Yet Another Natural Marriage

"You want to stay here?" Heian Ciemnosc asked Milyy, who nodded and immediately randomly pointed high up with her left arm. "I can see this place is full of vegetation. Heian Ciemnosc, I'd like to stay and live here, can't I?"

"This place is the Carrier's nucleus that makes everything stable and works perfectly. As you can see, it is nothing like the navies and mobile fortresses I told you about. If you stay here and cause trouble, it would be stupid, don't you think?" Heian Ciemnosc directly said, not giving Milyy much to feel pleased. But then, he added, "However, it is not up to me to decide. Only the Carrier's commander and the Crimsonbreaking Faction's Chairwoman can decide to let you stay. No one else can, not even me."

"Really?!" Milyy loudly asked, bringing her wrists to her shoulders and looking up at Heian Ciemnosc, who slapped her and then rubbed her body with care. Heian Ciemnosc nodded and turned to look at the tall tree before setting his darkest eyes on his wives. Alyona stepped forward, placed her hand on Milyy's left shoulder, and shook her head, "As Heian Ciemnosc said, I cannot let you live here just because you want to. However, do you really want to stay here?"

"Mhm!" Milyy nodded her head arduously in the same expression as before, knowing she could only have a chance with her cuteness without using strength. Besides, she wasn't a bully, at least not towards her 'junior' apprentice brother's people, let alone wives!

Alyona looked at Milyy for a few seconds, narrowing her black-coffee eyes, before turning towards Hong Mei and said, "What say you? Would you like to bring her around?"

"Well... Milyy, right?" Hong Mei asked the kitty, who looked at the tall beauty and nodded like a chicken pecking on a rice-filled field. Hong Mei nodded back before becoming pensive. Her eyes drifted from Heian Ciemnosc to Alyona and landed on Milyy at the end. Hong Mei lightly smiled before saying, "Milyy, how about you follow me around here after you marry our husband? That way, you won't be an outsider or a VIP guest."

"You still can't live here. Even I rarely come here for anything other than to relax, maintain, and work in this beautiful place. You can become my student, and I will teach you about everything this garden is about. But we'll start with the small things since you don't seem to have most knowledge ab-" Hong Mei was sweetly dealing a devil's contract to Milyy when the latter interrupted and hugged her waist, dropping all elegance and pride. "Yaaaaaaaayyyy!!"

"Aww, you~." Hong Mei smiled when she felt the kitten's love for becoming her next co-wife. Alyona looked at them with her eyelids narrowing while a smirk formed on her lips. Heian Ciemnosc tilted his head, not understanding how Milyy could fall for such an obvious trap, but it was too late for the kitty. She had sealed her fate and could no longer say shit about their marriage. If she didn't marry now, she wouldn't be able to stay for long in the Carrier's core.

"Heian Ciemnosc, come on, you must know what you'll be doing from now on." Alyona patted Heian Ciemnosc's right shoulder with her left hand, letting him know that the calm moments were over, or at least in a way. He looked at her and followed her out of the garden as Hong Mei continued chatting with Milyy. From a distance, before Heian Ciemnosc and Alyona came out of the mist, they heard Hong Mei's devilish temptations.

"For now, you can stay, alright? Mm, let me show you around. I'll bring you to meet everyone! Hehehe..." Meanwhile, a cute and innocent feline young woman followed around the devil Elf, rapidly falling into the boundless sea of knowledge.

'Sigh, another one bites the dust?' Heian Ciemnosc walked towards the nucleus's gate, following after his wife's swaying hips, but he was well aware of how much he was going to suffer now that he returned and was no longer as a wimpy kid who didn't have enough cultivation base or fame to make fun of. But what's more, his relationship had never been the highest, top secret in the Faction, where its people only needed one official statement, and everything would be cleared out.

Slide- futhump! The gate closed behind them, and Heian Ciemnosc saw the transporting vehicle still waiting for them. Alyona took the driver's seat, and Heian Ciemnosc sat behind her. She drove towards none other but the new recruits' area, where he would enter the typical training regimen that those like him would be bathed beforehand in trials to prepare them. However, since Heian Ciemnosc was a big boy, he didn't need any hand guiding him through the pain.

