As Charlie stepped out of the tent, two figures were already waiting for him. Hers, with his usual sly grin, and a much younger white-haired youth—Bell Cranel.
"Good day, Charlie-san! You… don't look so good." Bell greeted, then awkwardly corrected himself after noticing the dark circles under Charlie's eyes and his pale, weary face.
"Morning, Bell. You look better than you did yesterday." Charlie replied flatly, neither enthusiastic nor cold. His mind was still foggy, and his waist still throbbed.
"Enough small talk." Hers interrupted, clapping his hands once to draw attention. "I want to take you both sowhere. Follow ."
With a suddenly serious expression, he turned and began walking into the forest.
Charlie and Bell exchanged a brief glance before reluctantly following Hers. They walked quite a distance, leaving the campsite behind until the sounds of activity faded almost entirely.
"Hers-sama, where are we going?" Bell finally asked, curiosity overcoming his hesitation. Th??s chapter is updated by no??elfire
"…"
Charlie remained silent. His Six Eyes, modified to detect energy flows, sensed sothing ahead.
(This magic power… Though fluctuating, it's equivalent to Level 5.)
Several Level 5 adventurers gathered in one place. Hers's true motives put him on guard.
"Hmm… This looks good." Hers muttered suddenly, stopping in front of a large tree as if appraising it.
With surprising agility for a god with sealed Arcanum, he began climbing, displaying a familiarity that suggested he'd done this before.
"Bell, Charlie, get up here!" Hers called from a branch above.
"I've got a bad feeling about this." Charlie mumbled under his breath.
Even so, he and Bell climbed the tree, crawling along a thick branch hidden among dense foliage.
Charlie's sharp Level 5 hearing picked up sounds in the distance.
"Hm?"
(Won's voices…? They sound familiar… And the way they're talking… Could it be?!)
A suspicion ford in his mind. Charlie had a good guess about the scene Hers wanted to show them.
"Why are we here?" Bell grumbled, still confused.
"Shhh!" Hers signaled for silence, then grinned widely before pointing below.
Below, at the edge of a clear lake, a group of won were bathing.
Tiona and Tione, the Amazoness sisters with exotic bronze skin glistening with water, their athletic yet feminine bodies on display.
Mikoto and Chigusa, with the slender, elegant proportions typical of Far Eastern won.
Lili, petite but beginning to show mature curves.
And the most striking was Hestia, her enormous, voluptuous breasts floating in the water like twin full moons, making her stand out far more than the others.
"…!!!"
Bell was instantly stunned, his mouth agape. Before he could shout, Hers quickly covered the boy's mouth.
"All those girls down there are bathing. It's practically our duty to watch, right?" Hers whispered with utterly warped logic.
"No! Obviously not! This is wrong, Hers-sama!" Bell protested, his cheeks flushed with embarrassnt and guilt.
"Bell, peeking is part of a man's romance. Look at Charlie—his calm reaction proves this is just sothing guys do." Hers said, trying to use Charlie as an example.
"???"
Hearing his na used to mislead Bell, Charlie's eyebrow twitched.
(No way I'd let anyone but
see Ais's naked body, even if it's a god!) he thought fiercely.
Unbeknownst to Hers and Bell, Charlie subtly moved his fingers.
*SHUA!*
He silently used his Spirit Art to create a mist around the area where Ais was bathing, slightly separated from the others, effectively obscuring her from anyone trying to peek.
anwhile, Hers's words inadvertently triggered Bell's mory of his grandfather's advice.
"This is wrong! Let's go back, Hers-sama! Charlie-san, please talk so sense into him too… Huh? Where's Charlie-san?"
Bell turned to ask for help, only to be shocked to find Charlie's spot empty.
Charlie had vanished without a sound, leaving Bell alone with the unscrupulous god.
"Such a sha. I thought Charlie and I were the sa type of guy." Hers sighed in mock disappointnt, still engrossed in the view below.
"Eh?!"
In a desperate attempt to pull Hers away, Bell lost his balance. His hands grasped at the air, and with a muffled yelp, he fell from the branch, plumting straight into the open water toward the bathing won.
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"How ridiculous. Peeking is such a low act." Charlie muttered as he walked away from the lake, leaving the growing commotion behind.
To him, satisfying himself by rely looking without being able to act was pointless and embarrassing.
Monts later, shouts of embarrassnt, anger, and uncontrollable chaos confird his suspicions.
"As I thought. Bell and Hers must've been caught. Good thing I left early. I don't want to be part of that embarrassing ss."
Charlie glanced toward the source of the shouts, confirming that the peeking attempt had sohow been discovered by the won. Shaking his head, he couldn't fathom the ntality of peepers.
"What's the point of looking but not touching? Are they really satisfied just staring from afar like a starving person looking at gourt food behind glass?"
His thoughts imdiately drifted to Ais. For him, true satisfaction ca from being able to touch, feel, and fulfill his desires—not just being a passive spectator.
"Whatever. No use trying to understand the mindset of perverts."
*GRUUU!*
Suddenly, his stomach growled loudly, reminding him he hadn't eaten since last night's dinner.
"Yawn… Oh yeah, I haven't eaten."
The hunger hit harder as he recalled how Ais's aggressive stamina had utterly drained him.
Casually, Charlie found a comfortable spot under a large, shady tree. He sat cross-legged and raised his hand.
A small glimr of light shone, and from his Space-Ti Cache—a spatial storage device—a cup of instant noodles appeared, a famous brand from the Planar World: Gotoubun no Hanayo.
With a simple gesture, his Spirit Art heated the air's water molecules, condensing them into a perfect stream of hot water that filled the noodle cup. The aroma of broth wafted up, making his stomach growl even louder.
Unconcerned about the noodles possibly getting soggy, Charlie devoured the instant noodles ravenously.
"Slurp… Slurp…!"
Each bite felt like a blessing to his exhausted body.
In the distance, the sounds of shouting and chasing between a panicked Bell and the furious won continued, but to Charlie, it was just white noise that didn't disrupt his enjoynt of this simple yet deeply satisfying lunch.
While eating, Charlie used his Senrigan to check on Aishia and Est at the surface. The two spirit girls had been taken by Astraea to a restaurant for lunch.
"No need to rush back. I'll return after watching the protagonist defeat the Black Goliath."
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