Seeing that Sarina had finished preparing the place for the picnic, Aster stopped patting Kana and they walked towards her.
But then Kana giggled and turned around as she went into the water.
“Big brother I will go ahead to swim, mom is really trying to get your attention with that swimsuit so you should spoil her ♥”.
Sarina listened to her daughter mocking her and she responded in kind.
“You are becoming a bit rebellious lately, as expected of a little girl who has reached “that” age”.
“M-Mom!”, Kana’s face turned red as a tomato, she stole a couple of gazes at Aster before running away into the lake.
A small splashing sound and a large amount of water which flew due to Kana jumping into the lake, made Sarina cover her mouth as she softly laughed.
A couple of days ago she had the “talk” with her daughter, because she noticed that her interest in night activities was growing, that wasn’t as uncomfortable as she thought it would be, Kana already witnessed such acts before after all.
What did make her feel shy was that she gave that little step from a child to become a young lady this morning, unlike normal humans, due to her innately stronger constitution as a cultivator she didn’t suffer any pain and Sarina gave her a pill to take care of the bleeding, so that no one noticed it.
If anything, she got a sudden increase in her yin energy which would have normally caused mood changes, but for some unknown reason that didn’t happen.
Aster laid down on the lounge chair, he patted his lap, an invitation Sarina happily accepted as she got up him and rested her head on his chest.
Then the two of them watched Kana swimming around at the area near the edge of the lake, Aster caressed Sarina’s silky hair while he imagined the future when he has children with the girls.
Sarina happily hummed as she enjoyed Aster’s caresses, of course she noticed her daughter “spied” on them from time to time which made her giggle.
“Being a mother is a such an ungrateful job, I raised that little girl during twelve years and she is now putting a certain someone above her own mother’s well-being”, she said as she feigned to sigh.
Aster was amused by the whole situation, Kana’s feelings started to change from curiosity and admiration to romantic love, even if she didn’t notice it, how could Sarina as her mother not see the change in her daughter’s attitude.
Aster then dragged Sarina closer to him, her smooth naked skin was a pleasure to the contact, specially because her bikini didn’t cover most of her body.
Sarina perfectly recognized the look in Aster’s eyes and she kissed him, feeling a bit daring she took the initiative of intertwining he tongue with his, to enjoy a passionate kiss.
Of course, Kana observed them from afar, she mumbled while half of her face was submerged in the water which created little bubbles.
Aster then patted Sarina’s ass a couple of times before getting up, since they came here to enjoy of the lake, then he might as well play in the water with both mother and daughter.
Sarina and Aster entered in the lake, the water was completely clear that they could see small fishes swimming here and there, although Aster’s aura scared away spirit beasts, he only affected those from the earth origin realm and above, and these fishes were barely at the core condensation realm.
It was similar as to how ants wouldn’t be scared of a lion, unless of course the lion specifically targets them.
The water level near the edge wasn’t too high, about 1.4 meter, but that was enough to almost completely cover Kana leaving just her head out of the water.
Aster swam towards her and lifted her by her waist, originally Kana thought Aster was going to hug her, but then she noticed he had a playful smile.
“B-Big brother you… wahhh!”.
Without any warning Aster used a bit of his strength to throw Kana at the air making her fly a couple of meters before falling on the lake again.
“Hahaha”, Sarina couldn’t help but laugh out loud, she knew Aster wouldn’t hurt Kana, so he was just playing with her.
As expected, besides the small surprise at the beginning, Kana surfaced again before she jumped towards Aster tackling him and making both of them sink into the water.
Aster saw Kana which was clinging to him like a koala even if they were underwater and he smiled, with his gaze he urged her to ride on his back instead, which she did, then Aster swam towards Sarina and grabbed her leg dragging her into the water.
If anyone suddenly felt something pulling on her from below the water, the normal reaction would be trying to get away, but Sarina perfectly recognized the touch of her lover so she simply let her body sink into the water.
