Chapter 374 - Taking a Little Break

Cecil woke up pretty late the next day and he felt quite sluggish and heavy. He yawned and shifted his body a little and noticed exactly why his body was feeling quite heavy. His wife, Lucia, was still soundly sleeping on top of him.

He blinked his eyes and soon remembered what they finally did last night. He let out an involuntary smile of satisfaction before deciding to sleep in for today but when he started stroking Lucia's hair, his actions caused his wife to wake up from her slumber.

"...Cel?"

"I'm here. You can go back to sleep if you want, I'll stay here until you're fully awake."

"Mhm..."

Lucia was just about to go to sleep again but someone began knocking on the door.

"Lulu, darling~ lunch is ready!"

"...Lunch? ...Hmmm, I think we should go down now, Cel..." Lucia mumbled sleepily.

"...It's lunchtime? Just how long did we sleep?"

"Well, you were pretty intense last night... even though it was my first..."

"S-Sorry... did you not like it?"

"...I never said I did..."

"Do you want to do it again?"

"As much as I want to, but I think we should go down now... we don't want Seri to get mad at us..."

"Hmm, okay..."

The two quickly got up and put on their clothes. When Lucia saw the red stain on the bedsheets, she turned a little red. She felt quite embarrassed that the family's maids would see the stain when they came in later to change the sheets. She decided that it was better if she did it herself.

Just as she was about to take off the sheets and change it for a new one, Cecil quickly made his move and pulled off the sheets before quickly stuffing them into his spatial ring.

Lucia eyed him strangely and asked, "Cel... what're you doing?"

"...Nothing..."

"You're not going to dismiss what you just did as 'nothing'. Now, give the sheets here, okay? I'm going to wash them."

"How about we do that after lunch?"

"A simple Cleanse Spell will do it, give it here!"

"Let's just do it later, okay? Let's go get lunch!"

"Hey, don't you dare—"

Before Lucia could say anything further, Cecil already pulled her in for a hot and passionate kiss. He then began feeling up her body and started undressing her.

"C-Cel, w-we have to—auhh, mphmhmm..."

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It was only an hour later that Cecil and Lucia came down to eat lunch. Naturally, everyone else had already finished their meals and only Serilla was waiting for them in the dining hall. She hadn't touched her food yet, and by the time the two got there, her food was already running cold.

"...Did you enjoy yourselves?"

"..."

"..."

"I already saw that you two woke up, but instead of coming down to eat, you actually went and did 'it' again, right?"

Since the bedroom was their bedroom, Serilla was naturally able to open the door. She had only opened up a small crack in the door earlier, but when she immediately heard Lucia's m.o.a.ns she quickly shut the door close.

"..."

"S-Seri..."

Serilla eyed her husband and said, "I bet it was Cecil's fault, wasn't it?'

"...Well... I mean... I-I just couldn't help it..." Cecil said while scratching his cheek.

"Sure you couldn't... you'd normally ask for my permission before attacking me, but when it's with Lucia, you just take the initiative and do what you want."

"..."

Cecil only awkwardly looked away while Lucia began blushing. Serilla sighed before shaking her head and saying, "Well, whatever, let's eat now."

Cecil smiled and quickly sat down next to her and Lucia followed suit, sitting down next to him. It was then that Cecil finally noticed that her food had turned cold. He squeezed his brows before handing over the food that the butler and maids just served to him over to Serilla.

"Darling?"

"Let me have yours, Seri."

"We can just have the maids heat it."

"I'll do it!" Lucia quipped up.

Cecil quickly took Serilla's food and placed it in front of him before Lucia heated the food with a spell.

"...It's probably not going to taste good anymore."

"That's fine."

The three then continued to have their meal. Once they were finished, Cecil led the girls out of the mansion and they took a stroll around the valley. He didn't know why, but Cecil just felt like he wanted to take a walk with his two wives.

He didn't know why, but he's been having the feeling that the little bit of peace he's been able to get after returning home may not last for so long.

When he went over the other day to retrieve his elder brother, he found out that there were demons now on the Midgard continent, then there was Fina's problem. Cecil felt like he'll be imbrued in a long string of conflicts in the near future so he wanted to get as much quality time as he could with his wives, particularly Serilla.

Not many of the city's people knew about Cecil since only the prominent families and individuals from the city had attended his homecoming and wedding banquet, so after Lucia transformed herself and Serilla into humans, they walked through the city.

The city had become much more like one of modern Earth's metropolises now. People were bustling here and there with vehicles such as carriages and wagons as well as monsters carrying large boxes or pulling long carts were moving through the wide asphalt city streets.

It was a large contrast to the normal Earth cities that had cars and other modes of transports moving around on the streets. Of course, the people were still trying to develop better transportations right now, and they were making progress.

Cecil had already seen the prototype of a car and truck the last time he decided to go on a trip around the city's industrial sector with his brother, Luca. It wouldn't take long before he would see the wagons and carriages being changed into cars.

Of course, the aerial transport of items and goods was still being done by the monsters that the city was able to capture and tame, but Cecil doubt he'd see any aircraft anytime soon. The skies of Alterna were dominated by aerial monstrosities that could easily destroy any man-made aircraft.

Also, if they wanted to use aircraft as modes of transport from city to city, Cecil doubted that it'll be necessary once he's able to implement teleportation formations in the large major cities of his kingdom. That kind of instantaneous travel beats any kind of long-distance transport.

Well, if his kingdom wanted to start building their air force, it would be better to just tame flying monsters and have their soldiers mount them since monsters, in Cecil's opinion, were much more flexible than those steel birds called airplanes. Also, it would do the Earthlings good if they shelved the idea of airplanes and instead create Alterna's airsh.i.p.s which were specifically developed to fly in the skies of Alterna. He had already given Luca the blueprints to the airship he had found back in the World Tree's trials.

