The atmosphere in the living room instantly changed. Kylen, Dylan, Davin, and Arion looked at each other with slightly widened eyes.
The four of them completely never expected that behind the harmony of their family, Arvin's four spouses who had married earlier and lived with him all this time had to queue and always wait a fairly long turn if they wanted to make love to their own husband.
That fact made them realize how important the cloning magic being discussed was for the happiness of their household in the future.
Arvin looked one by one at the faces of the youths he loved.
"I promise all of you, I will immediately search for and master that cloning magic book as fast as I can after arriving at the Flamort Kingdom palace later." said Arvin full of ambition, his voice firm without hesitation. "I don't want any of you to feel neglected. I don't want to lose all of your cute smiles just because I can't divide my time and my body fairly."
"We trust you, My Husband. I strongly believe you will definitely do it for all of us." said Allen with a gentle and soothing tone, smiling sincerely to calm his husband's mind which seemed to bear a heavy burden. "But for now, don't think about that first. It is better for you to continue your important business with Arion."
Allen's wise words immediately got nods of agreement from Alrain, Ordion, and Alvein, giving full moral support to their husband.
Getting permission from his spouses, Arvin shifted his focus completely back to the youth. He leaned his body forward, staring sharply straight into Arion's pale light purple eyes.
"Arion, listen to me carefully. This process will not be easy and might be a little shocking." said Arvin warning with a serious tone. "Is your mind truly ready and do you truly want to be free from that absolute slave seal right now?"
"Of course I really want to, Arvin!" answered Arion quickly, his voice trembling slightly but filled with unshakeable conviction. "All my life, I have always lived in the shadow of this family's curse! If you indeed succeed in removing this slave seal from my body today, I swear on my own soul, I will serve and become your ninth prospective spouse! I beg you, Arvin... free me."
Hearing the vow full of conviction and the plea loaded with deep desperation, Arvin could assess with certainty that the reddish-yellow-haired youth sitting trembling in front of him right now was indeed very serious and would never betray him.
"Alright, I will do it now. Where do you want me to cancel the seal? In this living room, or do you want extra privacy in the bathroom?" offered Arvin, giving a choice.
"Right here! Do it now!" answered Arion firmly without hesitation.
Arvin raised one of his eyebrows. "Are you really okay if you have to take off your clothes and be naked in front of all of them right now?" asked Arvin making sure once again, considering there were many pairs of eyes sitting around them in the living room.
"I have sworn to be your prospective spouse!" answered Arion full of conviction, looking straight without the slightest bit of shame. "If from this second on I will live and share a husband with all of them, for sure seeing each other's naked bodies will be something normal and common among us, right?"
Hearing that very brave and straightforward answer, Alrain who was sitting not far from him immediately smirked widely. He was the first person to respond.
"Good! I like your courage and mindset, Arion!" exclaimed Alrain who immediately stood up from his sofa. Without the slightest hesitation, the green-haired youth immediately stripped and took off the entire academy uniform attached to his body, revealing his proportional body. "To be fair and so you don't feel awkward alone, I will accompany you being naked in front of you!"
Seeing the second spouse unhesitatingly naked in front of Arion and the others as a form of moral support, Allen, Ordion, and Alvein smiled understandingly and one by one they also started to stand up and take off their respective clothes. Even Kylen, Dylan, and Davin who were initially a little hesitant, finally joined in stripping their clothes to welcome the new family member.
Arion was quite surprised to see the sight of extreme solidarity in front of him. He completely never expected that all of Arvin's spouses were willing without hesitation to be naked together just to make him feel accepted and not alienated.
Feeling very touched and not wanting to disappoint their sincerity, the reddish-yellow-haired youth began taking off his academy uniform one by one with hands that were still trembling slightly. Until finally, he stood completely naked in front of Arvin and the others.
As soon as Arion's clothes were completely taken off, all eyes in the room reflexively went straight to one point.
On the skin of Arion's left thigh, right below the groin, there was a pitch-black tattoo shaped like a circular chain. It was no ordinary tattoo, but an absolute slave seal that bound his soul and body.
Arvin stood up from his sofa and stepped slowly approaching Arion. His eyes stared coldly at the tattoo.
"Don't move! I will make sure you won't feel the slightest bit of pain in this process." whispered Arvin soothingly.
Crack!
In a very fast matter of seconds, Arion's entire left leg, starting from his toes creeping up to past the tattoo line at his groin, froze perfectly by a very thick and cold blue ice.
A numb sensation attacked immediately, until the youth instantly felt completely numb in his left leg.
And what happened in the next second was truly beyond reason.
Slash! Crack!
With a right-hand movement that was so fast it was almost invisible to the naked eye, Arvin slashed the groin part of Arion until it was cleanly cut in one slash.
However, before even a drop of blood could spurt out, Arvin immediately froze the gaping cut surface in an instant with his ice magic so Arion wouldn't feel the sting and his blood wouldn't drip dirtying the mansion floor.
Arion's frozen left leg piece along with the slave seal tattoo fell off and landed on the carpet with a heavy thud sound.
Allen, Alrain, Ordion, Alvein, and the others widened their eyes in horror and heavy shock seeing the very brutal and fast leg amputation process. They gaped. Even Arion himself just froze, completely not screaming in pain due to the instant anesthetic effect of the ice magic which made his leg numb before being cut.
Arvin casually looked down, picked up the frozen left leg piece with the seal tattoo from the floor, and showed it right in front of Arion's deathly pale face.
"I will keep your leg piece with this disgusting seal for the time being!" he said with a flat tone.
And without waiting for an answer or approval from Arion who was still frozen in shock, Arvin directly put and kept the frozen leg piece into his dimensional storage space.
"W-W-What did you just do?!" exclaimed Arion finally recovering from his shock, extraordinary panic hitting him. His breathing was heavy staring at his amputated and frozen groin. "W-Why did you keep my leg instead? How... how can I walk and live normally if I am disabled without my left leg?!"
Arvin didn't answer that panic with words. He only smiled faintly.
The blue-haired youth slowly raised and directed his right hand which was glowing golden green towards Arion's cut left groin, then began channeling a large amount of life mana into his palm.
Crack!
The blue ice that previously clogged and covered the cut wound instantly shattered to pieces. And in front of the eyes of everyone who was stunned, the flesh, bones, nerves, and skin on Arion's left leg began to knit and grow back at an unreasonable speed.
In just a matter of seconds, his left leg had grown back completely.
Arion gaped, his breath caught seeing the medical miracle beyond reason. He wiggled his toes and touched his thigh. His newly restored leg was perfectly intact, as if it had never been cut at all before.
The youth felt very happy and relieved because the slave seal tattoo that cursed his life was now truly no longer on his new left thigh, making him cry. He was free.
Feeling so happy that his emotions overflowed, Arion directly lunged forward and hugged Arvin's body very tightly, completely ignoring the fact that his body was in a naked state.
"Thank you... thank you very much, Arvin!" he exclaimed happily, his voice breaking from overflowing sobs. Tears of happiness and freedom flowed heavily wetting both his cheeks. "I am free... I swear on my life, I will be your most loyal spouse! From today until forever, I will always be by your side!"
Arvin's seven spouses standing surrounding them in the living room also smiled widely. Even though the process was very extreme and terrifying, they felt very happy seeing Arion crying so happily embracing his true freedom.