With the guide of the staff of the hotel, Daimon and the girls soon reached their destination, the fourth floor consisted in a large and spacious corridor with only four doors separated by a long distance from each other.
“Here we are, if the esteemed customer wishes anything just ask it and the room service will send it directly to your door, please enjoy your stay”, the staff from the hotel gave Daimon a quick explanation and then left.
Daimon opened the door of the room and they entered, although it was a “room”, it’s size was enough to be considered a whole house, there was a living room, a dining room, four bedrooms and something that the girl at the counter didn’t mention, was that there was a relaxation area with a jacuzzi.
It made sense though, this city was near the sea, but it wasn’t a place to go on a vacation if one wanted to go to the beach, being near to the border with the Maelstrom Sea, the water and the breeze were cold in a strange way.
Even the mermen who evolved to not be affected by the coldness of the ocean, were affected by the Maelstrom Sea, something that the natives of the Mermen Sea attributed to the fact that their royal and noble families were unable to control the sea beasts that hid beneath the surface of the Maelstrom Sea, as if their status as “children of the sea” was null there.
After making sure no one was spying on them, everyone dispelled their disguises, the Risha sisters immediately went to choose their rooms.
“What happened to those three?”, mumbled Daimon, making Aisha giggle.
She hugged her son from behind before saying.
“You don’t understand girls darling, Aura did make you spend nights and days in the wilderness and your body is quite tough so you didn’t feel any difference and got used to it quite easily”.
“But those three were practically used to live in their houses all the time, until they went to the academy, so a lot of things are new for them, and not having a roof with a bathroom and other appliance is a bit hard to get used to~”.
Daimon thought about it for a split of a second, even when he was a kid back when they fled from the Naktis, he didn’t feel uncomfortable in that mountain, although it was his first time leaving the Naktis castle, but that was because when he lived at earth, his scum of a father locked him out forcing him to sleep in the street, with time he learned to camp.𝗈𝑽𝐋𝐞xt.𝒸𝒐𝓜
Daimon came out of his daze, when he suddenly felt a bit dizzy, he rubbed his temples a couple of times and shook his head to get over it.
“Damn, that stupid whirlpool is still affecting me”, he mumbled, although his wounds were healed, the fatigue didn’t go away his body needed some rest to complete his recovery.
“Let’s go to sleep darling, the room service is available the whole day and night, so if you feel hungry, we can order something later”.
Daimon nodded and they both entered one bedroom, his mother helped him take off everything but shorts and they jumped on the bed.
“Come here darling~”, Aisha laid down face up on the bed and Daimon snuggled on her chest, using her breasts and a pillow.
Like that, with his mother caressing his head while he felt her warmth, Daimon entered the land of dreams without even noticing it.
“I love when you spoil me, but this is not bad at all~”, mumbled Aisha, with her beloved son in her embrace she also closed her eyes and fell asleep.
At the other rooms the Risha sisters were the same, they took a well-deserved bath and they feel sleepy all of a sudden, so after bathing they but on some loose and comfortable clothes, laid down on the bed and fell asleep.
Daimon was yet to read more about that whirlpool from where they appeared, so he didn’t know that normally the thing would have turned them into dry mummies upon touching its currents, but for some reason it didn’t happen and while Daimon took the toll of using mana inside of the whirlpool, the girls were just suffering due to the strong pressure.
…
The hours passed without anything happening, and when the night had started to fade to open path for the day to come , Daimon who was cuddling with Aisha slowly opened his eyes.
His amethyst eyes glowed in the dark, and his vision bypassed the walls of the hotel all the way to the street, just to see there was a ruckus outside, guard after guard wearing similar uniforms to the ones, he saw at the headquarters earlier were strolling, stopping and inspecting every one they saw.
Daimon raised an eyebrow, although the money he found so far in the coffers was quite a big sum, judging by the prices of the things he has seen so far, it shouldn’t be enough to cause such a reaction.
“Wait…”, he then remembered there was coffer he didn’t inspect so far, one whose label said “Blackfin”.
Daimon saw inside the inventory and located a large black coffin labelled Blackfin, after inspecting it up close, he smirked.
‘The mana of a Half Emperor, apparently that guy was being used as a mule without knowing, what an idiot’, he thought.
This time Daimon didn’t have to order his magic core to absorb the mana, the thing did it on his own, and after a couple of minutes he felt the lock on the coffer disappearing.
…. “Boooom!”.
