novelraw Chapter 649: Small Cupcake
Chapter 649: Small Cupcake
"Hey, I say, ignore Elizabeth..."
"Now, go out and sneakily eat dessert with me."
Facing Renee's smile-filled invitation already close at hand, feeling the little bit of faint fragrance transmitted from her fingertips and the coolness that seemed to be absorbing his body temperature, Fisher blinked his eyes and couldn't help but smile.
"Didn't you just say I was a canary earlier? Don't forget, I'm currently locked inside the Golden Palace..."
But before he finished speaking, the action of Renee cupping his cheeks suddenly applied force, squeezing his cheeks toward the middle, forcing him to make a cute and comical pouting appearance. However, before it took shape, Fisher reached out his hand and stopped her mischief.
"That's why ah, let me take you, this canary, to temporarily escape this cage, and also let you taste the flavor of freedom. As for this master of whatever Golden Palace, she shouldn't mind, what do you say?"
Renee smilingly blinked her right eye. That appearance of feigning cuteness with a mature look truly made Fisher never tire of seeing it; he always felt it had a unique flavor.
He pondered for a bit. Anyway, Elizabeth probably wouldn't be back until night. It didn't matter if he temporarily went out with Renee who finally came back once... Although it seemed that just before Elizabeth left he promised her he wouldn't leave the Golden Palace alone.
To correct, this wasn't considered leaving alone either; he was leaving together with Renee. Please be informed.
Thus, Fisher stretched out his hand and imitating her, "smack", pinched her fair cheeks, squeezing inward bit by bit, making her aggrievedly turn into a pouting appearance.The tender red lips slightly puckered up. The slightly reflecting luster embellished her lips making them look as delicious as if covered with a layer of frosting. Making Fisher subconsciously gulp down a mouthful of saliva, saliva evidently running wild in his oral cavity.
He blinked, subconsciously about to lower his head to demand Renee's lips. But in the next moment, Renee whose face was pinched by him suddenly turned illusory entirely, appearing on a windowsill not far away leaning on it in the blink of an eye. She waved her hand at him and said softly.
"This way, Mr. Canary."
"..."
Fisher raised an eyebrow, originally wanting to say something, but from the corner of his eye he glimpsed sunlight spilling down patting on her shoulders and black fine hair when she leaned against the outside of the windowsill, incidentally also revealing her pink ears that only showed "pointy tips" hidden amongst the black hair.
So it turned out she was shy?
Staying with Elizabeth for a whole morning, and also seeing the "battleship weapons" she secretly hid under the bed, caused Fisher to forget for a certain moment that Renee was still a green Witch.
He smiled slightly, and that dissatisfaction of not having tasted a delicacy also slightly restrained. He instead thought of a problem. Turning his head to look at Alicia who was still sitting on the sofa at a loss, he asked Renee.
"When we leave, can we take the two of them along? I'm afraid if Elizabeth returns midway and finds me gone she'll take her anger out on them. If we return together at least I can take the blame."
"It is possible, but if bringing two little light bulbs you have to compensate me."
"What little light bulb! I am the great book... Eimhart."
Renee smilingly looked at Eimhart beside Fisher, making his originally high-spirited voice turn small bit by bit. Finally he even silently and extremely worthlessly flew from Fisher's side to stay beside Alicia, self-transforming into the "Light Bulb Duo".
And Alicia at this moment was still feeling perplexed about the "must eliminate existences related to Life Chaos" Renee said earlier.
Perhaps for a little girl who had just turned five, making her struggle and entangle between she must die and living on did indeed seem very cruel.
Eimhart dismally running back at this moment could actually be considered a kind of comfort, making her hurriedly reach out her hands to hug his square body, obediently listening to Renee's arrangements.
"Then let us set off right away... It looks like Saint-Nazareth has undergone very big changes in her hands, having not returned for a long time I almost can't recognize it. And I don't know if that dessert shop I loved to eat at and the theater we previously frequented have closed down."
Renee tapped her chin, then slightly hooked her finger. Many, many larks surged in from outside the window, wrapping up the Cardinals monitoring from above the Golden Palace, blocking the downward observing line of sight.
And immediately after, amidst the fluttering back and forth of many, many larks, Elizabeth's bedchamber quickly became exceptionally quiet anew, no longer able to see the several people who stood in this place just a second ago.
At this moment was exactly noon when the sunlight of Saint-Nazareth was just right. Empress Elizabeth was still working diligently; everyone had a beautiful future.
"Does it feel like even the sunlight and air outside have become wonderful after exiting the Golden Palace?"
Noon was exactly the time when the corporate slaves of Naris working hard outside rested. Usually speaking, since when Fisher was still here, noon was the time to come out and enjoy lunch, then lie on a rocking chair for a bit, then enjoy afternoon tea.
