Ray skipped the preliminary of his girls and decided to come into the preliminaries of Ethan's group.

  It might seem a bit absurd at first, but considering her woman's strength, and after gaining their permission, Ray still decided to prioritize NTR-ing Ethan first.

  Of course, some of you might not agree with this decision, but following Elsa's incident with the will of the world, Ray now only wanted to quickly take Ethan's protagonist status, so he wouldn't be used by the will of the world like Elsa.

  The preliminary was held in the Maple-leaf city training ground. Thus it wouldn't be strange if someone came to see the preliminary, especially when their group was ranked at the top.

  And since Ethan's group without Ethan himself still ranked on the top 10 in Maple-Leaf city, it wasn't that hard to find the venue.

  He entered the training ground where they were fighting, and in front of them, Ethan's harem group was fighting three bald people.

  The concept of this competition was 3vs3 with at max 3 reserves. Thus Ethan's absence was normal here. Most of the elite groups also deployed similar tactics. They used their weaker member for preliminaries and the stronger ones in the main competition.

  Back to the present situation, in front of Ray now, the three girls seemed to be a bit struggling against their opponent.

  Mira was using an earth golem-type spirit beast to defend the attack, and on her side Celine with a nine-tail kitsune, worthy of her wealthy family heritage as the main attacker to deal most of the damage to their enemies.

  However, the one that took Ray's attention the most was the girl with a brown muscular body and red hair. Her spirit beast was a unique spirit beast that Ray hadn't even seen before.

  It looked like an oreo with solid arms and round oreo as his torso. If ray could say, this spirit beast looks even sillier than Chongky……

  [ Pampioreo. *credit to: foxfoxisduck in the poll*]

  [ Lv: 32.]

  [ A spirit beast which was the spirit of fallen oreo. Jack of all trades, master in none.].

  Among the three, Gerta could be said to be the one who struggled the most against their opponent. Mira's golem was too tough, and Celine fox was one of the top-ranked spirit beasts in this competition, making Gerta's silly oreo to be the hole in this group.

  Of course, it was not like Greta was not working hard. In fact, from what Ray saw here. Greta was the most hard-working in the battle. She defends, attack, and provide support. But still, it was not that significant if compared to the two others.

  Soon with the power of Celine and Mira's defense, their group found a gap which they could use to deal the finishing blow to the enemy.

  Mira used her golem to take all of the aggro, and tank all the damage, while Celine instructed her Fox to jump over Celine's golem and use her strongest attack.

  " Foxfire 100x"

  Multiple purple flames shrouded Celine's fox, and with a snap of her finger, the flame rained down the enemies, knocking them out of the battle.

  " Winner: Celine, Mira, and Gerta. And that's all to conclude today's match. Please come back tomorrow to continue the preliminary session." The referee came to declare the winner.

  And even though the three girls were happy with this result, Ray could see some disappointment in Gerta's eyes.

  With this, the battle ended, and the three girls went separately to this home. But Ray decided to follow Greta, and if his hunch was correct, then this might be a chance to get closer to Gerta.

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  On the side of Maple-Leaf city, there was a big river which was often been used for fishing before.

  But since the arrival of the spirit beasts, the river had become a dangerous place, and even though there was no restriction here, many citizens were avoiding this place.

  However, there is something different this time. On the riverbank, a beautiful girl with tanned brown skin was sitting there with her head down.

  It was none other than Gerta Scarlet. It seems at the climax of today's battle, Gerta saw that she is useless on the team. Mira's defense and Celine's attack were enough to defeat their opponent, and she was only there to fill the member gap which Ethan left.

  " *Sigh* I don't know anymore. Should I really be their team member?" Gerta mumbled silently while gazing at the river.

  Actually, her relationship with Ethan wasn't that deep like Celine or Mira. She was only a customer in Ethan's pet shop before, and because Ethan was really kind to her, she started to develop some feelings for Ethan.

  For her who had been a tomboy girl all her life, the feeling when Ethan treated her nicely and gave her some attention had easily made her heart fell. However, after realizing there were so many beautiful girls beside Ethan, she was somewhat dumbstruck. Still, she chose not to give up and stayed by Ethan's side before.

  Even if she was not as pretty, she had decided that she would be the strongest among Etjan's girls and protect Ethan. But the recent battle had completely broken her spirit.

  Suddenly, when she was still contemplating life, she heard a sound coming from the side.

  " Who?"

  " Ahh, I'm sorry if I startled you. I don't know someone was here before me."

  From the bush, a cute and delicate handsome child appeared. He should not be older than 8 years old, but the feeling he emitted somehow made Gerta felt this boy was special.

  " Say, what is your purpose here?" Gerta looked skeptically at the kid.

  For someone like him to appear at this time, it was a little sketchy to her.

  However, the next thing he did made Gerta immediately dispel all her suspicion.

  When she thought that the kid would answer seriously, the delicate kid before immediately broke into tears, and seeing the handsome child shedding tears like this, Gerta's heart couldn't help but turn mellow.

  " *Hiks-Hiks* I'm sorry Big sis. I just came here because I want to get some time alone *hiks*, But if I disturb you, then I will go now *hiks*"

  Of course, hearing this, Gerta could no longer maintain her anger.

  She came to the child and pulled him into her arm.

  " No, It's big sis who is sorry. Big sis shouldn't be using that tone to you. Now tell big sis, what is your name." Gerta looked at the child with a kind and warm smile, trying not to scare the child.

  However, unbeknownst to her, the child was indeed planning something for her, and she would only thank him later.