79 Ch. 79 'Lionel'

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A man was sleeping on a long wooden chair with a book on his face. The man was in a place where most of flora and earth Elementalist lived together as a symbiosis of mutualism.

Unlike other elementalists who had natural beige skin, this man had exotic dark cocoa skin with golden-yellowish hair color. Other people who see it could immediately guess that the type of elementary energy of this person was earth. Only the owner of earth energy had an exotic dark skin tone.

"Li...o...nel," greeted a girl with brown hair color with a ponytail. "What are you doing?" the girl took the book from Lionel's face.

Lionel wrinkled his eyes as the sunlight pierced his eyes harshly. "I'm photosynthesizing." He answered while taking the book back and putting it on his face.

"You don't need photosynthesis. Look at your dark skin. It's getting darker each day."

"It's sexy, isn't it?" he played his eyebrows teasingly.

"Huft! Instead of that ..." The girl gently pulled Lionel's arm to ask him to wake up from his sleep. "Let's go on a date with me." The girl said in a flirtatious tone.

Lionel immediately stood up. "Date? Really? Where are we going?"

The girl smiled brightly, very sweetly making his heart melt. "You will find out later."

And it turns out... their intended date was really beyond expectations.

"You know, when you asked me out on a date, what I thought was unquestionably not this."

The girl laughed with amusement. "The important thing is we are together, right?"

Neigh! Neigh!

The sound of the neighing horse made Lionel surprised.

"Florence, why do we have to bathe the horses on this sunny holiday?"

"Because it is a sunny day. I don't want to bathe them in cold weather. What if they get sick later?"

"Like I said. Why do we have to do it? We can call a horse caretaker."

"They are my babies. Of course, it has to be me who will take care of them. Besides, I can't trust my babies to other guys."

"Then how about me? I'm your baby too." He becomes sulky as his lover would always prioritize her babies instead of him.

"You are my big baby, and you can take care of yourself. You don't need my help." Chuckled the girl.

Lionel crouched limp. "Why did I decided to date her? I never knew that being in a relationship with someone could be this difficult. Should I just stop dating?" Lionel mumbled to himself.

"Did you say something?" Florence turned from behind one of his favorite horses to make Lionel smile and stand up.

"Nothing. Because they are your babies, they are also mine."

Florence did not immediately believe it and looked at him suspiciously.

"Come, let's go bath them." Consoled him, making the girl chuckled.

Florence and Lionel smiled at each other and continued their activities, which took almost three hours.

After putting the horses into their respective stables, Florence and Lionel walked back to their house, where all their family members were waiting.

"You know, this kind of weather is perfect for a date."

Florence chuckled, hearing that. "Aren't you tired?"

"You're right, I'm exhausted. It feels like something's wrong with my nerve muscles." To prove his words, Lionel stretched his body as if doing routine gymnastics.

Smooch!

Lionel's mock exercise stopped when he felt a soft sensation on his cheek. His eyes flickered a few times while Florence smiled broadly to show her beautiful teeth.

"Come on! The others are waiting for us." Regardless of Lionel, who was still carried away by a light kiss on his cheek, Florence pulled his hand into the house.

The girl was adorable with small pink lips and bright eyes. Whenever she was happy, she showed a bright radiant that made all heart's melt.

Seeing a happy and merry little girl made Lionel grinned from ear to ear.

Ah, being a relationship with the girl he loved was the best that happens in his life.

Lionel and Florence walked while holding hands. They entered a simple house that consists of only an elderly woman with two kids and a grandkid.

"Wow, did you finished bathing the horses?"

"Yes, mom. They were so happy about taking a shower. They even stood straight obediently." Florence answered in a cheerful voice.

The elderly chuckled at her daughter's chattering. "That's good. Then go wash. We will be having dinner in a minute."

Both Lionel and Flo obeyed the command and took a quick shower.

After a few minutes, Lionel finished bathing first. He went straight to the kitchen to help the woman to prepare dinner.

"Mrs. Sisca, let me help you." Said, Lionel

"How about you prepare the dinner table? I'll be done soon."

"Okay."

Lionel took five plates, and chopsticks then arranged them neatly on the table. He also took five glasses and placed them next to each plate.

The delicious fragrance began to smell from the direction of the kitchen, making his stomach chime to demand to be filled as soon as possible.

Geez, bathing the ten horses belonging to his girlfriend, was very exhausting. But seeing the girl happy, it was worth it.

Afterward, the front door opening followed by a man came in with a cute child. The man looked older than Lionel. His hair was the exact same color as Florence.

Aunt Sisca, the man, and the young kid were the biological family of Flo. Aunt Sisca was the mother of a man who just returned from work and Florence. The man named Niels and his five-year-old daughter named Mischa. Whereas Mischa's biological mother had died after giving birth to her.

While Lionel himself, he was an orphan and no relatives, so the family kindly accepted him and cared for him for ten years.

At the moment, Lionel enjoyed his life with this family and hoped that this would last forever.

Regrettably, he could not stay with them forever.