"Wow, I haven't eaten food in so long! It's so amazing!"
"I know, you should taste some of his other dishes. It's so delicious."
Vasari could hear his hard work being devoured at record-breaking speeds. Their mouths were like vacuums and their stomachs were an endless void. His heart bled, but he comforted himself with the fact that food was meant to be eaten.
"Vasari are you not going to eat?" Adele asked before stuffing another large piece of meat into her mouth.
"I've already eaten my fill, so don't worry about me and eat up." He said with a smile but the women were too engrossed in the food to notice.
After licking their plates squeaky clean, Joanna, Adele and Vasari made their way to the imposing mountain-sized castle, of course, Joanna first dressed herself in her pristine white dress. The reason they were going to the castle today was that everyone from the Church of Prasufis currently on the Planet should be arriving soon.
When they arrived at the entrance of the castle there were already over 200 members waiting and the number was steadily increasing.
Among these 200 members, Mason and his team were standing in the crowd. Even Adrian, who barely escaped death, was standing like an obedient puppy behind Allison.
When the members saw Joanna they all knelt on one knee and moved their hands to their chest to greet one of their Archbishops.
"Greetings Archbishop Joanna!"
Joanna raised her hand in acknowledgement causing everyone to get back to their feet. Behind her, Adele continued to ask Vasari random questions partially to quell her boredom and mainly to find out more about this young man who suddenly entered her master's life.
"Why do you wear that blindfold? Isn't it uncomfortable?"
"Uncomfortable? It's one of the only things I own that brings me comfort."
"What about your clothes? Surely you don't wear tracksuit pants and a shirt every day right…right?"
"Not every day but most days. I find it the best attire to fight in." Vasari chuckled after hearing her frustrated sigh. It was a sigh he was all too familiar with whenever Witney or Gia saw him wearing these clothes.
Even after buying some of the best clothes they could afford, Vasari still preferred cheap tracksuit pants and a plain white tee. However, he only wore good quality footwear now. Moving comfortably is important, so Vasari bought the best shoes he could. After spending most of his life barefoot or wearing self-made sandals, Vasari enjoyed the soft cushioning of the expensive shoes and sandals.
"Agh, honestly you men have no fashion sense. You can still look good while being comfortable you know?"
If Vasari could, he would be rolling his eyes. This was not the first, second, or even the third time that he heard similar words.
'Ai…why do women care so much about appearances? I will truly never understand.'
Vasari asked himself but the reason he couldn't understand them was simply because of his vision, or rather his lack thereof. Besides those fleeting few minutes when he can view the world he lives in, most of the time in a private space with barely any aesthetics or beauty, he lived his life in complete darkness.
Adele was not insensitive or oblivious to his circumstances, she understood the reason he cared so little about his appearance, and it was for this reason that she wanted to help him even if it was something small.
Their conversation was cut short when a tall skinny man wearing a simple white robe and a white kippah on his head approached Joanna.
"Archbishop Joanna, everyone is here."
"Thank you for your hard work Bishop Brishan."
"I'm just performing my duties, Archbishop Joanna. There is no need for thanks. As long as the Almighty Prasufis rewards me for my efforts at the end of my life, I will gladly do anything you ask."
Joanna nodded with a smile and turned her attention to the hundreds of people she ordered to gather.
"As you might know by now, this giant castle behind me is what I believe to be the tomb we have been looking for, however, it is inaccessible due to the amount of powerful formations protecting it. All the formation experts here are given the task of finding ways to disable these formations or at least weaken them. Everyone here is required to help out where they can. This task is of utmost importance and I won't accept anybody slacking around. Now get to work!"
Joanna ordered and without batting an eye, these devoted followers got to work. The Bishops under Joanna were given the role of team leaders to ensure that everything goes smoothly.
With her delegating all the hard work to the people under her command, Joanna returned to Vasari and Adele.
"I'm done here. Vasari, do you want to go home or stay here a little longer?" Joanna asked Vasari as a wife would to her husband whenever she starts to get bored at an event.
"We can leave. There's nothing for us to do here anyway. It would be best to let them do their jobs without their boss distracting them." Vasari's words made the milf duo chuckle. If anybody was going to be distracting these people it would definitely be Vasari.
"Alright, let's go. I'll tell Bishop Brishan to inform me if there's any progress." Joanna messaged Bishop Brishan spiritually before leaving with Vasari and Adele.
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"Are you sure you want to do this? I'm not going to go easy on you, you know."
"I'm sure. I haven't sparred in a while so I feel a bit rusty."
"Okay then, say whenever you're ready."
"I'm ready."
