Part 5

Spending all this time with all four of them really opened my eyes.

Thanks to that and Sebas’s support, I started to learn step by step how to be a proper king and rule Midgard.

What I didn’t anticipate, though, was... that my own citizens would love them so much that they’d just split my kingdom up and create four factions, each one following one of them...

Then again... I do understand them... And if I could, I would join all four!

Then, one day Sebas brought me to the throne, telling me there is an emergency situation that needs urgent tending to.

I should have known... coming from Sebas, it could only be one thing!

Aiko, Tsubaki, Sakura, and Miyuki stood in front of me, each reaching out a hand towards me.

“What’s going on?”

“Give us our rewards!”

“R-rewards?”

“Of course! We worked so hard after all.”

Tsubaki’s fluffy tail wagged left and right.

“Or is it that you don’t think we deserve one?”

Miyuki tried acting nonchalant... but unfortunately for her this time, her pink cheeks gave her away.

“Absolutely you do! But what can I even give as a reward...? We barely managed to start stockpiling food for winter...”

“Then how about you let us choose our rewards ourselves?”

Sakura’s smirk worried me, surely it wouldn’t be something crazy... right!?

“I-I mean that’d be fine with me.”

“And it could be anything, right? After we saved your kingdom and life...”

Now I’m even more worried! She’s not wrong, but... why would she ask it like that!? Unless it is something crazy!

“Fine... just don’t ask for something too crazy...”

They all gave each other a quick glance before looking back at me.

Eh?

“Marry me!”

They shouted simultaneously.

“But I’m just one person... I can’t just split myself in four and marry each one of you...”

“Your Majesty.”

Kyaaaaaaa!

“Sebas!?”

“You’re allowed to take multiple wives.”

Eeeeeeeeh!?

“Really!?”

He just nodded.

They all stared at me, and I could see the anticipation in their eyes.

“Is that really what you all want!? What if I can’t make all four of you happy?”

“Haaaaa. We knew this would happen and even that you’d react like this.”

Miyuki sighed deeply.

“After all, that’s just how our Shunpei is.”

Sakura said while giggling.

“And always has been! But! I’m the first wife!”

Tsubaki latched onto my arm, sticking her tongue out at the others again.

“Huh!? No! I did the most! So I’ll be the first wife.”

Sakura interrupted.

“Oh my, oh my. How cute... I, as the saint, should be the first wife, blessed by the gods themselves.”

“Said by the least holy Saintess ever.”

Miyuki rebutted.

“Girls, girls-”

“Shut up, Shunpei! This is between us!”

Again!? But isn’t that my choice!?