187 Aquarina’s Father Resolve
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After dinner, my father and Aquarina’s father finally came back from wherever they went. They also brought the mischievous Pyuku with them, I had really thought that he had abandoned us, and perhaps he did but my father brought him anyways.
Aquarina seemed to be the happiest that the slime was back, and I was quite surprised. Pyuku had a lot of potential but if it was that independent of a monster, it would be hard to actually tame it. Pyuku is probably sticking with us for convenience only, and it hadn’t grown closer to us like a tamed monster would do.
“Pyuuuuku!” said Aquarina.
“You brought him back! Thanks…” I said. I saw my father bringing Pyuku back, as he gave it to Aquarina. She opened her arms and began to squeeze the slime rather tightly.
Pyuku seemed to sigh in relief that it was grabbed by us thought, Shade and my father were being a bit too rough at carrying him.
“Please don’t go around like that again! It was very dangerous! What if you end up dying or something?” asked Aquarina.
“Pyuu!” said Pyuku.
“Yeah, yeah! What if an accident happens?” I asked.
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I was actually quite nervous as well, but I was trying to convince myself I didn’t cared about Pyuku… Well, it didn’t worked, I really did care at the end, which sucks.
“Pyuuukuuu…” sighed Pyuku, it seemed to be apologizing.
“He is very hungry; he ate all the corpses left by us…” said my father.
“He ate every single goblin, I never thought there would be something so gluttonous before…” said Shade.
“Pyuu, pyuu!”
Pyuku was certainly a rather mysterious monster, but it seemed to be a good monster. It didn’t had any threatening intentions, and Aquarina who had the ability to discern the intentions of things, was not afraid of him.
This only meant that Pyuku was actually not evil by nature, nor it had bad intentions against us, it was pretty much a “good monster”.
But I am afraid that he might not see us as important as we consider him, he seems to not care about us at all to an extent, as he didn’t mind going away and eating corpses…
I had to do something to reprimand him.
Well, he did care about us though… remembering the fight against the goblins, he saved our lives a bit, and helped fighting. Well, he’s certainly an odd fellow.
“Pyuku! Why did you go away like that?! Didn’t you know we would get worried?! Are you satisfied with that? Bad slime! Bad!” I said.
I began to stretch Pyuku’s body around, as he released small squeaks of pain.
“Pyuuu… Pyupyuuu…”
“So you better stay with us, and if you’re planning on going out, you better tell us in advance!” I said.
“Pyuu…” sighed the slime.
“Sylphy! You don’t have to be so rude with him! He already understands, right?” asked Aquarina.
“Pyuu…” sighed the slime.
“Okay then, I guess that wraps it up! You tow girls now go to sleep, it is already too late for children to be awake.” Said my mother.
“Right, you two go to bed, Zack, I’ll bring you to your tent if you want to.” Said Nepheline.
“I can go back to my tent on my own, don’t worry about it…” said Zack.
“See you tomorrow, Zack!” I said.
“Yeah, see ya.” Said Zack, as he walked away.
“Then you two girls… Hmm, I think a little bath would be better for you two before bed, you smell a bit stinky.” Said my mother.
“S-Stinky?” I asked.
“Yeah, I am covered in dirt… It is Pyuku, he was all dirty!” said Aquarina.
“Pyuuu…”
“Well then, let’s go to the bathroom, I will warm the water for you. Nepheline, can you serve some food to the men?” asked my mother.
“Yeah, I’m on it.” Said Nepheline, as she was suddenly stopped by Shade.
“W-Wait…” he said.
“Eh? What is it?” asked Nepheline.
Shade suddenly approached her as he gave her a kiss in her lisp.
“Huh? Wha… What was that for?” asked Nepheline.
“…What’s wrong with that?” asked Shade.
“I… Nothing… It is just rare to see you acting lovely…” said Nepheline. freewebnvel.com
The two looked at one another for a bit, as Nepheline held Shade’s hands.
We all stopped in there as we looked at the pair suddenly act lovely.
This is the first time I see Shade acting like this, I think.
“Hm~? Did my womanly charm finally softened you?” asked Nepheline teasingly.
She was a tomboyish woman, it could be said she was quite manly, so she wasn’t very expressive of her emotions either, and Shade as a man that seemed always silent and expressionless, didn’t showed many emotions either.
But seeing them act like this was very cute, it felt like they were opening up in front of us.
“Well, you already softened me long ago… Nepheline I am sorry…” said Shade.
“Hm? Why, dear?” asked Nepheline.
“I haven’t been as close as I should had been… I am… too silent sometimes… I keep things for myself… I shouldn’t do that. Allan told me that I should be more open.” Said Shade.
“Ah! So it was that rascal…” said Nepheline, glaring down at my father.
Before the intense glare of the amazoness warrior, my father began to laugh nervously.
“What did I told you about getting into the private lives of other people!?” asked my mother, smacking my father’s head, but she was very weak compared to him so she ended with her hand all red instead, while my father was unfazed by her attack.
“Ouch…”
“Haha, sorry… I didn’t meant to… Ah… S-Shade is just my friend…” said Allan.
Nepheline looked back at Shade as Shade seemed to blush a bit.
I realized how handsome this man really was as he showed more of his face and his expressions…
“Don’t worry about it. I am the one that knows you better, Shade. I am sure that whenever it is the time, you’ll talk things out with me…” said Nepheline.
“Nepheline…” said Shade.
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