Chapter 1046: Maya gets her answers

Chapter 1046: Chapter 1046: Maya gets her answers

Finally Maya was going to get some proper answers rather than surprising bombs.

"Do you promise to listen quietly and not flip out half way through?" Though she seemed more amenable right now Frost wanted her word, his patience for chaos and interruptions running thin.

He had less than four hours until his father would teleport him to the battlefield. Some of that time needed to be allotted to managing the Dungeon and rounding up the monsters who would be accompanying him on his journey but for the majority of it he wanted to spend time with his loved ones, preferably in the bedroom or a similarly appropriate location.

"I promise to try~" Maya gave a non-committal and slightly playful wink, an attempt to lighten the seriousness of the situation and her own pounding heartbeat. The Church of Light was a trigger for her no matter the context, even now she was constantly restraining her bloodlust.

"Haaaaa good enough I suppose." It was better than nothing, so Frost accepted her answer before explaining the situation at hand in depth, leaving very little out. With Maya’s nose she’d easily sniff out deception even if it’s by omission.

"So you see the enemy will be strong and dangerous but nowhere near what you initially thought, B-rank tops and no more than a couple hundred." The initial estimates put the Church of Light at a little over a hundred members, but it was always prudent to assume the worst in these cases. "Plus Indra, Agar and I thanks to Izuna and Father’s effort know exactly what we’re getting into, they told us the truth rather than the proliferated stories."

The siblings had been briefed on their evil, brought up to speed on their methods, their ideology and their fanaticism. There could be no talking with such psychopaths, a swift death and a thorough despoiling of their corpse would be their only answer.

"....." Maya silently stared up at Frost’s face, eyeing his every twitch while showing an unreadable expression. She hadn’t burst out in a yell as of yet nor did she really voice much of an interruption but occasionally he did see her fists balling up and felt a few wisps of killing intent escape her blockade. She was holding herself back.

Daki who listened to Frost’s every word felt a lump in her throat and a pervading chill across her skin. Everything he said about the enemy served to increase her worries rather than detract from it.

’Frost.’ She didn’t want him to take part in this battle, her innate fear towards the Church of Light also being deeply ingrained and poked by his explanation but being the dutiful girlfriend she was she didn’t allow the full extent of her pain and anxiety to show. Her smile was neutral and her arm was tightly linked around his as she deferred to Maya’s judgement. She was too weak and far too ill informed to make a rational decision; Maya however was not.

"Well?" Asked Frost tentatively after a gruelling silence. Silence was always his kryptonite, he never knew which direction to lean, the tension ever looming and growing heavier and heavier with every passing second.

".....I’m still not happy, the Church of Light even a branch is still the Church of Light. They still have their dangerous magics, their strange abilities and more importantly that dogged fanaticism that leads them to commit unspeakable horrors... two hundred members with at least a dozen with comparable ranks to your own...no matter how you define it, this trip of yours is incredibly dangerous."

Maya assessed the situation with a clear mind -which was not easy by the way- and found the odds stacked heavily against the three siblings. Not only were they outnumbered but they were also facing off against bigger guns, guns wielded by literal nut jobs....just a single slip up and her man would be counting stars, of course she’d be against such recklessness.

Frost frowned, his lips parting to counter her reasoning but no words escaped, she was right plain and simple. This trip was dangerous and he would be outmatched for the most part....any military man with a bit of strategic thinking would instinctively shy away from such odds and search for an alternative route but unfortunately in this case choosing the alternative meant letting Agar die.....something he vehemently refused to do.

Maya gently watched Frost as he failed to get a word out in his defence to his twisting practically torn expression. Clearly he was having an internal battle because of her words and being the primary woman in his life she could ultimately tell....he wouldn’t be backing down.

’Haaaaa regardless of my opinion and the truths of the situation he’s still going to go.’ She couldn’t help but sigh, a brief moment of despair flashing across her eyes as she bit her lower lip and made her own decision.

"You’re still going to go aren’t you?" She asked, forcing herself to smile though it was anything but warm.

"....Yeah....if I don’t Agar won’t survive." He knew the danger, but he believed that with his potential and with his brothers and trusted monsters by his side he’d be able to overcome the odds.

"....Do you remember your battle against the artic zu?" Maya took a deep breath and placed her left hand atop Frost’s chest right where his heart was.

"...I do." Frost visibly trembled at the mention of the artic zu, he’d never been so close to death and so far from home. That memory was both traumatising and inspiring, he promised to shed himself of weakness, to never again allow himself to feel so pathetic in the face of an enemy.

"Where you’re going no one will be able to save you." Maya’s words cut deep, his heart suddenly thundering with an increased beat. Sweat dripped down the back of his neck and he felt a tightness in his chest. Her words were suffused with aura and killing intent viciously reminding him of what he still was....weak but then the smile on her lips curled upwards, becoming something warm and endearing. Her voice less like a cold knife and more like a supporting hand lifting him from the shadows of despair.

"...So don’t lose!" Her voice reverberated through the living room and slammed against Frost’s body, knocking him back a few millimetres and shaking off any vestiges of hesitation that her initial reaction brought him.

While she may disagree with his decision at heart Maya would be damned if she was going to be the reason he showed trepidation in the face of his upcoming adversity.

"Fight as if your life is on the line! Destroy the enemy and come back to us, whole!" Her cold, dour expression was now the perfect representation of a loving and supportive wife, building up her man rather than cutting him down.

Frost felt a wave of searing warmth wash over him, his heart that had grown heavy in the face of Maya and Daki’s distress danced in glee and an ear reaching smile graced his lips, a few manly tears even leaked from his eyes which he was quick to wipe away as he reached out to pull his two lovers into his tight embrace.

"Un, your man will come back victorious, I’ll never lose so long as I have beauties like you two waiting for me at home." He hugged them both with all he had, showing not a shred of lust just bottomless love and affection.

’Stupid softie.’

’Haaaa so cheesy.’ Maya and Daki silently chided his behaviour but outwardly they were all smiles, loving every second of it.

The throuple enjoyed their moment of closeness allowing their hearts to grow in size and their bodies to memorise each other’s presence. Although they refused to even entertain the notion Maya and Daki held Frost with all they had, making damn sure that if the worst ever came to pass, nothing would have been left unsaid....of course just because they came to an understanding that didn’t mean Frost would be getting want he wanted.

The moment his tender touch became unruly the soft, supportive expressions on Maya and Daki’s faces turned cold. Their hands quickly latched onto Frost’s, dragging them upwards or sideways to more appropriate locations before mercilessly dousing any wayward flames.

"Ut un, not until you’re back."

"Only victors get to enjoy the spoils." The two were firm and unyielding leaving Frost pained and destitute.

"So cruel!" He loudly cried... tears literally running down his cheeks, but his two frigid lovers were unmoved, the looks in their eyes only becoming harsher in response and he knew in that moment that any attempts whether they be threats, intimidation, bargaining or even begging would fail to convince them otherwise.

He really wouldn’t be getting any loving until he returned from Agar’s Dungeon victorious and in one piece....additional motivation for the journey, motivation that would surely see him commit a mass slaughter shortly after arriving upon foreign shores.

’Haaaaaa I just hope the two of you will be able to survive the extent of my desires when I return.’ If they weren’t willing to siphon off the excess now then their future battle would be brutal to say the least.

As if sensing his thoughts Maya and Daki both shivered, a dull ache and a ravenous hunger echoing from their wombs. The sisters turned to each other, interlocked their fingers and smiled. No matter how vengeful the beast became they’d face him together as sisters.