Netori: Stealing The Hero's Party!

Glaring at his back in disbelief, she wished it was a nightmare, but the moment her eyes met Erika's gaze who was also looking at Raven, the memories of what had happened just flooded right into her mind.

'No! NO WAY!' Shaking her head violently, she got off the floor to take a quick stroll outside so she could clear her head.

In the meantime, Erika decided to distract herself as well, but instead of heading out, she took to packing up the essentials before they left the farmhouse just a few hours later. As for Aria, who was left out of the action, she still had no clue how Mel and Erika had joined Rose in pleasuring Raven's body, and yet feeling something off in the air, she knew things had definitely gone off sideways.

'Ughhh…I doubt he can make good on his promise now that we'll be traveling soon.' Even so, more concerned about being sexually and physically abused, Aria couldn't care less about whatever may have gone wrong.

"Next time, at least try to find us before returning to camp," the silence in the room broken by Amedith, standing behind Raven; everyone's eyes turned to the upset hero. "Aria and I were searching for you guys, but guess what? You'd already brought everyone home and were snoring without care!"

Turning to face the topless hero while being shirtless himself, Raven glanced Amedith up and down. Like a budding maiden with a chest flatter than a chopping board, he looked like an upset teen rather than the intimidating man he thought he was.

"It wasn't my idea, we'd left Rose home alone, so Melicia said we should head back," putting the blame on the only person not present, Raven got himself off the hook, and simply watched as Amedith went off to talk to Mel instead.

Once he was gone, Raven glanced around the room left in an awkward state. Too embarrassed to face him, Erika shied away and continued packing up, while Aria who was the only one left hanging, was leering at Raven's toned body with a light blush across her cheeks.

'I wanna be punched…' She thought, however those thoughts didn't last long as Raven quickly got dressed and left the hall to talk with Rose.

Having a similar plan as him, Amedith managed to catch up with Mel right outside the farmhouse. Walking up to her as she watered the plants to get her mind off of the events of last night, he placed his hand on her shoulder and turned her back to face him.

The moment her eyes laid on Amedith, still not wearing a shirt to cover his top, an image of Raven's body from last night flashed before her eyes.

'H-how do I even tell him?' Feeling guilty over what happened, she wanted to be honest with Amedith, but with him already looking so mad, she felt like it wasn't the best time to break it to him.

"Raven told me you guys left me and Aria in the forest all by ourselves, is that true?" Hoping she would confirm his suspicion that Raven was lying, Amedith waited with his hands crossed for Mel to shift the blame back to him.

However, racking her mind quickly, Mel figured it was better for him to think that's what happened instead of what actually took place inside the pool.

'So Aria kept him away for Raven, but why?' Though that question ate away at her heart, she decided to take care of the situation in front first.

"Y-yeah, I'm sorry, it was getting really dark and I figured you'd come back soon too," lying out of her teeth, she could feel her heart being pricked from all directions.

'Why am I doing this? I should just–'

"Ughh, fine, I don't mind…I guess?" Washing his anger off his face, Amedith quickly rolled his eyes and began heading back into the farmhouse.

Even while watching him getting in, Mel wanted to confess her sins from last night, but something at the back of her mind just refused to let her come out clean to her boyfriend.

It wasn't just the guilt or the fact that Raven was the superior man in terms of masculinity, but the tinge of horror in her eyes over the image of Amedith's heartbreaking in two the moment she spoke the truth about what happened.

Thus keeping things to herself for now, she vowed not to let what happened repeat itself, and to even dote on Amedith more than usual so she could at least attempt to make up for her infidelity.

'I know it's useless, but I have to try at least.' Shaking every thought about Raven out of her head, she decided to direct every bit of her love, emotional as well as physical, at her cute boyfriend.

"Thank the goddess it's our last day here," lifting her head to the sky, Mel prayed to Aphrodite to give her the strength to stay strong in her convictions.

Praying to a dead god, her heart may have felt at peace, but there was no divine grace about to shine down on her. Instead, looking from far above and under, was the goddess of cunning and mockery taking the slightest bit of pleasure in her pupil's torment.

She knew it was wrong, and that her duty was to grace her with a blessing, but unable to defy her nature, she was amused at how things were transpiring.

'Well well well…If you guys were just a tad bit stronger, then I could've enjoyed this more than how I worry over your potential deaths.' Masking her joy with a solemn look, Athenia pretended to be normal for the world to continuously prosper. 'Perhaps, had I never been a prisoner of a dead god's mind, I would've been no different than those other gods who wish for their supremacy over this world.'

Bound by her duty to keep the world balanced, she reeled in her sadistic desires and returned to her usual self full of affection and care for her people.