Chapter 113 - Benefits of Harem (1/2)
”No kidding...”
Toph muttered, her voice remained bemused as she finally focused on the leg piece in her hands without giving a single thought of the people present in the room while eating loudly.
”Oh, this is tasty!! What is it?!”
Toph immediately started nudging June, who whispered the name of the dish without any apparent irritation on her face, quite the opposite of cold look in Azula's eyes.
”Who's this barbarian?”
She pointed at Toph without concealing her disgust while Mai stood beside her with a calm look.
Right now, the group... Nik's partners, Sokka, Nina and Nik himself sat within the largest room present in Dragon's Whiskers Inn.
”Is she talking about me or Sokka?”
Toph immediately asked with her face stuffed with food, making Nik smile unconsciously while June sighed.
”She is—”
”Aren't you a smart one for a barbarian, Kid? I am talking about you.”
Azula cut June short before snickering arrogantly.
”Hey, that's not a nice thing to say.”
Katara immediately frowned while Karna and Yue shrugged. Honestly, they both couldn't care much about the disposition of women Nik slept with. They were somewhat accustomed now. In fact, they both felt unfortunate that they weren't alone in this situation like June, Toph or Katara.
”See, Sis! I told you Azula is interesting!”
Pavāka grinned while Virya nodded as impassively she has ever been.
”Arrogance with a hint of madness... though common, this Azula has kept herself quite restrained.”
Virya looked at Azula with her wide silver eyes as Azula kept looking at Toph, who seemed to have no effect from her insults.
”Hey, I told you—”
”Yeah, yeah! Barbarian, right? I get that a lot! So? What should I do?
If ya' got no solutions then bite me, princess!”
Toph snorted while Azula's frown deepened.
”You are lucky that Nik took you—”
”Woah! I gotta stop you right there!” Toph grinned once again as she dangled the piece of meat from her hand before grinning.
”Let's not start the discussion surrounding Nik, alright? We know how good he is, emotionally and physically, so I don't care for yer preachin'!
But get this one thing straight, even if Nik wasn't here, I could still wipe the floor with you!
Understood? Little Princes?”
The room fell dead silent, even June turned her head to hide her smirk while slow, and mind-numbing crackles of lightning emerged from Azula's body, her golden pupils hid a furious storm, and yet, before she could explode, she took a deep breath. The surge of lightning slowly receded while Nik and Pavāka had a look of interest, surprise, even.
”See?”
Pavāka grinned at Virya, who also had a bright expression on her face.
”She is certainly more interesting than the rest of the Fire Losers...”
Virya whispered.
”Whatever!” Azula finally heaved a deep sigh before looking at Nik.
”It may not look like much, but I... I am trying.”
She whispered while lowering her eyes.
”Woah...”
Everyone in the room, except Mai and Toph whispered simultaneously.
”Alright, then! Let's get to the main topic!”
Nik smiled as he clapped his hand, almost instantly, Sokka and Nina lost their consciousness, slumping onto the soft mattress.
”There's something I will be explaining to you guys now.”
Nik smiled lightly as he opened up.
”You guys have less than 5 days to live in this world.”
***
Nujia City, Docks.
”General, the destroyer is ready to sail!”
A fire soldier saluted in front of Iroh, who simply nodded while looking at the contents of the letter in his hand.
'Azula... writing such a letter. There are only two things that can happen.'
Iroh rubbed his eyes while heaving a sigh filled with regrets. He felt worthless whenever it came to Azula.
From their childhood, he had been focusing on Zuko because of his talented sister, but never in his life did he imagine that the talented sister needed more attention than Zuko himself.
While he severely wanted to chide Ursula, their mother, he also realised that he wasn't also entirely right about the situation.