Upon taking land, and hiding the boat somewhere behind a Rocky place, Leonard and Cattleya set off to explore the island.
Following the direction of the compass, they traverse the thick jungle, the chirping of crickets, sounds animals make, and the bugs constantly bite at Leonard's neck.
Slap
"Tsk! Annoying!" Not only that, he also felt frustrated at the refusal he made earlier, he would've like it and probably not regret it, but that's just a probable unknown outcome.
The silence between them was nerve wracking, Leonard can't help but feel his heart for rejecting someone like Cattleya.
(You idiot, did you seriously reject a beauty such as that?!) The old man inside Leonard shouted.
(Shut up, Old Man, I mean, it's not that I don't like her or that I hate her, but doing it with someone who would go around and sleep with anybody else, I at least wanted to keep my dignity.)
(Dignity my ass, sex is sex, just fuck for pleasure, dignity isn't gonna give you pleasure, dumbass!) His words and tone was rather more aggressive this time.
(Whatever, Old Man, just leave me alone will you.) Leonard sigh.
While continuing their walk, with Cattleya personally taking the front as she's the stronger of the two, her clothing couldn't help but be somehow tangled up between the branches and plants around them.
Leonard along the way, helped her untangled her clothes that were stuck in between, out of nowhere, while doing so, their eyes met accidentally, they took a good 10 seconds before moving their gaze away, and blushing at the sight of each other.
"Wo- wow, this jungle is really full of vegetation, the weather is also nice, huh? Let me lead the way this time." Making some light comments, he then proceed forward and took charge head on.
"O- okay." Cattleya cast her eyes down, her cheeks blushing red, while holding her skirt and the compass.
(Wha- what is this?! Why couldn't I look at him in the eye, this never happened before, wait, why am I blushing?) She shook her head before following Leonard, as if to shake away her worries.
(Don't tell me, this is, is this what they call love?) Such a wide jump of a conclusion as she clap her cheeks with both of her hand.
They then continued to walk for a good 10 minutes before facing a mountainous hill.
Cattleya then hide away the compass.
"We're here."
"... Eh?" Leonard was momentarily confused.
Judging by what they're seeing, this place, there's not a single trace of what they're intending to find.
There's a clear lack of people or established place of importance like a secret base, so how could the compass powered by divination from a sequence 4 simply point here and there.
"If what we're lead to is correct, I can assume that there must be a powerful anti tracking or anti divination set up upon this place which prevents even my Mystic eyes from seeing it, even with my status, although I can push it, there's the danger of encountering something I shouldn't probably sit myself in." Cattleya made a deduction before Leonard tried to his own.
"If what you're saying is true, then." Closing his eyes, he then search for spirits surrounding the area, and commands a few of them to search around the area.
"Hmm...? The spirits are, disappearing?" Leonard felt the spirits he could command leave the area as if they're scared of something.
"Then that means we're really in the right place, if something was scaring the spirits away, there must be someone working on it." With that in mind, they could deduce on a level that whatever is here must be a powerful one, capable of driving away the spirits, a sequence 4, perhaps.
"Then, let me also do something." Cattleya then took out a rag from her pouch, which contains a handful of power before spreading it all out in front of her.
The powder spread in all directions guided by the wind casted by Cattleya burning every single one disappear.
Nothing happened.
"How handful." Feeling irritated, they took some rest by the nearby trees while having a light snack.
While also eating, Cattleya is trying to come up with something by fiddling with her compass.
Leonard glanced at her and couldn't help but admire her beauty for a moment due to the peace and serenity the vegetation of the place brings, allowing his mind to wander elsewhere, subsiding his worries.
(Pretty, oops!) Noticing Cattleya turning her head towards him, Leonard immediately casted his gaze away and continued eating.
Cattleya noticed this and a devious smile suddenly emerged from her mouth as new thoughts ran through her head.
She stood up and approached his seat.
Sitting on a trunk, Cattleya sat on the end right side, Leonard was in the middle.
Leonard felt embarrassed, before moving a little to the left.
Thud
But before he could even, Cattleya immediately hop on her butt to lessen the distance between them.
"Hey, want to use my mouth again?" Cattleya with her eye of Mystery Prying could totally see all the emotions surging in him, embarrassment, shyness, everything you could think of right now.
"Oh- uh... Umm..." Leonard tried to ignore her and continue eating, before suddenly.
