Another day without anything interesting to do, people just come and go, cities come and go, everything, even the nd itself changes with time, I wonder why must I be the only difference, I y around, in this cave that has been my home for the past millennia, ying down doing nothing but bming my own incompetence, I wonder what they would all say, if they saw me like this, they would probably smile…

  Those idiots, I miss them all…

  I look out from the window, on this beautiful morning, as the sun starts rising, just like everyday, I wonder if today will bring me something different for a change, or so I wished at the moment, little did I know my wish would’ve been granted.

  “This feeling...”

  Something I haven’t felt in a very long time, a chill, running down my spine, just like back then, and yet somehow different, it was only for a second, but it felt familiar for some reason, perhaps…

  No, It’s not possible, I must be imagining things, still, not like I have much to do, I’ll check it out, see if I find anything, where was the altar located? Hestia hid it very well if memory serves me right, yeah there’s no need to hurry, if even I can’t remember the location, what odds are there for people to actually find it themselves?

  For now I get up and fly outside, trying to locate that which I have only been told about by my old friend Hestia...

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  “What kind of concubine shows up at 6 o’clock in the morning...”

  I! I messed up on my first day! I mean! It’s logical that concubines would work at night! Ah... what’s gonna happen now...

  Well, she told me to come back tonight, truth be told, I was ashamed to walk in the streets like this, so I came early so that people won’t notice me, but now I have to make the trip back, and then come at night...

  Sigh...

  ...

  ...

  It was hard to expin things to Ellie, about why I’m dressed up and wearing makeup... I managed to avoid telling her the truth but, I don’t think I can hide the fact I’m a concubine forever. She'll have to learn the truth one day, still I’ll keep it a secret for as long as I can.

  For now I spent the day with Ellie. She's been so lively tely, nothing like the way she was before, it’s warming my heart. I'm so grateful to finally see her happy again, I don’t regret my choices in the slightest.

  ...

  Night comes, and once again, I head towards the pace, fortunately they still let me pass without any problem.

  ...and I’m waiting for Marisa in her room...

  I can feel my heart pounding out of my chest! I wonder what will happen now!

  Marisa entered her room! And... just flopped on the bed... did she not see me? Is she ignoring me? I... I better ask.

  “Welcome back mistress...”

  “Wah!?”

  She seriously didn’t notice I was here!? What was she doing to be that tired… she honestly looks completely fatigued, is the fight from yesterday still affecting her? Perhaps she was just pying to be tough and she still needs rest, although she seems to be rather eager now that she saw me.

  To begin with, she asked if she could drink my blood, I’m sure she’s hungry, so after I got close she bit me in the neck, it was a bit painful, but nothing I can’t handle, I was ready to start feeling dizzy from blood loss, but she took a minuscule amount and stopped.

  “I-is that all mistress?...”

  “For blood, Yes, I want to keep drinking, but if I satiate myself, you’ll die, so this is enough for now”

  “O-ok...”

  Even though it wasn’t that much? Maybe she’s just worried about me, I’m more worried about her, if she’s going without meals, she’ll just be even more tired...

  Oh! It seems that the main attraction is about to start...

  I don’t know what to do! I looked at her fidgeting her fingers as well, did she not know as well? What is she thinking...

  She then told me to undress, even though it took me so long to find a pretty dress... anyways, I did as indicated, revealing my lingerie to her...

  “You look beautiful Heather”

  Eh!? I... I mean, it’s nice to be complimented but we’re both women! Why is my heart beating so fast...

  I then saw a bulge on her crotch! She, or rather he, was a man! But she clearly has breasts and, wait no! I have to apologize first!

  “I-I’m sorry master, I didn’t know you were a boy!”

  “A-actually I have both genders so...”

  Both genders? What does that mean...

  He then started to undress, only to reveal a pair of breasts, so it’s a she? I don’t understand anymore! But looking at her...

  Jealous...

  I always thought that my chest was pretty nice but...

  But this is unfair! I mean yes I’m bigger, but she’s still growing, she still has some years to develop as well! And she already has those two! The white porcein skin and the beautiful pink, even the way the coloration blends with her skin! It’s almost like a piece of art! I don’t even want to imagine when they’re full size! People won’t stop staring at you!

  Ah! Mistress is watching me with scornful eyes! Did she realize my impure thoughts... This is bad. I have to keep it professional, leaving Marisa’s mesmerizing beauty aside!

  “It’s not important mistress, uh, master, uh...”

  Ah! It looks like she was wondering about my no bra remark... it’ll be a shame to let such a beautiful pair get weird shaped by not wearing a bra...

