"Cock a doodle doo!" The rooster goes.

The morning light before the dawn envelops the morning dew.

..."Ughhhhhh..." Asta wakes up fresh and ready for the new day. The sunlight rays enter the room.

He sits up ... and finds himself in a bed.

His vision shifts and ...next to him, a woman is sleeping...It's Lily. She's wearing her clothes except for her veil.

Asta breaks into cold sweat. What the hell is happening?! He starts breathing heavily. Something switches in his head. His hand rises, trembling. Asta sees a silver ring on his finger...

Suddenly the memories of the past night recollect in his head. He's Lily's husband now. What?! How did this happen!

Asta grabs his head, processing what just happened yesterday...But he stops in time, before all of the implications of this new status crawl into his head. For example, if Lily is his wife that means he is her husband, and what do husbands do with their wives-

Asta holds his breath and looks at Lily again. Her sleeping face is so cute. He looks at her hand. Indeed, a silver ring is shining on her hand too.

Asta in panic decides to wake her up.

He starts lightly pushing her.

"Mmm...I'm waking up..." Lily grunts, rubbing her eyes.

When she sees Asta sitting next to her in HER bed, she almost shrieks.

She stares at Asta for a few seconds and memories start circulating in her head too.

She looks into his eyes, waiting for a response...And then she says-

"Asta...We're married, right." It wasn't a question, rather a statement.

Asta starts fidgeting nervously. "Yes we are." Asta says in a weird voice. He's not sure how he should react.

"Um, Lily...We...uh...should get going..."

"Yes, I remember. We're going to the capital with Yuno, right?" Lily says in a blank stare. Now she's also sitting on the edge of the bed right next to Asta...They both awkwardly avoid looking each other in the eyes.

Lily breaks the silence and gently hugs Asta.

"Asta, don't be shy...We're married. It's natural for us to sleep together. Isn't this what you wanted? Besides, we were both in our clothes...We're not in a hurry. We have all the time in the world, but being shy...Won't do any progress in our relationship." Lily hesitantly says.

Asta's face goes red, as he has a weird feeling.

"I'll go prepare my travel bag." With these words Asta rushes out of the room and leaves Lily sitting on the bed.

Lily washes her face, sighs and silently walks out.

Nobody sees it, but she blushes and smiles as she prepares herself for a new life free from any clerical duties and a future that she will share with the man who chose her as wife. Freedom and optimism - that is what Asta taught her to believe in.

Suddenly she had a flashback of the dead body of the person who she killed unintentionally. A frown darkened her face as she tightened her fists and her face reflected her angst.

...

In fifteen minutes, Asta is standing near the village door. Lily is standing next to him.

Yuno walks up to them...The Priest says,

"I wish you luck.", to all three of them.

The other orphan children ask,"Sister Lily, why are you going with them?"

"Father Priest will tell you." Lily says with a smile.

The three adventurers walk down the road, leaving Hage village behind.

"HEY ALL OF YOU GUYS AT THE VILLAGE I'LL BECOME THE WIZARD KING JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE!" Asta shouts as he finally leaves the line of sight.

...

All of them walk towards the capital city.

They will traverse mountains and deserts, forests and rivers to get to their destination - the Royal Capital, where the Magic Knight Entrance Exam will be held.

But for now...The journey continues.

Yuno was mostly silent for most of the time, and soon the awkwardness between Asta and Lily fades. They start talking like friends, preferring not to bring up the fact of their marriage.

During their journey, Yuno asks, "Asta, how does your new magic work exactly?"

Lily looks at Asta with curiousity. She didn't really know what ability Asta got from the book. And...Asta never really had time to practice, either - because of the wedding.

Asta looks at Lily and Yuno with eagerness.

"Well, as far as I understand, it destroys magic spells. I have to use a sword that's stored inside of my grimoire. The sword is heavy though, and I can only use it because I've been physically training for so long. Yuno, cast your magic against me."

Yuno casts a wind spell and throws it at Asta.

Asta takes out his sword and swings it at the wind spell - it immediately disappears.

"Asta, try it against my magic." Lily says as she casts a water spell.

Asta's sword cancels it out too. Lily is amazed at this display. Now she really has a solid reason to believe that Asta might just succeed in becoming the Wizard King. Now he isn't defenseless, and he can hold his own against magic wielding enemies.

"Asta...If you practise, that can be a very poweful skill!" Lily exclaims, and leaps at Asta clutching him into a hug and lightly kissing him on the cheek.

As the more adult one in their relationship, she subconsciously realized that she must gradually make Asta feel more comfortable around her, and physical contact is perhaps one of the most important aspects of a life of a married couple. Despite her being a nun in the past, at the end of the day, she was still a woman and she always desired some sort of affection, and now there was no reason to hold back. Absolutely no reason.

Asta was just paralyzed as the woman he always loved jumped onto him...Reality didn't match up with his fantasies in the sense that he always thought he'd be the one always kissing and hugging her. But in reality he was still too intimidated by Lily's maturity and by his fear of making a bad impression on her. He definitely enjoyed her displays of affection though as he experienced pure bliss as she held him in her arms. Slowly but surely, he was getting used to having physical contact with her.

Yuno smiled as he watched the newly wed couple having fun.

"Asta...that's seriously a great skill. If you can cancel out magic, that means you have a great advantage against all magic users. Although you are limited by the range of your sword, so you're no match against more skilled magicians at this point. I'm sure you'll work out something though." Yuno says.

"YOU BET, YUNO!" Asta shouted. Lily giggled at his confidence and looked at Asta with hope.

Asta took out his new grimoire. It was really old and worn out. But that didn't matter as long as it symbolized Asta's opportunity to become the Wizard King. Lily and Yuno also took out their grimoires. Asta noticed that Lily's grimoire was blue.

"Asta...How about we do some training?" Lily shyly offers. "I'll throw some of my water spells against you, and you will try to cancel them."

"Sure!" Asta's enthusiasm never fails to amaze. It was still strange to look at Lily who wasn't wearing a veil, but he really liked her pigtail that really suited her blue hair. She was still wearing nun clothes and a gold cross, so Asta thought to himself that he should probably buy new clothes for her when he got some more money.

Asta and Lily stood on a meadow on a disance of 10 paces apart. Yuno agreed to be a supervisor.

"Ready...Set...Go!"

Lily started spamming simple water spheres against Asta. He easily destroyed them, although it was evident that his grip on the sword was still shaky due to lack of experience.

Lily started attacking Asta with three more powerful water magic spells, weakened versions of her concentrated water spirals. They were really fast, so Asta only managed to hit 2 out of 3, with the remaining water spiral making him soaked in water and knocking him onto the ground.

Asta rised to his legs, water dripping from his clothes.

"Water Creation Magic - Holy Fist of Love!" Lily shouted. The spell was really fast and massive.

Asta barely managed to cut half of the water spell, the remaining half flushed against Asta, dragging him across the grass for about 7 meters.

"I'M OK!" Asta shouted, panting from the exhaustion as he sat on the ground as Yuno and Lily approached him.

"It's already evening, let's make a camp." Yuno said as the sun was setting in the dusk.

...

Lala Norisu - thanks a lot!

StrangeHuman - yeah I'm really interested how the story will progress too. I don't really plan out anything since I'm just following the anime for the most part so whenever I write something it's pure on-the-spot inspiration.

Luisdox - Lily is older than Asta by 11 years so I guess she is supposed to take action in her hands..I guess?