While they were walking under the city, Aster sent Alice a message with his communication talisman to let her know he was returning but they will be moving since they were close to find out who was the one behind the attack.
After walking for almost twenty minutes, they were below Sarina's mansion, more accurately they appeared on the room that was used as a storage for groceries inside the mansion.
Since there weren't any maids left in the mansion, no one saw them going upstairs, Aster opened the door and he saw Alice sat in the bed next to Kana who was still sleeping, Sylas let out a sigh of relief noticing his granddaughter was completely fine, although she was given a pill to make her sleep there was no side effects and she will naturally wake up in a couple of hours.
Alice stood up, she was a bit wary of the old man who in her opinion seemed to be stronger than Robert, she took her legitimate position at Aster's right side while he explained her everything they discovered.
Once the explanations were over, she nodded.
"Even a tiger won't eat its own offspring… to think that guy was cruel enough to not care about his only daughter, not only that but those idiots were also aiming at me, I think they must be taught a lesson".
Aster smiled.
"Don't worry sis, we didn't look for troubles with them but they dared to think of placing their claws on you… and for that I will personally erase them from existence".
His words, made Sarina remind what happened to the guard when they were in the tavern, unlike the blue flames she knew, the golden ones he used then gave off a completely different feeling, an instinctive sensation of… danger.
Since they didn't have time to see whether the guards of the mansion were traitors or not, they used a tunnel to move until they reached a storage that Sylas kept as a cover for his personal hangar.
Inside of it, there was his personal space ship, called "Luonto's sword", it was smaller than Ritz's one but the quality was more or less the same, the reason of its size was that this one was bought by Sylas with his own money instead of the funds assigned to him as a city lord.
Still, it was big enough for more than 20 people to comfortably travel on it so the space was not a problem, Sylas was the captain of course and Marco took the role to be the co-pilot, Aster who was carrying Kana as a princess entered a room followed by Sarina.
Contrary to what Aster thought Alice didn't enter the room, she closed the door while giving her brother a provocative gaze.
Aster mentally sighed, "you pervert sister, admiring beautiful things is not a crime… I haven't done anything weird to them", he thought.
Since Sylas was rushing to reach the capital, it was going to be a short travel so there was no time to rest, first Sarina removed the bandages from her hands, they were completely healed which made her wonder what kind of medicine Aster used on her, but she was sensitive enough to not ask about something that could be a lifesaving elixir.
If Aster knew what she was thinking he would laugh, that was simply his blood, he has been extracting samples from time to time in the past years, for some little experiments, with the pass of the time, he noticed there started appearing little quantities of golden color mixed in the normal red color of his blood.
Not only that but his blood was brimming with vitality, even if he extracted a lot of it, it was almost immediately replenished, of course he felt hungry after that but it didn't affect him so after he discovered it had healing and purifying properties he prepared some bottles of it in case of an emergency, "one can never be cautious enough", was one of his principles.
With the exception of Kana who was sleeping, the only ones left in the room were Sarina and him, which made the situation a but awkward for them, Sarina sighed.
"I was ready for this since I accepted the treatment, in any case, I have been a free woman even before I was infected by corruption, so what if… I show my naked body to him", she thought.
Without saying anything she started taking off her clothes, until she was only wearing her underwear, this where they left It before, but there was one different thing this time, previously Sarina was wearing some plain looking bra and panties, but this time it was a fine set of black underwear which made a good contrast with her pale skin.
Of course, she changed before when she was about to go to sleep with Kana before all the incident with the guards and Lynn started, she felt so happy for her new chance in life that she just chose to use something she had never tried before, who would have thought the first one to see her on it would be Aster.
Aster feigned ignorance, but to be honest her maternal figure combined with that black lingerie was quite a sight to behold.
Sarina doubted for a second before breaking the silence.
"P-please start with my abdomen".
Aster nodded and Rigel's flame covered the visible parts of her abdomen, unlike before this time he had to remove the little black crystals that had formed on some parts of her skin which took him almost five minutes, with a little cracking sound they broke and liberated a big quantity of black smoke which was immediately destroyed by the flames.
Once she saw there wasn't any left-over signs of corruption she turned around while maintaining her hair over her shoulders, Aster understood the signal and did the same on her back, the process repeated until all the places that were visible were completely free of any corruption.
