"Joke... Honey peach. Joke. I was joking."
Kaisen stammered, his voice trembling slightly.
Alice loosened her grip on his face, but her glare didn't soften.
"I hope so. Or else I'm gonna rip your dick off."
She said with a huff, turning around to unpack her own stuff.
Kaisen let out a nervous chuckle, rubbing his cheeks where her fingers had dug in.
'Oh, fuck! What was that?'
He had clearly felt it—something seeping away from his body.
It wasn't painful per se, but he felt strangely cold and tired.
He knew he needed to calm her down before she tried something like that again.
Leaning down, he whispered in her ear, his voice low and warning,
"Shut that foul mouth of yours, or else I'll stuff something else in there to make you shut up."
She instantly froze when she heard those words.
Her face flushed, and her lower lips tingled.
She loved it when he dominated her.
She knew exactly what he meant, and it instantly loosened her up.
Her anger melted away, replaced by a surge of desire.
"That's more like it."
Kaisen muttered, noticing the shift in her demeanor.
He smirked, knowing he had successfully turned the situation around.
"Get a room, you two."
They heard a familiar, melodious, and sensual voice call out to him.
Turning around, they saw Sable and Maximus walking towards them, their full cloaks concealing their identities to avoid drawing attention.
Kaisen smirked as Alice hid behind him, her earlier bravado vanishing in an instant.
"Ah, Sable-san, Maximus-san. Good morning."
He greeted them, trying to keep his composure.
"Morning. Having fun, are we?"
Kaisen shook his head with a wry smile.
"No harm done. Now, let me tell you what's going on..."
"That's alright. Come closer, I don't want our women to hear this, alright? What I'm about to say should stay between you and me. Understand? This is a secret."
Kaisen whispered, his smile masking his suspicion.
He watched as Maximus nodded his head, his expression unchanged.
But Kaisen knew better.
This man was a gossip hound, always eager for juicy tidbits of information like your nosy neighbor aunty.
And it was evident in the way his mustache quivered like it was being electrocuted.
If he were to know that Kaisen was about to talk about his fiancé, then he wouldn't have been this enthusiastic.
"Alwyn is a pervert who actually likes to steal women from their partners. And I've seen him stealing glances at both Alice and Sable-san."
Kaisen whispered urgently.
He watched as Maximus's eyebrow twitched and his eyes narrowed, indicating his growing concern.
"Is that true? Did he try to steal Alice-san from you?"
Maximus asked, his voice low and filled with disbelief.
"Yes, yesterday itself, he tried to separate me and Alice, but Sable-san and Maximus-kun intervened. So he backed off. But who knows what will happen if he is in the party with us."
Kaisen said with a serious expression, though inwardly he was stifling a laugh.
Maximus was swallowing all his words just like, hook, line, and sinker, and now, his jaw clenched, his expression darkening further.
"You've seen it yourself, right? The way he demeaned me and showed outright disrespect. He actually tried to kick me out of a party that I created."
Kaisen said with a sigh, his gaze fixed on the ground.
Maximus's mustache twitched faster, his anger simmering beneath the surface.
Now, he felt not just angry, but a burning desire to teach this brat a lesson.
The savior knight in him was awakening, ready to defend those who were wronged.
What he didn't see though, was our dear protagonist peeking at him like checking his act was working at all.
"And not just that, have you seen the way he ogled up on Sable-san? The way he looked at her big, voluptuous breasts? And since she was wearing a tunic, he could clearly see the shape of her melons. The way he licked his lips..."
Kaisen couldn't help himself as he launched into an animated demonstration, gesturing with his hands like he was sizing up melons, circling and groping in the air with energetic motions.
He even went as far as to mime squishing them together and making sucking noises.
Maximus's eyebrow twitched uncontrollably now as Kaisen kept going, his gestures becoming more exaggerated with each passing moment.
It was like watching a bizarre mime performance in the middle of the stable yard.