The next thing she saw was her daughter clinging to Aster’s back, and the beautiful underwater scenery conformed by some small fishes and clear water.
Aster dragged Sarina into his embrace and then his body started advancing as he used his spirit energy to propel his body, he was now an early-stage stellar constellation realm cultivator and that allowed him to glide through the air for a couple of meters, although that only worked in low ranked planets according to his mother.
With the mother in his arms and the daughter in his back, Aster went deeper into the lake, of course he paid attention to Kana, but she could properly hold her breath until they reached their destination.
They were probably at the deepest part of the lake and surprisingly the water was still as clear as before, even at about forty meters below the surface, but the source of illumination wasn’t the sunlight but the floor of the lake.
Aster descended until his feet touched the ground, he then made some gesture so that Sarina and Kana let go of him, which they reluctantly did.
Originally the two of them were doubting about why Aster brought them here, but as soon as their feet touched the floor of the lake they understood, instead of earth the floor was formed by small silver beads, which were solid but smooth to the contact, giving them a ticklish sensation on the soles of their feet.
Aster swam away from them and after using his spirit sense to inspect the area, he shoved his hands on the ground before taking two hand sized oysters which tried to runaway from him, just to be held in place by his hands.
Aster then pointed at the surface, Sarina and Kana held onto his body as he swam upwards.
Once they reached the surface, the girls noticed they were really farm from edge of the lake, to the point that they could only see water, but that wasn’t important right now.
“Big brother why is the ground of this part of the lake so different compared to the one at the edge?”, asked Kana remembering the ticklish sensation in her feet.
Aster then showed them the oysters which stopped trying to escape as if they have resigned to their destiny.
“These little things are called crystal oysters, and this specific pair are stellar axys realm spirit beasts”.
Sarina frowned, normally the higher the realm of a spirit beast the bigger their body will be, but these oysters were barely the size of a hand, but after inspecting them she noticed they were actually stellar axys realm beasts.
“You see, the floor of this part of the lake is completely covered in the pearls produced by other lower ranked crystal oysters, contrary to other beasts these ones shrink as they advance, but the pearls produced by them grow in size and quality”.
Aster didn’t want to kill the oysters as they didn’t even attack him, so he only used a bit of his aura to make them willingly open their shell, revealing a pair of silver toned pearls which he of course took.
That being said he didn’t just rob the oysters, before letting them go he placed a spirit gathering pill of the peak sky grade in each of the oysters before letting them go.
Kana saw the oysters making circles around them before the little things swam downwards returning to the bottom of the lake.
“Let’s return to the edge of the lake”, said Aster, but this time he didn’t dive back into the water, with a wave of his hand the golden light of the paragon body covered him, Sarina and Kana.
Their bodies floated before they turned into a golden flash which shot towards the edge of the lake.
In the way Kana tried to look at the surrounds but the speed was such that she only saw blurred things before giving up.
Unlike swimming, it didn’t take them even a couple of minutes to return to the place where they landed the spaceship.
Although the pair of mother and daughter obviously knew the pearls were for them, they didn’t know why Aster went out of his way to get them.
As Kana was about to ask, Sarina suddenly put on a coat to cover her body before taking out a sword from her spatial ring.
Aster frowned, he also noticed the maliciousness floating in the air, but he didn’t do anything besides saying.
“Come out, you can’t hide from me”.
Aster’s cold voice echoed through the whole place, before a bunch of figures covered in black clothes from head to toe “appeared” out of thin air.
With a single gaze Aster calculated there were about fifty people, thirty stellar axys realm, nineteen-star tribulation and a peak mortal transcending realm cultivator.
“Well, I can’t discard the possibility that they are bandits”, thought Aster, in fact he discarded the possibility that these people were natives of the Rodia star cluster.
The figure in the middle took some steps ahead of the others and then a harsh voice could be heard coming from the black bandages that were covering his face.
“Leave all your properties and the two girls, then get lost if you want to live”.