Azrakai was still unable to move freely. Carmen and Crypt were preventing him from moving, afraid of him destroying Bloom's hard work.
Crypt was doing some cleaning in the cave by Bloom's order (request) while Carmen was trying her best to cook soup with Bloom's and Crypt's guidence.
Crypt was moving the hay bed before pausing to look at her pot, "You need to let the mushrooms soften up some more."
Carmen heard him say with disdain. She scoffed before shaking her head slowly in an attempt to calm herself down, she didn't want to fight in Bloom's den.
It'll be disrespectful.
So she decided to heed his advice and ignored him afterwards. Crypt also went on his way. Though he didn't understand why Bloom wanted the cave cleaned up when they just moved in, he didn't complain.
He also liked being clean after all.
Carmen sighed and sat down beside the pot, when her eyes caught something right at the entrance of where that tiger was resting.
A water pouch. Sh☆t. She forgot.
Bloom had ordered (asked) her to bring the water pouch to that tiger after he woke up.
"Haaaaaaa....that da☆n tiger." She sighed again before getting up to take the water pouch.
She went straight in while spinning it around. And then she saw the tiger...struggling to breath while his entire face was flushed.
He was sweating and his eyes were unfocused.
She sighed once more. Three sighs one after another, a record.
Then she opened the pouch, lifted him up and shoved the water down his throat. Azrakai was choking but she couldn't care less.
As long as he drank the water pouch she didn't care if he died. Though she knew Bloom would be sad, she'll make sure to comfort her.
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Rhaëlya and the purple haired beastman were close to the cave, the villagers were happy to see Bloom, but they were less happy to see the purple haired male next to her.
He was very tall, two meters (~6'6) tall. His long purple hair was glistening like silk while his irises look like someone filled them with fresh blood. His frame was lean and muscular at the same time.
The males and females who had eyes on Bloom felt threatened.
One more rival to fight.
While Baran was enjoying finally being able to be with her.
Although he was slightly displeased with how the beast villagers were looking at his Bloom, he'll have to deal with it for now. He didn't want to scare her.
His act was great so far, he can not afford to make a mistake now.
The aura around her is pure yet a stranger to this realm. While he has no idea what the other realms look like, he knows of their existence.
And after checking the current time period, it's been a few centuries since he went to sleep. A few thousand centuries. He didn't mean to sleep for that long.
He was only planning to sleep until that small war finally started but it seems like he missed it.
He sighed.
"Is something wrong?" Rhaëlya asked him, looking at him without batting an eye.
"U-uhm no-o! I-I was just thinking o-of where I'll be staying tonight!" He replied almost immediately.
Rhaëlya raised an eyebrow, "The village's chief is in the big weeping tree we passed by. She's currently taking in requests so you should hurry up before she finishes them."
Baran made a surprised expression before smiling cheerfully, "Great! Thank you, female! I'll go do that then and thank you for your help!"
And with that, he took off.
Rhaëlya stared at his back while he ran, something in her gut telling her to stay alert. This guy was weird. Hella weird.
"Finally he's gone!" Orion exclaimed while getting out of her subspace.
[And you still didn't gather winter provisions nor with what to renovate the cave.]
"Can't I just use the Home Making function?" Rhaëlya rolled her eyes at the screen.
[...what about the herbs you wanted to get for that tiger of yours?]
Rhaëlya yawned, "I'll just use some medicine that I have in my bag. You know, the one you gave back to me when you took me in the sub space."
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"That's what I thought."
Orion was barely holding herself from laughing while she followed Rhaëlya.
And finally, a few minutes later they were back at the cave. Rhaëlya entered her home and something hot and soft threw itself into her arms.
Carmen.
Rhaëlya stopped in her tracks and looked at the woman who was nearly on her knees and holding her waist as if she was holding a plushie.
"Bloom!!!" Carmen yelped while rubbing her face into her chest.
"Yeah yeah I'm here." Rhaëlya said in a defeated tone while caressing Carmen's back.
Then she saw Crypt come closer and wrap his tail around Carmen's legs before throwing her in the air. To which Carmen responded by doing a backflip before landing back on her legs on the same spot.
Rhaëlya simply went to check on Azrakai.
"Did you smell it?" Carmen turned to Crypt abruptly.
Crypt closed his eyes, "Yes. It's a male."
"On her body!" Carmen added, her eyebrows furrowed and her claws glinting with bloodthirst.
How could just any male approach her Bloom however they wanted!!
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In the inner room, Rhaëlya was checking Azrakai's condition. He's running a fever.
But the herbs that the village healer gave him should've prevented it. So the why-
[He's been injected with a venom that has aphrodisiac properties, probably one of the beastmen he fought had venomous glands.]
"...Can you give me more details? I need to know the exact type of venom to know how to treat him." Rhaëlya asked again, this time the med student in her came out.
Orion face palm- tentacled, "You need to have s☆x with him! Damn!"
Rhaëlya simply blinked her eyes, "I can't. If he's not in the right state of mind right now then he cannot truly consent thus it'll be r☆pe."
[Don't worry, I assure you that he won't mind it one bit.] The screen glowed faintly green this time.
"He's probably been waiting for this-" Orion continued.
"No. I won't do it. Help me detox him first." Rhaëlya interrupted the jellyfish and the screen.