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

Everyone thoughts with another sad expression.

But next moment another thughts comes into their minds, that he only eat E rank fruit which have bronze-rank potential.

"So he is still not good."

With that they feels little better than before.

"Luke."

Luke, who was enjoying the delicacy with Aurielle, also saw the commotion when Naivara descend the platform and approached him.

Aurielle remained silent this time, though she was somewhat uncomfortable with the thought of having to share Luke with other women.

But she didn’t let her emotions control her.

Naivara, look towards the same face and same blue eyes, which have promised to her that he will protect her at all cost.

But now she is here in front of him; she doesn’t know what to say.

So after a moment later she gathered her courage and asked him the word she thought in her mind.

"Dance with me."

Naivara froze in place, as this was not what she wanted to say, but the next moment she heard Luke’s replied in a normal voice with a smiling face.

"Sure."

Naivara relaxed somewhat and gave her hand to him.

Aurielle looked towards Naivara, then to Luke, who was about to hold hands with her.

On this she repeated her words to not disturb him, but sadly she can’t control herself, and spoke before even thinking.

"I also want to dance again."

Luke got stunned after hearing Aurielle voice, and sweat started appearing on his forehead.

Because in front is his new second wife and behind is his first wife, and now he has to choose one.

With a worried face he looked forth and behind while thinking.

"What should I do? If I have more than one body, then this will easily solve—"

Then he paused mid-thought as finally a small lightbulb that was covered in spiderwebs for years inside his head lit up.

"Took him long enough."

Nyx, who was watching everything from inside, facepalmed because Luke took too much time to figure this out.

While Myrkhal was in a mediating position, as his face kept changing so fast that counting them would be tough for normal eyes.

Luke heard Nyx’s voice, but he ignored it and muttered something in his mind as he activated his first form of Nyx, the titan knight.

"Shadow of Nyx."

In this form there is not any dramatic change, like what happened at the Lucien fight in the marriage hall, and everything is the same, but he can use the ability of his titan in this form.

Soon everyone present in the hall got surprised.

Because of Naivara, everyone’s attention was already on that corner, so when Luke’s shadow rippled, everyone suddenly narrowed their eyes while thinking.

"Is this an ambush or his doing?"

Then they look toward Count, who was still seated and was calmly looking toward Luke, so they sigh in relief.

While the prince and princess’s eyes changed slightly to curiosity because they did hear about Luke’s giant ability, but the thing that was happening was something different, which even they didn’t know.

After a moment, a shadow.

No, not a shadow; instead, the same replica of Luke came out from his shadow with the same dress, and even his expression was so identical that no one could tell who was real or who was fake.

"There is a difference."

But then a voice from the crowd drew their attention back, and after looking carefully, they finally noticed the subtle difference, that no one would have found without close observation.

The replica was was little bit darker than the original Luke.

But the next moment, that darkness also disappeared, and now both Luke look like ditto copies, which shocked everyone.

Even seated members got surprised because they did hear about all types of clones abilities, but shadow clones should be dark, as they have never seen an identical shadow to original bodies.

"Because then it would be a doppelganger, not a shadow."

Luke smiled on this and shook his head at his previous foolish behaviour.

When he heard the name ’Shadow of Nyx’, he often thought that he is summoning a shadow, which should be true.

But then he heard Nyx say that his ability is perfect to extreme and the most important thing; he is a void titan, not a shadow titan.

At that time, he finally focused on his words, when he told him, "that he summoned an image of himself from the void."

In a sense, it is his reflection, a shadow, but not a real shadow.

"And now I can summon a real one."

He nodded then held Naivara’s hand while his clone held Aurielle’s hands.

Both women come out of their frozen state after feeling Luke’s touch.

Then both Luke smiled and said together, "Shall we?"

On this the crowd again becomes shocked.

"Can his clone talk? Or are they just mimicking?"

Luke heard everyone shocked voiced and thought.

Well, this is not special but definitely hard, because he has to concentrate to control both bodies.

It’s like thinking two different things at the same time, like your mind split into two.

With that, the four of them slowly moved toward the center of the dance floor again and started dancing together.

Luke has already found that his clone can mimic and remember his actions, so he doesn’t have to always control their actions.

Everyone had already stopped, as they were now watching both Luke and the princess dancing.

From the crowd someone in a single motion gulped down the drink he was holding and then cursed Luke.

"He is not as good or rich as us; then why is he dancing with two princesses? and we don’t have any good-looking women around us.

The surrounding men nodded as they also gulped down their drink while giving Luke a death glare which is clearly saying.

"Come into the dark alley, and then we will see you."

But the women who heard their voices make distance from them, because the person who cursed first was really ugly and mocked him in low voice.

"Blaming others, while all faults are his own looks."

After some time, a few people got bored from their dance, so they chose their own partners and also started dancing.

Luke looks at Naivara’s ocean-coloured eyes, which are asking to drown in them, while her lips, which have pink-coloured lipstick, also suit her well.

"Luke."

When he was about to observe her necklace as well, he heard her low voice, on which he slowly raised his face and again looked at her eyes.

"I am sorry for earlier."

Luke paused for a second after hearing her words and became confused.

But after a moment he understood.

"She is talking about the words, "weak"."

He smiled at her because he didn’t mind, as he knew he was too weak to fight against the golden rank, too weak to save her from her ritual.

"It’s ok, I don’t mind."

She smiled with relief, that Luke has not taken those words seriouslly.

then without averting her gaze, she leaned toward him, as she tiptoed to get close to his face and whispered a question with a hopefull face.

"Did you really mean it? when you said you would protect me?...."

Luke step stops on this for a moment before continuing back. On this, Aurielle also noticed Clone Luke paused for a moment as well before continuing.

"What’s he talking with her?"

She muttered those words under her breath while giving a sidelong glance towards them with curious face, but the next second she got the reply.

"She is asking if my words about protecting all of you are true or not?"

She got stunned by his sudden talk, because all the time they were dancing quietly without a single word.

She took a breath to calm down and look towards his face, who is now smiling, and then she asked.

"And what did you say?"

Her voice was filled with curiosity but also with little hope, wanting to know, "Is Luke really serious about us?"

[Chapter End]

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Author Note:

Specials thanks to MrFrost4094 and CrimsonKingz for your Golden Ticket! Your support really means alot to me.