It was evening now, Zeke brought Pipi back to her mother who came back with some food, and thanked him for taking care of her daughter while her husband was away.

Now, Zeke was waiting for the Harpy Queen under her tree. As he waited for her, he took out his phone from his inventory and checked out the battery.

43%

Well, it is still good if you think that he didn't charged his phone before sleeping, and forgot about it on his pocket. The next day he would have gone to school with a phone with low battery, but now there was a change of plans…

He opened his phone and went through his gallery, watching his collection of memes to pass time.

Some dozen of seconds later, a flap of wings reached his ears. Zeke turned off his phone and placed it inside his pocket, then he turned around.

The Harpy Queen just arrived, this time with a serious expression. "Everything is prepared, the men are waiting in Happiness Village. Once they heard about what could happen to their previous village, both them and their new families rushed in."

"No guards?" Zeke asked with a raised eyebrow, seeing how she was alone.

The Harpy Queen's serious expression broke down, revealing a small chuckle. "Why would I bring weaker people than me to guard me? They are here mostly to defend the places where I am not present, or if I need a wing against high numbers."

"Fair enough. Shall we go, 'Her Highness'?" Zeke invited the Queen in a mocking voice, and she nodded before suggesting something. "If you wish, I can carry you all the way there."

Zeke started to think and shrugged. "Why not? It isn't like I might experience this in future."

The Queen smiled at his behavior and flapped her wings a couple of times, landing on Zeke's shoulders. Her talons gripped him hard enough to not hurt him and have a good hold on him, and then the two of them started to fly.

"If you become my husband then you can enjoy this as much as you wish, what do you think? Remember that it is hard for a Queen such as myself to give favoritisms."

"And staying here to take care of children 24/7? That is something I do when I go in pension, I'm still 15 years old, woman. I'm not at the age to be baptized, not to talk about marrying."

"Don't worry, there is no age of consent between monsters, as long as the two parties are ok with it, they can marry."

"Oh, hell no. I have better things to do than rotting in a place, it's called Adventures, you ever heard of it?" Zeke asked with a mock tone and a smile, while the Harpy Queen raised an eyebrow as they passed through the branches and reached the sky.

"You go in adventures? I thought you were just a mercenary."

"I need to be famous, girl. I can't do that on my sofa, unless I am aiming to be the laziest person in the world."

"I guess that's true… We are there." The Harpy Queen warned, and Zeke looked down in surprise, seeing Happiness Village. "Already? Damn, you're fast."

"I'm the Harpy Queen, I could win fights against anyone in Sentora continent too, unless they are also a Queen-class monster. This speed is nothing for me." After saying that with a proud tone, she began to descend and land on the filled up village.

The villagers from both Happiness Village and harpies from Harpy Village made way for Zeke and the Harpy Queen, and the latter let go of Zeke's shoulders, letting him touch the ground.

"Alright, we're here." Zeke said out loudly, and the acting village chief quickly approached them.

The Harpy Queen and the acting village chief looked at each other's eyes, when the latter opened her mouth. "I have heard of the situation, I already know the details so let's get directly on the point…"

She took a deep breath, making the tension rise around the Harpy Queen, she was nervous that the village chief won't accept, but it didn't seem so from the next words coming out from her mouth.

"As the representant of the women in Happiness Village, I accept the offer to fuse the two villages together."

Hearing those words, the Harpies and the men shouted in joy, while the human women could just smile at them.

Since Zeke didn't have anything else to do, he walked away and let the Harpy Queen talk with the acting village chief. Outside from the mob of people, Zeke encountered Alice in her human form, carrying his clean clothes.

"They are clean, take them." She shoved the clothes on Zeke, who caught them hastily. But he just wore the Enrikan shirt, putting the rest in the inventory to put up later. "Thanks."

Alice glanced at the mob and shook her head. "I can't believe you actually did it, and you don't even smell of sex."

Zeke shrugged and looked at his side, noticing a notification. He clicked on it and the Quest screen appeared.

He turned in the one regarding the issue at Happiness Village, receiving 10 Bonus Points. Then he split them off between strength and endurance.

In the end, he closed everything and sighed in relief. "Well, as long as everything goes nicely, we can stay calm."

Alice closed her eyes and crossed her arms. "I guess that's true."

They watched how the leaders of the villages put up some rules, while everyone else started to prepare a festival.

The sun quickly fell down, and night took its place. Harpies and humans were dancing drunk in the village square, celebrating the fusion of the two villages and their newly-acquired peace.

Zeke was lying on a chair, with his neck bent back and his eyes closed. Meanwhile Alice just sat near him and watched the festival with her usual apathetic expression.

A woman approached the two of them and said. "This is all thanks to you. On behalf of everyone in Happiness Village, allow me to thank you."

However, no answer was coming from Zeke. Alice turned around and called out. "Hey, Zeke?"

"..."

"He's sleeping." Confirming that, she looked at the woman. "If you want to thank us, then… I love sweet things…"

The woman gave out a bitter smile and held out a single jar of honey. "We would love to give you plenty of Happiness Honey, but right now we only have enough for one jar…"

"...I can't be too picky…" Alice picked up the honey jar from the woman and nodded at her, the woman smiled and left the two travelers alone.

Alice opened the jar and removed one of her black gloves, before plunging her hand inside the jar and eat the honey on her hands with a greedy smile. "It's sweet!"

If Zeke was awake now, he would have been sitting in a different manner just to hide the boner he would have seeing her eat the honey.

[STATUS UPDATE]

Name: Zeke Conquest

Age: 15 years old

Sex: Male

Race: Human

Title: Hero

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Strength: 31

Endurance: 35

Constitution: 25

Dexterity: 24

Magic: 1

Bonus Stats: 0

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Skills: Sun Authority: Leo.