Grace POV:
Currently, a woman was walking through the corridors of the mansion. She had blonde hair and green eyes.
'Sigh, what could have happened?'
Mia had entered her room and said that Austin had something important to say, and I had to head there; she said that it was urgent.
Thinking about her son, a smile naturally formed on her face. It had been 2 and a half months since he had taken the Bow Empress as his teacher.
In the beginning, he would return all hurt and dispirited. My heart had hurt seeing him like this; he was just 8 years old. I wanted to stop him from doing it, but each time he would show determination and move forward.
I could see changes in him too. He had become a little taller, more proactive, and more confident. Plus, his sisters are being more attached to him too.
He also now has 3 girls following him around too. Looks like my son is quite the player. I chuckled a little.
My mind goes back to half a month ago when he came to me saying that there was a slave trading going on in the dukedom. Naturally, I didn't believe him at first, but then he showed me all this proof, and I had to make a move.
I quickly mobilized the soldiers and raided the area. When I saw the slave arena, I was so enraged that I had killed all the perpetrators and gave each person caught a heavy punishment.
After that, three of the girls who were being sold got attached to Austin. It seemed that they were only saved because of him and they had no family to return to and wanted to serve him.
The human girl became his maid, and the other twin fox tribe girls became his soldier attendants.
While I was thinking, I reached the room. I could feel familiar auras from the room. Curious, I pushed it open and entered.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!"
I could see my children in the room holding banners and tables filled with food.
'I see it was my birthday today, and my children remembered. Ahh, why's my face wet?'
It was only then that I knew that tears were flowing down my eyes. Seeing this, my children came to me, and we all hugged. I had regained myself after 5 minutes.
"How did you all know?"
"It was Austin; he was the one who said about it to us. He said that we could give Mom a surprise."
Nora answered in a slightly disappointed voice as if she was sad that it wasn't her who could give the idea.
"But it was big sis who had arranged it all. If it wasn't for her, we wouldn't be able to do this. Also, Elda helped out a lot too."
Hearing Austin's words both Nora and Elda looked a bit smug. I chuckled a bit at this.
'This boy knows how to handle his sisters.'
I turn towards Austin who has a smile on his face. I couldn't help but pull him into a tight hug.
'I won't let anything happen to my family again.'
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Austin's POV:
'That went better than I thought'
I was currently surrounded by my family, who was wolfing down the food I made and praising me about it, my cooking skills had increased these days though not at the level of 5-star I am near to it
"Master shall I serve more"
During my inner monologue, a girlish voice enters my ears, turning my head I saw a girl of 8 years with brown hair and black eyes in a maid costume looking at me in at most devotion, she has a cute nose and an average face.
[
Name: Clara
Sex: Female
Age: 8
Species: Human/demon
Talent: 8/10
>booldline unawakened
Power: Null
Title: None
Love: 94%
Description: completely devoted to you
>She wants to be worthy of you but thinks that her lowly self cannot be your lover.
>Has an intense desire to make herself better.
Difficulty: what difficulty?? You already conquered her in a way.
]
Clara was one of the girls I had managed to win over, she was not a capture target but an important person in the story as a part of the villain faction that is, she had joined the Babylon school as part of a dark organization to be a spy in the school, the protagonist would later change her heart and bring her to the good side
She had an intense hatred of my Dukedom because she had been sold as a slave here and had been violated a lot, in the game she tried a lot to kill me and my sisters. I had a good memory of her because of her special bloodline that provided her great aptitude with darkness and she had the rare darkness healing magic and was a great support in battle.
Once she awakens her demon bloodline, her looks will completely change and her talent will rise, she had many suitors rushing to be her boyfriend but after learning about her past they move away just as quickly.
The issue of slavery had been found out later in the game causing much reputation damage to the dukedom, so I nipped the problem in the bud and got myself 3 powerful followers. It wasn't hard, I just had to play the cards right, the perfect moment of entry, the perfect support, and the most important cliche line and they were in the bag.
I then looked towards the other 2 girls, one of them had a white fox ear and tail with a cute face and the other had black ears and tail, twins to be exact. They both looked the same except for the white-haired fox girl being shy and the other one being extremely straightforward
In the game both of them were known to hate boys and only supported each other, they were also part of the organization, and they had suffered just like Clara.
[
Name: Rika
Sex: Female
Age: 8
Species: white wolf beastwomen
Talent: 8/10
Power: Null
Title: None
Love: 89%
Description: her feelings for you continue to rise
>Her shy feeling caused her to be unable to convey it but your words gave her confidence and a desire to stand together with you
Difficulty: no need bro she's yours
]
[
Name: Mika
Sex: Female
Age: 8
Species: black wolf beatwomen
Talent: 8/10
Power: Null
Title: none
Love: 83%
Description: as a person whose personality was falling your words had rekindled her hope
>swears to protect you and be your sword, she dreams her body and soul to be yours
Difficulty: dude how much do you 2 want her to fall?
]
It wasn't hard to raise their love, it was very simple for one, just give the inferiority complex Clara a butt load of compliments, responsibilities, trust, and love, Then she's yours. As for the twins they were made fun of by their clan when they were young due to not forming a plate, they were thought to be special cases where they had no talent for mana
But that was just a misconception, they had the rarer case of forming their plate all together at once, Rika would have great talent in water magic and Mika would be a close combatant. Together they will be a very strong team, one not to be pissed off but right now they lack confidence and hope so I just gave them that and so I got them.
Though Mika was a bit suspicious in the beginning I quickly won her over, and now I have 3 future stars under me.