After hearing Lili's pleading voice Art had immediately taken her back into his arms and placed her on his lap. Taking notice of the girls tears he hugged her close and gently stroked her head as she kept on sobbing with her head now pressed against his chest.
After a few minutes, Lili became quiet and only the sounds of her little snores could be heard. Seemingly the girl had managed to cry herself asleep in his arms to the boys own relief.
With Lili's consciousness fading deeper into her dreams, the last thing she could slightly recall was the feeling of a gentle kiss being planted on her head followed by the boy Art wishing her sweet dreams.
In her make-believe dream world Lili found herself back in the modern world. She was still the same little Lili but now she was an astronaut sitting in a rocket headed for the moon. But this was no ordinary moon but a moon pie. Yes, the whole entire moon was nothing more than a gigantic pie and its sweet smell was so strong that it floated through outer space and straight inside the rocket ship.
Lili couldn't help but sniff its delicious mouth-watering smell in excitement as she knew that soon she would have the privilege of being the first girl on earth to have a bite of it. Unable to wait any longer Lili attempted to reach out to the moon pie as if she could just fly there on her own without the help of the rocket ship but to her confusion, she couldn't.
Looking around she noticed that there were big muscular arms holding her in place on a big man. Turning her head up to look at who was this man holding her she was shocked to see that it was Frank. Her old partner in the fight against crime was right there holding her on his lap as if he were her father. Just like she, he was also dressed in a spacesuit with only the helmet missing.
In disbelief she couldn't help but ask.
"Frank? What are you doing here? I thought you died?"
Frank just smiled as he said.
"Didn't I tell you, Lili, I'm not leaving you? We are in this together till the end. We are partners for life."
Lili could not help but feel touched by his words as she fell deeper into his gentle embrace as she then said.
"Thank you, Frank. That means a lot to me."
Then the ship Ai spoke in its robotic voice and said.
"Initiating landing sequence."
As the ship landed and its doors opened Frank and Lili stood there hand in hand, like father and daughter. They looked at the pie moon before them with drool running down their helmet-covered faces.
As if they were of one mind they both turned towards one another at the same time and Frank said.
"You ready Partner?"
In great excitement, Lili nodded her head and then felt Frank suddenly tighten his grip on her small hand. Lilis face turned into confusion as she was then suddenly tossed out of the spaceship by Frank who yelled at her saying.
"It's time to wake up Lili! There is food waiting to be consumed."
Flying down towards the pie moon Lili reached her hand towards Frank and desperately yelled.
"No, I don't want to wake up without you! Please I need you! Don't leave me again! I can't do this without you!"
Through the ever-growing distance between them, she could see a smile form on Frank's face as he said.
"Don't worry Lili you are much stronger than you think. No matter what I will always be there beside you if you need me. You'll just have to look a little bit closer and you'll find me waiting there for you."
Hearing this Lili shook her head fiercely in denial as she flew further and further away while yelling.
"No Frank! Don't go! Please!"
Then with a squishy splat, she finally made contact with the pie moon and sank into it and was completely consumed by darkness and the smell of the sweet pie.
In the darkness, a gentle voice called out to her.
"Wake up sleepy head. Wake up. It's time to eat."
Then something soft like freshly baked dough with the small taste of butter mixed in came in contact with her lips. Its aroma was good, it smelled like a meat pie.
Carefully her little button nose sniffed it and took in all its sweet drool-inducing sweet aromas. With her lips touching it and her nose identifying its target she then opened her mouth wide and bit down.
Immediately she felt her teeth catch a hold of something meaty muscular and hard, but also the taste of meat pie was there.
Then almost immediately as she bit it a pained yelps could be heard.
"AHH. God damnit Lili that's not something meant for eating."
Confused by this Lili moved her tongue through the soft meat pie and around the hard object that felt like a thick well trained finger.
Now feeling even more confused than before. Lili opened her eyes lazily and noticed that she had taken hold of Arts index finger which had been holding a small piece of meat pie. What was even worse was that she had been licking the finger unknowingly.
