"Don't feel shy just because I'm here, dig in."
Acting as if she was the one who was making things awkward despite knowing she wasn't, Sheila made everyone start eating including Felix who hadn't raised his head since the moment he left his room.
"Delicious!"
"So good! You definitely have to give me the recipe, Sheila."
Trying their best to make the dinner less awkward, only Felix looked like the gloomy kid who no one talked to and who didn't talk to anyone either.
Taking the first bite of the astral beast's meat, Felix didn't need to do anything as he instantly felt his body start warming up from the inside out.
This was also when he could feel the meat melting inside his stomach and his body immediately starting to greedily absorb the nutrients from it.
While this didn't make Felix feel as if he was close to breaking through or that his strength had grown by many times, he could feel that his muscles were being nourished and that the state of his physical body was slowly being increased.
Though all of this was only by a little, Felix had no doubt that continuing to eat the meat of Astral Beasts on a daily basis was going to not just strengthen his foundation but also improve his state of existence by a lot making cultivation and breakthroughs. much easier in the future.
And luckily for him, Felix who had plundered everything precious inside the Asta Family after massacring them he had more than enough money to spend on buying Astral Meat on a daily basis without any trouble for at least a few hundred years.
Considering that the meat was of Tier 4 Astral Beasts and lower.
As for Tier 5 Astral Beasts' meat, Felix had no idea how much it would cost to buy it due to which he wasn't sure how many years the fortune he plundered would last him.
"How is it, Felix?"
".... Tasty."
Speaking so slowly that almost no one could listen to his voice, Felix who felt that he was being unfair towards Sheila who spent so much effort in cooking looked towards her and said, "It's tasty."
Seeing this, the fox lady smiled and sat down beside him and started eating herself.
"Do you want to know what my secret ingredient behind making it so tasty is?"
Rolling his eyes at this cliche line, Felix said, "Love.", and caused Sheila to snort coldly.
"As if! I used spices made out of herbs which are only found in the 7th Dimension right now, that's what made the meat so juicy and flavourful."
Breaking out into a short chuckle, Felix looked towards Sheila who felt content from how he looked right now.
"Wasn't I correct?"
"About what?"
"Food tastes better when eaten together, right?"
"Yes."
Admitting the truth since he wasn't the kind who'd adamantly stick to his words even when he was wrong, Felix continued eating and made the others feel a lot less nervous and enjoy the food even more.
"So the rumours were true. Look! I'm turning more beautiful already!"
Making Felix look towards her as she said those words, Anna winked towards him as if to remind him that he shouldn't forget about her just because he had Sheila.
Luckily, Sheila either didn't notice this action of Anna or chose to ignore it and fed Felix another piece of the fried meat like she kept doing every once in a while due to which the teenager was able to continue remaining calm.
…
After the dinner which started off awkwardly but surprisingly ended in a jovial manner entirely due to Sheila's effort, everyone dispersed to their own rooms.
"How was it boya? Wasn't my cooking the best?"
"Yes. I've never eaten anything tastier than what I just ate."
"Really? That makes me very happy."
Pulling the t-shirt Felix wore off of him with a smile on her face, Sheila pushed him onto the bed and locked the door behind her.
"If I knew that praising your cooking was what turned you on, I would've done it the first time we met."
Rolling her eyes, Sheila got on the bed and turned him around.
"Is sex all you have on your mind? I'm only giving you a massage to help your muscles recover, boya."
"Not that again, call me the other one."
Not replying to Felix, Sheila got on top of Felix's lower back and used her jade-like hands which seemed to be shining to grab onto his left arm and pulled it back.
Next, she pressed down on his biceps and slowly squeezed it and got rid of the tension and tiredness inside it instantly.
Following this, Sheila squeezed every single muscle on his left arm before proceeding onto his right arm and doing the same to it.
"So good…"
Moaning a little when the fox lady used her small hands to squeeze the muscles around his neck, Felix found himself turning drowsy and almost fell asleep due to how good he felt right now.
"You're imagining how much better it would be if my hands were around your dragon, aren't you?"
"Yes."
Not hiding the truth in the slightest, Felix moaned once again as Sheila began moving her hands lower and allowed every muscle on his back to relax and moan from pleasure and relief.
Having almost been sent down the path of becoming a chess piece for political marriage before she managed to prove her worth by showing how well she could cultivate and take care of business, Sheila always hated her first Astral Rune which she was forced into inscribing
The very rune which she was using right now to help Felix's muscles and body relax and heal at a faster rate from the exhaustion and pain they were suffering from.
But, now that she could use that rune to help Felix, Sheila as if she was a newly married wife found herself feeling happy from seeing that she managed to help him.