Flustered

(Asta) "Did you seriously jump into a avalanche to grab a herb!? Even I ain't crazy enough for that."

(Kaelum) "Oh you will be soon enough, after you move to the fifth's memories that is. That bastard is someone I can't even be compared to."

Asta's expression turns stiff as he looks at the pure amusement Kaelum seems to be having while badmouthing the fifth shadow.

Personally, he himself have a small list of the deeds done by the fifth and least to say he would rather fight a dragon than experience that.

A Thief, thats what the fifth was and also not just a normal their either but a full on king of bandits that terrorised both the demon and dragons alike from his deeds.

Raiding Royal vaults, Capturing Nobles for ransom, taking over resources, the list just keeps going and going but atleast he wasn't a womanizer and that was a small relief for Asta.

However, inwardly he couldn't even fathom the pure chaos that will erupt if the fact that the guardian king Jassen and hell faced bandit were the same people, It will be a nightmare where demons will straight up ally with dragons to kill him, just like they did before.

Asta however didn't care about it that much, threw that problem to the back of his head until it arrives and focused on the memories instead, but there was something he didn't expect.

Mimosa and Sol, two curious ladies looking for answers, were watching through everything in the memories through Asta's eyes like watching a 3D movie and felt extremely confused at extreme fast forward speed of it.

They heard everything from the Asta's commentary as he absorbed the memories, to his thoughts and felt extremely confused by the turn of events.

They tried to figure out what was going and accidentally Sol released a mana impulse because of training habit, which resulted in Kaelum noticing a fluctuation.

" Fluctuations? Don't tell me it's mind r-", Realisation dawns on Kaelum, he instantly stops the memories much to Asta's confusion before raising his hand as the beast grimoire rose.

Kaelum turned, his body extremely fast to the point that it appeared a blur even to Asta as he shifted his position and instantly Split up the mental connection to Mimosa and Sol with no hesitation.

"Go Out! It was a mind reading spell" Kaelum said to Asta, completely stopping the absorption process as they both retreated from the Cavern of memories back to the mind space.

Asta flew out, Kaelum beside him as they both brought out their weapons to end the Invaders but, all they outside were two girls laying down on the rocky terrain of the mind realm with blanked out eyes.

" Mimosa!? Sol!?" Asta called out, confused and baffled as he went closer to see them foaming from the mouth as if they were bitten by a snake.

He turned to Kaelum, demanding answers for this and soon recieved his answer as Kaelum grabbed something and handed it to him, it was a semi-transparent string made of Mana.

"They were trying to read your mind. Be thankful i caught them before they could do anything.", Kaelum turned to Asta, his chest risen in pride as he looked down at naiveness and left in slow strides.

The mind realm begins shaking, the ground ruptures and Soon Asta found himself back in his bed with throbbing head and a intense headache.

Weakly he grabbed onto the curtain, pulling it away as Sunlight shone his face from the window and he could finally see around.

He tried to moving, but there was something blocking him, so he had to put some effort in turning around as his gaze landed on them.

Mimosa and Sol, both laying down beside him with their heads on his shoulders as they grabbed onto him from both sides.

His face turned red, embarrassment and annoyance filling his mind as he felt the two hold onto his arms even tighter as he tries to move around.

Asta's body won't recover from the breaking of the mind realm until afternoon and there was no way he could lift the two up, especially Mimosa who had already transformed into her half beast form. So he gave up on resisting and tried to calm himself down.

But it seems like his luck wasn't the best today as the Room door slammed open with a bang as two people came in.

"Hey asta, have you seen Cel-... I didn't knew you were their type, Carry on" Gunther calmly said as he stopped right in his tracks, turns around and left as he covers the eyes of the forever single Quill.

For a moment Asta couldn't understand what to do in this situation but there was one thing that was clear, he had been misunderstood.

"Come back and help me you idiots." Asta yelled as loud as he could.

Quill came back, peeked at him from the doorframe, took out a small sphere and then left after taking a picture of the occassion as he bites his own clothes in frustration.

This time Asta was left more baffled then annoyed cause that was, for sure something that will be used as Blackmailing material against him.

"©******", Asta cursed Quill with all his heart, hoping he gets bashed by anvil or something but hoping was all he could do as he couldn't even stand up.

A few minutes passed as Asta just layed there movement less, his mind calming down and his headache lowering with each passing second.

If he wanted to say it in all honesty, he was kinda happy with this but his inner embarrassment came back to haunt him the very next second, so he called out Yubin.

"Get them off me, I can't move." He said honestly and recieved a nod from his partner who quickly helped him wiggle away from the two girls and onto his feet in a few minutes.

He looked back at the two, his face flustered and cheeks tomato red but there was something else he need to address first, 'Why were they reading his mind?'.

So he decided it was better to just wait it out for them to wake up instead of going around searching and sat down in one corner, only to curl into a ball as he subconsciously remembers the warmth of the two.

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Mimosa slowly opened her eyes, she was exhausted, weak and felt terrible. Blank minded she looked forward, Sol was sleeping just like her but with drool running down her face.

"Wake up," She sid lightly as she poked Sol's cheeks while sitting up and looking around while she yawns.

For some reason, she felt that she had forgotten something but couldn't point out what, so she just stood up and moved for the bathroom, however she was stopped in her tracks as she found the bathroom door missing.

"*Yawn* Where did the door go?" She asked, her eyes wandering around the room in half woken state as she looked around, only to jolted back to reality as she looked down at Asta.

Asta was sleeping while leaning against a wall, all curled up as he slept hopeless on the floor.

It was only now that Mimosa begins remembering the events of last night, of how she and Sol tried to read Asta's mind only to faint as they were right beside him.

" Do- Don't tell me.", She was hit by a realisation, her eyes wandered to where she was sleeping on the bed and the sunlight coming through the window as she imagined herself in Asta's arms and became steaming hot like a tomato as she crawled back into the blanket and covered her face.

Sol on the other hand, didn't give a damn about this internal monologue and continues her dream sleep with leasure, only to woken as Mimosa's Sharp pointy ears rose and hit her right in the eye.

"Oi. Keep the voice down wi- Huh?" Sol complained as she slowly opened her eyes, only to be greeted with a steaming Mimosa in a blanket and felt extremely confused.

She wanted to ask what happened to mimosa but her questions were instantly answered as he heard the groan from Asta who woke up from sleep as well.

They looked eyes, all of them stating right at each other as Asta streched his body and went to the bathroom as if it didn't matter.

Sol however, felt ignored and unimportant only to drowzly remember what happened last night as she joined Mimosa under the blanket, both burning up like steamed tomatoes.

Sol looked at Mimosa, her gaze meeting her's as they both looked at each other.

"That didn't happen right?," Sol said, her cheeks flustered and expression full of nervousness, "Right?"

Mimosa didn't answer her or rather she couldn't as she only gave a small nod to her before burying herself deeper into the blanket.

It was at this time, a voice came from outside as Quill opened the door again to watch as they both turned their heads towards him.

He was amused to say the least, so he decided to tease them further as he brought out a small square paper from his pocket and opened it in front of them.

"Hope you two had a great night, because Asta sure was enjoying himself" Quill lied without hesitation as he waved the picture of the two sleeping beside Asta before tossing it right in front of them and quickly escaped the room while waiting for the bomb to explode.