Chapter 187: Home Is Where the Guild Is
The hotel room was warm and the bed was comfortable, but Rhodes's sleep quality was only average. He didn't fall asleep until the second half of the night and even woke up once.
By the time they set out the next morning, he was still yawning.
"Didn't you sleep well?" Erza asked. "Did I snore?"
Rhodes waved his hand. "No, maybe I was just tired and had a nightmare."
He had dreamed that he agreed to share a bed with Erza and even scrubbed each other's backs while bathing. Then, Erza suddenly turned into Mira, slapped him flying straight onto the Black Magic Cult's altar, where black-robed people began chanting spells to summon a demon.
Just as the demon was about to eat him, Mira fell from the sky, slapped the demon into demon paste, grabbed Rhodes by the collar, and declared it was the price for flirting with other women.
Then the black-robed men turned into the children Rhodes had saved, jumping and clapping while chanting, "Big sister, beat him up!"
Rhodes woke up furious.
'Dreams are the opposite of reality,' he thought. 'How could Mira be so cruel?'
He comforted himself with that thought and dozed off again in the carriage after Erza rented one.
The carriage stopped after a while, waking Rhodes with the smell of delicious food. Erza was no longer inside.