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Out of his element, Asai could only pray that his current hurdles were as easy as prior. To meet an unmarried queen of a kingdom, to woo and easily establish the alliance between kingdoms for the greater good, and be done with it. But for once, the monarch of a kingdom was taken and deeply in love with one and another. Not wanting to be a homewrecker, or to NTR someone who was officially taken, Asai had to shift his mindset away from utilizing his charm.

Seeing as the two were alone and resting upon a sofa. Robin stroked the man's smooth black hair as he laid upon her soft-squishy thighs.

"What's the difference between Hera and those adventurer-girls? Lucy and Mimi? didn't you tell me that Lucas was obsessed with Mimi and their childhood friend Marvin was lovestruck with Lucy? Yet, you still used your handsome looks to get into their pants no?"

"T-this and that are different Robin!" Asai tried to defend himself, as he had endeavoured to hide nothing from Robin, who he considered wholeheartedly to be his soul-mate, if ever such a thing was real.

"How so?" The half-elf, entirely aware of how potent and charming his looks could be, was honestly quite curious as to why the man didn't opt to using such charms to entice the women into an alliance, just like Emilita the queen of Ignis. Unlike Par'Talucca, that was filled with aesthetically pleasing architecture that emphasized the importance of the spirit and nature, Robin didn't really enjoy being surrounded by stone and snow, two very bland and cold elements that wasn't exactly pleasing to neither the eyes or the skin. As such, she also wanted to be done with such a kingdom and on their way back to warmth and sunlight.

"Hera is happily, merrily and officially married. I refuse to NTR the couple, to wreck their happiness as I also wouldn't desire such a thing to be done unto me.

The different between Hera and Lucy and Mimi is that the two adventurers weren't in an official setting, they weren't a couple and were only glancing at each other and desiring one and another. It isn't my fault if their emotions and feelings were fleeting, and thus taking a liking towards me."

"I- I don't get it?"

"Alright, lets say I loved you Robin, always have, always will. But we were never official, and you simply worked alongside me because it was your job role; Just like being adventurers in the same party made them colleagues. So, just because I one-sidedly loved you, it doesn't mean you aren't allowed to entertain your feelings and desires for other men. Why would I feel entitled to you and your exclusivity just because I one-sided loved you?

However, if on the flipside we were officially together, like we are now, as fiancés. If another man were to try touch you without permission, I know for sure that the man would burn in hell, as I will then be morally inclined to punish him."

Seeing the girl absentmindedly stare into his eyes, Asai further added.

"Okay, Baron Bralcom Fowl, the scumbag baron who attacked our barony and tried to kidnap and rape our people. Annie was a maid who worked for him, and the man greatly desired her body for himself. She ended up leaving him and joining my employ, does that mean I NTR'd the man? By apparently stealing his women? His maid for myself?"

"No..."

Asai nodded, as he enjoyed the softness of her smooth and fluffy thighs. "Yeah, the grey line is quite obscured, but as long as it wasn't anything official, then, for the greater good of humanity I will do what I must to grow."

"Right, to save the world you require strength and levels. But, didn't you say that Bethel was the guaranteed [Hero]?"

Asai nodded, as his eyes lingered over his own title. [Monster] "Better safe than sorry..." "What if, one day, I was forced to fight Bethel? And she caught me entirely lacking? I refuse to allow such a scenario to occur..."

Sora returned from her reconnaissance mission, Lucied and a few other dhans entering along behind her.

saluting their king, the dhans waited as Asai sat up from the girl's soft thighs, before beginning their report.

"My king, I am pleased to inform you that there are many princesses in which you could target, however, none of them hold any positions of power or hold any weight within their words. As they're all competing against their siblings to collect the most merits, a near life-long competition that will last until the current king Rhet Travarre perishes. 

As such, I can not suggest wasting your time and efforts on them, as they have no military factions or forces of their own. And recruiting the princesses individually simply doesn't make sense.

All power, authority and military-might belong solely to the current reigning king and the first queen Hera. With such an concentration of power under the royal family, whilst they do have nobles and named households, they have no military of their own to summon. And if they did try to pay and gather a sizeable force of their own, their laws will prevent them from even marching out without the will of the king."

"Bad news huh..." "I see. Good work scouting out a foreign city. What of the Martha girl?"

"Following the clue you had provided us, Lucied had managed to enter her home, but to only find it empty as the women appears to have left the city entirely.

Our assumption is that, she has gone out to hunt for dinner. As we've checked her pantry, to find it sorely lacking."

"Dinner?" the people of this world usually ate around 5-6pm, the timing before nightfall. However, it was now roughly 8-9pm. Seeing as they had left a dhan behind at the giant's home, who had yet to report the girl's return, Asai started to assume that something had happened.

"Robin, fly in stealth and carry me. Sora, lead me in the direction of Martha's last known position. Lucied, remain behind just in case the giants send a messenger."

Standing from his seat, Asai opened the heavy windows that kept the snow at bay, and leapt out. Swiftly followed by Robin who flew out.