Chapter 1254: Waking Up Late
Chapter 1254: Waking Up Late
The morning finally came, and I lazily woke up, slowly opening my eyes.
That dream I had; it was quite realistic.
Was that a premonition of the future too?
Or perhaps not, it didn't feel as strong of a dream like back then.
I don't know if Aquarina will remember it though, she's the type of person that doesn't remember her dreams.
"Good morning everyone, how are you today?"
I asked all my familiars, my other friends, those that will probably never leave me, or at least for a long while.
Most of them were inside of my Soul Scape, but quickly appeared out once I called them.
"Fine, it is an okay morning..." Ignatius groaned, looking through the window. "Are you prepared, Sylphy?"
"More or less, yeah..." I nodded, sighing.
"You don't really look that prepared..." Beelzebub sighed, sitting over my head.
"Hey, I'm just... Well, yeah, I'm not. I just pretend. Most of the time, we always just pretend to be brave, to be strong, to be mature..." I said. "It's always about pretending, eventually, you slowly become similar to the persona you've built around yourself."
"I think you're just talking nonsense, but whatever..." Ignatius yawned, a bit of flames coming out of his jaws. "I'm hungry, when are we eating?"
"Here, you can eat some of these at least," I took out of my inventory a few fire spirit stones and threw them at him, which Ignatius happily caught and started eating.
"You're always spoiling him! Why can't I have some of those too?" Beelzebub complained.
"I already gave you plenty the other day, mister butterfly..." I sighed. "Anyways, Alice, Yggdra, Naturia, are you girls ready?"
"I... Well, I am quite sad. I have to admit I've grown attached to the family..." Alice confessed. "But as long as I am with you, it is fine."
"I'm ok~!" Naturia said adorably.
"I have grown rather used to the feeling of being alone and departing from those I love," said Yggdra. "It is fine, I will be with Sylphy after all."
"Ah... I'm so sorry, Yggdra, it's all my fault you were so lonely!" I cried, hugging her fairy-like manifestation.
"No, master, it was never your fault, you had to move on, and I was just a tree, you couldn't bring me along, don't worry about it," said Yggdra. "There's nothing to be sad about."
"Ahh... okay, I guess..." I still felt a bit guilty.
"Even if you depart from your friends, we'll always stay by your side as our contractor, Anna," Furoh said, he was on his White Fenrir form.
"Yeaaah! Guuuguguu!" said Violet cutely.
"That's right!" Scarlet agreed.
"Indeed," Sapphire said.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Nephilim is not here but I am sure she'll agreed... Though, I think you'll let her accompany your brother?" wondered Curse. "Are you okay with letting your contracted familiar go away for so long from you? Perhaps your bond might weaken as a result."
"I don't think it will, Nephilim is just very fond of Zephy, and if she's there to protect him and Mist and Lara, who'll only be accompanied by mom, that's for the better," I nodded. "Mom's... already super strong anyways, but even then, I'm sure she'll appreciate the extra help."
"Yeah, no need to worry about that at all," Alice nodded. "Nephilim will be fine. Curse, you're often rather negative and not optimistic at all..."
"Hmph, well, why should I be optimistic to begin with? I am a literal curse given a mind and body. I only possess a vague purpose from my creator long ago... Even after years had gone by," he sighed.
"Well, aren't you quite grumpy today? Here," I gave him a dark spirit stone. "You like these don't you?"
"What? I am not going to let you give me something so frivolous to somehow make me change how I am, because it is not working!" he grabbed the spirit stone and started eating it.
"Oh well, he'll be fine," I giggled.
As I talked with my family of Familiars, Aquarina started to wake up.
To leave some privacy for us, they quickly moved back inside my Soul Scape, they usually didn't like interrupting moments with my friends or Aquarina.
Despite how some might act rude, they were a very empathetic bunch, I've heard of some other elves always complaining their spirits lacked manners and would butt in anywhere.
It is part of understanding Spirits and Spirit Magic to learn how to "Tame" a spirit, so they don't do these rude things, apparently.
"Hmm, Sylphy? Were you talking?" Aquarina wondered.
"Ah, I was chatting with my Spirits for a bit, good morning~" I said, kissing her forehead. "Did you sleep well?"
"Yeah... Uh, I had a weird dream," she said. "But I can barely remember it. I can vaguely think... It was about us living together or something... It was so nice."
"I also had a similar dream, ahaha," I giggled.
"Wouldn't it be nice if it was like that in the future?" Aquarina smiled, sitting down over the bed. "We will, right?"
"I-I mean, sure...?" I said. "It is a bit too early to plan such things I think, but its not like I
plan to do something else..."
"Yaay~" she hugged me tightly, dragging me back to the bed. "Let's sleep a bit more, it still early I think..."
"It's already like past ten in the morning Aquarina..." I sighed.
"Eh?!" Aquarina panicked. "Shit, we have to go take a shower..."
"Yup, or we're definitely going to be late, and I think the airships we'll be taking are
scheduled for like 2 PM..."
"Ah, okay, let's hurry then," Aquarina sighed.
We decided to take a relaxing bath together, where we made sure to wash each other thoroughly, especially our hair.
"Make sure to bring all these shampoos to maintain your hair," I said.
"Yeah, yeah~" Aquarina nodded, as she packed them inside a storage ring she was gifted
recently.
"And these soaps," I said, giving them some of them too.
"So many..." Aquarina laughed. "Did you make these with Alchemy?"
"Yeah I've been mass producing a lot of hygienic products, so everyone can bring them
along," I nodded. "Now let's go have breakfast, hurry!"
After taking the bath and getting dressed, we rushed downstairs, our families and friends
were already having breakfast.
We were indeed a bit late!