Smooch
Leonard felt his lips bumping into another, the soft squishy feeling overtook his sanity for a moment before falling on his back.
Cattleya once again rode on top of Leonard.
"Hey, why won't you fuck me, am I not beautiful?" But this time, instead of her eyes full of desire and list, her demeanor now carry a sense of pressure and heaviness.
Leonard was totally taken aback as he never saw this side of her, well, they did only currently spend a few days on the ship, with very little interaction in the tarot club.
"... Can I be honest and promise you won't get angry?" He tried to find word of courage before meeting her gaze head on.
"... Sure." She pause but for a moment as if trying to comprehend his words.
"To be honest, I would've totally fuck you already right now, my body keeps saying yes, but my mind says no."
"Why is that?"
"Well, I guess it's just a turn off for me to sleep with someone who also let herself be with anyone, sorry."
Cattleya felt her pride slowly, slowly, slowly sunken down as she tried to understand his words with levels and layers of denial until it reach rock bottom.
"Oh." Cattleya could totally understand what he's saying, but hearing it head on, especially with someone she suddenly took a liking to, that's rough, buddy.
"But also, I guess I maybe a little delusional my age, but I also wanted my first time to be with also a first timer, hehe." People would usually berate you for thinking in such a way for nowadays, sleeping with someone has such become a norm, that not doing it would get you shamed upon, but in truth, they're just a bunch of losers projecting their insecurities.
You could sleep with a hundred person and felt so much pleasure, you drown in it, but a person who made love with another who likes them back, they could feel something the other party won't, you could call it love, whatever, but simply true affection rather than temporary pleasure is infinitely times better than what it could offer.
Of course, some people are totally not like that, but what sets them apart are those who mock others and those who respect their wishes.
(What a troublesome kid.) Pallez couldn't help but sigh.
Cattleya turned her head upward, she could feel a small light tear escaping down her eyes, streaming across her cheek.
"Hey, Miss Hermit!" Leonard saw this and immediately acted upon it, feeling guilty.
Cattleya feel an emotion from the past surging back to her now, she couldn't help it, but simply let it be.
"Thank you Mr Star, I think i needed to clear my head a little." She stood up, before walking away.
Unable to follow her back, Leonard simply stood by the side.
Cattleya alone, somehow feel ashamed of herself.
(I'm so pathetic, forcing a man who don't want to.) Mumbling to herself, Cattleya wondered what it feels like to be truly loved.
Although she's a person who respected other boundaries and not the kind who mock others for their generosity, she still felt an unbelievable amount of guilt well up inside of her.
In the past, she used to date a man, but one day, that man cheated on her with another woman, and left her alone.
Such a cliche story of heartbreak.
Cattleya, unable to take the pain, she used sex as a coping mechanism to wash away the pain, but no matter what, it never did truly, and that feeling of affection she used to have resurfaced once again, but from another man.
"Damn it." Cattleya puckered her lips, and decided to go back to Leonard.
But as she got back, she saw him gone, wondering.
Her senses rang at an alarming rate, she dashed to the mountain, and found nothing.
"Mr Star, where are you."
—
It was a very brightly lit place with lanterns all over the place, not allowing light to shine in, the tapping of water droplets from the ceiling resounded in the cave and continued every 10 seconds.
Opening his eye, Leonard saw in total darkness due to his pathway, a whole bunch of other people in shackles, a lot of them.
(Slaves!)
He tried to move, but his limbs we're also restrained.
(Huh, where is this?! Where am I? Miss Hermit?! Where is she?!) Leonard feel a rise of fear and emergency within him, as he tried to look around, and there he saw, a Tall Man, accompanied by another woman.
Casually approaching him, the Tall Man then kick Leonard's stomach.
He tried to use his powers, but the shackles seems to have put a great restrain upon him.
(Crap, how did I ended up here?)
—
Just after Cattleya left, and Leonard was left alone.
Sitting on the trunk, a towering figure emerged from behind him, and Leonard immediately dashed away so fast, but just as he did, another figure, a female one.
He tried to attack, but the female figure flicked her wrist, and he was suddenly left powerless, his thoughts and subsequent actions stolen.
And the Tall Man approached him at such a ridiculous speed, Leonard's face meet a punch head on which knocked Leonard out cold.
—
Leonard now could feel his face bruised, like his nose is broken and signs of dried up blood leaving.
He then glared at the tall man while eyeing the slaves.
"Let me guess, the Church send you?"
