Back to the Teapot, and the girls developing, so to speak, as well as some exposition. Anyways, let's get to the chapter.

I held onto Ganyu's hand, delicately. She looked in wonder as I was in front of my home. I looked at my home for the first time in over a month. It was… a breath of fresh air, seeing my home again.

"Ganyu… this is my home. Where we can… raise our children." I said that, as I turned over to her. She turned over towards me and smiled.

"Thank you. Looks like a beautiful house." She sat with that look of peace at me, as I looked her in the eyes.

I chuckled. "We'll have to see inside first."

I started, holding her hand, to walk to the front. Oddly enough, no one was outside, but I gently opened the door regardless. I opened the door and smelled something… good being made. I quietly walked over to the kitchen, and I saw the girls huddled around the stove.

"So, be careful not to burn the eggs, Amber. You don't want Aether getting sick from your food."

"Yes, Mona…" I heard Amber squeak out, before she platted the eggs, and then laid the pan on the stovetop. She looked happy, having it look good.

"Also, make sure you don't end up putting too much salt in that. Balancing the flavors will be important, after all." Eula spoke, monitoring her actions as she seasoned the eggs.

"Yes, Eula…" She sprinkled some salt on the plate, and I oversaw her being conservative with it, before putting in slightly more each time. It was like she was putting a drop of salt every 10 seconds, but eventually, she got it done. She was proud.

"Also, please don't make it too intense with the pepper. I can handle some spice, but I'm not sure everyone else would." Barbara sweetly spoke.

I heard Eula cough, as she kept her hand on her mouth, and Mona looked the other way in disgust. That got Amber depressed, but she brightened up.

"Yes, Barbara!" She put the last of the pepper, and then… stood back from it to admire her work. It was scrambled eggs, with onions, radishes, potatoes, and tomatoes. Not a 5-star dish, but Amber had made it herself.

"I remember when you made that Outrider champion steak… It was undercooked, and not flavored that well…" I chuckled softly, which was enough to get the girls to all turn toward me. Eula, surprisingly, jumped on me and embraced me in a hug that almost had me fall to the ground.

"Aether…" She held my head at her shoulder, and I hugged her, feeling her back muscles, toned, from her work as a knight. I felt her stomach against mine, and it was a little bigger than I remembered, with her 5 weeks pregnant. "I missed you…" She looked at me, mesmerized, and overjoyed. Then, her entire expression shifted from affection to subdued anger.

"Though, you've not visited us in a month. I will have vengeance against such an act, and such neglect for your wives."

"Sorry, sorry…"

"Oh, Aether!" Amber jumped on me, with Eula still in my embrace, and Snuggled against me as well.

"Look! My tummy has gotten a bit bigger!" She said, excitedly, as she moved back from me, with her womb tattoo still on her stomach. It got me excited, but I controlled my urges at that moment.

"Our stomachs have all gotten bigger, Amber," Mona spoke. "But yes, we've all been developing well." Mona quietly and slowly entered the hug.

I patted her head, and she seemed to enjoy it, as she hummed quietly against me.

"Yeah, we have." Barbara, surprisingly, was the last to join, but I hugged all of them, and then Ganyu hugged me from behind.

After a few minutes of hugging them, they all released and looked behind me at Ganyu, who was slightly nervous.

"Ganyu, this is Amber, Mona, Barbara, and Eula. Everyone… this is Ganyu, one of my wives from Liyue."

"Oh, you're one of us!" Amber immediately went up to her and got into her personal space. "Don't worry, if you love Aether, we'll accept you! We are his wives as well." She smiled, which relaxed Ganyu, despite the proximity.

"Yes… nice to meet you, Amber."

"Nice to meet you too, Ganyu!" She smiled brightly, before going back to her eggs and trying to bring them to the table.

"Well, it can't be helped. You're a man with a large heart." Eula spoke cooly to Ganyu. "Nice to meet you, Ganyu. Welcome to our family."

