D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad

Chapter 1389 Vacation Plans?

--- Lily ---

Kat continued to run her fingers through Lilyʼs hair silently until Marigold had been gone for around a minute. ”So… is that really what you want? Not that I donʼt think magical candies that let you change size are boring or anything… but it didnʼt really seem like something youʼd want,” said Kat.

Lily let out a long puff of air as she wiggled on Katʼs lap a bit to get comfortable. As she was doing this she chewed over the question for a few moments to get her thoughts in order. ”Well, firstly there wasnʼt any books. Plenty of other things like vases, paintings, a few sculptures… all alongside the obvious rings, necklaces and weapons. No books though.

So there wasnʼt anything I felt I HAD to have.

”From there, my mind went to like… storage rings or backpacks… but Thyme gave me an explanation of how those work while I was in the medical bay and everything I now know about them seems to point to the idea that they wouldnʼt work at all on earth and wouldnʼt survive travel to other dimensions. The rings especially, but maybe the bag too?

”Now I canʼt be certain they wouldnʼt work… but I only had a few moments to think this all through so I decided ʼProbably doesnʼt workʼ was a good enough reason to discard them. From there I went over everything else I found and tested… but I didnʼt really want any of them either. The boat would be super suspicious if I even wanted it.

The staff has already given me some bad memories and the rest… no so useful. Well, the necklace thatʼs meant to save you from damage seems cool…

”But you know, based on the fact it didnʼt save me from Blueʼs spells or Marchʼs punch soured me a lot on it. It probably needs full charge to save you… and recharges super slowly. Which is really not what I was hoping but seems to be about right.

I might have gone with that if itʼd saved me at the end there… but if it HAD saved me Iʼd have a chance to pick it myself, not by taking a treasure from Marigold.

”Which… when I got to that point in my thought process made me a bit annoyed. I know you said itʼd be rude not to accept but I didnʼt want to just take her prize. Which of course, led me to the idea of splitting those candies. Iʼm still worried they wonʼt keep if we take them back home, but at least this way Marigold gets something.

Heck, she gets most of them, so if something goes wrong we havenʼt waisted too many. We might even get a renewable supply!”

Kat gave a slight nod as she bent down and gave Lilyʼs nose a quick kiss. Once Kat had confirmed Lily was blushing she spoke. ”Right, that explains why you picked something that you can split, and the fact you knew about those candies and not others that may or may not exist meant youʼd pick them over others that might be on offer… but do you actually WANT them?”

Lily nodded a tad. ”Yes,” said Lily.

Kat frowned at the answer. ”That wasnʼt a very convincing yes Lily,” said Kat with a sigh.

”Well I wasnʼt totally convinced myself. It seemed like a good idea at first, then I had a chance to think about it more just now and it seemed less like a good idea… and now it seems like a decent idea again,” ʼexplainedʼ Lily.

Kata gave Lily a glare while pushing her lack of amusement through the link. Lily grinned back for a few seconds before actually explaining what she meant. ”Ok, so I was first thinking about it because… well giant Kat seems fun and useful in combat. Whatever came up first…

”Until I thought about it with more than just the horny part of my brain and realised there is just about no way those candies work on demons. So that meant they were useless for a bit… until I realised that theyʼd probably work on me. Not certainly, I do still have demonic energy but Iʼm willing to bet theyʼll work on me because I have mana.

”Sure becoming giant myself isnʼt quite as fun as having you giant for a bit… but it would give me an edge in combat when I really need. My giant form, assuming I stay a Memphis… will probably only be around the size as a tiger or a lion. Maybe a bit bigger, but I donʼt expect the difference to be much more than that until my Memphis form naturally gets larger.

Which… yeah I donʼt know if those candies would even last that long,”

”Marigold didnʼt seem too much stronger,” pointed out Kat.

”Iʼm really not sure how the strength scales but I was more interested in the size increase. It should make me faster just by giving me a longer stride and itʼll make my claws a lot larger proportionally to my enemies that is. Plus, it could be great intimidation at the very least. If it doesnʼt end up being useful in combat… well it still seems fun to mess around with.

I canʼt imagine itʼll affect my magic all that much but thatʼs not a major concern. I can just increase the size of my attacks if I really want to anyway,” explained Lily.

Kat shrugged and said, ”I just sort of feel like you couldʼve picked something better,”

”Oh Iʼm sure I could find something better if I really looked into it… but I would still have those worries about whatever it is falling apart if we take it home. Though now that I think about it… my fancy paper mage book works… but that might just be because itʼs fancy. Another thing to ask Thyme about I suppose. But yeah…

”I think there are plenty of treasures that would be better if I knew about them, and theyʼd keep… but Iʼm not that interested in them. The candies do seem useful, and I can split them with Marigold so… could I find something better for me specifically? Yeah probably. Could I find something better to ask Marigold for? I honestly doubt it,” explained Lily.

Kat let out a long sigh. ”Sorry, I should trust you know what youʼre doing. I guess Iʼm still stuck in worrier mode. Iʼm sure you knew what you were doing when making the choice. Though, it seems a lot of that thinking was done after the fact… you are right about how little time you had to decide so itʼs probably fine those justifications came in retrospect,”

Lily gave a nod to Kat and then the pair went back to relaxing. Lily shifted so that she could sort of hug Kat while still remaining on Katʼs lap. It involved having her face pulled in against Katʼs stomach but that wasnʼt something Lily would classify as a downside. The pair simply enjoyed the atmosphere for a while.

Eventually though, Lily did have a question, ”So whatʼs the plan? Now that weʼre done with this round of the tournament in just about every way. Are we going to stick around here? Try to head back to that town? Whatʼs the plan?”

”Well thatʼs mostly up to you isnʼt it?” said Kat without a hint of shame.

”Bah, I donʼt want to plan everything! You should have some input,” grumbled Lily.

”Well… I donʼt know really. Iʼm happy to stay here spending time with you… but I also donʼt want to spend too much time away from Sylvie if weʼre not really doing anything but relaxing. At the same time… having some free time to properly train would be really nice. Even if we donʼt train all that much… just being in a world with magic makes training so much easier.

”We donʼt have to hide from anyone. You wonʼt be massively suppressed by the world. If weʼre at the in specifically, Thyme or Mint will be providing us food… honestly part of me wants to stretch whatever time we get out as long as we can before D.E.M.O.N.S starts complaining because aside from that one issue of not seeing Sylvie this is just about the perfect place to spend some time,”

”That is… honestly a rather good point,” said Lily. ”I was mostly planning to treat this as just a vacation but if weʼre training as well we can justify spending some more time here. Maybe itʼd be best if we just… didnʼt plan? I mean, we plan to stay for a bit obviously… but perhaps we just go with the flow? Donʼt get any ideas of ʼstaying five daysʼ or ʼstaying three nightsʼ or whatever.

We can just… hang around until either Thyme or D.E.M.O.N.S kicks us out… or we decide to leave instead?”

Kat bit her lip as she thought the suggestion over for a bit. ”Honestly? I canʼt think of anything better then that Lily so I suppose weʼre going with your idea,”

”Wow, what a flattering way to put it,” retorted Lily sarcastically.