Chapter 198

198 Make them obedient, please! part Mia had her eyes closed and a bashful smile adorned her face, she was really expecting to be praised by her master, but what Ryu startled her instead.

“Mia, undo the charm right this instant!”

He scolded Mia with a big frown in his face.

“I didnt use my charm, I swear!”

Mia said flapping her arms to her sides. Anne, who didn’t know she was a succubus, couldn’t understand what they were talking about and shrugged it off as if they were talking about Mia’s charisma.

“Then how do you explain this? they were about to poke each other’s eyes out and now they’re drinking tea and knitting!”

“I just talked to them, it’s pretty funny actually and if you allow me to explain everything will become clear”

Although reluctantly, Ryu agreed to listen to Mia’s recount, but even after listening to her it was difficult for him to grasp the situation.

After arguing for a while, Mia who had no part in the discussion and simply yelled random facts, casually mentioned that Ryu and her never had intercourse. Not only were they surprised, because they thought they had a physical relationship, but they were also interested in the reason behind it.

.....

After hearing that, they all came to the conclusion that must be already in love with one of them and they wanted to figure out who was the lucky one. It also meant that they had nothing to gain arguing with each other, so they settled to wait for Ryu’s return to learn the truth from the man himself.

He would have felt deeply offended by this if it wasn’t for the fact that each one of them washed themselves and dressed properly, highlighting their natural beauty. There was even a sweet smell coming from Anne that tickled Ryu’s nose, bringing back old memories.

“So, let me get this straight, after yelling and shouting embarrassing things in front of me and driving me out of my own house, now you want to listen to what I have to say?”

They all nodded shamelessly, even Mia was curious. Ryu covered his eyes in sufferance.

“Alright, then I’ll listen to what each of you have to say first, but make it quick”

Anne was the first one to speak.

“I know I told you I had a boyfriend, but... that’s not true, I just sort of panicked. I didn’t think I’d meet you then and there and I thought you were with Sera and...”

“Ok, ok! fine! I got it”

Next one to speak was Athela, she was just as blunt as she had been before.

“I think we both have a lot to gain by being together, and if it’s any of these fine girls I wouldn’t mind you taking them as second wives. I would actually encourage it, it could only mean our house will be stronger. Any or all of them at the same time, as long as you fullfil your duties as my husband and the head of house Celarent I wouldn’t mind”

Sera, was next, but she was more composed than Anne and just as straighforward as Athela.

“I believe you and I still have a pending conversation. You already said you love me and I do to. I will be forever loyal to you and only you and there’s nothing in this world I wouldn’t do to prove my love for you”

Mia faked a cough and wanted to go next, but Ryu cut her short.

“Don’t even bother Mia. Now everyone listen, something like this happened to me before but I don’t think I handled things in a good way that time”

Ryu said thinking back on the time he ended up dating Rina, although he was happy with her, it ended up bringing so much pain to Anne. Now she was back in his life and he didn’t want to repeat the same mistakes.

“I don’t really understand what do you even see in me, but I’m no one to judge your tastes on men. Anyway, I don’t really have any short terms plans, but you all must understand that I do have different goals I must fullfill eventually and I won’t allow anyone to get in between them”

The girls nodded in understanding, but Ryu couldn’t help but think that they were just agreeing to get him to continue.

“Since we don’t know each other well, I believe it would be in our best interest to date for a certain period or maybe a certain amount of times before making any decision, of course lady Athela would be excempted from that because she’s mostly interested in a convenience marriage. But she does make some good points so I’ll still give her the chance if she’s interested”

“Thank you mister Ryu, I too believe it would be good to get to know each other better”

Athela replied quickly to avoid losing the chance to spend time with him alone. She was confident that she would be able to seduce him before the others, be it my wealth or might.

“Master, this is unfair, I too want to date master”

Mia pouted.

“That reminds me of something. Mia is something like a servant of mine, she’s not an employee but she does get paid, she’s not a slave but she can’t go against my will. Whoever wants to date me, must be comfortable with me being close to her”

The young succubus eyes glimmered in joy and she even covered her mouth, barely hiding her beautiful smile.

After agreeing on the details, Ryu was finally free to go to bed.

There was so much on his mind, he really wanted to tell everyone he knew their friends were alive, but he had no way of proving it or even explaining how did he get that information.

That night ended being a lot more fruitful than Ryu expected, not only everyone was already calm when he got back, but they were able to hold a mature conversation. It did feel somewhat surreal, Ryu couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that so many beautiful and powerful women wanted to be in a relationship with him.

He never considered himself ugly, but he also didn’t think of himself as a handsome man either. He wasn’t that powerful and his good qualities were also present in many different people. He couldn’t avoid comparing himself to the handsome Luke, the gentle Bob and the loving husband Hiraku and he couldn’t find a single point where he was superior to them.

But matters of the heart can’t be easily understood, sometimes they can’t even be expressed with mere words. Sometimes it doesn’t take a handsome appearance or an immense gesture, sometimes all it takes to draw people close is to be a decent person, to actually care for others and to be honest, some people even go as far as to faking those qualities, but they all came naturally to Ryu, the humble man from the woods.