Chapter 77: Sightseeing (2)

He bought her snacks and street food and carried them for her as they strolled the island.

"If this keeps up, I will be too heavy when it's time to teleport back to the realm of immortals." She chuckled as she munched her way through a packet of spicy chips.

He tilted his head to look at her. "If that happens, we can get a house and settle here. Then we can go look for a cub in the mountains and keep it as a pet."

"Hey, I was just kidding." She was speechless at his ability to spin a snack joke into moving in together and raising a pet. They passed by a stall selling ceramic cups with different messages in beautiful fonts.

"Do you want to take a look?" He asked.

"Never mind." Although she wanted to, she didn't have money on her and didn't want to make him buy her everything she set her eyes on.

He didn't need to read her mind to know what she was thinking. He pulled her to the stall. "Come on. Take a look and buy whatever you like. You can repay me by taking care of my meals later."

It sounded like a fair deal, so she nodded and went over.

"Hello, beautiful. Would you like to buy a cup for you and your husband? Check this out." The owner, a chubby middle-aged man, jovially showed them a white cup with a large red heart drawn in it.

"We are not… he's not…" She waved her hands in denial and couldn't get the words out. He was not her husband!

Instead of helping her clarify, he reached for the white cup. "I'd love to check it out."

"I think this one suits you. If you don't like it, there are plain cups too. I can make a custom pair for you." He happily showed one of the plain cups.

"Two. One." Dairon read the words written one below the other on the heart painted on the side of the cup, his eyebrows knitting ever so slightly because he couldn't make sense of the words.

The stall owner placed an identical cup into Jasmine's hands. She frowned and read the words in her heart. "Bodies, Soul."

He got the meaning and moved to stick the cups together. They formed a complete statement. "Two bodies, one soul."

Her eyes shot open. "That's a beautiful message but…"

"We will take them." He gave a small pouch with silver coins to the owner.

The latter glanced inside the pouch and widened his eyes. "Mister, you paid too much. This pair costs five pieces of silver."

"It's okay." He let the man pack the cups in a secure box.

Jasmine, who had not been given the chance to speak, looked at him with a confused expression. "Why would you buy them?"

"For decorative purposes." He joked. For now, yes. He knew that she would not accept such a gesture so easily. However, he couldn't have left the cups. Two bodies, one soul. Was there anything that suited them more than this?

She glared at him. "Well, then. You can keep as many pairs as you want." While she told him off, she would never have guessed that she would one day be the one to guard the cups like a delicate treasure.

"Mister, do you have anything fit for a little girl?" She asked the owner who was floating in the clouds from the sudden fortune he had received from one sale.

"How old is she?" He asked.

"She's a preteen." She explained and looked around for something that Dahlia would possibly love.

"How about you get her a pencil holder instead?" He suggested and showed her a white holder with pink jasmines painted halfway up the outer part.

She looked at him almost in shock. How was he able to tell what would be fitting even though she didn't explain what she wanted?

"There isn't a better way to let Dahlia know that I will always be with her even when I'm not physically there." She smiled and let him pack the pencil holder. Aside from the message of it, it would be great if Dahlia could finally keep ker pencils in one place. They were always all over the house and if she couldn't find any when she needed them, she would sneak to her room to steal one.

"Do you want to give it to her first?" He suggested, knowing that she couldn't wait to deliver the gift.

"Can I?"

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"Of course." He led her to an unfinished building with no one in the vicinity.

She teleported them to Dahlia's room and opened the highest drawer before putting the box in with a small note.

"Why didn't you put it in an obvious spot?" He chuckled, certain that Dahlia would need a stool to reach her gift.

Jasmine smiled. "She will get it when she decides to give her room a thorough clean. Let's go before someone hears us."

They teleported back to Cannon Islands.

Resuming their adventure, he led the way further from the sea.

"There is a place that you didn't get to explore the last time." He gave her a hint to the place he was taking her.

"Where? We had a whole map of places planned out but we only got to Cannon Islands." She stopped speaking when they arrived at a series of caves. "The Caves of Cannon!" She exclaimed.

Her excitement made him happy to explore even though he had been here innumerable times in the past.

"Whoa… it's just as the legend says. They look like someone was trying to dig the hill into a building with several rooms. It's amazing how they have not collapsed being so close to each other." She peeked into the entrance and wondered whether she could go in.

"It was someone's hideaway." He made a step in and held his hand out, silently telling her that it was safe.

She placed her palm in his hand, letting him lead her into one of the caves whose existence scared the crap out of humans. There were uncountable tales about the caves being haunted and ferocious animals living inside. However, that was the last thing she could think about with Dairon's warm hand around hers. She unconsciously trusted him more than she knew.

As they walked deeper into the cave, something felt off. "Why is the cave carved out into chambers?" Some of them had doors and inside the open ones, there was furniture made of stone. There was even a fireplace in one of them.

"It was someone's hideaway." He repeated his words as he let her into one of the chambers. "An earth goddess. She lived here when she wanted to be away from the realm of immortals and took pleasure in making a home out of a hill."

She found it amusing. "What an odd hobby. Though I have to admit that it's beautiful. She must be powerful if the hill never crumbled despite all the modifications."

"She was." He smiled.

Was.

One of her eyebrows rose. The goddess was no longer alive? She had not heard about many deceased deities. So far, she had only heard mentions of Bardumond's sister. Could he be talking about her?

As confirmation, she asked, "How do deities get their elements?"

He stopped checking out a wall that he had his hand against. "Gods and goddesses inherit them from their parents while demigods and demigoddesses are randomly assigned their elements by nature."

She nodded in understanding. Lolanthe was an earth goddess. So, the goddess he was talking about could be Bardumond's sister. Everyone seemed to have an impression of her. She was suddenly curious.

"Do you want to spend the night here?" He asked. "It's safe but if you will be scared, we can go to a hotel after our next stop."

She looked around at the furniture made of rocks. "I'm not sure these would be comfortable."

He smiled. "Hotel it is, then."

He took her hand and pushed open a door she thought was part of the wall. A chill hit her skin as soon as the door opened. It was as though she had travelled to Monten within a second.

He stepped to the other side and brought back a coat which he placed on her. "Do you want to climb Mt. Cannon?"

It was only when she exited the door that she realized that they were at the foot of a mountain. No wonder it felt so cold.

"The Caves of Cannon. Mt. Cannon. It makes sense now." She hugged the coat, feeling warmer. "Wait. It doesn't make sense. How come there is such a large mountain on Cannon Islands that no one knows about? We didn't see it on our way here either. And how come this place looks and feels so different from the rest of Cannon Islands?"

He tapped her nose. "That's not an ordinary door, silly. It's a portal. We are no longer in Cannon Islands." He took her hand and pulled her close. "Welcome to the Wandering Islands. I believe this was part of your trip too."

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