"How was your day last night? I did not get to see you before I sleep." No.8 knew that this was an illusion and therefore she wanted to test how authentic this experience would be. Yet, No.4 gave her a peculiar look instead.
"You do know that I am right beside you all night, right? Are you hallucinating or something?" No.4 asked. He started to stand from his seat and placed his hands right on her cheeks. "You do not seem to have any fever of any sort. Do you need to go see the doctor to have it check?"
"What are you talking about!" No.8 blushed as she pushed him away in a joking manner as she focused on making sure that the instant coffee that she was brewing did not have any problems.
"Alright, alright. Let me take those coffee off your hands." No.4 said. "Go wash your hands and take your apron off so that we can start eating. Smelling all of those meat sausages made me famished. I will clean the dishes for you later." No.4 replied and soon, the couple dug into their food and No.4 started complaining about the past events.
No.8 did attempt to hint about the recent events but No.8 shook his head and questioned what kind of fantasy world she had been thinking about. "It's totally not like you to indulge yourselves with all these what-ifs." No.4 said as he cheekily licked the plate to show that the food that No.8 cooked was superb.
That was when No.8 felt that it was time to face the truth as she roughly figured the timeline where this current event she was experiencing would be after talking an hour long talk with No.4. It was more or less prior a week from their fight with Lord Vishnu.
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There was not once did she wake up early to cook breakfast for No.4 and this particular breakfast might have been the same rosti and sausages No.4 could have cooked. Instead, she took the initiative to do so in order to see the reactions the alternative reality presented to her. So far, she was happy. Really happy to continue this way.
No.8 had no idea if she could live like this for a week prior to the fight. Whether the dungeon instance allowed it or not was an issue she was not concerned with. Rather, she wished to enjoy the time she could have with this fake No.4 to the best of her ability and do the things she had regret not giving him the time for.
"Although I know it's the weekend, how about we ask for a week of holiday?" No.8 proposed and No.4 really started to suspect that No.8 had been possessed."Surely, our most hardworking vice leader of the Commando Mages had been possessed by the Avatar of Sloth. There is no way she would take a potshot on holidays especially when we are so close to a possible fight with the Celestials!"
"Precisely! Because we are going to fight the Celestials soon, we will not know what the end outcome would be." No.8 rebutted. "I might die, you …
Might
Die. Isn't it the most appropriate that we take a quick holiday to ensure that we have no regrets should we encounter against the enemies?" No.8 asked and No.4 did not have any chance of retaliation.
"Besides, we did a good job and King Jin did gave us permission to rest if we want to. I see no wrong in that." No.8 added.
"But weren't you the one who said not to take any approved leave and train to the bones in the event that the Celestials suddenly popped out of nowhere?" No.4 was practically predicting the future at this point.
"Then we just carry our Wand Rifles out on our date. King Jin announced that the fabulous new theme park was right outside the outskirts of New Ress City. We can book a day or two over there and travel one round, returning within the week." No.8 proposed and No.4 laid back for a moment to digest this bold suggestion his partner came up with.
"Well… we did work lots of overtime to prepare for the assault against the neighbouring kingdoms… Even though we might not have be actively participated in the fight as much as we want to, we did do a shit load of planning…"
"See! So how about you listen to my suggestion and make an impromptu trip around Ress. We have not seen all the new towns popping up left and right. After the trip, let's just rest for a day before returning to duty. Recharge and think about it later." No.8 started typing on her work phone, sending a message to King Jin although she knows that this was a dungeon instance.
"No matter what you say, it all boils down to our King's decision. I do not think our King would be that benevolent to let us off even if we try to bargain with him now that we already set our stance in working through the week…Hey, are you listen- Nevermind." No.4 whispered at the end of his sentence as he saw how enthusiastic his partner was for the first time in a long while and decided to let it be. After all, The Commando Mage Leader knew that his King Jin already had plans in store for them to- the phone had a reply notification almost immediately when No.8 pressed the send button.
"It is approved… And he said take all the time we want but come back when its needed." No.8 said with disbelief and No.4 was caught in the moment as well. He was also the first one to unfreeze from this awkward situation and took a deep breath in.
"Well? What are we waiting for? Let's go for the trip then!" No.4 said as he stood up, carrying all the plates to the sink and washing them while he shooed No.8 back into the room so that she could begin booking train tickets to the New Ress Theme Park. There were so many things they needed to do to prepare for the trip.
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