Jake stared at the elf for several seconds as his brain tried to process what she had just said.
“Mistress like the others.”
When the hell had he gotten any mistresses!? Why would she even think he had any to begin with?
Few questions truly stumped him, but this one just didn’t make any sense, as it was rooted in non-existent reasoning. He hadn’t even adequately processed the question as he just muttered out:
“I have mistresses?”
Now it was Meira’s turn to look confused back at him. She stared at his face for several seconds before finally speaking.
“You know… the others.”
“Who?” Jake asked, more confused than ever and genuinely curious.
“I… the ones you talked about,” Meira tried to clarify, only making Jake more confused. Had Eversmile decided to take Jake’s form to fuck with Meira, who would then fuck with Jake in turn?
Jake tried to calm himself down and get to the bottom of this. “Who are these people you think are my… mistresses.”
Just saying the word felt wrong.
“You know… the witch you have mentioned so many times… Miranda…” Meira said nervously.
“She works for me, and our relationship is strictly professional,” Jake said stoically.
“Then… then miss Scarlett, the-“
“Fangirl at most. Definitely not,” Jake shot it down.
“The other alchemist woman…. Reika, she-“ Meira tried
“Is the descendant of a friend, and she too is also just a friend.”
“Irin…?”
“Nothing there,” Jake said. Not yet, at least…
“Syl-“
“No!” Jake practically yelled. Fuck no.
“I-“ Meira said, a bit scared at Jake’s outburst. “Then… then…”
Meira seemed to realize something then. Jake saw the look of realization in her eyes, making Jake feel a sense of relief.
“I apologize; I failed to realize…” Meira began as her head turned red from embarrassment. Jake nodded, happy that she had-
“Draskil?”
shrink in her seat, as she seemed
Jake said before she began spitballing even more names. “I don’t have any mistresses. Zero. Nada. Of any sex or gender. Which begs the question… why the hell do you think
at him before anything happened. Then she seemed almost relieved as she
have someone I am casually with at times back on Earth, but she would punch my head off if I ever
but she at least seemed to have calmed down quite a bit. Still super nervous and embarrassed, but no longer a
was told…” Meira said as she
by who?” Jake asked,
about you as she knew it was a secret, but we both called you Lord Thayne at times, so maybe someone heard and told someone. So…
hadn’t heard any of this before. Then again, Meira rarely spoke of her everyday life,
called Lord Thayne, and she asked stuff about you. I didn’t say anything, really,
asked, even if he
the Emberflight,
in an annoyed tone. “So, what
over-explanations that really weren’t
the Order, he called himself Hunter but stopped bothering rather quickly. Same for hiding his level, actually. He reckoned anyone who cared to find out would know him as Lord Thayne by now, and while they likely couldn’t connect him back to Earth – only
trying to figure out who his backer was. So they had sent Helen to talk to the two of them to probe for information, potentially even bribe them, to
reason not to keep her around. Meira said
Helen being so good at all of them – likely because she was a peak D-grade who was probably
this entire mistress
powerful people have mistresses if they so desire. Izil agreed,” Meira said, her embarrassment back in full. “I didn’t know… but then they asked, and you had mentioned
had convinced Meira that any female name Jake mentioned in a positive light was actually his mistress, and the worst part is Jake wasn’t even sure they did it maliciously. It was annoying, but Jake knew they weren’t wrong and that other “young masters”
It was clearly done with an agenda and to find
serious and truly didn’t have anything going on slightly in the vein of having mistresses, making her fall deep into thought. After being silent for a
Lord Thayne not have any
as a thing. I don’t really care if others decide to build a harem, but to me, it seems utterly exhausting,”
to speak
able to do it with good conscience. I do realize that with being a Chosen and all, it is hard to not have some imbalance in power
he knew that wasn’t entirely true. Jake was a Chosen, someone with a potent Bloodline, and he was relatively powerful. All of these things were part of who he was,
himself. Damn, did Jake hate
she sat there silently. Jake didn’t want to break the silence as he let her think. Nearly
the Order… can I stay here even if I have somewhere else to
you that you could,”
also keep working for Lord
and I don’t plan on getting any other slaves or trying to hire someone, so I would
the lessons and stuff?”
I said, nothing much has to change besides your status,” Jake made clear once more. “What will change is that you will work for me out of your own free will, which also means you can quit at any time and leave if you so desire. We will also need to change some other minor things, but all in due time. Once you have
more. “I will make sure to do the test to join before C-grade for
a sense of victory. However, he quickly got a bad feeling as she
I am working here… without being a slave… would that make
already consider us friends,” Jake said with a shrug, not seeing the
be able to do some things… outside, the Order?” Meira asked, but Jake got the
want,” Jake answered. “And as I said, we are friends, so if you need
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