(Chapter 20)

Yang Manli can't stop crying while kneeling and hugging the shivering body of Shyrveen till the time it subsides...

"..."

Silence permeates at the dark lake since it's already a night time that Shyrveen can get used to the pain.

He noticed that Yang Manli already fell asleep on his chest and wipe out the trace of the tears from her eyes.

After staying like that for more than half an hour, he decided to stand up and carefully not to wake her up, then stared at the brown feathered arrow that changed the dullness into a red shining boney arrow but the brown feather is still attached.

He recalled and resummon the Mutant Arrow that still causing him pain but now, doable.

'I expect that I can maintain this for five minutes before my body collapse again... The Mutant Beast Soul is no joke once meddled, eh...'

He shook his head and pick up the sleeping beauty carefully and call Tank, that he can feel that already calmed and told him to bring them back to the shelter while recalling the other four shadows.

He didn't let Tank run for Yang Manli might wake up and made him only walk on his four limbs.

Two hours passed before they reached the shelter but he recalls Tank first when he noticed that he was already near the place.

At night time, there are fewer people who can see the mysterious charming man while carrying the sleeping beauty in a princess-carry style, walking towards the Steel Armor Gang place, before they hurriedly went to somewhere to share what they saw.

With the help of Gene Points, drawing is now a piece of cake for everyone, but since the camera doesn't work in the sanctuary. They are doing this to report, send, sell outside to be known by other people in the Alliance too.

Qin Xuan can be seen walking here and there outside of the main entrance of the place before noticing them.

She ran towards them and decided to sermon them but only to received a shake of Shyrveen's head.

"We should let her rest first."

"... Alright... And you too. It's already too late to talk about this, and I'll expect you to explain what happened tomorrow morning."

"Got it..."

Qin Xuan said after checking the night sky, and go with him to lay down Yang Manli to her room.

In the building of the gangs, there are rooms that exclusively for high ranking officials and a bedroom for lower ranks like military for emergency purposes, like now that Yang Manli is sleeping, no one can access her private room from the sanctuary.

Then he went to his own, that assigned by Qin Xuan and agreed by the officials in the gang since he is a special one no matter how they looked at him and can only sigh about it.

Morning.

Shyrveen woke up for the second time, but only by the knocks on the door this time.

"... Yes?"

"Stationmaster is requesting you both to meet her after one hour sharp in her office sir."

He heard a young man's voice on the opposite side of the door and Shyrveen let him know that they will.

Then he looked at his side, to see Yang Manli in her lingerie.

The first reason why the knocks on the door were the second thing woke him up from his sleep.

Yang Manli went knocking on his door in the middle of the night and used some drama as her excuse to let her sleep beside him on the same bed.

He agreed but only sleeping, no sexual intercourse.

She pouted but thought that there will be a next time, and happily sleep beside him.

'If she didn't come... For sure I will be interrupted again by the nightmare... Sigh... One more month and I'll 28 years old soon... And will be the 11th quadruple nightmares... A nightmare within a nightmare for four times before I can make sure that I woke up in reality... Should I...'

Shyrveen stared at her peaceful face and denied his thought.

'No... I won't use her to dodge these nightmares...'

"Manli? Wake up... Head is looking for us."

"Hmmm... Alright... And it's Sweety remember, darling?"

Yang Manli sits up and yawn while stretching her hands then pull him so suddenly into a deep kiss.

Shyrveen rolled his eyes and just let her be, after a few minutes.

"Did you got erection?"

"Seriously?... I already lost emotions, and even if they went back to me. The seven sins will be trying their best to be hard to get. So, sorry to burst that bubble of yours. Now, move."

"... This isn't my room though?"

Yang Manli smiled viciously and crazily.

"You... Aren't skipping things... Did you plan this from the start?"

"Bleh."

Then she stands up and picked up my upper clothes that are big enough for her to be her dress then ran away from his room.

And soon as expected. Voices of the screaming banshees, early in the morning can be heard in the building of the Steel Armor Gang.