"Starting tomorrow, you'll be an Auxiliary Soldier active in the Faction. As we talked, you will receive no special treatment. However, Oscilote, Loon, and Fonso want to see you weekly. They decided at least thrice a week, so make some space between later afternoons and at early-late mornings to see them." Alyona said, pausing momentarily before adding, "Plan your schedules well. You'll understand why after today's training. Which, by the way, you're late to."

"..." Heian Ciemnosc had a baffled expression as he continued to listen to his adorable, understanding wife. Alyona continued as her voice was stoic but sounded hella attractive. "You won't be in missions until 3 months from now. That's standard procedure for new recruits like you. If you were to have any ill ideas or thoughts or simply want to mess with our Faction, our people will know."

"Of course, they might claim you have too many evil thoughts... about me." Alyona's words were getting better, but this was just the beginning. "Sigh. The idiots from my Faction have formed an unwritten pact, never to be spoken of. I'm like... their Goddess and nobody is allowed to think of 'her' other than in respectful manners. As for you, who here doesn't know you spent at least months in my bedroom when we first picked you up?"

Heian Ciemnosc: (╥﹏╥ )

'I'm innocent, I swear...' Heian Ciemnosc wanted to speak his mind to these people, but he knew better than to try to amend things without power. Even if he had irrefutable evidence and clear answers, anyone could beat him and say he was lying, and everyone else would follow after such a notion. He was simply hopeless. However, for his wives and his future, this was nothing!

Also, he knew it wasn't just males but females, too. Although this didn't help, Heian Ciemnosc could, perhaps, get his convincing words and adorable darkest eyes to make a little something to bring them to his side. Of course, Heian Ciemnosc didn't know, at this point, how tough and motherfucking steel-like minded were the girls in this Crimsonbreaking Faction. He would surely learn, but it wouldn't be a smooth trip to getting known and much less accepted.

"Make sure to heal your Soul before those 3 months," Ayona added, taking his thoughts away and drifting into smoke inside his head. "You will be assigned to a Team to form part of a Fighter. We don't have complete Fleets besides the main one, but we have several Large Flotillas. It's mandatory for any Soldier to know their place in a Frigate, then a Destroyer... and so on."

"There are no exceptions, and that was also the road I took to where I am today, if you remember," Alyona finished those last few words with melancholy. Heian Ciemnosc placed his right pale hand on her right shoulder and softly muttered so that only she could hear him. "I know, Alyona. And... that's just perfect. I never knew I could be someone else's cannon fodder again. I trust you and your Faction... It won't be that bad, internally, right?"

"Hm~ hm~," Alyona contentedly hummed. She looked back at Heian Ciemnosc. Her black-coffee eyes gave him tingles all over his heart, heavily pouring dark blood everywhere, as she said. "You'll handle it. The Blauw Empire was a tough situation, but your actions and management from the inside were top priority. I'm proud. Right. Fonso also wanted to tell you many things you could've done instead, even if they are riskier. That's also my preferred style, but it's up to you. Oscilote wanted to speak to you about how you handled the Empire's affairs and congratulate you. As for Loon, he was silent when we watched the Universal Conveyance reveals on a big screen, but his eyes were passionate. I could tell."

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"I won't fail them, my wife. I owe them all everything I've learned so far. I won't be ungrateful and disrespect their aid." Heian Ciemnosc said, slowly blinking his darkest eyes as he felt a strange warmth inside his chest. Alyona smirked contently and winked at him before kissing the pale backhand on her shoulder. She then faced the front and continued.

"The mermaids arrived before you and accommodated your new bedroom. Don't worry about them. I've given them special treatment. They and the mermen you bought will be treated respectfully. However, some asked me what could happen if they were interested in someone from the Faction or in the Faction itself. What do you think?" Alyona's words brought Heian Ciemnosc's attention specifically. This made Alyona pleased. Because it meant Heian Ciemnosc's care for his people had increased greatly over the decade.

"Oh. If the merfolk fancy someone, that's up to their choices. Except for a few who are to belong to me, everyone else can choose their lifestyles if they wish. Joining your Faction or not is not a problem. I'd be glad to know there will be some of my people within your Faction at all possible times. Don't you?" Heian Ciemnosc responded with his back relaxing on the backrest.

