PATH OF THE STAR HUNTER

223 Chapter 223 It’s Time For A New Trip

“How many times do I have to repeat it, clueless harpy? The flowers in these bushes are special, the yellow one generates pollen with very powerful hallucinogenic effects that adhere to the fog generated by the interaction of the other two flowers, everyone who enters that field of fog will lose their ability to distinguish directions; These flowers are arranged so that the points where the fog is the thickest form a labyrinth that always guides whoever enters it back to the exit. Get it now?” Kyuru said with a rare exasperation in her.

While Athena the harpy in question who was supposed to be listening to a said explanation was now happily sniffing the jacket she stole from Desmond, for some reason the harpy always stole an item of clothing from Desmond every time she saw him, and at this Point Desmond had already stopped resisting.

Of course, Desmond could have resigned about it but the logistics and equipment department kept complaining to him about constantly losing his military jackets or coats, what made them more defenseless is that Desmond only had to argue that he ruined his clothes during combat with mutant beasts it was inevitable and they couldn’t say anything about it.

Of course, his own squad knew that Desmond rarely even got to dirty his clothes in recent times as he let the squad fight just to gain experience, and even when he fought himself his clothes were rarely damaged although they ended up full of blood; but they would never contradict Desmond in front of other people especially for something so ridiculous.

Little did Desmond know that a certain girl of a curious nature had taken note of Desmond’s strange habit of losing his jackets or coats and even though she had no good guess why it was still enough for the girl to add it to the list of strange things about her lieutenant.

Seeing that she was ignored again Kyuru was furious, she was usually the one who played pranks on others and then ignored them when they scold her, but since she met Desmond she had to behave seriously to resolve multiple issues and normally this did not bother her But dealing with this spoiled harpy had become a headache for Kyuru.

“Come on don’t be mad Kyuru, girls don’t look pretty when they’re mad,” Desmond said which was answered by an aerial slap courtesy of the grumpy fairy.

Rubbing the back of his head Desmond smiled bitterly as he kept trying to calm the fairy, the truth was that Desmond himself had already resigned himself when it came to dealing with Athena.

Leaving aside the short time she was in her mating season, Athena basically had the mentality of a six or eight-year-old girl, treating her like an adult was unproductive, she responded better to pampering and simple nagging.

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“Athena, Kyuru will be angry if you continue to ignore her, she helped build your new home for which you must thank her” Desmond scolded in a fatherly tone.

Just from Desmond’s tone of voice, posture, and the general feeling at this point, one could tell that he was quite used to dealing with spoiled children and if it weren’t for his age one might even wonder if Desmond actually had children of his own.

But such a thing was inevitable, even before the death of his parents, Desmond was used to having to take care of Claire from a young age, not only because their parents used to be busy with work but because Desmond and Claire spent most of their free time being together; so Desmond had to play the role of protective older brother with Claire for as long as he could remember.

And surprisingly it worked, Athena seemed to react to Desmond’s scolding and she apologized to Kyuru and then thanked her for giving her such a beautiful tree, of course, Athena still did not understand the complexity of the new home that was given to her, but a simple explanation would suffice to keep her from getting into trouble.

Desmond then proceeded to explain to Athena that mist was bad and would make her smell ugly so no one would want to hug her and brush her feathers, such childish deception was as powerful as a hellish curse when it came to someone like Athena, the harpy swears she would never enter the fog.

Similarly, Desmond explained to Athena how to enter her new home and how to stay away from other humans.

Regarding the harpy’s new home, Athena was very surprised, but especially delighted when she learned that the tree’s crown was hollow, although it seemed to have very dense foliage that was only from the outside; the tree had a space of several square meters inside where the harpy could have a home even larger than the cave in which she used to live.

Immediately after seeing her new treehouse, Athena flew off at a speed that would put a car to shame and returned within minutes with something in her grasp.

One can imagine the surprise of the group when they saw that it was a bed/nest that Athena had in her clutches, especially when it was made of all the clothes that Athena had stolen from Desmond.

When Athena was asked why she did such a thing, she replied: “Kururu, Desmond is my mate, smelling good, I want to sleep covered in his scent; that will make Athena happy ”

At such statements even Desmond’s experienced womanizer had to blush with embarrassment, it must be said that Athena’s animal demeanor was both charming and somewhat disturbing to those of their right minds.

And with that strange note the group left Athena’s new house using the treetops to avoid the fog, only people as strong as Desmond and Sasha could use such a ridiculous method to move through the forest; after all the mist garden was designed was to keep ordinary people out, not powerful combatants.

In the end, Desmond and Kyuru promised that they will visit Athena to play with her whenever they have the chance and bring things to make Athena’s treehouse more beautiful and comfortable, they also insisted that in case Athena got bored she could go hunting something for fun as long as it was in the direction of the mountains; that way the harpy would be entertained while helping to keep the mutant creatures away from the city.

On the way home, both Kyuru and Sasha noticed that Desmond seemed quieter than normal, on any other occasion he would be flirting with one of them, but now there was a strange aura around Desmond that disturbed both girls.

Of course, Kyuru had an idea of ??what was going on, but she understood that her ability as an empathic didn′t give her the right to expose everything that is in the hearts of others so she kept silent and waited for Desmond to speak for himself.

“Desmond, are you okay?” Unlike Kyuru, Sasha couldn’t help but ask.

Desmond smiled in response, but his blue eyes seemed colder than usual when he said: “I was thinking about some things I learned from Athena... the situation is more dangerous than I expected and my strength is still too low, I have been too busy with work in the army, but it is also true that I have allowed myself to enjoy the comfort too much; I think it’s time to embark on a new journey ”

“Are you going to another world?” Sasha asked reflectively.

To which Desmond responded with a somewhat mechanical tone: “That’s right, there is a mission that I can do in another world that will give me good rewards and give me opportunities to become stronger”

“What kind of mission? Can I accompany you? ” Sasha couldn’t help but reply.

But Desmond immediately shook his head, he knew what kind of mission he would be doing and he knew there would probably be a lot of bloodshed and stealth involved, even if Desmond wanted to take her, the truth is that Sasha’s abilities weren’t adequate.

“I see, did you tell Claire?” Sasha said a little discouraged.

“I’ll do it when I see her later, for now, I have to go to the office to sign some papers, you guys go home” Desmond replied.

After parting ways with the girls, Desmond went to his office only to be scolded by Silvia for being so late but not in the mood to be nice to the girl, Desmond ended up scolding her back and telling her that he would make her his personal secretary; As distracted as he was Desmond didn’t notice the strange blush on Silvia’s cheeks when he was so dominant with her.

That same night Desmond and Claire talked about their subsequent trip, Claire who basically never had enough of Desmond did not hesitate to jump on him, the couple only separated their naked bodies and covered with sweat when poor Claire had lost the ability to move even a single muscle, but from the satisfied and ecstatic smile on her lips, one could tell that the girl was more than happy about it.