Listening to Kana’s question, Aster was in a little predicament, normally he wouldn’t mind taking them to the Rodia star cluster, Sarina was a star tribulation cultivator so they shouldn’t have any problems… but that was in the past because now the sand mountain sect has set their eyes on Rodia.
So, Kana’s question implied more than just saying “yes come with me to another galaxy”, if Aster took them with him, then he would be responsible of their well being and although he did feel attracted by Sarina and enjoyed the adorable interactions he had with Kana, it wasn’t to the point where he will take care of them like he does with his girls… yet.
Sarina noticed his doubts and she didn’t feel bad about it, on the contrary she was aware that they haven’t met for too long to be considered close, although she felt her heart shaking whenever Aster talked or interacted with her which made her feel the happiness of a girl in love, that didn’t change the fact that they needed to get to know better, but that was her plan anyway.
Besides that, she did remember that Aster once mentioned he had more than one lover, so she also needed to consider that before taking the decision, new members of a harem tend to be bullied after all and she was worried about her daughter being targeted by the other girls, luckily without Sarina knowing the “family”, she was considering to enter was completely different to others… in many ways.
Sarina patted Kana’s head before saying.
“Dear, we’ll leave that subject for later, we also need to talk with your grandfather after all, for now let’s focus on getting to know your big brother Aster better than before, okay?”.
Kana nodded with a smile.
“You are right mom; grandfather might want to come with us too”.
Aster sighed, if it was the him of three years ago, he might have immediately accepted them to come with him, but now he wasn’t as childish as before, although he didn’t plan to limit himself when it came to getting new partners as long as they made his heart move, he also started considering how his girls felt before taking that decision.
“Sarina, do you know a skilled rune master? I need a good communication talisman from this world”, Aster smiled, he turned to see Kana before continuing.
“Once I get to contact my family on my native star cluster, I will give you an answer about Kana’s question, okay?”.
Alice smiled, she stood up and spoke to Kana.
“How about you show me what you like the most of this place Kana?”.
Kana laughed, she stood up and dragged Alice to the edge of the river, while saying.
“Come with me big sister, the water of the river is so clean you can see the little fishes swimming!!!”.
As Alice walked away with Kana, she gave her brother a knowing gaze, as if to say “flirt with her but don’t overdo it”.
Aster laughed, “A girlfriend that helps you get other girls… now that is something you don’t see every day”, he thought.
Although there wasn’t too much distance between the gazebo and the edge of the river, it was enough for Aster and Sarina to be “alone”.
Before Aster could start speaking, he saw Sarina standing and walking all the way until she was next to him before sitting down again, her face was slightly blushed but she feigned ignorance about it.
“Can you tell me more about yourself… I want to at least get to know you better”.
Aster smiled.
“Of course, but let’s make it reciprocate, I will tell you some things about me and then it will be your turn”.
Sarina nodded and Aster started with some of the most important things she had to know if she wanted to be with him, without taking into account all the situation with Hyperion or his “special” relation with his mother and sister.
“Mm let’s start with our ages, I might not look like it but I’m only 11 years old this year, I have a special constitution so I look older than my current age, you can already guess it but my mentality matches my appearance instead of my age too”.
Aster smiled.
“If you think that is surprising, let me tell you that the guy I asked you to help me look for, Eric, is only thirteen hahaha”
Sarina was surprised, although she supposed Aster was quite young her bet was that he was between 16 to 18 years old, but he turned out to be younger than her daughter.
“Ahem, that is surprising but I guess it’s not as weird as your friend, according to your description he seems to be in his late twenties already”.
Sarina doubted for a couple of seconds but she still added.
“Asking a lady her age is not polite… but since it’s my turn, I’m 52 this year”.
The age gap, is something that Aster didn’t really care about at this point, just think of it for a second, Alessia and Aylin were both older than what he can imagine, they were born out of a treasure of heaven and earth like the twin eternity lotus something that Rya hasn’t even heard off before.
Although he hasn’t asked, his mother’s age was probably a three or maybe four-digit number, she used to be a heavenly transformation cultivator after all and with each breakthrough the time one has to spend to get to the next realm extends quite a bit specially on higher realms, and last but not least… Rya who was supposedly the one that has lived the most between his girls.
Aster laughed.
“You were the one that wanted us to get to know better hahaha, what does a couple of hundreds of years mean to us as cultivators anyway, you already know the cultivation realms are called different from where I come, I’m only in the star formation realm which is equal to the elemental core realm of this place”.
