Arpious of the Planes

"Isn't that what you do?" She chuckled a bit.

"Well… Yes, but I still do some productive things. In fact, let's have a spar and the loser will have to buy the winner, some ice cream," I announced, and if she was like me or Loni, her competitive spirit wouldn't let her turn down the request.

"Heh… Seems the old woman still has some fighting spirit,"

As she shifted out of bed, I noticed she was naked, but felt pretty unphased by it since it wasn't the first time I'd seen her naked.

"Oh, I thought you would've screamed or something," Hepha chuckled before changing into some casual clothes.

The beautiful woman in her bed gave her a kiss before leaving.

"If you have a harem, I can also have a harem," She muttered before following me out of the room.

"I don't care if you have a harem… Anyway, how are you doing in school?" I asked in order to shake a bit of the awkward air hovering around us.

"I'm at the top of my class like always. I already have two girlfriends, plus, I won a tournament recently against the top of my school," She replied bluntly.

​ I didn't know anything about this… I'm such a terrible parent.

She moved from tutors to a private school not too long ago in order to develop a social life, but I guess that also means she's developed her own circle.

"That's good, I'm proud of you," I replied with a warm smile.

"Don't look at me with such a creepy expression. I know you don't mean it," Hepha brushes it off before taking one of the training wooden swords and pointing it at me.

"Of course, I mean it," I replied but before we started the spar, I walked over to one of the maids in the training room and asked her to buy a few things for me.

"What was that for?" Hepha asked, surprisingly curious as I thought she didn't want anything to do with me.

"You'll see," I responded before picking up a spear and forming the blade into a scythe with black flames.

"Hey, that's not fai-,"

FWOOSH

I lit her sword with black flames as well in order to up the tension a bit… plus, I needed to put this girl in her place.

"Hey, you, call the start of the spar for us," Hepha grabbed a knight training and without hesitation, due to her glowing and cold eyes, he called on the spar.

"READY! SET! F-FIGHT!"

Suddenly, Hepha was coated in a smokescreen that enveloped the entire arena, but due to my special eyes, I was able to see right through it.

She was carefully watching me, trying to anticipate my next move.

"We've never had a spar before so I thought we could have a relaxing talk while doing so," I muttered.

"Just shut up and fight," Hepha said, her voice echoing through the cloud of smoke like a massive auditorium.

CLANG

All of a sudden, she warped around me and tried to stab straight through my heart, through my back, but I parried it with the blade of my scythe.

"You know… Back where Mommy is from, she was at the top of the food chain. Everybody bowed down towards Mommy here, so you should be more careful," I chuckled before blocking another one of her attacks.

She was clearly falling for my taunts as her swordplay became much more reckless.

『Status』

[Name: Hepha]

[Race: Winter Smoke Siren]

[Status: Angry]

[Level: 16/100]

[HP: 800/800  MP: 800/800  SP: 800/800]

[Strength: 350]

[Defense: 150]

[Magic: 150]

[Speed: 150]

[Luck: 5]

[Charisma: 100]

[Skills: [Body Enhancement] [Smoke Manipulation] [Winter Smoke of the Sirens] [Siren Control] [Siren Manipulation] [Summon: Royal Siren Gaurd] [Smoke of a Blacksmith]

[Body Modifications: [Cursed Blood] [Tattoos Blessed by the Sirens]

[Titles: [Born to be King] [Destined for Greatness] [Ruler of Luck]

…

She doesn't have many attacking skills, nor has she even achieved partial mastery of her weapon…

She has talent, but nowhere near as much as my other children who basically mastered their weapons in just a few weeks of being born.

"No summons by the way! It's just a one on one!" I announced and the response was quick.

"I know that already!" She shouted before aiming at my neck.

I parried the attack quickly and decided to finally attack, so I used the momentum of the parry to spin it around my shoulder and slam down her own shoulder.

The black flames threatened to pierce her extremely hard skin but before I could do any real damage, she parried the sword off with her own sword.

"That's my girl. Don't let your guard down just because you've blocked my vision," I gave her a few tips that she took as another taunt.

Her sword was so fast that even I was almost touched, but before it could slice open my neck, I ducked and turned my head towards her.

"What did mommy say about letting your guard down?" I said before kicking her in the stomach, sending her flying across the room.

She quickly recovered with a roll and spread some more smoke, making it even thicker.

But, she quickly stepped back and snapped her fingers, igniting the smoke into flames.

"Crazy…" I muttered as there were still some maids and many knights watching our practice.

FWOOSH

The flames ignited but before they could reach anybody, I absorbed them with [Sirens Apostle: Forbidden Flame].

She tried to do the same move again, but I quickly stepped in front of her, tightly gripped her wrist, and made my presence as threatening as possible.

"Stop,"

My eyes glowed a dim yellowish-gray, causing Hepha to back up a bit, but I held her wrist tightly with my hand.

"Okay, damn, I get it,"

She clicked her tongue as I let go and she rubbed her sore wrist.

The smoke soon dissipated as well but since the maid from before hadn't come back yet, I decided to keep my adorable daughter here for a bit.

"Alright. Now, let's do a spar with only weapons. No skills, okay?"

"I don't want to,"

"Huh?"