Alyona nodded slowly and said as she took a long turn, whereas the transporting vehicle started moving amidst many others and some new recruits walking near the walls of the hallways. She spoke as a Spirit Sense barrier was lifted from their vehicle, which would alert those inside if even a peak Third Step cultivator attempted to see through it.

"That's exactly how I thought," Alyona said, continuing after a soft sigh. "Don't worry, I know whom you were talking about. Those have already been given permission to spend some time with you in your free time. I know you've... become somewhat carnal since your task as an assigned supervisor. If you neglect anything due to desire, even with me, I won't tolerate it. understood?"

"Yes, my dear wife," Heian Ciemnosc nodded, lowering his eyelids at his careful woman's arrangement. Alyona was pleased with Heian Ciemnosc's attitude. She said with a relieved tone, "Good. A few of your mermen have directly become our new recruits today, too. They'll suffer more than you, at least regarding the training and not dealing with those in the training. Some mermaids wanted to become officers but were sent to the same place."

"As I said, they will be treated as any other new recruit, with my protection. If they fail to enter the Faction, they won't be exiled, just returned to you. Is that okay?" Alyona's words intrigued Heian Ciemnosc, but after hearing the last part, he shook his head and supported his head with his left palm as it rested on the side. "Nah. If they fail, meaning they're not my people and that some have managed to infiltrate under my noses. Which would be very embarrassing."

Alyona shook her head, understanding his mindset as she was like him when she began leading her own organization. She was young and had a lot to learn. No one could assess Alyona until she found Fonso and Oscilote to advise her. She smoothly stopped the transporting vehicle and parked it just outside a large room where tens of thousands of people were already formed and listening to an instructor's words.

"Go ahead, my love," Alyona said, twisting her torso and lifting her body as her legs pushed her butt from the seat. She kissed Heian Ciemnosc's lips like there was no tomorrow, not bothering about Hong Mei's taste still in his mouth, exploring it, and letting go after only a few individuals in the room noticed the stopped vehicle no longer moving, but not being able to see anyone inside. "Go get beaten so you can start your journey to recognition."

Alyona's lips couldn't be any more licentious as she separated their faces and said with a little playful grin. Heian Ciemnosc's darkest eyes were overly worked up, and his brain melted. Her scent, her saliva's flavor and smell, and the remembrance of her mouth still lingered on him, as if he was feeling them inside his lips' meat and behind his teeth.

"Go!" Alyona shouted slightly, forcing him out of the transporting vehicle as Heian Ciemnosc could only obey, pouting a little in the process and gaining a pair of ferociously lusty, hungry black-coffee eyes to look at him before slowly gaining composure. She closed off the transporting vehicle again, and the Spirit Sense cleanly cut off Heian Ciemnosc's prying. If he tried it now, Alyone would have a reason to return and beat his ass.

"Hey, you!" Suddenly, Heian Ciemnosc's startled state was further confounded as he heard a loud voice nearly tearing his right ear apart. He looked at the room's entrance, where the instructor, who was giving instructions just now, stood and savagely grinned while staring at him.

"Yes, sir?" Heian Ciemnosc responded politely and in compliance with the Crimsonbreaking Faction's chain of command. Of course, this was also the most obvious way to react. The instructor appeared to size his prey up as he looked at Heian Ciemnosc and finally said, "Aren't you supposed to be here since an hour ago? Why the fucking, goddamn it fuck aren't you here ALREADY?!"

"..." - "... ... ..." The shout at the end of the instructor's words left Heian Ciemnosc and the tens of thousands of new recruits inside the room devastatingly deaf for several seconds. As Heian Ciemnosc's pale ear dripped with dark blood, the instructor relaxed a lot, realizing he had gone a little overboard, and remembered Heian Ciemnosc's polite greeting despite being cruelly shouted at.

"Ahem. Don't be faulty again. I won't look for you to punish you, but you must amend this behavior. Understood?" The instructor said, rubbing and flicking his nose as if anxious to know if Heian Ciemnosc was scared or really badly goddamn hurt. But Heian Ciemnosc, surprisingly, smiled and said, in a good mood. "I won't. It was fine, though. It had been a while since I was on the other side. May I come in now?"

