Leona was looking at her sisters—considering Ingrid and Yukikaze as one of Austin's wives already—with amusement as she enjoyed their shocked and bewildered expressions.
"First of all, wash your bodies then come and join me in the bathtub so we can talk." She said while standing up, intending to show them something before she sat down again in a comfortable position.
Although they were confused by her presence here, but when they looked at the tattoo below her navel, they nodded and went to wash their tired bodies, only Ingrid was surprised to see these tattoos under Austin's wives navel and Leona as she knew that those were the tattoos of a succubus, only Anita didn't confuse or surprise her considering she was already a succubus and a royal one at that, but the the others, well, although some of them were half-demons but the majority were humans and elves. Anyway, she wasn't the type who would meddle in others matters, so she went and washed her body with them.
She was still considering whether to accept Austin's offer or not, she wanted to find her purpose after all, so only time will tell.
Ephildis washed her body first and went to the bathtub and sat beside Leona. Looking at the woman tanned skin and her smoking hot body, she nodded and praise Austin in her mind.
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"Achoo!! Is there someone talking about me? Well I bet it's one of my wives. Anyway better go back to training~" Austin said with a smile on his face before going back to his training.
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"So, you are too one of my husband's wives, right?"
"How can you be sure?" Leona said with a slight smile.
"Looking at your tattoo, well only my husband could put something like that on his women."
"It could someone else tho." Leona replied seeking a logical answer from her sister.
"Well, although I was surprised that someone could enter this dimension without my husband's premission, but thinking about that for a moment, this dimension exists in his soul and no one but him can access it or give the premission to one of his wives to enter it, after all he was the dominant and controller of this dimension. Second, the fact that you said 'sisters' when we first met also increased my suspicions, and lastly, the connection I feel with you due to your tattoo because every one of us can the feel the connection with our husband through this tattoo as well as between us, we all are connected and that cleared my suspicions about you being one of us as well, a wife of our husband Austin Moore."
Leona smiled with satisfaction when she heard Ephildis's conclusion and clapped her hands in recognition.
"That's right, all what you said was correct except one thing I didn't mention tho. But your conclusion regarding me being one of my darling's wives was correct."
"Hooo, then what is it you didn't mention?"
"Just wait until everyone is here then I will say it as I don't want to repeat what I say twice or serval times. It's tiring."
"Well, I agree with you at that."
Then both women spent some time chatting and getting close to each other until the rest of the wives arrived and went inside the bathtub.
Leona noticed that everyone had arrived, so she stopped chatting and looked at them.
"So it's true, she is one of us, right?" Dinelynd said while looking at Ephildis. She knew about the connection between the tattoo holders and between them and the issuer.
Ephildis nodded making everyone suspicions cleared. They also were the same as Dinelynd and Ephildis as Austin told everyone about the connection between them and him and among themselves in one of their nights.
Leona was pleased with their conclusions as they were the same, making her praise Austin in her mind for having such competent wives. Only Yukikaze didn't know while Ingrid had some knowledge about these tattoos, considering she was from the demon realm, and knew that Austin was responsible for planting them on his wives after hearing it from one of them, they weren't for mind control but to increase their power as well as support and mark them as his women.
"Well, considering everyone knew about me being one of you, you passed the test." Leona declared.
"Test?!" They were confused right now.
At first they were surprised to see Leona already inside the bathtub and were wary of her but when they noticed her tattoo, they knew that she was one of them, but needed to make sure. But now hearing that it was a test, they became confused and puzzled.
"So you made all of this just to test us?! But what for?" Asagi said.
"Well, I wanted to know whether my darling's wives were competent or not by showing up out of the blue to see your reaction if an enemy or someone appeared in front of you hiding his intentions. You know my darling is very strong and bound to have many enemies in the future and you are his weak point, so if you were not strong and not competent, then you would be just a burden and he wouldn't ever abandon you for he loved you so much."
"You have two choices, either leave him on your own accord or I threw you out of here and tell my darling that you hate him or found yourselves not suitable to be beside him so you left, although he might hate for that but time could heal and make him forget."
Hearing all of this, silence controlled the whole place that a drop of water falling could be heard clearly. They were angry at first when they heard that she did that just to test them to see if they were competent or not, but then they felt afraid when they heard that they were Austin's weak point and could be a burden on him.
They didn't want to leave him, they loved him so much that the thought of leaving him didn't cross their minds, they felt even more horrified when Leona said that they should leave on their own or she would threw them out. But they didn't ask themselves why Leona could throw them out, after all Austin was the controller of this dimension and no one could challenge his authority, but that was due to their fears and overthinking.
They knew that Austin would have many enemies in the future, and some of them would be so strong that they could destroy the world in one breath, so that they trained and sought to get stronger so they could stand beside him and help him.
They knew that they were his weakest point and he would go crazy destroying everything if something happened to one of them, and they didn't want that.
But again, who was this woman, she just came here like that and said all of this!
Wasn't she one of them?!
A wife of their husband?! Another weak point?!
Then why she talked like she was stronger than them?! Why she tested them as if she was more competent than them?!
Several emotions circled inside their hearts and Leona seemed to notice this as the atmosphere became intense and cold as she could feel their hostility from miles, but all she did was just...to smile.
She just smiled and waited for the right time to speak and prove to them that she was far stronger and more competent than them all.
'Yup, as I said, it would be fun Fufufufu~'
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Creation is hard, give me more Power stones.
It somehow, encourages me to write more.