Did she already know what I would ask her for?

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"Well, now that we're out of that damn forest, what was that sh*t you said about having another woman??" asks Alessia as we sit in the uninhabited meadow where not long ago we had sex in the open.

When we got to a point where I could use space travel, I opened an illusionary door leading to anywhere other than where we were, and that's how we ended up here.

Alessia's face is still red with fury, but she seems calmer... somehow.

"It was nothing. They were just words I said out of the pressure of the moment to try to motivate you," I say, even though I know it's highly unlikely the lie will work.

'Sh*t... It's true that I wanted my two girls to meet, but this must be the worst possible way.'

"Don't treat me as a stupid person! Speak up, or I'll have to go talk to your parents so that they force you to talk," says Alessia with a nervous twitch in her eye, pounding the floor with a fist.

'Ugh, playing the parent card in a couple's argument is playing dirty, but Alessia seems to be on the verge of tears.... I think the time has come to tell the truth.'

I hate to be the cause of Alessia's suffering, but there's no use crying over spilt milk.

"Hmm… well.... It's... It's true. I have another woman. But it's not something I deliberately sought out! It just... It happened." I say with an apologetic tone, raising my hands in front of my face as a shield since Alessia still has her hands tightly clenched into fists.

"Ha... Sure! It just happened! and how did that Just happen?" she asks, relaxing one hand and bringing it up to her face to cover her eyes.

"Well... It all stemmed from the moment we had to split up so you could train with my mother...."

I say, and I start telling her the story of how my journey to get the traveler class led me to meet Delia.

How fate brought us together so that she could get the Saint class back, which led to the idea that we were meant to be together.

And how, from then on, love grew between us.

Obviously, I removed from the story any elements that might make it seem that I was the architect of it all and simply represented myself as one more piece in a series of fortuitous events that led to an inevitable outcome.

"Haa... If what you say is true... Haa... Just... Take me home. I need to think." says Alessia, in a tone devoid of emotion I've never heard from her before, while she is still keeping her eyes covered by her hand.

"Ok. We can take a bath and relax a bit. I'm sure that will do you good," I say meekly, glad that Alessia is taking the news so well.

"No! You take me home, and then you go.... anywhere. I need to be alone to think. I never... I never imagined... Haa..." Alessia says, pulling her hand away from her eyes and showing teary, betrayed eyes that make my chest hurt.

'W-what did I do? I'm such a fucking bastard!'

"Fine. I'll take you home," I say, defeated by the situation.

'Why the hell did I have to open my mouth? What was the need to make Alessia suffer like that?'

 

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'It's all fault of the Hero class.'

I'm in the uninhabited meadow where a few hours ago the damned truth finally came out.

Now the sun is close to setting, and I have been sitting motionless on the ground for several hours now.

After leaving Alessia, I came back here to think and reflect on what happened.

And that is the conclusion I came to after so much thinking.

Hero and Barbarian are the only two new classes in my status, but I don't think barbarian has anything to do with these new 'good boy impulses' of mine.

It is true that I intended to reveal the truth to Alessia one day, but not like this.

Never like this.

When I think of Alessia's crying face, it makes me want to punch the culprit to death.

But the only culprit is me...

"Well, let's turn this damn class off before I do something even more stupid."

[This class cannot be removed]

'What? This has never happened before. Why is it that now I can't edit my status? Come on, user interface, don't let me down.'

[This class cannot be removed]

"@#%&"

'Let's calm down... Can I change my other classes?'

When I try to remove the Barbarian and Great Adventurer classes, I can do it without any problems.

'So it's a feature of the Hero class? Perhaps I'm just going to have to learn to live with this poison. Or maybe, now that I'm aware of it, I can fight back against my stupid impulses...'

[Justice weapon Lvl 1.] [0|3]

'My new skill doesn't seem so cool anymore now that I know the price of having it...'

"Anyway... It's too late now. I think I should go find Delia and take her to Alessia's so they can get to know each other.... Or get to know each other again, but this time as my girlfriends. Haa... At least Delia already knows I have another woman. I just hope Alessia has accepted the situation by now..."

Emir: !!!

Seeing, thanks to my interface map, where Alessia is currently, I swallow noisily and bring my hands to my forehead.

'Sh*t! This day just keeps getting better and better'

She's at my parents' house, talking to them.

'Well... I'm already up to my neck in sh*t; how much worse can my day get? I desperately need the saintly luck of my little fox girl.... wait'

Emir: !!!

'I guess that won't work against me, will it? Come to think of it, the impulse to tell Alessia the truth was while I had the Luck profile active.... Haa... From now on, I have to be very careful when I activate that profile. It doesn't seem to work well for me in combination with my new class'

"Space Travel"

I create an illusionary door to Delia's tent, and when I walk through it, I see that she is resting in a simple chair while holding Blue Wind in her hands.

'That spear is going to be a problem for my plans.'

"Hi!" says Delia, in her typical beaming and cute tone, "you're a little later than usual today; has something happened?"

Her look full of concern and adorableness makes me feel guilty for the secrets I've been keeping from my little saint.

'Haa... At least she's known all along about my other woman.'

"Yeah, sort of.... It just so happens that my other woman found out that you exist, and she didn't take it very well," I say, controlling the volume of my voice so that it doesn't leave the tent, as Victor is standing guard outside.

"I thought she was okay with our relationship! That wasn't very nice of you," says Delia, looking at me accusingly as the spear begins to vibrate like never before in her hands.

'-Delia! You see now, I told you so! That person is someone you can't trust. He is evil by nature. You must get away from him as soon as possible. Or, if you like, I can help you get rid of him. I'm sure Victor can...'

'-This doesn't change anything! Emir and I are fated. If he ever makes a mistake and deviates from the good path, I just have to help him get back on track. Besides, I already warned you that I wouldn't allow you to talk about him like that. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have my class back, nor would I have met you'

Suddenly, Delia looks angrily at her spear and introduces it to her storage ring.

"Yeah, I know," I say, ruefully remembering Alessia's teary face. "The thing is.... do you want to go and meet her? I'm sure that might make the situation more easily acceptable for my other woman."

'At the end of the day, no one who knows her can really be mad at Delia. She's too adorable for someone to be mad at her.'

"Or… to get to know her again..." I say, and I start talking to her about the identity of my other woman...