Narissa sat with Mia on her lap in the backyard of the house. She looked stressed and hugging Mia was her way to relax. Didn’t help that her family was still looking at her angrily.

“What happened?” Mia innocently asked.

“Mia! They are being mean to me. Help me!” Narissa said while fake-crying.

“Don’t you dare to use her to save your hide, miss! You are going to see this through to the end!” Narissa’s father said, very seriously.

“They want to make a show of my wedding!”

“When is the wedding?” Mia asked.

“The date is still to be decided.” Narissa’s father said.

“I can’t get married now! I have stuff to do!” Narissa said.

“Don’t you want to use a pretty dress? Mei said that have wedding dresses that are super pretty.”

“Yes, she will be in the prettiest dress we will find.” Narissa’s mother said.

“When you start living with Mathias, can I come visit? I can never go to your house.” Mia asked Narissa.

“Anything you ask Mia. Anything you ask…”

—-

“How could you do this to us? I thought we were friends, brothers! You were having your fun behind our backs and when you came back you just shoved it in our face while we didn’t know better! I feel betrayed! I feel like I don’t know you!” Kaki dramatically said to Mathias.

“Kaki.” Mathias said.

“Yes?”

“Shut it.” Mathias said without a hint of anything in his voice but the idea was passed.

“So, how fucked you are?” Luminus asked.

“Slightly better than I could, still really bad.” Mathias said.

“So, everything on the list besides her getting pregnant?”

“Yeah.”

“Never thought that the list was something they would use for real.” Kaki added. The father of the 3 gave them a list of things they should never do if they found themselves in a relationship with a girl around their age, especially from the academy. It has been a few years so Mathias completely forgot about it.

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“Well, at least I can’t be punished for the stuff nobody can prove.”

“Like what?” Kai asked.

“Wouldn’t you like to know?”

“So, what are you going to do now?” Luminus asked,

“I have a month to get a ring of enough quality.”

“And what if you don’t get it?”

“It was good knowing you two.”

—--

“I always knew the theory but seeing it first hand is really different.” Celestial said as he removed his hand from Kai’s shoulder.

“Still, it hurts like hell in the beginning and you have to do something to make sure you don’t accidentally use all your strength.” Kai said.

“Any chance I can do something like that?” Moon asked.

“Being able to do something and getting a positive result out of it are two different things.” Romeo said.

“Yeah, I don’t have a mind body or a soul body taking space in my actual body. I don’t think souls have muscle for you to compress.” Kai explained.

“Now I can understand how basic cultivators can get so strong. It’s easier to train the part of you that you use if it’s the only thing that can be used.”

“Not that I recommend training your soul alone. You can only meditate for so long.” Romeo said.

“You say from experience?” Celestial asked.

“Tried to be a monk once. Almost went crazy. Those bastards only live so much because they do nothing all day but meditate.”

“ROMEO! Stop talking with your girlfriends and come do your job!” Cassandra shouted not far from the table.

“Work is calling. It was a nice talk.”

—--

Marry was having small talk with Aoi in the kitchen while Lin took care of the various nobles that were still a little shaken from the botched attack.

“I’m sorry that it came to this. Most of the culprits are already being identified.” Aoi said to Marry.

“I was kind of expecting something like that to happen, doesn’t mean I am not angry, so thanks.”

“...Toshiro says your family will get some peace in the coming days.” Aoi said after receiving a telepathic message.

“Why that?”

“Because some people value their pride more than they should. We are both appalled by how much some people are feeling wronged by not being invited to this nice party.”

“I guess they found irrefutable proof of something.”

“The head of the royal guard is probably giggling like a little girl right now.”

—--

Frank sat on a chair a little ways away from everyone on the street. With a cold beer in one hand and a big piece of meat on the other, he was deep in thought as he watched the various corpses being taken care of.

‘Barbecue meat was nice. Also, who found my pill cache?’ He thought to himself.

—---

Puddle was reading the report of his last plan. It has been less than an hour and it already was a giant failure.

“Sophie, as my assistant and person in charge of getting information I can’t, I need you to answer me something.”

“Yes, Master Puddle?”

“What happens when a demon permanently dies?”

“They go back to…Master, was the contract with you?” Sophie asked, clearly apprehensive.

“Not even I am that dumb.”

“May the poor soul, if he still is alive, find peace in millennia if he can.”

—-----

Somewhere in Hell

A giant demon that looked to be completely made out of flames got up from his throne and asked again his subordinate.

“What do you mean by 'a quarter of our troops died’?”

“They found permanent death, sir!” The lesser demon said with fear in his voice.

“...Inform the generals. The gates are open. We have a feast on the horizon.