A month passed.
Standing on an arched bridge, leaning against the stone railing, Lith and his ladies watched many gondolas glide towards them.
Standing beside Keith, Lith suddenly elbowed her sides when he noticed a particular gondola's passengers.
"Heh. You kept asking why I spent so much time with the boy, right?"
He caught the attention of the ladies and they turned to look at him, wondering what he was saying and to whom.
Keith, knowing she hadn't asked him such a question, rolled her eyes and replied, "Didn't ask."
"..." The ladies raised their eyebrows in amusement at the reply.
Fanny was extra surprised watching her mother's reaction. Lately, she had been showing a lot of emotions and although she still spoke in one-liners, the frequency of that had definitely increased!
Except Fanny and Lith, the ladies couldn't figure out what Keith meant by her two words.
Lith leaned towards Keith's face and pointed at a wrong boat coming towards them.
"Look there, you'll know soon."
Keith tried to see in the direction where Lith was pointing at, but couldn't see anyone remotely similar to the Asuras.
"Who?" Keith asked. Her one word question meaning: "whom are you asking me to look at?"
"Them." Lith continued to point at the wrong boat despite knowing the meaning behind Keith's question.
"Can't see." Keith stated she couldn't see anyone familiar.
"Tch. Tch. Babe, you gotta see clearly. Wait, let me help you..."
Lith leaned further close to her, to the point where his face was an inch away from getting glued to Keith's pristine, smooth cheek.
His index finger was in front of his and Keith's eyes, and it was pointing at the correct boat now.
"You see there... that gondola..."
Keith squinted her eyes and actually someone familiar. It was a young boy, seated beside whom was a tall lady in gothic black dress.
Lith leaned further close, gluing his face completely with Keith's.
"...behind that boy... look at those people..."
Keith was distracted from the facial skin-ship by having her attention focused on a group of men seated right behind Yam and Elara.
The people had a peculiar serious expression on their faces as they sat, clearly not those of tourists having a good time like Yam and Elara.
Keith was devoted and looking.
The others? Not so much.
Especially Fanny, who froze in her spot in shock, her mind absolutely in shambles.
'M-m-mom!?!'
Fanny screamed internally in shock.
Sylvia, who always stayed expressionless, had surprise flash in her eyes and facepalmed as if she had just seen something sinful.
Fei was somewhat amused, but not surprised, whereas Qingshan and Wang Wei did not know the context and felt as if it was just another normal day.
The men did not speak for a solid minute and watched the gate.
"If this is real..." One of the men said.
"Don't speak. Let's go inside first and see whether it's a trap or not."
"You're right."
"Boy... you better be prepared if anything funny happens..." A deep voice warned Yam.
Yam simply bowed and didn't respond.
All the men with Yam walked inside.
"Your job's done?" Elara asked.
"Not yet. They will be back in a few minutes."
"Sigh..." Elara clutched her forehead and shook her head. "I still wonder why you're listening to them. You don't even need them anymore."
Yam nodded his head. "I don't, but the man who made me who I am today... I am doing it for him. Our business is not over yet, so I have to go through this."
Yam then looked up, into Elara's beautiful eyes. He held her hands and said in a gentle tone, "He's the reason I got to meet you. This is the least I could do for him."
Elara smiled and squatted down, looking Yam up in the eyes like he did to her a second ago.
She wore heels today, so she was extra tall, but Yam was a little less than a head taller than her when she squatted like that.
Nevertheless, he had to look down to meet her eye level.
Elara held Yam's face and said, "I am glad you met him, and he led you to me. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be hearing my precious baby's moans every night and see his legs up in the air, shivering from pleasure."
Yam's face turned red like a tomato. "Baby! We talked about this! Not in public!"
"Fufu, right, right. I'm sorry." Elara chuckled and shook her head.
"Though, I still have to say that it's not a coincidence you met me. That man knew what he was doing and who he was putting you up against."
"Hm?" Yam tilted his head in confusion.
Elara smirked. "Oh my poor innocent babe... you might have not known it, but I was not right in the head from the very start. I myself didn't know that I needed a pure, innocent, shy, kind and submissive virgin baby boy until I met you."
"That crafty man did not just figure you out, but me as well. And this all happened without even him having to talk to me or come in close proximity. Do you know what this means?"
Elara squished Yam's face and asked.
Yam shook his head.
Elara grinned. "This means that you've met someone big. Like really, really, big. Something major is going to happen soon."
"Eh?"
Elara got up when she saw Yam's confused face. She chuckled and said, "You don't have to think too much. Leave everything to me. For now..."
Elara lifted her skirt up and pulled Yam inside, stuffing his face on her bare, smooth pussy lips.
"B-b-babe!?"
"Fufu... I didn't wear panties specifically for this! Enjoy your meal~~!"
And with that, a pure man was taken another step down the abyss, inching closer to the point of no-return each day.