Chapter 209

209 I told you not to date the crazy one, please! part “Mia, pack up your belongings, we’re leaving this place”

“Uh? master? why are you in such a hurry?”

Mia rubbed her eyes in the dark room, although sleepy, she did as her master commanded and gathered whatever she thought they would need but she didn’t know what were Ryu’s intentions so she simply packed for a light trip.

Despite Bardun’s wishes, Ryu was planning on going to look for him under the cover of the night.

Ryu stood outside grabbing famine’s reins, Mochi was already on top of his head taking a nap and Mia quickly packed up things and put them into the saddlebags. They made a quick stop near the tree with a strong mana flow and Ryu grabbed a big branch from it, he didn’t know why but he felt like he could craft something interesting out of it.

They did their best to leave the goblin village in secret, but Lauda and Thoba were already waiting for them at the entrance.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

“There’s no point in trying to hide it, I’m going to look for Bardun. I appreciate your hospitality, but there’s no way I’m going to be the leader of this village. I have my own goals to fulfill”

“We know this, what Thoba asked was how are you going to find him without one of these?”

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Lauda took a glass bottle the size of a potion vial with a strange shiny creature inside.

“What is that thing?”

Mia asked, placing a curious finger on top of her bottom lip.

“This is a fairy, these creatures mate for life and they can detect each other no matter the distance. By separating them, you’ll always be able to tell where the other one is. Bardun never leaves the village without his fairy, with this you’ll be able to easily find him”

Ryu took in his hands the pitiful creature, it had the shape of a woman but the contrast between its shiny appearance and the dark of the night made it difficult to tell anything other than the sadness it felt. For a brief second Ryu couldn’t help but sympathize with the fairy, he knew first hand what it felt like to be apart from the one he loved and made a silent vow of helping them reunite.

Ryu walked next to the amarok while Mia rode on its back, they traversed the silent woods slowly but they weren’t worried about being caught by beasts, the reason why they were silent was completely different.

Ryu expelled a strange energy and Mia wasn’t able to tell what it was, it was a distinct flavor she had never felt, it was both sweet and sour. It wasn’t until half an hour in that she gave up in trying to figure it out by herself and proceeded to ask her master.

“Master Ryu, what happened? why did we leave in such a hurry?”

Ryu’s face became bright red, but this went unnoticed thanks to the cover of the night.

“We need to find Bardun, I can’t stay in the goblin village anymore”

“I know, but why are we going alone? wouldn’t it be safer to travel with your friends? I’m sure Sera would have loved to come with us”

Ryu shivered after hearing Sera’s name.

“Please don’t mention her”

Ryu thought back on what had happened to him that day, he went on a date with Sera and everything seemed to be normal, but what happened after the date unsettled him.

Sera insisted on taking Ryu to a place she had discovered, it was a cave located not far from the goblin village. She had scouted the whole place and found it was safe, there weren’t any creatures living on it and there was a rock covering the cave so there was only one possible entrance.

She insisted on going alone with Ryu telling him that she needed his night vision skill to further explore the place and he happily joined her because he enjoyed uncovering misteries. After they reached the end of the cave, Sera kissed Ryu deeply as she grabbed his hands.

Realizing he had been tricked wasn’t that hard for him, but he went with the flow because it was as good opportunity as any to let himself loose a little.

Sera quickly advanced and took off his clothes, the dim light of the lamp she took with her provided a warm ambience and they caressed and kissed as the mood became spicier.

Ryu was pleasantly surprised when he noticed that Sera had thought things through and brought a blanket, candles and some snacks previously and they lied together in the secrecy of the cave.

It was amazing, Sera’s eagerness to learn amounted to what Anne taught her before made up for her lack in experience and Ryu was quickly entranced by her movements.

Everything would have been fine if things ended like that, but after the deed, when Ryu was at his weakest and still holding a naive smile on his face, Sera took the chance to tie Ryu up with the rope they always carried as experienced adventurers.

Ryu, who didn’t know better, let her do whatever she wished. He was so mesmerized and spent that his mind was almost blank, that is, until she gagged him with a piece of cloth.

Unable to speak, tied up and completely naked, Ryu found himself defenseless against Sera’s curious experiments. She hit him with a rope, poured hot wax on him and even pinched him on all the soft parts. Just when the pain was almost too much to bear, she would shift her approach and kissed him on the neck, clearing the road down to his much more sensitive spot.

Sera kept her playfulness alternating pain with pleasure, almost driving him crazy. It might, just might, have been a pleasurable experience, but Sera was rough and unskilled forcing Ryu to try to find a way to escape.

He wiggled, turned, squirmed, nothing was working. The rope she used was adventurer grade, made with monster parts. This meant that even for a B rank adventurer it would have been difficult to cut it without any tools or weapons and Ryu had nothing on him.

For hours Ryu tried to escape, it was all he could think of and he put all of his effort into it. He was about to lose hope when finally a message popped in his head.

>Skill acquired: escapology

He grabbed his belongings and got dressed on the way back to the goblin village with Sera running behind him and pleading for him to go back. That was the reason why he woke up Mia to leave the village as soon as possible.

What happened to him led him to a single conclusion, dating Sera was a mistake.