As the bell rang through the teaching building, the students who had finished their afternoon classes filed out. Some opened expensive umbrellas with fox-head gold handles, some drove straight off in sports cars, and some wore elegant, luxurious winter fashion. Even the first winter Gala City had seen in a thousand years had become a stage for the students to show off and compete.
Walking amid the bustling stream of students, Ash and Sonia drew no one's attention. With the Mind Miracle Daedalus had cast on them, when they did not speak, even Saint Domain Artificers would subconsciously overlook their existence.
Ash looked at the Light Screen and suddenly asked, "Are there any fun places in your hometown?"
"Hm?" Sonia looked at him like he was an idiot. "Did you forget I spent my whole childhood getting by on dramas?"
Ash scratched his head. "Then... what do you think we should buy to bring with us?"
Sonia took a sip of milk tea. "It'd be best not to go."
"If I want something, I'll say it. I don't need you guessing left and right to please me." She curled her lip. "If we hadn't happened to come to Gala City, I honestly wouldn't have planned to go back to Sword Flower."
"But didn't you want blessings from your friends and family?" Ash said. "Anyway, making a round trip won't take that long..."
"Where did you hear that I wanted blessings?"
"In a dream."
The moment Ash said it, he knew it was over. Sonia tilted her head and stared at him with a smile that was not quite a smile, a dim gleam sweeping through her ruby eyes. "You remembered the details from the dream?"
There was nothing much wrong with confessing that he had remembered his dream with Sonia,