“Just promise us you’ll give us warning before you do anything dangerous.” Shao demanded.
“Don’t take any risks.” Miki agreed.
“And no more women!” Shao added.
“No… she’s got a good point!” Miki shot an accusing look.
“It was Lydia’s fault. She kept going on about how the more women Master had, the more we should be happy, but it got out of hand!” Shao declared.
I held up my hands helplessly. “I can’t control…”
“No women!” Both girls cried out, looking up at me with tear-filled eyes.
“N-n-no women.” I agreed.
“I don’t get it, but I love Master!” Celeste threw her arms around all three of us and hugged.
“I-it’s the evolution! My boobs are bigger in demon lord form too! Lucky, permanent evolution!”
“H-hey! All I got was my hair turned black! Why didn’t my chest grow?”
“A seed can’t grow without a proper foundation…” Shao chuckled.
“Do you want to die?”
“Try it, ghost girl!”
“I could suck out your soul!”
“Not if I stabbed your back.”
I sighed as I held the two girls away from each other. I had never noticed it before, Lydia had been the balance that kept the harem together. She smoothed out people’s issues and kept the women from fighting in front of me excessively. Without her, that was why the girls went about their own tasks. I also hadn’t had a group session… ahem… not that I was saying I wanted to have all three at once! However, the offer was no longer on the table like it was when Lydia was around.
Maybe that was why my trip plan was a return to Dioshin. I had some hopes that maybe Lord Duran had located Lydia. I reckoned that she had most likely gone to Dioshin. That wasn’t the only reason I was traveling there. The other reason was to cash in on the agreement I made with Lord Duran. Lord Duran had agreed to take me to the border of Dioshin and Jespain. Once I was there, I could skip Dioshin altogether and visit Jespain.
I had never been to Jespain, but I had been told that it was industrialized compared to the lands in the east. They worked on magical tools, and their levels of magic enchantment were many times farther than anyone to the east. One could say that the Demon Lord Aberis’s attack on the subsequent conquering of Osteria had caused our countries to fall behind a few hundred years. Jespain had been spared these wars thanks to the impassible jungles of Dioshin.
Although my original intent on going there had been to learn the secrets of inventory rings and create our own, I had also expanded my plans considerably. They also might be able to help us advance our building of golems. Although if there was any true reason I wanted to go to Jespain, it was because I had heard the rumor that had ships that could fly. That was right, Jespain was the land of airships!