Even leaving for five years, and Naris undergoing earth-shattering changes, this habit still remained unchanged, thus making the afternoon of Naris at this moment appear busy yet leisurely.
Amidst the hustle and bustle, a Witch adorned with a bit of faint fragrance was holding the Alicia behind her—although she verbally said Eimhart and Alicia were two little light bulbs, when they truly came out she took exceptionally good care of them, even asking if they had anything they wanted to do.
Of course, the replies obtained were all whatever Renee arranged.
"Mainly because you are by my side."
Hearing this, Renee smiled mischievously. In Fisher's peripheral vision, he saw the tips of Renee's feet wearing black cloth shoes leaving the ground bit by bit, as if this sentence of Fisher's lightened the gravity on her body.
"Then follow Tour Guide Renee. It just so happens I also want to take a look at the places you stayed at previously."
"The places I stayed at previously..." Fisher pondered for a bit, but suddenly felt there wasn't any place to go, "It seems I only stayed at the Royal Academy and Saint-Nazareth University for longer periods. In those kinds of places people matter more than things, otherwise I wouldn't have cursed Principal Dami'an when graduating."
"Doesn't that sound like a quite good memory?"
"Mm, for back then it was indeed so. But arriving at now, it feels somewhat meaningless again. As one knows more, contacts more, the mysteries explored previously and the things one put all eggs in one basket for suddenly all became empty and meaningless... So, actually Renee, I have always been very curious, towards deities, is there no such feeling?"
Renee, holding Alicia, pondered for a bit, then smilingly said.
"Maybe there is, I don't know either."
"..."
"Because you see, actually if we really want to calculate it, I don't count as a deity at all. Whether it's the Mother Goddess mankind believes in, the False God the deities are enemies with, or the leader the stars revere, She is actually fundamentally another existence. Compared to my Previous Incarnation, I actually am more like a Witch possessing empty Authority. Obstructed by the oath with the deities, for a long period of time in the past I couldn't interfere with Reality, and couldn't converse with any intelligence. So, to me, everything I am experiencing now is brand new, so of course I won't have this kind of feeling."
"I see."
"Fisher..."
Just as Fisher nodded indicating understanding, Renee before his eyes suddenly hesitated to speak.
He raised his head to look at Renee, and saw her also smilingly looking at him. Only after brewing the words for quite a while did she seem to make a conclusion or emphasize.
"So ah, once my Previous Incarnation dies, everything of Her existence will also be reduced to ashes and smoke, even if humanity still remembers Her, and the stars still believe in Her, gone is just gone."
"..."
Fisher blinked, recording this as essential knowledge of her [Infinity] Authority.
There were too many secrets within the Spirit World, and later he still needed to find a pure soul for the fetus in Raphaela's womb. Later on I'm afraid he would also set foot in it; learning a bit more from here was also fine.
Actually having Renee help go into the Spirit World to search for a pure soul needed for Raphaela wasn't impossible, it was just that it sounded truly too scummy.
Asking a lady to search for a soul for the fetus in pregnant Raphaela's womb or something...
This kind of matter, toiler Fisher of the future better handle independently.
Right now, he merely came out to eat a dessert with Renee.
"Little Alicia, is there anything you want to eat?"
"Ah, me? Any... anything is fine."
"How about little Eimhart, you... well, forget it."
"Your mom!"
The flustered and exasperated Eimhart began to curse and swear in Alicia's embrace, while Renee covered her mouth and chuckled lightly like a true Witch.
Although she said so verbally, she still picked suitable gifts for Alicia and Eimhart.
She first picked a recently released "Nari Cardinal Journal" for Eimhart. This kind of book recording Cardinal knowledge Eimhart also hadn't seen previously; it indeed suited his taste.
And the dessert shop Renee previously frequented often was still open. With shining eyes she picked some desserts for herself and Alicia inside, and then sat outside starting to enjoy the exquisite small cupcakes packed in small boxes.
Watching Alicia's appearance of carefully holding the small cupcake with two small hands putting it into her mouth, Renee rested her chin and smiled, making Alicia think it was her corners of the mouth getting food crumbs on them, unable to help but her small face turning slightly red and embarrassed.
Renee seemed to like kids very much.
It was also like this when encountering the Crabman Race Reinar in the Southern Ocean previously; Fisher could very easily see her doting.
Eimhart lay on the table reading his book, Renee was looking at Alicia, and Fisher was looking at Renee.
But the next second, Renee seemingly already knew Fisher was looking at her, then turned her head to make eye contact with him, incidentally asking.
"What about you, do you have any gift you want?"
"...Speaking of which, you've always been in the Spirit World, where did your money come from?"
"A lady's little treasury, men shouldn't ask~"
"You also don't look like someone who would save money. Could it be every time you come to Reality you will silently take some from the bank?"
