Everything got cleared up, and we went to the big building where the dinner party would be held. It would start a bit later, but some Borek guy required us to be present.

  I smell fish.

  “You smell it too?” Giana asked. We both smiled as we knew who was approaching us by smell.

  I don’t smell anything.

  A man in his late 50s arrived accompanied by Mel2.

  Ooh, we could smell her coming.

  “You ungrateful foxes! I couldn't get this smell out of my hair!”

  “Sup bitch, what are you doing here? Leeching off Papa again?” Noelle said and activated her Venomous Tongue ability.

  “Watch It Noelle! Who turned this crystal pup into a star?! You should be grateful and wag your crystal tail for me!”

  Am I seeing double?

  “We are not the same!” Noelle and Mel2 yelled.

  Ah right, one smells like fresh soil and the other one smells like fish.

  I stepped away from Raishin. I got nothing to do with this. Raishin received the ire of the 2 with the venomous tongues.

  So, you needed us, Derek?

  “It is Borek, and I see my daughter still gets along poorly with the idols… I want to thank you for returning the fish, we finally managed in preparing them and even though the party hasn't started yet, we want you to have the first and best pieces as a sample to show our gratitude.”

  Oh, how thoughtful, we appreciate it but you didn't have to!

  Agnis, everyone can see that you’re drooling, you’re fooling nobody.

  Borek led us to a small kitchen and had 6 plates ready with various fish samples.

  “I...I’m sorry, I’m a vegetarian.”

  “Ah right, we have some other things you can sample too.” Yvonne got a plate that seemed to have some seaweed salad.

  A group of chefs came in carrying something enormous while we were eating the samples.

  “We are auctioning the rest, but we thought that it would be fair to give you a big chunk of the best meat from the salmon spirit king.” The chefs put it down and unwrapped it and showed off various enormous pieces of well-cut chunks of various areas of the salmon spirit king.

  Ooh, that looks perfect, we’ll take it!

  Borek snapped his fingers. “Alright, guys, wrap it up. We will arrange for a means so that it’s easy to transport.”

  Oh, no need.

  I sucked it all up in my dimensional pocket in a special spot for high-quality food. They also brought a mountain of stuff for Yvonne, which Giana stored. Everyone stared as it seemed like she was stuffing her cleavage…

  Noelle and Mel2 were still bickering and Borek explained that the dinner would be formal.

  “Ooh, I get to see Agnis in a suit?!”

  Ooh, I get to see the chicks in sexy dresses?

  Hey, Giana, you might want to reconsider your life choices if you’re starting to sound like Raishin.

  “How is this different for Gregory by the way? He’s always wearing some kind of suit.” Giana pointed out.

  Greg dusted off his shoulder with an annoying confident look .

  It just means I have the style points that you all are lacking.

  Cat boi is acting all cool eh, I wonder where that composure goes when things get a bit… wet.

  I created a [Waterball] and his composure broke.

  “D… don’t bully him! I like his style!”

  “Oh sure, you do.” Giana remarked.

  We noticed.

  Yvonne’s face turned beet red and Greg comforted her.

  We returned to the hotel to change and I tuned out as Raishin was acting like a teenager and his hormones were raging.

  “Noelle, he’s becoming a bit annoying.” Giana complained.

  “On it, come here Raishin, I need your help to choose a dress,”

  Oooh, do I get to choose? Count me in!

  Noelle, take care, he has… questionable taste…

  “Thank you for the warning, let’s go Raishin, I will turn your head to a pulp if you peek though!”

  Giana and I enjoyed the amusing interaction between Raishin and Noelle as they went into the elevator.

  “Hmm, even though I want to do that too, I want to surprise you even more, do you mind if we meet up at the party?”

  Uh, sure, I was planning to make sure no other shady figures are lurking around trying to ruin the night.

  “Why don’t you take a rest for once?”

  I’ll take one after everything is over, ok?

  “Ok, I will hold you to it.” Giana waved and also went to her room.

  Huh, what do you mean you want to see my outfits? I am going like this!

