Condensing our 30-minute morning activity to a few sentences, let's just say that we smashed, Kaley smashed, I 'mashed, and we two did the monster mash.
In any case, as we were about to head for the shower, there was a pretty big situation because living with all these beautiful girls wasn't always sex and being king of the castle, because Kaley and I just saw the aftermath of what happened when we excused ourselves and left everybody else to their own devices.
It used to be simply just random underwear lying around, getting jumpscares by bumping into one of them wearing facemasks, or even sometimes, seeing a random person—no, just Tatiana at 3 AM in the fucking morning crouched down on my refrigerator like a goblin and having a late, late~ snack.
'All those blocks of cheese missing... Always her... Always...'
But yeah, this time was a little different and the first victim was Rin who barely got in her room and was sleeping next to her or someone else's vomit spread on the floor like a Pollock painting.
"Jesus fucking christ—"
"I-I'll open the door, she's gonna hate it when she wakes up..."
"Y-Yeah... I'll carry her—"
I was just about to carry her to the bathroom so she could clean herself up but as Kaley opened the door, Cynthia seemed to be duct taped on the toilet and probably took part in their free-use thing in their own time, but everyone else that was involved probably passed out and forgot to cut her out of the restraints so she had no choice but to fall asleep in her position.
"..."
Kaley was the first one of course, and even though Jared couldn't be seen in the compound, I simply tried to give him a call and he answered in the first ring and told me he just crashed at Alex's room. Furthermore, since I basically replaced Ibarra with Jose from our last trip, he was eager to get back in the saddle.
These three were the main members of my scouting group before we went to Batangas, aside from Tatiana and Mikhail who were both incapacitated for very different reasons, but since I successfully convinced Artem and his group off the warpath for the moment, his crew will definitely come with us.
But to my fucking shock, the moment the kids ran off to tell everyone that breakfast was ready, Tatiana was the first one to come in like she didn't get fucking wasted the day before:
"What?"
"N-Nothing..."
With that said, more and more of our people came from the gate to have some breakfast and it gave me a general idea of who to take with me considering the circumstances.
We wouldn't be going into an unexplored territory per se—since Oscar already touched down over there with a few others—but aside from obviously bringing my Raptor, Tatiana's HuNovelFireee, and my good 'ol business truck, I also decided to bring the Raycolt in which some of the cadets would be riding on plus some of the trainees who were suddenly interested to ride with us instead of going into their own missions.
I already asked Rin to bring out the "general" stuff we'd use to give or trade with other people but as much as I would hate to do this and keep all of them in my domain, I decided to bring over something that Oscar wouldn't even think of.
It was one of Zeus' younger siblings who already looked like a full-grown dog and the look of betrayal Zeus gave me when I put on a dog vest on "Mauser" and thought I was bringing another companion instead of him was fucking priceless.
But yeah, It was one thing to spring a puppy as a gift for the holidays but having a pet in your midst, especially at these times, was always an overlooked security requirement because of the responsibility it required.