Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

After getting the principal's okay, Zach set a meeting with his friends. He was a little hesitant about inviting Anerias since he wasn't as close to him as the others. But it didn't really matter. They were friends, and he would find out like everyone else. It was just a matter of how.

Zach just wanted to tell his friends first and prepare them for the changes that were to come.

Violina wasn't surprised at Zach's reveal that his familiars could talk. She was more surprised at how well they did it. She could barely communicate with their familiars. Zach's familiars could not only talk and convey their thoughts and emotions perfectly to Zach, but they could also do so to others.

The others, including Dukiel, even if he controlled his expression, were shocked, to say the least.

Anerias sometimes struggled to understand whether his Blackfire Hound wanted to eat or go for a walk. His Hellcat was even more mysterious and indecipherable. Fortunately, his Darkwing was pretty easy. That one wanted to fly and eat, preferably at the same time. But it had taken him a couple of weeks to figure out and confirm that.

And Anerias had it easy since his familars at least had expressions and readable body language.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

None of Dukiel's familiars had faces. Two of them also didn't have any body language. One was an immovable Sentinel, and the other was the Transformation Cube that was either a cube or any random object it decided to transform into. His latest familiar, the Symbiotic Slime was a little better at expressing itself.

But the Symbiotic Slime's favorite and only way to express itself was to latch on to Dukiel and wiggle its body. Dukiel did not speak wiggle.

After Nessa learned to use her antennae from Exoskeleton to somewhat pick up on her familiars' intentions, it got a little easier for her to understand what they wanted. But before that, she had only been able to figure things out by trying to read the expressions on a Millipede, a Butterfly, and a Bat. The bat at least had visible facial muscles. But it was small, and it didn't have that many facial muscles.

All of them struggled.

Yet, here Ackster was, conversing with his familiars as easily as he talked to them.

"I had a hunch you were hiding something." Dukiel looked straight at Zach. Jealousy at his lack of struggles didn't matter. Zach struggled with other things. He was not someone they would be jealous of, even taking into account his position as a spoiled son of one of the Empire's four dukes.

"Same." Nessa agreed with Dukiel before Zach could say anything.

"Me too." Since the other two had said something, Violina also felt obligated to speak up.

"What?!" Anerias was stunned and he looked at the other three in utter confusion. Zach's revelation had come as a complete surprise. He didn't think Zach was capable of hiding anything except his grubby intentions.

Dukiel, Nessa, and Violina ignored Anerias.

"Remember that fight against the tiger, the one where you technically died as you like to remind us?" Dukiel asked.

"Yeah? It was a pretty memorable fight."

"Julius and I heard a voice that wasn't yours. That was when we started suspecting something." Dukiel shrugged lightly as he revealed when he had first realized Zach was hiding something.

"Why…Why didn't you say anything?" Zach asked. If they suspected something, why didn't they ask about it?

"Would you have given a non-bullshit answer?" Dukiel answered with a question of his own. It was enough to shut Zach's mouth.

He wouldn't have said anything. He would have come up with a bullshit answer and swept it under the rug. In a way, the fact that they hadn't asked was proof they trusted him. Asking might and receiving a bullshit answer might have sowed a crack in their relationship.

"You two?" Zach moved on to Nessa and Violina. They hadn't been present during the fight, so they wouldn't have heard it when Yanael shouted. He wanted to know what tipped them off.

"The gazes."

"Yep. The gazes."

"The gazes?" Zach doubted his ears. They had said the same thing at nearly the same time, so he hadn't heard wrong. He still didn't believe what he had heard, though.

Nessa nodded.

"The way you and your familiars look at each other. It's clear as day you understand each other. You even have a look that's like you're saying you're going to talk about something you saw or heard later." Nessa glanced at the three familiars, who were now avoiding meeting any eyes.

"I doubt anyone else has noticed since they haven't been as close to you if that's any consolation. Your future partner can also rest easy knowing you will never be unfaithful for long without being discovered."

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean? I would never be unfaithful!" Zach was insulted by Violina's sudden prick at his honor and integrity. What kind of roundabout accusation was that?

"..." Violina didn't say anything. Neither did any of the others. But they all looked at the three beautiful maids standing behind Zach.

"There's also Nora," Yanael helpfully added, fully agreeing with the others' insinuating gazes. There were too many beautiful women around him. At a glance, Zach was scum.

Even other nobles who paraded around with servants didn't have only servants of the opposite gender in employ. They also didn't have servants with beauty to match Yanael, Alzara, and Soara. It would be their great fortune if they could even match Nora, who was an ordinary, well, mostly ordinary human.

That meant Zach would have had to go to great lengths to acquire women that beautiful.

The details and reality of the situation, such as Zach summoning them with barely any effort at all, didn't matter.

To anyone seeing him for the first time without knowing the details, Zach was the lowest of the low and scummiest of the scum. Unfaithful? Wouldn't that be his middle name?