Chapter 14: Prelude to Disaster

Chapter 14: Prelude to Disaster

I wake up, I see white.

"He's awake." 

I see 2 heads pop into my field of view. 1 on either side. 

It's Roka and Felmina.

"He looks fine to me."

I look down and see a Doctor, wait, why does this world have so many similarities to my old one. I notice they are each holding my hand. For some reason I feel fine. I sit up. They both breathe a sigh of relief. 

"How are you feeling?"

"I think I'm good sensei" (doctor)

"Sensei? Ah you must be from Earth too."

Wait he's also from there? He looks at the 2 girls, shrugs his shoulders and walks off.

"I'll give you guys a moment."

He leaves. I really want to talk with that guy.

A few moment's pass and finally Roka speaks up.

"Uhm Ryu-san, we had some time to talk while you were out, and we cleared up the misunderstanding between us so..."

"Have you maybe reconsidered my proposal, Sir Hero- I-i mean Ryu.... -san" 

Felmina's relentless,

I close my eyes to think. It's not that I dislike this new side of her. I barely know her, but I mean, I barely knew Roka before the wedding interview too, so..

As I was about to answer I opened up my eyes, they both give me puppydog eyes.

So unfair.

I put my hand over my face.

"Fine"

""He agreed!""

They highfive over the bed.

A Few Weeks Later

I am now working full-time in the trenches, They seemed to get the people to digging speed ratio right. By the way, those containers they pull up, has anti-gravity enchantments on them, this is why the clearing started going waaaaay faster than I expected. I see now why they call Roka a genius. It was her idea. She also designed the layout for the new section herself. After she showed the king he basically had no choice but to agree to let her do such unladylike work. I also had the marriage interview with Felmina, it went much better than that first one with Roka. After introductions she bared her soul to me. It felt genuine, I also heard about the creep that kept asking after Roka, this concerned me a bit, since she said he felt kinda dangerous, and so I asked the head assistant to keep an eye on this guy, and have him come fetch me if anything happens.

I'm glad I did, but more on that later.

Lady Felmina now brings us both lunch everyday, and usually fetches Roka before coming to my site. We all get along great, and they both seem to be fine with it, so why not.

One day they mentioned they have a surprise for me. When I asked what it was, they both got up and turned their back towards me.

They lifted their hair revealing...

Is that the Absolute Loyalty Seal thing. Shit! I forgot about that!

As it turns out, they both already activated their part, and they were just waiting for me to do mine. From then on I kind of carefully avoided the subject. I mean are they that serious, they should both know they could die right. I kept putting it off.

Turns out this was a big mistake on my part.