The early morning sun's rays shined through Asta's window, waking Lily up. Her eyes fluttered open to see that Asta was still fast asleep, completely naked beside her. Suddenly, the memories of the steamy moments they shared last night flooded her mind. She lifted the covers and saw that she was also naked. Lily carefully got out of bed, trying not to wake up Asta. He just shifted in his sleep with a content smile on his face. She gathered her clothes and put them on quickly. Once she was dressed she sat on the bed next to Asta and stroked his hair. He stirred, his eyes slowly opened to see her smiling at him endearingly.
"Good morning sleepy head." Lily said as Asta sat up and rubbed his eyes, the covers falling into his lap.
"Oh good morning Lil." Asta said after yawning. Lily smiled and stood up from the bed. She gathered his clothes up and tossed them at him. He caught them and just stared up at her.
"Vanessa is going to take us shopping in the Castle Town of Kikka today. She'll be over soon so you better hurry up and get dressed." Lily said as she turned around to give Asta some privacy while he put his clothes on. Once he was dressed, he and Lily were about to leave his room to go meet up with Vanessa and Noelle when suddenly, there was a knock on the door. He opened the door to see Vanessa and Noelle standing outside his room.
"Hey there! Ready to go?" Vanessa asked winking at Asta and Lily. Noelle had a flustered look on her face.
"Yeah, we're ready." Lily said as she and Asta left his room and followed Vanessa and Noelle outside. Vanessa mounted her broomstick followed by Lily, then Noelle, then Asta. Then they were off.
"So have you three ever been to the Castle Town?" Vanessa asked Lily, Asta, and Noelle.
"No, I haven't." Noelle answered.
"Well that makes sense, you being royalty and all. Your kind don't spend time with regular folk. What about you kiddos?" Vanessa said.
"Yeah, we passed through when we came to take the Magic Knights Entrance Exam." Asta answered for both him and Lily. Vanessa chuckled.
"Well let's make the most of our visit today." Vanessa said cheerfully.
"I could do with a little less touching please." Noelle said to Asta who was holding onto her from behind to keep from falling off the broom.
"Come on! I can't help it! You want me to fall off?" Asta brought up a valid point. Maybe next time it would be better for Noelle and Lily to switch places. After all, Lily didn't mind Asta grabbing her waist. He had already touched her most intimate places multiple times now. Noelle blushed as Asta then grabbed her waist, causing her to instinctively push him off the broom.
"Not again!" Asta yelled as he fell. Noelle sighed right before Vanessa turned the broom around to go get him. They landed and found Asta sprawled out on the grass.
"You okay Asta?" Lily asked worriedly as she ran up to Asta and helped him up to his feet.
"Yeah, I'm fine. It takes more than a fall from a broom to put me out." Asta said as he dusted himself off. Lily sighed with relief and approached Noelle to speak with her next.
"Maybe you and I should switch places. That way, Asta can grab onto me instead of you." Lily suggested to Noelle.
"I suppose I could do that. Thank you." Noelle said as the four of them mounted the broomstick again. As they lifted off into the air again, Asta grabbed onto Lily's waist. She just smiled contently as he embraced her, resting his chin on her shoulder.
"I'm so glad you don't push me off when I hold onto you Lil." Asta said to Lily who chuckled.
"Why would I do that? I'm used to being close to you." Lily said with a laugh. Noelle's face briefly turned a shade of pink. When she regained her composure, she turned to face Lily.
"So why were you in Asta's room this morning?" Noelle asked Lily.
"Oh, I spent the night there." Lily answered as Noelle suddenly became flustered.
"Wait, you spent the night there?! Did you two-?" Noelle asked, not finishing her sentence. Lily didn't answer her, starting to get flustered herself from remembering getting intimate with Asta last night. She just averted her gaze to the side as her face and ears turned bright red.
"No way...!" Noelle said, her face becoming more red as well.
"Ah! So you two made love last night, huh? Congratulations you lovebirds! Was that your first time?" Vanessa chimed in. Apparently she overheard them.
