Several minutes have passed since I went back to my room. Evil thoughts started to run through my mind on what to do about Monica but then I remembered that it wasn’t her. I will ignore her, whoever that thing or person was, and deal with it when the time comes. I feel angry about how everything started but I can’t say I didn’t like how it ended. I guess that's my demon side speaking. I am pretty sure any normal woman would have been traumatized by what happened.

A few more minutes later I hear someone walking past my door.

“Sophia?” I ask.

“Yes, what is it? I was expecting to find you outside already.” She speaks in a sleepy tone.

“We have a problem.”

I can feel her freeze for a second before she starts to open the door.

I put some fire over myself making it look like a really bad dress made out of fire with a spell.

As she opens the door she is really surprised and a little embarrassed as Monica still is naked and with that magic strap on her.

“You look different. What happened?”

“I want to know too.”

“Can’t we cover Monica?” She says to me.

I cover her with her maid dress and me and Sophia continue to talk.

“I remember you growing a while ago but you managed to grow more. Also why the fire?”

“I can’t use any of my clothes.” None of my clothes can hold my boobs without ripping apart. I also don’t have underwear anymore.

“What do you mean?”

I stand up and remove the fire from my boobs.

“... They got quite big.” I can see some jealousy in her eyes and hear it in her voice.

“You don’t have to tell me. Now what do I do?” I could just walk around in fire clothes for a while but I don’t think everyone would understand. I can make fire not burn.

“...” She looks at me in silence for a few seconds.”You probably should stick with what you are doing and buy something when the shops open.”

“And here I was thinking that this wouldn’t be an option. I hope people don’t ask too much about my face.”

“Yeah, you look older. And Monica?”

“She was possessed by something and had her way with me.”

Sophia looks surprised but not that much.

“It came earlier than I imagined.”

“What do you mean?”

“Her mom, sister, grandma or a cousin, I don’t remember exactly who, put a curse on her and after a few years the soul of that person can take control of her. She usually takes a few days of vacation so she can’t do anything bad around here.”

I look in anger towards both of them. Probably feeling me Monica wakes up in a panic.

“Why do I have dick?” She asks.

“Think you are wearing panties and take it off.” She does and the strap falls to the floor.

“I need some explanations.” I say angrily.

“I’m sorry, that won’t happen again.” She says while bowing down to me.

“What makes you think that?”

“She is not here anymore.”

“... What?”

“I could feel her at all times, but now the soul of my sister is no longer in my body.”

“... You remember what she said and did, don’t you?”

“I do and for that I am deeply sorry.”

She is being honest here, I can feel it. It doesn’t change what happened, I am still angry but let’s not dwell in this any longer for now. If you think too much about bad things they will stick.

“I am going to give you this warning only once. If you do that again I will kill you and anyone who tries to defend you.” I say as seriously as I can. I don’t know anything about her sister and I don’t want to look for that information, but if what she said was true, she is dangerous.

“I’m sorry.”

“Ok… Sophia, tell the other maid that Monica is sick or something. Her body is not like mine, she didn’t sleep one bit this night. She will collapse if she works today.”

“No I can…” She tries to say while walking forward only to have her legs give up mid sentence.

She accepts it and we help her dress up and move her to her room. She falls asleep as soon as she is in her bed.

Me and Sophia go our separate ways for a few minutes while everyone is waking up.

--//--

Later at the diner table everyone is looking at me.

“You look different.” Alfina says to me.

“That’s because I am different.”

“Your clothes don’t look safe.” Maxia says to me.

“Safety is a word that you won’t be able to use for while.” Zelfina and Maxia show signs of fear.

“I guess that is a yes on your part.” Sophia says to me.

“Yeah, I just need a few hours to fix my situation a little.” Both of them nod signaling that they understand.

Mess looks at me like he gave up trying to figure me out and the other maid's fear of me seems to have grown.

We finish eating and I go back to my room to pick some money. Breakfast took a little longer to be made as it was only one person and we have more mouths as of today so the shops are probably opening around now.

