l’s feet tapped lightly on the ground, her hand covering her teasing, mischievous grin.
"Rosana... I didn’t expect you to be that sort of person..."
l shook her head, then sighed exaggeratedly.
"To think you’re so frustrated over a loss... how unexpected of you."
Rosana raised a brow; her questioning look burrowed into l despite the distance.
Then, her lips curled up. "Frustrated? What could you be talking about?"
Oh. Playing into my trick intentionally, I see?
"That hum just now."
l loosely pointed at Rosana, her index finger sneakily twirling.
"What could you be thinking otherwise? It can’t be pettiness over a loss, right?"
Just as Rosana processed a witty retort, a refreshing echo coursed through Rosana’s veins.
Her raised brows lowered to a slight frown, a little perturbed at her body being invaded by a strange sense.
Yet as she glanced at l’s twirling index finger again, they rose back to a flat line of ease.
Her nose tingled at the faint mana trace, reminiscent of l casting her .
"Heh heh." l chuckled. "Better?"
Rosana tried, gripping and loosening her fist.
Her hasty breaths that she pushed down gradually faded to dust; the lted, lingering frost at her hands and body gradually faded to a refreshing coolness.
Her veteran sense identified it; her injuries were not healed, but her body was strengthened with returning stamina and vigor to combat her wounds instead.
"Better." Rosana softly smiled at l. "What a strange Magic. I wouldn’t have normally allowed it, but... thanks."
Receiving the ’thanks’ from the always humble Dragoness, a bubbly, mischievous giggle escaped from l.
"Then, as a thanks, tell what you’re humming earlier!"
"That I would deny."
"Hey! No fair!"
l pouted a little before loosening her teasing smirk.
She had planned to lure out the Heiress’s annoyance with an ’obviously wrong and rude assumption’, then bait her out to admit she was jealous of them.
But watching Rosana’s smirking, albeit softening expression, a tenderness soon lted into l’s smile.
Awkwardness lingered in the air, as l’s heart drumd slightly into her chest.
Her steps then moved, carefully drawing their distance closer.
A weird sense of timidness drumd her heart; yet l also recognised the sootheness of this silence between them.
And with a crack, her boot stepped onto the ice.
She stopped and glanced up; the Heiress’s red gaze towered over her with a cheerful glee.
l rely hugged Rosana on instinct; her chin tugging just below Rosana’s shoulder.
She yelped happily as Rosana reciprocated. How unfair. Now her mood to joke completely flew away.
l hugged tighter, squirming comfortably as Rosana’s palms settled on her back.
"We could use this more often."
Clinging to Rosana’s skin, l paused before loosening her strength, rembering Rosana’s injury.
Yet as if disagreeing, Rosana sank further into her body; the sensuality jolting l’s senses.
"I agree." Rosana nuzzled her chin onto l’s shoulder. "The teasing back-and-forth will not tire , but it’s nice to feel..."
Another hesitation. Yet l caught onto the word with another chuckle as well.
"Equal."
l muttered the word. "Maybe if you don’t prey this and prey that, we could both feel much more fulfilled, don’t you think?"
Rosana’s lips gaped, sorting out her words before curving again for a small smile.
"I never lower you to a re snack, my prey."
Rosana then drew back; her doting gaze locked onto l’s, whose golden eyes bore the sa attachnt.
"You are my possession."
Rosana declared. "If you’re owned by others, I rely have to steal you from them, as the will of the North dictated."
"Oh?" l’s smirk widened to a foxy grin. "You were jealous back then, huh?"
A breath hitched in Rosana’s throat before her lips broke away into a resigned smile.
"I am."
[ Greed’s unbeating heart was almost pierced through by your tease! Keep it up, l! ]
[ Greed favourability: 58 -> 59 ]
Rosana took a deep breath. "My my. It seems my composure needed a slight... improvent as well."
"Oh, please don’t."
l whined, her waist swaying with a complaining pout.
"You’re cuter this way. I like things cute, especially when a person is normally restrained or mannered."
Rembering a certain Saintess who refused to budge, her pout almost threatened to bloat, but she imdiately puffed the frustration out.
Tonight! Everything would co clean tonight!
[ ... ]
Ignoring a certain system panel’s threatening ’...’ again, l locked gaze with Rosana’s.
The ruby eyes were straight, unquivering, yet bore only curiosity with a hint of affection.
l’s lips parted; her honesty almost claiming her.
Then she shook her head. No no no, she shouldn’t be seduced by her own target! Maria must have planted sothing weird in her for her to submit like this easily.
"Ah, right!"
Then, l took out a bento from her .
The bento was carved rectangular; the firm lid could not cover the steam from within.
"Ta-da!"
l’s hand clutched the bento right before her lips, her eyes curving above the wooden lid.
"Sothing I cook today. It’s my first try cooking properly for soone as well!"
Then she mumbled out. "All thanks to my Lila. Isn’t she incredible?"
To this, Rosana rely sent a flat gaze.
l briefly froze; ah, she screwed up.
As Rosana’s hand neared her pink head, her shoulders hunched in fear despite knowing that Rosana wouldn’t harm her.
Yet as she was petted, l froze a little; the Dragoness’s mischievousness unmistakable, as if mimicking her earlier.
"Is it for ?"
Despite l’s hazy mind, she nodded.
"Thank you."
With a whisper from Rosana, she then pulled l by the hand.
Their steps were in sync, their heartbeat drumming with the sa rhythm as their shadows finally escaping the ’ice wasteland’ that Lila created.
"Shall we eat now?"
Rosana plopped down casually. "You don’t have plans to attend today’s lecture, right?"
l’s cheek flushed at this comnt, not at the content but at Rosana’s knowing tease reminiscent of Maria’s.
"Su-sure!"
As she sat down, l made a silent resolve to herself.
To never, ever let Rosana and Maria et properly.
Or she was definitely going to have a bad ti! Really, really bad ti!
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