Arpious of the Planes

None of the recruits responded which was within my expectations.

"Do any of you have names?" I ask.

All of them shook their heads side to side showing that they had no name. If they did receive a name they would have been too young to remember.

"Do any of you want a name? If you do want one then you have to speak up since I'm not taking such a lackluster response," I say coldly.

I want to be able to hold conversations with them since I can't have Yin making reports all the time.

"I-I want a name," speaks up one of the elves who was a tall young girl.

Following the elf's response, everybody spoke up as well.

"G-give me one too,"

"Same,"

"I want a name as well,"

"What he said,"

"...That settles it, I'll start from the left," I say, pointing at the elf girl who spoke up first.

I then proceeded to give all 5 names.

Starting with Midori. She was the elf who first spoke up, tall and slim figure with an average body. Instead of blonde hair, she had green hair which is why I named her Midori. She also looked about 16-18 years old in terms of her appearance… of course, she's barely a month old.

[Congratulations! You granted Midori a name]

Moving on, there was an amazonian boy who I named Kuro due to his black hair. He was slightly tall and as thin as Midori. He seemed like the darkest and edgiest out of the 5 so I felt Kuro was a nice fit. In terms of appearance, he looks about 15-16 years old.

[Congratulations! You granted Kuro a name]

Next was another elf girl who I named Ao because of her light blue hair. She was as tall as Kuro but looked much healthier and wasn't the least bit thin. Nor was she chubby, just right in between. Sadly her body wasn't as nice to her in another way because she is basically flat as a board. She also looked about 15-16 years old in terms of appearance.

[Congratulations! You granted Ao a name]

Moving to the right was a fire harpy boy who I named Aka due to his fiery red hair. He was tall with lots of feathers covering the side of his arms. He looked about 16-17 years old, which is only going off his appearance. His thin appearance matched the rest of his colleagues but was nowhere near as thin as the next recruit.

[Congratulations! You granted Aka a name]

She was a fire harpy with orange hair which I ended up naming… orange. I was running out of ideas and the Japanese word for orange didn't fit her (A/N - What a coincidence MC I was running out of ideas too! Please leave name suggestions for her or some of the other recruits in the comments). Orange feathers lined the sides of her arms but Aka had many more feathers than her. Her appearance was as flat as Ao but she was so thin you would think she was anemic.

[Congratulations! You granted Orange a name]

"Have you eaten anything?" I asked, feeling like she could collapse at any second.

"Yeah…?" She responds acting like I just asked a dumb question.

There's no fucking way you have been eating anything.

As I held back my thoughts, 6 maids come out with 6 of the 10 oni masks.

"Yin come down here,"

"Yes, Master!" Yin says before jumping down, landing without a sound.

"Make them your subordinates and then we will hand out the masks," I say while gesturing for the maids to come here.

『Status』

[Name: Yin]

[Race: Berserk Crawler Queen]

[Status: Pet]

[Direct Subordinates: 5]

[Level: 68/100]

[HP: 250/250 MP: 150/150 SP: 15/15]

[Strength: 10 (+5)]

[Defense: 10 (+5)]

[Magic: 30 (+40)]

[Speed: 10 (+10) (+40)]

[Luck: 1]

[Charisma: 5]

[Skills: [Body Enhancement] [Shadow Magic] [Demonic Berserker] [Thread Manipulation] [Contortion] [Boost] [Slash] [Poison Immunity] [Enhanced Regeneration]

[Body Modification: [Mark of a Berserker]

[Equipment: [Magic Collar] [Oni Mask]

[Titles: [Queen of Berserk Crawlers] [Pet]

…

Nodding my head in satisfaction, I hand out the masks to each member of the corps. Once they received it, they immediately wrapped it around their head but putting it off to the side so I can look at their faces.

"How do you like it? Feel more powerful?"

"Yes, I do… Thank you, Master!" Yin says hugging me.

As I pet her head, I look up to the recruits who still had the same cold expressions but this time they felt slightly warmer than before. This might be the first time they received something, before getting rejected by everybody including their parents.

I decided to leave them be for today, and tomorrow I'll assign a mission since it was getting late. The sun was already setting so I decided to look for Aika only after telling my wives what I was going to do.

