after the little spar session they had, aster decided to call it a day, he was already tired after refining the materials and the nervousness he felt when sarina and kana were going through their awakening, but he didn''t want to leave the test of his newly advanced soul cultivation realm, so he gritted his teeth and went on with it.

not that he didn''t enjoy it, since he also got to see how much the girls had advanced in his absence, but his mind was too tired now, not to mention he felt like cuddling with the pair of mother and daughter.

so, he took the opportunity while they were still arguing on how to sort who will get the first date, to use his authority and disappear from the training room.

the scenery changed from the open space of the training room, to his own bedroom, aster took off his shoes, shirt and jumped on the bed, as soon as he laid down, both sarina and kana unconsciously snuggled with him and then he went to sleep.

lilia and the others noticed aster was gone and they sighed, but then the sparring continued between them because they couldn''t get to decide who will go first, of course lilia was excluded, so she acted like referee.

if aster was awake he would have gotten to see, the result of mylene, eris and agnes''s genesis cores clashing, they did it in the sky of the training room and the shockwave alone was enough to blown away the whole platform, which resisted the previous rounds of training.

even lilia had to admit that she felt slightly threatened by the three of them joining hands, but it made sense, two of them came from a divine firmament and the third one was from a ruler level family, surprisingly she saw that their genesis cores were of the same size, but remembering that everyone here was cultivating with a peak level immortal manual, explained the situation, for the mortal realms at least they were as good as something could be, the rest depended on their own abilities and creativity to increase their battle prowess.

for the rest of the day the training room rumbled from time to time as the girls let go and continued fighting each other, while lilia observed them from the stands nodding.

''only the best for my darling~'', she thought.

leaving that aside, the rest of the noon and night went uneventful, at some point the girls got tired and they all went to their respective rooms, maybe because sarina was sleeping but they didn''t dine and just went straight to sleep.

...

"mm?", aster''s eyes slowly opened, he looked at his surroundings and chuckled, originally he was only cuddling with sarina and kana, but lilia, alice and aria were also clinging to him, he wondered at what time did they stopped fighting, since they fell asleep with all their clothes.

it was a strange sight to see their untidied appearances, result of all the rucks they caused, well all of them with lilia''s exception, since she didn''t get to participate.

"it seems they had some fun after i was gone", mumbled aster, he then noticed a pair of lovely gazes on him.

the other girls were too tired, and surprisingly didn''t wake up even when aster moved, but sarina and kana did, so they were now looking at him with those pretty eyes of theirs.

"how did my little angels slept, are you feeling good?", asked aster with a tender voice, they were still under "observation", in case their bodies rejected the lineage, though everything seemed to be right.

sarina smiled and then she pressed her lips against aster''s to greet him.

"good morning husband~", she said with a slightly flushed face, kana rubbed her face against aster''s while she hugged him tight.

"good morning big brother, i feel full of energy today!", exclaimed the little girl.

aster laughed, finding the two of them cute, he patted their backs and then they got up from the bed, aster looked at the other girls and kissed their foreheads, but even then they didn''t wake up.

"these three are dead tired, let''s go take a quick shower then we can go eat something at the city, then we can pay a visit at our store, i want to see how things are going", said aster to the pair of mother and daughter.

"mm", sarina and kana nodded and they followed aster to the bathroom, after a quick shower, they dressed up and then left the room, even after all that they didn''t wake up, well lilia did but she pouted after seeing her son didn''t have intentions to bring with them.

which of course earned her a few caresses from aster, which made her let out some cute comfortable sounds, after that lilia closed her eyes and returned to sleep satisfied with getting her son''s attention early in the morning.

though that was the idea from the very beginning, since for his plan he needed to get the support of a lot of people, when all that line of girls turned to see him with sparkling eyes, aster bitterly smiled and then vanished with sarina and kana, appearing inside the store.

the inside of the store was rather calmer, but there were still at least fifty clients being attended by the girls of dahlia''s group, while helena, dahlia and a short girl with pigtails were at the counter supervising the operations.

helena immediately recognized aster, she waved her hand and greeted them.

"i heard you already returned, but i didn''t have time to pay a visit, as you can see the store has become quite popular".

aster nodded.

"it''s been a while, don''t mind us, i know a certain little girl wanted to come visit your garden, we can have a proper conversation after that", said aster.

helena softly giggled, kana''s eyes were lit up with enthusiasm, the hidden garden which helena created, was her favorite place besides the forest of the valley, in fact that was related to the reasons as to why aster came to the store to see helena, but right now she was busy, so they could wait inside the garden.

"sure, we are almost done for the day, i''ll send little dahlia to accompany you and serve some tea while we finish the sales of the day", said helena as she opened the door behind the counter for aster''s group.

"follow me please", dahlia guided them, though the hall that led to the garden where she lived with her aunt, but her eyes kept stealing gazes at aster, until she couldn''t keep her curiosity in check.

"is it true what senior sister iris mentioned, that you helped her become stronger?", she asked.

aster bitterly smiled, he didn''t do such a thing, iris indeed got inspired by seeing him fight, but it was her own comprehension.

"more or less, she and i worked together during our mission, and she reached inspiration thanks to those fights".

"mm, i see", mumbled dahlia with a soft voice.

once they arrived at the garden, kana immediately jumped into the sea of flowers, if a normal person were to do that, unless the flowers were special, they would end up battered, but the little girl was like a fish in the sea, maybe because her short little body was too light or maybe because she seemed to be loved by the world in a sense, but the flowers didn''t suffer any damage.

aster and sarina sat on a table while dahlia went inside the house to prepare them some tea, in the meantime they enjoyed the playful attitude of kana.

"that little girl surely loves flowers~", said sarina.

aster nodded.

"i was wondering if it is related to her lineage, her wings were overflowing with vitality, which made grass and other herbs to bloom where she was standing, the soil of the valley is quite good, so i''m planning to let her build her own garden".

sarina softly smiled, she stood up from her chair and then sat on aster''s lap horizontally, she leaned her head against aster''s shoulder and enjoyed the closeness.

aster caressed sarina''s face and then poked her nose.

"i won''t let the history repeat, we''ll get rid of those guys and if you want to, we can look for the other side of your family, you two have everyone''s support, okay?".

sarina happily smiled and then kissed aster.

"mm~".