Waking up wasn't quite like when I fell asleep, there was no feeling like a switch being flipped, it was more like a slow rise to consciousness through a warm dark ocean.

My whole body was warm, I felt two bodies wrapped around me, which had me confused until I opened my eyes.

Soea was clinging to me as usual, but Anna also had her arms and legs wrapped tightly around me, her head rested on my chest with her hair spread out, looking like an innocent girly face surrounded by a pool of blood.

Soea's arm was also across my chest, but for some reason, her hand was resting on Anna's head.

Feeling the doubly heartbeats and rhythmic synchronized breathing made me feel relaxed. But the warm bodies, especially the soft chests pressed against me, canceled out the relaxation effect.

Surprisingly, Anna's breasts were slightly larger and softer than Soea's, she seemed like she was probably a D-Cup.

Soea was a C-Cup, which was a good size.

Dragging my mind away from those thoughts, I carefully disengaged the arms and legs from their restrictive position, trying to hold me in place.

I accidentally woke up Anna, who jumped backwards, releasing me and apologizing. Wrapping her arms around her chest, her face flushed, her eyes unable to meet mine.

Reacting to the noise, Soea slowly opened her eyes and blinked them clear.

Seeing the flustered Anna, she looked slightly surprised, and curious.

She sat up as well, leaning her head on my shoulder.

"My Lorrrd..." Soea dragged out her words, looking into my eyes.

She rubbed my chest with one hand and shifted her position, sliding over and sitting on my lap, "I missed you, let's 'feed'." She spoke softly, lust evident in her tone as she moved her hips, rubbing herself on my lap.

"Uhh..." Anna muttered embarrassedly, her eyes moving between Soea and I.

I smiled at Soea and leaned in for a kiss.

She reacted enthusiastically.

When I managed to pull my face back, I turned to Anna and smiled, "Anna, you remember the way that we took to get to the room right? Well, please go wait in the courtyard, we will meet you there soon."

Anna nodded when she heard my question, saying that she did remember.

Soea looked slightly discontented.

I laughed, "Well, not too soon," I grinned as I said this and Soea smiled happily with a sultry glance at me.

Anna almost ran out of the throne room, though she twitched and stiffened for a second when she heard Soea's next words.

"Why doesn't she join in, my Lord?"

Anna turned her flustered face back to me, I could see that while embarrassed, she looked like she was interested in my answer.

I had already told her that I had someone, and it was obvious to her that Soea was the 'my girl' that I mentioned, so when Soea herself asked this question.

"Well, I have no issue with it, but, Soea, you don't mind?"

Soea looked from my face to Anna's, who had stopped moving completely when she heard my reply.

"You are my Lord, and my Master. I love you, and I wouldn't try to monopolize you if you don't wish it. Powerful men have many girls... Also, Anna is cute," Soea giggled at these last words, "I think it may be interesting to, play with her..." Soea's voice was a soft purr.

The first part of Soea's sentence had logic behind it, and I felt happy when she said that she wouldn't try to monopolize me.

However, the second half of Soea's words made Anna blush.

Soea had an interesting point of view.

Though it seemed like it had been set and shaped by the succubus instincts that she had for quite a while, it seems like they weren't gone. Maybe she had held onto them because I did mention to her that I liked them, and she was strange with how she listened to my words.

She was very strange, but I found that I liked it.

"Uhh..." Anna seemed slightly lost for words, her head seemed like it was about to let out steam and her eyes were swimming.

"Maybe it would be better if we wait until later, she isn't used to us yet." I spoke after a second of thought.

"Yeah...that...I will see you both in the courtyard later." Anna spoke in a rush with a low voice, she almost sprinted from the room.

"Why are you okay with my having other girls?" I felt the urge to ask Soea.

"I decided to keep some of my instincts as a Succubus, since you liked it so much, and other than that I was an innocent Priestess... I want you to like me." She whispered the last few words, but I still heard them.

"I see. I would like you however you are, even if you went back to being an innocent Priestess."

"I have done way too much for me to become an innocent Priestess again," Soea looked at me and licked her lips, "I also like the instincts. Do you want me to monopolize you? Did I say something wrong?"

"No, I appreciate it. Be however you want, I will love you how you are."

At my words, Soea pushed me down and dismissed her clothing.

 

After we finished a...four course 'meal', Soea and I got up from the dirtied bed, which was easily cleaned with a simple spell.

It was fairly short, but I didn't wish to keep Anna waiting too long, and I had some stuff to do.

Soea was smiling happily, she at first seemed to try to skip slightly as she walked, but when her legs became soft and she almost fell face first into the floor, I caught her when she fell, resulting in a smile.

After a few seconds in my arms, she stood up again and began to walk normally.

When Anna saw us, she quickly looked down and blushed, she didn't want to meet my eyes as I walked over and said good morning, though she replied in kind.

I had Soea and Anna stand side by side, "Well then, let's do some practice. We will be fighting this afternoon."

Anna finally looked up at my words.

I inspected the two girls closely.

Soea was physically powerful, she was a Dragonoid. While physically, she wasn't specifically muscular, she could easily bench press a few tons.

Anna was, on the other hand, a Hero. She was also a Host, someone who had received Grace from a true, pure-blood Angel.

Hosts hadn't been seen for several thousand years, Master had met some, and Raven had some unofficial Dark Hosts, which was how I had heard of them.

Her body was as close to perfect as a mortal could get, both in looks and healthy, and she was strong as well.

However, I didn't know Anna's full strength.

I reached into my Spatial Storage and brought out two training swords, swords which Master had created with a few seconds of effort, however, they would technically be Ancient grade artifacts.

