Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1039

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Chapter 1039: Chapter 1039 - Taming Contentment - End

Aldric noticed without anyone saying anything.

Seiya was running the calculation that people ran when they saw something that could have been different, and finding that the answer to "why wasn’t it me" was more complicated than the question had made it seem.

Not only Luna, three beautiful women. All three with the kind of presence they had, and all three here by choice at some level, because if they were only political pieces had the power to stop this, and if he wasn’t to their liking they wouldn’t be looking at Ren the way they were looking at him.

’Some people have too much luck,’ thought Seiya.

Then he corrected himself: it likely wasn’t only luck. But he didn’t have a good name for what the rest of it was.

Aldric put a hand on his shoulder, briefly.

The universal gesture for: let it go...

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Some of Luna’s uncles, detractors who had survived the dismantling of Orion’s faction with enough left over to continue existing as a faction on paper, because they had not directly participated in the coup, had arrived at the ceremony with a specific intention.

The betrothal announcement was the moment to do the only thing their current resources permitted: noise.

Not much, but the kind of noise that in the right place at the right moment could create enough discomfort to at least slightly damage something they would have preferred didn’t exist.

They opened their mouths when Julius was giving the announcement.

The sound went nowhere.

Liu had not stopped smiling at any point since Julius began speaking. The sound specialized beasts that made up his system had capabilities that nobody in this hall could approach, and the suppression field was positioned with an exactness that was not coincidence, corresponding precisely to the two sections where Luna’s uncles and Liora’s uncles were seated.

Liora’s uncles, who had also arrived with the same intention at the same moment, discovered simultaneously that they had a problem in the vicinity of their trousers that had nothing to do with sound, much to do with wetness and that was urgent and uncontrollable enough to displace any other intention entirely.

Min, at some point between the start of Julius’s announcement and the moment Liora’s uncles became aware of their situation with the urgency of people who urgently needed to find a way to cover their pants, had ceased to be visible. The full concealment capacity of his beasts’ combo was one of the things Min rarely needed to use, which meant that when he did, nobody without Ren’s level of awareness in the immediate area knew exactly what had happened or when, only that something had changed in their undergarments unexpectedly and at the worst possible time.

The sentiment of the detractors remained at just that.

Without ruining anything.

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What did weigh a bit, and Ren noticed it in the second when the hall’s attention redistributed itself toward the conversations and commentary that always followed an announcement of this nature, was what was absent.

Larissa’s mother was not in the hall.

It wasn’t a logistical absence... It was a posture.

And a posture persisted beyond the ceremony, it didn’t dissolve when the program ended, couldn’t be silenced by Liu or dampened by Min, because it existed in a different space from noise and inconvenience.

Luna’s parents couldn’t be there for reasons that were circumstance rather than choice. Liora’s parents either.