“If he comes here, tell him to wait nearby.” I say to Sophia. She understands that it is about the prince.

I go around the shops buying what I can but I can’t really get much. Underwear is out of the question, generic underwear can’t fit me anymore, I will probably have to go to the capital and have it made for me at a later date.

I buy a few big shirts and pants, the kind that fat or really muscular people would use. They can fit me and not be tight. I can’t really do anything about this. Also not having something to hold my dick in place is kinda discomforting, I never liked going commando. At least it doesn’t show itself through my pants like my boobs do. All the shopkeepers gave me a lewd comment when they saw me. Most of it was out of instinct by what it looked like as they apologized soon after. I don’t know why, I don’t feel offended one bit, it’s not like they tried to force themselves unto me but if they knew about what is between my legs they probably would think twice before saying that to me.

After around two hours I managed to have a stock of clothes again. I don’t have any dresses but I at least have clothes. I then go back to the mansion with my bags.

As I arrive there I can see the prince near the door.

“Hello.” I say to him.

He takes a few seconds to process everything.

“Lucia?”

“Yes.”

“You look… Different.” Until yesterday he was noticeably taller than me, now we are almost the same height but he is still taller than me by a few centimeters. I look older than him now too.

“That's just how things are. Wait a few minutes so I can put these bags in my room.”

He nods.

After I put the bags in my room I go down and speak with the prince.

“What should I call you?”

“Borris.”

“Allright. Come with me.” I guide him to the office where Sophia and the girls are.

“Alright everyone, follow me.”

Luckily for them all of them were already using clothes they could exercise in.

I guide them outside the city to the area I used to fight the mages a few months ago.

“What are we doing here?” Alfina asks.

“I am going to show how I use magic and how I fight. Borris here will be my opponent.”

“Everyone looks a little excited.”

“First let’s stretch a little, if you don’t know how to do it follow what I do. You will have to do it every day if you don’t want to have a weak body.”

As I stretch I can feel the prince’s eyes on me but I let him. I have boobs big enough that my hands are not enough to grab them, people will look and I have no way to stop that. My degenerate side is telling me to remove my shirt but I will not let these thoughts cloud my judgment.

After half an hour of stretching everyone is relaxed and ready. I make a big circle to be an arena and ask everyone to be a few meters away from it.

I do a few swings with all my swords to get a feel of my new body. It will take a few days for me to be 100% again. I am heavier and bigger.

“What are the rules?” The prince asks me.

“You can do whatever you want if you don’t kill, I am pretty sure I can heal it. Also if you leave the circle you lose.”

“Ok, I am ready.”

“Then let’s start.”

I am using Mira and the prince is using two swords. I charge Mira with mana just a little so I won’t shatter his swords in case they are generic swords.

I have to take the defensive approach here as if I run my boobs will get in the way. The prince starts to run towards me with a few runes around his body.

“Flamethrower!” I say while putting my left hand forward. Fire shoots from it like a flamethrower but the runes around the prince redirect the fire away from him.

I didn’t put much power into it but I am impressed.

The prince gets near me and tries to hit me from the sides with a horizontal slash from both swords at the same time. I could,’t block both with Mira so I flew up for a second while spinning myself to be upside down. I then used the thrusters to spin like a top and hit the prince with Mira on his back making him go out of the circle as I was really on the edge of it.

“My win.” I say.

“Dammit.” He says clearly frustrated.

I take a minute to breathe and think about everything I did. I really need something to hold my boobs in place or I won’t be able to maneuver as I want. I almost lost balance as I did the spin due to them.

The girls come near us as the prince starts to stand up.

“So, did all of you see the difference between him and me?”

They all nodded.

“Maxia, what is the difference between us?”

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“You don’t use runes.”

“Correct.”

“I want a rematch.”

“Well, I don’t, I don’t think I even should. But don’t worry, this wasn’t what I was going to do with you.”

He looks a little less frustrated now.

“Ok, before I go do my own thing I need to be able to run around the city wall without stopping or slowing down. You also have to be at a good pace, you don’t need to go full speed but I don’t want you to look like you are walking.”

