Chapter 112: What is that girl thinking
Lucy looked with quiet and complete coldness at the spot to which Cain was pointing with his frustrated thumb upon his shoulder.
She contemplated the emblem for a few fleeting seconds without uttering a single word. Then, with a lightning-swift magical gesture, a glowing violet etheric aura erupted, wrapping around the embroidered fabric with light fluidity. In the twinkling of an eye, the word "Detroit" vanished, and the threads interwoven to suddenly transform the reading into "Nebraska Police"!
Lucy blinked with innocence, smiling with confidence as she said, "Oh? I see nothing strange or wrong whatsoever! It is written ’Nebraska’ as clear as the sun right before you... I reckon you are mistaken or misinformed in some manner, I suppose."
Vague and utterly unreadable expressions gathered upon both Cain’s and Nathan’s faces after witnessing such blatant distortion and manipulation of reality right before their eyes!
Nathan swallowed with difficulty, gathering the remnants of his strength, and said in a faltering voice with a tone attempting correction, "I... I am deeply sorry, my Lady... but even the word Nebraska is written incorrectly here... It is specifically missing the letter ’e’, and—"
Before Nathan could finish another letter...
SMACK!
A thunderous, swift slap from Lucy descended upon his face!
Lucy said with severity and firm suppression, "Who permitted you to speak or express an opinion to begin with?!"
Nathan no longer knew whether the day had suddenly dawned or if the stars had begun dancing in the night sky around his head! In a pathetic manner, his eyes went completely dark, and he finally collapsed unconscious onto the cold asphalt beside the doorstep.
The moment Nathan fell unconscious, the violet aura emitted quietly once again to cover the inscribed emblem, lightly adjusting the layout to add the missing letter ’e’, rendering the word written with flawless spelling!
Cain studied the modified emblem, then turned toward Lucy, gazing at her with furrowed brows and a tone blending disapproval with amusement, "You broke the rules of the game... Do you not know that?! You utilized your magical powers directly... Does this not constitute a blatant breach of the rules of our adventure?"
Lucy raised her head with pride and tranquility, "I do not believe so at all... I am simply completing the details of the disguise that you yourself requested of your own free will."
Cain exhaled a deep, helpless sigh while shaking his head, realizing deep within himself that no matter how hard he tried, he would never secure an argument through which he could overcome Lucy’s unique logic!
Was that girl not embarrassed in the slightest?! Did she not admit in the depths of her heart that he, too, possessed immense power!
Despite all these teasing antics, her face—artfully feigning innocence and gentleness—made him crave from the bottom of his heart to kiss her without prelude. Yet he certainly would do no such thing in the street before the public eye; they could wait until the night drew its full curtains and they were alone together.
Cain crouched down to the ground, leaning toward the unconscious Nathan, then hoisted him easily and placed him over his shoulder with complete comfort.
Cain inserted his other hand into thin air, summoning from his spatial storage (Inventory) the key belonging to Nathan’s house. He stepped forward and unlocked it, entering inside alongside Lucy and closing the door behind them, reclaiming their lost tranquility.
When their eyes fell upon the light switch adjacent to the door, Lucy pressed it lightly, illuminating the entire house... revealing before them utter chaos and sights that ought not to be seen!
A bra tossed carelessly upon the sofa, clothes scattered about, and the place in a lamentable state of disarray... The property literally oozed with debauchery and vulgarity in every sense of the word.
Even though Cain knew with absolute certainty that the realm of "The Paradise of Pleasure" contained manifestations of debauchery and wicked sexual toys surpassing by vast margins what this property held... he had zero desire for Lucy’s eyes to fall upon such pathetic displays!
He feared that Lucy might draw hellish ideas from this chaos, or become acquainted with strange toys and details, seeking to develop them with her magic into even more extreme and aberrant innovations straight from the depths of hell!
Cain turned, looking at Lucy, and said calmly, "Can you heal him immediately and place a Boost spell upon him... so that he may personally undertake cleaning and purifying this house?"
Lucy nodded silently. In truth, she had no desire to heal Nathan in any case, for she held him in some degree of contempt and disgust, a very poor impression of him having taken root in her mind. However, since the command issued from Cain, she would refuse him no request.
Lucy moved her hand with fluidity, covering Nathan’s body perched on Cain’s shoulder with a glowing violet magical aura... And in mere fleeting moments...
Nathan’s eyes snapped wide open in a sudden, terrifying fashion!
The bright violet aura covered his body entirely, penetrating his fibers. Nathan leaped from atop Cain’s shoulder with extreme, supernatural speed, standing erect before him with a rigid body, like a soldier receiving orders from his commanders!
Cain said with severity, "Go and clean the house immediately, and throw all useless items inside this portal."
Cain moved and opened a somewhat large dimensional portal that looked directly into the "Dimension of Eternal Fire," where the flames would devour everything thrown into them, reducing it to ashes instantly.
In a fraction of a second, Nathan dashed off to loop through the corners of the house at an astonishing speed that made his movement appear like a fleeting line of light in the eyes of ordinary humans!
He swept through the entire property, sweeping up everything considered waste or vulgar artifact—from perverted magazines to used tissues and accumulated trash—throwing them all into the gullet of the blazing portal!
Then he ascended with a cold, expressionless face to the upper floors, arranging the rooms and cleaning the floors with terrifying efficiency, returning to stand before Cain in just twenty seconds!
He stood in heavy silence wrapped in the violet Boost aura... like an automated robot whose functions had been entirely programmed.
Cain sighed at his appearance and the strange manner in which Lucy had transformed him.
Lucy smiled playfully, saying in a sarcastic tone, "Well... I believe he can now run and reach the jewelry shop fast enough on his own two feet instead of spatial magic teleportation... And all of this, of course, so that we do not break the rules, right, Cain?"
She broke the rules long ago... What is that girl thinking? Cain thought to himself.
Cain looked at Lucy, who was gazing at him with that mischievous tone, and in the end had no choice but to nod his head in resignation, wondering inwardly: After all these stormy events on the first day... will this arduous day finally come to an end or not?