"YANG MANLI!!!"

'She's dead...'

With only pants leaving him to wear on. He went out and lean on the door frame of the room of Yang Manli then he knocks.

He ignored every stare of the jealous and envied men and shocked and charmed stares of the women.

'Having the title of the 'Taken by Manli' is working, eh?'

"Gimme back my T-Shirt. Head is already making some holes in my chest... Manli?..."

'Did she?... God...'

"Sweety~ Can you please gimme my clothes back!?~"

Then as expected, the door's open. Shyrveen stared at her with eyebrow rose up.

"Yeah, continue that smugly face of yours."

Shyrveen said sarcastically at her and pointed somewhere with his lips that Yang Manli follows, which soon erased the smug on her face and changed into an unknown smile.

"Ha. Ha. Ha... Good morning, stationmaster..."

"Move your asses in my office, now!"

Qin Xuan felt irritated at her friend. She realized that the moment Shyrveen appeared in the shelter and she assigned Yang Manli to observed him.

All hell broke loose for her. Her friend that is once a graceful like a princess is now like that.

'Sigh, what to do with her?...'

Soon.

Yang Manli is standing with Shyrveen facing Qin Xuan that sitting on her seat while arms are on the table while looking at the drawing paper that has been modified by the drawer to look more dazzling that portraiting the knight in the shining armor while carrying the saved princess.

"Can't you see this? Yang Manli... You know that this drawing picture can reach the eyes of your family right?"

"... What I can do? I was sleeping at that time..."

Yang Manli tried to resist her hand to snatch the drawing to be her beloved picture to fantasize soon.

"And you... Shyr?..."

Qin Xuan didn't know what to call him since he isn't her guy and Shyrveen is around ten years older than her.

"What? Let it be..."

"But Yang Manli will be grounded till it's her 20th birthday to attend military service for 5 years once her parents got to knows this, you know? Which is the worst-case scenario, of course."

"... Do her parents are really strict like that?"

"In every upper-class family..."

"What a headache..."

'I'll be the cause of someone despair and sadness again... This is why I don't like to get closed anymore to any other person, eh... I already swore to the very best of my ability to solve any problem of the person once I got involved... But the thing is... 'Family' is involved that I tried to dodge...'

Shyrveen sighed in his mind and make his mind to race to think any possible things to make Yang Manli's parents stops restricting her freedom, and cancel the soon to be engagement with some guy, and only to get answers that seems impossible for him to do.

"..."

"Let's change the topic... Now, what happened and you two were too late to go back?"

Yang Manli and Shyrveen looked at each other, then Shyrveen summoned the Mutant Arrow of the Crimson Iron-Bone Fish that same with Yang Manli.

Qin Xuan stands up from her shock seeing that close to impossible creature to get in the sanctuary near the Steel Armor Shelter, and soon can't stop her happiness.

Even though it's not Sacred-Blood, but Mutant was next above the top.

"... Did you... That Beast Soul is Six Million Levo Dollars! And you got two!... How many you both hunted!?"

"... 14..."

"What!? That's too many! How? Wait!... Wait, wait, wait... I'm sure that I saw you Shyr carrying Manli and nothing more than her... Did you both leave the meats!?"

Qin Xuan's happiness changed into despair after knowing those numbers and receiving silence from them.

Yesterday, she got bitten by the Mutant Quartz Scorpion and killed it, but lost the meat of that Mutant creature and another of Mutant Beast Soul for Dollar to save her but only to be tricked by him in the end.

"Ha!!! So infuriating!"

Yang Manli laughed after seeing dearest friend be like that and said.

"Hahaha! Xuan Xuan! Don't be like that!"

"What like this!? Even if we go... Back... There?..."

Qin Xuan wants to pull her friend's hair from teasing her but only to stunned while staring at the fish in the hands of Shyrveen.

"How... Did you have that?... So suddenly."

"You mean this?"

