The hours passed and per Daimon’s orders, everyone entered their ships and made them submerge to travel unnoticed by others, because even if he were to strip others from their ships, with the numbers they have they shouldn’t spread anymore.
The night soon came to the magic ruin and everyone went to sleep, since the paladins also signed the contract, they couldn’t escape even if they wanted to, so there was nothing to worry about.
While Daimon went to his bedroom to meditate and prepare for the upcoming battle, Aisha paid a visit to the Risha sisters in their own room.
As soon as she entered the room and closed the door behind her, the Risha sisters saw that Daimon didn’t come with her and let out a sigh of relief.
After they chatted about what they experienced in the past month when Daimon wasn’t around, a slightly awkward silence fell in the room, before Aisha looked at them directly.
“So, how did it go when you were alone with him?”, asked Aisha with a knowing smile on her pretty face.
The three of them blushed, before Yvonne answered.
“Are we that obvious?”.
Aisha giggled in response, she who once was inexperienced in romantic love, found their reactions rather amusing.
“Yes, but I don’t see the problem in that, Daimon doesn’t seem to be against it anyway”.
“Maybe but isn’t he too insensible, I don’t like to sound like my mom, but we aren’t ugly you know”, said Leslie as she pouted.
“But… it sure felt nice to see him worried about us”, mumbled Liliana.
Aisha bitterly smiled, maybe because she was a soulmate but it wasn’t hard for her to make the transition from mother to lover and even then, she noticed Daimon didn’t really advanced in their relationship in any aspect until recently when they entered the academy.
It was eight years, but certainly since she wasn’t as young as the Risha sisters, and she knew Daimon responded to her feelings, she didn’t experience what they were going through.
Yvonne let herself fall on her bed and then used a pillow to cover her face.
“Our mothers told us that since we are the first ones with the main lineage to experience love, it would be unpredictable… balancing wanting to see him all the time and feel happy around him with not looking crazy it’s a bit hard”.
Aisha couldn’t resist the urge to laugh, she was reminded of a certain fox girl who doesn’t restrain in that aspect… at all, but then not everyone can be as shameless as Erin.
“Just keep pushing and he’ll reciprocate, didn’t he started joking with you three already, just be aware that he likes to tease Liz and Elaine, so you’ll be in for the same someday”, said Aisha s she left.
The Risha sisters stared at each other before they sighed and then went to sleep.
Aisha returned to Daimon’s room, and entered just to see him sitting cross legged on the bed, Narasha who was using her light body form was laying on the bed next to him.
“Daimon seems to be worried about something”, said Narasha to Aisha when she saw her entering the room.
“Mm”, Aisha nodded, as her mother how could she not notice there was something bothering her son, but she missed the opportunity to ask earlier and they ended up not seeing each other for a whole month.
With a little smile, she jumped onto the bed tackling Daimon on the process, so that she ended up resting on top of him.
“I was meditating you know; I can feel it, I should be breaking through soon…”, Daimon who opened his eyes after feeling the soft body embracing him, was silenced with a kiss.
“Seeing you two kiss in “person” sure does feel different than when I observe along with Eve, from within the inventory”, mumbled Narasha, she who still had trouble with emotions, was now experiencing jealousy.
“Hey, don’t drag me in, Nasha, you are the one who likes to see the most”.
Even Evangeline joined the conversation, making Daimon laugh, which was their purpose from the very beginning.
Narasha couldn’t be touched in that form so she returned to Disaster’s form and instead of returning to the inventory, let Daimon place her on the bed next to them, Aisha on the other hand cuddled with him and then they turned off the lights.
‘Eve, I have been having a strange dream where I’m floating alone in an endless sea, and it happened before we came here, is it caused by the system?’, asked Daimon in a voice only the soulmates could hear.
‘Mm?’.
‘No, the system is restricted and can’t meddle with you mind… I can’t be too specific but there is something new which is soon to appear, I can only tell you about it because you already fulfilled the requirements for it, but it’s not related to what you mention’.
Daimon thought about it for a couple of seconds before he put the subject at the back of his mind.
“I guess everything will be solved at its due time”, mumbled Daimon, he buried his face in Aisha’s chest and then closed his eyes to sleep, Aisha gently stroked her son’s hair, as her mother she takes pride in being the best at comforting him.
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The night went on and Daimon suddenly found himself in that recurrent dream he has been having, about floating in an endless sea and just like the previous times, he woke up as soon as he became conscious about it.
