NOVEL NEXT 471 Return to Heaven's Republic
In the end, the girls all refused to tell me what actually transpired last night. I was thinking of enforcing my question with an "order," but I felt pity for the succubus girls who looked like they were about to cry just from my interrogation.
"..."
Well, there's no use in knowing, anyway. If we really did "something," then it's fine... It's not like we can't do it again, after all.
After my headache faded, I got out of the bath before the others. Fina and Fatima seemed to still want to stay a while longer, though.
I returned to my room to get dressed and then went down to the ground floor's kitchen to brew tea. For sure, most of the girls who weren't present in the bath earlier would need something to drink to help soothe their hangover.
I boiled tons of water while slicing ginger and lemon into thin slices.
It's not my first time making ginger lemon tea, but I still tested out one pot first, just to check the consistency. I placed a few slices inside before pouring the hot water, letting the ginger and lemon's essence seep out for five minutes.
The smell was already enticing enough, even just as is. And as if lured by the smell, "zombies" slowly gathered on the kitchen table. As I anticipated, their hangover was pretty bad, as usual.
I could only imagine the disastrous scene back at the dining hall, judging from the pungent, sour odor wafting from over there.
After adding honey to taste—not too sweet, but not too bland—I served the first batch of tea to them.
Even with blue faces, they tried to take a sip of tea, breathing out in satisfaction as the spicy warmth of ginger spread from their stomach, coursing all throughout their limbs. Although their faces regained a little bit of healthy color, their furrowed brows were a testament to their still-hurting heads.
I lightly shrugged before moving on to make another batch en masse.
A total of four pots were made before I asked one of the succubus tamers who got out of the bath to bring them over to the dining hall for the rest to drink.
Just like that, we spent an entire day attending to everyone who had hangovers until they were back in shape... around late in the afternoon.
Right.
After last night, something did change.
Yorm was staring at my face with a blank face whenever I caught sight of her. It wasn't bothering me, but getting stared at so intensely can get a little embarrassing at times.
Judy, on the other hand, couldn't even look me in the eyes. It looks like she's the type to recall things that happened while she was drunk. Well, I didn't do anything too extreme, so she should be fine after some time.
11:36
That night, we turned in the same large bed inside the sealed room. Everyone was sleeping in the same bed as usual, but Judy and Yorm were keeping their distance from me, and to my surprise, even from Fina. Is this a sign, perhaps...?
After a good night's sleep, everyone was back in shape.
After a short breakfast with everyone, it was finally time to return.
"Ember, please."
Although she looked a little reluctant to end our vacation, Ember opened up her God Kingdom's gate to let us all out. One after another, the girls left through the blue portal that Ember opened, exiting into the ground floor of the Debauchery Hall. I was the last one to exit, just because I felt like it.
As soon as we landed in the lobby, however, a familiar face quickly grabbed my shoulder.
"President Will, welcome back. Now, please get back to work."
It was Yu Na, who looked pissed off for some reason. Not wanting to trigger her, I nodded my head as I followed her through an open portal, leaving the girls behind.
The place we popped into was my office in the castle. The table, however, was so overflowing with stacks of papers that even my clones working together nonstop couldn't clear it up.
"All of these are urgent, so please handle them ASAP."
"All...?"
Just an estimate: with each stack reaching thousands of pages, this should be over 100,000 pages! How long will it take to finish all this?
After bringing me there, Yu Na left in a hurry, slamming the office's door shut behind her.
"What should I do..."
I'll probably never finish if I try reading them normally, and I can't use Igni's God Kingdom's time acceleration for documents. The heat over there would burn these flimsy papers in seconds.
"No choice!"
I focused all my energy and began making as many clones as I could muster. If a dozen is not enough, then how about a hundred?! My current energy level was already more than capable of handling such numbers.
After a short while, a hundred clones of myself sat down on tables I "borrowed" from the Debauchery Hall while sharing the workload and working on the mountain of documents.
"Hmm?"
Of course, I was doing some work too. Mostly confirming the documents, just to stay in the loop. After all, unlike clones from a certain ninja anime, my clones don't pass on their memories to me when they fade.
"Ohh, so that's what it was."
Shortly after, I realized why there were so many documents present.
The plan for handling the kingdoms that wanted to return to their previous land went as planned. Demons overrun their kingdoms practically moments later. However, due to some leaders being stubborn and not wanting to accept our offer of protecting them again in exchange for a heavier "contract," they ended up being destroyed in just a few days...
Of course, "as planned," we saved innocent lives from the downfall. Not only the humans, but even the monsters and beasts residing within their kingdoms were brought to safety in time.
As such, the documents contain records of "new residents" of Heaven's Republic, waiting for my signature to incorporate them into our country as official naturalized citizens.
By the way, Zeshion and Goddess Zeta received thousands of God-level essence crystals from my pocket as their payment. Although I was slightly desensitized to their value since I have tons of them, each one of these crystals should fetch over 1 billion in Credits.
Of course, I can't convert them all to cash at once, or else the current economy would turn upside down. Still, I became a tycoon in just a short while, didn't I?
The progress of the plan hasn't reached 50% yet, so I guess we wouldn't be going anywhere until all of it was over.
"Fina's request has to wait for a while."
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