Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

Zach slumped in his fancy armchair with a soulless expression for a few minutes before slowly picking himself back up. Color gradually returned to his face, and he returned to the topic they had been discussing before Nora decided to attack his person and character.

"I will consider revealing it as long as you three don't mind it?" He turned to Yanael, Alzara, and Soara.

"I follow your decisions, Master." Yanael gave a formal answer.

"If anyone comes looking trouble like you're worried about, just let them come." Alzara had been bothered about having to remember to stay quiet around Zach, especially when people in his vicinity said stupid shit.

"Master, Alzara has a point. But at the same time, if you don't gain anything by revealing our uniqueness to the world, I don't mind staying silent in the presence of others."n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Zach tilted his head to the side at Soara's answer. She had a point. If there wasn't a need to do it, there wasn't a need to do it.

"Young Master, weren't you curious about why Yanael and Alzara have names and can talk when no other familiar can? I think it's pretty safe to say that Soara is an exception since she became a familiar through an unconventional route. Revealing that might lead to a way to find out more about their situation."

Zach nodded. Nora made a good point. He looked at his familiars.

"I'm assuming you can't tell me about it?" He asked Yanael and Alzara. To no surprise, they shook their heads without giving another answer.

Zach tried to read their expressions but couldn't see anything.

"...Excuse me, Master. Since I don't actually know, I might be able to make a guess," Soara said after gently grabbing Zach's attention.

"Really? Please do, then," Zach said excitedly.

"It's because they have personalities."

Zach tilted his head in confusion. Of course, they had personalities.

"What do you mean?"

"Compared to other familiars, like those of that one-armed girl or the blue-haired girl, Yanael and Alzara have a lot of personality…" Soara's voice grew quieter for several reasons, one of them being Yanael and Alzara looking at her intensely.

Zach was silent as he thought about it.

Certainly.

Nessa's and Violina's familiars had their own personalities, especially the Millipede and the Frost Imp. But their personalities were fairly simple and straightforward. They were more like the monsters they resembled than the intelligent beings Yanael and Alzara were.

But was having intelligence and more personality enough to warrant a name and the ability to talk? It seemed far-fetched.

Soara saw Zach's doubt and opened her mouth again.

"I can't tell you why I think that's the reason. It's also not the best way to formulate it. But personality, Names, and the ability to speak are related. At least, I'm pretty sure they are." Soara was unsure. But there was a basis for her theory. It was just hidden behind a restriction. That alone gave it some credibility.

"Looks like I just have to gather more authority." Zach sighed and leaned back in his chair. His head was once again spinning with various thoughts. Both from what he had talked about with his maids and from meetings his friends earlier.

Zach let out a deep sigh again.

He couldn't believe it.

Sio had ruined him.

He wanted to clear his head by training. Training hard was an effective way of stopping his brain from focusing on unnecessary and necessary things. If he filled it with the suffering of his body undergoing physical training, he wouldn't have to think so much about things he couldn't answer.

Unfortunately, he wasn't fast enough.

While he and his maids, all four of them, went to the training room he had hired indefinitely as Alzara's lab, he thought back to what Dukiel had mentioned when he talked about his break.

He had stayed in the Academy and worked at an inn in the city again this year. It had looked like it wouldn't reopen after what happened earlier in the year, but Dukiel's presence was enough to convince the owners to give it a shot.

Needless to say, it hadn't been their most profitable year, even with the principal's official guarantee that nothing would happen to the city during the break.

The city had been pretty empty lately, even after it was mostly restored. People just weren't interested in staying there, especially after Mursoth's threats. The ceasefire was temporary.

That meant it would end. The peace would end. The horrendous suffering the city had gone through last time due to the flood of underworld energy poisoning the citizens would return. And it would return stronger and worse.

Basilia was almost as dead as Haya, the underwater city in the Labyrinth of Syst.

They wouldn't be able to rely on the same width and availability of supplies as the previous years. It also meant they wouldn't have to be as worried about citizens getting caught up in the crossfire, but there were still citizens in the city.

Food, money, potions, tools, and special items would be hard to get, but they would still have to try and keep the city and its people safe, despite the danger lurking below Basilia.

Zach didn't look forward to it. But that didn't mean he wasn't going to do anything about it. He was already working on a solution or two. But until there was some progress, the school year officially started, or the Underworld made a move, there wasn't much for Zach to do.

Other than train, of course.

The best way for Zach to prepare for everything that was coming was to grow strong enough to handle it all. Even with Yanael, Alzara, and Soara by his side, he wasn't confident that he could handle Named underworlders, much less the Underworld and the Great Ugor. The impression Jigak had left still run deep, even if Mursoth hadn't seemed as intimidating.

Zach gathered the resolve to go through with the training regimen sio had left him.