Chapter 43 - Stay the Night on Fiftieth Floor (1/2)

A few hours had passed since Rio and Liselotte found and unsealed Aletia and listened to Aletia's uncle's—Denreed—recording. Afterward, they decided to leave the sealing room. Mostly, it was for Aletia's sake. They didn't immediately dive further into the depth. They decided to take a break in a cave Rio created by digging the wall.

When they stayed in that small cave, which was furnished with simple furniture like a soft rug, pillows, blankets, air conditioner artifact, and a lighting artifact, they had some talks. The topics were within the scope of important things such as their respective pasts; Aletia started first by telling her past before she was sealed; next, Rio explained a bit about his background.

It was also when Rio told Liselotte and Aletia about his secret. That he was different from the summoned heroes because he'd died. That he obtained two cheats as compensations from God's mistakes. However, he didn't tell them that their world was known as a fictional story. Rio had made up his mind to keep this knowledge to his grave if he could even die.

Well, with his unlimited mana and Auto-Regeneration skill, there was a high probability that Rio had become immortal.

While they had their talks, Liselotte also discovered that Aletia was older than 300 years old. When she discovered that, she had a complicated expression before disregarding it, saying that despite Aletia's far older than her, she was still the senior one between the two.

Aletia just gazed blankly at Liselotte, but her eyes were glimmering with amus.e.m.e.nt. It seems as if she was indulging Liselotte's delusion. Meanwhile, Rio found the synergy between the two was amusing. It made you question who's elder and who's younger between the two.

Anyhow…

When Liselotte and Aletia heard about Rio's secret, they were dumbfounded. Their reaction was normal. After all, Rio was basically the strongest in Tortus. There was even a possibility that he was even stronger than Ehit, God that was worshiped by 90% of humans in Tortus.

Afterward, they shifted into a lighter topic. Mostly about their likes and dislikes, personal preference, or something along that line. They restarted another heavy topic when Aletia unintentionally brought the topic of Seven Liberators who built the seven Great Labyrinths. However, Aletia told Rio and Liselotte about the twisted version that explained how the Seven Liberators were rebels, which were called The Mavericks.

However, Aletia commented on how it was probably incorrect since she and Liselotte had discovered that Ehit wasn't a benevolent and righteous God everyone believed from her late uncle's recording. At this point, Rio withheld what he knew about the Liberators. After all, these girls would know about this details later, after they conquered this labyrinth. However, Rio told them about Ehit's true plot for him and Kouko. How Ehit was actually aiming for Kouki Amanogawa's body in the beginning, and later, his after the Magic Gun artifact's demonstration.

When Aletia and Liselotte heard that, they became worried for his sake. It made Rio feel good. He was happy because his girls were worried about his well being despite they didn't need to. After convincing them that he would be safe from Ehit's plot, they changed into the lighter topic until they fell asleep due to exhaustion.

Both Liselotte and Aletia snuggled closely into Rio when they asleep. While the two girls had been sound asleep, Rio was fully awake all the time. He was actually feeling restless. He realized that he'd been spoiled so much by Liselotte each night when he stayed at Heiligh Palace.

In that place, since he and Liselotte became an official couple in secret, she would indulge Rio's hotblooded d.e.s.i.r.e every night. It'd become a habit before Rio realized it. He felt something was missing when he couldn't be able to do his nightly e.r.o.t.i.c activity with Liselotte.

Unfortunately, Rio couldn't ask Liselotte to indulge him when Aletia was always around them since they left the sealing chamber. Though Aletia was the oldest amongst them, Rio and Liselotte were subconsciously treating her as a little girl due to her childlike appearance and what happened after Denreed's recording ended. It was hard to see her as an a.d.u.l.t after witnessing the scene of Aletia's bawling out her sorrow and gratitude for her deceased uncle like a child who lost her parents.

Rio opened his mouth and was about to respond but stopped at the last moment because he remembered Aletia. He immediately created Telepathy skill and connected with Liselotte to have a silent, telepathic conversation.

[Yeah. I can't sleep. And for your information, I'm replying using a new skill I created. Telepathy. Just think something you want me to hear and I will hear it.]

Liselotte was dumbfounded when she heard Rio's voice inside her head but quickly recovered her calm after listening to Rio's explanation. [Like this?] She replied through their newfound telepathic connection.