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46.59% The Eminence of a True Monarch of the Shadows / Chapter 122: Chapter 121

บท 122: Chapter 121

[Third Person's PoV]

'My lord, everything is ready,' Alpha announced through their connection.

'We'll be right over in a few minutes. She'll probably want to walk there,' Cid answered.

Although Cid couldn't see it, Alpha nodded in response.

Cid watched as she finished eating the last bit of her ice cream with a blissful expression. He almost laughed seeing her messy face but held it together and grabbed a napkin.

"Come here," he said, amused, taking hold of her chin and softly starting to clean her up.

Seeing how gentle he was being while cleaning her up, and how serious he looked while doing so, Aurora couldn't look away. She watched his serious expression, entranced.

When he was done, Cid nodded with a smile. Seeing his smile, Aurora knew right then and there that she had completely fallen in love with him. She knew it wasn't just hormones talking; she could tell deep within her.

Silent tears rolled down her face. Cid sighed as he cleaned up her face as well. "What's wrong now?"

"Why are you so good to me?" she cried, looking up and shedding more tears.

Cid sighed and rolled his eyes playfully before pulling her head down by her chin and kissing her forehead. "Come on, the others are waiting."

"They're done already?" she asked curiously, happy to be kissed on the forehead as she found it much more endearing than on the lips.

Cid smiled confidently and proudly. "Something you should know about my girls is that they're efficient and will quickly complete any task you give them."

Cid and Aurora then walked towards the large ballroom. When they arrived, it was filled with multiple women wearing dresses. Cid even spotted Zeto wearing a little suit with a comically big bowtie.

As soon as Cid entered, they all bowed their heads. Cid just raised a hand while lowering his head slightly, basically saying 'at ease'.

Epsilon was seen on the piano and immediately started playing "ICARUS" by Tony Ann.

Alpha then came up towards them with a smile. "I hope you enjoy yourself."

Aurora nodded with a smile. "I hope to get to know you all after this celebration… well, the ones that are most important."

Alpha reached out her hand. "The name's Alpha, The Sin of Pride, the leader of the Seven Deadly Sins, and the one who rules Shadow Garden after our great lord, so you can come to me if you're ever in need and master isn't available."

Aurora shook Alpha's hand and introduced herself, and as she did, Beta appeared peeking from Alpha's side.

"Name's Beta, the Sin of Lust." Even though Beta introduced herself, one could feel the envy coming from her gaze when looking at Aurora.

Gamma then casually walked in and introduced herself. "Gamma, Sin of Greed. It's a pleasure to get to know the infamous Witch of Calamity and the mother who will bear our Lord's child."

Delta then peeked out from the other side of Alpha. "Delta is Delta, Sin of Wrath… Delta isn't sure if I should be angry or glad. The pack is expanding, but it isn't with Delta… Bossu, breed with me!" she demanded while looking towards Cid.

Cid just started patting her head. "Later…"

"Promise?"

"I promise," Cid said, amused.

Cid then pointed towards Epsilon and introduced her. "The one on the piano is Epsilon, Sin of Envy."

"Zeta, Sin of Gluttony…" Zeta announced her presence as she undid her concealment, appearing next to Aurora.

Cid then felt a pair of arms wrap around his back before climbing up and laying her head on his shoulder before she began to lightly snore.

"Eta, as you can tell, is the Sin of Sloth…" Cid said as he pointed towards his shoulders.

Zeta let out a sigh as she went behind Cid and pulled Eta away from him.

Cid then started introducing her to everyone else, like his sister who had already met her, Sherry, Rose, even Alexia was present.

There were some members walking around with appetizers, which Aurora took, mostly all of them.

Cid then felt a pull on his shirt. He looked at Claire in confusion until she whispered, "What are you going to tell Mom and Dad?"

"Do we even have to tell them?" Cid said with a weary expression.

Claire looked at Cid with a deadpan expression. "Mom would literally kill you if she found out she had a grandkid and didn't find out, or found out about it way later than she was supposed to."

"Oh, I want to meet your parents!" Aurora exclaimed excitedly from her seat, hearing their conversation.

"And why would you want to do that?" Cid asked with an awkward smile.

"Isn't it obvious?" she said, rolling her eyes and rubbing her belly. "They're going to be Celeste's grandparents. They have a right to meet their grandbaby... well, unless you really, really don't want to…"

Cid honestly didn't know how to respond to the question. "This needs some careful thinking, so I can't give you an answer right away."

Aurora nodded in understanding and didn't push it further.

Afterward, Cid started to dance with all the girls one by one.

As Cid danced with Alpha, he asked, "Answer me honestly, how do you feel about the whole pregnancy thing?"

