Chapter 50: Ice Pops and Reconciliation

When Felicia refused, Seraphina had anticipated it, but still couldn’t avoid a moment of loneliness when the words were actually spoken.

Seraphina raised her hand and slowly reached toward Felicia.

Felicia thought Seraphina was going to zap her again. She closed her eyes tightly, her body instinctively tensing up, trembling all over.

Perhaps this position would lessen the pain a little.

But the expected pain didn’t come. Felicia opened her eyes to find Seraphina simply stroking her silver hair, nothing more.

“I…” At this moment, Felicia didn’t know what to say.

Should she continue sulking, or forgive Seraphina now?

At least for now, Felicia believed Seraphina’s apology was sincere. She didn’t want to hurt Seraphina’s feelings out of spite, even though Seraphina had deeply hurt her before.

On the other hand, Felicia wasn’t too eager to forgive Seraphina either, because the electric shocks in that dark room had really, really hurt.

…Maybe there were other reasons, but compared to that, they were no longer important.

“Anyway, I’ll keep trying.” Seraphina suddenly said.

“Huh?” Felicia was startled.

Trying? Trying what?

Felicia suspected she must have missed some ten-thousand-word narration while spacing out, otherwise how could she not understand a single word Seraphina said?

“What would you like to eat? I’ll bring it to you now, or I can make it.” Seraphina said to Felicia.

“You can cook?” A large question mark seemed to appear above Felicia’s head.

“You’re a young lady, and you can actually cook?”

“I learned a bit from someone before.” Seraphina replied. “I wouldn’t call myself a master chef, but at least it’s edible.”

“…” Felicia suddenly remembered that colorful, bizarre thing she had made a long, long time ago.

Well, actually, it wasn’t that long ago.

But that thing had indeed left her with psychological trauma, and that trauma wasn’t small.

Although the success of the french fries proved that the previous failure wasn’t her fault, the thought of it still made Felicia not want to cook.

“But I’m not really hungry right now… If I had to say, I’d like an ice pop.” Felicia replied.

Seraphina was taken aback.

Ice pop?

That was something not available in the castle, simply because there was no demand.

Anna and the guards were far beyond ordinary people, unaffected by heat or cold. Yunwu and Yunyu spent most of their time in the castle, enjoying its constant temperature.

So hardly anyone in the castle ate ice pops. The last time Seraphina had one was… the last time.

When was that? Probably a few months ago.

“Wait here. I’ll go buy two ice pops and be right back.” Seraphina got up and put on her clothes.

“…I feel a strange sense of déjà vu. If you were buying oranges instead of ice pops, the feeling would be even stronger.” Felicia blurted out instinctively.

“What déjà vu?” Seraphina asked.

“Oh, nothing!” Felicia waved her hands quickly.

“Okay.” Seraphina didn’t suspect anything. “I’ll be back.”

“Alright…” Felicia replied in a very low voice.

She wasn’t sure if Seraphina heard her, but she thought she saw Seraphina smile just then.

****

“I agreed to buy the little one ice pops, but it’s a bit tricky.” Seraphina stood outside the castle, talking to herself.

Ice pops like this definitely wouldn’t be found in the village.

But the nearest town to the castle, a place called Inter Town, was eighty li away.

Seraphina could certainly rush to Inter Town and back quickly, but what would happen to the ice pops on the way was uncertain.

If she used spatial magic…

Everyone has things they’re good at and things they’re not.

And Seraphina was not good at spatial magic.

Those with deep spatial magic mastery could travel tens of thousands of li in an instant, come and go freely anywhere, and even set up teleportation arrays on their own.

But Seraphina couldn’t teleport that far.

With her level of spatial magic, teleporting a few hundred or thousand meters was no problem, but anything farther was iffy.

Partly because her spatial magic skill wasn’t high, and partly because her strength wasn’t particularly great, limiting the distance of a single teleport.

After all, the last time Seraphina used teleportation was… the last time.

“I’ll give it a try.” Seraphina channeled her magic, and her figure vanished instantly.

The next moment, she appeared in the wild forest.

“Hmm…” She roughly judged the distance she had covered. One more teleport and she could reach Inter Town.

“Thinking about it, I’m pretty impressive.” Seraphina praised herself.

Another teleport brought her to Inter Town.

She stopped a passerby, learned where to buy ice pops nearby, and bought two.

****

Felicia, seeing that Seraphina hadn’t returned for a long time, lay in bed and thought quickly.

Seraphina must have gone to buy ice pops. That meant, in theory, this was the perfect time to escape.

But Felicia didn’t really want to run right now.

Don’t misunderstand—it was mainly because time might not be enough. If she had just stepped out of the castle gate when Seraphina returned with two ice pops, that would be awkward.

What would happen to Felicia was uncertain, but Seraphina would definitely be in a bad mood. And if she was in a bad mood, Felicia’s fate would probably be grim.

As for how many ice pops Seraphina would bring back…

It might not be two—maybe one, since Seraphina might not eat one.

Hmm… or perhaps they’d share one.

Would that count as an indirect kiss?

Since it wasn’t the best time to run, Felicia decided to pass the time by letting her mind wander.

What Felicia didn’t know was that this idle thinking in bed actually saved her.

If she had tried to run at that moment, she would have definitely run into Seraphina.

And what would happen then… would probably be rated R.

“I’m back.” Seraphina pushed open the door, holding two ice pops in one hand—one strawberry, one orange.

“So it really was two ice pops.”

“?”

“Nothing, nothing.” Felicia waved her hand to hide her embarrassment.

“Here, fresh ones.” Seraphina handed Felicia the strawberry ice pop.

“Is there such a thing as ‘fresh’ ice pops?”

“I used magic to preserve them. Theoretically, they’re exactly as they were when they came out of the freezer.”

“That’s very fresh.” Felicia took the ice pop.

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