Chapter 344: Pet Names and Pet Projects
Most likely the world was going to hell in a handbasket outside, but so long as Kai was fine, Omilaena didn't really care. She was in the middle of a dozen different projects: refining new poisons, strengthening her Venomsteel, feeding that steel into Lethal Artisan. As every component of her soul synergized, she could feel her Azure Core strengthening, though it still needed another breakthrough of some sort.
By contrast, Zae Zin Nim... cultivated. And focused on her healing, but mostly cultivated.
"It's going to take years and it can't be rushed," Zae Zin Nim explained when asked. "I might as well make progress whenever I can so I'm ready later."
"Yeah, but won't you be dual cultivating all the time now?"
"That... that isn't the same! And there will be diminishing returns as we synchronize, so... it's necessary..." She trailed off, squirming in her lotus position.
Omilaena couldn't help but smile. She found it endlessly amusing that Zae Zin Nim could be intimate with the two of them and still act like a maiden sometimes. But her discomfort might actually get in the way of the next step, so Omilaena decided to distract her.
"So now that we're married, do I get to call you Nim?"
Zae Zin Nim sat up straighter. "That is... technically acceptable, but I think 'Zin Nim' would really be more..."
"You never gave Kai permission either," Omilaena said. "Please don't tell me that you married him, gave him your virginity, fucked him all morning, and still insisted he call you by your full name the entire time."