The couple got so new clothes during their shopping trip, which ended up with Sophia suddenly having a dress thanks to the cat-girl, who enjoyed her wearing it very much. They also got matching couple pajamas, and Maya imdiately put them to good use, claiming the tiger's lap for the night, she had a lovely sleep and was very energetic the following morning.
"Haa~, I don't think I ever slept so well! The fluffiness of your pajama pants, together with the warmth of you, such bliss~! Your bare thighs are nice, too, but the fluffy can't be underestimated."
"Thanks..." Sophia wasn't quite as enthusiastic, and not only because it was still morning. "Tonight, we're switching places. I'll accept no discussions." She was mainly envious.
"Aww, well, giving a lap-pillow is nice on its own." She reluctantly agreed. There were worse fates in her eyes.
"Either way, I lose, huh?"
"No, either way, I just win. But I think that's a win-win for both of us."
"You have a point there. That definitely is a net win here."
"Ehehe. So, what's the plan for today?"
"Hmm... Do you mind if I pay so attention to Fen today?"
"Huh? ?" The wolf turned his head after hearing his na.
"Sure? I don't mind. Any specific reason for it, though?" Maya didn't see a problem with it.
"Well, the two of us are kinda, uhh, all over each other lately... I feel like I'm leaving him out a lot recently."
"Ahh..." The cat-girl knew what she was talking about.
"You really don't have to be concerned about . It's perfectly fine by if you two want to spend ti together." The wolf was very understanding.
"Really? Well, I wanted to show you my ti-stop magic, but if you don't wa-"
"I'm sorry! Please pay so attention to !" Understanding, but greedy nonetheless.
"Ahaha, alright."
"So, what do I have to do?!" Fen was already really excited.
"Hmm... nothing much. I first have to find out how to stop ti on purpose in the first place. Both tis before happened unconsciously, after all."
"Okay, I'll patiently wait!" There was nothing patient about his reply, though.
---------------------
Giving it her best, Sophia concentrated for the next hour to stop ti on her own demand while the wolf ran in circles around her, and his tail definitely wasn't wagging the entire ti. In his words, at least. Once she had a good enough image of the magic while also rembering what happened and her feelings during the tis it happened on its own, the tiger-girl finally gave it a try.
"Hmm?" Slowly opening her eyes, she looked around and confird that everything stopped moving, including her two companions. "Still scary..." While she learned about the good side of this magic after Maya's confession, she still found it creepy.
"Alright... now to unfreeze Fen-" She looked at the wolf, the reason for why she was doing this. "Although-" Sophia then glanced at her cat-girl.
"Ehehe~." She circled around her with a goofy smile. "Just how lucky am I?" Bringing her face closer to Maya's cheek, she gave her a quick kiss before turning to the wolf again. Not having to fear getting attacked by Maya, she got a little bold.
"O-Okay..." Sophia had gotten embarrassed over her own action and focussed on the wolf again. "I kinda want to play a prank on him! Oh, right! When we went clothes shopping, I also got so hair bands and clips... You can always use those, after all. Not to ntion that I lose a couple... hundreds of them every year. Even though I rarely use them in the first place? Stupid things... Let's gather a flower or two and have so fun~."
Feeling playful, she played with the fur on top of the wolf's head and added so clips and hairbands. She made so short braided pigtails and decorated them with a bunch of colorful flowers.
"Adorable!" Sophia was happy with the outco. "Ti to be serious now, though." She walked up to the wolf again and touched his side. Once she poured so of her magic power into him, Fen soon started moving.
"Welco~."
"O-Oh?" He needed a mont to adjust because, for him, the tiger-girl had basically teleported, thanks to the difference in ti. "Ohhh!" Fen finally noticed his frozen surroundings.
"And? How is it?"
"It's... surreal... Ah!" His gaze fell on the still motionless cat-girl. "Very surreal."
"Feel free to look around."
"Will do!" Excited, the wolf dashed away to take in all the little details.
"Alright, let's bring Maya over as well. It's getting kinda awkward..." Touching her back, Sophia made ti for the cat-girl move again, as well.
"A-Ah... so freaky!" Noticing Sophia being in an entirely different spot, too, confused her for a mont, but she then stopped moving and tilted her head. "Hmm...? What did you do?" She suddenly touched her cheek and rubbed it a bit.
"E-Eh...? Wha-, What do you an?" The tiger awkwardly looked to the side.
"I don't know. There's a lingering, kind of warm and fuzzy feeling on my cheek that wasn't there before."
"Err... Well, t-there might be the possibility that I maybe, possibly... potentially, uhh, could've kissed you... T-Theoretically speaking, of course..."
"Unfair!" She imdiately started to pout. "Again! Do it again!"
"H-Huh?" It was not the reaction Sophia had expected. "R-Really...?"
"Hurry up!" Maya walked up to her and presented her cheek right in front of the girl’s face.
"Uuh, it's rather... embarrassing it you're so pushy..." As it turned out, Sophia wasn't even safe from her advances when she stops ti.
"It's better than kissing a defenseless girl, is it not?"
"Urgh." She had no excuse. A little mont later, after preparing herself, Sophia leaned in and gave the cat-girl another quick kiss on the cheek.
"Thank you very much~." She was happy. "Here, have one, too!" Returning the favor, Maya kissed her, as well.
