Nightfall.

  The sound of crag fire and the subtle smell of burning oak wood filled the quiet study.

  Sitting on an ornate chair behind a beautiful mahogany desk, decorated by gold, a brown haired man in his mid-forties, dressed in robes, leaned back to his cushioned chair.

  A cold night’s breeze ehrough the window behind him, rustling some of the papers that id on his desk as he read through one of them he had held in his right hand.

  The cold air from the opened window and the crag fire he had in his firepce a few distance away from him gave him the perfect, cozy room temperature for his study.

  It was fortable enough that he could easily sleep in his chair.

  The meetings he had earlier during the day in the base for an important military operation that would be ducted in a few days took much of his energy. But even theill took time out of his rest to review some of the reports from his personal business without dozing off.

  Although he was an active military personnel, Joseph Fee was also a businessman and owner of a fairly successful trading pany. It wasn’t rare for a military officer, especially one as successful as himself with multiple military achievements and influeo create his own business.

  It would also serve as insurance for his family…

  They’re living in a time of war. War that their homend began. And as a soldier, he wouldn’t know if his mission would be his st or not.

  Thus, to make sure that his family would live peacefully without the o worry about their financial situation in his absence, Joseph worked hard, even to the dead of night. All for his beautiful wife, their precious daughter, and their future.

  The brown-haired father let out a sigh aed his head bato his chair as he let his hand fall down to his p. He massaged the bridge of his h his other hand and took a deep breath, before exhaling.

  “What a long day… I should return to bed. Lest “Mrs. Fee” would se once again for not spending enough time with her.”

  A tired chuckle escaped his lips, but the thought of his wife yelling at him because she missed him brought a smile to his fabsp;

  He pced the dot in his hand bato the table along with the rest, reminding himself to them up the first thing tomorrow m, and stood up.

  But just then, two figures dressed in bck appeared out of thin air before him.

  “What the- H-How did you get in here?! Who are yo-”

  “Fall down a flight of stairs enough to cause serious but repairable injury to yht arm aheire from the army and focus on your business.”

  The voice… was it that of a young man or an adult man, he wasn’t sure… But it hardly mattered. All that mattered was that he’d follow the iven to him by the pelling voice.

  “...Yes.”

  His hands fall limp on his side and took the steps towards the door of his study. He ope and walked out into the dimly lit hallway in a daze, leaving the two mysterious figures behind.

  “...That was a bit extreme, but effective.”

  One of the figures, Yuuji, gowards the other slightly shure.

  There was guilt iher figure’s eyes, Lelouch’s, as well as a helpless frown.

  “I’ll be ting on you to help him if he goes overboard.”

  Yuuji nodded.

  “Of course. I’m no Aika, but I give him first aid just in case with magic.”

  “Thank you…”

  Yuuji waved his hand and their figures disappeared once again before they followed after Shirley’s father.

  The two followed him to the main staircase that led up to the sed floor, which they’re in, from the main hall arance of their luxurious mansion residenbsp;

  Joseph stood at the top of the staircase, and fell forward to his side, using his right arm to protect his body, and tiumbling down until he reached the bottom.

  “Aaaarggghh!!!!!”

  A loud scream of pain and groans reverberated through the eg halls of his marble estate as he curled up at the bottom of the staircase, clutg onto his right arm and legs.

  “...Is he okay?”

  Lelouch whispered, watg the se with a steel mask to hide his regret.

  “...He broke an arm and a leg, as you and. Other than that, just a few heavy bruises and several small bruises here and there. He’ll be fih the proper treatment.”

  Yuuji assessed easily enough with his Elemental Sight. Shirley’s father didn’t suffer from any long sting or disabling injuries. With proper treatment, he would be fine in a few months.

  Just then, they heard doors banging open, footsteps, and female cries from down the hall.

  “Honey? Honey, are you okay?!”

  “Papa?! What’s going on? Are you okay?!”They heard the panicked voice of a mature woman and a familiar voice of their cssmate rapidly growing louder and louder, and their footsteps ever approag.

  “...Let’s go.”

  Lelouch didn’t… couldn’t look at Shirley’s figure right now and quickly asked Yuuji t him away.

  “Sure.”

  The two began to float up with Yuuji’s magid left as silently as they arrived through the window of Joseph’s study.

  Silence fell as they flew through the night sky, invisible. It wasn’t until Yuuji spoke first that the silence disappeared.

  “...It’s the only way he could be pardoned for not joining an important military operation in a few days. You did what you have to, Lelouch. You’ve saved him.”

  “...Thank you for helping me, Yuuji.”

  “Anytime.”

  Worries for his friend filled Yuuji’s heart.

  They were successful in their mission. They saved Shirley’s father from being involved in the operations in Narita, where the Bights and Japanese Liberation Forces would be g against elia’s soldiers. But there was no relief nor happiness. Only bitterness a.

  And for Lelouch, it would stay with him for quite a while.

  “...e have some tea and rex in my home. Text your sister that you’ll be returning te. I’ll send you back ter.”