Alpha sighed and held his face with a hand. "Honestly, my lord, I'm just a little sad... I have been your first for many things. When we do things together, I've always been the first one since you always do it in the order when you first met us and named us to make it seem fair and to make it seem like you weren't choosing favorites.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm not used to not being the first this time. I thought out of all of us... I would be the one that would have gotten the blessing of bearing your child, seeing someone else, someone we have barely any knowledge of, getting that privilege..." Alpha couldn't finish her sentence.

Cid pulled Alpha closer and had her rest her head on his shoulder while putting a hand on his chest.

Cid pressed his lips against Alpha's forehead for a while. "I'm truly sorry for making you feel that way, Alpha. You girls are very important to me, and the last thing I ever want to do is hurt you–"

"My lord!" Alpha exclaimed in surprise. "This isn't something you should be apologizing for."

Cid shook his head. "It is. I may be your lord and master and all of that, but I'm still your husband, and when a husband does something wrong that upsets his wife, the thing he must do is apologize... Do I regret what I did? No, no I do not. It would be the same as saying I regret the creation of my daughter, which is something I would never do. The thing I do regret is making you feel this way."

Alpha looked toward Cid with a bit of tears in her eyes. She softly kissed Cid as she looked into his eyes with love and smiled brightly toward him. "I'm forever thankful you are the one I can call my husband."

Cid then danced and made sure that every single one of them was alright and expressed their feelings on the matter, even if it resulted in toe stomps from Gamma. A few hours later, Aurora and Cid were seen slow dancing together.

"How did you get along with the others?" Cid asked, looking at Aurora with a smile.

"They're great. I can see why you care deeply for them; they're all very talented girls," Aurora expressed with a smile.

Just as Epsilon was about to play her last song, Aurora's face went completely pale, and a big splash of water dropped down from her.

Cid and Aurora looked at each other with widening eyes and a look of horror and astonishment...

"My water just broke."


บท 123: Chapter 122

[Third Person's PoV] 

Cid immediately started freaking out, and the seven girls, even Eta, rushed towards Aurora and picked her up before they all started running towards the master bedroom.

Due to the unexpected situation and their nervousness, they had forgotten they could travel through their shadows.

Cid immediately disappeared into his own shadow and reappeared in the school nurse's office. In there was Mu, or No.12, a dark elf with silver hair, an undercover agent of Shadow Garden.

As Cid appeared, Mu immediately dropped down to her knees and bowed before him. Before she even had a chance to say anything, Cid lifted her over his head, "No time for that, woman. I need you; baby on the way."

Mu squealed at being unexpectedly picked up before she even had a chance to process what was being said. Cid teleported towards where he detected Aurora.

Cid found her on the master bedroom bed with her legs spread apart, and Aurora trying to control her breathing.

"Do your thing," Cid commanded.

Due to her training as a member of Shadow Garden, Mu was able to quickly get her bearings together before looking at Cid with a serious expression after analyzing the situation.

"I'm going to need a few items…"

"Just say whatever you need," Cid responded with a serious expression.

As Mu started listing out the items she needed, the girls would disappear one by one and reappear with the corresponding object at hand.

Cid sat by Aurora's side, holding her hand reassuringly while gently moving her hair away from her face.

He noticed some Shadow Garden members peeking through the door with nervous expressions but just shook his head, focusing solely on Aurora.

Once Mu had everything she needed, she put on rubber gloves and began to assist and guide Aurora through the birthing process.

The girls watched with nervousness and worry; it was their first time witnessing childbirth in person.

"AHHHHH!" Aurora cried out in pain, squeezing Cid's hands tightly.

Cid was certain that if he wasn't a Monarch, his hands would have been crushed.

The pain Aurora was experiencing was so intense that she started crying in between her pushes.

"Please!" She pleaded, "Just get her out already! AHHHHHH!"

"Her head is crowning, just a few more, you can do it," Mu said supportively.

"I can't do it!" Aurora cried, "I don't think I can go on."

Cid kissed her sweaty forehead, "Yes, you can, come on now." He used his magic to alleviate her tiredness and pain.

"YOU COULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT EARLIER!" She cried with tears streaming down her face.

Cid just gave her an awkward smile as she started pushing.

"I just need one last strong push, and she'll be out!" Mu called out.

Alpha, Claire, and the others watched anxiously over Mu's shoulder. Even Eta, who would have normally been fast asleep, was wide awake.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Wahhhh! Wahhhh! Wahhhhh!"

"And she's out! Congratulations, it's a healthy baby girl," Mu smiled warmly towards Cid and Aurora. She washed the baby in warm water before wrapping her in a blanket.

