The World Is Mine For The Taking

Chapter 1446: Intermission 8: The Future With You (2)

"H-How is it... having sex with him for the first time?" one of the women asked curiously.

She looked like she was somewhere in her twenties. Judging from the robes she wore and the strange crest stitched near the sleeves, she was probably a mage. From what I had heard before, her ability allowed her to create portals that connected to a separate storage space where she could place objects and retrieve them whenever she wanted.

Basically, an entirely different dimension acting like a pocket.

Honestly, it was an insanely convenient ability.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt like her power was way more amazing than mine. Sure, seeing the future sounded impressive when people described it out loud, but in reality, it wasn’t always that useful. Most of the time, it just meant seeing disasters before they happened and then stressing myself out trying to figure out how to stop them.

It wasn’t exactly glamorous.

Meanwhile, she could literally pull things out of another dimension like some overpowered traveling merchant. Honestly, I would trade abilities with her immediately if I could. Imagine never losing your stuff ever again. There was no need for bag and no need to carry luggage. Peak laziness support skill.

While that thought crossed my mind, I focused back on the conversation happening nearby.

The woman had been asking Ella something.

And judging from Ella’s reaction, it seemed pretty obvious what they were talking about.

Ella had apparently already slept with Leon.

"I-It was amazing..." Ella answered quietly. "Honestly... it was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before."

The second she admitted that, all the women around her immediately squealed in excitement.

Honestly, seeing Ella say something like that was kind of surprising. She was normally reserved and shy, so hearing her openly talk about sex felt weirdly unexpected.

Cute, though.

"Come on, give us details," another woman pressed eagerly. "I’ve heard Mr. Faust is really good at it, but how amazing are we talking exactly?"

"It’s amazing..." Ella repeated, blushing even harder than before. "Everything about it was amazing. I... I don’t really know how to explain it properly."

Her face was completely red at this point.

It honestly looked like she was about two seconds away from overheating.

"All I can really say is that... having my body pressed against his, feeling his warmth, and the stickiness afterward... it all felt so good that it honestly felt like I was floating on cloud nine."

The women around her squealed again after hearing that.

Honestly, it was kind of funny watching all of them react like this. They looked less like mercenaries and more like a group of girls gossiping during break time. The only difference was that instead of talking about crushes secretly, they were openly discussing Leon’s sex life like it was a public event.

Then again, at this point, it basically was.

It honestly seemed like everyone already knew Leon had a harem.

Not that I was completely unaware of it either.

Back during our academy days, it wasn’t exactly difficult to notice. Leon and the women around him never really tried hiding it in the first place. Even if someone wanted to avoid the rumors, eventually they would hear about it anyway.

I certainly did.

And I wasn’t even the type of person who paid attention to gossip most of the time.

Still, information spread whether you wanted it to or not. That was just how things worked around people like Leon. Wherever he went, attention followed him automatically.

While I continued quietly listening, one of the women suddenly turned toward me.

"How about you, Adviser?" she asked with a grin. "Have you had sex with Mr. Faust yet?"

The sudden question caught me so off guard that I blinked a few times before answering.

"Me?" I repeated. "I’m not even someone Lord Faust pays attention to in that way. There’s no chance I would’ve done something like that with him."

I answered honestly.

Because it really was the truth.

"Hm? Really?" the woman said, looking genuinely surprised. "I honestly thought you were already one of his women."

"Well... not exactly," I replied. "You’ve probably seen me talking with him before, but our relationship is mostly just cooperation. Honestly, I’m not even sure if calling us friends would fully fit either."

And that was true.

At most, Leon was the person I turned to whenever I foresaw some future disaster about to happen. He was one of the only people I trusted to actually change things after hearing my warnings.

Mostly because he somehow always managed to do exactly that.

The confidence Leon had in changing fate itself honestly sounded ridiculous at first. But after personally witnessing the things he had already accomplished, I couldn’t really doubt him anymore.

He was terrifyingly reliable.

The kind of person who could hear about an incoming catastrophe and somehow respond like someone informing him it might rain tomorrow.

It was honestly unfair.

"But..." the woman continued carefully, "you’re in love with him, aren’t you, Adviser?"

"In love?" I repeated slowly. "With him?"

The question almost made me laugh a little.

Not because it was ridiculous, but because hearing someone else say it out loud felt strangely embarrassing.

Still, the laugh never fully came out.

Because honestly...

I didn’t really know the answer myself.

My feelings toward Leon were complicated in a way that was difficult to explain properly. They didn’t completely line up with what I normally thought romantic feelings were supposed to feel like.

At the same time, though, I couldn’t exactly deny that he occupied a strange place in my heart.

And honestly, the weirdest part was that I had already offered myself to him before.

Yet Leon still never took me.

I had more or less accepted that as him simply not wanting more women than necessary. Because despite the fact that I had openly told him he could do whatever he wanted with me, he never treated me as one of his women afterward.

At first, I told myself it didn’t bother me.

But sometimes...

Sometimes I couldn’t help thinking about it anyway.

Did that mean I simply wasn’t someone he saw that way?

Was I not even considered good enough material to become part of his harem?

Honestly, that thought hurt more than I wanted to admit.

Not enough to make me resent him.

But enough that it stayed quietly in the back of my mind whenever I thought about him for too long.

At the same time, though, I didn’t think forcing myself closer to him would solve anything either.

Leon wasn’t the kind of person who could be pressured into feelings he didn’t have.

And honestly... I didn’t want something fake from him in the first place.

If the two of us were really meant to become something more someday, then I felt like it would happen naturally regardless.

At least... that was what I kept telling myself.