While a certain suddenly high-spirited steel dragon lady was still agonizing over which outfit and makeup to use—trying to achieve that effect of dazzling a certain someone without making it look like she had dressed up especially for him—and relentlessly putting her poor little maid through the wringer...
Levis, Garvin, and the others were riding a steam train from George Carriage Company, on their way to the Water-Drawing City Shipyard in the Port District.
Also traveling with them were Kevin and his mentor-cum-adoptive father, Lucifer, whom they had happened to meet yesterday.
The carriage was unusually quiet, though at the same time, it carried an unmistakable sour, fermented odor.
Clearly, they had gotten a little too carried away last night—and had not slept at all.
Of the four, only Levis, being a dragon, was somewhat awake. Yet whenever he opened his eyes and caught sight of the beautiful "mother-and-daughter pair"—ahem, the pleasing-to-the-eye adoptive father and son—sitting opposite each other with their heads resting together as they dozed, he awkwardly shifted his gaze away.
His memories could not help returning to last night's absurdity.
Almost the moment Lucifer received Kevin's message, he canceled every engagement and rushed back, all just to meet the "contractor" from back then and share a drink.
Now that he had shed his dark-skinned disguise and even had cosmetic work done, it was hard to connect him with that upside-down fruit of a "girl" from their first meeting, who had peed all over herself.
After the first broadcast of Meteor Academy forty-six years ago, Falowo—one of S4, blessed with both looks and acting skill—had already won over a huge crowd of fans.
And as this crudely produced first "light-and-shadow drama" spread through the Northlands via Memory Crystals, his famed beauty became known far and wide.
After that,