Ars laughed and extended his hand, before adding.
"You don't need to sign anything for now, let's leave the contracts for later. For now you only need to give me your hand."
She nodded, extended her hand, and Ars teleported them both to his laboratory.
To start with they went to change her appearance. Ars sat down and started.
"Now, if you want to change anything about yourself appearance wise you can tell me and we will input it on the machine."
She nodded and quickly started to express her desires.
"To start with I would like to change the color of my hair to pure black, it will match well with my blue eyes. After that I would like to change my skin tone to be paler. I don't need to change anything in my lower body, I'm pretty happy with it, but I would like to change my height to be a bit taller and finally I would like to have my breast size increased for a bit."
Ars nodded and inquired.
"About the height, how tall would you like to be?"
She thought about it and after a few seconds she replied hopefully.
"I think 1.8 m would be a good height!"
Ars nodded and let her see herself on the screen of the machine then she corrected what she wanted to correct with his Help. After a while she was done.
Ars looked at her for confirmation and once she saw her appearance on the screen she nodded and smiled, before looking at Ars and showing a very pleased smile.
Ars pointed at the machine and introduced her to it.
"This is the machine that can and will, change your appearance. Now if you wouldn't mind, please proceed to enter it."
She nodded and smiled. But before she entered she decided to question Ars about a doubt that had crept in her mind.
"Is this a one-time thing or can I change it again if I want to?"
Ars laughed, she was the first queen to ask if she could use the lab to change her appearance frequently. He smiled at her and replied calmly.
"You can change it how many times you want, just inform me when you want to do it."
After hearing that reply she quickly got into the machine. Ars waited for the procedure to be complete.
When she was done, she quickly exited the machine excitedly and sought a mirror, Ars seeing this gave one to her and commented.
"You know, you are naked and your first instinct is to check yourself in the mirror, I like your priorities."
She smiled and quickly replied.
"First you are my husband, so it's not like you will never see my body. Second, I need to check the upgrades and finally…"
She grabbed his collar and forcefully pulled him for a kiss, before adding.
"While I like goth clothes and when I'm bored I get a bit depressed. I'm actually quite aggressive and won't hesitate to follow my wishes without a second thought, and I just thought to myself… He did a really good job on my body, so he deserves a reward! "
Ars raised his eyebrow and commented.
"You mean you're selfish, willful and don't care about other people's opinions. Great, I needed a new one of those, ever since one of my subordinates got out of her rebellious phase i was missing someone like that, and like the doctor ordered me to i needed to get a new one. But I do like the reward part! Maybe we can discuss a more extensive one later!"
She pulled him once more and kissed him once more, before saying in a joyful mood.
"I love you too! But now, you previously talked about raising my potential…"
Ars nodded and pointed at the other tube. And informed her of its general function, and how it works.
After she listened to it she nodded and quickly got into the machine.
After that, Ars left and started preparing himself for the festival.
This year other than the introduction of the new queens there wasn't much to talk about, so other than a speech and the festivities this year festival was pretty calm, at least compared to the previous festivals or festivals in certain kingdoms.
Since he had free time Ars decided to go train as usual. He was caught by surprise when he reached the training field.
His daughter Risa was here today, with all the queens except Elia who Ars could probably guess was on the way with Rika.
He approached them curious. Quickly lowering himself and scoping Risa into his arms.
"What are you all doing here with this little princess?"
Reiju looked at him and explained serenely.
"This little girl decided to start training in martial arts and came here alone."
Ars couldn't help but look at his oldest daughter and nodded appreciatively. He quickly offered himself to help her train.
"You can train with me, I will make you a strong warrior."
Everyone there, the soldiers, the queens and even the normal people that came to do just basic training, screamed.
"Hell no!"
Ars was confused, why was everyone opposing the idea, he was the strongest in the kingdom… Kuina, seeing his bewildered face, explained.
"No one wants to see the young princess training like a mad man… And no offense, you fit the description."
Ars face turned cloudy and said coldly.
"Is that what everyone thinks of me?"
It was Koral who had also arrived shortly after Ars, that explained.
"Don't misunderstand, we all admire you and I'm pretty sure all the queens see you as a bit of a mad man but you are their mad man… I'm also sure a lot of people idolize you, but the training you think of as a normal relaxing training… it's enough to kill most people who try it."
Ars face relaxed a bit but he added.
"Been a few weeks since I saw you and your little girl, how are you doing?"
She smiled at him and replied warmly.
"We are doing great! I even bought a cute new dress for my baby girl."
Ars nodded and sighed, then he looked at everyone and complained.
"I'm not gonna make an insane training regime for such a young child, even if that child is my daughter."