  “B…but you always wear this, this occasion is sp…special!” I observed Yvonne’s futile attempt to get Greg to change in front of her. I am wondering if it is normal for idols to be this assertive, or are we just this dense? Greg is super dense that's for sure, Raishin doesn't believe Noelle is into him, and I’m not perfect, but I don’t think I have a clue about how much Giana likes me. I’d say we’re pretty hopeless. I sighed and disappeared into the night.

  Nothing seemed off, so I hopped into the ocean, freshened myself up, changed into a suit and scented myself with Millennial Foxbite.

  I followed the crowd as many would be heading to the same feast. All looked well-dressed. There were a few who didn't care and went quite casual. It took a while, but I found the entrance of the stadium and I joined the stupid long queue to get in.

  After 15 minutes of waiting, some guy in some sort of uniform spotted me and pulled me out of the queue. “What the fuck are you doing?”

  I cocked my head.

  Waiting for my turn?

  “You idiot, you’re a VIP, come here take the VIP entrance.”

  Whud? Nobody told me.

  He showed me the entrance for VIP which looked quite fancy. Noelle in a golden-brown slit dress walked in with Raishin with their arms locked. Raishin seemed to be extremely happy, but he was behaving. Making him feel important is one of the few way you can get him to behave consistently.

  Alright, thank you, I got it from here.

  I wanted to enter but that guy pulled my arm.

  “And where the fuck do you think you are going? You’re not used to these things, are you?”

  I’m confused.

  “Well, my work is done here, look over there.” The confusing dude pointed. It felt like I got hit by a charm attack, but I didn't detect any magic.

  “What do you think Agnis? I see that you are charmed, I didn’t use any this time. Shall we go inside?” My words failed me, Giana is quite hot normally, but she looked stunning in this dress I’m starting to think that she might be able to weaponize this. Her dress was accentuating her ‘vixen proportions’ and it drew all my attention.

  “It seems I got you speechless, I’ll take this as a bigger compliment than any verbal one.” I escorted her inside, toward a VIP table. Raishin and Noelle were already at the table and Greg and Yvonne’s spots were still empty.

  “Oh, here I was afraid you would take the normal entrance or enter the VIP section without Giana.”

  Ugh, hitting where it hurts…

  Holy shit Giana, you look super-hot. Ow hey!

  “And where is my compliment?”

  You look ehh crystalline!

  Noelle didn't react that well to his pun.

  I apologize I’m not good with words in these situations but you look stunning.

  I had difficulty finding out where to look to not be rude.

  “Your reaction tells me all I need to know; you look quite dashing in that suit.”

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  This was quite awkward. I don’t have the vocabulary to do her looks justice. Stating that she’s perfect might go too far, but she’s perfect to me. Vixens are scary. How many [Transforms] did she had to go through to get to this?

  Borek started some boring speech about the history of this town about fishing and then our fishing adventure. I just want to eat.

  Hey, where are Greg and Yvonne?

  Oh no… don't tell me Greg got lost.

  Oh shit, I forgot!

  “Don't worry Yvonne knows where we are.” Noelle said while shooting mean looks at Mel2.

  “She wasn't with us when we got told about the VIP entrance.”

  I got up. I’ll get them.

  Noelle grabbed me and pulled me down. “Let them be Agnis, just stay with Giana.”

  I sat down and she smiled. I wonder if they planned something.

  Borek finished his talk and some spotlights shone on Greg and Yvonne who came in from the normal entrance. They looked quite confused and uncomfortable, and the audience was cheering for them. I enjoyed it, I’m sure it sucked for them, though. One problem. They headed over to our table and the spotlight was following them.

  Uh, oh. How about anti-light defensive measures?

  So unnecessary I just need to disable those lights.

  I threw a dagger at the spotlight as it closed into us. It went out the moment Greg and Yvonne arrived at our table. “It seems we have some problem with our lights.” I saw another spotlight coming for us and I destroyed that one too. “Anyway, we have the stars of today at the VIP table over there!”

