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Sirius kissed the sole of my right foot as a sign of her loyalty and atonement for the mistakes she had made.

The kiss she gave did not make me feel disgusted after Sirius managed to control her slime mucus so that it did not stick when she kissed the sole of my foot.

"You seem to be used to controlling your body so that you don’t make your disgusting slime mucus fall and your good attitude like a well-trained stealth slime," I said to comment on Sirius who had kissed the sole of my foot.

The hot afternoon after the luncheon and the cold sensation of the kiss given by Sirius on the sole of my foot had given a refreshing sensation from a heart that had returned to calm without any problems.

Along with the kiss given by Sirius, I watched several stealth slimes on duty around me give grateful looks when I was no longer mad to the stealth slime herd.

Now, I just wait for the problem of this secret military operation to be over and wait for Aiko’s slime body to regenerate.

It will take up to three days.

In the meantime, I had to finish some of my business at the river around Earl Timoti’s residence.

After feeling that I had sufficiently accepted the kiss given by Sirius on the soles of my feet, my gaze turned to Mio who was taking care of the guests who wanted to talk to me.

Since my guests were noble girls who had trained in the open-air arena earlier, it felt safe to let them see me in a relaxed state like this.

With a small nod directed at Mio, she immediately understood my intentions and immediately informed me that I was ready to receive guests who came suddenly in my free time.

"Sirius, do your duty and come see me at night before our secret military operation is carried out," I whispered to Sirius who slowly moved to disappear like a slime ball evaporating under the rays of sunlight.

Along with Sirius’ body that disappeared like water droplets evaporating until leaving a rainbow trail, I saw five young girls walking into the luxurious room that was my temporary residence.

My overly casual attitude in welcoming their arrival received unique gazes.

For some reason, their gazes were fixed on my body I was relaxing on the edge of the bed and only wearing a thin camisole that showed my light brown skin.

Getting such gazes, of course, made me feel embarrassed, and got a small touch from one of the Maids on duty in my room.

"Lily-sama ..." With that soft word, my body was wrapped in thin clothes that covered most of my skin, and felt a little polite to welcome the arrival of the girls who were guests this afternoon.

"Thank you," I said to the Maid who gave me thin clothes that covered the camisole I was wearing.

With my casual attitude that wanted to rest during the day before moving at night, I gave a gentle gaze to my guests who were wearing simple clothes to practice in the open space.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" I asked with a soft smile to them.

The five young girls gave each other pointed glances, no one dared to say directly about their arrival during my afternoon break.

I waited patiently while maintaining a smile that made them feel unaffected by my previous intimidation.

After a few minutes of standing still and pointing at each other, one of the five young girls started talking to me.

"Lily-sama... if you would... Please have a sword spar with us too," said one of the young girls who looked like she was shaking in fear.

"Uhm, do I have to do the same thing as before?" I asked with a warm tone to do the same sword spar as before.

"N-No! I beg you not to make my father suffer any further with our half-destroyed residence like this," she replied with her body shaking restlessly.

"Please do a normal sword spar with wooden swords... with us!" she said while correcting the sentence to adjust the details.

"And why should I agree to this wooden sword sparring invitation?" I replied by asking a question that cornered them.

With my unexpected reply, the young girl frowned and tried to find another excuse together with the other four young girls.

They looked at each other and gave the same answer.

"We want to learn sword fighting from a military family that is always getting conflicted from all sides!" they answered in the same harmonious tone.

Whether it was just my feeling, it seemed like they had the same curiosity to spar with me on wooden swords.

Thinking back, I heard one of them say the word Father earlier.

Should I ask their respective Fathers who seemed to still be in Earl Timoti’s military unit?

"Is it related to your Fathers who were once under my command before?" I asked to confirm this one condition.

The only answers I got were nods from their heads and confirmed my previous suspicions.

There was only one incident where I was able to control Earl Timoti’s army and Marquess Rommel’s military forces at the same time, which was the Golden King Bear Hunt Operation.

Even after seeing my modest combat power, they wanted to spar with me on wooden swords.

They seemed to be training too hard on this.

"I could grant your request, but..." My mind suddenly got a brilliant idea to utilize the talent that needed to be sharpened like a blunt sword.

Rather than using wooden sword sparring in training, facing real problems was much better than repeated intense training.

I understood this barbaric training method after facing real problems several times in my life. A training method that makes someone grow rapidly after solving the problem in front of their eyes.

"I can train you directly in a real situation, are you interested in trying it instead of sparring wooden swords with me?" While saying something like this, I started moving using Sakura Dash and Sakura Vanish to appear behind their bodies.

Whoosh...

The sudden appearance of my body beside them surprised the five young girls.

"Eh? Since when?"

"What is that move? I can’t detect any magic chanting at all."

"Lily-sama?!"

"W-What happened? Why did Lily-sama disappear? Eeekk!! Now Lily-sama is beside me?"

"Even before sparring with wooden swords... we already lost?"

The various funny surprised reactions made me hold back my laughter a little when I saw the faces of the five young girls in front of me.

"What about my previous offer?" I asked, putting pressure on them to accept the offer I gave earlier.

"Want to train for real in the wild and on the battlefield to hone your fighting skills naturally?" I asked further as if giving them an offer they couldn’t refuse.

In this offer I gave, Mio looked like she wanted to do something but was held back for some reason.

"I-I will ask my father first," said one of them before answering my offer.

"I will wait for your answers at the latest before dinner. Oh! Make sure to get enough sleep if you are willing to receive direct training from me," I said while using the Sakura Dash and Sakura Vanish moves to return to the edge of the bed.

Wuuusshhh...

After listening to the invitation I gave, the five young girls began to leave my luxurious room provided by Earl Timoti’s family.

Kraakkk...

Along with Mio’s gentle movements that accompanied their departure and closed my room door, I lay back down on this cold mattress.

Buurrkkk...

"Ugghh... one more thing that makes me have to work hard," I grumbled in a lazy tone.

"Lily-sama, it was Lily-sama’s fault for giving them an unrefusable choice," Mio replied while walking towards me.

"That’s much better than sparring with wooden swords that would likely make them feel inferior after losing dozens of times. I can’t bear to destroy their spirit of wanting to become female knights," I replied while rolling around on the bed in search of a cold spot.

"That probably won’t happen because they trained hard before until their palms hardened after holding sword at a young age."

"Do you think so? Compared to the male descendants of Earl Timoti, they shouldn’t have to bother learning sword and war techniques as female knights, right?" I replied with a question that required a precise answer.

One of the maids on duty in my room suddenly raised her hand.

"Lily-sama, allow me to answer that question," she said while raising her hand.

"Yes..." I replied while lying on the bed and listening to the answer that one of the maids on duty would give.

"I don’t know if Marquess Rommel has the same system or not but in the Earl Timoti family residence there is a tradition that is passed down from generation to generation that requires the core family and other descendants to allow their daughters to serve in the Earl Timoti family’s military," she said, giving a clear hint to the tradition that sounded troublesome like that.

"Ah, a tradition where the military family must be filled with people who still have the same bloodline as the core family?" I replied, expecting an answer that matched my words.

"Exactly, Lily-sama."

With an answer that supported my suspicion, I began to realize that the composition of the Earl Timoti family’s military involved all the bloodlines of the previous descendants.

What a shame... because the curse given by Zoe only applied to the descendants of the Earl Timoti core family in the new generation.

If it were in the past timeline, I would have had Earl Timoti’s family under my complete control.