Chapter 140: Outrage
For a moment, nobody spoke. The only sounds were the wind shifting the desert sands and the distant, muffled sobs of Rebecca’s sister. The tension in the air felt suffocating.
Then, Aria exhaled shakily. Her lips trembled, and her shoulders started shaking uncontrollably.
"You can’t be serious, right? What instructions?" Her usual serene persona was nowhere to be seen. The Moon Valkyrie was just as outraged as her fellow Valkyries. "Your allies whom you trained and grew alongside for four years now were in extreme danger, with two even tragically falling, yet you dare not go all out as our strongest member? And you have the gall to shift the blame around? Have you no shame?!"
By the end, Aria had teared up. Her tender heart was overcome with grief thanks to the losses they suffered and the gruesome pictures of the fallen that were etched deep into her mind. She might not have known anything personal about them, but they were innocent humans nonetheless. All they had ever wanted was to grow stronger and live their lives, and now their journey was cruelly cut short.
"Tch! What a crybaby. This is just ridiculous. I find myself surrounded by clowns instead of dependable allies." With that, the blonde woman turned around on her heels and strode off, leaving stomp marks in the sand.
Now that the tension had eased, Kaiden could relax. With a troubled expression, he moved to embrace his silver-haired lover in a protective hug. That was all Aria needed to have her dams truly opened. The stress and trauma hit her hard, and she was finally allowed to let it all out.
"Let’s take a break," he said to the other ladies, who nodded with similarly grim expressions. They weren’t crying, but their eyes had the same haunted visage to them. Kaiden then reached for Aria’s lower thighs and lifted the woman into his arms. She immediately attached her legs around his waist in a very needy manner.
The four of them quickly found themselves back in their tent. Kaiden sat down on his bed and gestured for Nyx and Luna to sit next to him while the sobbing woman remained in his arms.
"We’re taking a bit of a personal break. Please enjoy the replay of our fight," he said before stopping the live feed of the stream.
Luna sat with her arms wrapped around herself, staring blankly at the floor as she muttered with a pale face, "The harsh reality of our new life, huh..." She played many horror games and saw many corpses in said games, but those games could never do justice to the haunting sight that was Rebecca’s legless torso or her sister’s extreme wailing. It wasn’t just gruesome—it was viscerally real in a way that made her stomach churn.