“What does that have to do with anything?”

“May I ask the reason for all this?” Zelfina asks me.

“If you don’t have a body that can handle running you won’t have a mind able to fight 99% of the time. So unless you are a super genius you will need it. As for you Maxia, you need a sturdy body to handle the pain of learning to cast spells like I do. Alfina here is also training to do it.”

“I will find my way home when I can use magic.” She says proudly.

“So we should just run?” Maxia asks me.

“Go back to the mansion, pick some water and run as much as you can. When you feel like you are at your limit stop, drink some water, rest for a few minutes and try again. This will take more than one day so you don’t need to try the entire wall today. I need all of you to be able to do it normally, not just do it.”

They all start to go back to the city.

“Follow me.” I say to the prince. He does it and we go towards the forest.

I sit near a tree and he does the same.

“What are we doing?” He asks me.

“Talk. I know jack shit about you.”

“That's a little vulgar.”

“That doesn’t begin to scratch the obscenities I can say.”

“I believe you.” He says after thinking for a second.

“Well then. Artheus Cruxadia, why do you like me so much?”

He takes a second to think before he starts to talk.

“Because you are beautiful, powerful and smart.”

Those would be qualities I would want in a woman myself. So I can see his point.

“This will seem kinda cold but why should I like you? From my point of view you can’t help me with anything I want to do, on the contrary, associating with you would make things harder.”

“I will be the next king, I will have more power in this land than anyone, how would that be a problem?”

“Would you go to war for me?”

“Of course.”

“I am not talking about the kingdom, I am talking about you. Would you go to war for me?”

He takes a second to answer.

“Yes.” he says with not so much confidence.

“Would you die for me?”

“... No.” he says as if he didn’t want to.

“Then we should stop this.”

“Why?”

“I won’t say your answers were wrong. You don’t truly love me, at least not yet. We don’t know each other enough for that. But removing all of it from the table you don’t look like someone who has the ability to run the kingdom much less stay by my side in my endeavours.”

“Are you saying I am dumb?” He asks me angrily.

“No but you are not as smart as you think. Do you know how you know that you are a great leader?”

“How?”

“Give people the right to choose their leaders and the knowledge to know how to choose it. If they still choose you, then you are a great leader. This or being so overwhelmingly superior in every aspect of life to anyone under you that your simple existence makes people around you better.”

“So that is what you want from me? To make this kingdom better?”

“That would be a start. You are not ugly by any means but if your head doesn’t work then you are pretty much a pig in clothes for me.”

“Then I will do it and prove to you that i am a good man.”

“I hope you do. For people with absolute power over their land a lot of shit that shouldn’t happen is and a lot of things that should be happening aren’t.”

He looks more angry now.

“You say all that like you can accomplish any of this by yourself.”

I probably could do it in a few years. This kingdom doesn’t look like a place with that much security against someone like me.

“I am saying all of this because I have no hope of you becoming stronger than me.”

“Are you saying that I can’t ever reach your level in strength?”

“Not the way you live your life.” I also ain’t getting as strong as I can. If I went around fighting anything someone with similar power or stronger than me would probably go after me.

“What did you do that you think I can’t? I fought with armies against demons.”

“I fought really powerful demons pretty much alone. I also crossed this very forest if you don’t remember. Do you think you can do it?”

“Of course I can.”

“Alright, give me your armor. You can’t have anything but your weapons.”

“What do you mean?”

“I only had my clothes and weapons when I started my journey.” I had armor but at that point it wasn’t really useful as armor anymore.

He takes a few seconds to consider but he doesn’t go through with it.

“I can’t.”

“Ok.”

He looks at me for what seems like an eternity without saying anything.

“I think you probably should know that I can’t have kids.” I say to him.

This deals the damage of a bullet on him. I can see him trying to rationalize his ‘love’ for me.

“I also have a dick.”

He is in shock.

“You are kidding, right?”

“No. I can show you.” I am not joking about this.

He looks at me and sees that I am serious.

“Then when you said that in the castle…”

“Yup.”