  No spotlight on us, but we were still the focus of attention. Borek then started to tell everyone what went on the adventure. We had a moment of silence for those that passed away. The audience seemed to take this well. The ocean was a ruthless place, and everyone realized that this was an inevitability. He started to talk about the highlights of the dinner and people cheered, and when a special meal got announced everyone seemed excited. The meat of the salmon spirit king got used.

  It was also announced that a big portion of spirit salmon and certain parts of the salmon spirit king would get auctioned off at noon the next day and that 30% of the money would go to the families of those who died in this fishing trip, 20% would go to us and the rest would get evenly divided between those that transported it, preserved it, auctioned it off etc.

  The next course got served and Borek was spinning a story around it, what ingredients were used where they came from how they were caught, the lifestyle of those ingredients, and the method of preparation. Some of the chefs got on the stage, and they talked about it more in-depth and could answer questions.

  Mel2 came up, she was presenting the next dish. It was steamed rainbow bass. She had one on the plate she was holding. I attached a thin wire to the bass and made it jump into her face. She gave a strange and embarrassing scream.

  Noelle laughed extremely hard and even fell to the floor laughing. The audience was laughing too, but they kept launching because Noelle’s laugh was so contagious, and she couldn't stop.

  “Who did this?! My hair smells like fish! After I got the smell out of it after washing it for 2 hours! I bet it was the foxes!” She angrily pointed at Giana and me who were nonchalantly eating while Noelle was still laughing.

  “It is rude to accuse us of your own clumsiness, Melinda.” Giana said while trying her best to keep her laugh in but she was failing.

  Mel2 put the plate down on a small table in front of her and started talking about another dish, which was a raw squid. I subtly used a lightning [Spark] on the raw squid, and it convulsed and shot ink on Mel2. This set Noelle off even more who now was having trouble breathing.

  You might kill Noelle by making her laugh that hard…

  “Was it you? You vixen! You can control jellyfish, right?!”

  “It wasn't me and squid are different from jellyfish, but I’ll gladly take the credit if there are no objections.”

  Go for it, Giana!

  Giana controlled the water in the squid and made it jump on her face. Mel2 gave another embarrassing scream before dropping the plate. Greg had to tend to Noelle to make sure she wouldn't pass out from the lack of oxygen because she had been laughing for the last 5 minutes.

  Borek took the stage. “Ugh, why do things always turn out like this? Melinda, go freshen yourself up.” Melinda glared at us before she dashed offstage.

  “Wahahaha thank you guys, that totally made my day!” Noelle finally started to calm down but still laughed here and there and sat back in her chair.

  We got served the next course. I chose the rainbow bass. Mel2 was freshened up and sat at her table but she didn't want any of the 2. This made Noelle laugh, and she almost choked on her food.

  “Relax Noelle, B...breathe slowly.”

  Not going to lie, this is what happens when you invite pranksters… Don’t ever mess with nine tails and then invite them to a party.

  “Hey, she was asking for it.”

  Yeah!

  “She totally deserved a fish to her face, wahahaha!” Noelle said as she started to laugh again and slammed on the table.

  “Noelle! C…calm down!” Yvonne was doing her best to calm Noelle.

  Hey, where did Raishin go?

  Hello ladies! It’s me Raishin! Who wants me as dessert?!

  Greg and I facepalmed and Noelle stopped laughing. Raishin went up the stage into the spotlight and was showing off his bare chest.

  Hey Greg, shouldn't being this dumb be impossible?

  Hey, what do you mean I’m not allowed here? I’m a VIP!

  Some security guards were trying to get him out of the stage. I don't know maybe he’s too far gone.

  Wait what do you mean? No look I’m a VIP those are my friends!

  Raishin pointed and tried to drag us into his mess.

  Noelle help me!

  Noelle made a gesture to deport him.

  Why?!!!!

  Noelle got up. “I’m sorry I need to kick someone’s ass.”

  “I’ll save some dessert for you.” Giana assured.

  Mel2 was making funny gestures at Noelle, who flipped Mel2 off and followed the security guards deporting Raishin. I was still facepalming, and so was Greg.

