! Here's Chapter 8:a mix of flirtation, softness, and a grand reveal as Kazriel and Aria return like legends, shocking the entire kingdom with both their chemistry and the value of their conquest.
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Chapter 8: Return of the Storm Couple
Their lips parted slowly, breath still mingling in the fading dusk.
Aria's fingers trailed lightly over Kazriel's cheek, her lips curving into a soft smile.
"They're really soft," she murmured.
Kazriel blinked. "W-What?"
"Your lips," she said with a teasing gleam in her eyes. "I'll have fun with them in the near future."
His ears went red.
The great Duke Kazriel—slayer of beasts, master of the sword—blushed like a teenager.
"A-Aria—"
She only chuckled, stepping past him with wind-light grace. "Let's head back, Duke. The world needs to know how overpowered we are."
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When their skyship returned to the capital, the city came to a stunned halt.
The entire royal harbor was stacked high with enchanted beast cores, rare alchemy ingredients, and purified monster relics—materials that hadn't been seen in bulk for a decade.
An imperial merchant took one look at the glowing crates and nearly fainted.
"Th-This is worth… billions. Billions of gold coins!"
Knights gawked.
Nobles whispered.
One scholar wept over a dragon's eye preserved in a cryo-chest.
And in the middle of it all, Kazriel and Aria stepped down from the ship like nothing had happened.
"Where did they even find all this?" a merchant gasped.
"They flew to a cursed jungle and cleared it in a day," someone replied in a daze.
Hand in hand, Kazriel and Aria walked through the awe-struck crowd.
She leaned in, whispering, "Think this will quiet your political rivals?"
He smirked. "They can bark all they want. You and I? We roar."