"Uh… yes. Thank you." She shook hands, and Barbara was next to talk.

"You're so pretty! You could pass off as a beautiful idol!" Barbara looked in sheer admiration at her, which got Ganyu shy again.

"Oh… thank you." Barbara gave a warm smile, before going to the table.

"Nice to meet you as well, Ganyu." Mona took her hand and then shook it.

"Thank you." The awkwardness started to subside as Mona last shook her hand, and Amber waved toward me.

"Hey, Aether! Do you want to try these eggs? I made them for you, I didn't know you'd come today, though!" She smiled, brighter than any light I'd seen. I couldn't help but smile back, as I walked to the front of the table, and looked at the dish fully in front of me.

"You made this, Amber? It smells really good!" I said, my eyes bright looking at her and the dish.

"Yes! I have been training to get better at cooking, because… I didn't want Eula and Barbara and Mona to get sick… I kept making bad food, and that wasn't fun."

She looked depressed, which got me and the rest of the table mates worried.

"So, please try this!" She brightened up again, and I looked down at the scrambled eggs that lay in front of me again. I took a fork, and took up a piece of the egg, along with the potato. I blew on it, still hot as I picked it up. It was fresh food, and I was about to eat it.

I took a bite… and took another bite. And another and another. I gulped the entire scrambled eggs in under a few minutes and sat with an energized and satisfied look on my face.

"That was great, Amber!" I smiled at her, to which she jumped up in joy, and dove at my side to hug me.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She spoke, as she hugged me, and rubbed her face into my shoulder. I patted her head, seeing how excited she was.

"You should probably thank Eula, Barbara, and Mona, first…" I chuckled, and she realized.

"Oh, right! Thank you, Mona, Barbara, and Eula!" She gave a single hug to every one of them, and she was about to give one to Ganyu, but the proximity still was an issue. She was still nervous.

"Though, you guys want to make something big together?" I looked from the front of the table. "We can make a lot of dishes!" I smiled as the rest of the girls looked at me. Ganyu, being unnerved initially, seemed happy as she looked at me.

"Yeah!" We all stood up and started to cook our large feast for our early dinner. From the food, we got a ton of dishes done, and we lined it all on the table. Ganyu ended up eating some of the mints, but other than that, we made a ton of dishes altogether.

"So, we've got the Prosperous Peace for our appetizer, the Spicy Stew and improved Outrider Champion Steak for our main entrees, and the Stormcrest pie for our dessert!" I announced, having finally finished the dishes. We all sat down and started to dig in. None of us talked, surprisingly, but it wasn't awkward either. Ganyu, having no prior meeting with these girls, still looked happy talking with them. However, the aftermath was a different story.

"Oh… that was so good…" Amber sighed, having finished all her dishes. The entire feast we had made had been completely gobbled up by the six of us, with Ganyu eating the largest.

"Yeah, you've done great in cooking!" Amber looked satisfied, but Eula and Mona were looking at Ganyu inquisitively.

"Though, I'd like to ask a few questions about you, Ganyu, now that we've all eaten."

"Oh…" Ganyu looked over at their serious attitude, and she became serious as well.

"What would you like to know?"

"Well, this is a question for both of you, but how is she three months pregnant? She looks far further in her maternal development than we are." Eula looked strangely at her, as did Mona.

"Well… the truth is, I'm a half Qilin. They're known for having shorter pregnancies, the Qilin, so while the typical human can conceive after nine months, the Qilin conceives every three months. Since I'm half, I can conceive every six months, so where I am now, I'm in my second trimester. But I am still technically ovulating, despite being pregnant. It was a survival strategy of the Qilin."

"So you can get impregnated once again before you give birth?"

"Theoretically, yes."

"Alright. Another question I have, you were rather close to Aether, correct?"

"Yes, of course! He has helped me… so many times."

"He has?"

"Yeah… he's saved my life so many times. Just a couple of days ago, he single-handedly saved Liyue…"

"Wait, what?" Almost everyone except Mona spoke up, confused.

