"I'm fine," Orb says with yellow hair.
"That sounds like a lie, just look at that yellow hair."
"This doesn't mean I am lying, idiot."
"It means you're scared. I guess being shown up by me is a terrifying reality for someone like you."
Glaring at her, Orb says, "You, showing me up? Don't make me laugh."
Skating to the edge of the ice, Elia says, "Then let's dance."
She sticks out he hand, and says, "Don't worry, I will protect you, princess."
"Don't insult me. The reason I can't dance is that I have never tried, but when I do. You'll see my ability to balance myself is beyond whatever you could imagine."
Orb jumps onto the ice, and he quickly loses his balance, so he quickly activates his legacy and freezes himself to the ground. Then Elia opens her mouth and says, "Need help there."
With his body frozen in place, Orbs says, "I am fine!"
Poking against his cheeks, she says, "Really? You sure about that? You don't need a big, strong man to come and lift you away!"
She sits on his chest, and his pectoral muscles flex as she says, "That's some good strength. If only you could balance as well as you could hold me up."
"Elia, would you please get off me? This position is bad for my spine!"
Grabbing Orb's nose, Elia says, "That just sounds like you called me fat, didn't you?"
"How did you even get that from what I said?"
"I guess my whale-like body will just crush your spine then."
"I feel like my words are not being listened to."
Elia pushes her palm down on Orb's chest, putting more pressure on his spine, then she says, "It seems I will hate you forever now, and will just completely disconnect from all my duties in Nifilheim."
"WHY! I am not seeing the connection between what I said and what is going on!"
"I guess I will also just burn all the work I have done up until this point."
"Please stop. If any of that happened, the productivity would drop due to the loss of organisation!"
"Then you better give me what I want, and let me teach you how to dance."
"Fine, you ca-."
"Ahahah. I like watching my woman beg."
"You're a pervert, and revenge is not cool."
"You should've picked a less abusive partner then. Now give me what I want."
"Would you please teach me how to dance for our date?"
"Good girl," Elia says while stepping off of Orb.
Pulling himself up, Orb unfreezes his feet, and then loses his balance again before Elia grabs him by the hand and swings him around the ice with her. Then she says, "Just follow my lead, and keep creating ice as we go."
Elia slides right on the ice, guiding Orb with her as she goes, and every time he falters or loses his balance, she grabs him again and rebalances him, and as they slide near the edge of the building, Orb uses her legacy to create an ice bridge connecting them to the neck rooftop again, and again.
Staring at his bright blue hair, she says, "Are you embarrassed?"
"No!"
In a deep voice, she says, "Don't worry, baby. No matter how much you fall, I've got you."
"Shut up!"
Grabbing Orb's hands and putting them against her waist, Elia says, "Balance is not something you can just brute force like you're doing. I can see you constantly trying to get a foothold."
"Easier said than done. My body, at this point, is trained to always have a foothold. The ground beneath you is the most important aspect in combat."
"Of course it is, but when that ground changes, you must change with it. Don't try and move on ice like it's stone, it has its own way of getting you around."
"You talk as if it is a person."
"It isn't, but the world is made up of rules, and nature acts in accordance with them. Just like people are different, so is the very ground beneath you and by understanding that, you can better work with it towards your goal."
With a surrendered smile, Orb says, "What do I have to do then?"
"Relax, and let your body slide across the ice, and simply nudge it little by little, like when you manipulate people into doing what you want."
Following her advice, Orb says, "That was sweet until the ending."
"Says the boy who constantly manipulates others into being nicer."
"Hey tha-."
"-T good, so regardless of my means it's still ok," Elia says, finishing his sentence.
Gritting his teeth, Orb says, "Don't you know you are supposed to compliment a woman on a date?"
"You're butt is quite pompous."
"You've been staring at my posterior, you deviant! Don't you know the messiah is watching you?"
"The messiah is watching that giant butt of yours as well because it takes up too much space."
"Well, someone has to."
Elia glares at Orb and says, "I am going to poison you in your sleep."
"With how fast I regenerate, you can spice my food with it. Though that's only for someone who can cook."
"I can cook."
"Examples?"
"A sandwich!"
"I guess I am an architect since I built snow castles before."
"Please don't compare your derivative work to the glory of my elegantly crafted sandwich, in which I perfectly stack the jam and meat together in a method that brings out the best in both."
"The fact that you eat jam and meat together explains more than it should about you."
"Disrespecting your man by calling him a whale is enough for me to sign the divorce papers."
"You're so crazy about me, we've already gotten married in your head. How delusional."
"What kind of man doesn't date for marriage. Oh, wait, his name was Captivant."
"You keep talking, pretending like the wrath of a woman isn't something you should be scared about."
"Keeping blabbering doggy. But when I stuff my sandwich into your mouth and you beg for more, I don't want to hear anything."
"Trying to make my butt bigger?"
"Beefing you up is good, maybe it will make you look less like a woman. I don't need any kings trying to burn down my stuff for your hand in marriage."
"I assure you that no matter what I eat, I will continue to be plump and give the best hugs in all of humanity."
