Chapter 778: A New Phase Part 14

"...Hehehe." Fanni laughs cheerfully while I stare at her stupid face. We’re at the amusement park, next in line to get the ice cream she’s been dying to try.

"Why are you so weird?" I ask her, unable to stop smiling with excitement over something as trivial as ice cream.

"S-Sorry!! I’m just really excited—"

"Next." The employee handling the sales speaks with a tone of total boredom. He seems to hate this job.

"T-That’s me!! Me!! Me!!" She stops talking to me and latches onto the counter while placing her order at an extremely fast pace, bouncing to make herself more visible over the tall counter. The attendant watches her making a mess and looks like he wants to kick her out for disrupting the line, but I give him a serious look and tell him to ignore her while flashing a lot of money at him and shaking my head with a dismissive wave.

He seems to understand, so he stays quiet, accepting this "bribe" so he won’t make Fanni leave the line without her ice cream.

"..." He hands her the ice cream, and she quickly grabs it from his hand before his hand even leaves the counter. She steps away from the line as the rules require after placing her money on the counter. I step forward, placing my money on the counter and making the same order as Fanni.

’Normally she’s never someone with such poor manners... I guess she really is excited... well, it makes sense. She’s been wanting to try this ice cream for months...’

"Be more responsible. That girl’s behavior could have disrupted other people in line." He tries to lecture about Fanni’s attitude, which isn’t exactly the best to have in a public park when she’s already an adult.

"That’s none of your business, you greedy little pig who takes bribes." He makes an offended face as I walk away from him, ignoring his indignation. I use magic to make his heart explode in seven hours, once it’s already dark and he’s at home in front of his family and kids.

"..." I approach Fanni, who’s sitting on a bench waiting anxiously to try the ice cream. Her tail is fully raised and slightly curved like a [?] while her ears are completely perked up, showing her excitement.

"Aren’t you going to try it? It’ll melt if you take too long. It’s really hot today." I tell her, seeing she still hasn’t tasted her ice cream. She’s just holding it with a dumb smile on her face.

"I was waiting for you!! So we could try it together and see each other’s reactions." She smiles at me and finally takes a big bite of the ice cream.

"..."

"U-Urghww!!! C-Cold!! M-My brain!! It froze my brain!!" She touches her forehead with a pained expression, curling up.

"That’s kind of obvious. It’s still ice cream. Why did you bite it? You should’ve just licked it." I gently lick my ice cream, tasting that same flavor from the past. Nothing has changed.

’Still bad as always... not even Fanni’s company made the flavor any better... it’s honestly absurd how famous this is...’

"At least you liked your ice cream? Since you wanted it so badly and now you got it, you must feel pretty satisfied, right?" I ask her as she starts licking it calmly.

"...Wehh... it’s kind of bad... I don’t know... it’s... tasteless? L-Like, it’s interesting, but it’s not as tasty as I expected... kind of... kind of disappointing..." She looks discouraged, having almost the same reaction as me.

"Kind of obvious. This was made for humans to eat. Neither you nor I are human. The flavor isn’t strong enough, the texture isn’t good enough, and it doesn’t have that pleasant sweet touch ice cream should have when it’s made for us."

"Oh... that’s true... then why is it so famous on the internet? I don’t get it... I feel kind of cheated." She looks at the ice cream, then at me, and gives a mischievous smile.

"Want to taste mine? An indirect kiss and—" I bite into her ice cream right where she had bitten before, which makes her blush with embarrassment.

"W-W-What!!?"

"It’s not something like that that’s going to embarrass me... let’s go to the Ferris wheel. It looks free, and it’s getting late. We wasted too much time in line." I tell her, pulling her toward the Ferris wheel. She comes with me, eating her ice cream while I take a bite of mine.

"..." I scan the ticket at the turnstile and pull her into one of the cabins. She sits down in one of the spots, and I notice her hand has started getting sticky from the melting ice cream.

"You really are a disaster. You’re getting ice cream all over yourself. If you hadn’t waited so long to start eating it, you wouldn’t be like this..."

"H-Hehehe sorry. I know it’s really hot, but I wanted to share this first experience with this ice cream with you! Do you have a tissue—" I grab her hand and lick her fingers. She’s left speechless as I suck on her soft fingers.

She can’t even say anything or pull her hand away. She just blushes and watches my tongue slide between her fingers, catching every drop of ice cream that dripped.

"Hmmm... it tastes better this way." I finish licking all the ice cream from between her fingers, but she got so flustered that she dropped the ice cream in her hand onto her clothes.

I look at the ice cream on her clothes, and then she follows my gaze and, for some reason, gets even redder and more embarrassed.

"A-Ah... p-please don’t lick there!!" It’s kind of offensive that she thinks I would lick the ice cream that fell on her clothes.

"I wasn’t going to lick your skirt... here, I have a tissue. Clean that up so the stain doesn’t get worse. You’re lucky the ice cream is soft white coffee and you’re wearing white almost the same color." I hand her a tissue, and she accepts it timidly.

"T-Thank you..." I finish my ice cream while looking out the window, seeing that we’re reaching the highest point. I grab another tissue and wipe her cheek while tilting her face toward the view.

"Wow... it’s... beautiful." She watches the sun setting. It’s already low enough that it’s safe to look directly at the glow of the sunset. The red, orange, and yellow blended in a soft gradient is truly lovely.

"I knew you’d like it..." I still prefer collapsing stars, but my vision is very different from that of mortals, so I suppose my taste doesn’t matter. But I knew she would love seeing this.

"..." She moves closer to the window while I watch how happy she gets with so little. It’s cute, like a little animal. I hope she never changes, so I can keep enjoying this. People without powers or great responsibilities really are amusing things.