readease Chapter 490: As If Favored by a God
Chapter 490: As If Favored by a God
Adele, after regaining some strength, immediately got even with the angel, who was acting disobedient for the first time. But she also wasn’t greedy for pleasure. A final light kiss landed, and deep love echoed in their hearts.
Adele was determined to continue meditating alone. Even Seraph’s presence could become a distraction. So this kiss was a temporary farewell. Adele stayed alone in Seraph’s room, sat cross-legged, and meditated in the Zen Buddhist manner.
Shirley had actually given her the biggest hint: to think about... what it meant to be human, to think about the relationship between humans and the world, to think about the spirit, will, soul... these qualities that were considered to be widespread in humans.
Although they weren’t exclusive to humans, according to the Enforcement Bureau’s internal research, any Foreign Race in history, in the most ancient times, might have been differentiated from the “human” race. Whether it was elves or beast-eared girls... Although they couldn’t be certain, it was very likely that humans were indeed the first species born in this world, the first life favored and created by the Creation God.
God created the world and then created humans. Why...? Perhaps no one would ever know the answer. But Shirley believed she could... Adele felt the pressure, but also the same motivation. The two forces gradually brought her heart closer to balance, allowing her to find that door in the void, the door... to the spiritual world.
Dreams were just a blurred border of the spiritual world, or even its reflection. In dreams, one could never reach the eternal truth of the spiritual world. Only when one was absolutely conscious was there an extremely small chance of finding that door.
The girl entered a state of meditation. Time flew by around her. One hour passed, two hours passed... Twelve hours passed before Adele finally woke up. It was dusk.
But to Adele, it felt like only a moment. However, the feeling of hunger in her stomach was particularly real. Adele had missed a delicious lunch! During these twelve hours, the girl hadn’t even had a drop of water. Her throat was so dry that it was about to smoke!
It made people want to find Seraph and take a big gulp from the angel’s clear spring! Or Celeste... would also do. However, even after paying such a price, Adele’s gain... ahem, was still zero. She couldn’t find that door.
But this was also within Adele’s expectations. The only thing that was beyond her expectations, and probably beyond everyone’s expectations, was that she could actually meditate for twelve hours. Adele’s determination was stronger than anyone could imagine.
The frail, ordinary girl swayed as she stood up from her meditative posture. She leaned against the wall, and it took a while before she had the strength to move again. At this moment, Seraph had already noticed the girl’s movements and teleported from the living room on the first floor to Adele’s side, supporting her.
“Adele, you finally woke up!”
“Ugh... hungry, food~”
“Y-Yes! I’ve prepared everything!” Saying that, Seraph carefully helped Adele down the stairs step by step. First Snow and Xiao Ai also gathered around at this time. They didn’t make a noisy fuss, but looked at Adele with concern.
“Sister Adele... meow...”
“Mom...”
Adele gave them a smile in response, then came to the dining table and started with the easily digestible millet porridge, gradually moving on to meat and fish. Adele ate three full bowls of rice, breaking her usual record. Finally, she stopped eating with satisfaction, her belly slightly bulging, inexplicably revealing a hint of charm...
“So satisfying~”
“Filled up by Seraph... my stomach is so warm...” What Adele said wasn’t wrong. This dinner was all made by Seraph. But to others, it obviously wasn’t the same thing.
Seraph and First Snow instantly blushed. Only Xiao Ai... was trying hard to pretend she didn’t understand. She increasingly felt that her current childish body wasn’t suitable anymore, at least not matching her increasingly mature thoughts.
To put it in a famous quote: A child’s body, but a wisdom beyond ordinary people. It’s just that unlike a certain famous detective, she didn’t turn from an adult into a child, but was like this from birth.
I want to grow up quickly... But how could she grow up? No one could answer Xiao Ai’s important question. Only she could find out.
After dinner, to help with digestion, Adele took First Snow and Xiao Ai out for a walk. Seraph didn’t like to show her face during the day, so she stayed at home. Adele held a little loli in each hand and took them out shopping.
Cromwell Academy was located in the center of the Eastern Capital. Although it wasn’t the most prosperous area, it was still bustling with traffic at this time in the evening. The existence of vampires wasn’t widely known to the outside world, but their movements did become freer with the arrival of the spiritual energy revival era.
Even displaying their extraordinary abilities had become a commonplace thing in this era. As long as it didn’t harm public order and social order, extraordinary individuals could almost freely travel in real society. And the looks they attracted were only envy. In this era, everyone longed to become extraordinary, but no one knew what it meant to be extraordinary.
Adele took First Snow and Xiao Ai to a popular milk tea shop. The girl didn’t take any photos or check in, but just thought the shop’s decorations were cute, so she walked in.
As for the milk tea that cost 40 yuan a cup after packaging, Adele clicked her tongue. Damn it, was this milk tea made of gold! But for the girl, money was actually the least of her worries.
It might sound a bit like those CEO urban novels... but if Adele made a phone call, she might actually be able to buy all the milk tea shops under this brand. Celeste and Tang Linlang would fight over who got to pay. These two were now a big capitalist and an angel investor respectively.
So Adele still scanned the QR code on the table, ordered and paid online, and bought three cups of milk tea for a total of 100 yuan, one for each of her, First Snow, and Xiao Ai. First Snow and Xiao Ai chatted excitedly about games, while Adele took this opportunity to observe the outside world.
The current girl didn’t waste any time. Compared to the extraordinary, she was experiencing and comprehending the ordinary, watching the endless stream of vehicles, the hurrying crowds, the laughing children, the elderly with kind faces, the lights of thousands of homes lighting up one after another.
Everything had its reason for existing. It was the worst of times, it was the best of times. It was the age of foolishness, it was the age of wisdom. It was the epoch of incredulity, it was the epoch of belief. It was the winter of despair...
But it was also the spring of hope.
The warm milk tea was brought up by the waitress with a smile. For those ordinary people who weren’t qualified to obtain extraordinary abilities, work was a necessity to make a living. She was already too tired, and her smile had become mechanical, like some kind of commodity exploited by the shop owner.
Only when facing beautiful and cute girls like Adele, First Snow, and Xiao Ai would the girl’s smile become lively. Seeing those beautiful girls and providing them with the most perfect service was her only joy in her numbing work.
However, Adele’s beauty was so stunning that it caused her work to go a little wrong. When the girl was holding the tray with one hand and handing the milk tea to Adele with the other, she almost accidentally knocked it over. Fortunately, Adele reacted quickly and helped her, so that the milk tea remained stable.
The waitress kept apologizing. Her heart was beating very fast, and the spot on the back of her hand that Adele touched was faintly warm. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
“It’s okay~” The girl’s gentle voice came. “You must be very tired, with the business here so good. Here, this is your tip.”
Adele would keep some cash in her spatial ring just in case. Although the girl had lost control of her magic, she could still freely access the things inside the spatial ring. She took out a fifty-yuan bill, folded it in half, and then put it in the tray that the waitress was about to take back.
It was the first time the waitress had received a tip... She was at a loss, until Adele teased, “Just take it~”
She then blushed and lowered the brim of her work cap, whispering her thanks, “Thank you...!”
Fifty yuan, only the price of a little more than one cup of milk tea, but it was one-third of the girl’s daily wage. But how many cups of milk tea did she have to sell a day?
Adele’s number was over five hundred, which meant that she and her colleagues had already sold more than five hundred cups of milk tea. Adele tasted the sweet and rich vanilla milk tea and the toppings that almost filled the cup, and couldn’t help but shake her head slightly.
“I want to taste Mom’s... Can I?” Xiao Ai suddenly knelt on the chair, straightened her slender upper body, and asked Adele. Her beautiful face, identical to Adele’s, was seen as Adele’s younger sister by those around her. Anyway, no one would think of them as mother and daughter.
Adele nodded. Of course. But the moment she handed over the milk tea, the girl hesitated. She was thinking, should she change the straw? Otherwise, wouldn’t that mean that Xiao Ai and she... But Xiao Ai shouldn’t think too much, right?
It was better not to overthink it with an adult’s mind. Just go with the flow. As she was thinking, Xiao Ai had already impatiently taken the plastic straw that Adele had just bitten, and couldn’t help but lick it gently...
Besides the vanilla milk tea flavor, she also caught the unique sweet taste of the girl. Xiao Ai took a small sip and returned to her seat with satisfaction. First Snow, the little kitty, suddenly narrowed her vertical pupils, her eyes revealing a bit of confusion and subtlety.
Was it her illusion? But she clearly saw Xiao Ai’s shy expression after taking a sip from Adele’s straw. Although it was only for a moment, it was still very problematic!
First Snow wasn’t stupid, after all, and ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ recently, she was the one who played most closely with Xiao Ai. So she could catch many clues about Xiao Ai’s feelings for Sister Adele. But First Snow didn’t think too much about it at that time.
It wasn’t until this moment, when the image pieced all the clues together, that First Snow gradually realized the... bold possibility. Xiao Ai, could she be... First Snow’s pupils constricted.
However, just as the little cat-girl was thinking, Adele noticed her gaze towards Xiao Ai, thinking that she was jealous that Xiao Ai could taste her milk tea. So the girl generously handed her milk tea to First Snow and said softly, “First Snow, have a taste too~”
This time, she didn’t think about changing the straw, because the relationship between her and First Snow was... a beautiful blooming lily.
Hearing this, First Snow instantly perked up her ears excitedly, throwing all her previous thoughts behind her. “Okay, meow!”
She held Adele’s milk tea and drank it, her eyes narrowing into crescents.
Adele then also tasted the milk tea of the two little ones, both of which were new and delicious flavors. After the three rested enough, they left the shop.
The waitress who received the tip bowed slightly to Adele’s back with a grateful smile. “Please take care, welcome back next time!”
With the tip, the girl’s attitude at work also became very serious and enthusiastic. Even her colleague couldn’t help but call her name and ask her, “Did something good happen to you?”
The girl blushed and shook her head. “N-Not really...”
“The... ice cream cones are running out. Can you bring me some more?”
Her colleague agreed and went to get them. It’s just that she underestimated the distance between her and the girl. As a result, she let go too early when handing them over, causing the fresh ice cream cones to almost fall on the dirty floor.
The girl gasped. There was an urge in her heart to stop the ice cream cones from falling because... the loss of ingredients wouldn’t be borne by the customers, but by her, the poor worker!
It was also at this time that something incredible happened. The ice cream cones that were inevitably going to fall and break on the ground were frozen in midair.
“...”
“...”
The scene instantly fell into dead silence, until the sweat from the waitress’ cheek dripped down and hit the ground with a “plop” sound. The girl suddenly realized that time hadn’t stopped, and space was still flowing. The only thing frozen was the ice cream cones.
Then, she stopped thinking, bent down stiffly, picked up the ice cream cones, and stared at them, unable to come back to her senses for a long time, until her colleague rushed to her and hugged her tightly, sincerely congratulating her, “This must be that... that thing that’s everywhere on the Internet, but never happens around us... Ah, no, it happened to you!”
“The legendary superpower!!”
“You awakened a superpower!”
“From now on, you are a super-powered person. Don’t forget our friendship of secretly drinking milk tea in the shop!!”
...Superpower? In this era of spiritual energy revival, the awakening of ordinary people was not common, but it was definitely not rare. But why did it suddenly happen to her?
Even though she had been congratulated, the waitress was still in a daze. If you had to say something special and meaningful happened before she awakened her superpower... it seemed to be only when she almost knocked over the milk tea of that stunningly beautiful petite girl and accidentally touched her fingertip.
But... how could that be? Just a light touch could awaken someone’s superpower... It must be her overthinking, right?
But if she awakened a superpower, it meant that she could finally escape the heavy pull of reality, no longer having to worry about daily necessities, and could freely enjoy her life, right?
After all, now, as long as super-powered people reported to the government, they could get a civil servant job without having to worry about being laid off or social security!
The girl gradually recovered from the shock and hugged her colleague, crying tears of joy.
Ugh! It was so good...
Such a lucky thing actually happened to her!
It was as if... she had been favored by God!!