  It looks like we’re starting... she took out her panties...

  Huge! It’s huge! I mean, it’s not the first time I've seen one! I entered the bath when my dad was using it accidentally as a child, but this and that are not even close to the size! Is this what they look like when aroused...

  I heard that the size of the member is important to guys, or so some of my fellow pace guards said, but she definitely has quite the equipment!

  She then told me to use my mouth! Where did she learn such perversions! I...

  I started licking it... it’s a bit salty.

  ...she looks displeased...

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  This is the pce? Good lord it took way too long to find, it blends perfectly and looks like a random ruin, I’m sure that’s on purpose, knowing Hestia she wouldn’t want anyone to think anything when looking at it, even for a “ruin” it’s pretty unremarkable, for now I headed inside, finding the mechanism in the walls, runes to be more specific, it seems she intended for it to be completely hidden, then the poor outlook was just a failsafe?

  Either way, I’m in, not much to see in these ruins, just the hall heading towards the main chamber, the two gigantic doors of silver showed the tackiness of the person who designed this.

  “Hestia dear, you never change…”

  Even millennia after dying, you still make me feel welcomed is that it? Were these doors made for me perhaps? There was no need to make them so eborate and ornate, nor put the amount of enchantments I’m feeling from it, probably to make it st the testament of time, that’s when I realized, these doors…

  They’re a perfect copy of those in the royal pace where you used to live, maybe not even copies, could they be, the original ones?

  Dammit Hestia, making me emotional again, why would you keep them after what happened to the pace, were you perhaps unable to move on as well…

  They’re a piece of art, and some rats decided to sully such a historical piece by breaking it down to enter, still it doesn’t make sense, the door it’s still enchanted and closed, how come they could destroy it so easily?

  I took a piece of the broken sb, it almost turned to dust in my hand, it’s been 4000-no, they MUST be the original ones for them to have gotten in such bad shape, probably got opened with explosives…

  I pced my hand in the door…

  “You did well, protecting my friend’s family for so long, thank you so much…”

  Entering the chamber, I get worried about what I saw inside, or rather what I didn’t find.

  Empty, nothing inside, only remnants of crystal shards on the floor, I pick one and take a look at it, there’s no other expnation other than they being part of the sealing crystal spell Hestia knew about, honestly she taught it to me but it was way too complicated, I can do a simple version, but this just raised more questions in my mind.

  How could people discover this pce, was it sheer dumb luck?

  How could they destroy Hestia’s spell? Although looking at the traces, they broke it down and didn’t undo it naturally.

  But most important, where is Marisa?

  I’ll have to look for her, then that means the feeling from the other day, it must have come from her…

  The promise was that she should remain in the seal for 10,000 years, and then I’ll take her out, it has only been 4,366 years, not even halfway through, I should find her and seal her back, maybe find a better hiding spot?

  I dig through my pocket, and pull my old ring, holding it in the palm of my hand…

  4 millennia…

  People are starting to forget about you, thinking it’s nothing but a legend…

  Involuntarily my fist held down the ring near my chest…

  Do your daughter not deserve to live in the world you fought tooth and nail to defend, the peace you achieved, even if it’s at the tail end as countries enter war again and the days when they united under a single banner it’s long gone, Marisa deserves to learn and see the era you left for all of us.

  …

  Did you make me wait so long just because you didn’t wish for her to look up to you? I remember you deleting your records of the history books before…

  You’ll never change, for now I’ll head to look for Marisa.

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  I’m just ying wobbly, my body feels so good~ I-What happened?

  10, 20, 30 times, I lost count of how many times I came! It was almost at every thrust, the st thing I remember was seeing her face close to mine, my heart was fluttering and my body quivering, I... I wanted her to kiss me then, but I guess I passed out.

  I looked at Marisa who’s sitting next to me in the bed, her face... scared me.

  She wasn’t mad, or angry or anything of the like, what I saw was spelled all over her face.

  ‘Disappointment’

  It seems she wasn’t satisfied... I don’t know why but it made me feel incredibly guilty...

  “Marisa~...”

  My voice was a bit weird, but the moment she saw me her face eased up... I’m a bit gd but I have to do better!

  It seems I’m gonna be sleeping with her from now on, so I might as well get used to it, but for now, I chat with her for a bit, she’s a mystery even to herself, she looks... sad? I can see it’s clearly complicated, but she doesn’t even know how to put on a bra, so I pushed myself to teach her! Someone has to teach her these things if her parents are gone...

  ...

  ...

  Marisa came to have lunch, and after one thing led to another, we were now on the way to the adventurers guild...

