When Leon returns he enters the room joyfully and sees all the girls lounging around. They were all exhausted when they returned so they didn't even get up to greet him. Their day had been as interesting as he had.
I walk up to Selina whos laying her head down on the table and she looks up at me and smiles "Sorry, I'm too tired to be excited about your return, but I'm still glad your back." Selina sits up and smiles as Violet walks over and looks up at me "So what were you out doing all day?" I smile down at her cheerfully and pull out a jar of honey, I set it down on the table in front of Selina "I got the best honey I could find, so you all could try some or keep it as a memoir!"
Violet sighs and falls into my arms, I catch her and she rolls over and smiles up at me "I thought you might have gone somewhere bad but you just went to get a gift for us. I'm sorry I ever doubted you." Naomi sighs and just go back to laying on her bed and resting her eyes "What did you guys do to be so tired?"
Selina looks up at me and sits up slowly "We went out-" Violet interrupts her by putting her hand in Selina's mouth and laughing awkwardly at me "Went out to see the town!" I know that not what she was talking about but I laugh and wave it off "Fine, you all can eat some honey on the trip back home tomorrow so just go to bed for now."
I watch as Violet yawns and nods her head slowly "Fine, we can go to bed for now." Selina sighs and stands, she stretches and walks off to her bed too "Goodnight then, see you all in the morning!" Violet watches her walk off then looks back at me "I just wanted to say goodnight and I'm sorry for doubting you." She gives a smile and walks off too, I look at her with a confused look but I shrug it off and set the honey down on the table.
I walk over to the chair and Josephine opens the door as I sit down and relax "Hey Leon, I just wanted to let you know that I have an extra bed in my room if you want it, but you might have to be careful because they might not feel too strongly about it." I look over at them and they all are asleep deeply "Don't worry, I'm sure they will be fine if I just wake up first." I stand and walk over to Josephine who holds the door for me "If you say so then."
I walk into the room that Josephine is staying in and I stop in front of the two beds "So why didn't you tell me yesterday?" She closes the door and looks at me with a smile "Well, I wanted to see if you'd sleep with one of the girls instead of the chair." I laugh and sit on one bed "Nope, I prefer to sleep in the chair than to make one of them uncomfortable."
Josephine smiles and looks at me happily "You really care about them don't you? My betrothed was never that caring." I look at her and she sighs, I lay back on the bed and relax in the comfort "You were betrothed? What was he like?" She laughs and lays down, facing me in her bed "He was a jerk and a horrible person, but I had to for my family." I sigh and face her "I think you should get to chose your own future, you deserve that after getting betrothed to a jerk like that."
I look at Josephine's face which was slipping off to sleep, I smile and roll over to my other side. I close my eyes and embrace the warm bed and fall into a peaceful sleep.
When I wake up, Josephine was up packing some things and tidying her bed "Oh, good morning Leon! I see you are finally awake!" I sit up and yawn, I hop out of the bed and look around at the packing Josephine had done "Good morning, you did a lot of packing when I was asleep, why did you bring all this stuff if you didnt plan on using it?" Josephine laughs and points at a small pouch "That's what I brought with me, the rest is things I bought from the market for the return trip."
I look in awe at all the stuff she bought and I sit down next to her as I help pack some jars of honey "I'm gonna go and wake the girls up if they aren't up yet." I stand after finishing that box and head over to the other room with the girls in it. In the hallway, I pass two buff men walking in the passage "Yeah, we got the small animal girl too. She's gonna sell for a really good price."
I walk past without stopping them, after all that child is none of my concern. I stop walking when I hear them talk again "Maybe we can sell them to the new Dutchess, I heard she has been buying tons of people to fight for her, even if they don't behave well." The second man laughs and follows up "Yeah, and she whips them into her submission without even training them, it's like she controls their minds."
I grit my teeth as I know that is definitely Jenifer recruiting people, but what for? An army to kill me would be too much even for her right? I open the door as I contemplate "Your still here! I thought you might have left us!" Selina runs up and hugs me tightly, I look around and see Violet sleeping peacefully and Naomi tucked in under her sheets "I'm the only one awake for now, so where did you go this time?"
I walk up to the honey jar and look into the jar "Maybe we can go and have some breakfast once we wake up the others" Selina jumps up and down in her energetic state and nods "Good idea! But what should we eat?" I shrug and Selina smiles wider as she runs over and wakes up Violet by jumping on her "Ow! Stop doing that, you jerk!"
Selina smiles as I tap Naomi on the arm and shake her a little "Wake up, Naomi! Its time to wake up!" Naomi opens her eyes and sits up to look over at me "I had a dream that you were destroying a giant enemy and me getting my memories back." I think for a moment then smiled at her "Foreshadowing? Or Foresight?"
I laugh and Naomi laughs too as she gets the joke but Selina and Violet look at us weirdly "I don't get it, what does it mean?" I sigh and stand up, Naomi hops out of bed and Selina and Violet do too "I woke all of you up to tell you that we will be eating breakfast together as a final memory of this town." Selina smiles and drools slightly as Violet claps with her smiles "That sounds wonderful Leon!"
I grab the small amount of stuff we have and head out, once we are sitting and eating our food I overhear a conversation nearby "We need to be prepared for someone to take her, the small animal girl is a valuable thing to sell and she can use Unique Magic." I sigh and roll my eyes as I see Selina's fists clenched, Naomi peering over her shoulder and glaring at those guys and Violet holding onto her skirt tightly "All of you calm down, we shouldn't get involved."
Violet looks up at me with sadness and Naomi opposes me as well, Selina angrily stuffs her mouth with food "You definitely should take care of those men." I sigh and stand and walk over to the two men sitting in their table "What do you want puny boy?" I look down at them with my biggest death stare "You two upset my wives, so I will have to punish you."
The two men laugh and stand up "You think you are so tough huh?" I punch one in the gut and he instantly goes down "W-what? how did you do that? The other guard man puts his hand on his sword as I look at him "You don't wanna do that." The man put his hands up with a scared look on his face "F-fine, what do you want from me?!"
I look around the small cafe with only one or two patrons besides us. I turn back and smile at him "Tell me where I can find that rare animal girl." The man looks up at me with horror in his eyes and nods continuously out of fear.