When Mikoto left, I heard someone approag me. It was Tiona, Ais, and Tione. "What happened? Why did you suddenly run off? Who was that?" Tiona asked.

  "She's a friend. I was supposed to train with her today, but she lost i and decided to leave."

  "I see. Did we have something to do with it?"

  "No, of course not. So, what did you all want to talk about? I ran off and I didn't hear anything."

  "It's nothing, we just wao say hi," Ais replied with a smile. "I also wao talk to you about something. Tiona, Tione, could you give us a moment alone?"

  "Hmmm..." Tiona looked between Ais ahen turo leave. "e on, Tione."

  "..." Tione smiled at me, and the two walked away.

  Once we were alone, Ais's face turned red as she gathered the ce to speak.

  "Do you want to talk about our dinner?"

  Ais looked at me, surprised, and smiled. "Yes, that's it. I wao ask if you'd like to go out for dionight. I don't have any pns for the evening, so… I was going to stop by your pce, but I ended up meeting you here."

  "A dionight?" I'd po ask Hestia to update my falna today… but I leave that for another day. "Sure, I'm free tonight."

  "That's great."

  "Ais."

  "Yes?" Ais tilted her head.

  "You don't o be so embarrassed around me."

  "I'm not embarrassed… just a little nervous," Ais said, looking away. "I'll go now; see you tonight. Oh, and don't worry about the Goddess... she's not mad at you."

  "Did you talk to Goddess Loki about me after I left?"

  "She came to talk to me. She told me some strahings, but don't worry, she's not mad. Actually, she said she wants to see you again. We could arrange another dinner if you'd like."

  "Another di the Loki Familia house? Of course, I'd love to. It would be great to see the Goddess again."

  "That's great. I'll let her know."

  "Good lu the dungeon. I thought you would ask me to e along with you all again."

  "Would you like to e? I'm sure Tiona and Tione wouldn't mind."

  "Are you sure?"

  "Yes. Bete isn't well enough to join us, so it's just us girls. I just hope nothing like st time happens."

  "I'm sure it'll be fine. Since I don't have anything else to do, I might as well e along. Plus, I o test my new sword." I took my new sword from my iory.

  "The bde is lohan your old on."

  "Yes, it's better for killing ord rger monsters. If I'd had a on like this before, I'd have taken them down much faster."

  "Shall we go, then? Tiona and Tione are getting impatient."

  "Right."

  Together with the girls, I headed to the dungeon once again.

  To my surprise, I received a new mission as soon as I stepped onto the first floor of the dungeon.

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  *Tione's POV*

  We ehe dungeon with Luan again. For some reason, I felt like something was off with him. He started looking at me in a way he never had before.

  Tiona and Ais didn't seem to notice.

  It was a look of pure desire focused solely on me.

  'What the heck? Is he ied in me? I thought he liked Ais.'

  I'd known him for some time but only retly started seeing him in a positive light. The way he worked hard to help us defeat all those monsters, his for me, Tiona, and Ais...

  He's a good guy.

  'But I 't let myself get carried away. I respect him, and I find him very handsome and charming, especially now that his hair has grown longer. But Ais likes him.'

  I 't give Luan false hope. I have to tell him directly that I'm not ied and that nothing will ever happeween us.

  But even after two whole hours, he didn't make a move. We kept moving through the dungeon as usual. Luan was focused on killing monsters, pletely ign me.

  Was it just my imagination?

  After a few more minutes, we took a break.

  We were almost oh floor, so it was the perfect time to rest.

  Luan took some water and food out of his iory and ate with Ais and Tiona. I stayed a bit further back, watg the three of them. Luan was looking at them affeately… but not in the same way he'd looked at me when we first ehe dungeon.

  'I must be imagining things. Luan wouldn't desire me like that.'

  But to my surprise, Luahe other two and came over to me.

  "ing anything?"

  "I'm not hungry."

  "I see." He moved closer until our shoulders touched. "Tell me, Tione. Are you ied in anyone?"

  When I heard Luan's question, my mi bnk.

  Was I ied in someone? Anyone... Am I ied in someone?

  For some reason, whenever I thought about someone, Luan was the only person who came to mind.

  I felt my body starting to heat up. Luan's eyes were locked on mine.

  I began to feel a bit... 'What is this?'

  Luan stepped bad smiled.

  "Excuse me, may I take Tioh me for a moment? I o talk to her about something."

  "Hm? With Tioiona tilted her head, fused.

  Ais was fused but didn't say anything.

  "We'll be ba a moment."

  Luan came over and took my hand. her of them even seemed to worry about me.

  I breathed fast as he pulled me away from Tiona and Ais.

  'Help… I don't think I hold back this feeling.'

  My libido reached its peak all of a sudden.

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