He stays in silence for a few more seconds.

“I don’t think this will work.”

“If you say so. I just wanted you to know what you were getting into.” These kinds of things are better told when things are not already underway. If a woman had something that might be a problem I would like to know before it became a problem.

“Please don’t tell anyone about this.”

“If someone doesn’t already know about this then it won’t be me who they learn from.”

“Ok, I will… Go now.” He says as he walks towards the city. He is probably questioning everything now.

I wait a few minutes and fly back to Sagrada. I see 3 of the girls running before I fly over the wall and get into the mansion.

I make my way into the office.

“Sophia, has someone tried to buy land?” I only check numbers, if something didn’t happen I wouldn’t know.

“As a matter of fact someone tried a few months ago but I had to refuse.”

“How much land are we talking about?”

“He tried to buy a quarter of the city. Lots of people came here to get confirmation that they could but giving part of the city to a single person would be bad. I saw places where this happened and things didn’t stay friendly for too long.”

“Do you know who this person was?”

“Sadly no. All I know is that it was a man. Why are you asking this?”

“Do you remember the golem I told you about?”

“Yes.”

“Pretty sure someone tried something similar in degrada but this time he wouldn’t take a no for an answer.”

“What makes you think that?”

“The golem itself told me that someone told him that the city was his. Not the land where the city was but the city itself.”

“That is really suspicious.”

“You don’t have to tell me.”

“And the prince?”

“Probably not going to come after me anymore.”

“What did you do?” She asks me, worried.

“I just told him about my body.”

“I can’t see why then.”

“It’s for the best. I don’t think I would have a long life as queen if I couldn’t have children. Which makes me remember something. Does the prince have any siblings?”

“He does. You probably will never see them as they are being educated in secrecy.”

“Does the public know about them?”

“No.”

“Then I heard nothing.”

“Anything else?”

“Do you know anyone who could make underwear for me? It’s kinda hard to move my body when everytime I turn my boobs take a moment to follow.”

She looks at me with a little envy again. I guess deep down women want to have big boobs.

“I do. Would you like me to contact them?”

“If possible.”

“Then I will do it as soon as I can.”

“Thanks. Do you need anything from me?”

“Not today.”

“Then I will be outside of the city if anything happens.”

I leave the mansion and go towards the area I saw the girls run. Looks like they are running in the area near the gate back and forth.

I approach them.

“So, how is it going?”

“It’s hard.” Maxia says to me.

“Not as much as it will be.”

“How long does it take for you to run around the entire wall?” Zelfina asks.

“Good question. No one ever told me how fast I was able to do it.”

“Show us.” Alfina says.

I have no reason to refuse. Running might be a good idea.

I position my swords on my back in a way they won’t touch me and hold my boobs with both arms. If I try to run like normal they will just bounce non-stop.

I breathe for a few seconds and start to run as fast as it is possible without losing my breath too fast.

I follow the wall for a few minutes and before I know I am back where I started.

“20 Minutes.” Zelfina says to me.

“That’s not possible.” I say. It has to have taken longer. I wasn’t going that fast.

“But you are so fast.” Maxia says

This got me curious. I remember reading that women could actually be faster than men when they reach adulthood. Since my body is now that of an adult, maybe I can actually use it’s full physical force.

I could probably do that a little faster but let’s not force ourselves.

“Anything any of you want to ask me?” I ask.

Alfina still is running so she ignores me.

“How does it work? Your spells I mean. They don’t use runes.” Maxia asks me.

“You have to think about what you want and how you want it.”

“I am kinda curious about magic now. Do you think I can learn it?” Zelfina asks.

“If you have any affinity with magic you probably can.”

“I still don’t see how managing to run around the city will make us be able use spells like you.” Maxia adds.

“I told you. You need a strong body.”

“It’s magic, you are not supposed to use your body.”

“If you want I could start right now but if you can’t handle pain you probably will die.”

“What do you mean?”

“Imagine your blood becoming so hot that it burns you and all of your muscles hurting at the same time.”

She gulps.

“Now imagine feeling like that for 2 months.”

