"No, we don't need that, put it back,"
"You don't even eat it, don't buy it because it looks cute,"
"You're the only one who eats that, don't take too many of it!"
"Ugh... You're so fussy! Just let me at least buy something I want!" Protested Ao angrily as she stomped her feet to the ground.
"Shut up! It's because you keep on taking unnecessary things or foods that you won't even eat yourself!"
"Boo~ It's not like we're short on money anyway! You'll get old quicker if you get angry every second, Ray!" (Ao)
"It's because you keep on triggering my anger every second!"
*Sigh!*
I shouldn't have brought her together with me!
"D-Don't tell me... We're currently short in funds...?" (Ao)
"Hm... Not exactly. We're in our highest number instead. We just got 60,000 Yuan from the Panama group, after all. And there are still some jobs we've taken that haven't got paid yet too,"
"That's a lot! Then why can't I buy some things!?" Protested Ao.
This girl... Did she forget that last two months she asked me to buy her the latest phone, saying that she won't request anything else?
"I'll confiscate your phone for one week if you continue making a fuss," I threatened her with one of the most efficient threats for Ao.
"Ugh... Nothing but my phone... Fine!" Ao angrily returns to the place where she took the fluffy candies that have a different color in every piece of candies.
"Hmph!" Ao snorted when she came back.
What are you? An elementary girl?
*Sigh!*
I let out a heavy sigh as I surrender.
"Fine, fine. Take whatever you want, it's fine as long as you don't buy too much. I'll smack your head and your phone if you buy too much, okay? And don't forget to buy something for Sachi and the others too,"
"Okay~ Thanks~" Ao cheerfully replies as she happily wanders the supermarket and takes a variety of foods and snacks.
I definitely didn't want to go to the mall together with her or the other girls. Bringing a girl to a mall equals the stamina I used on a morning run. The time they took to when they look at clothes inside every store, the shopping bags I need to carry, and the vast social energy of the people inside the mall made me even more exhausted than having a morning run.
"Are you done yet? If we get too late, the others will-"
*Bzzt!* *Bzzt!*
Speaking about the devil.
I take my vibrating phone and answer the call from Hari. We're still buying the ingredients for our dinner, so she must be calling to ask where we are since she can't cook without the ingredients.
"Hello?"
[Young Master? It's already 7:32, where are-] (Hari)
"Eh? What are-"
"I'm done! I'll answer big sis, so Ray could just go to the cashier and pay," said Ao as she stole my phone from my hands with such a cheerful face.
"I see... Tell her about the Daoshou and say that we'll buy them dinner on our way,"
"Okay~" (Ao)
And just like that, I push the shopping cart filled with a mountain of snacks and foods and went to the cashier.
"The total is 820 yuan. Cash or debit?"
Whoa... That's rather a lot... Somehow, I couldn't help but feel a kind of pain every time I need to pay for monthly necessities...
"Debit card,"
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"Whoa! I can't wait to eat the crepe~" said Ao as she sniffs inside the crepe's box.
"Don't sniff it, you otaku yokai. Just eat it already,"
"I don't want to! I want to eat together with the others!" (Ao)
Whoa... What a troublesome fellow...
[In 10 minutes, we'll arrive at the Shizuka station]
"Another 10 minutes, huh~ My stomach couldn't resist the hunger any more longer..." Ao holds her stomach as she tried to suppress her hunger.
"You're a yokai, you only need to eat once every month and could still survive, remember?"
"Boo~ I could survive if I eat once in a month, but it doesn't mean I won't get hungry, stupid Ray," (Ao)
"Well, that's true, though," I replied as I crossed my legs and folded my arms.
The train is empty so we easily get a seat on the train, it will be so tiring if we need to wait while holding these many supermarket shopping bags...
"Fufufu!" Ao suddenly laughed even though she didn't look at her phone nor did anything funny happened around us.
"Finally lost your mind?"
"No, I don't. I won't! It's just that..." (Ao)
"What is it?"
"It's been a while since we talked these much. You never talked to me at school, after all," (Ao)
"Isn't it you the one who didn't want to talk to me at school?"
"W-Well... That's your fault for using that saggy uniform! My friends will laugh at me if they know we're close, you should really do something with that saggy uniform and change your glasses to a better frame!" (Ao)
"I know that. That's why I didn't talk to you since your friends will make a joke of you if you looked like you're close to me. It's too bothersome to change the uniform and change my glasses, and it will be a waste of money so isn't it fine? It's not like I want to be friends with those kids too anyway," I replied indifferently with a shrug
"Well... I don't really ask you to be friends or close with them... but aren't you pretty close with Hiroto-Kun?" (Ao)
"He's just a weird one, that's all,"
"I see... Well, what I mean is... You're more like you're void of emotions back then, so it's relieving to see that you have more emotions on you now," Said Ao as she turns her head away so I can't really look at her expression.
What happened with this girl?
"Catch a cold?"
"No! I didn't! Argh! Forget it!" Ao angrily said and stomped my feet.
"Ouch! What the hell are you doing, you hardcore otaku yokai!?"
"I don't hear you, I don't hear you~" Ao plugs her earphones on her ears and started playing with her phone.
Geez, this girl.
Void of emotions, huh...
Well, indeed... In my life as a lich, I devote my life to search for the remains of the Azeroth kingdom and search for the reincarnation of those who I knew before.
I did lots of things to kill time and wage lots of war in order to make a better world for all of us.
But every day, every hour, every minute, every second, and in every moment, I live in the past. I live in my own dimension that I made with my own fragments of memories.
I couldn't forget the blissful times.
I couldn't let go of the painful longing.
So I lived in the past, forgetting the present, let alone the future.
Even now...
*Whoosh!*
A gust of wind suddenly struck me.
Following the gust of wind, my surroundings changed. The scenery inside a train changed into a vast grassland.
I look right and left and saw Ao is nowhere to be found.
*Sigh!*
Letting out a heavy sigh, I stand and crossed my arms.
"What do you need?" I asked towards the thin air as there is no one around me.
Well, at least, no one is 'visible' around me.
"Go out, I know you're there. And I believe you know that this kind of trick didn't work against me," I said with a slightly annoyed tone.
"Fufufufu!" A deep and powerful laughing voice appeared from the thin air.
The space in front of me suddenly distorted as a black hole appeared before me.
The spatial distortion got even bigger in every second. The black hole keeps on getting bigger and bigger, revealing a powerful and terrifying figure that would make even the strongest wrestler fainted.
ROAAARRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As if a meteor had struck the earth, the roar caused a great earthquake and destroy the grasslands. And in a split second, the grasslands disappeared.
Everything disappeared.
The air, the sun, the sky.
The scenery suddenly changed into a space of nothingness with only the two of us inside it.
"Had the thousands of years of isolation had finally made you feel bored or did the thousands of years of wandering in space had finally made you lose your mind, O' dear king of dragons, Bahamut?" I said toward the huge being clad in powerful and mighty black scales in front of me.
"Fufufufu! HAHAHAHAHA! That rude and nasty way of speaking of yours never changed, huh, dark guardian of the earth!" said the dragon king with his mighty voice that filled with a dense amount of mana that could make those who have a weak soul lost their lives.
"That hobby of searching for things that could help you kill time of yours never changed too, huh, Bahamut? Don't get too cocky just because you've become the king of dragons now, Bahamut!"