Three hours later, Yeshuwa wakes them up as instructed.
Jiwon is half laying on Hyunjae with ChanQi cuddling the two of them from the side. They lazed around on the soft comfy floor mattress despite being awake.
"I'm hungry" Hyunjae grumbles, snuggling his body perfectly in between the two young men on his sides.
"What would you like to eat?" ChanQi places a light kiss behind the scattered mass of hair.
"Alot of food and sweets" Jiwon lazily answered for the oldest.
"Want me to cook or we eat at a restaurant?" ChanQi asks
"Big Jae, what do you think?" he raised his chin to look at the perfect sharp jaw and handsome almost cherry lips.
"Bird Qi will cook us a delicious meal" Hyunjae replies with his eyes still closed, a mischievous smile on his lips.
"Bird Qi?" ChanQi raised a brow, one hand 'griped' the forehead of the senior inbetween his thumb and pointer finger, shaking it in protest of the nickname.
Hyunjae's long lashes tremble as mischievous chuckles left his lips. Seeing as they tremble made Jiwon fascinated, his fingers itched to lightly tweak them. And he let his imagination come to reality. They felt soft against his small fingertips.
"So soft... and long" he murmurs
ChanQi smiles looking at the tiny powder blue fluffy haired male absent mindly nodding, his cherry pink eyes lined with wonder and content.
After a few more minutes of laziness, they finally get up to dress up. Then changed their spacecraft for a seven seater air-jeep, leaving Yeshuwa to take over the NacroBun. Hyunjae takes over the wheel, and first stopped by a fastfood drive-through for a quick snack before heading off to ChanQi's shared castle.
After arriving, WenYan meets them in the ground floor hallway leading to the elevator and gives ChanQi the official invite to the Imperial Royal marriage of the Second Imperial Prince Jum Yong-Soo and Young Lady Kang HanWool, his third to last Ven maknae in the clan.
The Imperial marriage celebrations will start in six days and the whole Monarchy will be there. ChanQi being the fourth hyung in MoneyGhouls means he has a few more important roles pertaining to the 'bridegroom's' side.
"Thanks WenWen" he nods
"Don't mention. See you hyungs later" WenYan waves, leaving.
"Later cutiepie" Jiwon responds entering the elevator.
Both Sens squints at the tiny male infront of them.
"What?" Jiwon puzzled
"Nothing" Hyunjae turns his face away with a 'quiet' huff.
"Cutiepie~" ChanQi snorts
"... are you jealous of your own doensaeng?" Jiwon was stunned and highly amused
"Of course not" ChanQi snorts once again, with an eyeroll
"tch~hehehehe~~" Jiwon couldn't hold back his laughter anymore.
"Oh my~ how adorable you two giant babies are ~ heehehe~" he teased.
"It's not funny" ChanQi 'pouts', trying to suppress the smile tugging on his handsome lips at the Ven's infectious laughter.
Jiwon teased the two seniors til the elevator doors open. He was instantly engulfed in a powerful strong force. His legs shook, Hyunjae's arm immediately circles around the small Ven's tiny waist to stable him.
"I got you" he says
"What. in. the. holistic. destruction. spirits. of. auras~ is THIS?!!~" Jiwon's eyes blown wide in shock, his pitch goes higher at the end. His fight or flight instinct kicking in, but he suppressed it. He is very knowledgeable about the cultivation world and it's vast kinds of auras because five out of the seven members of the RoyalVipers are either pure beastrace or eighty percent beastrace. But they rarely release their aura around himself or the second oldest of the clan who is a human like him. So he has hardly ever come in contact with such powerful destructive auras.
Jiwon felt his veins tremble and slowly swell at the rush of the purest energy he has ever felt, pouring into him.
ChanQi pressed a pointer finger at the centre of the still trembling Ven's eyebrow. Immediately Jiwon felt coolness stream into his subconsciousness, taming the raging hot aura nearly tearing his veins apart. Instantly feeling better.
"That is mid-grade cultivation spirit stones. The whole floor is a digraph of Spirit Stones runes" ChanQi answered. "It is what powerful pure breed Beastrace use for cultivation"
"But non of my clan's beastrace has this?" Jiwon confusedly ask
"They do. Your clan signet pendant shields you from it" ChanQi nods to the hidden signet pendant in the Ven's shirt, taking off his shoes in exchange for the comfy house-flops.
"Jin ja?" Jiwon was surprised.
"Yep" the Hexan nods. Helping him put on a smaller house-flops as he continued to explain "A normal human male can only use the Energy stones to meditate and upgrade their gene level. Power stones in general- alongside Mind stones are used to upgrade the mental power and special abilities of humans. The higher the grade, the rarer it is. Celestial stones are for polishing and nourishing a hybrid of human and beastrace inner beast-core(s), since the Spirit stone is too powerful for their fragile core" ChanQi explains. They made their way across the main hall.
