Chapter 224: Spiritual Training
The female had an energy of someone who feels superior than anyone and anything else. Astri sighs, rolling her eyes already understanding where all of that will go. Her spouses and family followed with the same eyes rolling.
"Lady Keiko. You know you’re not allowed to come here." Renzai says, still elegant, but not hiding his discontentment.
"Well, a big group of beastmen and another female was brought here. Females that live here for years never had the authorization to come here, and complete strangers came here. I had to come and see why." Keiko answers.
"It’s not a matter of being strangers or not. It’s a matter of having pure energies. And all of them have it. There so, they’re allowed to come here. You’re not. Guards, please escort Lady Keiko back to Himeya." Renzai says, and nods to the guards behind her.
They nod apologetically, knowing they have let someone pass without permission.
"Even those children and females had training to be here? I thought only Mizuryuus had training since birth." Keiko sneers.
"Lady Keiko, if you don’t want to lose your position as a female of Himeya, please leave. I did not permit you to come here and, as I said, all of them have energies fit to be in a sacred place. I do not have anything else to say."
"I would like to see the proof that a female is worthy to be here."
"If you can’t feel who she is, then you’re not entitled or qualified to also judge any proof we give." Seiryuu says.
All of them bit their lips to don’t laugh. Astri hid her mouth behind the sleeve of her yukata, thinking that answer was so good that she even wrote in her mind to use it someday.
Keiko didn’t like the answer and everyone’s reaction to that.
"Are you laughing?" Keiko asks Astri.
"Me? No. Pff. No!" Astri answers, then takes a sip of tea.
Everyone can see she’s lying, making them smile and hold their laughter. Renzai nods to the guards, and they guide Keiko away.
"You’re still a terrible liar." Claud says to Astri.
"Is there a way to become better at it?" Astri snorts.
"Even if there is, never learn how." Wayde says.
"I won’t stop being a Pegasus if I learn how to lie." Astri says.
"But it won’t be fun." Lee says, making everyone laugh.
"The audacity!" Astri says, throwing a fruit on Lee in a playful way.
After talking a bit more, Renzai invites all of them to spend the night there.
Astri offers herself to cook dinner, and after a lot of insisting, Renzai and Seiryuu let her make dinner with her spouses to make it faster. Renzai is amazed by the taste, and Seiryuu enjoys the flavor as if he missed it dearly. Renzai asked to prepare rooms for them to stay the night.
Since he believed Astri would need a room only for herself, Renzai also ordered for a special room for her. Claud saw his opportunity and told the other spouses he will take his night with her through their minds.
Astri wasn’t planning on staying there, but she can see that all of her spouses want to be there and learn from Renzai, so she doesn’t say anything and let them do what they feel they need to do. She will enjoy either way, and probably learn from watching them, too. She goes take the children to their bedroom.
"My loves, if any female comes here, please ask them to leave. Hopin, you being handsome and of age will be probably aimed by them. I’m sorry about that. They might want to promise the other boys, too. Please don’t be fooled by a fake smile." Astri tells them.
"Don’t worry, mom. We’re already used to that." Kai answers, smiling.
She smiles, painfully.
"Yeah.. I know. Unfortunately, or fortunately, you are. It’s good to remind you, thou. I love you all too much to be fooled by people who doesn’t deserve you."
All of them hug her, saying they love her, too.
"If they insist, call me because I can kick their asses." She says, and they laugh.
"We will!"
"Actually, call your sister Yuki. I’m sure she can handle an insufferable female." Astri says.
"No. I rather beat them away. You have the patience to wait for them make the first move. I don’t." Yuki says, and they laugh together.
"Once, we were patrolling in the tribes together. Yuki was with us, too. A female came hit on Hopin, and even had the audacity to say that few females would offer to become spouses of a Rabbit beastman. When she said that.. BOOM! Yuki tackled down the female and punched all over her face." Elias says.
"Don’t *punch* you *punch* talk to *punch* my brother *punch* like that!" Kai says, pausing on every punch.
They laugh together.
"Wow!!! That’s my girl!" Astri says proudly, and kissing Yuki’s head. "But you know why I let them do the first move?"
"Why?" All of them ask, curious."Because they will feel more ashamed of starting a fight and not being capable to end it."
"Ooooh!!! Mom is the best!" They cheer.
"I will always let them do the first move now!" Elias says, punching the air.
Astri is sad for not being there to protect them while they were growing, but she’s enjoying this older phase they are. They’re playful on a different way, that’s all. She tells them to not forget to brush their teeth, and then give them kisses of good night.
She’s guided to her bedroom, and when she goes inside she sees Claud watching the stars on the sky at the window. She goes to him, then sits on his lap to watch the stars, too.
"I already told the other guards and Shung that we will spend some days here." Claud says to Astri, kissing her head and smelling her neck.
"Days?" She asks.
"Yes. I also asked permission from Lord Renzai and he gladly accepted it."
"All right. I’m glad all of you want to learn new things. I support you." She says, enjoying his embrace.
"We don’t want to lose you ever again... And if there’s any little thing we can do to make sure we don’t lose you again, we will do it." He says, hugging her tightly.
"I understand entirely. That’s why I support you." She turns around a little and kisses his lips.
He deepens the kiss, holding her face and body, and she feels his hard thing pressing in her leg. They barely had any sleep at all. Claud also threw the rule of not tiring her through the winds.
They made love many times, and in many positions. And the position Claud loves the most is when she’s riding him, because he watches her body moving, roams his hands all over her body and holds her bouncing breasts.
Every time he feels her tightening his length, he goes deeper to make her have a stronger ecstasy with him. It was almost morning when they were resting, hugging each other on the bed. She was dozing off with her head lying on his chest.
"I’m sure I’ll end up pregnant after making love to all of you on this first line after we got back together." She tiredly says, and he chuckles.
"I’m sorry. I think that the only thing all of us agree is that there’s no better feeling than being inside of you. And since it’s been so long since we had you... It’s hard to hold up." He says.
"I know.. I missed all of you, too.." She falls asleep and he smiles watching her sleeping face.
"I love you." He says, she tries to answer back, making him chuckle, then hugs her closer to finally sleep.
On the next day, after breakfast, Renzai takes them to the Sacred Courtyard, where the water of the river slowly flows, to start teaching them about practices to strengthen their minds to purify the environment.
Astri sits to watch, while everyone else was ready to train. Even her children wanted to learn. "Our strength does not come from muscles, or weapons, or scales that keep us protected." Renzai begins, his voice calm like water.
"It comes from within. From the harmony between our mind, soul, and the world around us. We begin with breath. Not to fill the our lungs, but to bring our minds to the moment." He inhaled deeply and slowly, then invites them to close their eyes and try the breathing exercise.
They do seven counts in, seven counts held, and seven counts releasing the air.
"The breath is the spirit’s gate. If you master this practice, you will begin to master yourself." He affirms, and all of them nod, feeling more relaxed and concentrated after that guided meditation.
He shows them several spears for them to take. Each of them take one and line up again to pay attention to everything Renzai has to teach.