After the little spar session they had, Aster decided to call it a day, he was already tired after refining the materials and the nervousness he felt when Sarina and Kana were going through their awakening, but he didn't want to leave the test of his newly advanced soul cultivation realm, so he gritted his teeth and went on with it.
Not that he didn't enjoy it, since he also got to see how much the girls had advanced in his absence, but his mind was too tired now, not to mention he felt like cuddling with the pair of mother and daughter.
So, he took the opportunity while they were still arguing on how to sort who will get the first date, to use his authority and disappear from the training room.
The scenery changed from the open space of the training room, to his own bedroom, Aster took off his shoes, shirt and jumped on the bed, as soon as he laid down, both Sarina and Kana unconsciously snuggled with him and then he went to sleep.
Lilia and the others noticed Aster was gone and they sighed, but then the sparring continued between them because they couldn't get to decide who will go first, of course Lilia was excluded, so she acted like referee.
If Aster was awake he would have gotten to see, the result of Mylene, Eris and Agnes's Genesis Cores clashing, they did it in the sky of the training room and the shockwave alone was enough to blown away the whole platform, which resisted the previous rounds of training.
Even Lilia had to admit that she felt slightly threatened by the three of them joining hands, but it made sense, two of them came from a Divine Firmament and the third one was from a ruler level family, surprisingly she saw that their Genesis Cores were of the same size, but remembering that everyone here was cultivating with a peak level immortal manual, explained the situation, for the mortal realms at least they were as good as something could be, the rest depended on their own abilities and creativity to increase their battle prowess.
For the rest of the day the training room rumbled from time to time as the girls let go and continued fighting each other, while Lilia observed them from the stands nodding.
'Only the best for my darling~', she thought.
Leaving that aside, the rest of the noon and night went uneventful, at some point the girls got tired and they all went to their respective rooms, maybe because Sarina was sleeping but they didn't dine and just went straight to sleep.
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"Mm?", Aster's eyes slowly opened, he looked at his surroundings and chuckled, originally he was only cuddling with Sarina and Kana, but Lilia, Alice and Aria were also clinging to him, he wondered at what time did they stopped fighting, since they fell asleep with all their clothes.
It was a strange sight to see their untidied appearances, result of all the rucks they caused, well all of them with Lilia's exception, since she didn't get to participate.
"It seems they had some fun after I was gone", mumbled Aster, he then noticed a pair of lovely gazes on him.
The other girls were too tired, and surprisingly didn't wake up even when Aster moved, but Sarina and Kana did, so they were now looking at him with those pretty eyes of theirs.
"How did my little angels slept, are you feeling good?", asked Aster with a tender voice, they were still under "observation", in case their bodies rejected the lineage, though everything seemed to be right.
Sarina smiled and then she pressed her lips against Aster's to greet him.
"Good morning husband~", she said with a slightly flushed face, Kana rubbed her face against Aster's while she hugged him tight.
"Good morning big brother, I feel full of energy today!", exclaimed the little girl.
Aster laughed, finding the two of them cute, he patted their backs and then they got up from the bed, Aster looked at the other girls and kissed their foreheads, but even then they didn't wake up.
"These three are dead tired, let's go take a quick shower then we can go eat something at the city, then we can pay a visit at our store, I want to see how things are going", said Aster to the pair of mother and daughter.
"Mm", Sarina and Kana nodded and they followed Aster to the bathroom, after a quick shower, they dressed up and then left the room, even after all that they didn't wake up, well Lilia did but she pouted after seeing her son didn't have intentions to bring with them.
Which of course earned her a few caresses from Aster, which made her let out some cute comfortable sounds, after that Lilia closed her eyes and returned to sleep satisfied with getting her son's attention early in the morning.
Aster chuckled, after bribing Lilia, they walked to the dining room just to see if any of the other girls had woken up, but they were all peacefully sleeping.
"Let's go", said Aster as he extended his arms at Sarina and Kana, an offer the mother and daughter happily accepted, they hugged Aster's arms and then they disappeared from the mansion.
A moment later they were at the entrance of the Central city, Aster could have directly gone to the store, since they had a transport formation directly to Helena's store which they shared, but before going there he wanted to have a nice breakfast with the two girls.
'I hope they don't get angry, well, Sarina stayed behind too, and the early bird gets the worm', thought Aster.
They walked though the city, which was as lively as always, in fact Aster noticed it was more agitated than normal, he stopped one of the girls that were walking, she had a black sword badge which identified her as a member of the Black Sword faction, in fact Aster remembers having seen her back then when he attended the introduction lesson with Agnes's cousin.
The girl recognized him also, she happily smiled and slightly bowed her head.
"What can I do for senior brother Aster?".
"I wonder, what's all this ruckus all about", said Aster, the girl seemed to be confused for a moment, but she still answered.
"Senior sister Iris from the Red Sword faction, just beat the former fifth ranked, she is now in the top five, of the heavenly rank, all the sisters are wondering how did she become so strong… and she answered with "It was all thanks to the help Lord of the twin sword valley", so now everyone is making a line to go to senior brother's store, the herbs, pills and weapons sold there of a really high quality and unlike the stores backed by other seniors, the prices are accessible~", happily said the girl.
