Everyone looked at the bracelets Hai was holding out to them and understood his reason.
Those bracelets are a rather common artifact that makes it obvious if someone uses magic or if they exceed a certain limit of strength.
The ones Hai handed them however, were better versions than the common ones. Those bracelets can suppress someone's strength to a determined level and will instantly deactivate themselves after a certain amount of time or in a dire situation.
After everyone put the bracelets on, some of them immediately felt the difference.
Mainly Chang Hua, Bing Qing, Elena and Stella.
As they all had been used to feeling and unconsciously using mana or aura, now that the bracelets made it more difficult for them, it was like as if something simple like breathing got more troublesome.
Hai handed them all custom-made metal clubs and took out a golf ball for each.
He then turned to them and took out some sticks from his storage ring.
"The one who get the shorter will be first." He held out a can with the sticks in it.
Everyone took a stick and Kryn went last.
The one who got the shorter was surprisingly or unsurprisingly, Kryn.
She looked at the stick in her hands and then at everyone around her.
They were all smiling at her as if happy for her luck.
She looked back at Hai and had an inkling that he did something for her to be the first one, but she said nothing.
Walking towards the designed area, Kryn put down the golf ball and looked at it confusedly.
Hai quickly understood her predicament and explained what she needed to do.
"Kryn, just swing your club and hit the ball. The goal is to make it enter the hole which has a flag with the smaller number of swings you can." He advised her.
Although there were some others rules to playing golf, Hai decided to go only with the most basic ones as this was just them playing around.
Kryn looked at him and nodded.
Then, she looked fixedly at the ball for some seconds.
She lowered her hips and moving her arms holding the club and her waist, she twisted her upper-body a bit to the right and then towards the left while swinging her club at the ball.
*SWOOOSH*
Hai looked at her move and widened his eyes a bit when she finished it.
"…"
She missed the ball.
*BLINK*
*BLINK*
Kryn blinked repeatedly while not moving, then she slowly turned to look downwards just to see the ball standing where it was without moving even an inch.
"…" Kryn looked expressionlessly at the ball as if asking it why didn't it move.
Her ears got red and she wanted to find a hole to hide herself.
Hai held back the laughter that threated to come out and simply said:
"Just go again. This game is just for fu-"
"Pffffttt!!!!" He was cut off by Chang Hua who was trying to not laugh, but wasn't that successful.
Hai slowly turned towards her and then back at Kryn who had her ears even redder.
"Don't worry, Kryn. I will handle this old lady's ass later. For now, just give it a try." He calmly said to her with a warm smile.
Chang Hua flinched and instantly stopped laughing.
She looked at Hai and noticed him looking at her from the corner of his eyes.
'Ah… I'm f*cked.' She thought when she noticed a certain glint in his eyes.
Kryn nodded, albeit still embarrassed she went ahead and gave it another try.
She positioned herself and then swung her club again.
*SWOOOSH*
This time, she hit the ball and sent it flying a couple dozens of meters away from where she was.
The ball flew in the air, then gravity did its magic and the ball started to fall.
After falling to the ice ground, the ball bounced three times on the ground and stopped at ¼ of the way towards the hole.
Hai looked at it and smiled.
"Nice shot, Kryn." He complimented her.
"Huh." A short hum and a small imperceptible smile were Kryn's reply before she stepped back and waited for the next one.
After seeing that she was finished, the next one went to do her shot.
The next one was Bing Qing.
Bing Qing used one of her tails to put the ball in place before positioning herself.
She was so absentmindedly that she didn't even notice that she had long since undone her transformation when with Hai and his group.
She looked at the ball and her mind slowly drifted back to her problems.
The strength for the swing died down and she stood there motionless looking at the ball while remembering what she did in the past.
Hai noticed that her mind was somewhere else and smiled mischievously.
While everyone was looking confusedly at Bing Qing, Hai vanished from where he was and appeared behind her.
"Won't you make your swing~?" He whispered in her fox ears before biting one of them and squeezing her ass with his right hand.
Bing Qing widened her eyes, straightened her back and instantly did the swing as a reflex.
*SWOOOSH*
The ball soared through the air and fell halfway towards the hole.
With her tails looking like a cat's when they are stepped on, she jumped away before looking at Hai who by now was back where he was previously.
With red cheeks, Bing Qing opened and closed her mouth repeatedly, but no words came out of her.
*SIGH*
In the end, she just sighed and went back to her place. She couldn't focus on her problems now. Hai's previous actions would always pop in her head whenever she tried to think of anything.
The next one to go was Elena.
"You sure you aren't a playboy?" Chang Hua asked Hai after observing his interaction with Bing Qing.
Hai didn't look at her and kept his gaze on Elena when he answered.
"I'm me." He commented and saw Elena doing a perfect swing.
The ball flew through the air and landed near Bing Qing's.
Elena went back to her place and let Hong Li-Wei go next.
Hong Li-Wei put the ball in place and entered in position.
She looked fixedly at the ball as if glaring at an enemy.
Truth to be told, Hong Li-Wei is the kind of person who just game all day and doesn't do sports very often.
Her only saving grace is that she is smart, so something like golf is manageable to her through some calculations.
