I listened carefully to the answer that Rain and Misery could give my question.

  Rain: "We have a lot of respect for Rimuru-sama. Not only is she the chief maid, your personal maid, and a maid with the highest maid power, but she’s also married to you and has had two beautiful daughters with you."

  Misery: "Indeed, living the life that Rimuru has right now is our goal when it comes to being the chief maid."

  I agreed with part of their statement, but as for their indirect confession, I wasn’t surprised. I already knew that Rain, Misery, and the other three sisters were in love with me. But at least they had now confirmed it.

  Dia: "Know that I love both of you, and having the same kind of retionship with you wouldn’t bother me. However, I’d prefer to take my time and confirm my feelings, to make sure we don’t make any mistakes that could ruin our retionship."

  Rain: "But we don’t mind."

  Misery: "Indeed, our love for you is immense. If we don’t take Carrera into account, she’s the one who loves you the most because you are worthy of her respect, and for her, respect is equal to love."

  Dia: "I was talking about myself. My love is intense, and being in a retionship with me is like being chained to me for the rest of your life. If any of my wives ever dared to run away from me, I would confine her to stop it from happening. I want to make my feelings clear: if I don’t have these obsessive feelings about my women, I know the retionship will fail."

  Rain: "You talk about crifying your feelings, but you're taking twice as long as you did with Rimuru-sama and Serafall-sama."

  Dia: "That’s normal. They’ve been in my life for a very long time. Back then, I didn’t need to think about my feelings—I didn’t know what love was, so it was easy to grow close to them until we became a couple. But now that I’ve grown, my feelings take more time to develop."

  Misery: "Don’t worry, Dia-sama, we’ll wait as long as it takes. We just wanted to share our feelings with you and let you know that we’ll be waiting, though the sooner, the better."

  A small smile appeared on my lips before I said something that wasn’t very maid-like.

  Dia: "Now, let’s end this discussion and get to work. We need to find a material that is both durable and highly conductive to demonic energy."

  Rain: "Can we know what the Sacred Gear will look like?"

  Dia: "It will be a sword that anyone can use, but it will only reveal its true power and Bance Breaker to those the weapon deems worthy. The Bance Breaker will be the armor associated with the sword."

  Misery: "That sounds simple enough."

  Dia: "I predict the weapon will have the power to destroy a pnet with a single sword strike."

  I was about to ugh when I saw the stunned expressions on Rain and Misery’s faces.

  After that, we traveled from pnet to pnet, passing by moons.

  After a week, we had found nothing, so we prepared to search farther.

  After visiting more than 100 pnets and moons and finding nothing but two or three civilizations (which we didn’t seek conflict with), we finally arrived on a pnet made of crystal.

  Dia: "This pnet is strange."

  But I could feel a lot of energy in those crystals.

  Dia: "Girls, it seems I’ve found the material for the Sacred Gear."