338 An “Innocent” Girl
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When dinner ended, we decided to move back home. There were rooms available in the orphanage but my mother insisted that we didn’t had to bother them, and well, the conditions in the building weren’t that good.
My mother had even offered everyone to be relocated into our tribe for the moment until the building could be repaired, but Mother Mary said she didn’t wanted to bother us any more than that. Although we promised to go see them next morning anyways, so it wasn’t as if we were going away forever.
“Take care, Mist, be a good girl and go to sleep now.” I said, caressing Mist silky white hair, as her smile filled with tiny sharp teeth was utterly adorable.
“Nooo! D-Don’t go…” Mist cried, grabbing my arm. “Stay! I can give you space in bed!”
After Mist innocently offered me to sleep at her side, Aquarina quickly grew redder and a bit shocked, quickly running to our side.
“M-Mist, we have our own rooms, r-right? So don’t bother yourself. We’ll come back next morning!” Said Aquarina, trying to act polite instead of rude. Wow, was she improving at long last?
“B-But… We awe fwends!” Cried Mist, beginning to cry like a baby, despite being near our age.
“We’ll come back next morning, we promise. Don’t worry about it, okay? We’ll even teach you some magic.” I said. I quickly looked at Zack who was hiding from Mist for some reason, and called him here.
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“Y-Yeah! Mist, calm down.” He said, petting her black horns.
“Zack! Will you really come next mowning?” Asked Mist. Perhaps due to her several teeth getting in the way, and the different shape of her mouth, sometimes words came out slightly baby-like in speech, although I am sure she was speaking rather well.
“Yeah, we are friends now as you said.” Said Zack.
“Indeed, we won’t abandon you or something.” I said.
“Also, there’s Celeste for you here, and all your siblings, didn’t you miss them?” Wondered Aquarina.
“Y-Yeah…” Mist, said, as Celeste came to her side and petted her head. Suddenly, a blonde girl also came, she was almost the same size as Mist and had a slightly cheeky expression in her face. I had noticed her staring at us for a while with bright eyes, fascinated by everything we brought and our clothes too.
“Mist stop being such a crybaby, come to sleep already!” She said.
“B-But Alicia…” Cried Mist.
“Mist, come.” Celeste said, suddenly holding Mist like a baby with her arms and carrying her away.
“Uwaaah! Shtop! D-Don’t carry me!” Cried Mist. “T-That’s reserved to my special prince!”
“Again with that?” Asked Celeste.
“I think I finally found him! Heheh…” Mist giggled innocently, looking at Zack as he suddenly blushed and glared elsewhere.
Oho~ I see why he’s so shy with her and he doesn’t want to get closer, seems like Mist got love at first sight with Zack? Is this why she’s sticking with him sometimes?
“Hm… I don’t think he’s a prince, he looks like a kid from the streets, doesn’t have the air of noblesse!” Alicia said, the cheeky blue-eyed blonde girl said while cockily remarking Zack’s appearance.
“W-Well, good night!” Mary said, as she saw the girls walk inside the building once more. After that, we quickly made our way outside the fiefdom once more and reached the tent quickly after. I decided to leave a few seeds created by Naturia near the building, which are my own special guards.
As we made our way back to the tent, we couldn’t help but ask Zack what’s up with that. He seemed to have no idea what we were talking about and that he had only meet Mist for just a day and a half, so I guess it was justifiable, but still, it was pretty cute!
“So what’s up with Mist?” I wondered. “She’s a cutie, isn’t she?”
“I-I am not interested in demon girls…” Said Zack rather annoyed. “She’s our new friend, n-nothing else, don’t get the wrong idea! She’s very childish compared to us so she talks things out of her mind…”
“Hehe, never thought you would become such a type of guy…” I laughed.
“W-What type?!” Asked Zack.
“Yeah he kind of feels like a Casanova.” Said Aquarina.
“Where did you learned that word?” I asked while giggling.
“From mommy, she calls my father like that when they’re having fun in bed!” Said Aquarina. Suddenly, Shade and Nepheline felt like a giant boulder fell over their bodies, getting stiff.
“A-Aquarina, don’t say such things upfront!” Cried Nepheline.
“A-Also, I’ve told you countless times that such things are not made for children to know about!” Shade said.
“But you two jump in bed, must be fun!” Said Aquarina.
“T-That’s… Shade, haven’t you been setting up a barrier when we do it?!” Asked Nepheline angered at Shade.
“I-I do! Maybe… when we are in the heat of it I forget…” Sighed Shade.
“Ugh…” Nepheline facepalmed.
I guess I am not the only one… Aquarina has also sometimes caught her parents doing the deed, huh? I guess I have only seen my parents doing it twice, and it was because I ran into their room when it suddenly opened.
Often times when I woke up to the bathroom and I saw them… yeah. Anyways, now I just run away whenever I feel like they’re doing it to not bother them. But 99% of the time they set up barriers to not notice it, unless they forget, which happens. After all, just as Mary said, we are not perfect.
My parents, of course, laughed and mocked their friends for this, despite having committed the same mistake many times, perhaps because they were unaware of this unlike Nepheline and Shade…
“Hahaha! You’re being a bit too careless there, friend.” My father giggled.
“Aquarina shouldn’t really be talking about such things…” Sighed my mother.
“I guess things are doing pretty good in paradise, huh?” Laughed my uncle.
“How unsightly…” Sighed Ninhursag.
Maybe I should get them back with it too…
“Mmm, sometimes I also listen to them jumping in bed… I really don’t know why they do that, is it fun?” I wondered innocently. My parents quickly felt petrified.
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