Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

Zach, Dukiel, and Anerias wanted to see Nessa and confirm that she was alive for themselves. But they were sensible. They let the injured one rest. They were about to leave when they caught sight of the sleeping Violina and remembered her.

Simultaneously, Zach and Dukiel looked at Anerias.

"...What are you looking at me for?"

"Isn't she your girlfriend?" Zach asked.

"...No."

Zach and Dukiel glanced at each other. They placed one hand each on either of Anerias' shoulders and gave him a pitying look while shaking their heads lightly.

"What?"

"..."

"What?!"

"..."

Zach and Dukiel didn't say anything. But since Anerias wasn't taking care of Violina, Zach had Yanael grab her and bring her to her dorm. It was locked. Zach wasn't sure what to do. He considered bringing her to his place and have Nora help her get cleaned up. But he wasn't sure what Violina might feel about that.

After fighting together with their lives on the line and living in the forest, they were closer than ordinary classmates. The same went for all of them. Their shared experiences that were far from what one might find in a civilized society made things like prudishness and awkwardness unimportant.

But smelling bad or skipping out on noble etiquette in the forest and bringing a sleeping woman to his room and also getting her out of her clothes and cleaning her up were two different things.

But while Zach hesitated, Violina woke up without him noticing.

"...You can let me down now." She patted Yanael on the shoulder. Yanael let her down.

Violina stood in front of Zach. She looked at him silently. Since she was no longer on the floor outside where Nessa was treated, something had to have happened.

"She made it." Zach didn't prolong Violina's anxiety.

Violina nodded. Relief washed over her, and that nod almost turned into her nodding off again.

"...That's…great," she said tiredly.

Zach nodded.

"You did good, Violina. Thank you for saving her life."

Violina shook her head.

"...I just did what I should. It was my fault she got injured, in the first place."

"No. Last I checked, your mouth could barely fit a potato, much less Nessa's arm and shoulder."

"When did you check—Never mind…" Violina looked at Zach with a frown for a moment before shaking her head and unlocking her dorm.

"Thanks for carrying me to my dorm, Zach."

"Anytime."

Violina closed her door and Zach returned to his dorm to get cleaned up and pass out. He looked around while he made his way around the Academy.

But he found Alzara first when he arrived at his dorm.

"I thought I would find you with the others," Zach commented as soon as he and his familiars entered his room.

"I stayed with them for as long as they needed me to. But when they returned to the Academy, they got a little ahead of me, and I couldn't find them again." Alzara bowed her head and tried to avoid Zach's gaze. It would have worked if she wasn't so tall, and if Zach wasn't standing so close to her.

She ended up looking straight down at him.

"You lost them?" Zach had trouble believing it, even if she had fought past the point of exhaustion with the bear.

Instead of answering or nodding, Alzara asked a question,

"What am I, Master?"

Zach raised an eyebrow and thought for a moment.

"Beautiful?" He asked.

"...Thank you." Alzara blushed a little. The last thing she was expecting was such a straightforward and earnest compliment.

"But that's not what I meant."

"...A desert witch."

"Exactly. I can find my way through any desert with a blindfold and earplugs. Forests are almost doable. Structures? Buildings? Places with a lot of both of those?

Would you ask a termite to eat steel?"

"I actually got attacked by a falling chandelier due to a rare species of metal-eating termites once."

"...I don't know what to say to that, Master, but rare exceptions like yourself aside, my point still stands." Alzara looked awkwardly at Zach for a few moments before moving on.

Zach just nodded understandingly. For some reason, Alzara didn't like the pity she felt from Zach.

"I had a feeling you would be the same."

Alzara realized that the pity she felt was sympathy. Zach related to her. Unfortunately, she did not relate to his or Yanael's struggles.

She shook her head. Zach couldn't find his way out of a shoebox. She was not that bad. She had a great sense of direction. It was just that buildings and walls that curved and twisted and bent unnecessarily and looked the same everywhere interfered with that sense of direction.

Otherwise, she was great at finding her way. Outside the self-made, symbolic prisons of instinct and natural development, Alzara was a star at finding her way and living as people were meant to.

But Zach just nodded when Alzara fiercely shook her head. He could tell. They were the same.

No matter what Alzara said or tried to claim, they were the same. It wasn't on the same level or to the same degree, but they were the same. That was all Zach needed to know.

A slight smile tugging on his lips helped raise his spirit a little after a difficult day that was almost disastrous. He bathed and scrubbed himself before lying down for a massage from Nora. He fell asleep during the massage. His maids moved him to the bed and tucked him in.

Zach, Dukiel, Anerias, and Violina slept like babies. They still didn't know what had happened to Julius. They might never know. It sucked. But there was nothing they could do about it. And Nessa was going to live.

She still hovered in the danger zone, but they all knew that if she had already come this far, she was going to make it.

She had lost an arm. But she would live.

They had gone from having lost two of their dear friends to getting one of them back.

There was also the chance that Julius was alive.

If anyone would live after entering the Underworld, the fall into a bottomless pit aside, it was Julius, thanks to his familiar, which had adapted to the underworld energy.

The four of them rested.

Nessa also rested.

It was a calm night. It was a stark contrast to the chaotic and panicked city.

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