LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 65: Adults
It was time to go back to the academy, they were already late by a whole day and it was already going to be the the second day if they delay any longer, thus Debauchery started cleaning up after themselves, Yunan took the opportunity to stock up on corpses to feed the newly hatched dragon, he also made sure to take the egg shell with him.
Balin took another look at the cave system making sure nothing was left behind while Dustan made sure that he grabbed all the valuables he could get his hands on, while Fae and Leader prepared a teleportation spell to send everyone to the academy without having to waste time of traveling. Reina was holding the baby dragon in her arms while Lili was still trying to make sense of what she witnessed today and the words spoken in the party.
After teleporting everyone to the academy, Leader left Lili with a few words. "We in Debauchery have many rules that we do not enforce, there is one unbreakable rule that has a punishment of death even if you hide under the skirts of those damnable nuns, whatever happens in Debauchery stays in Debauchery, any information leaked no matter how trivial it is, death is the only escape you have" and with that the seniors left the juniors and each group headed to their abodes.
Yunan, Reina and Leol headed for the baths while Lili followed behind them in a trance, she never thought about how serious it was when she came out to have fun, and the value of information and items that she came into close contact with almost toppled her world view, not to mention how trivial it seems when Debauchery reacted as if the things said and done were like daily occurrences. As the group arrived at the baths sweaty and itching to clean up, Yunan booked a bigger bath for them, and everyone proceeded to get inside, Lili was still reserved about bathing with boys, and she tried to take Reina with her but Reina just jumped in the hot pool in the bath and only took off her clothes after.
The bath was silent, as the boys helped Reina clean up her tangled hair ruffled tails, but when they were done, they were faced with another line of questioning from Lili. "How come you bath together? Its indecent. If it's about helping the girl clean up it is done so just leave okey?". "Why are you acting like we are breaking the natural laws of the universe" asked Leol " what is the harm in bathing together if we plan to face danger and death together? If it is so wrong to bath with women why can adults do it? I have been bathed by my maids until the day i came to this academy and no one told me it was wrong, how come you are saying its wrong, it is nothing but a bath"
"It is wrong because it is wrong, there is no point in doing it because it's wrong" Lili retorted at Leol with her air of righteousness. "Why are you here then?" Yunan made his point "if we are being indecent why are you watching us? You can go to another bath and we can meet later on, but you trust us enough to come inside with us and preach at us as if you are not doing the same". Lili was stumped "it's not the same, i am here to stop you so i am not part of it, do not try to get out of it, you are doing something wrong and you should stop it"
"You should leave" Yunan said as he stood up and helped The already groggy Reina out of the bath "This place is not for you, if you can not trust us with bathing i don't think we can trust you with our lives, you are welcomed to come back when you are ready to trust us with your life, otherwise just stay with your daddy and live like a spoiled brat for the rest of your life, because there is no one who would fight with their back to you if you can not trust them" Reina clung to Yunan as he carried her to the clothing area.
Leol finished after Yunan "bathing together is not obligatory, it's just a thing that we did out of convenience, but if you resist our ways it means you do not trust us, you could have wore something like maids do, or maybe used the partition board over there, you are not even trying to trust us and you expect us to follow your ideas and orders, you could have waited until you integrated with us and then split away during bathing time. We are doing this for Reina because she can not handle bathing alone, we would not mind if you offered to take care of her but you just had to go with wrong and indecent, if you are not ready to trust others with your life just stay in some church or orphanage were its safe, danger requires trust and trust requires acceptance."
Leol walked out of the pool and followed after the other two and left a speechless Lili behind him. When Lili came out of the bath Yunan was carrying a sleeping Reina and standing beside Leol as they waited for her, "you can sleep in her bed, and we can figure the rest out tomorrow, i will bring dinner to the room so just follow Yunan to our place, if you feel like you don't want to share a room with us feel free to ask and we can take you to the seniors or do whatever you wish" with that the boys separated and Lili followed after Yunan.
Inside the room Lili said something that almost took Yunan with surprise "we are just kids, talking about death and trust and all those things is for adults, we still have 5 years to grow up, why do you want to act like adults? It's not fair to treat children like adults". "life is never fair sweety" answered Yunan as he tucked Reina in his own bed " we became adults the moment we chose to come to this academy, those 5 years, those are just the time it takes to realise the horrible truth of the world and the dungeon, if you want a bright flowery world to live in than make it on your own, if you want to be a child for a bit longer, this group is the wrong place for that"