After running some calculations about angle, force, distance and speed, Hong Li-Wei did her swing.
*SWOOOSH*
And missed.
"Pffft!!!" This time, the one who nearly laughed was none other than Stella.
Hong Li-Wei glared at Stella, but the later paid it no mind and kept (not really) trying to not laugh.
Hong Li-Wei felt a vein popping on her forehead, before turning back to do her swing again.
*SWOOOSH*
She did her swing and the golf ball flew through the air before bouncing on the ground and landing a few meters away from Kryn's.
Hong Li-Wei went back to her place, but not before giving another glare to Stella.
While Hong Li-Wei stayed in Hai's hideout, she had kind of made Stella like a slave who would bring snacks and give massages to her.
So, Stella ended developing a thing against Hong Li-Wei.
Talking about Stella, it was her turn now.
She graciously walked towards the designed area before crouching down a bit and putting the ball in place.
"Wha!?"
"She is a lost cause."
"She is doing it on purpose, isn't she?"
"Oho? Hai, you sure have the kinkier ones around you, huh?"
"You do know that this line also concerns you, right?"
"Hai? Dark?"
Stella belatedly realized her actions, but she was a bit calmer this time.
Although this is a simple golf game, Stella was wearing a short skirt, a shirt that barely covered her upper-boobs and nearly showed her nipples, while also wearing some black stockings.
So when she crouched down, her underwear was visible for all to see.
Although she was "strangely" right on Hai's line of sight when she crouched down.
The result was a myriad of reactions.
Bing Qing was flustered about how someone could be so shameless like that.
Elena simply concluded that Stella was too far gone to be considered the same Stella from before.
Hong Li-Wei felt another vein snapping on her forehead.
Chang Hua was amused at how Hai always had the more interesting and kinkier ladies around him as if it was a casual thing to pick them up.
Hai wasn't bothered with his aunt's remark and reminded her of her ambiguous words, thus making Chang Hua's smile freeze.
Kryn meanwhile was the only one clueless as Hai had swiftly covered her eyes. He can't let her be lead stray by that….. thing.
Although Stella was embarrassed by their reactions, in her mind, she could always say that it was unintentional, so she was relatively calm and at easy thinking that she could say she wasn't into that kind of thing.
The mind is sometimes a fantastic thing in eluding everyone in how it works.
Hai took his hand off Kryn's eyes after Stella stopped flaunted her new self and went back to watch her swing.
Stella did her swing in a normal manner.
That was what Hai thought for a split second before covering Kryn's eyes again.
When Stella did her swing, her mountains shook and her small shirt wasn't able to hold them so firmly, thus resulting in her nipples showing for a moment before they were covered again.
Stella finished her swing and watched as the ball went and landed near Bing Qing's and Elena's.
She nodded and went back to her place without paying any mind to Hong Li-Wei's weird gaze.
Hai turned towards his aunt who was going next and did what he has been waiting to do.
"Choose what we are going to bet." His words made Chang Hua flinch as her fear turned to be reality.
Chang Hua looked at him and saw his small smile, making her understand that he wasn't going to let her get away from it.
Sighing inwardly, she thought about what she could bet that wouldn't make her want to find a hole and bury herself in it.
After a few seconds, she thought about something which shouldn't give her that much embarrassment but was still good enough.
"How about I sleep in the same bed as you everyday if you win?" She purposed while putting the ball in place and slightly crouching down.
This made a scene where her huge ass was proudly displayed to Hai.
Hai looked at his aunt's negotiation tactic and felt amused by it.
"And if I lose?" Sadly for her, he wasn't affected by her tactics.
"I will return the shame you gave me in our first bet." She said while positioning herself.
She made a swing motion and was almost hitting the ball when she suddenly his words.
"And to think that my own aunt would want to see me nude. Such a shameless woman." Hai commented with a playful tone.
*SWOOSH*
His words made her hit the golf ball wrongly and sent it even more ahead of what she was intending to.
The ball bounced a few times on the ground before eventually landing ahead of Bing Qing's and Elena's.
She turned to look towards Hai and saw him smiling mischievously at her while covering Kryn's ears.
Chang Hua felt her eyebrows twitching and her mouth itched for her to say something.
"Tsk." In the end, she just limited herself to click her tongue. She knows that one of the most futile things in this world is to try to make a comeback from Hai's "jokes".
Looking at his aunt not responding to his words, Hai felt like a parent who watched how their child finally grew up. He nearly shed a tear watching it.
Hai took his hands off Kryn's ears and made his way towards the designed area.
He put the ball down and looked ahead.
Squinting his eyes, he looked carefully at the terrain.
Then, not even assuming a swinging position, he held the club in his right hand and leisurely swung it while saying: "Ball~!"
*SWOOSH*
The ball drew an arc into the air and beautifully collide against his aunt's, thus sending hers even more ahead and closer to the hole while his own was sent a bit back.
Hai smiled and nodded as if he just did a well-done job.
Then, he turned around and motioned the girls to move.
"Let's go~" He said while ignoring the glare his aunt was giving him.
'This is unexpectedly fun.' He thought while feeling that those moments aren't bad.
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