My Wife is the Asura Empress

"There..." Sophia pointed to the fluffy leaves of shrubs and went to collect them.

Rio and Lucas followed behind to gather leaves along with moss to give Nyla who used it to make bedding for both of the tents.

"It's getting dark. We should collect some firewood to make a campfire" Sophia to suggested her teammates.

"Won't it attract the beasts?" Rio asked as he thought it was a bad idea.

"It will but how would we cook our game?" She pointed towards the fox body which was put near the root of a tree.

"Are we gonna eat that?" Lucas asked from the side and scrunched his nose to show his disagreement.

"That's what warriors use for food when they camp out in the wild," Nyla answered from the side.

Rio and company went around to gather some firewood.

Sophia set it some distance away from their tent and the boys arranged the ground with comfy leaves to sit on.

The pink-haired beauty lit up the firewood as the campfire crackled and popped.

Nyla stood over the flames, tending to the meat using a small dagger beast soul as a spit.

The fox meat sizzled and dripped in the fire as it was cooked, filling the air with the savory aroma of roasting meat.

A Magenta haired girl turned the spit slowly, making sure that the meat cooked evenly on all sides.

"I didn't think you would know how to cook," Rio mumbled, watching the always-cheerful girl acting in a composed manner on their trip here.

"If I didn't learn to cook then who would make scrumptious dishes in the future for my Rio." The Magenta haired girl teased him with a smile.

"You wish..." Rio responded, seeing her true side.

As the fox meat was almost done, she asked the pink-haired girl, "do you have any spices with you?"

"Yeah, one second," Sophia took out a pouch from her small bag and handed it to Nyla.

The Magenta-haired beauty took the small pouch of spices, carefully sprinkling them over the sizzling meat.

Rio, Lucas, and Sophia sat around the campfire, their mouths watering in anticipation as Nyla meticulously removed the meat from the flames.

She presented the cooked fox meat to Rio first, wrapping it around the leaf.

He took it without refusing as the boy was aware of why she gave him first.

Lucas gave him a wink as this happened and Sophia elbowed her boyfriend to not be playful.

Some minutes later, Nyla gave the cooked meat to her other two teammates, who devoured it hungrily, savoring the juicy, flavorsome meat.

Finishing the last one, Nyla came with her portion of cooked meat to sit beside Rio and savor the grilled food.

The fire cast a warm glow over their faces, and they enjoyed eating their food in the midst of the forest.

As the food finished, they talked a little before deciding to go to their beds, but the problem was who would guard them and in which tent they would sleep.

"How are we going to sleep?" Lucas asked as he looked at his teammates.

"One will guard and rest will sleep," Sophia answered him.

"Are we going to sleep with our pair or by gender discrimination?" Lucas questioned with a shameless smile.

"No...I'll sleep with Nyla in that tent while you and Rio will sleep in the other one. But each of us has to keep switching with the person who guards every four hours so we all can get enough sleep." Sophia responded.

"I'll take the first order and guard tonight," Rio said becoming the first one to volunteer.

"Okay, then I'll go second then Lucas and Nyla," Sophia said before going into her verdant tent.

"Good Night, Brother." Lucas also went into the second one.

The Magenta haired girl didn't move and stayed with him.

"Don't you wanna sleep?" Rio asked her as she was sitting close to him.

"I would rather spend time with you even if it's just watching you," Nyla said in a tender voice.

Lucas and Sophia gave them a happy look before they closed their eyes to sleep as their time to guard would come next.

"You should sleep." He said to her in a calm voice.

She gazed at her handsome face and said with a smile, "Okay."

Nyla laid down beside him and put her head on his outer thigh to use it as a pillow while grabbing his hand to wrap around her neck.

With a smile, she closed her eyes to go into the wonderland.

Rio watched her brazenly take the lead to use him as a pillow without even his permission.

'Since you've been so well-behaved all this journey I'll shut my eyes for this one time.'

He enjoyed the gentle rustling of the trees and the distant hoot of an owl.

"Hey, Wifey...you're awake?" He asked in his thoughts.

"Yeah...I can sense you in the land of Asura." Lia said as she could feel him because of Heaven's blessing.

"When I went to earth, Second mother said I wasn't seen by the superior in my registered yellow stage shelter so I came here with my classmates." Rio narrated his journey to Lia and told her about his little adventure.

"When will you be coming back?" She asked in an expectant tone.

"Tomorrow or maybe the day after tomorrow. Not sure how long it will take." The crimson-haired boy said in his thought.

Rio gazed at the moon that was visible from the gaps of leaves in the canopy made by tree branches in the forest.

The love birds talked as the night become deeper. Nyla slept peacefully using his outer thigh as a pillow.

Rio talked to Lia using telepathy under the starry night as he guarded the campsite.

He didn't bother waking anyone up to switch places as the young couple enjoyed their conversation throughout the night.

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Edited By: TheWhiteSnow