After Aurora caught her breath, she reached over with shaky hands, "Please, let me hold her, let me hold my baby."

As Mu passed her towards Aurora, Aurora shed happy tears, "She's so beautiful… she's perfect… here, hold her," Aurora said, passing her to Cid, feeling his longing to hold her, which was just as strong as hers.

Cid scooped her up in his arms, rubbing her little cheeks with love before kissing her on the forehead.

Alpha and the others then started to surround Cid, examining Celeste; almost instantaneously, they were smitten with her.

"SOOOO CUTTEEEEE!" They shrieked.

Their shrieking frightened her, causing her to start crying. Cid immediately gave them a pointed look, causing them to shrink back and whisper an apology.

Cid softly started rocking her in his arms while smiling at her with a gentle smile, "It's alright, little one, daddy's here, shhh, there's no need to cry."

Seeing the scene, the maternal instinct of all the girls shot through the roof. Baby Celeste's crying started to calm down, turning into little whimpering.

Cid's head shot to the side; even with all of his previous practices, his face couldn't help but gain a shocked expression as his eyes turned into dragon slits.

His confusion turned into outrage, an outrage that was nothing compared to what he felt towards Aurora.

The girls were confused and worried by Cid's expression. They activated their dragon eyes and spread their senses towards the direction Cid was looking.

Then they saw it, a few miles away near the closest settlements that weren't their base, space was distorting, and they felt the mana coming from those distortions. Their expressions mirrored Cid's shock, but they still didn't know what caused him to look so angry.

"Gates? What the hell are they doing in this world?" They heard his growl.

He then let out a frustrated sigh before kissing his daughter on the forehead, "I'll be right back, little one."

Cid softly put Celeste in Aurora's arm before kissing her on the forehead as well, "What is going on?" Aurora asked with worry.

"I'm sorry I can't explain, I'll be right back. Igris, I'll leave my daughter's protection in your hands."

Igris appeared and unexpectedly responded, which was unusual even for him, "Leave it to me, my liege," his voice and tone sounding serious, understanding what was occurring.

Cid donned his Shadow outfit and disappeared into his shadow,

'My daughter was just born and all of sudden gates started to appear without warning… this definitely isn't a coincidence, I smell a conspiracy.'

As Shadow spread his senses much further, he realized something else: there were more than one gate appearing, appearing all over the world, causing him to inwardly curse.

From the first gate, multiple insect-like creatures with all different forms and powers started spilling out, as if the inside of the gates couldn't hold their increasing numbers.

"Come forth," Shadow commanded, causing all of his 10,000+ shadow soldiers to appear.

"Spread out, hunt as many as you can, I'll deal with this one here on my own."

"My liege–" Beru wanted to protest, but Shadow didn't let him finish.

"Not now, Beru, just do as you are told, I'm not in the mood."

Beru bowed his head sadly; that sadness turned into anger, but not towards his master. Of course not, such a thing was unimaginable towards Beru; he was angered towards the beings that caused his master's mood to be sour.

'How dare they!? Because of them, my liege got angry at me, I'll make them pay!!!' Beru angrily thought before forcefully calming down his emotions and focusing on the most important thing… Making sure his master is well.

"My liege, please take care of yourself," Beru said before sinking into his shadow and rushing towards the second nearest gate.

The others sank into the shadows and formed groups before rushing towards the cities and towns that started to be overrun with monsters.

Shadow stood by himself in the middle of the insect-infected area. They all rushed towards Shadow with hunger in their eyes, "FOR THE QUEEEENNN!" They all screeched in a language that wasn't anything human or Shadow had heard before, but he understood it perfectly.

Seeing the stampede approaching, Shadow looked at them coldly, "I should be spending time with my daughter, but here I am dealing with trash like you… very well, be glad you will be the very first beings I try this move on."

"Sin series: Plague of Envy," Shadow said in a deep but slow voice.

Black smoke exploded from Shadow and rushed towards the surroundings engulfing all the monsters.

The insects stood frozen all around Shadow, right in his face. They all had their mouths open, ready to consume him. They gained a purple glowing outline over their bodies before their eyes glowed purple as well with insanity.

They then started moving once again but instead of aiming for Shadow, they jumped towards each other and started trying to consume the other. Shadow just continued looking at them coldly as they ate each other.

'Plague of Envy, a move I made. This move unleashes a dark aura that infects nearby enemies with feelings of jealousy and resentment, causing them to turn against each other in a frenzied bid to possess what others have…'

They continued gnawing at each other until there was nothing left…

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A/N: Boom! How you like them apples, this was something I've been planning for a while, since Aurora first appeared… 

Here's an image of Celeste if y'all curious:

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