"All your hugs have bordered on sexual harassment."
"That's because they have been from the back. A direct hug from me is a pleasure that no one ever forgets once they have experienced it."
"I am not hugging you."
Orb clicks his tongue, and then he skates ahead of Elia as she keeps up with him. They move through the city from rooftop to rooftop as Orb continues to create ice beneath them.
Soon they pass over the parade yet again, and a man in a float with a series of nightmares behind all wearing a uniform with the image of a demonic knight carved onto it says, "LOOK HERE! Tomorrow, from the cursed land region, our greatest team in the history of Cursed Chess, the one and only KNIGHTMARES! Tomorrow they will be competing, and we will bring the championship cup home! We will crush the Abyssal slammers, the Distorted sky, and even the Bloody Marys all into the ground. For these men behind me are the greatest athletes the cursed land region has produced in their history!"
Continuing their dance in the sky, Orb, in front of Elia, skating with his hands behind his back, and smiles at her, saying, "You need a boost."
"Arrogant. But pride is the greatest destruction of a man."
She moves with one dynamic slide to another, and skirts past Orb, then moving up to him, she brings her face up close for a kiss, which makes Orb's hair turn blue as he backs away. And in that moment of weakness, Elia sweeps his leg, and he falls to the floor, sliding his butt against the ice.
And Elia, with her leg, moves him like a puck across the ice, before kicking him right into the top of another rooftop, where he crashes down, and following him, Elia jumps up and tries to land with her elbow right into his face.
Creating a pile of snow in front of him, Orb nullifies Elia's attack, and as she lies on top of him, he says, "You're a bully, you know that."
Moving herself closer to him, she says, "You're a pest."
"Yet you seemed to have enjoyed this outing with this pest."
"Putting words in my mouth."
"It's a holy day. Didn't want you to sin by lying."
"How arrogant. This was passable."
"Then what could I do to improve?"
"Reducing contact is one thing. Having a less punchable face is another thing. And smelling of another woman on a date is utterly unacceptable. All of these things distracted and hurt my mind multiple times."
"I see, I see." Putting his hand against his face, Orb says, "This sucks."
"Though you're smile is rather fun, and your attitude is infectious, like a plague that slaughters all within the country for the sake of it."
"Are you insulting me?"
"That's up to what your ears choose to hear."
Bringing her face over Orb's, she opens her eyes, and as her big red eyes gaze into Orb's eyes, his hair turns between a mixture of pink, purple, and yellow, with yellow creeping up even more.
"The Messiah teaches to help your fellow man, and to live your life as a servant to others. You have made me feel very close to the messiah throughout this date. Take of that as you will."
Smiling, Orb says, "That's good to know."
"Now do better for our second da-."
"Now I know Viata is definitely going to love it!!!"
Confused, Elia says, "Huh?"
"Oh, Viata, Captivant's granddaughter. There is a good chance she might return during the final two days of Radonitsa, so when I ask to spend time with her, we will be able to have lots of fun. Thank you for this, Elia!"
Like a machine that has received a series of overlapping inputs without any ability to differentiate them from one another, Elia's eyes twitch, and soon her tightened-up fist smashes Orb in the balls.
A sound is released from his throat that is unknown to him, a scream of such pure agony and suffering that one can only smile at the pain, for the fact that it can be inflicted on a body is utterly laughable in every regard.
Standing up, Elia uses some of the snow to clean her hands, and Orb, holding his balls on the floor, says, "Don't you think that was an overreaction?"
"Don't take out your issues on me, Orb."
"Says the one who hit me?"
"Keep lying. I will just never talk to you again."
"Doesn't the Messiah teach forgiveness?"
"I do forgive you. I have appraised that staying next to you would just be a form of suicide."
"That's harsh." Elia glares at Orb, and he says, "But slightly deserved."
"Some repentance. Good. Now I will give you a chance to fix this." Pointing to the edge of the building, Elia says, "Stand there and let me give you a big hug."
Orb smiles, then looks at Elia with a smile that sees through all forms of lies and shrouds before saying, "I know this is a trap. And I am falling for it."
Standing by the side of the building. Orb sticks out his arms and says, "I love hugs."
And Elia rushes towards him, then tackles right into his arms off the building. Orb quickly activates his legacy and creates a giant bundle of snow that touches both his leg and the side of the building and freezes them.
He hangs upside down, and Elia turns her body to have her face be exactly opposite Orb says, "This was a fun date, all things considered. Thank you for the experience."
The more Orb stares at her, the deeper purple his hair goes, and he says, "Can I have anoth-."
Pushing her hair against his lips, she says, "Ah, ah, ah. You misbehaved earlier, so you can't apply for another one now. Let's see how I feel one day."
Holding the amulet in her hand, she says, "But for now, I will go about my business."
Orb's hair turns yellow, and she plants a kiss on his forehead, which freezes his mind right before she lets go and drops to the streets underneath her.
ΦPutting my hands against my face, I say, "This is bad, this is really bad, this is really, really bad. SHIT!"
I quickly unfreeze myself and grab my chest as I start to run back towards Soarele blestemat.