However, Gwen's actions were far less gentle than his words. With a turn, he pulled the side-lying girl's delicate body into his arms.
Amid the girl's coquettish complaints, a certain heinous man declared that he would be collecting all his upcoming rations in advance.
In the end, after the thoroughly satisfied girls had fallen into deep sleep, Gwen hesitated for a while before quietly leaving the room—
This time, Alicia was not the only one he was leaving behind.
After Mysterious, who had been fused with him at the time, had "accidentally" seen them in the Golden Tree a year ago, Gwen had broken through that final barrier. His relationship with this stigmata-form entity who had experienced rebirth became somewhat awkward.
Since Gwen had already thrown his morals to the winds when he began embracing one girl after another, he simply went all the way. At an appropriate moment, he made his ill intentions clear and gained another pair of wings.
Under such circumstances, Gwen, who possessed that ability, naturally could not favor one over the other...
This was destined to be a sleepless night.
Early the next morning, while the sky was still barely light, Gwen gently kissed the foreheads of the still-sleeping girls. He left a thoughtform in the study while his real body turned into a streak of light beneath several gazes filled with reluctance and faint worry, vanishing into the starry sky...
After dawn, Alicia and Mysterious got up as usual and chatted their way to the dining room as though nothing had happened. There, they exchanged glances with Trina, who had arrived somewhat later than usual, and smiled at each other without mentioning the news only the few of them knew.
Yet this tacit understanding between the three left Vill-V beside them looking rather blank.