Chapter 387 – Family and acquaintances

Chapter 387 – Family and acquaintances

The group had returned to Sophia’s mansion and chatted there for a while longer. After a little bit, the tiger decided that she wanted to take a quick way out and get over with a lot of things. She grabbed Maya, and the two went to the castle. There, they told Kira they needed a whole day of the kings because there was lots to talk about. Afterward, the couple collected Anna and Ari to introduce the group's newcomers to them. They let out a few slightly important details about them, though.

“By the way,” Still in Sophia’s portal hub, Maya looked at Anna and Ari. “Things will get out of hand really quick soon. Try to keep it down, okay?”

“E-Eh?!” The jaguar didn’t like the sound of that. “What is going on?!”

“Chloe’s parents are... They are quite something.” The cat-girl wasn’t sure what to say.

“They make everything around me look normal in comparison!” Sophia had her very own explanation.

“There’s just no way that’s possible!” Ari got louder.

“She’s heavily downplaying it, as well...” Maya let out another sigh.

“M-My cramps are getting stronger again... I-I really need to go back and lie down...”

“Oh no, you don’t~.” Saying so with a smirk, the blonde put her hand on Ari’s lower abdomen, and it quickly started to shine in a pale blue light. “Here, I applied some healing magic~. With that, it should be over much sooner, and it's impossible to feel anything for the next while.”

“It’s true~.” Maya also smiled at the jaguar. “She’s the ABSOLUTE best when it comes to that. I can’t be without that anymore. I also haven’t been able to use my period as an excuse since meeting her anymore, though.”

“...”

“Alrighty, let’s get going!” Sophia grabbed Ari’s hand again and dragged the uncooperative girl through the portal to her mansion.

“I hate you...” It was all the black-haired girl could say in return before being forced through the portal.

"I'm still unsure if I love or hate the way the two get along..." Anna's expression turned a little complicated again.

“Ahaha...” Maya scratched her cheek. “Should I also hold your hand when we go through the portal?”

“That’s not the point!”

“Unless my point was to get a reaction out of you~.” The cat-girl smirked at her, then went ahead and grabbed her hand anyway, and the two also went through the portal.

“I hate you...” The princess had a rather similar reaction to her girlfriend.

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“...”

“...” Arriving in the living room and noticing Fey, and much more so Mira, Anna and Ari had been rendered utterly speechless.

“Yup.” Chloe could only smile while slowly nodding a few times.

“S-Sophia!” The jaguar stared at the blonde with wide-open eyes. “W-Was that really healing magic you used on me earlier?! Because I think I’m hallucinating right now!”

“Everything you’re seeing right now is actually happening.”

“There’s just no way that can be possible!” She got louder. “M-Mira is sitting on that sofa there!” She pointed at the teal fox. “T-That’s the g-goddess of magic!”

“Overseer of magic, my dear~.” The nine-tailed fox smiled at her.

“I-I’m very sorry!” Ari's entire body, from the tip of her tail all the way to her ears, flinched, and she quickly hid herself behind Sophia next to her. “W-Why is the o-overseer of magic here?!”

“Would you stop acting so adorable?” The blonde couldn’t believe how the slightly shivering girl was clutching her shoulders from behind while peeking her head over one side.

“S-Sophia...?” Anna didn’t seem much less shocked. “I-I, uhh... w-what?”

“I am deeply sorry...”

“Good!”

“Girls, focus!” The jaguar still had many questions.

“It is true.” Mira looked at her. “Chloe is the daughter of Fey and me. We wanted her so much that I bent my own rules a little. We also thought it would be best to keep it a secret because of the many implications it would have.”

“Minus 17 points for you, as well!”

“Why?!” The overseer didn’t like that. “I’m just explaining what happened!”

“Exactly! And you just made me hear it again!”

“I am deeply sorry...” She had the same reaction as Fey.

“Good!”

“As you can see,” The teal fox faced Ari again. “We’ve hurt her a lot with this decision. We wanted to protect her and tried to make her life easier by me not being a part of it, but...”

“THEY WERE JUST MASSIVE IDIOTS!”

“That.” Mira gestured at her daughter. “We made an inexcusable mistake, no matter how hard we’ll try, but I’m now here with her because I want to try my best and make up even a little for the pain I caused.”

“Wow.” Ari wasn’t sure what else to say.

“Is that the actual reason Chloe's magic has increased by so much lately?" Anna glanced at the girl in question. “As some sort of gift?”

“Indirectly, I guess...”

“What does that mean?” The princess tilted her head.

“Well,” She tilted her head. “I had also taken a liking to Steph and decided to bless her with a portion of your magic.”

“You’re also her daughter?!” Anna completely misunderstood it.

“No!” Steph shook her head. “I wouldn’t be dating Chloe, then!”

"A-Ah, right... F-Fair point."

“No, we aren’t related.” Mira smiled at the tall tiger. “I just found our dog here quite interesting and decided to let her have some more fun~.” She let out a lot of details.

“Wow.” Anna wasn’t sure what else to say. “Wait a moment!” She then focused her attention on the fellow tiger in the room.

“I have not been blessed by Mira.” The blonde already knew where this was going and cut her short.

“Ahh... It would’ve explained a lot, though.”

“Sophia.” Ari had recovered enough to notice something odd in her wording. “Who blessed you?”

“A-Ah...” She averted her face. “Err... Y-You wouldn’t know him... He’s an, uhh... a rather minor figure in the grand scheme of things...”

“Wait, it’s true?!” Anna sounded really surprised. “Who is it?! They’re an overseer, so they can’t be a minor figure!”

“He’s a bit of a pain and can really go on your nerves, so I doubt you can do anything with that information, but he’s called Ca... Huh, what was it again? Right, he’s called Canir or something like that.”

“?!” The couple couldn't react in spoken words any longer and just stared at her with gigantic eyes and wide-open mouths.