Chương 82: Chapter 70. Voice

I woke up early, the sun was just coming up from the horizon. I didn't really want to move much for 2 reasons. The 1st being, I was comfortable. The night was a cool one instead of the warmer nights we've had. In this case though, the warmth didn't come from the sun or the blankets, it came from the 2 people who were wrapped around me. I was lying on my back while Sarah and Anna were on their sides, with a hand each reaching to the opposite side of where they were sleeping on.

Sarah being on my left and Anna being on my right. They were breathing in tune with each other, almost like they were mimicking each other. A few minutes later, Anna's breathing had changed. She opened her eyes not long after. In time, her eyes focused on me as I watched her wake up." J-John.."" Good morning, Anna." Grip! She let loose a big smile and her grip grew tighter around my torso. I'm not going to lie, it started to hurt. That whole " Demons are physically stronger than Humans" thing seems to be real.

It was still at a bearable level for me though. Anna began to bury her face into my neck. Seems she's not fully awake and thinks she's still dreaming. I don't really mind. I started to pet her dark-green hair ever so gently. While all of this movement was going on, it seemed to have awakened the wolf at my back. tighten... warm... I felt Sarah's arms begin to also tighten as I feel her embrace me with her warmth. I began to hear a whisper as well."

Must be nice, being pet so early in the morning by your Special Person." raise. pet... I turned to see Sarah pouting. I saw how jealous she was, so I brought my other hand up as smoothly as possible so as to not disturb the one currently burying her head into my right pec. My hand made it to Sarah's head and I quickly began to pet her as well. about 10 minutes passed until I felt Anna pick herself up. I looked at her and it seems she was fully awake and embarrassed now." J-J-John... This isn't what you think!""

You mean, you don't want to cuddle with me?" To my words, she lowered her head like a child who was being scolded. She lifted her head slightly to reveal a pout on her face. She began to speak in almost a whisper to me." I want to."" Then you have nothing to apologize for."" Yeah! Just be more like me, Anna!" Tighten! Kiss! Sarah proceeded to tighten her embrace around me. When I turned to face her, she kissed me. Once she released my lips, she began to speak with a wide smile on her face."

Now that I have my morning pick me up! It's time to get going! I'll see you both in the main hall in a half an hour I suppose!" Release. Sarah rose from the bed with a regretful look on her face and left out the window. When will she remember doors exist, I wonder? As I was thinking about that, Anna had cuddled up beside me and wrapped her arms around my head instead of my chest. I began to speak." Anna, it's okay. People are different. Which means we express our loves differently as well." Release.

Anna didn't respond with words but instead, she began to lean against me and bring her head to my shoulder. I felt a soft, warm sensation on my cheek, then Anna released me, and she quickly got up and left the room." I'll be going to fetch breakfast!" Anna seemed to be energetic as she left. I simply got dressed and waited for her. When she returned, she had a cart with both of our meals on it. Anna dressed the table we had in the room and then we ate a meal of scrambled eggs and a piece of steak.

When I praised Anna about the meal, she began to beam with confidence. Before long, we were finished with the meal. After Anna returned everything, she changed her clothes to a simple white shirt with a brown leather vest on top of it along with brown leather pants and tough looking boots. Along with that, she had a small wooden club held on her leg in a small leather holster that's attached to her right thigh. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road."

Anna, is that your weapon?" She looked down at the club and nodded to my question." Isn't it too small?"

"?" Anna looked confused and then a flash of understanding dawned on her. She proceeded to grab the club and began to speak." The wood that this club is made from is special, Master. It's from a tree that I've grown myself! By feeding it my mana along with water. Because of that and the Blessing of my Goddess, it acts as a Magic Tool for me! So, I can do something like this!" She thrust her club in front of herself and it grew to touch the ceiling." Wow! So, it can become a staff! Can it do other things!?"

I was excited from the ordinary looking club having cool abilities. Anna looked at me with a smug expression and nodded her head." What else can it do!?" I asked full of intrigue." Well since it has been affected by my mana and the Goddess's Blessing, I can use it as a conduit to enhance my Abilities! Also, I can shift its shape in more ways than elongating or shortening it!"

