Chapter 79: Harems management (1/2)

”Inform me about what?”

Sol slowly began to walk in the real world before observing the situation in the room.

On the bed, his doppelganger sat with a calm and empty smile. Aside from him, Milia and Setsuna stood further apart than when he initially left this room. It seemed to be a safe distance of sorts.

Finally, he could feel that the concentration of mana seemed a little higher than before. Not by much, but with the current situation this was enough to catch his attention.

The conclusion he came to after a short analysis was, ”Did the two of you have an altercation?”

Silence was the answer he received. He looked at Setsuna's hesitant eyes as she debated whether to inform him or not. After all, no one liked snitches.

Thankfully, Milia didn't put her on the spot, ”Forgive me, your highness. I acted a little excessively.”

'A little?' Setsuna scoffed inwardly but didn't voice her thoughts. Since Milia decided to say the truth then she didn't have to meddle in it.

Listening to Milia's explanations, Sol pinched his eyebrows in thought. Truthfully he didn't want to intervene too much.

From the day she showed her fanatic gaze after she revealed her identity as a Finger, he already knew that she had a somewhat excessive obsession with him.

Thankfully, even though she seemed to show the traits of what was commonly called as yandere, she didn't wish to harm him or have him only to herself.

'I am extremely blessed.'

The problem in the current situation was that most of his lovers had a certain level of madness and obsession within them.

They all loved him. But they didn't necessarily like each other.

Lilin and Lilith's relationship was cold.

Camelia and Lilith were rivals.

Setsuna only trusted Camelia and was at odds with Lilin.

Medea only had good relationships with Lilith.

As for Milia, from the way she spoke, he knew that she could watch all his women burn without hesitation nor sadness.

His headaches grew stronger at this thought.

'How did those harem protagonists manage to make all the members of the harem act without any frictions?'

Sighing wistfully, he thought about how he seriously needed to have more male friends before speaking to Milia and Setsuna.

”Milia, Setsuna. I have no illusion about making all of you the best friends in the world. Each of you is an independent woman who can think and act for herself… ”

This was something that both pleased and aggravated him. In stories, he always hated reading about those helpless girls having to be saved by the hero every ten chapters.

The problem in his current situation was that in case of danger, there was more chance of him being the helpless prince needing to be saved.

”... But let's be real. Each of us is going to live for very long if nothing happens...”

In this world, it wasn't that difficult for humans to live for more than one hundred years. Though, without a special type of partner reaching two hundred was practically a dream. The same went for beastmen.

The only exception to this rule were human hybrids like Sol, witches like Medea, and finally Apostles of divine entities like Camelia.

Still, no matter how long their lifespan was, they had about one hundred years together.

'I wish this was a world where training for immortality was the norm.'

”...Right here, right now I will make a rule. While I can understand disputes and differences of opinion, no fights are allowed.”

He seriously needed to reunite all his women and put down some rules. This was necessary if he wished for them to live happily.

”Understood?”

Silence settled between the two before they nodded. In the first place, the relationship between the two of them wasn't that bad. So this was just a hiccup.

”Once again, I am sorry for going too far.”

Milia slightly lowered her head to Setsuna as she apologized. Setsuna on the other hand waved her hands.

”No problem. I admit that I also provoked you a little. So it was kind of my fault.”

The apologies were a little awkward but Sol was satisfied.

”Now that this is out of the way, let's discuss the situation.”

Sol immediately began to recount everything that happened while he was sneaking around.

The more he talked, the more Milia was impressed. She already knew about his dimension, but she had to admit that it went past everything she had ever imagined. This was the perfect power for an assassin and/or a spy. Even her shadow and illusion powers were rather inferior to it.

Finally, once he finished, he faced Milia and continued,

”I did not see anything of note aside from the office. I did not see uncle Gerald either. Nor did I see anything suspicious.”

Milia pondered a little, before speaking, ”Your highness, as we thought the situation with the Highland is tilted in our favor. The Highlands are always neutral. But it seems like this generation they are willing to throw their lots with the royal family.”

Sol nodded, ”It's indeed as we thought. Lilith concluded a deal with the duchess Milaris, the Gorfards are clearly problematic. So…”

”So your visit to the Travers tomorrow will be the most important in our plan.”

”The Travers…”

Sol murmured this name while thinking. Out of the four Duke families, if the Highland were the oldest, then the Travers were the youngest.

From what he knew the first Duchess Traver was a dwarf. The subsequent Dukes or Duchesses after her were thus all half-dwarf. They were also faintly related to one of the council members of the dwarf kingdom, Greed Dike.