the great exodus

“So, you already know Mary, Cia and Eternal Flame right?”, started Sylphid with a proud smile on her lips.

Uh...somewhat? I never met the girl that was constantly on fire. Quite frankly, this one looked like a disaster in the making.

“Then over there is Marina”, Sylphid indicated towards what appeared to be a cyborg. “And here we have Lucky and Ozaru.”

Right, I remember Lucky. The girl who’s apparently unbelievably, well, lucky. But not lucky enough to not end up as Sylphid’s ****, I guess.

“And we are missing….Beryl! Oi, Beryl! Get your gloom butt over here!”

A shadowy figure emerged from the bedroom. Wow, this one looks creepy!

“Hehe, isn't she cute!” Sylphid gave the girl with the extremely creepy smile a hug. “She is supposed to bring bad luck or something. But I don't think I care, if she is that cute!”

The creepy girl smirked. “Fu fu fu, my powers are currently offset by Lucky. Because of this you have yet managed to escape a terrible fate.”

Sylphid nodded sagely. “Oh! Oh! Wanna see something cool?”

No.

“Lucky, I want you to snuggle with Beryl.”

“Yay!”

The blonde haired girl happily skipped over to Beryl, who seemed very apathetic about this sexual harassment. Lucky then proceeded to hug Beryl and place a chaste kiss on her lips.

The moment she did the entire tower started ominously rumbling. It felt a bit like back when the tower emerged during the quarter finals drawings.

Only that time there wasn’t ominous chanting accompanying it.

“W-what’s happening?”, asked a very scared Sanakia.

Beats me. But I sure don’t like it.

The rest of the girls seemed to care very little. Guess the apocalypse is just a normal occurrence in Sylphid’s household.

Sylphid waited until some very concerning cracks began to appear in thin air. “Aaaaand stop!”

The moment the girls stopped their kissing, the rumbling stopped. The chanting too. And the fabric of time and space was also restored.

Ok, that was terrifying.

“I wonder what would happen if the two had sex”, Sylphid mused. “Maybe we get a different soundtrack?”

Yeah, let’s not do that. I like living, thank you very much.

“My Lord”, Sanakia whispered into my ear. “Both of these girls are Balance Breakers. They are…”

“sworn enemy of the church?”

Sanakia nodded determined. “Please exercise the utmost caution among them. Their powers are beyond our understanding.”

I gathered as much.

“And lastly…” Sylphid pointed to the only man in the room. He wore a butler uniform and looked suspiciously like a genderbent version of my own maid Maria. “This handsome devil here is Albert or Al. Sorry, to say he doesn’t come with me. Disappointed?”

No.

The butler gave a polite bow. “That is so Master Beta. Please do care of my rambunctious master in my stead.”

“R-right.”

Syphid’s butler smiled. “If you excuse me, then. My service hereby comes to an end. It was an honor serving you, Lady Sylphid. Master Beta, I wish you good fortune in the tournaments final.”

...does the tournament association clone these guys or something?

“Sooooo….”, Sylphid grinned at me as her former butler casually made his exit. “You are surrounded by hot girls, literally in one case and figuratively in another, who have to do whatever you tell them to. What are you going to do, Handsome?”

…

..

.

“Noooooooooooooooooooo!”

Sylphid was wailing in pure terror. “Handsome! Please! I beg you! You can’t do this! This is too cruel! Too inhumane!”

“You should have really seen that coming, Sylphid”, I told her.

“Uggggh!”, Syphid shrieked. “I hate being a ****! Worst decision ever!”

That amazing temper tantrum came, of course, after I shared my intent to free her slaves.

Well, not that I was expecting Sylphid to react any differently.

Luckily, Sylphid didn’t install any safety orders. Neither did Lucky who managed to get Ozaru, Marina and Beryl as slaves. The Balance Breaker took it with a lot more dignity then Sylphid as well.

Natural I forbade Sylphid to give any order to her slaves and then ordered her to order Lucky to do the same with her slaves. It was a bit confusing but I think I mostly got it sorted out.

And that was it then, right?

No, no, of course it wasn’t.

“Please don’t send me away!”

The girl in the black and white maid uniform dropped on her knees in front of me and begged me almost in tears. “After what I have done, Ojou-sama will…” She was shaking in pure fear. “Please allow me to stay with you! I do anything! Anything! Please, Master!”

Oh. I did not consider that.

“Weeeeeell, Handsome…” Sylphid having recovered astoundingly fast from her previous outburst smiled at me. “Sending Cia away would be...hmm...awfully cruel now is it?”