Vasari stood as still as a mountain in the middle of a small sparing platform inside Joanna's portable mansion which he only found out recently was an artefact and a very expensive one at that.
"Well, here I come."
Adele sped towards Vasari with a cheeky smile on her face. Joanna was relaxing on a large sun lounger next to the platform. She had dark-tinted sunglasses on and a sexy black two-piece bikini that hardly managed to cover her tantalising assets. She would never wear this out in public but since it was only Vasari and Adele, the woman she trusted the most, she decided to enjoy the warmth of the yellow sun shining down on Planet Voxotis.
She had fresh fruits and an expensive wine aged for over 5 000 years placed on a small wooden table next to her. She had all the necessities prepared to fully enjoy herself.
*domf*
She suppressed a giggle when she saw Vasari flying through the air and crashing ungracefully on the platform floor.
"Damn, that hurt," Vasari grumbled before getting back to his feet.
"Come on babe, you can do it!" Vasari heard Joanna cheer from the side, but it sounded like she was struggling to stop herself from busting into a fit of laughter. 'Well, at least she seems to be enjoying the show.'
This time Vasari charged at Adele who still had a cheeky smile on her face. He performed 'Tiger eating mountain and rivers' to increase his movement speed and add some unpredictability to his movements. However, even then he had no success, not even able to touch the clothes on Adele's body after 5 long minutes.
Adele was like a slippery snake, her hips rhythmically oscillating side to side while skilfully avoiding his strikes. It really wasn't a fair spar, Adele's cultivation was equivalent to an Inner Haven Elder and in her eyes, his movements looked like a snail. After teasing Vasari a little longer, she decided to properly spar with him.
4 hours later, they finished their sparring session with Vasari drenched in sweat while Adele looked like she went for a casual walk to the store. They walked towards Joanna who had eaten most of the fruits and drank half the wine in the bottle.
"Did you have fun, dear?" Joanna asked Vasari who walked towards her wobbling steps.
"So tired. Adele is such a bully." Vasari muttered and fell face-first onto Joanna with his face landing perfectly in her cleavage. Joanna gigged before gently stroking and patting his head.
"Should we punish Adele for bullying my baby?"
"Hmm hmm." Vasari nodded while humming. This was Joanna's first time seeing this side of Vasari. The side of him wanting to be pampered after getting injured or exhausted after fighting. He developed this habit after Nana use to pamper and spoil him after their intense training sessions.
Seeing this side of him, Joanna remembered that he was still a young man not even 17 years of age yet. His confidence and maturity were not something a young man like him should possess and it gave the illusion that he was older than he was.
'So cute~' Joanna thought with an infatuated glint in her eyes. She then sent him a message spiritually, *Rest for now. We will get revenge later.*
Vasari hummed again and snuggled his face deeper between her succulent breasts before falling asleep.
"You really roughed him up. Enjoy yourself?"
"Teehee. it was really fun. His body is way too sturdy for a Supreme Qi stage cultivator and his strikes were something else." Adele hopped over to Joanna and sat down next to her. She stuffed some fruit into her mouth and poured herself a glass of wine.
"Trust me I know what you mean…"
"…" The playful and cheery air around Adele suddenly turned serious. She looked at Joanna with a solemn expression before glancing briefly at Vasari.
"Jo…I know you know."
"I do." Joanna nodded without taking her eyes off Vasari.
"Then why aren't you killing him or at least detaining him? He is a threat to our operation that we spent so much resources as well as time on and he already knows too much. Don't tell me you actually fell for the spy. This is probably what that ugly old codger planned."
"Just because he is from the Cloud Haven Sect doesn't mean he is our enemy. He hasn't shown any sort of malicious intent towards me or any other member of the church. Even when you were thrashing him around, he never once held any animosity towards you. And besides, we already found the tomb, so even if he reports the information to Cloud Haven, by the time they arrive here we will already be long gone."
"…"
Adele stared at Joanna for a long, long time before releasing a lengthy, emotion-filled sigh. She just wanted her best friend who was also her master, to be happy. She didn't want this young man to end up breaking her friend's already shattered heart.
"Fine, I'll trust you."
"Good girl. Come, why don't you rest too." Joanna had a sly smile which made Adele shiver, but she couldn't disobey her master, so she obediently laid her body down next to Joanna's and rested her head on Joanna's shoulder.
With one hand stroking Vasari's black hair and the other stroking Adele's blonde hair, Joanna smiled in satisfaction while being cuddled by the 2 people she loved more than her own children. Adele was like the daughter she never had and Vasari was the man who mended her broken heart.