It had taken 3 more days of healing, but I was finally done. I had only made their bodies look fixed, that first day. I think they thought I was done, but how could I leave them so broken? I worked as much as I could without straining myself. However I had mostly focused on the guy. What he went through was brutal, so i had to undo a lot of internal trauma and infection. Today I had pushed myself, I noticed the damage the poor woman had gone through and did what i promised not to, I got too focused on micro fixing everything I saw wrong, even the scars on her body faded into nothing. The rge tiger woman looked down at me, her piercing blue eyes repaired. Her muscur and toned arm and legs restored and a ton of internal injuries completely fixed. She was was a unit of a woman.

  She nods, then slowly drops to her knees in front of me. Her hands resting on her thighs, her head bowed.

  "Master, I will serve you in this life and the next. I will put my life on the line for you."

  I pat her shoulder, she is still pretty tall even when she is kneeling.

  "Don't be silly, my best guard needs to sweep me off my feet and help me get away."

  She rises to her full height, which is more than a head taller than me, which brings me close to her lovely mounds. Which begs the question.

  'How can a woman so muscur, have such rge, soft looking breasts?'

  "What's your name?"

  "Chiyun, master."

  I was surprised to hear a chinese sounding name, but rolled with it.

  "Then I ask for you to protect my life, in exchange always return to me, even if you arrive before your st breath, I will bring you back to full strength."

  She smiles and a low growl reverberates in her throat.

  "My fangs and cws are yours master."

  I nod and sit on a chair, Mi massaging my shoulders as I drunk a mana recovery potion.

  SKILL UPGRADED: MANA FORGED VEINS LEVEL 5. YOUR MANA VEINS CAN NOW CONDUCT MORE MANA.

  "It leveled up again Hilda."

  She quickly ran to my back and checked, spping me on the back of my head in reprimand. While Mi pouted and shot me a scolding look.

  "No more today, here put it on!"

  I sigh and sp the mana nullifier on my wrist. I notice Chiyun watching me.

  "My veins keep opening to handle more mana, I pushed myself a bit, draining the mana from the core in my neckce. It happens. You had a lot to recover, including your womb, nerves and a couple organs. I repaired them all."

  Then I shifted my attention to the man, he was still examining himself in a polished piece of metal being used as a mirror. He turns and drops to one knee.

  "I Sven Von Heimlich, pledge my sword, my Knight and my purpose to my master. I shall serve him and his name for as long as I shall live. The gods willing my blood shall serve in perpetuity."

  I didn't know what he was thinking, but I guess he was just really happy to be restored. This was starting to get dramatic.

  I started to expin my pn to Hilda and the others.

  "There was a castle town, abandoned a century ago. Surrounded by dangerous forest, looks like they angered a forest lord."

  However, Hilda interrupted me.

  "That city is rumoured cursed. They were doing something evil there. The forest is dangerous mostly due to the fact it hasn't been properly hunted and culled. However the repairs should be easy for you. There is even a high level artifact, but it was damaged in the attack."

  I nodded at her, pointing at the map.

  "We can travel through this small town too, Happy valley. Then from there it is 3 months until we get through the forest. What kind of numbers would we need to have to make it here, keep everyone safe AND, tame this pce?"

  Sven cleared his throat.

  "6 knights minimum, I suspect the lord is still highly territorial and very corrupted, from the descriptions of those few surviving the attack. I recommend a decent caravan, I recommend having atleast 10 none knight combatants, for every 20 none combatants. 4 knights for every 10 none knight combatant."

  I smile and nod to sven, looking to Hilda.

  "Minimum of 15 carriages. I will look into getting some beasts of burden, we will get some rge carriages and see how we go from there. It depends on how many sves you want to buy before we leave."

  I groan.

  "Easy answer, none. We didn't do sves where I came from. However, every none criminal sve in that tent, all of the women and children. I want them safe. I was thinking of making a double caravan, have half stay in Happy valley with the children until we get the town established and livable, while clearing the forest of nasties. I will be releasing all the children as soon as we get settled. Then everyone else will follow, anyone wanting too, can leave if they want. As long as they pay their debt to me first. Which considering I found the wages, will be pretty easy."

  That got a smile from everyone, the tiger woman spoke up.

  "What about those wishing to stay?"

  I rub my neck.

  "Same thing really, pay your debt, be free to choose, stay or go. I don't agree with svery, rings too much of abuse of authority."