“A-alright, alright. Please, just calm down. You can stay”, I ensured the cute maid, preventing her from opening my zipper so she could show me just how serious she was. Lucky was giggling as if that was somehow extremely hilarious.

Fine, I take the maid. At least I finally get a normal, shy girl. And she was admittedly very cute.

“So…” I dreaded to ask. “Does anyone else wish to stay?”

“Thanks for the offer, but I reckon it's time for this old gal to ride towards the setting son”, Mary stated while nibbling on some long piece of straw. “Been away for too long from my cows. Gotta check up on them. Was a holler’n hoot and all that, though.”

“I must go. My planet needs me.”, the cyborg followed suit. “I am on a quest to find that pervert professor and defeat the evil empire. This was a mere distraction in my journey! Let’s shake hands! Shake Shake!”

Sure, whatever.

“I shall depart this vale of tears as well.” Creepy girl was next, ever since she entered the scene she never stopped grinning. “My continuing presence on this plane would only heighten the misfortune that awaits you.”

Thank the Goddess for that one. I’m sure you are a wonderful person but I don’t like your continent ending tendency.

“I wanna stay!” the golden haired girl named Lucky gave a bright grin. She was, well, the best way to describe her was like sunshine? Just being around her makes you feeling lucky. Hard to say what so balance breaking about her but Sanakia seemed very wary of her.

“I like Sylphid and you look like the type of person who has constant wardrobe malfunctions!”

“My Lord does admittedly have that weakness”, agreed Sanakia.

You’re one to talk!

Lucky jutted her chest out, beaming with pride “Hehe! Don't worry! With me at your side your panties will never got exposed again!”

I blushed. “Well, that’s not something that normally...eek!”

This was a challenge to Sylphid. In the blink of an eye she sneaked behind me and pulled my pants down.

“Well...”the Balance Breaker grinned bashfully and stuck out her tongue. “At least it won't happen once Beryl has left. We kinda cancel each other out.”

Beryl gave a small nod. “Fufufu, your taste in undergarments belies the tale of misery and woe that is about to beset you. My condolences to the witch of miracles.”

Grumbling I pulled my pants back up. I swear, I can’t let me eyes of Sylphid for a second. “So...uhh...”

“Me Ozaru!”, The monkey girl declared while jumping up and down like...a monkey. “Me wanna go with Mar-Mar!”

Please don’t call me that.

“She’s actually blubbering about me”, the gunslinger girl, Mary, sighed and chewed some more on her straw. “Reckon I take care of the little fella.”

“Yes! Me love Mar-Mar. Wanna have babies!”

Poor Mary. But better her then me.

“So that leaves…”

“Eternal Flame my Lord”, Sanakia informed me, pointing towards the fire girl.

“R-right”, I nodded, feeling somewhat intimated by the sheer fiery presence. “Do you..uh want to stay or go?”

No answer, but the way her flames flickered towards the elevator, I guess that signaled she would want to leave? Phew, I had no idea how to even accommodate her.

And that should be it? I’m not too happy that I yet again end up with two additional slaves but at the very least both Cia and Lucky seem to be somewhat reasonable people. Besides having an additional maid and a lucky charm certainly couldn’t hurt.

“Hold on! Hold the phone! We aren’t done her at all!”

Sylphid aggressively complained.

Back to throwing a tantrum again? “Sylphid look this is not up for...”

“I still need to be punished!”

...what?

“It needs to be done!” Sylphid proclaimed with an absurd boldness. “I was a cruel and wicked mistress to these girls and need to be brought down a peg!”

No thanks. I learned my lesson. If I allow it, Sylphid will somehow turn it around again. Worst case scenario I end up with all these girls as slaves after all.

Luckily, all Sylphid got for the offer was a bunch of blank stares.

“I refuse”, stated Marina and Mary nodded.

“Not giving her hide a tanning is kinda a tanning on it’s own, you know?”

“Noooooo!”, Sylphid screamed in despair. “I need a tanning! Whatever that is! Why are you all so reasonable!”

“Fufufu...have no worries. A punishment most cruel will soon engulf you with despair.”

Lovely. Wonderful.

“Me want to punish Lucky!”, the monkey girl, Ozaru, suddenly declared.

Ok, I suppose Lucky was her master for a brief time. I suppose she is entitled to a bit of comeuppance. That said I’m not sure we should touch a Balance Breaker.

“That’s fair”, Lucky unfortunately agreed. “Alright Ru-Ru you can punish me.”

“Good! Gonna feed you bananas! A lot! Like ten at once!

Lucky gasped in shock. “T-ten? That's a lot Ru-Ru. I'm not sure if I can eat that many.”

“Good! Is punishment!”

So much for the power of luck.