Chapter 154 - House(2/2)

Lefiya instead, as soon as Loki pointed to the house where all this strange group would spend their days, was visibly shocked. This wasn't only because of the size of the house, but also because it seemed that Loki had installed a sort of anti-intrusion system based on the mana of the people who would enter and exit the house.

But this is something that then Lefiya was going to deepen for herself since Loki hadn't said much about the latter, in fact what most interested her was the 'house' itself.

She began to talk about how half rounded windows were added to the overall style of the house and have been added to the house in a fairly symmetrical pattern, then she explained how the latter had the shape of an inverted T, with the entrance being at the intersection between the two sides of the house expanding one to the right and one to the left.

While she continued her explanation of the house, the group passed the garden while Lefiya lingered for a few moments to watch what seemed a tranquil garden, with various flowers, a long pond including a small waterfall and various rock formations.

But this moment was quickly interrupted as the others were already moving towards the house, which led her to run to them again.

In no time at all they were in front of the entrance and without hesitation, Loki used the key to open the door, before looking at Ethan and then throwing it at him to make him realize from today, this was his new house.

While the latter nodded and brought the key in his pocket before storing it in the Inventory, Loki resumed her explanation trying to hurry, as she didn't have all the day just to deal with this.

Returning to the two extensions of the house, Loki explained how they extend into wooden sunscreens structures reaching until the end of each side of the house.

But while she was saying this, Ethan noticed stairs in the house and looking up, he realized from the height of the house, a second floor was only natural...

Giving a quick description of both floors and what they might find here, Ethan felt lucky to know the house had ample room for bedrooms, this is because by the speed with which the situation had evolved, Ethan was frightened by the idea of having to completely renovate the house to allow them to reside with him, but this didn't seem to be the case, and in fact to the question asked by him, Loki responded with a grin

"I had already predicted the house wouldn't be for one resident. There are enough rooms to accommodate 6 people at the moment, but you can expand this number to 10 or 15 people with a few changes, maybe by removing the additional rooms to turn them into bedrooms or if you need much more space, you can decide to expand the entire house since I also bought the surrounding area"

To Loki's words, Ethan was very surprised, but more than the fact Loki mentioned the idea of expanding the house to more than 15 people, also because right now, he just couldn't imagine such a thing.

His idea from the beginning was to become stronger, and even though he knew his involvement with other women was inevitable, he also knew it was impossible to be lucky several times in a row.

But letting go of the conversation without mentioning this point, Loki didn't care much about it while instead Maple - good at reading the emotions - and the lovers - who paid much attention to this topic - could understand Ethan had something to say about this, which from Lefiya's point of view was very reassuring. Although she agreed to share Ethan with Ais, she didn't know how much this could retaliate if Ethan concentrated on too many women at once.

But while this little monologue in Lefiya's mind ended and reassured her heart a little, Ais didn't know if it was exactly good or bad, since she didn't know exactly what he had to say, while Maple remained impassive, knowing her role well...

Once these little things were over, Loki finally passed to the part that interested Ethan the most, forcing him to follow her alone, to the point Ethan had to hand Maple over to Lefiya.

He chose to do so because In the last 7 days, Maple had had contacts not only with Riveria, but also with Ais and Lefiya, with the difference Riveria spent much more time with her for work.

In the world 1999, elves weren't such a common race, which first led Maple to be curious as well as neutral, and once she discovered her kindness, but also the ease with which the latter was embarrassed, Maple was able to sympathize a little with her having basically a similar nature, although Lefiya in her eyes seemed able to handle her shyness a little, which in reality wasn't true at all being only at the beginning of what would be a long way for the latter.

But anyway this combination of things, had made Maple prefer Lefiya over Ais, and even if this was the case and Maple was still a bit weirded out to the idea of having contact with Ais, she knew she was also a kind person, and so she was slowly adapting to a new mentality. Which was that Ethan, and the people surrounding him, were different from what she was used to.

While Ethan was taken near the stairs, Lefiya with Maple in her arms was being stared by Ais, now being the only one who hadn't yet the opportunity to hold her in her arms while Lefiya looked elsewhere in panic.

"...What do you say we go around the house and settle in meanwhile...?"

Once everything had been completed on their accommodation back at the Twilight Manor, Ethan had asked both of them to pack the things they wanted to bring with them to his house in baggages.

Before going to his home, Ethan had stored them in his inventory. And so for the time being they couldn't lay their clothes in the various rooms and settle completely, so they decided for the moment to choose where they slept.

A uniqueness of the house as mentioned by Loki, was that all the bedrooms were located on the second floor, which is rather rare considering the actual number of them, but they still decided to head to the stairs so that they could actually go to the upper floor while Loki had a pretty obvious grin on her face.

Ethan was very surprised by this, as he didn't expect Loki to devote so much effort to the realization of his home, but as these thoughts filled his mind, Loki added

"Don't be so surprised. All this is the minimum required to start working seriously. My advice is to use this secret area in the future, you still have on the second floor a room in the hallway to work, so this room will only be useful when you want more privacy in your work, the room has been designed entirely for the needs of a blacksmith, so you'll be much more comfortable here in the future"

her words, led Ethan to sigh as he looked down

"I'm sorry you had to indulge my wishes. I am really thankful for everything you're doing for me..."

His words caused Loki to wince for a moment before noticing he was looking down and that he was serious, so Loki punched him on the head while answering

"You know I'm doing all this for the benefits you'll bring me in the future, I don't need your gratitude, but your work for me"

Although Loki was behaving as usual, Ethan didn't give up and even more determined, he replied

"I know that very well, but even if that may be true, I will still be grateful for everything!"

Sighing, Loki went to the exit as she whispered a 'do as you please' before Ethan raised his head again to take another look at the room, which although not very large, had a furnace, an anvil with a hammer on it for metalworking, and other objects of which he didn't know what they could do at the moment, but he also knew he would deepen his understanding of this job in the days to follow...

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As they were leaving the secret room, Ais Lefiya and Maple explored the second floor and soon discovered the bedrooms located there all had a presetting, which then each of the various 'inhabitants' of the house would change to make the rooms actually their own.

For the time being, Ais had chosen to take the room down to the right, while instead Lefiya had opted to stay one room away from Ais, so that Ethan could have the room located between their two rooms, but the only problem they were worried about, was that Maple, unable to tell them what room she wanted, had no way to specify her preferences...so for now, their accommodations were only temporary.

Hearing a strange noise coming from downstairs, Lefiya and Ais looked at each other for a second before deciding to go and check the origin of it, but as soon as they went down the stairs, they found Ethan and Loki in front of them.

Asking for explanations about the strange noise, Loki explained to them that at present the secret room was designed to be effectively secret and not normally detectable, but trying to cover even the sounds emitted by the mechanism that allowed a part of the floor to be raised to let people to pass through the secret stairs could only be a bit noisy.

But at this explanation, Ethan shook his hand to make Loki understand this wasn't really important to him while in his head, Ethan had various thoughts in mind, that now their situation could finally be stable, he would be forced to deal with...

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(Alternate Titles: "Lefiya and Ais..being sneaky together!?" , "Maple's confused, but whatever..time to start the training finally!", "Loki's kindness can't escape from Ethan's eyes UwU")