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CHAPTER 152
ODDBALLS
Lino spread his arms wide, angled slightly toward the sky from which sun shone its blistering rays over the hilly dunes of the desert . It has been a long ti since he felt the warmth of the sun, the fresh air of the outside world, and lack of darkness everywhere he’d look . It was a refreshing feeling to say the least, as he’d nearly forgotten the pure joy of sothing as simple as constant light .
Standing not far behind him, Felix and Lucky were staring at him strangely, as he completely lacked disposition of soone who’d just recently beaten back the strongest cultivators of the strongest Empire on the continent .
"Uh . . . do you . . . do you mind if I ask you a question?" Felix spoke up ekly; the newly joined mber was sowhat odd, he mused . The two had known each other for almost a week, yet had barely spoken a word between one another .
"I do . " Lucky replied .
" . . . I’ll ask anyway . " Felix said .
"Then why ask if I mind?" Lucky asked, glancing at him .
"Courtesy? Common decency?"
" . . . yeah, keep telling yourself that . "
"Anyway . . . was Master . . . always like this?" Felix asked, gently nudging his eyes toward Lino who still remained embodying the sa pose .
"Why do you call him ’Master’ anyway?" Lucky asked .
"Because he’s my Master . "
"Just because nobody else wanted to take you in as a Disciple doesn’t an you should settle for literal horseshit . "
"Are you insinuating my Master is horseshit?"
"I’m not insinuating anything . "
"Good . "
"I’m telling you he is . " Lucky said with a slight grin .
"She’s right, you know?" without either of the two noticing, Lino suddenly appeared right in front of them, startling both for a second . "My dad accidentally fucked a horse when he was drunk, and here I am . "
"You do realize that makes no sense, right?" Lucky added .
"It does if you ignore everything you’ve learned about the world . " Lino said, grinning . "Anyway, what are you two doing, standing around here? We should be on the move . "
" . . . you feel like punching him?" Lucky asked Felix who rely nodded and sighed . "Every day?"
"Sotis more than once . "
"I think I like you . " Lucky said as she suddenly wrapped her arm around Felix’s shoulder and dragged him forward . "You know what they say? Enemy of my enemy is my friend . You’re my friend from now on Flex . "
"It’s Felix . "
"Yeah, I don’t care . "
Lino stared at the two’s back for a mont with an amusing grin before following . He’d already located where Freya and the other girls were at, and couldn’t help but laugh for a mont as his Divine Sense scouted them .
"Anyway, where are we going now? You didn’t tell anything . " Lucky suddenly turned around and asked Lino .
"We’re going to pick so girls up . " Lino replied casually .
" . . . " Lucky stopped walking as Felix sighed and wondered why his Master always seed to intentionally misuse words or phrases just to stir trouble . "Really? We’re not going to, I don’t know, find a cultivation thod, or try to get so money to survive or - or even just go out for a fucking drink, but go and watch you try to find soone desperate enough to fuck you?"
"He . . . he ans literally pick them up," Felix quickly butted in before Lino had a chance to stir the trouble further . "We had prior arrangent with them, but they stayed outside when we went into the ruins . "
" . . . khm, what he said . " Lino added, barely holding himself back from laughter .
"Ha ha . Funny . Asshole . "
"Ah, they’re coming toward us," Lino said, glancing into distance . "They’re all quite hot . Don’t get too self-conscious about it . "
"Who are they?" choosing to completely ignore Lino, Lucky asked Felix instead .
"mbers of the Kvalend Tribe," Felix replied, smiling bitterly . "Well, ex-mbers technically . "
"Eh? How’d you guys co across them?" Lucky asked, seeming sowhat surprised .
"It’s a long story," Felix replied . "In a nutshell, they hired us to escort them back to their Tribe so they can gain access to the Ancestral Grounds to bury soone . "
" . . . he isn’t that noble . " Lucky imdiately spoke out, glancing at Lino . "What’s the catch?"
"Master will most-likely enter the Ancestral Grounds as well . "
" . . . opportunistic bastard . " Lucky mumbled .
"You’re just as odd as him, though . " Felix subconsciously spoke out, imdiately regretting it when he saw Lucky’s glare .
"You have a death wish?"
"He’s not wrong . " Lino seemingly once again teleported next to the two when they weren’t paying attention .