“That’s a little too much.” Maxia says.

“That’s how long it took me to get back to normal.”

“That’s really too much.”

“Well, if you manage to control your mana 24/7 you won’t feel anything.”

“What do you mean?”

“You know that when you use a spell your mana pours from your soul going around your body, right?”

“Yeah, then it goes into a rune and a spell happens if the rune works.”

“I can circulate the mana around my body without using a spell soon after.”

“And?”

“If your body isn’t accustomed to it it will hurt a lot if you stop. There is probably a way that all 3 of you would be able to use so you would never stop. I could probably help with that too.”

I also have a theory that if I manage to pour enough mana into someone while circulating their mana it would make the process faster but who knows what that will do to someone.

“Then do it. The faster I can start the faster I can finish my part of the deal.”

I take a look at her and she is serious. If she wants to be a guinea pig then who I am to refuse.

“What about you Zelfina?”

“I am not sure. Let’s see her first, I am not here for magic anyway.”

Alfina comes back and I explain what I just said to her.

“I think I will wait too.” She says to my surprise.

I go back to the back of the mansion with all of them where I clean them with a spell. Maxia and Zelfina were really surprised that I could do that.

Alfina and Zelfina both stay a few meters away while I stand near Maxia.

“Alright Maxia. First you have to try to put your mana into a rune without actually making the rune. Try to make it go around your body. Imagine that your body is a river and your mana is the water going through it.”

“Ok…” She says as she begins to try. Slowly I can feel her mana but a rune keeps popping out of her hand from time to time.

After a few minutes it looks like the process has at least started a little so I start my part.

“I will try to force your mana to circulate a little. I have no idea if this works but if it does, you will need to get the feeling on how that works really fast.”

“Do it.” She says without breaking her concentration.

I put my hand on her neck and begin to concentrate. I try to infuse her with mana the same I do with Mira but in a really small quantity and really slowly.

Unlike with Mira I am pouring mana into her so I can’t do this forever. For a few minutes I do this until I finally am able to feel her mana circulation a little.

“Imagine your mana flowing through you like blood.” I say to Maxia. She concentrates harder.

I remove my hand from neck and let her circulate her mana by herself. For a few seconds she manages to do it.

“I did it, I…” She stops the moment she realizes that she was doing it. “AHHHHHHHHHHHH” She begins to scream.

I quickly touch her again and try to remedy the situation. She couldn’t even handle a few seconds of this. This is gonna be painful.

“It hurts so much.” She says trying not to cry.

“I told you it was going to hurt.”

“What now?”

“If the other two there don’t get in the same situation as you I will have to at least do this while you sleep.”

The other two heard me and they are not very keen on the idea of feeling pain yet.

“So I should focus on moving my mana all the time now?”

“Yes, after a while you won't need to as your body will do it automatically.”

“Good to know.”

“Then I will leave you alone. If anything happens, scream. I will be at the mansion. You two go do whatever you want just remember that there is a limit to how much you can exercise in a single day.”

I leave them there and go back to the office of the mansion where I see Sophia working and Monica reading a book while drinking tea.

I sit on the sofa along with Monica.

“Do you remember anything that happened during last night?”

“Sadly I don't.”

“You should have told me about it before.”

“What could have you done? Also it’s not like you tell us everything about yourself. I am really sorry about what happened but that’s all I can do.”

“I could have prepared myself for the worst and anything I don’t tell you people is because I literally can’t.”

“You say that but you look like someone who enjoyed it.”

“That’s not the problem. Did I ever hurt you?”

“... No.”

“Well last night I was hurt a lot.”

“...”

“What happened last night was really fucked up. If not for my nature I would probably have killed you and myself. Any normal woman in my place would have broken.” I say in a serious tone.

Monica is smart enough to understand what I am saying. What happened happened. I can’t change the past but I have to make sure something like that won’t happen again. I had to let my desires overpower me and now the urges are stronger. I don’t want to imagine what would happen if I had to let myself go a second time.

After the talk I also grab a random book and begin to read it to pass time.