He slowly opened his eyes and was welcomed by the sight of Aisha’s beautiful sleeping face, after pecking her cheek which made her mumble in her sleep, Daimon got up the bed and went to the bathroom.
But as he unzipped his pants, he suddenly turned around and took out one of his guns from his inventory, a crack on the space appeared next to him from where a feminine figure came out.
“Finally…”, Stella who was dragged into the entrance of the magic ruin a second ago, appeared inside the bathroom right next to Daimon.
Needless to say, but Stella froze on the spot, the firs thing she saw after appearing was a shirtless Daimon pointing at her with a gun… with his thing hanging out of his pants.
‘Hahaha, I swear you and your luck with women, it’s worth being written into a story for the future generations~’, Evangeline couldn’t help but laugh inside her space.
Daimon zipped up his pants, and tried to not show any reaction, thinking that maybe that would help Stella, but this time things didn’t go according to what he expected.
“Y-You, why the hell did you brought me here when you were… naked!”, Stella blushed, even now that she wasn’t looking at it, the image was burnt in her mind.
Aisha who listened another woman’s voice coming from the bathroom of their room, immediately rushed from the bed to the bath, since they didn’t do anything, she was properly wearing comfortable clothes to sleep, Daimon was the same, while he was shirtless, he was wearing loose comfortable pants, the timing was simply against Stella.
Still, Stella was an adult and a Lord ranked, so after her initial shock, she managed to calm down, her mind didn’t register that Aisha was sharing a room with Daimon, instead since she saw her coming in, she realized it wasn’t done on purpose.
And she was right, Daimon stopped paying attention to the countdown, because based on what Akeem said the lord ranks wouldn’t appear next to them, but at a random location, that’s why the Greenwich Sage sold those one-time communication sigils at an expensive price, they could use it to locate their respective students.
Luckily the door of the room was closed, or even the Risha sisters would have listened to Stella raising her voice.
“Miss Leeris, let’s wait outside of the bathroom”, Aisha who was barely enduring the urge to laugh, took Stella out of the bathroom so that Daimon could finish what he came here for.
Daimon took out the badge from his inventory, and effectively the countdown disappeared, the only thing left was the rune shark emblem which had become incredibly detailed after the shark got that bone from the floor of the sea.
Once Daimon got out of the bathroom, he caught a glimpse of Stella who ran away like a scared rabbit, although Aisha talked to her to explain her the situation including the fact that the other Lord ranked didn’t appear near the badge bearers, she still couldn’t see anyone right to the face right now so she left to one of the many empty rooms.
“Darling, did she saw…”, asked Aisha in a low voice before she stood up to close the door.
Daimon shrugged.
“Just a bit, I nearly shot her thinking she was someone from the tribes that managed to hide from my infinity eyes in the ship”.
This time Aisha giggled, before they dressed up and left the room, the alarm of the ship just sounded which meant they were about to arrive at their destination, and it was better for them to emerge from the water.
On the corridor they saw the Risha sisters coming from their room, fully prepared for the upcoming battle.
“You convince her from coming out of her room, I’ll make the ship go to the surface and talk with Calvin and the others”, said Daimon to Aisha before he left to the space that was right below the captain’s cabin.
The Risha sisters were a bit confused about Daimon’s words, as far as they knew there was no one else in this ship besides them.
“Miss Stella arrived just a few minutes ago”, said Aisha as she knocked on one of the many doors in the corridor.
Stella who was laying down on the bed lost in her thoughts, heard someone knocking on the door and she came out of her trance, she looked at her elegant slim fingers and the image of Daimon’s thing flashed in her mind, making her face turn red as a tomato.
‘Ahhh, what the hell am I thinking!’ she screamed in her heart, before she shook her head and he saw through the peephole in the door, just to make sure it wasn’t Daimon.
Aisha saw the door opening and tried feign as if nothing had happened before.
“We are about to arrive at our destination, so we’ll be surfacing and stopping to discuss the plan, we all need to be present for that”.
Stella inwardly sighed.
‘Control yourself Stella, it was just an accident, damn he even didn’t have any reaction as if he was used to be naked in front of girls’, the more Stella tried to forget about it, the more she ended up thinking about what happened a moment ago, but she still agreed with Aisha as she felt the ship going upwards.
The sun was about to come out when the ships emerged from the water, all of them had that alarm, so the ones in charge stopped their respective ships and according to what they discussed before waited for Daimon to do the same, of course the Paladins weren’t invited to the meeting that was about to happen on the deck of Daimon’s ship.