"So... what is it?" Isalyn asked.

"It is... wait, I need to find words for this." Aelira tapped the sides of her head with her index fingers, eyes closed.

"Yes! Okay, so how old are you?"

Isalyn blinked once and answered, "Twenty-five."

"You have a boyfriend or a husband?"

Isalyn chuckled. "Of course not. Haven’t met anyone worthy of me yet."

"Well, you might have met him already." Aelira grinned and glanced at Rudrean.

Isalyn turned to Rudrean and blinked. "I mean, he is very handsome, but I have seen a lot of handsome boys. What I want to know is his magic talent. What is it?"

Wryly smiling, she added, "You might want a girlfriend for your brother, but this is no time for that."

"W-What?! He is not my brother!" Aelira shook her head. "He is my hubby."

"That’s correct." Rudrean nodded with a shy smile.

"..." Isalyn. "Are you perhaps the type of girlfriend who gets off on it when the boyfriend does it with someone else?"

Rudrean was tongue-tied hearing that, and also found it funny, while Aelira exclaimed with wide eyes.

"NUU!" Shaking her head vehemently, Aelira pouted. "Absolutely not!"

"But you are clearly someone extraordinary... You also apologized for this mess, and most importantly..." Aelira’s eyes sparkled. "It’s fate!!"

Rudrean looked at her. ’Fate again?’

"Fate?" Isalyn raised her eyebrows.

"Silly sister." Aelira grinned. "Because Rudrean here is absolutely extraordinary. If you had captured anyone else, your fate would have been sealed, most likely, but now... we are guaranteed to live through this because of his talent!"

Isalyn was impressed and became more hopeful. "Is that so?"

And before she could ask again about his talent, Aelira began speaking.

"Let me ask you." Aelira grinned. "What are the chances of being able to learn a 5-star spell in seven days?"

"That depends on people, but even people at a late-stage Core Genesis rank or at Soul Tree rank need serious focus and practice to learn it in seven days, let alone Foundation rank like you." Isalyn’s brows creased. "That’s why I was hoping one of you two, especially him who had an extraordinary magic pulse, would be prodigious enough to learn it. But you’re basically saying there’s a guarantee that he will be able to learn the spell with his talent?"

"Yep," Aelira answered with a confident grin.

Isalyn looked at Rudrean, who responded with an awkward nod and an even more awkward expression.

"Why does he look uncomfortable throughout this whole conversation?" Isalyn asked, her eyes narrowing. "There’s some kind of catch to his talent? Condition-based?"

"What is it? Tell me already." Isalyn sighed tiredly and lay down on the grass. "The poison is also annoying. I need to sleep."

"W-Well, we don’t need to be in a hurry about this," Rudrean suddenly said. "You should sleep first and take care of the poison. As for my talent... we can talk about it later, once you feel better. Right, Aelira?"

Rudrean looked at Aelira.

Aelira opened her mouth, closed it, and opened it again. "Ok, that sounds good."

"But remember... we don’t have much time." Aelira looked at Rudrean. "Babe, don’t forget about the LP. We need points, and a 5-star spell won’t be coming cheap."

Rudrean’s face flushed, and then paled. "That’s... yeah."

Isalyn was really curious about his talent, but she needed a serious nap for recovery, so she didn’t pursue it now.

"In that case, you two can explore this island. I’ll take a nap." Isalyn closed her eyes and promptly fell asleep.

Aelira grabbed Rudrean’s hands and began walking.

Rudrean sighed. "This is crazy."

Aelira wryly smiled. "Yep. But we don’t have any other choice. A 5-star spell must be insanely difficult. Do you think we can learn it normally in seven days?"

"No idea..."

"We can’t!" Aelira sighed. "Unless, of course, a miraculous epiphany occurs while we are learning, aiding in mastering that spell, but relying on chance would be foolish."

"True, but the other option is equally difficult..." Rudrean’s eartips were still red. "You know the love has to be real and sincere for my talent to register, right?"

"That’s true, but it’s not difficult!" Aelira snorted. "You are an amazing person, and you will become even more amazing in the future. Your heart is pure and clean, and you are not a bad person from any angle. It’s her fortune that fate made this meeting."

"Fate..." Rudrean wryly smiled.

"Isn’t that so?! Out of thousands of planets in this vast universe, she crashed into this one and picked the two of us."

"That’s a coincidence, no?"

Aelira smiled. "Dummy. Fate and coincidence are the same thing. The situation where they appear determines whether it’s fate or coincidence."

"Suddenly meeting a friend somewhere far away after years is a coincidence. Meeting a friend who is about to die and saving him? That’s fate. Now you understand?"

"..." After a second of silence, Rudrean couldn’t help but lightly laugh.

Aelira chuckled. "Right? You were about to seal your fate with that jump, and I was also running away from my doomed fate, and then we both met and created a new fate for us!"

"True." Rudrean nodded.

Aelira smiled and stopped as she grabbed Rudrean’s hands. "This is the same situation."

Pushing him towards a tree, she looked in the direction of the pavilion. "We are far enough now. Let’s have some fun and start gathering LP. We’ll need a lot of it."

Getting on her knees, she pulled down his pants and started playing with Rudrean’s rising dragon until it fully rose in a few seconds, and put it in her mouth.

...

An hour later, Isalyn opened her eyes and stretched her arms before the poison’s pain stung her stomach again.

"Darn this poison!" Isalyn stood up.

And then suddenly, her ears perked up. ’What... is this sound...’

She was a Soul Tree expert. At her full power, she could destroy a small 1-star planet. So naturally, her senses were far beyond what normal people had.

’Don’t tell me...’ Isalyn’s cheeks flushed, and she disappeared from her position.

A moment later, she arrived at the source of the sound, standing just ten meters away in full invisibility.

’D-Damn!’

Supporting herself with her hands on the tree’s trunk, Aelira was moaning intensely as Rudrean was moving his hips crazily fast, the sound of flesh hitting flesh reverberating in the forest.

"More, more, more, more! Go full speed, darling~!"

"Shoot all of it inside!"

"Arrghh!" Rudrean groaned as he felt he was about to release, but stopped himself forcefully and increased his speed.

"Mhff~"

Aelira’s eyes rolled upward as she felt him ramming her, sending constant waves of pleasure through her whole body.

Watching them like rabbits in heat, Isalyn didn’t realize her hand was also at her private place, rubbing it to scratch the itch.

’Look at their faces...’ Isalyn thought as her eyes were glued to them. ’That big thing going into her and hitting her... and both of them are making faces as if that’s the most wonderful thing in the world...’

’I wonder how that feels?’ Isalyn gulped, and at this thought, she snapped out of it and turned away.

But then she paused and turned back to watch Rudrean and Aelira.

Her hand movement at her private place increased in speed.