Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse-Chapter 170: All for naught...

"Flames!" Jade cast her new and unexpected spell.

Green flame immediately appeared and covered both her hands. They burned fiercely, a lot hotter than Emily's too. Which was probably because of her higher rank. Otherwise, if they were the same rank, Jade wouldn't be in the same class as Emily.

The eyes of both Emily and Audrey widened in surprise. It wasn't because they thought it was impossible. Since they knew about Jade's ability to do such things. What was surprising was how sudden and unexpected it was.

Since they hadn't seen Jade consume a beast core to gain the ability. It naturally surprised them. To their knowledge, no one should have access to the cores yet. Unless...

"Wow! You can use fire now! Good for you" Emily exclaimed. Genuinely happy for her friend.

"Huh? Yeah... Thanks..." Jade was caught off guard by Emily's response. She was expecting saltiness from Emily or something like that. So she wasn't sure how to respond.

That's when she remembered how Emily was a goody-two-shoes at her core. So it should have been obvious how she'd react. The reason why she was thrown off was because of Emily's recent petty actions.

Unfortunately, for her. It seemed Emily's pettiness didn't run too deep. Leaving her feeling empty. Like she expected a cake only to get a muffin or something. It really didn't feel good. Especially after what she did to get the flame ability.

"Now you can help me with cooking. I can also have off days. I never thought this day would come despite knowing your ability. It just never came to mind. However, you, my best friend, thought of it"

"You just couldn't take seeing me doing all the work, could you? Thank you, thank you! I'm sorry about my pettiness from before. I hope we can get back to how we were before all that. I'm so happy. I have to go tell the others the good news. I'll let you get to preparing your meat then" Emily spoke nonstop while hugging Jade.

After she was done she immediately went out of the room. Skipping in happiness. Leaving the stunned Jade and the amused Audrey behind.

As she left, Audrey noticed a little cunning smile on Emily's face. Which likely signified how she knew all about Jade's real intention. She just refused to acknowledge the news in the way Jade wanted her to.

Being an onlooker to the whole thing. Audrey almost couldn't hold back her laughter. The girls were just so funny and cute. Moments like that were the ones she enjoyed most. She would forget all the struggles in the outside world during such times.

"This isn't how it was supposed to go... My favour!" Jade exclaimed in pain while squatting down and grabbing her head.

"What do you mean?" Audrey asked just to tease Jade a bit more.

She had pretty much already guessed what had happened. Muku tells her almost everything that happens between him and the girls. So she was basically always in the know.

"It's like this..." Jade, who was looking for a way to vent didn't mind telling Audrey everything.

So, she told Audrey everything. How she had gone to see Muku after Emily refused to help her. Her purpose was to secretly get a fire element core for obvious reasons. However, while Muku didn't refuse to help her. He only agreed to do so if she traded it for the favour he owed her.

His reason was that he was sticking out his neck for her by giving her the core behind everyone's back. So she had to trade it for something of equal value. While it was a struggle to decide. Her vengeful spirit obviously won in the end. Muku gave her the core with the happiest smile she had ever seen on his face. Which she didn't understand.

Audrey understood why he was so happy though. He had been racking his brain for ideas on what he could give her or do for her to settle the favour. However, nothing was coming up. He had even asked her for help in thinking of something, but Audrey refused.

She was still feeling a bit petty about the time she saw him patting Freya. She also wanted his pats but never got any. So why would she help him?

Not to mention the talk he had with the girls but didn't have with her. While she understood everything well. She wouldn't get paid for being so reasonable. So why would she be so?

Anyway, that was why he was happy when Jade came to ask for his help. He was starting to fear that he might really end up being her servant or something. With that, one of the two greatest headaches he was facing at that time was dealt with.

"Oh, is that so. I'm really sorry to hear that. However, isn't Emily's happiness as valuable as her saltiness to you.?If not even more precious? If you look at it like that, you didn't get short-changed for anything. You traded in an uncertain favour, for the happiness of your best friend" Audrey still tried to cheer Jade up despite how she found the situation funny.

Which was why her reasoning was a bit flawed. Jade would have likely gotten the fire element within a day or two. So, Emily would have ended up as happy as she was anyway. As for Jade, she lost a very valuable favour and didn't get the one thing she wanted on top of that.

So the situation wasn't as positive as Audrey made it seem. Which she knew very well. She was just hoping that the emotional Jade wouldn't notice.

"Yeah, you're right. I think I'm going to lie down for a bit. I'll prepare this meat tomorrow. You can serve some R2 meat for me as well. I'll come down soon" Jade replied.. Feeling a bit better after Audrey's words. Which was good news for Audrey who hoped such an outcome.

"Yeah, sure. You go rest. I'll serve you some and cover it. You can get it after resting. Don't take too long though. As you know Muku has something to tell us after the meal." Audrey replied with a smile.

Her gentle motherly voice really put the girls at ease. Even the rowdy Jade would always get tamed by it easily.

"Okay, I will be present", Jade replied, then left the room.

"It's never a dull moment with them running around..." Audrey spoke to herself softly after Jade left. She then returned to her task.

Soon, everything was ready, and everyone was called down for the meal. Other than Jade the others came and enjoyed their hearty meal.

Muku was all smiles from start to finish. Seeing him, Audrey couldn't help but roll her eyes. Did he really enjoy tricking Jade that much? Yes, he tricked her, because there were no stakes in him giving her the core at all.

The girls wouldn't really care that he gave Jade a core sooner than he should have. So, Jade practically exchanged her favour for nothing at all. Which was another loss. It was a literal "all for nought" situation.

Audrey couldn't help but wonder how Jade would react after she calmed down and realised what happened. That would definitely be a show to see. She kinda couldn't wait...

...

After the meal...

"Is Jade really coming down?" Muku, who wanted to start their business talk, asked. Audrey had told them about how Jade wanted to lie down for a bit, so they had ignored her absence until then.

"I'm here, you can start" Before Audrey could respond. Jade appeared and spoke for herself while coming down the stairs.

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"Okay. So the thing is..." Muku immediately got into it. Not minding that Jade was still a bit of distance away. After all, her ears were good enough.

His revelation left all of the girls excited. It was something that had slipped all their minds, but they liked it very much...

(TUNE IN NEXT TIME, FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER OF DRAGON BALL APOCALYPSE!... I couldn't help it, okay)