Chapter 12: Zyra's Dangerous Little Secret?
The only reason Arthur doesn't spend his money on himself is that he gives it all to his so-called friends, who trick him out of his money every month by saying they have a family living outside and want to send them money.
And the previous Arthur, thinking how good his friends are, gives them all his money because he knows that some men do send money to their families. Having grown up in an orphanage and always wanting a family, he thinks he's helping someone's family, so he gives them all his money, as he doesn't even need it much.
Only God knows what their reaction would be if they found out about this. Or they might never find out, considering that the previous Arthur has already died and no one knows what the Arthur from Earth would do to them.
Zyra has laid Arthur down on his comfortable bed, but she has no intention of leaving, as there are only 14 minutes left for him to wake up, according to what the Warden mentioned earlier.
So she quietly brings a chair beside his bed, leisurely sits on it, and starts gazing at his handsome face, lost in her own thoughts while waiting for him to wake up.
Liora was also not going to leave after getting this only chance to enter without seeing him wake up again, but seeing how her friend took the only chair inside the room and took the position closest to his face, she was even more annoyed than when she got her involved in the fight earlier.
"Hmph! Hmph!"
She hmphed twice to show how offended she is by her actions.
'I would rather look at Arthur's face than this smartass who is annoying me so much today!'
So she stands next to her to get the next closest space, and standing for hours is nothing for a physically strong elf like her. Still, it displeased her to know she got a more romantic pose than her.
Time passed quickly as both of them were lost in their own fantasies about Arthur while looking at him sleeping peacefully.
Arthur's body began to move a little, and a slightly groggy sound escaped his mouth while he was still asleep.
"Umh… uhm..."
Both of them started fixing their hair, wanting to look their best when he woke up.
Arthur's eyebrows fluttered as he struggled to open them. It felt to him as though he was in a deep sleep, and even his mind felt heavy for some reason. However, after a little struggle, his majestic purple eyes opened.
He felt confused, as he remembered losing consciousness inside the mine after eating the green stone that gave him the feeling of a great treasure he could sell for billions.
'Why does the floor feel so soft? It feels like I'm on a bed,' he thought, wondering if all of this was just a dream and he was just waking up to go to the brothel today.
'No, the bed feels too luxurious to be mine; my bed is cheap, and even my body feels different, which means I'm not dreaming and everything is real. But who brought me here, and what happened to the pain I was feeling in my head?'
He started looking around, and just as he turned his head, he saw a beautiful black-haired woman looking at him intently. The first thought that came to his mind in surprise was unexpected.
'Have I been caught stealing the precious gem? No! I shouldn't be on this comfortable bed if that had happened.'
Liora and Zyra noticed his every reaction intently, as it was very rare for Arthur to show this much emotion. He was usually aloof, didn't talk to people much, and only did his own things.
So they tried to capture every moment of his reaction in their minds as he looked even cuter when he showed more emotion.
First, he tried to sit up in bed before asking how he got there, as he considered it rude to talk while lying down. However, halfway through sitting up, he started to fall forward, as he suddenly felt weaker than he was when he got into this body.
'Argh! This is going to be embarrassing—falling on my face in front of two beautiful elves.' He had noticed the other one when he tried to sit, so he closed his eyes as he fell to feel less embarrassed.
However, he didn't feel his face hitting the ground at all, as he felt two strong yet slender hands catching him. He opened his eyes to see that the elf closest to him had caught him.
Until now, he had tried to stay calm in front of these beautiful elves, telling himself that they were just customers who came to shop and nothing more. This was the only thing that kept him calm in the presence of such beautiful elves, who were many times more beautiful than the women he had seen on his previous Earth.
But being caught by such a beautiful lady in her arms, he felt embarrassed by being caught in such an embarrassing position.
However, he suddenly remembered how this world had reverse morality, meaning women were naturally stronger than men, they were the ones who chased after men, and men usually behaved like shy, delicate beings, protecting their chastity for the ones they loved.
His embarrassment lessened quite a bit; however, the blush on his face couldn't be hidden, as he had never been this close to a woman before, especially one as beautiful as her, which made it even harder for him to control his emotions.
He was about to ask her to lay him down, as he still felt weaker than before and didn't think he could control his emotions while in her arms, but before he could say anything, he heard the voice of the other elf beside her.
"Zyra lay him down on the bed. How long are you going to hold Arthur in your arms? Let him rest; he is tired."
Arthur didn't feel anything wrong with her words and thanked the other elf in his mind. However, if he could see the amount of mana leaking from her body, ready to cast an attack spell, he would know the situation was not as calm as it appeared to be.
Zyra only smiled a little after hearing her friend's words and carefully laid Arthur back on the bed. But behind her smile, she was cursing her friend who ruined her romantic moment, as she still remembered his blushing face in her mind.
'My Arthur, so handsome and cute,' she thought. She had already confirmed her relationship with him after seeing him blush in her arms.
However, she once again heard her friend's words in her ears.
"Zyra, your nose is bleeding. What happened—are you sick or something?"
She quickly touched her nose to see there was a little blood, but she shamelessly wiped it using her magic and said calmly.
"That nothing I feel a little weak after everything that has happened today which must be the reason I have a little bleeding."