"T-Thanks..." Her face had turned red. "A-Ah! This was supposed to be for Fen, and yet we still..."
"Ehehe~." She was glad that the two always ended up in their own little world, even though it currently already was a world where only three individuals existed in the first place.
"I don't mind." The wolf showed up again.
"You're a good guy, Fe- Wow!" Maya looked at the wolf and noticed Sophia's prank.
"What's wrong?"
"Ehh-" She noticed that the tiger-girl was grinning mischievously and connected the dots. "N-Nothing, you're cute, big guy."
"I would prefer being called cool over cute, you know?" He seed even more confused and tilted his head, causing his pigtails to sway around a bit.
"V-Very cute..." Sophia had difficulties staying serious. "A-Anyway, found anything of interest, Fenny?"
"Everything's really fascinating! Thank you very much for showing !"
"Think you can recreate it for yourself?"
"No chance." The wolf wasn't confident. "I have not the slightest idea how this magic of yours works..."
"You're not alone with that..." Sophia, too, couldn't really understand what she was doing.
"I'll be cross-referencing with so theories we, err, I had in the past... Maybe I'll find a hint. Now that I know that stopping ti is not only theoretically possible, but it actually works, I'm really motivated again!"
"Good for you. Huh, we?" She noticed his little slip-up.
"Now that I think of it, what happens if we fight a monster while ti's stopped?" Fen completely ignored her question. "Does it die the mont I kill it, or only once ti's back?"
"Hmm? Well, that's a very interesting question." Sophia hadn't thought about that before.
"Let's find out!" He was definitely trying to change the subject. "Hmm? My detection magic isn't working?"
"Really? Oh, you're right... neither does mine. No, wait, I can still detect you and Maya." The tiger-girl tried the sa, but she wasn't getting any detections. "That's weird... Why?"
"Yes, I ant beside our group."
"Maybe it's because we're the only living beings?" Maya had a theory for the situation.
"No, I detected so food before Sophia stopped ti."
"Yeah, well, technically animals..." The wolf's and tiger's magic still worked before.
"No, I an right now. With everything, everyone but us frozen in place due to ti being stopped... aren't we the only actual living beings right now?"
"Ah." The two looked at each other and then at the cat-girl. "You're quite smart, aren't you?"
"That doesn't an much in this group..." Maya didn't take it as a complint.
"On a more serious note," Fen had just played along. "You might be right. We mainly detect the magic powers of living beings. As ti is stopped, their life is stopped, as well, and thus their magic isn't working."
"Sounds plausible." Sophia nodded.
"But I still roughly rember the position of a herd of kows."
"Those guys sure are everywhere, huh?"
"Let's do a little experinting." Fen was still excited about the situation.
"Sure, why not? I'm getting hungry, anyway." The tiger-girl knew how this experint would end.
-------------------
The group walked around for around 30 minutes until Fen finally found the kows he detected earlier because he had mostly forgotten about their position.
"Finally!" The wolf had almost given up.
"A-Ah." Sophia stopped and looked a little awkward. "I could've just unstopped ti, look for them, and stop it again..."
"Seriously, how did I fall for such a scatterbrain...?"
"What an idiot." Her companions were rather harsh.
"H-Hey... Wait! While I'm admittedly late, you guys didn't have the idea at all!"
"..." The two didn't reply.
"Hey!" She felt bullied.
"Anyway," Fen faced the nearest kow. "Let's give this a try!" Saying so, he ford multiple spears made out of ice with his magic and shot them at the animal.
"W-Well..." The tiger-girl was looking at the result with a complicated expression. Three thick icy spears had impaled the kow, but it wasn't bleeding and still standing. Not even the look on its face had changed. "I don't know..."
"I feel a little bad..." Maya, too, wasn't a fan of the sight.
"Yeah." Even the wolf was questioning his doings. "Sothing about this is... wrong."
"I-, I an the result would've been the sa anyway, but this... Normally, it at least theoretically has a chance." Sophia found the reason why they didn't like it.
"Yes, it's cowardly."
"Resu ti for now?" She felt like it was enough.
"Yes." The other two agreed.
"I need so ti to think about possible ideas to recreate the magic first, anyway. I've seen enough for the ti being."
Sophia concentrated on activating her magic, and the flow of ti slowly turned to normal. Once everything went back to how it was supposed to be, the impaled kow imdiately started bleeding and fell over before even realizing that it had died.
"Yeah, we're not doing that again..." Maya pointed at the dead animal as she spoke for the group.
"Agreed."
Afterward, they collected the kow and turned it into a nice barbecue. While the three were eating, they continued to chat about what happened.
"I still can't believe it... I actually witnessed ti being stopped with my own eyes!" Fen was really happy. "Again, thank you very much for showing , Sophia!"
"I'm glad my stupid and scary accidents bring you joy." No matter how cool it is, the scars from the first ti she almost got stuck in it were still there.
"You're doing a lot of those, huh?" The cat-girl was glancing at her. "Stupid mistakes with a good outco, that is." She was specifically looking at her tiger ears and tail.
"It's my specialty." She was well aware of it.
"Ehehe~. Well, I like that about you. Okay, most of the ti..." She corrected herself a little.
Because there was still a lot of the day left, because they hadn't spent much ti yet, the group kept going after their barbecue. They covered so ground until the evening and got yet a little closer to the beastfolk capital, though it was still a long way to there.
Reviews
All reviews (0)