"Join us in the bath once you're done," Kumo says while Homura nods in agreement.

"Sure," I say with a smile.

Activating my wings, I stretched them like how you would stretch your arms in the morning.

My clothes don't rip when I use them since the back is always open besides this shirt which barely fits the roots of my wings through the open holes.

Flapping my wings, I took off through the top of the venom jar, flying high above my kingdom.

I flapped my wings in the direction of the arena that Aika was practicing in. It didn't take me long to spot it and then spot Aika as well. She was currently having one last spar so I decided to hide in the shadows right next to it and observe her.

『Status』

[Name: Aika]

[Race: Elf]

[Status: Direct Subordinate]

[Level: 5/50]

[HP: 80/80 MP: 100/100 SP: 40/40]

[Strength: 10 (+25)]

[Defense: 10]

[Magic: 30 (+25)]

[Speed: 25 (+25)]

[Luck: 1]

[Charisma: 10]

[Skills: [Body Enhancement] [Wind Control] [Concentration] [Slash] [Wind Blade]

[Equipment: [Green Ring of Twilight]

[Titles: [Direct Subordinate] [Hard Worker] [Persistent]

...

CLANG CLANG CLANG

Aika was becoming much more proficient with the sword but she doesn't have mastery yet. I mean… it's supposed to takes decades to get mastery so that isn't surprising.

She was never really meant for fighting and she never cared until she noticed that my other 2 wives are incredibly strong. Basically being idols and role models that my kingdom can look up to, but then there was her. A weak elf that couldn't even defend herself.

I'm pretty sure she assumed that some citizens thought she was sucking up to me for protection… but I knew that wasn't the case. Even though she wasn't the hardest working maid, she was always the most loyal. She was the direct subordinate I could trust the most.

Now she is here, battling tons of warriors and adventurers, trying to prove herself to my kingdom. I felt extremely proud of her and knew that I would support her no matter what form of power she obtains. Even if it's weak and maybe the weakest form of power, I will still support her and try to make her stronger and then move onto the strongest.

I smiled as she swung her longsword at her opponent's own sword causing him to drop it and surrender. Wiping off the sweat from her forehead, she decided that she should end it here for today.

Slipping between the shadows I then jumped out of the one in the arena and walked up to Aika.

"Want to walk back together? Kumo and Homura are waiting in the bath," I say.

"Sure,"

As we walked back to the castle, I decided to tell her what I spoke about in my inner monologue. I thought she would cry in happiness but all she did was ask for a reward and I knew exactly what she wanted.

She's too horny…

Arriving back at the castle, we immediately went to the bath where we saw Kumo and Homura cleaning themselves with soap. I sat down opposite them with Aika sitting right next to me.

"What are you going to do with your new assassin corps?" Kumo asks as soon as we sit down.

"Recon. I want them to find where the other mountain guardians reside. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't paranoid about them which is exactly why I want to kill them as soon as possible. With them out of the picture we could expand out of the [Mountain of Twilight] without them hindering us,"

"You want to expand out of the [Mountain of Twilight]?!" Kumo responds shocked by my answer.

"Why? Do you know something?" I ask surprised by her response.

"There are humans out there… the stories from my nest always talked about how they were basically demons and would enslave or kill any monster they found. We were always told to run away but once a blood crawler is in battle and adrenaline is pumping, it can't avoid their own blood-thirsty nature which killed them," Kumo says with a worried face.

"That probably is a thing, which means we'll just have to get stronger than them. Oh, that also reminds me, I'm going hunting solo tomorrow. If you wanted to go hunting you should try hunting solo for once, though Homura has probably done that already,"

As we discussed a bit more about humans we finally left the bath and changed into dresses which we then had dinner in.

It was delicious and Yin wasn't in sight so I assume she was either training or bullying the recruits... probably the ladder. If they want to be a good corps, then they not only need to be strong independently but they need to be stronger when they work together as a group.

I'll probably make the mission tomorrow involve using teamwork and then at necessary times, pull apart and work separately.

Setting down my fork, we all talked for a bit more until we went back to the changing room where we changed into some nightgowns. All 4 of us then crawled into bed and enjoyed ourselves for the rest of the night. My new skill helped especially with Aika.