In the Garden Of The Castle.
Under the tree of cherry blossom, a swing was tied to one of its branches which swayed to and fro.
In it, Christina sat with a gentle expression while supporting her head against Alex's shoulder.
The day was sunny and gentle breezes blew which made the flowers dance around cheerfully.
The chirping sound of birds can be heard occasionally which rang like pleasant songs in one ear.
The atmosphere was quite calm and peaceful which soothes one mind.
"It's so calm today," Christina muttered with a blank expression.
Alex ran his finger through her hair, caressing it gently.
Although her face looked back Alex could feel a hint of happiness in her tone.
Today was the end of his vacation, and he wanted to relax and spend his day lazing around his wife.
Since Riya was already with Alex most of the time, she decided to sacrifice a bit and gave Christina and Catherine a chance to spend some time with him.
Catherine felt that Alex's presence was making her idle because she had been lazing around for too long and tons of work had been left pending for her to finish so she decided to finish a bit of the work in the morning and free up some time in the afternoon.
That left only Alex and Christina, to spend some sweet time with each other.
Other than that, the atmosphere wasn't as lovely as one expects from a couple. Still, both of their hearts could feel the warmth of each other.
Both of them were training freaks, who could skip meals for a day but not training but today both of them just laze around enjoying the beautiful scenery in the garden.
"Have you recovered fully?" Christina asked with a worried gaze.
Alex chuckled seeing her fearful gaze and said"Yeah!"
"I can use healing spells along with divine power but I can't exert myself physically." Alex didn't say about the loss of vitality, otherwise, Christina might be freaked out for real.
"Take care of yourself in Zenith, since you are in Magician class, you don't need to train physically so much. Just recuperate a bit."
"Yes, Mam!" Alex nodded politely after all one cannot disobey a wife's order.
"You too take care of yourself."
"Your visit was quite unusual, and you were even lucky enough to get a holiday for such a reason. Generally, they don't give holidays like this." Christina stated.
"What can I say, you know your hubby is special."
Christina lifted her and stared at Alex with a puzzling gaze which startled Alex.
Staring at him for a moment, she closed her eyes and her lips curled upward with a smile.
"I know."
"I am blessed with a good man."
Alex's whole body shuddered as soon as he heard Christina's words and thought that he might have heard something wrong or this might be an illusion.
And that smile, what was that?
Swallowing his saliva, Alex asked"Christina, are you alright?"
"Did you have a fever?"
"Or did you eat something wrong?"
Christina's expression distorted a bit and she shook her head with a cute pout"Forget, what I have said."
"It's my bad luck that I married you."
"Hmph!"She snorted.
'I managed to praise you after thinking so much and you have the galls to say that to me and make fun.''
Alex saw her anger and tried to coax her but his coaxing session was interrupted by a slight cough.
"You can continue if you want."
"It's alright, I can wait."
Alex stared at Catherine and asked"Catherine, it seems you are taking Athena classes seriously."
"If there is a husband like you who is a wolf in man's clothing, a woman needs to prepare herself mentally and physically," Catherine spoke with a smirk.
'What the hell is up with her? My girls seemed to be getting sharp. Just who the hell tainted them like this?'
'It seems I need to punish Athena.'
'Marrying five girls is difficult. Fate is really cruel to chain me with beautiful ladies. Haa, what can I say? I am even jealous of my own handsomeness.'
'It's okay, I will sacrifice myself for The Goddesses to deal with the burdensome women which no one wants.'
If the nobles and thousands of suitors of his wives heard about his thoughts, they would just run after him trying to butcher him.
He had already become the public enemy's number-one by marrying these five ladies and every time some see him with his wives, it adds further oil to the fire.
Alex made up his mind to have a hearty talk with Athena in their next meeting. He needs to teach her who is the head of the household otherwise, he fears that all his wives might move out of his grasp one day.
Alex stood up along with Christina who just bowed her head with a shy expression.
"Catherine, have you sorted out the things I have written?"
"En!"
"On your next visit, you will see some wonderful changes in Leonhart. Trust me, I will give my all to make Leonhart according to your vision."
"Just leave the administration to me and study properly. Don't behave like a hooligan and make me lose my face in front of my friend Zenith." Catherine warned him.
"I also wanted to say the same things," Christina said while shooting a glance at Alex.
Alex resigned to his fate and didn't argue. He didn't want to start a cold war today so he accompanied both of them for a stroll.
"It seems, your time to depart has arrived," Catherine said, much to Alex's annoyance.
"This is wrong, you cheated. Catherine, you arrived late. We still didn't have a heartful session." Alex started to grumble endlessly giving Catherine a headache.
Catherine glanced at Alex's pained and lonely expression and biting her lips, she stared at Christina and spoke.
"Christina, a maid is calling you."
"Huh!" Christina was startled and turned her head to stare in the direction pointed by Catherine.
Alex's attention was also drawn and he tilted his head to look, but he suddenly received a soft peck on the cheek.
Alex's eyes widened and he looked back to notice a mischievous smile on Catherine's lips.
"Why didn't you do it on my lips?"
Catherine didn't answer and stepped back as Christina turned back.
"I didn't see anyone," Christina asked with a puzzled expression.
"Sorry, I might have heard something wrong."
"We should go back," Catherine said, looking at the peaceful sunset dyeing the sky in bright orange colour.
As they walked, Catherine tip-toed and reached for Alex's ears, and whispered: "I wanted to give it to your lips but who told you to turn your head around."
"It's not my fault that you miss the chance to kiss me on the lips."
"You can only blame yourself."
"You...." Alex felt as if he had been teased and defeated in his play.
It had been always Alex having his way through Catherine but this time Alex was beaten in his own game, fair and square.
"Next time I return, I will show you the consequences of messing with me."
"I await your return, Your Majesty but before that, you need to extinguish the fire in Yvonne's heart. Athena must have lit a fire there" Catherine giggled softly.
"Hey, what are two doing?"
Alex and Catherine coughed awkwardly after hearing Christina's words who had walked away first but stopped seeing the two of them falling behind.
Both of them increased their pace and Alex wondered, what Athena had done behind his back.
He wiped the cold sweat that formed on his forehead, thinking about the trouble he might encounter due to Athena's prank.