"Well… long story short, now that I've got the time to explain," I spoke. "Mona gave me a prophecy that I needed to go to Sumeru right before I left. Did she tell you?"

"Uh…" Mona looked away. "I had forgotten to tell them. I've been cleaning and helping them so much that I've not told them about that…"

I saw Mona's embarrassment, but I didn't pay too much mind as I got serious.

"Well, I'll explain it myself. Mona said I would find more women and said, "As expected of my husband," and all that." That got Mona's face redder, but I still spoke. "She also warned me I'd have to fight a battle in Sumeru and Liyue. I'm assuming the battle was, well, battles, was all sorts of things. I saved the archon of Dendro, fought off the Akademiya, found some things about my sister, and the past, fought off the eremites and a corrupt matriarchy, and a lot more that I probably can't explain here."

Everyone at the table seemed intrigued but also disappointed when I said I couldn't explain more. But I had to move on.

"Anyways, the battle in Liyue… it was chaos. There was a quarter thousand or something Ruin guards around, and… I had to save them on my own." I looked down, both through remembering all of those bodies killed, as well as Zhànshi and his words.

"Oh… and what happened to Mondstadt?"

This time, Ganyu interrupted me. "Oh, Mondstadt has been stabilized. Many of our Liyue soldiers helped them rebuild. Many of the adventurers from Liyue also helped Mondstadt rebuild itself, hence why many were willing to help out here."

"Oh… I didn't know that. Huh…" I spoke, thinking about it. "I guess that makes sense."

"I, along with Lady Ningguang, had been coordinating the effort, but I must say, it was a difficult endeavor. It's part of the reason why the deflation issue became more problematic because many of them weren't willing to work for free…"

"Oh… I see." Eula spoke, with a twinge of guilt in her voice. "I wish… I could help."

"No, it's alright. Aether will be able to help soon anyways."

"What do you mean?" Mona spoke up.

"Well…" I interrupted Ganyu, to speak. "I didn't tell you this because I didn't have the time, but I had been granted my own Gnosis. I have full control of Anemo, which is why Jean was so much stronger and able to fight off many of the ruin guards."

"YOU HAVE A GNOSIS?!" Amber screamed, along with Barbara, and Eula as well as Mona looked shocked as well. Ganyu looked… relatively unsurprised, however.

"Yes, the Anemo Gnosis. According to Barbatos, I spoke with him-"

"YOU SPOKE WITH LORD BARBATOS?!" Barbara, surprisingly, was the shocked one. "Did he say anything about me?! About disrespecting him?!" She jumped out of her chair and nearly pressed me into mine.

"Well, he jokingly said to me how I had corrupted a follower of his…" I looked away as I spoke, but she looked distraught. "He didn't seem to be that worried, though."

Barbara took in a breath, almost as if she had stopped breathing since I spoke, and awkwardly sat back down as I spoke.

"Though, anyways, the legitimacy of the currency comes from the Geo Gnosis. So, since I was able to obtain an Anemo Gnosis… and I've got many women I love in Liyue," I spoke the last part, blushing, surprisingly. I felt happy that I didn't get used to loving, almost. It still was something precious to me.

"Ningguang made a deal, both for her to give birth to my child and for me to impregnate six other women. It would strengthen the trust in the economy, with me being able to create Mora, and give Ningguang a child, which was personally and politically important." I finished my explanation, but everyone looked to be deep in thought.

"So you have so many women who are willing to sleep with you… and it looks like you've not been sleeping much. You have a lot of dark circles under your eyes… Have you been having constant sex?"

Ganyu blushed, embarrassed, but I merely shook my head.

"No… I've been pouring the ashes of the men, children, and women who died, I've been helping the survivors get food, as well as setting up a feast, and I've been saving people. Though I have slept with… 4 people."

"How long ago did you enter Liyue?"

"2 days? I lost track of time; I hadn't slept much even before going to Liyue…"

"I see…" Eula looked down.