  I apologize for his… behavior.

  “That’s fine, I found it quite amusing.”

  Most of the night went without anything special happening. Giana was on the alcohol, as was Greg.

  This guy goes for alcohol at every opportunity. Everyone was now free from the stunts and could eat or get up to talk to others. I put up an illusion to make it hard for people to approach us. The number of attempts skyrocketed the moment it was clear that Giana was drunk. Most were guys attempting something.

  Yvonne had the same problem she had to fend off women attempting anything on Greg.

  “I finally found you! Youuuu vixen!”

  An intoxicated Mel2 is incoming.

  “Do I know you?” Giana said with an uncharacteristic cold-hearted tone.

  Hahaha, that's a great Agnis impression!

  Giana closed in to me. “Hey darling, who is this woman? Do I know her?”

  Hey, Yvonne is everything alright with Giana? She seems… different, alcohol isn't supposed to do this, right? Also, help me out she's leaking charm magic!

  “I don't know, but she totally is into you, she just changes a teensy when she’s drunk!”

  Wait did you get drunk too?

  Yvonne held her hand in front of her mouth. “Oh… oh no my idol persona slipped out…”

  I started to get a headache, Giana was clinging to me and her charm magic was getting out of control. But she didn't notice and was roasting Mel2.

  Mel2 slammed her hands on the table. “Stop mocking me vixen!”

  “I don't care enough for you to expend energy on mocking you, all I care about is being beside Agnis.” Her grip on me tightened, and I was shattering illusions on a regular basis to counter all the charm she was pouring into me.

  Greg... help!

  Haha what’s wrong with this situation just ride it out!

  Yvonne didn’t seem to notice me. Hey, Yvonne! Please help!

  She was reacting to Greg, but I seemed to be invisible to her. I called for a passing waitress for some water to sober Giana up but she ignored me. I tried again with a passing waiter and he came to me.

  Hey, am I perhaps invisible?

  “Uhh, no you seem quite visible to me, although quite pink” I called another passing waitress, but she ignored me.

  “Oh, that is rude, I will talk to her.” I was slowly succumbing to the charm magic and got Giana to drink some water but she was still arguing with Mel2.

  The waiter returned. “Uhm for some reason she can't seem to perceive you Mister Silver Torrent do you have some strange magic on you?”

  Strange?

  I looked at Giana who was still drunk and inundating me with charm magic.

  I think I know what’s going on, thank you, can you bring me a lot of water for these 2 drunkards?

  Greg was starting to cause trouble too because he started distilling the alcoholic drinks to make even stronger spirits.

  “Uhh, I see what you mean, I’ll be back in a bit.”

  Hey Greg knock it off! I sucked his distillation setup in my dimensional pocket.

  Hey!

  Yvonne reacted as if some unknown entity was involved though. This confirmed a suspicion. I think all this charm magic Giana is pouring into me makes me invisible to the opposite sex. It was becoming too much for me, and I was fighting the subconscious self-defense that would make me pass out so I don't become some brainwashed thrall or slave to Giana. I shattered more illusion layers, and it seemed Yvonne noticed me.

  “I... I thought you left!”

  All this charm Giana is dumping into me makes me invisible to the opposite sex, help me!

  “Oh no! What do I do?!” Yvonne said as she started panicking.

  Wait why are you asking me?! I don't know so I’m asking you!

  “You won't get him! Go and try to steal someone else's man with your fishy hair!” Giana said as she gestured for Mel2 to leave.

  Right things are turning for the worse.

  The waiter arrived with an enormous can of water and I made Giana drink some. Greg can wait.

  “Ooh, thank you for washing my mouth, I must have dirtied my mouth by using her name.” Whoa drunk Giana is savage .

  Uhh, yes, here have some more!

  4 liters of water got poured into the drunk vixen and it didn’t seem to do much.

  “My mouth is clean now, how about I get a different taste in my mouth.” She licked her lips and closed in, her eyes glowed purple pink, I got blasted with charm magic and my unconscious self-defense system made an executive decision and made me pass out.