"..." - "... ... ..." This time, as the instructor was slightly taken aback, the other tens of thousands in the room looked at Heian Ciemnosc, baffled. While they were cleaning their red, yellow, blue, and so on, bloodied ears, Heian Ciemnosc was there, letting the unique, dark blood run down his pale skin.

"Uh huh, come in," the instructor nodded and crossed his arms. However, before letting Heian Ciemnosc take too many calm steps inside, he instructed Heian Ciemnosc to amend his wrongdoings immediately. "But first, get to the center of the room, introduce yourself, and you'll have to accept 3 challenges from 3 other instructors. They won't be fights. It will be only for ensuring the rest of the new recruits that we have no underhanded methods like a backdoor."

"Alright, please guide me," Heian Ciemnosc turned around, ignored the crowd that was growing excited, and politely gestured to the instructor. The latter had a better than worse impression of Heian Ciemnosc as he nodded and walked past Heian Ciemnosc, guiding the 'kid' to the center before every other new recruit.

Step, step, step- step, step.

Heian Ciemnosc followed the man and watched as nearly a hundred thousand eyes landed on him, especially from those Skalner tentacle-faced people who sometimes possess more than 2 eyes, or 1 pair of eyes. He was naturally unaffected, and he passed by the several instructors, only 7, who looked at him expressionlessly. At this point, who in the Crimsonbreaking Faction wouldn't know who Heian Ciemnosc was? Their nemesis!

"Here we are," the instructor suddenly halted. Heian Ciemnosc stopped his footsteps and didn't bump into the man's back. It would've been embarrassing if he did, and he wasn't homosexual, to have a starting, budding love with him, much less at such a time. Heian Ciemnosc stopped and faced the crowd, nodding in greeting towards them slightly before turning to the instructors and stepping backwards to stare at them all.

"I'm in your hands," Heian Ciemnosc politely declared, letting the instructors do with him as they pleased. They nodded, and a Demon woman with beige-pink skin stepped forth with her arms crossed. She wore a deadpan, stern expression but was charming. Her arms relaxed as she voiced her challenge to Heian Ciemnosc. "Drop to your inner garments, and leave any tool or device on you in your Covert Space bags."

...thud.

Heian Ciemnosc didn't hesitate to follow her commands and dropped to his boxers, covering a comical bulge in the middle, but only the citizens present behind him twisted the corners of their mouths while the rest didn't even react. Heian Ciemnosc was also not shy, and his tall body and muscles were shown without any intention of feeling like he wasn't wearing clothes. He looked ahead, not at the instructor, and waited for further instructions.

"You're well known, but most of these people don't have time to watch over Universal Conveyance's trend because they are too busy cultivating, learning Craftsmaking, surviving, and struggling to progress in their path. Of cultivation or life, whichever it is, cultivator or citizen, each of them here has achieved their place before me with grace. Only you are lacking in that regard."

"... One thing is certain, and well spoken, about you, though." The instructor said after she paused, letting her words sink in the tens of thousands of new recruits. But more than anyone, in Heian Ciemnosc's mind, where he was used to leading and winning. Her eyes sharply looked at him as her Demonic tail came out of her skirt uniform by simply parting as if the fabric had life, but only making a small gaping hole in it.

"The Four Primary Elements are nearly harmless against you, am I right?" The instructor continued. Heian Ciemnosc nodded and didn't say anything. The instructor nodded in return, "It seems like so, but I'm afraid that if someone above your battle prowess uses Elemental techniques, it is their energy that will make the Element in question a danger, just like it is with everyone else, right?"

"Yes, instructor." Heian Ciemnosc maintained his stance and answered her, which made the instructor nod in slight satisfaction. "Good. Then, your body has to withstand 10 strikes of Elemental energy attacks from me, with my cultivation base limited at the peak of the Blossoming realm. Are you ready?"

"I a-" Heian Ciemnosc responded without needing to think, but the instructor's tail immediately lashed out with Fire element, striking his right shoulder on its upper section!

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Let It Rain's note: Oh well, well, well. I suddenly feel better writing these days Q_Q.