"How about you sleep next to us? No sex, yet, but just a good night's rest so you can recover?" Amber spoke up, and Barbara spoke up too.

"Yeah, that way, you'll be alright when you leave!"

"That would be a smart move if you'd like to return to Liyue and be presented as the husband of the Tianquan of the Liyue Qixing to be more rested," Eula spoke.

"Plus, I can give you an astrological reading before you leave," Mona spoke.

"Though… would you mind me sleeping next to all of you?" Ganyu spoke up.

"Of course! You're with us now!" Amber flexed her muscle, weirdly enough, but that was enough to cheer Ganyu.

"Though, do we have a big enough bed for all 6 of us?" Ganyu asked again.

"Well… yeah, I do," I remembered my inventory and how I made a giant bed called the Caesar bed size, whatever that meant. But it was big enough for six of us.

"Let me set it up in the big room after I help you all cleanup." I went straight for the dishes on the table, which were all empty.

"We can help out as well!" Barbara spoke as she helped get some of the dishes as well.

"Me too, Aether!" Amber spoke up, as she walked to me with her dishes and collections. Mona, Eula, and Ganyu nonverbally joined, as well. All of us were cleaning the dishes together, some with Hydro, and some with soap. I looked over at them, everyone humming the same tune, and Eula, Amber, Barbara, and Mona were close.

"You guys have gotten close after a month together. You've been having a good time with each other?"

That got them to blush and stop what they were doing. Eula semi-froze, and so did Mona and Barbara.

"Uh… truth is, Aether, we've been… relieving each other with ourselves, with you gone." She was nervous, which made me laugh.

"Amber, you don't have to worry about that!" I laughed as I looked at the three of them and stepped back. "You already have had sex with Eula and me. You don't have to worry about that." I ended up just smiling, and looking at the dishes that we had cleaned.

"You guys can have fun with each other, in more ways than one. If you guys want to kiss or something, that's alright. Just be careful, you all are pregnant, and I don't want you guys pushing yourselves too much."

"Fair enough." Eula even was blushing a bit.

"Same goes for you, Ganyu if you want that."

"Oh, uh…" Ganyu turned beet red, and she wordlessly just cleaned her dish. Many of us did till Mona broke the silence.

"Now I can speak about that subject; Barbara was pretty perverted. Like, she wanted us to-"

"MONA!" Barbara started chasing after Mona as she tried to get her to stop talking. It was hilarious seeing Mona carrying her dish while Barbara was running after her, holding her plate.

"I love you all…" I spoke, under my breath, as I looked at Barbara and Mona. Amber, Ganyu, and Eula heard me but went back to cleaning. After a few minutes, Mona and Barbara stopped running around and finished cleaning their dishes.

"Man, I'm tired…" I stretched my arms as I opened the door to the big room on the bottom floor. "Let's get the bed inside here."

I used my inventory, placing the bed in the middle of two windows, and I just laid down, not even bothering to change my clothes.

"Also, remind me to take a shower tomorrow, I probably smell bad." I chuckled, but Mona quietly snuggled next to me. Same with Ganyu. Eula moved next to Ganyu, and Amber followed her. Barbara rested with Mona, and we all managed ourselves on the bed.

"You don't smell that bad… but I'll remind you anyway," Mona spoke, looking away. Even though it was darker and the lights were off, I could still see her blushing.

"Thanks, love," I said instinctively, patting her head. She seemed to enjoy it and be at peace with me patting her head.

"You're welcome." She mewled as she closed her eyes.

"Thank you… everyone. Eula, Amber, Ganyu, Barbara, and Mona." I saw all of them looking at me with eyes open. "I love you all…"

"We love you too…" Amber happily spoke as she closed her eyes.

"Goodnight, everyone."

"Goodnight." I heard five voices as I finally let sleep take the reins next to all the women I loved.

No sex, I know, there's going to be a sixsome next chapter, don't worry. But anyways, this will be focused, for the next one or two chapters, inside the Teapot.