Back at the mind space Rya docilely laid on top of Aster with a happy rubberized expression, she rubbed her face against his chest while Aster gently caressed her long golden hair.
Aster looked at the beauty in his arms and he couldn’t help but hug her tight, his mind drifted away.
Although he likes all of his girls which is proved by the fact that they are star maidens, there was something different when it came to Lilia and Rya.
With Lilia, he originally thought his strong feelings were because Lilia was his first love, and that theory made sense until that day when he met Rya inside the space of the book which restrained the twins.
They were different in a lot of aspects and yet, they both made his heart race, don’t misunderstand, Alice, Sarina, Alessia and Aylin, his love for them was equal to the one he had for Lilia and Rya, but there was an extra longing for the latter which he couldn’t explain.
Rya of course knew what Aster was thinking, every time he asked her about their past, her heart clenched, there was so much she wanted to tell him, but she couldn’t.
She moved her body upwards and pressed her pretty soft lips against his, letting Aster enjoy her sweet flower like scent.
“I know you have a lot of questions… I promise I will explain everything to you as soon as it is possible, okay?”.
Aster saw Rya’s beautiful face, it was obvious her eyes were filled with complicated emotions, she loved him more than anything in the world and not being able to be completely honest with Aster made her feel bad.
It was similar to how Aster is haunted by the fact the he wasn’t the original owner of the body he was occupying, deep inside he is still worried of the day he will tell his last secret to Lilia and Alice.
Aster softly smiled before returning the kiss.
“Don’t worry, this is probably a side effect of introspecting into my soul, I will be reaching the stellar constellation realm soon and that will be one step less to my star tribulation”.
Rya smiled, before she closed her eyes.
“I’m tired thanks to a certain someone being quite rough on me, so let’s go to sleep”.
Aster patted her ass a couple of times before doing the same, after the little experiment of introspection and his lovemaking session with Rya it was quite late, so it was better for them to sleep.
The night went on without any new incidents, and when morning came Aster opened his eyes, Rya was still leisurely sleeping in his embrace, he kissed her forehead before getting up from the bed being careful enough to not wake her up.
Although it wasn’t necessary to wear clothes inside the mind space since there was no one here besides Rya and him, he still put on underwear before descending from the highest point of Hyperion all the way down to where his soul avatar remained sitting cross legged.
After a whole night of condensing, the previously only pommel no had about four centimeters of a handle attached to it, he carefully evaluated the progress before nodding with a satisfied expression.
“Mm… so the cycle repeated three times while I was sleeping, not bad, even if this soul weapon is a broadsword, it shouldn’t take long before the hilt is finished”.
The hilt of a sword is conformed by a pommel, the handle or grip and lastly the guard, once all that is condensed then it will be the turn for the blade, Aster was eager to try the sword once it’s finished but for now, he had no choice but to leave the mind space since he heard his mother calling him in the real world.
With a thought he left the mind space, his eyes opened and the he was received by the pretty face of his mother.
“Good morning darling ♥”
As always, a bright smile which illuminated the room flourished on Lilia’s face as soon as she spoke with her son.
Aster dragged Lilia closer and gave her a morning kiss like every day, surprisingly the usually sleeping beauties were already up this time, although it seemed to be not by their own will.
Alice pouted as she put on some clothes, she was waiting for her brother to wake her up with a kiss and then someone knocked on the door, so Lilia made her get up and get dressed while she called Aster.
Aster chuckled at the sulky expression of his sister; he got up from the bed ant hugged Alice from behind before he whispered.
“What’s the problem sis, are you perhaps in one of those days?”.
Alice stuck her tongue at her brother just to be kissed by him, her mood immediately became as good as possible.
Once Aster let go of her, she giggled before getting back at him,
“You should memorize my risky days, who knows we might “accidentally” expand the family”.
Aster inwardly let out a sigh of relief, thanks to annihilation he didn’t have to worry about having a child as long as he didn’t want to, although there was no difference in appearance between sperm and the yang liquid resulting of using annihilation as contraceptive, the latter was only yang energy condensed which could nurture his girls without any other function.
He let go of Alice and went to greet the other girls, Sarina was helping her daughter dress up when Aster kissed her by surprise, of course she was already used to his caresses so without resisting she accepted the kiss before warmly smiling at him.
Aster caressed her face before his eyes were naturally attracted by the cute needy expression Kana had in her face.
Aster continued and kissed Kana’s forehead which made her smile like a little flower which blossoms in spring.
“Good morning big brother ♥”, she said in her usual happy energetic voice.
Aster patted her head a couple of times and then also dressed up, with his spirit sense he noticed there was someone waiting outside of the room, what confused him was that it was Camilla.
He turned to see Lilia and asked.
“Mom did you invited her?”.
Lilia shook her head in response.
“No, I thought it was you who called her, darling, that’s why I woke you first, well that and the fact that we were all naked a moment ago”.
Aster rose his left brow, Camila was invited to spend time with them if she wanted, but coming to their room so early in the morning was weird from her, although he personally didn’t care, out of what he understood about her she wouldn’t bother them unless there was something important.
He opened the door and saw Camila patiently waiting outside of the room, that being said unlike yesterday, she looked rather tired, even her eyes had slight bags, which shouldn’t be the case after only one sleepless night.
Even her reactions were a bit slow, she only noticed Aster after a couple of seconds.
“Good morning… I’m sorry to bother you so early in the morning, can I come in, I need to talk with Lilia”.
Aster nodded.
“Sure, come in before you faint at our door”.
Camila sighed, not only she didn’t sleep at all but the whole night she was burning in anxiety which didn’t let her bat an eye.
That being said as soon a she entered her attention was immediately drawn by the fact that there was only one bed, she nearly tripped when the scene of Aster carrying Lilia like a princes overlapped with her new “discovery”, but she immediately discarded such a weird theory.
“What am I thinking… I didn’t come here to gossip”, she thought before taking the seat Aster was offering her.
Lilia sat in front of her, just like Aster she was confused about Camila’s current state.
“What happened with you, did you suffer deviation when you were cultivating?”.
Camila shook her head with a helpless expression.
“No, my cultivation is fine and the suppression bracelet is working as intended, it’s just I’m having…”.
Camila suddenly stopped speaking, she yawned as a wave of tiredness assaulted her, her breathing slowed down as she fell asleep wight there where she was.
Lilia frowned; she used her spirit sense to inspect Camila just to discover there was nothing wrong with her, she waved her hand and Camila started floating.
“Come with me darling, let’s take her to her room, it won’t be late for us to talk with Camila later when she has gotten some rest”.
Aster nodded and they left the room, in the way they met Eris and told her the weird situation which they witnessed earlier.
But even Eris was helpless about it.
“I’m sorry, my clan doesn’t focus in bloodlines nor body constitutions, so I’m not experienced on that… but considering she was fine until yesterday then it should be that “exquisite resonating” thing Aster mentioned”.