"Oh... well no. We've actually done it four other times..." Lily answered shyly.
"Done what?" Asta asked, being the oblivious guy he was. Lily sighed and leaned towards him.
"Had sex." Lily whispered to Asta who blushed.
"Oh..." Asta said.
"Wait a minute. You told me you were in love with a nun. Is this a friends with benefits sort of thing?" Noelle asked Asta.
"I just said that to make Lil jealous. I wanted to see her jealous pout because it's adorable. It's true I used to have feelings for Sister Lily, but I've realized now that was just a phase. I'm genuinely in love with Lil here." Asta admitted as he hugged Lily from behind and pressed his cheek lovingly against hers, making her giggle. Noelle returned her gaze forward, the blush still on her face.
'So they're dating, huh. Why do I suddenly feel a little sad after hearing that Asta loves Lily. Wait, what am I saying?! It's not like I have feelings for Asta or anything!' Noelle said to herself mentally while shaking her head.
~Time Skip~
The four of them had just landed in the Castle Town of Kikka. Asta instantly got stars in his eyes as he looked around.
"It's just as awesome as I remember." Asta said excitedly. As they made their way through the town, they spotted some of their squad mates there doing their own thing. They were probably there to spend the money they got for this month. Some of the people around seemed to notice their robes and commented on them to each other. They weren't exactly positive comments either.
"They're making quite a fuss over our robes, aren't they?" Noelle said.
"Yep! Don't worry though, they know that having Magic Knights around is an excellent crime deterrent. And if we're lucky, some marvelous gentlemen might come over and say hello." Vanessa said, chuckling as Asta kept looking around, his eyes filled with awe.
~Time Skip~
Once Vanessa acquired the things she needed, she brought them to the Black Market. She explained it was a little on the dangerous side, but there were some really good magic items sold there. A merchant recognized Vanessa and told her he had some new merchandise she might like. She told him she'd stop by later. Asta and Lily thought the place was pretty cool. Noelle on the other hand, wasn't as impressed by it. Vanessa then explained to her that there are magic items sold here that could help her control her magic. Noelle seemed more interested once she said that. As they walked through the Black Market, they passed by the gambling area. They saw Magna heading there in hopes of winning it big there. But Lily, Asta, and Noelle had a feeling it wasn't going to end well for him.
"I'm gonna go explore a bit." Asta said excitedly as he ran off. He was gone before any of them had a chance to say anything.
"I guess I'll just stick with you guys." Lily said as she accompanied her other two squad mates in search of a magic item that could help Noelle control her magic. Vanessa pointed out a magic necklace for Noelle to try out. She thought it was ugly but tried it out anyway. She formed a ball of water and aimed it at an empty alleyway. But the ball of water still changed direction and hit a guy wearing a Green Praying Mantis robe. Lily recognized him immediately as Sekke, the guy Asta beat in the dueling portion of the Magic Knights Entrance Exam. He got up like nothing happened and started flirting with the three of them, offering to escort them out of the Black Market because it was too dangerous for delicate flowers like them. None of them were impressed.
"Be gone with you insect." Noelle said coldly and Vanessa just yawned in a bored manner.
"We may be women, but I can assure you, we're not lost and can handle ourselves." Lily said firmly to Sekke. Then Asta came running up to them with a funky little creature toy.
"Hey check this out! It's the best thing ever!" Asta said holding up the toy he just bought. Noelle was a little surprised that Asta bought something so stupid. Lily just giggled at how easily amused Asta was. And Sekke just stared at Asta frustratingly, probably because his loss to him was the reason he didn't get into a better squad. Asta finally noticed him and recognized him immediately, but remembered his name wrong as Haha instead of Sekke. Asta asked him how he was doing. But instead of answering him, Sekke just tried to correct him and attempted to get him to remember his actual name but to no avail of course. Noelle asked who the guy was and Asta told her they took the Magic Knights Entrance Exam together. Lily decided to not tell everyone there that Sekke tried to get revenge on Asta for losing to him, getting stopped by Yuno before she could do anything about it herself. She told Asta about it after it happened, but it seemed he had forgotten or he didn't think it was a big deal since nothing bad really happened and let it go. Anyways, after Sekke's failed attempt at getting Asta to remember his real name, he cleared his throat.
