A Joke

"T-that's not it, I like the worm dish, it's delicious. Really!"

"A dish of worms? Oh my God! So what?"

"T-that I just wanted to thank you. As long as I've lived, you're the kindest human being I've ever met besides Ethan."

"What?"

"I-I mean, that's-" Sheera stuttered. She didn't know how to explain how grateful she was to Keith.

Keith was surprised to hear Sheera's confession. Nobody was nice to her besides him and someone named Ethan? That was the sentence he caught. He didn't know what kind of life Azura was actually experiencing, so no one had treated her well all this time. Just two people, doesn't that sound very sad?

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Azura sat on the sofa watching TV, for some reason she really enjoyed Aiden's wrestling match. She didn't expect that Aiden would be that strong because he could defeat his rival easily

Aiden came out of the bathroom wearing only a towel wrapped around his hips. He forgot that now there was a woman living in his house and he could no longer wander around his house naked.

He forgot to bring a change of clothes to the bathroom and was forced to wear his clothes in the room and passed by Azura who was focused on the TV screen in front of her eyes. Aiden just passed by without feeling guilty, even though he actually felt strange because he had to share his cramped house with a girl, which made him even more worried, what if he couldn't control himself and forced the innocent Azura to do something perverted with him?

"Damn, how can she sit like that without wearing underwear? She has absolutely no shame." He thought when he accidentally saw Azura's crotch which was not covered by panties.

She sat in a pose that made any man who saw her feel aroused. Aiden started to feel restless, his head started to fill with dirty things, after all, he was an adult man who was still very sexually active.

"Hey, Azura...!" Because he could no longer hold back his annoyance. Like it or not, he had to warn the girl to behave more politely like a classy woman.

"What's wrong, Aiden? You called me?" Azura immediately jumped from the sofa and approached Aiden when Aiden called her.

Azura smiled sweetly in front of Aiden, because she had been treated very well. She became very confident in Aiden. Her innocent and sweet attitude like a cute puppy made his heart beat fast. It feels a little inversely proportional to the girl he likes.

Cold, quiet, a little arrogant and unpredictable. In contrast to Azura who looks so innocent and pure. If the girl could open her heart a little, maybe Aiden wouldn't need to feel anxious like this because he already had someone who reciprocated his feelings.

"Aiden, what's wrong? You called me earlier, right?" Azura touched Aiden's face gently. She was confused because Aiden suddenly fell silent.

Aiden felt a big rumble in his heart. He forgot how long it had been since he felt a touch as gentle as this? Since his mother died when he was a toddler, he was cared for by one of the concubines of the King of the elves who lived in the middle of the forest. He was raised like a child by his adoptive mother who loved him very much. However, since he was a teenager, the King asked him not to live among the elves anymore because they was afraid that his wild side would start to awaken as he got older.

"It's been 130 years," Aiden muttered softly. His eyes continued to stare at Azura who was standing right in front of him.

"What's 130 years?"

"No, it's nothing. I was just distracted. Aren't you sleepy? Go sleep in the bedroom, I'll sleep on the sofa!" He said suddenly forgetting the reason he shouted angrily at Azura a moment ago. He melts easily if treated gently and that is his weakness.

"Why are you sleeping on the sofa? Just sleep in your room, Aiden!"

"You can't! You're a girl, so you have to sleep in the bedroom. I can sleep anywhere, so you don't need to worry!"

"Then we can both sleep in the same room? I can hug you like I fell asleep on a horse. I really like your smell!"

"Hey, do you really understand what you just said?"

"Why? I said something wrong, didn't I?"

"If we both sleep in a room, we can reproduce! You idiot! You always talk carelessly, don't you?"

"We won't reproduce, Keith. Because we have legs!"

"Huh? What? What the hell are you saying?"

"You're afraid that I'll lay eggs, right?"

Keith was at a loss for words to say. He really knows what the real IQ of this girl is so she always says something strange like a child who is just getting to know the world. This made Aiden start to get suspicious, could it be that her family deliberately threw her into the sea because she was very stupid and gave everyone trouble? Even though he didn't really hope that his guess was true, if it was true, then he would feel very sorry for her.

In Aiden's eyes, Azura's appearance looked like a normal girl in her early 20s, around 160 cm tall and had a slim body. Her dark brown hair reaches her waist, her skin color is not too white, but not dark either, her eyes are green with beautiful blue shades. However, what was most striking about her was the large size of her boobs which often made Aiden fail to focus.

"Egg laying? How can humans lay eggs? What's your IQ? How can you be so stupid? Humans are mammals, so it's impossible for them to lay eggs like birds or fish. Do you understand that?"

"Is that so? So humans don't lay eggs, I just found out!"

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