Fisher rubbed his chin, somewhat insensitive to romance analyzing like this, angering Renee into pouting her lips, but she also quickly smiled mischievously.
"What if I say, I took it from the inner treasury of the Golden Palace?"
"...What?"
Fisher was slightly stunned, watching the stacks of Nario banknotes flipping up like playing cards in Renee's hands. Upon every single banknote there was printed Elizabeth's portrait. In a trance, looking over, it was as if Elizabeth was currently gazing at him from within the banknotes.
Fisher was just about to inquire further, but when raising his eyes, what entered his eyes was only her prankish smile.
He instantly understood, this Witch was teasing him again. Thus, he also followed along her words and spoke.
"Fine, since we are pursuing thrills, then we can only implement it to the end. I prepare to go buy a few pieces of clothing, and buy a ring incidentally."
"Ring? Is it for me?"
Fisher opened his mouth. Originally what he talked about was the one to be given to Valentina. He thought Renee knew about this matter, so stringing along her words if he spoke she would be angered by Fisher's words.
Who knew, upon hearing Fisher's words her face slightly reddened all of a sudden, but her purple eyes slightly brightened, looking purely like a shy yet expecting appearance.
"..."
Looking at her appearance like this, Fisher suddenly felt that himself wanting to say that kind of words just now was truly too hateful.
He became slightly unnatural, coughed once, somewhat ashamedly avoiding her direct gaze.
"...Using your money to buy you a gift?"
"What does this matter, didn't you just say earlier that the things cared about previously now look completely meaningless? Towards the current you and I, aren't this kind of value-items already meaningless? Using whose money is about the same right..."
When the words reached the end, Renee's finger also tapped her red lips again. She still looked at Fisher before her eyes with a burning gaze, and inquired.
"So, are you going to give me a ring, Fisher?"
This woman is really...
Fisher gulped down a mouthful of saliva. It seemed that Renee's finger lightly tapping her red lips right now was just like an indicating arrow, above which there should also be a slogan writing "please kiss here", making him inevitably produce the thought of wanting to kiss again.
"I want to give it to you."
"My my." Renee smiled and tilted her head, appearing to unwillingly think it over, "Then I will have to accept."
Finishing speaking, she looked again towards Alicia who had already eaten the third small cupcake beside her. She completely didn't understand what Fisher and Alicia were saying, appearing to only have the delicious small cupcakes before her in her eyes.
Although she was only Teacher Helson's adopted granddaughter, in the aspect of eating sweets she was truly not to be outdone.
There were a total of five small cupcakes. She had already silently finished three by herself. Only when Fisher and Renee looked over did she realize she seemed to have eaten a bit too much, and with a slightly reddened face was too embarrassed to eat the fourth one.
"Eat if you should. Here only us two ladies like eating this kind of thing. Fisher hates eating this kind of sweet thing the most, let's eat it all and make him crave it to death."
Renee rubbed Alicia's head, and even led by example by picking up a pinkish-red small cupcake at the edge putting it into her mouth. Biting off half, she suddenly let out an "mmhm" of enjoyment, muttering.
"Mm, this is the flavor, still the same as before."
"Gulp..."
Alicia gulped down a mouthful of saliva, and also stopped being polite. Stretching out her small hands she picked up that very last one, and began to enjoy it in small bites.
While Fisher kept looking at Renee. Upon waiting for her to bite down half of the small cupcake, he then noticed something. Picking up the napkin on the table beside, he reminded Renee.
"Mouth."
"Eh, is there any on it?"
"There is."
Fisher nodded, slightly rising pinching the napkin as if to wipe her lips for her. And Renee also obediently raised her head, while watching Alicia eat the small cupcake waiting for Fisher to come help herself wipe her lips.
Yet one second later, a burst of warm contact suddenly came from beside her lips.
She was slightly stunned, then with a reddened face turned her head to look. And Fisher had already sat back in his original position, wiping his own lips with the napkin, simultaneously saying with a smile.
"Actually I still like eating small cupcakes, thank you for the hospitality."
"Fisher!"
Alicia who was eating sweets couldn't see Fisher, so of course she also couldn't see that not-suitable-for-children scene of him kissing Renee. She only suddenly felt that big sister Renee beside her suddenly became ruddy-faced, and incidentally mumbled Big Brother's name. Besides this she knew absolutely nothing.
While on the table, only the dead-fish-eyed Eimhart who had long lost the mood to read lay there motionless like a corpse.
One must know, a light bulb becomes a lightbulb because it realizes it will glow, and Eimhart was exactly like this.
He couldn't taste the sweet greasiness of the small cupcake, only finding it noisy.
(There is an extra release of twelve thousand words tomorrow haha, thank you to all book friend magnates for your reward and support)