The time to go to The Forest Pond has arrived.
Because Kyoya and his party worked hard to get one of the fox tribe's spots, his trip to the elven territories would be yet again with foxes. The difference will be that Kyoya won't be alone with his party, but a lot of more people will take part in this trip.
This made Kyoya be wary towards everyone, even the foxes themselves as the person leading him wouldn't be the patriarch himself.
Instead, it would be one of the future high foxes with high potential in her body.
Her current strength was around 60-70 floor, so Kyoya was feeling like he had gotten a good companion since the foxes shouldn't be against him.
But if that person was somewhat controlled by the trickster gods' believers, then Kyoya would surely curse the world!
Too many strong individuals barred his way lately.
"The husband! We are ready!"
"Alright! Let's meet up with others and set off."
As Xaya shouted at the husband, he raised his eyes and looked at his party kitted out in their strongest equipment. A confidence and expectations were all written on their faces, bringing a smile out of the husband.
He was full of worries, but it wasn't wise to keep worrying over uncertain things.
It was also bad of him as the leader to show any worry about himself, so he stood up and the party finally set off to the elven territories.
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"I am Yvetta! Today's captain of our trip to the forest elves!"
Greeted by the fox woman with silver bouncy hair. Her fox ears half-way hidden by her hair were also silver and she exuded typical knight aura. She was one of the promising foxes that were transported to Naranaska Kingdom from their origin floor.
Despite the floor being rewarded to them, there were many races and nature was not yet their ally yet.
Going between the tribes was dangerous, but the dangers from many external sources also lingered in every ascended kingdom!
Kyoya heard from Hana that there was a person who stole training dummies from Naranaska Kingdom, so it was one fine example.
As the lady introduced, Kyoya did the same.
Well, he was forced to do so as Yvetta's eyes were on him. Whether it was the husband's aura provoking her mating instincts or the rumors about him, Kyoya couldn't avoid this attention and did his best to divert it by introducing Xaya after himself.
Once Xaya's eyes landed on Yvetta, the fox lady brightly smiled and one could see that some of her initial emotions had faded away.
The combination of Yandere Wife and The business husband was indeed strong when it came to such situations.
Dealing with the husband's aura also became sore.
It's not like the husband is the person who could fight with anyone and each of his steps has to be taken with consideration, so this was just another burden.
"We have a pretty big party!"
"This trip should last for a week. I hope nothing bad happens during this."
"It should be okay! All of us got stronger!"
"You also got more beautiful, Miss Xiaoxiao."
"Oh… Hehe, thank you!"
Hiro was the one who spoke with respect toward Xiaoxiao. After witnessing her skills against the moon bunny, Hiro unconsciously began to use honorifics with this cute bomb. When his wife asked about this, Hiro just laughed awkwardly and accepted this wholeheartedly.
Nonetheless, his wives understood him and just laughed at both Hiro and Xiaoxiao's interaction since both of them got awkward each time they spoke to each other.
And as said by Maria who cautiously looked over everyone, the party going to the Forest Pond was pretty big.
Even though out of all these people only a few would enter the forest pond, each person had a lot of people with themselves.
Xaya, who was the one who would enter the forest pond, had her husband and Xiaoxiao together with the husband's heaven with herself.
The future high fox, Yvetta, also had her colleagues with herself…
It felt like a small army was going to the forest elves, but no one exuded any sharp or suspicious aura. Because of that, the atmosphere of the trip could be felt, albeit, a little. Was it weird though? Everyone was foreign here and speaking loudly would feel weird.
"The husband!"
But there was a person who couldn't care about others at all.
Using the yandere wife's love, Xaya had been enjoying her husband's back for a good while, but the silence of her loved one was bothering her.
He was also cautiously moving his eyes around every party member, so Xaya pouted.
Her husband just should look at her and Xiaoxiao the most, but not other people instead!
Because of him trying to probe through everyone's identities, Xaya and Xiaoxiao couldn't enjoy the husband's usual adventure style.
He was silent and secretive, so how could he speak about the environment with his loved ones?
"I think the husband's grill would be the best here!"
"Ah, here? Yup, I guess so… We could also quickly build a gazebo here."
"Yes!"
The husband just patted his wife and whispered to her that he had been doing an important job. By using his concept from the mirror of the truth, Kyoya wanted to find any flaws and traces of trickster gods' believers in the new party members.
However, his wife suddenly popped off with a grill…
"Look, the husband!"
Her voice was also very loud as if trying to push any filth away.
"This is…"
Xaya took out the piece of paper that had a map with small tribe camps scattered around their path towards the forest elves. Those camps belonged to the foxes, but also other races that the party would go through soon.
Each race had their 'specialities' described on the map.
Since Xaya's cooking has had positive effects on the foxes, the neighbour ladies had often spoken with her about various ingredients that could be found here. Of course, Xaya's food was tasty and could raise stats not only to the husband, but also others! The ladies had another reason to get close to the wife too, though.
The husband's blood had many nice effects which made Xaya's cooking yummy and strengthening, but it was also what made the husband's body accept the stats the best!
"Now, I am getting hungry…"
"The husband should stop and rest then!"
"No, we can't stop everyone, can we?"
"..."
Xaya's eyes turned sharp the moment she heard those words, but Yvetta didn't stop and continued to go forward which made Xaya put her on the 'killing list'.