Half a month later, in the Hymn Hotel suite in Kaimen City.
Crash.
When the automatic floor-length curtains were opened, the dazzling sunlight hit Ash's face like a slap. He groaned in pain, hugged the quilt tightly and turned away. Then the quilt was snatched away. He subconsciously covered his vital parts, trying to protect his reputation: "No——"
"You're wearing clothes."
Felix put his hands on his hips and said unhappily, "Besides, it's already afternoon, are you still asleep? You slept alone last night, so why did you stay up until morning?"
Ash rubbed his eyes and sat up. He covered his mouth and yawned loudly, his hair messy and his eyes sleepy. "Because I can only play games all night when I'm alone..."
"Can't we play games at other times?"
Ash sighed and said sincerely, "Felix, even if it was me, I would still feel ashamed if I affected the sleep quality of the four of them because of my own selfish desires."
Felix's mouth curled up, and he resisted the urge to smother him with the quilt. "You've lived here for half a month, and you've slept together for ten days. How dare you say such things... Do you really still have the psychological function of shame? Seriously, can't you just have pure love once in a while? Why do you have to gather everyone together every time?"
"In fact, not all members gather every time. The specific quota is allocated among them. Even I have no right to interfere—"
"But if you say you want to go as a team with Sword Princess and trade with Sister Vichy alone, will they still object?"
"Hmm..." Ash crossed his arms and thought for a moment, then said, "Let me think about how to explain it better..."
“Ahaha, the trash can is about to spit out the paper.”
"Got it! Take me as an example. Don't look at me like this, I am actually a rather messy person in my daily life-"
"Don't look at what you mean by that? The pajamas you are wearing now were arranged by me a day in advance and placed on the top of your closet. Do you think I have any misunderstanding of you?"
Ash pulled back and asked cautiously, "Felix, you seem very angry today."
Felix also realized that her attitude was wrong. She hugged the quilt tightly and sat on the edge of the bed, saying faintly, "Go on."
"Even though I usually leave my things in a mess, I can usually subconsciously know where they are when I need to find them. On the contrary, when I occasionally feel guilty and tidy up my room, I am more likely to find something." Ash said, "This is the razor principle. If it is not necessary, do not add entities. If the program is already running, do not change it."
Felix nodded repeatedly: "Well, so what?"
"So we should check the box for all teammates to play the dungeon together during our daily sleep session."
"What does your theory have to do with your behavior?"
"Since we have finally figured out a behavior pattern that everyone can barely accept, let's not change it." Ash said, "If I do as you said and only invite Sword Princess or others at night, the consequences will be unpredictable. It's like throwing a fire, which may light a beacon of happiness, or it may detonate our dangerous building full of explosives."
"You also know that you are a dangerous building." Felix sighed softly: "But don't you think--"
"If you're talking about feeling ashamed, then I feel ashamed every minute of every second." Ash smiled, "But don't make it sound like I'm a pervert who doesn't play multiplayer games... We're either alone or together every night, but we usually have a lot of time to spend alone together. For example, a few days ago, I went to visit an exhibition with Sword Princess, went to tea and coffee with the witch, went to the library with Silver Bulb, and watched a play with Vichy... When you think about it, I actually successfully completed four dates alone, and I didn't lose any parts of my body. This is a huge improvement that I never dared to think about before!"
"A double date is a natural thing for normal couples, but it is a very challenging task for you..." Felix curled his lips in disdain, and couldn't help asking curiously, "Did you really watch a drama with Sister Vichy for a whole day? Was it a very bizarre and bloody horror movie or drama? Or a crime record of a sorcerer?"
Ash shook his head. "No, I just rewatched The Magician and the latest romance drama, Dangerous Things Inside Her. But Vichy insisted on speeding up the movies and TV series. The normal speed was too time-consuming for her. I had to persuade her to slow it down to four times the speed, so we finished watching both dramas in one day."
"You didn't go anywhere?"
"We didn't go anywhere. We just watched it in a private cinema for a whole day."
"Hey..." Felix held his chin up, "It's a bit beyond my expectation..."
"I have a little bit of that, too. After all, I told her that I would accompany her no matter what she wants to do or where she wants to go today. But Vichy said that she didn't want me to know her interests and hobbies, and asked me what I wanted to do instead. It just so happened that I wanted to rewatch "The Magician", so we went to the private theater." Ash tilted his head: "To be honest, it's quite comfortable to watch a drama with her lazily for a whole day like this."
Felix looked at Ash's face which was filled with a hint of happiness, and couldn't help but feel a little irritated. He grabbed the pillow beside him and threw it at him, saying sullenly, "You have so many twisted ideas to explain your nightly revelry..."
"It's too small, too small." Ash said seriously, "You think it's a party every night, but in fact it's an important activity for us to keep in touch and maintain the team. Don't forget, our enemy is the strongest magician standing at the top of civilization. Even if we are on vacation, the huge pressure brought by the Supreme Stars is still lingering."
"I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying, but it's like a student who hasn't done his summer homework. He will be very anxious when he thinks about the end of the vacation. But if he makes an appointment with his friends not to do his homework, then he will definitely relax and even have the courage to face his fate after school starts."
"We have team activities at night to relieve stress and boost morale. Normally, the way to increase team cohesion is to take life-and-death adventures, hone your temperament and trust in battle, but we no longer have any rivals in the world, so sleeping in the same bed has become the best way for us to maintain team coordination."
Ash spoke more and more fluently, as if it was true: "Nothing can better sense the other person's mood than the warmth of skin-to-skin contact. Only by frequently confirming the beliefs of teammates can we clear the confusion in our hearts! So don't think that I seem to enjoy it. In fact, I have always had a huge sense of mission. In every sex... in every party, I try my best to warm my teammates' bodies and soothe their anxiety!"
"Did you mean the porn party?" Felix said unhappily, "Go wash up, it's almost time to leave."
Felix went to the closet and spent a minute choosing clothes, and then Ash came out after washing up, although in Felix's eyes he looked like a drowned dog.
She rolled up her sleeves and pressed Ash, who had just changed his clothes, to the dressing table. While fixing his hair, she asked, "Do you still like Blood Moon's game?"
"I also like the games of Gospel and Stars, especially the scripted games of Gospel, which are hosted by the Gospel spirit himself, which is very interesting."
"But you are a demigod, and you may soon become the supreme master of magic. Are you still interested in this level of entertainment?"
"You are a sanctuary magician. You liked painting when you were a child, so you don't like painting now?" Ash said with a smile, "Being a master of magic doesn't mean I have experienced all the beauty in the world... I still like watching romance dramas! Maybe after living for a few hundred years, I will become a boring old bastard, but at least now, I still have a vision for the world."
Felix paused for a moment, then asked casually, "How do you know I liked drawing when I was a kid?"
"In the selfies you posted, you've seen sketchpads, sketchbooks, and paints several times... Although I don't know how to appreciate art, I think your paintings are pretty good. At least your paintings of me are pretty good, and they have 80% of my style!"
Felix was so angry that he picked up the foundation cushion and slapped it hard on Ash's face: "Are you kidding me? I take pictures so that you can see me, not so that you can see the details! You just need to appreciate my photos with your lustful eyes, don't let other thoughts come to mind!"
"You can be really scary sometimes Felix..."
The corners of Ash's mouth twitched: "Later I asked the Gospel Spirit and found out that you have been good at painting since you were a child... But painting is not a shameful hobby, why do you hide it?"