Aster chuckled, he could imagine that straightforward redhead sword maniac girl, saying something like "It's the least I can do for my benefactor".
Aster thanked the girl and then they left to one of the many restaurants, which were kind of empty.
Once they were given a table, Aster asked the waitress why was the business so slow, normally the restaurants are full almost at full capacity all the day, since they are meeting points for the female disciples.
Apparently, it has been like this since yesterday, due to the high demand of products from his family's store, they set a daily limit and once it was met, the others had to come the next day.
"Hoh, that lady's got some nice administrative skills", mumbled Aster referring to Dahlia's aunt, the owner of the building with which they had associated to open a diverse store.
Sarina nodded in response.
"Yes, since we don't have spirit blacksmith besides you, Eris just bought some raw weapons and she mass engraved them with regular spirit formations, nothing too flashy, but the new disciples loved them, since they were of a better quality than the ones they bought from outside providers and they were cheaper too, the herbs and pills were already good sine miss Helena is a good alchemist, she took care of that while Mylene was gone".
"That being said, things cooled off a bit after a month, because we didn't accept personalized requests, there were also some guys that tried to pick a fight with us, but Agnes kicked them out of the store~".
Aster laughed, the girls progressed a lot in the development of the store, according to Julian his merit regarding the capture of the guys from the evil sect, should be getting discussed today, because the supreme elders should be returning today, so things were going to get interesting.
The waitress brought the food and Aster personally fed the pair of mother and daughter, while they did the same for him.
Aster of course noticed the envious gazes of the few male disciples that worked in the restaurant, and the blissful gazes of the female staff when they saw Kana adorably munching on the food.
Once they had their fill, Aster paid for the food and they left the restaurant, it was boring just using his authority to transport everywhere, so he walked with Sarina and Kana through the city as they headed to the store.
"Now that I think about it, I didn't tell mom a name for the store, so how is it called?", he asked to Sarina, who pointed at a building with a large line outside of it, there was a magnificent golden plate mounted on it's front with the words "Twin Sword Store".
Aster nodded, the name was simple and it definitely made everyone know who was related to it, since at this point it was rare for someone to not know of the famous Lord of the twin sword valley, the first and sole male core disciple, the one who clashed with a law enforcer and forced another to forfeit, not to mention directly standing up to the supreme elder of the Blacksmith Peak.
Handsome, strong and gallant, since she saved the girls of the Alchemy peak, which were kept hostage, he has become an idol for many of the female disciples, so it didn't surprise Aster that the line was fully conformed by girls.
Though that was the idea from the very beginning, since for his plan he needed to get the support of a lot of people, when all that line of girls turned to see him with sparkling eyes, Aster bitterly smiled and then vanished with Sarina and Kana, appearing inside the store.
The inside of the store was rather calmer, but there were still at least fifty clients being attended by the girls of Dahlia's group, while Helena, Dahlia and a short girl with pigtails were at the counter supervising the operations.
Helena immediately recognized Aster, she waved her hand and greeted them.
"I heard you already returned, but I didn't have time to pay a visit, as you can see the store has become quite popular".
Aster nodded.
"It's been a while, don't mind us, I know a certain little girl wanted to come visit your garden, we can have a proper conversation after that", said Aster.
Helena softly giggled, Kana's eyes were lit up with enthusiasm, the hidden garden which Helena created, was her favorite place besides the forest of the valley, in fact that was related to the reasons as to why Aster came to the store to see Helena, but right now she was busy, so they could wait inside the garden.
"Sure, we are almost done for the day, I'll send little Dahlia to accompany you and serve some tea while we finish the sales of the day", said Helena as she opened the door behind the counter for Aster's group.
"Follow me please", Dahlia guided them, though the hall that led to the garden where she lived with her aunt, but her eyes kept stealing gazes at Aster, until she couldn't keep her curiosity in check.
"Is it true what senior sister Iris mentioned, that you helped her become stronger?", she asked.
Aster bitterly smiled, he didn't do such a thing, Iris indeed got inspired by seeing him fight, but it was her own comprehension.
"More or less, she and I worked together during our mission, and she reached inspiration thanks to those fights".
"Mm, I see", mumbled Dahlia with a soft voice.
Once they arrived at the garden, Kana immediately jumped into the sea of flowers, if a normal person were to do that, unless the flowers were special, they would end up battered, but the little girl was like a fish in the sea, maybe because her short little body was too light or maybe because she seemed to be loved by the world in a sense, but the flowers didn't suffer any damage.
Aster and Sarina sat on a table while Dahlia went inside the house to prepare them some tea, in the meantime they enjoyed the playful attitude of Kana.
"That little girl surely loves flowers~", said Sarina.
Aster nodded.
"I was wondering if it is related to her lineage, her wings were overflowing with vitality, which made grass and other herbs to bloom where she was standing, the soil of the valley is quite good, so I'm planning to let her build her own garden".
Sarina softly smiled, she stood up from her chair and then sat on Aster's lap horizontally, she leaned her head against Aster's shoulder and enjoyed the closeness.
Aster caressed Sarina's face and then poked her nose.
"I won't let the history repeat, we'll get rid of those guys and if you want to, we can look for the other side of your family, you two have everyone's support, okay?".
Sarina happily smiled and then kissed Aster.
"Mm~".
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