  Lelouced towards Yuuji for the first time sihey ehe Fee’s home residence, and looked back down onto the rapidly ging sery of the ground they’re flying through.

  “Sure…”

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  The rustle of leaves, owls’ hoots, and all manner of sounds that could be heard from within the forest at night filled the surroundings of the warmly lit, traditional european-styled mega mansion ier parts of the city.

  Yuuji and Lelouch touched down onto the courtyard of the mansion without as much of a sound. Their invisibility dispelled the moment their feet touched the ground.

  “This is… impressive…”

  Lelouch gazed upon the mansion before him and couldn’t help but bee impressed by its architecture, beauty, and sheer size.

  “It seems I’ve uimated your wealth by quite a bit.”

  He gowards Yuuji, who smiled helplessly at his words.

  “Most of it was thanks to the group chat. But thank you. I’ve also been steadily growing my portfolio.”

  Yuuji gestured towards the mansion with his hand, and after Lelouodded, the two began walking through the paved stoh that had been id across the courtyard leading to the entranbsp;

  “I see. Now that I’ve seen this, I’m tempted to make you Bight’s financial advisor instead of a knightmare pilot. You might be able to deal more damage to them that way.”

  “...You’re overestimating me.”

  “Am I now?”

  “...”

  Yuuji fell silent as Lelouch looked at him from the side with a slight smile.

  At first, it sounded impossible. But after ruminating for a bit… it didn’t seem unachievable.

  Perhaps… Perhaps if he used the MCGX Superputer, his stock market analysis software, and put his mind into it, he might be able to cause chaos in the market and plunge Britannia’s ey into a crisis.

  While it might not cause long-term damage if he only did it for a while, it’d still shock the “Great Britannian Empire” enough to make them pull bae of their military campaigns around the world.

  But… the impact would be too devastating to the people.

  He’d put is out of their jobs, their homes, and their livelihood well before the gover decided to pull out their forces from other tries due to logistical and eical reasons.

  The ramifications towards the is would be much worse than to their true enemy.

  “Don’t worry. I uand the sequences. And I won’t make you do that either.”

  “... You sounded serious.”

  Yuuji looked at Lelouch with a deadpan face as the “masked martyr” ughed at his rea.

  “That’s because I was. At least the part where I want to make you Bight’s financial officer. We’ll need funding to operate, and you’ll be able to steal money from those undeserving Britannian nobles.”

  Yuuji held his and sidered Lelouch’s proposition.

  “That might be doable.”

  “And, you also help me mahe iments I got from the group chat iwo Sakuradite Mining panies.”

  “Sure. I help you with that too.”

  “Thank you. That settles it then.”

  Just as they fiheir versation, the two finally arrived in front of the entranbsp;

  “Wele to our home. At least, our home in this world.”

  Yuuji held the gold-gilded door knob and pushed open to massive, mahogany double doors, letting Lelouter.

  And once again, he was weled by an awe-inspiring sight of luxury and grandiose.

  “Tatsuya, Satoru-san. We’re back.”

  “Ah, Yuuji-kun. Wele back.”

  Yuuji announced his return and Satoru’s voice responded back, weling him. And soon, the lithe, nky figure of a man in his mid thirties appeared with a smile on his slightly gaunt fabsp;

  “Ah, Lelouch-kun. You came as well? We thought you would be going home to your sister.”

  “Please excuse me. I did pn on going home, but Yuuji succeeded in persuadio e and visit for a bit.”

  “Ah, I see. Then, wele. Let’s e in and take a seat.”

  The two entered, led into the living room by Satoru.

  Upon arriving, they saw Tatsuya sitting on one of the couches with his phone.

  “Wele back, Yuuji. And Lelouch, wele to our residence. Well, it mostly beloo Yuuji…”

  Tatsuya turned his attention from his phoo his friends and smiled softly before looking at Yuuji, who waved his hand casually.

  “Don’t mind the small details. It’s our home. Ah, I'll prepare some tea. Lelouch, you just make yourself at home.”

  “Thank you.”

  Lelouch sat down on one of the couches, joining Tatsuya and Satoru, while Yuuji went to the kit to prepare some tea.

  He leaned his bato the soft, cushioned coud let out a sigh.

  “sidering your and Yuuji’s expressions, I assume you succeeded?”

  “...Yes. Yes we did.”

  “I see…”

  Silence fell between Tatsuya and Satoru when they noticed the expression Lelouch had on his face.

  “...You did well, Lelouch-kun. You saved him.”

  “Yes… But, it doesn’t make it easier.”

  “No choice is easy for something like this. But at least, Fee-san will still have her father.”

  Lelouodded at Tatsuya’s words of fort.

  He had steeled himself for this moment, and he uood that it was necessary so Shirley’s father won’t be in Narita during their operation. But… using such a forceful method of hurting the father of the girl he loved and causing her and her family pain still weighed heavily in his sbsp;

  Silence fell once again. But soon, Yuuji returned holding a tray of freshly brewed pots of tea and four beautiful, marble tea cups for them. And this time, he was not wearing a neckce.

