Ch.367Chapter 367 – A Sudden Competition at the Beach

The three who came out last.

Elena, Mina, and Eterna were watching Pathos from a distance as he struggled against Cheon Hyeryeong’s physical advances.

The three of them were watching from afar not because there was any particular problem.

“I guess we should have come out earlier.”

“Indeed…”

“We seem to have come out too late.”

It was simply because the three of them had been choosing their swimsuits and came out last.

The others had already decided which swimsuits they would wear beforehand, but these three hadn’t.

Elena and Mina had been busy submitting graduation-related documents after finishing their graduation exams.

Eterna had been busy attending a council meeting regarding the Saint’s marriage.

So while they had brought many swimsuits, they hadn’t tried them on in advance to decide which ones to wear.

That’s why the three of them came out relatively later than the other five.

By the time they finally put on suitable swimsuits and came outside, the situation outside was already chaotic.

“Shall we go too?”

“Let’s go.”

“Shall we head over?”

But the three had no intention of just watching from a distance.

The three who came out of the cabin walked toward Pathos.

“Hoho, can I look forward to tonight?”

“Since we’re outside, perhaps you should tone it down a bit?”

Eterna approached Cheon Hyeryeong, who continued to playfully tease Pathos.

“Oh my?”

Cheon Hyeryeong smiled at the sight of Eterna, who ranked among the top in terms of holy power pouch size.

“It seems you’ve also steeled your resolve.”

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime moment. How many people would easily give up their only breakthrough and escape route?”

Hearing Eterna’s words, Cheon Hyeryeong chuckled and carefully put Pathos down.

“Ugghhh…”

Pathos, having endured Cheon Hyeryeong’s physical assault, was unable to regain his senses, as if his soul had left his body.

[“By the healing power of the sun, may your mind be cleared.”]

Eterna approached Pathos, placed her hand on his head, and used holy magic.

It was holy magic that cleared a clouded mind, something only Eterna could do here.

Thanks to the holy power flowing through Eterna’s hand, life returned to Pathos’s eyes, and he soon regained consciousness.

“Eterna?”

“Yes, Lord Pathos. It’s me.”

After regaining consciousness, Pathos could see the large holy power pouch before his eyes.

This was because Eterna had laid him down while supporting his head with one arm.

“Um, excuse me. I’d like to get up?”

Pathos’s pupils began to tremble as he saw two large holy power pouches swaying right in front of his eyes.

The overwhelmingly large holy power pouches, compared to the area covered by the swimsuit, were right in front of Pathos’s face.

Pathos hurriedly tried to get up as he felt his lower body beginning to respond again due to the subtle scent of skin emanating from the areas not covered by cloth.

“No, you still need to rest.”

“Oof!”

But Eterna wasn’t an ordinary saint; she was a former Inquisitor who used to smash the skulls of heretics.

As such, her physical abilities far exceeded those of ordinary holy knights.

When she applied force to hold Pathos down, her holy power pouches instantly engulfed his face.

“Mmph! Mmph mmph!”

Pathos tried to avoid Eterna’s holy power pouches pressing down on his face, but even with his body enhanced by the Celestial Demon Divine Technique, he couldn’t overcome Eterna’s strength.

And naturally, this action was exactly what Eterna had intended.

‘Saint, men, regardless of age, are naturally drawn to the maternal love shown by women.’

‘Is that so?’

‘Yes. I’ll teach you well how to capture a man’s heart from now on, so you can use it exactly as I teach on him.’

‘I-I see!’

After Eterna declared at the Sun Order’s headquarters that she would marry Pathos, she received separate education.

Originally, ordinary priestesses, not the saints of the order, could marry, so the order taught them how to lead a married life without violating the doctrine.

And Eterna additionally received the “long experience” of an elderly priestess who wished for the saint to have a happy marriage.

‘Master said to treat him like a child.’

So what Eterna adopted was the action known as the “nursing position.”

This was meant to evoke the nostalgia of childhood that remained in a man’s subconscious.

However, there was one thing Eterna overlooked.

“Mmph! Mmph mmph! (No, I can’t breathe!)”

Pathos’s entire face was covered by the holy power pouches, and he couldn’t breathe.

So he was pushing away Eterna’s holy power pouches with his hands to signal her to move them, but she seemed to interpret it differently.

“My~ Do you like this place that much?”

Eterna’s holy power pouches jiggled each time Pathos’s hands pushed against them.

She thought it was because Pathos was extremely satisfied with her body.

If she had experience with childbirth or had seen someone else breastfeeding, the situation would have been different.

People with very large breasts need to be careful not to block the baby’s airway when breastfeeding.

But because she hadn’t been educated about that, she had just pressed forward without caution.

As a result, Pathos was gradually losing consciousness.

‘Damn, my body’s losing strength… but surprisingly, this might not be so bad?’

Pathos, feeling his consciousness slipping away, thought that dying buried in breasts might not be so bad.

But then—

“Ah, no! Wake up!”

Eterna felt Pathos’s breath disappearing from beneath her holy power pouches.

She hurriedly removed her holy power pouches that were covering Pathos’s face.

“Kuhup!”

Only then did Pathos take a deep breath in and out, coughing dryly a few times in the process.

As Pathos regained consciousness, Eterna was restless.

‘W-what should I do? Lord Pathos almost had a serious accident because of me!’

She had nearly caused Pathos to truly lose consciousness.

“E-Eterna…”

“Yes, yes! Lord Pathos!”

Eterna quickly responded when Pathos called her.

“Next time… let me breathe…”

“…!”

The moment she heard that answer, all of Eterna’s worries seemed to melt away.

So Pathos didn’t dislike the position she had put him in!

‘He asked to be able to breathe! I must remember that!’

Eterna resolved that the next time she took such a position, she would definitely ensure he could breathe.

And that wasn’t just her thought.

‘Oh ho, so he likes that position?’

‘My husband also has an unexpected desire for maternal love. That’s truly adorable.’

‘Um… maternal love. That’s still difficult for me.’

‘To stimulate maternal instincts… should I make “that” come out?’

Others who saw Eterna’s actions and Pathos’s reactions were thinking similar thoughts.

The people gathered here were all in a cooperative relationship while also being competitors.

‘I may have lost the marriage, but I absolutely won’t lose the first experience.’

‘Emelda, if we have the ingredients, can we make “that”?’

‘Yes, if we have the ingredients, it’s possible.’

‘During this trip, I’ll definitely create a fait accompli!’

Some exchanged glances, agreeing to cooperate, while others made their own resolutions.

At that moment, Karen stepped forward and raised her hand to focus everyone’s attention.

“In that sense, how about we divide into teams and have a competition?”

“Competition?”

“Yes.”

Some questioned Karen’s suggestion, but everyone understood with her subsequent explanation.

“Everyone gathered here has been waiting only for tonight, right?”

“That’s right?”

She was reminding them of the purpose for which they had come here.

“And we’re all in relationships where we need to cooperate while competing throughout our lives, aren’t we?”

“That’s obvious.”

“So I’m suggesting we divide into teams and have a competition.”

“But what kind of competition should we have…”

“May I make a suggestion?”

Mina shyly raised her hand and stepped forward.

“How about a cooking competition? My mother told me that to capture a man’s heart, you must first capture his palate.”

“Oh my?”

“So I was thinking, we could gather ingredients here, make dishes, and based on the rankings, decide who gets to spend the night together.”

The reactions to this proposal were mixed, but ultimately converged to one conclusion.

“Sounds good. Let’s do it right away.”

And so, with Mina’s proposal, an unexpected cooking competition was about to be held at the imperial resort.