Sarina was getting more surprised by minute, “elemental core realm, but he was able to fight and successfully defeat a star vertex… what a monster”, she thought.
“You know, I’m starting to feel like the younger one here, how come every new thing I learn about you it’s more amazing than the last one”.
And so, the conversation continued, they learnt about what they liked and what they didn’t, some of the things they had experienced, their hobbies and other little things like that, unconsciously they were avoiding some subjects until Sarina decided to enter into more personal questions.
“I don’t want to be nosy… but were you saying the truth when you told my father you have more than one partner?”, she asked while fidgeting her fingers.
Aster was enjoying this quite a bit, “it feels like speaking with a girl you are interested in, but which you just on met on the first day of school”, he thought.
That little embarrassing yet exciting feeling that the situation provoked was a new experience for him, with Aria was different, for some reason he felt attracted to her since the first time they met at the inn, but Sarina was different it was more like starting from nothing but the little romantic tension that was between them.
“Yes, right now I have… six girls in my heart, three of them are not present right now even in my native place thought”, he said referring to Rya and the twins.
Sarina had a weird smile on her face, “at least there won’t be problems adding one more… I guess”, she thought before saying.
“Despite your young age, it seems you have good luck with girls”.
Aster was reminded of how he needed to die to meet Rya, the misunderstanding that led him to know Aria and how he had a conflict with Alessia the first time he met her and he shook his head.
“I do think I’m quite lucky to be with them, but believe me that I tend to have bad luck with first meetings”.
Sarina laughed at him
“I disagree, and as a proof of it, let me tell you that in my lifetime I never had any interest on having a relationship, I was good with my life as long as Kana was fine, until… I met you”.
She looked towards the river where she could see her daughter playing in the shallow area with Alice, after being in silence for a couple of seconds she smiled.
“I’m older than you and yet, I’m acting like a little girl in love, but that is part of the charm of the situation, so my last question is… what is it needed to become the seventh girl in your life?”.
Aster focused on the woman that was clearly declaring her feelings for him, she was wearing a beautiful white dress, her long blond hair reached all the way down her waist, unlike Rya who had a golden like color, she had a more light yellowish tone, her eyes that looked like a pair of beautiful emeralds, the maternal yet elegant and gracious figure of her body which he has seen naked once already and the deliciously captivating expression of a girl that experiences love for the first time in her life.
Everything was for him, the first man that has managed to move her heart, to be honest Aster didn’t know how his likings worked, on the past three years he traveled all over the azure sky planet, sometimes the three girls were with him, sometimes only Lilia, or Alice and he even had some little adventures with Aria.
It would be a lie to say he hasn’t seen any other beautiful girls on his travels, a planet might not be too much on the bigger picture but still, the amount of people in one planet is quite big, so beauties are bound to exist in many places, and although he spoke to them or had little interactions with them, no one managed to make him feel even the slightest interest, but now even if he had his sister with him, there was one girl that made his big but apparently “picky” heart light up with the desire of conquer.
Aster placed his right hand over Sarina’s left hand and answered her.
“You are quite similar to me it seems, and you already have what you need to be a part of my family, but you won’t be my seventh girl”.
Listening to Aster’s words Sarina felt her heart sinking, if experiencing love for the first time is something amazing, your first love deception is horrible, luckily for her, that wasn’t the case since she felt as is she ascended from the depths of hell to the ninth cloud when she heard his next words.
“All my girls are the number one for me, I used to say that each one of them had a piece of my heart, but now I understand that they own it completely, it’s just that I have different kinds of love for every one of them”.
Aster gently used his left hand to help her raise her face which was looking at the floor to prevent him from seeing the nervously blushed expression she had right now, before he dealt the final blow.
“So now the question is, are you aware that being with me means you will leave your native planet, that there will be many hardships in the way and… that there are some things I can only tell you if you accept being mine because once you do it, there is no going back”.
Sarina snorted.
“Don’t underestimate the will of a girl in love, just promise me you will never toss me aside, also you have to be good with Kana too”.
Aster smiled.
“Those are not conditions, but privileges for me”.
Sarina leaned forward and before Aster could react, she kissed him, the sweet taste of her lips was something Aster will never get bored of, they even used their tongues a bit before Sarina suddenly remembered, they where in a public place which made her stop the kiss.
“You are quite dominant, that was my first kiss you know? you look like a good boy but it seems you are quite a bit of a playboy instead, not that I didn’t like it though ♥”.
Aster and Sarina were too engrossed in their moment, and Alice was too focused in using her spirit sense to spy on them, so no one noticed that Kana… saw they kissing through their reflect in the water of the river.