"This is the castle home that the other me and I built together. This is our home in this Bubble Universe~"
Seele happily introduced the small castle to Ryn. Dark Seele and White Seele had put a lot of effort into it.
But when Ryn tried to push open the castle door, Seele immediately became flustered.
"Don't open it!"
It was too late. Ryn had already pushed open the sandcastle door.
Uh, it was less a castle and more just a castle-shaped exterior. The inside was a standard matchbox...
Inside, there was nothing but a simple sand bed!
Seeing that Ryn had seen the inside of the castle, Seele shyly poked her fingers together.
"Hehe, the other me and I have never seen a real castle, so this is all we could manage... Big brother Ryn, please don't mind..."
"It's okay, I've never seen a real castle either." Ryn patted Seele's head. "But, this home is a bit simple. Let's redecorate it together later!"
Then Ryn used Honkai energy to construct a small table from the sand and laid out all the packaged food.
"Let's eat something first! All of this is delicious!"
"Mmm..."
Seele carefully picked up a small cake and took a tiny bite. The moment the cake entered her mouth, her eyes widened.
"This cake is super delicious! Big brother Ryn, do you want to try some?"
"If you like it, eat more. This is all for Seele. Don't worry about me, I've already eaten."
"Okay!" Seele nodded vigorously and continued to enjoy the cake.
Ryn propped his face up with his hand and sat quietly to the side, watching Seele eat with a blissful expression.
But although Seele said the cake was delicious, she only ate half of it before starting to taste the other things.
What puzzled Ryn was that, not just the cake, but Seele only ate at most half of everything else.
"Seele... are you saving it for Dark Seele?"
"Mmm... This is the first time Seele has eaten something so delicious, I want the other me to taste it too."
"Seele is such a kind child."
Seele held the food in front of her and shyly lowered her head.
"I'm not as good as you say..."
After a while, Seele tasted the last dish and bid farewell to Ryn with a sweet smile.
"Now, I'll let the other me out!"
With that, Seele closed her eyes.
White Seele: Other me, I saved a lot of delicious food for you, come quick!
Dark Seele: Heh, what's so good about this stuff, I don't care for it. You finish it all! Don't mind me.
White Seele: But it's really delicious, just try it.
Dark Seele: Hmph, that's why I told you to finish it all!
White Seele saw through Dark Seele's intentions, so she chose to let her own consciousness go dormant and pushed Dark Seele out.
When Seele opened her eyes again, her sea-blue eyes had turned scarlet.
Looking at Ryn, who was gently gazing at her, Dark Seele blushed. But then she slammed her hands on the table and yelled at him.
"What are you looking at! Haven't you ever seen such a cute and charming Seele before!"
"? Are you crazy?" Ryn was full of question marks. He looked around, then back at Seele.
"If I don't look at you, what else can I look at?"
"I don't care! Seele is mine, you're not allowed to look!!"
Dark Seele crossed her arms with a pout and turned her head away. It wasn't because she was shy from Ryn's gaze at all.
"Alright, alright, I won't look. Hurry up and try it. White Seele specially saved all of this for you. She couldn't even bear to finish it herself!" Ryn closed his eyes and handed the half-eaten cake to Dark Seele.
"Hmph, it's not like I'm completely forbidding you from looking, just a little bit..." Dark Seele took the small cake and said in a low voice.
"Seele is too cute, it makes one want to keep looking." Ryn opened his eyes, glanced at the tsundere Dark Seele again, then turned to look at the azure sea beside them.
"Hmph." Dark Seele snorted coldly, then continued to examine the small cake.
Seeing that Ryn wasn't looking at her, Dark Seele's face immediately flushed red, her eyes turned into little hearts, and drool unconsciously trickled from the corner of her mouth.
"Hehehe, the one Seele ate... the taste of Seele..."
"Huh? What did you say?" Ryn heard a strange sound and turned his head curiously.
"Nothing, I was just thinking how bad this stuff tastes." Dark Seele slumped onto the sand table with a look of disgust, poking at the food with her small hand.
"Turn your head away! No peeking!"
"Oh~
Ryn turned his head, and Dark Seele immediately reverted to her infatuated state. But after taking a bite of the food, her eyes also widened, showing the same expression as White Seele.
"Mmm~ This tastes really good! Hehehe, and it has Seele's saliva on it... So delicious~
But the dummy Dark Seele didn't know that Ryn had secretly taken out a mirror and was watching her infatuation through it.
But as he watched, the Seele in the mirror, who was devouring the food, looked up, her scarlet eyes now glowing red.
Startled, Ryn turned to look at Dark Seele, only to have her leap from behind, tackle him to the ground, and straddle him.
Dark Seele kicked the mirror out of Ryn's hand, then revealed a kind smile and grabbed his face, staring at him.
"I was wondering why the sunlight was flashing... My dear brother Ryn, you, saw, didn't, you~
Ryn grabbed the two hands holding his cheeks and said, without a shred of righteousness, "I feel like you wouldn't believe me even if I said I didn't see, but I'm going to try anyway. I didn't see!!"
"Who do you think you're fooling! Only Seele would believe your nonsense!"
Dark Seele shook off Ryn's hands and grabbed his cheeks again. Not to be outdone, Ryn grabbed Dark Seele's cheeks with both hands.
The two of them remained on the ground, holding each other's faces in a stalemate.
Finally, Ryn looked into Dark Seele's eyes and asked a soul-searching question.
"Aren't you Seele too?"
Dark Seele was stunned by Ryn's question. While cursing herself for her foolish words, she felt a little happy about his retort.
"You're just twisting words! I don't care, you have to forget what you saw!!"
"Alright, alright, whatever Seele says, I'll do."
"Hmph." Dark Seele closed her eyes in a huff. When she opened them again, she had become White Seele.
When Seele opened her eyes and saw Ryn right in front of her, and their strange position, her CPU immediately burned out, and she turned into a steam engine.
Ryn, who was touching Seele's cheek, could clearly feel the small face in his hands heating up rapidly.
Seele was so shy she couldn't even speak properly. "B-B-Big brother Ryn... l-l-let me go..."