( Yuuki's POV )
The girl who had interrupted my moment with Yasaka was a pretty but serious woman, with long black hair tied in a side ponytail, Her name was Mikoto and she was an old friend of Haruhime's; so I let it slide that she had interrupted us.
I had to explain the situation to her, and she blushed more the more we talked, that was because I was hugging Yasaka with one arm, and she was leaning against me while we spoke, That girl Mikoto was very pure.
Mikoto: A-are you saying you have more than one fiancée?
Yuuki: yep.
Mikoto: And is Haruhime okay with that?
Yuuki: You can ask her if you don't believe me. I would never hide anything from Haruhime.
I avoided saying the exact number of my fiancées because I thought Mikoto might faint from embarrassment, my explanation seemed to have calmed the girl down a little, but she still had a very serious expression.
Mikoto: Haruhime had a lot to say about you, but apparently she didn't say enough. I need to judge for myself what kind of person you are.
Yuuki: What exactly are you saying?
Mikoto: I'm saying I'm going to follow you until I find out if you're good for Haruhime.
Yuuki: It's a little-
I looked at Yasaka worried that this would spoil our time together, but she wasn't worried about that; the charm of a mature woman was strong in her.
After that sudden encounter with Haruhime's friend, we continued our walk, Mikoto was an adventurer, so I asked her if she didn't have other more important matters to attend to, but she replied that she was free this day.
We eventually arrived at the guild, and Mikoto was confused as to what our business was there since we didn't have any magic stones to sell, that wasn't the only service the guild offered, but it was the most common.
Mikoto: What are you doing here? Are you trying to distract me?
Yuuki: Not at all, we were helping the guild investigate the recent attacks on adventurers.
When I told her the reason for my visit, she remained silent for a moment, trying to analyze me further, Aina appeared shortly after we entered the guild and she hurriedly led us to a private room, It seems there had been progress in the investigation of the enemy; she didn't seem bothered by Mikoto's presence, so she must have assumed that she was with me, which was partly the truth.
Upon entering the private room, Aina placed some black papers on the table in front of where we were sitting.
Aina: Thank you for coming, Yuuki. We were just about to call for you.
Yuuki: Judging by your attitude, I have to assume it wasn't to tell me good news.
Aina: Unfortunately not, we were able to open the strange, mysterious container, but apparently it had a very specific way of opening, and we used the wrong one, the information contained there became useless.
I expected the container to have a mechanism like that, and I started thinking that whoever opened it knew that, and they were on the enemy's side, but that's something for later, I placed my hand on the ruined papers and turned back time on them, and in a few seconds they returned to their original form and revealed their secrets to us, Mikoto and Aina were both surprised by what I had done, but I didn't pay attention to them.
Yuuki: This looks like a list of targets.
Aina: I-I have to report this!
The papers contained a lot of names I didn't recognize, Aina got up and ran to the door of the room to call one of her coworkers, I spread the papers on the table and continued reading names, and on the bottom page there seemed to be a list of priority targets, and I recognized many of them, those were Hephaestus, Loki, Finn, Ais, Ryuu and Haruhime.
Yuuki: Of these names, Hephaestus has already been attacked; we should warn the others.
Aina: I'll take care of it!
Yuuki: Yasaka, can you check with Ryuu?
Yasaka: Of course.
Yuuki: I'll pay the Loki family a visit then.
Mikoto: Hey wait, didn't you see Haruhime's name there? Aren't you worried about her?
Yuuki: Haruhime doesn't need me to worry about her; I don't think there's anyone in this world who can defeat Haruhime.
' no one outside our family at least. '
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( Finn's )
I was the captain of one of the strongest families in Orario, the Loki family, I had many responsibilities, among them was the care of my family members but one event shook up the rhythm of our family; that event was the appearance of a man named Yuuki.
A few months ago, Gareth, Bete, and I were defeated by Yuuki in a three-on-one battle, and then he simply disappeared from the city, that made it more difficult for us to deal with that defeat.
Therefore, when news arrived that he was back in the city, Bete went to confront him, but this time Bete's defeat was even more humiliating, this time, Yuuki only had to throw one punch to defeat Bete, and he was left in a very difficult state to manage, and he wasn't the only one affected.
Ais, who had a powerful desire to gain power, became somewhat fixated on Yuuki, he hadn't shown everything he was capable of, but I believed that not even Ohtar, the strongest adventurer in Orario, could defeat him.
I also had a desire to have a rematch with Yuuki, but I wasn't sure if that would go any better than what happened with Bete.
We were in the courtyard of our family mansion, preparing to go on an expedition to the dungeon, but I had a bad feeling that I couldn't shake, I tried to convince myself that it was just nerves; as captain, I couldn't let it affect me, but I couldn't help thinking that there were dark clouds hanging over our family.