Not long after, Chleo began to feel tired and decided to swim to the surface. Vasili complied, and once again, they were able to stand on the water. Vasili didn't want Chleo to fall ill with her wet clothes on, so he waved his hand to dry both of their clothes instantly.
"Wow! My clothes dry quickly! Do you have supernatural powers?"
Vasili laughed at the girl's innocent question. "You can say that."
"Awesome! You're lucky to be able to dry your clothes quickly. You don't need to wait for the laundry!"
Uhm... that's not what makes his power is extraordinary, but well... Vasili let it be. There are still many more great things he can do. But it seems, Chleo thinks his ability to dry clothes is something very remarkable.
"Apart from drying clothes, what can you do?"
Vasili felt his heart filled with various kinds of fireworks exploding in the sky. Chleo never found out about him throughout his memory or was interested in getting to know him more deeply.
Even before he invited Alexis to Seattle, the girl never showed any interest in him.
Now when little Chleo asked something about himself, how could he reject it? On the contrary, he would meet all the little girl's interests if Chleo wanted to get to know him.
"I can move places as I like. And also..." Vasili waggled his index finger in a circle forming a small loop.
At the same time, the water around them moved and lifted in a circle before moving to dance around Chleo, making Chleo fascinated by the phenomenon.
"Waaahhh!" Chleo rose to her feet and rolled along and danced to follow the movement of the water. Miraculously Chleo seemed to be able to see the colors in the water dancing around her.
It was a stunning display, and it felt like she saw a water rainbow. Some are red, yellow, blue, and some are green. Chleo felt as if she saw a rope of water covered with lights of different colors dancing in the air.
"It's so beautiful! How did you do that?" Chleo promptly walked over to Vasili, and without fear, she climbed on his lap to look straight into Vasili's pair of blue eyes.
This was the first time Chleo has seen such brilliant blue eyes as Vasili's. The blue color in the eyes of her savior was like the vast ocean and the blue sky in summer.
Chleo even felt that Vasili's blue eyes were more beautiful than her brother's.
"You have beautiful eyes." Chleo was too fascinated until she didn't realize she unconsciously touched Vasili's cheek with her right hand.
The blue king held his breath as Chleo's tiny hand touched the skin of his face. His heart was pounding when Chleo climbed on his lap without warning. Now he felt his heart could explode at any moment as soon as he felt the little girl's small hand on his cheek.
Chleo was still a kid. She is a minor, for goodness sake! Warned Vasili inside his head.
He would never touch a minor girl even though he loved this girl. Wait, why does it sound so wrong?
He loved a six-year-old girl! If people heard this, they would report him to the police.
On the other hand, Chleo didn't think what she was doing was anything strange. Anyone who could make her feel comfortable, Chleo would approach him or her without shame or fear.
Her favorite act of conveying her affection was to kiss the person on the cheek with her signature kiss. No wonder little Chleo sat on a stranger's lap and touched him regardless Vasili was a stranger or not.
Chleo remarkably likes this person!
The excited merry girl didn't know the person she likes was currently experiencing heart-stricken. How could he not? For as long as he could remember, Chleo always avoided him every time he tried to get close to his wife. This closeness... left Vasili at a loss for words, of course.
Even though what was in front of him right now was Chleo's child version, the little girl was still able to steal his breath. After all, this little girl was his life partner.
This child was chosen to be his true love.
He was overwhelmed by the dilemma of whether he would keep this little girl on his lap, or…
Ah, but he wants to be close to her!
"Ehem..." Vasili had to clear his throat a few times to calm his pounding heart. Only after he felt sure he had calmed down did he answer the girl's question without responding to her admiration for his eyes. "This is indeed my skill. Nothing special."
"Not anyone can do something like that. Of course, the things you do are special."
"You are right. Not everyone can do it. Do you want to know there is something even more wondrous?"
"What? What?" Chleo could no longer hold back her enthusiasm. She always likes to do something new. She was never afraid to do uncommon things that she had never done before.
"Get up first. I can't move," said Vasili in a hoarse voice. He could barely keep his hand to himself and almost envelop this tiny body to his arm.
After Chleo got off his lap, Vasili rose to his feet. Then he stuck his index finger and thumb into his mouth for a one-time whistle. Not long after, a humongous whale emerged to the surface with a breath that spat out splashes of water from a hole in the top of its head.
Chleo stared wide in disbelief at what she saw. She had played and swam with dolphins earlier, and now they would swim with whales?
Miraculously, the whale swam slowly until it came to where Chleo and his rescuers stood.
Vasili made the excited girl even more surprised by climbing onto the body of this giant sea animal as if he mounted a horse!
"Come here. I'll take you around the sea."
Chleo squealed with joy and immediately mounted on top of the whale. She sat comfortably in front of Vasili, who was now holding her waists tightly.
"Get ready."
Get ready for what? Having not had time to ask, the whale was already on the move and immediately dived into the ocean.
"Woah!!"