"I indeed went to meet a wo-" He felt melancholic when he heard her sad sigh and tried to explain.
However, before he could say anything, a slender finger was placed on his lips, stopping him from speaking further.
He looked at Anna worriedly. He didn't know what she was thinking.
Anna let out a small smile seeing him make a worried face. It meant her opinion mattered greatly to him, which warmed her heart. Max felt relieved watching her smile, but his expression froze the next instant.
"Little Max, tell me, do you like me as a woman?" Anna's smile was replaced by a serious expression as she asked this, and she looked into his eyes as if trying to see his thoughts.
Max was shocked; he had never expected her to ask this question.
'It finally came to this, huh?' Max thought. Although Max could faintly feel that Anna also liked him, seeing how 'addicted' she was to him, he didn't want to take the risk since she was one of the most important people to him.
He took a deep breath, reached out his hands, and held her face gently as he looked into her eyes before nodding, "Yes. I do and also want to make you my woman."
Thump!
Anna felt her heart thump when she saw him nod, and her serious face turned red in shyness while her eyes revealed her joy.
Max noticed this and was relieved a lot. It seems she also liked him.
However, he felt his head hurt when he remembered how sad she was to find out that he had gone to meet some woman.
'Even if I exclude Jasmine since she is nothing more than a source of free LPs, I still have four women right now. If she knows it…"' Max didn't want to imagine her reaction when he told her this.
However, he had to tell her the truth if he wanted her to become his woman.
He then asked somewhat hesitantly, "Do… ahem, do you also like me that way?"
"I-I don't know." Anna was flustered and looked down before snuggling into his chest.
Max smiled, and his nerves that were wrought with tension finally relaxed. He tightly hugged her, feeling her warmth, and didn't say anything for a while.
On the other hand, Anna couldn't calm down, and her heart beat like drums.
After a while, Max whispered, "Anna, I need to tell you something."
"Mm, What… what is it?" She asked with her face placed in his chest.
"Don't you find it weird that I, who didn't have any affinity with Mana and was weaker than even common people, suddenly progressed so rapidly and reached the peak of the two-star realm in less than half a year?" Max asked.
He decided first to tell her about his 'special power' so that she would 'understand' why he had so many women and might have even more in the future.
"Why?" Anna raised her head and looked at him. She was indeed curious about it.
"It's because I inherited a legacy. Thanks to this legacy, I could turn my useless self into the current one." Max said. He knew that many legacies were scattered around the world, and those who found them had their destiny changed, so it was a believable excuse.
After all, he couldn't tell that he wasn't real Max or the about his system as that would be too incredible.
"No wonder you improved so much." Anna nodded in understanding.
Max continued, "However, this legacy was different and 'gave' me a special way of cultivating."
Anna's ears perked up at his, and she listened attentively. She guessed that what he was going to say next was somehow the most important thing.
"To improve, I need to have se- cough! A sexual relationship with women. This helps not only me but also the woman I'm doing it with." As Anna heard this, her cheeks became red like a ripened apple, and she understood why he had to go and see some woman.
Suddenly, she remembered something and asked in a stuttering voice, "S-so, when you told me that you'll help me breakthrough if I can't on my own, you m-meant this."
"That's right." Max nodded awkwardly.
Hearing his confirmation, she didn't dare look at him and lowered her head, trying to hide her embarrassed expression.
Max didn't speak any further after this and waited for her to digest all this.
After a few minutes, Anna calmed down and looked at him. "So, you have some other woman in the academy too."
"Yes. T- Wait. What do you mean by 'in the academy too'?" Max said in confusion. Then, remembering something, he asked, "Do you perhaps know about Lilly?"
As far as he knew, Anna shouldn't know about Lilly because when he told his family about their relationship, she and Emily had already returned to their academies.
"Of course, I know." Anna looked at him smugly, seeing his surprised expression.
After talking for a while, he found out that Amelia, Anna's mother, had sent her a letter after he told everyone about his and Lilly's relationship.
Max was curious and asked, "Why would Amelia send you a letter to specifically tell you about this?"
He knew it cost a lot to send letters to the academies, and after learning how count Wiley wasn't giving Garfield's mansion much resources, it was strange for Amelia to still send a letter here.
"You don't need to know why?" Anna said with an embarrassed expression and quickly changed the topic, "So, who is your woman in the academy? Is it Flavia?"
"Flavia?" Max murmured her name, and a beautiful figure appeared in his mind. Remembering her situation, he couldn't help but sigh.
"No, she isn't." He shook his head and added in his mind, 'Not yet, at least.'
He was training to get a good rank In the inter-academies competition to collect enough resources to buy the medicine capable of healing her scar. Indeed, he liked her and wanted her to become his woman, or he wouldn't do any of this.
'I think I should meet her before the mission tomorrow.' He thought.
"So, who is she?" Anna asked.
"Well, there's not one but three." Max scratched his chin awkwardly.
"What? Three?" Anna exclaimed loudly.
