( Yuuki's POV )
Not that I didn't want to see it, but when Matabei tried to take off her shirt, I grabbed her hands to stop her.
Marica: hey you don't have to do that! Why would you go that far in the first place?
Matabei: No matter how many times I try, I have no chance of saving Yukimura; this is a small price to pay, compared to the princesses who surround you, I may be a brutish and undesirable woman, but please accept my offer.
Marica: I'm sure Yuuki will help you anyway—wait, what was that about princesses?
Yuuki: don't worry about that, like Marica said, it's my job to stop people like your captor, so I'm going to rescue your friend.
Matabei: Are you serious?
Yuuki: You have my word and I am a man of my word, besides please don't call yourself a brutish woman, you are very attractive and you could earn the hatred of other women if you talk about yourself that way.
Matabei: um-m Thank you; for everything.
Jubei: Umm, Onii-chan... Did we win?
Yuuki: yeah, no enemy reinforcements to worry about at the moment.
Jubei: um I'm glad~
When Jubei awoke, her eyes had returned to their blue color, and her expression and attitude had become more relaxed; she was more of an innocent girl than a warrior, but I still had questions for her, so I dropped that.
Yuuki: Jubei, what was that power you used earlier?
Jubei: umm Oh, that was the power of a master samurai. When I looked at Onii-chan, I saw that you were someone special. It is thanks to you that I gained the power of a master samurai
Yuuki: You mean, because of that kiss?
Jubei: um~
Matabei: I know a little about the power of a master samurai; those who can give the power of a master samurai to someone are called generals.
That sounds similar to the pact between Sekirei and Ashikabi; my Ashikabi gene was superior to normal, and Jubei must have reacted to that similarity, that master samurai way of controlling his internal power commonly known in martial arts as Ki.
Marica: Do you know what they're talking about?
Yuuki: I have an idea.
Fumina: Hmm~ AH! What, where, did we make it?
The last girl, who was the world traveler, got up in a hurry, unsure of what had happened, but when she saw me she ran towards me with hope in her eyes.
Fumina: Silver hair and blue and purple eyes, you're Yuuki, right? Please tell me you are.
Yuuki: That's me, now you want to tell me how you know me?
Fumina: um Sure, but that's a long story.
Yuuki: We have the time, we're safe here.
Fumina: Okay. My name is Fumina and I'm a world traveler, but I think you already know that. I'm part of a group of travelers, but it's not a dangerous group, we are just a handful and apart from me there is only one other true fighter.
Yuuki: Where is the rest of your group?
Fumina: That... I can't tell you, we only meet occasionally in a neutral world, to exchange information and check on the others, we really don't want to get involved in conflicts between travelers.
Yuuki: How did you end up escaping from an ally of the CC?
Fumina: That guy who caught me is called the Puppeteer; the experiments he's focused on now are creating high-performance homunculi for himself and to increase the forces of the CC, that's why he is focused on collecting warriors.
Marica: What is a homunculus?
Yuuki: An artificial life form, basically the humanoid insects from before.
Fumina: I was caught among the people they kidnapped, but I wasn't so easy to contain; I escaped taking the girls with me, I took everything I had to open an escape route. I tried to call you to a random world before losing consciousness. I told Matabei to look for you.
That's why the portal malfunctioned and I ended up in this world, but now she's trapped here too.
Yuuki: Why come after me then, if you don't want conflict?
Fumina: If you encounter the CC, there are only two options: join them or be hunted by them. I couldn't go with my friends for fear of involving them, so I seek asylum in your kingdom, you're the only one the CC won't risk facing just to find me, of course, I'm not expecting protection for anything in return. I have information and I can fight too.
Yuuki: Now I understand, I don't mind giving you asylum but now we're in a predicament, we're both trapped in this world for the moment.
Fumina: eh what do you mean?
I explained the situation to Fumina and that before any help or protection could be given, my people would have to make contact with me, for the time being, we would stay in the castle and help in the fight against the order. We asked Marica, and she said she welcomed any extra help.
I saw the worry on her face that more homunculi might appear, but I comforted her by saying that my Sekirei should be able to contact me before another attack happens. probably.
If more enemies appear, I will simply defeat them again.
After that we returned to the castle, without flying and without opening portals, we took the long way, Upon arriving at the castle, Marica took the girls away so they could choose their rooms, and I decided to go to the cantina where Erin was.
Erin: Welcome back Yuuki, how was your mission?
Yuuki: I'd say well, how did things go with the Magedom missions?
Erin told me that the Stella company completed two missions for Magedom, one was about escorting the third empress to her hometown, and the other was about helping the second empress with her research, and they were currently on a mission for the first empress.
While the two of us were talking, someone new in the castle approached us.
???: Hey, if you're interested in hearing rumors, I have a few.
Yuuki: Excuse me, who are you?
Erin: This is Anya, a friend from my hometown.
Anya: Yes, I lived to hear rumors, and they come to this castle a lot.
Yuuki: oh then let me hear them.
Anya had many things to say, but only a couple of things really interested me, the first was that Chrodechild was a princess of the kingdom of Astrasia, I already knew she was a princess, but having the name of her kingdom was good, the next thing that interested me was that there was a captive princess in the arcane academy of the Magedome.