Frostfire Legacy

"Ugh..."

Aster stirred awake with an intense headache assaulting his senses.

When he opened his blurry eyes, the fifth thing that entered his sight was... two soft peaks, enveloping his face in their supreme elasticity and suppleness.

"Mmm mmm? (Wait, what?)"

Surprised by the sudden greeting and wanting to figure out what was going on, he tried to move but realized that he was currently in a joint lock. Whoever it was that was above him was quite skilled at it too!

"MMM! (MOVE!)"

"Hnnng~!"

When he tried to extract himself forcefully, he ended up brushing his head against the valley. As he did, a familiar, sweet voice echoed in his ears. It was Cassy!

"Hmm? Ah, Star... Did you wake up?" She woke up from the stimuli, loosening her hold.

She hovered over Aster, making him finally see her face in its entirety. "Good morning, Mr. I'm The Best. Hehe~!"

"... What's with that nickname?"

Aster asked, trying to fix his gaze onto her face and not toward the ripe fruits hanging slightly below his vision. She was wearing nothing but a single piece of shirt, like always!

"What? Did you forget what you were doing last night...?"

"..."

With the addition of "last night" to her words, for some reason, he started to sweat bullets. He couldn't recall a single fucking thing! His memory was as if it were wiped clean, and with the last moment he could recall, adding Liz to the party!

"Wait, let me think," Aster asked while pushing her out of the way and sitting up. "Mmh?"

To begin, he started looking around, identifying where they were. It was a familiar room, a familiar bed—without a doubt, they were in his hotel room! While glancing left and right, he also discovered three more figures with them.

To his left was Cassy, who was sitting down in quite a precarious pose, with the lower hem of the shirt she was wearing rolling up due to her pose with her thighs slightly spread. To his right was a sleeping dragon. She wasn't wearing her armor, only the base red dress. However, that didn't do much to help, as she was just as exposed as Cassy was.

On the other side, behind Cassy, two cats were intertwined with each other. It was obvious at a glance that they were fighting before falling asleep. But without knowledge about their being like water and oil, they would seem like two good friends sleeping in each other's embrace.

"... What the fuck happened, really?" He couldn't even begin to guess!

Cassy tilted her head before smiling. "Well, you'll know when we go to the guild today, probably~!"

Fortunately, or unfortunately, perhaps, nothing of the sort he was thinking had happened.

After the other girls woke up and while they were having breakfast cooked by Aster, the newest member recounted the events. From what Liz told him, Aster turned berserk after getting drunk and caused quite a ruckus inside the Adventurer's Guild.

Cassy was pouty since she wanted to keep it a secret until they went to the guild, though.

Tina was, as usual, clinging to Aster with every opportunity she had, while trying to keep the other girls out of his immediate vicinity. Her possessiveness was starting to get out of hand.

"Mornin' Boss!"

"..."

And when they arrived at the guild, some of the ruffian-looking adventurers rushed toward their group and bowed their heads in greeting. From their body language, it was easy to tell that they were truly scared of Aster. Seeing this, he was completely taken aback!

'What the hell did I really do?' He started to worry.

Actually, after Aster went berserk, some adventurers tried to pick a fight with him out of jealousy. After all, he was always seen dragging beautiful girls around wherever he went!

However, they were frozen from their toes up to their chins in a flash, unable to even touch a strand of his hair. Then he, allegedly, started pouring beer down their throats. It was torture, but the festive mood completely changed the way the event was perceived!

As such, those ruffians finally understood the power hierarchy and treated Aster as someone above them, their boss.

Of course, even if he was told about what he did, he would simply be confused. He had yet to reach the level of instantaneous casting of his Legacy Level Magic Carved Seal, after all! And the drunk version of him managed to pull it off!

In the end, he only swore to himself, with the gods as witnesses. 'I'll never, ever drink again...'

---

In a dark and lifeless room, twelve screens shone an inorganic blue light on its surroundings. For each screen, a face was displayed, but it wasn't live, more like a still image or a picture as if to represent each of them.

"It is confirmed. The mayor of Orinfeld City is hiding something from all of us, and that is the existence of a human with extremely high-purity human DNA!"

A voice came from one of the screens, the one with an old, fat man with receding white hair displayed on it.

"A high-purity human? Does that sort of thing even exist?"

Another voice echoed, coming from the screen, showing an extremely seductive beauty with long black hair and a white furball curled upon her lap. "Are you not making things up again, Caballe? You do have a personal grudge against that Noire, right?"

"That's true."

Another one interjected, the voice coming from a screen showing a tall, handsome man standing as if he were a noble in a painting.

"My place still hasn't completely recovered after you dragged us into your last failed plot, you know? You haven't even finished paying off that debt yet, either."

"Hah! My information source is accurate this time!" The old man exclaimed in a giddy tone. "I heard it directly from one of the heads of the Anti-Human Movement, so there's no doubt about it! That Magnus is hiding the presence of a precious human from us!"

"You..." The woman groaned, as if exasperated. "You do understand that saying that is the same as admitting you're working with a terrorist group, you know?"

"Leave him be, Aria. He's no longer sane, anyway." The other man exclaimed with a sigh.

"True, he's been an insane old man since, like, forever."

"ANYWAY!" The old man raised his voice as if to forcefully bring the topic back on track. "At this rate, that bastard Magnus would pull ahead of us again! I propose we all work together and take him down a notch... and take custody of that high-purity human!"

"What nonsense; I'm out."

"Same. I'm in no position to initiate a war right now. Well, I wish you luck."

The woman, Aria, and the nobleman left, their screens turning black in a flash. As if to follow their lead, the others also started to wordlessly leave. One after another, the screens started to black out, causing the old man to grind his teeth in anger.

"Tell me more about your plan."

"...!"

When all but one screen was left, another voice echoed.