[Location: Focalor, Fay Verhan]

[9:34 AM, December 25, 134817, AP]

"Over here, Nepheria" Crown said as she waved her hand at Nepheria with enthusiasm for their date, as it's been some time since their last one. As Crown jumped over the rocks of the pathway, they were walking down, and she looked at Nepheria again, who was trying to reach her by walking.

"Wait, Cown, you're walking a bit too fast. Please slow down a little" Nepheria said as she hurried herself just to reach Crown, but Crown seemed to just suddenly stop and start running as fast as she could in a split second. Nepheria was surprised to see why Crown was running.

"Then you better hurry up. If not, I will eat all the delicious fruits awaiting me in the middle of this garden" Crown said as she increased her speed with mana. As Nepheria heard, she too suddenly burst in speed faster than Crown as she used more mana just to propel herself faster, but Crown had the upper hand as she was in front of Nepheria.

"Ah! Please don't. I've been waiting for those fruits to grow for many years now, and I won't let you eat them all" Nepheria said as she ran as fast as she could, pumping mana through her legs as Crown also pumps mana through her legs as both of their speeds increase every second, making them equally fast.

"Then you better catch up then before I reach it" Crown said as she saw Nepheria suddenly appear beside her, forming an intricate spell as the spell was thrown into her. She tried to dodge it but failed at dodging the spell, no matter how much she dodged it, as the spells suddenly hit her body, forcing her to trip as she fell to the ground itself.

"I caught you. Know I will be in the first line, Wahh!!" Nepheria said as she fell into a pit trap, and her fall was a bit too fast as her body was filled with gravity magic spells as Crown passed through the hole that she created and where Nepheria had fallen.

"Haha, now I'm the one on the lead" Crown said as she ran along the pathway to reach the middle of the garden. As she got closer and closer to the garden itself, she found something different than what it used to, not understanding what was happening, so she used her mana to look at the surroundings, making her suspicion correct.

"Hehe, dumbass, she never even knew she was under an illusion spell" Nepheria said as she ran as fast as she could to reach the middle of the forest but was suddenly stopped in her tracks as she got hit by some powder in her face, making her cough and drowsy at the same time. It seems it's not strong enough to put her to sleep, but it still slowed her down greatly.

This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

"Do you really think I didn't think ahead when asking you for a date? That's where you are wrong because I always had a plan" Crown said as she suddenly got hit by a huge boulder that had rolled down the mountain, reaching the garden they are currently in. Seeing this Nepheria smiled as her trick finally happened without Crown noticing as Crown was focused into the mana itself, forgetting that manaless objects could still slow her down.

"I know about your schemes from the start, Crown, and I'll be the one to first eat them hahaha!" Nepheria said as she laughed at the pinned Crown in the boulder as she passed through her again. Seeing that Nepheria had passed by her again, she stood up while lifting the boulder up above his head, calculating the position, speed, and number of spells needed to pin down Nepheria.

"Ughh, take this!" Crown said as she threw the huge boulder that hit her as it flew in the air. Nepheria, already fantasizing about eating the fruits, did not notice that a huge boulder was coming her way, pinning her down as the multiple spells of gravity and invulnerability spells in the rock meant it wouldn't be easily destroyed, making Nepheria have a hard time struggling to take off the boulder pinning her down as Crown passed by her.

"I win!" Crown said as she reached the fruit in the tree. In an instant, she woke up sleeping in the lap pillow of Nepheria, skinning the gold skin of the fruit. She did not know what had just happened.

"Oh? Your finally awake" Nepheria said, looking at Crown, who suddenly woke up, shouting that she had won as she peeled the golden fruits in her hand while softly smiling at Crown, who just woke up.

"What just happened?" Crown asked Nepheria as she just suddenly woke up in her lap, surprising her a bit but not understanding why she just woke up, although she was awake as she reached the fruit in the tree to only wake up on Nepheria's side.

"You lost to me" Nepheria said as she sliced the golden fruit using mana. Hearing what just Nepheria said, Crown was surprised, as she had just lost. She doesn't even know how she lost, even though she won, as she reached the middle of the garden first before Nepheria could reach the middle of the garden.

"Wait, how? I reached the fruit first" Crown said as Nepheria put a piece of fruit in Crown's mouth. Crown was a bit taken aback as she took a bite at the golden fruit in her mouth as the juice gushed out, letting her taste the sweet yet soft flesh of the golden fruit itself.

"Hehe, I win because you have been under my illusion spell since the very beginning when we started racing each other, and I picked you up until I reached this place" Nepheria said that Crown has been under her illusions since the very beginning, surprising Crown due to the fact that she did not actually break out of the illusion but was actually still inside the illusion itself.

"Especially when you sleep, your face is very cute when you sleep" Nepheria said as Crown's face turned red from the sudden complement of Nepheria as she covered her face with her long hair, while Nepheria looked at her with a soft smile like a loving wife, making Crown even more blush at the situation.