"F-fuck! You have to stop doing that!" Lucky exclaid . "And what do you an he’s not wrong?!"
"You are just as odd as ," Lino elaborated, stroking his chin . "In a slightly different way, ye, but just as much of an oddball . Haven’t you noticed the pattern?"
"The pattern?" Lucky arched her brows .
"Everyone who sticks to tends to be either an oddball or a completely insane maniac . "
"That’s true . . . " Lucky nodded .
" . . . " Felix on the other hand spoke nothing, but rely nodded his head . He’d realized he had long since abandoned sanity and common sense, which one should not try to hold onto if they wanted to spend a considerable amount of ti around Lino .
"Oh, girls, you’re here!" Lino exclaid as he smiled widely and waved his arm broadly, causing both Lucky and Felix to imdiately roll their eyes at him . "Damn, I can’t tell you how much I missed you . " bolting in-between the two he imdiately appeared next to Freya, his arm already around her shoulders, pulling her away from the other three who kept glaring at him with fiery eyes .
"Mr-Mr . Lino . . . I’m . . . I’m glad you’re safe . . . " Freya ekly mumbled, lowering her head in hopes of hiding her blushing face .
"Ha ha, you shouldn’t have worried about ," the two - or better said - Lino had already moved onward, dragging Freya alongside him and leaving the remaining five behind . "I’m indestructible, you know? Ha ha, how are you, huh? Was there any trouble? If there was, be sure to let know, okay? I’ll beat them senseless! So . . . "
"I’ll fucking skin him alive!!" Jane grunted through her teeth, barely holding back .
"Let’s go . . . " Felix sighed, following Lino and Freya with slouched shoulders .
"Wait . Who’s she?" Jane stopped him and asked, pointing at Lucky .
"She’s---"
"I’m Lino’s fourteenth wife," Lucky exclaid in joy, startling Felix . She quickly walked over and grabbed Jane’s hand, shaking it fiercely . "I’m so glad to et you! Are you my husband’s fifteenth wife? Or is it that girl he’s walking with? Ah, I rember him telling he’d be getting fifteenth one soon . It was a long ti coming, you know? I’d already borne him nine kids! There’s only so much a girl’s womb can bear, you know? I’m so happy for them!" Lucky relentlessly continued, glancing at Lino and Freya . "Don’t they look perfect for each other or what?"
" . . . " Felix stared stunned as he suddenly felt shiver run up his spine . He realized Lucky wasn’t among the ’oddballs’ group . . . she was a part of the ’insane maniacs’ group .
"B-BASTARD!!! WAIT RIGHT THERE!!!!" Jane flared out with all her might and ran out of Lucky’s tight hold, bolting toward Lino and Freya . Lucky grinned in self-satisfaction as she put her hands behind her back, anticipating a good show .
"Let’s see you tongue your way out of this one, bastard . "
" . . . you’re not his wife, are you?" one of the two remaining girls asked .
"Fuck, don’t even ntion that ever again!" Freya flared out, suddenly shuddering . "I honestly don’t know how I didn’t vomit my bowels out saying that . Grrr . . . "
"Do you have so grudge against Master?" Felix asked .
" . . . grudge?" Lucky glanced at him for a mont . "No, not really . "
" . . . why then?"
"Eh? I an . . . it’s just . . . sort of the relationship we have, I guess?" Lucky replied after a mont’s thought . "I an, tell . . . wouldn’t you be pissed if he kept making puns out of your na . . . every day . . . since the day that he t you?"
"Yeah, that would be unlucky . " Felix replied subconsciously, only realizing his slip when he saw that fierce glare . "Uh, I-I didn’t . . . didn’t an it that way . . . I swear . . . "
" . . . pfft, ha ha, relax, relax," Lucky laughed almost imdiately upon seeing his reaction, walking over and pulling her arm around his shoulder, dragging him forward yet again . "I’m not that aggressive, you know? You can joke around with . "
" . . . ha . . . ha ha . . . of course . . . "
"But," she leaned closer to his ear and whispered . "If you ever do make a pun out of my na, I’ll make a soup out of your balls . "
" . . . . " Felix gulped loudly as he shivered yet again . Lucky, on the other hand, swallowed a laugh, barely holding back while realizing she would be having quite a bit of fun for the foreseeable future .
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