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Another preview of The Hero Of A Thousand Blades. Chapter 2 preview. Don't hold back with you reviews. It's how I improve.

WARNING! Some lime - maybe lemon, I'm not sure - abound. You have been warned.

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I wake up in the early morning as usual.

My eyes open and started blinking a few times to adjust themselves to the light of the room. Once my eyes have adjusted themselves, I see the familiar scene of my tent that I had Traced last night to sleep in. I lay in my futon - that I had also Traced last night - for a few more seconds before flexing and stretching my muscles a little to get rid of the fatigue from sleeping the whole night. Beside me, just a few steps away, my companion - in the futon I Traced for him - also starts to wake from his slumber.

"*Yawn* Morning, Archer."

"Morning, Yinghua."

Yinghua turned to face me with a sleepy look on his face. "I can't believe you actually lasted the whole six months of Master's training without taking off that outfit of yours. *Yawn* Well, except when you go bathing, whenever that is. You even actually sleep in it. Doesn't it ever get...smelly or stuffy?"

"I always Trace this outfit when I need it. The one I used before that, were always turned back to magical energy."

Yinghua had a stupid look on his face. Probably because the thought never occurred to him. "I can't believe I never realized that. I'm definitely going to figure out how to do your Tracing magic. It's really handy." At this, he starts to look around the tent at the various household items that I Traced last night to make our dinner. A wok, a kettle, a few bowls, forks, spoons, cutleries, a chopping board and two wooden cups.

"Never mind that, Yinghua. This is the last day for our survival training that Her Eminence had us go through. After this, you have to travel to the top of Mount Lu to meet her and report to her our progress and for your ceremony of reaching adulthood. And you know what happens if you're late."

"Ugh. Don't remind me. I'm going to go take a bath near the river and prepare. Can you handle breakfast?" Yinghua looks hopeful at the mention of breakfast.

"Sure, I'll cook something up to congratulate your reaching adulthood since I can't participate in the official ceremony because I'm still an outsider. Now, hurry up. It takes more than two hours to get there because of the various traps that Her Eminence had prepared for this training, so you barely have an hour before you have to go if you want to be on time."

"I know." At this, he immediately gets up from his futon and goes out of the tent.

As for me, I head straight to the makeshift kitchen I had set up behind the tent to start making our breakfast. Since there are enough ingredients for it, I decided to make some ramen with deer meat. It's a good thing that I had already prepared most of the preparations for it last night, so right now all I need to do is to make all the finishing touches.

As I start apportioning the suitable amount of meat and noodle for Yinghua and myself, my thoughts begin to wander through all the events that has occurred ever since my second meeting with Alice, who is now (un)officially my wife.

It has been about a year since then.

I remembered that I was looking forward to Alice's reaction once she tastes the steak that I made for her. The steak was cooked to a perfectly soft texture so that Alice wouldn't have trouble chewing the meat and it was marinated in a special blend of sauce of my own creation for a whole day. I'm sure my selection of an English dish and my own twist to the usual dish would please her.

I made sure to give Alice a portion of the steak that would agree with an elegant lady such as herself in addition to some salad with another sauce of my own making and an old vintage wine I acquired by pawning a few diamonds - I learned to create jewels from normal stones using Alteration to restructure its atoms back in my original world. Rin and Luvia made sure to profit from this ability either financially or in their own research of Jewelcraft - at a sleazy pawnshop that wouldn't ask much question about where I got them.

Once I arrived at the balcony of her room - the security on Alice's side of her room was light that night - I knocked a few times on the wooden panels of the glass door as was proper etiquette. I knew Alice was still awake as the lights on her room was still on and I can see the shadow of her figure on the curtains of the door sitting on a chair in front of a small table reading a book. I went inside after she told me to come in.

Unlike the last time I visited where Alice wore only her one-piece white night dress, that night Alice wore a black sleeveless dress that hugged her body closely, showing all her curves that left nothing to the imagination. I could even clearly see her cleavage. The dress was made to be easily removed by untying the strings that was tied in a simple knot around the back of her neck.

I should've figured what Alice was up to when I saw her wearing such a sexy clothing, but unfortunately my brain was just mesmerised by her beauty that night.

After that, my body was just on auto-pilot to cater to Alice's needs like a waiter - my mind however was numb from being unable to get rid of Alice's beautiful image from my head - so dinner that night went without hitch.

Once dinner had ended, my mind finally came back to take control of my body as Alice handed me a flash drive containing all the information the Witenagemot has accumulated on the current Campiones and also some other information on past Campiones that she thought I might find useful. After storing the flash drive in my coat, Alice and I started to chat a little about random topics. I actually had fun exchanging a few jokes with her.

It was about after an hour of chatting with her that Alice's true objective was carried out.

First, she asked me to carry her. I didn't find anything wrong with it because I thought her body still hasn't recovered enough for her to move about a lot yet, so I just picked her up in a princess carry without much thought. And that's when she suddenly loosened the shroud around my mouth and gave me a deep French Kiss that lasted for a few minutes.

Normally, I would've pulled my head back in shock once she started kissing me but I underestimated a few factors that I neglected to address after being reborn in this world.

My teenage hormones.

The longing I sometimes feel when I find none of my wives in my arm when I wake up from my sleep.

And the attraction I felt for Alice.

Suffice to say I returned Alice's kiss with vigor and we had a very...sensual night that lasted until dawn. I was actually surprised with Alice's stamina but found my answer later when Alice told me that she had been inserting more of her prana - she called it magical energy - into Avalon after she found out that doing so increased the Noble Phantasm's - she thought Avalon was a Divine Artifact - healing power and she also took some stamina boosting medicine in anticipation of her plans to seduce me succeeding.

That little fox. She had planned everything.

Her sexy clothing, our chat so that we would be comfortable with each other while letting the food she ate digest a little, the three day excuse so that she may recover more of her health, the romantic atmosphere she had set up for her room - which I didn't notice until later - and the way she kept smiling seductively at me as if inviting me over for something.

And I totally fell for all of them.

I could still admire her sincerity however, as she never opened her eyes after she loosened my shroud to kiss me. She knew I wanted to keep my identity a secret and respected it in her own way. Not only that, during the whole night she kept transmitting to me her memories of her life using a spell to bare everything she was to me. The more she revealed herself to me the more I fell for her. I could even tell how grateful she was for giving her Avalon and the fear that I might reject her. It made our night more and more...heated. She revealed everything of herself to me - both the good and the bad side of her - until there was nothing of herself left for her to reveal.

It made me want her more and I showed it - with every bedding technique I knew - that night.