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Chapter 23 - Hours Before Ceremony

"ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF FIRST!"

The weird man stood proud in the water, his voice echoed around the shallow waters, he held his head high as he brushed his hair with his fingers before he began to speak. Avery's face got weirded out from his amusement, he was disgusted by this man's actions, he covered his mouth to prevent him from seeing his awkwardness.

His eyes bawled out tiny tears out of nausea, his ears wagged fiddly as Avery prepared himself for the words that the man is about to say.

"I AM KAIRO! THE RIGHT HAND MAN OF URSULA!"

His vibrant spiky hair billowed from the warm air across the room as he introduced himself with pride. The mist clears out, it revealed his masculine body as it looked like Avery's athletic body. 

"That's a weird way to welcome yourself I guess."

He turned his face, he couldn't help to not see Kairo's inappropriate introduction to him. He hid his awkwardness by covering half of his face from him until he tries to settle down into this weird situation.

"Wait a minute... You didn't attend dinner last night?"

Avery's expression grew with questions, his eyes tried to lock into his.

"Well... Ursula didn't tell me anything. So, are you the only new guest here or there are two of you...?"

He questioned Avery carefully, he ensured he wasn't a hostile around the mansion.

"Uhhh- There's two of us right now."

Avery gulped saliva out of slight fear.

"Looks like you're telling the truth to me I guess. Anyways I'll see you later!"

Kairo walked briskly out of the water to grab his towel. He wiped his face and masculine torso quickly before he wrap himself. Avery's face was quizzical, he tried to step out of the water as fast as he can, he wondered what Kairo meant by "telling the truth". His mouth was stuffed with unexplainable questions.

"Wait! What do you mean by telling the truth?!"

He screeched slightly, his voice reverberated around the room. Kairo stopped his movement as soon as he heard his sentence. He turned his head halfway and grinned slightly.

"You'll see soon enough. I have to get going!"

He opened the door rapidly, he sprinted slightly out of the room and shut the door with a large bang. As Avery witness his following actions, he slowly raised himself up from the bathwater as he prepared to grab another towel from a small closet. Suddenly, the door was opened slowly, it creaked and freaked out Avery's ears. He slowly turned his head towards the door, he had anticipated the fear that was crawling inside his ears.

As he stared blankly, he saw a maid walking inside the bathroom, particularly a catgirl. He soon realized who it was, it was Mumami who walked cluelessly around the room. 

"UHM...!"

He made a faint noise to alert Mumami that he was inside the room. She slowly turned her head towards the noise. As she looked at Avery blankly, she dropped a tray of cleaning materials as she saw Avery's manhood. 

"What the h-"

Her face was flashed by his boldness. She slowly walked backwards from him, her face slowly grew red brightly as she was flushed. She covered her eyes quickly to prevent the embarrassment she walked into. 

"Hey...! I think I should be sorry for not letting you know I would have a good MORNING shower today... Hahaha..."

His voice spoke nervously as he quickly, wrapped his inappropriate body with a towel. Mumami slowly raised her temper, she looked down and clenched her fists tightly. She was quite angry as her legs twitched in every second. Avery slowly walks towards the door carefully trying to avoid her entirely.

"YOU IMBECILE SHOWING YOUR BODY INFRONT OF A WOMAN!"

She yelled at him with ferocious anger as she tried to rush and pin Avery down to the ground. As she was sprinting with malice intent towards Avery, he quickly exited the room and shut it infront of her face. As she was about to tackle him, she bumped her head hard on the door and fell to the ground uncomfortably as she heard ringing noises around her head.

Avery held the door tightly as he was terrified from Mumami's wrath. He quickly panted and breathes intensely as he tried to recover from her nightmarish rush. He quickly realizes he was still naked but wrapped around by a towel, he had forgotten that he had left his extra clothes inside the bathroom. He slowly opened the door as he peeked each angle carefully to see Mumami's presence.