Anna proceeded to manipulate the club into an S and then made it enlarge at one end to be used as a giant club before returning it to its shortened size and returned it to her leg. We left the room talking about her weapon and about how she likes cultivating plants. An idea struck me as we did." Hey, Anna. Do you want to make a garden when we have our own place?" Anna looked at me excitedly and began to speak." Can we? I really want to!" I nodded to her and began to speak."

We'll put that on the list of things we can do together once this is all over!" We continued on our way in a good mood. After enough walking, we met up with everyone in the main hall. Warrick was giving a speech about how good of a job everyone had done with protecting the Country. After that, things got interesting. Our group left the castle. Before seeing us off, Warrick and Aqua took me aside and Warrick began to speak to me." John, we know you want to hide your identity, so we have something for you."

Aqua opened her Mana Storage and brought out what looked like a tiny box that could fit on the tip of my finger. Aqua presented it to me and began to speak." This is a voice modifier! We give them to our Spies that we send on missions! I modified this one to have a deep Demonic voice to it so no one will suspect you're a regular Human!" I smiled once I heard her explanation." That's great, guys! Thank you! I thought I might just have to not speak for today, but this makes things a lot easier!"

Aqua handed me the tiny box and at that point I heard a voice." Little One, let me have a look at that for a second." It was Julia. She appeared beside me and she took a good look at the voice changer. I could see in her eyes that she had a great interest in the voice changer for some reason." Hi, Julia. Sure, here you go." Even if I didn't understand it, I'm not going to let it stop her from taking a look." Ms. Julia, Hello! How are you!?" Aqua greeted Julia as I passed her the voice box."

It's good to see you, Queen Aqua, King Warrick. I won't lie, I'm a little concerned for the children. But, they have set their goals around today, so I only hope to support them the best I can." Warrick and Aqua nodded vigorously to Julia's sentiments." Now then, let me take a look at this." Julia began to examine the voice modifier for a few moments then turned to me." Little One, Summon the Armor, would you?"" You got it." I Summoned Julia's Armor on my body and waited to see what she wanted to do." Good!

Now take off the helmet and give it to me!" I did as Julia asked and gave her my helmet. Julia brought the helmet and voice modifier together and began to glow. I felt no mana from her, so I had no idea how she was glowing. Regardless, after the glow kept growing brighter and brighter it faded as quickly as it began. Julia was still standing there, but she only had the helmet in her hand." Julia... What did you just do?" I couldn't help but ask." Simple!

I used some of your mana to fuse the voice modifier into my Armor! Now you don't need to equip it! Also, options to change your voice will always be there! You just need to ask me! Also, I can now control the sound of the voice modifier!"" Wow... That's amazing, Julia!"" If you ever find something that has a feature, you'd like to add to the Armor I should be able to manage fusing it to it. as long as it's something that could fit in it, I think?"" I'll remember that for the future. Thank you, Julia.

This means a lot to me that you would continue to help me like this." Julia smiled at me and began to speak in a warm tone." Any time Little One. Remember, Little Scarlet and I will always be with you. Even if the bracelets are separate from you, we have a psychic link now after bonding to you during that time in the Treasury. Though, I suppose if there were some kind of Magical Barrier, it might stop it, but when would that happen?"" So that's why both of you can speak to me in mind? Makes sense.""

It's part of it. The other is just how trusting you are towards us. We as Items, return the same Feelings to our Owners, as they share with us, Little One."" Well, I plan on continuing to do that. Again, I hope you both can continue to take care of me. I hope you can hear me too, Scarlet!"" Fufufu... She hears you, Little One. She is just embarrassed with how direct you are. She's a fragile flower at her core." I felt Scarlet's bracelet start to shake a little. Seems they reflect the feelings of the Item's Spirit.

Pet. Julia pet my head like my Mother used to do. She placed the helmet back onto my head. Then she returned to her corporeal form and left Aqua and Warrick with me. They looked at me with warm smiles." I guess I should get going then? Again, thank you both for everything you've done these past 3 months. And.... Also.... I'll be back soon! With everyone!" They waved goodbye and I met up with the girls and took off to the Forest of Fiends as they called it. The morning sun had fully risen into the sky.

It felt warm on my skin as we all ran North. Had I bothered to look back, I may have saw the faces of Warrick and Aqua, as if they had a plan that they were keeping from me. But I didn't, since I was focused on what was about to happen.