Chapter 176: Bad Girls Need Punishment

When Pavel and Nero got outside of the labyrinth, it was early morning. The sun had risen but not completely.

"Nice!" Nero patted himself on the shoulder and said, "I am 7 hours early."

"Let's go to the inn now!" Nero shouted excitedly.

"Relax. You are early anyway, so why are you in such a hurry?" Pavel asked with a curious and puzzled look on his face.

Nero raised his brows and asked, "Are you not in a hurry to see Rhea?"

"Not really. We have stayed away for hundreds of years, doing our personal quests. So a mere day and a half won't make me feel anything," Pavel replied honestly.

"I guess that's what happens when your wife is secretly an old hag," Nero muttered.

"Hey! I heard that," Pavel remarked.

"So what?"

"You can't insult my wife like that," Pavel retorted with a frowned face.

"But I am just telling truths; facts," Nero shrugged.

"No, you are not. You know nothing about her. She is still very young, and her body feels great."

Nero knitted his brows and asked with a curious look on his face: "Just asking, and if you don't want to answer it, then don't answer it. How often do you do 'that' with her?"

Pavel sighed and opened his mouth to say something, but words weren't coming out of his mouth.

"We…" Pavel stammered. "We don't do it that often, and it's not like we are bored of it or anything. It's just we have done it so many times that doing it for pleasure is kind of bland for us. But we do it whenever either one is in a mood, and currently, I am in a mood."

"Not bored, huh?" Nero quoted and thought, 'I wonder if Emilia or I would ever get bored of…'

Nero couldn't finish that thought, and he regretted even thinking about it.

Pavel and Nero made their way to the inn, both thinking of the same thing.

Nero was wondering on whom he should perform his ritual when he gets back to the inn.

'I was kind of harsh on Emilia and Sophi, so I should choose one of them. I honestly want to choose all three of them at once, but right now, I am in the mood for one only.'

After not seeing, hearing, and feeling them for more than a day, Nero had already started missing them.

'I think I will go with Sophi. She also has been sulking ever since what happened on the ship,' Nero decided.

'But… Emilia…'

Nero's control meter had already reached the breaking point, and he couldn't hold himself for any longer.

Up until now, Nero had done his adult ritual every day and night— ever since he was unsealed. And this was the first time he hadn't touched or even seen his girls.

'I wonder what they are doing right now?' he wondered.

'It's still early morning, so I doubt they are awake yet.' He chuckled. 'Emilia is not a morning person, and Asteria doesn't wake until someone wakes her up.'

'Although, Sophi might be awake; however, it depends on what she did last night.'

'If they are still sleeping, then I will surprise them by jumping onto their beds!"

Nero excitedly entered the inn, and all his excitement vanished the next moment.

When he entered the inn, he saw there were only a few people in the lobby. All the tables were empty, except one; and Emilia and Sophia were arm wrestling on it.

"Unbelievable," Nero muttered.

He saw Asteria standing at the stairway and sighed.

'Asteria is my new favorite now.'

Nero walked to the stairs, but his path was blocked by Sophia and Emilia.

Nero raised his brows at them and uttered, "Get out of my way."

"Why are you still angry?" Emilia asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"Are you seriously asking that?"

"But we didn't ignore you this time!" Emilia exclaimed and added, "Not that we have ever ignored you on purpose."

"You two were arm-wrestling, early in the morning when you should be fast asleep. And now you are acting all innocent?"

"We weren't arm-wrestling," Sophia quipped.

"Then what was that? Finger wrestling?" Nero remarked with a question.

"We were waiting for you for two days, and this is what we get?" Sophia sighed.

"Umm…" Asteria stood beside Nero and uttered, "We were eagerly waiting for you, and when we sensed you, Sophia suggested to prank you. So she and Lady Emilia were only acting to arm-wrestle to see your reaction."

"..." Nero was speechless, or rather, he didn't know what to say.

Not only did he jump to unwarranted conclusions, but he also scolded them.

Sophia turned around and walked upstairs after saying, "Someone needs to cool down."

Nero glanced at Emilia to see her doing "Hmph!" and then ran upstairs.

Nero turned to Asteria and sighed: "This sucks."

Asteria also went upstairs to their room after saying, "That was your fault, Zeus."

"I guess I was too excited," he muttered.

He followed them upstairs and stood in front of the door, only to find it was closed. 

He knocked on the door, but no one opened it.

"Come on," he groaned.

"The door is open," Sophia answered from the other side of the door.

Nero opened the door and walked into the room.

"What the—! What are you girls wearing?!" 

Emilia, Sophia in her human form, and Asteria; all three of them were wearing transparent net lingerie, and they welcomed Nero with a wide smile on their faces when he entered the room.

"What's going on?" Nero asked, completely unknown to his current situation.

The trio glanced at each other and uttered in unison, "You just got pranked!"

"..."

"What?" Emilia wrapped her hands around Nero's neck and said, "Did you truly think we can ever get angry at you?"

Nero furrowed his brows and pushed all three of them on the bed: "You girls need some punishment."

"Yay!" Emilia cheered.

"We haven't slept ever since you left, you know?" Sophia informed.

"Really?!" "We couldn't sleep without you," Asteria replied.

"Girls who don't sleep are bad girls, and bad girls need punishment. So I am going to punish you all with my rod."

Asteria sat up and cast a barrier around the room.

"Why did you cast a barrier?" Nero asked curiously.

"It's not just a barrier; it's a soundproof barrier," Asteria replied with a mischievous smile on her face.

"Oh!"

"So that means…" Asteria pinned Nero on the bed and pulled his pants out.

Then, Emilia climbed on top of him and uttered with a slutty smile on her face: "You can go all out on us."