Chapter 591

Chapter 598: Ryu – It was my dirty thoughts… (Please subscribe!)

Labyrinth City Orario.

For the adventurers living here, today is yet another day full of hope.

As the sun rises over the city, The Bountiful Mistress tavern begins preparing for business.

At this time, Izay has just woken up from his room.

The location is in the staff dormitory at the back of the tavern, on the second floor.

How to put it…

He spent an unforgettable golden night staying up with a spirit for the first time.

“Soundproof Barrier truly is a great thing…”

Izay can unilaterally declare that in life, the Soundproof Barrier is the most practical magic! No exceptions!

Combined with presence reduction and cognitive obstruction.

It’s simply an unbeatable combination!

What hand could possibly beat a pair of bomb cards?

There is!

That would be three pairs of bomb cards together!

While muttering under his breath, Izay slowly gets out of bed.

But as soon as he puts his hand on the sheet, he feels a wet patch.

Clearly, this is the sweat from last night’s technical discussion due to exhaustion.

To summarize in one sentence – spirits are made of water.

“……”

After a brief moment of silence, Izay takes out a new set of sheets and duvet covers from his space.

Thanks to his mastery of Space Magic, he can even teleport himself away, so changing a set of sheets is no problem at all.

In the blink of an eye, the task is completed, then he throws the damp old duvet cover into his space.

Then he touches it again.

Hmm, warm and soft, very nice!

“——————”

The duvet rustles slightly, and a small head pops out from the new duvet.

“If the other magicians find out you’re using Space Magic for this, they’ll definitely want to kill you.”

Ryu first glared at Izay, then calmed her azure eyes and spoke.

Her voice sounds a bit hoarse, her face showing a little resentment while speaking with pouted pink lips.

After all… last night’s events were too sudden.

Beforehand, Ryu never expected Izay to go straight to the point… even further than she anticipated when she made up her mind~

Too many new techniques were learned, and now when the spirit thinks about it, she finds it hard to accept.

A pure white sheet of paper stained with the color of spring flowers still needs some time to adapt.

Izay pauses, unable to help but chuckle: “Why did the topic stray so far? Isn’t this me worrying about your comfort?”

“Then you can take advantage of the situation, right?” Ryu continues to puff her cheeks.

Perhaps because the last barrier has been broken, she now speaks without filter in front of Izay.

In the past, how dare the spirit speak like this?

But Izay doesn’t care, looking completely justified: “Touching my own wife isn’t illegal!”

“Who said I’m your wife… shameless…” Ryu blushes uncontrollably upon hearing this, curling up in the blanket and moving closer to the corner, incredibly cute.

“Ryu… you look like a giant caterpillar right now.”

“You’re the caterpillar! It’s already tavern opening hours! All because of you, we stayed up so late! Turn around now! I need to change clothes!”

“I don’t have to turn, do I? I want to witness the scene of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly.”

“……”

After a while, Izay sees the spirit’s readiness to throw caution to the wind and can’t help but laugh.

Last night, it was her who took the initiative.

And today, it’s her who’s shy.

She must not have much experience, huh?

When she gains more experience in the future, she might not be like this anymore~

Someone’s thoughts drift off to the future.

…

The current staff dormitory building is very quiet.

Because Aniya, Kuroi, Lunowa, Mei, and the other waitresses or chefs have gone to work, the entire dormitory building only has Izay and Ryu in it.

During the washing up on the second floor, Ryu surprisingly mentions something.

“I had a dream last night.” The spirit says thus.

“Having dreams is quite normal, isn’t it? As the saying goes, ‘what you think during the day will appear in your dreams.’ What did you dream about, Ryu?” Izay smirks teasingly.

“Anyway, not what you’re thinking!” Ryu rolls her eyes, explaining as if seeing through the implications in his words: “I dreamed of Goddess Astraia… regarding the aftermath of our crossing yesterday.”

According to Ryu’s description, she dreamed in the first-person perspective of five years ago.

And sequentially experienced everything from five years ago when she survived and returned from the 27th floor.

Including the situation after meeting Goddess Astraia.

After hearing this, Izay sighs dramatically: “What I meant by ‘what you think during the day’ actually refers to the Familial Group of Astraia. Where did your thoughts wander off to, Ryu?”

This unexpected twist causes the spirit’s actions to pause momentarily, her behavior seeming mechanical.

This… is rather awkward.

The one who thought dirty was myself?

Ryu can’t help but fall into confusion.

In reality, Izay was merely diverting Ryu’s attention.

After listening to Ryu’s sharing, he had guessed the cause of such dream phenomena.

(Does the world history convergence after using a miracle manifest as dreams to related people? And it seems the original memories of the related individuals won’t be affected…)

If others are all like Ryu, has Goddess Astraia already noticed the changes?

Thinking boldly, perhaps the other party is currently preparing to return to Orario~

Of course, the possibility of Ryu being a special case cannot be ignored.

If only Ryu is a special case, then they will have to actively bring Goddess Astraia back from the outside world.

And the resurrected Ariashe and others as well.

After all, the miracle used only gave a [Please wait for effect] prompt.

Based on Izay’s understanding of the system,

This prompt roughly translates to – “I’ve brought your people back to life, but where they are, you’ll have to find them yourself. I won’t mark their locations for you!”

As above.

After finishing washing up, the two leave the dormitory building together. However, when approaching the tavern door, Ryu pushes Izay out.

“Go check if Mama Mia is in the shop, if she is, I’ll prepare ahead!”

What are you preparing for?

Izay turns back wanting to counter-question, but before he can, he’s pushed inside by Ryu.

“Ding dong ——”

The crisp sound of the doorbell rings, and the cat girl cleaning immediately looks over.

“The cats haven’t started business yet, didn’t the customer see the sign hanging at the entrance?”

Aniya hears the sound and instinctively speaks to drive the person away. But upon recognizing the visitor, her expression instantly changes to disdain.

“Izay, you annoying ghost! Why do you always come when we’re closing?! The tavern isn’t your backyard! Don’t think you can do whatever you want just because you’re familiar, or I’ll report you to Mama Mia!”

After a long period of struggle, Aniya has become smarter.

Faced with the decisive strength gap between herself and Izay, the cat girl no longer impulsively charges forward.

Instead, she rationally chooses to use Mama Mia’s authority to scare Izay, hoping this guy will know when to retreat.

“It’s fine, go ahead and report. I’ll just spend more money in the store later; Mama Mia wouldn’t bother with such trivial matters concerning me.”

Izay appears completely unfazed by threats, making Aniya want to hit him.

Hiss…

How nostalgic for the days when I could chase Izay around every day.

Those times are gone forever~