Shyrveen pulls out another fish from his inventory to appear on his other hand.

"Close your mouth for there might be a fly to flew inside."

Qin Xuan stared at the man before her and took a few minutes to restart her mind to work again and asked Shyrveen again, and looks at Yang Manli.

"... Damn. Are you not sure taking any Levo Dollars for me to employ you to be in my team?... Manli, can I take him to be my groom?"

"Oi! That's not a good joke, Xuan Xuan... He's mine."

Yang Manli hugs the arm of Shyrveen as she stated strongly.

"Damn, you solve the problem. Congratulation, Shyr! With that kind of Innate Ability, for sure that her parents will agree to be your parents-in-law."

Qin Xuan taps his shoulder and happy again without leaving her eyes to the fishes.

"..."

Now, it's Shyrveen's turned to be stunned by that phrase.

'... Should I stop coming here now? And only focus at Dungeons?...'

"Now, follow me to the meat's storage. By the way, did you make a deal with him, Manli?"

Qin Xuan asked her friend seriously since this is a matter of the gang and not personal.

"Of course. Half-Half."

Yang Manli confirmed her and still trying not to laugh her ass off because it's a half-true and the half didn't yet drop like a bomb on her friend.

They followed her to the said storage for the meat and soon arrived then Qin Xuan explains.

"This is the storage that processing the meat in a traditional way to be jerky meats for the meats not to be spoiled."

And Shyrveen's attention got by this place and asked.

"... Can we trade meats? I mean Mutant to Mutant, of course."

"Yes, want to trade your part to some different Mutant's meat?"

"Yeah, to make sure that points will be poured in my mouth like a waterfalls."

"Huh?... What you're talking about?... Normally, the points will be divided to the whole meat of the creature. Example: The scorpion is worth ten points but when we cut the meats into five parts. We won't know which part contains most of those points. Did you got it?"

Qin Xuan didn't find any suspicious at him and thought that being a person who lacks the knowledge to the sanctuary is active again inside Shyrveen's body.

"..."

'It's different from me tough... Do I really have a high luck?... Fifth Ability?... Taking the meats like drugs, and getting their points based to my body's resistance, huh?'

Shyrveen was confused since that wasn't the case at all for him, but didn't voice it out and choose to change topic.

"I'll trade 20 bodies of the Mutant fish to each kind of Mutant creature."

"... Huh? 20? I remembered that Manli said, you got 14? And if it is in an equal contract then you will get 7, right?"

Qin Xuan was confused again, and swears to heaven that today that her emotions were shuffled so many times.

"Nope. I only said the number but I didn't say it will be halves again..."

Yang Manli snickers at her friend while giving another hint for Qin Xuan.

"Again?... What!? 38 Mutant fishes!?... The fuck did you two do!? And harvest Mutants like some normal chickens now?... Wait! 14, Manli?... And 20, Shyr? I thought equal share?"

Shyrveen can only be silent and didn't correct her, and Yang Manli knows why too.

Based on the contract that they took. Only the kills of Yang Manli will be split in half.

That's why when they were hunting and Yang Manli heard Shyrveen so suddenly to pull the kills of the five creatures on the shore, she was shocked and it added to her emotions at that time and let it out while slapping Shyrveen to oblivion.

'Love is all about sacrifices...'

Yang Manli can only murmur and elaborated.

"... His creatures' kills aren't included in the deal... I thought he didn't dare to kill creatures since the chance of getting the Beast Souls will be wasted if his creatures' kills creatures of this sanctuary... That's what he said..."

Then looks away while doing some kicking on the ground with her left foot.

"... So you are saying that you were tricked so easily and didn't mention to include the kills of his bluish-black creatures too in the deal?... Manli, we will talk about this later... And you! Can't you be more ashamed? You, Han Sen, and Dollar are so shameless!!! Arg!!! Fuck this place!!!"

Qin Xuan can only curse to her heart's content since she can't do anything to Shyrveen but it doesn't mean she can't punish her idiotic friend...