Chapter 395
In the dead of the snowy night, Lily and Fiona sat down in front of the crackling campfire, having left Kurono to sleep back inside the tent .
A nearby uprooted tree made for a perfect seat where Fiona elegantly rested her laurels and Lily bounced in to sit next to her .
“So, how was it?”
They looked like a pair of affectionate sisters as they sat leaning shoulder to shoulder, but the words Lily used to break the ice contained trace amounts of venom . She wasn’t directing hostility at the witch, but rather a strong frustration at herself to have failed so badly .
“It was good . So good in fact that I ended up sleeping in . ”
Fiona said in her usual monotone, which seemed to also carry a tinge of self-resentment .
“Right, that thing showed us a dream so perfect that we didn’t even want to resist . ”
Lily sighed, exhaling a small puff of white breath . Fiona kept silent .
A moment of further silence passed . Lily once again muttered,
“… Care to tell me about it?”
“… I will say this first: I am very sorry . ”
Fiona said as if she’d committed a crime . She subconsciously reached up to her hat, wanting to hide her face―― only to find that the three-cornered head attire was missing .
“Wait, why are you apologizing?”
“Lily-san, you died in my dream . ”
“HUH!?”
Lily briskly stood up, utterly shocked at having learned of her unfortunate state within Fiona’s scenario .
“This is why I apologized first . ”
“That’s not the problem here! What’s with that, why am I dead!? I can’t believe you’d be so heartless!”
“Then what about you, Lily-san, how did I turn out in your dream?”
“Uh, well…”
Lily was visibly stuck on words . But she soon mustered up enough courage to speak honestly as well .
“In mine, Kurono and I got married, and you were there congratulating us . ”
“I’d rather you kill me off than have me say that . ”
Fiona stated crossly .
“It’s better than being dead . You were even a rank 5 Adventurer, you know? While Kurono and I were still at rank 2 . ”
“Wait just a moment, are you implying that I was still solo adventuring?”
“Why wouldn’t you be?”
Lily was full of energy again, giving Fiona a big helping of her cutesy fairy smile .
“You could’ve made Element Masters with me, couldn’t you?”
“Eh~, no way, if I did that, I couldn’t spend my forever and ever after living happily married with Kurono in our nice little house in the Fairy Garden . ”
“And what’s this about marriage? Lily-san, weren’t you getting ahead of yourself? I myself had only started as lovers, a much more modest approach in my opinion . ”
The witch proclaimed, proudly puffing out her chest, to which the fairy retorted valiantly .
“Modest? I can’t believe you Fiona . There’s no way you didn’t spend all day with Kurono, holding hands, kissing, having lots of――”
Lily, who at first had an admonishing face, had suddenly gotten her cheeks dyed a burning pink .
On the other hand, Fiona’s own face had also blushed red all over . She tried to hide it by facing away but it was plainly obvious .
“――K-kyaah!! H-how could you do such dirty things with Kurono!”
Lily, with her telepathic abilities, had caught a glimpse .
A glimpse into exactly how Fiona and Kurono had spent their lives together as lovers . That very moment, the scenes that rose up inside Fiona’s mind were those of her hot and passionate days as she and her boyfriend lived under the same roof .
It is important to note that Fiona, as she was a genuine maiden witch with no previous experience with men, didn’t quite have the appropriate know-how to correctly imagine such actions . But the Lust Rose had the ability to take her vague mental picture and turn it into a satisfactory dream . The rank 5 monster could provide full guidance to any lady or gentleman with their virginity still intact .
As proof, even the blurred image that Fiona saw during her liaison with Kurono happened to be too overpowering for the still innocent and pure of heart (32 year old) Fairy Lily .
“I-I can’t believe this! Kurono a-and, yo-you――”
“K-keep your voice down, Lily-san . He might hear you if you’re too loud . ”
Some more brouhaha later, the two of them finally settled down .
They went and checked inside the tent and found Kurono asleep . They concluded that he must not have heard the commotion or its contents .
“Haah… haah… Fine, let’s just forget about the dreams . ”
“I wholeheartedly agree . ”
The two girls calmed their breathing and sat back down on the uprooted tree . Once the spat was over, they only felt empty .
After all, it was all just dreams, fantasies, figments of their imagination . All of it were only illusions that had no influence on reality .
Most importantly, both of them didn’t actually want a Kurono that was made to be convenient to their desires . They couldn’t pass away their time wading in their fantasies when the real Kurono was waiting to be conquered in reality .
“Lily-san, by the way, um…”
“W-what . You’re still planning on asking more awkward questions?”
Lily didn’t want any more embarrassment, and showed Fiona the wry version of her fairy smile .
“I wanted to know what kind of dream Kurono-san saw . ”
Fiona was implicitly asking whether Lily had read into his mind when they were talking just now .
Lily stared at her seriously for a moment, but afterwards, she gave an answer .
“Ah that, I saw only a glimpse of it, but I have a general idea . ”
“And? What was it like?”
“Let’s see, Kurono and I were living together happily married . That kind of nice dream . ”
“Yes that’s funny, but please tell me the truth now . ”
Lily pouted at how Fiona just wrote it off like that but―― she then sighed in resignation and told her the truth .
“He dreamed of his home . ”
Fiona might’ve been expecting that, as she showed no surprise and simply answered, “I see . ”
But from how she sighed deeply right afterwards, it could be assumed that she was more conflicted than she let on .
“Did Kurono-san, perhaps have――”
“Stop!”
Fiona’s words were cut off by Lily’s sharp, but with an almost desperate sounding, outcry .
“Stop, please just, don’t… say that . ”
“I apologize . I misspoke . ”
Lily held her head, her expression distraught to the point of tears welling up . Fiona was close to crying herself, despite coming out with the idea .
Did Kurono-san perhaps have a desire to return home―― no, that wasn’t it . What Fiona had attempted to say had much worse implications .
Did Kurono-san perhaps have… the continuation would’ve gone as follows:
“―― a girl he loved, back home?”
They’d already learned from Kurono himself that he had not been married . But on the matter of lovers, a girl that he may have loved, they hadn’t asked him .
Out of simple fear, both Lily and Fiona, just couldn’t dare to ask him .
“… It’s alright . Kurono-san said that he won’t return home . ”
“Mm . ”
“I’m sure that he’d never leave us and go away . ”
“Yes… you’re, right…”
Thank you, said Lily in a tiny voice, but her sentiment had reached Fiona .
Leaning shoulder to shoulder, the two girls spent the rest of the night in mutual silence . A silence that they used to strengthen their hearts, embolden their resolve .
They didn’t want to go against Kurono’s desires, so they wouldn’t stop him if he wanted to return home . But what they could do was make him feel as if he’d never need to .
They would absolutely make him look their way―― no, that wasn’t enough . They could do better .
Because Lily, and because Fiona, was right there, with him, for him . Because you (Kurono) cannot choose anyone but me (Lily/Fiona) .
But on the way to that, first they had to――
“Hokay, let’s have another good day, for Kurono . ”
“Yes, for Kurono-san . ”
The sun began rising up in the horizon .
And within the day, the Element Masters had descended the Asbel Mountain Range of snow, ice and illusion .
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