"Coo-gie-coo."
"How can you even say that?! Read the room, you idiot!"
He had used the Eternal Furnace Core and the highest level of time authority to freeze the world, yet he still hadn't heard the girl shyly say those two words.
"If I come to your house tonight wearing overalls to play basketball, will I get to hear them?"
"Sure, if you turn into the Goddess of Light."
Elaina raised an eyebrow.
"Tch."
What a pain. If affection could be displayed as a precise number, maybe the Goddess of Light's affection... Affection...
Su Lin took out a blue cube—the detection device he had borrowed from Han Li to play with—and aimed it at Elaina, who was still straightening the folds of her Magician's robe.
"You shameless witch, look over here."
"Could you at least respect my privacy?"
Elaina tried to dodge and reached for the device.
Su Lin snapped his fingers. They left Water Mirror Peak and arrived somewhere causality, time, space, Chaos, Order, and every other law did not exist.
"Urgh." Elaina switched from offense to defense, hugging her shoulders as she struck a guarded pose. "You're not planning to do anything strange, are you? Mom said that sort of thing has to wait until after marriage."
Su Lin did not answer. Expressionless, he merely raised his other hand and pointed a second device behind Elaina.
A hazy glow pierced the gloom like daybreak. The instant Elaina turned to look, their gazes met.
A pair of clear, ethereal platinum eyes suffused with divinity met hers. Radiant Holy Light surrounded the figure, yet it brushed her heartstrings as gently as fireflies. Night-dark hair fell across her shoulders.
It billowed like windblown snow, while illusory feathers of light drifted down, dancing to the melody of Heavenly Chord.
Elaina had never