They realized they might have overreacted, like Ars said, he never forced anyone to follow his training regime, and while the training regime he created for the soldiers of the kingdom was hard and quite challenging, it wasn't that brutal. And the soldiers of a kingdom were supposed to be strong, or they might fail to protect the people they should protect. So he might actually be a good teacher if given the chance….
But everyone was not too sure about his teaching capabilities, except one little person.
Risa was quite happy about being trained by her father, it wasn't an overwhelming happiness, but she was happy her dad offered to help her train. At night, before bed time, Ars often played with her and her sister. Another person they had gotten attached to was non surprisingly another child that often came to visit to play with them and Ars. They might actually see Lily as something of a big sister at this point.
Koral also came along sometimes with her girl. But she still refused to leave her mother's side for too long, so while she also came along frequently they rarely played together for long.
Ars looked at Risa and decided to ask the little girl opinion, after all it was her training.
"Risa, what do you think? Do you want dad to train you into a strong warrior?"
She nodded without excitation. Everyone else did sight but they accepted it. They trusted that Ars wouldn't make an insane training regime that could hurt his daughter. Olivia just added.
"Please, just don't go overboard with the training!"
Ars nodded with a very happy expression.
He started planning a training regime for the little girl right away. In the end he decided to only include a small stamina training and weapon mastery classes, using fake weapons, of course.
The queens were still a bit nervous about that idea and they all looked towards one of them. Then Bell-mere said to Kuina.
"Can you give us peace of mind and train with them, so you can keep an eye on Ars' training regime for her?"
Kuina nodded, she already intended to do so, even if she wasn't asked directly.
Ars rolled his eyes at them, and commented a bit annoyed.
"I am still here…"
They all looked at him and Reiju quickly answered with a smile that screamed, I don't care about your feelings at this moment.
"We know! That is the idea… This way you know not to go too hard on the training of our little girl."
Ars decided to just stay quiet before getting attacked more… For today he would just keep company with them and his 2 little girls.
Strangely everyone with children in the city came to visit the training field, and the day had become strangely almost like a day dedicated to children.
After a while everyone started to disperse and Ars went back with his family back to the palace.
The next two days , Ars always read the daily documents right after waking up and waited for Risa to wake up, so they would go train together. Then she would run until she got tired and then Ars would carry her in his arms, finally after she rested enough Ars would teach her the basics of weapon training.
Once she was done with her training Ars would begin his, but after waiting for over 2 days, the main surprise to the 2 little princess was ready.
Ars entered his laboratory and let Rachel out of the machine, she quickly adapted to the situation and then Ars gave her a contract, after reading it she happily signed it.
Then Ars took her outside, and went to meet his other queens to introduce the new queen.
Ars went to the palace to find them, but didn't manage to find any of them, so he went to find Dawn.
The moment he found her, he petted her head and quickly inquired for information.
"Little Dawn, do you have any idea of where the queens are? Normally at least Olivia and Elia would be in the palace, but today for some reason everyone is missing."
Dawn looked at him, smiled and informed him of what was happening.
"The queens highly enjoyed the previous day where all the children came to the training field, and they decided to repeat it but only with the people who have close ties with the royal family."
Ars filtered the information and returned a new question.
"So basically, they enjoyed the previous day with the children and today they decided to go meet Koral, Moannee, Fierzy and Lily. Did I get it right?"
Dawn smiled and nodded.
Ars thought about the next course of action, he could ask them to come back, he could go meet them or he could introduce Rachel to them later on and go introduce her to her current only employee.
Ars decided on the later one, so he looked at Rachel and quickly informed her.
"I guess we need to change the original plan, what do you say I introduce you to other people first!? Starting with Dawn!"
He moved quickly behind Dawn and grabbed her shoulders, and while looking at Rachel, he introduced her.
"This is Dawn! She is one of the maids in the palace, along with 3 of her sisters and one of them is Elia who you already met and is also the queen in charge of the maids and royal palace."
Dawn looked at Rachel and added.
"If you need something just tell one of us and we will do our best to satisfy your needs!"
Rachel extended her hand and introduced herself.
"I'm Rachel and i will be one of the queens, i will be in charge of Foreign affairs and related fields, if you would like something from outside the island you can come to me!"
Dawn nodded and Ars looked at her, before informing her of his next destination.
"Well, since there is no one else to introduce her to here, I will be going over to Otojoō house to introduce her to her superior."
Dawn nodded and left to complete her duties.
Ars quickly led Rachel towards their new destination, when they arrived, they quickly found Otojoō, and with her were Gluppy and Pecillia.
When they saw Ars arrive they both got up and paid their respects.
"Your majesty!"
Ars smiled a bit awkwardly, but then replied calmly, yet with a mischievous smile.
"Otojoō, can you guess who this is with me?"
She looked at the new woman that Ars brought along, at first it didn't click… Why would he come here to question her, but after a few seconds it clicked and her eyes went wide.