Chapter 43: Melons?*
Mia looked in detail at the minotaur's body, wondering why it would be there.
After all, that minotaur was supposed to protect this forest, which was why Mia was so scared of it.
She knew exactly how powerful it was since Mia and her friends had tried to fight against it, wanting to test if it really was as strong as the rumors.
The minotaur wasn't what they had expected. It was way stronger than they had thought.
His defense, strength, agility, and everything about the minotaur were overpowered. So, why the hell would such a strong get killed in such a fashion?
Mia knew firsthand that the mines weren't powerful enough to kill them since she had been the one to place them all. So, who had prepared this?
Aiden also didn't even blink when he saw the body of the minotaur, finding its state totally normal as he had seen way worse in his past life.
But what caught Aiden's eyes wasn't that it was the minotaur, but the little stone that was emitting constant light as if calling him.
Aiden, doubting his eyes, asked Mia if she was seeing the same thing as him.
"Mia," Aiden said, tapping on her shoulder as she looked deep in thought.
"Ye-yes," she responded, looking around herself.
"Do you see that light coming from the pit," asked Aiden as he pointed toward the stone.
However, when Mia looked at the spot where Aiden was pointing, she couldn't see anything.
"Are you playing with me? There's nothing there. Haha!" Mia giggled, thinking that Aiden was joking with her.
"Are you sure you're not seeing that small white stone?" he asked again, trying to make sure.
Realizing that Aiden wasn't joking, she answered him seriously.
"No, there's nothing... I'm sure of it. Are you sure that your eyes aren't playing a trick on you?"
"Maybe, I don't know, stay here. I'll go take a look," said Aiden as he went down into the pit in the direction of the stone.
"No, wait for me. I'll go with you," said Mia as she started running down the pit.
As she ran, her foot got stuck in the ground, which caused her to fall down.
"Kiyaahh!!!"
The last thing she saw before rolling down to the bottom of the pit was the legs of Aiden that were right in front of her face.
*Bang*
She rammed into his legs, which caused him to fall onto her, but as he fell, Aiden put his hands right in front of him, not wanting to get hurt by falling down on the ground head first.
'What's this? It's so soft,' Aiden thought as he got his hands onto some weird type of squishy and soft material.
He decided to grab that weird material.
'Why did he grab me there? It's my sensitive spot,' Mia thought as she tried not to make a sound that would reveal that she liked him doing that.
However, as he kept playing with her melons, she couldn't keep them in anymore.
"Annhhh~!" A moan got out of her mouth as Aiden kept grappling her melons over and over again, trying to understand what he was touching, "Stop touching m..., Annhhhh~!"
Aiden, hearing her make weird sounds, didn't understand what was happening. Then he looked down and saw that he had his hands on her two melons.
'Is that why she's so sensible?' thought Aiden as he grabbed her melons again, trying to see how she would react.
"Annhh~," Mia moaned again.
"Stop doing that~," Mia said as she was now completely red.
"Huh, but I'm not doing anything," said Aiden, who was right on top of Mia, looking at her dead in the eyes.
"St-Stop," she said once again.
"Stop doing what?" said Aiden.
"Stop doing that, please~," said Mia with her voice quivering, pointing at his hands.
Aiden didn't quite understand what she was talking about, but he still listened as he stood up, releasing her melons.
However, his mind was still focused on the melons he had just touched, even when he got up.
'I don't know why, but it felt really good touching those,' thought Aiden as he kept glancing at those bouncy mountains.
'I wonder if she would let me feel them again,' thought Aiden, already wanting to touch them again.
He really liked the sensation and would do anything to do it again.
However, as he was thinking about that, Mia, who was still on the ground, noticed that he kept glancing at her, and she immediately put her arms on her body, trying to hide them.
Aiden noticed that she may have gotten hurt as she kept grabbing her body repeatedly for no reason.
"Are you okay? Do you need some help?" proposed Aiden, wanting to help her get back on her feet.
But he would have never imagined the answer that he got.
"Yes, I'm fine. Just leave me here and go check up on that light of yours," said Mia, who kept blushing.
She didn't want to show Aiden how much she liked it.
'Did he not feel anything? He kept grabbing them over and over again. Just what type of person would do such a thing?' thought Mia, not understanding why he would do that to her.
It was a normal thought because a normal person would have apologized for doing such a thing, but Aiden didn't even seem embarrassed; it was like he didn't even care that he had touched her private parts.
For Aiden, who didn't even know the importance of such things, it truly wasn't a big deal. His mind was now focused on something completely different: the white stone that kept emitting light.
He didn't even look back once as he kept going forward, getting closer to the stone.
He did like the feeling of touching them, but it wouldn't be enough to distract him from that weird light that was calling him.
Walking a little bit forward, he could finally grab the stone, and shock could be seen in his eyes when he saw what it was.
[You have obtained a Return Stone.]