Return of the Mythic Bloodline

Chapter 502: Making up

I spent the next hour conversing with Celestia, sitting cross legged on the roof under the fading stars.

She was a sixteen year old high school student from Germany before she was suddenly summoned to Rukadvatta. Her life had been ordinary, filled with textbooks and teenage worries, nothing that could have prepared her for what awaited. She did not possess any powers before the summoning. When she appeared in another world, she went through an awakening as the Soulforce of the surroundings reacted with her body, flooding her senses with a energy she had never known. She was strangely compatible with the Soulforce of that world, allowing her to gain power at an exponential rate that stunned even the veteran knights of the empire.

After she accepted the Pisach’s offer, both her body size and power increased beyond the limits of the Rukadvatta world. She became something no longer entirely human, a force of nature wrapped in shadow and sorrow. Her mind was completely devoured by the Corruption of Death. A single voice continuously whispered in her mind to destroy everything. Only then, it promised, would she be able to return to her family, to her world again.

When I absorbed the yin energy from her body during our battle, it was only then that a faint awareness returned to her consciousness.

She did not remember what happened to Rukadvatta after she lost herself. But we both knew. If someone as powerful as her was left to wreak havoc on the whole world, unchecked and unopposed, what its fate would have been. The silence between us spoke the answer.

"Thank you for telling me your story, Celestia," I said as she finished conveying everything. Her voice had been steady, but I could hear the cracks beneath.

"Thank you for listening, Master," she replied with a bow, her cyan hair falling forward like a waterfall, before dissolving into my shadow. The darkness rippled once and then settled.

"I wonder where they vanish to after absorbing into my shadow," I murmured as my shadow returned to its normal shape, flat and ordinary against the roof tiles.

After spending a few more seconds in the silence, letting the weight of her words settle, I went back inside the house. The floor was cold beneath my bare feet as I walked through the dimly lit hallway, and reached my room.

I carefully opened the door, making sure its sound would not awaken my girls.

Before my mind could register the movement, my feet instinctively carried me toward the bed.

I leaned closer to the sleeping face of Ume and gently kissed her on the forehead. Her skin was warm, her breathing soft and even. "I love you, baby."

Then I moved to the other side where Nymeria slept with her limbs spread wide across the mattress, her night shirt raised upward, revealing her slim, milky waist. Her hair fanned out across the pillow like freshly fallen snow.

I gently pulled her shirt down, covered her in the blanket up to her neck, and murmured, planting a kiss on her forehead, "I am truly blessed to have you two in my life. I was being an absolute moron for hiding you from my family."

Celestia’s memories had left a deep, permanent impression on me. They carved themselves into my heart. It made me realise how much I was taking the love of these goddesses for granted. They had even come to an unknown world with me without a second question, without hesitation or fear. And I had taken cold steps when it was time to reveal them to my family, hesitating at the threshold like a coward.

My head lowered. My auburn eyes dropped to the floor as I whispered, "I am sorry for disappointing you, Nymeria. I promise I will reveal everything to the family tomorrow."

"Come here," Nymeria’s low voice entered my ears. I raised my head, finding her pale white eyes looking at me with nothing but affection, no trace of the hurt I had caused.

"You were aw—" Before I could ask her how long she had been awake, she grabbed me by the collar and pulled me onto the bed, placing me at the middle between them.

"Is my punishment over?" I asked, moving on my side toward her, my voice soft.

"That depends on what you do tomorrow," she answered, moving closer to me and resting her head on my arm. Her hair tickled my skin.

"I will not disappoint you again," I replied, my hand gently moving the strands of her snow white hair back from her cheeks. She leaned into my touch.

"You are missing something," she murmured, her voice low but sharp, a hint of a smile playing at her lips.

I let out a soft chuckle, pulled her closer, and whispered, kissing her on the lips, "I love you, baby."

A faint rosy hue formed on her serene fair face, colour rising to her cheeks like dawn. She placed her head on my chest and whispered back, "I love you too, honey."

I was about to close my eyes when a warm hand came from behind, reaching my stomach beneath my shirt. Fingers pressed gently against my skin.

"Are you going to leave me out again?" Ume hissed, hugging me from behind, her breath warm against my shoulder.

"Oh, did we awake you again?" I asked, placing my hand above hers on my stomach as I turned, letting my back touch the bed. She shifted with me.

She placed her head on my other arm and murmured, lowering her ethereal pink eyes, "I love you three, dear husband."

Her words felt like music to my ears.

"Look how he is blushing like an idiot when you called him husband, Sister Ume," Nymeria muttered, pinching my nose playfully between her fingers.

"I am glad that my words still make him skip a heartbeat," Ume replied, a smile dancing on her lips like sunlight on water.

"What are you saying, silly? I will react the same even if you address me as your husband a thousand years from now." My voice came out softer than intended.

"And I can vouch for him on that," Nymeria added. She looked at me with warm eyes, her lips forming a cute pout as she asked, tilting her head, "Am I right, my hubby?"

My face responded immediately. A red flush surged to my cheeks, my ears turning deep red while my lips slightly parted as she completely undone me, leaving me speechless and exposed.

Her lips curled into a smile of satisfaction from the stupid look on my face. "It’s too easy to make you blush. I would not even need to use the second Chapter of Mother’s teachings on ’How to Keep Your Man Tamed.’"

"Wh-what the heck has Mother Lunaria been teaching you?" I gasped, taken aback by the ridiculous title. My mind reeled at the thought of those lessons.

But again, with how Father Aurelion was completely wrapped around Mother Lunaria’s fingers, her teachings surely must have been effective.

Nonetheless, I did not mind being tamed if it was Nymeria doing the taming. I found it rather exciting.

Of course, I kept those thoughts to myself, buried behind a flustered smile.

"Sister Nym, you did not teach me those skills," Ume asked from the other side with a slight frown, her pink eyes glinting with curiosity.

"Do you want to learn them?"

Ume gave an aggressive nod, her chin bobbing with enthusiasm.

"Alright, your training will start from tomorrow. But be warned. You cannot get flustered."

She grabbed my hair and muttered, pulling it gently, "You need to be bold if you want to tame this beast. Otherwise, with how perverted our dear hubby is, it might backfire on you."

Ume gave another aggressive nod, clenching her little fists, her eyes burning with determination. "I will tame our perverted husband. I am the Goddess of Beasts, so I must stay true to my name."

"Girls, I am still here. Can you at least not talk about me as if I am your untamed pet? And why am I being tagged as a pervert?" I protested, though my voice lacked any real conviction.

A smug smirk danced on Nymeria’s lips as she answered with a retort, "Have I not already told you before? I like perverts." She took a brief pause and continued, "Besides, are you not? Our cute little pet."

’Th-this little hamster is being too confident for her own good,’ I muttered inwardly, shaking my head at her audacity.

A wry smile appeared on my face as I answered, giving her playful side eyes, "You certainly must know that I am anything but little. Or do I need to make you remember again?"

Nymeria’s face turned instant deep red as she realised what I was implying. The colour spread from her cheeks to her ears, down her neck.

"Y-you perverted hubby!" She muttered, throwing a barrage of her cute punches at my chest, digging her embarrassed face into my neck. Her fists landed like gentle raindrops.

Ume and I laughed softly as she continued attacking me, her punches carrying no strength behind them, only affection wrapped in feigned outrage. The night wrapped around us like a warm blanket, and for that moment, everything was perfect.