Chapter 127 - Society

"I'm going to miss this place," Gem whispered while watching Venedette talk with the manager of the place from a distance while Von and Petunia were now as impatient as ever.

"Remember the plan, Gem. We're going to split and I'm going to attack the monster from behind while you distract him with your shield. Just make sure not to die while I max my attacks to kill it in three blows, if plan A works I think we could succeed clearing that level with just one try!" Von muttered while floating around Gem and thinking about the hardest level that they have encountered so far.

"I've never seen Von this enthusiastic before, what happened to him?" Fily scooted closer to Gem for a whisper.

"It's the game." Gem whispered back and pretended to be listening to Von when she was just focused on the lingering feeling that the roller coaster left her with, almost as if she actually experienced flying like a trial card from the rides in this amusement park..

And speaking of flying, there was this cat that was now getting more obsessed with completing her task of making a Flight potion by brainstorming all the possible effects and side effects of all the combinations of the available ingredients that she had in mind so far.

"No, I should put more rose berries to kill those useless fats off and allow the consumer to control his body easier. But if I add more rose berries then it will also cut off some mass, making it harder for gravity to affect our body even if we make contact with the ground. Von doesn't look like someone who took rose berries. If I exceed the normal amount of it, I might turn the consumer into paper. That's not good. Will the Energy slime help though? Right… the energy slimes increase every potion's effects by threefold. I should conserve rose berries and just use a 1:3 ratio to balance the body's mass and volume and anti-gravity with Michinde."

"Is your head not hurting?" Lei suddenly asked out of concern.

"I don't know," Petunia answered honestly, leaving out some important details such as ever since she reached the ground, her head's been spinning when looking at random directions, but since she's staying in her mind and ignoring the views, Petunia also happened to ignore the signs of drowsiness and fatigue accidentally and only took notice when Lei mentioned it.

"Didn't you say earlier that you haven't slept yet? Are you not sleepy? Come on here, you can sleep in my arms while we wait for Venedette," Lei offered while holding his arms up like he was holding a baby.

"Sure." Petunia did not argue and took the offer immediately. Since she couldn't help but overthink anyway, maybe a sleeping potion could help, and when she's finally awake, she could produce more favorable results rather than a rushed and impulsive one, "Thanks," she added and stretched her cloud to fit into Lei's arms like a bed sheet and blanket.

"Awww, isn't she the cutest when asleep?" Fily suddenly said beside Lei while looking at Petunia's sleeping cat face, an immediate effect of the sleeping potion that they made for Gem back at Yvandir.

"Are you also going to help make the potion?" Fily said, now directed to Lei.

"You too?" Lei said in surprise. He thought he was the only one interested in helping Petunia actually do something meaningful other than watching Von and Gem play games in the living room.

"As much as I don't want to work with you, I regretfully promised Petunia my help for doing me a favor," Fily said with a regretful smile that made Lei annoyed even more.

"I don't know anything about this potion-making thing but I want to help and I will help no matter what."

"Why? Because you also want to fly?" 

"Don't you?" Lei shot the question back at Fily.

"Of course I do, but I don't think I should mess with my skill set yet just because I wanted to fly. And besides, we don't need to fly in Edelweiss yet. Flight will just slow us down because of the snow blizzards and hails over there." Fily revealed which led to Lei's other question.

"Do we have cold protection potions?" 

"Not that I know of, but I'm sure Petunia will have it prepared by tomorrow," Fily shrugged and returned beside Gem who was now lying on the grassy land and staring at Levi-yacht's bottom.

"Could they also see our mini-island from a distance?" Gem asked.

"I think so, but most of them wouldn't bother checking it out," Fily answered.

"Why?"

"Because most of the people here can't fly and those who can have their own flying house just like ours."

"Most of the people here can't fly? But why is the Amusement park empty? Don't they want to experience what flying feels like?"

"I doubt that. People always want what they want and the only way to avoid that is to forget about the existence of something that they don't have. I'm guessing the people over here who can't fly probably avoid going to the amusement park to not be teased by those who can fly as a wannabe. But of course, I'm just guessing, who knows what actually goes in here? I don't. I haven't been here before," Fily chuckled.

"That's sad. Why are there always people who think bullying is cool? It's not. It's just sad."

"I know, Gem. But this is society and it always has been this way since the start of time-"

"Ah, I can't take this anymore. Do you want to go ahead with me?" Von suddenly stopped swirling around Gem and offered her a hand.

"Can you fly that high with me? Last time we flew together back at the manor you almost died out of exhaustion," Gem asked with concern.

"Can't you just do what you did back then? With your necklace and all?"

"I thought you found this necklace scary?"

"Not if it could help us," Von said and stressed his extended arms again.