All Chapters of Divorced by Five Beast Wives, I Awakened Godly Powers: Chapter 11
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CHAPTER 11
Autumn set the last bag of groceries on the counter and turned to present three items she'd arranged neatly on a small tray. A bundle of white roses wrapped in silk paper, a small chocolate cake in an elegant box, and a cup of freshly brewed coffee in a thermal container that was still warm."I brought you a few things." She pushed the tray toward him with both hands, her golden eyes watching his face for a reaction. "I looked up your preferences on StarNet before I came. The roses are from a florist on Fifth Avenue that had the highest reviews. The cake is dark chocolate with sea salt because your previous purchase history showed you ordered that flavor twice from a delivery app. And the coffee is Ethiopian roast, medium grind, which seemed to be your most common order."Maxver looked at the tray, then at her, then back at the tray."You researched my coffee order?""I research everything." She adjusted her glasses with one finger, and the gesture was so practiced and natural it almo
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"It is. I've been clawed, bitten, and thrown across operating rooms more times than I can count." She squeezed his hand once, gently. "But I love it. I love fixing things that seem too broken to save."Maxver felt something tighten behind his ribs. Not pain. Something warmer. Something he wasn't ready to name yet.They circled the estate twice before heading back. At the villa, Autumn excused herself to prepare the bathrooms and returned ten minutes later to find Maxver sitting on the couch reviewing his purification schedule for the next day."I've drawn a bath for you, Master Cole." She stood at the edge of the living room, her hands folded in front of her, her tails swaying softly behind her. "The water is at the temperature your light brain medical profile recommends. I also set out towels and a change of clothes.""Thank you, Autumn."She paused. Then, with the faintest color rising on her cheeks, she added, "If you need any assistance with the bath, I'm happy to help."Maxver's
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Autumn knocked twice on the bedroom door at exactly seven fifteen in the morning, her voice carrying the cheerful energy of someone who had been awake for at least an hour already."Good morning, Master Cole. Breakfast is ready whenever you are. I made eggs, toast, fresh juice, and there's congee on the stove if you'd prefer something warm."Maxver opened his eyes, stared at the ceiling of his S rank villa, and realized that for the first time since transmigrating into this world, he'd been woken up by something pleasant instead of a system warning or a death countdown."I'll be down in ten." He rolled out of bed and caught his reflection in the mirror. He looked rested.Actually rested. The dark circles that had lived under his eyes since arriving were fading, and his skin had lost the grayish tint that came with high contamination.Breakfast was served at a small round table near the kitchen's bay window, which overlooked the back garden.Autumn sat across from him in a simple cream
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Cassidy's eyes widened slightly. Skylar's ears lifted half an inch. Jordan glanced at Wyatt, waiting.Wyatt studied Maxver for a long moment. Then he nodded once, a single clean motion."Clean slate." His voice carried no warmth, but no hostility either. Just acceptance. "I don't hold grudges against people who own their mistakes. We're neighbors now. Let's keep it simple.""Simple works for me." Maxver extended his hand.Wyatt shook it. Brief, firm, done.The elevator opened on the ground floor and Wyatt's group stepped out, heading toward their own section of the building. Cassidy looked back once over her shoulder, her expression shifting from suspicion to something Maxver couldn't quite read before she turned away."That went well." Autumn's voice was soft beside him."Better than I expected." Maxver hit the button for the top floor. "Now let's get to work."The top floor of the Purification Center housed the collective hall, a massive circular room designed to accommodate up to f
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The green light faded and the hall went quiet for exactly three seconds before the noise hit like a wall.Fifty women opened their eyes at the same time, and the sound that came out of them was something between a collective gasp and a scream of pure relief. Some of them looked at their hands, turning them over like they were seeing their own skin for the first time. Others pressed their palms to their chests, feeling for the heavy sludge of contamination that had been sitting inside them for months, sometimes years, and finding nothing but clean warmth."My pollution is at thirty percent." A one star rabbit beastkin in the second row was reading her monitoring screen with trembling lips. "It was ninety three when I sat down. Thirty minutes ago. Thirty minutes.""Mine too." A fox beastkin beside her stood up on shaking legs, tears running down her face without making a sound. "I haven't been below eighty in two years. Two years I couldn't work. Two years I couldn't hold my daughter be