  Instead, there was a beautiful, white and rainbow-colored slime on his head and a shiny, jet-bck slime with glittering stars that twihin it on his shoulder.

  Yuuji pced the tray down onto the marble coffee table and pced the still steaming cup of tea in front of everyone.

  “Thank you for the tea, Yuuji.”

  “No worries.”

  Yuuji waved his hand dismissively and sat down on the couch to join them. He picked up his cup of tea, took a sip, a out a sigh of satisfa as the fragrant liquid warmed his body instantly.

  “Are those the Yin Yang slimes you got from the gacha?”

  Lelouoticed the two, tennis-ball sized slimes on his head and shoulder, and couldn’t help but asked. They looked extremely beautiful and iing, nothing like the stereotypical slime they’ve seen or heard about from mainstream media.

  “Ah yes. Let me introduce you to them. This cute white one is Alice…”

  Yuuji picked up Alid pced her oable, and she immediately jumped up and down, greeting her beloved master’s friends cheerfully.

  “And this adorable be is Aria.”

  Then, Yuuji picked up Aria from his shoulder and pced her beside Ali the table. She rolled forward before rolling back to her inal position, bowing politely towards the two.

  And as the two slimes rested oable,Satoru, Lelouch, and Tatsuya couldn’t help but stare at them in awe.

  “T-They’re so cute…”

  “They’re… amazing.”

  “I saw their description, but I didn’t expect them to be this intelligent…”

  Yuuji smiled proudly, as if he was the one being plimented, and rubbed the two girls with his fingers, making them nuzzle back to his hands.

  “Mm. They are super smart and cute girls. My heart always melts whenever I’m with them.”

  The swirl of colors in Alice became more promi on the white surface of her body, with pink being the most promi, as she stuck herself to Yuuji’s hands and rubbed her body all over him.

  While the twinkling stars in Aria’s body became brighter and brighter and she also leaned her whole body to Yuuji’s hand and rubbed herself on him.

  Lelouch, Tatsuya, and Satoru watched the two slimes act all maidenly towards Yuuji, and they couldn’t help but think of the same thing…

  They could evolve and gain new powers… Perhaps even a humanoid form at some point.

  Yuuji will have two girls to add to his harem once again…

  And they seem to love him… a bit too much.

  They could already imagi… Two beautiful women hugging his arms tightly in absolute love; Oh long, white hair with colorful streaks, and another with glossy, jet-bck hair.

  If they could indeed gain a humanoid form… then they’d definitely see such a thing happen iure.

  “So, did you find anything, Tatsuya?”

  The three snapped out of their daze and shifted their gazes from the two slimes, who were still chummily nuzzled to Yuuji’s hands, towards Yuuji.

  “Ah, yes. I found several items that could help us ceal or move our headquarters. But there are two that were the most promising while still within our budget.”

  Tatsuya put his phone oable for everyoo see and began going through the items one by one.

  “The first one is a scroll of invisibility. It would allow us to make one objevisible. If we use this, then you’d only o focus on lifting it up and moving it.”

  Tatsuya turowards Yuuji as he pted.

  “Hm… But would it be able to rehe entire headquarters, including Excalibur and the other teology stored in there, invisible?”

  “Perhaps if the group chat siders it all “one object”. But there’s no guarantee…”

  “...Let’s see the other one first.”

  Tatsuya nodded and scrolled down the shop to show the sed item.

  “The sed one is a teleportation scroll. As the name suggests, it’d allow us to transport one person or object to another pce within the same world.”

  “Teleportation… I still ’t believe such a this at the tip of our fiips… But then again, the three of you were transported here from different worlds.”

  Lelouch shook his head with a small smile. His on sense about the world slowly dwindled as he spend more and more time with his otherworldly friends.

  “This is promising. But the price is quite steep for a oime use…”

  Yuuji ented.

  He had received 3000 gcp from the weling gift and 5000 gcp from his successful mission in Tatsuya’s world. After dedug the cost of his Fertility trol skill, he has 6000 g his name now.

  And the price of the teleportation scroll was 3000 gbsp;

  It was as expensive as a 10+1x gacha pull that has the potential to give him items such as the MCGX Superputer, the Yin Yang Slimes, Proficies, and riches that could easily make him one of the richest men in the world.

  For it to be used for a oime use item… felt like a waste.

  “Yes it is… That is why, I believe it’d be better to sider this as a st resort.”

  Yuuji, Satoru, and Lelouodded at Tatsuya’s words.

  “These are all the promising ones… at least, that were within our budget. Most that would make it easy for us to transport massive objects easily ore that 15.000 gcp.”

  “I see… Well, if the location it’s in is insecure and we o relocate it, let’s just hope that I store the headquarters into my iory when I try it tomorrow.”

  Yuuji let out a sigh and shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and the other three sighed with the same se.

  “Alright. I’ll send you the location of the “Amaterasu” by tonight.”

  “Sure. Thank you.”

  VergsX