Chapter 142 - 142: The Festival [Part 2] (1/2)
Lights filled the roads, music traversed their ears, and sweet alluring scents roamed the air.
Countless horned ones wearing traditional eastern-style clothes could be seen walking around with their families.
Most of them had bright smiles in their faces, as they made their way to the various ongoing events in the festival.
”Gray, Gray!” Lita called out to him.
She had been playing with Kylo outside of the lodging after he had encountered everyone.
Surprisingly enough, she too was wearing a small yellow Kimono which matched her mothers while Kylo wore a small Grey one.
Lita dragged Gray along towards the nearest fish scooping game.
”We have to try this~!” She said, whilst swinging her arms up and down in excitement.
The vendor raised a finger indicating the price.
Gray chuckled slightly before pulling out a copper coin from one of his pockets.
”How long does she have?”
The game vendor grinned.
”60 Seconds.” He replied.
He handed it toward the merchant and Lita was handed a paper scoop.
”Ei!” She yelled out as she scooped at the water.
Her arm was swung left and right repeatedly, but all she ended up scooping up was the water.
The gold fish, moved unnaturally fast within the water, intentionally dodging the scoops.
”Times up.” Said the vendor as he clapped his hands. ”Would you like another try?” He asked with a smile.
Lita's eyes grew watery as she turned to Gray. They gradually grew into resembling puppy eyes as she was on the verge of crying.
Gray sighed.
”How many tries do I have?” He asked as he pulled out another coin.
The two were wearing horns so it wasn't as if they were being particularly targeted for being humans. The game was just simply rigged for everyone.
'In the first place what kind of goldfish are these? They're zooming across the water like jets.'
”As many as you can get within 60 seconds... But I'll warn you... It's almost impossible-”
*Swoosh*
Gray's arm blurred out from the Vendors perspective as he grabbed the paper scoop from Lita's hand and scooped at the water.
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In an instant, the fish had appeared on top of his paper scoop and his arm had returned back to normal. It flopped up and down gasping for air.
”Can you get us something to put this in?” Gray asked with a smile.
Lita's eyes lit up. ”Gray you're so cool!!!”
Gray glanced at her and recalled her attitude the first time they had met. It was completely different from the way she was acting now, almost like day and night.
'Kids be kids.' He thought to himself before patting her on the head.
”H-Here you go...” The shocked vendor added as he handed her a plastic bag filled with water.
Gray dropped the fish onto the bag and gave it to Lita.
With an overjoyed expression, she watched as it swam around inside of the small bag.
”Thanks Gray, I'll treasure it!”
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Lita could be seen skipping around with her new pet goldfish.
Gray glanced back at the other girls who were exploring the other games and food vendors. They had all been given a set amount to waste by Ruby.
The amount was rather... Large so they were free to do whatever they wanted with it.
Everyone seemed to have been enjoying themselves as a result.
Lara was dragged off by Kylo who wanted to explore everything in site.
The tribes girl had been buying and eating anything she found remotely delicious. Unlike her figure suggested, she could sure eat.
Delta was quite at first was slowly engaging in the games with the others.
Either way, everyone seemed relax and just that fact alone was enough for Gray to enjoy himself.
”Rock... Paper... Scissors!” Aurora and Violet simultaneously repeated.
Shortly after, a happy laugh could be heard as Violet grabbed the ring.
”Looks like I go first.” She said.
”...No fair... You used telekinesis to close my hand into a rock!” Claimed Aurora.
”Yeah! Violet that was cheating...!” Ria added.
”So you've decided to cheat, eh...” Delta's competitive side was starting to show. ”Throw that one and let's do it again.”
”Fufufu, cheating? There's were no rules against using your abilities.”