As he stepped back inside the room he had seemed to notice her laying on the ground flatly. He looked down on Mumami as she was stunned to move or to think. He chuckled for a while before he proceeded to grab his clothes to wear. Avery finally wore his clothes, he was refreshed from that soothing bath that made his composure stronger than yesterday. 

"I… Will tell this to… Ursula…"

Mumami spoke and pointed her fingers at Avery as he was about to leave her behind. Her voice shackled from the pain and fatigue that she was unable to move her body from the ground. Avery finally shut the door close and left her behind inside the bathroom.

Meanwhile…

"So you've caused Mumami to almost knock herself out just because you weren't aware that she was about to clean the bathroom after Kairo left?"

Ursula spoke to Avery with silliness as her tone breezed with playfulness.

"Yes ma'am."

He said politely to Ursula.

"I'll handle this don't worry. You should probably go with that girl you misunderstood."

She pouted cutely and sighed with relief and let Avery go. He left Ursula's room and walked towards to his room where he last saw Aoife. As he kept on walking around the long hallways and rounded around the corner, he bumped his head again to Aoife.

"Oh good morning, I forgot to tell you where I was."

He talked casually towards her.

"Oh... I was wondering where you went to around the house."

She replied softly.

"I just took a quick shower I would say hehe."

He joyfully chuckled slightly.

"Has Ursula told you we're going to go somewhere with the rest of the party members...?"

"No... Wait! Where are we even going?"

He replied cluelessly on what she meant.

"Not sure either, but we have to comply for some odd reason..."

As they kept on talking, mysterious footsteps was being made across the stairs as it was slowly approaching them steadily. The person peeked around the corner, and approached them carefully.

"Good morning guests, we have breakfast on the dinner table, please come and eat with the rest."

Notomi gracefully spoke with confidence in her usual tone. After she has spoken to them, Aoife turned around with surprise, she gasped as she suddenly saw Notomi standing directly behind her.

"Oh! Uhhh- we will be going soon I guess."

She faintly lowered her voice from her sudden reaction to Notomi. The maid bowed infront of them, she proceeded to head back downstairs after reminding the duo. 

"Well... We should go downstairs now right...?"

She asked Avery politely.

"Yeah, I'm getting hungry anyways."

Meanwhile...

"Oh! Uhhhh- You guys are here! First time eating breakfast here am I right...? Hahahah~"

Asena chuckled nervously as her voice faded into embarrassment.

"Uhhh- Yeah! This is our first time... Is there any difference?"

Aoife carefully asked with her sentence, although her face was slightly concerned from Asena's nervous expression as she heard her trembling voice but it didn't bother her that much.

"Are you the only one here?"

"M- Maybe~"

Asena struggled to speak her words.

"Wait! Guests! We have to be in a hurry now! Your breakfasts will be in the carriages!"

Notomi exclaimed as she entered the dinner area. Everyone turned around their heads to look at her. They quickly walked fast outside of the room as they were about to head towards the main lobby. A few moments pass by, everyone was gathered around the lobby, some special guests were sitting around the living room. Ursula slowly walk infront of the maindoor and opened it with a snap of her finger.

"Everyone! We're going to the party election! Is everyone here?!"

She yelled around them. As she yelled her words, everyone simultaneously exclaimed yes to prove their attendance.

"Neven, Kairo, Asena, Teila, Aoife, Avery, blah blah blah~ okay everybody is here!"

As she turned around he jumped inside the carriage. After several minutes, everyone gathered into their own separate carriages in a convoy. Aoife and Avery we're still with Ursula in the same carriage that they went to go to her mansion. The convoy started to move slowly, and proceeded to raise the carriages speed each second had gone. The vehicles exited the gate as Mumami and Notomi watched from the door.

"So, did you two meet all of the members around the house?"

Ursula asked them with her silly voice yet again, it tickled Aoife and Avery's ears as they try to respond quickly.

"For me... Kinda yes?"

Avery said it a uncertain tone.

"I didn't meet the other two missing people during dinner."

She quickly followed up.

"Oh that's weird... Well, buckle up I guess we're about to approach the main square!"

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