Aster noticed the slight increase in Sarina''s heart beat and the little blush in her face which made her look quite charming, and he inwardly smirked, after giving her a second short kiss, he let go of her as he could feel the two intense gazes of Alice and Aria piercing him like spears.


    Aster then stretched hi body ignoring those two as he yawned.


    "Who told you to wake up so early, I still need to take a bath and we have to have breakfast as it will take us a couple of hours to reach our destination", said Aster as he left the bedroom.


    Lilia and Sarina exchanged a knowingly gaze before they giggled at Alice and Aria as they followed Aster to the bath, even Kana cutely stuck her tongue at them before leaving hurriedly going with them.


    While Aria was more or less okay, Alice stomped her right foot on the ground making it crack a bit although she was suppressing her strength.


    "Humph, what "innocent and unexperienced" little girl, she is just a little fox".


    Aria raised an eyebrow at Alice.


    "I don''t think you are in a position to say that… when you were her age, you were already doing some serious stuff with Aster", she mumbled.


    Alice shrugged as she threw herself at the bed, more urately to the exact spot where Aster wasying down a moment ago.


    Catching a faint trace of the familiar manly scent of her brother, she suddenly remembered that time when he caught her doing lewd stuff on his bed, which made her smile.


    "This and that are different, I grew alone with him and the purpose of my life was to be the perfect partner for Aster you know?".


    Aria bitterly smiled, she alsoid down on the free side of the bed as she answered.


    "I don''t think that''s something an older sister should think of her younger brother, but I guess it''s true that you two are quitepatible… you are both perverts after all".


    …


    While Alice and Aria were remembering how they met and all the things that happened between them during thest years, Aster greeted Eris, Mylene and even Cam who seemed to be returning from the bathroom.


    Although it wasn''t his intention, Aster''s nose was quite sensitive to women, so even from afar he noticed the fruity scent that their hair had after their bath, it was quite a refreshing sensation, but he feigned ignorance and after a quick greet he kept walking towards the bathroom, not without stealing onest nce at Cam, noticing the copper tone of her hair seemed slightly brighter than yesterday.


    The three girls saw Lilia, Sarina and Kana following going to the bathroom a few seconds after Aster left and they also greeted them, although it was a usual sight as they knew, Aster and the girls practically did everything together, from sleeping to eating and bathing.


    The three of them couldn''t help but imagine the "games" they yed in the bath which made them blush, before they returned to their own rooms to prepare as the breakfast will be served soon.


    Once inside the bathroom Aster undressed and entered the shower, the sound of water falling down filled the room as Aster rinsed his body, with his eyes closed, he repassed the n he had for today''s date.


    Aster came out of his daze when he felt a soft pair of arms hugging him from behind, there were also a pair of big bouncy things which leaned against the back of his head, after twelve years of feeling this specific naked body, how could he not recognize it was Lilia.


    "Let us clean your body darling~", said Lilia with a yful voice.


    Aster opened his eyes and nodded at the three girls which were apanying him under the shower.


    Lilia smiled, she put body soap all over her body before she started rubbing herself against her son''s front body, the smooth and slippery sensation of Lilia''s skin and the soap was actually quite pleasing, as a proof of that, Aster couldn''t help but get a bit hard, but he controlled himself.


    Sarina bitterly smiled, originally Lilia was hugging him from behind but before she could react, Lilia was now standing in front of Aster, she inwardly shook her head before she imitated Lilia applying soap all over her body to clean his back.


    Two different and yet pleasing sensations enveloped Aster, making him let out afortable sound, even a simple bath could be really good when one is apanied by beauties.


    That being said there was onest girl which also wanted to participate but didn''t do it, Kana pouted seeing her mother and Lilia covering all the spots avable.


    Aster chuckled, he walked towards the bath chair and then sat down, this forced Lilia and Sarina to crouch down but that didn''t stop them, in exchange Aster''s head was now at Kana''s reach.


    "You can wash my hair", he said to Kana before closing his eyes.


    Kana''s big eyes sparkled, normally she is the one that asks Aster do wash her hair for her, so this was good a turn of events, which remembered her, the conditions for their rtionship to evolve into a romantic one.


