Into the swamps

Later that day with everyone awake, we left the camp and directed ourselves back to Nefumia. But as we were walking, I realized that I was missing my pants the entire time and it was windy out here so I covered myself with a cloak out of sheer embarrassment.

* * * * *[Narrative]* * * * *

With Hiro's pants back at camp.

They were 74 miles away from Nefumia and walking in its direction as they had been at the border of Nefumia's lands and near the lands of their neighboring kingdom that had fallen to the Great-Litchis.

While walking throughout the soft mushy grounds of the Marsh-like Quagmire.

They all saw a path of scorched trees and looked to Mari as that was the path she took to get here a few days ago and they could still see some fire far in the background.

"What are you looking at!"

Mari generally scared them as that view alone made the 5 Sui's gulp.

Meanwhile, the non-Sorcerers didn't have a clue about what was happening, they just saw what looked like an intro scene of a mortal combat game.

Scorpion vs Marshlands.

However, after looking away from Mari the Sui that she beat the hell out of yesterday pointed forward through the mushy lands and pointed far away to what looked like a small shaped box in the distance.

"We have a Cog not too far from here. The quagmire connects to a swamp so unless you want to swim then were going to have to take the boat a quarter of the way back to Nefumia" Cloaked Sui Girl

"But then again. There are monsters everywhere in these swamps so unless your Mari then I suggest that you take the ship route with us" Cloaked Sui Girl

She spoke in an arrogant tone that annoyed the others since she knew that they knew that they had to stick with her or else the dangers of the swamp monsters would be impossible to survive.

So basically they needed her and the Sui to make it back.

But just as she had this little picture painted in her head, someone stomped on her foot causing her to yelp out in pain. But just as she looked to who it was to yell at them she looked to see Mari walking past er.

"Shut your fucking mouth" Mari

"One more word from you and I'll take your ship and make you swim" Mari

She said being the only one to intimidate this girl.

And she looked to be not in a good mood too, so the chances of that actually happening were very high since Mari rarely went back on her words.

Her mouth was sealed and she nodded not to piss off Mari any more than she already had.

They continued on and as they did the cloaked Sui girl was following Mari who walked directly in front. To the middle and sites where the 4 Sui's who kept a lookout and talked to each other. Behind them were Tina and Zim. And behind them were Lex, Hiro, and Ursula.

However, there was an issue with this and it wasn't that Hiro was walking slow on purpose but the other 2 stuck around him despite him wanting to be alone due to a missing pants action and him having to rely on someone's cloak.

Because Ursula was guarding over him like a protective older sister to their little bro or sis, and Lex was doing the more or less as he was just chatting and joking around with the both of them.

Okay, maybe that wasn't the issue.

The issue was that when Tina looked at Hiro she saw the love of her life but then when she looked forward to the Cloaked Sui Girl she clenched the Dagger at her side about to lose her shit and snap.

Why?

Because Tina may or may not have done some research and through she couldn't find what she was actually looking for she found something very similar and as she looked to Hiro and then to her she could help but remember that she was his master.

Each And Every Time. . .

But why was that an issue for her?

It was because he was a Sex-Demon.

She found nothing on his kind but from what the little she found on his sister-kin. When enslaved or under contract the Demon tends to become attracted to the master or such Sex Demon starts taking interest in them as soon as they start showing even the slightest amount of affection.

Or so Jewel Xueian says as he's the proud owner of 3 Succubi and Tina's willing to bet that they all fell for him. She only found a copied page of his journal in that book she was reading but if she found more she would be able to understand more.

But from what she read, whoever owns or contracts Hiro wins his love automatically and she wasn't about to let that happen.

Especially since that meant that he would leave her and stay with that bitch forever. That also meant he would leave the town if Rosa Marine and she'd never see him again and she could bear that.

Sure a short break from each other or even a little break up seeing as she knew they'd end up back together as to her it was fate that they were in love and destiny chose them to be together.

But if he left because of this and or someone was controlling him.

ShE HaS No IdEa WhAt ShE WoUlD Do. . .

. . . . . .

Spending the next hour traveling to the ship called a Cog.

They boarded it and met up with even more Sui Sorcerers who code-named each other numbers. It was the Cloaked Sui girls team and she was #1 as she had been their Team Leader.

With one person Using their powers to manipulate the water. The ship moved slowly down the swamp to avoid any large swamp monsters like a Naga or just a giant water serpent that slept under these waters.

Shoot. The last thing they needed was to run into a swamp dragon too, bad enough they could see weak Rank/Level 1 Zombies around here on the land strips, but if they were to run into actual mythological creatures of stronger powers than them, then they were screwed, especially since the monsters around here were resistant to their water magic.

The estimated time till they reached their destination was a single day and a half. It was longer than getting here, but that was only because they had fewer people aboard and fewer live bodies for these creatures that wanted to eat them.

They were just hoping not to run into trouble while traveling.

That was the last thing they needed.

They also need for the passengers not to be loud either. They cast a spell of lesser silence around the ship but if someone were to shout.

The rate of them running into a strong monster was 100% guaranteed.

Wait wasn't there 2 Natsu's and 3 Demons on this boat?

Shoot. . .