"Going shopping with the ladies, huh?" Sekke said, changing the subject.
"We had the day off so why not?" Asta replied.
"Haha, that must be nice. Even if it is your day off, why goof around? Shouldn't you be spending it doing whatever you can to rack up points instead? I heard the Bulls are thirty stars in the red." Sekke mentioned. Asta then got super excited.
"Stars? Oh yeah, that reminds me! We got a star from the Wizard King on our very first mission! Awesome, huh?" Asta said enthusiastically. Lily, who was standing next to him, put her hand on her hip and nodded as Noelle smiled in a proud manner. A look of absolute shock made its way onto Sekke's face.
"And you worked hard for it, right?" Vanessa said as she put her arms around the four of them. Sekke started to breathe heavily, clutching his chest like he was having a heart attack. He then barely managed to gather himself together.
"Wow, did you really? I guess you're doing okay, huh?" Sekke said, trying to mask the fact that he was just freaking out.
"How about you Haha?" Asta asked Sekke who got in his face frustratingly.
"That's Sekke and I'll have you know that I now have two star...fish." Sekke said, his aggressiveness turning into nervous embarrassment. Just then, an elderly woman yelled at a thief who stole the large bag of yul she was carrying. Immediately, Asta and Lily charged into action, running after the thug.
"Get back here!" Asta yelled after the thief who was flying away on a cloud. And Lily was right on Asta's tail.
"You're not getting away!" Asta said as he sprinted after the criminal, bouncing off walls to turn sharp corners as Lily followed close behind. Just then, someone swung open their window to see what all the commotion was about and Asta crashed right through it. Lily ducked to avoid the window.
"Whoops, sorry!" Asta yelled his apology to the man whose window he broke. They kept chasing after the thief who gained altitude. They jumped on clothes lines to reach the roof of a building which they continued to run on. Asta suddenly got the idea to throw his sword at the cloud the thug was flying on. It sliced right through it, causing the criminal to fall. Asta quickly grabbed his sword from the roof it was sticking out of and jumped down, about to strike the thief. But he ran away, narrowly avoiding his sword. Lily continued to chase after the man, grabbing her scythe from her grimoire. She was about to hurl it at the guy, but then Sekke rushed past her and Asta on this bronze bike thing and rammed into him. The thief fell face first onto the ground.
"You're done now and I'll get the credit." Sekke said as he stood over the thug and laughed. Just then, the guy pulled out a blade and stabbed his foot.
"I'm so sick of that stupid laugh. If I'm gonna go, then so are you." The thief said before he passed out. Sekke screamed and fell over backward with his leg sticking up in the air. Asta ran over worriedly to his side and asked what happened to which Sekke told him the man stabbed his foot with a poisoned blade. He told Asta that it was the end for him but it wasn't for Asta. He just laid there and closed his eyes like it was all over. Asta shook him to get a response from Sekke, then he raised his hand and karate chopped his face and told him to not give up so easily. Vanessa removed his shoe and applied some sheik ointment on his wound, explaining that something like that wasn't going to kill him. After Sekke recovered, he placed the now bound unconscious thief on his bronze bike and mounted it.
"Haha! You'll have to work hard if you want to be ready for our next meeting Asta. Bye for now. Haha!" Sekke said as he sped off.
"Later Haha!" Asta said goodbye to Sekke as he waved at him. Lily sighed, glad that Sekke was gone now. She didn't really like him. Lily, Asta, Noelle and Vanessa returned the bag of yul to the elderly woman. The woman thanked them as the four of them left to return back to the Black Bulls hideout.