"Unlike the natural real Sen, I am pure beast Sen with two beast-cores-"
"-Holy flame root and holy healer root. A modern term for yingyang. The perfect balance of destruction and creation" Hyunjae cuts in, taking a jar of chocolate chip cookies ChanQi usually leaves on the floating large piece of blue jade 'table' beside the coat hanger.
"??!!?!!" Jiwon felt like he's been struck by lightning at the new piece of very important private information. But before his imagination could run wilder, said rare breed of a Sen pops his heightening fantasy...
"Don't get it wrong, your Balancer, Imperial Crown Prince, Second Imperial Prince and YeongCheol hyung can still defeat me in battle. I will last very long but still be defeated in the end" ChanQi sighs, helping the senior open the tightly covered jar and giving it back.
"Huh?" Jiwon frowns. But the fragrant smell from the now opened jar caught his attention.
"How?" Hyunjae was confused. He took out a still slight warm large cookie and gave it to the almost drooling younger, then took one for himself.
"I understand about the Imperial Crown prince and the Second Imperial Prince, but why the Balancer and Cheolie hyung?" Jiwon takes a generous bite and instantly fell in love.
"Woah~ " *bites* "This is soo mashita" he nods in approval.
"Hm" Hyunjae nods in agreement
"Well thank you, food goblins" ChanQi chuckles. He is headed towards the kitchen with two 'tails' behind him, still wanting an elaboration of the strength dynamics of the beastrace species.
"The Balancer has an inner core of a suppressor beast, just like the Imperial brothers. The Imperial family is a powerful nine tailed-griffin family. Although they have more beast race blood in their body, they still have at least 15% human gene, that's why they are the Holy Rulers of the Great Korie Empire. And it is the same for every Imperial head of state" He enters the kitchen and begins to set up to start preparing their late lunch.
"Your third hyung- Park ChinWa, is a full fire beast. His parents are from the same race so he is out. But he either has psychopathic or sociopathic vein in his body, I can't decide. But he will make an attempt to 'defeat' me and last long" ChanQi shakes his head with a tutt.
"He is from a family of military engineers and scientists" Jiwon chuckles.
The two Sens snort in distaste.
"The Balancer on the other hand is a perfect balance of a pure bred human Sen with high genes and mental power grades, and an equally powerful Beastrace. He was born with power, to be more powerful as he ages so he can keep the balance of both the beatrace and human race, making him automatically become the next Grand Protector of the Empire. That's why his kind can only be mated to their fated pair, someone 90% and above matched, that way it's easier to share their enormous power and life with" he continues to explain.
"I am pure beast, with no "human" gene linage but from the same place the Balancer and Park ChinWa was born. Just different space dimensions. My two beast sides embody chaotic destruction and light healing respectively. Destruction although more dormant, can still be unleashed anytime I so wished. The Balancer, because of his perfectly mixed genes, can easily suppress and rebalance my energy should that ever happen. That's another reason he is called the Balancer"
"So he is naturally powerful than I am. It will take me at least five star-years to get to his level of strength. By then his experience will be higher than mine" He shrugs
"Aahh~~" Jiwon nods in understanding
"What about the child of greed, YeongCheol?" Hyunjae asks
"Cheols.." ChanQi pursed his lips, his heterochroma eyes glints with a cold look "...He is just a menace-"
*chop!! chop!! chop*
"- a fucking menace I wouldn't want on my neck... again" he mumbles the last word
*angry chops!!*
"..."
"..."
Hyunjae and Jiwon shared a look and silently agreed to tactically change the topic. They've gained more insight into the world of the beastrace once again. That is enough to add to their 'notes'.
ChanQi cooks a whole feast under two hours with the assistance of mostly Jiwon. Sen Hyunjae tried to help, but the senior kept 'stealing' meat and fruits so he was 'kicked' out of the kitchen by the two.
He did help the home-bot set up the ground level traditional dinner table though, before they all settlted down to have a delicious fulfilling meal. After the meal, the home-bot is left to clean the table and kitchen. They relocate to the sitting hall, lounging on the wide and soft mini bedlike sofa. They lazed around for a bit longer in eachothers embrace, talking about work and other random things.
Hours later they had to separate to go do their various schedules.
"Can we have lunch together anyday?" Jiwon quietly asks. He realised how much he enjoys their company, although it's barely two weeks since they started to get closer.
"How about breakfast tomorrow morning?" Hyunjae asks. He didn't feel right not seeing the two younger men anytime soon. He has slowly gotten used to the three of them being in the same space.
'Really getting used to it.. too used to it' he couldn't help thinking to himself.
"I don't mind" Jiwon nods, a smile taking on his cute small lips.
"Okay then. See you both tomorrow morning. I'll make breakfast" ChanQi smiles.