Romance
Spoiler!
He does fancy an elf girl named Feodora. But ends up dropping that idea after discovering she's a GILF.
Three heroes
Spoiler!
Mukouda's intuition was right on the money about something fishy with the royal family and the story they told. They wanted to use the heroes as weapons of mass destruction to conquer and expand their territory. Thus they were going to use slave contracts on them. Skipping over details they escape to another country and get married after becoming adventurers.