Nyra thanks Luke again for the origin fruit and take it with smile when she finds it’s E rank.

Her family members also smiled on this, but Count’s expression didn’t change much.

After that, Luke returns to Aurielle, who have happy smile on her face.

"My husband sure knows how to boast."

She leaned closer and whispered to him, but Luke only smiled before looking toward the front.

The countess saw that the gift ceremony was over, so she stood up, at which point the noblemen and women both become quiet and turned to her.

She nodded at this, then smiled and announced it to everyone.

"Please enjoy your dance party."

No one shouted after hearing her words, but many men and women got excited because they were waiting for this.

Soon, the music starts as some singers dressed lavishly come into the hall along with people with musical instruments.

Many people approached their crush asking for their hand for a dance, while some husbands and wives were already lost in their own dance.

"Aurielle, do you want to?"

Luke, seeing everyone’s happy expression, also asked her, to which she raised her brow and smiled while asking him back.

"Do you know how to dance?"

Luke froze on this, then he got embarrassed, as he really never learned to dance, not even in his last world.

Seeing Luke’s embarrassed expression, Aurielle shook her head with a smile and then brought her hand towards him.

"Let’s go."

Luke came out from his frozen state and held her hand, while they moved toward the dance center.

Aurielle taught Luke the basics of dance, as he first put his hand on her waist and then one hand holding her hand.

Soon, they start moving slowly, step by step; Luke follows her guidance.

"It’s good."

He smiled and got close to her, to which she also smiled back.

Rowan, who was already feeling humiliated, became even more irritated at this moment.

Then he looked around and found that not a single woman came toward him because of that and his mood got even worse.

Cedric from the side also sighed, but what can he do? So both of them waited.

On the main seat, special guests along with the Count family were still seated; it was just that they were talking to each other.

But only one person’s gaze, with complicated emotions in it, was following a couple.

Naivara felt her heart ache a little, as something was again compressing it.

She tried to calm it down, but it just helped only somewhat because the next second those words repeated again in her mind.

"You are my wife, and I will always protect you!"

"Liar."

She finally muttered those words while giving Luke a betrayed look.

"I am here, so why do you never come to me? Why not a single time?"

Her eyes slowly start changing color as they are becoming completely blue.

"Was all of that really a lie? I just said one time, "Forgot me, and you did."

Her chair’s armrest suddenly cracked slightly because she wasn’t able to control her emotions.

Nyra, who was sitting with Naivara, suddenly felt something odd with her.

"Naira, are you okay?"

{Author note: Naira name will be a short name for Naivara and will mostly be called by her close ones.}

Nyra asked with a concerned voice while shaking her shoulders a little.

Naira, with a swift motion, turned toward Nyra, who got shocked on this.

"Why are her eyes changing now?"

Nyra felt little panic, as she knew what would happen if she lost control.

But the next moment Naira returns back toward Luke and Aurielle, which gives Nyra a hint as to how to solve this.

Nyra took a deep breath to calm down her recent shocked expression, then with a smile, she said to Naira in a coaxing voice.

"Naira, do you want to meet your husband? then why not go to him?"

Naira, who heard Nyra’s calm voice, suddenly paused, as she had never thought about this, and her eye color returned slightly.

But the next moment she shook her head and said to Nyra with a sad voice.

"I told him to forget me."

She lowered her head on this while clenching her fist tightly.

Nyra saw her expression and sighed because she knows about the ritual; that’s why she got so shocked. "Why would Sea King let his daughter Naivara to marry a hero?"

But when she heard that he was talentless and all the wives left him except Aurielle, she understood everything.

She held Naira shoulders gently and said.

"Naira, he is still your husband, and I am sure he will not be angry about your previous word."

Naira, who was feeling guilty, froze and abruptly turned toward Nyra with hopeful eyes and asked.

"Really?"

Nyra could see her eye color was returning slowly, which also calmed her down, and she nodded with a smile.

Then with a mischievous smile, she added.

"And maybe if you too have a child before your ritual, then your father will definitely cancel your ritual."

Naira, who was starting to feel better and hopeful after hearing Nyra’s words, suddenly froze, and her pupils trembled when she heard her last word.

"Naira, what’s happened?"

Nyra got scared by Naira’s reaction, and in a slightly high voice she said it, on which Octavia’s gaze turned toward them.

"What’s going on, Nyra?"

Octavia tried to ask Nyra about Naira’s condition, but then she heard Naira’s somewhat down voice.

"No, if he finds out that I have lost my virginity before the ritual, he will kill both of us."

Nyra got silent, as she did hear about Sea King’s reputation: that he cared about only the strong; for the weak, he often discarded them.

But still, Nyra smiles and cheers up the now downcast Naiara.

"Still, right now you are here and you can spend all the time you want with your husband."

On this all three of them looked toward Luke and Aurielle, who were enjoying dancing with smiles on their faces.

Naira got conflicted; should she really approach him, and will he really accept him after all this?

But then she finally heard something that made up her mind.

"And Naira, you have all the rights to be with Luke as much as Aurielle has over him, because he is also your husband."

Naira finally nodded and thanked Nyra.

"Go for it and make him yours."

Nyra said with a cheerful smile, on this Naira blushed slightly, as she doesn’t have any experience with men.

Then she saw that Luke and Aurielle had returned to their position and were now seated while eating some food.

STEP

STEP

STEP.

Everyone was lost in their world, but all of a sudden the whole hall became quiet because everyone’s attention moved back toward the platform, and there they saw Naivara Tidewhisper, the daughter of the sea king.

Everyone becomes excited on this, because all the present men don’t have the guts to invite the women from the platform, as many become afraid with a count’s gaze alone.

So when she finally came down by herself, everyone thought, Who will be the lucky man to get the opportunity to dance with her? But some thought that they would be the one.

But with each step, many men on the way become heartbroken as she passes without turning towards them.

Soon, they noticed, she was not here for them, because she was heading toward the corner position, which has become too popular today.

And after a few moments later everyone got their answers, which they had already expected.

Because she was standing in front of Luke, a talentless hero.

"NO, maybe he has already eaten Origin fruit, so he is not talentless anymore."

Everyone thoughts with another sad expression.

[Chapter End]

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Author Note:

Huge thanks to BluuuuTea and Brandon_Haddan for your Golden Ticket! Your support really motivates me to keep writing more.