Realizing her mistake Lilis eyes widened and quickly pulled back and hit her head against something solid. Turning her head upwards to look at what had she just hit she noticed Art looking at her with a questioning expression as she said.
"Iikh! I, I, I'm sorry Art I didn't realize it was you."
Hearing this Arts expression quickly turned to a playful one as he brought his index finger in front of her lips and said.
"Don't worry about it, Lili. Feel free to bite it again I don't mind. What is mine is yours."
Then his finger came into contact with Lili's lips once more. In response, Lili pulled back and yelled.
"Iu no! That's disgusting. Noo!"
But Art didn't stop as he just continued poking his finger at Lili as she attempted to dodge it to the best of her abilities while being trapped on his lap. For a good minute, they went at this and Lili kept on protesting until they were both brought to a halt by the sound of an old man's laughter.
Looking around Lili could see that she was no longer in the Inns bar area. Instead, she seemed to be in a sizable room with a single king-sized bed, a window with red curtains blocking the view to the outside, a fireplace and a round table with lots of food on it and two finely crafted wooden chairs and there on one of the chairs facing the door she was sitting in Art's lap.
And there next to the door, she could see a huge old man leaning against the wall. His hood was pulled back and she could see his shaved face and gray short hair. The man also had 5 long scars on his right side, three of the scars went over his eye but seemed as if they had left it undamaged. Both his eyes even in the darkness seemed to be glowing with a deep ocean-blue color just like hers were.
Looking at this fearsome-looking old man Lili couldn't help but feel that the man had an air of familiarity in him. Looking at him she couldn't help but immediately feel some kind of an unspoken bond with the man that she couldn't quite explain. It was like the feeling of meeting your grandpa for the first time.
The old man just kept on laughing happily as he then said.
"Hahaha, young love. What else can I say? Hahahaha!"
And with those words, the man opened the door and left leaving only the slight echoes of his laughter behind.
The room stood silent and then the two of their eyes met. Lili's face turned into a questioning frown as Art seemed confused as he said.
"What?"
Crossing her arms Lili tried to act tough but inwardly she felt a bit scared as she said.
"Don't get any funny ideas or I'll kick you in the balls again."
Hearing this Arts left hand immediately rose up in surrender as he spoke in a slightly shocked tone voice.
"What? No, newer. I would never force you to do something like that."
Placing his left hand on her shoulder he tried to reassure her as he said.
"Don't say things like that Lili. I'm not that type of a man. The things I spoke of were meant in the context of later. Obviously, I'm not going to make you my concubine now. I meant to do it later when you're more grown up."
As Art said this Lili could feel his large member bulge slightly which sent chills through her body and made her shiver in disgust.
Holy shit, this dude is not joking. Did he just admit to wanting to pin me to a bed and have his way with me once I grew up? Oh, where is Frank when you need him? I really need someone to have my back against this crazy strong boy.
Noticing Lili's disgusted expression pointed towards him. Art quickly grabbed a wooden plate with a meat pie and brought it in front of Lili's face while saying.
"Oh look, Lili. It's a meat pie. Why don't you try and take a bite out of this? It's really delicious I'm sure you'll love it."
With the sweet scent of the pie rising to her nose, Lili could not help but have her expression soften and her eyebrows race instead as she thought.
Ooh, trying to bribe me with food now, are you? Well, that's not gonna, oh, wait that does smell really good. Let me have a bite of that.
Smelling the pie and feeling hungry with her stomach growling Lili couldn't help but have her opinion of him be swayed by the food.
And Like that Lili and Art spent the next half an hour or so happily stuffing their faces with food. Lili seemed to have forgotten their talk almost immediately as she happily continued to sit in Arts lap while he kept on handing her food while he also ate.
Both of them even ended up drinking some medieval ale and sharing a few drunk moments together which they soon forgot as they then found themselves sound asleep in the king-sized bed.