, added Anya.
Daimon tapped his finger on the table while he was lost in his thoughts.
He stole some gazes at Yvonne and the others from time to time, and noticed they had a mix of apologetic and ashamed expressions, something which others might confuse as love including him if it wasn’t for the eight years, he has spent every day with his soulmates.
,m He who has experienced the warmth of Aisha, the arguing and bragging of Liz, the gentleness of Elaine, Aura’s both tender and worrisome sides as well as Erin’s freedom and playfulness, even Narasha who was still learning about emotions expressed her support and love to him as her sole life partner, so he could tell they didn’t really love him, it was more of a crush, probably born out of that time when he helped them deal with the guys from the light faction.
It would be a lie to say he didn’t find them pretty, they were also good girls, into whom he has started to thrust enough for him to consider them friends, to the point that he was going to use the items of the system to protect them to the best of his capacities inside of the magic ruin.
But at least for now that was the limit of how he felt about them.
‘Everything seems to have changed since I got the infinity eyes’, he thought, since that day he felt different, leaving aside the creation of a new skill type, it was as if some kind of weight was lifted from his chest, there was also that weird dream he had recently.
That being said Daimon didn’t doubt about his feelings for his soulmates, whether he got too close or accepted them after knowing them for too little time, with the exception of Aisha of course.
None of that mattered as they all entered his heart during the past eight years where he got to know them better than anyone, the sides that other people couldn’t even imagine existed, he knew them all.
Daimon came out of his daze feeling a couple of gazes piercing him, one of them was of course Aisha, and the others were the Risha mothers, he turned to see Yvonne since she was the one that he more or less has had more contact with before saying.
“Yvi, what is my favorite color, what is the book I have read the most, what are the spells I have learned, what is the thing I hate the most and the thing I like most…”.
While he was speaking, Yvonne understood the meaning of his words and a realization hit her like a bolt out of the blue.
‘We don’t know much about each other’, she thought.
Noticing Yvonne got his point, Daimon then turned to see Irina and the other mothers as he gave them his answer.
“I don’t mind being their “center”, I can assure you they can thrust me as I consider them my friends, and leaving the admiration aside which is up to them, I’m a guy so I guess I fulfill all the conditions, but it’s too early to go further than that… I can’t just ignore the feelings of the others who are now part of my life”, he said as he looked at Liz and Elaine as they were the only ones publicly recognized as his future wives.
The others of course inwardly smiled knowing they were included.
Richard who has remained silent just drinking on the other side of the table, rose his cup and then laughed out loud.
“HAHAHA, kid you sure are one of a kind!”.
He then stood up and pointed at Yvonne which was still in introspection.
“I do feel like punching you for not recognizing how beautiful my little Yvi is though, but it brings joy to the heart of this old man knowing you aren’t a silk pants, despite being engaged to those two at such a young age, maybe the curse of those who have the ability to learn those spells having marrying to idiots might find its end in this generation”.
Daimon bitterly smiled, still he accepted Richard’s toast, finding that last part about a curse a bit interesting, apparently the Risha family was quite more than what meets the eye.
The slight tense atmosphere which was created, dissipated.
The Risha sisters especially were more relaxed around Daimon now, and he could understand them, being affected by your lineage is no joke, the memory of the first time the passive “charm” activated without his consent was till fresh in his mind.
Although he enjoyed the result, Daimon couldn’t stand the feeling of not being in control, that was a part of why he strived to become stronger too, Yvonne and the others were experiencing something slightly similar to that.
‘Being a teen is tough even in another world’, he concluded.
“Wait, if they were able to learn these spells and use each other as a replacement for the legacy spells, then why didn’t you teach them to them, I bet that if they used them in the admission trials, Alexander wouldn’t have gotten the fourth rank?”, asked Daimon to the Risha mothers.
Irina fidgeted with her fingers for a second before saying.
“Whatever you already know the center thing so I guess there is no point in hiding it, we can’t “teach” these spells, nor record them, they are linked to our lineage and suddenly appear in our mind, our daughters are the third generation that has had them… and the first ones to actually find a center”.
“And these three little girls didn’t tell us, so it was also a surprise for us to see the real appearance of the wings our races should have in action at the tournament”.
“Daughter grow and get married forgetting about their mothers, I guess that’s how it works”, said Veronica with a feigned said expression.
“Mm, Lili’s heart has melted”.
“Mom!”, the three daughters yelled at their mothers, which made everyone in the room to laugh.
Seeing Daimon laughing at them Leslie decided to get back at him.
“While others were ready to kill to get us, you actually turned us down, I bet there are some people revolting in their infirmary beds right now~”.
Daimon smirked and then stood up before he walked towards Leslie and leaned on her shoulder as he whispered.
“Oh, I just said it was too early, your performance on the tournament was quite something, even I would have been in trouble by those flames you know?”.
Leslie’s face became red as a tomato, which made Daimon laugh, but he stopped without taking things too far.
“The class would be less interesting, if you three suddenly become distant, refine your treasures and I’ll see you at Monday”.
After saying that, Daimon nodded at Aura and they all disappeared including Arianna and Aleah.
Leaving only Mireya, and the Risha mothers and daughters.
Veronica giggled as she hugged her daughter from behind, taking her by surprise.
“Well, isn’t my Leslie becoming a bit bold, let mom teach you a couple of tricks so that he can’t escape from you hehehe”.
Irina and even Anya also turned to see their daughters with a weird glint flashing on their eyes.
‘Help”, the three sisters all had the same thought as they were dragged by their mothers to the dormitories, for some “lessons” as well as to refine their respective gifts.