  Hilda strokes my hand, while Mi hugs into my back. I had made a pn on how to make money too, I will be repairing the knights of the guards, working for the city mechanic and the organisation of the scrapyard. By what Hilda worked out we should be on around 153 small mythril, before she counts her shop sale. In addition I had another pn, I needed to examine Mis colr. I didn't ask I just gently touched it. The mana nullifier again doing nothing against my skill, a grin spread on my face. I could repair it to being unlocked with control coin attached if I wanted, or into its separate materials before it was made.

  "What has you smiling?"

  Hilda asked with a raised eyebrow.

  "Mana nullifiers don't work, and I can turn sve colrs into spare parts."

  She clipped me around the ear, as Mi pulled the other one. I got a double barrel lecture about being more responsible after straining myself. I just nodded dutifully. Hilda ended up punching her cauldron to vent, leaving a 9 in deep dent and a 4 inch diameter hole in the inch thick enchanted steel pot.

  "You can fix that tomorrow!"

  I swallow, nodding emphatically at my powerful wife. I noticed even the tiger woman was impressed. I just remembered I hadn't gotten her name yet.

  "Hey, what is your name by the way?"

  She smiles happily at me, ber blue eyes sparkling.

  "My name is Chiyun master, of the white tiger beastfolk."

  "What a pretty name, huh? I wonder if someone from China came to this world at some point. Especially with chinese names existing. Either that or it is parallel thinking, where the same societal simirities occur without contact."

  Hilda blinked at me.

  "How can a man who has zero regard for his own health, be so intelligent in other matters?"

  I shrug.

  "The world I came from was pretty safe, in my home country we wiped out any potential predator. We made our nature a retively safe public garden, then we had free health care. I won't go into specifics, but it was poorly managed and no one compined because the alternatives weren't public funded. It lets you be a little bit devil may care about your health. However, I was told I was on the spectrum with points all over. I also have ADHD. So I will either hyper focus, or be easily distracted. It's hard to keep a handle on ."

  They all look at me, but they say nothing.

  "What?"

  Mi sighs, while Hilda rubs the bridge of her nose.

  "Are you saying you know you hyper focus on things? Completely blocking out everything else? Yet didn't say anything to me or Mi?"

  I scratch my cheek.

  "I mean, it isn't like I want to go around telling everyone my issues, I don't need sympathy and no one wants to hear about it. I heard enough times, that I was just making excuses. I... Just didn't want to compin I guess. I don't do it intentionally. Sorry, I will try to do better."

  I don't know what expression I had on my face, but Mi and Hilda gave me a hug. I had never had this before, I didn't want to mess it up. If I lost this, I would rather be dead. I held them both tightly.

  I loved them, I loved them so much. I never believed I could be this happy.

  I smile at my women, then at my two sves. Even though servants would be more accurate, since I would never use them that way and was already noting a wage, cutting it against costs in their purchase price, mana potions and food. On reaching the positives I would release them. They could then stay on for a wage.

  Deciding on changing the mood, I pulled away and spped my cheeks.

  "Right, I mainly bought Chiyun as a personal bodyguard. Sven, I want you to teach me to pilot a knight, and anything else you can."

  ".. command, you command a knight. I will also teach you the way of the armed and unarmed combat, common sense & etiquette. Since my lord has ck in this area."

  I sigh at Svens statement.

  "Yeah, makes sense.we can start tomorrow.."

  Sven smirks and I already have a bad feeling about this.

  "No sire, we start now. You are currently at your weakest, it will be easier to break you down at this level. Building you up will be easier and faster this way. Chiyun, you will assist."

  I was starting to sweat.

  "But-"

  Hilda pats my arm and looks at me with stern eyes.

  "Do this for me and Mi. You need to fix your bad habits for our sake."

  I look at her in shock.

  "Betrayer."

  She smirks.

  "You can think of this as your punishment for leaving us out of your feelings. Sven, Chiyun. I leave him to you."

  They both nod, then drag me out back.

  -Mi Pov-

  I gaze out the window, as my beloved man colpses again, they were training him harshly and even to me, Conner had zero talent in anything resembling combat. Well not exactly true, he picked up everything pretty quickly like a prodigy. However he quickly reached his limit in all of them, like he had a passion and knowledge of each yet his body simply cked the ability to use it in any way other than basics. She looks at her mistress as she sits calmly watching their beloved man, she was healing him if he got too tired or hut and Mi had been making a lot of meat sandwiches. The current set were pork belly with a sweat gze on the crackling. She had never seen pork cooked this way before, but the recipe Conner gave her was amazing. She sighed as she saw Chiyun choke him out again, he would always tap at the st second, the thing all women here and most beastfolk in close proximity would know. Chiyun was highly aroused by and infatuated with Conner. Mi would have to tell her to be more forward, since her man was so oblivious it was unbelievable.

  "He is so determined, even with his failures."