The craftsmen were already making an effort to create the parts in the blueprints and maybe by next year they'd be able to complete their prototype airship. From there, they can start developing even more aircraft that could fly in Alterna's skies.

Cecil and his wives had an enjoyable time just roaming around the kingdom. They didn't only visit the capital city, but also the frontier city called Regio City, located outside of the valley. They stayed a few days there and they even went to Central Light City via Misty Gate.

He also didn't forget about West Wind City. He took his wives over to the city after stopping for a few days in Central Light just so they could enjoy the seaside for a while.

After taking a few days out to relax, Cecil decided that he would quickly begin creating the teleportation formations as soon as possible. It'd help their kingdom's trade market and economy. The people would also find it easier and safer to move residences once the teleportation formations were up and running.

During this period, Cecil thoroughly enjoyed his time with his wives. This private vacation of theirs was sort of like their honeymoon. After they had their fun, they returned to the kingdom a week and a half later.

Of course, since they didn't tell anyone about what they were doing, the 3 were naturally scolded by their parents. The 3 also felt a little bad since they had left behind their friends without informing them.

A few days after, Cecil, with the help of his mother-in-law, Anna, was able to perfect the teleportation gate's runic arrays. The cooldown time in between activations had lowered down to a single-use every day.

There could now be daily intercontinental teleportation between the two kingdoms. Not all of the earthlings were allowed past the teleportation gate. There still needed to be a trial period since the Anglaria Kingdom still needed to see how their citizens would react when humans suddenly started showing up in their territory.

Kaiser selected a few groups of people to head over to the other side, one of them being his son, Luca. Matheus was ready to take over the management of the kingdom so he took up most of his brother's responsibilities while some of Luca's apprentices that he had trained up to take over his role would be there to manage some of the other specific duties that didn't need Matheus directly managing them.

Luca was still rather worried, but the immigration over to the beastkin kingdom was more important so he had to take up the task on behalf of his kingdom.

After the groups of people who were decided on going over to the other side were sent over, Cecil gathered up his old party members who in turn brought along the members of the Little Kings Organization.

"Alright guys, today, we're going to be doing something important!" Cecil spoke up after seeing that everyone from Little Kings had gathered.

He noticed that all of the members had donned a unique piece of clothing that had the insignia of the Little Kings on them and remembered telling Lucia to make something similar for the original party members. Ainz, Eli, Lucius, and Veli were still wearing theirs.

Cecil grinned when he saw this and then began rummaging around his spatial ring before pulling out a piece of cloth which he then wrapped around his right arm.

Every new member of the Little Kings, who were present after Cecil's time as leader, saw that the cloth was rather old, but when they saw the unique insignia of their organization decorating that piece of clothing, they all widened their eyes a little.

Lucia also pulled out a similar piece of clothing and began tying her hair up in a ponytail using it. This also had the Little Kings insignia on it.

"Haha, well, I guess the Wanderers are now disbanded since we're no longer wandering~" Lucia chimed with a beaming smile.

"Hehe, yeah...well, let's get down to business," Cecil said before turning his attention back to everyone.

Their response however was rather...unique. Everyone began pulling out their weapons and getting into a battle stance. Even Ainz, Eli, Lucius, and Veli were the same. Cecil and Lucia all looked back at them in puzzlement.

Cecil was bewildered so he immediately asked, "...uhh...what're you guys doing?"

Ainz smirked and quickly answered him, "Well, since you've taken the time to call us out and gather everyone here, I'm guessing we all know by now what's going to happen next."

Cecil tilted his head in confusion while Lucia sighed and facepalmed. She knew exactly what Ainz was talking about. Their former party leader, however, was a little slow. Cecil looked around at the empty field just outside of the valley, it took him a good 5 minutes before understanding what Ainz was hinting at.

"OOOHHHH!!!"

Cecil's exclamation immediately set everyone, except Lucia, on guard. He saw this and immediately roared out in laughter.

"Hahahaha! I didn't mean THAT, I wasn't going to pick a fight with you guys! Jeez, we've been away for a long time and I understand that you 4 know how I am, but things can change you know!"

"..."

"..."

"...I-I don't believe you," Velicia stuttered.

"Yeah, Cecil...it's kinda hard to believe you," Lucius added.

"Aww, come on you guys! Seriously, I'm not going to fight you guys. Hehe, you'll need all of your strength for later~"

It wasn't long after Cecil finished his words that monstrous howls began exploding out of the Silvaria Valley's entrance. Soon, a large crowd of monsters, all of them high-ranked, came storming out of the mouth of the valley.

At the head of the horde, everyone could see a small girl riding on top of a ridiculously huge black panther leading the monsters over in their direction. On top of these high-ranked monsters was a human being riding them.

"C-Cecil? What's the meaning of this?" Elizabeth asked.

"Hehe, you see. I got permission from my mother-in-law, Celia, to put you guys to work. This will be the first joint operation between our two nations. Our first act of cooperation. Since she was the highest commanding official that came through the gate after you, of course, Eli, I'll take it as I've been permitted to take control of the Little Kings for a while."

"...It was yours, to begin with..."

"Yeah, but it's now yours, Eli!"

"..."

"So, what're we going to do, leader?" Ainz asked with a wide grin.

"Oh, it's just the usual... we're going to be cleaning out a few monsters."

"Big bro~ we're here!"

"Alright, are all your monsters ready? What about Gabe and the expedition group?"

"I'm ready!" Angelia replied.

"We're good to go as well," Gabriel said after he appeared from out of nowhere.

After hearing their reports, Cecil smirked and said, "Alright then, let's get going."