"Ah.. so comfortable!"
Meredy collapsed face-first onto the plush hotel sofa, groaning as the adrenaline of the Grand Magic Games finally faded. "My back and arms are completely wrecked." She turned her head, shooting Finn a pitiful, abandoned-puppy look, silently begging for his healing magic.
"....."
Finn rolled his eyes, desperately trying to ignore the way the fabric hugged her curves, but the silent pleading wore him down. With a quiet huff, he raised a hand. "There."
A gentle, warm light washed over her. As the healing magic soaked into her aching joints, Meredy let out a breathless, distinctly obscene moan—a high-pitched hum of pure pleasure that instantly thickened the air in the room.
"Stop acting like a kid. Go to the bathroom. You stink." Ultear ruthlessly shattered the tension, yanking Meredy by the collar.
"I am not smelly!" Meredy protested, her cheeks flushing with indignation. She knew exactly what she smelled like—a heady, musky-sweet blend of combat sweat and feminine pheromones that most men would kill to lick right off her skin. "See? Finn, I don't smell bad, right? Here, sniff!"
In a flash of brazen confidence, she shucked off her coat, raising her arms to expose the damp, glistening skin of her underarms. The intoxicating scent immediately drifted toward him.
"I am not smelly! See? Finn, my smell isn't bad, right?"
"You smell bad."
"You liar! Here, smell this!"
"…Do you think I won't get angry?" Finn's voice was dangerously low, masking the sudden, violent tightening in his groin. Sniffing a girl's sweaty armpit in front of Ultear, Sorano, and Flare? He'd lose whatever shreds of dignity he had left.
Or rather, if he let her do this, he was afraid that she might get ahead of herself, trying to do something that was definitely unorthodox among men, yet without a doubt, he knew well that liking that part of Meredy definitely wasn't a bad thing; instead, many cultured men would understand him.
Yet, to do that in front of Sorano, Flare, and also Ultear was out of the question!
Once again, if he did that, sniffing Meredy's sweaty armpit, as she told him, he would lose his dignity!
"Geez... you don't have to get angry. I was just kidding."
Meredy pouted, wondering whether an armpit wasn't something that Finn liked, yet Flare was just silent, since she knew well that almost every night, her body was marked by him, including that area between her arms, or rather, an armpit, too, which made her blush when she thought about it.
Then again, such a perverted him was kind of fun somehow.
But...
Flare looked at Meredy, Sorano, and Ultear, and thought that to make him stay instead of going out into the Fairy Tail world, she knew that she needed friends, strong ones, too; as she knew well to handle his physical needs in that area, she herself wasn't enough to handle him, and she needed a lot of help.
"Finn-sama, you must have been exhausted before, right? How about you take a rest in the hot spring pool now? I think that it will make you all relaxed."
Flare put her palms on Finn's shoulders, rubbing them lightly, showing her concern. "You have been using your Possession Magic so many times, fighting for us, so for now, you should focus on resting."
"Hmm....."
Finn glanced at Flare, and he could see that her expression definitely wasn't that of the demure or elegant that she had picked for the character of her disguise when she entered the Grand Magic Games; instead, her face was so perverted that it was clear what she wanted to do with him.
Who made her like this? Wait, it's me!
The Flare of the past was no longer to be seen; instead, while she might appear weird from time to time, she also had this unique charm that couldn't be denied.
So, facing her offer, he nodded quietly and went to the bathroom.
"...." Sorano, Meredy, and Ultear.
Tsundere!
The three of them rolled their eyes, as they knew well that Finn wanted to have fun, but he didn't want to show that to all of them, which made them sigh at his hypocrisy, yet also sigh at how cute he was, as he blushed when Flare gave him such a perverted offer.
"So, who wants to follow me?" Flare asked the three bluntly.
"...you invited us to go inside?" Ultear was speechless. "Do you want us to do it at the same place?"
"You don't want to?" Flare found Ultear's question strange. "It feels great, you know~?"
"..."
Gulp!
There was no lie in Flare's words, or rather, her face told them clearly how wonderful it was to be held by Finn. Words might seem like an exaggeration, yet he was really that amazing, due to his evolution into the Enlightened, and also the effect of various other things from the sharing ability, he had become unstoppable, and no one could face him!
Finn was simply the ultimate destruction of any pure relationship!
He was that guy who stole the lovers of others!
"If you don't want to, I will call someone else."
Flare was impatient, as she was all wet, wishing to be on Finn as soon as possible. So, she took her phone, which she then used to call someone, and connected immediately. "Bisca, are you there?"
"H-Hey, Flare, why did you call me so suddenly? I am with everyone now!"
Bisca was startled when Flare suddenly called her, especially when she was still with everyone.
"Do you want to join me? Finn-sama is here."
On the other line, Bisca panicked, surrounded by the cheering Fairy Tail guild after Laxus's brutal victory over Raven Tail. "...How can I leave everyone now?"
While the situation in Fairy Tail wasn't that bad, especially since Fairy Tail B had won a single match, unlike in the original story where Mystogan and Jellal came out to fight against Jura Neekis and lost, the one who fought this time was Laxus Dreyar, who fought against the entire Ravel Tail led by Ivan Dreyar, which led to the defeat of the entire Ravel Tail and also the disqualification of Ivan Dreyar.
Everyone was in a good mood, so how could Bisca leave, okay?
"You don't want to?"
A pause. "...I can only sneak away for two hours. Is that okay?"
"This is the place..."
As Flare texted the address, Erza's sharp eyes tracked Bisca's suspiciously hasty exit from the tavern.
Back in the penthouse, Flare tossed her phone onto the sofa. Without a shred of hesitation, she let her azure kimono drop to the floor, strutting completely naked toward the steaming bathroom.
"I'm going in first~!"
"..." Sorano, Ultear, and Meredy.
The three of them looked at each other, yet gulped before they made up their minds.