  Sigh... my head is spinning, the reaction was about what I expected, no one took Marisa seriously since she’s a child, not even her characteristics saved her here, although demonkin was hard to find, for adventurers who often travel, it’s a rare sight but not impossible, that is if she’s a demonkin after all. Even if her race were stronger than humans, a child is still a child, even the adventurers are looking at me weird since I brought her here...

  Well, at least they’ll let her take the entrance exam, but I’m worried, not for Marisa, but for her sparring partner, she demanded a duel with me so I complied, I won but just barely, if I was at my prime she would’ve been a pushover, but as I am now, it was a victory by a hair.

  ...

  Yep, total annihition, what did I expect, but now she wants to fight the entire guild as well. I know that she’ll win, no questions asked, but please don’t...

  She ended up in a duel with the guildmaster. I don’t know much about him, but they said he was the second strongest adventurer when he was still taking such jobs, now he’s a bit old, so he’s out of shape, but what I saw next left me speechless.

  He did it, he dodged Marisa’s attacks! I know she’s holding herself back, but it’s still amazing, but my excitement went down when I saw the bitter face Marisa is making.

  Mixed feelings came to me at this moment. I was scared, looking at Marisa getting mad, but also, I feel angry at the guild master for some reason...

  ...

  My anger went to rage when he started belittling Marisa, how dare he!? What would he know about my mistress! She-

  !

  This feeling!

  The same empowering aura she had when fighting dad... It's the same feeling... Although the same principle, the intensity is way low on this one, back then I couldn’t help but fall to my knees and tremble in pce, but now, I just had to use a bit more strength on my walking cane, but I was fine all things considered.

  ...the rest weren’t that lucky, a lot of adventurers passed out, almost everyone was on their knees, with their hands on the floor, just me and maybe another 2 or 3 people managed to not fall to the ground.

  The guild master wasn’t so lucky, he’s on his knees as well, that’s when I realized it, this pressure... it’s just the colteral! Then that means her target, the guild master is being tormented right now, I’m sure she could kill people with just her gaze... I trembled thinking about what kind of monster my father became, to be able to withstand her at full and still be unfazed... This is maybe a tenth of that and the guildmaster is already on his knees, she got close and punched the floor with so much strength, the guildmaster had to admit defeat.

  ...

  ...

  Not much passed after that, she was given a silver star, that’s an amazing starting rank! She compined but people could only dream of reaching her rank so early.

  She did completely fail the written test, but I honestly knew she wouldn’t pass, she didn’t have any common sense, of course she wouldn’t pass the written test.

  ...

  ...

  After bickering with the receptionists she forcefully took a request way out of her rank, a gargantuan subjugation.

  I fought one myself once, it was tough but if it’s her, she’ll destroy it in seconds.

  I ended up asking her if I could follow her, she was hesitant but I knew how the monster looked and she didn’t, also I had to stop her from turning the entire forest into a barren wastend, but...

  If there was something wrong today, I can feel it...

  I couldn’t shake this feeling! I want to be near her for some reason, she worries me. Ahh! but I have to see my sister as well... what am I thinking... Just as I was pondering, Marisa lifted me up in a princess carry and we dashed through the city.

  ...I almost puked...

  But ultimately, after a few screams she finally let go of me, leaving me on the ground near the forest.

  It’s great that she’s so eager but, we’re going the wrong way, really, there’s no need to kill the gargantuan, we’ll be doing nothing but selfishness if we kill it, the town lord only takes it into his hands if it’s close enough to threaten the city or town, otherwise we leave it to the adventurers since they dismantle it for precious metals to sell, I doubt Marisa will leave even a speck left of it.

  As I was pondering and chatting with Marisa, something amazing flew quickly into my vision, A dragon, the creatures of legend, what is it doing here!

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  Oh there she is!

  It wasn’t that hard to find her, she’s around the town as I imagined, then again, she’s... More lively than I thought, which I find weird, I’m sure Hestia told me that she should be pretty easy to handle since she doesn’t have any real experience, nonetheless she’s feisty, what’s up with her? A rebellious phase? What does she have to revolt against? Ah! She’s probably just looking to py around? I remember Hestia mentioning her father being a rough child, I see, it’s ok we can py a bit!

  Obviously I don’t want to actually hurt her, I’m letting my icicle spears just drop by gravity, she can dodge them easily so there shouldn’t be a problem, plus her punches actually hurt a little bit so she obviously wants to py rough, I’ll do this until she’s satisfied.

  Or so I thought but that human got in the way!

  And of course Marisa got in the way to protect her!

  ““MARISA!””

  Me and the human screamed, I didn’t mean to impale her!

  “What did you do!?”