"Who else?" He didn't deny because there's no reason to.
"Huh, what a bunch of fools, as if they could catch me."
(Such confidence, does he think the Church is that powerless, or maybe, someone is backing him up?)
"Your guess is correct." The female figure behind the Tall Man spoke, Leonard thoughts was suddenly gone, again.
(What- Is happening?)
"Hey!"
"Don't worry, he's gonna die anyway, we just need to extract some valuable information, but what a pain, why did it have to be someone from the from your pathway."
(Heh, don't underestimate us, as if you could steal information from my dream, my very own domain.)
Having tried again and again, the female couldn't crack her way through his mind, especially when he was knocked out, forcing his entire psyche down, not allowing her way through no matter what.
"But now that's he's awake, I guess the barrier won't be that tough anymore, let's see." She flicked her wrist again.
The Female one then flicked her wrist again.
"Hmm?" She was montetarily surprised for a moment, then turned her head towards the tall man.
"He got a companion- a Demigod."
"Tsk!" The Tall Man tsked in anger.
"Well, no matter, we deal with that, whoever that is later, so let's continue." Stepping towards Leonard once again, he threw another kick to his abdomen.
Leonard cough his spit out, his body keep getting beaten up and down, his thoughts keeps disappearing, as a counter measure he made sure to forcefully think of nothing else, but it was useless.
"... Well, well, look who it is." The Female spoke.
"What is it?" The Tall Man turned towards his companion.
"It's Admiral of Stars, his companion."
"Oh..." His tone went from menacing to suddenly carrying a sense of smugness, he turned to look at Leonard once again, slapping his face which made his face deep root red.
"Hey, why is Admiral of Stars here?"
Trembling at the excruciating pain, he spit at the face of Tall Man.
"Like hell I would know." Leonard bark back before getting his face slammed and rammed through the ground.
Slam
The Tall Man making sure to get his anger out, kick and pummeled Leonard's face stuck to the ground.
"I ask you again, why is Cattleya here?" His tone carrying a level of unperturbed smugness and cockiness, said her name familiary, which alarmed Leonard.
"Ki- kill me..." Leonard felt defeated and unable to do anything.
"Urgh..." The Tall Man raise his foot intending to end it all.
"Wait, we're still not done yet." Yet the Tall Man didn't stop.
(Crap, is this how I die, what a pathetic waste of time, I haven't even get to sleep with a woman yet, although her mouth was nice, I would've really like it if we have gone all the way, fuck, whatever.) Leonard felt some regret, but tried not to take all the negativity with him.
(Klein, I hope you remember me, your best friend, sorry, Miss Hermit, for wasting your time, Old Man- wait, Old Man!) Leonard suddenly remembered the Old Man inside of him.
(You're such a fool, I was hoping you would do something, but the fact you gave up already, well, these guys are pretty ruthless, so it can't be helped.)
The Tall Man's foot inches away from his squashing his head.
Boom
The whole scenery erupted in a fairy manner as large vast flames covered Leonard, the Tall Man and his Female Companion stepped away from him, and Leonard could feel bits and pieces of health coming, albeit just a little.
(Hey, Old Man, at least heal me fully, crap, my body!) Leonard felt his face totally bruised up and jokingly made a remark, thanking Pallez in an ironic manner.
The Tall Man abruptly stood in his tracks steadily as he felt his spirituality ringing at an alarming rate.
—
"The Fool that doesn't belong In this era"
"The Mysterious Ruler above the gray fog"
"The King in Yellow and Black who weilds good luck."
"I ask for your blessings and powers"
"Please, locate Leonard Mitchell, my companion"
The sky turned dark as powerful lightning charges up at a specific point in the sky before striking down the mountain.
BOOM
The mountain explode into countless pieces, countless rubbles flew by everywhere in various directions.
The Fool atop the world above the gray fog observed the surroundings and made a deduction as to what was happening.
(So that was it huh.) Picking up the Black Emperor Card, he flew across vast distances and suppress a sealed artifact hidden somewhere in the mountain that prevents entry to the place unless one made specific sets of actions to enter the place.
Leaving as the sealed artifact was broken and nullified due to his black emperor pathway capabilities, i don't know if they can do that, so let's leave it at that.
Cattleya took charge upon entering the hole.
Her figure was majestic as she flew by whilst her cloth seamlessly float around, looking upon the slaves nearby, Leonard in a corner, the Tall Man, and the female figure.
nting to coco