Zero to Hero (Prequel/prototype)

Chapter 23. Reunion and Confession

"Ken. Time to get up and get ready." Emma whispered softly in Ken's ear.

With Genesis refusing to sleep in Emma's room and kept sneaking into Ken's bed every night. Emma eventually gave up on stopping her and instead would just follow her into Ken's room and the two would squeeze into his two-person wide bed and sandwich Ken in the middle.

Luckily for Ken, since he is a deep sleeper, he never noticed the girls when they crawl into his bed at night. One problem he faced every morning was waking up tightly in between two beautiful girls and trying to remain calm enough to not let his lust take over. Instead of getting easier, it got harder each morning for him to contain his urges and he is thankful it's finally time to head back to the academy.

After a hearty breakfast and teary siblings that's sad to see both Ken and Emma go, Ken gave most of the gold he had left to his mom and advised that there should be enough to last the family for a whole year or more but with both him and Emma having a stable income, the family doesn't have to be as frugal and he will bring more gold home by year end.

Saying goodbye to his younger siblings, Ken advised them to keep on studying and learning from the notes he left them from his studies and the lessons he taught them in the past month. After talking to all of them together, Ken pulled Gwen to the side, he thanked her for the chat and asked her to take care of all the younger siblings while sneaking her the leftover coins to get something nice for herself.

At exactly 9am, Genesis and Ken's necklace started to glow and with Ken holding Emma's hand, the three disappeared in front of the family and instantly, they appeared back at the academy.

While Emma stared in awe at the sheer size, grand decorations and extravagant furniture in their common room, Ken couldn't help but smile at her reaction and remembering how he felt exactly the same just half a year ago when he experienced all of this for the first time.

As Ken had his attention on Emma while still holding her hand, he felt someone hugging him firmly from behind. Before he could even take a guess at who was hugging him from behind, he felt lips on his neck as he got hugged from both the left and right as well.

"Are you trying to give me a hug because you are happy to see me or are you just excited to drink my blood?" Ken joked as he got sandwiched by the three girls.

When Ken said he made friends with a vampire, a wolf girl and an elf princess. Emma knew something wasn't adding up from the way the wolf girl acted during the tournament. Now that she had seen the way they acted, Emma knew immediately that their feelings for Ken were obviously more than just simple friendship.

"All I have been thinking about is you this whole entire month and the moment I saw you, you are out here holding another girl's hand! I have been thinking about this the whole month and we really need to have a talk." Alice complained as she finished drinking Ken's blood for her first fresh meal in a month.

"Ken, I need to talk to you in private as well." Clare added while staring at Emma suspiciously.

"Before we do anything, let me just take my sister to the staff room so they can interview her for a possible job. Once we are done, I also have some things I want to discuss with all of you so we can all sit down and have a nice long chat" Ken responded calmly.

As expected, all of the girls tagged along with Ken as the group headed for the staff room to get Emma's situation settled. Along the way, the three girls all whined about how much they missed him and complained about every little detail that happened while they were separated.

While Lovetta and Genesis knew that Ken had spoken with the staff during the tournament to have Emma teleported over for a job interview. Since Alice and Clare spent those days mostly with family, they were totally in the dark about this sudden appearance of a sister and tried their best to pry information out of Ken and see what the exact relationship is like between the two.