Chapter 491: Julia's Warning

The misunderstanding did not continue.

As a chastity-minded Tu Ren Zu Fa mage, Ona quickly explained the full cause and effect of the current situation.

"You mean, to help that mushroom-girl called Scarlett tell the difference between 【Charm Mucus】 and hallucinogenic spores, you specifically had Rod go sleep with her?"

Julia's voice from the magic stone Shi Li carried hesitation, "You could've just done a side-by-side experiment in front of Scarlett — why did you have to let the poor little girl take a beating?"

"Huh?"

Ona froze for a moment, letting out an adorable, puzzled sound.

That brain that seemed unable to turn the corner finally clicked.

She glanced, hollow-eyed, at the situation on the bed.

It's over. I've betrayed the trust my old friend left in me.

That was the single thought in Ona's mind right now.

Rod nodded. "That's exactly what I thought too."

"Then why didn't you warn me, Rod!"

"I thought you were going to pull out some amazing, groundbreaking spell that would clear up Scarlett's misunderstanding in one go."

"There's no such spell! Ugh, would you stop moving!"

"The arrow's already on the string, Ona — you don't want Scarlett to find out her respected elder sister got taken advantage of by a human man just because she couldn't think straight, do you?"

Julia's voice from the magic stone burst into wild laughter.

She sounded so out of breath, I was genuinely afraid she'd laugh herself into a faint.

"I say, hahaha — it's just that Ona here guards her virtue way too strictly. Day in, day out she's peeking at things she shouldn't be seeing — daydreams do come true, after all!"

"Lady Julia!!!"

Ona's little face flushed crimson as she wailed at the top of her lungs.

At the same time, her two small hands grabbed Rod's arm, trying to drag him away from Scarlett's body.

Hilarious.

She couldn't budge him at all.

Instead, Rod's movement pulled her whole body swaying, and she ended up crashing straight into his back.

"Stop it right now!"

Ona tried to use a mental spell to influence Rod, but failed once again.

She'd forgotten that this man possessed absurdly high mental resistance.

Rod, hearing the sob in her voice, felt too embarrassed to keep going.

"Alright, alright, I'm stopping, I'm stopping."

He turned his head to look.

The short little rabbit-girl mage had actually cried her face into a mess.

Caught between laughter and tears, he wiped her tears away.

"What are you crying about? You're the one who told me mushroom-folk don't mind this kind of thing."

Wiping a girl's tears was admittedly a bit intimate, but since there were so many girls in the forest, he'd gotten used to it and done it naturally.

Ona sniffled, her tiny nose twitching.

Because she was rabbit-folk, her face was very small — Rod's palm could cover her entire face.

"Even if they don't mind, we still can't do this. Oh heavens — I've let my old friend's daughter be ruined by a fickle, lecherous radish."

"…The 'fickle, lecherous radish' — that's not about me, is it?"

The little rabbit-girl was crying so hard she forgot all about manners.

"Who else could it be! Every single night you have to fool around with girls! And the detection spell I gave you just had to be turned on at exactly that moment, so every night when I sleep I have to listen to the sounds of you and the girls having fun!"

"…"

Earlier, because of the mind flayer Hart, Ona had set up a mental-detection spell on Rod.

The spell had been set up with Rod's consent, and he also had a great deal of autonomy over when to activate it.

Ona's suggestion at the time was to keep it on for at least two hours a day.

Rod, though.

Always turned it on right when he was most excited playing with the girls at night.

Hearing Ona say that, Rod also felt he had been a tiny bit over the line.

In the background, Julia's exaggerated laughter continued nonstop.

Creak—

That familiar sound came again.

Ona, furious: "Rod! How did you start again!"

"Wasn't me." Rod spread his hands, then pointed downward.

Scarlett had her legs locked around his waist, looking dazed, as if she hadn't quite woken up.

"Scarlett!"

By the time the two were pulled apart, it was exactly noon — McRae ulted.

Because of 【Second Heart】, Rod had always been… excessive.

Scarlett took the brunt of it.

"…"

"…"

Both of them froze.

All that remained was Scarlett gasping heavily on the bed and the sound of Yulia laughing loudly from the magic stone.

A moment later.

Rod couldn't stand the awkward atmosphere any longer and pulled up his pants.

"I'm going outside to get some air."

Ona didn't look at him, wiping her face; from her back, she gave a stiff little nod.

Left the magic wooden hut.

Rod looked at the silent underground cavern.

For some reason, he wanted to smoke a cigarette.

"Hey! Why'd you go out? What happened? Quick, record Ona crying hahahaha—"

Yulia's voice from the magic stone continued to laugh wildly.

Rod simply skipped the topic:

"Lady Yulia, getting back to business—is there something you needed me for?"

Yulia could hear Rod and the others' conversation; she only knew he had stepped outside for the moment, and since Ona wasn't there, she didn't keep teasing.

She kept laughing for quite a while before finally stopping.

"Nothing much, mainly two things. Didn't you learn a special spiritual art called Blood Detonation some time ago?"

【Yulia's Blood Detonation】.

A shared skill Rod had drawn from Tally.

At the time there had been a prompt that this skill would draw Yulia's attention.

"Yes."

"Was it a succubus who taught you? Where is that succubus?"

The succubus she spoke of.

Thinking about it, she must be referring to the succubus ancestor, Lilith.

Rod had read the details in 【Yulia's Blood Detonation】.

"It wasn't taught by anyone else."

"Oh?"

Yulia's voice grew intrigued. "You mean you learned it yourself?"

"You could say that."

Although sharing skills with others wasn't particularly rare on this continent, Rod didn't want to openly explain the effect of Nu Yi Zhou.

"Fine, fine, fine, I'll count you as impressive then."

Good enough.

The other party didn't pay it much mind.

A voice continued from the magic stone: "Now for the second thing. I've heard you and Hera are on pretty good terms—you lecherous dog of a human, you didn't make a move on her too, did you!?"

". No, Lady Hera is also a senior I respect."

"Hmph! I know you've always had the habit of giving Hera fire-resistance and poison-resistance items. No matter what, starting today, stop it immediately!"

"I don't understand what you mean?"

"Hera is advancing to ninth tier! You must make her stop—she absolutely cannot be allowed to advance to ninth tier!"

Rod glanced at the 【Myriad Phenomenon Furnace】 on his panel showing 'Smelting', and for a moment couldn't speak.

(End of chapter)