  I couldn't help feel like he was inspiring, I did have to admit though, the way he worked on the knight training board was amazing. Even though he was still not as good as mister Heimlich. However mister Heimlich had been a knight commander for over 40 years.

  The training stretched on and Chiyun took a break, entering the kitchen and taking a sandwich.

  "You're an amazing cook."

  Mi wanted to feel proud, but all she did was follow Conners instructions.

  "Thank you, but you should thank your master. He prepped the meat and wrote instructions for me to follow when cooking."

  Her eyes widened, taking a big bite of the sandwich and her eyes fluttered.

  "He is amazing isn't he?"

  Hilda seemed to have entered the kitchen, a smug smirk on her lips. Chiyun nodded.

  "He is pretty good at everything."

  I was confused.

  "He looks like he is stuck at novice, from what I saw?"

  Chiyun shook her head, while Hilda chuckled.

  "Chiyun is a tiger beastfolk, she could rip his arms off before he blinked. Yet he can struggle against her strength? Block her strikes to a degree? Granted she is going really easy, but he is a novice, normally a soldier of Heimlichs standing would be needed."

  Chiyun nods, sucking the pork juices from her fingers with a soft hum and deep growl.

  "Exactly! I would say he is peak for a human male, without magic. He also pushes Sven to use his skills to a degree. He is basically new to all of this and yet, he can do that? He is special."

  Hilda smirked, taking a dainty bite from her own sandwich, and then wiping the juices and crumbs from her mouth with her thumb. Covertly sucking it clean. The sight alone made Mi flush to memories of their past. Hilda smiled softly at her.

  "Sorry we haven't been able to be with each other much tely Mi, I know from my basic knowledge from a friend in the war, humans from earth, tend to be iffy about same sex couplings."

  I was a bit shocked, since I never got that Idea from the smell of arousal from when he saw the way I stroked Hildas hand or the way I looked at Hilda during our time with him.

  "Seriously? I didn't get that vibe from him at all."

  Hilda nodded, taking a slow, long sip of her ice tea, I couldn't believe how many nice things Conner had shown us since he came into our lives.

  "Keven told me that following the second world war, there was a massive push to repopute. So 1 mum, 1 dad and 2 or more children, preferably just keep having them until you couldn't anymore. He told me he was more liberal, whatever that means. Anyway apparently having multiple partners was not just frowned on, but straight up illegal. With same sex couples being not only cast out of families, but straight cast out of communities."

  That made me frown, I didn't get that image from Conner. He had the biggest grin on his dumb face when Hilda had pulled me to his bed. He definitely indulged readily and vigorously. I wouldn't have been able to walk the next day without Hilda applying the creams and tinctures to my sore areas. Just thinking about it made me hot again, I noticed the tiger woman sniff and smirk at me. Damn she was hot, I wonder how our nightlife would be with her involved. I shook my head to shake the thought.

  Nothing until she joins Conner, stepping out could risk everything I wanted with him. That was one thing I did know, Conner had been cheated on by more than one woman. Loyalty and staying in the retionship was massive to him, sleeping with a man or woman not involved, could see him turn me away for good. Knowing my retionship with Hilda, this could destroy their retionship too. That would destroy Hilda, who had NEVER loved a man before Conner. I could tell how much he had stolen her love, I didn't mind, I received as much love in return from him.

  "We might need a talk with Conner about this."

  Hilda said taking a pte of sandwiches out to Conner and mister Heimlich. Sven took a sandwich and she could tell Conner was bragging about his "perfected recipe", she smiled and noticed Chiyun closer to her now.

  "So? Do you want to py while the master and his woman sleep?"

  Mi really, really wanted to. However, she would not risk her love, besides she knew with Conner being tired, her and Hilda might be able to dominate him in bed!

  "Sorry, but I am miss Hildas sve, but I am Conners lover. You would need his permission."

  That made the tiger womans eyes wide, a flood of lust and anxiety flow from her. Without saying or asking anything, the Tiger woman went upstairs, to the now empty guest room, that was her room. Conner had moved into mine and Hildas room.

  I continued to watch the training until Hilda helped an exhausted Conner into the house. Sven went to the stable apartments to start his new life. He had a smirk on his face when talking about the quiet in the stable. I knew what he meant. It was just not possible to keep your voice down when with Conner in a carnal way. She looked forward to finally dominating him in bed for a change.

  ...

  The morning light roused me from my slumber, looking over to see Hilda completely spent and I myself had a fire between my legs from how rough be was. They did not manage to dominate, it was like no matter how exhausted he was, he would always have enough when it came to sex. I still can't understand how he even dominates Hilda in such a way, it just wasn't fair.

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