Lukas followed the smell back through the trees.
Akira had set up the fire perfectly, and a slab of Nemean Lion meat now sat over the flames on a makeshift spit, seasoned and salted, the fat rendering slowly as the heat worked through it.
The aroma that rose from it was the kind that made rational thought temporarily difficult.
He sat down beside them, setting [Temptation] carefully within Melody's reach.
Akira turned the meat without looking up. "What do you two actually do for fun around here?"
Melody opened her mouth. Then closed it.
She genuinely thought about it for a moment, running back through the weeks since she'd arrived.
All they'd done had been out of necessity rather than fun. The dungeon runs, the hunting outside city walls, the leveling, even the equipment purchases.
Everything had been done for one of two purposes. Making money to survive or leveling up to get stronger.
"We… haven't really thought about it," she admitted.