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She turned and left through the side door, her nine tails swishing in that quiet, graceful rhythm that Maxver was starting to find unreasonably attractive.He ate in comfortable silence for a few minutes, working through the chicken wings and starting on the mango pudding, before the system's golden screen materialized in front of his left eye.[Task Panel Updated. Current Life Extension: 62 days, 14 hours. Merit Points: 9.9. Mental Power Level: S Rank, Tier 1. Progress to Tier 2: 0%.]"Sixty two days." Maxver nodded, spooning pudding into his mouth. "That's real breathing room. And the merit points are climbing too."[Host's progress is commendable. However, the system draws attention to a new entry on the task panel.]Maxver looked at the bottom of the panel, beneath the standard categories, where a new section had appeared under the heading Mental Power Advancement Methods.He read it. Then read it again."System."[Yes, host?]"It says here that the method to level up my Mental Po
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Maxver leaned against the kitchen doorway and watched Autumn move between the stove and the counter with the kind of quiet focus that reminded him of a conductor leading an orchestra nobody else could hear. Four dishes were in progress at the same time.Steam curled off two pans, something was simmering in a clay pot, and she was slicing vegetables with a speed that would have made a professional chef nervous.She had been at it for almost an hour. Not a single complaint. Not a single request for help. Just a woman who had decided to feed him well and then gone about it like it was the most important job in the world.Something in his chest moved, warm and unfamiliar, and before he fully understood it, the thought was already formed.She deserved something for this."System, what's Autumn's current contamination level?"[Autumn Reyes. Current contamination value: 42%. Moderate range for a five star beastkin. Purification would be beneficial.]"Good. I'll purify her after lunch. Consid
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The door opened and a young woman walked in with a stride that was far more confident than the nervous one star clients he'd been seeing. Megan Ford was in her early twenties, average height, with a round face and bright dark eyes that looked like they were permanently amused by something. On top of her head sat two small, fluffy black ears that were so round and so soft looking that Maxver's fingers twitched the moment he saw them."Mr. Cole." She dipped her head slightly, but there was no fear in her posture. If anything, she looked excited. "I've been reading about you on StarNet all week. Your reviews are unreal. Sixty five percent reduction in a single session? I almost didn't believe it until I talked to three women who went through your collective this morning and they all confirmed it.""Glad to hear the reviews are holding up." Maxver kept his tone professional, but his eyes kept drifting back to those ears. They were absurdly fluffy. Like someone had glued two balls of black
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The door opened and Yolanda Birch walked in like she was walking into a courtroom where the verdict had already been decided.She was tall, thin, and wrapped in a high collared coat that covered her neck and the sides of her head completely. Her hands were buried in her pockets.Her eyes were fixed on the floor. Everything about her posture screamed that she had done this before, walked into a purification room and been told to leave before she even sat down.Maxver looked at her file one more time on his light brain. One star. Cockroach beastkin. Contamination level ninety five percent. He felt his skin crawl for exactly half a second and then shut it down.Other males refused cockroach beastkin routinely. He had read the StarNet threads.Women with insect type beast forms were turned away from purification centers so often that most of them stopped booking altogether and just let their contamination climb until it killed them. It was ugly and it was unfair and Maxver was not going t
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Maxver ran the numbers in his head. If two sessions cost four percent, then thirty two star clients in a group session tomorrow would cost roughly sixty percent. Well within his limits. He could stack five individual sessions on top of that and still have reserves left over.He opened his work platform and posted the slots. Thirty collective two star spots and five individual appointments.Every single one was claimed before he finished exhaling."This world is starving for purification." Maxver closed the booking screen and leaned back in his chair. Then a thought hit him like a brick. "Wait. System, how much Mental Power do I have left right now?"[Current remaining Mental Power: 26%.]"And I haven't purified Autumn yet." He sat up straight. "I wanted to do it before we go home. As a thank you."[The system reminds host, for the third time, that intimate contact with Autumn would reduce her contamination to zero without costing a single percent of Mental Power. The system is beginni