CHAPTER 154: HUG SANDWICH IN-BETWEEN HER FIRST WIVES!

"Mel... don’t just stand there..."

Lila pouted, her cheek practically burrowing into the wooden door. "That Saintess was hiding something by leaving you with me for one second. She’s too suspicious!"

From today, Lila could tell how obsessive and controlling Maria was to Mel.

Leaving her alone with Mel? Suspicious!

"Lila..." Mel chuckled tiredly. "I did put a Silence barrier for Maria downstairs so you won’t hear anything."

"Oh, that makes sense now... wait."

Lila snapped her gaze before locking on Mel’s mischievous look. "Why?"

"Hm..."

Mel’s lips curled up before she winked. "Secret. So I can seduce Maria a little... more?"

"That’s-"

Lila shut herself, frustration pulping as her cheeks bloated.

Standing up, she squeezed Mel’s cheeks. "Don’t think I didn’t know you were respecting her privacy and all that."

"Mm... sorry, my Lila..."

"Mel."

With a scowl, Lila leaned in and embraced Mel tightly.

Peeking up from Mel’s chest, she groaned.

"I know what you’re doing. Respecting others’ secrets until they can tell them is great, and I also felt a great sense of comfort because of it."

Then, Lila’s cheeks puffed up again. "But you should reserve that privilege for me alone. Be more shameless towards others..."

"Hehe..." Mel patted Lila. "I am shameless, Lila. But some secrets need time to spill themselves before we can forcefully dig them out."

Especially when Mel couldn’t budge Maria, both in tongue or bed.

Uh, literally.

Coughing twice, a faint blush flashed across Mel’s cheeks before the door creaked open.

"Oh."

Closing the door behind her, Maria’s (still in disguise) brows perked up as she sniffed around the room.

"Ah." She hid a smirk behind her palm. "Refreshing."

Lila’s cheeks flushed at the remark, her arms locking onto Mel’s waist as she squinted at ’Aria’.

Or as she confirmed to herself, Maria.

"What were you talking about earlier?"

She burrowed herself into Mel’s chest, locking a glare at Maria as if flaunting Mel as a trophy.

"Nothing much."

Maria tilted her head as a jealous chuckle slipped out of her.

Her fingers danced in the air; a divine barrier veiled the room as she began to step near the portal.

Mel blinked at the orange-tinted magic coating the walls before fading without a trace.

A Silence barrier, similar to Mel’s.

"I have simply talked with an old colleague, now turned enemy of mankind."

Maria shrugged as she walked past Lila, then turned to face Mel’s smooth back.

She licked her lips; the summer violet dress clung loosely to Mel’s back, an innocence wrapping a sweet figure.

"Ah..."

Maria sighed as she hugged Mel from behind, her chest sliding up Mel’s skin as her arms encircled Mel’s neck.

A muffled moan escaped Mel’s lips; the sensation of Lila’s head in her chest, and Maria’s body melting into her back, too much to handle.

With a comforted mewl, Maria settled her cheek onto Mel’s shoulder. "I miss this too much... I wonder if I should strap you to the bed all day sometimes..."

"Mm... Partner..."

Mel shuffled amid the hug-sandwich, her eyes threatening to water with pleasure.

Every slight tilt of Maria and Lila’s bodies against her own? So unbearable that she wanted to push them all to bed now!

"So who was the enemy you were speaking of?"

"Oh? It was just the former Pope, no worries."

Lila gasped as she shot her head up. "Former Pope?!"

She stared into Maria’s eyes, questioning the authenticity.

"Former Pope, yes."

Maria closed her eyes in contrast, unbothered as she buried into Mel’s scent.

"He rarely made a public appearance, so those from the countryside like you wouldn’t know what he looked like."

Mel, too, shook a little.

The information about the Former Pope in-game was skewed, as most perspectives revolved around Calina instead of the Saintess and her Past.

Maria smiled solemnly, guessing Mel’s little shock.

How much more surprised could Mel be? If she suddenly knew the Pope was once Maria’s father?

With Lila here, Maria decided to discuss the Pope’s matter privately.

Shifting her head slightly, Maria nipped Mel’s exposed shoulder, cleaning Lila’s hickey with her own.

"Though I do always assume he possessed a perception-block magic. That sly old fox never revealed his cards to me once..."

"Oh?" Mel raised a brow, idly buckling her waist against Lila and Maria’s. Priority.

"Someone you couldn’t figure out? That’s rare."

"Not necessarily."

Planting a final hickey right below Mel’s ear, Maria puffed hot air into the reddened spot, admiring how Mel shivered at the tickleness.

"The truth remains that whatever troubles he conjured, I could easily erase it with my Seven Virtues, and your Echo Magic, Mel."

Maria’s Calculative Mind and readiness, paired with her Seven Virtues, could manipulate even death and economy at her will.

The rest was the mass panic or traumas that would have ensued, but all could also be erased from Mel’s Echo Magic.

"Well well, where’s the moral and fairness at this point?" Mel teased, though her smirk betrayed her words.

"When your enemy chooses an amoral method, it’s only dutiful that we respond with the same."

Maria snuggled into Mel’s neck. "I learn that well from someone I hold very dearly."

"Ah, I assume that’s me then?"

"Hm. I do wonder. Maybe it was the Goddess?"

"Partner..."

"Hehe." Maria licked Mel’s skin. "Well, I can tell you if

"You two..."

Feeling left out of the conversation, Lila wiggled uncomfortably as her grasp over Mel’s waist weakened.

Despite awakened, Lila was protected too much beforehand to keep up with the two’s plotting.

"Should I... well," Lila fidgeted. "You know..."

"Lila, stay."

Mel’s arms finally moved to hug Lila, her palm smoothing her back with a motherly expression.

"I understand you feel afraid of being left behind, but all the more reason you should not leave my side."

Mel whispered as she leaned into Lila’s neck. "Or? Want me to revoke your First Wife Privilege?"

"Absolutely not!"

Reminded she awakened in the first place to stand as Mel’s equal in the first place, Lila groaned. "Don’t you dare! I still haven’t bragged to Rosana yet before you ensnare her."

"Of course, of course!"

Lila hmphed, before glancing back at the smiling Saintess.

Eh? Lila froze a little upon observing a glint of bloodlust slicing through Maria’s smiley look.

"What is it?"

Yet as Maria mumbled, Lila shook her head.

Maria’s face now softened with apology, as half of her cheek dug into Mel’s neck to hide her full expression.