Do Flowers Bloom in the Fallen Land? - Chapter 11.1

“Shall we finish what we came here for, commander-in-chief?”

Unfortunately for Baron, Seira’s eyes did not show any signs of regret.

In the first place, even if he was pure-blooded or not, it was important that he saw to his future. From Seira’s perspective, as the owner of Askan, he had only sounded ridiculous.

‘I was wrong,’ he thought.

Baron rolled his tongue to the back of his mouth and turned his head away. Neither an Alpha who could solve her heat cycle nor a purebred seed could make any difference. Not unless there was another factor that would attract her attention.

The two of them tracked the traces of mana left by the intermediate-level beast. After about 20 minutes of heavy silence, they found a hidden cave between haphazardly piled rocks.

Baron frowned as he examined the torn vines.

“He was hiding here? How the hell could a beast know how?”

“Right. It’s not an easy hiding place to find, or to build at that,” Seira agreed.

After they tied their horses to the tree right by the cave’s entrance, the two of them entered. Unlike the narrow entrance, the inside turned out to be much wider and deeper than they expected. Baron searched thoroughly while tracing remaining mana, but he couldn’t find any other signs.

“I don’t think there is any more left in here,” he deduced.

“That would be because intermediate-level beasts with magic are uncommon,” Seira said as she veered her attention to something near her feet.

While she examined the cave floor, Seira found a considerable amount of what seemed like gray powder. It was subtly different from the floor color. As Seira knelt and swiped some of it with her finger, Baron approached her.

“It’s… it’s like ashes,” he noted.

“Right? It’s like the remains of a fire.”

There was no way that beasts could start a fire. Then what was it?

“Is this place well known to the locals?” Baron asked as both of them rose from examining the ground.

“Probably,” Seira answered, “They said there were lots of herbalists around here, so they should know this place pretty well.”

They couldn’t find any other connection except for the fact that the herbalists and beast’s hideout coincidentally overlapped. After finishing their inspection of the cave, Seira and Baron went out without wasting time.

“Just in case, let’s go further into the woods,” Baron said as he pointed towards the distance.

Seira agreed to Baron’s suggestion. It wouldn’t be much of a problem to walk through the forest even if it gets dark. This would be thanks to their vision, which was far greater than that of ordinary people.

In the end, the two of them found no more traces of magic or signs of mana as they went deeper into the woods. Instead, they only found a quiet spring surrounded by high rock walls.

As if they had planned it, the two of them looked at each other. Seira’s eyes twinkled with anticipation and Baron’s eyes softened.

Baron waved his hand towards the spring as he said, “Let’s take turns washing up. You may go in first, Seira.”

“Really?”

“If you don’t like it, then I shall go first if you don’t mind.”

“No, I don’t hate it,” she quickly said.

Seira didn’t decline. When she joined the army, the opportunity to wash up was extremely rare. Unlike those of other noble families, it was not easy bathing in the barracks without bringing maids and servants to attend her. Seira had no choice but to clean herself by wiping a wet towel all over her body.

So, when they chance upon any source of water during their missions, their eyes automatically shine.

“Don’t peek. Put your family’s honor on it,” Seira demanded Baron.

Baron laughed and said, “Do we even need to do that for this?” As Seira put her hands to her waist and raised an indignant brow at him, Baron relented and said, “Of course, of course. I won’t peek at my family’s honor.”

He stepped behind a large rock; his hands raised as if in mock defeat. After checking that his angle didn’t allow him even a sliver of chance to peek, Seira quickly began to undress.

She laid her cape to the ground, took off her boots, jacket, pants, shirt, and underwear. She rolled all of them up, placed them somewhere far enough so they won’t get wet, but close enough to grab in case of emergencies. Once all of those were done, Seira finally jumped into the water.

The water was cold enough to make her shiver, but it didn’t matter at all.

‘Ah… I’m alive,” she thought to herself.

Sex during the heat cycle was simply mating of animals. Even though she had intercourse in a nightgown, her whole body was a mess that there was almost no spot left unmarked by semen. She changed the water several times as she wiped them off afterwards, but it was incomparable to soaking her entire body in the cold water like this.

When she touched her hair, it was all still tangled.

‘Ugh… did it actually shoot up to my head too?’ she thought.

Several scenes flashed in front of her eyes as she was afraid to raise any doubts. Aven rubbing his hard cock on her nipples, or herself licking his balls like they were the sweetest candy around.

‘Ugh…’

As her body began to heat up and her lower part began to throb, Seira shooked her head and tried to erase the memories of last night from her head.

‘I’m lucky it was just this much,’ she thought.

Seira actually felt sorry for Baron who was going to wash up after her.

She grumbled as she scrubbed her head for a long time. Her hair had turned quite hard, which made the dirt difficult to remove by hand. Even her hair tie was entangled.

‘Should I cut it shorter then?’ she wondered.

It was hard to manage, so she thought of cutting it until the back of her neck. But then again it would still be quite cumbersome.

‘Oh, finally!’

At last she successfully managed to get her hair tie off. Immediately, her platinum blonde hair unraveled onto the water’s surface. After some time, she satisfactorily brushed her hair and washed her body clean.

‘I should get changed now,’ she decided.

Suddenly, Seira sensed a movement in the opposite direction of the rock where Baron sat leaning. At first she thought it was just one person, but in fact it was a group of three individuals. Possibly even more.

‘Oh, my…’

It was most likely that they were men who came with Baron to search the beast’s den. Seira knew it was already pointless to scramble for her clothes. She slowly got out of the water, but her stare was intense as if the intention was to kill.

“Seira,” she heard Baron’s voice call out to her softly.

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