Sarina did feel the difference, her body felt lighter, it was easier for her to breath as if she has lifted a weight from her body, now the only places left were her breasts and… her privates.
She made sure that Kana was still sleeping and then slowly took off her bra first, she tried to use her hands to cover her bare breasts but it was not possible due to their size, Aster found the current image of a shily blushed half naked Sarina quite cute but he didn't say anything.
After a moment she slowly retired her hands to give him full view of her "affected area", she did have a few black spots here and there, but they paled in comparison to the little nipples that adorned that pair of big breasts, like cherries on top of a dessert.
Her breasts maintained the characteristic firm and high position of a young woman, although she had breastfed before, her nipples were of a beautiful light pink color, and just like Lilia, she had that maternal charm around her, at first Aster was being careful to not show interest in Sarina but after seeing that, how could he remain completely unaffected still what he felt was admiration instead of lust, just like he thought before, admiring beautiful things isn't a crime.
The only problem is that without noticing he stared at them for a not so short period of time which of course Sarina noticed, but she was in no position to complain because for some reason when she saw Aster focusing his gaze on her bare breasts, her nipples… reacted.
"This is so embarrassing, I'm old enough to be his mother and here I'm getting all worked up just because he is seeing me… although he seems quite interested in them, maybe because he is young".
Sarina cleared her throat which took Aster out of his daze.
"W-we are in a hurry right now but later when we deal with the current situation, I… would like you to check on me again since any left-over corruption will probably become external to replace what you have removed!!!", her voice tone changed while she was speaking, at first, she hesitated, later she lowered her voice and at the end she spoke as fast as she could.
The result a shocked Aster, she basically told him to focus on healing her this time, since later he would get to see her body again.
To not make things more awkward, he only nodded and Rigel's flames covered Sarina's chest, she even slightly separated them so Aster could see the skin between them and remove any corruption that might be there.
While Aster was busy focusing on removing corruption, Sarina's mind was a disaster.
"What am I doing!!! I just flirted with a boy that is in the same age range as my daughter… and why do I feel my heart beating as fast as if I ran a whole day!!!".
Originally, she was only going to ask him to start the treatment while feigning ignorance about the whole situation but while she was speaking, she suddenly thought "it's better to always do a double check", then the meaning of her words took a completely different turn and now she more or less suggested the young man in front of her to look at her body with the excuse of a second treatment session.
Sarina's internal strife was interrupted when she no longer felt the fresh sensation of Rigel's flame in her chest, she looked downwards and her breasts were completely free of any black spots, she turned around for Aster to see if there were any corruption that wasn't visible due to the laces of her bra, but there wasn't, so now there was only one place left.
If it was before she might have not thought too much about it, but now that she has seen the interest in Aster's eyes and reciprocated said interest with voluntarily asking for a second "treatment session", she now became more aware of what she was about to do.
"Aster…can you please turn around for a moment?", she said.
Aster did as she told and he turned to see the door.
"You might wonder why, and old lady like me is acting like this, the truth is that I only married Robert to fulfill my father's wish of uniting our families, I was an adult when that happened and I had zero interest on him… I only fulfilled my duties as wife with him once on a dark room, and that's how Kana came to my life".
"That's why he insisted on being present in the room, because he hasn't seen my body naked not even once… you can turn around now".
Aster turned around and he was welcomed with an image that seemed to came out of the mind of the most talented artist, first he focused on the outer details, her wavy blonde hair cascaded down to her hips, her pale smooth skin that had regained the healthy tone of a young woman, and that beautiful pair of emerald green eyes, a beauty in all the meaning of the word.
If you add to the above the fact that her figure had the maternal curves that Aster adores so much, that large pair of breasts and the small blond bush that crowned her secret garden, which had the beautiful immaculate pink tone of a young maiden, the result was a woman which by no means is less attractive than any of his girls.
Now that she was face to face with Aster, Sarina said what was on her mind.
"What I try to say is that… I'm by no means a woman that will show her body to just any men, so please don't think of me like that".
Previously she didn't put too much attention in how Aster would think of her, and now here she was acting like a young girl who is experiencing love for the first time, which wasn't so far from the truth, her marriage was political just like the ones of many nobles, the difference was that she never developed feelings for Robert since she knew his true face.
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