A frigid atmosphere fell over the room. The reason was clear to everyone present. According to Zanele, I would end up falling out of love with my harem. Considering the high hurdles I had to go through, it was sothing I could not accept.
As soone who ca from a broken ho, I often saw the Simmons family as my ideal. A man and woman would co together and raise children. But due to watching ani and manga, a part of always felt drawn to harem dia.
Little did I know that after I died, I would end up having one. Most of what I know about harems is actually from the dia I consud as a teenager. I often wondered why I suddenly t seven wonderful won for no particular reason. And now I know why.
"Hero Syndro's lesson is to learn when to recognize that you are dancing to soone else's play."
Those were the ominous words left behind by the Astrologer. A European Specter who could see the future. As a student of IRIS, it never occurred to that even the brain-dead harem dia people loved hating on had a purpose. That was until now.
Harems were common in ancient tis. As civilization developed, they beca outdated and were banned in many places. Harems contained an inherent flaw. And that was it encouraged a battle of superiority.
With a hundred n and a hundred won, the best scenario would be for each pair to procreate. This would lead to the most stable outco. Although whether it was the best for humanity was debatable.
You need not look further for the best evidence. Harems were the norm in the animal kingdom. With survival at stake, letting the inferior bloodlines breed was a waste of resources. For humans, each conceived child posed a big but necessary risk to the mother.
A woman would take nine months to give birth. Regardless of whether she carried the son of a hero or a loser. Her genes would affect the outco. But the benefits of natural selection were a fact. No one, not even the noblest, could deny it.
Each child not only endangered the woman but also hurt her ability to help her group. Thus, the animals, as well as the ancient humans, gave the best females to the strongest n. The intent was to increase the likelihood of survival.
But such practices had their own problems. Going back to the hundred pair example. If you gave the top fifty males with a second wife. You would have fifty n who would end up without a partner. In a perfect world, it would be fine. But reality was never so simple.
These fifty males would be devoid of love and support a woman could provide. This leads them to express their desires in negative ways, often to the detrint of the entire group. If the top fifty Alpha males ended up just killing them, then the population would hardly grow.
And that did not include the usual issues of large families. For every king, there could only be one successor. Fathers were at the top of the family, but as you ca down the line, it began to spread.
Which son would succeed him? Should the mother's abilities co into play? What if the best heir ca from the weakest of the mothers? Will the mothers respect the decision of the father? Power corrupts. You let people have a taste of it, and most will never let go.
The more families contended for the throne, the bloodier the battle would be. That was the exact thing happening in Africa right now. The sa tactic that united them now threatened to split the continent.
'A bloodbath was all that awaited a harem that had power and authority.'
And the king didn't even have to die. How many sons rebelled against their father out of greed? Even monogamous monarchies tore themselves apart when different sons vied for supremacy. Civil wars and rebellion were ever present so long as there was a king.
It was just simply impossible to have a solution that would please everyone. People were different. So would lead and others had to follow. Even if you fixed the succession problem by making a happy family, harems still had a most basic issue. A biological one.
The next problem was, of course, the genetic defects from incest. If the strongest males monopolized the won, they would have to resort to incest at so point. The children's shared blood would reduce the pool of unrelated partners.
Anyone who googled the implications of incest on children would end up traumatized. In short, if you inbred the families. You'd get kids with severe physical deformities and ntal issues. It did not even matter who the fathers were, and the risk increases the more it repeats.
Incest beca frowned upon for no other reason than the scores of broken humans it produced. Thankfully, with the advent of Christianity, monogamy beca a thing. So, most civilized people avoided inbreeding for humanity's sake.
That was the world I grew up in. Noelle, who was a devout believer, always told that it was wrong to have more than one woman. She was the end product of decades of social engineering. My ma showcased how the West succeeded in its crusade against incest.
But then, for so reason, Eastern countries suddenly created dia that promoted the opposite ideology. Japan, Korea, and China began to promote harems again. This reintroduced what the West tried so hard to abolish. Why?
'It was for the Sins.'
According to Zanele, she t five Successors over the course of 300 years. Most Africans still believed in polygamy, so there was no issue there. But building on what I learned. What if there were Successors from the other continents?
If the Successor ca from Europe, North Arica, or South Arica, they would likely not be open to harems. For personally, if I didn't get exposed to harem ani and manga, I would be the sa.
I an, how was it fair for a woman if she devoted her everything to her partner only to be cast aside? Just invert the genders and see how many n would still agree to sharing partners. It seed incredibly far-fetched, but sohow, I grew accepting of my harem because of IRIS.
'But that doesn't even fucking matter if they all end up dead, now does it?'
I let my thoughts stew. If IRIS went to all that trouble, there had to be sothing else. They had to have a reason for wanting Successors to accept harems. Sothing that would show the way to eventually prevent the Sins from dying, but what?
As I mused, I noticed the silence.
Even after a few minutes, hardly anyone spoke. It was scary to think about. If I put together all I knew, it ant my relationship with the Sirens would change the mont I used the door room. Our love, which burned like a fire, would turn cold and bereft of passion.
As we didn't know any other successors, Zanele's information was all we had. And with a perfect 100% rate of death, anyone would find themselves intimidated. All seven links of my girls were silent. There was no trace of fear, sadness, or anything.
'They are probably suppressing themselves so as not to influence .'
I turned to see my Kindred. Their faces were like beautiful sculptures. Emotionless, cold but exuding impressive composure and strength. To anyone else, my harem's act of indifference might have worked. But not to .
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