“WHO DARES TO STEAL FROM THIS LORD!!!”.
A loud explosion followed by a deafening shout and a huge wave of mana echoed through the whole city, making the ground tremble for a couple of seconds, before the magic arrays on the hotel activated cancelling the impact.
Needless to say, but the girls immediately woke up due to all the ruckus, they immediately left their rooms and prepared to escape, they might not have a Half Emperor in their family, but they could recognize a wave of mana from someone who has transcended what’s possible for Arch ranks.
“Everything will be fine”, the Risha sisters who had anxious expressions, turned to see Daimon who was coming out of his room followed by Aisha, and only then they relaxed.
“That was… a Half Emperor, right?”, asked Liliana, if they would have bee prepared their reaction would have been not too extreme, but they were comfortably sleeping so being woke up by such a strong mana pressure made their hearts skip a beat.
“Yeah, that Arch rank had something really interesting in his ring, I guess he was supposed to deliver it to that guy, and since he didn’t appear they were looking from him”.
“In my hands, they couldn’t use the mana with which was sealed to track it down, but apparently the Half Emperor did feel when his seal disappeared, not the location as it was concealed, but he should have had something like a hunch I guess”.
The Risha sisters stared at each other, and they sighed.
‘Being with you is bad for my heart in both a good and a not so good way’, they thought.
Now that the moment of adrenaline was over, the girls sat on a couch and then Yvonne looked at Daimon with curious eyes.
“What the hell was inside that ring, to make a Half Emperor go crazy like that?”.
Leslie and Liliana also looked at Daimon with expectant eyes, even Aisha was the same, the things that could excite a Half Emperor were definitely priceless treasures.
Daimon saw their curious filled expressions and he scratched the back of his head, before he took out the black badge from his pocket and showed it to them.
“It was a bone… a vertebra as tall as me to be more accurate, but this little thing absorbed it as soon as it appeared”.
Daimon then proceeded to tell them what happened inside the dimensional tunnel, about how the black badge protected them, and how it dug out a bone from the sea when Daimon was inspecting the floor of the sea near an island once before.
The girls looked at the black badge which had the rune shark engraved on it and they got lost in their thoughts.
“I don’t particularly mind, but I suggest you to dress up, so we can order something to eat”.
“Mm?”, the Risha sisters came out of their daze when they heard Daimon words, they slowly looked downwards and their faces turned bright red.
They then saw Aisha giggling at them.
In their hurry they forgot to change their clothes, so they weren’t using bras, and the little buds in their chests stood out through their blouses, not to mention they were in panties.
They immediately took out clothes from their rings and covered their bodies with them, before they ran away to their rooms.
“You see it’s fun to tease those three, darling~”, mumbled Aisha.
Daimon shook his head, his mother convinced him of remaining silent, because if he reacted too much it would be even more shameful for them, but she clearly just wanted to tease them too.
“Let’s get dressed too, depending on what happens we might need to escape this city”.
“Mm”, Aisha nodded and she went to change in the bedroom, leaving Daimon who just needed to put his boots and jacket to be ready.
‘This hotel seems to have a special status, since those soldiers weren’t barging in, unlike the other stores even in this street’, thought Daimon.
Being nervous would only make them look suspicious, so the best way of action was to act normal and calm, “they” had nothing to do with the current turmoil after all.
The Risha sisters soon returned with still slightly flushed expressions, but seeing Aisha laughing from time to time, they pouted and regained their composure.
“Let’s go downstairs, to the restaurant of the hotel, we can spy on some people’s conversations while we have our breakfast”.
Without anyone objecting, they left the room, in the fourth floor there wasn’t anyone else currently, but once they got to the third floor the result of the previous event was obvious.
There were people sitting on the floor, some were pale due to the shock, but there were also a couple who were only curious about what happened, and most of them went to the lobby and the restaurant to discuss about it.
‘Nobles love gossiping in any galaxy I guess’, thought Daimon as they arrived at the restaurant, luckily not many were in the proper mental state to be enjoying a meal right now, so there were still a lot of free tables.
They were assigned one by a hostess and then while reviewing the menu, Daimon started to silently listening to the conversations, not only of the nobles in the restaurant, but the employees of the hotel as well.
“Did you hear, guards of the city tried to come in and were kicked out by the Lord manager”.
“Humph, of course, the city lord might be stronger, but in terms of status, he is at the same level of the Lord manager, so he can’t do as he pleases here”.