    "You need to be more mature not only physically but mentally too", she thought to herself, before she applied the shampoo on Aster''s hair, Sarina gazed at her daughter acting a bit different than normal and she smiled.


    "Perhaps that little sample of reality was what this little girl needed", Sarina used to feel a bit guilty due to all the situation with Robert, when she fainted due to the shock of being seen as a mere way to aplish a goal by the man, she considered her father, she wished tear Robert''s head off his body.


    But then her daughter showed her that she wasn''t as fragile as she thought, in a matter of days she has grown up quite a bit, from a flower in a greenhouse to having experienced a big tribtion in the form of the betrayal of a "family member", and also a small taste of the cruelty of the world.


    Leaving aside that little episode, they soon finished their shower and after putting on some clothes, Sarina and Kana went ahead to prepare the breakfast while Aster and Lilia returned to the bedroom to dress themselves.


    Aster saw thedies of the moment leisurelyying down on the bed doing their best to wait for their date to start, and he chuckled, things were going to be easier for him.


    After that they went to the dining room where Sarina and Kana weed them with a table full of delicious food, Eris, Mylene and Cam also joined them and while they were eating, Kana looked at Aster before saying.


    "Where are you taking sisters Alice and Aria, big brother?".


    The other girls also seemed to be rather interested so after drinking a ss of juice he said.


    "I will take them to another, to the Iron Mountain to be more specific".


    Lilia raised an eyebrow at her son, the Iron Mountain was a at the same level of the Azure Sky, or at least that used to be the case, it''s the main owned by the Kraft family and the ce with the best spirit cksmiths in the Rodia star cluster.


    But besides that, she couldn''t imagine a reason to go there, in any case with one of the bigger spaceships Aster looted from Riga, it will take only a couple of hours to reach it, so there was no problem.


    After finishing their breakfast, Aster, Alice and Aria went up to the rooftop of the castle before Aster took out the spaceship from the mind space, unlike the one Sarina piloted yesterday, this one was at least thrice times bigger as it was built for space travels instead of just going from a continent to another one.


    Lilia offered herself to take them to their destination, but since the travel was also part of the experience both Alice and Aria rejected the offer.


    Now that the three could fly it was easier to get into the spaceship, Aster set the coordinates and the spaceship turned into sh of light which shot itself towards the sky, disappearing from the view of Lilia and the other girls.


    Cam inwardly sighed; this was thest "date" so probably by tomorrow they will be leaving the Azure Sky.


    "Are you perhaps feeling regrets now?".


    Cam turned to see Lilia who was looking at her with a smile in her pretty face, and she immediately shook her head.


    "Not even a bit", she said with a resolved voice, she now had a chance to keep advancing, and she has smiled more in this past days than in the previous fifty or so years of her life.


    Lilia nodded, if she wasn''t sure toe with them, then there was no need to bring her by force… there were a lot of possible "candidates" for new members of the family at the ce where they will be going after all.


    At the outer space near the Azure Sky, a big spaceship was moving at a high speed towards the east, inside of it Aster was sitting on the captain''s seat while Alice and Aria were sitting on his legs using the armrests as support too.


    Alice looked at her brother and she had a weird premonition seeing his characteristic smiling expression a bit different, she tried to make memory of what could draw Aster''s attention in that and after a couple of minutes… she couldn''t think of anything.


    But it was understandable, in the past years the ventured on the Azure Sky but even then, they didn''t go sightseeing the whole, not to mention they didn''t visit others, besides Zartia of course.


    "Damn, I should have read more about this star cluster", thought Alice, in any case this was better, as the ce for their date will be a surprise.


    Aster noticed his sister anxiety growing and he chuckled, unlike him who was all the day in the library since he "could" walk and read when he was younger, Alice spent most of her time in the training room, that''s why he chose a ce which he was sure none of the two have heard off before.


    Which surprisingly fit what he needed for the sake of making them improve their teamwork, an area with two extremely differentndscapes, the border where the iron volcanos and the frozen tundra meet each other.