"Yes... ah! I wish this peaceful time could last," she said.
Silence fell between them once again for a long while.
A cold breeze swept past, scattering the flowers.
Lily suddenly felt a chill in the air and instinctively clenched the Mage Robe in her hands.
Kael looked up and only then did he realize that it had unknowingly begun to snow lightly outside.
Outside the hall, the maids were curiously tilting their heads up to watch the first snow of the winter, while Fulan, the little Cat Girl adopted by the chief maid, Lin Hua, leaped past the front of the hall.
Jumping behind her, the Gluttonous Slime closely followed its young master, and faint laughter and chatter could be heard echoing through the courtyard.
"It's snowing,"
Kael said softly.
"Speaking of which, senior sister, how is the project you've been busy with lately coming along?"
Lily was startled at first but then remembered, her face brightening somewhat as she spoke:
