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The girl at the counter gave her colleague a confused look when she returned. "Hm? Weren't you going to assist those customers?"
As the 'senior' of the two, the ponytailed girl couldn't bear the cashier girl knowing of her disgraceful behavior, and coughed awkwardly. "Ah, they've already made their purchase, they'll be back shortly."
"Oh… I've never seen Giana so excited. Did they buy a lot?"
The ponytailed girl felt her face heat up. Those girls seemed to be quite rich, and were probably a couple, right? They'll definitely buy a lot, definitely! "O-Of course."
'Please, please don't let my reputation in front of Kaylen be ruined today, oh goddess of lust and desire! You didn't give me a bombastic body or a gorgeous face, but filled my brain with all this garbage! You can't be so unfair, alright?!'
A few minutes later, the two rich girls finally came back, and the ponytailed saleslady felt her heart skip a beat.
Not from how beautiful Emilia was, oh no, but because they didn't carry a single dress back with them to check out.
Just as she was about to cry out in despair, however, Dixie domineeringly slammed her card down on the counter. "Everything that touched the precious skin of my princess, and everything she looked at… pack it all up."
Giana, the saleslady, was almost beside herself with joy as her despair turned into ecstasy. Money seemed to have fallen from the sky!
'Ahhh! Domineering rich lady tomboy! I also touched your darling's skin while measuring her! Can I also pack myself up for you?! I don't mind sharing with her at all! In fact, I'll share her too!' Was what she was thinking, but thankfully didn't say out loud.
Looking at her arrogance, Emilia couldn't help but giggle. Though if she knew the saleslady's impudent thoughts about her knight, maybe she wouldn't have been so calm.
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With the amount of clothing they had ended up buying, it wouldn't have been a good idea to carry it back themselves, and Dixie had instructed the girls in the shop to have it delivered to her home later. Of course, Emilia didn't mind, as it gave her more freedom to go around looking for other things.
Of course, she had swapped the far too short white sundress that Justine provided in favor of a red halter dress she liked, and gave Dixie the choice to pick one from today's haul.
Emilia obviously favored the miniskirt on her knight, but giving her a choice regretfully led to the girl picking the dark-blue short overalls and a white t-shirt.
But since it was still quite adorable, Emilia decided to accept it for now.
After exiting the shop, Emilia of course had Dixie offer up an arm to properly escort her. Usually, even when the two of them walked together, they rarely held hands, so to say that the knight hadn't expected it would be an understatement.
Dixie felt it was both extremely flattering and embarrassing to have Emilia being so intimate with her in public. Obviously, it wasn't all good, since having some of her softer bits pressing against herself like that didn't do any favors to her already wavering alertness, but she couldn't push away her princess, could she?
"W-Where to next?"
Emilia looked around, and although a few shops looked interesting, nothing really caught her eye like that dress earlier. "Umm, let's look for a jewelry store? There was something I had in mind, though I don't know if they'll have it."
Dixie nodded as she led them towards the closest relevant shops she could see. In fact, despite that massively annoying saleslady earlier, the dark-haired girl was quite grateful that her first 'date' with her princess was going so well.
Even without bringing along any intimidating bodyguards, they hadn't been harassed by any annoying guys, and even without exposing their identities, they hadn't met any fake rich ladies looking down on them. There hadn't been any unexpected terrorist situations, and not even an armed robbery!
Yes, Dixie liked to watch cheap dramas.
But as if she had jinxed it just by thinking about it, a buff-looking blond boy cut off their path right before they could enter the jewelry store they'd been heading for.
"Knock Knock."
His words sent Dixie's mind into such a spiral of confusion that she couldn't even understand what was going on at all. It was definitely because of Emilia pressing herself into her arm, reducing her IQ! Not because she was stupid!
Aside from random interesting facts, Emilia also loved reading jokes on the internet. Unfortunately, it had stopped being so interesting after a while, as it got too repetitive, but she did recognize this common pattern.
'Usually, it goes like…
Knock-knock!
Who's there?
Voodoo.
Voodoo who?
Voodoo you think you are, asking all these questions?!
… I got it!'
Despite his buff appearance, Emilia felt that the boy was quite dorky and awkward, surely he must spend a lot of time looking up jokes, and whatever he says must be more interesting than what she found, so she decided she might as well cooperate.
"Who's there?"
Instantly, his eyes lit up. It seemed like the guide he had read was right! As long as someone worked out eight hours a day, every day for six months to get buff, it was enough to get a hot girl to talk to them. Now for step two, he had to make her laugh, and she'll be his girlfriend! 'Come on Johnny, you can do it!'
After cheering himself up, he restored some of his confidence and puffed out his chest. "When where?"
And immediately, Emilia was lost, tilting her head in confusion before looking to Dixie for help. Was this still the same pattern of jokes? Did she misunderstand? But the knight was too busy glaring daggers at the oblivious boy who had dared to approach her princess like that, right under her nose!
Can't he see that the girl is wrapped around her arm?!
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~ To be continued ~
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Thank you for always supporting me so far. I know I say this often, but writing what I like and having people who actually enjoy reading it has always been my dream, and as the ones who made it possible for me to do so, I can never stress this enough!
May the new year bring you lots of happiness and joy! As much joy as you have brought for me! >_<