Even though they are primarily non-lethal, they are virtually indestructible, and can conduct Mana with almost 100% efficiency.

They are probably the only ones like it in existence.

After pulling out the swords, I waved my hand and tossed the swords to the girls.

As I saw them, I couldn't help but feel the intense agony and remorse which I felt whenever I thought of Master, along with the feeling of nostalgia. Though the pain only surged across the surface of my mind for less than a second.

Strangely, both of the girls shuddered, their bodies trembled uncontrollably as terror flashed through their eyes.

Seeing that, I felt worried about them.

"Are the both of you okay? What happened?"

"We are fine, my Lord," She looked at me, and taking a closer look at her face, I saw that she had relaxed. She grinned, trying to show that she was now okay, but I knew that something had happened.

"What's with those swords?" Anna whispered, her hands were still shaking, Soea grabbed her free hand, "When you took them out, I felt your aura change. I felt a deep pain, unlike anything other than maybe what the Angel felt. It was like a small portion of what you were feeling washed over me. I had the sudden urge to jump off the nearest wall, mixed with a feeling as though I was thrown naked into a freezing river..."

It seems that I had accidentally lowered my mental shielding and some of my feelings leaked out unintentionally.

"It's nothing really, those swords were created by Master, and she trained me with them, as we traveled, before she...died." As I explained, I felt sorrow, but this time I tried to hide it.

Soea stepped forwards and embraced me, gently stroking my back.

I found myself smiling, Soea's caring was nice. Though I had already gotten over the small sadness I had felt, I was fine again.

"Anyway, time to train. Follow my movements," I spoke and took a random metal sword out of my Storage.

Taking a simple stance, I watched as they copied me.

Soea seemed much more natural than Anna.

Then I demonstrated the basic fifty stances, both attacking and blocking, that Master had drilled into me over a year of hard training.

The very basics.

We repeated them again and again as I drilled them into the girls, they had to learn to follow these moves on an almost instinctual level if they wished to be able to fight.

Soea was surprisingly good at following along, perfectly replicating my movements, and when I mentioned this to her, she admitted that it was because she was almost constantly observing me.

Anna, however, struggled a bit.

She may have been a Hero. A Host, bearing a Celestial's grace, but she had never held a sword before, let alone swung it.

Watching the girls repeating the movements over and over, for a few minutes, I decided that it was time to set up some more Wards.

Walking a small distance away from the girls, I started chanting and drew Runes and Sigils in the air using my Mana. The chanting was similar to a basic framework to shape the Magic Circles, Runes, and Sigils into what I needed.

Since the chanting was weaker than a Soul Framework or pure Arcane Manipulation, it had to be constantly applied until the spells were complete.

Both Anna and Soea paused when I sliced my arm open to get blood for the Sigils, Anna looked worried, and Soea looked slightly upset.

The worried look in Anna's eye quickly turned into shock, she was fascinated as I used my Blood Magic skills to keep my sanguine ink flowing, and wet, so that I could draw all of the Sigils.

Soea finally managed to drag Anna back to practicing the sword.

It may not have been obvious to them, which was how I wanted it to be, but I was paying close attention to the girls. Partially because I had to make sure that they were okay. Well, that and I couldn't ignore the two highly attractive girls that were bouncing around while practicing sword exercises, and this world didn't have bras.

I know that Soea noticed my occasional glances, but she obviously didn't mind, Anna was focused on her sword work.

After an hour or so, I noticed that Anna seemed to be starting to have trouble, she was panting, her tongue hanging out, her skin flushed. She was sweating so much that her clothing clung to her skin and her shirt had gone see through.

Anna saw the problem with her shirt, and she hadn't been wearing a bra when she was summoned, because she was having a fun and relaxing day at home.

She had mentioned that she found them to be uncomfortable, and would only wear them when she was going out.

Her nipples were a nice pink colour.

Blushing, Anna rapidly wrapped her arms around her chest.

She said that she would give herself to me, yet was so embarrassed when I saw her body.

I don't understand how she thinks.

"Uhh, where is the bathroom?" Anna asked quietly, facing the ground.

"I don't know, but these will help," I said with a small smile, chantlessly casting 'Clean' and 'Dry'. Both of these spells were level one, but were vital for living well.

'Clean' did as the name suggested, it was used by anyone who knew magic, especially when they didn't have access to water, or when the water was cold. I learned it from Jesh, it was one of the first spells that he taught Kirrin and I.

"Whoa, those are useful spells," Anna muttered with a happy expression as she looked at her now clean and dry skin, hair, and clothing.

I cast the spell on Soea.

"Thank you, my Lord."

I smiled and nodded.

I had finished my Wards, everything was done, and it was now time to wait for the army to arrive.

By my estimate, they would be arriving soon.

"Rest girls, the enemy will be here soon." I smiled as I walked into the middle of the courtyard and began my combat Katas, Soea and Anna sat down together in the shade and watched me.

Soea looked over at Anna, supposedly hearing something, causing Anna to blush. With a grin, Soea walked over to me.

"My Lord, do you have some food--Anna hasn't eaten for almost two days."

I paused in my actions and took some food out of my spatial ring, handing it to Soea.

"Sorry Anna."

It had been so long since I had been a mortal, and even with their incredible physical abilities, a Hero had to eat every few days and Anna wasn't used to her new body, so she would still feel hunger at certain times--even if her body didn't actually need it.

"Thanks." She nodded at my apology and grabbed the food off Soea before sitting back.

That taken care of, I continued my combat katas.