  “D-don’t look at me! She would’ve dodged it if you weren’t here!”

  Fortunately I managed to slow it down at the st second so it’s not as bad as it looks.

  ...ok it is pretty bad!

  “Umm, ok, don’t panic”

  Healing spells are not my forte, actually magic in general outside of ice magic it’s pretty out there for me, I just learned them all because of Hestia’s bothering! At least it will come in handy for now, teleporting it’s useful so I took Marisa to my cave, little did I know the human woman came along with me!

  “What are you doing!”

  “I can ask the same thing! You just impaled and kidnapped her!”

  “You knew who I was! And still decided to come confront me directly?”

  “Y-yeah…”

  This human woman… I’ll interrogate Marisa ter, then again, she smells like Marisa, do they…

  Oh no, Hestia wouldn’t put those thoughts, not in a million years, then what happened? Magic going haywire? Perhaps other people’s memories? That would make sense actually, Hestia mentioned something like that once about her ancestors or something, honestly it all sounds like crazy talk, no point in thinking about this now!

  Marisa was starving so I gave her my blood when she woke up, it’s just like him huh...

  For now I left the human woman back in her town and confronted Marisa about who she is and other things…

  …

  …

  Or so was my pn but me and my stupid gambling addiction it’s gonna be the end of me! Dammit this is always the same, no matter how many times I do it! Hestia knew as well and forbade me from gambling but I just can’t control myself!

  Just like all those years back...

  …

  …

  “Cely, how are the preparations going?”

  “Your majesty! They’re umm, we’re as ready as we’ll ever be!”

  “Dear, you don’t have to be so formal call me Hestia as always”

  “Yeah…”

  “You seem tense, come, walk with me to my tent”

  “Y-yes!”

  “…”

  “…”

  “Worried?”

  “yeah… do you think we’ll-”

  “Don’t finish your sentence out loud please, You’ll scare everyone else”

  “Sorry…”

  “Everything will go perfectly, do you trust me?”

  “Blindly…”

  “Don’t ever follow anyone blindly dear, now come inside”

  “Yes…”

  “See, we’re finally in a private woah!-”

  “Hestia please! Don’t do this!”

  “There’s no need to jump on top of me dear, you know I won’t go anywhere”

  “Just… Let us deal with him! That’s why we’re here! I!…”

  “Say it dear, I won’t judge”

  “I can’t stomach the idea of you getting closer to him again! We love you, and we all need you, don’t risk your life like the rest of us!”

  “If I didn’t go, this war will never end, you know only I can kill him for good”

  “You say that! But we wouldn’t know since you’re not telling us the full story!”

  “Heh~ no one needs to know, dear please understand, this is for me too, I need some closure, and ask him for his reason, if he’s willing to talk that is”

  “He’s a monster, He always was!”

  “You don’t really believe that dear, I know”

  “…”

  “Do you want to step out of this fight? I’m sure no one could bme you”

  “No, I’ll see it to the end! And make him pay for what he did to us!”

  “I won’t ridicule your resolve, but it’s hard to take you seriously with tears in your eyes…”

  “Ugh!”

  “Take it easy dear, tomorrow by this hour, everything will be done”

  “Yeah… still he lied to us! Even with that pendant and his promise!”

  “I think he was being genuine back then…”

  “No way he was! Where is that awful pendant! I’ll destroy it for good, why do you keep hiding it!”

  “For the sake of memories~”

  “How can you feel that it’s worth keeping it! It’s a reminder of his lies!”

  “It’s not for me, but if you want to know, I’ll tell you”

  “Really?”

  “If you beat me in a hand of poker that is!”

  “Hey! No fair, you know I lose at every game I py!”

  “Yes~ that’s why I’m doing it”

  “Ugh… I won’t lose again! What do you want if I lose?”

  “I have a favor to ask you”

  “What is it?”

  “In exactly 10,000 years, I want you to break the seal where my daughter is, and raise her for me, could you do that”

  “D-don’t say that like you’re gonna die! Raise her yourself!”

  “Dear, in 10,000 years no way I’m gonna still be alive, I don’t live that long”

  “Ugh… just retrieve her when this battle is done!”

  “Oh I will if possible, still, I want a backup pn see~”

  “Hmm, fine! But I won’t lose!”

  …

  Little did I know I actually lost that game. Hestia knew more than what we pried from her, looking back, she made me do that promise, because she wanted me to live this long, as well as her knowing she wasn’t coming back…

  It’s a day I will never forget, neither will history, the day the demon lord was defeated, the day when my 2 best friends killed each other, and the day Marisa became an orphan…

  Joanne_carper