Chapter 50 - Coat

Thirty minutes left and we still hadn't started with the mixture for the coat!

"W-what do we do?" Fily asked me.

It seems like everyone was panicking.

We need to settle the situation first.

What could be the best to do in this situation?

We can't leave Petunia creating the coat alone down here!

Yet Fily needed a place to sleep comfortably….

"Or else she gets all nasty." Petunia whispered at me while watching Fily panic.

"H-how do you know these things?" I squinted my eyes at her.

"It's really not that hard to see." she shrugged, "Look at her, does that seem like Fily to you?"

I got confused by what Petunia just said.

She's saying this is not Fily? But this is definitely Fily…

"Just continue that tomorrow!" Fily said impatiently at Petunia which took me back a little.

"Listen to her. Definitely not Fily." Petunia said to me ignoring Fily and just went back to the table to make her Gummy coat mixture.

"Fily i-it's okay." I tried calming her down but she was so stubborn.

"I need to go now okay? You two stay here, help her." She said in a commanding tone that made my heart sink a little.

Petunia was right, Fily does not talk like this.

"What's happening to her?" I whispered to Petunia with teary eyes.

"I told you already, she's not herself right now. Just don't mind her and help me over here." Petunia said on her way to the desk where the ingredients of the Gummy coat were.

Fily was halfway to the door when she heard what Petunia said, instead of running as fast as she could to arrive at her bed on time, she turned around while shooting daggers at Petunia as if what Petunia said was more important to her than going to sleep.

"What the f do you think you're saying little cat!?" She growled at Petunia which shocked me even more unlike Petunia who was just sporting an unamused look as Fily grabbed her like a hunter would grab a bounty.

"W-why are you doing this… guys?"

Fily looks so scary right now!

As much as I didn't want to believe what Petunia just said, it got stuck in my brain thus influencing my view of the situation!

I'm slowly getting convinced that this isn't Fily just like what Petunia was saying.

Instead of the usual bright smile and sweet voice, this Fily was growling like a wild tiger at Petunia with a lower toned voice.

Why is this happening now!?

[Should I release calming mist, master?]

Mr. Gemini's voice suddenly popped in my brain, making me jump!

'Mr. Gemini!! You surprised me!'

[I beg your pardon, Master.]

He said and disappeared just like that.

The next thing I knew, Fily was glaring at me from the sides of her eyes. Slowly, she turned her head to face me.

That look is very unfamiliar to me! As if she became a different person in just a split second!

"Who is this?" She asked Petunia while looking at me which gave me another reason to believe what Petunia was saying!

"It's me! Gem! How could you forget me already?" I said in a voice that was losing its confidence in every sentence.

When she looked at me, my heart began racing abnormally.

She scanned me from head to toe and threw Petunia on the table while smirking.

"It must be you, the Gemstone holder." She said, comfortably sitting down on one of the desks that were close to her.

"Who are you and what do you want from us?" Petunia said, getting alert now.

"I'm just a nobody," she said and quickly glanced at her stat-hut screen, "I need to go now, see you around!"

As soon as she said that, Fily closed her eyes and leaned her head to the side as if she was being hit by a headache on the other side of her head.

"We don't have enough time." The lower voice growled and then was immediately replaced with a softer voice and a shocked expression from what I presume was the real Fily.

"Sister!" She complained and stomped her foot while looking up at the ceiling.

When Fily batted her eyes back at us, she covered her mouth as she gasped out of shock and was about to say something again when she suddenly passed out!

"Fily!!" I ran to her.

Thankfully she was not hurt!

"What happened??" I shook her and tapped her face lightly, trying to wake her up but to no avail.

"She's already at her limit." Petunia said.

I felt like Petunia's patience was ready to burst anytime but she was doing her best to keep it in check.

"What do we do with her?" I asked Petunia since she was older than me, she has the authority here.

"Just let her sleep there and help me make this." She said, dismissing the issue with Fily completely by telling me to just lay her down the chairs.

I was contemplating if I should lay her down on the long desk or the chairs because I figured that the desk was very high and thus a dangerous place for a sleeping heavy girl even if Fily sleeps like an unmoving dead person.

To the chairs then.

"Would you be able to bring her upstairs later?" Petunia asked.

"I guess so," I replied sincerely, I didn't think making the coat was enough to drain my powers but boy was I wrong!

I did not expect the amount of time and effort we had to make in thinning the finished coat to make it look almost as if invisible when glued to the Gummy!

So this was the culprit of the ruined stretched purple color from the other Gummy all along!

I really commend Petunia for being able to make all the previous versions of Gummies with these by herself!

"Just a few more!" Petunia shouted after seeing me rest for a little bit.

I guess I have to finish this quickly to be able to bring Fily back to her room immediately.

"Okay!" I said, getting all fired up again.