God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

"Eyaak! Sourr!" she exclaimed, but then a look of surprise flashed on her face, "Why is it sweet all of a sudden? I mean..."

"Heheheh" Keith smirked before looking at his teammates, this time his expression serious, "We need to find a good place to rest first."

There were multiple system screen in front of him, none of which his teammates could see. Each one of them gave Keith information on the actions of some key teams, the ones that were among the better teams. It was too much work to keep an eye on every screen, but Keith did his best.

Clara and Caleb stuffed their pockets with the rest of the tamarinds while Amelia carried the branch that Clara had broken. Keith silently walked with them as he licked the ripe tamarind in his hands, enjoying it as he remembered his childhood.

After a few minutes, they heard a commotion to their right and the first thing that Keith did was to look at Laura, "Spy for us?"

"Okay." she replied and gave him her leather pouches before she transformed. Her clothes stretched along with her body and the more she became snake like, the more they stretched. Then the scales formed over the clothes and covered them entirely.

Team Sera watched Laura slither away and Keith pointed at the trees nearby, "Let's hide behind these trees."

As everyone rushed to different trees, Amelia pushed Clara towards Keith, who had walked over to the tree that was furthest from the direction at which the commotion was happening.

"Go go. This is the perfect time, like... one tree should be able to hide two people easily." she whispered hurriedly and pushed Clara again, who jogged over to Keith with no other option. Or at least that was what she wanted to believe.

Deep inside, she just wanted to spend more time with him but a large part of her stopped her from not listening to Keith's words, which clearly said that they shouldn't act too lovey dovey openly. It was like rowing a boat against the river currents and Amelia's push was akin to her rows getting stuck between two rocks, letting the boat freely move with the river's currents.

Keith simply wanted to focus on the system screens so that he could spot the ones who were close to him, but when he saw Clara walk over to him, he looked at her with a confused expression on his face.

"Hmm?"

"Two of us can hide together right?" Clara asked as she walked closer, remembering Amelia's words from last night. She didn't know what made her do it, but by the time she realised what she had done, her body was already pressing against his.

Keith's brain was just confused as Clara was someone who never made the first move, but his little brother was a different case entirely as he woke up from his deep slumber.

The first thing in Keith's mind was concern. He looked down at her with a worried look on his face and when he saw her bright red face, he didn't know what to say. Was it fever? Was she blushing? Or did she eat some suspicious mushrooms? He didn't know.

"You... are you alright?" he asked, making her face even more red until she couldn't take it anymore. Embarrassment consumed the entirety of her being as she closed his eyes and bumped her head onto his chest repeatedly before finally saying, "Jerk."

Keith squinted his eyes. He wasn't sure what she wanted or what was going on in her mind, but facing such a scenario, he had to test it out on his own.

He put the rest of the tamarind into his mouth and looped his arms, hugging her back. He instantly felt her body relax, almost melting into him. With this, he finally understood what she wanted and let out a soft sigh as he gamble had paid off.

"You know, if you want something, you don't have to hesitate about talking to me about it. I know that we talked about starting out as friends and stuff but that's only because I didn't want our whole thing to just be about pure lust. But I also didn't mean that we have to completely refrain from doing the romantic things." he whispered as he rubbed the back of her chest and felt her nod.

Clara looked up at him, her gaze soft, but worried.

"What about Timmy? You said that if he sees us together, it will cause trouble..."

Keith smiled, "Oh, you don't have to worry about him when he's not here to see us."

"Okay." she replied and put her face into his chest, not asking any questions. Keith looked up at a tree in front of him and smiled slightly, which soon turned into a smirk as he thought about Timmy.

In the past two weeks, he wasn't sitting still. He had been sending Vincent on multiple quests, all of them targeting the Sanders' businesses and currently, Vincent was travelling from Morose to Baroma Kingdom as he had already robbed and destroyed most of the main businesses in Morose Kingdom.

Timmy's father had almost 50% of his businesses in Kazak Empire, 35% in Morose Kingdom and 15% in Baroma Kingdom. These were only the legal businesses, but Keith had his plans for their slave trading business, which he wanted to personally take care of later.

With more than 35% businesses in shambles and having a looming threat over their heads, the chances of the Sanders' family taking action against Clara to forcefully wed her to Timothy were diminished.

Due to this, Keith wasn't too afraid of the consequences if Timmy did see him and Clara together anymore.

He spent a few minutes with Clara in his embrace until he heard Laura slither back to the team. Experience tales at empire

"Just two teams that fought against each other for food. One of them got teleported back but the other team is pretty injured. I also checked the surroundings and there's no one nearby." she said after she transformed back to her human form.

Hearing this, Keith grinned, "Nice."