Zero to Hero (Prequel/prototype)

Chapter 36. Soul

With her warm and soft body pressed tightly against his, Ken slowly opened up his eyes as Clare called out his name softly.

"Morning Clare, happy birthday!"

As Clare turned to face him, Ken wished her a happy birthday as the two shared a passionate kiss. Over the past two weeks, Clare had slowly desensitized to Ken's presence and had gotten much more comfortable with being intimate with him as the two spent every night for the past two weeks alone.

After two weeks of spending most of his days with the girls, it was obvious to Ken that Clare wasn't being truthful when she said Cecilla was only joking when she confessed her feelings for him and Cecilla had also spent most of her days with Ken trying to get him to pay attention to her while also trying to learn more about him.

While Clare has always getting annoyed with other girls trying to get close to Ken, he noticed that she seems extra concerns when it comes to Cecilla and when he asked why she is so aggressive with her disapproval of Ceceilla, he was told that since Cecilla was supposed to be Xandrian's eventual wife, it's a bad look if rumors gets around that she was too invested with another man.

Feeling like it was a good explanation, Ken stopped pressing on the subject but after spending more time with Cecilla, he had really come to like the elf girl and to see her sad expressions every time her future was brought up, Ken couldn't help but feel like he should do something for her and try to help Cecilla get out of this dilemma.

After the pair got ready, they left the room and went to the dining room to have some breakfast.

"Morning Mary, Sarah!" Ken greeted the two servants with a smile while asking them to make him some of his favorite breakfast dishes.

"Ken! Are you really leaving tomorrow? You should stay with us the whole break!" Chloe complained as she walked into the dining room with Cecilla following closely behind.

"Morning Chloe! Morning Cecilla! Are we going anywhere fun today?" Ken asked excitedly as the girls had showed him many interesting and fun places over the past two weeks.

After the day at the amusement park, the girls took him to the port the next day to check out the massive fleet of battleships docked and ready for any conflict even after two thousand years of peace.

Not too far away from the military port, the trading port was not any less grand. While it lacked uniformity, the ships, boats and vessels of all shapes and sizes littered the dock and the huge bay.

Ken and the girls spent a fun-filled day at the port watching the incoming and outgoing ships while also enjoying the many shops and traders that scattered around the dock with unique and exotic goods to sell from all over the world.

The day after, they took him to a private beach with pure white sand and beautiful blue ocean and sky as far as the eyes could see. While the beach was private for only the royal family and their guests, due to the large number of wives, concubines and offsprings the king had, Clare was not pleased with how many people were at the private beach.

Doing her best to keep Ken's eyes from wandering around, the four had another great day playing in the sand, trying to surf on the waves, enjoying delicious food and Ken even got to ride on a merhorse around the ocean racing against the girls.

Similar to other types of horse that merged with different creatures or elements, the merhorse lacked legs and had a fish-like tail and looked extremely similar to seahorses but much larger in size and were great fun to ride and race on.

As Cecilla promised, they took Ken to the pegasus farm on another day where Ken was impressed by the magnificent looking creature. twice as large as your average horse with a pure white coat and large white wings.